Hey guys, sorry for the late update.

Leila Davis: haha, they haven't let the originals know because we're only in season 1! The originals don't really come in to play until mid-season 2. So Stefan and Damon don't know about the originals.

EDITED AUG21

"Miss, miss, miss, miss," Brea chanted at Matt as they played pool at the Grill after school. He then missed the shot. "Haha, you suck Matt," Brea teased.

"Just have your shot Gilbert. Even with your distracting, I'll still wipe the floor with you," he teased as Brea lined up her shot. "So when are you going to talk to Tyler?" he asked just as she took her shot causing her to miss.

"Talk about distracting," she groaned. "Well Matt, never. Never planning on it."

"Hey guys, have you seen Stefan?" Elena asked coming up to ask them and Brea's eyes went wide at the fact she just asked her ex where her new boyfriend was.

"Nope," Matt replied quickly and Elena started to walk away. "But if you want to kill some time, you can rack. Help out your sister. Come on, we haven't played in forever. I'll let you break," Matt enticed.

"Fine, although sticking me on Brea's team isn't exactly selling it," Elena giggled.

"Oh, Matt guess what Elena saw this morning! Traumatising from what I hear," Brea exclaimed.

"Oh yeah! Jeremy and Vicki," Elena explained. "I got up this morning and there's Vicki all nonchalant in the bathroom like it's no big deal that they're hooking up."

"Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. Your brother and my sister, that's weird."

"Beyond weird," Brea agreed.

"How late is he?" Matt asked as he saw Elena check her phone again.

"Hitting the hour mark," she said annoyed.

"He's being a dick. After disappearing for like 4 days he doesn't even show up to explain. Douchebag. Maybe he and Tyler have been hanging out," Brea suggested.

"Nothing's wrong though," Elena said so Matt didn't get any ideas. "Which means I'm not talking boy problems with you."

"That's smart," Brea agreed.

"Good," Matt said sarcastically. "I mean it's not like we were ever best friends or anything."

"Ok," Elena said reluctantly. "Here it goes… what do you think of Stefan? Is he a good guy?" she asked.

"Why? What's he done?" Matt asked concerned.

"Not any one thing. He's just so secretive all the time. I think there's something that he doesn't want me to know, which makes me want to know all the more."

"Yep, we're busybodies, us Gilbert's love sticking our noses where they don't belong," Brenna chirped uncomfortable at the whole situation unfolding before her.

"Like what? Like that he's a serial killer and he keeps a clown suit in his trunk?" Matt laughed.

"Do not joke about clowns Matthew," Brea said sternly as he was well aware of her fear of clowns.

Elena laughed as well, "no, of course not. But what do we know about him, really?"

"He's great at football. A little bit of a loner. And as much as I hate saying it, he might be a nice guy."

"So you think I'm just being paranoid?" Elena asked and Brea stayed quiet and looked away.

"I think you should talk to him," Matt suggested.

"Talk to who?" Stefan asked, from behind Matt and Brea as they turned to look at him. "I'm so sorry that I'm late."

"What happened?" Elena asked.

"I got held up."

"Not a good answer," Brea whispered to Matt.

"Is everything ok?" Elena asked.

"There was this thing with my uncle," he vaguely answered.

"And you couldn't call and tell me that you were going to be an hour late?" Elena scoffed.

"And she makes a good point," Brea again whispered to Matt, making Elena subtly step on her foot to shut her up.

"Ow," Brea moaned.

"Ok. You two have fun," Matt said quickly pulling himself and Brea out of the way as it got more awkward.

Halfway through an episode of Gilmore Girls, Jeremy stormed into her room and sat down on her bed looking sad.

"Are you ok Jer?" she asked sitting up.

"Why didn't you tell me?" he asked.

"Tell you what?" Brea asked concerned.

"You're taking your sleeping pills again. The ones that helped you sleep through the nightmares after the accident."

Brea's eyes went wide at being caught. "How'd you know?"

