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That was what seemed to be the last normal thing that Isabel had coming.

She and Matt lost Vic, which Isabel didn't mind much seeing as her sister was barely home and was always hanging off men. She even tried her flirting on Tyler. Isabel had a few things to say to her sister after Tyler told her. But Tyler made sure to stress that he didn't fall for it and all he wanted was his girlfriend. It did hurt to lose her but it didn't affect her too badly.

She also found out about vampires, witches, and doppelgängers. She was surprised by how many of her friends were supernatural. Stefan, Damon, and Caroline were vampires. Bonnie was a witch. Elena a doppelgänger. The only normal ones were her, Matty blue and Jer. Well, that's what she thought.

Turns out Isabel Donovan and Tyler Lockwood are werewolves.

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Isabel followed Matt and Tyler with a smile on her face as she watched them struggle to carry a table into the room.

"Wait, wait, wait, Tyler!" Matt yells out as they almost drop the old table.

"You guys are weak," Isabel mumbled to them in amusement as she held her stomach. Matt glared at his sister as much as he could while still struggling with the table.

Carol looks over at them and her eyes widen.

"Boys! Be careful with that! It's from the 1800s." She then looks to Jenna. "Excuse me." Then she turned back to the teenagers and rushed after them. "Tyler!"

"Mom, we got it." Tyler and Matt continue to carefully move the table and Isabel follows along drinking some punch as Carol catches up to them.

"You guys need to be more careful with that." Carol chastised as she watches them carefully set it down.

"Yeah, mom. We get it," Tyler said as he walks over to Isabel and puts a hand around her waist. "Can I take a break?" Carol nods defeated before smiling at the blonde girl and walking away to get back to work.

"Can you two not do that in front of me? It's bad enough you're making me become an uncle way too soon. Which by the way I told you time and time again to not do." Isabel giggled and got out of Tyler's arms. She walked to her brother to give him a hug while she smiled.

"Don't be such a stick in the mud." She pouted which made him chuckle. "You should know by now we don't listen when it comes to those talks." He knew she was always the more out there girl between the two meaning he was more responsible and she rebelled against those type of figures. Sometimes he just wished she would listen.

"I'm gonna get some lanterns. Be right back." Matt tells them before leaving.

"I'm already exhausted." The blonde mumbled as Tyler brought her into a hug and kissed her forehead.

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Matt is hanging up lanterns, outside while Isabel is wrapped up in Tyler's arms while he has one hand holding the ladder for Matt.

"She's this amazing girl one minute and then this raging, jealous freak the next," Matt said ranting about Caroline. Matt didn't know what was wrong with her and that's what made Isabel feel bad. But then again maybe it wasn't so safe for him to know either.

"Look, you know what I think of Caroline Forbes. She's an insecure, neurotic, bitchy little twit," Tyler says before Matt cuts him off.

"Hey!" He shouts in the offense for his girlfriend.

Isabel gives her boyfriend a look and softly says, "Be nice. Like you said she's insecure."

Tyler sighs before saying, "But the girl's got, heart. She means well. You just gotta take the good with the bad sometimes." Then he looks at Isabel who smiles at him, which makes him feel better.

"Yeah. I'm gonna go get an extension cord. I'll be right back," the blonde male says as he climbs down the ladder and leaves.

Tyler rocks Isabel back and forth as she laughs at him with a big smile. She always loved being in his arms. She felt safe and loved by him when they were together.

Jeremy ruins the moment as he walks over to the couple.

"Hey Isabel, Tyler."

"Hey, Jer." She smiles kindly at him while Tyler is slightly annoyed he interrupted them.

"Hey," the Lockwood boy says as he looks at the youngest Gilbert.

"Hey, so I did a little research on that stone you showed me," the younger boy says as he eyes Isabel wearily.

"She knows," Tyler says before taking his arms off of her. "And why exactly did you look it up?"

"I don't know. Curiosity, boredom," Jeremy says trying to get to the information part.

Tyler who started to look at things on a table turned around to look at the younger boy with furrowed brows. "What did it say?" Isabel asked curiously as she leaned on a pole.

