Hiding myself from plain site when you look exactly like Elena Gilbert wasn't the easiest thing but Daniel always told me that, he said the hardest thing wouldn't be killing the vampires it would be the twin issue. He was the one who found me 10 years ago when I was abondoned alone and he gave me something no one had ever done, direction and affection, he was the cloesest thing to family I've ever known so he'd not just my vampire hunting trainer he's also my dad.
I was brave, going to the mystic grill in daylight but I didn't care there was only so long I could be cooped up in that lousy little apartment. Daniel says he chose it for location and to stay out the way of the locals but aparently it's where Alaric Saltsman has an apartment. Sitting in a booth, the grill was crouded enough for me to just find a seat in the back, somewhere to go unnoticed. I was sipping on some coffee when I first noticed her, Bonnie the witch. I recognized her from her file and that's when panic set in, would elena be behind her, would my cover be blown? No. I had to go out, I just couldn't be noticed in the meantime so I had to wait until Bonnie's back was turned.
I slipped out and leaned against the hard wall of the grill sure I was out of hot water when all of a sudden out of nowhere right in front of me she glared at me.
OH SHIT!
Thoughts were racing and panic set in again, shit, I would have to pretend to be katherine, did Elena know about Katherine? it was only assumed at this point but since Elena didn't seem to be freaking out my guess what that I was right and she did know of Katherine and the doppelganger curse. There was silence as she moved closer, I could hardly believe the first time I set eyes on my twin sister that it would be like this, I was hoping the whole unnoticed thing would have worked a hell of a lot longer. Her face expression changed as she finally reached me and pulled me around the back, I struggled to catch my balance but just stared at her. She didn't want anyone to see us that was obvious, was it because she didn't want anyone to notice us together or maybe, just maybe she knew what I knew.
"Explain" Said my twin sister Elena, in a sharp demanding tone of voice.
"I.." is all I could muster at this point. I smiled with a smirk creaping upon my face. "What can I say Elena, it's always a pleasure" I said a second later, trying my best to guess Katherine's posture and attitude. Elena starred at me blankly as if I'd spoken in a foreign language and for my seventeen years in this world I had only ever grew up in Georgia. "Well this has been fun, but I'm getting bored now" I finally snapped to which Elena seemed to block as I tried to move away from her.
The next couple of second could have gone better because my plan was to run, run as fast as I could and hide for the next 100 years, well maybe not 100 but for as long as I could because I wasn't equiped to deal with this so I did what any nervous, lying seventeen year old would do in a crisis, I tried to run but Elena blocked me and that's when she demanded the truth so I found myself back at her house, where she grew up telling her most of the truth, there were some things I couldn't trust her with but I figured she deserved to know the truth about me.
"... And that's why they couldn't find a foster home for me, or an adoptive family because apparently parents wanting to adopt don't want an ill child with blood issues or health problems and then later I guess it was because I was too old. I did meet my-our father once where he told me that he was doing the best thing for me by staying out of my life, he did leave me a nice nest of money but I didn't know where it came from or even what I was supposed to do as he was just a stranger handing me cash, it felt wrong" As I continued to tell her everything she seemed to take it all in but I wasn't sure if she would even be okay because Elena seemed to be in a trance.
"So we're sisters" Elena finally said.
"Yes, twin sisters, that's whey we're y'know identical" I added to her statement. I waited for some kind of protest or for her to freak out but instead she nodded at me and gave me what looked like a fake smile but I didn't know her at all it could have been Genuine, I still don't know but she didn't freak out as much as I thought she would have, as much as I did when I finally learned the truth about everything, my illness, my heritage, the vampires, the secrets all of it seemed too far fetched, Daniel had to show me a picture of Katherine Pierce for me to really believe it and even then I was too scared to admit the truth but maybe Elena was the better twin, better equiped to deal with this.
