Vampire Heart

The Mikaelsons and the Salvatores

 Mikaelson mansion

Rose served coffee and biscuits to Elena as if it was just an ordinary social call.
They sat down in the winter-garden  adjacent to the kitchen.

"Thank you"-Elena said politely-"ok, this is all very weird to me, but how come you are drinking coffee? Isn't it only that vampires drink blood?"

Rose smiled a little-

"That's folklore. We can drink any liquid, and food, but it's the blood that feeds us and keeps us going, same as the bloodbats. I know it must all be very confusing to you. You may ask me anything you want to know-"

"Two days ago I led a pretty ordinary life.Then I find out that my whole family is part of a secret society, my best friend is a witch, I get kidnapped, exchanged for a vampire heart. Yeah, I have questions...loads- I want to know everything-   so far I've been told scraps"- Elena said.

Rose took to Elena as she first started researching about her. She followed Elena for a few days when she got the word that there was a doppelganger. She was so much different from Katerina Petrova, that Rose met when she was still human. Elena was goodhearted, self-assured, cheerful person. Rose observed the way she was with her friends and fellow colleagues. Her inquisitive nature didn't surprise her. After all Elena was a scientist of sorts.

"Entering or being part of the occult world can be overwhelming"- Rose said-" I remember myself how it felt like learning that witches are very real and that there is this other world that is nothing like you read in books."

"How did you become a vampire?"- Elena then asked.

"I was turned by Elijah"

"Oh!"- Elena exclaimed.

"It was not violent. I am a daughter of a witch, who was helping him find his sister. I became very ill. Also my mother was in danger from the dark witches."

"And he did?"

"It's was not only because I was ill. There was more to it. But it is connected with a ritual and I am sworn to secrecy."- Rose then said.

"Ok... you can tell me about the Old ones then?"

"Yes."- Rose said- "There are two old clans of vampires. The Mikaelson and the Salvatore. There were others, three more clans, but the witches did away with them."

"OMG... Zachary Salvatore? Was he the Old one? Oh, and those two. Stefan and Damon?"- Elena now gasped.

"No. Zachary Salvatore wasn't a vampire. But, yes, they are the ones from the Salvatore bloodline. But that doesn't make them the Old ones. There is only one of the Old one from that clan. But no one knows his abode- place where he rests"- Rose said.

"Stefan and Damon know about this? Who turned them?"

"They were turned by the doppelganger, who became a vampire herself -Katerina Petrova."- Rose said.

"They killed her, didn't they?!"- Elena looked for confirmation, but Rose went silent.

"She is not dead?!?"- Elena concluded in amazement- "That heart that was exchange last night? That was not her heart, is it?!"

"You haven't touched any of the coffee. And the biscuits are self-made."- Rose then said.

Elena now understood that Rose couldn't give her all the answers. She would have to get them from Elijah. She then took one biscuit and looked at her phone.

"I will need to go now... see my friend."- Elena said getting up.

"I will accompany you."- Rose stood up as well- saying"Elena, this is all very serious. Your life is in danger."