"Well, it turns out that it's part of this Aztec legend but I want to make sure it's the same kind of stone. You think I could check it out again?"

"Nope. I gave it to my uncle." He glances at Isabel and takes her hand.

"Why did you do that?" Jeremy asks not knowing how to get the moonstone back if it's with the older Lockwood. His one chance to do something and he already done goofed up.

"Because I'm done with legends and curses. I don't want it in our lives, okay?" Tyler asks seriously. He doesn't want it in his child's life, his life, or in his girlfriend's life. But it's too late. Isabel's been in it since she was born and there is no stopping fate. Especially when they are drawn to her.

"Yeah, yeah sure. It's probably...Just, uh, stupid folklore anyways. Forget it," Jeremy says defeatedly before slowly walking off. He had to find another way to get the stone but he didn't know how yet.

"That was suspicious," Isabel said watching the youngest Gilbert walk away.

"You know Jeremy. He always is up to something." He smiled at her and she nodded.

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"Nik?" The blonde asks once she is fully dressed.

"Yes, love?" The curly blonde asks still laying in bed. She didn't know if she should ask but the thought of him saying yes made her curious.

"Can we travel? Just me and you. You can take me to your favorite places. Like New Orleans, or Paris, or Tokyo," she said before starting to backtrack. "I mean you don't have to I was jus-" she rambled and he chuckled making her shut her mouth. She looked at him and rose an eyebrow. He wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her body on top of his.

"It would be a pleasure to travel with you, love." She smiled down at him and pecked his nose, which made a goofy smile appear on his face. She laid her head on his chest and sighed.

"This is going to be so much fun, Nik. I haven't gone outside of Mystic Falls in a long time. The first and last time was when I went to Australia to visit an old friend with my family."

"I'd love to take you on your first non-family trip."

The moment is ruined when her baby starts crying.

"Be right back." She gets off Nik and goes into the babies room to calm her down. She picked her up and held her rocking her back and forth.

The young woman tried feeding and changing the diaper but her baby wouldn't calm down her crying.

"Let me try."

The blonde spun around to see Nik with his arms out. She carefully placed the baby girl in his arms and watched as she snuggled into his chest and her cries slowly deceased. Nik's blue eyes met the woman's blue ones and she smiled once again.

"How'd you do that?" She asked in amazement.

"I guess I'm good with kids." He shrugged moving to put Rose -the baby- in her crib.

"You? The big bad hybrid. Good with kids? Never thought I'd hear it, let alone see it." The girl laughed.

Klaus wrapped his arms around her waist and looked down at the sleeping baby.

"It's practice for our own little one, Bel."

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The next day Isabel got a call from Elena telling her everything she missed out on yesterday including what happened to Jenna. Isabel talked to Elena for an hour until she had to go to Tyler and talk to him about Mason's absence. While she did that everyone with the exception of Isabel and Elena stood in the living room of the Salvatore boarding house.

"Are you sure you guys don't want me there tonight?" Alaric asks worriedly about their plan for the oldest vampire in town.

"No, I need you to stay with Elena. I don't want her to know about this," Stefan said.

"Okay. Well, I'll make sure she doesn't leave my sight." Alaric sighed defeated.

"Alright, if anybody wants to back out, I'll understand," Stefan said as he looked at everybody.

"Yeah. Cold feet speak now. I don't want this going wrong if someone chicken's out. Caroline," Damon said raising an eyebrow at the blonde.

Caroline sighed and shook her head. "I won't. Look, she killed me. Fair's fair. As long as there are no werewolves running around."

"Oh, I took care of Mason," Damon smirked suggesting he killed the wolf.

"As long as Tyler and Isabel don't kill anyone, they won't turn," Jeremy told everyone.

"Bonnie? Are you with us?" Stefan asked looking at the witch.

There's a long pause before she nods and speaks, "But no one gets hurt."

"Except Katherine. Tonight Katherine gets a stake through her heart." Damon stated with a revenge look twinkling in his electric blue eyes.

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The night came and the masquerade ball was up and kicking. Everyone who attended wore masks.

