It’s a beautiful day in the French Quarter as I speak to Marcel, his friends, Hayley, Rebekah, and Klaus about what to do next. An old lover of mine who I thought had died long ago, Celeste, has returned. She’s a witch. The worse thing is that we don’t know why she’s here and what her plans are. My true love will always be Katerina Petrova, though she like the name Katherine Pierce. I will love her, always and forever.

        We all look up, smelling the familiar scent of human. Then she walks in. I can tell that something’s wrong.

        As I suspect my brother would react as usual, he pins her to a brick wall, hand tightly around her throat.

        “You sure look alive. You’re supposed to be dead by now. What the hell are you doing in my city?” he growls at her.

        “Bloody hell?” Rebekah says.

        “Well, well. Look who decided to return after 100 years,” Marcel comments.

        “What the hell?” Hayley says.

        I go to stand half way from where Klaus and Katerina are.

        “Niklaus,” I say in warning.

        I wait for him to let her go, but he just stays in the same position, ignoring me.

        Katerina silently looks back at him, despite the pressure on her throat.

        “Let her go, Niklaus. Let her speak,” I say in a warning voice with a hint of anger in my voice.

        Finally, he lets her go, but still stands in front of her.

        When she gets her breath back, she finally speaks, as I make my way over to her.

        “I didn’t come to see you,” she informs Klaus. She looks at me. “I came to ask you, for once in my life, for help.”

        I stand in front of her, next to Klaus.

        “What is it, Katerina?” I ask, ready to help if it’s not too much.

        “I’m dying of old age. I know I got myself into getting the cure shoved down my throat, but I didn’t think anything would happen. It was unexpected. I didn’t know Elena had the cure when I attacked her after you left me. Now I’m human, dying of old age, and in need of protection. I have many enemies. If word gets out that I’m human and if I don’t have protection, you know what will happen,” she explains to me.

        I know all too well what it’s like to have many enemies as a vampire, but it would be even worse as a human. I know she’s begging for help from me, which I know, deep inside, is hard for her to do after 500 years of looking out for herself.

        “You don’t need to say anything else. I promise that you will have my protection and I will help you. After this problem with a witch we’re having, you will have my undivided attention. For now, as long as you need to, you may stay here and I’ll try to keep Niklaus on a collar,” I tell her.

        “Thank you, Elijah. This means a lot,” she replies.

        “Why don’t you make yourself at home upstairs?” I suggest, since I need to speak to my family about her staying here with us.

        She smiles.

        “I’ll see you later,” she replies.

        When she has disappeared upstairs, I look at my siblings, Hayley, Marcel, and his friends.

        “She’s not staying here. I won’t allow it,” my brother growls.

        “It’s only temporary,” I assure him.

        “Fine by me,” Hayley tells me.

        “She can stay as long as she stays out of my way,” Rebekah says.

        Marcel and his friends are silent, but I know Marcel agrees. I’m the only one in my family that knows why and how Marcel and Katerina know each other. I kept tabs on Katerina over the centuries to make sure she was alive and as safe as she could be. And I’m glad Rebekah and Hayley are on board. Rebekah despises her for being able to stay off Klaus’ radar for 500 years, while Hayley hates her for trying to kill her back in Mystic Falls.

        We soon go our separate ways. I look for Celeste and Rebekah stays to babysit Hayley. Marcel and his friends go in a different direction to look for Celeste, while Klaus looks for a witch to talk to about Celeste.





        That night, on a sidewalk, I find Celeste who is inhabiting a witch by the name of Sabine. We talk, me trying to figure out what she wants, and I learn of her plan after she poisons me a little with a kiss.

        As I lay on my side on the sidewalk, I look up at her, as she speaks.

