Title: Helbrede Meg

Summary: Josie lived a quiet life. School, work, and organizing town events. She never realized that under the normality of Mystic Falls there was a whole new world, until she fell in head first.

Author's Note: So, this is my first story constructive criticism is welcome, but please no flames. I'm writing this for fun with my friend who is my editor and co-author, but we are only human and not perfect. My story starts in season two during Rose, so sorry about any confusion or missed pieces. Please read and review. Hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: I, sadly, do not own The Vampire Diaries, only any unrecognizable plot and OC's.

Third Person POV (Unless otherwise specified)

Chapter One

In a secluded area, a small Ford Taurus pulls up to the side of a dark Ford Expedition SUV. A darkly dressed, handsome middle aged man steps out of the car, and walks casually over to the driver side of the SUV. The man behind the wheel is sitting in the dark of the vehicle wearing a cap and sunglasses.

"Where is she?" The man in the vehicle asks softly with a British accent.

"In the trunk, I did exactly what you said. But, there was a… complication in the retrieval, another girl was there, so I brought her along too." The man spoke in a monotone voice, belaying no emotion.

The covered man was quiet for a moment before replying, "Good, put them in the back."

The man opened the trunk of his car, revealing two unconscious girls lying next to each other. The first girl was tall and slender with straight brown hair, and wearing bloodstained clothing. The second girl had red-auburn curls, and a dark sea green party dress with tall heels on her feet.

He effortlessly lifted the two unconscious girls, one at a time, from the trunk of the car and transferred them into the back of the SUV, then rejoined the man behind the wheel.

"Thank you for your help." The covered man told him.

"Is there anything else?"

"One more thing. Come closer, please." The man moved forward. "Closer," he whispered.

The other man moved until he was right next to the window, and then the covered man reached out, pulling him into the car. He then bit the other man and drove away, leaving his car, and body, to be found.

At the Gilbert house, Jeremy knocks on his sister's bedroom door.

"Yo, Elena!" he calls.

After receiving no response, he opens the door, and is confronted with the image of an empty room.

Once he got to school, Jeremy caught a glimpse of Stefan at his locker among the sea of Mystic High students, and wandered his way through the crowd to join him.

"Hey, Jeremy." Stefan greets him.

"Look, Elena's got to let me know if I'm supposed to cover for her. Jenna's cool with the two of you, but you guys are pushing it." Jeremy responds slightly bemused.

Stefan looks confused, "What are you talking about?"

"You and Elena. Look, I'm glad you guys are back together, but if she's going to sleep over…" Jeremy tells the vampire.

Stefan interrupts him, "Wait, wait… hold on a minute. We're not back together."

Now Jeremy is the confused one, "Wait… she didn't stay at your place last night?"

"No, I mean, I saw her at the party but that was it. She didn't sleep over."

Genuine confusion was etched across Jeremy's face. "Well her bed hasn't been slept in and Mrs. Lockwood said that her car was still in the driveway. Where is she then?" he exhaled in a rush to Stefan.

Just then, Tyler approached them asking, "Hey, have you guys seen Josie this morning? She was supposed to meet my mom this morning to talk about the historical society tea party, but she didn't show."

"Haven't seen her," Stefan responds with a meaningful look at Jeremy, "But we'll keep an eye out if we see her. If you'll excuse us, Tyler."

A groan is heard as the vampire carries in Elena and lays her on the couch next to another still unconscious girl.

"Please." She moans, as she is being carried. As he removes the ties from both of the girls, the taller of the two asks, "What do you want?"

"Ssh." He tells the brunette.

"Please, I'm hurt." Elena attempts to plead with who she assumes is her kidnapper.

"I know," the man leans closer. His eyes turning red with dark blue veins protruding across the surface of the skin beneath them, and fangs elongating in his mouth. "Just a taste," he breathed.

Elena had sucked in a breath, a scream getting caught in her throat, at the vampire's words.

"Trevor!" A woman's voice barked. "Control yourself." She ordered in a quieter voice.

The man, Trevor, stands up from the couch. As he passes the woman, he scoffs, "Buzz kill."

"And who is she?" The unnamed woman asks her companion, gesturing near Elena's feet.

Elena looked over towards the other end of the couch to a small stirring figure she hadn't registered as being there before. Then, she gasped out a frightened, "Josie!" Wondering why she was there, before the memory struck her.

***Flashback***

The masquerade was finally over, and Stefan and Damon were taking an unconscious Katherine to the tomb to be locked up.

As Elena walked to her car, wanting to go home and change out of her blood-stained clothes before someone saw, she heard a bell-like voice chime out, "Elena, wait up!"

