*Present*



When you try your best, but you don't succeed

When you get what you want, but not what you need

When you feel so tired, but you can't sleep

Stuck in reverse



        It was a nebulous night in New Orleans, as Katherine sat in the SUV she'd stolen and had accidentally wrecked. She'd injured herself in the process, too. She knew she had to stay awake until someone could rescue her, so she tried to concentrate on memories with Elijah. 



*American Gothic*



And the tears come streaming down your face

When you lose something you can't replace

When you love someone but it goes to waste

Could it be worse?



        It was a dismal night at the Mikaelson mansion, as they stood in front of each other. 

        "Please, Elijah. It's our turn," she begged. 

        "Goodbye, Katerina."

        He kissed her on the forehead and then blurred off, leaving her standing there, fighting emotions. He'd literally broken up with her, even though she'd tried to show him that she trusted and loved him, but he'd left, technically throwing it back in her face. 



*Present*



Lights will guide you home

And ignite your bones

And I will try to fix you

And high up above or down below

When you're too in love to let go

But if you never try you'll never know

Just what you're worth

Lights will guide you home

And ignite your bones

And I will try to fix you



        Despite her efforts to stay awake, she couldn't. Her injuries were just too much, and she'd lost too much blood. Besides, she was so tired of running and fighting. 





        An hour later, Elijah was walking home, when he smelled blood and human, so he went to investigate.





        Ten minutes later, after seeing an SUV crashed into a pole and that someone was still inside, he blurred over and opened the door, only to see a very human Katerina. 

        "Katerina?" he said, shocked to see her human, but got over it in a moment, and rested a gentle hand on the side of her face. "Katerina, can you hear me? Katerina," he called to her. Please. Not you, too. Stay with me, Katerina, he thought to himself. 

        He scanned for the injuries she had that he could see. He saw a shard of glass in her thigh and below her lower stomach. Her thigh had an opened artery, and there was blood on either side of her head. She was way too pale from blood loss, and he could barely hear her breathing. He could tell that she'd been here for at least an hour. 

        He put her arm around his shoulders and gently picked her up in his arms, blurring towards the hospital. No matter what, he couldn't lose her, but he knew he was every passing minute, as he blurred towards the hospital. And even if this was partly her own fault or someone else's, it was also his fault. He'd left and hadn't even called to be sure she was alive, or even okay. He should've known that leaving was the worst thing he could do to her. 

        A few minutes later, he arrived at the hospital and, after they put an insulator breathing mask on her to keep her breathing, and got an ivy in her, he could only watch as she was rushed down the hall into surgery.

        As they cared for her, he paced in the waiting room, hoping for her to come through. She was a fighter, but she was human now. There was only a certain amount of time she could fight. 



*1492*



Tears stream down your face

When you lose something, you can't replace

Tears stream down your face and I

Tears stream down your face



        It was a dark night, as Katerina Petrova knelt by her mother and cried. She didn't grieve for her father, but her mother was a different story. They had been very close. Now, she and the rest of her village were dead. She was foolish to think that she would be free as a vampire. She knew now that she would never be free. 



*Present*



I promise you I will learn from my mistakes

Tears stream down your face and I

Lights will guide you home

And ignite your bones

And I will try to fix you



        A few hours later, she was in a recovery room, Elijah seated on her bedside, one hand on top of hers, and the other resting on the side of her face. He'd been told that she'd be okay, now that she'd survived surgery, and the blood she'd lost had been restored. It was just a matter of her waking up. 

        "Forgive me, Katerina. Whatever has happened, partly your fault or not, this is at least partly my fault, too. I never should have left, least of all, without calling. I don't know what I'd do if I lost you. I'm right here, Katerina. I promise you, I will never leave you again."





        The next day, she woke up and they got back together.

Like a small boat

On the ocean

Sending big waves

Into motion

Like how a single word

Can make a heart open



*For Whom The Bell Tolls*



        It was a dark night, as Katherine stood in front of her in a dark alley, wanting answers. She hated being in the dark. 

        "Who are you?" she asked the vampiress who seemed to know more about her than Katherine thought she knew her. 

        "My name is Nadia Petrova and you are my mother," she replied. 

        Katherine was shocked, having not been able to find her in Bulgaria in 1498. She was thrilled that she and Nadia had been reunited after so many centuries, though.



*Homecoming*



I might only have one match

But I can make an explosion



        It was a dismal night, as Katherine through some bombs at Klaus' hybrids, helping her own way in the attempt to kill Klaus, not knowing what would happen if anyone succeeded in killing him. 

        "Kaboom," Katherine said, before throwing the bombs at the hybrids, killing some of the hybrids.



*The Return*



And all those things I didn't say

Wrecking balls inside my brain

I will scream 'em loud tonight

Can you hear my voice this time?



        "The truth is...I've never loved you," she lied, but wanted so much to tell him how much she had always loved Damon the most out of the two Salvatores. She had to lie to get him to let her go though, or she knew that his love for her would kill him in the end. She didn't want that for him, so she knew that she had to let him go.



*American Gothic*



This is my fight song

Take back my life song

Prove I'm alright song

My power's turned on

Starting right now I'll be strong

I'll play my fight song

And I don't really care if nobody else believes

'Cause I've still got a lot of fight left in me

Losing friends and I'm chasing sleep

Everybody's worried about me



        It was a beautiful day in Pennsylvania, as Elijah and Katherine stood in front of each other. 

        "Of course, you're not a means of survival. You looked out for me, when I had no one. You've given me a second chance now, when no one else will. I love you." She rested a gentle hand on the side of his face and looked up at him. "Elijah."

        He turned his face away and she dropped her hand. 

        "You don't believe me."

        "I want to, but how can I when, at every turn, you give me a reason to doubt you? I don't know you. I don't think that I ever will."

        He turned around and began to walk away.

        "Wait," she called to him.

        "Goodbye, Katherine."

        All she could do was watch, as he walked away.



*Dead Man On Campus*



In too deep, say

I'm in too deep

And it's been two years

I miss my home

But there's a fire burning in my bones

I still believe

Yeah I still believe



        It was a dark night, as Katherine stood on the clock tower and closed her eyes. Then, after a few moments, she stepped off it. And as she fell to the ground below, not wanting the pain of dying of old age now that the cure had gotten sucked out of her, she felt the wind. 



*500 Years of Solitude*



And all those things I didn't say

Wrecking balls inside my brain

I will scream 'em loud tonight

Can you hear my voice this time?

This is my fight song

Take back my life song

Prove I'm alright song

My power's turned on

Starting right now I'll be strong

I'll play my fight song

And I don't really care if nobody else believes

'Cause I've still got a lot of fight left in me



        It was a beautiful day, as a human Katherine lay in bed in a guest room after having a heart attack the night before. And as she lay there, Damon got inside her head where she was reliving the death of her family, grieving over her mother's body. He was in her head to try and torment her on her deathbed so she would feel more pain, just because he hated her and thought that she deserved it.



*No Exit*



A lot of fight in me

Like a small boat

On the ocean

Sending big waves

Into motion

Like how a single word

Can make a heart open

I might only have one match

But I can make an explosion

This is my fight song

Take back my life song

Prove I'm alright song

My power's turned on

Starting right now I'll be strong

I'll play my fight song

And I don't really care if nobody else believes

'Cause I've still got a lot of fight left in me

Now I've got a lot of fight left in me



        It was a dark night in the boarding house after she had watched Nadia die from Tyler's werewolf bite, as she stood in front of everyone, not running or hiding, not caring whether she would die or not, since Nadia had been the only thing for her worth living for. 

        "So, who's going to kill the elusive Katherine Pierce?" she asked. 

        In the end, Stefan was the one who killed her, and Nadia found peace, but Katherine was taken somewhere after death by a black mass; hell being the possible location of where she was taken to.

Introduction



        They say life sucks and then you die. They even say to enjoy all that life has to offer, and to endure the obstacles that life throws at you. There were three doppelgängers born in four total different centuries. They grew up and learned a different kind of hard life. They found out that truth and their lives completely changed. It was completely turned 180 degrees around. They suffered before two of them became vampires and one was killed. Even then, one had to keep running and hiding for survival. This is their story of love, sacrifice, survival, hardship, loss, betrayal, and tragedy.





        In the first century B.C in Ancient Greece, there lived a girl named Amara. She was the very first doppelganger and the very first immortal woman in the world, but was also the true love of the very first man by the name of Silas. Back during 1st century B.C., Amara fell deeply in love with a young, gifted and powerful warlock named Silas. Although Amara and Silas loved each other, their love was forbidden as Amara was the handmaiden to a powerful witch, Qetsiyah and Silas was engaged to be married to Qetsiyah, who was also in love with Silas. Silas' love for Amara was so powerful that it motivated him to wanting to live for eternity with her. However, in order to get help in order to create the spell of immortality, Silas told Quetsyiah that he wanted to spend forever with her but secretly, he intended to spend it with Amara. Believing that Silas wanted to be with her forever, Qetsiyah created the very first immortality spell out of love for Silas. Qetsiyah had made the immortality spell for she and Silas to consume on their wedding night. However, everything turned awry for Quetsyiah when she realized Silas had stolen the immortality elixir and had betrayed and abandoned her on their wedding night. Silas had made himself and Amara the first immortal beings. Enraged by Silas' betrayal, she tracked him down, and discovered he had given immortality to her handmaiden, Amara. Qetsiyah then created two doses of the cure for immortality as a "gift" for Silas and Amara. She cured Amara of her immortality and then killed her by slitting her throat and cutting her heart out. Silas found out what Quetsyiah had done and he was completely devastated. After Amara was killed, Quetsyiah lured Silas to an isolated island and entombed him in darkness, burying him with the second dose of the cure for immortality, hoping that Silas would take the cure, die a mortal death and cross over to The Other Side, which is a purgatory meant for supernatural beings after they die. Quetsyiah's motivation behind creating the Other Side was to prevent Silas from ever reuniting with Amara in death on the earth's metaphysical plane, which is the place where human souls go after they die. Therefore, Amara has been on the metaphysical plane alone and unable to be reunited with Silas, her true love, in death. When Amara became truly immortal, nature immediately had to restore the balance, meaning nature needed a version or mortal versions of Amara that could die. Thus, shadow selves, doppelgängers or a doppelgänger bloodline of Amara was created as a way to restore the balance. Amara is known as the progenitor of the Petrova doppelganger bloodline. She is also the earliest known ancestor of Tatia, Katherine, and Elena, all of whom are doppelgängers of her. Amara is an ancestor to all of the Petrova women.

