Chapter 16 – Most of the time

"You okay?"

Rosalie said in a joking tone as I glared at her from my position in front of the porcelain goddess

"How much did I drink?"

"You were all night with a drink in hand"

She shrugged.

"You two have been joined at the hip for days, are you that upset you got married?"

She asked with a frown. I laughed it off and quickly rinsed my mouth in the sink

"Actually I'm throwing up as a result of my dream"

"What Dream?"

I shook my head not answering and we returned to the kitchen together. Damon was having his brother in a chokehold while everyone else was laughing at them. Then I remembered

"Donald duck? Seriously?"

Stefan's face got all veiny and fangy as he glared at me.

"Donald duck?"

Caroline snorted. Stefan growled and flipped Damon over his shoulder. Caroline kept laughing at them while Lexi shook her head.

"Boys will be boys"

I bit my lip trying not to laugh at the boys' antics

"Rosalie, can you call the rest of the family? Except alike, Carlisle and Esme? I need to talk to you guys"

She nodded and pulled out her phone to start making phone calls. Lexi looked at me from top to bottom

"You need to get dressed"

I groaned realizing she was right.

"I'll go home and change"

"You can put something of mine. I owe you"

Lexi smiled and danced in front of the sunlight. I smiled and nodded

"Thanks"

I searched for Damon with my eyes but he was staring at his new ring and not looking at me. I followed Lexi to Stefan's room. It was identical to Damon's only much more bright and sunny. I looked at Lexi when we both saw the mess of women clothes thrown all around the room

"Don't tell me he's a cross dresser?"

Lexi laughed

"Nah, those are mine"

I raised an eyebrow and laughing she threw me a pair of jeans and a black set of underwear. The bra was a little small but the panties fit perfectly.

"How can you wear a thong all day?"

"They're comfortable"

"They feel like a permanent wedgie"

I complained but put them on along with a pair of light blue distressed jeans that hung low on my hips. I put Damon's shirt back on and tied it to a knot right above my belly button and my pendant back on. It made me feel balanced while Damon's shirt had a strangely calming effect engulfing me in the familiar scent.

On the desk, next to cherry chapstick, was a picture of Elena in period clothes and curls.

"Katherine?"

She nodded. Someone had drawn horns, glasses and a moustache on it

"Nice accessories"

I joked and Lexi looked at me with an angelic smile.

"Your horns are showing"

I poked fun at her.

"I didn't do it. Not all of it"

She exclaimed. After a wild night last night Stefan had gotten drank and the two vampires messed the picture together. Laughing we returned downstairs to find Stefan and Damon still messing around, this time with football.

"What the hell happened to them?"

I asked Lexi who looked equally mystified. Caroline snorted from her place on the coffee table.

"They got laid and it wasn't by Elena"

Rosalie laughed as well stealing the ball from the men. Damon glared at her; Rosalie smiled and threw the ball straight in his gut. Cold ones are physically stronger so Damon got hit. To my immense surprise Stefan stood by his big brother's side and the two attacked Rosalie.

Lexi rolled her eyes and whistled loudly threatening them to force them to watch Titanic if they didn't stop. Both Salvatores froze immediately.

"Boys will be boys"

Caroline laughed and we all sat down in the vast living room. Rosalie (who for once wasn't in heels) plopped down next to Caroline on a large armchair, Lexi sat with Stefan on a setee and I took a set on another armchair. Damon busied himself with making drinks.

It's five o'clock somewhere in the world eh?

I summoned the Book from my house.

"I call upon the ancient power

To help me in this darkest hour.

Let the Book leave it's place,

Claim refuge in this space."

Ignoring the startled moves from the vampires I told my complete story to them starting from meeting the Cullens to James and co, to san Francisco, to the prophesy on my shoulders, to the vision that started it all, Lucy Bennet, bonnie Bennet and this last astral projection.

"I'm sorry Rosalie"

I said to the stunned Hale. She chuckled darkly

"It's not that surprising actually, our house is like a war zone lately"

She then proceeded to inform everyone else what jasper and Edward had told me. ever since moving here Carlisle had gone off the rails and insisted on his children mingling with their new classmates, he had been against Jasper teaching someone new and had insisted on the family playing human, he would also disappear randomly and be grim when he came back. Rosalie had overheard him mutter and grumble about obeying different masters sometimes.

"Frankly he scares me"

The badass vampire girl admitted. Rosalie Hale never admits her feelings but this one wasn't the bitch I remember, guess friends really do change people.

"In that projection both Alice and Carlisle had red eyes"

I said out loud. Rosalie flinched as if she had been slapped. She always prided herself to having a control almost as good as Carlisle's.

"How red?"

"Too red"

I remembered Jasper's eyes. He had been on the human wagon for almost a month and his eyes still had a shred of golden flecks lost in the general redness.

