I woke up with a groan and touched my forehead. There was nothing there. I looked down at myself. My clothes were torn and bloody. So I hadn't dreamt about the accident. Then why didn't I have the gash on my forehead. I sat up and looked around. I was in a luxury hotel room. Laid out on bed by my side were a dress and shoes and what seemed like a Victoria Secret's bag. I stood up and just as I was going to take a step in the direction of the door, the man who had killed Victoria's vengeful friend came from the balcony.

"Good morning. How are you feeling?" he asked smiling.

"Ahn… good. How?" I frowned.

"My blood"

"Oh"

He stared at me and I was uncomfortable under his gaze.

"I asked the lady at the reception to get you some clothes and whatever you might need" he said.

I looked at the dress and the bag and then back at him.

"You can use the bathroom" he gestured to a door.

I hesitated, but then did as he said. Taking the dress and bag I locked myself in the bathroom. I checked my pockets for my phone, but I had nothing with me. Great. Not knowing what else to do, I decided to play along. I took a shower, scrubbing the dirt and dry blood from my skin, and put on the floral-print georgette dress. Whoever got the stuff didn't spare a cent. I had luxury toiletries and the underwear was indeed Victoria Secrets'. I walked out and he had called room service. On the table by the balcony's floor-to-ceiling windows there was food enough for five people. I put on the black, lace sandals and sat across from him at the table. He lowered the newspaper and smiled, gesturing for me to go ahead. I was starving. I took a croissant and bit into it, surprised by how delicious it was. This man liked the best of everything apparently.

"Thank you" I said putting down the pastry on the plate. "Sorry… Ahn, what's your name?"

"Elijah"

I froze and the small thankful smile fell from my face.

"Elijah? The man who tried to take Elena?" I asked frowning.

"Yes, but that might be a small misunderstanding" Elijah said.

"Why are you helping me? If you plan on trying to trade me for Elena, forget it, they won't give her…"

"I'm not planning anything. I'm just helping you" he said and inclined his head. "I bet you have a lot of questions I could answer"

"There are so many questions in my mind lately you wouldn't be able to answer" I said.

"How about I tell you my story. It might explain some things. And the ones it doesn't, you can ask"

I nodded, eager to have some questions answered. He gestured for me to continue eating.

"Well, my story starts over a thousand years ago" he said in his perfect British accent. "I am the second oldest of seven children. My older brother had died from the plague in Europe, our home, and father brought us here. The land hadn't been discovered yet, but my mother had her contacts and so did my father. After my brother Finn was born, my mother soon got pregnant of my next brother, Finn. Niklaus, Rebekah, Kol and Henrik followed… We lived in a village on what now would be Mystic Falls, the rest of the small population were families of witches and werewolves"

"Vampires?" I asked.

"No. We didn't exist yet" he smiled. "My brother Niklaus was somehow different from us, he enjoyed violence, and my father despised it, and so disliked his ways. We constantly feared the wolves, and during full moons we had to hide. Unfortunately, on one full moon, Niklaus took Henrik to see the wolves transforming. My youngest brother never came back"

"I'm sorry"

"Although my father was angry with Nik, he still worried about our safety. He asked a witch, my mother's friend, called Arianna, to help us out. The witch refused, and stayed away from us. What was probably for the best. She was the first of the Bennett lineage… My mother, a witch, did the spell alone. It was basically a deal with the powers of earth so we wouldn't be vulnerable to the wolves, so we wouldn't die. We drank blood, and then our father killed us and himself. When we awoke, we were different. We couldn't stand the sun, it was the nature's way of saying we shouldn't exist, my mother said. But she made us rings so we could walk in daylight. We thirsted for blood, and we all killed someone when we lost control. My father was disgusted by our nature, he never wanted innocents hurt"

"Wait a moment" I said shaking my head. "If the werewolves already transformed in full moon, and you from the beginning couldn't walk in the sun… Then the curse…"

"Doesn't exist. The curse is a legend that hides the true meaning to the moonstone" he said with a smile.

