keikei313: I'm really conflicted with what to do with Kol. I don't want to have him in too much because then I feel like when he does come on the show it won't be anything special. It's tricky...
erizsun: Hey not sure if this answers your question but the first few chapters pretty much cover your questions; let me know if you're confused by anything and I'll try to clarify for you. But I covered most of it at the start :)
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EDITED SEP22
"I'm bored."
"I don't care," Jeremy replied.
"I'll play a video game with you?" Brea offered.
"I'm busy Brea."
"But I'm bored!" Brea groaned.
"Oh well, don't care," Jeremy dismissed
"Jeremy pleaseeeee," Brea whined as she poked his arm.
"I'm drawing, go away," he said as the doorbell rang.
"Pizza!" Brea cheered excitedly. "So who's the girl you're drawing?" she asked, grabbing Jeremy's hand and dragging him to the door with her.
"Shut up," he laughed as he opened the door and as he did, Brea's smile instantly dropped as she found the pizza man very familiar.
"Hey. That's going to be $22," the delivery man said with a smile.
Jeremy and Brea looked at each other before yelling together up the stairs, "Elena we need the money!"
"Have you delivered pizza's here before?" Brea asked.
"Uh, here come in. Just put it on the table," Jeremy said to the guy.
"No, I haven't," the pizza guy answered her with a smirk as he stepped in the house.
"Hey," Elena said running down the stairs as Brea kept staring at the guy. "Um keep the change."
"Thanks and you have yourself a good night," he said backing out of the house as Elena closed the door.
"Seriously you two?" Elena sighed at Brea and Jeremy. "Why can't either of you pay for once?" Both siblings just shrugged before running away with their pizza.
Brea's phone buzzed with a text from Jeremy.
J - Our future uncle gave me an A on the essay!
B - Jer, that's awesome! He's in our good books, woohoo!
"I can't believe you're both adopted. I never saw that coming," Bonnie said in disbelief.
"And it gets weirder," Elena continued. "Our birth certificate lists Miranda and Grayson Gilbert as our birth parents."
"Even though they weren't, none of it makes any sense," Brea muttered.
"Which is why you should ask Jenna. First of all, the Gilbert twins I know would always want the real truth, good or bad." Bonnie suggested.
"And second of all?" Elena dismissed.
"You just found out that your boyfriend is a vampire Elena, so unless your birthparents are aliens… how bad could it be?" Bonnie said making the twins laugh.
"Knowing our luck they're probably werewolves or something crazy like that," Brea giggled.
"Ah, ok, look, we have to go to the store. Both of our outfits are severely lacking accessories," Elena said standing up.
"I thought mine was fine?" Brea asked and Elena just shook her head.
"Ok, I'll pay the bill," Bonnie said and the twins walked out.
Just as the twins were crossing the road to the car Jenna was loaning them Brea's phone rang. "Hello?"
"Speakerphone, now," a voice ordered.
"Why?" she asked.
"I want you both to hear this."
"Ok bossy, so rude," Brea snapped switching it to speaker mode making Elena give her a funny look.
"Hello, Elena, Brenna," the man said.
"Hey, who's this?" Elena said stopping and turning around.
"You two hit me with your car. Is that a new one?" At this Brea nearly dropped the phone in shock spinning around to try to find him before spotting a man walking and pointing him out to Elena. "You got away from me," he taunted as the girls rushed to get into the car. "You won't next time," he laughed as the girls drove off and Brea hung up.
"Why us, what does he want with us?" Brea groaned.
"If he's trying to kill us, then why call first?" Elena asked confused.
"That's because we're predators," Stefan explained. "We hunt, we stalk. It's often as exciting as the kill."
"Gross," Brea groaned.
"I want you both to have this," Stefan said handing Elena something.
"This is Jeremy's pocket watch," Elena said confused.
"What!" Brea said angrily snatching it from her sister. "Seriously Stefan, this means a lot to him, why would you steal it? You can't come into our house as a guest and take our stuff," she said fuming.
"I didn't," he quickly defended. "I took it from Damon, who took it from Logan, who must've taken it from Jeremy."
"Oh," Brea said handing it back to Elena. "Sorry," she muttered.
"What happened to it?" Elena asked looking at it, making Brea snatch it back.
"What did you do to his watch, Stefan!" Brea exclaimed as she saw it had been completely changed.
"It's not just a watch. It was modified, I'm guessing by Logan. It's a sort of compass. But it points to vampires."
