*American Gothic*



All along it was a fever

A cold sweat hot-headed believer

I threw my hands in the air, said, “Show me something.”

He said, “If you dare, come a little closer.”

Round and around and around and around we go

Oh now, tell me now, tell me now, tell me now you know

Not really sure how to feel about it

Something in the way you move

Makes me feel like I can’t live without you

It takes me all the way

I want you to stay



        It was a dismal night, as Katherine stood in front of him after their argument that day.

        “What do you want?” he asked.

        “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 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.”



It’s not much of a life you’re living

It’s not just something you take, it’s given

Round and around and around and around we go

Oh now, tell me now, tell me now, tell me now you know

Not really sure how to feel about it

Something in the way you move

Makes me feel like I can’t live without you

Yeah, it takes me all the way

I want you to stay



        Later that night, Elijah stood in front of her at the Mikaelson place in Mystic Falls, hating what he was going to do. He’d promised a long time ago to always protect her, but now he figured that she no longer needed protected. She’d be fine without him. Besides, he was only one phone call away if she ever needed him. Surely, she’d call him if she needed help, right? He could only hope that this wasn’t a mistake and that she would someday forgive him for this.

        “It’s our turn, Elijah. Please,” she pleaded, once he’d told her that he was leaving town to go help Klaus in New Orleans.

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

        A moment later, he was gone.



*Always and Forever*



Ooh, ooh, ooh, the reason I hold on

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ‘cause I need this hole gone

Funny you’re the broken one but I’m the only one who needed saving

‘Cause when you never see the light it’s hard to know which one of us is caving

Not really sure how to feel about it

Something in the way you move

Makes me feel like I can’t live without you

Yeah, it takes me all the way

I want you to stay, stay

I want you to stay, oooh



        It was a dismal night in New Orleans, as she sat in the driver’s side of the car, having crashed it into a streetlight pole, injuring herself in the process. She’d lost a lot of blood with blood on either side of her head and a shard of glass protruding from her abdomen and one shard of glass stabbed into her thigh, which had opened up an artery. She was barely conscious, but everything began to go black as the minutes passed.





        Elijah was walking, heading home, when he smelled the familiar scents of human, Katerina, and blood, when he was in a desolate area of the Quarter. So, wondering why she’d be in the same town as his brother, he went in search of Katerina, only to find that she was human and had wrecked a car, and that she was human. He knew now that he’d been wrong that she’d be fine without him. She’d clearly lost a lot of blood.

        He blurred to the driver’s side and forced the jammed door open.

        “Katerina.” He could tell that she was dying from her injuries and blood loss and was just moments from going fully under. He pulled the shards of glass out and tossed them to the floorboard. He then gently picked her up in his arms. “Stay with me, Katerina,” he pleaded, before blurring off towards the only working hospital.





        Half an hour later, he watched as she was rushed down the hall at the hospital.





        A few hours later, after surgery, she was put in a recovery room, so now he was seated on her bedside, waiting for her to wake up, knowing that she’d be okay now. It had been a close call, but he’d gotten to her just in time to save her. He didn’t know what would happen if he lost her for good. She was the love of his life. He couldn’t lose her. He loved her so much that he would rather die than to live in a world without her. She was his whole world, excluding his family.

*American Gothic*



I could drag you from the ocean

I could pull you from the fire

And when you’re standing in the shadows

I could open up the sky

And I could give you my devotion

Until the end of time

And you will never be forgotten

With me by your side

And I don’t need this life

I just need…



        Katherine stood in front of him in an alleyway in Pennsylvania that day.

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

        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.” He began to walk away.

        She stood there for a moment, before catching up with him and putting a hand on his arm.

        He looked at the hand on his arm and then her a couple times, which gave her the hint to let go. She did so and he told her, “Goodbye, Katherine.” Then he walked away.



*Always and Forever/I Know What You Did Last Summer*



I’ve got nothing to live for

Got no reason yet to die

But when I’m standing in the gallows

I’ll be staring at the sky

Because no matter where they take me

Death I will survive

And I will never be forgotten

With you by my side

‘Cause I don’t need this life

I just need…

Somebody to die for

Somebody to die for



        It was a dismal night in New Orleans, as she lay on the ground, not far from the car crash, very injured. She’d crashed the car she’d hot-wired to get here, into a streetlight pole. Now she was very injured, though she’d tried to get away from the scene. It hadn’t worked though, because she was just too injured to do so. This was the farthest she could go. As she lay there on her back, everything began to go black. She didn’t fight it, since there wasn’t much she had left. Elijah was all that was left in her life.





        Half an hour later, when Elijah was walking down a sidewalk, heading home, and was in a desolate area, he smelled Katerina. Curious of why she was in town, he went to investigate, only to find a car crashed into a streetlight pole and Katerina on her back on the ground, injured. Since she was quite injured, he knew that she was human. He also knew her well enough to know that if she was human, someone had shoved the cure down her throat, which meant that she was most likely in town for his help.

        He blurred to her side and knelt down. He then rested a gentle hand on the side of her pale face.

        “Katerina. Can you hear me, Katerina?” he called to her.

        When he didn’t get a reply of any kind, he took his hand away and gently pulled her into his arms. He then pulled the shard of glass out of her lower stomach, and the other one out of her thigh, which had opened up an artery. Then he bit his wrist and put it to her lips, making his blood go down her throat, hoping it would heal her, and that she could digest it.

        “Please, stay with me, Katerina,” he pleaded, though he didn’t know if she could hear him or not.



When I’m lonely

When I’m standing in the fire

I will look him in the eye

And I will let the devil know that

I was brave enough to die

And there’re no hell he can show me

That’s deeper than my pride

‘Cause I will never be forgotten

Forever I’ll fight



        When her wounds healed, it relieved him and he took his wrist away, which instantly healed. Then he gently picked her up in his arms and headed to the plantation house. There was no other place that he could take her. Besides, he figured that Klaus wouldn’t harm her as long as he asked him not to.



And I don’t need this life

I just need…

Somebody to die for

Somebody to die for

When I’m lonely

And I don’t need this life

I just need…

Somebody to die for

Somebody to die for

When I’m lonely

Don’t go gentle into that good night

Rage on against the dying light



        Once home, he gently layed her down on his bed in his room and sat on her bedside, a hand on hers and his other one on the side of her face, waiting for her to wake up, now that he knew that she’d be okay. He was glad that she’d be okay. If anything happened to her while he was gone, he didn’t think he’d ever forgive himself for not being there for her, when she needed him the most. He was here for her now, though. She was human. She needed him. He knew that if he wasn’t there, she’d die soon enough. She had too many enemies, just like his family did. If they found out that she was human and she wasn’t protected, she’d be in deep danger. He had to protect her; he wanted to protect her. No matter what had happened between them nearly a year ago, he’d never wish death upon her. She was the love of his life.

*American Gothic*



Nothing goes as planned

Everything will break

People say goodbye

In their own special way

All that you rely on

And all that you can fake

Will leave you in the morning

But find you in the day

Oh, you’re in my veins

And I cannot get you out

Oh, you’re all I taste

At night inside of my mouth

Oh, you run away

‘Cause I am not what you found



        They stood in front of each other at the Mikaelson place in Mystic Falls. He’d just told her that he was leaving to follow Klaus to New Orleans to help him out there.

        “It’s our turn, Elijah. Please,” she pleaded with him.

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



Oh, you’re in my veins

And I cannot get you out

Everything will change

Nothing stays the same

Nobody here’s perfect

Oh, but everyone’s to blame

Oh, all that you rely on

And all that you can save

Will leave you in the morning

And find you in the day



        Katherine was angry that Elijah left and brokenhearted. Since she thought that Elena had some fault with him leaving when Elena had had her humanity off, she ambushed Elena in the hallway of the Mystic High and tried to kill her. Before she could kill Elena though, Elena shoved the cure down her throat, which turned her human.



*Always And Forever*



Oh, you’re in my veins

And I cannot get you out

Oh, you’re all I taste

At night inside of my mouth

Oh, you run away

‘Cause I am not what you found

Oh, you’re in my veins

And I cannot get you out

(No, I cannot get you out)

(No, I cannot get you)

(Oh no, I cannot get you out)

(No, I cannot get you)

Everything is dark

It’s more than you can take

But you catch a glimpse of sun light

Shining, shining down on your face

Your face

Oh your face



        After an entire summer of being afraid and homeless and hungry, she finally made up her mind and went to New Orleans. So, within a few hours or so, she was on the Mikaelson doorstep at the plantation house.

        She knocked on the door and soon, it opened to reveal Elijah.

        “Katerina?” he questioned her.

        She explained to him that she was angry and had tried to kill Elena, thinking she had some fault in him leaving and then told him that Elena shoved the cure down her throat. Then she asked for his protection, which, though he didn’t trust her, he granted her, not wanting anything to happen to her. He knew that she had quite a lot of enemies and if said enemies found out that she was human and she didn’t have any protection, she’d surely die. He then let her in.



Oh, you’re in my veins

And I cannot get you out

Oh, you’re all I taste

At night inside of my mouth

Oh, you run away

‘Cause I am not what you found

Oh, you’re in my veins

And I cannot get you out

(No)

No, I cannot get you out

(Oh, you’re in my veins)

No, I cannot get you out

Oh no, I cannot get you



        A few weeks or so, after he promised to protect her when she came to the Mikaelson doorstep, they rekindled their relationship and got back together. So, all was well with them.

A/N: Got this idea from reading a fic where Kat gets pregnant with Elijah’s child.





        It was a beautiful day in New Orleans, as Katherine Pierce arrived in New Orleans to visit the Originals; mostly Elijah Mikaelson. She was well prepared, since she had asked some sources of hers what was going on in New Orleans, before actually entering the town. She didn’t want to be caught off guard or get caught by someone or something for being in New Orleans after less than 100 years. Less than 100 years ago, she had been in New Orleans, but it had been different back then. It had been under construction; the aftermath of Mikael’s wrath. So far, she was able to find out that Hayley Marshall, the wolf she had tried to kill once, was pregnant with Klaus’ spawn. It didn’t make her happy that it was Klaus’ child, but she was glad it wasn’t Elijah’s, or she’d be royally peeved off. She also knew that all three Originals were living back at the compound now.

        Once she had parked her SUV in front of the compound, she turned her car off and got out, before going to the door and knocking. There was definitely more than a few vampires here right now. She sensed a whole bunch of vampires and one wolf. That wolf had to be Hayley. She was the only wolf allowed in the French Quarter. Someday though, Kat was going to change that. She didn’t care who was King of the French Quarter. The wolves had the right to live at peace in the French Quarter; not be banished for the rest of their life out in the Bayou.

