True Love Always Finds A Way (Kalijah)

        It was a dismal night in Mystic Falls, as Klaus stood in a circle, stake in hand, and got ready to kill himself. The Hollow was inside him again.

        “Don’t, brother,” Elijah pleaded, standing out the circle.

        Suddenly, ascendant in hand, a human Katherine appeared outside the circle after escaping a prison world, scathed. She’d been able to see from there, things that had transpired. Now, standing in the present, behind Klaus, she knew it was true.

        She magically through the stake outside of the circle and walked around the circle, outside of it still, where they could both see her.

        “Elijah’s right. You can’t do that. Your daughter needs you. I’m not letting you die. Or Elijah. You’re probably wondering where I came from.” She looked at Klaus. “Long story cut short. After Elena shoved the cure down my throat when I was an idiot and tried to kill her, figuring she was part of the reason Elijah left, my daughter whom was a vampire apparently by choice, whom my father tore away at birth, Nadia, found me, I began again, body jumped into Elena after Nadia told me that I’m descended from Travelers, and when everyone found out, I got killed by Stefan. I wound up in Hell, became queen of it, and after some turn of events, I got killed again by Stefan to save this town. Then I ended up in a prison world, human, until I found this ascendant. Now, it’s noble of you to die for your daughter. I would’ve done the same for Nadia. But there’s always a loophole. Hope deserves to have her father, when she can’t have her mother. Nadia spent her entire life searching for me, because she had questions and needed answers. I won’t let Hope be an orphan like Nadia was. She deserves better. There’s always a way.” She looked at Elijah. “I may have been in a prison world, but I looked in at time. I know what happened and I’m sorry.” She looked at Klaus. “You have all lost too much, but this isn’t the way. I can create a prison for it. It won’t get out, whether something happens to me or not,” she said. Then, without asking for permission, she magically took The Hollow out of Klaus and shoved it into a prison. Then she sealed it up and concealed it.

        Klaus got to his feet when it was over.

        “Thank you, Katerina.”

        “Yeah, well, you’re not the monster you once were. Now go. Be with Hope and go get the girl.”

        He gave a smile, knowing what she meant. Then he was gone.

        She looked at Elijah who looked at her.

        “I know you blame yourself. It’s not your fault. Hayley’s death wasn’t your fault. Besides, she died a noble death. She died to save her daughter’s life. I know that’s one of the reasons you were ready to die, but that’s not reason enough to go. Some of us still need you here. I don’t think Hope would’ve gotten this far without her family,” she assured him.

        “She’s come quite a ways without me. She doesn’t need me. Besides, I haven’t seen you in years. I didn’t know you needed me. You never called.”

        “Maybe so, but only because she had to. You didn’t have your memories. But now she has her family intact. The only question is what you’re going to do now.”

        She began to approach. She’d been hiding her injuries with a cloaking spell, but now that it was just her and Elijah, she didn’t hide them. Besides, she knew she couldn’t do it for much longer. She’d been through hell in the prison world.

        Elijah noticed that something was wrong. He may have left and, though he loved and missed Hayley, he did and would always love Katerina. If she was in peril, he’d save her in an instant.

        He blurred to her side, seeing how injured she was, and caught her from hitting the ground.

        As everything blurred from blood loss and her opened thigh artery, she saw Elijah in her field of vision, and saw him bite his wrist, as she felt herself in his arms. Knowing he didn’t know, she knew she had to tell him, so she did.

        “I can’t. I couldn’t digest it last time I was human.”

        After she told him that, he knew there was only one thing to do. He had to get her to Freya. He couldn’t ask Hope, since tonight was the full moon.

        “Stay with me, Katerina,” he pleaded, knowing he was starting to lose her. He then got to his feet with her gently in his arms.

        As everything began to go black, she felt the win, letting her know that he was getting her somewhere to be taken care of.





        Elijah entered the compound in a rush, a human and pale Katerina in his arms.

        “Freya!” he yelled, as he gently layed her down on the table that wasn’t far from the stairs. He then used his jacket as a pillow for her head. “Don’t leave me, Katerina. Please,” he begged, hearing her heart slowing from all the blood loss, and he couldn’t hear her breathing.

        Freya came downstairs to see the scene. Despite her injuries and all the blood loss, she recognized her and rushed over.

        “What happened?”

        “She escaped a prison world,” he informed her.

        Freya began to magically heal her.





        Meanwhile, Katherine found herself in a place she didn’t know. It was dark, and it looked like the woods. Since it was unfamiliar, she walked around and, from a distance, saw Hayley having the time of her life with her wolf friends. Then, what felt like twenty minutes later, she heard some familiar voices. They sounded far away, but she didn’t know how to go ack, despite wanting to live. A part of her was tempted to stay, though. Dark or not, it was peaceful here.

        “Come back to me, Katerina,” she vaguely heard Elijah say.

        “Open your eyes, Katerina. Breathe. Breathe, Katerina,” she vaguely heard Klaus say.

        “Didn’t expect to see you here,” she heard a familiar voice say behind her.

        She turned around to look at him.

        “I’m just visiting until Elijah and Klaus can get me back.”

        “Then you need to go back,” Damon told her. Despite the last time she’d been alive, he didn’t want her dead for some reason.

        “I don’t know how,” she admitted, as the distant voices continued.

        “Concentrate,” he instructed her. “It’s not your time yet to find peace. You still have at least some people to live for.”





        Freya watched them, Elijah trying to encourage her, and Klaus trying to revive her. She didn’t know what to do now. She’d healed her wounds, but Katherine had lost too much blood. Those that could hear had heard her heart stop. Since she’d saved their family, Klaus was trying to revive her with heart compressions.

        “Katerina, luv, now’s not the time to give up, sweetheart. Now breathe. Come back, sweetheart. Breathe,” Klaus called to her.





        Kat did as Damon told her to. She closed her eyes and concentrated. She trusted Damon, after all. Plus, she wanted to live.





        When Klaus heard her come back to life, he stopped and stepped back, letting Elijah take over. It was up to Elijah to take care of her now. Klaus then left the room to let them be alone.

        Elijah rested a hand on the side of her face.

        “Katerina, can you hear me?” he called.





        When Kat woke up, she saw that she was alive, Klaus had gone, and she was on a table, Elijah at her side, a hand on the side of her face.

        She gave a smile.

        “Elijah.”

        She sat up and he helped her to her feet.

        “I thought I lost you, Katerina,” he stated.

        “Well, I’m here now. I’m back and I don’t plan on dying anytime soon.”

        “Good. I don’t know what I’d do if I ever lost you for good.”

        They looked at each other. Then, it was such a moment that they kissed, which meant that all was forgiven. Now they would be getting back together.