「 . 𖦹˙-⋆ 𝐒𝐈𝐗 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐓 𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 」
⤿𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘚𝘜𝘕 𝘈𝘕𝘋 𝘔𝘖𝘖𝘕🪦 ˖ ࣪. ࿐
𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘃𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 ┆𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘸𝘰
❪ ﹆ ━ 𝘬𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘴 ⋆⭒˚.⋆ ❫

𝗔𝗡𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗦𝗜𝗔 𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗦 she looks down at Elijah's still grey body, "Elijah, you're playing around again."

Elena looks up at the vampire, "It takes tim-,"

Suddenly, Elijah wakes up and Elena rushes towards him, the original vampire staring at her in shock.

"Elijah."

"Katerina!"

"Told you he was playing around." Anastasia shrugged her shoulder as she moves to crouch down next to Elijah.

Elena moves to get a little closer to the vampire before his body starts to spasm.

He stands up, gasping for air, "I can't - I can't breathe! What's happening to me?" Elijah rushes over to the door but slams into the doorway as Anastasia rushes after him, holding his body up. "I can't....I can't be in this house."

"You're not invited in anymore." Anastasia sighed.

"Then get me out of here." Elijah tells the Salvatore girl before the two of them disappeared from the basement.

Elena runs after the two of them, finding the vampires outside of the boarding house, Elijah crouching outside of the house.

He see's Elena in the doorway and rushed at her, but he's frozen at the threshold of the home, "What happened?"

"Shh!" Elena motioned that Stefan and Damon were able to hear him before she lowered her voice to a whisper, "I'll tell you. Not here. Can I trust you?"

Elijah turns to Anastasia giving her a 'really?' expression before he turns back to Elena, lowering his voice to the same tone she had used on him, "Can I trust you?"

Elena hands the dagger that had been in Elijah's chest over to him, who in return passed it to Anastasia.

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STEFAN WAKES UP IN HIS BEDROOM WITH A START, noticing that Elena's not in his bed so he goes downstairs. "Elena! Hey."

Andie stands in the doorway, a cup of coffee in her hand. "Hey."

"Have you seen Elena?" Stefan asks her.

"Uh, no." She tells him as Damon walks over to her.

"Hi, Sweetie. Oh, my coffee." Damon kisses her.

"Good morning."

"Mm, good morning."

"Hey, where's Elena?" Stefan asks his brother.

"I don't know, Stefan. It's your girlfriend. Mines right here." He looks over at Andie, "Oh, and how's the shoulder? Got time for a bite? I'm so hungry."

"Oh, it's really messy. Can you just use a blood bad today?" Andie asks him. "I'm already late for work."

"No!" Damon pouts his lip out.

"Hey, it's me. Where are you? Call me." Stefan leaves a voicemail for his girlfriend before turning to his brother, "What are you doing? She's not a wind-up toy."

Andie looks over at him, "It's really none of your business, is it, Stefan?"

"Yeah. What she said."

"I have to go to work." She kisses Damon before leaving.

Stefan comes to a stop as he notices that the door to the cellar is open, rushing over to investigate.

Damon follows after him, sensing concern.

Both of the Salvatore brother come to a stop, seeing that Elijah was no longer laying in the floor.

"No, she didn't." Damon breaths out before his head snaps up to look at the roof. In an instant, the older of the two were gone, and Stefan followed him to the empty bedroom of where his niece was occupying it, only for her to be gone also.

Hell, the bed hadn't even been slept it.

"Of course."

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ELENA PARKS HER CAR ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD, Elijah sitting next to her in the passenger seat and drinking from a blood bag as Anastasia sat in the backseat, texting her boyfriend that she would be at the Gilbert house later that night.

"You look better." Elena tells him.

"Where did you get the dagger?" Elijah asked her.

"I'll tell you everything. But we have to work together, Elijah. I need your word." Elena says, causing Anastasia to scoff quietly from the backseat.