        During the tenth century, there lived a girl by the name of Tatia Petrova whom had an unnamed child with an unnamed man. Shortly after that, she met Elijah and Niklaus Mikaelson. Every man wanted to be her suitor, but Elijah and Niklaus loved her the most. Little did they know, she was a doppelganger. She didn't know she was a doppelganger, either.

        One day Esther Mikaelson, Niklaus and Elijah's mother, also the wife of Mikael Mikaelson, saw their shared love for the doppelganger. Esther was a powerful witch and she sought to destroy her to keep her family together. She killed Tatia and used Tatia's blood and a dark magic spell to turn her children, husband, and herself into vampires. That was the end of Tatia.

        During the 15th century, Katerina Petrova was born into a wealthy Bulgarian family on June 5th, 1473. In 1490, when she was about 16 or 17 years of age, Katerina became pregnant by an unknown man, and her family disowned her for the shameful birth of an illegitimate daughter. She carried the child to term, but seconds after her daughter's birth, Katerina's father took the child away, claiming it would be better for both of them to never see one another. Katerina was devastated by this and was banished to England, where she quickly adjusted by becoming English. In 1492, she met Trevor, who introduced her to Lord Elijah, who in turn introduced her to his younger brother, Lord Niklaus. Katerina was attracted to Klaus until she found out what he was, and that he was planning on using her as a sacrifice to break The Hybrid Curse placed on him. She escaped with the help of Trevor, who had fallen in love with her. He led her pursuers astray and told her to go east, to a cottage in the woods where she would be safe. When she arrived at a cottage, Katerina met a vampire named Rose.

        When Rose found out that Katerina had escaped from Klaus with the Moonstone, she locked her in a room and told her that she would take her to Klaus as soon as the opportunity arose. Katerina tried to commit suicide by stabbing herself with a knife, saying she would rather die than go back to Klaus, but Rose force-fed her some of her blood to heal her. When Rose turned her back to confront Trevor, Katerina hung herself with a length of rope.

        Later, when Katerina woke up in transition, Trevor asked why she did it and claimed he would have helped her live. Katerina responded by saying that he would have been able to help her run and that running was never going to be enough. Rose then explained to Trevor that Katerina used him to escape and, knowing Klaus would find out their role in the escape, Rose attempted to kill Katerina with a stake. Katerina used the owner of the cabin as a shield, which resulted in her death. Katerina then gave in to her instincts and drained the little old lady, completing her transition into a vampire. She then threw the body towards Rose and Trevor and fled into the night.

        Katerina returned to Bulgaria in the latter months of 1492 to find her entire family brutally slaughtered by Klaus. She knew he had done it as revenge for her escaping and subsequently transitioning. She was last seen weeping over her mother's dead body.

        Some time during 1498, Katherine returned to Bulgaria after escaping from Klaus. Katherine searched every village and cottage for her daughter, Nadia Petrova, who was eight at the time, but found no luck in finding her.

        In 1864, 372 years later, she arrived in Mystic Falls, Virginia with the name of Katherine Pierce, presumably to avoid detection by Klaus. At some point she had become friends with Pearl and her daughter, Anna, and she saved the life of the witch Emily Bennett, putting Emily in her debt. Emily forged her a special piece of jewelry with the stone Lapis Lazuli which allowed her to walk in the sun without being burned. She was taken in by one of the town's founders, Giuseppe Salvatore, having spun a story about being orphaned by a fire that killed her family. Katherine met and fell in love with his youngest son Stefan Salvatore, though she quickly began a physical relationship with Stefan's older brother, Damon, as well. Katherine created quite a few vampires while living in Mystic Falls, which inevitably alerted the Founding Families to their existence. Pearl warned Katherine that the town knew about the vampires after discovering an elixir containing vervain, which Honoria Fell had asked to be sold at the apothecary. Pearl tried to convince her to leave, but Katherine refused, claiming she had a plan in motion. Her plan, it turned out, was to turn Stefan and Damon into vampires, having seduced them both during her stay at the Salvatore household.

        Noticing how quickly the Founder's Council would take action against the vampires, Katherine struck a deal with George Lockwood: she would give him the moonstone if he would help her fake her death. Eventually, Stefan unwittingly suggested to his father that he knew a vampire, and Giuseppe guessed Katherine's true identity. Giuseppe spiked Stefan's drink with vervain and, later that same night, Katherine bit him. She was incapacitated by the vervain in his bloodstream, and, hearing the commotion, Giuseppe burst in to take her away. Damon later went to rescue her, and Stefan, upset that he had hurt his brother and jeopardized Katherine's life, helped him in the effort. They were both killed trying to save her, shot by their own father, Giuseppe, who was ashamed his sons had succumbed to the wiles of a demon.

        Katherine and the other vampires were taken to Fell's Church to be destroyed, but George helped Katherine escape. She gave George the moonstone but instead of leaving right away, she turned to see Damon and Stefan's bodies lying in the road. She ran to Stefan, kissed him, and promised they would be together again someday. After transitioning into a vampire, Damon was told by Emily that Katherine was trapped in the tomb beneath the church, and as a result, the older Salvatore never stopped loving Katherine as he awaited the day he would be able to rescue her. In reality, Katherine was still lying low to evade Klaus, and she kept a close eye on the younger Salvatore brother, pointing out that she had seen him in the front row of a concert in the 1980s to prove that she'd always been watching over him.

        In the 1920's, Katherine was in Chicago at the same time as Stefan, but she only observed him from afar. After a police raid cleared out the speakeasy, Katherine spotted Rebekah's necklace on the ground. She moved to pick it up, but ran away before Stefan could see or notice her. She watched him for a few moments before slipping into the shadows.

        During the 1970's, Katherine employed the talents of the vampire Will, who owned the music club and bar, Billy's, and ran an identity theft ring that secured new identities for vampires. Damon, who was friends with Will and helped him by killing people to steal their ID cards, unwittingly helped Katherine in her mission to remain undetected.

        When Katherine learned of the escape of the Tomb vampires, she gave her descendant and friend, Isobel, a Lapis Lazuli medallion, enabling the young vampire to walk in the sun. Katherine needed the tomb vampires dead because she didn't want Klaus to find out she was still alive, so she had Isobel retrieve Jonathan Gilbert's invention and give it to John Gilbert to use against the vampires in Mystic Falls. This resulted in the deaths of the remaining tomb vampires.

        In the twenty-first century there was a human that looked like Katherine, excluding the straight hair (Katherine had curly), and her clothes (Katherine's look was kind of slutty), named Elena Gilbert. She had a mom, dad, and younger brother named Jeremy. Her best friends were Caroline Forbes, Tyler Lockwood, Vicki Donovan, and Bonnie Bennett.

        One summer, she and Matt Donovan broke up, but later went back to being best friends.

        Not long after, she met Damon Salvatore while she waited for her parents to pick her up. He compelled her to forget that they ever met, though. Her parents picked her up and later that night, her parents’ car went off the Whickery bridge into the water.

        When Stefan Salvatore came to the rescue, her father insisted for him to save his daughter first. So he saved her, but Elena and Jeremy's parents didn't make it.

        When the next semester of high school came around, Elena and Jeremy's Aunt Jenna Sommers moved into the house to care for them and Elena met Stefan.

        Not long afterward, she met Damon and fell in love with Stefan.

        During the school year, she found out what really existed, but she and Stefan made their relationship work.

        Afterward, Bonnie learned that she was a witch descended from Emily Bennett. Then Katherine Pierce came to town.

        In the beginning, Katherine played as Elena and turned Caroline into a vampire. She drove Damon and Stefan insane. They wanted Katherine dead. And when Elena and Jeremy's Uncle John whom was later found to be Elena's biological father came to town, she used a knife to cut some of his fingers off which landed him in the hospital. Then, after Vicki bit Elena on the shoulder and tried to bite Jeremy on Halloween night, Stefan staked Vicki which killed her.

        Soon after, Alaric Saltzman came to town and became the new History teacher. He was Isobel Flemming's husband from back in the day, but she had disappeared when a vampire, later known to be Damon, bit her and vanished with her. They never had children, but they wanted some someday. Isobel had been obsessed with vampires and wanted to find a real one. After she had disappeared, Alaric had learned everything he could about vampires and had become a Vampire Hunter. He was a Vampire Hunter that could never truly die, because Isobel had given him a ring before her disappearance, that brought him back to life if he died from anything supernatural.

        Later on, Alaric put aside wanting to kill Damon and became friends with Damon, Stefan, Elena, Bonnie, Caroline, and Jeremy. He even dated Jenna Sommers and looked out for Elena and Jeremy when Jenna and the others couldn't. Then Tyler became a werewolf and Sheriff Liz Forbes found out that her only child, Caroline Forbes, was a vampire. Around the same time, Damon and the others found out that Isobel was Elena's biological mother. Isobel had put her up for adoption before she had become a vampire. Isobel's boyfriend that had made her pregnant had been Elena's Uncle John.

