Nyra's POV
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OUT OF NOWHERE a tree branch hits me straight in the face and knocks we to the ground.

I am currently running away from someone in where I think is Beacon Hills reserve.

Last night I was kidnapped by some people, while I was sleeping.

They couldn't be vampires because they can't get in my house unless they are invited, and they couldn't be werewolves because if they were then they would have caught me by now.

Plus I knocked two of them unconscious. Unfortunately, there were more people waiting by the van.

Since my dad and the rest of the crew were out hunting, I thought why not take my chances here.

A powerful howl echoed throughout the forest and I hastily picked my self up again.

It was most likely the alpha.

I kept running while steadying my breath, so that I could conserve my stamina.

I then stopped, with my back against a tree and I try to listen to the sounds around me. I wanted to make sure I lost them.

A branch broke and a huge black figure shows up from behind me and shoves me to the ground. It's too big to be a human and what really gave it away was the red eyes.

I felt a stinging pain in my left arm

I get up groaning in pain and look at my wrist.

I gasp in horror at the sight in front of me.

It was a deep claw mark.

I knew the risk of getting a deep scratch from an alpha.

I prayed to god that I wouldn't turn into a werewolf, because if I did, I would have to kill myself, with the Argent honor code and all.

I looked around hoping that the alpha left me alone.

I catch a glimpse at the moon and notice that its full.

I'm so stupid.

I should've thought about the risk of running into the alpha instead of my father.

We'll i'm literally being chased and survived a kidnapping so far. I'll just blame it on that.

I look around once more, hoping that I could find a way out of the reserve.

I squint my eyes hoping to get a better view around since I don't have my glasses.

In the distance, I make out a burnt house.

I start running towards it as fast as I could, knowing that it was the Hale house.

I enter and close the door quietly.

I figured that I should spend the night here since the people who kidnapped me were looking for me.

I walk around looking at the now unfamiliar interior of the Hale house.

I frown as I spot a picture of me and Derek in perfect condition.

I pick it up and notice that the Hale house was in the background prior to the fire.

What I didn't notice was someone sneaking up on me.

I felt a sudden stinging sensation in my head, and fall to the floor as my vision starts to fade.

I look up as an unfamiliar face bends down by me, then everything went black.

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"How are the girls?" I heard a female voice say with an accent.

"They're still passed out" This time it was a male voice.

I get up and notice that I'm lying on top of someone.

I gasp quietly because it's not possible.

The person underneath me looks exactly like me.

I have to get out of here.

I start to walk slowly to the hallway the people were behind.

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

"Give me some credit"

I all of the sudden hear a whispering voice that scarily sounds exactly like mine.

"Katherine?"

I turn around to my now awake lookalike and put my finger on my lips and nod no. She then glanced at the deep claw mark that was on my wrist, and nods.

I then put a finger to my ear and gesture towards the direction the voices were coming from.

"So you called him?"

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

My look-alike starts to get up towards me so she can also listen to the conversation more clearly.

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

We both approach the hallway together. I lead the way, just in case she doesn't know self defense.

"They say he got it"

I peek over the edge of the door and see a black figure walk past.

"So that's it Trevor. He either got it or didn't. We just have to wait" The woman stated, with slight panic.

"look it's not too late. We can leave them here. we don't have to go through with this" The guy sounds desperate and scared. If he's scared of this 'Elijah' then I should get ready for what me and my look-alike will have to face.

My look-alike starts to bite her lip.

I grab her arm but notice that it's bloody, and I give her a warning look, to not go any further.

"I'm sick of running"

"Yeah? well, running will keep us from dying."

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

All of a sudden I hear the floor creak from underneath my look-alike's feet.

I wince at the fact she got us caught, and walk right behind her. The Lady with the accent didn't waste time to approach us.

"YOU! There's nothing around here for miles. If you think you're getting out of this house you're tragically wrong. Understand?"

She then walks away, and my look-alike speaks up for the second time.

"Who's Elijah?"

That is honestly what I wanted know at the moment, he sounds like a scary dude.

The lady enters the room we're ima md stands in front of both of us.

"He's your worst nightmare"

She suddenly walks away, while my look-alike has her mouth open.

I tap my look-alike in the shoulder.

"Since we got kidnaped together, and look like each other, I think we should finally introduce ourselves," I say while taking out my hand.

"My names Nyra and I'm 17 years old"

She looks at my hand wearily and shakes it.

"My names Elena. Also 17"

I smile at her wondering if we are related.

She smiles back but then goes to the direction the lady went.

