The human Petrova doppelganger and the Salvatore vampire duo had laid and napped on the comfortable couch in the Gilbert cabin for about five and a half hours before Emily found herself sitting out on the dock with, of course, Johnathan Gilbert's journals surrounding her. The brunette girl had decided to let Stefan continue to sleep when she had slipped from underneath his body as Emily knew he had a lot on his mind. Stefan deserves as much rest as he can get after what I put him through these last twenty-four hours, the human girl thought as she watched the sun slowly disappear for the day while her fingers held onto the opened Gilbert journal.
Once Emily's neck began to hurt from staring up at the orange pinkish sky, the human girl looked back down at one of her ancestor's journals while the others sat inside of a box beside her. Emily had gone through three full books of Johnathan Gilbert's life since she had found them. The one she was currently reading, Emily realized, was way before the Fell's church even burned down.
The journal had started with Johnathan Gilbert turning eighteen and his father telling him about the vampires. It talked about his life while he was growing older over the years which showed how he began to hate vampires - thanks to the close relationship that he had with Giuseppe Salvatore.
Emily immediately rolled her green eyes when the rest of the journal that she was reading was all about Johnathan's love for Pearl. I definitely don't miss that woman, the Gilbert girl thought with distaste as she remembered the vampire, who had been stuck in the tomb for over a century, before Emily's blood was used to bring her back to life.
A shiver instantly ran down Emily's spine as she recalled that day which was definitely not one of her favorites as being bitten by a vampire that she didn't even like left a bad taste in her mouth. The human girl then swiftly shook her head as she tossed the journal back into the box as she wanted to wash the memories away before she grabbed another journal.
This one is more interesting, Emily thought as she began to flip through the pages of a journal that she hadn't read before. This one talked about a lot of the different devices that Johnathan Gilbert had made and seen which had to deal with controlling or torturing vampires like the Gilbert compass. That doesn't look fun, Emily thought as she stared at a drawing of a nuzzle looking thing before she quickly turned the page.
Emily immediately furrowed her brows as she looked at the next couple of pages which were just rants that barely made sense. It was like Johnathan Gilbert was fighting with himself, Emily realized as she noticed there was a lot of writing marked out and a lot of letters written over each other like he was angry.
"Hey," the soft and deep voice of the Salvatore vampire called out to the human girl just as she was turning the page on Johnathan Gilbert's ranting. Stefan gave Emily a small smile as he took a seat beside her on the edge of the dock before he leaned his head onto the short girl's while he breathed in her sweet scent. "Why did you let me sleep so long?" The Salvatore vampire mumbled tiredly after he laid a kiss onto Emily's bare shoulder once he had slid the blanket away.
Emily couldn't help but giggle at the tickling sensation on her skin before she pushed the warm blanket back over her shivering shoulder while she looked up at the Salvatore vampire with her usual smile. "You needed to rest," the human girl mumbled after she leaned up and placed a gentle kiss onto Stefan's lips before she turned her attention back onto her ancestor's journal.
"Hmm," Stefan hummed against Emily's bare collarbone before he glanced down to her lap and noticed the familiar book that she had been reading since yesterday. "What does Johnathan Gilbert have to say now?" The Salvatore vampire wondered as he clingingly wrapped his arms around the human girl's waist.
Emily flipped through a couple of pages as she tried to find a part where Johnathan wasn't ranting to himself. "He was definitely crazy," the human girl mumbled as she flipped through at least fifteen pages of her ancestor arguing with himself. "Ooh, this is interesting," Emily exclaimed once she got to Johnathan's normal and calm writing and noticed the title of the folded page that separated the different topics. "He has some information about the originals," Emily told the curious Salvatore.
Stefan's green eyes widened in surprise as he mumbled in disbelief, "you're kidding." The Salvatore vampire found it shocking that Johnathan Gilbert knew about the originals as that would mean his father also knew about them since the Gilbert man was always like his father's protege.
"Nope," Emily uttered as she slowly began to flip through the pages that her ancestor dedicated to the originals. "It looks like he didn't know much," the human girl mumbled as she noticed there was a lot of questions written down like Johnathan never found the answers he wanted. However, though, when Emily turned the page, she noticed a large drawing of a weapon. The Gilbert girl looked at the page in confusion before she wondered out loud, "what is that?"
Emily glanced over to the Salvatore vampire when she didn't get a response and noticed that a serious expression was frozen onto Stefan's face. It immediately made the human girl even more confused as she thought, did he know what it is? But when Stefan wouldn't answer her, Emily decided to get her own answers as she began to read about the weapon, "the wood from one tree and one tree alone, an ancient white oak would bring death to an original vampire. When the tree burned, all hope was lost."
The human girl furrowed her brows as she realized Johnathan had came into contact with an original if he knew about them. But not only that, her ancestor had figured out a way to actually kill an original with a weapon. It shocked Emily so much because Rose had always described the originals like they are this indestructible force.