"Vicki found yours and Elena's pills. The lid wasn't on properly on yours and they've gone down from how they used to be."

"Are you and Vicki taking our pills Jeremy?" she said angrily.

"I didn't take any alright. Vicki had some of Elena's but I took yours away from her. Tell me what's going on Brea please."

"I'm having nightmares again."

"Of the accident?"

"No. Something else. I can't explain it. But, I don't know, it'll sound stupid... it's like a suppressed memory. It just feels so real, and it scares me. It's woken me up every night for weeks. These stop the dreams. I'm scared of them Jeremy," Brea said getting teary.

Jeremy sat in thought for a while and grabbed Brea's hand. "Please try not to take them. I know they help, but you turn into a shell of yourself, they suck out all your personality. You don't need them ok."

"Well now you know how we all feel Jer, don't lecture me on taking these when you're taking every known drug under the sun," she said snatching the pill bottle out of his hands angrily. "I need these ok. I feel like I'm losing my mind with those dreams. You have no right to lecture me on drugs ok, so you can go now," Brea snapped as Jeremy's shoulders sagged and he left the room.

Brea opened the bottle to take one as she was ready for an early night but then thought about what Jeremy said and closed the bottle, not wanting to end up like her drug-dependent brother.

Brea went to bed and had a drugless, dreamless sleep for what felt like the first time in weeks.

Brea was hiding from Caroline at the fundraiser carwash giggling with Dana when she felt a tug on her hair.

"Ow, ow, ow, ow, CARE!" Brea protested.

"Top off. Now. It's called sexy suds!"

"It won't be sexy if I have no hair left, let me go," Brea taking off her top as Caroline victoriously let go of her hair. "You are a mean girl sometimes Caroline Forbes," she said running away.

"Hey you, talked to Tyler yet?" Matt taunted as she walked up to him and Bonnie.

"No, but in more important news, Caroline Forbes, my darling best friend, just brutally attacked me!" she exclaimed putting her top back on.

"What do you mean attacked you?" Matt laughed.

"She grabbed my hair! She grabbed and pulled while she ordered me to take off my top because it's 'sexy suds'," Bonnie and Matt both laughed. "It's not funny it hurts! You shouldn't be laughing guys. Especially, you Matthew. You're in the bad books."

"Why's he in the bad books? I don't think he's been in the bad books for the entire 17 years you two have been friends," Bonnie asked.

"He trying to get me to talk to the brother bashing Tyler Lockwood, A.K.A, my old friend and new nemesis."

"I swear you've called half the school cohort your nemesis at some point," Bonnie laughed.

"Ah come on Brea, you'll come around, and he'll apologise, and everything in the Tyler-Brenna world will make sense again. But because I'm a good friend I'll let you know Caroline's making a beeline straight for you," Matt whispered with a smirk and Brea saw her marching towards her and ran away with a yelp.

"Jenna!" Brea yelled as she saw her and Logan talking.

"Hey, kiddo!" Logan greeted her. "I haven't seen you since you were this big," Logan said putting his hand at waist level to demonstrate how short she used to be, making her glare.

"Yeah, puberty happened," she said sarcastically making Jenna elbow her.

"Watch it," she hissed in Brea's ear.

"I'll be back in a minute. Got to check over the segment I just recorded," he said, darting off.

"Come on Brea, he's trying. I'm giving him a go. You should give him a go too. He's very very cute."

"Your car was done an hour ago," Elena said from behind the pair.

"You're saying that out loud why?" Jenna smirked.

"Hi. Elena, right? I think I met you once when you were nine," Logan said coming out from behind the van.

"Cut the sweet talk Fell," Brea whispered from behind Logan. "OW!" she exclaimed as Jenna pinched her arm.

"Nine, your emotional maturity level when we were together," Jenna quipped to Logan trying to move past her niece's attitude.

"Ouch, here I thought we were making process," Logan smiled.

