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.”