Emily quickly shook her head after a moment as it was all making her even more confused. Instead, the human girl just continued to read what her ancestor wrote, "but the ash from the tree was saved and witches forged a dagger to which the ash could be bonded. This alchemic bond provides the necessary poison."
"Emily..." The Salvatore vampire cautiously called out to the human girl as he slowly stood up from his spot on the dock. Stefan was concerned how Emily was going to react when he tells her the truth as the brunette girl has this close relationship with the original.
"This is crazy," Emily mumbled as she didn't even hear the Salvatore vampire stand up or speak to her. The human girl just kept her green eyes glued to the words of her ancestor as she couldn't believe there could be a weapon to do such a thing. Emily didn't know what it was, probably the doppelganger connection, but it pained her at the idea of this dagger killing Elijah. It was like it was physically hurting her for some reason - which Emily ignored. Instead, she glanced up at the now standing Stefan as she wondered curiously, "do you think this thing actually exists or was it just another one of Johnathan's crazy ramblings?"
Stefan let out a small sigh as he crossed his arms over his thin black jacket while he stared down at the human girl. "I know it does," the Salvatore vampire finally confessed as he knew he had to tell Emily the truth about what is going on in Mystic Falls, "John gave it to Damon and Elena."
The human girl's green eyes instantly widened in shock as her own sister knew about this weapon that would kill the original - who was trying to keep them all safe. "You got to be joking me," Emily mumbled to herself in anger before she swiftly stood up from the dock with the Gilbert journal squeezed into her fist. Emily just couldn't believe this. All she ever wanted was to keep everyone alive and safe and this is what they do?
The Gilbert girl couldn't even look at Stefan right now as she was blinded by anger, so she swiftly stormed her way down the long dock as she continued to read about the dagger that they apparently have. However, though, Emily quickly came to a stop when something caught her attention in the journal. "Wait," the human girl mumbled as she swiftly turned around and faced Stefan before she asked, "are you sure John gave them this dagger?"
Stefan vamp sped in front of the human girl and took a closer look at the weapon that Johnathan Gilbert had drew before he silently nodded his head. It looked exactly like the one Damon had showed him while Emily had her girls' night with her twin sister and best friends.
"No, no, no," Emily hurriedly mumbled as she looked up at Stefan with her green eyes widened. "T-They can't do that!" The Gilbert girl cried out before she quickly began to read out loud what she found, "it must be brandished by humans alone, for it will bring death to all demons who wield it."
The Salvatore vampire quickly grabbed the journal from the human girl's hand so he could read it for himself. However, when Stefan saw that Emily wasn't just saying that so they wouldn't kill Elijah, he swiftly pulled his cell phone from the front pocket of his jeans as he told Emily, "John's trying to get Damon killed."
"This can't be happening," Emily mumbled as she also grabbed her cell phone that was inside of her mother's sweatpants and quickly dialed her twin sister's number. John gave the weapon to Damon to kill him, but there was a chance Elena could also try to use it, Emily realized which made her extremely worried. "Elena! Answer your damn phone!" The human girl snapped when she only got her sister's voicemail.
The Gilbert girl growled as she ran her fingers through her brown hair when her twin sister didn't pick up and apparently neither did Damon by the looks of the nervous Stefan. "I can't believe you guys are trying to kill him!" Emily snapped once she placed her cell phone back into her pocket. It wasn't just because of her stupid doppelganger connection either. Yeah, Emily hated the idea of Elijah dying as she feels connected to him because of Darina, but also because she went through all this trouble of making a deal with the original to make sure her friends and family are safe from Klaus. But here they were, messing it all up!
"Emily, we need to talk about this," Stefan hurriedly uttered as he vamp sped in front of the angry human girl, who was stomping her way back into the Gilbert cabin. The Salvatore vampire placed his hands onto Emily's shoulders to stop her from moving before he told her, "we are just trying to protect you."
"How?" Emily snapped as she took a step away from the Salvatore vampire, "by everyone lying to me? By killing the one person that can keep you safe from also dying?" The Gilbert girl chuckled humorlessly before she mumbled, "you just don't get it. All this is to protect you and everyone I love! Elijah promised and you guys are just ruining it!"
"Elijah can't be trusted, Emily!" The Salvatore vampire yelled back as he hated how the human girl would always find a way to defend or talk good about the original, "I know you feel like he is God's gift to Earth, but he's not!"
"Well, I trust him," Emily mumbled as she couldn't help the way she feels towards the original. It was like it is embedded into her mind that Elijah would never hurt her or lie to her. "I made a deal with him; not you or anyone else," Emily uttered in a calmer voice, "you just need to accept that. It's my life and I decided that I would rather go out this way than let everyone I love die with me."