        As soon as he opened the door, she had to swallow her pride and keep him from sensing her ever present fear of him.

        “Katerina. What an unpleasant surprise. I’m afraid you’ve come at the wrong time. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.”

        He started to close it, but she stopped him with a hand.

        “I didn’t come to see you, Klaus. Besides, I can always get someone else that owns this place to invite me in,” she threatened. “Please, Klaus.”

        “No. Good-bye, Katerina.”

        “Let her in, Klaus,” Hayley said from where she stood at the bottom of the stairs, realizing what was going on. “Don’t be so rude. She came here all the way from who knows where. You can at least let her in.”

        “Fine,” Klaus said irritatingly.

        He opened the door.

        “Come in,” Hayley invited her.

        Klaus stepped aside and Kat walked inside, leaving Klaus to close the door himself.

        Kat looked at the wolf.

        “Thank you.”

        “You’re welcome. What are you doing here?” she said.

        “For one, I came to see if it was true, which looks like it is. Two, I came to see Elijah, since Klaus has a habit of daggering his siblings.”

        “Well, it’s true, so you can go find Elijah. Our home is yours as long as you need a place to stay.

        “Thank you, Hayley,” she said.

        Half way up the stairs, she looked down at the wolf.

        “Oh, and don’t be afraid to ask me if you need help with the pregnancy. Klaus may not approve, but I know a little something about pregnancies.”

        “Thank you, Katherine.”

        “You’re welcome.”

        Hayley and Klaus watched her disappear up the stairs to go find the elder Mikaelson.

        Half way down the hall, she ran into Rebekah coming from her bedroom.

        “What the bloody hell are you doing here?” she demanded, as soon as she saw her.

        “Hayley let me in. As I already informed your backstabbing brother, I’m not here to see you. I’m only here for Elijah. At least, one person has manners around here,” Katherine replied, before passing her as quickly as she could, without using her vampire speed. She didn’t want a confrontation with Rebekah.

        When she finally found the Original she was searching for, he was in his room. She could tell by the scent from behind the closed door. Since she, like Elijah, believed in not entering someone else’s space without permission, she knocked. Especially, when that person was an Original vampire of 1,000 years.

        “Come in,” he said from his bedroom.

        When she walked in and closed the door behind herself for possible privacy, she saw that he was at his desk writing something down on a piece of paper.

        He looked up and was surprised to see who it was.

        “Katerina?” he questioned. “What brings you to New Orleans?”

        “It’s boring in Mystic Falls, so I came to New Orleans to pay you a visit. Hayley seems to be the only one with manners around here apart from you.”

        “So, you’ve met the girl carrying Klaus’ child,” he stated.

        “I have. I knew her back in Mystic Falls, but we didn’t have the best relationship. I also came to see for myself if it was true, which I saw for myself actually is true. Klaus seems to have gotten more aggressive lately. I assume it’s because he’s going to have a child and he actually wants to be a father.

        She sat down in a chair in front of his desk.

        “Is that the only reason that you came?”

        “No.”

        “I also came to make sure that you were okay.”

        “Thank you, Katerina, but I’m fine. We’re just having a disagreement that should be resolved soon.”

        “What kind? Maybe I can help you.”

        “Niklaus thinks that war is the best way to go to win back this city that was once ours. I think otherwise.”

        “Well, maybe Hayley and I can speak to Klaus. Give him some reason to not start an all-out war. It wouldn’t be in Hayley or the child’s best interest. I should know. I’ve been there before and it’s not fun.”

        “What do you mean, Katerina?”

        “You don’t know my past of why I came to England. My family banished me, because I had an illegitimate daughter. I never got to name or hold her, because my father took her from me and I couldn’t find her anywhere. I went back for her when she was about eight in 1498, but I couldn’t find her. Then, recently, she came to Mystic Falls. Her name is Nadia Petrova. She asked to be turned so she could find me.”

        “Then why aren’t you with her now?”

        “Because I told her to stay behind to make sure that nothing happens to Caroline or the others. She’ll call me if anything happens. Besides, we have forever to do some mother-daughter bonding.”

        “Well, if you’ll be staying, Katerina, you can either stay with me in here or sleep in one of our guest bedrooms we have available.”

        “If you’d like, I’d prefer to sleep in here with you.”

        “Welcome to the French Quarter then, Katerina.”

        “Thank you. I won’t be a problem here.”

        Kat headed out of his room, closing the door behind herself, and headed downstairs with the sound of someone throwing something violently and Klaus and Rebekah yelling at each other. She could tell already that this was going to be a long eight nine months pregnant, depending on how long she decided to stay and how far along Hayley was right now.

        She walked into the parlor where they were having their spat and leaned against the entrance, watching for a few minutes, before taking about three steps in the room.

        “Did you forget that some people need quiet around here? If you’re going to yell this loud, you should take it outside so Hayley doesn’t have to hear this constantly. I, for one, can handle it, but some people would love silence. Is that too much to ask?” she said to them.

        They looked at her.

        “And who appointed you boss?” Rebekah asked her with a glare and bad attitude.

        “I hate to say it, but Katerina has a point. It’s safe to say that I’ve won the argument. I’m going.”

        “And where exactly are you going?” Kat asked curiously.

        “If you must know, I’m off to settle some business with Marcel.”

        “He’s still alive? Last I heard he was a nobody until he magically became King of this city. Have fun winning against Marcel.”

        Without a reply to her, he headed out the door.

        Rebekah looked at her curiously.

        “What do you know about Marcel?”

        “Just a few things. We were allies once, but all I know is that he was a nobody and he loved you and all but got caught in between you and Klaus. I guess some time after Mikael burned the city to the ground, he became King. How he did that, I don’t know. I was too busy with other things to pay attention to any of my allies.”

        “If you must know, Marcel wasn’t just a vampire. He was once like family to Nik. He saved Marcel when he was a slave and raised him like he was his son. He made him like himself. Marcel and I were in love, but Nik didn’t like it. No one was ever good enough for me in Nik’s eyes. He took away every happiness I had. Just because we were in love, and to punish us both, Nik daggered me for a century, before he finally undaggered me.”

        “I’m sorry, Rebekah. I didn’t know,” was all Kat could say to that. She knew what it was like to not have any happiness. Klaus took that away from her when he slaughtered her village, including her family, and whenever he got between her and Elijah being in love.





        When Klaus didn’t come home later that night, and while his sister and brother were at home and Hayley was in her room asleep, Kat decided to go out and make sure Klaus was okay and wasn’t going on a rampage or anything.

        As the 500-year-old vampire walked, she used her senses to locate Klaus, having known his scent after 500 years of running and hiding from him. She’d know his scent anywhere, no matter where she was. And right now, his scent was quite strong at Marcel’s compound. So were Marcel’s and other vampires’ scents.

        When she walked into the room, it was horror. He was chained up with eyes blazing the color of yellow like a wolf’s in rage, but she knew he was unable to get free, no matter how much he tried. And beyond the rage, she knew that he was afraid that Marcel would win and that the child and Hayley wouldn’t live to see another day. She knew she had to save him. She had to help Klaus, no matter what an ass he could be and was most days.

        At vampire speed, she grabbed Marcel from behind, arm around his throat, other hand on holding a piece of wood to the middle of his chest.

        “Let Klaus go!” she yelled over the noise.

        They all turned to see her.

        “Let him go, or I swear I’ll kill Marcel and then the rest of you lot. Unless you have a death sentence, I’d do what I tell you to if I were you. I’m 500 years old. You don’t want to mess with me.”

        “Do it,” Marcel said to them, knowing Katherine well enough that she wasn’t bluffing about killing him just to save the Original hybrid.

        She didn’t let go of Marcel until Klaus was unchained.

        Once he was unchained and she let Marcel go, she said, “Get out of here. All of you,” in which they obeyed. Then she turned to Marcel and said, “This is for Klaus,” before snapping his neck and then vamp-speeding towards the hybrid.

        She knelt at his side where he lay on his back on the floor from everything he had just been through.

        “Hey,” she said gently. “Klaus, can you hear me?”

        She rested gentle hands on either side of his face, being ever so careful and very cautious. He had just been through hell with Marcel and his vampires. She wasn’t going to become his chew toy to get rid of the rage.

        She looked down at him and sighed. He looked weak after the torment he had gone through today. Not only that, but he was out cold now, probably due to the adrenaline ceasing to exist at the moment. She had to get him home.

        As she took her hands away from his face and put an arm around him, getting both of them to their feet, using her vampire strength and body weight to hold him up, she suddenly felt how warm he was now. And she knew it wasn’t because he was half werewolf. It was because of something else.

        As she headed out of Marcel’s compound and on the route to the Mikaelson family home, she used her free hand to call his sister.

        “What do you want, Katherine?” she asked.

        “Your brother got into some trouble. I need you to meet me at the door.”

        “What kind of trouble?”

        “Marcel and his vampires thought it would be fun to chain him up and torture him. I don’t know if they did anything else or not, because that’s all I saw. If Marcel asks where I am, it’s because I threatened to kill him if they didn’t let him go. He may be my enemy of 500 years, but no one deserves that; not even Klaus himself.”

        “I’ll meet you there,” Rebekah said, before hanging up. She’d be having some nasty words with Marcel tomorrow when she got the chance. No one messed with her brother but her.

        When Katherine got to the door, Rebekah opened it and then went to his other side and put an arm around him to help her, as she closed the door. So, together, they got him to his room and in bed.

        “I’ll stay with him. You should get some sleep,” Katherine said to her, before sitting on his bedside.

        “You sure?”

        “I’m sure. I’m the one that saved him. I should be the one that he sees. I’m pretty sure he saw me with Marcel before he collapsed. He was pretty peeved off enough that he was about ready to let his werewolf side out.”

        Rebekah closed the door behind herself and headed for her room.

        Kat went to his bathroom and grabbed a couple washcloths and a bowl she filled with cool water to cool him down. She didn’t like how warm he was. It almost scared her.

        When she was seated on his bedside again, she set the bowl down and gently layed the cool wet washcloth on his forehead. She then damped the other washcloth and used it for his face, being gentle and cautious still. He was out cold, but she didn’t know when he’d wake up. She knew she was taking her chances in being so close to the one hybrid that would kill her if given a chance to do so.

