Elena Gilbert was heading to her car, leaving a party she didn't really have fun at. Julie Johnson had no idea why she had come to this party. She had no idea why she had been invited in the first place. She was leaving the party too, following Elena's footstep without really paying attention to the Gilbert girl. But then, as she was about to get into her car, she saw a figure appear behind Elena. She frowned and gasped when she saw the stranger grab her

"Elena!" she yelled.

Her heart skipped a beat as she felt a hand on her shoulder and another on her mouth. She tried to get away but she felt pain in her neck right before everything went black.

Two men were parked in an empty field, waiting. When another car parked next to them they got out of the car. One of the two men went over the other vehicle. The driver opened the tainted window a little. He was wearing a cap and sunglasses.

"Where is she?" he asked.

"In the trunk," the man answered.

"Did you do exactly as I said?"

The man didn't answer right away.

"Well?" the driver was getting impatient.

"There was a complication," he said.

"What complication?"

"She wasn't alone. We had to take someone else with us. No witnesses."

The driver sighed. "Put them in the car." He watched in the mirror as the two men put Elena and the other girl in the trunk of his car before they went back to talk to him.

"Thank you for your help," he said.

"Is there anything else?" one of the two men asked.

"Yes. Remember what I told you to do once you were done?" he asked and they nodded. "You're done," he said and one of the men took out a gun and shot his accomplice before he shot himself in the head and the car with the tainted windows drove away.

When Elena woke up, she didn't know where she was. Her hands and feet were tied with the same rope. She was alone. She heard someone coming and when she looked up she saw a man with a cap and sunglasses climbing down the stairs with an unconscious girl in his arms. She kept silent as she watched the man lay the girl on the same couch she was on.

"What do you want?" she asked as he removed their ropes but he didn't answer. "Please, I'm hurt," she told him.

"I know," he said as he leaned closer to her. Veins appeared below his eyes and Elena tried to move away but he was holding her.

"Trevor! Control yourself!" a woman stopped him.

He turned to see a woman with short hair just right next to them.

"Buzz kill," he told her as he got up from the couch.

"Who is that?" she asked, pointing at Julie.

"Complications," he sighed.

But the woman was too focus on Elena to care about "complications". She was staring at her like she knew her and she hadn't seen her for centuries.

"What do you want with me?" Elena asked, afraid.

"My God, you look just like her," the woman told her as she approached her.

"But I'm not," Elena shook her head. "Pease, whatever..."

"Be quiet."

"I'm not Katherine," she said and got up. "My name is Elena Gilbert, you don't have to do this!"

"I know who you are. I said be quiet!"

Elena frowned. "What do you want?"

The woman slapped her so hard Elena fell back on the couch. "I want you to be quiet!" she said but she was knocked out.

When Julie woke up, she saw Elena next to her, unconscious. She quickly sat up and looked around. She had no idea where she was.

"Elena!" she called the Gilbert girl as she placed a hand on her arm, right below the blood stained and then she shook her. Elena opened her eyes slowly and frowned at the stranger.

"Who are you? Are you okay?" she asked.

Julie frowned. "I'm...," she shook her head and sighed. There was no point in feeling insulted. Elena Gilbert was a popular girl. It didn't surprise her she had no idea who she was. "I'm Julie... we're in high school together," she told her.

"Oh," Elena said before she looked down.

"I'm a year older than you," Julie shrugged. "Where are we?" she asked. "Are you okay? There is blood on you shirt," she asked.

"I'm fine," Elena told her. "Where are they?"

She frowned. "Who's...they?" Julie asked.

"The vamp..." Elena stopped and Julie raised her eyebrows.

"Vamp...?"

"How much do you know?" she said after a moment of hesitation.

"How much do I know... about this?" she made invisible circles with her hands. Elena nodded. "Elena... I don't even know what this is. Have we been kidnapped?" she asked.

Elena didn't answer. She put her finger on her lips and pointed at the stairs. She signed her to stay quiet and to listen.

"Did you or did you not get the message to Elijah?" the girls heard.

"Who's that?" Julie whispered.

"That's Trevor. There's a girl too."