        “I died because of Klaus. I want revenge. I’m going to teach you the errors of your ways. No matter what he does, you keep holding on to that vow; always and forever. As we speak, he’s experiencing more pain than he has ever felt. Now, you can choose to save him, but then that would leave Hayley, Rebekah, and Katherine in peril. Or there’s your deal sister Rebekah. She’s about to find herself in quite the predicament. You could save her, but then that leaves Klaus, Hayley, and Katherine. Or there’s Hayley. We both know Klaus would hate it if anything happened to her or the baby. And last but not least, there’s your precious Katherine you think is the same girl you fell in love with 500 years ago. You’ll recover in enough time to save one of them. I can’t wait to see which one you choose.”

        I can only watch, as she walks away from me and soon disappears from sight.

        I know she’s right. I can only choose one. Time and time again, I have always chosen my family over Katerina, which I know has hurt her every time I did. But then there’s Hayley. I care about her and her baby needs to survive, because that child is the key to Klaus’ redemption. Then there’s my little sister, Rebekah, who I do love and would do anything for, but I have always put Klaus before her. And then there’s my little half-brother Klaus who I have always put first, no matter what. I must choose soon. My lover of 500 years, my sister, my brother, or my brother’s one night stand that he got pregnant?





        Half an hour later, I arrive at the old plantation house, which is on fire.

        I immediately get inside by shattering the window. Fire is everywhere, as I help Hayley to her feet and tell her werewolf friend, Jackson, “Get her out of here.”

        As Jackson and Hayley leave by going through the window, I find the love of my life. Katerina.

        I gently pick her up in my arms and, once I’m a ways away from the house, I gently lay her down on her back on the ground.

        I look down at her to assess her condition, as I listen to her heart and breathing. There’s blood on either side of her head and some blood elsewhere. There’s a wound on her left side and there are scratches all over her. I don’t know if she can digest vampire blood after the cure was shoved down her throat, but I have to try.

        I pull her gently into my arms and bite my wrist, putting it to her lips, making my blood go down her throat to heal and save her.

        A few minutes later, I take it away and my wrist and her wound instantly heal.

        I gently carry her to the compound, once on my feet.





        Once at the compound and in my room, I gently lay her down in my bed. I then sit on her bedside and wait for her to come to. If anything happened to Katerina, I don’t know what I’d do. It would shatter me.





        An hour later, she comes to, which relieves me. She’s going to be okay.





        A few days later, I get my siblings back and we kill Celeste before she can body jump. So all is well in the French Quarter. In the end, Katerina and I get back together.

A/N: Based off from a dream I had.





        It was a dark night, as Katherine Pierce and her daughter, Nadia Petrova, arrived in New Orleans. Katherine had gotten a call from Hayley Marshall, a werewolf who was pregnant with Niklaus Mikaelson’s baby, that she was worried about what had happened to Elijah, Klaus, and Rebekah. Luckily, they had already been on their way to New Orleans to ask Sophie Deveraux, an old friend of Katherine’s, for help. Kat was human due to the cure being shoved down her throat. Now she was ding faster than a normal human would be. Kat figured that Sophie might be able to stop the universe from making her age faster than normal. Besides, she didn’t want Hayley to see her like this. That’s why they were going to Sophie first.





        Once they got to the cemetery, Katherine called out to Sophie, not wanting to leave Nadia. Katherine would have to leave her when she entered the cemetery, since Nadia was a vampire and Katherine was not. The cemetery was sacred ground, filled with the witches’ ancestors’ bones, which made it sacred ground. That meant that vampires had to be invited in.

        “Sophie, it’s me. I need to talk to you.”

        A few minutes later, Sophie appeared and walked towards them.

        “Katherine. Long time no see. What happened to you?” she said, noticing Katherine’s appearance.

        “The cure for vampirism got shoved down my throat by my doppelganger. It’s killing me; making me age faster than I should be. I need your help. There has to be something you can do.”

        “I’ll see what I can do.”

        “First, I need you to invite my daughter, Nadia Petrova, in with us.”

        “Nice to meet you. Come in,” she invited her.

        Sophie walked back to the mausoleum, Kat and Nadia following her. She knew and trusted Katherine, which was why she hadn’t questioned Nadia.

        When they entered the mausoleum, Sophie went to a bookshelf to look through some old witch books to see what she could do for her.