"You ability to make demands has long passed." Elijah tells the Doppelganger.

"No demands. I'm offering you my help. And in return, I want yours."

"And why should I even consider this?"

"The same reason that you haven't killed me. You need my help to kill Klaus. And I need you." Elena tells him.

"Anastasia, sweetheart." Elijah turns his head to look at the green eyed girl, "Where did the dagger come from?"

Anastasia pursed her lips out as Elena gave her a pleading look not to mention anything, but the Salvatore girl learned a long time ago that she could never lie to Elijah, "They got it from John Gilbert, who got it from Isobel, who was working with Klaus the entire time."

The car is silent as Elena sent to girl a look just as her phone started to ring.

"Where are you? Are you okay?"

"Yes, I'm fine." Elena tells her boyfriend, knowing that the two vampires were listening in on the phone call to hear what Stefan had to say.

"Where's Elijah?"

"He's right here."

"And my niece?"

"She's in the backseat."

"Where?" Stefan asked, "I'm on my way."

"No, Stefan, Elijah and I need some time alone." Elena tells her boyfriend.

"Listen to me. He can't be trusted he'll use you to get to Klaus."

"Elijah is a noble man, Stefan. He lives by code of honor. I can trust him." Elena says, "He knows that I'd be incredible stupid to betray him again. By removing the dagger, I have proven myself."

"Why does she sound like she rehearsed that?" Anastasia mumbled, an amused chuckling leaving Elijah's mouth.

"You can't do this alone."

"I'm not alone. Anastasia is here with me. It's my decision, Stefan." Elena said, "Please respect it. And make sure that Damon doesn't do anything stupid. I'll be in touch."

She hands up the phone as Elijah holds his hand out for her to put the device in, to which she does and he puts it in the pocket of his suit jacket.

彡☆

"DID SHE JUST HANG UP ON YOU?" Damon asked his brother.

"She did."

"She's lost it." Damon tells his brother as he pulls his own phone out of his pocket to dial his daughters number, putting the phone onto speaker.

"Hey, it's Anastasia. Sorry, I can't come to the phone right now due to the fact that I'm causing chaos in whichever town that I'm currently in. But it you leave a message, I'll be sure to never call you back. Bye!"

"Yeah, that's sounds about right." Stefan sighed, "If anyone can get him to help us kill Klaus, it's either her or Elena."

"Bonnie's the way to kill Klaus, Stefan. He thinks she's dead." Damon reminds his brother. "We have a chance with her."

"She'll kill herself in the process. Elena's looking for another way." Stefan said.

"Her way's going to get her killed. So we need to find her and stop her." Damon stands up.

Stefan follows his move, "No, you need to back off."

"What?!"

"Look, I don't like this any more than you do. But we need to trust her. We gotta just let her do her thing." Stefan tells his brother.

"That might be your plan. Mine's better." Damon tries to leave but Stefan grabs his arm.

"I said back off."

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"HE'S HERE." ANASTASIA TELLS ELIJAH AS she leans forward in Elena's car so that she could look at the Original vampire.

"Klaus is here?" Elijah turns to look at Anastasia, noticing the distant look in her eye.

"He's taken over Alaric's body." Elena tells him.

"Of course he has." Elijah rolls his eyes, "One of his favorite tricks."

"Well, what are his other tricks? What is he going to do next?" Elena asked, "You're the only one who knows him."

"Yes, we do."

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ELIJAH KNOCKS ON THE DOOR OF THE LOCKWOOD HOME, Carol opening the door.

"Elijah, Stacie, Elena!" She greets the three, "What are you doing her? What happened?"

"I've had a bit of an incident, Carol. I'm hoping you can help." Elijah tells him.

"Well, I'm on my way to a meeting, so I-,"

"It won't take but a minute of your time." Elijah compels her.

Carol smiles, "Of course. Anything you need."