"Okay... but who's Elijah?" she asked and Elena looked up at her and gave her a worried look.

"I have no idea."

Julie looked at Elena for a while before she nodded. "Okay...Question... Are we going to die?" she asked.

Elena frowned. "What? No!" she violently shook her head.

Julie breathed out a nervous laugh. "Oh, good," she said. "But..." she calmed down. "How sure are you...?"

Elena looked at her with big eyes. She had no idea but she couldn't tell her that.

"Come," she told her and Julie raised her eyebrows.

"Where are we going?" she followed her up the stairs. Elena put her finger back on her lips to tell her to stay silent. Trevor and the woman were close.

"Did he or did he not get the message?" Trevor asked again.

"They say he got it."

"Wonderful. And what?"

"So that's it, Trevor," Rose sighed, annoyed. "He either got it or he didn't. We just have to wait."

Elena turned to look at Julie and she waved at her to follow her without a word.

"It's not too late. We can leave her. We don't have to go through with this," Trevor said. He was obviously scared. Scared of Elijah. Which scared both Elena and Julie.

"I'm sick of running," the woman told him.

"Yeah? Well, running keeps us from dying!"

"Elijah's old-school. If he accepts our deal, we're free."

Elena stepped on the creaky floor and both the vampires turned at the noise.

"You!" the woman walked towards them. Julie took one step back. "There's nothing around here for miles. If you thing you're getting out, you're wrong. Understand?" she eyed both Elena and Julie.

"Who's Elijah?" Julie's eyes grew big as Elena dared to ask the question. Rose looked at her like she was going to murder her right on the spot.

"He's your worst nightmare," she replied before she left the room.

Julie gasped at the answer. "We're so dead," she said. Elena looked at Julie then down at the floor.

"Come," she sighed and she took Julie's hand and they left the room.

"Where are we going?" Julie asked a little afraid.

"They need us alive, they won't hurt us," she answered.

"Us?" Julie echoed. She didn't know what Elena had to do with them but she was pretty sure she had nothing to do with any of this.

They found the woman in a room full of books.

"Why am I here?" Elena asked.

The woman was getting annoyed and she sighed.

"You keep asking me questions like I'm gonna answer them."

"Why won't you?" Elena shrugged.

Julie was surprised Elena wasn't afraid.

"That's another one," the woman sighed. Julie frowned when she saw the woman covering a window with a piece of cardboard.

"You got us, okay? It's not like we can go anywhere," Elena said as she stepped into the room. Julie didn't follow her. What is she? Crazy? Does she want to die? "The least you can do is tell us what you want."

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

"Delivery to who? Elijah?"

The woman chuckled. "Two point to the eavesdropper. Can't you be more like your friend? She's quieter."

"Who is he? Is he a vampire?"

Julie couldn't help but chuckle and both Elena and the other woman turned to look at her.

"He's one of the vampires. The Originals."

Julie frowned and shook her head. Was she hearing right?

"What do you mean the Originals?"

"What do you mean vampires?" Julie asked.

"Doesn't your friend know? Haven't the Salvatores been teaching you vampire history? "

"Know what? ... And we're not friends... Wait...Salvatores as in... Stefan Salvatore?

Elena sighed. "He's a vampire," she told her. "So you know Stefan and Damon?" she turned back to the woman, completely ignoring the fact that she had just told someone of the existence of vampires.

"I know of them," the woman answered as she opened a book. "A hundred years back, a friend of mine tried to set me up with Stefan. She said he was one of the good ones. More of a sucker for the bad boys, though, but I digress."

Julie couldn't believe what she was hearing.

"Stefan is a hundred years old vampire?" she asked, shocked.

Elena shook her head and completely ignored her as the woman turned to look at her with an amused look on her face.

"Who are the Originals?" Elena asked.

"Vampires don't exist," Julie said but nobody was paying attention.

The woman sighed, closed her book and turned around to face Elena.

"Trevor and I have been running for 500 years. We're tired. We want it over. We're using you to negotiate ourselves out of an old mess," she explained.

Julie was dumbfounded and she was staring at nothing, trying to understand what she was hearing.

"But why me?" Elena asked.

