Twisted Love
Season Two
Katerina and Fay
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Grace :)
The year was 1490 in Bulgaria as Katerina Petrova lay on her bed in her original home giving birth to her first born whilst her sister Fay and mother were coaching her through it.
"A little more dearest, a little more." Her mother cooed in their native language of Bulgarian "Push. A little more."
"You can do it, dear sister." Fay whispered brushing her thick curled chocolate brown hair back off her sisters face.
"A little more. A little more." Her mother chanted.
Katerina let out a loud, pain-filled scream as the baby was finally out of her in her mothers arms whilst her the hand maid began to wash the tiny baby so it was squeaky clean for the new mother to hold.
"It's a girl." Fay breathed in Bulgarian as she saw the baby begin to cry and squirm in the older woman's arms "Beautiful, Katerina. She's so beautiful."
"A girl." Katerina whispered weakly, she was so happy to have a girl "Please mother, let me see her." Her mother was about to pass the baby girl over to her new mother.
"Woman, don't!" Katerina's father hissed as he stepped forward into the picture a angry look plastered on his face "What are you doing?" He scolded
Their mother refused to let Katerina see her new born baby girl as she passed the baby over to her husband with a mournful, regretful look on her face.
"Let me at least hold her once... just once." Katerina begged close to tears.
"Father, please." Fay begged.
"Forget it!" He growled at the two "You, Katerina, have disgraced this family." He spat as he left the room with her baby in his arms.
"Father, no!" Katerina called hearing her babies cries become more faint as he left the room "Fay! Stop him!" Katerina begged her sister.
"I cannot." Fay whispered holding her sisters hand.
"No, Katerina, it's better for her!" Her mother told her holding her down, Fay watched helplessly from the side lines.
At the Salvatore Boarding House Damon watched Grace snoring gently on her back in present day Mystic Falls. Last night had been incredibly for both of them, and the fact that they had declared love for each other had had made it all the more special.
Grace took a deep breath as she fluttered her eyes open focusing on the man staring dow at her for a split second before closing her eyes again, groaning pulling the covers over her face trying to return to her peaceful sleep.
"Morning beautiful." Damon smiled down at her as Grace stirred awake in his bed, pulling the duvet down just past her toned stomach to reveal her beautiful face, she was glowing with healthy, morning shine and looked more radiant than ever sat in his covers.
"Morning handsome." Grace croaked stretching herself out on the bed arching her back, effectively pushing her chest out for him to have a good view as she rubbed her chocolate brown eyes gently as she fully woke up as she fell limp on the bed looking up at him, touching his pale features gently. She couldn't get over how amazing he looked, tousled jet black hair falling over his forehead and shining bright blue orbs fixing on every inch of her body, it made her feel insecure just to be in the same room as him. And his body, he was like a God, perfectly sculptured and all for her.
"Not having regrets are you?" Damon teased tracing a small pattern on her flat stomach making her giggle gently at the tickling sensation.
"never." She promised blinking a couple of times "Thank you for last night, I couldn't have imagined a more perfect first time." She blushed heavily, a deep red shade growing over her cheeks.
"No problem." He leaned down and kissed her pouted, pink lips gently as he swiftly moved between her thin legs deepening the kiss, pulling the covers back over their bodies.
"Damon." Stefan walked in the room standing in the doorway to see them both there, sharing an intimate moment his face was full of shock and surprise "Oh… Erm…" He rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly "We're having a small problem downstairs."
"Can it wait?" Damon asked lazily trailing a line of small kisses down her neck, making her back arch in response to his delicate touch.
"Not really." Stefan shook his head avoiding looking at them both, he focused on his shoe laces.
"Alright." Damon complained removing himself from her lips "C'mon."
Grace walked down the stairs in her freshly washed clothes Damon had kept for her. Elena was standing in the hallway of the Salvatore House with a grim look on her face, the smaller twin gulped as she reached the bottom step.
"I know." Grace held her hands up innocently "I'm sorry, I should have told you that I was staying over at Damon's, but you were sleeping and it wasn't really planned-" Elena shook her head and pointed behind her "Huh?" Grace turned to see Rose standing there casually "You."
"Let it go." Damon held Grace's tiny waist firmly.
The conversation of Klaus and the Originals soon moved to the living room of the Salvatore Boarding House, Grace sat opposite Elena on a comfortable couch with Damon at her side taking her hand gently.
"Ok, you have to understand I only know what I've picked up over the years and I don't know what's true and what's not true. It's the problem with all this vampire crap, but Klaus I know is real." Rose stated in her heavy British accent.
"Who is he?" Elena asked.
"He's one of the originals, he's a legend." Damon purred.
"From the first generation of vampires." Stefan made it more clear.
"Like Elijah?" Grace questioned tilting her head, her newly straightened hair falling over her shoulder.
"No." Rose shook her head "Elijah was the Easter bunny compared to Klaus. He's a foot soldier. Klaus is the real deal."
"Klaus is known to be the oldest." Stefan informed her, a heavy form of disbelief was held in his voice.
"Ok, so you're saying that the oldest vampire in the history of time is coming after my twin?" Grace looked at Damon.
"Yes." Rose replied simply.
"No." Stefan quickly growled.
Damon rolled his eyes "What they're saying is, I mean if what she's saying is true-"
"Which it is." Rose butted in.
"And you're not just saying it so I don't kill you." Damon growled at her narrowing his bright blue orbs.
"Which I'm not." Rose told him.
"Then we're looking at a solid… maybe." Damon squeezed Grace's hand assuringly.
"Look, Elijah is dead, right?" Stefan nodded and Elena nodded giving a worried glance to Grace who shared the same expression "So no one else even knows that you exist."
"Not that you know of." Rose added.
"That's not helping." Grace hissed at her.
