The next morning I woke up to a buzzing sound. My phone was going off but I just laid there in bliss high off the night before. The sun was creeping into the room . I loved the sun, to feel it's warmth. I was thankful to Katherine for one thing and that was my daylight ring. How she got a Bennett to make it for her I don't know? I knew how she used and abused the Bennett witch from 1864. She had her make Damon, Stefan and her one as well as a few other vampires she wanted close by her. Knowing Bonnie now I felt bad for that witch.
Ugh stupid buzzing was interrupting my thoughts. I grabbed the phone to shut off the buzzing alert sound when I noticed I had an urgent voice mail and twenty missed calls from Stefan, Lexie and Bonnie. Damon laid in the bed sound asleep. I didn't want to wake him until I heard what was going on.
So I called my voice mail and the first voice I heard was a panicked Stefan:
"Elena it's Stefan. Bonnie saw Katherine here in Mystic today. We have no idea where she is but I'm sure she is here for you. Damon can not protect you alone from Katherine. You guys need to come home. And I'm so sorry Elena for everything these past few days. I'm really worried about you. I just want you to come home safely and I love you. Please come home quickly". I closed the phone and jumped up off the bed. Damon woke up.
"What's wrong Elena"? Damon grunted with sleep still in his eyes.
I began to put my clothes on. "We need to get out of here like five minutes ago. Stefan left me a message and we got like a hundred missed calls from them. Bonnie saw Katherine today and if she goes looking for me at the Mansion and hears I'm not there".
Damon shot up in one motion, "She will come here. She knows of this place".
"Yeah that was my next question and the answer I was afraid of."
We began putting on our clothes very quickly. Didn't take us more than a minute to have the conversation and get dressed. Finally when we were ready we walked out into the living room and were knocked completely off our feet. And not by force but by a particular twin of mine sitting on our sofa for how long? I have no clue but she made herself at home with her shoes off and a bag of blood in her mouth strengthening her, getting her ready for a fight!
"Well hello Elena. Damon. I guess you chose which brother you wanted? Or are you like me Elena, having a little fun with both. Cant say I'd blame you Damon was really good in bed".
I began to growl low under my breath but Damon stood in front of me.
"Always the protector Damon. Protect should be your middle name. You are so annoyingly good at it".
"What the hell do you want Katherine? And didn't you know it's not polite to enter when you were not invited in?" Damon questioned angry but yet still keeping his cool.
"I was invited in years ago. I don't need an invitation anymore". Katherine snapped back.
Damon began to chuckle and then he sneered at her, "but Katherine darling you are not wanted here anymore. All vampire rules aside just because you can enter doesn't mean anyone wants you to come in."
She scoured at Damon. "I'm here for Elena".
"Over my dead body Kat." He shouted.
She got up and slyly moved her hips in a hypnotizing motion as she maneuvered around the table with the flowers on it. "I don't need your permission Damon. And that dead body of yours we can arrange it".
I had enough and moved next to Damon he caught my arm, "I'm not scared of you Katherine. I don't run like you."
"Feisty" she said as she snapped her fingers. "I like it." She grunted through her teeth and her lips scrunched. "You are like me Elena. You love the same boys, you look like me and you are feisty like me. Got to love that Petrova blood."
I sneered back "I'm a Gilbert Katherine". And right there things happened so quickly. Katherine came at me but Damon stepped in. She lifted him up and threw him at the cabin wall where he fell and got back so quickly to me. She then pushed him out of a window and into the pond. The next thing she was coming at me with a needle full of vervain. I don't know what came over me or what even happened next but the vervain was in her neck and she was on the floor. Damon shot back into the cabin and stepped on Katherine who was gurgling on the floor.
"What the hell Elena?" Damon asked starring dumb founded at Katherine on the ground.
"Damon we have to hurry. We need to get her back to the mansion. I will explain when we get there."
