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Chapter 6: Like A Family

The Next Day

When the sun rose and began to shine the room through the window, Victoria slowly woke up only to found she was still in Elena's room at the Gilbert's house. She remembered Elijah will keep her there until he found Kol. She was okay and her heart felt empty until Kol came into her life. She caught herself thinking about him almost everytime although she realized it wasn't right.

She rose from the bed, and stood up to start walking for the bathroom's door and entered it. She looked at herself on the mirror and wondered why did she had the similar face like Elena and Katerina's. Deciding to never mind, she immediately wash her face and wipe it with an unused towel next to the sink before she walked back into the room.

When she was about to tied her hair, her eyes flickered down at a photo frame where a picture of Jeremy and Elena was there. She let out a breath and grabbed the picture. Elena looked exactly like herself. And she honestly can't stop wondering why. After viewing the picture for a few seconds, she eventually dropped it and quickly tied her hair.

Victoria then went outside and rushed herself downstairs only to saw Jeremy was about to walk upstairs with a smile. "Uh, hey. I was about to call you..." He said calmly, causing her to smile at him. "What is it?"

"I thought you'd like to have breakfast with us." Jeremy titled his head while leading her to the kitchen to find Alaric was placing the scrambled eggs fairly to each plates on the table. "Morning." He greeted with a half-smile.

"Good morning, um?" She asked, as she didn't know his name at the time. "Alaric." He responded while putting the pan onto the sink and decided to wash it later. She only nodded her head and approached the table with Jeremy beside her.

"I cooked scrambled egg for us." Alaric stated tersely.

She looked over the table, seeing 3 plates were served very neatly beside the glasses of freshwater. "Thanks." She said to Alaric. "Where is Elena anyway? I thought this is her house?" She questioned while glaring at Jeremy.

"She is at The Boarding House with The Salvatores." Jeremy replied tersely while glaring at her back. Alaric then joined the two at the dinning table and started to eating but then they heard the door was opened. A few laughs was filling the room, and Jeremy recognizes the voices, including Alaric did. It was Elena, Caroline, Bonnie, Damon and Stefan. But they stopped laughing together when they entered the dinning hall and saw Victoria. "Who..." Elena frowned.

"Elena. She is Victoria." Jeremy informed as he let out a sigh. Stefan and Damon both narrowed their eyes to scan Victoria, in case she was Katherine. Victoria immediately stood up when she saw Elena, it was like she was seeing herself in a mirror. "H-hi..." Victoria waved her tiny hand at the four of them awkwardly. "Why do we looked so identical?" Elena asked, almost the same like she asked when she met Katherine for the first time. Before anyone could explain, the door was knocked repeatedly and caused Jeremy to opened it, while everyone following him behind. Elijah came.

"Elijah." Elena frowned as he was pleasant to see Elena and Victoria stand next to each other. "I believe you were asking why Victoria looks identical to you. Invite me in or walk with me, so I can talk to you, Elena." Elijah spoke. "And Victoria, clean yourself. We are going to have a little chitchat." Elijah commanded.

"I will be okay." Elena said looking at the two Salvatore brothers who previously shook their heads and then she eventually walked outside the house. "Elijah..." Victoria called out before walking upstairs, causing him and Elena to turned around. "You owe me an explanation of these... Alright?" She reminded him. He replied only with a single nod and immediately walked away with Elena to the backyard of the house and then Alaric managed to close the door. "You don't want to finish your breakfast first?" Alaric asked to make sure. "Leave it be on the table. I will make myself quicker than Elijah's conversation with Elena." She said walking upstairs in hurry to Elena's room as she remembered she don't have any clothes to use. She groaned loudly, as Jeremy quickly walked upstairs when Damon informed she was groaning. "What is it Victoria?" He asked her.

"I don't have anymore clothes to use. Well I can't use your sister's. They aren't mine." Victoria told him with a shrug but Jeremy smiled quickly grown on the face as he spoke, "You can use them. Don't worry. My sister isn't a sinister type. She's open to everyone who aren't threats. Apparently you are not a threat, so I'm sure she won't mind."

"Alright. Thanks Jeremy." She smiled back in relief and entered the bathroom to start taking a shower. She was going to ask more questions to Elijah, as she was like someone who missed gossips updates. She really needed to know how can she and Elena looked so exactly alike.

