"This box tracks Katherines arrival to mystic falls in April of 1864" Vanessa says as she walks over to me and Elena with a box in hand and sets it down in front of us.
"Is that all there is about her?" Elena asks. "All that I'm aware of" Vanessa exclaims. I look at the contents as Elena pulls out a piece of vervain and hands it to Vanessa.
"Here, take this'' Vanessa smiles curiously. "Does vervain really work?" She asks.
"Nope! Not at all" Damon yells from the hallway. Vanessa falters for a second.
"Can he hear us?" She asks. I nod. "No, that would be creepy" Damon says this time whispering.
"Can he read minds too?" Vanessa asked, almost joking.
"You know if you want to see me naked, all you have to do is ask" I look up at him in disbelief and chuckle under my breath. Idiot.
"No. That he can't do. He is very capable of being a first rate jackass" Elena states. I snicker at that.
~
"Damon can I speak with you?" I whisper to Damon as I hide the book in my hands away from Elena. He nods and we go out into the hallway.
"I found this book in the box of Katherine'' I say as I turn the book over, it's hard leather, with the words PETROVA written in full caps, with gold thread.
"What do you know about it?" I ask, handing it in. He takes it and looks at the cover and nods.
"Katherine came from London, her real name was Petrova, Katerina Petrova actually" I nod and take the information in.
"Great then, let's go show everyone else" I say and turn to walk back in but Damon grabs me making me half. "Actually can you give me the book? I want to give it to Elena to help with this battle" I sigh but nod.
"Alright" I say and hand him the book before walking in after Alaric calls for us.
Vanessa holds a book in her hands, "There's no record of werewolf mythology in mystic falls. But here are some records of some of the lesser known legends'' She says handing the book to Elena to hold.
"Everything from the Scandinavian skin-walkers to the-" She adds a name I could quite understand and then says something in a native language.
"Which roughly translates into the curse of the sun and the moon" She says, explaining the incoherent words she just spoke.
"It's Native American" Alaric comments.
"Aztec'' Vanessa corrects as Elena hands the book over to me and Damon to see.
"It explains one origin of the werewolf curse traced through Virginia. The short story-600 years ago, the Aztecs were plagued by werewolves and vampires.
They terrorized the countryside, made farming and hunting impossible. Until an Aztec shaman cursed them, making vampires slaves of the sun and werewolves servants of the moon" Vanessa explains.
"As a result, vampires could only prowl at night, and werewolves could only turn on a full moon. When the full moon crests in the sky whosoever unlucky enough to fall under the werewolf curse turns into a wolf"
"'can they control the transformation?" Damon asks. Vanessa almost laughs in his face. "If there were a choice it wouldn't be called a curse" Vanessa directs at him and Damon smiles smugly.
"Werewolves will attack humans. But instinct and centuries of rivalry have hardwired them to hunt their prey of choice- vampires" Damon perked his head up at this and tried to play it through.
"Well if werewolves were hunting vampires I would know about it'' Vanessa frowns. "Not if there are that many werewolves alive. Hundreds of years ago, vampires hunted them almost to extinction"
"Why would they do that?" Elena and I ask. "To protect themselves. Legends has it that a werewolf bite is fatal to vampires" Alaric, Elena and I glance at each other.
"Ooh" Damon says.
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"Hey, have you done any research on doppelgängers?" Elena asked after finding another picture of Katherine. Vanessa sits up and explains "Well, the word means a lot of different things to different cultures, but typically a doppelgänger is a living, breathing double of oneself." "Did Isobel have anything that explained the link between me and Katherine?" Vanessa shook her head, and motioned to the box. "That's all she had on Katherine, unfortunately" Damon turned back around rapidly when Elena turned to look at him.
"but I can tell you that doppelgängers usually torment the people they look like, trying to undo their lives. It's not exactly uplifting." Elena sighed disappointed "And more things we already know. Just...I want to know why we look alike." "Head scratcher, isn't it?" Damon says. Elena slams the photo down on the table "Do you know something, or are you just being yourself?" "Well, if I know anything, I'm not gonna tell you, not with that attitude." I rolled my eyes and continued looking through the stake of papers in the box. "That's good, Damon, and this is coming from someone who wants to be my friend, but you know what? Friends don't manipulate friends, they help each other." Elena tells him before walking away.
~
We went home after it was clear that we weren't going to find anything else.
The house was empty which meant that Matt was still at the party, either that or the grill.
I changed into some Pijamas, and fell asleep quickly.
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The Sacrifice
Fanfiction"He's one of the originals, he's a legend" "From the first generation of vampires" After the drama from Season 1, Ariel and Elena are introduced to Katherine, who brought a great deal of evil into their town. Klaus Mikaelson, the original vampire...