Tyler and Isabel were currently in Tyler's father's office. Tyler is trying to fix his tie but can't quite get it so Isabel tries to help him and Carol joins them with a smile on her face.

"It's already packed out there. You know, we need to keep that door shut. Your father would be very unhappy if I let guests in here."

Tyler gets up holding an arm out for Isabel to take. He's wearing a nice suit while she's wearing a loose purple dress but still shows her pregnant stomach. Even if she got dirty looks for being so young she wanted to be proud of her baby instead of ashamed.

"Oh, look at you guys! So cute." Carol smiles at them thinking about how cute they look together.

"Thanks. You look pretty good too mom."

"Oh, a compliment from my own son. I think I'll fall over." Carol jokes and Isabel giggles and puts her head on Tyler's shoulder.

"Listen, I'm sorry I've been a dick lately..." Carol raises an eyebrow so he rephrases the last part, "A jerk lately. It's just...Have you heard from Mason?" Tyler asks trying to figure out why his uncle left. Mason understood him like no one else beside Isabel who would never leave him, so, why would he just leave so suddenly after telling them all about their curse?

"No, and I don't think we're going to. He's coming, he's going, it's just his way. He's the exact opposite of your father," Carol said apologetically, of course, she knew how close the two were and she was sad that he would leave them now of all times.

Tyler looks at his parent's photo and holds Izzy tighter. Carol notices his gaze and looks at the lovely photo as well. "We should have canceled this party," Tyler grumbled suddenly upset.

"This whole masquerade theme was his idea. I don't know what it has to do with helping the homeless but once he made up his mind, he could really be a dick..." Tyler raises an eyebrow and Carol smiles as she rephrases her sentence, "A jerk. But I loved him and I know you did too. It's natural to feel abandoned. I just don't want you to feel alone."

"Come on, put your mask on. Let's just go out there and pretend to have some fun," Tyler says grabbing a mask for him and Izzy.

"I think I need a cocktail first," Carol says as she walks out with the two following closely behind.

Isabel got dirty glances from people who noticed her stomach but Tyler rubbed her side to comfort her. She paid attention to him and ignored all the stares.

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Isabel ditched Tyler's side for a little bit when she noticed her friends acting strange. She found Jeremy and Bonnie outside with Elena who is wearing normal clothes when suddenly the doppleganger yells in pain and blood starts to show up around her stomach. Isabel races over to them worried. "What the hell?!"

"What's happening?" Jeremy looks his sister over confused and worried. Soon another blood mark appears on her arm and she screams out again. "What's going on?!"

"Jeremy, Isabel, It's Katherine! She's linked to Katherine! Get them to stop, now!" Jeremy looks up to the room Katherine is in and takes off as Isabel and Bonnie help Elena sit down.

Elena starts grunting in pain again and turns her hand over to reveal a cut across her hand. "Bonnie, it hurts." Izzy pushes Elena's hair back and rubs her back trying to help relieve stress the best she can.

"I can't break the spell, Elena. I'm sorry." Bonnie shakes her head and looks at Elena's hand. "But I can try to take some of the pain away. Okay? Okay." Then she begins to chant. Elena's breathing starts to calm slightly when Jeremy comes running over.

"Are you okay?" Jeremy asks.

"Are they?" Elena asks looking at her brother.

"They're stuck in there with her. You were right. Katherine had a witch link Elena to her." Jeremy tells Bonnie.

"That girl I saw, the one inside! Stay with her, keep pressure on her shoulder," Bonnie said getting up.

"Where are you going?" Isabel asks Bonnie, looking away from Elena.

"There's another witch here, I'm gonna find her!" Bonnie rushes off to find the other witch leaving the two siblings and the pregnant wolf.

Jeremy removes his magical ring and tries to give it to Elena. "No." The doppelgänger denies.

"Take it." Jeremy insists.

"No, Jeremy..." Elena tries to deny it again but Jeremy isn't having it.

"Elena listen to me: you need this more than I do," he says cupping her face with his hand.

"No Jeremy. What I need is for you to be safe." Elena disagrees keeping it in his hand.

