Elejah, Klaroline, maybe Kennett and Mabekah or Stebekah. Mentions of Stelena, Delena, Forwood and Beremy

Elena and crew are all one year older, the events of seasons 1 and 2 of TVD take place during their senior year, after Jenna was killed Elena took a gap year befor collage. Jeremy is also older, he will be only one year younger than Elena.

Almost entirely canon until 3x15, All My Children, no Delena kiss in 3x10 or 11 and at the end of the last episode when Elena asked Stefan to feel something and he says he can't because all he will feel is pain she tells him she needs to let go or she will never move on.

There will be some quotes from episode 3x15 of TVD but it's a little different.

I don't own The Vampire Diaries or any of the extended universe. The characters, places and situation also do not belong to me, I am merely taking them out for a spin.

Unexpected Chapter One

The first thing Elena became aware of upon waking was the pain. Her chest felt like in had been stabbed, but then again maybe it had. All she remembered was watching Rebekah fall, her skin turning grey. If one of the Original siblings had been naturlized with a white oak ash dagger, they would all have felt the effect, right? But then why had she fallen prey to the stab wound, too?

Her chest felt like that time, a few years ago, when she had gotten the flu and coughed so hard she pulled a muscle. Only this felt about a hundred times worse.

She could hear breathing nearby and footsteps echoing from somewhere. The damp, cold walls of the cave around her was dripping water onto the floor, drip drip drip.

Her eyes opened and she took in the low lighting of the cave. Rebekah was seated across from her, but did not seem to have noticed her being awake yet. That's odd.

"Bekah," she heard a voice yell. The person yelling must only have been about thirty feet or so away and at first Elena had thought it was Klaus. Who else would call for Rebekah in the tunnels in a British accent?

"Kol, is that you?" Rebekah was on her feet now, "Nik? Elijah? What's going on? Hurry, somethings wrong with the doppleganger!"

Elena shifted a bit then, "uh," she groaned, taking a big pull of damp air into her lungs and wincing. "Ow... what's wrong with me? What happened?"

The female Original then looked at her. "Oh, you're awake?" She sneered, giving her a small glare from the corner of her eye.

At that moment, Elijah came around the corner with Kol and thay had a limp Finn supported between them. At seeing Elena propped against the wall of the cave, a pained expression on her face and groaning, Elijah jumped to the worst conclusion. Concern for the lastest doppelganger flooding him, he rounded on his sister.

"What happened Rebekah? I told you not to harm Elena. Taking her was merely a bluff to the Salvatores."

"I didn't do anything to her, I swear, Elijah. What went wrong, though?" Rebekah asked her brothers, "Who was daggered, because whatever is linking us is linked to her, too. But Elena, being human, just started bleeding out. She's lucky she's worth more alive than dead and that I woke up right away and gave her some blood."

"Can we stop talking about HER like she's not here?" Elena snapped at Rebekah.

"Whatever, fine," Rebekah snapped back before rounding on her brothers again. "But can someone please tell me what the bloody hell happened?"

"Well, it's obvious, isn't it?" Kol said, smugly as he dropped Finn to the ground none too lightly. He made no move to finish his explainsion.

"Well, what's obvious? Hmm, nitwit, share with the bloody class." Shouted Rebekah at Kol, "and where's Nik?"

Elijah rolled his eyes and reaching up, he pinched the bridge of his nose between his thumb and forefinger at his younger siblings's displays. A thousand years old and they still act like children. "Kol, don't bait Rebekah. And Rebekah, don't sink to Kol's level."

"You're linked," spoke Elena, quietly. "We're all linked. Last night at the ball, your mother asked if she could talk to me, alone." Elena drew in a breath and winced again slightly at the pain before continuing. "Finn introduced himself and told me that I was to see Esther alone or not at all. So Stefan and I got Damon alone so Stefan could break his neck and keep him out of the way, so he wouldn't stop me. He was not a fan of my meeting with Esther, since she's already tried to kill me once before."