"Well, first things first." Elijah says as the three walk inside "I'm going to need a change of clothing."

"Well, we can try one of my husband's suits. I haven't boxed them up yet." She tells him.

"Wonderful." Elijah smiles as the woman goes up stairs.

"How did you know she's not on vervain?" Elena asked.

"'Cause I'm the one who got her off. Right before you and your friends killed me. Twice. If you'll excuse me, I'll be down in a moment." He tells her before going up the stairs himself.

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THE TWO VAMPIRES AND ELENA SIT IN THE living room, Elijah now wearing one of the suite that used to belong to Tyler's dad.

"So I assume that the Martin witches are no longer with us." Elijah says as Anastasia frowns.

"No. I'm sorry."

"And Katerina?" Elijah questioned, "She's would have been release from my compulsion when I died."

"Klaus took her. We think she may be dead." Elena said.

"We'll never be that fucking lucky." Anastasia rolled her eyes.

"I doubt that." Elijah says at the same time, "Not Klaus' style. Death would be too easy after what she did."

"I don't understand. You say that you want want Klaus dead, but you still made Katherine pay for betraying him." Elena looks at the vampire.

"I have my own reasons for wanting Katherine to pay. There was a time...I'd have done anything for Klaus."

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"KLAUS IS HIS BROTHER." ANASTASIA tells the shocked Elena after hearing Elijah's story.

"But you said that K-,"

"And so is Kol." Anastasia nodded. "They're all brothers."

"I'm still processing." Elena says.

"Yes, I'm a little behind on the times, but I believe the term you're searching for is "O.M.G"." Elijah drinks some of his tea.

Anastasia smirked, "Yeah, I taught him that years ago."

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"THERE'S A WHOLE FAMILY OF ORIGINALS?" Elena asked, looking between the two vampires, Elijah walking around the living room.

"My father was a wealthy land owner in a village in Eastern Europe. Our mother bore seven children." Elijah tells her.

"So your parents were human?" Asked Elena.

"They're whole family was." Anastasia tells her, having heard the story before from Kol when the two had first met.

"Anastasia is correct, our entire family was human. Our origin as vampires is a very long story, Elena. Just know...we're the oldest vampires in the world. We are the Original family, and from us all vampires were created.

"Right, but Klaus is your brother. And you want him dead?" Elena asked, trying to gather her thoughts on why anyone would want to kill they're own brother.

"I need some air. I'm still feeling a tad...dead. Come."

彡☆

"SO AS YOU'VE SEEN, NOTHING CAN KILL AN ORIGINAL. Not Sun, not fire, not even a werewolf bite. Only the wood from one tree. A tree my family made sure burned." Elijah tells Elena as the three now walked outside of the Lockwood property.

"That's where the white ash fro the dagger comes from." Elena realized.

"Yes. Witches won't allow anything truly immortal to walk the earth. Every creature needs to have a weakness in order to maintain the balance." Elijah said.

"So the Sun can't kill an Original. Why is Klaus so obsessed with breaking the Sun and Moon curse?" Elena questioned.

"Right." Elijah looks to Elena. "The curse of the sun and the moon. It's all so...biblical-sounding, don't you think?" He smiles as Anastasia lets a giggle slip past her lips.

"What's so funny?" Elena looks between the two of them.

彡☆

"I DON'T UNDERSTAND. SO KLAUS DREW THE Aztec sketches about the curse?"

"Roman scrolls, African tribal etchings, and any other culture or continent we felt like planting it in." Elijah stated.

"But why?"

"Easiest way to discover the existence of a doppelganger or to get your hands on some long, lost moonstone is to have every since member of two warring species on the lookout."

"So it's not Aztec at all?"

"Elena." Anastasia caught the Gilbert girls' attention, "The curse of the Sun and the Moon....it's fake. It doesn't exist, it never did."

"What?!"

