The Eldest Gilbert

The Gilbert house had always felt too quiet to Kaitlyn. Even before the Salvatore brothers returned, before Elena's life began unravelling into secrets and blood, Kaitlyn had lived with the silence of someone who knew she didn't quite belong. Ten months older than Elena, she had always been the watchful sister-the one who noticed the cracks in the world before anyone else did.

She remembered the fire that had taken her parents. Six years old. She was adopted soon after, folded into the Gilbert family name, but Kaitlyn carried the weight of something older, something buried deep in her blood.

She didn't know it then, but she was Fae.

When Stefan and Damon Salvatore walked back into Mystic Falls, Kaitlyn felt it. A ripple in the air, like the town itself exhaled. She didn't awaken her powers immediately, but the edges of her reality sharpened. Colors seemed brighter, whispers of wind carried meaning, and sometimes she swore she could see threads of fate weaving around people.

She kept it hidden. Elena was already drowning in vampire drama-Kaitlyn refused to add more chaos. She stayed in the background: the one that they all kept at a distance to 'keep her safe', But she knew, she heard the whispers behind closed doors- she knew everything the vampires the werewolves. Thanks to her powers she was always there, in the corner of the room, absorbing every detail.

But the truth can only stay hidden for so long, and when the suit wearing original makes his first appearance everything she has been hiding comes to light.

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I only own Kaitlyn Gilbert and her storyline. The credit for everything thing else does to Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec (t.v series) L.J. Smith (book series) he