"Look, I've never even met anyone who's laid eyes on him." Stefan told the two girls "I mean, we're talking centuries of truth mixed with fiction. We don't know if he's real. For all we know he could just be some sort of stupid bed time story."
"He's real and he doesn't give up!" Rose told them all "If he wants something, he gets it. If you're not afraid of Klaus, then you're an idiot."
"Alright, we're shaking. You made your point." Damon told Rose firmly before giving Grace a look "Everything is going to be fine." but Grace got up the same time as Elena.
"Katherine and Fayth." Elena said in her head knowing Grace could hear.
"Where are you going?" Damon stood up putting his hands on Grace's waist stopping her from going anywhere.
"School." Grace lied pecking his lips.
"Don't go." He moaned looking deep into her as "We can spend the whole day in bed like we planned."
"You can't compel me, Damon." Grace giggled shaking her head "I have to go."
Damon nodded giving up on trying to get her to skip school "I can drive you-"
"I have my car." Elena informed him jingling her keys.
"I'll see you later, ok?" Grace told him and he leaned down and kissed her lips as a way of saying 'I love you'.
"Alright." Damon nodded a small pout on his lips which made Grace giggle.
"Let me grab my stuff, I'll go with you." Stefan smiled.
"It's ok." Elena smirked "We know where it is." Both Grace and Elena leave.
"They're in denial." Damon muttered.
"Heard that." Grace called as the door slammed shut behind her.
"Shut up, Damon." Stefan shook his head.
Bonnie was walking into school carrying a large stack of books when one of them fell from the top crashing to the floor with a bang, she tried to reach it, but it was hard trying to balance the other books. Jeremy chuckled when he saw her struggling, jogging over he picked it up from the floor.
"Here, I got it." He put it on top of the stack for her.
"Thanks." Bonnie smiled looking over the top of the stack at the younger boy "Where's Grace and Elena?"
"They're running late today. What are you doing later?" Jeremy asked "You want to hang out at the Grill? Shoot some pool? The winner owns the table." He grinned.
"Uh, why?" Bonnie giggled.
"Why what?" Jeremy creased his eye brows a little confused by her question.
"Well, you never asked me to play a game of pool before, so why now?" Bonnie tilted her head confused by his timing.
"Uh, I don't know, I though it'd be fun, never mind." He went to walk away embarrassed he had been shot down.
"No, hey." She stopped him "Sure, it's just…" Bonnie hesitated.
"Just what?" Jeremy looked at her.
"It's just you're Elena's brother and…" She paused shaking her head "sure." She laughed "It's just, I'm really bad a pool."
"Yeah, yeah. I thought you might be." he joked as a olive toned boy walked over to the two smiling politely.
"Excuse me! Do you guys know which was is the office?" He asked running his hands over his smooth shaven head.
"Yeah, yeah." Jeremy nodded "Through the double doors then straight ahead, quick left and then your first right. You must be new here." he inspect the map in the new boys hand.
"yeah, I am." He laughed "It's kind of hard to hide it. My name's Luka." He introduced himself politely.
"I'm Jeremy." He smiled "This is Bonnie." He motioned to the beautiful olive toned girl beside him.
"Hi, Bonnie." Luka smiled as they stare at each other for a long amount of time.
"Anyway." Jeremy interrupted "Luka. I'm actually heading in that direction. Why don't you follow me? It can get confusing." He smiled generously.
"Thanks Man." Luka smiled "It's nice to meet you, Bonnie." The two shared one more glance at each other before both the boys leave heading in the direction of the main office.
Elena and Grace were making their way through the woods stepping over roots and around trees trying to find the tomb with Caroline next to them.
"Tell everyone I wasn't feeling well and I went home from school." Elena told her.
"Yeah, I guess you should sat the same for me, or just you haven't seen me all day." Grace shrugged gently.
"I can't believe I'm agreeing to this." Caroline moaned shaking her perfect blonde head "I'm a terrible liar." She complained
"And keep Stefan busy." Elena quickly added ignoring her comment from earlier "I don't want him to know what we're up to."
"I'm even worse at duplicity and you know this!" Caroline told the two.
"You managed to keep me occupied when Katherine paid Stefan a visit." Elena countered with a small glare.
"Yeah, because she threatened me! Not that I'm saying that you should us that as a tactic, it's… Stefan's gonna see right through me and God knows what will happen if Damon asks." Caroline looked at Grace.
"Just avoid Damon." Grace told her "He's stubborn and he'll do anything to find out..." She shook her chocolate brown head as she walked around another tree
"He should be Mr. Happy after what you two did last night, right?" Caroline giggled sensing what the two had done.
"What?" Elena looked at Grace her mouth falling ajar.
"What?" Grace looked up shocked her eyes were wide as she looked across at the silver eyed Vampire.
"Please." Caroline scoffed "I can literally smell the sex pouring off you. You smell like Damon, his aftershave, just him..." Caroline laughed "I'm happy for you. For both of you, oddly enough."
"Well, uh… thanks for noticing that I smell like Damon..." Grace replied awkwardly exchange an odd look with Elena "Just for that, you have to promise not to tell. Better yet, as our friend, you have to promise not to tell." A small grin spread across her pale features, she knew she had Caroline with the friend code.
"You had to break out the girlfriend code." Caroline smirked shaking her head as Grace and Elena gave her a look "Ok, I promise." She held up one hand swearing herself to secrecy.
"Ok." Elena smiled happily.
"Why don't you want Stefan or Damon to know?" Caroline questioned.
"Have you ever met Damon or Stefan." Grace laughed "They would never be ok with this."
Caroline nodded in acceptance as all three of them walked under the church ruins stepping over the rubble and stop in front of the tomb door, Caroline and Grace exchanged looks.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Caroline asked nervously.
"Yes." Grace and Elena responded together.
"They are the only ones who know the truth about Klaus. The only ones who can tell us how to stop him." Elena added.