"On my way up, Elijah stopped me, he asked that I tell him what his mother wanted." She turned to the Orignal in question as she said the next part. "I'm so sorry for lying to you, Elijah, I never wanted to hurt you. You, I actually cconsider somewhat of a friend." She smiled weakly at him here but he was refusing to meet her eyes, she looked down saddened. "Anyway, we were told that whatever was in the sealed coffin was a way to kill Klaus- where is he by the way?"

"Later," Elijah said and put his hand up to stop her and Rebekah's questioning looks. "I'll tell you and my sister what happened to us, later. Right now I would very much like to know how and why you are linked to us, Elena?"

It did not escape her notice that Elijah would still not meet her eyes once while talking to her. Did that mean he was angry with her? Did he not forgive her? For some reason, being in Elijah's bad graces hurt Elena more than it should.

"Right, um, okay..." She collected her thoughts before going on. "So I go to talk to your mother and she asks for my blood, to help with a spell. I was under the impression that it would be to kill Klaus so me being the naive, trusting, stupid ("You got that right," muttered Rebekah) idiot that I am- "

"It is not your fault that people take advantage of your kind nature, lovely Elena. You are not stupid or an idiot. Merely a compassionate young soul." Elijah cut into her rant, making her belly flop. Maybe she was forgiven after all? This thought made her smile. Rebekah tutted and rolled her eyes and Kol watched the exchange with disinterest.

"Anyway, I gave her my blood and it wasn't until after that I found out that she was planning to kill you all. Plus the way she asked for it, it made me think she was going to take my blood, whether I let her or not. You've got to understand, Elijah," she tried to implore him with her eyes. Little did she know just how much power her stare could have over him.

"The hold that Klaus has, on everyone in my life, on me. When Stefan took the coffins as revenge, Klaus compelled Jeremy to stand in front of a speeding car without his ring on. If Alaric hadn't pushed Jer out of the way on time, my brother would be dead. Then there was when he got a hybrid to get rid of the ambulance that was going to take Ric to the hospital and basically held us hostage in our own house. That's the night I sent Jeremy away, he beheaded that hybrid with a kitchen knife, I can't have that life for him. Klaus killed Jenna. He made Stefan into a ripper again. He gave Tyler his blood and killed him, telling Bonnie she needed to find the answer of why all his hybrids were dying or Tyler wouldn't make it and then he used his sire bond to get Tyler to bite Caroline on her birthday and he's been stalking Caroline ever since. He killed me and now has me as his 'walking blood bank'. I want my life back."

"Your mom failed to mention that I would be included in the plan to kill you, too, though." Elena kept her eyes on Elijah, even though he still was not meeting her gaze. So he hasn't forgiven her after all? "When I lied to you, it was one of the hardest things I've ever done. I'm so sorry," a few tears leaked from her eyes and she wiped them away. "In the few minutes between my meeting with Esther and you meeting me downstairs I felt like I was going to be sick. I wish so badly that I had just knocked the glass out of you hands. You're my friend, Elijah and I care about you. When you came to get me today, I was about two seconds off going to find you to confess anyway."

Elijah stopped her there, "it's alright, Elena. I did the same thing today, when I chose my family over a person I care about. What I did today was not innocent either. It was deplorable and I greatly regret my actions." He met her eyes than and Elena saw sincerity in them.

Rebekah tutted again, but said nothing.

"Alright, enough honourable nonsense brother." Kol spoke, before Elijah could continue, "obviously, mother fucked up. She somehow didn't account that it being a full moon tonight and her taking away our vampirism, would ensure Nik transformed. Or maybe she thought we'd all be dead before he could finish his transformation. I don't know. What we do know is she fucked up and I'm not going to complain or apologize when we're all still alive."

"So we are human, then?" Rebekah sounded almost hopeful.

"Wait, human? You're all human?" Elena asked, eyes resting on Elijah.

"Yes, Elena we are, but Kol seems to think it is only temporary."

She may have just imagined it, but at hearing that their humanity was only to be short lived, Elena saw Rebekah's sholders drop.