        A few minutes later, she had done a spell that reversed the aging, keeping her the way she was supposed to look, but also giving her vampire abilities at Katherine’s request. It was New Orleans, so Katherine was well aware that being human made her vulnerable to anything and anyone supernatural. She needed something to help her, other than her daughter and allies.

        Afterward, Katherine and Nadia thanked Sophie, before leaving the cemetery and heading towards the compound to see Hayley.





        When they arrived, Hayley invited them in, though she didn’t know that Katherine was going to be bringing someone with her.

        Katherine saw her questioning look.

        “Hayley, meet my daughter, Nadia Petrova, back from 1490. Nadia, meet Hayley,” she introduced them.

        “I didn’t know you had a daughter,” Hayley said, looking at Katherine.

        “I do. I thought she was dead though, since I was never able to find her. I went back to Bulgaria in 1498, but couldn’t find her anywhere. So, I gave up looking and left Bulgaria to go be one step ahead of the enemy,” she summarized, as they all stood in an upstairs room. She then got down to the situation at hand. “So, what’s this about the Originals missing?”

        “They’re not answering their phones and it’s been a while since they’ve been here. They may be unpredictable, but they wouldn’t just leave me like this.”

        “I know,” Katherine agreed. “Don’t worry. We’ll find them. Nadia, I want you to stay here with Hayley. I’m going to see if I can find Elijah. If he’s not answering, he’s probably unable to at the moment.”

        “Be careful,” Hayley said. “Celeste is out there.”

        “I always am,” Katherine replied.

        They watched as she left the room to go find him, unaware of why Katherine would want to find Elijah first. They didn’t know the history behind those two.





        When Katherine found Elijah, Celeste was there. She realized that she had poisoned him with a kiss and was after all of them pretty much. That infuriated her, considering, even after he had left and broken up with her, she still loved him with all her heart. She would never wish anything upon him or his siblings, no matter what his siblings had done to her or would do to her.

        Kat walked towards them.

        “Leave him alone. You shouldn’t have the right to do what you’ve done. You can’t possibly expect Elijah to choose between which siblings to save. They’re family. I don’t care how much you want him to pay for always coming to Klaus’ rescue, but I learned a while back to put it behind you. Revenge never gives you satisfaction. You just keep hating that same person for what he’s done, even though it was a very long time ago. I’ve learned my lesson. You should, too.”

        “The famous Katherine Pierce comes to her lover’s rescue. How poetic and stupid of you. Especially, now that you’re human. Though, there is something else about you that I can’t place.”

        “That would be because of my heritage I recently learned about, and because of a spell I asked a certain witch to do for me. I recently learned that I’m descended from Travelers. I’ve even had a little family reunion of my own, which is why Hayley’s not alone. Unknown to anyone, other than myself, I had a daughter before I met the Originals, but she was taken away and I never saw her again until she finally found me recently. Now, I’m going to say this one more time. Leave Elijah and his family alone, which includes Hayley and that unborn child.”

        “You can’t stop me. I’m not afraid of you. Besides, I’ve already started it. Right now, as we speak, his siblings are in peril, and so is Hayley.”

        “But I can stop you. In due time, I will stop you. Maybe not tonight, but I will. I’ll find a way,” she assured Celeste, before channeling her anger towards the ancient witch, which through her magically, quite a ways away from Elijah, making her land against a wall.

        “I won’t be so nice next time we meet,” she warned her, before kneeling down by Elijah.

        “Katerina,” he greeted, unsure of what else to say after hearing about her being descended from Travelers, being recently human, and having a family reunion.

        “Let’s get out of here,” she said to him, helping him to his feet, heading towards the compound.





        When they arrived at the compound, they found that neither wolf nor vampiress were there.

        “Stay here. I’ll go find them,” she said, before leaving her love life of 500 years.





        When she found them, there were wolves inching towards them in the woods.

        She walked towards the werewolves.

        “I’d leave them alone if I were you. Unless, of course, you wanna end up with a smaller pack than you already have,” she confronted them, which made them stop, some of them knowing who she was and what would happen if they didn’t listen to her. “Now get lost.”