"But you're asking the truth from two people who will probably never give it or better year probably never have given it. Are you sure about this?" She asked again her eyes now set with worry.
"Yes, Caroline." The telepath-vampire snapped "Now please help me open this door." Grace walked towards and both of the vampire girls open the door moving it to the side leaving the tomb wide open.
"Fayth." Grace called in "Katherine."
"We'll be ok, Caroline." Elena smiled.
"Hello girls." Katherine stood in the door way her sister standing next to her, they looked like hell, pale, pasty, hunger deep in their eyes "You come to watch us wither away."
"Goodbye Caroline." Fayth hissed at the blonde who shuddered at her voice.
"As long as we're on the other side of this door, they can't hurt us." Grace told Caroline "We'll be fine, Care."
Caroline looks at the four of them before leaving the tomb at supernatural speed, Fayth and Katherine exchanged weak looks as they sat down on the cold floor at the door of the tomb.
"Stefan know you're here?" Katherine sneered.
"I brought you some things." Elena told her as she sat down on the floor, cross legged, Grace joined her.
"You came to bribe us? What is it you want?" Fayth eyed the girl "What is it you want?"
"I want you to tell us about Klaus." Grace replied.
"Hmm, you have been busy." Fayth mused.
"I also brought you this." Elena reached in her school bag and dragged out the large, Petrova book that she had taken from Duke University when her Damon and Alaric had made a trip there "It's your family history. It says in here that the family lined ended with both of you."
"Obviously that's not true." Grace muttered.
"You think that if you bring us some family keepsake that we'd open up." Katherine scoffed.
"Maybe, because I brought you this." Grace reached into Elena's bag and pulled out a bottle of blood, shaking it gently opening the bottle cap to let the smell waft out and tempt the two starving vampires.
Both the older twins rush towards the door, but are kept inside due to the sealing spell they pressed their bodies up against the barrier, eyes fixed on the crimson liquid swishing around in the plastic bottle.
"You don't look so good." Grace told them a false worried look painted on her face as she dipped her finger in the bottle and sucked it off humming at the taste "How long before your body shuts down? 10, 20 years. It must be painful to desiccate and mummify. I can't even imagine." Grace shook her head pouting out her bottom lip.
Both Fayth and Katherine slide down to the floor again sulking, Grace pours two small glasses of blood and moves them towards them with a stick, making sure to keep a safe distance, incase one of them tried to pull her in and seal her in there too.
"You have the Petrova fire." Fayth smiled as she drunk her drink "Both of you do."
"More blood?" Grace questioned as the girls slid their cups back out to her.
"It's a long story, Klaus and I. It goes all the way back to England, 1492, after we left Bulgaria or was thrown out." Fayth sighed looking across at her sister.
"Thrown out?" Elena looked at them.
"Our family, your true ancestors, they disowned me." Katherine told her "Fayth was the only one not to leave my side after I had a baby out of wedlock."
"Her indiscretions were not tolerated at that time." Fayth rolled her eyes "Oh, the shame." heavy sarcasm set in her voice.
"It was kept a secret?" Elena looked at Katherine.
"Mmm. My baby was given away. I was banished to England, Fayth came with me and we both had to learn to adjust so we quickly became English. It was there were dear Fayth here caught the eye of a noble man named Klaus. She was taking with him at first until she found out what he was and what he wanted from us and then we ran like hell." Katherine informed her and Fayth nodded at the memory.
Katerina gripped Fay's hand as they ran through the forest in 1492 England pulling her behind a tree they could hear Elijah and his men close behind, their hearts pounded with fear.
"She's here." Elijah told them all in his heavy British accent "Katerina! Fay! I know you're here." He called "Katerina. I know you're here, beautiful. I can smell your blood. It's pointless to run, Klaus will find you wherever you two go."
"This way!" Trevor pointed in the wrong direction to the two "There is more blood over here!" He lied.
Elijah and his men run in the direction that Trevor had told them to go, but as Katerina and Fay went to run but Trevor was standing in front of them looking down at Katerina lovingly.
"Head east." He took her hands "I can't lead them astray anymore."
"We can't run anymore." Fay told him tears in her eyes.
"Never mind." Trevor nodded confidently at them "There's a cottage. You'll be safe there. Go now. Go!" Trevor ordered as Fay and Katerina went running the direction he had told them to go.
"So, what did Klaus want?" Grace asked curiously.
"The same thing he would have wanted from you and will want from you sister." Fayth started "He wants to break the curse."
"By sacrificing the Petrova doppelgänger." Elena stated.
"He wanted to drain every single drop of blood from my body." Fayth remembered.
Rose was sitting in the Salvatore Boarding house library using a tissue to dry away her tears as she mourned over her closest friend Trevor, small sobs fell from her mouth as she thought back to kind memories of him.
"Alright, Rosebud." Damon walked in the room "I need some answers." He saw the tears falling from her eyes "Oh please don't tell me you're crying 'cause your buddy Trevor lost his head." He took a step away from her, he was not good with hysterical women.
"You've always been this sensitive?" Rose scoffed sarcastically.
"Full vampire switch for this very reason. Takes the emotion out of it." He replied bluntly pretending to flip a switch.
"Yeah, you switch yours, I'll switch mine." Rose countered.
"Is that a dig?" Damon growled.
"It's an observation. Being in love with that girl. Grace. It must be draining on you. She's a handful, isn't she?" Rose smirked.
"Never." Damon replied.
"Want to try that again? I kept her captive for a whole day, she knows how to sneak around, plus the whole telepath thing, can't keep a secret around her." Rose noted.
"Don't get on my bad side." Damon growled at her narrowing his eyes.
"Then show me your good side." She sniffled.
"How do I find Klaus?" Damon asked ignoring her comment.
"You don't find Klaus, he finds you." Rose replied.
"Come on. Somebody's got to know somebody who knows where he is, right?" Damon shrugged as if it was nothing to find the oldest vampire in history.