"After those stupid wankers, the Salvatores, got that pretty thing to distract me," Kol said, "their friend, the hunter daggered me. They also got rid of Nik by sending in that blond, baby vampire in. The one he fancies. She walks in, hips swaying, hair flowing and bosoms heaving and I swear Nik was drooling. It was actually quite funny. Anyway, Nik managed to undagger me and he, Elijah and I made it to where mother dearest was performing the ritual with her bloody favourite child playing sacrificial lamb." Elena got the feeling that despite Kol looking very much like Elijah, his behavior was very different from her favourite Orignal's.

Elijah took over the story at this point, "Esther sent Miss Bennett and her mother inside the witches's house while her and Finn stayed inside the protective circle, no vampire could enter. We must have been too late to stop the spell from completing. She used the full moon to turn us human and all that was left for her to do was kill Finn while we were all linked and vulnerable. "

Kol cut in again, "only as a human, Nik's not a hybrid, he's just a plain old werewolf. He's got no control over his transformations and it's a full fucking moon, so he started to shift." He sounded practically gleeful saying this. So Kol enjoyed mayhem? Definitely not like Elijah.

"There is no need for your language, Kol." Apparently Kol and Elijah were going to be swapping places in the story telling all night. "As Kol said earlier, it was a very big oversight, but not an unwelcome one. Niklaus's transformation distracted mother and Finn long enough for Kol and I to cross the barrier. Being no longer vampires, there was no problem. Kol attacked Finn and managed to knock him out, while I went for Esther. I never got there, though. Klaus finished shifting far quicker than I had ever heard a werewolf changing before and I've heard it can sometimes take hours. He went at mother. She fled and Kol and I made it to the entrence to the tunnels with a knocked out Finn. Niklaus is somewhere out there." He poined above him, gesturing to outside the cave.

As if he knew he was being spoken of a howl of a wolf broke the silence that followed Elijah and Kol's narrative.

"So basically, mother on the run, Finn is both homicidal and suicidal, Nik's got a tail and we're all human until we can find a way to reverse this spell?" Rebekah summed it all up. "What the bloody hell are we going to do?"

Kol rolled his eyes and sneered. "It's not until we can reverse the spell, Bex, it's until the next full moon. Mother called on the full moon to power her spell, so she has until the next luna cycle to kill us before we go back to being vampires. She's she witch who turned us so she has the power to unturn us, so to speak. Even if it is only temporary."

"Dammit," muttered Rebekah, throwing her head back and hitting to cave wall. "Ouch, stupid humanity."

Elena swore she saw Elijah smirk slightly at his sister's antics then.

"So," continued Rebekah, "if we're all to be human for then next four weeks and Nik just a werewolf, that means we're sitting ducks!"

"Afraid so, sister," replied Elijah.

Elena then thought of what this would mean for her. If the Originals were stuck being human and vulnerable for the next month and she was linked to them, if anyone were to die, even accidentally, then they all would. At the very least, Klaus is not going to let her out of his sight. Great, just great.

"What does that mean for me?" She asked, looking at the Original siblings, "are you going to hole up in some fortress with the doppleganger for the next month? If any of your enermies heard you were human... well let's just say it probably wouldn't turn out well for any of us. What's the plan? Because despite what some people may think of my self-preservation skills, I don't particularly want to die."

"Nik's place should work," supplied Kol. "He's not a hybrid at the moment and even vampires need an invite to enter a werewolf's house." He turned to Elena then, "hey doppleganger?"

"I have a name, Kol," she said with venom. "It's Elena!"

"Right, sorry dopp-" he stopped there, feeling the glare shot at him by his brother. "I mean Elena, dont get your knickers in a twist. I was just going to ask if you knew any witches, darling? Maybe, like the ones who were helping mother. I heard they were decendents of Ayana, they've got to pack a bit of power."

"Bonnie and her mom?" At this Kol nodded. "Well yeah, but I'm not going to lie, Bonnie doesn't generally like vampires other then Caroline and sometimes Stefan. She doesn't even like Damon most of the time. And she still kind of still holds a grudge on Elijah for what he did at the sacrifice. Then again she did tell me that Esther had basically told her and her mom to help and was piggy-backing of the Bennett line for power."

"What time will the full moon set?" Elena asked, "when will Klaus be detransforming? Caroline said Tyler usually would revert around 3am."

"Three sounds about right, wench," spat Rebekah, Elena sighed.