        Soon after, Pearl and Anna came to town and Anna met Jeremy. Anna and Jeremy fell in love and Pearl was killed by vampires in their home; John later killed Anna, since he found out that she was a vampire. Isobel then died willingly in the sun.

        When Klaus, a werewolf-vampire hybrid, came to town, Katherine helped the good guys find a way to try and take him down. Before they found out how to kill him though, he killed Jenna, a werewolf named Jules, and Elena. Because John sacrificed himself so Elena wouldn't become a vampire, Elena woke up human. Alaric then took over as Elena and Jeremy's guardian. During that time, Alaric started to date Meredith Fell, one of the doctors that worked at the hospital.

        Not long afterward, Tyler bit Damon. Because a werewolf's bite is deadly to vampires, Damon slowly started to die, so Stefan gave himself up to Klaus to save his brother's life. Klaus had Katherine bring the cure, Klaus' blood, to Damon. She did and he was saved, but it took a very long time for them to get Stefan back. Damon wanted to give up on him, but Elena never gave up hope. During this time, Caroline and Tyler fell in love even after they knew what one another was.

        After they tried to kill Klaus and Klaus killed Mikael, Katherine left so she wouldn't be crushed by him; in other words, be killed after 500 years of running and hiding from him. They never saw her in Mystic Falls again. Not very long after that, Stefan went back to being himself after Klaus released him from Klaus' compulsion. Then Klaus' family was undaggered and they were reunited. Klaus soon became obsessed with getting Elena's blood so he could make hybrids. Tyler was the first hybrid that he made.

        Sage, a vampiress, soon came to town and Damon used Rebekah and Sage for information. Rebekah found out though and went for revenge. She tortured him and then let him go. When Esther had all Originals, excluding herself, bound together as one, Stefan killed Finn and then Sage and Troy died because they were connected to Finn. The others weren't connected because Bonnie unconnected them when Klaus threatened to kill Jeremy.

        After Klaus kept putting Caroline in danger, Tyler finally broke the sire bond by willingly phasing werewolf a thousand times up in the Appalachians. Hayley, a werewolf, helped Tyler do so.

        After Rebekah ran Elena and Matt off the road because she thought Klaus was dead, and wanted Alaric dead (Esther had bound Elena to vampire Alaric) and vampire Alaric was dead, Elena woke up in transition and later became a vampire due to Damon's blood in her system when she had died. She had never wanted to be a vampire, but she dealt with it.

        When Connor, one of The Five, a different kind of Hunter, came to town after April's father had died, he used the Mystic Bar and Grille as a haven to keep April, Matt, and Jeremy hostage. It ended when Elena killed him, but they found out that whomever killed one of The Five would have hallucinations until the next one was awakened. They soon found out that Jeremy was the next one to be awakened, so they had him kill vampires that they could care less about. But it started to get so bad that he had almost killed his own sister. It took Bonnie and Stefan together as one to stop him from thinking about killing her.

        When Kol, one of Klaus' troublesome brothers, tried to hurt Jeremy and kill vampiress Elena, Jeremy and Elena worked together and killed him before Klaus could get to them in time to deal with his brother on his own terms.

        When Katherine killed Jeremy to get the cure for vampirism from Silas, it crushed Elena, so Damon had to use his sire bond to have Elena turn her humanity off. She did and she became a reckless vampiress. She didn't care except to get the cure from Katherine so it couldn't be used against her. Elijah intercepted Katherine and Katherine revealed to Elijah what she had done, but he had so much Faith that the innocent girl he had fallen for all those years ago was still inside her, that he still trusted her. She even gave Elijah the cure and Elijah went to Mystic Falls with Rebecca, his only sister.

        After Elijah and Rebekah returned to Mystic Falls with the cure, Elijah tested Rebekah to see if she really deserved to be human, while he kept the cure in his own possession. Rebekah almost made it through the night at the party that was held for fun, as well as the remembrance of Jeremy Gilbert, but then Elena, without her humanity on, attacked April Young, the daughter of a dead council member. If it hadn't been for Rebekah, April would've died at the fangs of Elena. But then, when Elena attacked her best friend, Bonnie Bennett, outside the building, Bonnie used her magic on Elena and nearly killed her, which frightened Elena so badly, that she practically begged for Damon to help her when he and Stefan found them. It took Stefan to get Bonnie to stop.

        After a while, they finally found a way to get Elena's humanity turned back on. Damon turned her humanity back on when he killed Matt Donovan, Elena's ex-boyfriend and friend, whom was wearing Ric's old ring, which meant that Matt would come back to life sooner or later. But it crushed Elena so much; it brought her humanity back on. And after all of that, it took Stefan for a while, and then Damon, to help her through it all. But in the end, she got over what she had done. And then Silas came to Mystic Falls and started messing with people's minds. They didn't even know why Silas had come to town, until after Klaus and Elijah left to go to New Orleans. Rebekah didn't automatically go with her brothers, because she had something in Mystic Falls. She had found love with Matt. The reason they found out that Silas was in town, was because Katherine was his number one goal. She was his number one goal to find, because he needed her blood, considering the cure had been shoved down her throat by Elena in the school hallway on Graduation night. Because the cure had been shoved down her throat, it made her human and so, the cure was still inside her.

        A few days later, Damon promised Katherine that he would protect her from Silas, but then he ended up handing her over to him. She fought over the wheel with Jeremy though and the car crashed and Jeremy almost died and Katherine got away. Then Silas found another way to find her and Katherine went back to hanging around Damon and Elena. Because they had a lead, the three of them went on a road trip to a bar where a vampire wanted Katherine. Then, after the vampiress escaped with Katherine, she kept Katherine safe from Silas. And in the meantime, the Salvatore brothers and Elena found out by Quetsyiah that Stefan is Silas' doppelganger and she could use Stefan and a spell to make Silas vulnerable. Qetsiyah did that and succeeded. Silas was no longer able to read minds. But then Silas learned how to use a GPS on a phone, which let him know where Katherine and the vampiress were at. Then, a little bit later, Katherine escaped after injuring the vampiress with a part of a cane, and later found her in a dark alley with the piece of cane still in her. And that's when she learned the true identity of the vampiress. The vampiress' name was “Nadia Petrova and you are my mother.” It shocked Katherine and she nursed Nadia back to herself again, before leaving her behind to go stay at the boarding house again.

        After they found a way to kill Silas with doppelganger blood and magic, Stefan finally was able to kill Silas himself. But because Qetsiyah was dying from the injuries Silas had inflicted upon her, the last spell she did was to make Bonnie the anchor to the Other Side. She didn't have enough strength left afterward to help Katherine so she wouldn't die of old age so quickly because of whatever the cure did to her. So she died and Bonnie became the anchor to the Other Side. And now it's very painful to Bonnie when something supernatural dies and has to pass through her to get to the Other Side.

        After Katherine came to college where Caroline and Elena were staying at, Katherine helped Caroline by making everyone think that Elena's not a vampire. And then she realized that her hair was turning gray and she lost a tooth. So, she did something she didn't want to do. She enlisted Dr. Wells, the professor at the college, to help her figure out how to cure her. She knew he knew about vampires, so she figured that he could help her out one way or another. He couldn't though, so she did something else that Katherine Pierce would never have done if she could help it. She left a note at the boarding house for Nadia and went to the clock tower in Mystic Falls where she jumped to commit suicide. But then Stefan found the note, found Katherine, and caught her before she could hit the sidewalk. And that's when she told him what was going on. He figured that writing her thoughts down in a journal would help, but she complained to him that it wasn't helping. And in the meantime, Caroline and Katherine helped Stefan overcome reliving his episode of drowning over and over again in a safe in the river that happened six months or so ago. It worked and afterward, Katherine and Stefan made love.

        Soon after, on her way to find a traveler to help her live longer, Katherine had a heart attack and was rushed to the hospital. Stefan told Nadia that he didn't think she would make it this time around. She made it through, only to die a few weeks later alongside her daughter. She never got to the Other Side though, because she was dragged into a black hole, when she tried to get to the Other Side. So, everyone assumes that she was taken to hell.

*American Gothic*



Every time we lie awake

After every hit we take

Every feeling that I get

But I haven’t missed you yet

Every roommate kept awake

By every sigh and scream we make

All the feelings that I get

But I still don’t miss you yet

Only when I stop to think about you



        It was a beautiful day, as they stood in front of each other.

        “Is that what I am to you? A means of survival?” he accused.

        “No. Of course, you’re not a means of survival. You looked out for me, when I had no one. You’ve given me a second chance now, when no one else will.” She rested a hand on the side of his face. “I love you. Elijah.”

        He turned his head away.

        “You don’t believe me.”

        He looked at her. “I want to. It’s my disease. I just wanting to believe you, but how can I when, at every turn, you give me a reason to doubt you? I don’t know you. I don’t think I ever will.”

        He began to walk away, but she caught up with him and put a hand on his arm, stopping him.

        When he looked at her hand on his arm and then her a couple times, she got the hint and let go.

        He looked at her.

        “Goodbye, Katherine.”

        She could only watch, as he walked away.



I hate everything about you

Why do I love you?

I hate everything about you

Why do I love you?

Every time we lie awake

After every hit we take

Every feeling that I get

But I haven’t missed you yet

Only when I stop to think about it

I hate everything about you

Why do I love you?

I hate everything about you

Why do I love you?

