I do not own Vampire Academy or The Vampire Diaries. But I wished I owned Dimitri or Kol - but we take what we can.

Chapter 6

I sat on one of the lounges, the students sat on the others, the guardians were standing along the wall and Elijah stood near the mantle.

"Why are we here?" Jessie asked.

"We're here for a history lesson about the oldest vampires in the world," Stan replied with a sigh.

"That's easy," Ralf said. "The Moroi were the first vampires and from us came the dhampirs and unfortunately the Strigoi."

Eddie scoffed and Mia rolled her eyes. "That's royalty for you," she said.

"Would you two be quiet," Alberta said to Jessie and Ralf. "Let Elijah talk."

Elijah noded to Alberta in thanks. "Believe me or not but I am over a thousand years old," he said.

"How are we supposed to believe you?" Jessie asked, looking at Elijah like he was crazy.

"Would you shut up?" I asked. "Or is it too hard for you to achieve?"

"You can't seriously believe him," Ralf said.

"So what if I do? It's my choice if I do or not."

"Can you all shut up and listen?" Adrian asked. "I'm quite interested in what he has to say."

"My father was a land owner in Eastern Europe when a plague hit killing an older sibling of mine. I never knew him," Elijah started. I looked down at the ground. I may not have known my sibling either as I was younger than Elijah but I heard stories about him from mother. "My mother was friends with a witch by the name Aiyana who told her of a land where the people were gifted by healthy life. So my parents moved here and my mother bore seven more children including me."

Elijah stayed quiet after that and everyone, except for Dimitri I noticed, was leaning forward in anticipation.

"That's it?" Christian asked. "What happened after that to make you who you are today?"

"Do you mind if I tell the story," I heard Dimitri ask.

Elijah and I stared at him in shock. "Of course," Elijah said. I was too shocked to answer.

"The children all lived in peace with the rest of the villagers and had a playful childhood. The oldest girl ended up marrying her best friend. Soon after their marriage the youngest child was killed by the werewolves that lived in the village and their mother turned them into vampires."

I came out if my shock and stood up. "How do you know that?" I asked. "That's not in the stories that were written about how vampires came to be."

"I have secrets Rose." He rose one of his eyebrows. "I'm sure we all do."

"I'm quite inclined to agree with Rose on this case." Elijah said. "No one knows if any of the siblings got married nor how we came to be."

"My grandmother told me. It has always been passed down through our family." Dimitri looked towards the roof fleetingly before looking back at us.

"Don't lie to us," I hissed. He looked at me with wide eyes. "You do the same thing that someone I used to know did when he lied. He always looked upwards before looking back at the person he was talking to."

Before he had time to answer the door opened and a girl who looked like Tatia walked in. I knew it wasn't Katarina because she was compelled to not leave the house. I took a breath theough my nose and I smelt human blood.

"Great," I said making everyone look at me. I walked to stand next to Elijah and leant against the mantle. "Another doppelgänger knowing the secret. Just what we need."