The woman sighed again. "Because you're a Petrova doppelgänger. You're the key to breaking the curse," she replied like it made sense.

Julie was more and more confused. Doppelgänger? Curse?

"Curse?" Elena too was confused. "The Sun and the Moon curse?"

"You do know your history," the woman rolled her eyes.

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

"No. The moonstone is what binds the curse. Sacrifice is what breaks it."

"Sacrifice?" Elena repeated.

"The blood of the doppelgänger. You're the doppelgänger. Which means, in order to break the curse, you're the one that has to die."

"Oh God..." Julie breathed out. "I'm out of here," she said and turned around.

But suddenly Rose was just in front of her. Her face inches from hers. Julie stepped back.

"You're not going anywhere," she said. "I need you to stay right here," she locked her eyes in Julie's.

"Yeah, no thank you," she said and the woman frowned and pushed her again the wall.

"If you didn't know about vampires, how do you know about vervain?" she asked.

"What? I don't..." Julie tried to move away but the woman was way too strong. "Let me go!"

"Why can't I compel her?" the woman yelled at Elena.

"I have no idea. I don't know her!" she replied.

The woman looked at the terrified girl for a minute then sighed before she let go of her.

"If you try to run, I will kill you," she told her and veins started to appear below her eyes.

"Oh God..." Julie said as she pressed herself into the wall.

The woman walked back in the room where Elena was but she turned her head to look at Julie, giving her a warning look.

Julie was trembling. She had a hand on the wall and she was looking down at the floor.

"Tell me more," Elena asked as Trevor entered the room.

"Captivity's made her pushy, hey," Trevor said as he took a piece of cardboard. "What do you wanna know doppelicious?"

"Who are you running from?"

"The Originals," he answered.

"Yeah, she said that. Who are they?"

"The first family. The Old Wolrd. Rose and I pissed them off."

Rose cleared her throat.

"Correction. I pissed them off. Rose had my back and for over half a millennium, they've wanted us dead," he said and then threw a book at Elena's feet who stepped back.

"What did you do?" she asked.

"He made the same mistakes countless others did. He trusted Katerina Petrova," Rose told her.

Who's that? Julie frowned.

"Katherine..." Elena said.

She knows her?

"The one and only," she said. "The first Petrova doppelgänger."

"And I've... sorry, we've been marked ever since," Trevor completed Rose's explanation.

"Which is why we're not gonna make the same mistakes again," Rose said and then they both left the room.

Julie walked towards Elena who was thinking.

"What the fuck?" Julie asked. "Doppelgänger? What... Who the hell are you?" she asked.

Elena looked up at her. "Stefan and Damon knew Katherine over a hundred years ago," she started to explain. "She looks exactly like me."

"Looks... So she's... a vampire... too?" Julie asked and Elena nodded.

"And Stefan is a vampire?"

"Yes, and Damon, he's brother, is too."

"And Rose and... Trevor?" it took her a second to remember his name.

"Yes," Elena said then turned around. Julie followed her in silence.

Vampires are real. And doppelgängers are... whatever supernatural... stuffs...

Elena sat back down on the couch were they woke up earlier. There was a paper there.

"What is it?" Julie asked Elena after she opened it and read its content. Elena placed a finger on her lips to tell her to stay quiet.

"It's a message from Bonnie," she whispered and Julie frowned. "Stefan and Damon are coming for us."

"Bonnie? How..."

"She's a witch," Elena told her. It didn't seem like she wanted to explain more. Julie raised her eyebrows and then she sat down next to Elena. They both stayed silent. Waiting.

So, vampires were real. And witches. She was having a hard time believing the situation she was in.

After about an hour of waiting in silence, Rose came down the stairs and started packing. About half an hour after that, Trevor joined them in panic.

"He's here. This was a mistake!"

"No, I told you I would get us out of this. Trust me," Rose tried to calm him down.

"No," he yelled and Julie jumped at the sudden scream. "He wants me dead, Rose!"

"He wants her more," she told him.

Julie was pretty sure she wasn't going to survive this. She didn't even know why she was there in the first place.

I really shouldn't have gone to this party.

"I can't do this," he said. "I can't. You give her to him, he'll have mercy on you! But I need to get out of here!"

