The plane ride to Texas was bumpy. I hated planes even as a human and being a vampire and less fragile didn't make it any easier to fly. Damon and I headed out on a red eye the next day gathering up all of the information Bonnie could find out during our spell bonding time. I wasn't very good at it and it literally drained me. It was the first time that since I turned I was tired. We ended up finding an address ad I felt the best way to approcah her would be at school. Stefan and Lexie stayed back with Bonnie to babysit Katherine. I needed to find Peyton and bring her back to Mystic where I could protect her fro the originals. They knew a dppelganger existed and it would be a matter of time before they went through the Petrova ancestory found Isobel and lead them to me or Peyton. They knew it was a Katherine doppelganger but they didn't know who in our family it was. I still had no idea how they found out but I would get that out of Katherine when we got back to Mystic with Peyton safe.

THe neighborhood she lived in was quiet and nice. A place you would want to raise children. There was no homeless or graffiti. There were not drug dealers on the corner or drive bys. It was still and perfect. A cookie cutterneighborhood where everyone knew your name and your buisness. The same type of place I grew up in. THe same type of place I missed and wanted Peyton to always have. A quiet life without stress or fear of old vampires trying to find you and drain your blood to lift a curse. We found her home. She would not be hard to find for them. She blazed down her street in her Honda Accord windows down music blaring out the window. She had no idea she was screaming, "notice me. I'm right here. Take me"!

We followed her to school. She got out of the car and that is when I decided to go and snatch her.

"Hi". I said getting out of the rental. She was climing into her back seat to get some books.

"Hello" she smiled back kindly but I knew she was hesitant to talk to me.

"I dont know quite how to say this to you without sounding crazy bgut I'm Elena and we need to talk."

She pulled her head out of her back seat and peered at me herr eys observing me.

"She told me you would be coming for me". She said in a calm voice.

Confused I asked, "who said I would come looking for you?"

She spit out the words, "our mom".

I smiled and pointed to the car. She walked to the back of her car opened up her trunk and took a over night bag out. She walked over to me opened the door and climed in the bck seat. I sat there in awe for a moment. I thought I would ahve to force her in the car. Isobel did care about her. If not me then I hoped at least her. I got in the car and she was already chatting to Damon.

"Hey you are Damon Salvatore right?" He nodded and grinned. She began to do a flirty little giggle. "Isobel told me all about you and how you turned her. Wicked!"

Damon grinned back and repeated, "yep wicked" in his I'm trying to be cool for the teenager voice. I couldn't help but to roll my eyes.

"So sis are we going to Mystic Falls then?" She asked casually as if she had known me all her life.

"Peyton we have so much to discuss. Dont you want to know anyhing"? I asked a bit baffled at how nonchalant her behavior was considering she was in the company of vampires and taking her from the only home she ever knew.

"Isobel has been visiting me since I was little. That was one of the requirements. Anyway she compels my parenjts all of the time. I know all about you. She has given me pictures and the last time I saw her she told me you would finally be coming for me. To protect me".

Isobel came and saw her? Wow what was I? The other unwanted daughter? A Gilbert. I guess we cant all be Lockwoods.

"Yes I am here to protect you. But do you know from what?"

She shrugged her shoulders in an almost "I dont care" way.

"THe oldest vampires that exist. They are very powerful. They are looking for a Doppelganger".

She interuoted, "yeah a twin of granny Katherine's right? Yeah you look just like her. A dead ringer".

I dont know why this annoyed me even though it was obviously the truth.

"Yes I am the doppelganger but they dont know that yet and they will be coming to look for Petrova's and when they found you they would kill you being you are half witch and half wolf after realizing you didn't look like Katherine."

"They sound really mean" she replied.

Was she mocking me? "Of course they are mean. They want the curse broken. They want all vampires to roam during the day. Do you know what would happen if Vampires could all roam during the day? Let's just say humans would be enslaved and this world wouldn't be theirs anymore. It wouldn't be yours."

"Well I was thinking of braking the curse. It states that I have to kill someone. So I thought I should find a murderer or something to kill to trigger it. If I'm a wolf I can help."

I alsmot jumped on her from the front seat, "NO"! I shouted.

Damon immediately jumped in, "Elena calm down. She 's just a kid. She has no idea what she is saying."

"Yes I do Damo! I want to be a damn wolf. i want to help out and I'm only a few years younger. I'm sixteen you know. How old are you Damo nineteen?"

He laughed, "Old enough to be your grandpa and add about four greats to that".

She rolled her eyes, "Like I said ninteen".

"Look Peyton a wolfs transsion is not easy. It is hard and risky. Even in wolf form you wouldn't be able to control yourself anf if you bit me lets say I'd die. You are not ready for that yet."

She huffed, "well you're a vampire. Why cnt I be a wolf?"

"I never chose this life for me Peyton it was given to me. Now yo being a wolf is over. No more talk f it."

She grinned angerly, "fine Isobel". She blurted out. She was trying to hurt me and it wouldn't work.

Damon looked at me and smiled, "She wants to help Elena. That it. Not saying she should but dont be so drill sargent on her or she wont trust you."

I shook my head ok and was silent on the plane ride homw. I was too angry at the idea of her not having a normal life. I wanted it so badly for her.

Damon looked at me and smiled, "She wants to help Elena. Thats it. Not saying she should but dont be so drill sargent on her or she wont trust you."

I shook my head ok and was silent on the plane ride home I was too angry at the idea of her not having a normal life. I wanted it so badly for her.