"Klaus and I faked the sun and the moon curse dating back over a thousand years." Elijah tells her as he suddenly feels someone jump onto his back, "Hello, Spider monkey."

"Hi." Anastasia grinned, tightening her grip on his neck as his hands held the back of her thighs in order for her to stay on his back.

"But if there's no curse....,"

"There's a curse." Elijah tells Elena. "Just not that one. The real one's much worse. It's a curse placed on Klaus."

"What are you talking about?"

"Klaus has been trying to break is since longer than I've known them, over the last thousand years." Anastasia said, "You're his only hope."

Elena's phone starts to buzz in Elijah's suite pocket.

"What is this curse?" Questioned Elena.

"Your phone will not stop its incessant buzzing. Answer it, please." Elijah lets go of one of Anastasia's legs to grab the phone from his pocket, handing it over to Elena.

"Stefan....what's wrong? No. No, no, no, no. Okay, I'll be right there." Elena hands up the phone and looks at Elijah, "Klaus went after Jenna. I have to go to her."

"I'm afraid that wasn't part of today's arrangement." Elijah says as Anastasia slides off of his back.

"She's my family, Elijah. I have to go. I'll be back. You have my word."

"That doesn't mean anything to me until you live up to it." Elijah tells her.

"Thank you." She thanks him before she starts to run towards her car.

"I'll go with her. Make sure everything is okay." Anastasia tells him, "I'll be sure that she comes back."

"Anastasia." Elijah stops the green eyed girl, "We will get Kol back, I promise."

Anastasia flashes him a half smile, "Don't make promises that you can't keep, Lijah."

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ANASTASIA STOOD QUIETLY NEXT TO HER UNCLE as Elena comes out of the room that she and Jenna had been in, closing the door after her. "Is she gonna be okay?"

"Shes' in shock. I tried to tell her as much as I could, but I barely scratched the surface." Elena tells the two of them.

"I'm so sorry, Elena. I hate this." Stefan tells his girlfriend.

"It's not your fault, Stefan. It's mine." Elena says, "Anyway.....Anastasia and I have to go back to Elijah."

"Wait, what? No, no!" Stefan protested.

"Stefan, I promised him that I would return. I can't break that promise."

"Oh." He nods.

"I'll be okay." Elena says before the two go towards the front door, only for Damon and Andie to be walking towards the two of them.

"Where do the two of you think you're going?" Damon asked.

"Back to Elijah."

Damon is instantly in front of the two of them, "No."

"Get out of my way, Dam....," Elena is cut off by him grabbing her arm.

"If you so much as try and take a step out of this house....,"

"Damon, easy." Andie steps in.

"Stay out of this, Andie." Damon tells her.

"Let her go."

"Are you kidding me? We just got them both back." Damon said.

Stefan grabs his arm this time, "You heard me. I said let her go."

"That's twice today you've stood in my way. I wouldn't try a third." Damon tells his brother as he watches his daughter and Elena get into the black Camero that Anastasia owned.

彡☆

"WELCOME BACK." ELIJAH GREETS THE TWO as he stands in front of the lit fireplace.

"Tell me. What is Klaus's curse?" Elena demands as she takes off her jacket.

"Please." Elijah gestures for Elena to sit and so obeys, "My family as quite close, but Klaus and my father did not get on too well. When we became vampires, we discovered the truth. Klaus was not my father's son. My mother had been unfaithful many years before. This was her darkest secret. Klaus is from a different bloodline. Of course, when my father discovered this, he hunted down and killed my mother's lover and his entire family. Not realizing, of course, that he was igniting a war between species that rages until this day."

"A war between the species?"

"The vampires....and the werewolves."

"So Klaus' real father was from a werewolf bloodline? What does that make Klaus? A werewolf? Or a vampire?"

"He's both, much like Anastasia. But completely different than one another. A hybrid would be deadlier than any werewolf or vampire. Nature would not stand for such an imbalance of power. Therefore the witches, the servants of nature, saw to it that my brother's werewolf side would become dormant."