"Is he enough in your good graces that I can ask him for a favour?" Elena asked causing Brea to raise an eyebrow in confusion at what her sister was after.

"If I do her a favour, will I get back in your good graces?" he asked Jenna.

"Uh, a very reluctant maybe to both."

"Done. Wait. One condition. Dinner, tonight, your house."

"Fine. But you're eating leftovers," Jenna interrupted.

"Oh burn leftovers! But give him the pie Jenna! That was awful," Jenna's face dropped as Brea admitted her pie sucked. "Oh I mean it was great. You'll love it, Logan."

"You don't like my cooking?"

"It's not that I don't like it, it's just that I don't love it. I mean you're a better cook than me so you've got that going for you," Brea replied as Jenna smiled victoriously.

"Oh, come on, you're not a bad cook Brea," Elena encouraged.

"Don't lie to her Elena," Jenna laughed. "Didn't you blow up the toaster, the microwave and the oven all in one week when you decided to go on your cooking frenzy?"

"Jenna! You swore you'd never let Elena find that out!" Brea gasped.

"What do you need?" Logan finally asked Elena, ending the bickering.

"Do you have access to old news stories, say, the fifties?"

"Yeah, at the station. Between the archives and the internet, we pretty much have everything."

"I have this report way past due, it'd be a lifesaver," Elena explained as Brea raised an eyebrow in confusion, knowing no report was due.

"Heading there now. Let's go," Logan suggested walking off to the van.

"If anyone asks, you don't know where I went. I don't want Caroline to know that I left," she said to Jenna and Brea whilst grabbing her bag.

Brea leant down and whispered, "we don't have a report, what are you up to?" Elena stood up and gave her twin a look that said, 'I'll explain later' before walking off. "Aunt Jenna I'd just like to say that my report is not past due because I got it in when it was due. You know what that means?"

"That you're goody two shoes?"

"You have to say I am the better twin!"

"Fine, you're the better twin…"

"Yes!"

"When it comes to being arrogant," Jenna finished.

"Hey!" Brea yelled as Jenna walked off. Brenna looked around and didn't see Caroline anywhere. "Hmm, hey Jenna!" she said chasing after her aunt. "Want to give me a lift home? Caroline's gone so we can stage a jailbreak."

Jenna looked around, also a little scared of Caroline. "Ok, let's go, hurry, run! I don't want to get caught," she said ushering her niece towards the car.

"Hey umm Brea," Elena said sticking her head into Jeremy's room while they were halfway through Mission Impossible. Jeremy paused the movie and the siblings looked over at Elena. "Can I please talk to you? It's kind of important."

"Can it wait until after the movie Lena, we're halfway?"

"No, no. Please, Brea, please?"

"Urgh ok," she said sensing her twin's distress. "Finish it tomorrow Jer?"

"Sure," he grumbled putting on headphones as Brea followed Elena to her room.

"So are we going to talk or are you going to keep pacing?" Brea asked Elena who had been walking up and down her room for the past 5 minutes.

"Stefan's a vampire!" Elena blurted out.

"Excuse me!?" Brea snorted

"Damon too," Elena rambled making Brea jumped up and grab Elena's face and look into her eyes. "What are you doing Brea?"

"Did you hit your head?"

"No! Brea! I'm serious. Look I made a copy of a video, the one that I found at Logan's work. It's from 1953. It's an old news video, and Stefan's in the video. Tiki's grandfather recognised him the other day at the Grill and said he remembered Joseph's nephew called Stefan. It's him in the video Brea!" Elena then showed Brea the video.

"Well, I mean they are relatives it's possible they just look really similar."

"No Brea please listen to me," Elena pleaded, grabbing her sisters hand.

"An old video of a look-alike Stefan doesn't prove vampires exist sweetie."

"Don't patronise me, Brenna, I'm serious."

"Wow you called me Brenna," she said shocked. "Oh my god, you really believe this don't you." Elena nodded.