Only when I stop to think about you, I know



        That night, she found him and stood in front of him after thinking things through after he’d walked off that day.

        “What do you want?”

        “To tell you that you’re right. I’ve spent so much time running and lying just to survive, I—I’m starting to believe my own lies. I don’t even remember who I was when we first met. And I want to find out.”

        “How do I know this isn’t another lie? Katherine Pierce deceiving yet another man,” he inquired of her.

        “Because I meant what I said about my feelings for you. And I’d like to think that you feel something for me too.” She took the cure out of her purse and set it in his hand. “I need you to trust me. I want you to trust me. Just like I’m trusting you. You don’t owe me anything. I’m going to let you decide where we go from here.”

        He watched, as she walked away and then looked down at the cure in his hand.



Only when you stop to think about me, do you know?

I hate everything about you

Why do I love you?

You hate everything about me

Why do you love me?

I hate

You hate

I hate

You love me

I hate everything about you

Why do I love you?



        Elijah stood in front of her later that night. He hated what he was about to do, but he felt like he had to do it anyway. There were a lot of things he didn’t have to do that he usually felt he should do, no matter how much pain it caused. Even if it caused himself or her pain.

        He rested a hand on the side of her face.

        “It’s our turn, Elijah. Please,” she pleaded when he’d told her that he was leaving.

        “Katerina.” He kissed her on the forehead. “Goodbye, Katerina.”

        A moment later, he was gone.

*American Gothic*



I can take the rain on the roof of this empty house

That don’t bother me

I can take a few tears now and then and just let ‘em out

I’m not afraid to cry every once in a while

Even though goin’ on with you gone still upsets me

There are days every now and again I pretend I’m okay

But that’s not what gets me

What hurts the most was being so close

And havin’ so much to say

And watchin’ you walk away

And never knowin’ what could’ve been

And not seein’ that lovin’ you

Is what I was trying to do



        It was a beautiful day, as they stood in front of each other.

        “Is that what I am to you? A means of survival?” he accused.

        “No. Of course, you’re not a means of survival. You looked out for me, when I had no one. You’ve given me a second chance now, when no one else will.” She rested a hand on the side of his face. “I love you. Elijah.”

        He turned his head away.

        “You don’t believe me.”

        He looked at her. “I want to. It’s my disease. I just wanting to believe you, but how can I when, at every turn, you give me a reason to doubt you? I don’t know you. I don’t think I ever will.”

        He began to walk away but she caught up with him and put a hand on his arm, stopping him.

        When he looked at her hand on his arm and then her a couple times, she got the hint and let go.

        He looked at her.

        “Goodbye, Katherine.”

        She could only watch, as he walked away.



*American Gothic*



It’s hard to deal with the pain of losin’ you everywhere I go

But I’m doing it

It’s hard to force a smile, when I see our old friends and I’m alone

Still harder getting’ up, getting’ dressed, livin’ with this regret

But I know if I could do it over

I would trade, give away all the words that I saved in my heart

That I left unspoken

What hurts the most was being so close

And havin’ so much to say

And watchin’ you walk away

And never knowin’ what could’ve been

And not seein’ that lovin’ you

Is what I was trying to do, oh



        That night, she found him and stood in front of him after thinking things through after he’d walked off that day.

        “What do you want?”

        “To tell you that you’re right. I’ve spent so much time running and lying just to survive, I—I’m starting to believe my own lies. I don’t even remember who I was when we first met. And I want to find out.”

        “How do I know this isn’t another lie? Katherine Pierce deceiving yet another man,” he inquired of her.

        “Because I meant what I said about my feelings for you. And I’d like to think that you feel something for me too.” She took the cure out of her purse and set it in his hand. “I need you to trust me. I want you to trust me. Just like I’m trusting you. You don’t owe me anything. I’m going to let you decide where we go from here.”

        He watched, as she walked away and then looked down at the cure in his hand.



*Mystic Falls- Mikaelson Mansion*



What hurts the most was being so close

And havin’ so much to say

And watchin’ you walk away

And never knowin’ what could’ve been

And not seein’ that lovin’ you

Is what I was trying to do

That’s what I was trying to do, ooh



        Elijah stood in front of her later that night. He hated what he was about to do, but he felt like he had to do it anyway. There were a lot of things he didn’t have to do that he usually felt he should do, no matter how much pain it caused. Even if it caused himself or her pain.

        He rested a hand on the side of her face.

        “It’s our turn, Elijah. Please,” she pleaded when he’d told her that he was leaving.

        “Katerina.” He kissed her on the forehead. “Goodbye, Katerina.”

        A moment later, he was gone.

*1492*



We clawed, we chained our hearts in vain

We jumped, never asking why

We kissed, I fell under your spell

A love no one could deny

Don’t you ever say

I just walked away

I will always want you

I can’t live a lie

Running for my life

I will always want you



        It was a beautiful day, as Katerina Petrova ran through the woods from Elijah and the others after fleeing from the estate. She knew what they were now and what Klaus wanted her for. Elijah was only on Klaus’ side because Klaus was his brother, she knew. She cared for him, but she couldn’t stay and let Klaus sacrifice her. She wanted to live. She didn’t want to die. So, she was running for her life.



*American Gothic- Mikaelson Mansion*



I came in like a wrecking ball

I never hit so hard in love

All I wanted to do was to break your walls

All you ever did was wreck me

Yeah, you wreck me

I put you high up in the sky

And now

You’re not coming down

It slowly turned

You let me burn

And now

We’re ashes on the ground



        Katherine and Elijah stood in front of each other. Katherine was hopeful that maybe, just maybe, this one time, that he’d finally choose her over his brother, but then, when he finally told her what his choice was, she was disappointed. She knew now that they were always doomed to not get their happy ending, because Elijah would never choose her over his brother; the brother that ruined her life. He would always choose family, just because of a vow that he had made with his family so long ago. Always and forever.

        “It’s our turn, Elijah. Please,” she pleaded with him, trying to get him to reconsider.

        “Katerina.” He rested a hand on the side of her face. Then, after a moment of looking at her, he kissed her on the forehead. “Goodbye, Katerina.” Then he was gone.



*American Gothic*



Don’t you ever say

I just walked away

I will always want you

I can’t live a lie

Running for my life

I will always want you

I came in like a wrecking ball

I never hit so hard in love

All I wanted to do was to break your walls

All you ever did was wreck me

Yeah, you wreck me



        It was a beautiful day, as they stood in front of each other in a Pennsylvania alleyway.

        “Is that what I am to you? A means of survival?” he accused.

        “No. Of course, you’re not a means of survival. You looked out for me, when I had no one. You’ve given me a second chance now, when no one else will.” She rested a hand on the side of his face. “I love you. Elijah.”

        He turned his head away and she put her hand down.

        “You don’t believe me.”

        “I want to. It’s my disease. I just keep wanting to believe you, but how can I when, at every turn, you give me a reason to doubt you? I don’t know you. I don’t think I ever will.”

        She could only watch, as he walked away. Though she tried to get him to stay so they could talk, he left anyway.



I came in like a wrecking ball

Yeah, I just closed my eyes and swung

Left me crouching in a blaze and fall

All you ever did was break me

Yeah, you wreck me

I never meant to start a war

I just wanted you to let me in

And instead of using force

I guess I should’ve let you in

I never meant to start a war

I just wanted you to let me in

And instead of using force

I guess I should’ve let you in



        That night, she stood in front of him after finding him and after thinking over what he’d said earlier.

        “What do you want?” he questioned.

        “To tell you that I’m right. I’ve spent so much time running and lying just to survive, I—I’m starting to believe my own lies. I don’t even remember who I was when we first met. And I want to find out.”

        “How do I know this isn’t another lie? Katherine Pierce deceiving yet another man,” he accused.

        “Because I meant what I said about my feelings for you. And I’d like to think that you feel something for me, too.” She set the cure in his hand. “I need you to trust me. I want you to trust me. Just like I’m trusting you. You don’t owe me anything. I’m going to let you decide where we go from here.”

        He watched her leave and then looked at the cure in his hand, debating on what to do.



*American Gothic*



Don’t you ever say

I just walked away

I will always want you

I came in like a wrecking ball

I never hit so hard in love

All I wanted was to break your walls

I came in like a wrecking ball

All you ever did was wreck me

Yeah, you wreck me

Yeah, you wreck me



        It was a beautiful day, as Elijah spoke over the phone, with a threatening tone as well as threatening words, to Stefan after hearing that Rebekah was on the good side with him and Damon. After telling Stefan over the phone that “as soon as Katerina ceases to have any use, she will kill her,” Elijah began to threaten him, saying, “If anything so ever happens to Katerina, I will descend upon Elena.”

*American Gothic*



Sometimes I hate every single stupid word you say

Sometimes I wanna slap you in your whole face

There’s no one quite like you

You push all my buttons down

I know life would suck without you

At the same time, I wanna hug you

I wanna wrap my hands around your neck

You’re an a**hole, but I love you

And you make me so mad I ask myself

Why I’m still here, or where could I go

You’re the only love I’ve ever known

But I hate you, I really hate you

So much, I think it must be

True love, true love

It must be true love

No one else can break my heart like you



        It was a beautiful day, as they stood in front of each other, arguing.

        “Is that what I am to you? A means of survival?” he accused her.

        “No. Of course, you’re not a means of survival. You looked out for me, when I had no one. You’ve given me a second chance now, when no one else will.” She rested a hand on the side of his face. “I love you. Elijah.”

        He turned his head away, and she put her hand down.

        “You don’t believe me,” she stated.

        “I want to,” he replied, looking at her. “It’s my disease. I just keep wanting to believe you, but how can I when, at every turn, you give me a reason to doubt you? I don’t know you. I don’t think I ever will.”

