Nyra's POV
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I SLAMMED THE car door very hard. I was kind of annoyed since I didn't sleep well these past few weeks because I had recurring dreams of Katherine compelling me.

I thought she was my friend but she compelled me to ignore how similar we look like.

I had cut my hair short a couple of weeks ago so that everyone can tell me apart from the rest of my look-alikes.

To my surprise, Elena gave me some unprescribed glasses that she bought for me. 

Also what bothered me was that Elena revealed that I was adopted and that she is my biological twin sister and that her brother Jeremy was my cousin.

The first thing I did was call my parents so I can let them know where I'm at.

They were worried that a werewolf kidnapped me or something and it ended up being worse.

I wanted to call Allison but, my parents told me not to in order to keep her in the dark about the supernatural world.

I, of course, agreed because I can't imagine ever losing the little sister I grew up with... she would get mad at me for keeping her in the dark for so many years because she's my best friend.

I told my parents about my birth sister and her crazy life in Mystic Falls and explained the reason I wanted to stay, which was to protect my birth sister and cousin.

I didn't mention anything about the sacrifice, because if my parents knew that I was in danger they wouldn't hesitate to drag me to a safe house.

They informed me that my cover story this time was that they sent me to a boarding school in Virginia.

Elena decided to wake me up very early to go visit the Salvatore brothers.

One reason for not wanting to come was that I was awakened too early and the other is that I don't know if I can keep a straight face around Damon.

Elena knocked on the door and almost immediately Damon opens the door.

As I stand next to Elena Damon looks towards me and smiles.

"Hello, Elena and Nyra"

Elena stepped forward, ignoring his greeting and just trying to get to the point.

"Is Stefan here? he called saying it was important."

Damon opens the door even wider without breaking eye contact with me.

"Right this way"

As we entered the house Stefan popped out of nowhere and made me jump.

"Hey"

He walks up to Elena and she slightly fidgets.

"What is this about?"

Stefan turns around causing me and Elena to look at Rose.

Elena was still upset with her but I just swept those feelings away the moment Elijah killed Trevor. Honestly I felt bad for her.

"You" Elena whispers.

I walk towards Rose and sit down on the sofa knowing that this is going to be a long conversation.

"Ok, 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. That's the problem with all this vampire crap. But Klaus, I know is real."

I perk up at the familiar name, which kind of bothered me.

"who's he?" I ask curiously.

"one of the originals. He's a legend."

Damon says while raising his eyebrows at me playfully.

"From the first generation of vampires" Stefan inputs.

"Like Elijah?" Elena asks but is cut off by Rose.

"No. Elijah was the Easter bunny compared to Klaus. He's a foot soldier. Klaus is the real deal."

Fear seems to radiate off both Rose and Elena.

"Klaus is known to be the oldest," Stefan interjects.

Elena looks at Stefan questionably.

"Ok, you're saying that the oldest vampire in the history of time is coming after us?"

I start to feel a little bit worried with all the adjectives they have used so far to describe Klaus.

"yes, one of you"

"no"

both Rose and Stefan respond at the same time.

Damon gets up and walks towards Rose.

"what they're saying is-- I mean, If what she is saying is true. . ."

"Which it is." Rose cuts him off

" and you're not just saying it so we don't kill you..."

"which I'm not"

"then we're looking at a solid maybe."

Stefan gets up towards me and Elena.

"Look Elijah's dead, right? So no one even knows that you two exist."

"Not that you know of" Rose cuts Stefan off.

"That's not helping" Damon speaks up looking at 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. I mean we don't know what's real. For all we know, he could just be some sort of stupid bedtime story." Stefan says trying to provide some sort of comfort.

"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." Rose comments.

"All right we're shaking. You've made your point" Elena grabs my hand and gets up.

Stefan looks at us incredulously.

"Where are you both going?"

"School, we're late" Elena shoots back at him.

I look at her shocked because I'm not enrolled or anything and everyone will think I'm Elena.

And I hope that since I look exactly like her they would be smart enough to figure out I'm her twin.

"let me get my stuff," Stefan said while getting up.

"it's okay I know where it is" Elena replied.

Damn, she's feisty today.

As we walked through the front door I stopped to hear what they were going to say.

"She's in denial," Damon said

I laughed at Stefan's response.

"Shut up, Damon"

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I'm currently pondering what I'm doing with life.

I'm walking in the woods with Elena and her friend Caroline.

I saw Elena struggling with the bag so I grabbed it from her hands as she murmured a thank you.

"tell everyone I wasn't feeling well and I went home from school" Elena spoke up for the first time on our way here.

I kept asking her where we were going but she didn't answer.

It must be something bad.

"I can't believe I'm agreeing to this I'm a terrible liar," Caroline says

Elena just cut her off.

"... and keep Stefan busy, I don't want him knowing what I'm up to"

"I'm even worse at duplicity, and you know this"

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

Damn Elena that's cold.

I seriously wanted to laugh right now.

"Yeah, 'cause she threatened me. Not that I'm saying that you should use that as a tactic. It's-- Stefan's going to see right through me."

