「 . 𖦹˙—⋆ 𝐒𝐈𝐗 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐓 𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 」
⤿ 𝘠𝘖𝘜𝘙 𝘞𝘖𝘙𝘚𝘛 𝘕𝘐𝘎𝘏𝘛𝘔𝘈𝘙𝘌🪦 ˖ ࣪. ࿐
𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘃𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 ┆𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘸𝘰
❪ ﹆ ━ 𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘦 ⋆⭒˚.⋆ ❫

𝗜𝗡 𝗔 𝗦𝗘𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗗𝗘𝗗 country area, an SUV pulls along a dirt room next to another car, one that he was supposed to be meeting at. Getting out of the car, a curly haired man stood next to the opened window of the car, peering down at the driver that wore sunglasses and a cap.

"Where is she?" The sunglasses man asked.

"In the trunk, along with the friend that was standing next to her car." The curly haired man spoke, "I did exactly what you said.

"Good, put them in the back."

The curly haired man opens the trunk of his car to reveal Elena and Anastasia still unconscious. Taking Elena out first, the man sits her in the trunk of the other car, doing the same thing with Anastasia and closing the trunk back when he was done.

"Thank you for your help."

"Is there anything else?"

"One more thing. Come closer, please." He says, "Closer."

The curly haired man moves closer to the car window, giving the vampire inside the car the opportunity to bite into his beck, throwing him on the ground when he had killed him before leaving.

彡☆

"HEY, JEREMY." STEFAN greets the teenager as he closes his locker.

"Look, Elena's supposed to let me know if I'm supposed to cover for her." Jeremy tells him, "Jenna's cool with the two of you but you guys are pushing it."

"What are you talking about?" Stefan asked.

"You and Elena. Look, I'm glad you guys are back together but if she's gonna sleep over....,"

"Wait, wait....hold on a minute. We're not back together." Stefan tells him, "And, also, the same rules apply to Anastasia."

It was Jeremy's turn to look confused. "What? Anastasia didn't stay at my place last night. Wait...Elena' didn't stay at your place?"

"No, I mean I saw her at the party but that was it. She didn't sleep over." Stefan says, "And Anastasia didn't come home last night. Damon and I thought she was with you."

"Elena's bed hadn't been slept in and Mrs. Lockwood said that her car was still in the driveway. Where are they then?"

彡☆

TREVOR CARRIES ELENA into an abandoned house, placing her on the couch next to Anastasia's unconscious body, moving to take the ropes that were tied around her hands and feet.

"What do you want?" Elena asks him.

"Shh."

"Please, I'm hurt."

"I know. Just a taste." Trevor leans down to bite down on Elena's wounded arm, but is stopped by a voice.

"Trevor! Control yourself." Rose stops him

"Buzzkill." Trevor stands up and leaves, leaving Rose alone with Elena.

"What do you want with me?" Elena asked her.

"Oh my God, you look just like her." Rose studied her face.

"But I'm not. Please, whatever you-,"

"Be quiet!" Rose tells her.

"But I'm not Katherine." Elena stands up, "My name is Elena Gilbert. You don't have to do this."

"I know who you are, I said be quiet."

"What do you want?"

Rose slaps Elena across the face, knocking her unconscious on the couch right next to Anastasia. "I want you to be quiet."

彡☆

"THIS HAS KATHERINE written all over it." Stefan stood outside the school with his brother.

"Katherine's in the tomb. Trust me, I'm the one who shut her in." Damon tells him. "And what would she want with my daughter?"

Stefan looks at him, "Did you?"

"Did I what, Stefan?"

"Well, I know the hold that Katherine has on you." Stefan says.

"She's in the tomb, period. End of story but she did say something to me right before I shut her in. I thought she was lying."

"What did she say?" Questioned Stefan.

"Elena's in danger."

"What? And you didn't think you should ask her to elaborate?"

"Everything she says is a lie. How am I supposed to know if she's gonna start spouting out the truth?" Damon asked his brother.

"We have to talk to her." Stefan tells him.

"No, no. Let me tell you how that's gonna go. We're gonna go ask her for help, she's gonna negotiate her release which we're gonna be dumb enough to giver her and she's gonna get out and kill us! This is exactly what she wants!"

"I don't really care."

"It's a bad idea, Stefan."

"It's Elena." Stefan tells his brother, "And Anastasia."

彡☆

"HOW'S THE GIRLS?" Rose asks her brother as Elena starts to wake up, finding Anastasia already away and holding her head in pain.

"They're both still passed out." Trever tells her.

"You didn't touch her, did you?"

"Give me some credit. So, you called him?"

"No, I called one of his contacts. You know how this works." Rose tells him.

"Did you or did you not get the message to Elijah?"