        He began to walk away.

        After a moment of standing there, she caught up with him and put a hand on his arm, stopping him.

        He looked at her hand on his arm and then her a couple of times, giving her the hint to let go, which she did.

        “Goodbye, Katherine.”

        She could only watch, as he walked away.



Just once try to wrap your little brain around my feelings

Just once try not to be so mean

Repeat after me R-O-M-A-N-C-E-E

Come on I’ll say it slowly (Romance)

You can do it, baby



        That night, she found him and stood in front of him after she’d thought about what he’d said that day.

        “What do you want?” he questioned her.

        “To tell you that you’re right. I’ve spent so much time running and lying just to survive, I—I’m starting to believe my own lies. I don’t even remember who I was when we first met. And I want to find out,” she replied.

        “How do I know this isn’t another lie? Katherine Pierce deceiving yet another man?” he replied

        She took the cure out and set it in his hand.

        “Because I meant what I said about my feelings for you. And I’d like to think that you feel something for me too.”

        “You have the cure,” he stated.

        “Yes, and I can shove this down Klaus’ throat and try to kill him, but even if I managed to do it, I’d lose you. And I don’t want that to happen. I need you to trust me. I want you to trust me. Just like I’m trusting you. You don’t owe me anything. I’m going to let you decide where we go from here.”

        He watched, as she walked away, before looking down at the cure.



At the same time, I wanna hug you

I wanna wrap my hands around your neck

You’re an a**hole, but I love you

And you make me so mad I ask myself

Why I’m still here, or where could I go

You’re the only love I’ve ever known

But I hate you, I really hate you

So much, I think it must be

True love, true love

It must be true love

No one else can break my heart like you



        Later that night, Elijah stood in front of her at the Mystic Falls Mikaelson place.

        “It’s our turn, Elijah. Please,” she pleaded, once he’d told her that he was leaving.

        He rested a hand on the side of her face. “Katerina.” He kissed her on the forehead. “Goodbye, Katerina.”



*1492*



Why do you rub me the wrong way?

Why do you say the things you say?

Sometimes I wonder how we ever came to be

But without you, I’m incomplete

I think it must be

True love, true love

It must be true love

Nothing else can break my heart like

True love, true love



        It was a beautiful day, as Katerina Petrova sat on a bench next to Elijah. She began speaking of love, before saying, “True love is not real unless it is returned, do you agree?”

        “I do not believe in love, Katerina,” he lied.

        “I’m sorry, my Lord. That is too sad for me to accept. If we cease to believe in love, why would we want to live?”



*1492- Run*



It must be true love

And no one else can break my heart like you

(Like you)

No one else can break my heart like you

(Like you)

No one else can break my heart like you



        It was a beautiful day, as Katerina tripped over a twig after running from the Mikaelsons. Klaus was whom she was really running from, but Elijah was on Klaus’ side since he was so loyal to his brother.

        “Katerina! It’s pointless to run. Klaus will find you wherever you are,” she heard Elijah say.

        Eventually, she got away from there with some help from Trevor, and later turned.

*1492*



And I’ll use you as a warning sign

That if you talk enough sense then you’ll lose your mind

And I’ll use you as a focal point

So, I don’t lose sight of what I want

And I’ve moved further than I thought I could

But I missed you more than I thought I would

And I’ll use you as a warning sign

That if you talk enough sense then you’ll lose your mind

And I found love where it wasn’t supposed to be

Right in front of me



        “Are you so foolish as to care for her?” Klaus inquired of his brother.

        “Of course not,” Elijah answered.

        “She is human. Her life means nothing. Love is a vampire’s greatest weakness and we are not weak. We do not feel, and we do not care,” Klaus reminded him.

        “We did once,” Elijah replied.

        Klaus was silent for a moment, remembering, before saying, “Too many lifetimes ago to matter.”



*American Gothic*



Talk some sense to me

Right in front of me

Talk some sense to me

Right in front of me

Talk some sense to me

And I’ll use you as a makeshift gauge

Of how much to give and how much to take



        It was a beautiful day, as they stood in front of each other.

        “Is that what I am to you? A means of survival?” he accused.

        “No. Of course, you’re not a means of survival. You looked out for me, when I had no one. You’ve given me a second chance now, when no one else will. I love you.” She rested a hand on the side of his face. “Elijah.”

        He turned his face away and she put her hand down.

        “You don’t believe me.”

        He looked at her. “I want to. It’s my disease. I just keep wanting to believe you, but how can I when, at every turn, you give me a reason to doubt you? I don’t know you. I don’t think I ever will.”

        She watched him walk away for a moment, before catching up with him and stopping him with a hand on his arm.

        “Wait.”

        He looked down at her hand on his arm, then her, then her hand again, and then her once again.

        She let go, getting the hint.

        “Goodbye, Katherine,” he said, for once in his 500 years of knowing her, not calling her her human name.

        This time, as he walked away, she let him go.





        That night, she found him and stood in front of him.

        “What do you want?” he inquired.

        “To tell you that you’re right. I’ve spent so much time running and lying just to survive, I—I’m starting to believe my own lies. I don’t even remember who I was when we first met. And I’d like to find out.”

        “How do I know this isn’t another lie? Katherine Pierce deceiving yet another man?” he questioned.

        “Because I meant what I said about my feelings for you. And I’d like to think that you feel something for me, too.”



Oh I’ll use you as a warning sign

That if you talk enough sense then you’ll lose your mind

Oh and I found love where it wasn’t supposed to be

Right in front of me

Talk some sense to me

And I found love where it wasn’t supposed to be

Right in front of me

Talk some sense to me

And I found love where it wasn’t supposed to be

Right in front of me

Talk some sense to me



        After she gave him the cure, showing him that he could trust her, she told him that she’d let him decide where they stood, and then walked away.

        He stood with the cure in his hand and watched her walk away.



And I found love where it wasn’t supposed to be

Right in front of me

Talk some sense to me

And I found love where it wasn’t supposed to be

Right in front of me

Talk some sense to me



        Later that night, they stood at the Mikaelson place, him in front of her. He’d just told her that he was going to New Orleans. He rested a hand on the side of her face, as she pleaded with him to stay.

        “It’s our turn, Elijah. Please.”

        “Katerina,” he said, looking at her. Then he kissed her on the forehead. “Goodbye, Katerina.”

        A moment later, he was gone.

*American Gothic*



Love is a burning thing

And it makes a fiery ring

Bound by wild desire

I fell into a ring of fire

I fell into a burning ring of fire

I went down down down and the flames went higher

And it burns, burns, burns the ring of fire

The ring of fire

I fell into a burning ring of fire

I went down down down and the flames went higher

And it burns, burns, burns the ring of fire

The ring of fire



        “Is that what I am to you? A means of survival?” he asked her.

        “Of course you’re not a means of survival. You looked out for me, when I had no one. You’ve given me a second chance now, when no one else will.” She rested a hand on the side of his face. “I love you. Elijah.”

        He turned his head away and she put her hand down.

        “You don’t believe me,” she stated.

        He looked at her. “I want to. It’s my disease. I just keep wanting to believe you, but how can I when, at every turn, you give me a reason to doubt you? I don’t know you. I don’t think I ever will.”

        He began to walk away.

        She stood there for a moment, thinking about what he’d just said, before catching up with him and putting a hand on his arm.

        “Wait.”

        He looked at her hand on his arm and then her a couple times, so she let go of him, getting the hint. Then he looked at her.

        “Goodbye, Katherine.”

        She could only watch, as he walked away.



*1492- England*



The taste of love is sweet

When hearts like ours meet

I fell for you like a child

Oh, but the fire went wild

I fell into a burning ring of fire

I went down down down and the flames went higher

And it burns, burns, burns the ring of fire

The ring of fire



        It was a beautiful day with a soft breeze blowing, as Katerina sat on a cement bench outside, Elijah seated beside her, as they discussed love.

        “True love is not real, unless it is returned. Do you agree?” she said, looking at him.

        “I do not believe in love, Katerina,” he lied, needing to not fall for her. If he fell for her, he wouldn’t be able to help Klaus break the curse set upon him, which involved her death.

        “That is too sad for me to accept, my Lord. If we cease to believe in love, then why would we want to live?” she replied, not believing him.



*American Gothic*



I fell into a burning ring of fire

I went down down down and the flames went higher

And it burns, burns, burns the ring of fire

The ring of fire

And it burns, burns, burns the ring of fire



        That night, she found him and went to stand in front of him where he was on a sidewalk.

        “What do you want?”

        “To tell you that you’re right. I’ve spent so much time running and lying just to survive, I—I’m starting to believe my own lies. I don’t even remember who I was when we first met. And I want to find out.” She took a box out of her purse.

        “You have the cure,” he stated.

        “Yes. And I can shove this down Klaus’ throat and try to kill him, but even if I managed to do it, I’d lose you. And I don’t want to happen.” She set the vial of the cure in his hand and put his empty hand on top of the hand that held the cure with her hands around his. “I want you to trust me. I need you to trust me. Just like I’m trusting you.” She took her hands away. “You don’t owe me anything. I’m going to let you decide where we go from here.”

        He watched, as she walked away and then looked down at the cure in his hand.



The ring of fire

The ring of fire

The ring of fire

The ring of fire



        Later that night, Elijah stood in front of her at the Mikaelson place in Mystic Falls. He loved her, but he couldn’t trust someone that would lie to him like she had today. He hated what he was about to do. He’d promised to protect her all those centuries ago, but he was so tired of figuring out if she was telling the truth or not. He was about to do the one thing that he hated to do to her. He had to leave to go help Klaus in New Orleans. He couldn’t stay and family always came first for him. He always had to sacrifice love for family, no matter what. He always stood by his family because of their vow centuries ago; always and forever.