"Which is?"

"Niklaus, after his first kill, revealed a side of him that until then, only my mother was aware of. He was a werewolf, my mother had an affair with a man of the village. My father was outraged, and since we didn't let him kill Niklaus, he left us and promised he would find a way to eliminate the aberrations we all were. Finn had the same opinion, and left too. Niklaus became more violent, and fearing he would lose control, my mother cursed him. She locked his werewolf side, using a moonstone, and the blood of a girl Klaus and I were very fond of. Tatia. She was beautiful and she was the reason my brother and I were turning against each other. My father, Mikael, killed our mother after the curse was sealed and ran before we could harm him. As we buried our mother, Klaus, Rebekah and I made a promise to always stay together, no matter what"

I had finished eating and he suggested we go for a walk. I agreed and after checking out, we left the hotel. He offered me his arm and we walked on a park close by.

"That was a thousand years ago?" I asked.

"Yes"

"Then what?"

He smiled and his eyes unfocused as if he was seeing something that wasn't there.

"Niklaus soon showed his true side. He became obsessed with breaking the curse. He got a warlock..."

"Sorry, a what?"

"A warlock. The correct term for a male witch"

"Oh, okay. Go on"

"He got a warlock, and he told Klaus that it was possible to break the curse. He would need the moonstone, a vampire, a werewolf on a full moon night, a witch powerful enough to break the curse and the same blood that sealed the curse – Tatia's. But he got that information decades after he killed Tatia"

"He killed her?" I asked shocked.

"He was present when my mother cut her to use her blood. He had no restraint. He did feel bad about her death, for a while" he sighed. "See, Tatia played with our hearts. She threw Klaus and I against each other, but after we left, we found out she was already promised when we met her and had affairs while leading us on. When Klaus asked the warlock what was the option to Tatia's blood, he told him that only the doppelganger's blood could be used"

"A doppelganger" I gasped. Elena.

"The warlock explained that Tatia had a daughter, a child out of wedlock, that's why our mother used her. The woman needed a bloodline. Tatia's lineage would eventually create a copy of her, a doppelganger, and then we could break the curse. Tatia's doppelganger would only be born 500 years later"

"Katherine"

"Yes, at the time her name was Katerina Petrova. She changed her name when she came to America. My brother and I had found her, and although she looked like Tatia, it was nothing compared to the resemblance between Elena and Katerina"

"So, Klaus is alive"

"Yes" he said nodding.

"And he wants to kill Katherine or Elena?"

"See, the doppelganger needs to be alive, a human. When Rose and Trevor got Elena for me, I was more than surprised. Katerina had been changed after escaping us the night we would break the curse and we thought Tatia's bloodline had died there"

"That was why Katherine wanted the moonstone, a werewolf and didn't kill Elena, wasn't it?" I asked frowning.

"Yes. Katerina has been running from us for centuries. To get into Klaus good graces and save herself she would give him the moonstone she had stolen, a werewolf and the doppelganger"

"But we killed Mason" I said.

"Yes, but werewolves are not that difficult for Klaus to find. The problem was the willing witch, the doppelganger and the stone"

"You have a witch" I said hopefully. Hoping Bonnie stayed out of this.

"Yes, and no" he sighed. "We do have a witch powerful enough to break the curse. But I found out recently, it wouldn't be enough"

"What?"

He stopped and we sat down on a bench.

"When I was human, and fighting my brother for Tatia's attention, my parents had arranged a union between me and a girl. Her name was Blaire. She was beautiful, and really sweet. My mother loved her, especially because she came from an Irish family of witches and warlocks. In normal circumstances I would have fallen for her and married as soon as possible. But Tatia had my complete attention, and my fiancée was in the background. When my mother cursed us to this life, Blaire's family was outraged. They respected the nature deeply as all witches should, and her parents called off the wedding"

I didn't like where this was going.