Anastasia snapped her head up in their direction as Elijah's name left the man's lips.

"They say he got it."

"Wonderful and what?"

Elena gets up from the couch and helps a very groggy vampire off the couch, both of them going up the stairs to listen to the conversation going on.

"So that's it, Trevor." Rose says, "He either got it or he didn't. We just have to wait."

"Look, it's not too late. We can leave it here. We don't have to go through with this." Trevor says.

"I'm sick of running!" Rose exclaimed.

"Yeah? Well, running keeps us from dying."

"Elijah's old school. If he accepts our deal, we're free."

"Hmm, you're both dead either way." Anastasia speaks up, causing both vampires to look in their direction just as Elena's foot steps on a creaky floorboard.

"You two! There's nothing around here for miles. If you think you're getting out of this house, you're both tragically wrong. Understand?" Rose walks closer to the two.

"Who's Elijah?" Elena asked.

"He's your worst nightmare."

"No, sweetheart. He's your worst nightmare." Anastasia smirked.

彡☆

"HOW DOES THIS work?" Jeremy asked as the two stood in Alaric's classroom, a map and two candles on the table.

"I'll use your blood and Stefan's to draw energy for the tracking spell. You're blood related, it'll make the connection stronger. And hopefully they're both together." Bonnie tells him just as Stefan comes into the room.

"Alright, Alaric says we've got to clear out of here within ten minutes. I've got weapons, he stocked me up."

"Are you both ready?" Bonnie asked before cutting both the palms of Stefan and Jeremy's hands, their blood dripping onto two different parts of the map.

Bonnie concentrated herself on the spell, causing the two drops of blood to merge into one and go to the exact same spots - where Elena and Anastasia were sure to be found.

"There." Bonnie points to the spot on the map, "Both of them are there."

"That's 300 miles away." Jeremy says.

"No, Bonnie. We need a more exact location than that." Stefan tells the witch.

"That's as close as I can get."

"We can map it, aerial view will show us what's around there, help us narrow down the area." Jeremy tells the vampire and witch.

"Perfect. Call me with whatever you find." Stefan says, moving to leave the room.

"No, no, I'm coming with you!" Jeremy exclaimed.

"No Jeremy you're not."

"I'm not just gonna sit here. What if they're hurt, okay? Or worse? What if they're..."

"They're not. Anastasia would make sure nothing happened to either of them." Stefan tells him. "You two go back to your house just in case. I'll call you the minute I find them."

"Well, you can't do this alone." Says Jeremy.

"He's not." Damon walks into the room, "Let's go."

"You're coming with me?" Stefan asked.

"They took my daughter, Stefan." Damon says, "I'm going."

"Wait, I'm going to." Jeremy says.

"No, Little Gilbert, you're not." Damon pushes on his chest, stopping him.

"My girlfriend is missing! She could be hurt! I'm going."

"Jeremy, if you went with us and something ended up happening to you, Anastasia would never forgive either of us, nor herself." Stefan tries to reason with the human boy that was dating his niece. "Stay here. We'll bring her back. I promise."

彡☆

"WHY AM I here?" Elena asked, causing Anastasia to let out an annoyed sigh as she watched Rose move around the house, blocking off the light coming in through the windows.

"You keep asking me these questions like I'm gonna answer them." Rose moved to the table sitting in the room.

"Why won't you?"

"That's another one."

"You got us, okay? It's not like we can go anywhere. The least you can do is tell me what you want with me." Elena tells her.

"I personally want nothing." Rose says, "I'm just a delivery service."

"Delivery to how? Elijah?" Asked Elena.

"Two points to the eavesdropper."

"Who is he? Is he a vampire?"

"He's one of the vampires, the originals."

"What do you mean the originals?" Elena asked.

"Again, with the questions." Rose then turns to Anastasia, "Haven't you and the other two been teaching you your vampire history?"

"So, you know Stefan and Damon?"

"I know of them. A hundred years back, a friend of mine tried to set me up with Stefan. She said he was one of the good ones, taking care of his niece. I'm more of a sucker for the bag boys though but I digress."

Anastasia smiled softly, thinking about Lexi.

"Who are the originals?"

"Trevor and I have been running for 500 hears. We're tired, we want it over. We're using you to negotiate ourselves out of an old mess."

"But why over me?"

"Because you're a Petrova Doppelganger." Rose tells her.

Anastasia sighed, "You're the key to breaking the curse, Elena."

"The curse?" Elena looks between Rose and Anastasia. "The sun and the moon curse?"

"Oh, you do know your history."

"What do you mean I'm the key?" Elena looked at Anastasia, "The moonstone is what breaks the curse."

"No, the moonstone is what binds the curse. The sacrifice is what breaks it." Rose tells her.