        “It’s our turn, Elijah. Please,” she pleaded, when he’d told her that he was leaving to go help Klaus out.

        “Katerina.” He rested a hand on the side of her face and then took it away and kissed her on the forehead. “Goodbye, Katerina.” Then he was gone.

*American Gothic*



Can…

We work this out

I don’t wanna close the door, before the sun goes down

(Before the sun goes down)

We can’t…

Let this go too far

I’ll do anything to meet you anywhere you are

(Anywhere you are)

‘Cause it doesn’t matter anymore

Who was right or wrong

If we could only find the words we lost before

What we have is gone…

Say it now

Find a way to say it now



        It was a beautiful day, as they stood in front of each other in a Pennsylvania alleyway.

        “Is that what I am to you? A means of survival?” he accused her.

        “No. Of course, you’re not a means of survival. You looked out for me, when I had no one. You’ve given me a second chance now, when no one else will. I love you.” She rested a hand on the side of his face. “Elijah.”

        He turned his face away and she dropped her hand.

        “You don’t believe me.”

        “I want to. It’s my disease. I just keep wanting to believe you, but how can I when, at every turn, you give me a reason to doubt you? I don’t know you. I don’t think I ever will.”

        He began to walk away.

        She watched for a moment, before catching up with him and put a hand on his arm.

        He looked at her hand on his arm, then her, then her arm, and then her again.

        She let go, getting the hint.

        “Goodbye, Katherine.”

        She watched, as he walked away.



Don’t be afraid to say it now

Everything we’re keeping inside

Don’t wait just let your heart speak

Don’t waste another heart-beat

‘Cause we’ll never know ‘til we let it out (let it out)

Say it-Say it now

(Say it, say it)

My heart…

Is wearing thin…

I don’t wanna fight a war that no one’s gonna win



        It was a dismal night, as she stood in front of him in Pennsylvania.

        “What do you want?” he questioned.

        “To tell you that you’re right. I’ve spent so much time running and lying just to survive, I—I’m starting to believe my own lies. I don’t even remember who I was when we first met. And I want to find out.”

        “How do I know this isn’t another lie? Katherine Pierce deceiving yet another man?”

        “Because I meant what I said about my feelings for you. And I’d like to think that you feel something for me too.”



(No one’s gonna win)

All this time we’ve grown apart

Looking for an end

If I’m the one that’s holding on and holding back, here’s how we begin

We gotta

Say it now

Find a way to say it now

Don’t be afraid to say it now



        She and Elijah stood in front of each other at the Mikaelson place in Mystic Falls. He’d just told her that he was leaving town.

        He rested a hand on the side of her face and she pleaded for him to stay, saying, “It’s our turn, Elijah. Please.”

        “Katerina.” For a moment, he looked at her. Then he kissed her on the forehead. “Goodbye, Katerina.” Then he was gone.



*1492*



Everything we’re keeping inside

Don’t wait just let your heart speak

Don’t waste another heart-beat

‘Cause we’ll never know ‘til we let it out (let it out)

Say it-Say it now

(Say it, Say it)

No more getting lost between the lines

Can…

We work this out

I don’t wanna close the door, before the sun goes down

(Before the sun goes down)



        It was a beautiful day, as they played chase with each other.

        “You’re meant to catch me,” she said with a laugh and smile.

        “But if I catch you, then the game will be over,” he replied to her.

        They went to sit on the bench next to each other and she spoke of love.

        “True love is not real unless it is returned. Do you agree?” she said.

        “I do not believe in love, Katerina.”

        “That is too sad for me to accept, my Lord. If we cease to believe in love, then why would we want to live?” she replied.



Say it now

Find a way to say it now

Don’t be afraid to say it now

Everything we’re keeping inside

Don’t wait just let your heart speak

Don’t waste another heart-beat

‘Cause we’ll never know ‘til we let it out (let it out)

Say it-Say it now

(Say it, Say it)



        It was a dismal night, as Katerina Petrova stood by a table of food. She was soon introduced to Klaus and Elijah and gave a bow to both of them.

        “It’s a pleasure to meet you,” she said.

        “My pleasure,” Elijah replied.

        Klaus took her hand and kissed it. When she called him Niklaus, he said, “Please. That’s what my mother calls me. Call me Klaus.”

        She gave a smile at them both, but was more intrigued with Elijah. She felt like she could trust him, even though they had only just met.



‘Cause we’ll never know ‘til we let it out

(Say it, say it now)

Say it-Say it now

(Say it, Say it)



        It was a beautiful day on the Mikaelson estate, as Elijah and Katerina played chase. She stopped running and gave a laugh, saying, “You’re meant to catch me.”

        He stopped as well and replied, saying, “Well, if I catch you, then the game will be over.”

        They gave a smile at each other, before going to sit on a cement bench.

*1492*



Come up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry
You don't know how lovely you are
I had to find you
Tell you I need you
Tell you I've set you apart
Tell me your secrets
And ask me your questions
Oh, let's go back to the start
Running in circles
Coming up tails
Heads on the science apart



        It was a dismal night, as Katerina Petrova stood by a food table at a ball.

        Elijah came up to her and was shocked for a moment, at the resemblance to a former doppelganger he’d loved, that was no longer alive.

        “Forgive me. You remind me of someone,” he said.



*American Gothic*



Nobody said it was easy

It’s such a shame for us to part

Nobody said it was easy

No one ever said it would be this hard

Oh take me back to the start

I was just guessing

At numbers and figures

Pulling the puzzles apart

Questions of science

Science and progress

Do not speak as loud as my heart

Oh tell me you love me



        It was a beautiful day, as they stood in front of each other in a Pennsylvania alleyway.

        “Is that what I am to you? A means of survival?” he accused her.

        “No. Of course, you’re not a means of survival. You looked out for me, when I had no one. You’ve given me a second chance now, when no one else will. I love you.” She rested a hand on the side of his face. “Elijah.”

        He turned his face away and she dropped her hand.

        “You don’t believe me.”

        “I want to. It’s my disease. I just keep wanting to believe you, but how can I when, at every turn, you give me a reason to doubt you? I don’t know you. I don’t think I ever will.”

        He began to walk away.

        She watched for a moment, before catching up with him and put a hand on his arm.

        He looked at her hand on his arm, then her, then her arm, and then her again.

        She let go, getting the hint.

        “Goodbye, Katherine.”

        She watched, as he walked away.



Come back and haunt me

Oh and I rush to the start

Running in circles

Chasing our tails

Coming back as we are

Nobody said it was easy

Oh, it’s such a shame for us to part



        It was a dismal night, as she stood in front of him in Pennsylvania.

        “What do you want?” he questioned.

        “To tell you that you’re right. I’ve spent so much time running and lying just to survive, I—I’m starting to believe my own lies. I don’t even remember who I was when we first met. And I want to find out.”

        “How do I know this isn’t another lie? Katherine Pierce deceiving yet another man?”

        “Because I meant what I said about my feelings for you. And I’d like to think that you feel something for me too.”



Nobody said it was easy

No one ever said it would be so hard



        She and Elijah stood in front of each other at the Mikaelson place in Mystic Falls. He’d just told her that he was leaving town.

        He rested a hand on the side of her face and she pleaded for him to stay, saying, “It’s our turn, Elijah. Please.”

        “Katerina.” For a moment, he looked at her. Then he kissed her on the forehead. “Goodbye, Katerina.” Then he was gone.



*1492*



I’m going back to the start

Oh ooh ooh ooh ooh

Ah ooh ooh ooh

Oh ooh ooh ooh ooh

Oh ooh ooh ooh ooh



        She gave him a curtsey and he took her hand.

        “It’s a pleasure to meet you, my Lord,” she said.

        “My pleasure,” Elijah replied.

        It was a dismal night in Pennsylvania, as he watched her walk away. Then he looked down at the cure in his hand that she had given him, wanting him to trust her just like she trusted him. How could he though when, at every turn, she lied and deceived so much that he didn’t know any more if she was telling the truth? He couldn’t trust someone like that. She wasn’t who he had fallen in love with anymore. She had changed a long time ago, but despite wanting to believe that his Katerina was still in there somewhere, he was starting to think that his Katerina he had fallen for was dead.

        He stopped looking at it and put it away in his pocket in his suit jacket.

        Suddenly, just as he turned around and began to cross the street, he heard some shots close by and saw someone leaving a building with a rifle. That someone knew he saw him but wasn’t afraid.

        At vamp speed, he had the guy pinned against a brick wall with the gun on the ground.

        “Who are you?” he growled, fighting not to lose control. He would love to kill him, but he needed to know who he was first. “What do you want?”

        “Jack. Some guy named Silas sent me,” he replied, as Elijah’s hearing picked up on Katherine in an alley, who he hadn’t seen since the shots. He didn’t need to see her to know that she’d been hit.

        He growled at Jack, and, angry at Katerina being targeted, let him go and then severed his head from his body, killing him. He then sped towards the alley.





        Once in the dark alley, he saw her on her back and was instantly knelt at her side.

        “Katerina?” he called to her. “Katerina.” He rested a gentle hand on the side of her face, not getting a reply. That’s when he felt how warm she was. He knew what it meant. The bullets she’d been shot with had werewolf poison in them. She was dying. With his free hand, he began to pull each bullet out. Then, after that was done, he rested his free hand on the right side of her face so both hands rested on either side of her head. “Katerina, can you hear me?” he called to her, trying again. “I need you to open your eyes, Katerina.” Once more, he didn’t get a reply. That made him think that she’d gotten more than the average poison normally accompanied by just one werewolf bite. Realizing that, his heart sunk. If she’d gotten an extra dose, she didn’t have twenty-four hours to wait for the cure. She had less than that.