"Add another 200 somebodies to that and you're still not even close." Rose shook her head tucking her tissue into her pocket.
"Humour me." Damon walked towards her "You got in touch with Elijah, how did you do it?"
"Through a very low somebody on the Totem pole. A guy named Slater in Richmond." Rose replied.
"Perfect. I'll drive." Damon smiled heading for the door.
"No." She stopped him "You forget not all of us can do sun."
"Then you drive. Come on." Damon smirked.
"Stefan!" Caroline called as she saw Stefan walking across the Mystic High parking lot towards his car.
"Hey." Stefan smiled about to walk away again.
"Hey. Uh, I need to talk to you. Where are you going?" Caroline questioned.
"Well, Elena went home sick; I just want to go check up on her." Stefan replied.
"Ditch her." Caroline replied.
"I'm kind of worried about her." Stefan smirked shaking his head.
"You know what? Of course you are. Go ahead, I'd… you know what? We can talk later." She went to walk away, but Stefan was hit with a wave of guilt.
"Uh." He grumbled "Talk about what?"
"I might have done something." She gnawed on her bottom lip refusing to face him.
"What did you do?" Stefan asked.
"Told Tyler I'm a vampire." She replied nervously.
Grace slid another two glasses over to Fayth and Katherine as treats for letting them know their story so far, she took a small swig from the bottle herself.
"What does the Petrova blood line have to do with Klaus?" Grace tilted her head gently.
"It's really tedious but..." Fayth paused crushing the cup she had been drinking from in her hand "The curse was bound by the sacrifice of Petrova blood. Witches are crafty with their spells. The doppelgänger was created as a way to be able to undo the spell. Once the doppelgänger reappeared the curse can be broken." She explained.
"So you both ran before he could kill one of you?" Grace asked.
"Something like that." Fayth mused.
Back in 1492 Katerina and Fay both approaching a small English cottage as fast as their legs could carry them, Katerina began to slam her fists against the door trying to get the attention of the people on the inside.
"Help! Please help us!" Katerina called in as an older woman opened the door staring at the two blankly "Please, help us." She begged gripping her sisters hand.
"I don't invite strangers into my home." The woman repeated as if it had been scripted.
"No, Trevor. He said that you'd help us." Fay told her as a younger woman appeared, it was Rose, long luscious locks of light brown hair cascaded down her slender back.
"Damn him." Rose muttered "Always making promises I don't want to keep. Let the girls in. Bring them some water and something to eat." Rose ordered and the older woman walked into the kitchen Katerina and Fay made themselves comfortable.
"You must be Rose." Katerina noted "Trevor said to show you this." She pulled the moonstone out "To prove who we are who we say and that you'd help us to our freedom."
"You stole this from Klaus?" Rose looked at the both.
"It was to be part of a sacrifice ritual, so I grabbed it and we made out escape." Fay explained.
"People do not escape from Klaus. Everyone who tries ends up back in his grasp and anyone who helps them dies." Rose growled.
"I know the risk you bring on yourself by giving us aid." Katerina nodded.
"I'm risking nothing. At nightfall, I'll bring you both back to Klaus and beg him to show us both mercy." Rose replied as she took both the shoves and shoved them into an empty bedroom.
"No!" Fay called "No!" She slammed her fists against the locked door.
Rose and Damon pull into a dark underground parking lot in Richmond in an attempt to find Slater and get hold of Klaus, the older female vampire stepped from the car first.
"Back entrance." Damon noted as he stepped out from the car "How convenient."
"That's the point. We can't all have little daylight rings." Rose replied.
"How do you know this Slater guy is even here?" Damon growled.
"I called him." Rose replied "He's here. He's always here."
"Good." Damon nodded as he shoved her against the wall "Just one thing. If you're setting me up in any way, I will rip your heart out and shove it down your throat. It's something I'm very good at." He smirked before he was thrown back against Rose's car.
"I'm older than you and stronger." Rose spat "Don't get on my bad side." she released him "You can trust me."
Damon watched Rose momentarily before checking to see if Grace had replied to his text, she hadn't and when he tried to call her she didn't answer him.
"Are you coming?" Rose called from where she stood in a small doorway nodding as he walked over to her he walked into a busy coffee shop, the sun light shining brightly through the large windows but no Vampires appeared to be burning, the elder Salvatore saw no day light rings on any of their fingers.
"Whoa. What about the sunlight?" Damon questioned.
"Double paned and temped." She nodded towards the large, wall sized windows before walking over to the counter "UV rays can't penetrate. You see the appeal now?" She added before a younger man joined them.
"That and the free Wi-Fi." He joked.
"Hey, how are you?" Rose smiled as she hugged him.
"Good. I saw you come in, what are you doing here?" The man asked.
Rose nodded "Mmm, it's a long story but I want you to meet-"
"Damon Salvatore. Turned in 1864 in Mystic Falls by Fayth Pierce a.k.a Fay Petrova, sister of Katerina Petrova. So I take it I was right, what I told you about the tomb under the church was true?" He glanced over at Rose avoiding Damon's confused, yet angry glare.
"Yes. It was true." Rose confirmed "Thanks you for the tip, Slater."
Slater smiled proudly as he looked across at Damon "Nice to meet you…" He held his hand out for a second, but caught the anger look on the older vampires face "maybe." He muttered before looking over at the pretty female "What's going on Rose? Where's Trevor?"
"Rose never ended up taking you back to Klaus, did she?" Elena questioned.
"No, but not because she had a change of heart." Katherine replied.
Back at the small cottage in 1492, England Rose entered the room Katerina and Fay were locked up in, they both looked up from the bed they were sat on.
"It's nightfall. Time to go." Rose stopped when she smelt the distinct wave of blood she saw that both girls were bleeding "When did this happen?"
"In the woods." Fay lied hiding the knife they used to slit their wrists behind their backs "We tripped."