After taking a shower, she finished her breakfast in hurry as Elena was already returned from taking a walk with Elijah—and that meant it was now Victoria's turn to talk to him. She can't just stay there and pretend to be okay while she need to know what was going on before "being okay". She then followed Elijah walking to the backyard as Elena joined the others to spread them the words he told her earlier.

Her gazes turned to him as they were walking together and he noticed she was staring. It will be a little bit awkward if he didn't start talking at all. "So, where were we?" Elijah asked to make sure she remembered what she was going to talk about. "How can I and Elena look exactly alike? I mean, why are we looking so identical?" She finally asked after sighing, trying to find out what was going on. "I will answer, even if you consider to believe it or not." He stated.

"Try me." She said, slightly frowned; desperate for answers from him. It was now her time to know, although he think it was a bit earlier for her to discover. "You are a doppelganger, Victoria."

Her mouth broke open, although she didn't know what was a doppelganger means, she had the feeling it was kind of a supernatural being. After all, she was also a part of the supernatural beings just like Kol. Why would she hated him? That did not make any sense. If he hated or scared of him for being a supernatural being, that means she hated herself too. Damn the world was quite mean. She discovered this while Kol was already gone. Literally gone from her life, his family's life, his friends life. The last hope was only Elijah who said he was still looking for his dearly younger brother. Her mind was all about Kol. It was proven. She could never forget him even just for a day. There was always reasons or something that can recall the name of the man she actually cared about into her head. There was always reasons. Always.

"I wondered that's one of supernatural species?" She guessed while tilting her head to the side as she noticed Elijah just nodded slowly. "Yes." He replied finally, and paused for a few seconds. "Elena is also a doppelganger of Katerina." He explained. She then asked again, "So Katerina is the original one?"

"No. She is also a doppelganger. The original Petrova is Tatia." He sighed heavily and looked at the grasses on Elena's backyard. And before Victoria could respond, he already continued himself. "And then Tatia had a twin sister who don't seem to exhibit herself. Her name is Talia Petrova." He added, "You are Talia's doppelganger, Victoria."

"How come?" She pursed her lips and staring at Elijah still, although he don't literally stared back.

"Talia had a child. The same goes for Tatia. She had a child too before she died. Talia also died." He said to her calmly.

She curiously asked more further about the history. "Why they died?"

Elijah remained quiet for a couple of seconds and slipped his hands into his pants pocket, he remembered exactly the first time he discovered that his former love interest, Tatia's blood was used by his mother to make him and his siblings into immortal beings. Sour recalled back, rushing to get into his head, but he distracted them all by shaking his head slowly, trying not to get noticed.

"Tatia died because her blood was used by my mother to make me and my siblings immortal, in purpose to avoid werewolf attacks." He spoke, although it was heavy to recalled a history over again. "And Talia's death was caused by a sudden plague in the area. Her child survived. Their children survived. Now you know, why you looked very identical to Elena, or Katerina. Klaus also once attempted to use their bloods, but failed almost a couple of times. That's the reason he took you when he discovered there is another doppelganger."

Later That Evening

"So she is a doppelganger from another Petrova?" Stefan asked tersely while looking at Elena who was sitting on the couch trying to explain about Victoria to everyone there, as what Elijah have told her. "Yes. Apparently, Tatia had a twin sister, who had a child before she died. She was just like Tatia. And then 500 years later there was a doppelganger and she had a baby, but she passed away after giving a birth of her baby." Elena answered with her brows raised.

The room filled with silence for a minute as they were looking at each other. They have never wondered that there would be another doppelganger besides Elena, although she was descended from another Petrova. Even none of them noticed that there was a doppelganger before Victoria was born. Damon and Stefan were seemed too busy to took care of Katherine's stuffs that time.

"These doppelgangers stuff gets everything complicated!" Caroline simply commented while frowning at all of them. "It is. But however, she is somehow my distant family." Elena replied softly at her comment.

"I remembered when Klaus went to boarding house and asked if it was Elena on the picture with his evil little brother, Kol. That means the girl was Victoria, yep? Interesting." Damon rolled his eyes, adding another comment about his opinion, and then when he was done—someone knocked on the door. Jeremy attempted to open the door and it was Victoria as she was done taking a few hours talking to Elijah. She was satisfied to knew the entire answers of her questions, but at the same time she was feeling weird to know she was a kind of supernatural being. "Hey.." She awkwardly greeted them all.