"I know it. Think about it. He and Damon, they're new to town the animal attacks started just as they got to town. Jeremy sliced Stefan's hand open when Tyler and he were fighting, I saw the blood, you did too, but the cut wasn't there, he never gets hurt. Sometimes his eyes go dark and the veins under his eyes, they pop out, he changes in ways that can't be explained. 5 bodies drained of blood Brenna, drained. Caroline, who was dating Damon, was bitten all over her neck, you saw it, Brea! I went to his house Brea, he told me that I'm right. Then he came here. He came here and tried to talk to me. He moved so fast Brea."

"Elena, you sound absolutely insane. But for some reason...I think I believe you." Elena breathed a sigh of relief. "We have to talk to him and find out what it all means."

"Ok, tomorrow. We'll meet him, together."

That night Elena and Brea slept in the same bed, afraid of what would go bump in the night.

"You said you would explain everything, that's why I asked you to meet us here," Elena said to Stefan as the three of them sat awkwardly outside of the Grill.

"I'm just tagging along," Brea muttered.

"When you google 'vampire' a lot of stuff comes up," Elena continued. "You get a world of fiction. What's the reality?"

"I'll tell you whatever you want to know," Stefan promised.

"I know you eat garlic," Elena said.

"And you go in the sun without sparkling," Brea added as a waitress came outside with their drinks.

"We have rings that protect us, otherwise we burn, not sparkle," Stefan explained to Brea.

"So Twilight lied," Brea sighed.

"Crucifixes?" Elena asked.

"Decorative," he refuted and Elena continued to question every myth.

"You said you don't kill to survive."

"Animal blood keeps me alive, but not as strong as Damon. He can be very powerful."

"And yet you let him get involved with Caroline?" Elena accused angrily.

"Yeah, not cool Stefan, what if he killed her!" Brea agreed. "Oh my god, I got in a car alone with him!"

"Forcing Damon not to do something is much more dangerous, believe me. Trust me, Brenna, he wouldn't hurt you," Stefan tried to reason.

"He was hurting her! He could've hurt Brea!" Elena accused.

"He was feeding on her. He was able to take away her memories of being bitten using a form of mind compulsion. She never knew what was happening to her. If he wanted to kill her, he would have."

"Is that supposed to make it ok?"

"No. No, none of this is ok, Elena. I know that."

"Are there any others, aside from you and Damon?"

"Not in Mystic Falls, not anymore," Stefan said shaking his head.

"Not anymore?"

"There was a time when this town was…"

"Infested," Brea finished.

Stefan gave her a funny look, "very much aware of vampires, and it didn't end well for anybody. That's why it's important that you two don't tell anyone."

"I can't promise that," Elena said as Brea slowly nodded to Stefan as she knew vampires being an open secret would have disastrous consequences.

"Elena… give me today. I will answer any questions that you two have, and when it's over, you can decide for yourself what you want to do with what you know. It'll be your choice."

"I've been here before," Brea whispered as she touched the pillars of the knocked-down home Stefan had taken them to.

"Brea, we've never been here," Elena responded.

"Oh, maybe I came here exploring with Tyler and Matt or something," Brea replied uncertainly.

"Maybe," Elena suggested before turning to Stefan "it looks so…" she said struggling to find an appropriate word.

"Old?" Stefan bluntly finished. "That's because it is."

"Wait. How long have you…" Elena said again, unable to find an appropriate way to finish her question.

"I've been 17 years old since 1864."

"Oh, my god," Elena gasped.

"You said you wanted to know. I'm not gonna hold anything back. A half-century before the boarding house was even built, this was my family's home. Damon and I… we were both born here. The Salvatore brothers, best of friends."

"You knew Katherine in 1864?" Elena asked eventually.

"Her and her sister," Stefan said watching Brea.

"Her sister?" Brea asked snapping out of her trance.