        A few minutes later, as she continued to damp the washcloth on his face, he started to stir. She didn’t stop, though. She had to cool him down and he was very warm. She was almost considering telling Elijah. She knew she’d have to, if Rebekah hadn’t already.

        “Katerina,” he said softly. “Thank you.”

        “You’re welcome. We may not see eye to eye, but I wouldn’t wish you dead. Not anymore.”

        “You should go now. I’ll be fine.”

        “No. I don’t think you’re fine, Klaus. You’re burning up.”

        “You’ve done what you can for me already.”

        “I’m not leaving you like this. Did they give you wolfsbane?” she said, wolfsbane being the only thing she knew of that would cause him to burn up.

        A moment later, a slice of pain went through him and he gripped the side of his bed with his right hand and clenched his teeth, as to not let her know how much pain he was in.

        She set the washcloth down on the end table and put gentle hands on either side of his face, looking down at him.

        “It’s okay. We’ll find a cure. I won’t let this continue to happen to you,” she said to him, before letting go of him.

        The pain slowly went away, but he still felt weak and warm. He was hungry too, but he wouldn’t ask Katerina to do more than what she already was doing for him.

        “I’ll be back in a few minutes. Don’t go anywhere,” she said, before leaving him in the room to go over to her and Elijah’s room.

        She walked in.

        “I was beginning to wonder if you were going to join me or not,” Elijah greeted her, seated in a chair reading a book.

        “We have to talk. Something happened at Marcel’s compound with Klaus. I think Klaus was wolfsbaned. He’s burning up and having some pain. I’m doing what I can, but someone needs to find out what the cure is for wolfsbane.”

        He set the book down on the table by the chair and got up to follow her to his brother’s room.

        She sat on his bedside and went back to damping the washcloth onto his face.

        “I’ll stay with him, while you go do what you have to,” she told her lover.

        “I’ll be back as soon as I can,” he told her, before vanishing from sight.

        She looked down at Klaus and couldn’t help but feel sorry for him. He was in so much pain, she knew. She also knew that he hated looking so helpless in front of her. She knew he was used to being strong and high and mighty. Not weak and helpless and in so much pain like he was right now.

        “Relax. Rest. You need to restore your strength, and that won’t happen if you don’t rest,” she said, being gentle.

        As he looked up at her, he wondered what had happened to the old Katerina. The one that hated him so much that she wanted him dead. This was a new Katerina that he had never seen before. She was being kind to him in his time of need. Not wanting to ponder on it much longer, he closed his eyes to rest as Katerina had told him to.

        When Elijah came back with the cure that Eve, one of Hayley’s pack members in the Bayou gave him, it was dawn. Katerina was asleep in a chair in front of Klaus’ bed, the bed being her pillow for her head, arms encircling her head. His brother was also asleep, but he had to give him the cure as quickly as possible.

        “Klaus,” he said softly, not wanting to wake Katerina up.

        He sat on Klaus’ left bedside with the cure.

        “Klaus,” he said again to wake him.

        “I found the cure,” he informed his younger brother

        “Thank…you,” he said, feeling weak and drained. He wondered if this was how Sweet Caroline had felt like when she had been bitten by Tyler Lockwood a few years ago.

        Elijah helped him sit up and then Klaus took the mug and drank it.

        While Klaus was drinking the cure, Elijah went to the other side of Klaus’ bed and gently, without waking her, picked Katerina up in his arms and vanished with her.

        When he was in their room by the bed, he gently layed her down in bed and tucked her in, before lightly kissing her on the forehead. Then, since he hadn’t slept yet, he went to bed, knowing that his brother would be okay.





        When Katherine woke up, she was in bed, but Elijah wasn’t in sight. She could hear Rebekah yelling at someone in the hallway, though. She could tell that it was Klaus she was yelling at again, considering it was his scent she smelled. Then, realizing that she was feeling warm, sweaty and weak and her vision was dim, she took the covers off herself and set her jacket on the chair, before stumbling for the door, fear seeping through her, realizing that sometime last night, Klaus had unintentionally bitten her somewhere. And just as she got to the door, she heard Rebekah leave the house and couldn’t smell Klaus in the hall anymore.

        Once out of the room, she headed for the stairs, supporting herself by keeping a hold of the railing.

        “Klaus,” she said, hoping he’d hear her and pay attention. “Klaus,” she said again, as she made it down the first step.

        “What is it, luv?” she heard him ask.

        Just as she saw him come, her legs started to collapse on her.

        At the sight of her, he realized that he had bitten her. She’d slept all day yesterday and until the middle of the afternoon today, so he made the conclusion that while he was unwell, he had bitten her without him knowing it.

        As she collapsed, he blurred towards her to catch her.

        He caught her just in time, as she blacked out. He then picked her up in his arms and layed her down in Elijah’s bed.

        “Stay with me, Katerina,” he pleaded, hating himself for not being cautious around her, while he had been unwell.

        Her skin became an unnatural pale color, as he gently sat on her bedside and sat her against him.

        He bit his wrist, as her breathing became too slow for his liking. He then gently positioned her head back and put his wrist to her lips, forcing his blood down her throat. They had all thought that she had just been exhausted from taking care of him all night. He didn’t even recall biting her, but it was there on her lower arm not far from her left wrist. And as he fed her the cure from his wrist, it started to heal and disappear. Then he sighed in relief when her breathing and color started to return to normal.

        When he was convinced that she wasn’t gonna die from the bite, he took his wrist away and it instantly healed, as did her wound. He then layed her back down and stayed there, waiting for her to wake up.

           



        When Katerina came to half an hour later, she was back in bed with Klaus seated on her bedside, looking down at her.

        “You’re awake,” he greeted.

        “Thanks,” she said to him, sitting up in bed and looking at him.

        “Let’s keep this between you and me. My siblings don’t need to know that I bit you, though I don’t recall doing it.”

        “You’re not the only one,” she replied and agreed with him to keep it from them.





        Later that night, when she and Elijah were in bed with the door closed, everyone else asleep, they had some intimacy and bliss. They needed happiness and to unwind after today’s events and the events of the previous night.





        A few days later, Katherine started to feel sick and kept having what felt like an upset stomach. So, she decided to test her theory of why she was feeling this way, though she knew that vampires couldn’t procreate. If it was true, it would be a miracle to her. She’d be able to have a child and actually be that child’s mother. It would be her second chance at raising her child. She knew who the father would be, since Elijah was the only one she’d had intimacy with. So, she got a pregnancy test and sure enough, she was pregnant.

        She left it on the counter in her and Elijah’s bathroom and stood outside their room.

        “Elijah, I need to tell you something. Could you spare a moment?” she said, not needing to yell, since everyone except Hayley were vampires in this household.

        Elijah came up the stairs to stand in front of her.

        “What is it, Katerina?”

        “I’ll show you.”

        He followed her to their bathroom, wondering what she had to show and tell him.

        She picked up the pregnancy test and showed him.

        “I’m pregnant. I don’t know how that’s possible, but I am.”

        It was surprising to them both, but they were both very happy indeed.

        They smiled at each other.

        “What’s all this about good news?” Rebekah questioned from their doorway to their room.

        “You’re about to be an aunt to two kids,” Kat informed her.

        “I’m happy for you, then,” Rebekah replied, before walking away. She wished that it was herself getting pregnant instead of Katherine, but she knew that they both deserved to be happy after everything Klaus had done to both of them. She wasn’t going to get in the way of their happiness.

        “I think your sister is feeling a little left out,” Kat commented to Elijah.

        “I think you’re quite right,” he replied back.

        “So, should I break the news to Klaus, or do you want to?”

        “I have some things to do today, so you should break the news to him while he’s in a good mood.”

        He gave her a kiss, before vanishing.

        She hoped Elijah was right about Klaus being in a good mood. Otherwise, he probably wouldn’t be very happy that his former doppelganger was also having a child.

        She took out her phone and called him, since he was out meeting with some witches.

        “Katerina,” he greeted. “What can I do for you?”

        “Elijah’s busy today, so he said that it should be me to break the news to you. You know I’ve been feeling under the weather lately. Well, I remembered how it felt like before, so I got a pregnancy test. I’m pregnant with Elijah’s child. I don’t know how I got pregnant, since vampires can’t procreate, but it happened. It’s a miracle. It’s my second chance to do the right thing.”

        “That’s magnificent, but I didn’t know you had a child.”

        “Yes. I did. Before I even met any of you Originals, I had a child out of wedlock. That’s why my family banished me and disowned me. She recently found me. She’s a vampire now. Even though I didn’t raise her since my father took her from me just moments after she was born, I’m proud of her. She chose the right path. In most ways, she’s better than I ever will be. She apparently asked to become a vampire to go find me. She’s been searching for me for less than 500 years. Her name’s Nadia Petrova.”

        “I’m sorry for what he did. No one should be separated from their child, no matter what,” he sympathized with her.

        “Thank you, Klaus,” she said, before hanging up.

        The next person she called was Hayley who was on her way to the clinic in the Bayou. A witch, Agnes, the only living elder, was with her.

        When Hayley answered, she explained to her what she and Elijah had just found out today, in which Hayley congratulated her on. She was thrilled for them. She knew how much the child meant to them already. She didn’t know them that well, but she was pretty sure that Katherine’s child was a miracle child; much like her and Klaus’ child was.





        That night, when Hayley hadn’t come back yet, Katherine decided to head towards the Bayou to make sure she was okay. And as she headed that way, she got a text from Hayley that said that she was in trouble.

        On my way, the vampiress texted back to the werewolf.

           



        As soon as she arrived in the Bayou, she could sense a bunch of vampires. And as she raced through the Bayou woods, she let her senses keen in on where Hayley was.

        When she found her, she was being grabbed by a male vampire and Hayley was trying to get it off her.

        At vamp speed, she was behind him and tore out his heart, which made him drop dead. She then dropped his heart by his body and turned to Hayley.

        “You might wanna run. I’m gonna stay behind and finish these guys off. Just get to safety.”

        At that, Hayley ran for her life, as vampires started to come towards Katherine.

        “Come and get me, morons,” Katherine urged them.

        A moment later, vampires were falling by the hands of Katherine, left and right. It wasn’t hard, because she was 500 years old. She was much older than these vampires. She knew she’d have to stay away from Marcel after this, though. If he found out that she had killed his nightwalkers, he’d be searching left and right for her to make her pay for breaking one of his rules. She didn’t care right now, though. All she cared about was making sure that Hayley made it safely back to the compound; preferably without Marcel’s vampires coming after her to kill her or anything.