"Yes, exactly!" Stefan exclaimed angrily as he couldn't control his emotions towards the human girl, who was willing to die like this. "It's your life and I'm gonna do everything I can to make sure that you live it!" The Salvatore vampire added emotionally as he was not going to stop fighting for her.
"Is this what you wanted?" Emily mumbled as she slowly shook her head. "Did you want me to feel guilty for protecting the people I love?" The Gilbert girl interrogated as she swiftly wiped a loose tear from her green eyes. "Is that why you told me about your struggles?" Emily continued to ask before she patted her chest as she yelled out, "what do you want from me, Stefan?"
The Salvatore vampire took a deep breath as he tried to get control of himself now that the human girl was crying. Stefan then let out a heavy sigh as he began to take a step closer to Emily before he uttered in a soft tone, "I was telling you about a time when I thought everything was lost. When I had given up because that is exactly what you're doing right now."
Emily immediately let out a heavy groan before she shouted as she didn't know how many more times she has to repeat herself, "I'm not giving up!" The human girl shook her head and exclaimed, "just because I'm not being selfish doesn't mean I'm not fighting!" Emily then poked Stefan's hard chest as she cried out, "everyday I fight! I fight for my family that I have left, I fight for my friends, I fight for you and even Damon!" The Gilbert girl closed her eyes briefly before she whispered, "I won't be selfish and let everyone die because I'm the human doppelganger."
Stefan looked at the human girl with sadness in his eyes before he grabbed ahold of her face and shook her until Emily was staring up at him. "You shouldn't have to carry the world on your shoulders," the Salvatore vampire whispered before he exclaimed with a serious expression, "I'm not letting you do this. You are not allowed to give up." Stefan then stared into Emily's teary green eyes for a moment before he whispered as he was pulled into another memory of his past, "Lexi didn't let me give up, so neither am I."
WOODS 1864
Stefan Salvatore found himself in the same place that he usually would be in when he wanted a quick meal; the woods that are covered with all the injured soldiers with opened wounds. But this time, the young vampire wasn't allowed to take a snack or two like he wanted. This was instead a teaching moment by the blonde vampire, who thought she could help Stefan with his ripper self.
"All these men are dead or dying," Alexia Branson uttered in a soft voice as she walked Stefan through the different tents with all the fresh and exposed blood. The blonde vampire glanced up at the twitching Salvatore as she asked him, "what does that make you feel?"
"Nothing," Stefan mumbled as he crossed his arms over his black coat while he tried to control the hunger of wanting to kill everyone in sight. "I feel nothing," the Salvatore vampire told Alexia while he anxiously glanced around him as he was itching for all the blood that he could smell.
"Because you shut out the part of you that was human," Alexia explained as she tapped the young ripper on his arm so he would focus on her voice instead of all the dying humans. "The part that lets you feel," the blonde vampire continued as she told Stefan what happened when he became an emotionless vampire.
"Is that not the point?" Stefan questioned in annoyance as he didn't see the reason for all of this teaching Alexia was doing. He didn't care about any of it. He was a vampire, so why not let him do what he is best at - by killing humans and feeding off of them.
Alexia nodded her head once before she quickly uttered so the ripper wouldn't get any ideas, "well, there is a better way." The blonde vampire gave Stefan a small smile before she told him, "you simply have to want it."
The Salvatore vampire stayed silent for a moment as he tried to not breath in the heavenly scent of the fresh blood. Stefan then glanced back over to Alexia once they had began to walk through the clearly in the woods as he curiously wondered, "is it better?"
"Not at first," Alexia honestly told the young ripper. The blonde vampire then shook her head before she explained how this all was going to go down, "you can't choose what you feel. You have to let it all back in. The pain and the look in their eyes when you took their life. The cries of their loved ones."
Stefan looked at the blonde vampire like she was completely insane as he didn't want to feel any of that. That feeling of pain and sadness was the reason he turned it off to begin with. He was a vampire, so none of that was necessary anymore. The Salvatore vampire then turned his body fully towards Alexia once she stopped walking before he voiced his confusion, "why would I want to do that?"
"Because once you can hurt, you can love," Alexia exclaimed strongly as she tried to get the blood hungry ripper to understand what she is saying. "Love, Stefan," the blonde vampire uttered with a bright smile shining across her pink lips before she continued, "that's the point." Alexia then glanced around them when she heard voices before she whispered, "everything is intensified when you're a vampire. When we hurt, we really hurt." She paused as she let the information sink into Stefan before she trailed off with another happy smile, "but when we love..."
GILBERT CABIN
"Lexi showed me that there was another way," the Salvatore vampire spoke softly as he rubbed the side of the silent human girl's face after he had continued the story that he began yesterday about when Lexi had helped him out his emotionless state. "And from that day forward," Stefan explained, "I started fighting for it." The brunette vampire then gave Emily a pointed look as he uttered the last part of his sentence, "for my own survival."
