I'm back with chapter 4! Yay! This is more light hearted than the last several ones (thankfully) so I hope you enjoy.

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Chapter 4: Elena

Stefan knew he was out numbered. He ran away as soon as he saw that his brother was no longer compelled and no longer on his side. My dead heart stopped for a moment as I saw the man I had spent the better part of two decades pining over, the love of my life. And there he was, standing beside our daughter who was guarding her sister so carefully. It was a beautiful sight. It made me want to cry.

I changed back into my normal, human form and was thankful that Katherine had brought clothes for me. Watching someone who looked so much like you speaking to the man you know both you and her have slept with at some point during his long reign of eternity was a little surreal. Upon my re-entrance into the room, Klaus turned to me.

A smirk came to his features, one that made me uneasy, but I held my ground. "I didn't know you had children, Elena." My eyes dropped to the floor for a split second.

"Would you have gone after them?"

This made him pause. After many minutes had gone by, he finally replied. "No. I don't need an army of hybrids anymore. I have a family now."

"Let me take a guess," Katherine's voice came as she casually leaned back against the wall, "Damon is the father. One of them looked just like him, and from what I saw the other day, just as cocky." Her voice was teasing, a smile playing on her lips. "So, let's hear their names. Or did you give them up for adoption?" I scoffed at that. "Well, where have they been for the past years?"

"With Isobel's parents," I shot out.

"Did anyone even know about them?" she asked, "Or are you trying to pretend you're Isobel and hide the truth?" I rolled my eyes.

"Ash and Danny knew. Besides, when has it ever come up in a conversation, 'Elena, do you have children, especially one that is a doppelganger?'" Klaus rolled his eyes, taking a seat on a window sill that no longer had a window.

"You doppelgangers are by far the most annoying creatures to have ever cursed this Earth," he mumbled under his breath, knowing well that everyone in the room had superhuman hearing.

"We know," My ancestor answered, "So, names..." she prompted, "I'm curious."

"Oh no, Katherine's feeling maternal," I muttered, "Isobelle and Jennifer."

"Really?" I nodded. "Middle names?"

"Isobelle Alexia Rosemarie and Jennifer Miranda." She shrugged.

"Guess you've got to be dead to get your name in there."

"Wouldn't give you the satisfaction of naming anyone after you," I shot back.

"Pssh!" she laughed as we left the house and walked through the woods, "You know you want to."

"Yes," Klaus answered for me, "Right after we drive meat cleavers over our necks and white ash stakes through my, Elijah and Bekah's hearts."

"And maybe burn for a little while in Hell first," I quickly added.

From downstairs, there came a loud groan. "What's wrong with you?" Elijah asked Klaus as the latter stared at a credit card statement. I knew this, because that was the only thing that could make Klaus groan like his wallet was in some serious pain.

"Did I do something recently to make Bekah angry at me?"

"Not that I know of. Why?" Elijah took a look at the credit card statement and gaped. "What did she buy for that price?"

"It can't be that bad," I said under my breath to them, coming up behind them. I looked at the screen. "Europe, maybe, possibly Asia with it?" I suggested.

"Nik! I borrowed your credit card. Hope you don't mind," Rebekah's voice came from the doorway. "How do you like my dress? It's for the upcoming dance at school."

"There's no way," Klaus was muttering in shock.

"What's his problem?"

"Did that dress cost in the area of two billion?" Elijah asked, surprisingly calm in contrast to his hybrid half brother who was going into shock.

"What?" the blonde approached us, looking at the screen. "You do realize that at the end is a period, right? And it says 'house' next to it. Probably has to do with the house you bought that we're standing in right now. And who even charges a house on a credit card anyways?" Finally, Klaus blinked. "My God, you people are idiots!" She stormed out of the room.

"I like your dress!" I called after her.

"Thanks!" her reply came.

Elijah was sitting in the dining room, the full flames roaring in the fireplace. He was going through some papers, typing something on his laptop, mostly historical stuff. He was planning on writing a book about Mystic Falls history. I took a seat beside him.