"But Blaire helped my mother make the spell without us knowing. Using her magic, and her blood"

"So, you also need Blaire's doppelganger? She had a bloodline?" I asked.

"Yes. Ending on the Swans" he said.

"I am Blaire's descendent?"

"You are her doppelganger, Bella"

"Wait" I shook my head. "Does that mean you're my…"

"No. Blaire was already married when she helped my mother, she didn't have a child, but she had been married. A man of the village who treated her like a princess, he was obsessed with her, and it seemed it was love" he said.

"So, what? You want me to help you? You want my permission to kill me and Elena?"

"I don't want my brother to break the curse"

"Well…" I shook my head. "Wait, what?"

"I swore to stay by his side but I won't undo my mother's work. Klaus is greedy, he doesn't need to break the curse… I'm trying to keep Elena safe. Klaus is unaware of her existence, and I want it to stay that way. And now that I know he would need you… I was a fool to Blaire once, I will not be a fool with her bloodline in risk. She risked her life to seal the curse, I will not disrespect that"

"You loved her in a way, didn't you?" I asked softly. "Blaire"

"I fell for her too late" he said with a sad smile. "I saw her value too late"

"You're showing your care now, by protecting what she risked her life for" I said. "Protecting her descendent"

"Thank you, Isabella" he said and took something from his pocket. "This was hers, she gave it to me the night our engagement was broken off"

I took the necklace from him. The pendant was a inverted teardrop vial. Inside it was a miniature red rose. I looked at it closely and my eyes grew wide.

"Is this… a real rose?" I asked him.

"Yes" he chuckled. "My warlock friend says your family's magic keeps it alive. When Blaire died it died with her, but then it came back to life once her daughter used magic. It had died years ago, and only came slightly back to life eighteen years ago, and yesterday, it blossomed"

"When my magic worked" I mumbled remembering the shattering glass.

He helped me put it on, and we decided to continue on our walk.

"So, you said the witch your brother had wouldn't be enough" I said.

"Jonas got an old grimoire, that belonged to your great-great-great-great-aunt" he said. "The knowledge passed on says the curse can only be broken with help of the magic that helped seal it. Your magic"

"But I also would have to die" I said confused.

"Yes, after helping breaking the curse"

"This is so… confusing" I mumbled.

"For someone who was unaware of her nature or the nature of people around her until a couple years ago, you seem to be taking everything very well"

"Oh, well, that just confirms the danger magnet theory" I chuckled.

"Yes, you have attracted quite supernatural beings to you" he said amusedly.

"Will you answer my questions?"

"Yes"

"Why aren't you dead?" I asked. "They staked you"

"My family, we are the Originals, the first vampires… We don't die that easily"

I realized he didn't tell me how he could die, and I wasn't going to ask.

"Why can't Damon compel me? Katherine and Stefan could… Can you?" I asked.

"No, I don't need to try" he chuckled. "Witches' magic usually are triggered by something"

"Bonnie… was Stefan's presence?"

"Probably" he nodded. "Most times, the contact with their parents' magic, but when that doesn't happen, a supernatural event can trigger. The passage of a comet, or the arrival of vampires. In your case, you were unaware of vampires' abilities and you were vulnerable to compulsion. When you became aware it triggered the natural block. Or the fact that you drank vervain triggered it. We won't ever know for sure"

"But I was unaware of Edward's abilities and he still couldn't read my mind" I pointed out

"Well, that is a question I can only answer if you ask the right question" he smirked.

"The right question?" I frowned and he nodded. "Ahn… Why are the Cullens different from you? Why are there two kinds?"

"That's one of the most entertaining parts of the story" he said. "My father seemed to have contacted Blaire years after we left. He convinced her and her family that we needed to be destroyed. Pressured by her family, Blaire did the spell with her mother and daughter. It connected all vampires through a bloodline. If Katherine dies for example, Damon and Stefan would die too because she created them…"

"And Caroline because Damon created her" I mumbled with wide eyes. "If someone killed all your family…"

"All vampires, of my kind would die"

"The other kind?" I asked.

