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 7

The doppelgänger stared at me shocked.

"And who are you?" She asked. "I have never seen you around here before."

I smirked what Elijah used to say was the 'twins smirk' as Kol and I have the same look. "My name's Rose. And I just moved back into town." I looked her up and down. She was noting like Tatia. The original is always better, I thought to myself. "And you are?"

"That's not important right now." She turned to look at Elijah.

I wasn't having any of that. "But I think it is because you're a doppelgänger." I smirked as she looked at me shocked again.

"How do you know that word Rose?" Janine asked. Everyone from St Vladimirs looked shocked.

"Now that is something that is unimportant right now." I looked at the doppelgänger with my head cocked to the side. "Now what's your name?"

"Elena Gilbert," she stammered.

"That wasn't so hard was it? Now you can ask what you want to." I sat back down to watch the show.

"What's Klaus' curse?"

"You're kidding me right?" I asked laughing.

"And you told me to shut up," Jessie snapped.

I turned my head towards him. "I told you because you have no idea what you are talking about. Me on the other hand, know exactly what I'm talking about." I looked at Elena again. "It's not the sun and moon curse if you didn't already know."

It was her turn to smirk at me as if she knew something I didn't. "That curse is fake if you didn't already know."

I mentally smirked but I put on the outward look of shock. "OMG I did not know that. How could you not tell me Eli?"

"Stop being such a child Rosemarie and let me tell her what she wants to know."

"Fine." I slumped into my chair. "Please, have a seat."

She sat down in the only available seat and Elijah sat next to her.

"You know my family was quite close. But Klaus and my father did not get on too well. When we became vampires we discovered that Klaus was not my fathers son. My mother had been unfaithful many years before. This was her darkest secret. Klaus was from a different bloodline. When my father found out he slaughtered my mothers lover and his entire family. What he did not realize, of course, was that he was lighting a war that rages to this day."

"A war between the species?" Eddie asked, speaking for the first time.

"The vampires," I said pausing. "And the werewolves,"

Jessie and Ralf laughed. "There are no such things as werewolves," they said together.

I cocked my head to the side. "You're sitting in the home of a werewolf right now."

"Your generation has been sheltered a lot by the older people," Alberta said. "There are such things as werewolves. That's what Elijah saved me from."

"So Klaus' father was from a werewolf bloodline?" Elena asked. "What does that make Klaus? A werewolf or a vampire?"

"He's both," three voices, including mine, said.

We all looked at Dimitri in shock.

"Okay, I am sick of you knowing a story that you're not meant to," I said.

"I told you how I knew. My grandmother told me the story."

"And I told you that I do not believe you." I got up and stood toe to toe with him. "You want to know how I know she didn't?" He didn't answer. "I know for two reasons. Because one, you will not look me in the eye when you say that." I lowered my voice and whispered in his ear. "And two, because only the original family knows the true story." I pulled away and looked at him with my eyebrows raised daring him to question my logic. When he didn't I turned to Elena. "A hybrid would be more deadly than any werewolf or vampire and so the witches saw to it that Klaus' werewolf side would become dormant."

"That's the curse that he wants to break," Elena whispered.

I nodded.

"He wants to trigger the part if that's a werewolf," Elijah continued. "If allowed, he would sire his own bloodline. He would build his own race endangering not just vampires."

"But everyone," I finished.

"But you helped him," Elena accused Elijah.

"I helped him because I loved him," he said. "That's changed now. He must die."

"We have the dagger. We can kill him."

I rolled my eyes at how naive she was. "When a werewolf is hurt by silver it heals. An original can only be killed by white oak ash on a silver dagger. Do you see why the dagger wouldn't work?"

"How do you know all of this?" Dimitri asked me with one of his eyebrows raised.

"For the same second reason that I gave you." He looked at me with wide eyes but I ignored him and looked towards Elena again.

"What ate you saying?" Elena asked. "That Klaus can't be killed?"

"There's one way to kill any supernatural species," Elijah informed her. "And that's by the hands of the servants of nature themselves."

"A witch if they can harness that much power." She sighed. "But it would kill them."

"The curse must be broken during the full moon," Elijah started.

"When he is in transition is when he'll be the most vulnerable," I continued.

"A witch with that much power can kill Klaus."

"What if I told you that I knew a witch that could channel that much power?" Elena asked.

"Then there's something else that you should know."