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𝗔𝗡𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗦𝗜𝗔 𝗪𝗔𝗟𝗞𝗦 𝗗𝗢𝗪𝗡 the stairs of the Salvatore Boarding house, dressed in a pair of blue jean shorts and one of Jeremy's t-shirts, with said boy still upstairs asleep in her bedroom.

"Anastasia." Her uncle's voice catches her attention as she went to walk towards the kitchen.

Turning around, she raises an eyebrow as she's met with the face of Rose and Elena, both girls sitting in the living room, "What the hell is she doing here?"

"She needed to talk to us."

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"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." Rose says as she's know standing up, "It's the problem with all this vampire crap but Klaus, I know he's real."

"Who is he?" Elena asked.

"He's one of the originals, he's a legend." Damon tells her.

"From the first generation of vampire's." Says Stefan.

"Like Elijah?"

"No. Elijah was the Ester bunny compared to Klaus. He's a foot soldier. Klaus is the real deal." Rose says, causing Anastasia to roll her eyes.

"Klaus is known to be the oldest."

"Okay, so you're saying that the oldest vampire in history of time is coming after me?" Elena asked as she looked around at the vampires surrounding her.

"Yes."

"No."

"What they're saying is, I mean if what she's saying is true....," Damon trails off.

"Which it is."

"And you're not saying it so I don't kill you."

"Which I'm not."

"Then were looking at a solid maybe." Damon says.

"Look, Elijah's dead, right?" Stefan asked as Anastasia turned her head away with a guilty look on her face as her uncle talked, "So no one else even knows that you exist."

"Not that you know of."

"That's not helping." Damon tells Rose.

"Look, I've never even met anyone who's laid eyes on him, I mean, we're talking centuries of truth mixed with fiction." Stefan said, "We don't know he's real. For all we know he could just be some sort of stupid bed time story."

"Klaus is real." Anastasia says as she stands up from her place next to Elena on the couch as she moves to pour a glass of bourbon from her dad's home bar, "Every real, actually."

Damon looks at his daughter with a raised eyebrow, "How do you know he's real?"

Anastasia shrugged, "Because I've met him. Hell, I lived with him for thirteen years.

"You've met Klaus?" Stefan asked his niece, "Please, tell me that you didn't sleep with him."

"God, no." Anastasia pretended to throw up, "I slept with his brother."

"Who's his brother?" Damon asked his daughter with a frown on his face.

"Wouldn't you like to know."

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"I GOT IT, my love." Anastasia bent down to pick up the book that had fallen from Bonnie's hands.

"Thanks." Bonnie smiled at the vampire as Jeremy followed behind the Salvatore girl, their fingers interlocked together as Anastasia tugged him behind her. "Where's Elena?"

"She's actually running later today." Jeremy answers, "Baby, can I have my arm back?"

"No." Anastasia shakes her head, "Bonnie, what are you doing later?"

"Nothing that I know of." Bonnie shrugged, "Why?"

"You want to hang out at the grill, shoot some pool? The winner owns the table." Jeremy says, moving to walk next to his girlfriend and throwing his arm over her shoulder. "Thought, Stacie will probably kick our asses."

"Yeah, that sounds fun." Bonnie smiled at the couple.

"Excuse me!" A light skinned boy walked over to the three. "Do you guys know which way is the office?"

"Yeah, yeah. Through the double doors than straight ahead, quick left and then your first right." Jeremy tells him, "You must be new here."

Anastasia gasped, rushing to hug the boy, "Luka!"

"Ana!" He hugs her back, rocking them gently to the side, "I thought you were up in Seattle?"

"Moved back home." She shrugged.

Luka nods as he lets go of Anastasia, and she takes her place back next to her boyfriend, "And yeah, to answer your question, I am. It's kind of hard to hide it. As she says, My name's Luka."

"I'm Jeremy, this is Bonnie."

"Hi, Bonnie." Luka says as the two smile at each other.

Anastasia smirked as she wraps her arms around Jeremy's waist.