Brea looked down at the watch and saw it pointing to Stefan. "Right, not you, sorry again," she mumbled embarrassed handing it back to Elena.
"Why did our father have it?" Elena asked.
"Gilbert's were one of the founding families, and back in 1864, they were among those who sought to eradicate the vampires. The compass was used to find us."
"Did you know them?" Elena asked uncomfortably.
"Yes," he nodded. "I want you two to keep this. That way, you'll know if you're ever in danger," Stefan said before kissing Elena,
"Ew, ew, ew. I'll meet you in the car," Brea said covering her eyes and running outside.
"Spoke to the insurance company," Jenna said as the girls walked in the door. "Car's totalled."
"I could've told you that Jenna," Brea laughed. "It rolled like 3 times. Oh right, yeah, I'm mad at you," she said in realisation turning back around.
"You can keep using mine for now," Jenna said trying to be helpful.
"So you're coming to the dance?" Elena asked making small talk.
"Alaric asked me to help chaperone."
"Why didn't you tell us, Jenna?" Elena asked spinning around angrily.
"Your mom was gonna do it eventually. I never thought I'd have to."
"If our mom were here right now and we asked, she'd tell us the truth," Brea said quietly with a small smile at Jenna.
"Your dad was about to leave the office one night when this girl showed up. She was 16, a runaway, and about to give birth. He delivered her babies, and he gave her a place to stay, but a few days later, she disappeared. And there you both were. Your parents were trying so hard to have a baby. It just wasn't happening. All Miranda ever wanted was to be a mom."
"Well, why were our parents' names on the birth certificates?" Elena questioned.
"Your dad was a doctor, Elena. He took care of it. They didn't want to lose either of you, so they kept it quiet, told as few people as possible, but if anyone ever wanted proof, they had documentation."
"What else do you know about her?" Brea asked curiously.
"The girl," Elena elaborated.
"Just her name, Isobel."
"You don't need to straighten your hair anymore Lena! Your hair is straight anyway, you're being ridiculous. Can we go already?" Brea asked following Elena into the bathroom.
"I'm not straightening it. I'm blowdrying it, be patient."
"I want to go take pictures of Jeremy working at the punch bowl for my scrapbook, you know before he gets kicked out for being a moody grouch."
"You're making a scrapbook of our brother?" Elena asked with raised eyebrows.
"Of his embarrassing moments, yeah," Brea shrugged.
"Can I see?" Elena smiled.
"When it's done, when it's done," Brea smirked, following Elena into her room again. "I like this scarf," she said pointing out an option for her sister. "Did you hear that?" Brea asked turning around as she heard a noise.
Elena left the room calling Jenna and Jeremy to see if they were in the house. "No one else is home, must've been the wind," Elena called out to her. Not a moment after, Brea heard the whirring noise again and looked around the room to see what it could be.
"Compass," Brea gasped, realising the noise was coming from the compass. "Elena!" she yelled and raced across the room to the bed where the compass was sitting. "What the hell, Elena my ring, it's... it's glowing," Brea gasped noticing it was glowing a bright purple. "Call Stefan now."
Elena quickly dialled on her cell as the twins ran down the stairs.
"Where is he?" Elena asked, clearly talking to Damon. "Oh thank god," she breathed in relief. "This compass was spinning. Stefan must be here. Thank you." Elena sighed before hanging up. "Nothing to worry ab…" she said stopping as she noticed a man on the ceiling above Brea. "Brea watch out!" she screamed as the man dropped down from his spot and grabbed Brea and tried to bite her. Brea yelled out in fright and quickly flung her hand back so her ring hit the intruder's face, making him hiss as his face burned from the vervain on the ring. Brea took his moment of distraction to fling herself backwards out of his grasp as quickly as she could, and she fell to the side.
The man then turned on Elena and tried to attack her, but Stefan arrived screaming "Elena!" and threw the man away from her. "Are you ok?" he asked picking her up off the floor.
Brea, still on the floor, shoved her hand into her pocket, pulled out her phone and dialled Damon's number. "Hello, two Gilbert calls in two minutes. Must be my lucky day."
"The man we hit with the car, he just attacked us," she stuttered.
"Where are you?" he asked seriously.
"At home."
"I'm coming," he said hanging up. As Brea went to put the phone back in her pocket she noticed her ring's colour starting to fade back to normal. Not long after Damon came racing through the door before coming to a stop next to Brea. "Why are you on the floor?" he asked her.
"He pushed me," she scowled.
"Are you hurt?" Damon asked with wide eyes, gently pulling her off the floor.