"Blaire made a curse similar to what my mother did to us. Using gold, ruby, diamonds and a marble stone, she created four vampires of other kind. One to kill each of my siblings. My father promised to kill himself once we were gone, and she made a deal so my life was spared… But the new vampires didn't complete their mission. In fact they didn't even try. They continued to live their lives, changing others… From what I heard one – the woman meant to kill my sister – was killed and the other three are royalty in their world"

"The Volturi" I said shocked.

"Exactly. We all hid each other's existence to protect ourselves and we never had problems. That is, until you became the connection between us and them. You have a necklace, a Celtic knot…"

"Yes, it's at home… Why?"

"That necklace, is a talisman" he said. "The way my kind dies with their bloodline, Blaire created a backup plan for the other kind. That talisman would give a descendent enough power to end their existence"

"The Volturi?" I asked shakily.

"No. You have the power to end all of their lineages" he said.

I had the power to end not one, but all vampires, including the Cullens.

"Irony doesn't describe what I think" I mumbled.

"Yes, your life has its twists and turns and they are quite amusing"

"And Jake? The pack from La Push? Why are they different from other werewolves?"

"Because a Bennett witch helped one of them" he said. "Only the Quileutes have that gift, that's why imprinting is about creating a strong bloodline to pass on the gift. A Bennett witch, centuries ago, met a Quileute after his wife was killed by a vampire. He was a werewolf and was outraged that not being full moon he couldn't protect his wife. So, the witch helped him. She basically changed the werewolf curse, she died from using so much magic, but she freed the men from the tribe of the curse of being tied to the moon phases. So, since then, they can transform at will… Changes happened over time, but were natural. They turned into horse-sized wolves so they could have some advantage over us"

"So, let me get this straight. Bonnie and Jake are in a way connected because their ancestor worked to create his kind. I am related to all because I'm a witch, my ancestor helped cursing your brother and created another kind of vampires. Caroline, Damon and Stefan can die if who changed Katherine dies or if she dies… And Elena's best shot of surviving is having a child and then turning into a vampire. So, we are all connected"

"Yes… Rose-Marie changed Katherine by the way" he said.

"Rose-Marie?"

"The one who kidnapped Elena"

"You have got to be fucking kidding me" I grumbled. The bitch couldn't die or Damon would die with her.

He chuckled and his phone rang. He took it and frowned at the message he got.

"Come on, your friends got in trouble" he said pulling me.

We took a cab and he said Elena and Rose were in danger. We got out and he led me inside a building, we took the elevator and by his agitation I guessed we could be too late.

"If they take Elena…"

"Klaus might get to know about you" he confirmed.

We got out of the elevator and quietly entering an apartment that had the door open wide. Elijah calmly entered the room and I stayed back, watching as he easily killed the two vampires cornering Damon, Rose and Elena. I should have known Damon would come to rescue Elena. Rose seemed scared of Elijah and in a blink she was gone. Elijah looked in the direction of the door, and arched an eyebrow.

"Rose-Marie was never very brave" he commented and then turned to Damon and Elena. "Go home, and don't come looking for danger again"

I stepped out of the corner I was in and Elena gasped in surprise.

"Bella" Damon said with relief.

I ran to Elena and hugged her. If she only knew how much we had in common, how much danger we put our loved ones in.

"Why aren't you dead?" Damon asked Elijah.

"That doesn't concern you" Elijah said and leaned against the wall. "You should go home now"

Damon grabbed my arm and Elena's ready to get us out of there, but I pulled away from him. Ignoring his scowl I went to Elijah and surprised him with a hug.

"Thank you" I said.

"You're welcome" he mumbled wrapping only an arm around me.

"Keep in touch?" I asked pulling back.