        She watched, as they fled, before going to them.

        “What are you doing in the woods?”

        “She thought it would be nice to try and help out in finding the Originals. Since you told me to stay with her, I figured I should go with her to make sure she doesn’t end up in danger,” Nadia informed her mother.

        Katherine noticed that they had succeeded, since Rebekah was there. It looked like she had been attacked by a pack of werewolves. Possibly the ones that she had just scared off.

        “We better get back to the compound. Elijah’s there. I was right. He needed some help with Celeste, so I magically kicked her ass.”





        Once they had gotten Rebekah home and in bed, Katherine went out again to go find Niklaus. Mostly known as Klaus. And as she walked, she started thinking of where Celeste would keep Klaus at, knowing New Orleans pretty well. Even after less than 100 years prior to visiting the French Quarter. Then she remembered something. There was a place that hadn’t been used in centuries. It was the 1918 Sanitarium hospital, where she knew Rebekah had helped out with the epidemic patients. That had to be where he was being kept, so she headed towards the place.

        When she soon arrived, she walked down the old hallways and looked into old, rundown rooms, looking for where he was being held at. And there, in a room, she saw Genevieve looking down at Klaus who looked like he was in torment, even though he looked weak to her.

        She walked in and at vamp speed, pinned her against a wall.

        “What did you do?” she questioned.

        “Nothing yet. I was about to get that knife out of him. Nice to see you too, Katherine.”

        “Not so much right now, Genevieve. You don’t know what day I’m having tonight, so you really don’t want to try me. I suggest that you leave this place and go straight home, or I will do something that you won’t like,” she threatened the witch, before letting go of her.

        Knowing Katherine was beyond peeved at whatever had happened tonight, she silently left her there with Klaus.

        Once she was gone, Katherine was instantly at Klaus’ side, where he lay on his back on a cement slab of some sort; almost like a table but without legs.

        “Katerina?” he questioned her.

        “Hayley called me, so I decided to help find the three of you. Now let’s get you home,” she said, before helping him to his feet, an arm around him just in case he needed her help getting home.





        The next day, the Originals were back to normal and home, so Kat and Nadia left to go back to Mystic Falls to help out with the Marcos and Travelers problem.

        It was a dark night in New Orleans, as Kat watched Celeste and Elijah from the shadows, before stepping out and conjuring up the Traveler magic and throwing it at her, throwing her away from him.

        Elijah looked at her, as he lay on his side on the sidewalk.

        Celeste got to her feet.

        “What the hell did you do to him?” she asked the witch.

        “Who the hell are you?” Celeste asked her.

        “Katherine. Now what did you do?”

        “I poisoned him with a kiss. He gets to choose who to save now. His siblings or the wolf.”

        “Why would you do that?”

        “To teach him the errors of his ways in always being on Klaus’ side.”

        “You can’t possibly teach him that. Family is everything, whether you’re Elijah or not. Family comes first and secondly comes love.”

        “I just did.”

        Using Traveler magic and her anger, she through her against a brick wall.

        She turned to him and knelt by him.

        “Elijah.”

        “Katerina, go. Save my siblings. I need to save Hayley.”

        Without question, she left him to go find Klaus.





        When she found him, he was getting ambushed by witches. The only witch she knew though was Sophie. The others were strangers to her.

        Just as Sophie stabbed him, Kat started walking towards them.

        “Sophie, stop,” she said, raising her voice.

        As Sophie turned to look at her, the knife made its way inside Klaus, which caused him pain.

        “Katherine?” Sophie questioned her.

        “I came to Elijah for protection and help, only to have to save him from Celeste. She’s bad news and this must be her plan. Get witches on her side so she can get rid of Klaus and Elijah and put Rebekah and Hayley in danger. Elijah said he’d save Hayley. My responsibility is to save his siblings. Now get out of the way. I’m not in the mood for disobedient witches.”

        Sophie got out of the way, letting her go to Klaus. She then went back home and so did the others, leaving Kat alone with Klaus whom lay on his back on the ground.