"It's a lie." Rose hissed "I would have smelt it." She quickly grabbed the knife from Fay's hand.
"We'd rather die than go back to Klaus!" Fay told her "Please, just let us die." She begged
"If you die then Trevor dies with you." Rose hissed protective of her closest friend, ripping into her wrist with her deadly fangs she fed her blood to both the girls and their wounds heal nicely.
"No!" Katerina called out.
Trevor walked in the cottage glancing around the small welcome area "Where is she?"
Rose zipped from the room and shoved him hard against the wall, bracing him there by clasping her hand around his throat a hard look on her face as she stared him down.
"You have set us both on the path of death." She scolded darkly "I only hope Klaus sees the honour in returning those girls to him."
"He will sacrifice one of them." Trevor rasped out clawing at her hand.
"Then so be it!" Rose replied shortly.
"I love Katerina, Rose." Trevor announced.
"He'll kill you!" Rose sighed deeply seeing that his own death would not effect him in any way "Then just give the other one. Fay. That's the one that he originally wanted."
"I can't. It would break Katerina's heart." Trevor shook his head.
"He won't stop until he has all our heads." Rose hissed.
"Then we shall run until we die." Trevor confirmed.
There was a loud clutter coming from the other room, both of the vampires rush in to see that Katerina and Fay had hung themselves from a high beam on the ceiling, both were dead.
"You both killed yourselves?" Grace looked at them surprised.
"Klaus needed a human doppelgänger. As a vampire, we was no longer any use to him." Fayth explained.
"But it didn't work." Elena stated "You didn't really escape, you've been running from Klaus ever since."
"I underestimated his peered for vengeance but living in a suitcase is better than dying so you can have your blood spilled over some silly little rock." Katherine explained seeing that Elena looked uncomfortable "What's wrong? Afraid I'm right? You don't want to die? There's another way out and your twin seems to have already taken it." She muttered.
"This wasn't a choice." Grace spoke.
"Of course it wasn't." Fayth noted rolling her eyes "You knew that going out into the forest was a death sentence, you're drawn to danger and that's what got you killed, but don't worry, if you hadn't had died that night Damon would have changed you soon after. He's like that. Acts on impulse instead of thinking."
"My death was an accident." Grace replied her voice as sharp as a knife.
"You chose the smart option." Fayth told her using her nail to slide open her wrist and hold it towards Elena "Better hurry. Your opportunity is going, going, going and gone." She sighed as the wound closed over "we made the other choice too."
Katerina and Fay reanimated undead back in the cottage in England in 1492, Trevor was waiting for them both to awake watching over them carefully, as Rose standing casually against the wall.
"What did you do." He walked towards them "I would have helped you live."
"You would have helped me run. That was never going to be enough." Katerina replied.
"It was enough for me." Trevor smiled at her.
"Do you not see, Trevor? She used you to help them escape and me to turn them. Klaus will see our role in all this." Rose growled.
"And for that we are sorry." Katerina nodded.
"As am I… for this." The British woman growled as she went for Katerina with a stake, but Fay stepped out in front pulling the older woman who owned the house in front of them making sure Rose killed her and not them.
"You have to understand." Fay's voice was cruel and dark.
"You have just signed out death sentence." Rose hissed.
"Better you die than us." Fay replied as she threw the older woman at Trevor and pulled her sister from the cottage with their new supernatural speed.
"Rose and Trevor spent the last 500 years running because you used them. Trevor just got killed." Grace told her.
"I never thought he would have lasted that long." Fay muttered exchanging a look with Katherine who just shrugged.
"You don't even care that you ruined their lives." Elena looked at them both frustrated.
"I was looking out for my sister and myself, Elena." Fayth hissed "I will always look out for us both. If you are smart, you'll both do the same." A growl erupted from her lips as she turned away holding the Petrova book on her lap scanning the text.
Caroline and Stefan were both sitting in the Mystic Grill, the blonde was eating and trying to keep Stefan occupied whilst Elena and Grace got information from Fayth and Katherine.
"Sorry to drag you here but if I don't eat, I get those kill innocent people urges." She shrugged "Tyler totally has those too by the way." She stated randomly.
"Yeah, what else did you say to him?" Stefan asked.
"Not much." the blonde replied truthfully "I was trying to keep the questions to a minimum. Are you mad?" She tried to read his facial expressions.
"Yes, Caroline." Stefan replied shortly "As a matter of fact, I am a little mad, you put yourself at risk. If Damon finds out-"
"But you're not gonna tell him, are you?" Caroline's eyes were wide with fear.
"No, of course not. He would kill you." Stefan replied simply.
"Always looking out for me." She smiled.
"Yeah. Well, you don't exactly make it very easy on me." The older vampire rolled his eyes.
Caroline sighed a little "Then why do you do it? Why are you such a good friend to me?"
"I don't know." Stefan shrugged "I guess you… well you and Grace both remind me of someone." Caroline looked on for more information "My best friend, Lexi."
"I… you have a friend." She eyes were wide with surprise.
"You say that with such a discouraging amount of surprise, Caroline." Stefan smirked rolling his hazel brown orbs.
"No I just… sorry." She apologised and he nodded understandingly "I just… tell me about her."
"I will, some other time. I got to go." Stefan rose from his seat.
"Wait! No! What do we do about, Tyler? I don't want Damon to kill him 'cause there's a full moon coming up and Tyler is totally freaking out about it." Caroline quickly made another reason for him to not go looking for Elena.
Across the girl the new boy Luka was sitting at a table with an older gentleman when Bonnie walked past them towards the pool tables to wait for Jeremy to arrive.
"Hey Bonnie." Luka smiled stopping her in her tracks.
"Hey, Luka." The witch returned the smile "How was your first day?"
"it was great." He beamed "I would like to introduce you to my dad." He gestured to the man sitting in front of him.
"Hi, I'm Bonnie Bennett." She told him politely.