"Yeah, well I don't think it was possible for them to really be sisters. She was human and Katherine was a vampire, an old one at that. But Katherine wasn't feeding on her or using her in any way. They just both genuinely loved each other as siblings." Brea's breath quickened and she went back to walking around the destroyed property.

Brea heard Elena and Stefan talking about how Katherine went with Stefan to the Founders Day instead of Damon. "Who did Damon go to the ball with?" she asked turning around.

"He went with Katherine's sister to the ball." Brea nodded and walked off in a daze.

Mystic Falls, 1864

"Oh do stop staring Mr Salvatore," Brenna said to Damon as they danced.

"Why would she choose Stefan, though Miss Pierce? Am I not enough?" Damon asked as he stared longingly after Katherine.

Brenna sighed, unsure of how to answer the question, knowing full well that her sister was toying with them. "My sister can be cruel in her ways, Mr Salvatore. I do not believe she has dismissed you. I believe, Damon, that she wants you to fight for her, to show her how you are perhaps a better choice for her than Stefan."

Damon smiled at his friend. "Perhaps you are right Miss Pierce, maybe I need to show her my affections outweigh my brothers."

"Well to start Mr Salvatore, pay her no mind for the rest of the founder's ball. You are, after all, escorting me. I would hate to be talking about my lovely sister all night."

"As you wish Miss Pierce," he said spinning her.

"Brea?" Elena asked.

"Huh?"

"You were completely out of it, we're leaving. We got Damon's ring," Elena said holding it up.

"What we can't give it back to him! He'll just hurt more and more people," Brea protested.

"We have to Brea, he'll hurt us in retaliation if we don't." Brea took a deep breath and nodded before making her way to the car. "The mind control, you said Katherine used. Did you ever do that to me?" Elena asked Stefan before she got in the car. Brea stopped and looked back at the pair.

"No. That necklace contains a herb called vervain. It protects you from being compelled. Brea, I slipped some into your perfume bottle, I would like to give you something like Elena's, I thought it might make you uncomfortable for me to give you jewellery when I just started dating your sister."

"Yeah that definitely would've been weird," Brea agreed as she got into the car.

Brea, Elena and Stefan arrived back at the Gilbert house and Brea heard Matt's voice and excitedly yelled "Matthew!" and ran into the living room. Upon entering, she saw Jeremy on the floor and Vicki standing over him and asked, "what the hell is going on here?"

Elena then got into the room and repeated the same question.

"She's really messed up guys," Matt filled them in.

"Elena, back up," Stefan said pulling Elena away from Vicki's side to get a better look at her. Stefan grabbed her face and whispered calming words to her. "Guys, take her up to bed, she's gonna be ok."

"Is she ok?" Brea asked, looking in the direction the two boys took Vicki.

"You know what's wrong with her?" Elena asked.

"Yeah," Stefan confirmed.

"What is it?" Elena pushed.

"She's transitioning."

"Transitioning into what?" Elena prodded still confused.

"Oh no, it's withdrawals, isn't it? I don't want her in my house if she's going to start throwing up, it's just too gross," Brea panicked as she ran after Matt. "Hey, how is she?"

"I don't know Brea, I've never seen her like this. I don't know what she took. She's in there with Jeremy and I don't know what to do Brea. She's so agitated I don't know if I should just take her home or take her to the hospital."

"Maybe the hospital if she starts getting sick?"

"I don't know why she does this. I can't handle it."

"I know. Let's make you a tea or something, I feel like it's going to be a long evening," Brea suggested with a smile. Brea and Matt then started walking down the stairs and when they reached the bottom, they heard someone storming down the stairs and turned to see Vicki running down the stairs, and she proceeded to push past the pair and run out the front door.

"Vick!" Matt called as she sprinted out the front door. "I'm gonna go look for her call me if you hear anything!" he said running to his truck.

"I can track her," Stefan informed the girls.

"Go," Elena encouraged.