        “Klaus, it’s me. Can you hear me?” she called, knelt on the left side of him.

        She rested a gentle hand on the right side of his face and then gently slapped his cheek to try and wake him up.

        A few minutes later, he slowly came to to see Katerina, now known as Katherine.

        “Katerina?” he questioned softly from the torment he was receiving from the magical knife, which also had made him feel somewhat weak.

        “It’s me. I came to ask Elijah for protection and help, only to find out about what Celeste had done. Elijah sent me to find you and Rebekah, while he goes to save Hayley. I should get you home,” she replied.

        “You’re human,” he replied.

        “Yes. I am. Elena shoved the cure down my throat.”

        She helped him get to his feet, as she got to hers, before they headed for his place.





        Once he was home and in bed, she left to go find Rebekah.

        As she searched for her in the woods, getting the sense that she might be there, her phone went off.

        “Elijah,” she greeted.

        “I got Hayley. I’m taking her home.”

        “Okay. Well, Klaus is home, but someone should get that knife out of him. Sophie stabbed him with it.”

        “Thank you, Katerina.”

        “Anytime, Elijah.”

        They hung up.

        When she was in the middle of the woods, she saw Rebekah being ambushed and attacked by a few werewolves.

        “Get away from her!” Kat bravely ordered them.

        They stopped and looked at her.

        She approached them slowly, as to not get herself attacked.

        “You heard me. Get away from her. Get out of here. As long as I’m around, you will not harm her,” she ordered them.

        The black alpha gave a snarl, before leading his pack away.

        Kat ran towards and knelt by her.

        “Rebekah? It’s me. Can you hear me?”

        Realizing she was out cold, she knew she had to get her home and it would have to be on her own.





        As soon as he smelled their scent, Elijah opened the door and gently took his sister from her, picking Rebekah up in his arms and speeding up the stairs to her room to lay her down in her own bed.

        “I’m going to go for a walk,” she said at a normal tone, knowing with sensitive hearing that everyone in the house could hear her without her raising her voice. She then left, closing the door behind herself.





        Elijah was checking up on his siblings, when he heard Katerina let him know that she’d be going for a walk, which he understood. She probably didn’t want to be there when his brother woke up and got his strength back, much less run into Rebekah. They could be very difficult and he didn’t want Katerina in the middle of sibling rivalry.





        When Klaus woke up, he was in his room and didn’t feel any pain anymore. He wondered where Katerina was, though. She was the one that had saved him from further torment pretty much. And he felt better now, so he slowly sat up in bed.

        A moment later, Rebekah and Elijah walked in.

        “I see that you’re feeling much better now. Good. I’ll go see where Katerina has gone to,” Elijah said, before leaving their sight.

        “Feel better soon,” Rebekah said, before leaving the room.





        Kat enjoyed being alone, as she took a walk through New Orleans. It was dark, sure, but it didn’t really matter to her. She needed to be alone, because she didn’t know where to go and she didn’t know how Klaus and Rebekah would react towards her, knowing she was the one that had saved her. They weren’t exactly Katherine fans. So, she was out alone, though she knew she was being stupid. She knew she should’ve invited someone like Hayley or Elijah along with her to protect her if anything happened, but she wanted to be alone. Sometimes she just wanted to be alone and she hadn’t had that chance for the past month or two.

        She stopped not far from the woods, getting the sense that she was being watched. And then she turned to look at the trees and bushes that outlined the woods to see if she could spot what was watching her.

        A moment later, a black werewolf came out and ran towards her. So, she ran, though she knew that it was useless to run from a werewolf. It wasn’t a coincidence, since she figured it was probably the alpha that she had addressed earlier to save Rebekah’s life.





        Elijah continued his search for the one girl that he would always love.

        He stopped, smelling blood and hearing something, before following them at vamp speed.





        As she lay there, vision blurry and going dim, she blurrily saw the creature get thrown off her, before everything went black for her.





        Once it ran off, he was instantly at her side.

        “Katerina.”