"He bruised my elbow, duh," she scoffed.
"Hilarious," Damon said, rolling his eyes and walking away. "How'd he get in?" Damon asked everyone.
"He was invited in," Elena explained.
"He posed as a pizza delivery guy last night," Stefan explained.
"I don't know why Jer felt the need to invite the pizza guy in," Brea muttered as she took a seat. "He can't be that desperate for friends."
"Hush. Well, this vamp gets points for that," Damon said impressed. "Did he say what he wanted?"
"No. He was too busy trying to kill us," Elena scoffed in disbelief.
"I think what he wants is to kill us, Damon," Brea answered. "Kind of easy to infer."
"And you have no idea who this is?" Stefan asked Damon.
"No. Don't look at me like that. I told you we had company."
"I do, I think I know him," Brea spoke up and everyone looked at her. "I don't know how, this is going to sound completely crazy... but I think his name is Noah."
"And you have no idea how you know his name?" Damon asked.
"None. I just have a feeling."
"Do you think there's more than one?" Elena asked.
"We don't know," Damon said.
"Damon, he was invited in," Stefan said seriously.
"Then we go get him tonight. You two up for it?" Damon asked.
"What do we have to do?" Elena asked as Brea nodded.
"Let Stefan take you to the dance. I'll go with Brea," Damon suggested.
"No can do. I'm going with Tyler," Brea explained.
"I don't see him," Damon said looking around with a smirk.
"I'm meeting him there."
"Great, I'll take you there and we'll see who shows up to kill you two hmm?"
"That's a bad idea," Stefan disagreed.
"Till we get him, this house isn't safe. For anyone who lives in it," he said seriously, suggesting that Jenna and Jeremy would be in danger here as well. "It's worth a shot."
"We'll do it," Brea agreed.
"We'll be with the two of you. We'll both be safe," Elena reassured Stefan. "Stefan, do you know anything about Brea's ring? It was glowing right before he attacked us and it's glowed before. I noticed it glowing when Vicki was attacking us, and I saw it glowing before the car crashed.
"Glowing?" Stefan asked confused with furrowed brows. "We'll figure it out later. I think it's more important we figure out tonight first," he said as everyone nodded.
"There you are…" Tyler said trailing off as he saw Brea, Elena, Stefan and Damon get out of the same car. "Brought quite the entourage huh?" he asked with a laugh.
"I'm her date," Damon said throwing his arm around Brea's shoulder.
"Get off," Brea laughed, removing his arm. "He's not, so don't think you're getting out of this Lockwood. Bye Damon," she said before grabbing Tyler's arm and walking off.
"Why'd you come with Salvatore?" Tyler asked her.
"Urgh, he wanted to come. Wouldn't leave me alone. Said he'd be my date since I didn't have one."
"Did you tell him we were going together," Tyler laughed.
"She did," Damon spoke from behind them as he could up and took Brea's hand. "But I didn't see a date knocking on the door."
"Knock it off, stop causing trouble," Brea bumped Damon's side. "Why did you follow, Damon?"
"Well, I can't really protect you from this vampire guy if I can't be near you now can I?" Damon whispered in her ear and she rolled her eyes. "Not to worry kid," Damon said slapping Tyler's shoulder, "just need to make sure I don't get kicked out at the door, and for that, I need a high schooler date," he said winking at Brea.
"You're insufferable. Fine, but just to the door Damon. Ty promised me a full night of fun to make up for some recent poor judgment," Brea said taking Damon's arm as Tyler sulked behind them.
"Ok Damon, we snuck you in," Brea said as they walked through the doors. "Now go find Stefan and Elena, just keep an eye out," she said under her breath knowing he could hear her.
"So wanna dance?" Tyler asked and Brea gave him a look. "Sorry, would you like to dance with me, my lady?"
"Much better, and yes I would love to dance with you Mr Lockwood, thank you for asking," Brea said dragging him onto the dance floor. "Hey Carebear," Brea said as they passed Caroline. "Having fun?"
"No."
"Ok, wasn't expecting that," Brea groaned. "Hold up," she said to Tyler and turned back around to Caroline. "What's up?"
"This," Caroline said gesturing to her outfit, "took 2 hours, so I'm staying at least half that. Damon's here and he probably brought some tramp as his date."
"I came with Damon..." Brea said with a frown.
"What!" Caroline exclaimed in anger.
"Umm, Ty?" Brea said, tugging his arm.
"We should probably go, we haven't said hi to many people," he said quickly.
"Yep, see ya, Caroline," Brea waved as the pair ran away.