"Why are we here?"

The lady turns on a lamp and turns around going towards some type of portrait.

"You keep asking me questions like I'm going to answer them."

She picks it up while walking to another part of this old place.

"why won't you"

"You got us. Ok? it's not like we can go anywhere, the least you can do is tell us what you want with us" I spoke up.

They might as well explain to us everything if we are soon going to be given away.

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

"Delivery to who? Elijah?" I couldn't help but ask the question. It's been ringing in my head ever since I heard her and Trevor mention him.

She chuckles in response.

"Two points to the Eavesdroppers"

Elena starts to walk into the room towards the direction of the lady.

"Whos he? Is he a vampire?"

I perk up a bit at her question.

So this has to do with the supernatural. I wonder what's so special about Elena and I.

Good thing I have my spelled bracelet and necklace on.

My bracelet has vervain and wolfsbane and the necklace was filled with Katherine's blood. The necklace was basically like a shot.

She also made a witch put a protection spell on the necklace. The bracelet is spelled to protect me from a witch's spell/incantations. I don't even know what a protection spell is but according to what Katherine said it only is for one use.

"He's one of the vampires, the Originals"

I walked up to Elena getting more curious about what they were talking about.

"What do you mean The Originals?"

"Again with the questions. Haven't the Salvatores been teaching you your vampire history?"

Elena looked slightly dumbfounded.

"So, you know Stefan and Damon?"
I, of course, don't know who these people are.

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

Elena started to step forward.

"Who are the originals?"

I mentally slap my forehead in annoyance.

She already told you, Elena.

She's very stubborn and clearly doesn't see that she's agitating the woman in front of her. Based on the woman's actions, I can tell she's a vampire. What kind of person boards up a window?

The lady turns around and moves toward us.

"Trevor and I have been running for 500 years. We're tired. We want it over. We are just using the both of you to negotiate ourselves out of an old mess."

Yep, and she's a strong one too. She's over 500 years old so it's not a good idea to keep pestering her.

But Elena was not satisfied with her answer.

"But why us?"

I also wanted to know why they kidnapped me from my wonderful sleep.

"Because you are both a Petrova doppelganger. One of you is the key to breaking the curse."

"What curse?" I ask while furrowing my eyebrows.

I'm so out of the loop.

But it did sound familiar.

"The sun and the moon curse?"

"Ohh. you do know your history."

Wow, Elena must hang around vampires a lot.

Elena gets closer to the lady.

I wouldn't do that if I were her, she might get smacked.

"what do you mean one of us is the key? The moonstone is what breaks the curse."

"No. the moonstone is what binds the curse. Sacrifice is what breaks it."

"Sacrifice?"

I'm guessing Elena hasn't known the truth about the supernatural for long.

"What I'm guessing she's implying is that the doppelganger's sacrifice is what breaks the curse. And by sacrifice, I'm guessing means slit throat and death. Am I wrong?" I explain the thoughts that I put together but look at the lady to confirm if I'm right.

I feel like I've heard this before.

The lady smirks while looking at me, almost in confirmation. By the look she's conveying with her eyes, I'm right.

"Both of you are doppelgangers. Which means in order to break the curse, one of you has to die"

I look at Elena and secretly ask myself who is going to be sacrificed.

Trevor walks in, we'll I assume that's his name from the amount of times she's mentioned him. I haven't seen his face but once he talks it'll confirm his identity.

Elena was looking down but then put her head back up looking interested.

"Tell me more"

"Captivity has made her pushy, eh, what do you want to know doppelicious?"

Trevor grabs a piece of wood and covers the window, even though his skin starts to burn.

Yep, they are night walkers.

"Who are you running from?"

I roll my eyes at the fact that she keeps asking questions that already have been answered. Maybe she's deaf or just didn't hear the conversation they had earlier.

They all turn towards me.

"The originals, obviously?"

"Yeah, she said that but what does that mean?"

Elena asks Trevor while I sit on a chair that is in another corner of the room.

"The first family --- The old world--- Rose and I pissed 'em"

He trails off while kicking some old book that was on the floor. So her name is Rose? Finally a name to her face.

Rose just hums meaning that he said something wrong.

"Correction--- I pissed them off. Rose had my back, and for over half a millennium, they've wanted us dead"

He said while throwing books.

Elena flinches but continues to ask questions.

"What did you do?"

"He made the same mistakes countless others did. He trusted Katerina Petrova"

I get up and walk towards Rose, interested if it was my friend Katherine Pierce.

"Katherine--- Katherine Pierce?" I ask and it seems to have startled Elena a bit.

