Chapter 10

Damon awoke to the sound of Stefan and Elena getting ready for school. He groaned, why his brother insisted on going to school he would never fathom. He got up and walked down the stairs.

"You have got to be kidding me," Elena said looking at the front door.

Stefan and Damon followed her gaze.

Cassie was leaning into the front window of a sports car. Clearly in last nights clothes. Damon watched her giggle and the man inside the car lean in for a kiss.

After she kissed him, she walked into the boarding house as the car pulled away.

"You were right, he was hot," Katherine said walking into the living room.

Cassie laughed. "Hey little sis" she said when she noticed Elena.

Elena just rolled her eyes and brushed past her sister. Stefan noticed the sadness in Cassie's eyes, but when he blinked it was gone.

"Come on Stefan we are late for school." She said. Stefan nodded to Cassie who nodded back and left with Elena.

"Well Damon, I am guessing you have some questions." Cassie said looking back to Damon and Katherine.

"As a matter of fact I do." He replied.

"Well" Katherine said "I'm not going to hear anything new, Cassie you can borrow some of my clothes." And she walked out of the house.

"So, where should we begin?" Damon asked

"How about some clean clothes?" Cassie said "or in your case, clothes." She said her eyes traveling down Damon's bare chest.

"Why?" Damon asked walking in front of her. "Is it distracting?" he smirked

"If you want my to talk then yes" she answered staring into his blue eyes.

Damon stared at her for a little longer, deciding on what to do.

"Fine" he said, "Meet back here in ten minutes" and walked up the steps.

"Elena" Stefan said. "You can't keep doing this to your sister" he said when they got to school.

"Yes I can," she said

"Elena," Stefan began "she is here now, maybe she wants to make things right."

"Were your ok when Damon showed up?" she asked

"That was different" Stefan said

"No, its not, maybe Cassie isn't some vampire with killing issues but she doesn't get to just pop up whenever she wants" she said slamming her locker.

"Elena" Stefan said

"Forget it Stefan" she said and walked away from him.

Caroline walked over to where Stefan was. "Why does she not get along with her?" he asked

"Honestly, I think it's a little bit of jealousy, Cassie had the perfect high school career, Elena's high school is her parents dying, Jenna dying, plus all of the vampire stuff" Caroline said.

"Is it just that?" he asked

"No, after Cassie graduated she left town, and she came back for the funeral but left right after, Elena needed her sister and Cassie wasn't there."

Stefan nodded thinking about what Elena was saying about Cassie. He hated to admit it but he still felt that resentment towards Damon.

Cassie came back down stairs in Katherine's clothes. She was glad for once that their styles were similar. She chose skinny jeans, a purple top with her heels from last night. Damon had beaten her down there. He was in his signature jeans and a black t-shirt.

"I said ten minutes," Damon said

"And I took fifteen" she said sitting on the couch "you want me to answer some questions so I took five extra minutes."

Damon smiled and sat across from Cassie "fine, what are you doing back in town?"

"Missed my family." She answered, "What are you doing in town?"

"Missed my family" he answered "why was Klaus staring at you last night."

"It's a long story," Cassie said standing up.

"We have all day" Damon replied. "Where are you going?" he asked, watching her leave the living room.

"The kitchen," she said, "human needs to eat. You coming?"

Damon smiled following her into the kitchen.

"To explain that I have to talk about the originals when they were human." Cassie began opening the refrigerator

"I know about it" Damon said. Cassie poked her head up from the fridge. "Klaus and his brothers were fighting over Tatia"

"Yes but what they left out of the history books is that Tatia had an older sister Anita, she loved Klaus and Klaus felt the same but, he had feelings for Tatia as well." Cassie began, grabbing eggs and orange juice and walked over to the oven.

"Ok so Klaus couldn't make up his mind, what does that have to do with becoming vampires" Damon interrupted

"You are never going to know if you keep interrupting" Cassie replied.

Damon held his hands up "continue please"

"From the information I could gather, Tatia couldn't pick between the two, or didn't want to pick between them, either way she asked Anita to stay away from Klaus until she made a decision. And she did. But when ester asked the brothers why they were fighting, Klaus said Tatia. Ester knew that Klaus loved Anita so when she used Tatia's blood to make the curse, she took some of Anita's blood and"

"Made it the cure" Damon said.

"Making it so love really did conquer all" Cassie said sitting on the island with her eggs and OJ. "But when they turned, Klaus realized he did love her and wanted to spend an eternity with her."

"So what happened to her?" Damon asked picking a bite from Cassie's plate.

"He got carried away, and killed her" Cassie replied.

"So what does this have to do with you?" Damon asked still confused.

"Did you know that doppelgangers come inn pairs?" Cassie asked "and with the Petrova line the way it happens is that Anita's doppelganger is always three years older than Tatia's doppelganger."

"So what your saying is that you're a doppelganger too?" Damon asked.

"Yep" Cassie replied popping the p

"How did you even find out about this?" he asked

"I met Katherine" she said "at first I thought it was Elena but when she turned about to be a vampire she told me the story, and we have been close friends ever since."

"You and Katherine? does she even have friends?" Damon asked.

"Damon, you forget that these things come in pairs, so while Katherine looks like Elena, I look like her older sister." She replied finishing her eggs.

Damon sat in silence, he knew that Klaus came after Katherine's family when she turned and he realized that if that would of happened to Stefan, he would of jumped at the chance to become friends with even someone who looks like him.

"So why didn't you come back?" he asked the sound of Cassie washing her dishes bringing him out of his head.

"It's complicated" Cassie said "and I don't know if I can tell you"

Cassie walked back into the living room. Damon followed silent, knowing she needed some time to think what she was going to say through.

"How about you tell me why your really here?" Damon asked

Cassie turned to him, "Damon can I trust you?" she asked

"Nope" he replied sitting back on the couch.

"How about can I trust you not to tell Elena why" she refreshed still staring out the window.

Damon didn't answer, thinking about what the consequences of Elena finding out that he knew if she ever did find out. 'Yes" he finally said.

"Jeremy called me, and asked if I would come back," she said. "He told me about becoming one of the five and how much it scared him"

"What did he think you could do to help?" he asked

"At the time, nothing, he said he just needed his sister, but after last night he is going to want me to help him" she said.

"Why is that" Damon asked.

"Because" she said turning around to face him. Looking him in the eye "I'm one of the five"

AN: i know this chapter is like the flashback episodes, but we need them. i needed to explain and i feel like cassie and damon would have this older sibling connection.