"That was awkward," Tyler ranted.
"Yeah, if we let her go further into her rant, we'd be here another 2 hours," Brea said as the pair laughed and danced. "Hey Ty, do me a favour and dance us towards the punch bowl," Brea said spotting Jeremy.
"Why?"
"I need a photo of Jeremy working. It's for a secret project."
"Ok," Tyler agreed confused but danced the pair towards the punch bowl.
As they got close enough Brea took out her phone and took a picture of Jeremy handing someone a cup of punch. As Brea took the picture Jeremy spotted her and his face dropped as he realised what she was doing. "Abort Ty! Abort!"
"What?" he asked confused.
"Spin us away, fast." Tyler shrugged his shoulder and lead the pair to the other side of the room. After a while, Brea's phone buzzed with a text.
J - 1. You are in trouble for taking a picture of me. 2. Why are girls so weird?
B - 1. Gotcha sucker! 2. Is this the girl you were drawing? I'm interested, tell me about it tonight
"How much longer till I'm back in your good books Brea?" Tyler asked.
"Depends."
"Depends on what?"
"On how much you're willing to do to prove your undying loyalty to me," she joked and Tyler's eyes widened and he chose to stay quiet.
"Hey, Brea, umm you're ring is kinda glowing," Tyler said confused pointing to her hand as they stopped for a drink.
"Why does it keep doing that?" Brea groaned confused while she tapped her ring, trying to see if it had an off button.
"Brea!" Elena yelled running up to her.
"Hey Elena," Tyler said.
"Brea," she said out of breath. "We have to go find Damon, now!"
"Sorry Elena, she can't, she's stuck with me tonight," Tyler said putting an arm around Brea as she laughed.
"Brea, it's happening" Elena pleaded and Brea's eyes widened as she realised the strange vampire must be here.
"Maybe it means I'm in danger?" Brea asked showing her ring to Elena who shrugged. "Tyler I have to go. You can go home I forgive you. Bye," Brea said sprinting away from him with Elena hot on her heels. "Where is Damon!" she groaned looking around the packed gym. As the girls weaved through the crowd, Brea's phone rang. "Hello?" she answered not looking at the caller ID.
"Hello, Brenna."
"Noah?" she guessed.
"How do you know my name?" he growled.
"You're being dumb Noah, you know the rules," she said, the words flying out of her mouth even though she didn't know what they meant. Brea squeezed Elena's hand grabbing her twin's attention.
"She's not here to protect you anymore. Here's what you're going to do. There's an exit door behind you two girls. You have 5 seconds."
"No," Brea snapped. "Not going to happen. If you hurt me, they'll come for you."
"Who? The Salvatores?" he scoffed.
"Among others," Brea replied nervously.
"Go to the exit now or your brother dies." Brea spun around like lightning to see Noah standing near Jeremy, she quickly pointed out the situation to Elena whose eyes widened. "I can snap his neck so fast I bet there's not even a witness. Now start walking."
"Don't you dare lay a finger on my brother," Brea said backing up towards the door.
"Keep walking. Through the door," he encouraged as the girls stepped further back before Brea hung up and ran pulling Elena with her.
"What are we doing?" Elena yelled.
"I don't know Elena, just delay him until the guys get here to help, just run for now!" Brea yelled as they ran through the corridors. The girls tried to push through some doors but found them to be chained shut. They spun around to see Noah advancing on them and ran through some other doors into the cafeteria. In the cafeteria, they tried some more doors but they were also chained shut. As they spun around Noah barged through the doors and then zipped in front of them. The girls then tried to split and run in different directions but he grabbed them both by the hair as they screamed in pain and threw them, one by one, over a table. He then growled and flipped the table over as he advanced on the girls while they attempted to crawl away.
Noah grabbed Brea aggressively, throwing her up against the wall and transforming his face into that of a vampire before lunging for her neck. Before he could bite her, Elena stabbed his side with a pencil she picked up off the floor making him release his grip on Brea. Elena then stabbed him in the hand with another pencil as he reached out toward her. Elena charged at him stabbing him in the chest with a third pencil before grabbing Brea's hand and running backwards, backing into a mop. Brea ripped the mop out of the bucket and threw it to her sister who caught it and snapped it over her knee before thrusting it at his chest, but Noah caught it and threw Elena to the ground with a smirk. He then grabbed Brea causing both girls to scream. He had just bit into her neck when Stefan ripped him off of her, throwing him across the room. Elena immediately ran to Brea and clung to her, pressing a hand to her neck to try to stop the bleeding.