He picked Katherine up over his shoulders placed her in the truck of his car and we drove back to the mansion as fast as we could. On the way I called Stefan and he was getting the chamber prepared for our little guest. When we got there Stefan and Lexie met us outside. Bonnie was finishing up on a binding spell that would keep Katherine inside the chamber. She just needed a piece of Katherine's hair which Lexie was glad to grab a handful of for her.
By the time we entered the chamber underneath the mansion Bonnie was finished with the spell and Katherine was coming around. Bonnie grabbed some vervain and stuffed it in her mouth quickly. That made her start to gurgle all over again. This time foam and blood all over Stefan's clothes. It was really gross to see what vervain does to us because I had no clue. Stefan brought her inside as she began spitting the vervain out of her mouth. He stood there for a moment starring at her as we all yelled from the outside of the chamber for him to get out!
"Stefan please" I screamed and somehow he snapped out of whatever he was in and ran out of the chamber and closed the door as we quickly locked it. I stood there looking inside at Katherine on the floor in pain from the small window on the door with bars. She laid there in agony. Lexie grabbed Stefan's hand as he stood cold and frozen.
"Come on Stefan. I think the vervain Bonnie gave her will keep her out of it for a bit. She isn't going to come to for awhile". And neither was Stefan. Lexie dropped his hand in defeat. She and Bonnie walked up the stairs together. Damon waited for me at the bottom of the stairs as I stood there and starred at Stefan's sadness. I knew it was killing him to have her in there and it was killing him that this was their reunion and that I was mixed into it all. I felt awful for him. All I could do was lend him my hand. I waved Damon to go ahead of me and reluctantly he did but I think he understood what I had to do for Stefan in this moment.
I grabbed his hand and dragged us down to the floor where we sat hand in hand starring at my grandmothers new home.
Eventually Stefan snapped out of his trance and led me upstairs silently to an awaiting party who wanted answers. First it was Damon.
"How did you do it Elena? How did you over take Katherine?" He asked so curious he was still in shock.
"I don't know I just could feel my strength and so I did what I could do and it seemed to be enough" Bonnie began to try and hold back laughter.
"What the hell are you laughing at witch"? Damon scolded her. I shot him a nasty look that I don't think he comprehended. Damn it Damon. I was a witch!
"Don't you people listen to anything I tell you?" She looked at Damon and I. We stood there confused. "Obviously not, ok in the ally I told you guys that you Elena were very strong and that you were a witch and most importantly you are a doppelganger. Katherine's. I said you guys were practically the same." I gave her a quick look. "Not in personalities I mean but in looks, blood, strength! Ding ding? Is it coming to you yet?"
"I'm as strong as she is?" I asked confused.
"Yes that is obvious. I mean you kicked her but. But being that you share the same strength one is stronger than the other. And because you are her doppelganger for protection we put a twist into that spell. The doppelganger once changed into a vampire, because we always knew that it was a possibility would be stronger than most vampires especially your Twin. Pretty awesome huh?" She smiled pleased with herself.
Stefan stepped forward, "so your telling me that she can kick Katherine's butt and ours too even though we are older than her?"
Bonnie smiled and shook her head up and down.
"Awesome" Damon blurted out. "This is freaking awesome. Is she stronger than an original?"
Bonnie's smile faded, "maybe one. She couldn't take on more than one."
"So what you are saying is I have Katherine's strength plus a bit more?" I asked crossing the room and sitting on the couch next to Lexie who was taking this all in.
"Yep. And don't forget Elena your a witch too. So who knows how that could play into your strength".
The three of them Bonnie, Damon and Stefan began to talk amongst themselves about how amazing I was and how powerful and mighty I could be. Whose butt I could kick and how this will all play into everything. I just couldn't be as optimistic as they were. Something was hanging over my head.
I began to whisper to no one in particular but as soon as I began they all were silent, "I'm like a super freak. No wonder they all want me dead. Why I'm the key to break a curse. All my life I was just another pretty face in the crowd. A High school cheerleader oblivious to everything."
Lexie placed her hand upon mine for comfort. They all sat quietly and then we heard a scream. It was Katherine.