When we got to the mansion she met Stefan, Lexie and Bonnie. We showed her to her room which was right beside mine. Everybody just adored her. She was snarky, sarcastic but very funny and she had jokes coming left and right. I talked to Bonnie about her being a werewolf and a witch and how if there was anyway to not trigger the curse and if so limit her transformations. Maybe even a way to cure her from a full moon. I was scared she would get in a car crash or run someone over. People go their entire life without killing someone so could she? Bonnie and I tried to dig up as much as we knew while Peyton, Bonnie and I worked on our witch side. It was very hard to concentrate because as a vampire you can juggle a million things in your head and doing spells you had to concentrate on this one thing. Peyton picked up things better than I did.

Stefan was also getting better about having Katherine here and having to lock her up. He was opening up to Lexie which was good because he wouldn't open up to me. I think he feared what may come out of his mouth and it was things he didn't want to hear because he still loved me. But a part of me felt the connection or the electricity slipping farther away. It was there but I could only feel it at a distance now. It used to be he walked in a room and I would be drawn to him. Just like Damon but now that Damon and I were spending more time alone together the feelings were getting stronger. And as my heart grew more and more for Damon it was filled less with Stefan. Lexie on the other hand was diving right in head first. She told him her real reason for being here at first. And it was just to win him and then she fell in love with me and she told him she would do anything for me. He was taken back by her confession but he needed her and she agreed to just be his friend until everything was over.

Damon was great with Peyton. They were snarky to each other and it made my life easier knowing he got along with her. Damon and I would spend quiet time at night taking walks or meeting at his cabin in the woods even occasionally the tomb. Nights with Damon were never enough. We could spend all night making love and not even realize the time that had flown by. Our thirst for each others bodies was stronger than our thirst for the blood. When it was he and I we didn't need anything else. All we wanted was for the moment to last longer but time always drew me away from him and back to the original issue at hand and that was how were we going to kill the originals.

Our research was limited and no one could get a hold of Isobel. And we thought all hope was lost until we received a visit one day from a Vampire named Amber. Whom wanted Gus the oldest vampire alive dead as much as we did.

Damon peered at her from the fireplace sinking his eyes into her trying to intimidate her but it wasn't working. She was fierce and she was angry and she wanted revenge. There was nothing this group of vampires could do to her what Gus already had done. Amber was a tiny vampire. She was five foot two long black hair and she had tiny green eyes. She was from Europe and had a Spanish accent.

"I did not come here to cause any trouble for you guys." She confessed.

"Then why are you here and how are you here?" Damon questioned not truly buying how genuine she was coming off.

She swallowed and I felt she did not want to tell but she knew she had to, "Isobel came to me. She is an old friend of mine and she told me Elena might be in some trouble. I have heard of Katerina. I know she is a force to be reckoned with". She pointed at Damon and Stefan. "Isobel told me where ever you two would be Elena would be. She feared Katerina would kill Elena. I told her that if the originals found out about Elena she would be sacrificed easily and she said they know a doppelganger exist and exists because of Katerina. I guess Katerina has a BIG mouth. She loves to talk about herself and well it seems she bragged to a few wrong vampires because word got back to them quickly and that is why she had to change you so fast and sent you to them. One thing Katerina does do is keep you brothers secret. One thing is for sure no one knows that you guys are connected. I have heard many rumors about her but none involving the two of you."

Damon laughed, "well that's a first. Cant keep her legs closed around us but she can keep her mouth closed about us".

Stefan laughed. The first time I had seen him smile in weeks. It was contagious. I began to smile too.

"Well a lady she has never been but I guess love makes you that way. Never believed she could someone." Stefan quickly interrupted her. He didn't want to go down memory lane about it.

"So what can you do for us"? He questioned.

She smiled. This time it was not warm or sweet. It was full of vengeance "Gus killed my family. He killed my husband and my sister. It was some time ago but I want him dead."

Lexie joined in, "Gus doesn't just kill for any reason. I have been around long enough to know that if he kills he has a reason for it. So Amber what was the reason"?

Amber's eyes filled with sadness. " I was one of many vampires whom he kept around for his enjoyment. I met him in Spain in 1640. He was invited to our home by my father. He liked what he saw and offered my father money to take me. My father accepted the transaction. He was a poor farmer and he had a son to think about. He gave him more than what my father thought I was worth. So Gus took me and turned me. I was afraid of him at first. He scared me because I knew he was not human and I was right when he bit me. Tricked me to drink his blood and then bit me. I lived with him as one of his many trophies when Eric joined his ranks in 1890. Sarah was another vampire he had collected over the years and she and I grew very close to be like sisters. I had been with him for over 250 years and she was there for about a hundred. I wanted out. Sarah wanted out. Eric was beautiful. He was loyal and he was smart. He and I worked allot together for various things and we just fell in love. I told him we wanted to go and he would do anything for me so he helped us. He then quit and came and found us. We hid out the three of us for almost a hundred years. It was 1990 and we lived in a cabin in Washington when we were tracked down and found. His whole regime came in along with the man himself. He told me he was not there to take us back but to make us suffer. First he killed Sarah and made me watch. Then he tortured Eric until he began begging for death and then killed him right in front of me. He then turned to me and said he couldn't kill me because he had loved me too much but that I was worthless to him now and he just enjoyed seeing me suffer. My suffering was satisfying enough for him and he left me with nothing. My husband dead and my sister gone I was all alone. I have spent the past twenty years trying to find a way to make him pay. I am not stronger than him but I have researched that the Doppelganger could be. So when Isobel told me knowing my back story and knowing I would be someone to help I knew I couldn't refuse this opportunity to do it."

Her story was sad. One of great loss. I couldn't turn her away and by the looks on my friends faces neither could they.

Damon walked to her and held out his hand, "I'm sorry for what he did. And we accept your help".

She shook his hand and smiled delighted to be part of something once more.

"Amber how do we find him"? Stefan asked.

"You don't". She said confidently. "He'll find you and you have to be ready when he does".