"I'm going with Matt, I'll call you if we find her," Brea said running to Matts truck. "Matt! Wait up, I'm coming with you."

"Ok, get in. God what the hell Vick!" he said to himself.

Brea opened the door to her house and stepped in. Elena and Jeremy ran to the doorway and when they saw it was just Brea, their shoulders fell and they both sighed "oh" disappointedly.

"That was a lovely greeting," Brea scoffed.

"Maybe we should check in with Matt," Jeremy suggested.

"Hey, dude! I just came from Matt. Am I invisible?" Brea said waving her arms around and Jeremy just looked at Brea, waiting for an answer.

"Well we couldn't find her, he dropped me home because it was late but he's going to keep looking."

"Well, what are we supposed to do then?"

"We wait. We're supposed to wait," Elena answered.

"She might come back here and I'm guessing she's going to want to see you, Jer. So we should just stay put for now," Brea said smiling softly.

"I don't know what's wrong with her," he sniffled.

"She'll be fine, it'll all be fine," Elena told him.

"How about we finish our movie to take our mind off it Jer?" Brea suggested and he nodded slowly as the doorbell rung and all three rushed to the door. Elena opened it a fraction before trying to slam it shut. "Lena?" Brea asked concerned only to see the door being pushed open and Damon on the other side of it.

"Jeremy, go upstairs," Elena ordered.

"Get the movie started, I'll be up in a minute," Brea encouraged and Jeremy just rolled his eyes before slowly making his way upstairs.

"You two are afraid of me," Damon noticed. "I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess. Stefan finally fessed up."

"Stay away from us," Elena forced out through her fear.

"Hey, hey, hey, there's no need to be rude. I'm just looking for Stefan. May I come in? Oh, wait of course I can. I've been invited," he taunted walking into the house as the twins stepped back two steps for every step he took forward, he then shut the door behind him.

"Oh, would you just bugger off Damon! Now is not the time," Damon's eyes softened before hardening again.

"We can cut to the chase if you want. I'm not gonna kill either of you right now. That wouldn't serve my greater agenda," he said as if he was doing them a favour.

"Greater agenda? Do you have a god complex or something?" Brea hissed.

"Oh brave one, are we," he smirked. "So…" he continued, "Where's Stefan?"

"He's out looking for Vicki," Elena said with malice.

"Don't look at me with those judgy little eyes. Girl's gonna thank me for what I did to her."

"What did you do?" Brea asked.

"Turned her," he shrugged as if it was obvious.

"Into what? Stone?" she asked confused before her eyes widened. "Oh my god! No! You turned her!"

"Sure did," he winked.

"Did you thank Katherine?" Elena asked.

"Got the whole life story, huh?"

"We got enough," Brea answered.

"Oh, I doubt that. Tell my brother I'm looking for him," Damon said leaving the house. Just as the door was about to close he pushed it back open. "Oh, a tip for later. Be careful who you invite in the house."

"Get out," Brea growled. Damon smiled and finally left. Brea and Elena were left stunned for a minute before Brea finally went upstairs to Jeremy's room. "Ready for the movie?" she asked as she plopped down onto his bed.

"Yeah I guess," he said disheartened.

"Press play baby brother."

The siblings then continued to watch the end of their movie as Elena texted her to say that she was going to wait outside for Stefan to show up with any news. After a while, Brea heard the front door close. "I'll be back in a minute Jer," he just nodded, not really caring. Brea ran to the top of the staircase to see Elena sliding down the door in tears. "Lena? Are you ok? Did he find Vicki?" Elena couldn't talk she was crying so much. Brea just ran down the stairs and sat next to her sister pulling her head into her shoulder and holding her as she cried. She was able to work out that Elena must've broken things off with Stefan. After a while, Jeremy got to the top of the staircase and seeing one sister crying mouthed "Vicki?" to Brea and Brea shook her head, letting their brother know that their sister's despair was over a different matter and he nodded and went back to his room.