Elena Gilbert exhaled and yawned of stress and exhaust. She was doing a three paper assignment of a famous Russia bloodline incident from 1918. She was over at the Salvatore Boarding House because--well, the brothers had everything that you needed AKA Romanova family history book.
She frowned in confusion but mostly in curiously when she noticed the difference in the pattern. All the Romanov children were killed on July 17th, 1918 besides the girl--Svetlana. Just from the sound and looks of her name, Elena could tell she was a mystery and it gave her a weird feeling in her stomach. Every since she learnt of the supernatural, she began to think that every 'unknown' reason or causes were made by it and that pit in her stomach made her think that maybe she was right.
Flipping through the thick papers but she came to a halt when the six bold words were staring at her face:
GRAND DUCHESS SVETLANA NIKOLAEVNA OF RUSSIA
She began to read through the first two papers of her information but stopped when her eyes caught the last three paragraphs that sounded interesting.
At this moment, she lost focus of the assignment and became even more curious of the story of the young princess. So far, the information she could get was that the father was extremely overprotective of her and hidden her from the public eye until at the age of 19 years old, the same day she made her appearance was also the night, she disappeared. There were no photos of her besides a handwritten drawing that a 54-year-old psychic drawn in 1964 and quote:
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And on the bottom of the picture was written:
ᴛʜᴇ ᴅʀᴀᴡɴ ᴘɪᴄᴛᴜʀᴇ ᴡᴀs ᴡʜᴀᴛ ɢʀᴀɴᴅ ᴅᴜᴄʜᴇss
sᴠᴇᴛʟᴀɴᴀ ɴɪᴋᴏʟᴀᴇᴠɴᴀ ᴘᴏssɪʙʟʏ ʟᴏᴏᴋᴇᴅ ʟɪᴋᴇ
ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀɢᴇ ᴏғ 19 ʏᴇᴀʀs ᴏʟᴅ.
Elena was awed at the beauty of this girl and can maybe understand why her father hidden her for 19 years--she had to admit, she was beautiful, even though there was a possible chance that the drawing wasn't original her or not. No wonder she was called Aphrodite's child Elena thought and continued reading.
"What are you reading?" she was startled at the familiar voice of Stefan's. Glancing up at him to see Stefan staring down at her in wonderment.
"Uhh--just reading the Romanov family history. For that history assignment" she replied back and closed the book not taking her eyes off Stefan, sending him a tired smile.
He cracked a smile back. "Come on, you look tired" and he said that, he gestured her to take his hand. She accepted and along they went towards the direction of Stefan's bedroom and laying on the sofa was the book wide open on the paper with the drawing of Svetlana Nikolaevna.