She checked her phone, the time said 11:48pm. "Damn, it's not even midnight yet." She stood then and stretched, feeling her back crack and a painful pulling in her chest. She hissed as she rolled her shoulders, then turned her back to the Mikaelsons. She undid a few buttons on her jacket to look at the healing mark on her chest.

"How is your wound?" Elijah asked her, sounding concerned.

There was an angry red circle on the centre left hand side of her chest, it was about an inch in diameter. Purple bruising also showed and so did alot of dried blood. "It's healing," she told him, "I should be fine by the morning. The blood Rebekah gave me before the ritual seems to still be working." She turned back to the Originals as she redid her buttons.

"Um... Elijah, could I speak to you for a moment? Alone?" Without waiting for a reply she turned away from him and started off down the tunnel towards the chamber with the cave drawings.

The candles were still burning in there, maybe Bonnie or her mom had spelled them? Esther's coffin was open in the centre of the cave, too. The flickering light from the flames danced on the walls, illuminating the drawings, almost making the pictures look like they were moving.

Elena heard Elijah's footsteps echo down the rocky passage, she turned just in time to see him pass the threshold of the chamber. He bypassed the barrier like nothing, not even aware that a few hours ago, the invible wall would not have let him in.

Elijah paused just inside the cave, he looked around and his eyes stopped on the names of his family. "I remember this place," he said softly, walking at the wall and running his hand over the engravings of his parents and siblings. "You did not need to ask to talk to me alone, Elena. I'm aware that you wish to apologize to me for last night at the ball. It is not necessary."

"But it is," she returned, before he cut her off again.

"Lovely Elena, your actions are not so very bad. It is mine that I find truely appalling. I used you, an innocent, as a pawn in a game against my mother and I used my own sister's dislike of you against her. I am sorry, for today I did something I abhor to protect the one thing I value most, my family. My only comfort is that if anyone was to understand, it would be you." As he said this he moved towards her and reached out to rest his hand on her cheek, Elena unknowingly leaned into his touch.

"I do understand," she said as her eyes closed, the palm of his hand felt like it was on fire. "It's your family," she opened her eyes and looked at him. "If it were Jeremy in trouble, there isn't anything I wouldn't do."

His other hand came up to join the first one her face, his eyes truely met her's for the first time tonight. "Your compassion knows no bounds, it is a gift that you must promise me you will carry with you, always. Just as I will carry my regret." He removed his hands and Elena mourned their loss. "Young Jeremy is lucky to have such a sister as you." He went back to the carvings.

"You know this chamber had an anti-vampire protection spell on it," said she, trying to remove the tension that still hung in the air. There were tingles running on the skin of her cheeks. The only time she had ever felt anything like this before was last night at the ball, when Elijah had touched her arm. Only she had not been so aware then, there had been too much going on.

"Sooo," she came to stand next to him. "what's the plan? For when we can leave?"

"Well, as Kol said, we should be able to use Niklaus' place. I am not sure how we will all cope, being in so close quarters for weeks. You may need to test my sanity after this is all over." He smirked at her then, like the time he deadpanned the 'OMG' line to her back in April. She let out a small laugh as her heart jumped and she was happy that as a human he could not hear it. "But there is little choice otherwise. We'll also need to get some answers out of Finn, maybe a truth spell or compulsion? I'm not sure how forthcoming with information he will be without it. We are human now, so maybe Rebekah or Kol could do the spell, but after a thousand years of not practicing magic, they may be a tad rusty."

"I could ask Caroline or Bonnie," she suggested. "Wait, Kol and Rebekah were witches?"

"We all learned a little, but Finn, Kol and Rebekah were by far the most proficient. In fact Kol was actually quite powerful."

"Oh, okay... That makes sense, Esther is a witch and magic is hereditary. So how are we getting to Klaus's house- ha Klaus, house, they rhyme..." He raised his eyebrows with a bemused expression on his face and she shook her head. "Right, sorry, I get weird when I'm tired. So how would we get there? Your brother's place is on the other side of town."

"My car is still parked at the same spot in the woods, if we can get there, we should be fine."

"So we're stuck here until about threeish?"