"Anyway, Luka. I'm actually heading in that direction. Why don't you follow me?" Jeremy says, "It can get confusing."

"Thanks man. It's nice to meet you, Bonnie."

"I'll see you later." Jeremy dips his head down to kiss his girlfriend, "I love you."

"I love you."

"Somebody was a little jealous." Bonnie nudged Anastasia as the two started to walk towards the building behind the two boys that were a little ahead of them. "You could see it on his face when you hugged him. How do you know Luka, by the way?"

"Uh, I met Luka a couple of years ago. We stayed in contact with each other."

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"TELL EVERYONE I wasn't feeling well and I went home from school. W Elena says as she and Caroline trudge through the woods, the Gilbert girl carrying her bag with her.

"I can't believe I'm agreeing to this. I'm a terrible liar." Caroline tells her.

"And keep Stefan busy. I don't want him to know what I'm up to." Elena said.

"I'm even worse as duplicity and you know this."

"You managed to keep me occupied when Katherine paid Stefan a visit."

"Yeah, because she threatened me!" Caroline exclaimed, "Not that I'm saying that you should use that as a tactic, it's....Stefan's gonna see right through me."

"Caroline, as my friend, do you promise or not?" Elena turns to her with a questioning look on her face.

Caroline sighs, "Ugh, you had to break out the girlfriend code. Okay. I promise."

"Okay."

"Why don't you want Stefan to know?" Questioned Caroline

"Because he would never be okay with me doing this." Elena tells her as they go under the church ruins, stopping at the tomb door.

"Are you sure you want to do this?"

"Yes, I'm sure." Says Elena, "She's the only one who knows the truth about Klaus. Anastasia knows something, but she isn't saying anything to anyone. Katherine is the only one who can tell me how to stop him."

"But you're asking for the truth from someone who's probably never giving it. Are you sure about this?" Caroline repeats her question.

"Yeah. I can't just sit back and wait. I have to know, Caroline. Please."

The blonde vampire doesn't say a thing as she walks toward the large slab of concrete that kept Katherine from them. Wrapping her arms around it, she begins to pull it open.

"Katherine?" Elena calls out before looking at Caroline, "I'll be fine from here."

Both teens hear a noise come from the tomb, turning to see Katherine slowly walking towards the entrance, stopping as she couldn't come out.

"Hello, Elena. You come to watch me wither away?" Katherine asked, sarcastically, "Goodbye, Caroline."

"As long as I stay on this side of the door, she can't hurt me." Elena says, "Please."

Caroline looks at them both before leaving.

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"YOU'RE THE REASON that we're late." Jeremy laughed, holding the door to the Grill open for his girlfriend to walk through the door first.

"Excuse me? You're the one that was pouting like a baby because I wouldn't let you drive my car." Anastasia laughed, "Look, there's Bonnie with Luka."

"Oh, there's my friends." Bonnie stands up as she notices the couple walking towards her, "It was nice to meet you, Doctor Martin."

"I will see you at school." Luka tells her.

"Yeah." Bonnie touches him on the shoulder before walking off with Jeremy and Anastasia.

"Sorry we were late, are you okay?" Jeremy asked.

"Yeah."

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"YOU ARE BAD." Jeremy laughs, earning a hit in the side from his girlfriend, as Bonnie tries to shoot the white ball.

"I told you both." Bonnie whined, watching as Anastasia bent over, using her pool cue to hit the white ball, landing two of the solid balls into the center pocket. "Now, that's just showing off."

"Well, feel free to cheat if you need your dignity back." Jeremy tells her.

"Come on, hit the ball." Bonnie playfully rolls her eyes at her best friends boyfriend.

"Alright, I got winner guys. I got winner." Luka says as he walks up to the three.

"Get ready, this slaughter is almost over." Jeremy says as he goes to make his shot, but just as he's lined the pool cue up to the white ball, shooting, Anastasia bumps her hip into his, making the Gilbert boy miss, "Okay. Alright, I see. You wanna play dirty?"

"Yeah, I wanna play dirty."