I'm guessing she did something bad to Elena.

Rose hums in agreement.

"The one and only --- the first Petrova doppelganger."

She starts to walk off with a piece of paper.

"I helped her escape her fate. And now I've--- Sorry, we've been marked ever since."

"Which is why we're not going to make the same mistake again," Rose speaks up after Trevor.

He hits some books on the table and walks by me and Elena.

After he left the room, Elena and I walked back to the sofa to sit down and wait.

I started to notice that I could see without my glasses, but my thoughts were interrupted when Rose came to get a bag from the sofa we were on.

Trevor comes down the stairs while looking scared.

"He's here. This was a mistake"

Rose tries to reassure him.

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

What a scaredy-cat, she has more balls than him.

"NO! He wants me dead, Rose !"

"He wants them more"

"I can't do this. you give them to him, He'll have mercy on you, but I need to get out of here."

Rose grabs him since he was freaking out.

Now I feel bad for him.

"Hey. what are we?"

Trevor closes his eyes while biting his lips.

"We're family. Forever" He responds while opening his eyes.

I sympathetically look over at them, because they have been running for over 500 years. They've wasted their whole lives running.

A loud pound then comes from the door and it echoes loudly.

Both of them look startled.

Rose looks and walks toward us.

"You're scared" Elena kept stating the obvious, which can get annoying after a bit. Hopefully Rose doesn't get too offended.

"Stay here with her. and don't make a sound," Rose tells Trevor while grabbing his hands.

She then lets go of his hands and runs up the stairs toward the door.

I hear footsteps echoing from the hallway.

I turn to look and see the sexiest man I have ever seen with a suit on.

He doesn't seem so scary.

Right when that thought crossed my head he vamps speed in front of us

I push Elena behind me, not wanting her to get hurt.

Elijah, I'm guessing, moves toward my face, as if he was about to kiss me, oh how I wish he did. He just smelled my neck and then proceeded to do the same to Elena.

"There's two of them and they're human. It's impossible"

He moves in front of me and smiles.

A smile that makes my knees feel weak.

"Hello there."

I look at Elena who is shaking.

"Well, we have a long journey ahead of us. We should be going"

Elena moves away from Elijah and looks toward Rose and Trevor.

"Please, don't let him take me"

I huff a bit it can't blame her for begging. Even though they clearly said they were never going to help us thanks to their past mistake.

Elijah noticed and smirked at me, oh Lord, He's very attractive.

"One last piece of business. And we're done" He said to Elena while turning around towards Rose and Trevor.

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

"Oh no, your apology is 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 that, I honor. Where was your loyalty?"

Elijah asked stopping in front of him.

"I beg for forgiveness," Trevor says shakingly. I feel this isn't going to end well with him.

"So granted"

After those words left Elijah's mouth, he literally karate chopped Trevor's head off.

I expected something big to happen to Trevor so I didn't react, unlike Elena who gasped and covered her mouth.

I hear Rose sob from behind Elijah in grief.

"you" Her voice cracks.

I frown at her pain since I know how it feels to lose your best friend, though I don't know if my pain can even come close to hers, seeing as they were on the run for 500 years.

"Don't Rose... now that you are free" The suited man looks at her.

Rose just cries in response.

Elijah then turns towards me and Elena with a smile.

"Come"

He closes in on Elena who is shaking in fear.

"No, what about the moonstone?" She was shaking and trying to be brave at the same time.

I wasn't that scared of him because he showed no intention of hurting us. We're important in the sacrifice so what's there to be scared of?

"what about the moonstone?" He steps closer to her.

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

"yes" He pauses and waits for her to continue.

"I can help you get it"

"Tell me where it is"

"It doesn't work that way" Elena shakes her head at him.

"Are you negotiating with me?" Elijah asks Elenal. He turns to Rose as if waiting for her to spew the answer.

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

He looks towards Elena, trying to compel her but glances at a necklace around her neck.

"What is Vervain doing around your neck?"

He rips it from her neck and throws it across the room, and then grabs Elena's head compelling her.

I moved to get her away from him but Rose pulled me back.

"Tell me where the moonstone is?"

"The tomb underneath the church ruins" She replies in a monotone voice.

"what is it doing there?"

"It's with Katherine" she answers, almost whispering.

"Interesting"

The sound of glass breaking echoes throughout the room.

"What is that?" Elijah questions Rose while looking around the room.

"I don't know"

"Who else is in this house?"

"I don't know" She spits back.

Elijah then moved to grab both me and Elena with incredible strength.

