Life compelled

24~Greetings

I look at her, she looks just like Elena did, even more so in person

"We need you" Ethan says. "For what?"

"To do a cloaking spell. We need to cloak you and Elena Gilbert so this woman named Kate can't find you" Grayson explains

"Ugh Kate. I thought I'd never hear that name again" she says and slouches in her seat

"You know her?" I asked and stepped a little closer. "I've been around along time, I know people"

We looked at each other but then turned back to her

"Well after this is over we will need to keep an eye on you. You'll have to stay here" Grayson says to her

"What's in it for me?" She asks us "What do you want?" Ethan asked back

"I'm a simple girl who basically has everything she could want right now so this won't be hard. All I want is the promise that after this is over, Kate dies"

Ethan nods his head "deal"

Him and Grayson walk out but I stay with her

I stare at her. I didn't realize it until she said "we are in the 21st century. You can take a picture"

"I'm sorry I just, I just thought you were died"

"I was. Until I came back from hell. You know nothing ever truly dies" she says back to me so I nod

"How did you find me? How did you know where I would be?"

"I know about your background with the Salvatore's. They basically told me everything when I went to visit them"

"Why would you visit?" I put my head down

"Um they knew someone. A friend of mine I was just wondering where she was" I say. "Any luck?" She asks I shake my head 'no'

I hear Olivia coming down the stairs "I'm ready" she says. I take Katherine's chains off, she sits up and prepares for the spell

I head upstairs as she does the spell

I see Brie upstairs in the kitchen with a snack

Not long afterward Katherine and Olivia came back upstairs "it's done" Olivia says and I nod

Brie quickly jumps up and walks over to Olivia with crossed arms

"What?" Olivia asks her

"When were you gonna tell me Devion asked out out?"

"Devion asked you out?" I jump up from my seat

Olivia raised and drops her arms "Because I didn't want to make it a big deal"

"Um it is a big deal. You guys will be so cute together"

Katherine squints at Brie "weren't you the girl who bumped into me a few days ago?"

"No, actually I bumped into 'Elena' " She said sarcastically

Katherine raised both her eyebrows and shrugged

"I didn't think you would actually agree to stay here" Brie says to her

"Why not?" "Because of the relation between you" she pointed at her "and-" she tuned to point at me but stopped once she did she had realized what she had done

Katherine looked at me confused "what relation?" I looked at Brie who was quietly backing out of the room "well I'll just leave you two alone for that conversation"

Katherine slowly walks towards me. I try to hold back from telling her but I knew I would end up telling her sooner or later, she always get what she wants

"The reason I went to the Salvatore boarding house was because, I found a picture and found out that...we were related. And that the woman I was looking for who died was my mom...Nadia Petrova"

She relaxed her face as she took in what I was saying

"that's...impossible" she said. "I was with her when she died. She would have told me"

"Not if she was compelled to forget about me and her family"

We heard footsteps coming downstairs the stairs, Grayson and Ethan

"We made a bedroom for you" Grayson said

"Actually he took MY bedroom and made it for you" Ethan explained

"Thanks" she said to them

"No problem" Grayson says. "Guess I'll be sharing a couch with James" Ethan sighs

"James?" I ask. "Our cousin" Grayson explains "he's coming to town tomorrow"

"Why haven't I heard of him?"

"Because you didn't ask" Ethan say back. I glare at him in annoyance

"He moved away with his family. He hasn't been here in ages" Grayson says

"Are you sure it's safe? Ya know to have him here" I say. "Of course, he's strong and can handle himself. Plus if not I'm sure you won't mind lending a fang or too" Ethan says and they both walk out

Once they leave Katherine looks at me and says "I guess the apple does fall far from the tree after all"

I shoot her a confused look. "Oh come on. Stefan, Damon, Grayson, Ethan"

"Grayson is not Stefan and Ethan is not Damon ok. They're two separate pairs and plus I don't like Ethan, I'm in love with Grayson" I explained to her "yeah, ok"