She turned around to see Josie, the petite girl was trying to walk quickly over to her in heels she must have been forced into by Mayor Lockwood. Her dark red curls were pinned up in a twisted up-do, and she was wearing an elegant, floor length dark green dress, and her heels made her previously 5'2 figure look closer to 5'4".

The slightly younger girl was holding something in her hand, and as she got closer, Elena realized that it was her phone.

"Oh my God." She exclaimed to her friend. "I don't know what I would have done without this. Thank you so much Josie." She breathed out in relief. Internally, she worried that Josie might have seen a message about the supernatural side of Mystic Falls from Stefan or Damon. Elena instantly berated herself for the thought, Josie would never snoop through someone else's phone.

"Oh, it was nothing." She told Elena sweetly (She was always too nice for her own good). "I was getting ready to go home anyway" she continued, "Carol and Tyler begged me to come, but I can't find them any… What happened?!" She exclaimed, shock and horror filling her voice, finally registering that not only was Elena not dressed up, but she was also covered in bloodstains.

"Josie…" Elena trailed off, unable to think of anything to tell her friend that could even begin to explain the significant amount of blood staining her clothing, without a scratch on her.

"We need to get you to a hospital, now!" Her friend exclaimed, going into what Tyler and the others aptly, and affectionately, described as her Mother Hen mode.

Gently, as if Elena might break if she held any tighter, she steered her towards the injured girl's car, carefully taking the keys out of her hand.

"Josie, I'm fine." She told her friend, unconvincingly. "It's not as bad as you think."

Josie stared at her incredulously, "Elena you look like you were just…"

She was cut off by a masked man approaching them, unnoticed, from behind. Upon reaching them, he roughly grabbed Josie by the hair and rapidly slammed her head onto the roof of the car, promptly knocking her out. Before Elena could even react to the ambush, the man seized hold of her and forcefully pressed a cloth to her mouth. Her eyes never left Josie's prone form as her vision faded to black.

***End Flashback***

"'Lena." Josie slurred groggily. "Where…?" Her question dying off as she caught sight of Trevor and the woman.

Trevor answered his companion's question, "I don't know. She was with the doppelganger when I got her. But whoever she is, she smells mouthwatering."

Josie's eyes widened almost comically at that statement. And Elena was quick to bring the attention off of the younger girl.

"What do you want with us?" Elena strongly asked the woman.

"My God, you look just like her." The woman stared unabashedly at Elena.

"But I'm not. Please, whatever you want…" She demanded desperately.

Josie merely watched the scene unfold, confused and concussed, without a clue as to what was going on.

The woman interrupted Elena's pleas snappishly, "Be quiet!"

"But I'm not Katherine." She insisted irritably. "My name is Elena Gilbert; you don't have to do this, just let my friend go."

"I know who you are, I said be quiet." The woman told her, annoyed.

"What do you want?" The frustrated brunette implored the older woman.

Josie screamed, as the woman reached out, lightning fast, and backhanded Elena across the face, sending her sprawling onto the couch.

"I want you to be quiet." The woman told the unconscious girl. She then turned to the pitiful sight of the other human girl dizzily crawling to her friend. Dismissing her as a threat, she ordered her to, "Stay here and be silent."

The small girl nodded shakily, feeling regret, she let out a groan as her head throbbed with every motion.

The woman then exited the room, leaving the girl to tend to her injured friend.

Josie waited for what seemed like hours until Elena had woken up. During this time she had taken off her shoes and pulled down her hair, pulling it into a ponytail instead. She was still trying to come to terms with the fact that someone had kidnapped her and Elena for reasons unknown to her.

Although, from the way they were talking it sounded like they only wanted Elena and she was only in the way.

As Elena let out a groan from her position in Josie's lap, they heard their captors speaking in the other room.

"How're the girls?" She heard the female of the duo ask.

The bored response came from Trevor, "Still passed out, and the other is sitting with her."

"You didn't touch her, did you?" The woman inquired, sounding rather worried for someone who had kidnapped them in Josie's opinion.

The male's annoyed voice quipped back at her, "Give me some credit. So, you called him?" The second part of the retort contained none of the arrogance or scorn he began with, but instead sounded quite fearful.

"No. I called one of his contacts. You know how this works."

"Did you or did you not get the message to Elijah?" The male's voice was laced with desperation.

Elena started to get up, startling Josie out of her thoughts. "Elena!" She cried out, relieved.

Elena put her finger to her mouth and gestured for Josie to follow her. Josie slowly shook her head, remembering the woman's warning not to leave the room. Elena grasped her hand comfortingly and pulled her friend to the door.

As they reached the doorway, the girls heard the still unknown woman say to her male companion, "They say he got it."

"Wonderful. And what?" He drawled.

"So, that's it, Trevor." The woman told him, "He either got it, or he didn't. We just have to wait."