The Salvatore vampire gave Emily a sad smile as he let his hands release her face before they slowly slid down to the human girl's shoulders until he reached her unoccupied hand. Stefan then squeezed Emily's hand in his before he told her, "I know you think you can't be selfish to keep yourself alive. But you can."
Stefan leaned down and placed a soft kiss onto the human girl's forehead before he stared back into her green eyes. "That's all I want you to do," the Salvatore vampire uttered, "I just want you to fight for it. I want you to fight for yourself because I can promise you this; there will not be a second when I won't fight for you."
Once the Salvatore vampire silently walked back into the Gilbert cabin, the human girl instantly released a shaky breath. Emily just didn't know what to say to Stefan. It didn't matter what she said, it was always going to come back to her protecting everyone she loves and them fighting for her. They were never going to come to an agreement. She was willing to sacrifice herself for them while they weren't going to let that happen.
Emily shook her head with a sigh as she didn't know what she was suppose to do. So instead of continuing to overthink it all, the human girl turned around and made her way back to the edge of the wooden dock before she sat in front of the dark water. At least you won't fight with me, Emily thought as she stared at the lake before she rolled her green eyes when she realized she was mentally talking to water.
"I'm officially turning into Johnathan Gilbert," the human girl mumbled as she felt like she was going crazy. "Might as well keep it up," Emily mumbled to herself, once more, as she opened up the journal that she had been holding. Ranting, ranting, ranting, the brunette girl listed off as she flipped through the pages that her ancestor had about trying to get rid of the originals.
"Holy crap," Emily whispered after a moment of reading some actually useful information from her crazy relative. The Gilbert girl then quickly stood up from the dock as she knew she had to tell Stefan about what she found out.
However, though, Emily stopped walking as she had decided to read the end of the paragraph before a small smirk lifted up onto her face. Thank you, Johnathan, the human girl thought as she realized Elijah wouldn't stay dead. That really calmed her anger with knowing that her family and friends are trying to kill the original. Stupid doppelganger connection, Emily thought as she made her way into the Gilbert cabin to find Stefan as she hated the way she always feels about Elijah.
It just wasn't like her to feel something like that after meeting someone one time. Emily swore after she was kidnapped by Rose and Trevor, she instantly felt connected to the original when he had spoke to her. It annoyed Emily so badly as she didn't understand and Elijah never gives her an answer to the stupid connection when she asks. He just says that they'll talk about it another time.
"Hey," Stefan whispered as he interrupted the human girl's inner turmoil about her doppelganger connection - which Emily didn't even notice that she was already inside of the cabin. The Salvatore vampire then walked up to the human girl and grabbed her unoccupied hand that wasn't holding the Gilbert journal before he uttered softly, "Elijah's dead. Alaric did it."
Emily's green eyes immediately widened as she remembered why she even came into the cabin in the first place. "We might have a problem," the human girl mumbled out as she stared up at Stefan. The doppelganger then brought the journal up to face and began to read, "as long as the dagger stays in place, the original, for all intents and purposes, is dead." Emily shook her head as she looked up and muttered, "I don't know if Ric left it in or not but I thought you should know."
The Salvatore vampire didn't even dare questioning the Gilbert journal after the human girl had read Johnathan's words. Stefan instead swiftly pulled his cell phone out of his pocket, once again, and hurriedly dialed his brother's number in worry as he knew they did, in fact, pull the dagger out of the original.
"Damon," the younger Salvatore quickly uttered as he began to pace around the living room of the Gilbert cabin, "you and Elena need to get here now." Stefan shot the abnormally silent human girl a quick glance before he told his brother, "it didn't work. The dagger has to stay inside of the original." The vampire then silently nodded his head as he listened to Damon telling him that he and Elena were on their way with the dagger before he swiftly hung up.
Once he placed his cell phone back into his pocket, Stefan instantly vamp sped in front of Emily before he promised, "they'll be here soon with the weapon." The Salvatore vampire then placed a soft kiss onto the human girl's forehead before he told her, "Elijah is probably already on his way over, but everything is going to be okay."
Emily shook her head and muttered, "it's not." The human girl then looked up at Stefan as she explained, "he's going to be royally pissed that you guys tried to kill him." Emily bit down on her bottom lip for a moment as she thought of a plan before she cautiously told Stefan, "I know what I have to do, though."
There was only one thing Emily could do to keep everyone safe like she had originally planned. But the human girl knew Stefan wasn't going to be happy about it. Well, at least not if her sister and Damon don't arrive in time. Emily just prayed that they would show up at the right time for this to go well.