"Hey, dickhead!" Damon called. "Nobody wants to kill you. We just wanna talk." Noah then set his sights on the huddled-up girls and made one last effort to charge at them. Damon threw the stake Elena made out of the mop across the room to Stefan, who intercepted Noah and stabbed him in the chest with it, crippling him.
"Now you feel like talking?" Stefan asked circling him.
"Screw you," Noah muttered as Stefan punched the stake further into his chest.
"Wrong answer, why are you doing this?"
"Because it's fun," Noah groaned, Stefan then pushed the stake further into his chest.
"What do you want with Elena and Brenna?"
"She looks like Katherine," he said gesturing to Elena. "And she is Brenna," he said with a smirk. "I don't know how it's possible, but it's her."
"You knew Katherine?" Damon asked.
"Oh. You thought you were the only ones?" he scoffed. "You don't even remember me."
"Tell me how to get into the tomb. Hmm?" Damon demanded.
"No?" Stefan asked when Noah refused to talk. He gave him one last moment to say something before he shrugged and stabbed the stake even further into his chest. "The grimoire."
"Where is it?" Damon hissed.
Noah refused to answer so Stefan pushed the stake right to the edge of his heart. "Check the journal. The journal. Use Jonathan's journal. Jonathan Gilbert's," Noah said quickly in desperation.
"Who else is working with you?" Stefan asked.
"Who else is there?" Damon yelled.
"No. You're gonna have to kill me." Stefan then removed the stake before plunging it into his heart.
"What do we- how are you gonna find the others now?" Elena asked gasping in shock.
"He had to die," Damon said while walking over to Brea and moving Elena's hand away so he could get a good look at her neck.
"But…" Elena protested as she stood up and walked over to Stefan.
"Elena, he's been invited in," Stefan confirmed. The group then heard a clunk noise from outside the cafeteria and noticed someone walking past the doors. "Go. I got this," Stefan said. "Take Brea, she's uh…" Stefan said gesturing to her bleeding neck.
Damon nodded and put his arm around Brea, picking her up and running her out of the cafeteria. As Damon and Brea rounded the corner Damon saw Mr Saltzman walking, Damon leaned Brea against the lockers before zipping in front of her teacher. "Hey," Mr Saltzman said in confusion.
"What were you doing?" Damon asked.
"Looking for Ms Hilden," Mr Saltzman answered under compulsion.
"Why are you in Mystic Falls?"
"I got a job as a teacher."
"Do you know what I am?"
"You're my student's brother."
"Is everything you're telling me the truth?"
"Yes."
"Leave him alone," Brea hissed sliding down the lockers a bit.
"Then forget we had this conversation," Damon said before picking Brea back up and running off.
"Put a towel on that," Damon said inspecting her bite after gently lowering her onto the couch. "Do you want my blood?" he offered, and Brenna shook her head. "It doesn't look like he bit too deep so it should heal up alright. Just get some rest and pop a bandage on it," he instructed with a smile.
"Thank you," Brea smiled. "For helping me, and for helping protect us, I know you didn't have to do that."
"You're my friend," he said brushing her hair out of her face. "Of course, I'd help you. I have to go," he said sadly. "I have a vampire body to help my brother dispose of. Elena should be home soon," he said before walking out of her house, leaving her alone.
"You'll never guess who just asked me on a date!" Jenna sang as she walked through the door. "OH MY GOD," she screamed. "Brea. What happened?" she asked running at her and seeing the bloodstains on her body and clothes. "What happened to your neck!" she gasped as she pulled the bandage aside slightly to see the wound underneath.
"Tyler bit me."
"Brenna I am serious," she said putting pressure on her niece's neck. "I mean it does look like a bite mark. But come on, no one would bite you on the neck. You would've killed them if they tried," she smiled, trying to make a joke.
"They did die," Brea shrugged.
"Come on, Brea, seriously. Tell me what happened."
"It's hard to explain."
"Try me."
"I tripped. In the parking lot and skidded on my… neck," Brea poorly made up. "No one saw thank god. It was seriously embarrassing."
"Oh sweetie, I'm sorry," Jenna said as she put the bandage back down on her neck.
"Thanks, so Mr Saltzman asked you on a date huh?" Brea asked as Jenna handed her some water and painkillers.
"Yes, he did! Friday night. You can help me get ready," she said with a giggle before going serious. "But for now, bed! Move it. That wound is going to need a lot of rest to heal up properly," Jenna said ushering Brea towards the stairs.