Elena stopped and turned to look at Caroline.

"Caroline, as my friend do you promise or not?"

Caroline just sighed while looking off to the side.

"you had to break out the girlfriend code"

Elena raised her eyebrows questionably in response.

"Ok, I promise," Caroline said forcefully.

"ok"

And with that said Elena continued walking.

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

"because he would never be ok with me doing this" Elena replied to her while grunting since she was walking on rocks.

I was blindingly following them, since no one thought it was important to fill me in on what we are doing.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Caroline asked Elena still unsure of whether or not to leave us alone.

"Yes I'm sure, she's the only one who knows the truth about Klaus and the only one who can tell me how to stop him"

"but you're asking for the truth from someone who's probably never given it. Are you sure about this?"

'I wonder who they are talking about?'

After that thought passed through my head, I tripped on what seemed to be nothing.

I fell with the bag in my hands and heard a snicker coming from Caroline and a chuckle from Elena.

Somehow even with werewolf-enhanced reflexes, I still managed to keep my clumsiness.

"Yes. I can't just sit back and wait. I have to know Caroline"

I managed to cross over the rocks without tripping as I see Caroline thinking while looking inside the cave.

"Please" Elena pleads.

Caroline walks towards a stone door and moves it.

She steps aside as Elena grabs my free hand and pulls me toward the door.

"Katherine" Elena's voice echoes through the dark and creepy room.

Wait she doesn't mean....

"We'll be ok from here"

I turn to the tomb door as I hear shuffling.

I was shocked to see my 'friend' Katherine.

All the compulsion that she had on me had worn off and I finally realized how similar we both were.

But right now she's dirty as hell.

I just shake it off, glaring at her weak form.

She looks at me reflecting the same emotion I was feeling a second ago, as she falls against the stone wall.

She probably never expected me to walk in with my twin sister.

"Hello, Nyra and Elena," She said while looking at me softly yet questioning.

she then shifts her gaze to Elena as her face hardens.

"You come to watch me wither away? Goodbye Caroline"

Elena and Caroline both look at me in shock as to how Katherine knows me.

"As long as we stay on this side of the door, She can't hurt us. Please" Elena told Caroline reassuringly.

I look at Caroline nodding to her that I will protect Elena if necessary.

She leaves as I turn to look at Katherine curiously.

"Stefan know you're here?"

Elena just ignores her.

"I brought you some things"

"You came to bribe me? what is it that you want?"

Elena goes through the bag that I was carrying and throws some pillows towards the door.

"I want you to tell me about Klaus"

Katherine looks interested as she hums.

"You've been busy"

Elena grabs a lamp and puts it on the floor so she can grab an old book"

"I also brought this. It's your family history. It says in here that the family line ended with you."

I roll my eyes while speaking up for the first time we arrived.

"Obviously it's not true" I say gesturing towards me and Elena.

Katherine glances at me but turns quickly at Elena.

"you think that if you brought me some family keepsake, that I'd open up?"

I look at Elena questionably, wanting to know the answer to that amazing question.

She pulls out a bottle full of blood and hands it up.

"I also brought you this"

Katherine vamps out in response to the blood.

I look at Elena and gesture towards the blood as she hands it to me.

I hold it while looking angrily at Katherine for compelling me.

"You don't look so good. How long before your body shuts down?"

"ten, twenty years?" Elena piped in.

"Must be painful to desiccate and mummify? I can't even Imagine" I say harshly.

Elena grabs the bottle while kneeling and pouring some blood into a cup.

She then puts the cup down and she pushes it toward the tomb entrance with a stick.

"You both have the Petrova fire"

Katherine said while raising the cup to her lips.

Why does that sound familiar?

"More blood?"

Elena asks Katherine since she finished the cup.

Katherine puts the cup by the edge of the tomb in response.

"It's a long story, Klaus and I, it goes back to England in 1492 after I left Bulgaria. Or was thrown out." Katherine says before raising the cup of blood to her lips.

I sat down next to Elena deciding not to say anything for the rest of the day.

Katherine isn't worth my time and words.

"Thrown out?"

"My family, your true ancestors . . . they disowned me, My indiscretions were not tolerated at that time. I had a baby out of wedlock. The shame."

"It was kept a secret?"

Katherine hummed in agreement.

"my baby was given away. I was banished to England and I had to learn to adjust. So I quickly became English. It was there that I caught the eye of a nobleman named Klaus. I was taken with him first until I found out what he was and what he wanted from me . . . and then I ran like hell"

"So . . . what did Klaus want?" Elena said while standing up

"The same thing that he'll want from one of you. He wants to break the curse"

I got up interested in the conversation.

"by sacrificing the Petrova doppelganger."

"He wanted to drain every single drop of blood from my body. But for both of you, it's different. One of you has more Petrova blood than the other and that makes it harder to choose who he will pick. It's said that the firstborn has more relation by blood to their family than the other. Before you put me here I dug for information, and I discovered that Elena is the firstborn. I was ecstatic that my favorite twin won't die. You see Elena here has 70% of Petrova blood while Nyra has 30%, before the Mystic Falls gang turned my witch against me she confirmed it. And to top everything, Nyra isn't human."