"Dr. Martin, Jonas Martin. It's nice to meet you Bonnie Bennett. Would you like to join us?" He motioned to the seat next to his son.
"Oh, I'm meeting a friend, but he's not here yet so…" She hesitated "Sure."
"Oh yes, please have a seat." Luka slid over in the booth to make room for the witch to join them.
"So, where did you move from?" Bonnie questioned as she took a seat.
"Louisiana." Jonas told her.
"That's a big change." Bonnie noted.
"I'll say." Luka smirked.
"It's not so bad here." She threw him a quick smile.
"It's looking up." He locked eyes with her.
"Bennett, huh?" Jonas announced breaking their moment "I knew some Bennett's when I did my residency in Massachusetts. Do you have any family from Salem?" He questioned.
"Actually I do." Bonnie nodded looking at him.
"What do you know? Small world, right?" Jonas smiled.
"Oh, there's my friend." Bonnie saw Jeremy enter the Grill looking for her "It was nice to meet you, Dr. Martin."
"I will see you in school." Luka smiled and she touched his shoulder in a friendly way, but shots of something odd ran through her body making her give him a strange look. Walking away over to Jeremy a huge smile spread across his face as she approached him, but her eyes were still on Luka.
"Sorry I was late, are you ok?" Jeremy asked concerned.
"Yeah." Bonnie nodded distantly.
"Are you sure Elijah is dead?" Slater asked Rose and Damon as they sat next to a large window in the coffee shop.
"Beyond dead." Damon replied.
"Trevor was a good man; he helped me with my dissertation of sexual deviance in the Baroque period. I was schooling for my Psych PHD." Slater mourned with Rose.
"Slater's been in college since '74." Rose told Damon.
"When I was turned. I have 18 degrees, 3 masters and 4 PHD's." Slater told him proudly.
"The point?" Damon narrowed his eyes.
"Exactly, I mean, what is the point?" This was obviously a touchy subject for Slater "What should I do with my eternity? If you have an answer, please enlighten me."
"We need your help." Rose stepped in trying to defuse the situation "If someone wanted to get in touch with Klaus, how would you hook him up?"
"Craigslist." Slater replied simply.
"Really?" Damon scoffed.
"Seriously." Slater nodded "I respond to a personal ad to get sent to somebody who knows somebody who knows Elijah, who's dead… and that's where my connections ends."
Just outside the coffee shop in the middle of the street a younger man strummed a guitar with professional experience, Elijah walks over dropping a $100 bill inside and picking up the coins inside jiggling them in his hands inspecting them closely before looking up at Rose, Slater and Damon inside of the shop.
"You are bad." Jeremy noted with a quick laugh as him and Bonnie were playing a friendly game of pool at the Grill.
"I told you." Bonnie replied with a grin.
"Well, feel free to cheat if you need your dignity back." He smirked.
"Come on, hit the ball." Bonnie narrowed her bright brown eyes playfully.
"Alright, I got winner." Luka walked over to them and Bonnie became visibly uncomfortable at his presence.
"Get ready, this slot is almost over." Jeremy joked.
"So where's your dad?" Bonnie questioned.
"I'll see him back home." Luka shrugged.
"Ok, now I'm leaving." Stefan told Caroline as they continued to sit in the Grill.
"Wait!" Caroline was out of ideas and distractions.
"No, no, no Caroline." Stefan told her firmly "You have two seconds to come clean."
"What do you mean?" Caroline asked.
"I'd believe the whole innocent act a little better if I didn't know how good you were at providing distraction on demand. Where is Elena?" The older vampire looked at her sternly.
"I can't tell you." She mumbled.
"You can't tell me?" Stefan scoffed "Are you kidding me?"
"I'm sorry but I… I can't tell you."
"Caroline! Elena is in a lot of danger at the moment and you're seriously not going to tell me where she is?" the hazel eyed boy looked at her dumbfounded.
"She's not in any danger. She's with Grace and she wouldn't allow that." Caroline told him "Hell, I wouldn't allow that."
"Grace? Grace got kidnapped the other day! She almost died." Stefan growled "Where are they? Listen, if you're my friend like you've been pretending to be all day, then you'll tell me where they are."
"Stefan, I am your friend." She smiled "But I'm also Grace and Elena's friends and I'm sorry but I'm not going to tell you where they are." The blonde shook her head.
Stefan let out a breath as he rose from the table and left the Grill, a wave of guilt washed over Caroline as she saw him walk out in a panic looking for his girlfriend and the girl he treated like a little sister.
Down in the tomb under the old, burnt down church Grace looked over as Fayth continued to read from the Petrova book, Katherine watched Elena closely.
"So how much of your little story is true?" Grace asked suddenly.
"I have no reason to lie, Grace. We both don't." She looked over at her sister "I have no reason to do anything but sit here, read and rot."
"Ok, assuming it's even partly true, that's the reason you came back isn't it? Because you wanted to be the one to hand us over to Klaus. So he could pick which one he wanted." Grace stated and Elena sighed.
"500 years on the run, I figured maybe he's be willing to strike a deal." Fayth shrugged.
"So you got Mason Lockwood to find the moonstone and kill me?" Grace asked.
"You wasn't meant to die, I would have happily given you over to Klaus." Fayth smiled evilly.
"What else do you need to break the curse?" Elena asked.
"Look who is getting smarter." Fayth muttered.
"It's not just… me and the stone, is it? Otherwise there would be no reason to trigger Tyler Lockwood's werewolf curse." Elena added.
"Witches and their spells: so many ingredients, so many people to sacrifice." Katherine rolled her eyes.
"So you need a werewolf." Grace noted.
"Believe it or not, they're hard to come by." Katherine told her.
"What else?" Elena asked.
"A witch to do the spell." Fayth told her "Ours bailed but Bonnie will do just fine."
"What else?" Elena asked again.