        Suddenly, a few minutes later, she felt pain, as an arrow went through her, after all the vampires had gotten their hearts ripped out. Then she felt the ground beneath her and everything started to go black for her.

        “Katherine!” she heard someone yell, but couldn’t tell who it was. All she knew was that it was either Hayley or Rebekah. They were the only ones in the family that ever called her by her present day name.





        Rebekah ran towards her to help her, as she blacked out with an arrow in her chest.

        She knelt down beside her and pulled the arrow out. She knew she’d be okay, since the arrow had just grazed her heart. The only reason Rebekah was there was because Hayley had informed her of the situation, once she had found the Original on her way back to the compound.

        With Original vampire strength, she gently picked her up and vanished with her.





        When Katherine woke up, she was in her room with Rebekah leaning against a wall looking at her. She realized then that Rebekah had saved her tonight. She also realized that what had made her black out wasn’t the arrow. It was what had been in the arrow. She knew this feeling. It was too familiar. She had been vervained.

        Katherine sat up in bed and looked at the Original sister.

        “Is Hayley okay?”

        “She’s fine thanks to you. You need to be more careful, or you’re going to wind up in a worst case scenario.”

        “It’s not my fault that Hayley’s the one that told me that vampires were after her. She apparently wanted me to rescue her instead of you guys.”

        “I’m just saying to be careful, because now we have to dispose of those vampire bodies that you left us.”

        “I’m sorry, but what was I supposed to do? Snap their necks and leave them there to wake up and then tell Marcel that I was in the Bayou rescuing a pregnant werewolf? Yeah, that would’ve gone well.”

        “Well, it would’ve been better than having to burn a bunch of bodies all night.”

        “Just go away and let me sleep,” Kat replied, before laying down again to sleep the vervain off.

        “Fine. See it your way,” Rebekah commented, before closing the door behind herself.





        A few days later, when she was upstairs reading a book, the Original siblings gone to take care of something, Hayley in the living room, she started to feel some pains from her stomach and some light-headedness. That’s when she knew that something was happening to her. She knew that this had to be the work of a witch or more. After all, she knew witches. Then, a moment later, she started to feel an urge and quickly went to the bathroom and knelt in front of the toilet to throw up. Then, after she had cleaned up and flushed the toilet, she leaned against the counter and looked at herself.

        “Hayley!” she called from the bathroom, as the light-headedness got worse.

        A few minutes later, the werewolf was there at the door to the bathroom.

        “What’s wrong?” Hayley asked her.

        “I think there’s a witch trying to kill my child. I need you to call Klaus and Elijah, while I go lay down, before it gets worse. Believe me, I know witches. This is a spell,” she said to her.

        Hayley left the bedroom to go call the Original brothers, while Kat started towards the bed to lay down, as she started to feel quite warm. She almost fell, but caught herself by grabbing a hold of the end table. And at that moment was when Hayley came back.

        When she saw her, she went over to her and helped her lay down in bed.

        “I need you to get a cool wet washcloth for my forehead. It’s going to get worse soon.”

        Hayley went to the bathroom to do as she was told. She too knew what was happening, but she didn’t say anything to Katherine about it.





        That night, Katherine lay in bed burning up, eyes closed, hoping for the best. Hayley had informed her earlier that Klaus and Elijah had gone to ask Sophie about it who had told her that it was Agnes.

        From outside the closed the door, she heard Elijah and Hayley.

        “How’s she doing?”

        “Worse,” Hayley replied.

        “I’ll take her outside. We need to get her cooled down as quickly as possible.”

        A moment later, she heard the door open and sensed him at her bedside.

        “Katerina,” he greeted her.

        “Elijah,” she said softly through the pain she was going through, though she could barely feel it now, which frightened her. She figured either the witch was succeeded in killing her and Elijah’s child, or she herself was dying.

        “I’m going to take you to the pool in the back. I need to get you cooled down,” he told her,” as he gently pulled her into his arms.

        She wrapped her arms around his neck and rested her head on his shoulder, as he did so. Then, a moment later, she felt air, as he vamp-sped out back to the pool.

        When she felt water under her, she opened her eyes and looked up at him.

        “Ready?” he questioned.

        “Always,” she replied.

        He gently and slowly lowered her into the water, her still in his arms.

        She gasped in pain, as the pain came.

        When the pain ceased and she felt like herself again, he set her on her feet in the pool and they both waded back to the edge of the pool. He was the first to get out and held out his hand, in which she took, helping her out.

        “Thank you, Elijah,” she said to him.

        “You’re welcome, Katerina. I’ll see you later. I have a witch to put in her place.”

        She watched him vanish, before going to the door, in which Hayley and Rebekah followed.





        Later that night, after Elijah had killed Agnes for trying to kill his child, Klaus and Elijah headed back home.

           

           

        A few months later, after Klaus had succeeded in becoming King of the French Quarter, they had to figure out how the hell to kill Celeste without her jumping into another body. Then, after that happened, they had to find a way to save Hayley from actually dying, which ended in Kat being the one to help her back to her body, since Kat was descended from Travelers and knew the spell to do so.





        A few nights later, Klaus was attacked by Genevieve in the bar. He was weak because of giving his blood for the Moonlight rings for the wolves, so he couldn’t fight back. But Kat could.

        Katherine walked into the bar and through Genevieve away from him and against a wall with her Traveler magic. 

        “How dare you threaten an Original. Especially, Klaus,” she said in almost a growl to the witch, as she went to stand between Genevieve and Klaus, so she wouldn’t do any more damage to him.

        “You of all people are protecting him? He slaughtered your entire family, Katherine. How could you side with him?”

        “Because I’ve forgiven him. Now stay away from us or you’ll die next time one of us sees you around,” Katherine threatened her, before walking over to Klaus.

        Even though Katherine was almost as pregnant as Hayley, she was still able to put an arm around Klaus, helping him to his feet, and helped him out of the bar.

        “Hayley,” he said to her.

        “She’s fine. Those witches will never hurt her or Hope ever again.”

        “How’d you learn that?”

        “I learned that I’m descended from Travelers, so I just started looking up Traveler spells and memorizing them.”

        “Thank you, Katerina.”

        “You’re welcome,” she replied to him.





        The next day, since she was getting close to her date of giving birth, she phoned up Nadia to inform her of what was going on. Then, the day after, Nadia came to be with her mother, which didn’t work out that well, since Marcel found out about Nadia and captured her to teach Katherine a lesson for one, threatening his life; and two, killing all of those vampire friends of his. In the end of the day though, Elijah and Katherine stopped him and rescued Nadia. Nadia then went to stay at the Mikaelson home and Marcel was never seen or heard from ever again.





        One month later, on a full moon, Katherine Pierce gave birth to a baby girl, in which she and Elijah chose to name Kalina Petrova Mikaelson.

A/N: I got this idea from pming with a writer that is also a TVD and TO fan, about how it would’ve been cool if Katherine was the one to get pregnant and come into The Originals, and for there to be a love triangle between her, Elijah, and Klaus. So, I hope you enjoy this.





        It was a dark night in New Orleans, as Katherine Pierce, formerly known as Katerina Petrova, now newly human, walked through the woods.

        Suddenly, she found herself surrounded by some witches. Then they started to chant something.

        A moment later, everything went black for her.





        When she came to, she was on a bed in a cave-like place.

        She got to her feet and went into the front room of the cave-like place where a few witches were at. A less number than what there had been earlier.

        They looked at her.

        “What’s going on?” Katherine asked, knowing witches, having lived 500 years as a vampiress. She knew witches didn’t just kidnap people.

        “My name’s Sophie. We brought you here to keep you safe from Marcel. You could be leverage for him, and we can’t let that happen."

        “Why would I be leverage?”

        “Because you’re pregnant. It’s a special gift that I have.”

        “I can’t be.”

        “You’re wrong,” Sophie said.

        Katherine sighed. She knew that witches like Sophie were never wrong. How she could be so stupid that night in Mystic Falls, she didn’t know anymore. She hadn’t known that this would happen, though. It was shocking to her.

        “I’ve called the two Mikaelsons to meet us here,” Sophie informed her.





        When Klaus and Elijah walked in, Kat was in the other room.

        “What have you called us for?” Elijah asked Sophie.

        “I have a gift of sensing when a girl is pregnant. There’s something you need to know,” she replied, looking at both of them.

        Katherine walked in from the shadows, and stood in front of a wall, hand on her stomach.

        “No. It’s impossible. This is a lie. You are lying. Vampires can’t procreate,” Klaus said.

        “But werewolves can. Magic made you a vampire, but you were born a werewolf. You’re the Original hybrid. The first of your kind. This pregnancy is one of nature’s loopholes.

        “You’ve been with someone else, admit it!” Klaus yelled at Katherine.

        “I’ve been too occupied to be with someone else. It’s your child,” she calmly replied to him.

        “My sister gave up her life to perform the spell she needed to confirm the pregnancy. Because of Jane-Anne’s sacrifice, the lives of this girl and her baby are now controlled by us. We can keep them safe, or we can kill them. If you don’t help us take down Marcel, so help me, Katherine won’t live long enough to see her first maternity dress.”

        Katherine looked at Elijah and then Klaus, afraid to die. She had something to live for. She had a daughter back in Mystic Falls named Nadia Petrova. She couldn’t just get herself killed by witches. She knew Sophie, though. It was just something she said to get Klaus to consider helping them. But then again, she also knew that Sophie would do anything if she was determined enough to do it. This was very much new to her, getting threatened to death like this by a witch.

        “Enough of this. If you want Marcel dead, he’s dead. I’ll do it myself,” Elijah said, not wanting any harm to come to Katerina. He had been there for her for over a century. He wasn’t going to fail her. Not now. Not ever.

        “No. We can’t. Not yet. We have a clear plan that we need to follow, and there are rules.”

        Elijah looked at Klaus.

        “How dare you command me, threaten me, with what you wrongfully perceive to be my weakness!” Klaus yelled at Sophie. He then said, “I won’t hear anymore lies.”

        “Niklaus! Listen,” Elijah said.

        With hybrid ears, he heard a heartbeat within Katerina’s stomach. He then looked at Katerina, and then at his brother and the witches.

        “Kill her and the baby. See if I care,” Klaus said, before leaving.

        “No one touches her. I’ll fix this,” Elijah said.

        Sophie nodded.

        They all watched, as he left, before Kat looked at the witches silently.





        Klaus was running through a street, when Elijah caught up with him.

        “Niklaus.”

        “It’s a trick, Elijah.”

        “No, brother. It’s a gift. It’s your chance—It’s our chance.”