"Look, it's not too late. We can just leave them here. We don't have to go through with this." Trevor said quickly, the sheer panic in his voice was undisguised.

"I'm sick of running." She emphasized each word slowly, Josie could tell that they'd had this argument before.

"Yeah? Well, running keeps us from dying." He stated in a matter-of-a-fact manner.

"Elijah is old school. If he accepts our deal, we're free." The female placated her friend.

It was then that Elena took a step forward, and they both froze, hearing the floor beneath her foot emit a loud creak.

"You!" The woman snapped at them, striding briskly across the room until she stood directly before the two girls.

"There's nothing around here for miles. If you think you're getting out of this house, you're tragically wrong. Understand?" She whispered, menacingly.

"Who's Elijah?" Elena asked.

"Elena!" Josie warned her friend, begging that she stopped her questioning of their kidnappers before they hurt her again.

"He's your worst nightmare." She told them factually, before turning on her heel and walking away.

Elena followed, Josie sticking close to her side, frightened and confused by their situation and her friend's lack of fear.

"Why are we here?" Elena questioned the woman.

"You keep asking me these questions like I'm gonna answer them." Came the exasperated response.

"Why won't you?" Elena persisted.

"That's another one."

"You got us. Ok? It's not like we can go anywhere. The least you can do is tell me what you want with us." Elena kept at it.

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

Josie finally spoke up, "Delivery to who? Elijah?" She questioned softly.

"Ah heh. Two points to the eavesdroppers." The woman agreed. "And here I thought you weren't going to speak at all." Her voice was amused.

Elena asked, "Who is he? Is he a vampire?" She dropped all pretenses of why they were there.

"Wait, vampires? Are you serious?" Josie looked at the other's somber expressions. "Okay, vampires are real. Anything else?"

"That's it, no freak out?" The woman raised her eyebrows at Josie's calm acceptance of the existence of vampires. When her question produced no response, she went back to her and Elena's conversation, answering Elena's question from before, "He's one of the vampires, the Originals."

Elena furrowed her brows, "What do you mean the Originals?"

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

Josie suddenly interjected, "Salvatores? What do they have to do with vampires?"

"They're vampires." Elena told her distractedly. "So, you know Stefan and Damon." She asked the vampire.

"I know of them. A hundred years back, a friend of mine 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."

"A hundred years? How old are they? How old are you?" Josie asked animatedly. "If you want to answer, that is." She added as an afterthought, wary of potentially offending her captor.

Ignoring Josie's questions, Elena asked, "Who are the Originals?"

"Trevor and I have been running for 500 years. We're tired. We want it over." Josie's expression turned empathetic. "We're using you to negotiate ourselves out of an old mess." The vampire explained.

"But why me?" Elena implored the woman.

"Because you're a Petrova doppelganger. You're the key to breaking the curse."

"Curse?" Josie questioned, confused.

Elena looked thoughtful for a moment, "The sun and the moon curse?"

"Ohh. You do know your history." The vampire confirmed.

"What do you mean, I'm the key? The moonstone is what breaks the curse." Elena told her.

"No. The moonstone is what binds the curse," the woman corrected her, "sacrifice is what breaks it."

"Sacrifice?" Elena queried.

At the same time Josie exclaimed, "Sacrifice?!"

"The blood of the doppelganger. You're the doppelganger. Which means in order to break the curse, you're the one who has to die." The older woman told them, uncaringly. Josie looked at the taller girl, fearful for her, and finally knowing why they had been abducted.

"Tell me more." Elena continued to badger her female captor for answers.

Just then, Trevor entered the ballroom, "Captivity has made her pushy, eh?" He directed towards his companion. "What do you want to know, doppelicious?"

"Who are you running from?" Elena asked, clearly hoping the male would be more open than his friend.

"The Originals." Trevor answered.

"Yeah, she said that. What does that mean?" She pushed.

"The first family, the old world. Rose and I pissed 'em off." At this, the female, Rose, deliberately and audibly cleared her throat. Immediately, he amended his statement, "Correction-I pissed them off. Rose had my back. And for over half a millennium, they've wanted us dead."

"What did you do?" Was all Elena could think to ask.

Rose's voice was irritated now, "He made the same mistake countless others did. He trusted Katerina Petrova."

Elena's voice was sympathetic, "Katherine."

"The one and only—the first Petrova doppelganger." Rose said, spite coating her every syllable.

Trevor added on to his friend's response, "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 told them, ominously.

The two then left Elena and Josie with more questions than they'd had prior to their conversation.

A/N: I'm not sure when I'll be able to update next, but I will. This chapter was originally going to span the whole episode, but it got too long, so I made it two chapters. Lately I've been really busy with school and sports. Sorry about any mistakes we may have missed, if you point them out to me I'll try to fix them.