        He took his hands away and put his right arm around his shoulders. He used his right to slide under her legs and his left to slide under her, supporting her head, and gently pulled her close to him. As he gently pulled her close, he heard her groan, but that was all he got.

        “Stay with me, Katerina,” he pleaded, before speeding towards his car with her, where he gently sat her in the passenger’s seat. Then he closed the door and got in, before starting the car and driving as fast as possible back to Mystic Falls.





        As he drove, he kept an eye on her, making sure she didn’t grow any purple veins, and hoped that she’d open her eyes. He needed her to wake up. He needed to at least know that she could hear him.





        An hour later, half way to Mystic Falls, he used his right hand to hold her hand, as he continued driving.

        When he heard her groan, he looked over at her.

        “Katerina?”

        “Elijah,” she half-whispered and, with difficulty, opened her eyes to see him with a worried face. “What’s happening?”

        “You were shot more than once with bullets that have werewolf poison. You’re dying,” he answered her.

        She turned her head to watch the road. After 500 years of survival, she was going to die, knowing that Klaus would never cure her. As she looked at it, her vision went blurry and she felt as if she couldn’t breathe. And as everything began to fade, she vaguely heard Elijah calling to her, but everything was too far away.

        “We’re almost there, Katerina. Just hang on,” he begged, as he drove into town and towards home. If anything happened to her, he didn’t know how he’d live. He needed her alive.





        An hour later, he was seated on her bedside, having gotten Klaus to cure her an hour ago, waiting for her to wake up, her hand in his, glad she was cured.

        It was a beautiful night in Mystic Falls, Virginia as Katherine Pierce sat at the bar next to Alaric.

        "Hello, Alaric," she greeted.

        "Katherine."

        "Do you know where I might find Elijah?" she questioned.

        "Go away."

        "Why? I thought we left on good terms."

        "I don't want you here. Take a hint, will you?"

        Then the familiar scent hit her. Vampire.

        "What happened to you?" she asked him.

        "Esther turned me. Now, I'm going to kill every vampire, starting with Klaus."

        She clenched her teeth and gasped in pain, as he stabbed her with a dagger. And then she felt the familiar sensation of having a hard time breathing. And that's when she knew the dagger had vervain on it. Now, she couldn't go anywhere without help, and she was too shaky to move on her own, much less get her phone out to call for help. All she could do was clutch the bar with both hands to keep from falling.

        "We should help her," she heard Caroline Forbes say, a moment after she smelled Tyler and Caroline when they walked in.

        "Why?" she heard Tyler ask.

        "She had to have come back for a reason. And that reason wasn't to get vervained by Alaric. She needs help. We have to help her."

        "Fine. You stay here. I'll get away from him. He can't hurt me like he can you."

        A few minutes later, she smelled his scent. He was behind her. She felt a gentle hand on her right upper arm and knew it was Tyler's.

        I'm saved, she thought to herself.

        "Let's get out of here," she heard Tyler say.

        She slowly got off the stool and onto her feet, as he held a hand on her arm to help her keep her balance.

        Before she knew it, they were outside the Mystic Grille. Tyler still had his hand on her arm and Caroling had a hand on her other arm.

        "What happened?" Caroline asked her as gently as she could. All she knew was that she smelled vervain with something else she couldn't place.

        “I asked him where Elijah was, and he told me what happened to him. Then he stabbed me," Kat summarized.

        "And before that?" Tyler asked.

        "I killed the hybrids Klaus sent after me. They attacked, though. That's why I was looking for Elijah. He's the only one I can trust to get me the cure without having to sacrifice anything. And Elijah still cares about me. We had something when I was human and before I came to live in America."

        Tyler and Caroline looked at one another. They knew they had to do something, but they didn't know where they would find Elijah.

        As she started to feel weak, Kat saw Damon.



        Damon had been walking up to the Mystic Grille, when he had seen Tyler and Caroline outside holding Katherine up. Then he was instantly in front of them.

        "What happened to her?" Damon asked them, though he looked at Katherine.

        "She was vervained by Alaric. Before that, she was attacked by his hybrids. She killed them," Tyler answered.

        "I'll take care of her."

        "She said she wanted to ask Elijah to get the cure for her."

        "Then I'll find him and take care of her."

        She felt the vampiress and hybrid leave to go inside. Then she was alone with Damon.

        He kept his eyes on her, as he assessed her condition.

        "Katherine."

        "Damon?" was all she got out, as everything went black.

        The elder Salvatore brother caught her from hitting the ground. Then he picked her up in his arms and walked the route to Elena's. He couldn't use his super speed. There were too many people around.



        She groaned as she came to and realized that she was in Damon's arms. Then she felt an urge. It was a side effect of the vervain.

        Damon set her on her feet and watched her, as she knelt down by a bush by Elena's walkway and coughed up blood. He knew it would come. This wasn't the first time he had seen her in a vervained state. As she coughed up blood, he knelt by her. Before he could pull the dagger out of her lower stomach, he smelled Elena's scent. That's what made him look up.

        Elena was heading out the door, when she saw Damon and Katherine. She knew from the scene that something was wrong. She left the house and didn't stop until she stood by them.

        "Damon, what's going on?"

        He looked up at her.

        "Elena, you should go back inside, but if you must know, Ric vervained her. To top it off, she was bitten by hybrids before she killed them."

        He pulled the dagger out and handed it to the doppelganger.

        "Take it."



        Kat finished and used the sleeve of her jacket to clean her face, before she looked up at Elena.

        "Elena," she greeted.

        Damon got to his feet, as he helped his Sire to her feet. He could tell she was weak, as he did so.

        "She can stay in my room and I'll watch her," Elena announced.

        "Thanks," Kat told her descendant.

        "We should get her inside," Damon said.

        Before she knew it, everything went dark again.



        When she woke up for the second time tonight, she was on her back on Elena's bed. Her jacket was off, and her wounds had been tended to. Her journal was on top of the end table and Elena was seated on her bedside with a wash cloth in hand. She stared at the wall as she saw her pa' pa and ma' ma, too weak to cry. And then they disappeared, and she saw Rose. She thought it odd to see her sire that hadn't liked her in the beginning. But she didn't care. She just wanted to know if she would live or die. Then she finally looked at Elena, as Elena continued to damp the cloth on her face to cool her down.

        "I'm sorry, Elena. I'm sorry for what I did. Forgive me. Tell Damon that I have always cared and loved them both. I never chose either of them. I love you too, Elena. You are the last of my Petrova family. I hope you will all forgive me," she whispered.

        "I forgave you a long time ago. And I think Damon will forgive you after a while. Just hand on," Elena replied.

        "I don't know how much longer I can, Elena."

        "Try, Katherine."



        Damon stood by the stairs, as he spoke to Rebekah.

        "Please, Rebekah. Do this for me, at least."

        "Fine."

        "Good. Meet me at Elena's."

        He hung up.

        "I'm going to find Elijah!" he yelled up the stairs at Elena and Kat. Then he left.





        When Katherine woke up, she felt better. She saw that Elijah and Elena were both at her side.

        "You should go help Damon. My sister has stepped out of line," he told Elena.

        She obeyed.

        Katherine sat up in bed.

        He gave her a shot glass of blood and she drank it, before she gave it back to him. He then set it back on the end table and she got to her feet. She put her jacket back on and he bit his wrist.

        "It'll heal you faster," he said, as he held it out to her.

        She drank from him for a few minutes, before she let go.

        She watched him vanish, and then she headed down the stairs.





        Once down the stairs, she saw the scene. There was a dagger in Damon's chest. He was slumped against the threshold. Elena was knelt in front of him with fear. Elijah and Rebekah were gone.

        Kat knelt by them.

        "He'll be okay," she assured her.

        Katherine gently drug him into the hallway and Elena closed the door. The vampiress then knelt down with his back against her and bit her wrist. She put it to his lips and made her blood go down his throat, as she used her free hand to pull the dagger out. She tossed it to the floor and Elena knelt at his right side.

        A few minutes later, he came to. Then, once he felt better, he stopped drinking and she took her wrist away. It obviously healed.

        He looked up at her.

        "Katherine."

        "Welcome back, Damon."

        "I could say the same thing," he answered.

        The three of them smiled at one another.

Katherine



        It's a dark night as I run through the forest, the enemy after us with Elena at my side. I could be gone before Klaus got to me, but I won't leave her for Klaus. As we run hand in hand, I can sense that he's not that far behind us. We're running from him, because he tried to kill her by draining her. He needs her to die in order to kill vampire Alaric. I won't let her die, though. Especially, not after I just saved her life from him. If anyone's going to die tonight, it'll be me. If it comes down to it, I'll gladly sacrifice my life for Elena's.

        I stop when we arrive by a log. I could run forever non-stop, but I can tell that she won't be able to run much farther. She needs rest, so that's what I'll give her.

        I let go of her hand.

        "Rest. You need it and you've earned it."

        She sits down on the log.

        "What about you?" she asks, as she tries to catch her breath.

        "I don't need rest. If he comes close enough, get out of the way and run for safety. I'll do what I can. If he kills me, then so be it."

        "Katherine-" she starts.

        I look down at her, as I stand in front of her and speak.

        "Elena, you have more of a chance of surviving than I do. After 500 years of running, it's exhausting. If I do die though, remember that we are the same in more ways than one. And I'm not talking about our traits."

        "Then what are you talking about?"