"The sacrifice?"

"The blood of the doppelganger. You're the doppelganger. Which means, in order to break the curse, you're the one who had to die."

彡☆

"TELL ME MORE." Elena demanded as Anastasia helped Rose board up more of the windows after hearing that the two vampires didn't have daylight rings that protected them from the sun.

"Captivity has made her pushy, eh?" Trevor grabs the board from Anastasia's hands, "What do you want to know, doppelicious?"

"Who were you running from?" Elena asked.

"The originals." Trevor answers.

"Yeah, she said that. What does that mean?"

"The first vampires to ever live." Anastasia spoke, "That's who the originals are."

"Rose and I pissed them off." Trevor says.

"Mm-hmm." Rose shakes her head in disagreement.

"Correction, I pissed them off." Trevor corrects himself. "Rose had my back and for over half a millennium, they wanted us dead."

"What did you do?"

"He made the same mistake countless others did." Rose says, "He trusted Katerina Petrova."

"Katherine."

"The one and only, the first Petrova Doppelganger." Rose said.

"I helped her escape her fate and now I've, sorry, we've been marked ever since." Trevor tells the two.

"Which is why we're not gonna make the same mistake again."

彡☆

ELENA MAKES HER way over to the couch where Anastasia sat with her knees pulled up to her chest, chin resting on the top of her knee.

Elena smiles softly at her as she sits down before moving her foot as she feels something underneath it.

The two shared a look with each other as they looked down at the piece of crumpled up paper.

❛ Stefan and Damon are coming for you both ❜ - B

"Thank God." Anastasia mumbled, throwing her head back.

彡☆

TREVOR COMES BACK into the room where Rose, Anastasia and Elena were. "He's here! This was a mistake."

"No, I told you I would get us out of this. You have to trust me."

"No! He wants me dead, Rose!" Trevor exclaimed.

"He wants her more." She pointed at Elena.

"I can't do this. You give her to him; he'll have mercy on you but I need to get out of here!"

"Hey! What are we?" Rose grabs Trevor by his arms.

"We're family, forever."

There's a knock on the door.

"You're scared." Elena spoke up.

"Stay here with her and don't make a sound." Rose tells Trevor before leaving the room.

Anastasia sat up straighter on the couch as Elena stood up, listening to the sound of footsteps getting closer to the room.

Elena, who hears them, turns her head to look at them.

Elijah looks at Elena in surprise as he speeds to stand in front of her. Looking her over, he leaned down to smell her neck, "Human. It's impossible. Hello there."

Anastasia shuffled her feet accidentally, catching the attention of Elijah and the two had a silent conversation with one another, not to let anyone know that they two of them knew each other.

彡☆

"WE HAVE A long journey ahead of us. We should be going."

Elena looks at Rose, "Please, don't let him take me."

"One last piece of business and we're done." Elijah walks towards Trevor.

"I've waited so long for this day, Elijah. I'm truly, very sorry." Trevor tells him.

"Oh no, your apologies not necessary."

"Yes, yes, it is. You trusted me with Katerina, and I failed you."

"Oh, yes, you are the guilty one and Rose aided you because she was loyal to you and that I honor. Where was your loyalty?" Elijah asked.

"Elena, don't look." Anastasia turns Elena around to face her.

"What? Why-,"

"Just don't look."

"I beg your forgiveness."

"So granted."

Trevor smiles at the original vampire, but Elijah brings his hand up and knocks Trevor's head clean from his body.

At the sounds of Rose's cries, Elena turns around and is shocked to find Trevor laying on the ground, dead.

"You!" Rose yells.

"Don't, Rose, now that you are free." Elijah tells her before looking towards Elena and Anastasia, "Come."

"No, what about the moonstone?" Elena cried.

"What do you know about the moonstone?" Elijah asked her.

"I know that you need it and I know where it is."

Anastasia closes her eyes and hangs her head in shame at Elena's words.

"Yes?"

"I can help you get it." Elena tells him.

"Tell me where it is."

"It doesn't work that way."

"Are you negotiating with me?" Elijah asked before he looked back at Rose.

She shrugged, "It's the first I've heard of it."

Elijah turns to Anastasia, "Anastasia. The moonstone?"

Anastasia lets out a sigh as she tilts her head to the side, "The moonstone is-,"

"Ana, don't." Elena cuts her off.

"Anastasia." Elijah's voice is sterner as he looks down at the hybrid standing in front of him.

"It's in the tomb underneath the church ruins in Mystic Falls." She tells him.

"And what's it doing in there?" He asked her.

She sucks on her teeth for a moment, "It's with Katherine."

"Interesting."

Glass breaks from upstairs in the house somewhere.

"What is that?" Asked Elijah.

"I don't know." Answered Rose.