        “To what?”

        “To start over. Take back everything we lost, everything that was taken from us. Niklaus, our own parents came to despise us. Our family was ruined—we were ruined. And since then, all you have ever wanted—all that we have ever wanted was a family.”

        “I will not be manipulated.”

        Klaus turned away, but Elijah sped in front of him a ways away to block his way.

        “So they’re manipulating you. So what? With them, she and her child—your child—live.”

        “I’m gonna kill every last one of them.”

        He shoved Elijah and turned away, but Elijah blocked him again.

        “And then what? Then you return to Mystic Falls to resume your life as the hated one, as the evil hybrid? Is it so important to you that people quake with fear at the sound of your name?”

        “People quake with fear, because I have the power to make them afraid. What will this child offer me? Will it guarantee me power?”

        “Family is power, Niklaus. Love, loyalty—that’s power. This is what we swore to one another a thousand years ago, before life tore away what little humanity you had left, before ego, before anger, before paranoia, created in this person before me someone I can barely recognize as my own brother. This is us, the Original family, and we remain together, always and forever. I am asking you to stay here. I will help you and I will stand by you. I will be your brother. We will build a home here together. So save her. Save your child.”

        Elijah placed a hand on Klaus’ shoulder.

        Klaus brought his own hand to Elijah’s neck in a brotherly gesture.

        “No,” Klaus whispered.

        Klaus walked away.





        Back at the mausoleum, the witches were talking.

        “Marcel and his vampires are out of control. Something had to be done,” Sophie said.

        “And the solution is to bring in more vampires?” Agnes questioned.

        “These aren’t just any vampires, Agnes. They’re the Originals."

        “What makes you think you can control the hybrid?”

        Elijah appeared, leaning on the wall.

        “She can’t. I’m not entirely certain that I can, either. But now that your coven has drawn his sire, I have a question: What prevents my brother from murdering you, instead of cooperating?”

        Sophie took a needle and showed it to the Original, sticking the needle into her hand.

        “Ow!” Kat said.

        Elijah looked at Katerina. There was a drop of blood on Katerina’s hand, exactly at the same point where Sophie hurt herself.

        “What the hell?” Kat said.

        “The spell my sister performed. The one that got her killed? It didn’t just confirm the pregnancy. It linked me to Katherine. So anything that happens to me happens to her, which means her life is in my hands. Klaus may not care about his own child, but it’s very clear what it already means to you. If I have to hurt Katherine—or worse—to ensure that I have your attention, I will.”

        “You would dare threaten an Original?” Elijah calmly questioned.

        “I have nothing to lose,” she replied. “You have until midnight to get Klaus to change his mind,” she added.





        Later that night, Elijah spoke to Rebekah on the phone.

        “He’s willing to give up everything,” he informed her.

        “Come on, Elijah. Does that really surprise you?”

        “I already see it. He’s spiraling. He’s lashing out in blind rage. You know, the last time I saw him like this, it lasted 200 years.”

        “Then leave him to his temper tantrum and come home. With any luck, this misadventure will allow us a reprieve from all of his insanity.”

        “He was so close. When he heard the baby’s heartbeat, I could see it in his eyes. He…he wanted…he could almost taste happiness. And now his temper has destroyed it. Even if I was to return him to sanity, he just lost Marcel’s trust. So, I’m almost out of time to get her from the witches.”

        “Get her? Have you lost your mind? Are we running an orphanage now?”

        “Say what you will about Niklaus, but on my life, I’m not letting anything happen to Katerina or that baby.”





        Back at the mausoleum Agnes, Sabine, and Sophie were speaking, as the church clock tolled.

        “His time is up. What are you gonna do now, Sophie?” Agnes questioned her.

        “I’m gonna do what I said I was gonna do.”

        “What? Kill the girl? Kill yourself?” Sabine asked her.

        “Klaus doesn’t care about the child,” Agnes said.

        Elijah appeared.

        “I do.” He came into the mausoleum, carrying the body of Jane-Anne. “And I bring proof of my intent to help you. The body of your fallen friend, which I procured from Marcel myself,” he continued.

        “Jane-Anne,” Sophie said.

        “May she be granted peace. Klaus will agree to your terms. I just need a little more time.”

        “You had your time. It’s passed,” Agnes said.

        “Shut up, Agnes,” Sophie said.

        “For now, accept the deal. Katerina and the child remain unharmed, or Klaus will kill you all,” he told them, before walking away. But then he turned around again and said, “And I will help him.”





        Klaus held a bottle in his hand, drinking from it, when he heard Elijah come in. Without turning around, he said, “Have I not made it clear my desire to be left alone?”

        “Oh, you demand to be left alone at least once a decade. Your words have ceased to have impact.”

        Klaus through the bottle against the floor, which shattered the bottle.

        “Why must you keep harping on about the baby?” he shouted. “That child will never be born. In fact, your precious Katerina is probably dead already.”

        Elijah sped up to Klaus, holding his hand around his brother’s throat.

        “You will not walk away from this!” he threatened Niklaus.

        “Let. Me. Go,” Klaus said angrily.

        “I WILL NOT!” Elijah shouted angrily.

        Elijah through Klaus against the floor and then heaved him up again, not letting go of him.

        “Don’t make me say it again,” Klaus said.

        “I will not let go. I will never let go.”

        Klaus grabbed Elijah and hurled him against an iron rod fence.

        Elijah stood up fast and took one of the iron rods, before walking towards Klaus, holding the rod in his hand.

        “Even if I have to spend eternity saving you from your own stubborn, petulant, vile self—“ He sped up and hit Klaus with the iron rod. “If I have to beat you, to remind you of your own humanity—“ He hit Klaus again. “to care about anything.” He tried to hit Klaus again, but Klaus was faster and grabbed the iron rod and hit Elijah with it. Klaus then hurled him a few meters back, where he fell on the ground and stayed down.

        Klaus breathed heavily and let the iron rod fall to the ground, before then walking a few steps towards Elijah whom was still on the ground.

        “You’re beyond pathetic, Elijah.”

        “Well, who is more pathetic? The one who seeks hope to make his family whole, or the coward who only sees the world through his own fear?”

        “I haven’t cared about anything for centuries. Why on earth do you?”

        “Because I failed you. Because the first time our father laid a hand on you, I should have struck him dead. I made a promise to you. Always, forever, family above all.”

        Klaus started to laugh and then reached his hand to his brother.

        Elijah took Klaus’ hand and stood up.

        “You are a sentimental fool,” Klaus commented.

        “Perhaps. But I’ve lasted this long in spite of it, haven’t I?”

        Elijah walked off, as Klaus stood there, thinking.

           



        Klaus was seated on a bench that night.

        Elijah took a seat beside him.

        “The bond of family blesses us with an immeasurable power. But we also must accept what comes with it. It gives us a responsibility to love without condition, without apology. We can never waver from the power of that bond, even if it’s tested. The bond nourishes us, gives us strength. Without that power, we are nothing,” he told Klaus. And as he told him that, the witches began to put Jane-Anne to rest back at the mausoleum.

        “This town was my home once, and in my absence, Marcel has gotten everything that I ever wanted. Power, loyalty, family. I made him in my image, and he has bettered me. I want what he has. I want it back. I wanna be King.”

        “So, is that all this child means to you? A grab for power?”

        “What does it mean to you?”

        “I think this child could offer you the one thing that you’ve never believed you had.”

        “And what’s that?”

        “The unconditional love of family.”

        They looked at each other.

        “Tell Sophie Deveraux, we have a deal,” Klaus said.





        Later that night, Elijah went back to the mausoleum and promised Katerina the one thing that he had never promised her before.

        “I will always protect you. You have my word on that.”





        The next night, Klaus changed his mind, and brought Katerina to the plantation to stay with him and Elijah to protect her. He couldn’t protect her if she was among witches. And that, Katherine was thankful for, since it meant that she wouldn’t be around witches who were threatening her life. She was finally semi free of those witches. So, without having to be asked, she settled down in a guest bedroom and laid down on the bed, looking up at the ceiling, and sighed in relief that she was out of there. She was beginning to think that this child was the beginning of Niklaus’ redemption. Caroline Forbes had brought out his humanity back in Mystic Falls. Now this child of his was about to bring out his redemption that she knew Elijah had been hoping would someday come. Maybe there was hope for Klaus, after all. Maybe he wasn’t the monster that everyone thought he was. At least, not since Caroline had warmed herself into his heart. She would never fully understand Elijah’s blind faith in Klaus, but she sort of did understand a little. He was Elijah’s brother. Elijah would do anything for Klaus. Anything. She didn’t understand why, though she figured it had to have something to do with a long ago past she had no knowledge of.

        She closed her eyes on the thought of thinking she might finally have peace, and that Klaus might finally forgive her for running from him for 500 years.





        The next day, she came downstairs and went in search of a kitchen, which she finally found. She had never been inside this house before last night, so she didn’t know where everything was at yet. And once in the kitchen, she opened the fridge to see if there might be anything that she could have for breakfast. She wasn’t surprised that there wasn’t much, but she did find some milk and cereal she could have. She wasn’t surprised, considering vampires were living here. Not humans. Vampires didn’t have to eat human food, but it couldn’t hurt them to go shopping for human food, would it? She’d have to speak to them about that once she found where either Elijah or Klaus were at. She figured Klaus was probably plotting against Marcel somewhere though, and Elijah, she knew, could be anywhere.

        When she had finished her bowl of cereal, she put it in the sink and then left the kitchen in search of one of them, which wasn’t too hard. She found the parlor where Klaus was having a shot glass of what looked to be red wine.

        “Sleep well?” he questioned her.

        “Matter of fact, yes. Have you not noticed that I’m human and pregnant now? Someone really needs to go shopping for human food, unless you want us to starve to death,” she confronted him without fear. She was beyond fearing him these days. The only thing she was afraid of was dying, her child being torn from her arms just as Nadia had been, and of what enemies out there would do to her. Especially, once a war started between Marcel and Klaus. She’d be leverage soon enough, she was sure of, which meant that she had to do something to keep from getting herself into danger.