"Hey!" she stopped him and took his hands in hers. "What are we?" she asked.

He took a deep breath and looked her in the eyes. "We're family," he replied. "Forever."

Julie and Elena watched them together. It was almost cute.

Julie jumped again as they heard someone knocked on the front door. Both the vampires turned towards the exit of the room.

"You're scared," Elena breathed out as she saw Rose look at her.

"Stay here with them. Don't make a sound," she said before she left the room.

Elena got up and started pacing in front of the couch where Julie stayed immobile. About 10 minutes later Rose came back with a man. Elena turned around as she saw Julie looked up at the stairs. A second after, the man they believed to be Elijah was just in front of her. He was so fast, Julie pressed herself onto the couch as she breathed out a: "Fuck". Elijah didn't pay attention to her as he was staring at Elena. He was looking her up and down. Elena stayed straight even though she was trembling from fear. He leaned towards her and smelled her.

"Human," he said. "It's impossible."

Elena was scared. Finally! After all she had been scared the entire day of Rose and Trevor. Elena seemed way too calm for the situation.

Elijah's eyes landed on Julie who was still trembling on the couch. She had brought her knees to her chest. "Who is this?" he asked.

"Complications," Rose said.

"Uh... Hello there," he said with a grin and she raised her eyebrows.

"Uh... hello..." she whispered back. She couldn't look away from him as he was staring at her like she was dessert.

"We have a long journey ahead," he cleared his throat and looked back at Elena. "We should be going," he said.

"Please," Elena said to Rose. "Don't let him take me," she begged.

"One last piece of business, and we're done," Elijah ignored her and he turned around and walked towards Trevor.

"I've waited so long for this day, Elijah," Trevor managed to say. He was terrified and that scared the hell out of Julie. "I'm truly, very sorry," he said. He didn't dare look up at the Original vampire and he was staring at the dirty floor.

"Oh, no, your apology is not necessary," Elijah said as he walked around the scared vampire.

"Yes, yes it is," Trevor said. "You trusted me with Katerina and I failed you."

"Well, yes, you are the guilty one," Elijah said as he kept walking around, looking down at the floor. "Rose aided you because she was loyal to you. But you... Where was your loyalty?" he stopped in front of the vampire who finally looked up at him.

"I beg your forgiveness."

Rose, Elena and Julie waited with anticipation.

"So granted," Elijah told him.

All of them let out a breath of relief but then gasped as Trevor's head was rolling on the floor. Julie started to feel sick as she pressed herself more onto the couch wishing she could just disappear in it. Rose started to cry.

"You..." she said, angry, as she started to climb down the stairs.

"Don't Rose..." Elijah calmly told her and she stopped. "Now that you are free," he reminded her.

Elijah took one step towards Elena and quickly gave a look to Julie. He saw her staring at the headless body of Trevor. He had terrorized her and he didn't know why he felt kind of bad for her. He looked up at Elena and held his hand out to her.

"Come," he said and she stepped back.

"No, what about the moonstone," she quickly said.

He immediately stopped. "What do you know about the moonstone?" he asked.

Rose was still crying on the stairs and that's all Julie could hear.

"I know that you need it and I know where it is," she told him.

"Yes?" he asked her, unimpressed.

"I can help you get it," she said.

"Tell me where it is," Elijah told her. He wasn't threatening her. He just told her.

"It doesn't work that way," she told him.

Elijah raised his eyebrows and sighed a little amused. "Are you negotiating with me?" he asked and turned to look at Rose.

"It's the first I've heard of it," she managed to tell him between two sobs.

Elijah turned back to Elena but then looked at Julie who was still staring at Trevor's lifeless body.

"She won't tell you anything," Rose told him. "She didn't even know vampires existed before today. Besides, she can't be compelled for some reason..."

Julie looked up as she understood they were talking about her. She saw Elijah was looking at her and he saw the tears in her eyes.

"She can't be compelled?" he asked, curious. He sighed again and turned back to Elena. His eyes landed on her necklace. "What is this vervain doing around your neck?" he asked and then ripped it off of her. He forced her to look at him in the eyes. "Tell me where the moonstone is."