The Salvatore vampire looked down at the human girl with his brows furrowed in confusion before he began to ask as he didn't understand, "what do yo-"
However, before Stefan could finish asking Emily about what she was going to do, they were soon interrupted when the front door was thrown open by the original and four small pebbles. The Gilbert girl then swiftly grabbed ahold of Stefan's face before he could speak and commanded, "you have to promise me that you will not step in. I have to do this. You gotta trust me."
"Emily..." The Salvatore vampire trailed off as he had no clue what the human girl was about to do. However, Stefan did knew one thing for certain. He knew, no matter what, he was not going to allow the original vampire to harm the love of his life.
"He can't come in the cabin, remember," Emily quickly told the Salvatore vampire as she knew the original was going to start to get impatient. The Gilbert girl then gave Stefan an assuring smile as she nodded her head and stated, "I'll be okay." I hope, Emily mentally thought a second later as she prayed her plan was going to work. Emily didn't want to dagger Elijah, but she knew that it just needed to be done - for now, anyway.
"You know," the annoyed and angry original began as he tapped his point finger against the side of the wooden cabin, "I might not be able to enter this house... but I'm a very patient man." Elijah then gave the couple a sarcastic smile as he added, "I'll wait you out."
Emily gave the Salvatore vampire a quick kiss while she also patted her sweatpants as she made sure that she still had the stake from when Brady had attacked her while Stefan was distracted by her sweet action. The human girl knew if Stefan found out that she had a weapon on her and was going to use it then he would definitely try to protect her from the original on his own instead of following with her secret plan.
Once Emily was sure that Stefan wouldn't do anything reckless, she took a deep breath before she slowly walked towards the entrance of the cabin and faced the original. "I promise you, Elijah, I had no idea they were going to do that to you," the Gilbert girl quickly exclaimed as she looked at the ratted and bloody clothes that hung on the revenging original.
"I believe you, sweetheart," Elijah told the human girl as he gave Emily a soft smile before he turned a glare towards the younger Salvatore vampire. "But you agreed to the terms," the original began as he lifted up his shoulder with a shrug before he concluded, "and your friends broke that tonight."
"I know," Emily murmured in annoyance as she crossed her arms over her chest. It still pissed her off that her friends and family messed up her deal without even talking to her about it. The Gilbert girl then gave Elijah a small smile and begged, "can you please give them a second chance? They were just trying to do the right thing."
Elijah chuckled humorlessly before he mumbled, "I'm sure they were." The original then shook his head and told Emily, "I'm truly sorry that we couldn't make our deal happen. But that was it. You couldn't stay out of danger and your friends couldn't keep you safe, so now you'll have to stay with me until Klaus arrives in Mystic Falls."
Emily nodded her head as if she was agreeing with the original before she mumbled, "about that..." The human girl walked to the very edge of the door while ignoring the worried tension coming off of the Salvatore vampire behind her before she told Elijah, "if you don't keep our deal then I'm just gonna have to do something stupid." Emily then reached into the pocket of her mother's sweatpants before she showed the original the large and pointy stake. "It would be such a shame if the doppelganger dies before the sacrifice even started," the brunette girl muttered with a tsk.
The original vampire couldn't help but twitch nervously when he saw the weapon in the human girl's hand as he knew exactly what she was thinking about doing. It scared him because it reminded Elijah of the time when he had watched Klaus rip out Darina Petrova's heart. However, though, Elijah knew he couldn't let that show on his face. So instead of pleading with the human girl like he did with Klaus back then, Elijah simply looked at Emily with an amused smile before he told her with a pointed look, "Stefan won't let you die."
The Gilbert girl shrugged her shoulders as she couldn't disagree with that. "You're right," Emily muttered as she glanced between the nervous Salvatore behind her and the wooden stake in her hands before she looked back up at Elijah and stated, "he'll just give me his blood and heal me." The human girl then let a small smirk reach her lips before she murmured, "and I might just take a slip and fall and become a vampire like my sister."
Emily stood there in silence for a moment as she let that information soak into the original before she wondered with a tilt of her head, "so, is that deal still on the table?" The Gilbert girl trailed the stake up her bare arm and let a small slit of blood flow before she told Elijah, "I need my family and friends to be safe from Klaus and you. If you agree to keep our deal then I'll gladly throw this stake away and we can continue to lure Klaus to Mystic Falls."
The original stared across at the human girl as he breathed in her heavenly scent and her fresh blood before he quickly controlled himself. "I'm sorry, sweetheart," Elijah told Emily as he shook his head. He just didn't believe that the Salvatore was going to allow the human girl to do this. Stefan cares too much about Emily to let her turn into a monster, the original thought. "I'm going to have to call your bluff," Elijah nervously told the human girl. It frightened Elijah that Emily would try to turn herself as there was a plan already set in motion for the human girl when the time comes - thank to Maria Radkova, but Elijah knew he couldn't show his cards just yet.