        Katherine walked out of the room to go explore the house to get to know it better. If she was going to stay here for nine months, she might as well get to know her surroundings better. It wasn’t too big, but who knows what was in this house. She knew Klaus too well. When it came to her, even though he had obliged in protecting her, he could care less. It was the child he was concerned for. Not her. If she died, he wouldn’t grieve for her. It would be Elijah that would grieve for her, instead. And even though Elijah had broken up with her before he had gone to New Orleans to help Klaus, she knew he still loved her just like she loved him. They just couldn’t totally be together, because then Klaus would do something to either her or Elijah. Klaus was more paranoid and controlling than she had been as a vampire. Whenever they got on his nerves one way or another, Klaus daggered his siblings and put them in coffins until he was ready to pull the dagger out. And because she knew Klaus better than Marcel did even, she figured that once the child was born, he would kill her.





        Later that day, after Klaus had gone to meet with Marcel, Katherine left the house to go find an herb shop. She needed a stock of vervain just in case some vampires decided that it would be fun to compel her. She knew vampires way too well, seems how she used to be a 500 year-old vampire. Another 500 years and she would’ve been known as an Original vampire herself. Especially, when she was about to become a part of the Mikaelson family. It was like a bad reality TV show once she thought of it like that. The Mikaelson family was torn enough with centuries of hatred and revenge against each other. It didn’t need a broken former vampire pregnant with a possible hybrid, too.





        Once she had found the shop and bought some vervain, she thanked Katie and attempted to pay her, but Katie refused, saying that it was on her. There were enough supernatural creatures and enough humans got hurt. She didn’t want Katherine to be one of those humans. Plus, the witches were supposed to protect her.





        It was a dark night, as she walked through the French Quarter on her way back to the house, when she suddenly got a run in with a few vampires that wanted her gone. She had already taken some of the vervain, but had some to spare.

        “I’d get out of my way if I were you,” she informed the male vampire who stood in front of her.

        “No can do. Marcel’s orders.”

        “Oh, right. Because Marcel is such a good guy. Tell Marcel that I said for him to go to hell.”

        The vampire growled at her, before another arrived behind her.

        She turned around to see the other vampire.

        Suddenly, just as they were about to attack her, the vampire she had been looking at, dropped dead, when Klaus arrived and ripped its heart out of its chest.

        “That is no way to treat Katerina,” he said, before turning to the other one.

        Seeing him, the other vampire fled at vamp speed.

        He looked at her.

        “May I ask what you’re doing in the French Quarter, dear Katerina?"

        “I was heading home after buying some vervain to take just in case,” she replied.

        “Let’s go home,” he replied to her.

        She agreed and they headed home.





        Later that night, he disposed of the vampire’s body, burning it just outside the plantation home a ways.

        Afterwards, he joined Katerina inside the house.

        “You should stay inside from now on, Katerina. At least while it’s dark outside,” he suggested to her. “I wouldn’t want anything to happen to you or our child.”

        “So, you’re actually admitting that you’re going to be a father?” she questioned him.

        “Despite what everyone thinks, Katerina, I’m not a total monster. I would never wish harm upon my own child; our child. I don’t care what species it is, or if it’s a girl or a boy. I will always protect you both.”

        “You and me both,” she replied to him. “My first child was torn from my arms. I don’t wish for that to happen again. I never even got to name or see her, before my father took her away, and I never saw her ever again. But when Silas came for me the first time, Nadia took me somewhere safe with her and told me who she was. She’s a vampire now, and I’m glad how she turned out. Whoever raised her, made her a very good person. I don’t think she has a mean bone in her body. Unlike some of us,” she replied to him, before heading upstairs and towards her bedroom where she was staying at.

        He watched her, as she left, glad that if anything happened, she had Nadia to go back to. He hadn’t killed her entire family like they had all thought. She still had someone, other than his brother, that she could count on if push came to shove.





        The next day, Katherine went for a walk around New Orleans, when she saw Elijah fall in step at her left side.

        “If you’ve come to make sure that I’m okay, I assure you that they didn’t hurt me,” she informed him.

        “Actually, Katerina, I came to thank you for what you did. With your help, you got me back to my siblings. Thank you. I am forever in your debt,” he replied to her.

        “You’re welcome, but anyone that knows you, would’ve done the same thing. I know how to deal with witches. I’ve been doing it my whole life. I know how to make deals with them and talk to them without getting on their bad sides. It’s not that hard. Vampires that don’t know me, however, are a different story all together. That vampire deserved what he got. We’re all lucky that Klaus got there in time,” she replied to her lover.

        “Niklaus has come a long way since this miracle happened. I think he sees something of himself in you. What that may be, I will probably never know. You’re a good thing for him as well as the child."

        “Thank you, Elijah.”

        “You’re welcome, Katerina. Anything for you.”

        He gave her a kiss on her left cheek.

        “I’ll see you later. There are things I must take care of.”

        She smiled, as he walked off to go do whatever it was he had to do this afternoon. When it came to Originals, she didn’t always know what they were planning, because sometimes they kept it a secret from her, no matter how much she asked to be filled in. She knew it was because they were just protecting her. They were protecting her and the unborn baby, which she completely understood. She, herself, would do anything to protect herself and her unborn child, too. And she’d die before she let anything happen to the Originals. They were her life line now days. Being human made it so much easier for her enemies to kill her. It made her nervous and scared just thinking about all the possibilities that her enemies could do to her. Being human made her weak, vulnerable, and ultimately useless. She hated that she had to rely on vampires and hybrids to protect her, instead of being able to rely on just her to protect her. For her, it sucked being newly human after being a 500 year-old vampire.





        The next night, Agnes, the only living elder of the witches, drove her to a clinic out in the Bayou. She had informed both brothers where she would be, before doing so, though. Something about Agnes always made her cautious. She didn’t trust her. After all, she had been betrayed by witches she didn’t know very well countless times. What was stopping Agnes from betraying her, too? The answer to that question was nothing.

        While Kat was seen to about how the child was doing, Agnes waited in the waiting room. But then, after the sea section and when the doctor tried to stab her with a syringe, she had to make a run for it. So, she ran as fast as she could through the darkness of the woods. And as she ran, she took out her iPhone.

        I’m in trouble in the Bayou. Hurry, she texted Klaus, before putting her phone away.

        Suddenly, she heard footsteps of people looking for her, but she knew they weren’t of Klaus or Elijah.

        A few minutes later, she had to fight a few of them who had found and then attacked her, which she ended up getting hurt from, realizing they were vampires.

        After a few more fights, she continued to run for her life blindly. Everything was happening so fast, and she couldn’t see anything but figures of people and outlines of trees and bushes. She had to buy time until Klaus got there to save her, though. The situation was like deja vu all over again. This time though, she wasn’t running from Originals. She was running from mere vampires. Vampires that, if she was a vampire again, she could easily take on and win against.

        Suddenly, she tripped over something that felt like a twig or small log, and fell down a hilly section of the woods, before everything went black for her.





        When he arrived in the woods, he immediately went to taking on and killing all the vampires that were after Katerina, before going in search of her. If anything happened to her because of that witch Agnes that he knew had taken her here, he’d see to it himself that she died for her mistake.

        “Katerina!” he called for her, but kept getting nothing but silence. He then figured that maybe she wasn’t answering, because she was probably hurt or something related to that.





        When he found her on her back, out cold, he was immediately at her side. He then knelt beside her and gently pulled her into his arms. It looked like she had gone through some fights with those vampires the way she looked, which he figured most likely was true to the core.

        He looked around the woods to make sure there weren’t any other threats waiting to try and hurt Katerina, before forcing some of his blood down her throat to heal her, before gently getting to his feet, with her in his arms.

        “I’ve got you, luv. You’re safe now,” he assured her, though he wasn’t sure if she could hear him or not.  He then sped out of the Bayou back home.





        When she woke up, she found that she was in her bedroom and it was daylight outside. And not a moment afterward, Klaus came to lean in the doorway.

        “You’re awake. You were out for quite a while,” he greeted her.

        She slowly sat up.

        “Thank you.”

        “You’re welcome, luv. Though, it was you that brought me there.”

        “Well, you’re a hybrid, so you’re faster than a vampire, and I needed fast assistance. Did you kill them?”

        “Yes. They deserved it for what they tried to do.”

        “That I can agree on.”

        “I’m beginning to think we’re a lot alike, you and I,” he stated.

        “In most ways, we are, Klaus. We have father issues, family issues, and are afraid of being truly and utterly alone. And we’re always finding danger, whether or not we’re looking for it. And we always lash out with anger, rage, and vengeance. We are a lot alike. It’s almost like something wants us to end up together.”

        “How would you have father and family issues, Katerina?” he asked, taking a step into the room, curious of what she would say.

        “You did me a favor in killing my father. He wasn’t the best father in the world, and I can tell that yours wasn’t either, judging by how you react when your father’s name is spoken. You don’t know how many scars he inflicted, but I’m sure that yours was probably worse than mine. I was scarred way before I met any of you. You can’t see my scars anymore though, because they disappeared when I became a vampire, since vampires can heal so fast. I hope that he died horribly,” she shared with him.

        He sat down on the bed by her with sympathy. He knew how it felt like to be scarred by your own father, but to do it to Katerina made him outraged. It made him wish he had a chance to kill her father for a second time. In truth, after hearing this, he should’ve made him suffer before he killed her father. Just like he should’ve made his own father suffer, before he killed him.

        “I can make the pain go away. Just say the words, Katerina,” he said.

        “No. Compulsion isn’t the answer. I’ve lived with it for 500 plus years. So, what did Mikael ever do to you?” she asked. “I never got to hear what your past was like with Mikael. I knew he hated you and all, but he never told me why. I was too busy hating you to ask why Mikael hated you so badly.”

        “Just like yours, I was scarred, too. It started when I was just a little boy. It was before we became vampires, and before I triggered the werewolf curse. He continued it throughout my life. As a boy, Elijah tried to intervene, but stopped when he said that he’d be next if he intervened on my behalf. When we were older, Elijah and Rebekah were afraid one day that he might kill me, so Elijah and Rebekah pointed their swords at him, and demanded for him to stop, which Mikael did. But it never stopped. Then, after I triggered the werewolf curse, Mikael made Elijah help him tie me down to make my werewolf side dormant. It never stopped, even after that. Finally, we escaped him for a little while, when we made this city our home. But in 1918, he came for me. He came for us all. We only just managed to escape our father’s wrath,” he shared with her.

        “That must be why Elijah has been so hell bent on finding your redemption. Because he still feels guilty for not standing up against Mikael for you. I’m sorry for what you endured. I had no idea what he did to you.”

        “You weren’t there, Katerina.”

        “If I had been, I would’ve stopped him the moment he started doing that to you. No wonder you’re so ruined. I guess we’re both ruined then, in our own way.”