"So, where's your dad?" Bonnie asks Luka as she watches Jeremy pull Anastasia into his arms and kissing her.

"Um, I'll see him back home."

"Anastasia." Stefan calls from his place at the front of the Grill, "You're with me, let's go."

"Hey, you're my ride!" Jeremy calls out to his girlfriend as she walks towards her uncle after kissing him bye.

"Check your pocket, babe!" She calls back to him with a smirk as she starts to walk backwards.

Jeremy raises an eyebrow as he pats down his pockets, pulling her car keys from his back pocket, "When did you-,"

"When I kissed you!"

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"SO HOW MUCH of your little story is true?" Elena asked Katherine as she still sat in the tomb with the vampire that looked exactly like her, as she stands up from the ground.

"I have no reason to lie, Elena." Katherine tells her, "I have no reason to do anything but sit here and read and rot."

"Okay, assuming it's even partially true, that's the reason why you came back isn't it? Because you wanted to be the one to hand me over to Klaus." Elena says.

"Five hundred years on the run, I figured maybe he'll be willing to strike a deal." Katherine said.

"So you got Mason Lockwood to find you the moonstone."

"Right again."

"What else do you need to break the curse?" Asked Elena.

"Hmm, look who's getting smarter." Katherine sent the human doppelganger a smirk.

"It's not just me or the stone, is it?" Elena asked, "Otherwise there would be no reason to trigger Tyler Lockwood's werewolf curse."

"Witches and their spells, so many ingredients, so many people to sacrifice."

"So you need a werewolf?" Questioned Elena.

"Believe it or not, they're hard to come by."

"What else?"

"A vampire."

"Caroline."

"It would have been anyone I suppose but I like the poetry of Caroline." Katherine tells her.

"So you were gonna just hand us all over to be killed?" Elena asked her.

"Better you die than I." Katherine tells her before going back into the tomb, leaving Elena alone in silence."

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"ELENA." STEFAN STOPS the girl from leaving the tomb as he and Anastasia walk down the stone steps.

"Stefan, Stacie, what are you both doing here?" Elena asked them.

Anastasia crossed her arms over her chest, "We could ask you the same question."

Elena looks at them with a face, "Caroline told you."

"No. She kept your secret but it didn't take long for us to figure out what was so important that you'd have to keep it from me." Stefan tells her.

"I knew you'd stop me."

"Listen to me." Stefan steps closer to his girlfriend, "Whatever she said to you is a lie. Do not listen to her. She's a liar. Elena.

"What if she isn't?" Elena questioned, "You didn't hear what she said."

"You don't have to worry. I'm not gonna let anything happen to you."

"That's the problems, you won't but you'll die trying. How's that any better?"

Katherine comes back from inside the tomb, "There's nothing you can do, Stefan. I haven't even told you the best part of the story."

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"HE KILLED THEM, my entire family, just to get back at me from running." Katherine says. "Whatever you do to escape Klaus, he will get his vengeance on your friends, your family and anyone that you've ever loved."

Stefan looks at Elena, "No, look at me. No, do not listen to her, okay?"

"Always the protector but even you must realize that she's doomed. There's nothing you can do to stop it unless of course you have this." Katherine pulls out the moonstone.

"What?"

"Oh no, there it is. It's the ultimate lie, isn't it?" Stefan asked Katherine, "You spun this whole thing so that we would have to get the stone from you, didn't you?"

"I didn't spin anything, Stefan. IT's the truth."

"No, let me guess. You wanna trade that stone for your freedom, you manipulative, psychotic bitch."

"My freedom? That's where your wrong, Stefan. I don't want my freedom because when Klaus shows up to kill us all and he will, I'll be in the tomb, where no vampire will enter because they can't get out. I'll be the safest psychotic bitch in town."

"That's where you're wrong, Katherine." Anastasia spoke to the vampire for the first time since coming down the church ruins, "You may be stuck in that tomb, but even you're not safe from Klaus. But me? I'll be the safest bitch in Mystic Falls when Klaus comes a knocking." She smirks, walking away and leaving behind three shocked figures.