        He scanned her with his eyes and was relieved when he found that she’d be okay.

        He gently picked her up in his arms and sped back home.





        When she woke up, she saw that she was in a bed at the compound in a room. She then saw that Hayley was seated in a chair by her bed.

        “Feeling better?” the she-wolf questioned.

        Kat slowly sat up in bed.

        “Yeah. I am. Thanks.”

        “Actually, it’s not me you should be thanking. It’s Elijah. He’s just a little busy at the moment,” she replied.

        “I’ll thank him later then.”

        It was a dark night, as Katherine Pierce headed for the plantation home, having heard that the Originals lived there. And as the woods began to disappear behind her, she started to see flames. That's when she ran towards it as fast as she could.





        Once there, she forced the door open and rushed inside in enough time to see the she-wolf, Hayley, on the floor on her back and a guy she assumed to also be a wolf.

        “Get out of here!” she ordered him. “I'll get Hayley. You save your own life.”

        Jackson left and headed for the woods, trusting whoever she was would save her.

        She rushed to her side.

        “Hayley, it's me. Can you hear me?” she called, not sure if she'd be able to drag her out on her own.

        As her vision went gray, she saw Katherine's face and dimly heard her speak to her.

        “Hayley, stay with me,” Katherine said, deciding that she'd have to save her on her own.

        With her human strength, she pulled her to her feet and walked her a foot away from the door, coughing from the fire, and gently pushed her towards it.

        “Go! I'll be right behind you!” she said over the noise of the close by collapsing long piece of wood.

        Hayley ran out the door and a distance away, fell to her knees, coughing from the smoke inhalation she had just suffered.

        As Kat attempted to reach the door, some pieces of wood from the ceiling fell on top of her. Then everything went black.

        A few minutes later, as Hayley slowly breathed in fresh air, the father of her child arrived and knelt in front of her.

        “You okay, luv?”

        “Thanks to Katherine, yes. She's still in there.”

        At hybrid speed, he rushed inside to save his brother's love life and Hayley's rescuer.

        “Katerina!” he yelled, searching for her with every sense he had. “Katerina!” he yelled over the flames again, before seeing her.

        In a blur, he was at her side and had thrown the wood off her. He then rested gentle hands on either side of her face.

        “Katerina?” he called to her.

        He waited for a few minutes for a sign that she could hear him, but she didn't reply. So, he gently picked her up in his arms and raced out of the burning house. He then gently layed her down by the wolf.

        “I have to find my brother,” he said, before vanishing from sight.





        When Kat came to, she was outside of the burning house, Hayley by her, looking down at her.

        “Thank you. You saved us,” she thanked the human.

        “You're welcome,” Kat replied. “Who saved me?” she asked, wanting to know, as she sat up.

        “Klaus,” Hayley answered her.

        “I'll have to thank him later. Where are the others? I assume this is the doings of a witch.”

        “Klaus went to go find Elijah. Rebekah went in the woods with one of my friends.”

        “Hayley, grab the closest car and follow me. I'm gonna go find Rebekah.”

        Both got to their feet, going in separate directions, just as Kat had said.





        When Kat saw Rebekah surrounded by fully phased werewolves, she put herself between the small pack of seven and Rebekah, not wanting them to hurt or kill her.

        She stared the wolf down that stood in the circle less than a foot away from where Kat stood in front of Rebekah.

        “I know werewolves enough to know that they don't usually attack Originals. I'm gonna assume that you made an alliance with a powerful witch, to teach someone a lesson. I'm not going to let you attack her. If you want to attack someone, attack me.”

        The alpha growled at her in displeasure.

        A moment later, he gave out a half bark half growl and the entire pack raced off.

        Kat turned around to face the only Original sister.

        “Are you okay?"

        “Yes, but what the bloody hell are you doing here?”

        “Long story. Short version is that I got the cure shoved down my throat and now I'm dying. Also, I saved Hayley and her friend's life tonight. Klaus saved me in return, before going off to find Elijah.”