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Isabel had a bad feeling so she left the siblings and went to find Tyler. She felt discomfort in her stomach and rubbed it. "It's okay baby. Calm down."

She hears fighting in Tyler's dad's office and rushes in there to see Matt slam a picture against the desk, breaking it.

"Okay, you need to calm your drunk ass down right now!" Tyler demands.

"Do something about it!" Matt pushes Tyler away.

"Matt! Stop!" Isabel yells frantically.

"I'm not gonna fight you," Tyler tells his best friend.

Matt rushes over him and throws him on the floor. Matt then punches him in the face. Caroline -who is downstairs- hears the fight and makes her way up. Tyler gets up and punches Matt.

"Matty stop this!" Izzy yells again terrified for both her brother and her baby daddy.

Caroline arrives and is horrified at what she is seeing. "What is going on? Stop!"

She puts herself between them and pushes Matt on the floor. Matt gets up and rushes over to Tyler but she stops him.

"I can't! Let me go, I have to finish!" Matt yells desperately.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" Caroline asks confused to why he is acting like this and why he would go after Tyler like this.

"Let me go!"

Caroline looks at him while he keeps trying to get to Tyler. She elbows him hard in the face and he falls on the floor, unconscious. She rushes over to him to make sure he is fine.

"Matt?" The un-triggered wolf looks Matt over and sees he is fine.

Sarah secretly takes a paper-knife off the desk.

"How did you...?" Tyler trails off shocked at what Caroline just did to Matt.

"Matt failed. If Matt fails, I can't." Sarah mumbles.

"Tyler, look out!" Isabel yells to her boyfriend when she sees Sarah with a paper-knife.

Sarah drives the paper-knife in his chest but he pushes her, and she hits her head hard on the desk and falls to the floor dead. Isabel gasps and puts a hand over her mouth mumbling, 'no,' over and over again. Tyler looks at his wound then rushes over to Sarah.

"No, no, no!" He yells as he gets to her level and shakes her body. "Come on, wake up! Sarah, open your eyes, wake up! This can't happen, oh no, this can't happen. This can't be happening! Sarah! Sarah, get up! Sarah! Open your eyes! This can't be happening! Not like this!" Tyler yells out as tons of emotions flood through him.

He stands up and starts pacing as Isabel goes over to Sarah and checks her pulse by putting two fingers on her neck. Tyler grabs his head and screams out then crumbles to the floor.

"Tyler? Tyler?! Tyler, what's happening?" Caroline asks once she moves away from Matt.

Tyler sits on the floor rocking back and forth. "Get away!" He yells at her.

"What's happening?!" Caroline asks, looking between the two.

He raises his head to reveal that his eyes are amber, Isabel looked sad knowing he was an activated werewolf.

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"Mom, the sheriff's here," Tyler said, with an uneasy Isabel standing behind him.

"I'll go prepare her, just don't leave. Just stay here okay?" Carol says to Caroline as she starts walking out. "She's going to want to hear the story from you both," Carol said to Caroline and Isabel.

She walks away leaving Isabel and Caroline alone with Tyler.

"Matt's in the car, sleeping it off. I'll deal with him; I don't want him involved in any of this." Caroline told them.

"What are you doing?" Tyler asks.

"I'm fixing a very bad situation."

"Why? I did this. I killed her," Tyler says sadly.

"No, you didn't mean to." Izzy protests and hugs his side.

"She's right and I think it's best for everyone-" Caroline says but gets cut off by Tyler.

"But she's dead! You don't know what that means, Caroline," Tyler says exasperatedly.

"Actually, Tyler, I think I do," she said knowing that they didn't know who all knew about them.

"No, you don't, Caroline," Tyler says forcefully.

"Has your wound healed?" She asked.

He checks his wound but realizes it has healed making Isabel worry more about how she knows he's a werewolf. And who else knows.

"How did you...?" Tyler trails off confused on how the blonde vampire knew anything about this. He looks at Isabel and sees the same confusion on her face.