        It was such an intense moment, that they didn’t know what possessed them to do so, but they found themselves kissing one another, him on top of her, her on her back on the bed. It was like they were kindred spirits that had found each other after, for Katerina, 500 years, and for Klaus, 1,000 years. An hour later, though, he had to leave, so he bid her farewell and asked her to stay home today, while he and Elijah dealt with some things. She presumed the things they had to deal with involved Marcel, so she did what she was told.





        That late afternoon, when she was in the parlor starting towards the chair to sit in, she started to feel light-headed all of a sudden. Not sure why it was happening to her, she figured it had something to do with a witch or more. Pregnant ladies didn’t get light-headed. She knew that from experience from 500 years ago back in Bulgaria.

        As the sensation continued and she started to feel really warm, despite the A/C going throughout the house, she took out her phone and called Elijah, hoping he wasn’t too busy so he would answer.

        “Katerina,” he greeted.

        “Elijah. Something’s wrong. You need to speak to the witches,” she said, before informing him of what was going on.

        “We’ll figure something out,” he promised her, before they both hung up.

        She put her phone away and leaned against the wall, but it didn’t help much, since she was starting to get really blurry vision. On top of that, she kept getting small pains from her stomach, which made her fear for the child. She didn’t want anything to happen to the kid, no matter who the father was. And as her vision started to go blurry, she saw Elijah there all of a sudden. Then, as everything started to go black for her, he was there by her, and the next thing she knew, she was in her bed.

        “Klaus is dealing with the witches. You’ll both be okay,” she heard him assure her, but they both knew that Elijah couldn’t promise anything.





        That night, she was burning up, so she and Elijah made it to the outside pool. She knew that he was going to try and cool her down in the pool, which she knew should help. So, they both got into the pool, where he put her in his arms and let the water cool her down. And as he did so, she felt the ever growing pain get worse, but then as she started to cool down, the pain started to ebb away. Then, a few minutes later, she didn’t feel the symptoms anymore of what the witch, Agnes, had tried to do to her and Klaus’ child.





        Later that night, she was home alone, when she heard the doorbell. So, being cautious, she opened the door to reveal a certain hybrid. He wasn’t Klaus though, which made her think that he might be in New Orleans to cause Klaus as much harm as possible. After all, he had killed his mom and hurt many other people. The past, she thought, was behind them all, though.

        “Tyler,” she greeted. “What a surprise.”

        “Katherine,” he said, though it wasn’t a greeting.





        Later that night, when Elijah returned and realized that Katerina wasn’t home, he called Klaus to let him know. Then, when Klaus came home, he informed him that Tyler had been at their home and must’ve taken her.





        It was a beautiful day at the Bayou, as Kat sat on the floor of a cabin, Tyler and another guy in there with her. Her hands had been tied with rope.

        “What are you doing?” she questioned, when he headed towards her and knelt in front of her with a syringe.

        “I’m going to show you something,” he answered her.

        “With that?”

        He stuck it in her stomach and then pulled it out, and used the syringe full of her child’s blood on the guy she knew as a vampire. Then Tyler temporarily killed him.

        “That child can make hybrids. You think Klaus suddenly wants to be a father? He wants that child so he can make hybrids,” he said.

        “Okay. So, it can make hybrids. I don’t care what Klaus wants that child for, because this will be me having a second chance to raise my child. I couldn’t raise Nadia, but with this kid, I can be a mother like I always wanted to be,” she replied to him.

        When the vampire woke up and was in transition, Tyler had him bite her to complete the transition.

        As he bit her, she wanted to fight; to push him off her, but knew that she couldn’t succeed as a human. She had to try, though. She had to live long enough to be rescued by either Klaus or Elijah. If she was lucky, she’d be rescued by them both. So, as he bit deeper, she tried to push him off her with everything she had. That obviously didn’t work, so she kicked him, which worked. Before she could get to her feet though, he lunged at her.

        As he lunged at her to bite her again, Tyler grabbed him, holding him off, which gave her a chance to escape.

        She grabbed the knife that was on the floor and made a run for it as Tyler told him, “Enough. You’ll kill her. Just stop,” trying to reason with him.





        Once in the heart of the Bayou woods, she stopped, everything going black for her. Then she felt something hard and knew she was on the ground.

        As everything started to fade, she heard someone she never would’ve thought she would ever be happy to see or hear in her life.

        “Katerina!” she heard Klaus yell, before she felt a gentle hand on the right side of her face. “What happened, luv?” she heard him ask her.

        “Tyler. He used our child’s blood to show me that she’s the key to making hybrids. The hybrid got out of control. They’re at the cabin,” she said softly.

        She felt herself being pulled into his arms, before she heard him say, “I’ve got you, luv. You’re safe now.” Then everything went black for her.





        While Katerina was out cold in her room in her bed at home, Klaus dealt with the issue of Tyler and his mistake, while Elijah sat on her bedside and rested a gentle hand on her left one, before silently looking down at her.





        When she came to, she saw that her hands hand been freed and she was on her back in her room in her bed. She then turned her head to see that Klaus was leaning against a wall. He had clearly been waiting for her to wake up. When he did realize she was awake, he sat on her bedside.

        “Thank you,” she said, looking up at him.

        “Anything for you, luv.”

        “What happened to Tyler?”

        “I sent him on his way. He’s not worth killing.”

        “Good. I wouldn’t want Caroline to hate you forever for killing him. Just so you know, I didn’t believe a word he said.”

        “Get some rest, Katerina,” he encouraged, before leaving the room.

        She watched him leave, as a feeling came over her. She realized that he wasn’t who he used to be, and that she was starting to care about him, no matter what he had done in the past.





        It was a beautiful day, as Klaus walked into the compound to be face to face with Marcel. Then, a moment later, there were vampires too.

        “What’s this?” Klaus questioned him.

        Marcel informed him of his intentions.

        “You think you can subdue me with this!” Klaus yelled at Marcel, before addressing the vamps. “Vampires of New Orleans, as you know, I am an Original hybrid. I cannot be killed! Now—” He took out a coin. “anyone that picks up this coin, gets to live.” He tossed it, but none of them made a move to pick it up. “Well then, come on!”

        Suddenly, chains were thrown onto his wrists.

        He looked at the vampires and then Marcel, as his vampire side tried to get free. All that he could was try though, because he couldn’t free himself. Not even when he let a little of his werewolf strength lose. And as he stood there, eyes yellow, glaring with hatred at Marcel, his mind raced with what he would do to him if he got out of this alive. He had lied to them that he couldn’t be killed, because a White Oak stake was the one thing that could kill him. They didn’t know that, though.





        Kat was wondering why Klaus hadn’t answered her calls and hadn’t come home for a while, so she went to investigate. And when she was about to pass the compound, she figured that he was probably there. So, being careful, she let herself into the compound, only to see the scene. He was definitely in danger.

        As she made her presence known, starting towards him, she yelled, “Stop!”

        Marcel turned around, only to get pinned to a wall with a knife to his throat.

        “Let him go.”

        “And why should I do that?”

        “Because when I’m determined, I’ll do anything to get what I want. Let him go or I will kill you.”

        “No need to threaten me, you know.”

        She took her Traveler knife away and headed over to Klaus, as Marcel told his guys, “Let him go.”

        They obeyed and she helped him get home.





        It was a beautiful day, as Davina used her magic on Marcel, Klaus, and Elijah, angry beyond comparison.

        “I’m tired of all your lies!” she yelled at Marcel.

        “And you pretend not to be a monster. Why don’t you show us what you really are?” she said to Klaus.

        “And you act all noble and caring, but you lied to me too. You’re a monster. Why don’t you choke on it?” she said to Elijah.

        As she used her magic on them, making Klaus start to phase wolf, Elijah choking on blood, and putting Marcel in pain, Kat suddenly came down the stairs, and stopped at the bottom of them.

        “Davina, stop!” she yelled, heading towards them.

        “Why should I? They deserve what they get.”

        “No. They don’t. Don’t make me stop you myself. I’m descended from Travelers, which means that I can stop you with my own magic. Now, stop. Please. I don’t want to hurt you.”

        Finally, Davina stopped.

        “Thank you,” Kat said.

        Davina gave her a glare, before walking away.





        When Klaus woke up, still in torment from the knife that was inside him, he recognized that he was in the epidemic hospital from 1918. Why he had been taken there, he wasn’t sure. He only knew that he was weak and hungry. That, and the torment was becoming unbearable. He didn’t even know how long he had been out for, much less how long he had been in the abandoned hospital. And all he could think of besides the torment was one; how Katerina and the child would survive if he didn’t get through this; two; what would become of Sweet Caroline if he wasn’t around to save her life; and three; would Elijah be enough protection for Katerina and the baby?





        “Katerina,” Elijah called to her from a room he had taken his shirt off in.

        She entered from the hallway, only to see him without his shirt on, for the first time in 500 years.

        She walked towards him.

        “What’s going on?”

        “Celeste is playing games with me. She has magically written witch names on my body, since I’m so determined to find out from her where she has Niklaus at.”

        “Then let’s get started,” she commented, wanting Klaus back. That, and she was the most experienced when it came to witches. Plus, over the last month, she and Klaus had fallen in love.

        Reading names of witches, she realized where Klaus was at.

        “It has to be the 1918 sanitarium.”

        “Are you sure?”

        “Yes. I know witches. Trust me.”

        “Stay here, Katerina. I don’t want you to get hurt.”

        He put his shirt and jacket back on, before leaving.





        Later that night, they had him home, knife out of him, and him in bed. It relieved them, because they didn’t want anything to happen to him. Even if he was a pain in the ass most days.





        It was a beautiful day, as Kat and Klaus continued their search for Elijah. It wasn’t good that he was MIA, because of all the killings of vampires they’d been having. They knew it was Papa doing it, because of the marks. He was bad news.





        When they found him, he looked desiccated, but wasn’t dead. He was an Original, so he was being Papa’s endless source of power.

        When they tried to get to him, they realized there was an invisible shield.

        “Bite me,” she told Klaus.

        “What?”

        “I’m descended from Travelers. My blood will let us through.”

        Seeing her point, he bit her and she let some of her blood drip onto the circle, before they tried again. It worked this time, and they got him home.





        Soon, Elijah was awake and went to get himself something to eat.





        It was a beautiful day as Elijah, Kat, and Klaus walked, on their way to enjoy the festival. By now, she was showing and around five months. She never complained though, because she was familiar with the feeling from the first time around.

        Suddenly, on the sidewalk and by a pole, she started to cough up blood. And she couldn’t stop. And then everything started to go black.