"Very well," Emily mumbled with a shaky breath as she was growing extremely anxious. She knew her whole plan could fail if her sister and Damon didn't dagger Elijah in time. She just had to pray that this will work.
The Gilbert girl silently twirled the stake through her fingers for a moment as she tried to gain the courage to do this before she pointed the stake directly at her stomach. "I'm sorry, Stef," the human girl whispered as she never told the Salvatore vampire her plan along with the fact that he was about to watch her get hurt without being able to help. Emily then looked into Elijah's brown eyes and whispered, "I'm sorry we couldn't agree," before she swiftly pushed the wooden weapon into her stomach as far as she could until she dropped to her knees in agony.
"Dammit," Emily hissed as tears immediately began to fill her green eyes. I really wished I had grabbed a knife instead, the human girl thought as she felt like there was a pole sticking out of her stomach by how thick the stake is. The Gilbert girl then painfully leaned her body onto her knees as she tried to ignore all of her blood and the yelling from Stefan as he tried to convince the human girl to let him help her. Instead, Emily slowly pulled the stake out of her stomach as she knew it would make her die faster and hopefully get Elijah to change his mind while she prayed Elena would hurry her ass up with the stupid dagger.
"No!" The original cried out as he rushed towards the invisible barrier and began to pound his fists against it while he watched the human girl begin to lose too much blood. It was like Elijah was watching his true love die all over again. "Please, Emily!" The original begged, "I agree! We have a deal! Please let me heal you!"
The Gilbert girl didn't even hesitate before she slowly pulled herself up from the blood covered ground and threw herself into Elijah's arms. Emily trusted the original with her life and she truly believed he was telling the truth. So, the only thing Emily really cared about at the moment was healing as she was in so much pain.
However, though, just at the original began to bite into his wrist to heal the human girl, all of Elijah's movements instantly came to a stop as a gasp escaped the original's mouth when he felt something enter his back. Thankfully for Emily, that certain item was the dagger being shoved into Elijah's skin by the history teacher; Alaric Saltzman.
There was then a thick silence on the Gilbert cabin's front door and porch after the three vampires and the vampire hunter realized that they had finally defeated the original for a few minutes before it was all interrupted by the ever so comical human girl. "What took you so long?" Emily groaned out as she felt the pain continue to take over her whole body.
The Gilbert vampire rolled her brown eyes at her twin sister, who would of course make a joke right now. Elena then swiftly vamp sped in front of Emily before she bit down onto her wrist. "Just drink," she commanded as Elena held her arm in front of the weak human girl's mouth.
Don't gotta ask me twice, Emily thought as she quickly latched her lips around her twin sister's wrist. Once the human girl felt the hole in her stomach begin to heal, she slowly released Elena's arm before she tiredly leaned her body against her sister's as exhaustion was beginning to take over her.
The human girl was just so out of it that she didn't even realize that she was being passed off to another vampire until she finally reopened her green eyes and saw her favorite pair in front of her as the younger Salvatore vampire was cradling her face. "Are you okay?" Stefan worriedly asked he wiped Elena's blood from Emily's mouth, "do you need more blood?"
"I'm fine," the brunette girl promised as she placed her hand over the Salvatore vampire's that was resting on her face with a small smile. Emily then leaned up and placed a gentle kiss onto Stefan's lips before she whispered, "I'm sorry for scaring you."
"I'm just glad that you're safe," the green eyed Salvatore vampire confessed softly before he brought the human girl into his chest and held Emily as tightly as he could without hurting her. Stefan had been upset when he figured out the Gilbert girl's plan when he had seen the stake, but all Stefan could do now was to be happy that they didn't have to worry about Elijah anymore.
"Little tip," Damon exclaimed as he and Alaric finally showed himself to his brother and girlfriend's sister after they had checked on the body of the original for a couple of minutes to make Elijah was actually dead. The older Salvatore vampire then tossed his arm over Elena's shoulder as they stood in front of Stefan and Emily before he continued with a wide smirk, "don't pull the dagger out."
The human Petrova doppelganger couldn't help but roll her green eyes at her sister's boyfriend. "I wonder how you figured that one out," Emily mumbled sarcastically as she had been the one to find that out along with all the other things her biological father didn't bother mentioning.
"No one likes a smartass, Gilbert," the older Salvatore vampire muttered as he shot the human girl a glare that didn't really hold anything behind it. He and Emily never really gets along, but Damon was glad that Emily was still around; not that he would tell her that. "Come on," the blue eyed Salvatore uttered after a moment of silence as he tapped his finger on Elena's shoulder, "we have a big bad original to take home."
"Yeah," the younger Salvatore vampire murmured into the human girl's ear before he added, "we should get going." Stefan bumped his hip into Emily as he commented with a small chuckle, "we have school in the morning."