"That's the curse that Klaus wants to break?" Elena asked.

"He wants to trigger that part of him that's a werewolf. If allowed, Klaus would sire his own bloodline. He'd build his own race. Endangering not just vampires, but everyone."

"But you helped him?"

"I helped him because I loved him. That's changed." Elijah says, "Now he must die."

"We have the dagger now. We can stop him." Elena tells him.

"When a werewolf is wounded by silver, it heals. An Original can't be killed by anything but white oak ash on a silver dagger." Anastasia tells her, "The dagger doesn't work."

"What, are the two of you saying that Klaus can't be killed?" Elena looks between the two.

"There's only one way to kill any supernatural species....at the hands of the servants of nature themselves."

"A witch. If they can channel that much power. But it would kill them." Elena said.

"The curse must be broken during the full moon. When Klaus is in transition. That's when he'll be at his most vulnerable. A witch with that much power....can kill Klaus."

"What if I told you that I knew two witches that could channel that much power?" Elena tells him, glancing over at Anastasia.

"Then I would tell you there's one more thing that you should know."

彡☆

"YOU FOUND A WAY TO SAVE THE life of the doppelganger?" Elena asked.

"Yes, Elena. I did. But unfortunately, Katerina took matters into her her own hands first." Elijah said, "I believe you already know how that played out."

"You cared about her, didn't you?"

"It was a common mistake, I'm told." Elijah tells her. "And it's one I won't make again." He gives her back her jacket before kissing Anastasia on the forehead and leaving.

"Hey!" Anastasia pouted as she stood up from the couch, "He took my keys!"

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"NOW YOU'VE INVITED HIM IN?" Damon looks at Elena as everyone now stood in the Salvatore boarding house, Anastasia with a look of disappointment in her eyes since her uncle and father were once again fighting over Elena.

"Elijah and I have renewed the terms of our deal." Elena tells him.

"Really?"

"The two of you will come to no harm at my hands. I only ask for one thing in return." Elijah tells the two vampires.

"What?" Damon questioned.

"An apology."

"A what?"

Stefan walks closer to Elijah, "I'm sorry or the part that I played in your death. I was protecting Elena. I will always protect Elena."

Anastasia frowned.

"I understand."

All eyes turned to Damon.

"The sacrifice is going to happen, Damon. Bonnie will be able to kill Klaus without hurting herself and Elijah knows how to save my life. I told you I'd find another way. And I did."

"Is that true?" Damon asked.

"It is."

"And you're trusting him?" Damon asked.

"Anastasia trust him, so I do too." Elena tells him.

"You can call go to hell." Damon says before he leaves.

彡☆

ANASTASIA WALKED TOWARDS HER FATHER'S bedroom, her bare feet padding across the hardwood floors. Opening the door and stepping inside, she looks at him from where he sat at the end of his bed.

"Not right now, Anastasia." Damon mumbles, running his hand down the side of his face.

"You and Uncle Stefan, you're both always so worried about Elena. What about me? What about your daughter and his niece?" Anastasia looked at her father.

"You can protect yourself, Elena can't."

"Right. Because Elena is so much more important to the two of you than I am, right?" Anastasia asked, tilting her head to the side. "She has been since the moment you came into town."

Before realizing what he had done, Damon had his daughter pinned against the wall by her neck. A cry of pain left her lips as she could hear the sound of the bones in her neck cracking.

"Damon!" Stefan rushes into the room, having heard his niece's painful cries as he walked down the hallway.

Damon steps back, away from his daughter, as she sinks to the floor with her hands around her neck, uncontrollable tears falling from her eyes. "Eloise, I - I'm sorr-,"

"Congratulations, Dad." Anastasia spoke as she looked up at her father, "We're back all the way to square one again."

"Yeah, and where's that?"

"Your daughter hating you."