He only inclined his head with a smile. I took it as a yes.

"Be careful, alright?" he said giving me a meaningful look. "As the characters are copied so does the story, it repeats itself. Bound to make the mistakes the ones before you did"

I nodded, knowing I would have to look deeper into his message to understand what he really meant.

I went back to Elena's side, ignoring hers and Damon's questioning looks. We walked calmly out of the building and took Damon's car. Elena said she would go in the back, and I knew she was giving up shotgun because Damon would be interrogating both of us, but the one sitting by his side first.

"You two are insane" Damon grumbled as he drove back to Mystic Falls.

"Where is Stefan?" Elena asked.

"Yes, about that… You missed quite a lot while on your suicide mission" Damon said. "We tried to get the moonstone from Katherine"

"And?" I asked, knowing it probably didn't go well.

"Well, we had a reasonable plan with Bonnie, but Jeremy got in the way. Tried to play hero and entered the tomb"

"What?" Elena screeched.

"Is he okay?" I asked frowning.

"Lost a little blood to Katherine, but he got the stone… So, Stefan went in to get him out"

"And now he's locked inside" I mumbled.

"Oh, god" Elena mumbled.

"And you…" Damon said to me frowning. "We were all looking for you. Your car is found destroyed, a burned vampire but no sign of you!"

"I am sure Rose distracted you while I was away" I said looking out the window.

"Ugh" he groaned. "Isabella, you're being the infuriating one now. You bring a coven of vampires to town, of a different kind and then disappear"

"Well, Elijah kind of took me" I said.

"So you were kidnapped?" Elena asked. "Why did he want you?"

"No, he helped me. He saved me from the vampire and I was hurt from the crash… I could have left, but… He answered some stuff"

"The Cullens got a house on the outskirts of town. The pack made a deal with them, they are in peace for now. They are all looking for you" Damon said. "Could have called and said you were visiting a friend"

"Get over it, Damon" I mumbled.

"So, what did Elijah tell you?" Elena asked.

"I'll tell you later… Not now" I said. "But we can trust him"

"He kidnapped both of you. No, I don't trust him" Damon said.

"Well, then too bad for you" I snapped.

He scowled at me and thankfully the rest of the ride was silent. He left me home and then went to take Elena to see Stefan. As soon as I stepped inside the house all the conversation noise stopped. All the Cullens were there, Caroline, Bonnie, Jeremy, Jake, Embry and dad.

"Bella" most said with relief.

"I'm fine, I'm going to bed. I'm tired. I'll tell you everything tomorrow" I said.

And before anyone could say anything I went to my room, locking the door and the window.

As the characters are copied so does the story, it repeats itself. Bound to make the mistakes the ones before you did.

The characters copy. Doppelgangers. Elena and I.

The story repeats.

Elena got in a love triangle like Katherine and in a way, so did I. Stefan and Damon loved Elena, Elena loved Stefan and cared for Damon. Edward loved me, I loved him, Jake loved me, I loved him like a friend, and then there was Damon on the equation.

Bound to make the same mistakes.

Elena made mistakes as Tatia and Katherine? She did some bad choices lately, but I couldn't tell if her ancestors had done too…

But me…

My ancestor fell in love with a man who wanted another woman. Blaire loved Elijah who was obsessed with Tatia. Following the equation… Damon would replace Elijah on it. But I didn't love him, only like a friend. Right? No, it was at most, only a crush.

"…she had been married. A man of the village who treated her like a princess, he was obsessed with her, and it seemed it was love"

Edward. Edward was the one representing the man Blaire married. Edward treated me like the most precious thing on the world. We loved each other.

It seemed love.

Did Jake fit somewhere in this equation? Please, God, say no…

This was all so confusing. So, my life was outlined before I was even born. Well, at least my love life was.

What should I tell the others? What should I hide?

It was all too much for a simple human…

But I wasn't simple or human anymore.