"Need some help?" He looked up, glancing in my direction.

"Do you mind going through that pile? I'm looking for something... I just can't find it... something doesn't add up."

My brow furrowed in confusion. "What doesn't?"

"If none of us, save Ashley and Daniel, knew that you had children, how did Stefan?"

Ah, the million dollar question. "Considering I admitted myself to a hospital in Georgia under a false name at that time, I really don't know." He blinked.

"Georgia? But I thought you were in North Carolina at school."

I nodded. "This was just before college started. I had gone to Atlanta because Damon had taken me there once and I remember hoping he'd be at this bar he had taken me to, because he knew the owner. Well, turns out, being knocked out for three-fourth of the trip there and drunk on the way back makes you pretty bad with directions."

Elijah chuckled. "Alright then, but that still doesn't explain how he found out about them?"

"How did Katherine find out I was alive in the first place?"

"How did Katherine do what?" her voice came from the other room as she walked into the dining room that had been turned into Elijah's research room. She slinked across the room and onto her boyfriend's lap. She wrapped her arm around Elijah's neck. "Well, what's the question?"

"How did you find out about Elena?" She shrugged.

"That's easy. I heard about her. People talk. I heard Stefan was back in Mystic Falls, then John contacted Isobel and Isobel found me. But people talk. I heard all sorts of rumors that there was a new doppleganger before Stefan had even come back to Mystic Falls, before Isobel had even found me."

I could see the gears clicking in his head at this. Ashley walked in the room, looking at us curiously. Danny filed in, true to form, silently behind her. We were all quiet as Klaus, Rebekah, and Anthony also came in. Klaus sat down across from his brother, Bekah in the chair next to him, as Ashley gazed inquisitively over Elijah's shoulder.

"The answer's simple," she whispered, color drained from her cheeks, "He was looking for you, so he went where he knew you might have gone. Grove Hill was where Isobel had lived. He knew that. He had people looking out for if you were alive."

"Then how did he never find out before now?" Danny asked, speaking for the first time that I've heard him probably since their wedding. Ashley flushed.

"I put a charm on Elena. I guess I didn't get one up quick enough on the girls. Or maybe he had a scout here in Mystic Falls. It wouldn't be hard to do, especially not if he's got your brothers," she said, addressing the three Originals, "Working with him. Why would a vampire want to put themselves through the torture of drinking vervain every day to make themselves unable to be compelled?" At this, Katherine, Anthony, and my eyebrows went up in sync. "Normal vampires who weren't running for their lives for any length of time, working in a supernatural bar, or were sired by the same person that originally killed them."

Klaus chuckled, and I glanced at him. "What's so funny?"

"I wonder if Stefan has connected the dots with whom your children's father is?"

"Or that it's his, and my, nieces he's trying to kill?" Anthony added in.

Katherine looked up, looking each and every one of us in the eyes. "It won't matter to him." Her voice was dead serious. "He's over the edge. It would take centuries of detox to get him to the point where he's gonna care if he hurts a human. He could very well be gone for good. And I don't know about Finn or Kol all that well, but from what you've said about them, we're fighting a loosing battle. Which means we will need more hybrids if he brings the war here and you will have to make them," she told Klaus, "Want them or not. And your daughter," she said, turning to me, "Is going to be the one who is a human blood bag. I don't care if you don't like it, but we've been dealt a pretty good hand considering our situation. I say we put a round the clock guard on the two girls, Damon too. We don't know what he's going to try."

You know a situation is bad when Klaus and Rebekah are letting Katherine, who they both have spent the better part of the last decade and a half fighting with, take control. We were in a mess and we all knew it.

"I'll contact my witch pals!" Ashley said perkily, trying to lighten the mood. Rebekah smiled weakly.

"Guess it's time to wake the hybrids back, huh?" she smiled cheekily at her brother who nodded, standing up.

"Elena, would you?" I nodded.

"Take care of my girls," I told him, knowing where he was going. I pressed my lips to his cheek in a silent show of gratitude, and went to wake the others.

They were bringing the battle to us, and we would be ready.

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