"Ugh," Emily groaned inside of her boyfriend's cozy arms. "Don't remind me," the human girl complained as she definitely wasn't looking forward to Monday morning. It just sounds stupid to be going to school with the life they live. But Emily knew she needed to go as she still plans to have a life out of Mystic Falls.
"Let's go," Emily huffed out with a sigh before the chuckling Salvatore began to pull her out of the Gilbert cabin along with Damon, Elena, and Alaric who were talking about how they were going to take the dead original to Mystic Falls. The human girl's green eyes immediately went down to Elijah when the vampire couple and the vampire hunter decided to vamp run him to the boarding house.
It made Emily automatically feel extremely guilty at what she had done. She hated that she went through with ending Elijah's life temporarily. The doppelganger connection has made it hard for the human girl, but she knew it just had to be done - at least for now. It was like what Elijah had told her. They have to wait for the right time to drag Klaus out of hiding and now Emily had to wait for the right time to wake Elijah from his temporarily death.
I'm sorry, Elijah, the brunette girl thought as she slowly passed the dead original while the younger Salvatore began to pull her towards his red Porsche after he had locked the door of the Gilbert cabin behind them. Emily just had to remember that this isn't permanent. She just hoped when she did release the dagger from Elijah, that he would still protect her family and friends when Klaus comes to Mystic Falls.
SALVATORE BOARDING HOUSE
It took a little less than two hours of the human Petrova doppelganger silently riding in comfortable silence with the protective and concerned younger Salvatore vampire before Emily found herself standing in the doorway of the familiar cellar beside her twin sister. The two Gilbert siblings were currently watching as the two Salvatore brothers placed the original's body on the ground in the middle of their personal vampire jail.
Once Stefan rubbed the dirt and blood off of his palms from the original, the younger Salvatore swiftly walked over to the twin sisters and immediately wrapped his arms around the human girl's waist. Stefan then laid a soft kiss onto the top of Emily's head before he questioned, once again, "are you okay?"
Emily turned her head to the side and gave the worried vampire a small smile as she nodded her head. "I promise," the human girl whispered as she felt like that is all she has been saying since they left North Carolina. However, though, Emily understood why. She did stab herself with a stake without telling anyone anything about her crazy plan.
So instead of getting annoyed with all the questions, Emily turned around and leaned up on her tippy toes to give Stefan a sweet kiss. The human girl then turned her attention onto the dead original once she was sure that the Salvatore vampire believed her and looked at Elijah with a saddened gaze as she couldn't help but feel bad about what she did.
"Come on," the older Salvatore mumbled to himself as he began to search the dead body of the original. Damon swiftly pulled out the milky stone that he had been looking for after a moment before he rhetorically questioned, "what do we have here?" The blue eyed vampire then showed the two vampires and the human girl what he had as he uttered with a smirk, "a little moonstone bar of soap," before he swiftly stuck it into the front pocket of his jeans as Damon was glad to have the rock in his possession again.
"So, that's it," the Gilbert vampire murmured as she leaned her head against Damon's shoulder once he had slammed the door shut on the original. Elena glanced at each face around the basement before she continued, "I mean, as long as keep the dagger in there, then he stays dead." The Gilbert supernatural being didn't really know much about the dagger except what Katherine and John had told her and Damon plus along with the messages that they had gotten from Stefan when he and Emily would find something important from the Gilbert cabin.
The older Salvatore nodded his head as he ran his fingers across the Gilbert vampire's bare shoulder that was showing from her tank top while he stared through the small window at the unmoving original. "Pretty much," Damon mumbled as that was all they really knew about the dagger.
For now, Emily thought as she knew that she had to pick the right moment to pull the dagger out of Elijah. The human girl guessed that she shouldn't do that until they know for sure that Klaus is getting close or is actually in Mystic Falls. That way, the Salvatore vampires and her twin sister can't actually stop him when they will need Elijah's help against the hybrid.
"Well, if we are done here," the Gilbert vampire began after a moment of silence had settled between the three supernatural beings - plus the human doppelganger before she stared across at her twin sister and stated, "I'd like some alone time with my sister." Elena felt like she hadn't seen Emily in so long, so she just wanted to hang out like they use to.
The human girl went to follow after her twin sister, but quickly stopped as she needed to set the record straight. "Wait," Emily exclaimed as she stood between the three vampires. She then stared at each supernatural being with a serious gaze before she began, "I get it. You guys want me to fight and not give up. I get it. But you need to get this through your heads, if it comes down to it, I will always protect the ones I love first. So, I'll do this your way and I'll fight for my life but I was gladly sacrifice myself if any of your lives are in danger." Emily shrugged her shoulders and muttered, "there is no changing my mind about that. But this partnership thing we got about actually defeating Klaus, I want to know everything. No more secrets or lies."
