Damon opened the door, not even slightly surprised to see Lexa and Elena standing in the doorway, Elena's arm outstretched as she was about to knock.

"Hello, Elena. Lexa."

"Is Stefan here? He called." Elena said. "He said it was important." Lexa added, crossing her arms. "Right this way." Damon said, stepping aside so the girls could enter the house.

"Hey!" Stefan said, approaching the twins. "What is this about?" Elena asked, before seeing Rose. "Hey... that's the girl from yesterday." Lexa stated, eyeing her curiously.

Moments later, Stefan, Rose, Damon, Elena and Alexia sat on the couch, in the living room. "Okay, you have to understand I only know what I've picked up over the years and I don't know what's true and what's not true. It's the problem with all this vampire crap but Klaus, I know he's real." Rose admitted.

Lexa's arms fall into her lap. "Who is he?" She asked. "He's one of the originals, he's a legend." Natasha said, suddenly entering the room. The Gilbert twins glanced at her as she smirked, "The cute one's here!" Natasha chirped, obviously referring to herself. Lexa just rolled her eyes as Natasha took a seat between Damon and Rose.

"Klaus is from the first generation of vampires." Stefan said. "Like Elijah?" Elena asked. Rose shook her head, "No. Elijah was the Easter bunny compared to Klaus. He's a foot soldier. Klaus is the real deal."

"Klaus is known to be the oldest." Natasha spoke, in her usual sickly sweet tone. "Okay, so you're saying that the oldest vampire in the history of time is coming after Elena?" Lexa asked, before Rose nodded. "No." Stefan relied.

"What they're saying is, I mean if what she's saying is true..." Damon began as Rose quickly intervened by saying, "Which it is."

"And you're not saying it so I don't kill you." Damon suggested. "Which I'm not." Rose responded.

"Then we're looking at a solid maybe." Damon declared, as Elena's face fell. Lexa frowned, before looking to her twin with sympathy. "Look, Elijah's dead, right? So no one else even knows that you exist." Stefan said to Elena. "Not that you know of." Natasha admitted as Damon gave her a slight glare, "That's not helping."

"Look, I've never even met anyone who's laid eyes on him..." Stefan began. Natasha blinked in surprise, "Am I a joke to you?" She asked, as Stefan ignored her. "I mean, we're talking centuries of truth mixed with fiction. We don't know if he's real. For all we know he could just be some sort of stupid bed time story." Stefan continued, as he shrugged.

Rose shook her head, "He's real and he doesn't give up. If he wants something, he gets it. If you're not afraid of Klaus, then you're an idiot." She pointed out. "Alright, we're shaking. You made your point." Lexa sneered sarcastically.

Elena got up suddenly, as Lexa also got to her feet. "Where are you going?" Stefan quickly asked them. "School. We're late." Elena insisted. Lexa shrugged, "I'm ditching and getting coffee with my love, anyway." She said. Stefan ignored Lexa and said to Elena, "Let me grab my stuff, I'll go with you."

Elena shook her head, "It's okay, I know where it is." She huffed, before the twins left.

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Natasha walked through the house, but stopped as she could hear crying. The girl sighed, before she entered a room where she found Rose, crying.

"Are you okay?" The Petrova asked. Rose looked up, before she shook her head. "Look.. sorry this isn't a good time but I need to know, how do we find Klaus?"

Rose sighed, "You don't find Klaus, he finds you." Natasha frowned, "Oh.. I know he finds you. But somebody's got to know somebody who knows where he is, right?" She asked, softly. It was unlike Natasha to speak softly, as she usually used a loud sickly sweet tone. "Add another two hundred somebodies to that and you're still not even close." Rose answered.

Natasha moved to sit by the edge of the bed, as she reached out her hand for Rose's. "You got in touch with Elijah, how did you do it?" She asked. The Petrova had a past with the Mikealsons, but getting in contact with them again would be harder than finding a needle in a haystack.. she knew because she had tried. "Through a very low somebody on the totem pole. A guy named Slater in Richmond."

Suddenly, the door flew open. "Perfect. I'll drive." Damon declared, standing in the doorway. "You forget not all of us can do sun." Rose stated as the Petrova frowned, wondering why Rose didn't have a daylight ring. "Then you drive. Come on."

