TVD/TO AU
In a nice and peaceful summer camp, the fierce and cheeky Lena, 10-years-old, meets Elle, nice and shy, who looks exactly like her. After some starting difficulties, the two become friends and find out that they are twins. In order to fig...
"Elle, wake up! I just had the best idea ever!" Lena jumped on her sister's bed, excited. Elle mumbled and opened her eyes.
"Lena, what is it, it's so early!" she mumbled.
"We switch roles!" Lena said.
Elle looked at her sister surprised. "What?"
"You heard me! We switch places! I go to our Mom and pretend to be you and you go to our Dad and pretend to be me! That way we can investigate them! Find out why they separated!" Lena explained her plan.
Elle shook her head. "I don't know, Lena. I hate lying. And they will find out!" she said.
Lena shook her head. "Yes, of course, they'll find out eventually! And you know what that would mean?" she grinned at her sister's questioning look, "That would mean, they would have to meet again to bring us back home! They would have to see each other again and talk! So, one way or the other, we are definitely getting some answers! And about the lying: did you already forget that they lied to us for years? Look, I thought about it. If we just try and talk to them, they're just gonna tell us more lies. You know adults! Or did you know you have a sister, huh?"
Elle bit her lip. "Good point." She looked at Lena's expectant face and finally said: "Okay, I'm in! But we have to train for that! I mean, there's still plenty of stuff we don't know about each other. We have to practice being the other one."
Lena grinned. "Let's get started then. We have one week to do this!"
***
That night, as they were all lying in their beids, Elle turned towards her sister and woke her up.
"Lena?" Elle asked. "Are you up?"
"I am now!" Lena growled.
"Good. I know this isn't the best time o ask, but... if we pull this off, how would I even recognize our Dad? I never met him! What does he look like?" Elle said, unsure of the plan now.
Lena yawned and got her cell phone out. She pressed a few buttons and then showed it to Elle. "That's what he looks like."
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Elle stared at the man on the picture. The shy girl in her found herself a bit intimidated by him. But she also thought he was handsome. And she wondered why she had never met him.
***
One day before they would go back home, Lena suggested they would test their capacities of being the other one. And, as always, she had a plan for that.
"Ouch, be careful, will you! That hurts!" Lena protested as Elle combed her hair, trying to make a proper french braid.
"Which lady's idea was this, may I ask?" Elle responded. Lena scoffed. Elle smirked and continued frech braiding Lena's hair in order to make it look like hers.
A few minutes later, two girls looking exactly the same, face and clothes, came walking down the stairs. Everyone else in the dining room looked at them confused.
"Hello everyone! We have a little surprise game for you." Lena said. "Yes, we do. You guys have to figure out which one of us is Elle and which one is Lena." Elle continued. "Goood luck!" Lena ended the speech.
They sat down opposite from each other and started eating and talking. Their training really paid off. At the end of the meal, there was noone in the room who had any idea of how to tell them apart like this.
Finally, April said: "Lizzie, Josie, you two go to the same school as Elle. You should be able to tell them apart."
The Saltzman-twins exchanged a look. Lizzie shook her head, a little helpless. She had no idea how to tell the difference right now. Josie, however, had an idea. She walked over to the identical looking brunettes and slapped both of them in the face.
"Hey!" one of them said, holding her cheek. The other one just angrily punched back. Josie, holding her own cheek now, pointed at the girl who hit her back and said: "That's Lena!"
The girl Josie was pointing at grinned, nodded her head yes and removed the hairtie from her hair in order to let her hair fall loosely over her shoulders again.
"Well, that was certainly a clever game. But Josie and Lena, hitting people is still wrong. Don't do that again, girls!" Mrs Lockwood said to them. The girls nodded at her.
On that evening, the Saltzman-twins sat together with the Gilbert-Mikaelson-twins and talked about the next day. It was the day when they would all go home again, meaning Elle would go to New Orleans and Lena would go to Mystic Falls with Lizzie and Josie.
"We still have to exchange numbers. Then we can keep in touch." Lena said, taking out her cell phone.
Elle bit her lip and looked at her sister apologetically. "Sorry, I don't have a phone."
Lena looked at her in disbelief. "What? Why not?"
"My Mom said she doesn't want me to spend my days on the phone already. She said I would get one on my 12th birthday."
"Soo you have to wait two more years." Lizzie concluded. Elle nodded.
Josie raised her eyebrows. "That's kind of a problem! How are we gonna keep in touch now?" she asked.
Elle took out her drawing block, tore out a page and wrote something on it. "There. That's my email address. You can write to me and I can write back. That should work." she said.
Lena took it and was about to store it in her suitcase when Elle stopped her.
"Wait! I think you're forgetting something!" Lena looked at her confused.
Lizzie grinned and explained: "When you go home tomorrow, you will be going as Elle, Lena. That means, you're taking Elle's suitcase and Elle is taking yours. So, if you put that letter in your suitcase, you're just giving Elle her own email address."
"Right. Ugh, I can't believe I'm gonna have to wear skirts and shirts all the time now! And comb and tie my hair up! I hope this won't be for long!" Lena complained.