The basement of the Salvatore boarding house immediately went silent for a couple of minutes as the three vampires all glanced at each other. They all seemed to agree with one another as they nodded at each other before Damon faced the human girl and mumbled, "that seems fair."
Once Emily got one agreement out of the three vampires, she turned her gaze over to her twin sister with a hopeful smile as she prayed Elena wouldn't go into protective mode like she usually does these days.
"Fine," Elena mumbled as she stared across her twin sister. The Gilbert vampire didn't like the idea that Emily was still thinking about turning herself over to Klaus. However, though, it was a big step up. At least now, they knew she was going to fight to keep herself alive like they wanted.
"There won't be anymore secrets," the younger Salvatore promised once he watched the human girl give Elena a thankful nod. Stefan then walked the couple of steps towards Emily before he gently grabbed the side of her face and stared deeply into her green eyes. "I don't like that you still are thinking about sacrificing yourself," the Salvatore confessed before he stated strongly, "but that just makes me that much more determined to keep you safe."
The human Petrova doppelganger instantly released a thankful sigh as she's pleased that everyone's on board. "Thank you," Emily whispered before she leaned onto her tippy toes and pulled Stefan into a sweet but passionate kiss. The brunette girl was glad that they were all finally agreeing on something. Emily just hoped that they knew what they were doing because she wasn't lying, she wouldn't hesitate to hand herself over if she has to.
"Alright, alright," the Gilbert vampire exclaimed as she interrupted the sweet moment between her twin sister and her boyfriend's brother. Elena then grabbed Emily's arm from Stefan's reach and muttered stubbornly, "I want my time with my sister. You had enough."
Emily couldn't help but chuckle as her other half with an eye roll. "I'll see you soon," the human girl quickly promised the pouting Stefan before she turned around so she could walk normally while Elena continued to pull her through the basement until they finally reached the living room.
"You sit there," Elena exclaimed as she pushed her twin sister down onto the leather couch before she swiftly vamp sped upstairs and grabbed Damon's laptop. The Gilbert vampire then tossed herself down onto the couch beside her twin sister after she placed the laptop onto the small table in front of them and pressed play on one of their favorite movies; Scream.
"Don't you think we've had enough scares for one night?" Emily teasingly questioned her twin sister once she saw Drew Barrymore appear onto the small device as the blonde teenager began to make popcorn while answering the phone call from ghostface.
Elena rolled her brown eyes as she linked her arm with her twin sister's before she leaned her head onto Emily's warm shoulder. "Shush," the Gilbert vampire commanded playfully before she commented, "anyways, you know we don't get scared by this movie anymore."
"True," Emily commented as she remembered they haven't been scared of Scream since they were ten. The iconic horror film was like their comfort movie. They had seen it so many times, that it just becomes their happy moment of watching the movie together while saying the lines to each other.
The two Gilbert siblings then sat in silence for a few minutes as they listened to ghostface interrogate Casey Becker on who was the killer of Friday the thirteenth, before the Gilbert vampire turned her gaze onto her twin sister, who was happily mouthing the words. "Hey," Elena softly uttered as she couldn't help but want to check on her sister after not seeing her in over forty-eight hours, "you doing okay?"
Emily glanced between her twin sister and the laptop screen as she tried to pay attention to the movie before she noticed the concerned look on Elena's face. The human girl then turned her attention fully on her sister when Casey Becker began to run through her house before Emily nodded her head with a soft smile and murmured, "yeah. I'm all good." Emily knew Elena was just worried, like Stefan was, about what happened tonight and what she had to do. Emily understood completely as she would be in the same position if Elena was in her spot.
Elena stared at her twin sister in silence for a few minutes to make sure Emily wasn't just lying to make her feel better before the Gilbert vampire let out a slow sigh and mumbled, "good." Elena had been so worried about her twin sister since Damon told her the plan to kill Elijah at dinner. Actually, that isn't correct, Elena thought as she realized she had started worrying and missing Emily the second she told her that she and Stefan were going away from a few days. They just have this close relationship and when they aren't in the place together, it just makes them worry for one another. It's just how it always has been since they were little. So, Elena couldn't be anymore happier that her twin sister was back in Mystic Falls in the safety of her arms with no original or hybrid to worry about. It was just like old times.
Emily shook her head in amusement as she could tell there was thoughts still running through her twin sister's head as the concerned look was still there. "I'm really fine, I promise," the human girl told the young vampire before she muttered as she leaned her warm body against her sister's colder one while she focused back onto the movie, "now shush. Casey's parents are about to find her hung up like a Christmas tree."
The human Petrova doppelganger couldn't help but feel in content as Elena mumbled, "I hate this part," while they watched their comfort movie. It was the perfect way to end a hectic day, in Emily's opinion. Yeah, there was still some problems to deal with like when to undagger Elijah and how they were going to fight Klaus, but the human girl knew that they just had to take it one day at a time - like they always do.
