The Scientist (Kalijah)

*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.