"Hey." Stefan countered, followed by Elena's reply of the greeting while the others were just scanning her. "I think I will be leaving, as Elena is back... I can't use her room while the owner already is here." She declared.

"Why? No. I don't mind if you want to stay here. Just don't leave." Elena frowned at her, starting to stand up and approached the girl she looked identical with. "A lot of dangerous creatures are there, outside. Trust me, you are not safe if you are leaving."

After a moment's thought, she eventually countered Elena clumsily while brushing her hair through the back of her ears. "I know but... I just don't feel like I'm staying. I'm a stranger... I'm not a part of you all." She said.

"Who said you are not a part of us? I have officially approved you to stayed in last night. There's no need to worry." Jeremy said, walking a step closer with a soft smile. She looked once again at everyone, they are showing a welcoming expressions, including Caroline who firstly complained that it all gets everything complicated. "See? You are now a part of us. You already are." Elena smiled softly at her, and pulled her hands to join them all together. "Let's give a hug to our new friend then." Caroline decided, grinning at everyone in the room. As they nodded, Caroline pulled them into a group hugs quickly and chuckled.

"Eek. Just don't try to fool me by pretending as Elena at a later time." Damon winked at Victoria as Elena literally rolled her eyes at him. At least Victoria have got some more people as her friends now, and she was glad Elena was actually warm-hearted than she firstly thought, and she will get used to stay here for a while although she was honestly missing her busy parents. "Oh curse it. I haven't introduce myself. My name is Caroline." Caroline introduced herself with a confident grin.

"I'm Bonnie. Hoping we can be good friends." Bonnie smiled widely at her and then continued by Damon. "My name is Damon. I can be a good company. Most of time." He smirked.

"I'm Stefan. Damon's brother." Stefan softly spoke while smiling at Victoria. "Now. Won't you mind to tell us about your life story and whatever was going on so far? Including how you met Kol." Stefan questioned raising his thick eyebrows.

"Sure. Yeah." She nodded slowly and sat next to Elena on the couch. Before starting the story, she made sure not to feeling down as some of her life history had stabbed her repeatedly like a knife. "I was born in Los Angeles, being the second and last child of my parents. I had a brother, but he died 5 years ago when I was still 13, because of a.. A tragic accident." She sighed and closed her eyes when she mentioned about her deceased brother she really loved. "I'm sorry about your brother..." Caroline suddenly spoke out while placing her hand on her shoulder to gave supports. "That's alright. And then... After thinking for a moment, I need to free myself, and that's why I was separated with my family. I live in a flat at New York while they are somewhere but still in NY. I just don't usually meet them that often because they are busy. Especially my father. He have been busy since a long time ago when I was still living with my family."

Everyone watched her telling story about her life story still, none of them moved their eyes from her, not going to do so just yet. Again she sighed at the reality she had been through, it was mocking inside her head. "One night at the bar, someone approached me, it was Kol. He was so kind. And we actually spent days together until the fourth or the fifth day, I discovered he is a vampire and I was scared. And the stupid of me was... I told him I don't want to see him that time. And then he was gone. Literally gone." She said as Damon rolled his eyes when she mentioned the name of Kol. "I realize I have been thinking about him since then. I mean, I think I liked him." She admitted shyly as then almost everyone said 'eww' over the confession of hers; saying that she liked an original.

She chuckled softly. "I knew he is a thousand years old. That's old." She said practically before continuing. "But I can say he kept rolling inside my head. That all happened. I want to talk to him that I was just emotional that time, but he was already gone."

Elena nodded slowly as she got the story as well and then Victoria continued. "When Kol and I were separated, this guy Klaus came to me and somehow I woke up being already at a basement. That was creepy." She sighed.

"He obviously used his compulsion abilities." Damon countered tersely while doing his eyes stuffs at her. "Compulsion? Whoa.." She exclaimed as her jaw dropped open. "I can give it a try on you." He smirked seductively but then everyone started to glared him.

"Fine. Just kidding." He said with a tone.