        Hayley pulled up in Elijah's SUV and they got in, Kat in the passenger's seat, Rebekah in the back behind Katherine. They then went in search of Elijah and Klaus.

        In the end, everyone except Celeste, of course, lived, and Elijah and Katherine got back together. So, everybody lived as happily ever after as they could. After all, there is always war going on in New Orleans.

*1492*



I set out on a narrow way many years ago

Hoping I would find true love along the broken road

But I got lost a time or two

Wiped my brow and kept pushing through

I couldn’t see how every sign pointed straight to you

Every long lost dream led me to where you are

Others who broke my heart they were like Northern stars

Pointing me on my way into your loving arms

This much I know is true

That God bless the broken road

That led me straight to you

(Yes he did)

I think about the years I spent just passing through

I’d like to have the time I lost and give it back to you



        It was a beautiful day in England, as Katerina Petrova and Elijah Mikaelson played chase.

        She stopped running and laughed, as she said, “You’re meant to catch me.”

        “Well, If I catch you, then the game will be over,” he replied, having also stopped playing chase with her.

        They sat down on a bench and she suddenly looked at him, as she asked him, “True love isn’t real unless it is returned, do you agree?”

        He lied, saying, “I do not believe in love, Katerina.” He knew he shouldn’t let his feelings get the better of him, even if he didn’t want her to die so Klaus could become a hybrid. There was no other way though.

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





            The night of the full moon, she found out what Klaus was going to do to her and what they were, so she took the Moonstone and ran for her life. Though Elijah cared for her, he helped search for her. He didn’t want her to die, but he also was loyal to his brother. He knew if he didn’t find her for Klaus, he’d end up with a dagger in his chest and probably in a box for a century or two.

        “Katerina!” He called to her. “It’s pointless to run! Klaus will find you wherever you are!” He then said, “I know you are near. I can smell your blood.”

        That night, he never found her, because she had help in escaping and because in the end, she turned herself into a vampire after Rose had healed her with her blood, thinking that she would be rid of him if she died. She didn’t expect to become a vampire though, but when she did, she took the chance and fled, only to find one night, her entire village slaughtered. She knew only one monster that would do that, but she hadn’t expected him to lash out by killing her villagers and family. After weeping over her mother, she fled so that he wouldn’t find her.



*Mystic Falls- Mikaelson Mansion*



But you just smile and take my hand

You’ve been there to understand

It’s all part of a grander plan that is coming true

Every long lost dream led me to where you are

Others who broke my heart they were like Northern stars

Pointing me on my way into your loving arms

This much I know is true



        It was a dismal night at the Mikaelson mansion in Mystic Falls, as Elijah stood in front of his Katerina. She was a 500 year old vampire by now whom had turned into someone that wasn’t the Katerina he had once known. Vampirism had changed her and now he was finally seeing how much she had changed in the last 500 years. She had lied to him in Pennsylvania earlier tonight, but she had at least handed the cure over to him and wanted him to decide where they stood. He hadn’t decided yet, but he felt like he, once again, had to choose family over her. He hated that he was breaking her heart yet again so, thinking that she’d be just fine as always on her own, and believing that he’d come back for her when he could, he knew there was one way to protect her. Or so that’s what he thought he was doing. He had to follow Niklaus to New Orleans to help him with whatever witch problem he was dealing with there, so Elijah couldn’t be here for her. He had to keep her away from Klaus just as he always had though, so he was doing the one thing he hated to do to her. This was his way to protect her and give them both some space to think things through.

        “Elijah, please. It’s our turn,” she pleaded with him, once he’d told her that he was following Klaus to New Orleans to help him with the witches.

        He didn’t have much to say except for, “Katerina.” He kissed her on the forehead. “Goodbye, Katerina.” Then he was gone in a blur. He had to get away quickly so that he wouldn’t change his mind and go back. It hurt them both, but he was the moral one and family always came first for him. He had to sacrifice love for his family. Even if he hated doing it.



