Viviana Petrova/1864

372 years had passed when Viviana, along with her sister Katerina arrived in Mystic Falls, Virginia in 1864, by which time she had taken the name Vivienne Pierce, presumably to avoid detection by Klaus. At some point, she had become friends with Pearl and her daughter, Anna; another friend she made prior to this point was the witch Emily Bennett, whose life Katherine had saved, putting Emily in her debt. Emily forged Vivienne special piece of jewelry with a lapis lazuli stone, which allowed her to walk in the sun without being burned and helped her keep her vampire identity a secret.

Vivienne and Katherine were taken in by one of the town's founders, Giuseppe Salvatore, having spun a story about being orphaned by a fire that killed their family in Atlanta to win them sympathy. After her sister took an interest in Stefan Salvatore, Vivienne was bored most times until she met his older brother Damon Salvatore. The two quickly began a physical relationship. Between Vivienne and Katherine they created quite a few vampires while living in Mystic Falls, which inevitably alerted the founding families to their existence. Pearl warned them that the town knew about the vampires after discovering an elixir that Honoria Fell had asked to be sold at the local apothecary which contained vervain. Pearl tried to convince her to leave, but both girls refused, claiming they had a plan in motion. Her plan, was to eventually turn Damon into vampires, having seduced him during her stay at the Salvatore household. Realizing how quickly the Founder's Council would take action against the vampires, Vivienne and Katherine struck a deal with George Lockwood: they would give him the moonstone if he would help them fake their death in the inevitable vampire round-up. Giuseppe guessed Vivienne's true identity and soon took her and her sister away. Damon later went to rescue her, and Stefan helped him in the effort. Both Salvatore brothers were killed by their own father, who was so ashamed that his sons had been seduced by "demons" that he preferred to keep the story that they had died honorably in the war against the vampires.

Vivienne, Katherine and the other vampires were taken to Fell's Church to be destroyed, but George helped the sisters escape, as per their previous arrangement. She gave George the moonstone.