"However. Love doesn't actually require any physical looks or ages. I'm agree with Victoria. And it was her right if she want to like Kol or not." Caroline wiggled her brows at everyone. "Althought I'm not completely agree at the idea she might gonna date him."

"You said she have rights..." Bonnie turned her glare to her bestfriend. "I know Bonnie. But... Whatever." She sighed, as she didn't really know how to countered her anymore. Elena then stood up and asked everyone to distract the topic, "Anyone up to cooking or baking?" She tilted her head to the side.

"I'm up." Caroline said, followed by Bonnie, Stefan, Damon, Alaric and Victoria, but Jeremy. "Come on! Jeremy, join us!" Elena ordered with a quiet groan to Jeremy. "No. I'm not into such thing." Jeremy admitted lazily while starting to walk away. "Too bad you are not allowed." Damon suddenly was already standing in front of Jeremy, caused Victoria to gasp about his incredible speed. "Woah. Who else is a vampire?" She rolled her eyes and saw Stefan with Caroline rising their hands. "Great." She tilted her head following Elena to the kitchen. "Better yet, Bonnie is a witch." Caroline spoke.

"A witch?! Do you mean, a witch, who can curse people into something?" Victoria widened her eyes at all of them especially at Caroline and Bonnie. "Yeah. That was one of my abilities. I can turn Damon into an ugly frog." Bonnie said, causing him to hissed and rolled his eyes at the statement Bonnie made.

"Would like to see." Victoria chuckled and turned to Bonnie. "What else is your abilities?"

"I don't possess a lot of abilities yet, but I'm working on everything in my spell book." Bonnie said, sitting at the chair as the rest started to cooking together. "That's awesome. I can't believe I got to met almost every supernatural beings that I read on novels." She exclaimed with a wide grin.

"Thanks. And yeah, that's the reality here." Bonnie shrugged her shoulders and walked over the kitchen counter to help the others together with Victoria. They have decided to cook fried rice with chicken meat, and grilled meat for them all. It was crowded there, even Victoria and Stefan bumped, and almost caused the bowl of meat to fell down the ground. Thanks to Caroline who can catch it faster. "Be careful!" She commanded, as if she was at a party arrangements for her school, and handed the bowl to Stefan. "Aye, Miss. Forbes." Stefan chuckled while dropping the bowl next to Victoria. "Seriously, I'd pick better watch rather than being involved. But whatever, this seems fun." Jeremy said while chopping the garlic, as Alaric did the onions.

"It will be much better, if you would stop complaining, Jeremy." Caroline told him.

Jeremy replied with a surrender look, "Yeah yeah. Will do."

This was the second time she felt very happy while she was cooking, the first time was because there was Kol who have entertained her that time. At least she could felt how was it like to be accompanied while cooking something, rather than just being alone. She hoped Elijah won't broke his promise that he will try to find him in meant time. It was now time for her to say that she actually missed him, missed how he could make her happy and cheerful, missed how he keep her in a good company. She hated him for being gone nowhere to be found at all at the present time. But she hoped he will be back asap.

Elijah had tried for the umpteenth time to call his brother but there was no answer. He was completely not contactable ever since he tried to ask what happened with him. He tried once again to call Kol, hoping this time he would actually answer—and his wish came true. Kol finally answered the call although he sounded a bit sarcastic and ignorant. Elijah was still glad he was now contactable.

"Kol.." He called his name. "Where were you for the past days? You need to come back Kol—"

"Why? None of you need to know what was going on with me." Kol replied in sarcasm, trying to avoid his brother from keep calling him.

"It wasn't about that. Klaus took Victoria last night." Elijah told him calmly although Kol sounded sarcastic towards him. "But I saved her. She is staying at a safe place now." He added.

"How come?" Kol questioned with his voice raised. Elijah sighed, "Who knows. He might followed your scent, Kol. Come back. She needs you."

There was a long pause until Kol finally replied him. "Victoria didn't want to see me, brother. She don't need me." He said.

"Just come back... You might be wrong about she didn't wanna see you. She needs you. She talked with me about you, Kol." Elijah informed him what was she talking about when she walked with her earlier this morning. "I don't even have any reason to lie to my own brother." Elijah added once again to convince Kol.

Kol finally announced his final answer. "Very well. I will come back. See you later brother."