        "Our family, Elena. Damon and Stefan don't know my past, except for the past with them. You and I both lost our parents. Klaus slaughtered my uncle, father, maid, mother, and villagers just to get back at me for running. It was 500 years ago in Bulgaria, but it still hurts. It's one of the many eternal scars that will never fully be healed. It took me meeting Stefan to love again. After he slaughtered everyone, I closed up my heart to love. I made myself not feel anything. Then I came to America in 1864 and met Stefan. I fell in love with him shortly before Damon came home on leave from the war. I instantly fell for him. I guess I'll never know if it was the uniform or something entirely different about him that made me fall for him. And what Damon and Stefan call me playing games; that just me doing what I can to make sure my family stays together. I lost it once; I won't lose it again; and your biological mother? She was my daughter my father took away, because she was born illegitimate."

        "But why would he do that? Your father, I mean."

        "It was the sixteenth century and those types of children weren't welcome. Instead, they were abandoned and even taken away from their mothers. I never saw her again, until I realized Isabelle was my daughter, when she came to town. I knew it from her looks. If I had been able to be a true mother, Isabelle would've never been turned and never met Ric. She most certainly never had turned out to be so twisted without any morals whatsoever. I would've taught her the right thing."

        "Why didn't you tell them?" Elena asks, obviously referring to Damon and Stefan.

        "Because I didn't know them very well back then. I'm not very trusting, which Damon has also grown to be like. And now, if I told either of them, they would say that I'm lying. They wouldn't know the truth, unless they read my Petrova journal."

        "You have a journal?"

        "Yes, of course. You and Stefan aren't the only ones. A lot of people do."

        "I guess it's surprising."

        "Now you know my whole story. Now we should go before he gets any closer."

        She starts to her feet, and I help her with a hand on her upper, right arm. I then take her hand and we start to run as fast as we can at a human pace.

        Suddenly, I'm thrown and land on the ground on my back. Klaus looms over me, as he looks down at me. Elena is a distance away getting to her feet.

        Run, I think to myself. She can't hear me, because her vervain necklace keeps me out of her head.

        I get to my feet.

        "Klaus."

        "Katerina."

        "You need to stop this. Haven't you done enough? She is part of my family. If you do anything to her, I take it personal. But of course, you never thought of that, did you?" I say.

        He pins me against a tree at vampire speed, hand around my throat.

        "I don't want to hear your part," he says. "Just stay out of this. When everything is over, it'll be your turn. I promise."

        He lets go and then turns around and starts towards Elena.

        "No!" I yell, as I throw him at vamp speed.

        He lands on the ground but gets to his feet unharmed. Then he glares at me and growls.

        I growl back.

        I take a few steps back when I see him willingly phase into a brown werewolf. Then he lunges at me and I avoid him. I keep avoiding him until I can't.

        Soon, he's on top of me and attacking me with teeth and claws. I scream in pain, as he does and everything starts to become distant. I vaguely hear Elena in the distance yelling my name.





        What feels like hours later, Klaus is thrown off me. I see Elijah facing off with Klaus and I smile inwardly. After everything I've done, Elijah still cares enough to save my life.

        "Katherine," Elena says, as she kneels at my left side.

        "Elena," I half-whisper.

        "Come on. We have to get out of here."

        She puts an arm around me and I put an arm around her shoulders. As we get to our feet, I lean against her. Right now, Elena is my strength. I need her to help me, because I'm dying.





        After a while, I recognize where we're going. The Salvatore boarding house where both brothers live at. As we continue on our way with me leaning heavily on Elena for support, everything is tunnel-like and dim. I can barely see anything and I'm so weak and tired.

        As we near the door, I start to feel numb and cold. Then I hear Elena, as I barely see the door open.

        "Katherine, stay awake. Stay with me."

        I barely see light and hear the door close. That's when I know that we made it inside.

        When I barely see that we're in the living room, my senses plummet and I can't feel anything.

        "Katherine," I hear Elena say, before everything goes black.



Elena



        I use my body weight to hold Katherine up, as she blacks out. Then, with much effort, I finally get her on Damon's bed upstairs.

        As she lays on her back, I take her black leather jacket off. I toss it by the end table on the floor and then go to the bathroom. I need a damp washcloth.

        A few minutes later, I come back with a damp washcloth and sit on her bedside. I put it on her forehead.

        "Hang in there, Katherine," I say, even though I don't know if she can hear me.

        I get to my feet and hurry downstairs towards the basement.

        Damon has a cooler of blood down there. If I'm lucky, there's still half a vial of Klaus' blood there. Katherine needs it, or she'll surely die.

        Once I find it, I rush towards Damon's room and then sit on her bedside. I gently lift her head and put the vial to her lips, making the blood go down her throat.

        Once I know that I gave her enough, I set the vial on the end table and gently lay her head back down. She looks better already. She doesn't look pale anymore. I take the wash cloth off and set it on the end table.

        I look down at her, as I wait for her to wake up.



Katherine



        I don't know how long I'm out, but when I come to, I feel like myself. Elena must've cured me, which I'm very thankful for.

        I sit up slowly.

        "Thank you."

        "You're welcome," she replies.

        We smile at one another, glad that we both lived through tonight.

        It was a dark night in Mystic Falls, as Katherine Pierce walked the route to the Salvatore boarding house. She stopped when she smelled the smell of heavily flowing blood. She knew whom it belonged to, so she followed her scent.

        She stopped a distance away in a deserted parking lot.

        As soon as she saw Rebekah Mikaelson feeding from the present doppelganger’s neck, she through her across the parking lot at vampire speed and, as Rebekah was thrown, she caught an unconscious Elena Gilbert from hitting the ground. Then, vamped out, she bit her wrist and put it to her lips, making her blood go down her throat, as she knelt on the ground and held her in her arms.

        Rebekah got to her feet and saw the scene. As she started to walk towards them, Katherine looked at her and growled menacingly in warning.

        Rebekah stopped a distance away when she got growled at.

        “Well, well. Look who’s so protective,” the Original commented.

        The former doppelganger gently took her wrist away and layed her gently on the ground on her back, before she got to her feet.

        “Why wouldn’t I be?” the vampiress growled at her.

        “I thought you despised her is all.”

        “I don’t despise her. She’s my family and you nearly killed her.”

        At vampire speed, the vampiress pinned Rebekah to a tree with a hand tightly around her throat, letting her anger loose.

        “You can’t kill me. I’m older than you,” Rebekah said through the pain.

        “No. But I sure as hell can hurt you. You should learn a few things about family before you start killing, or, in this case, almost killing someone else’s family,” she growled at the blond vampiress. Then she through her to the ground and twisted her arm behind her back.

        Rebekah gasped in pain.

        “Stay the hell away from my family, or I will dagger you myself,” the ex-doppelganger growled at her, as she did so, warning her for future reference.

        With her arm still behind her back, the former doppelganger got her to her feet before she through her. This time she let go of her, as she through her.

        Elijah Mikaelson arrived and stopped between the distance of his only sister and Katherine. As he did, his sister began to painfully get to her feet. Then he went to stand in front of Katherine.

        “What’s going on, Katerina?”

        “Keep your bitch of a sister away from my family,” she answered in anger. She then added more calmly, “Keep her in line.”

        “What happened?” he asked calmly.

        “Your sister nearly killed Elena.”

        “I promise that she will be punished.”

        “Thank you, Elijah.”

        “You are welcome, Katerina.”

        Elijah looked over his shoulder at his sister and calmly, but with a hint of anger in his voice said, “Rebekah, go straight home. There will be consequences.”

        He watched her vanish, before he looked at the vampiress again.

        “Are you okay? Did she hurt you?” he asked calmly with worry, figuring that she and Rebekah had most likely had a fight.

        When she had been human, he and Trevor had both loved her. To this day, he cared deeply for her, even though he wasn’t madly in love with her anymore. He cared for Elena as well. Elena was supposed to be under his protection. He felt like he had failed in his duty, knowing that Rebekah had almost killed the doppelganger.

        The vampiress looked back at him and tried to hide what she felt now. She was in pain. In the fight with Rebekah, she hadn’t felt any pain. She had been too filled with rage at her to notice.

        “I don’t know,” she replied truthfully.

        Like her human family, she knew she could trust Elijah with what life she had left. She didn’t have to lie to him.

        “Katerina, what…?” he started to ask, but stopped when he smelled blood. Her blood.

        She saw him start to look at her for where she was hurt at. As she saw that, she realized she couldn’t hide her pain. Then she felt herself quickly weaken.

        Elijah put gentle hands on her waist to try and keep her on her feet, as he saw her weaken and start to lose her balance.

        “Katerina,” he said calmly, though inside, he was scared for her. He wanted to help her in any way that he could.

        “Elijah,” she said, as everything blurred. She then put gentle hands on his shoulders to do what she could to stay on her feet. It was to no avail though, as everything went black.

        As she collapsed, Elijah caught her with a hand between her shoulder blades, an arm holding her up.

        “Hang on, Katerina.”

        He knelt down and pulled her gently into his arms. That’s when he felt it. He pulled the small dagger out of her lower back and tossed it to the ground. He then bit his wrist and put it to her lips, making his blood go down her throat to help her heal faster.

        A few minutes later, he took his wrist away and it instantly healed. As he held her close, she slowly started to come to.

        When she was awake, he helped her to her feet.

        “Thank you, Elijah.”

        “You’re welcome. Anytime, Katerina.”

        Elijah watched her, as she went over to Elena to get her home, before he went to his own home to deal with his sister and punish her for what she had done and almost done.

        Later, everybody lived happily ever after as they could with Elena and Kat fully recovering.