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Elena is in the parking lot, on the phone with Jeremy. "Yeah Jeremy, I've got my car. Tell Bonnie that whatever she did, I'm starting to feel better. Yeah, you can drive her home. I'm just gonna go straight to bed. Okay." She hangs up as she sees Isabel headed toward her. She smiles at her friend and hugs her.

"I'm sorry about you being dragged into this tonight, Izzy. I know this isn't good for your baby," Elena says worriedly.

"Hey," the blonde says softly. "We are fighters," she says with a smile. "Plus, you guys are my friends. I need to comfort you. I guess it's like motherly instincts kicking in."

"You are going to be a great mother, Izzy." Elena side hugs her then Isabel decides to walk Elena to her car before she goes back in.

All the sudden a masked man comes up behind them, covers their mouth and kidnaps them.

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In a secluded country area, an SUV is meeting another car. The man gets out of the car and goes over to the man in the SUV. The man in the SUV is wearing a cap and sunglasses to hide his face.

"Where are they?" Trevor asks the man.

"In the trunk, I did exactly what you said." The man replies.

"Good, put them in the back, be careful with the pregnant one. I don't need more trouble."

The man opens the SUV trunk and then goes to his car. He opens the trunk where Elena and Isabel are in it, unconscious. He takes Isabel out first and carefully puts her in the SUV trunk, then he gets Elena and puts her in. Trevor sees them in the rear-view mirror and smiles.

After putting the girl's in the trunk, he joins Trevor. "Thank you for your help," Trevor says.

"Is there anything else?" The man asks.

"One more thing. Come closer, please." Trevor tells him. The man gets closer. "Closer." Trevor coaxes.

The man gets closer and Trevor takes him by the shirt and, bites him. Once Trevor drinks all his blood he throws him on the floor and he leaves the man for dead.

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Trevor carries in Isabel first who hasn't wakened yet and sets her on the couch and does the same with Elena, they had their hands and legs tied with rope. As Elena starts waking up he unties her then the sleeping Isabel.

"What do you want? What did you do to her?" Elena asks weakly. Trevor shushed her and continued untying Isabel's ropes. "Please, I'm hurt." Elena pleads.

He drops the ropes and moves closer to her. "I know. Just a taste," he said as his vampire face came out and he was about to bite her if it wasn't for Rose-mary shouting his name.

"Trevor! Control yourself." He leans away and faces the pixie-haired girl.

"Buzzkill." He muttered then left the three girls alone.

"What do you want with us?" Elena asks the brunette.

"Oh my god, you look just like her."

"But I'm not. Please, whatever you-" Elena says slowly getting up.

"Be quiet!" Rose says cutting her off.

"But I'm not Katherine. My name is Elena Gilbert; you don't have to do this." Elena pleads with the old vampire.

"I know who you are, I said be quiet," Rose said with a hint of anger and annoyance in her tone.

"What do you want?" Elena asks again.

Rose slaps her hard across the face making her fall on the couch, unconscious.

"I want you to be quiet," Rose said distastefully.

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Elena is slowly waking up while Rose and Trevor are upstairs talking.

"How're the girls?" Rose asks.

"Still passed out," Trevor replies.

"You didn't touch them, did you? Especially not the pregnant one."

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

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

"Did you or did you not get the message to Elijah?" Trevor asks impatiently.

"They say he got it," Rose said.

"Wonderful and what?"

Elena gets up after checking over her pregnant friend and walks upstairs, listening in on their conversation.

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

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

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

"Yeah? Well, running keeps us from dying," Trevor said trying to get his best friend to back out as well.

"Elijah's old school. If he accepts our deal, we're free," Rose says trying to get him to calm down.

Elena accidentally makes one of the boards squeak and Rose sees her.

"You! There's nothing around here for miles. If you think you're getting out of this house, you're tragically wrong. Understand?" Rose asks then goes to leave but stops when she hears the doppelgängers voice.

"Who's Elijah?"

"He's your worst nightmare." She replied and walked away.

Isabel is young. Plain and simple. I hope I can do character development well enough to show her progress. But I believe the only thing that stays with her is the need to protect her children. Whatever is best for her and them.

And I couldn't help but publish this sooner then I wanted to! I just love this book so much!