"Mmm. This is so good." Victoria complimented after she get to taste the fried rice and grilled meat. "You're right, it is." Jeremy nodded, indicating he agreed with her opinion about the food. "Well, this tastes yummy." Damon smirked at everyone who helped cooking the foods this evening. Everyone chuckled at each other and then gave each other a highfive for their cooking result.

Although the day was getting darker, as it was already 7PM, they were gathered at the dinning room still, talking about random things and joked around. They were also started to got more closer with Victoria, especially Jeremy and Elena seemed to be the most closest ones to her. Caroline was also close to Victoria but not as close as Victoria and Jeremy or Elena. "Thanks everyone. I'm so happy to meet you all." Victoria confessed with a shy smile drew across her face. "I thought you guys won't welcome me this warm, but I was wrong. I was completely happy today."

"Well, me either. I'm happy." Jeremy nodded to respond while giving his plate to Elena as she was going to wash the dishes. "We are going to have a lot of fun starting from tomorrow. Don't ever assume yourself as a stranger ever again, okay?" Caroline smiled at her while tilting her head.

"Anyway, I'm going to share with a room you, Victoria. We will sleep on my bed together." Elena declared while started to wash the dishes and helped by Bonnie.

"I thought she will be at my room?" Jeremy frowned, protesting at his sister. "You can't sleep together with her, Jer."

"Well, I'm planning to stay up the whole night. Probably gonna sleep on my chair!" He snapped.

"No, just no. Victoria will be at mine." Elena confirmed. Their little debate caused everyone to laughed over it. "Fine. You won Elena." Jeremy rolled his eyes sarcastically.

"Well, I won't mind to be at whoever's room. As long as I can feel comfortable, I will sleep well." Victoria said to the both of Jeremy and Elena.

Elena turned around and looked at her identical distant sister. She have been considering Victoria as a distant identical sister already, and she didn't really mind about it. "But it was clear that you are going to sleep at mine. Jeremy has to sleep well too, on his bed, not chair." She commanded.

"Okay." She nodded at Elena's command and formed a bright wide smile before she continued talking with the others who was sitting with her near the dinning table. She loved it today, even probably words couldn't actually describe how she actually felt that night.

Somewhere

"Where is she?" Kol asked as he was standing by the edge of the lake beside his brother Elijah. "At the Gilbert's house."

"Why did you drop her there? They aren't good companies." Kol retorted quietly, not wanting if anyone passing by heard the conversation. Elijah knew he was talking about Damon and Stefan, as they seemed to hate them so much, especially Damon. "Where else? I was trying to cover her up from any creatures out there." Elijah said to Kol.

"Buy her an apartment, or whatever. The Salvatores are absolutely going to be there to meet their lover Elena Gilbert." Kol spoke upsetly, knowing that Victoria have been dropped to Elena's house. "The Salvatores aren't threats for Victoria, or you. So it was not a problem that she was dropped there. Stop acting immature, Kol. You have been living for a thousand years." He spoke quietly to respond Kol.

Kol stopped for a minute. Did he just defended The Salvatores? He was upset and probably more than just "upset" after his brother told him the entire story of what happened earlier. Kol groaned quietly before he answered. "Fine. I will be in touch. Thank you brother." He thanked, while running away in a blur that almost no one could see. He was going to prepare himself before he meet the one he have been thinking of for days while he was gone; and he knew he can't meet her today. The day was getting late. She might was preparing herself to go to sleep. And after that Kol was literally gone, Elijah couldn't follow his scent more further from the lakeside as Kol have got back into the crowds.

It was easy for Elijah, he just have to treat Kol like he haven't grow up yet; almost the same with his way to treat Klaus. He knew exactly how to get his siblings under his control—after living for a thousand years, not possible if Elijah didn't know how to treat them and how to annoy them so they would agree with him and then leave. He just wanted his family back again, not broken into useless pieces. That's all. But it's seems like always his siblings that had make it hard for him. Always them.

A/N: Thoughts about the chapters so far? Would love to get some reviews about this story! So happy that now Victoria can get along with The Gilberts and their friends. More to be come. I'm excited to write more chapters though. Lots of ideas have been stuck inside my head for further chapters, so yeah, please at least send in reviews, so I could know if I should upload the next chapter. :) Thanks a bunch. x