I look at her shocked for knowing all of that info.

Did she care about me or was she just bored?

"I could smell her the minute you walked towards the tomb."

Katherine began to chuckle while turning to look at Elena.

"She's a werewolf, making her unsuitable for the sacrifice."

Elena gaped and I looked down in worry that Elena would get upset at me, but I soon felt a warm hand grab mine. I looked up and she sported a small sad smile. "It's okay"

I nodded and then sat down on the floor and started pouring more blood into the cup.

I hand it to Katherine as Elena asks more questions.

"What does the Petrova bloodline have to do with Klaus?"

Katherine picks up the cup of blood.

"It's really tedious, but...." Katherine drank the rest of the blood while crushing the cup.

"The curse was bound by the sacrifice of Petrova blood. Witches are crafty with their spells. The doppelganger was created as a way to be able to undo the spell. Once, the doppelganger reappears, the curse can be broken"

"So you ran before he killed you," Elena said while sitting down next to me.

"Something like that"

"Rose never ended up taking you back to Klaus, did she?  I mean you're right here" I say, gesturing with my hands moving up and down her form.

Katherine then started to explain how she escaped.

"You killed yourself," Elena says shakily.

"Klaus needed a human doppelganger. As a vampire, I was no longer any use to him."

I was getting tired of hearing her explanation because it was most likely bull.

"Elena I'll be right back"

Elena nodded at me in response.

After I passed the rocks I sat on one of them and fought the tears that threatened to slip from my eyes.

I missed my family in Beacon Hills but I can't leave with this Klaus situation.

I want them to stay out of this town so no one gets hurt. I was never put in a position to worry about my safety because I always had my family to back me up, but this time I have no one.

I need to stay and fight for my twin sister's life and mine.

I sniffled while wiping the snot that started to run with my sleeve.

All of a sudden I heard footsteps.

I turned to look in the direction it was coming from and I saw Stefan.

I blocked the entrance to prevent him from entering the tomb.

"Hi, Long time no see"

I say awkwardly swaying back and forth with my hands behind my back.

I was mentally face-palming at myself.

What was wrong with me?

"You've been crying."

Stefan asked and his frown lines started to be more noticeable.

"Where's Elena?"

I avoided his gaze, embarrassed that he caught me at a bad time.

"What do you mean crying? I don't know, I haven't seen her since we went to school. I didn't go because who was going to compel the counselor? Pfft."
I reply.

He rolled his eyes in response.

"I know Elena is in the tomb"

"oh okay then"

I moved to the side to let him in.

If he knew she was there, then there was no point for me to hold him back.

"Elena"

I walk into the tomb and see Elena jump.

"Stefan, what are you doing here?"

"I could ask you both the same question," He says looking at both me and Elena.

Elena sighs and rolls her eyes.

"Caroline told you"

"no"

he looks back at me.

Why is he looking at me like this is my fault?

Aye, I won't hesitate to throw these hands to defend my honor.

"she kept your secret, but it didn't take long for me to figure out what was so important that you'd have to keep it from me."

"I knew that you'd stop me"

"Listen to me, whatever she said to you two is a lie. Do not listen to her. She is a liar, Elena."

"you didn't hear what she said"

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

"or Nyra," He said looking at me.

"that's the problem. You won't...But you'll die trying. How is that any better?"

"there's nothing you can do, Stefan. I haven't even told you the best part of the story" Katherine pipes in the conversation and explains how her family died.

"He killed them, my entire family, just to get back at me for running, whatever you do to escape Klaus, he will get his vengeance, On your friends, your family, on anyone you ever loved."

I looked at her sadly because that was the worst thing a 17-year-old girl could go through.

"No. do not listen to her, ok?" Stefan told Elena while grabbing her shoulders in reassurance.

"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 holds up the moonstone and I scoff.

Of course she ended up with the one thing she wanted.

"Oh no, there it is, that's the ultimate lie isn't it, you spun this whole thing so that we would have to get the stone from you, didn't you?" Stefan snd I seemed to have the same trail of thought.

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

"No," I say as I walk forward in front of Katherine and look her in the eye.

"you wanna trade that stone for your freedom"

Stefan grabbed my arm and pushed me back while using the other to point at her.

"Hmm, you manipulative, psychotic bitch" Stefan shook his head.

"eh my freedom, that's where your wrong, Nyra, 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."

When Katherine finishes talking she stares at us and walks back into the tomb.

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When we walked to the porch of Elena's House Stefan gave me a look, which I took as my cue to leave.

I quickly formulated a plan on how to escape their talk.

"I'm going to take a shower if that's all right with you Elena?"

"it's fine with me?"

She replied confused but then turned to look at Stefan.

I quickly walked up to the stairs and decided I was actually going to take one.

After I got out I went to the guest bedroom I was staying in and changed into some pajamas so I could go to sleep

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

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