"A vampire." Fayth glanced over at Grace.
"Me?" Grace asked.
"You or Caroline… I was going to use you as the doppelgänger, but now it looks you'll do just fine as the vampire." Fayth grinned. "Then again, I might use Caroline, leave you to feel the guilt of making her go because you were killed. Oops." She pouted "Also Caroline screw us over."
"So you were gonna hand us over to be killed?" Elena asked.
"Better you die than us." Fayth added "Come, Katherine, let's leave them to think." They both got up and walked over deep into the tomb leaving Grace and Elena alone.
Damon sighed "Here's what I don't get: Elijah moved around during the day, which means the originals knew the secret of the day ring. Now why would Klaus want to lift the curse of the sun and the moon?" He pondered.
"To keep the werewolves from lifting it. If a vampire breaks the sun curse then the werewolves are stuck with the curse of the moon forever and vice versa." Slater informed him.
"But werewolves are extinct." Rose replied.
"True. I've never seen one but rumour has it-"
"Not such a rumour." Damon interrupted.
"Mystic Falls? God, I've got to visit this place. It sounds awesome." Slater grinned.
"Awesome doesn't begin to describe it." Damon replied "Can we stop the curse from being broken at all?"
"What do you mean?" Slater questioned.
"Well, if we make the moonstone useless, would it stop the curse from being broken?" Damon questioned coyly.
"Well, yeah, probably but why would you want to do that?" Slater looked at him confused.
"Tell me how." Damon ignored his constant questioning.
"You think I'm gonna help you figure out how to do something that will piss off an original? And keep them from walking in the sun?" Slater looked at him as if he were stupid.
"You want to walk in the sun? I can make that happen if you help us…" Damon smiled.
Elijah continued to stand outside listening in on their conversation, looking down at the coins in his hand he suddenly through the towards the window and it shattered on impact exposing all vampires in there to the burning sun, he ran off quickly before Damon could see that he was still alive.
"You're gonna be ok." Damon promised as he moved a burnt Rose into the back of her car, Slater had run off as soon as the glass had buckled under the coins.
"I know." Rose nodded.
"Who's behind this?" Damon wondered.
"I don't know. Where is Slater?" She asked worried.
"Iowa by now." Damon replied sharply "Who the hell knows."
"He's not behind this, he's a good guy, he wouldn't betray me." Rose shook her head.
"Who did it?" Damon demanded.
"It's Klaus, don't you understand?" Rose put all the pieces together "You don't know this man, we're dead, we're all dead." She began to cry, but her face was healing nicely.
Bonnie sat in the Grill watching Jeremy from where she sat, he turned and saw her looking a small smile creeped onto his lips and she returned it with a small blush, Luka suddenly came over and sat opposite her.
"Hey Bonnie. I'm sorry about earlier, my dad is not very subtle with the whole Bennett/Salem question. He picked up on you, he was just fishing around, he didn't mean any harm." Luka told her kindly.
"I felt something too." Bonnie remembered.
"I know. That's why we're having this conversation right now. He uh… doesn't like for anyone to know." Luka told her subtlety as he unscrew a lit to a salt shaker and poured it out over the table, Bonnie watched in anticipation "But we both worry that you would bail us." With a quick glance around the room he began to levitate the salt off the table "He just wants us to fit in here for once. It's tough Bonnie, being different."
"You're a witch?" Bonnie looked at him.
"Well, we prefer the term Warlock." He joked.
Grace and Elena were still sitting alone in the tomb waiting to see if Katherine or Fayth would return, but their attempts were futile.
"C'mon, 'Lena, let's just go, we've got all the information we need." Grace told her as she took a sip of the blood getting up and heading towards the exit of the tomb.
"Elena. Grace." Stefan stern voice came from directly in front of them.
"Stefan, what are you doing here?" Elena jolted at his presence.
"I could ask you the same question." He replied shortly.
"Caroline told you." Grace sighed shaking her head from side to side.
"No, she kept your secret but it didn't take long for me to figure out what was this important that you'd have to keep it from me and Damon." Stefan growled glancing over at Grace.
"You told him?" Grace asked.
"I knew that you would stop us." Elena replied.
"Listen to me, whatever she said to you is a lie. Do not listen to her. She's a liar, Elena. Both of them are." Stefan tried to convince them.
"What if she isn't? You didn't hear what she said." Elena protested.
"You don't have to worry, I'm not gonna let anything happen to you." Stefan promised.
"That's the problem, you won't but you'll die trying. How's that any better?" Tear's appeared in Elena's eyes.
Katherine and Fayth arrive at the door of the tomb "There's nothing you can do, Stefan. I haven't even told you the best part of the story." Fayth purred.
Katerina and Fay both arrive home to their family in Bulgaria to the small village, as they arrive they see dead people on the floor blood pooling around them.
"Katerina." Fay's voice was wavering with fear as they approached their house.
Running inside they see all their family dead on the floor, both girls run to their mother and hold her tight before hugging each other crying.
"She's dead. Mama is dead." Katerina cried into Fay's shoulder "They are all dead."
"He killed them, my entire family, just to get back at us for running. Whatever you do to escape Klaus, he will get his vengeance on your friends, your family and anyone that you've ever loved." Fayth warned them.
Stefan looks at Elena "No, look at me. No, do not listen to her, okay?"
"Always the protector but even you must realize that she's doomed. There's nothing you can do to stop it... unless of course you have this." Katherine pulled out the moonstone it shone in the dim lights of the candles and torches.
"What?" Grace's eyes were wide.
"Oh no, there it is. It's the ultimate lie, isn't it? You spun this whole thing so that we would have to get the stone from you, didn't you?" Stefan growled.
"I didn't spin anything, Stefan. It's the truth." Katherine replied.
"No, let me guess. You want to trade that stone for your freedom, you manipulative, psychotic bitch." Stefan hissed at her, Grace felt a small sense of pride as she watched Stefan defend Elena.