"Who else is in this house?"

"I don't know."

Elijah grabs hold of Elena, beckoning Anastasia to follow behind him as they move to another part of the house as Stefan and Damon move around them in a blur. He pushes Elena into Rose's arms, "Rose."

"I don't know who it is."

"Up here." Stefan says, and Elijah goes in the direction of his voice.

"Down here."

A stake flies through Elijah's hand, and he removes it only to find that Rose, Elena and Anastasia were gone from his sight.

Damon stares down at his daughter and Rose, a hand covering the laters mouth to keep them both quiet.

"Excuse me. To whom it may concern, you're making a great mistake if you think that you can beat me." He raises his arms in the arm, "You can't. Do you hear me?"

Elijah grabs a coat rack that's sitting in the corner and starts to break it into a stake.

"I repeat, you cannot beat me. So, I want the girl, both girls. I'm gonna count to three or heads will roll. Do we understand each other?"

Elena appeared at the top of the stairs, "I'll come with you, just please, don't hurt my friends. They just wanted to help us out."

He goes up the stairs with a stake in hand, "What game are you playing with me?"

Elena throws one of Alaric's vervain bombs in his face, ducking as it explodes.

Anastasia listens to his screams of pain, wanting nothing more to go and help him, but she doesn't move from her father's hold.

Elijah goes towards Elena, but Stefan comes out and shoots him with the compressed air weapon. When it does nothing to harm Elijah, Stefan throws it to the side and tackles him down the stairs.

Elijah gets up immediately, but Stefan stays on the ground. As he moves to go towards Stefan, Damon appears and drives the coat rack through Elijah's heart, pinning him against the wall.

Anastasia stares at Elijah's dead figure in shock as his skin turns gray and veins appear all over his face.

"Just let her go." Elena tells Damon as he makes a move to go after Rose.

"Hey come here." Stefan holds his arms out for Elena to rush into, "Are you hurt? Are you okay?"

Damon turns to his daughter, looking her over for any indication that she had been hurt, "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, Dad." Anastasia can't keep her eyes off of Elijah's decade body, "Get Elena out of here."

"We're getting you both out of here." Stefan tells his niece.

"No. There, uh, there's another body upstairs." She tells him, "I'm gonna get rid of the two bodies, just in case someone decides to camp out here. I'll be home later."

Damon hesitates to leave, but soon follows his brother and Elena out of the house.

Anastasia listens to the sound of her Dad's car getting further away before she makes a move towards Elijah's body and pulls the coat rack from his chest, carefully laying him on the ground.

With a sigh, she turns around and makes her way to clean up the mess that Trevor's body had left behind.

彡☆

THE SKY HAD now turned black as Anastasia sat on the steps, staring down at Elijah's body, "Come on, Lijah, wake up. I'm bored."

A groan sounds throughout the house as Elijah starts to wake up. Anastasia stands up and rushes to Elijah's side as he slowly sits up, holding his head.

"Sorry that my death inconvenienced you, sweetheart." He sighs as he looks up at her. "What are you still doing here?"

Anastasia shrugged, "Someone had to clean up your mess."

Elijah chuckles, letting her pull him up from the ground, "I've missed you, Sweetheart."

Anastasia smiled softly as she wrapped her arms around his neck, "I missed you, too."

彡☆

ANASTASIA LOOKS UP as she hears a knock on her door, surprised to see Jeremy standing in the doorway of her bedroom, "What are you doing here? It's late."

"Your dad let me in." Jeremy tells her as he moves to crawl into her bed with his girlfriend.

"Get your shoes off my bed." She hits his shoulder.

Jeremy chuckled, moving to kick his shoes off of his feet. The room is quiet for a moment, "When we were waiting to hear news about you and Elena, Bonnie passed out on my bed and she wouldn't wake up. And it scared the hell out of me. Will that happen to you if you use too much magic?"

"I have more experience than Bonnie does."

"I don't want anything to happen to you." Jeremy mumbles as he kisses the top of her head.

"Hey." Anastasia moves to straddle his waist as he leaned his back up against the headboard of her bed, "Do you remember the other night when you told me that I would never lose you?"

"Yeah."

Anastasia grabs the sides of her boyfriend's face, tilting his head up so that brown eyes met green ones, "The same goes to you. You are not going to lose me. Okay, do you understand that? I'm here to stay, Jeremy."

"I know." He whispers, bringing his hand up to wrap around one of her wrist, keeping her hand in place while his other arm wrapped around her waist. "I love you."

"I love you, too."

Anastasia brings her lips down to his, kissing him hard as if proving her point.

Jeremy kisses her back, his hands moving to hold onto her tightly as he shifts his weight, moving them both so that she was laying against the mattress.