"It would appear so, Elena."

Elijah looked away from her and went back to examining the walls again, he ran his finger over some of the lines and muttered the names of his family under his breath.

She watched him mouth words in a language she didn't know, lost in his memory of a time long since passed.

"Ric said that the names were written in a Viking scripture. You never told me you were a Viking."

The Original turned his head to her and a corner of his mouth lifted. "Technically, I'm not. Mikael was. My younger siblings were all born here and we didn't leave again until after we were all made vampires. My older siblings, Freya and Finn, were both born in what is now Norway. Freya died in the plague while my mother was pregnant with me and I was born during the voyage over."

"So Finn is older than you?" Elena was so very curious about his life.

"Yes, the calander system was no where near as effective back then as it is today, but from what we've looked into over the years, Freya was born around the year 972 AD and Finn about fourteen months later, in early 974."

"And when were you born?" She asked.

"Late 977, about a month before the Winter Solsitice. Niklaus was next in 980, around April, followed by Kol three years later. He was born on the March Equinox. Rebekah is four years younger than Kol, she was born early, and her birthday is only five weeks after mine, between the Solsitice and Christmas. We had another brother, Henrik, his birth I remember the clearest." He stopped then and gave a sad smile.

"I was sixteen and it was a full moon. Mother and Ayana had taken refuge in a different cave to us and Finn had the responsibility of looking out for six year old Rebekah, while myself and Niklaus were to keep the ten year old Kol occupied. Rebekah was fine, she knew mother was having our younger sibling and went to sleep early, saying the sooner she slept, the sooner she woke with a baby sister. She had so wanted a sister. It was Kol that was the trouble maker," he laughed here. "Not much has changed in that aspect. Anyway, Kol ran off and ended up in the cave mother was birthing in, I chased after him but was too late, he saw things he should not have and woke with nightmares for weeks."

Elena laughed with him here, she had never heard him laugh like this before.

Elijah grew somber again, "Henrik was born in 993, he was such a boisterous child, very curious and very loving. Never cross word for anyone. He use to follow Niklaus and I on chores around the village... He was only twelve when he died." Elena could see the grief on Elijah's face, it was still painful to talk of his deceased brother, one thousand years later.

"I'm sorry," she said to him. "I didn't mean to cause you pain with my questions."

"It's quite alright, Elena, I'm fine." He moved on, to look at the other drawings then, seeing the story of his family take shape.

Elena did some quick math in her head, "so does that make you twenty eight or one thousand and thirty three?" She asked with a smirk, hoping to lighten the mood.

Without facing her he smiled and said, "whatever you're more comfortable with, Elena. But usually to humans I'm in my late twenties and to the supernatural world I'm over a thousand." He looked at her now, "also it is October, I'll have you know I am only one thousand and thirty two, thank you very much... at least for another few weeks anyway."

"So your birthday's in mid November?"

The Original nodded, he was now looking a picture of a tree and a spiral. Elena had no idea what they were meant to mean but Elijah seemed to have a basic understanding. And apparently it was not something good.

"KOL! REBEKAH! Come here, quickly! There is something you must see." He said in a panic. "And don't forget to bring Finn, if he wakes he could get away."

Less than a minute later Kol and Rebekah were dumping a still unconscious Finn to the ground just inside the chamber.

"What's wrong, Elijah? What are you yelling for?" Rebekah asked, and Elijah showed them the area he was examining before he called for them and Elena watched the colour drain from their faces as they took in the picture. "Is that... Does that- does that mean what I think it means, brother?"

" I think it does, Bex, I think it does." Kol answered his younger sister.

"A white oak tree, three hundred years after we burned the first one and left for the Old World." Elijah said grimly and Elena's head snapped to look at the Mikaelson siblings at this. "There must have been a sapling. But if that is the case, where is it now?"

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I also want to say sorry for any typos, I wrote this on my tablet as my laptop is broken. I'm in the process of getting a new one but I had to get this story down asap before I had too much to type from the draft.

I make no promises on regular updates, I'm a busy person with two young children (one with special needs), but I do have a draft of the next chapter and a half done and lay outs for the whole story written.