"My freedom? That's where you're wrong, Stefan. I don't want my freedom because when Klaus shows up to kill us all and he will, we'll be in the tomb, where no vampire will enter because they can't get out. we'll be the safest psychotic bitches in town." She grinned before taking her sister and leading them back into the tomb.
Grace walked into the Salvatore Boarding House later that night to see Damon waiting for her, tapping his foot impatiently whilst sipping at his bourbon.
"Damon?" Grace stepped into the library slowly.
"Go ahead. Let's see what lie you can come up with for not calling me or telling me where you were." Damon watched the roaring fire in front of him instead of looking at her.
Grace let out a heavy sigh"You don't understand-"
"I can't believe you would do that." Damon hissed as he clenched his scotch glass firmly in his hand a evil grimace on his face "Go and see them, do you even know how dangerous that is?"
"Of course I did." Grace replied "But I needed answers, I needed to know what was going to happen."
"And do you feel any better now knowing?" Damon growled as he turned to her "Knowing what Klaus wants and knowing that he's going to start killing everyone you love until he gets it!" Stefan had filled him in on the basic details that he knew personally.
"Damon." Grace whispered but he smashed his glass against the wall turning away from her "Please don't be mad at me."
"I'm not mad." Damon turned around to face her "I… I was worried. I've lost you too many times before, I don't know what would happen if I lost you for real."
"You're not going to lose me." Grace told him "We'll work out a way to protect Elena-"
"And if Klaus comes after you?" Damon looked at her "He's an Original. An Original that was in love with Fayth so is looking for a replacement."
"No, he's looking for blood. It isn't fair. He wants Elena, he wants Tyler, he wants Bonnie, he wants Caroline-." Grace had tears in her eyes
"What?" Damon looked at her
"They're part of breaking the curse. I would rather die than Elena-"
"I'm not going to let that happen." Damon growled at her firmly
A small tear fell from Grace's eyes "I can't lose her." she shuddered "I can't lose any of them."
"And I can't lose you. You're going to end up getting yourself killed by fighting Klaus." Damon whipped her tear away placing both of her hands on his chest standing on her tip toes to touch her lips against his "Everything will be fine, I promise." He told her assuringly "I love you."
"I love you, too." Grace whimpered as he pressed his lips against her more passionately.
Jeremy was still playing pool whilst watching Bonnie from across the room, every now and then she would look at him, but at the moment she was too preoccupied with Luka and not taking an interest in the younger boy at all.
A small sigh fell from his lips as he gathered all his things up and looked once more at Bonnie, a frown on his face as he left the the Grill heading home.
"Elena." Stefan caught Elena's arm as they stood on the porch to the Gilbert house.
"I can't talk about it, Stefan." Elena went to walk away.
"You have to. Don't shut me out. Elena, please." He begged.
She began to cry "I wanted to know the truth and I got it. It's not just me that's in danger. It's Caroline or Grace and it's Tyler and it's Bonnie. They're all part of breaking the curse. I can't blame anyone else anymore because it's not because you came into town or because you and I fell in love. That's not why everyone that I love is in danger. It's because of me, everything is because of me." Elena cried harder and he quickly pulled her into a tight hug kissing the top of her head.
Back at the tomb Fayth and Katherine read from the Petrova book, tears glistening in their eyes as they read about their family, Katherine snuggled closely into Fayth and she almost smiled.
Grace and Damon were curled up by the fireplace, he was dressed in nothing covered by a thin blanket and she was dressed in sexy, black lingerie also under the blanket. Gently Damon caressed her face as she slept sweetly next to him, he had worn her out.
"It's a lie." Rose stated as she walked in the room and Damon gave her a funny look "There's no switch you can turn off. Sure when you're a newbie but after a couple of hundred years… you just have to pretend."
"I know." Damon muttered as he watched his girl sleeping next to him.
"Hello?" Rose answered her phone.
"Rose?" Slater's voice was on the other side.
"Slater? Are you ok?" Rose asked as she watched Damon play with Grace's long locks careful not to stir her from her sleep.
"Yes, I took off, I'm sorry, I was freaking freaked." Slater told her.
"Ok, what did you find?" Rose questioned.
"You can destroy the curse but you need the moonstone." He informed her.
Rose creased her eye brows "How? What do you mean? I don't follow."
"Can your friend get the moonstone? You need it." Slater told her, Damon had heard the conversation and nodded yes.
"He can get it." Rose confirmed "What next?"
"You need a witch. Get the moonstone, a witch should be able to figure out the rest. Good luck, Rose." Slater whispered as he hung up.
In Slater's apartment the vampire hung up his phone from where he had been talking to Rose and placed it in his pocket staring at Elijah a terrified look on his face. Whereas the original had a pleasant, relaxed look.
"Very nicely done." Elijah approved.
"Thanks, I have a degree in theatre." Slater told him "How can you compel me? A vampire can't compel another vampire."
Elijah smirked "I'm a special vampire."
"What, because you're an original?" Slater asked.
"Hmm." Elijah nodded and held a wooden stake out in front of him "Now I want you to take this and drive it through your heart."
Slater took the stake from his hands and shook his head "But that would kill me forever."
"I know." Elijah smiled as he continued to compel him "But it's necessary."
Slater stares at him for a long couple of seconds before raising the stake above him and shoving the stake deep into his chest falling to the ground dead.
Elijah heard footsteps walk into Slater's apartment from behind him, turning he saw Dr Jonas Martin walk in shaking his head gently as he approached the original.
"Was it, really?" Jonas questioned disappointed in the original.
"It had to be done. He delivered his message. Won't be long now." Elijah told him.
A/N
Heyy! Finished this chapter finally! Small Damon and Grace fight, but it's only because he's worried about her :') Tell me what you think so far :) drop me a review, I will try and get the next chapter out ASAP!
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