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Lexa, Caroline and Sienna walked together through the hallway, Caroline noticing that Stefan was heading to leave the school. Alexia noticed this too.

"Steffy! Where're you going?" Lexa asked, as the vampire spun around, giving his best friend an unamused look for the nickname. Sienna stifled a laugh. "Well, Elena went home sick; I just want to go check up on her." Stefan responded. "I already offered.. she just wants to be alone." Lexa insisted.

"Ditch her." Caroline spoke up. Stefan frowned at this, "I'm kind of worried about her."

"You know what? Of course you are. Go ahead, I'd... you know what? We can talk later." Caroline decided, before linking her arms through Lexa and Sienna's, and turning to walk away. Stefan quickly reached out for the trio, "Uh, talk about what?" He asked.

Lexa bit her lip, "Care... might have done something." She admitted. "It'll be okay, though." Sienna insisted quickly. Stefan just frowned, "What did you do?" He asked. Caroline gulped before she answered, "Told Tyler I'm a vampire."

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Natasha, Damon and Rose exited the underground parking lot, finding a back entrance. "Back entrance. How convenient." Damon said. "That's the point. We can't all have little daylight rings." Rose replied.

Ignoring Damon, Natasha turned to Rose. "How do you know this Slater guy is even here?" She asked. "I called him. He's here. He's always here." Rose responded, looking to Natasha. "Good." Damon spoke up.

Before anyone could say anything else, Damon pushed Rose against the wall at super speed. Natasha's jaw dropped, "Damon!?" She blurted.

"Just one thing. If you're setting me up in any way, I will rip your heart out and shove it down your throat. It's something I'm very good at." Damon threatened. "Rose has done nothing to prove that she is untrustworthy." Natasha spoke up, defending the girl.

Damon turned to his best friend to make some sort of remark about her being whipped, but before he could Rose grabbed him and pushed him against the car at super speed, twisting his arm behind his back.

"I'm older than you and stronger. Don't get on my bad side." She threatened, before she released him. An amused smirk tugged at Natasha's lips.

"You can trust me." Rose insisted.

Moments later, they entered the coffee shop, which was filled with sunlight. "Whoa. What about the sunlight?" Damon asked. "Double paned and tempered. UV rays can't penetrate. You see the appeal now?" Rose said, as the trio took a seat.

"That and the free Wi-Fi." A voice said, as a man known as Slater, sat down but not before embracing Rose. "Hey, how are you?" Rose asked. "Good. I saw you come, what are you doing here?"

"Mmm, it's a long story but I want you to meet..."

"Natasha Pierce, aka Natalia Petrova. Twin sister of Katherine Pierce, aka Katerina Petrova." Slater said as Natasha gave a faux smile. Slater then looked to Damon, "Damon Salvatore. Turned 1864 in Mystic Falls by Katherine Pierce."

"So I take it I was right, what I told you about the tomb under the church was true?" He asked, turning back to Rose, who nodded. "Yes. It was right. Thank you for the tip."

Slater looked to Damon, then Natasha. "It's nice to meet you, maybe. What's going on Rose? Where's Trevor?"

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Caroline and Stefan were seated at a table, talking. Meanwhile, Lexa and Sienna walked up to the bar, hand in hand.

Sienna looked down at their intertwined fingers, before looking up at her smiling girlfriend. "What?" Lexa asked, amusedly. Sienna shrugged, "It's nothing." She insisted, giving her hand a gentle squeeze.

The truth was, Sienna had noticed more and more just how lovingly Caroline's looks at Lexa were becoming... and knowing Lexa's past feelings for Caroline, the Lockwood was beginning to wonder if maybe she was holding the Gilbert back.

"I'll get a cappuccino, and a double chocolate milkshake for my love." Alexia ordered. Hearing the brunette speak affectionately of her, made Sienna smile.

Once their drinks were made, the girlfriends walked back to the table where Stefan and Caroline were still talking.

"I will, some other time. I got to go." Stefan said, getting to his feet. "Wait! No! What do we do about Tyler? I don't want Damon to kill him 'cause there's a full moon coming up and Tyler is totally freaking out about it." Caroline blurted. Sienna felt a shiver down her spine, "Stef. If your brother harms a harm on my cousin's head, I will kill him." She explained.

Hearing this, Stefan took a seat, realising they needed to have this conversation.