I look at my wrist and see that the claw mark is gone.

I let out a shaky breath because I knew that I was close to completing the change.

"Move," He tells Rose while we rush up the stairs.

We get to a room and someone vamps speed behind us.

He lets me go gently but pushes Elena into Rose.

The unknown vampire speeds by us again.

Elijah then glanced at Rose, expecting her to know who they were.

"Rose"

"I don't know who it is" She looks at him in confusion.

Once again the vampire speeds by but, this time they speak.

"Up here"

We all look towards the stairs. Elijah then decided to vamp speed by there.

Another voice then breaks through the silence.

"Down here."

We all turn towards the door until a stake is thrown at Elijah's hand, and someone takes me and Rose.

And as we locked eyes, I had no clue who he was.

The vampire had insanely pretty blue eyes that were intense. He was covering both of our mouths and looking at me straight in the eyes.

I hear a loud clutter, and I'm guessing that I can hear it because my senses are being heightened.

"Excuse me" Elijah exclaims while walking down the stairs. I'm assuming that's what he's doing because of the sound of his footsteps.

"To whom it may concern, You're making a great mistake if you think that you can beat me. You can't"

The Blue-eyed vampire let go of Rose but still had my mouth covered and a strong hold on me.

"You hear that?... I repeat you can not beat me"

The blue-eyed vampire noticed that I wasn't going to say anything, so he uncovered my mouth slowly and moved his face close to mine while putting his finger on his mouth.

I found this slightly attractive. Like what is it with vampires? Do they all get up into people's faces?

I then heard the sound of wood breaking.

"So I want the girls, on the count of 3, or heads will roll"

The vampire holding me started to peek around the corner.

"Do we understand each other?" Elijah said after breaking more wood.

"I'll come with you, just please don't hurt my friends, they just wanted to help me out"

When I heard Elena I started to move to go to her but the vampire grabbed me and gently put me against the wall.

I plead to him with my eyes to let me go, because weirdly enough I feel protective over Elena.

I don't know if it's my werewolf side or not.

She gasped in surprise and I pushed the vampire with a little struggle.

He looked surprised, as well as I because I'm pretty sure I used my new found strength.

"What game are you playing with me?" Elijah asked, and then an explosion occurred along with his screams.

Suddenly I hear what sounds like gunshots with following thumps as if people were falling down the stairs.

The vampire that was holding me let me go and vamp speeded towards the noise.

I followed him while running as fast as I could.

When I got there I saw the blue-eyed vampire stab Elijah with a makeshift stake and pin him to the wall.

I smelled vervain and walked over there and saw Elena.

I hurriedly got her hand and pulled her up.

Rose came into the room and vamp speeded away as the blue-eyed vampire looked at her.

"Just let her go" Elena spoke up as the blue-eyed vampire looked at us.

I pushed her behind me wary of the vampires.

She just moved my hand.

"It's okay Nyra I know them"

I nodded at her as she ran to the other vampire in the room.

"Hey come here, are you hurt? You okay?" The green-eyed vampire said while hugging Elena.

I stood there not knowing what to do. The green-eyed vampire stared at me and I tried so hard not to make an uncomfortable face. I started to shift a little awkwardly.

Elena pulled away from him and cleared her throat.

She walked and stood by me as the green-eyed guy glared at me.

"This is Nyra, she's just in the dark as I am. She was taken alongside me"

I just awkwardly waved at the vampires that were now staring at me.

The one with blue eyes nodded with an intrigued glint in his eyes.

"Damon Salvatore"

The green-eyed one rolled his eyes and shook my hand.

"I'm Stefan Salvatore"

I just smile at both of them.

By how close Elena is with Stefan they are probably dating.

"I'm Nyra Argent if you were wondering what my last name was"

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After Stefan and Damon saved us, well more like saved Elena and I was just a tag along, they drove us to Elena's House.

On my way there I was wondering how Elena knew it was them.

I then asked her and she revealed that her friend Bonnie, who is a witch sent her a message when I was knocked out. Turns out that she had woken up before me but Rose slapped her unconscious.

When we got there I stared up at the big house.

Elena entered and was grabbing her arm while walking up the stairs of her house.

"Elena?!?!"A guy with shaggy brown hair said while walking up to Elena who was now at the top of the stairs.

A beautiful dark-skinned girl went up to her and hugged her.

I noticed that she had a different scent than Elena and the boy.

She's probably the witch friend named Bonnie.

"Are you ok?" asked the boy.

He seemed like he was related to Elena so I assume he's her sibling.