*Present- New Orleans*



That God bless the broken road

That led me straight to you

Yeah

Now I’m just rolling home

Into my lover’s arms

This much I know is true

That God bless the broken road

That led me straight to you

That God bless the broken road

That led me straight to you



        It was a dismal night in New Orleans, as a human Katherine stumbled out of the car she’d just crashed into a pole, injured. She couldn’t stay in the wrecked car, for fear that a not so friendly vampire would come across her and probably come after her. She’d crashed her car when she’d come to town after escaping Silas and Damon. Silas had tried to drown her and Damon had gotten her out of the house, but then he’d tried to hand her over to Silas. She didn’t know why, but she wasn’t going to stick around Mystic Falls to find out why. So she’d driven a car she’d stolen off the Mystic Falls streets to New Orleans, knowing that though Klaus was in town, there was one person that she could always count on. Even though she’d gotten herself in the mess of being a human by Elena shoving the cure down her throat when Katherine had tried to kill her, she knew Elijah wouldn’t want her to die. She knew that even though his family came first, he’d never let her die if he could help it. He’d saved her before, time and time again.

        As she limped out of the car, she put a hand on the door to try and get her balance, even though as an injured human, it was a little hard to. Then she began to limp away from the car crash, each step hurting and her vision blurry. She knew she was losing a lot of blood and was very injured, but being herself, she wasn’t going to give up the fight. She had to find Elijah. She knew he’d help her any way that he could.





        Elijah was walking through town, having just left the bar to head home. He had needed to have a few drinks after finding out that his former witch lover, Celeste, had resurrected and was after him and his family in vengeance. She apparently wanted to teach him the “error of” his “ways.” She didn’t like the fact that no matter what Klaus did, he always stood by him, all because of a vow he and his family had kept for 1,000 years. Elijah knew he had to be ready, because he knew how powerful she had been in her day and with the Harvest girls having yet to all resurrect, Celeste had unlimited power. There was no telling what she’d do, no matter how well he had once known her.

        After a while of walking, he saw a car crashed into a pole in a desolate area not far from the woods. He could smell the scents of human, Katerina, and blood but didn’t see her anywhere near the crash site. So, curious of why she was in town and what had happened, he followed her scent and the blood trail. He’d never thought he’d ever see her in the same town as Klaus. Mystic Falls had been an exception since she’d been there before he and his family had come to town. He needed to know what she was doing here. He had enough past lover troubles. If she was here to cause any trouble like she sometimes had a habit of doing, he needed to set her straight. He didn’t have much time to deal with whatever she may have in store if she was here to cause trouble.





        When he finally found her, he realized that the reason he’d thought she’d been here for had been wrong. She wasn’t here to cause trouble. She was in no condition to do so. He knew now that she’d come to town for his help. There was no other reason that a human and injured Katerina would be in town.

        He blurred to her side, where she lay on the forest floor in the heart of the woods on her back.

        “Katerina.”

        He gently pulled her into his arms. He bit his wrist and put it to her lips, though he didn’t know if it would work or not, since he didn’t know how she was even human in the first place. He made a little bit go down her throat to see if it would work, but it didn’t when he realized that she couldn’t digest it.

        He got to his feet with her in his arms and blurred home. He couldn’t lose her. He wouldn’t let her die if he had any say in the matter. They didn’t have a working hospital though, so he had to go to the one person that despised her. He knew she despised her, but he also knew that she could save her and would if he asked her to do so. She knew how much he loved her and she also knew what it felt like to lose someone you love one way or another. She’d understand and help him save Katerina’s life.

        “Stay with me, Katerina. Don’t leave me,” he pleaded, though he didn’t know if she could hear him or not, since she wasn’t awake.





        Once home, he gently layed her down in his bed and, upon his request, Rebekah took care of her wounds and did what she could for her.

        Afterward, Rebekah left the room and Elijah sat down on Katerina’s bedside, waiting for her to awaken, though he doubted that she’d wake up anytime soon.

        He rested a gentle hand on her left one and his other on the side of her face.

        “I’m so sorry, Katerina. I should’ve made sure you were okay.”





        In the end, she recovered fully and she and Elijah got back together, so they stayed in New Orleans together.