"Can red eyes look golden with lenses?"

Lexi asked. Rosalie's face had set to a perfect poker face as she shook her head 'no'

"But they can with a spell"

I whispered remembering a covering spell Paige had taught me. Suddenly Stefan hit himself on the head

"stef?"

Lexi touched his hand but the vampire kept hitting his head. Damon leapt to him to hold his hands back.

"Why can't I remember?"

"Remember what brother?"

He asked in a soft tone

"That name, I know it"

"What name? Mikael?"

Stefan nodded

"Can a vampire be compelled?"

Caroline asked. Lexi shook her head 'no'. Biting my lip I knelt next to him and placed my hands on his cheeks

" Thoughts, Beliefs, Ideas, Truths, Images and Memories,

All of these you have lost,

you will now remember"

I casted the spell on him clearly. his eyes unfocused for a moment before he snarled and putting his hands on my arms, he threw me away backwards and with a thud I landed in a pair of cold arms that jumped up to catch me

"Thanks Rosalie"

"Call me Rose"

I smiled in appreciation.

"That asshole"

Stefan screamed. Damon grabbed his brother's arms again

"Talk to me"

"I met a guy in the 20s. Also a vampire, he had a sister and said this Mikael dude was his father"

Stefan spat. Wordlessly Caroline handed him a tall glass of scotch and Stefan drank it all at once while Lexi was rubbing his shoulders. Five heartbeats later Stefan indulged in the story of how he met this guy, Klaus and his sister Rebekah in the '20s in Chicago. It was a time where he had given in his inner ripper and shut his humanity off. He and the sister got in a relationship (Lexi frowned at that) and he and the brother were like brothers (Damon frowned at that). They were on the run from their father, Mikael, and he last saw them when the man found them. Same day when he was compelled to forget both of them.

I frowned at the names. I know those names. I took my Book and went back to thumbing through it. They were included in the pages dedicated to vampires. I rubbed a hand on my face

"They were the Originals"

Rosalie blinked

"Did you say Originals?"

"Yes"

"When I was a newborn, I overheard Carlisle telling Edward as story of how he was turned"

"The one Edward told me?"

"No, that was the one they told everyone else. What I heard him say was different. He said our whole kind had been created by a man named Klaus who wanted a new family. He was different from us but we were like this. Not only that but Carlisle himself was turned by him as well"

"I thought Carlisle was turned by a passing vampire"

"So did I"

"Why did he create cold ones if he was a normal vampire?"

Caroline asked, receiving a glare by the blond cold one. She shrugged

"What?"

"Because he wasn't a normal vampire"

Damon read from the Book from his place on the arm of the chair I was sitting on.

"The mother had an affair with a werewolf. Maybe the wolf genes screwed up with the vampire blood?"

He asked sipping his scotch. Going to the werewolf pages I shrugged one shoulder.

"Could be. To activate the wolf genes you need to kill someone. I'm going to assume the entire family killed people"

"Makes sense"

Stefan agreed. As everyone began talking at the same time I slumped backwards landing on a shoulder.

"This is so not the honeymoon I ever thought"

Damon snickered. I slapped his shoulder with a smile

"What? No weird original vampires to kill us all or witches?"

"No I'm good with that"

"Then?"

"We should be having hot monkey sex"

I stared at him unsmiling

"Only if it's on my parents' bed. I always wanted to do it there"

He waggled his eyebrows.

"What are we gonna do about this?"

I pointed to his wedding ring. He shrugged with indifference. I mimicked him sipping my coffee.

"When my mom remarried she had me checking in how long before she could divorce, just in case she was making a major mistake. It was a month"

I told him quietly.

"We have to stay married for a month?"

His scotch flew out of his nose in his surprise. I nodded

"Hey, I don't like it anymore than you do"

I told him. It wasn't a lie; me and the word 'marriage' do not go together.

"Hide it for a month and file for annulment?"

"Or compel for one"

He gave me a cheeky smile and I nodded.

"Are we going to have sex at least?"

"Hell yea. I married you; I got to get something out of it too"

With a start we realized everyone had shut up and was staring. I blushed.

"So, what do we do?"

Lexi took pity on my flushed face and asked distracting the others.

"Keeping up the ruse?"

Caroline proposed. Rosalie, Caroline and Lexi decided to go to the movies as planned only they'd ask if Alice and bonnie wanted to join them and Stefan proposed a hunting party to Richmond. Edward had spotted a few mountain lions apparently.

As for me I had a full day ahead of me. With about two weeks before the full moon (the new moon was the night before) I needed to find more about that vampire business and what it had in common with the Source.

A/N: Okay guys, I have to ask you something. The next chapter can go in both ways and it's up to you to decide. It can either be smut with a bit of plot or just plot. You decide and let me know?