"I'm okay" Elena replied hugging Bonnie even tighter.

"I'm okay" she repeated while pulling away from the hug.

"I got your message"

Bonnie hugged Elena again while tearing up.

When she pulled away the boy grabbed her and hugged her.

I started to smell all the powerful emotions I think were in the air and started to tear up.

I silently wiped them away.

Elena pulled away and grabbed both of their hands to pull them downstairs.

I stood there awkwardly not knowing what was going to happen next.

When Bonnie saw me she gasped and started to look at me intensely.

I felt a slight tingle and tried not to laugh.

It was tickling me, which means the bracelet Katherine gave me works.

Elena stood in front of me quickly protecting me from her view.

"It's okay guys, she's not Katherine"

Bonnie lowered her gaze with an apologetic and alert look.

"I want you to meet Nyra Argent," Elena said while moving next to Bonnie and the boy.

"Hi," I said while wiggling my fingers in a playful manner.

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After Elena let me take a shower in her bathroom I stood in front of the mirror after I finished brushing my teeth and drying my hair.

Since I decided to dry it with a brush, which made my hair dead straight, kind of like Elena's.

Elena had gone to drop Bonnie off at her house, to repay her for sending her the message. She left me a pair of her clothes to change into, which I was very grateful for. I was very dirty from running in the woods.

I walked out of the bathroom and into Elena's room.

"Cute pj's"

I jumped, taken back by the voice.

For some reason, I didn't hear him come in.

He was sitting down by Elena's window.

I was tired of the day I just had and wanted to go to sleep as fast as I could.

"Thanks," I replied and looked away from him, confused. He got up and walked towards me.

"Brought you this," he said while holding up a beautiful necklace, that resembled the description of the necklace Elena told me she had.

I got curious about where he got it since Elena told me it was gone.

"I thought it was gone," I said while staring at it.

He shook his head no and got closer.

"Thank you, I guess?" I replied to him trying to grab the necklace, but he pulled it away.

I frowned a bit, wanting to give it to Elena since she let me stay at her house.

"What--,"

"I just have to say something," He said walking closer to me.

Did he not realize that I wasn't Elena?

I cautiously backed up seeing as he was nearing my personal space.

"Why do you have to say it while holding it?"

"Well... because what I'm about to say is... probably the most selfish thing I ever said in my life"

I was inwardly regretting not clearing the misunderstanding and telling him that I was not Elena, but since he was going to confess something important I was too scared to say anything.

"Damon, you shouldn't " I warned, trying to prevent him from saying anything to me.

"No, I just have to say it once. You just need to hear it"

I inwardly groaned with deep regret.

I feel bad for pretending to be Elena.

" I love you, Elena"

HOLY CRAP.

I inwardly scream at myself for putting myself in this situation.

I can't believe he loves his brother's girlfriend.

That's kinda weird, but you can't control who you will fall in love with.

Damon got super close to me while looking deep into my eyes.

All I could see was a deep emotion.

I wish someone could love me like that.

"And it's because I love you that... I can't be selfish with you"

I was still freaking out on the inside.

Damn, Elena got him whipped.

He said it so painfully that I wanted to stop being Elena and run away.

"But you can't know this. I don't deserve you... But my brother does"

What's he doing?

I can't believe he would actually tell Elena his feelings.

He was almost acting selflessly by holding back his feelings towards Elena for his brother. But then again, he shouldn't even be considering her for any romantic reasons.

He got even closer and kissed my forehead.

I was speechless at how much emotion was coming off of him.

"God I wish you didn't have to forget this" He whispered while grabbing his face.

His eyes started to do something weird.

His pupils started to dilate.

Is this him trying to compel me? It looks pretty cool

"But you do," He said letting a tear fall.

It was taking everything inside me not to cry and act compelled. His emotions were very suffocating, and since I still had no control over my werewolf powers, it did not feel nice.

I soon blink and he's gone.

I look around and grab at the necklace he vamp-speeded on me.

I went to the bathroom to turn on the faucet.

When I turned it on I started to cry.

Why not find someone who isn't in a serious relationship with his brother?

It's honestly not fair to him.

His feelings were so overwhelming that I was crying from his pain and love for Elena.

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Her love interest is still undecided and I've decided that she is going to stay in Mystic Falls, to meet the gang and everything. She, of course, is going to go back to Beacon Hills, but not until after the sacrifice, during the summer. I have decided to write a chapter for each episode. Thanks for reading this very long chapter.

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(Edited for the last time on 9/10/2024