        As she started to collapse, Klaus was there and caught her. Then everything went black.

        A moment later, she saw that she was at the compound where they all lived at now, but it was different. Mikael was there.

        “No. I can’t be,” she said, realizing that she was dead, since she knew that Mikael was dead.

        “Oh, but you are, darling,” Mikael said.

        He grabbed her roughly.

        “You and that vermin?” he growled at her. “I thought you hated him just as much as I do.”

        “I did. I’m not sorry, Mikael. This is our chance for a new life.”

        “I don’t think so.”

        “How could you be so cruel to your son? To your family?"

        “He is not my son, and that creature inside you isn’t my family!”

        He threw her against a wall, but she was okay. He then grabbed a piece of wood and lunged at her with it, but she tapped into her Traveler magic, magically throwing it out of his hands, and throwing him against a wall.

        “How did you do that?” he asked.

        “I’m descended from Travelers. Now stay away from me and my family.”

        Suddenly, she was pulled out of the Other Side and was suddenly gasping, revived. She then saw that both Originals were at her side and Genevieve, a witch, was at her other side.





        Later that night, Klaus came into her room.

        She looked away from the window to see Klaus.

        “I want to show you something,” he said.

        She followed him into a room, which was a nursery.

        “It’s beautiful,” she said, smiling, before it disappeared.

        She looked at him.

        “When I died today, I saw Mikael. He tried to kill me.”

        “What did he say to you?”

        “Nothing that’s true. You’re different from what Mikael thinks of you as.”

        They gave each other smiles, before he left. She then went back into her room and looked up at the sky, wondering if her parents were watching her. She wondered if her mother approved or not.

        There was a knock on the open door.

        She turned around.

        “Come in, Elijah.”

        She gave him a smile and he smiled back, as he entered.

        “I’m glad you’re feeling well,” he greeted.

        “So am I.”

        She wrapped her arms around his neck.

        They looked at each other.

        “I love you too much to lose you like that,” he told her.

        “I love you, too,” she said.

        A moment later, they were kissing. And in that moment, she chose Elijah.

A/N: Silas comes to Katherine when the veil is taken down to the Other Side, when they need Quetsyiah’s help to find out how to get rid of Kai for good.



        It was a dark night in New Orleans, as Elijah Mikaelson sat in his house in a chair in his parlor. He had finally given up on Klaus after 1,000 years of being loyal to him. He had given up on him due to Gia’s death. Katerina had been right that night in Mystic Falls. Klaus was family, but he wasn’t worth it. As if thinking of her had summoned her, his doorbell rang and he could smell Katerina’s scent with the mixture of human. He hadn’t heard of any Mystic Falls news, so he didn’t know what to expect.

        When he opened the door, he immediately realized that she was human due to either taking the cure, or it being shoved down her throat. He knew that this meant that she needed help. It was the famous Katherine thing to do. Come for help and get that person accidentally or purposely screwed over. He didn’t have the heart to go back to chasing her again, so he wasn’t ready for this.

        “What do you want?” he asked, knowing she always wanted something.

        “I tried to kill Elena after we broke up, and this is what I get. I need your help. I need protection. Please, Elijah,” she summarized.

        He let her in, and then closed the door and faced her.

        “Why should I even help you? After everything you’ve done, maybe you deserve it,” he said, voicing his thoughts.

        “I’m human now. I have many enemies. Without protection, I’m dead,” she answered, surprised by his words. He had to be dealing with something personal to be like this towards her.

        “You’re always trouble, Katherine. Right now, I don’t have time for you, so do what you want.”

        He headed out the door, leaving her alone.

        She sighed, unhappy, and went upstairs to go take a bath. Hopefully, no one would try and kill her. Elijah probably wouldn’t be back until an hour or so later.





        Half an hour later, she had found his bathroom in the house, and had just filled the bathtub and turned it off, when she felt someone watching her.

        She turned around where she stood in front of the bathtub, only to face Silas.

        “Hello, Katherine.”

        She gasped in pain, when he put a hand around her throat, and she felt pain in her side. Then he through her, and she fell in and everything went blurry, when her head hit a corner of the tub. Then she tried to do everything possible to reach the surface, when she was held under, but she was finding it hard to breathe.





        Two hours later, after returning from the bar, and after he had cleared his head, he closed the door, only to smell the familiar scent of blood.

        “Katerina?” he called, just loud enough for her to hear.

        After a moment of silence, he began to worry about her. Something he hadn’t done in several centuries. Then, when he looked to the stairs, he saw the light on in the bathroom. Figuring she was probably there, he went up the stairs.

        Upon entering the bathroom, it was like history repeating for him. The love of his life in a bathtub. The difference was it wasn’t Klaus’ fault, she wasn’t a witch, and it looked like someone had drowned her and stabbed her, if the red water was any indication.

        No, he thought, and was instantly at the tub.

        He gently but quickly lifted her out of the water, and gently layed her down on the floor on her back. He then took his jacket off and pulled out the knife, before tossing it aside and using his jacket to apply pressure to her side wound, as he looked down at her and listened with vamp hearing. She was very pale with purple lips and blood on the right side of her head, and he couldn’t hear a heartbeat or her breathing.

        His heart broke, realizing she might really be gone. He had to do something, though. He couldn’t lose her of all people. So, he bent down and kissed her, giving her some air, trying to revive her.

        “Come on, Katerina. Come back to me. Breathe. I need you to breathe for me,” he said after ten minutes of nothing. He tried a few more times. “Now is not the time to be stubborn. You can’t leave me like this. We need each other. Please, Katerina.” He stopped and rested a hand on her cold, pale cheek. “I’m sorry, Katerina. Just come back. Don’t leave me. Please,” he pleaded.

        A moment later, eyes still closed, she began to cough up water. As she did, he took his hand away and sighed in relief.

        A few minutes later, after she had finished, she opened her eyes to blurrily see Elijah with a relieved face.

        “Elijah?” she said softly.

        “I’m here, Katerina,” he assured her.

        She gave a smile, as she fought to stay awake. Between blood loss, her wounds, and freezing, everything was starting to fade.

        He gently pulled her into his arms and bit his wrist, putting it to her lips.

        “Katerina, drink,” he instructed, in which she did.

        He pulled his wrist away from her lips, when she had had enough.

        Her wounds were soon healed, but he knew he had to get her into some dry clothes as cold as she was from the water. So, soon enough, she was in his bed, dressed, and in dry clothes.

        He closed the door, glad to have been able to save her. If she died, he didn’t know what pieces of him would be left. Almost losing her tonight had made him see how much he was still in love with her. He had to protect her, and he would.

Summary: Set in Originals S2-ish. Kat comes to town, only for Marcel to run across her and kidnap her due to her past of disobeying his rule of not killing vampires or locals. When Elijah finds out what Marcel has done though, he goes to the rescue. Can he get her to Freya in enough time to save her, or is he too late this time around?

A/N: Got this idea from watching my "Hold On" kalijah music vid I did a while back.



        It was a dismal night in New Orleans, as Katherine walked through town, having a backbone to be brave enough to be in the same town as Marcel and Klaus. Klaus may be vicious at times, but she knew he wouldn't actually harm her as long as Elijah didn't want him to, which would last forever, she knew. However, Marcel was a different story. She'd left a few centuries ago after she'd disobeyed one of Marcel's rules. She'd fed on and killed a local, but also, when he'd yelled at her for it, she'd given him the punishment of killing one of his vampires. Then, before Marcel could carry out the punishment for doing that, she'd left town, not wanting Damon to know she was alive yet. She'd known that he was heading to New Orleans, so she'd left to stay under the radar. Because of what she'd done, she knew that Marcel saw her as an enemy. As long as he saw her as that, she saw him the same way. The difference now though, was that she couldn't really defend herself against a vampire as a human. She liked being human after adjusting to it for a while, but sometimes, when it came to the supernatural world, being human sucked.

        She stopped walking when she was by some parked cars, feeling like she was being watched. 

        "You know, human or not, I can tell you're there," she said, though she didn't know who it was. Then, when she felt a presence, she turned around to see Marcel. 

        "Long time no see, Katherine."

        "Marcel," she replied. 



Loving and fighting

Accusing and denying

I can't imagine a world with you gone

The joy and the chaos

The demons we're made of

I'd be so lost if you left me alone



        When Elijah found out the next day what Marcel had done, he wasted no time and slaughtered all the vampires he could and kicked Marcel's ass. 



You locked yourself in the bathroom

Lying on the floor when I break through

I pull you and feel your heartbeat

Can you hear me screaming please don't leave me?

Hold on I still want you

Come back I still need you

Let me take you and I'll make you right

I swear I'll love you all my life

Hold on I still need you

Long in this hallway, silent beside me, driving a nightmare I can't escape from

Helpless and praying

The light isn't fading

Hiding the shock and the chill in my bones



        After he'd dealt with them all at the docks at one of the warehouses that had a couple rooms, he opened the door, rushing in, and blurred to her. He could easily see the damage done. She was quite injured, but he hoped he could get her to Freya in time. He couldn't lose her of all people, but knew she was slipping through his fingers. She was barely breathing.

        After getting her untied, he gently picked her up and blurred her towards the compound. 

        Stay with me, Katerina. Please, don't leave me, he thought to himself, as he blurred home. 



They took you away on a table

I pace back and forth as you lay still

They pull you and feel your heartbeat

Can you hear me screaming please don't leave me?

Hold on I still want you

Come back I still need you

Let me take you and I'll make you right

I swear I'll love you all my life



        Half an hour later, Elijah rushed into the compound and gently layed her down on the table. 

        "Freya!"

        When she heard her name, it didn't take long for her to come into the room and see what was wrong. 

        "What happened?" she questioned, as she worked on tending to her wounds.

        "Marcel," he answered. 

        After his reply, Freya was inwardly furious, but held it in for a later date. Katherine was what mattered right now. She needed saved, but she'd lost so much blood, she wasn't sure if she would make it. 



Hold on I still need you

I don't wanna let go

I know I'm not that strong

I just wanna hear you say baby let's go home

Let's go home

Yeah I just wanna take you home

Hold on I still want you

Come back I still need you



        After about half an hour, between Freya's healing and Rebekah restoring the blood she'd lost, Kat lived to see another day. She and Elijah even got back together.

        I feel something soft, as I’m lying on my back somewhere. I don’t know where I am right now and everything’s silent. The last thing I remember is being swept into oblivion, or whatever that black mass was. I thought I’d end up in hell, but I don’t feel like I’m surrounded by fire and there’s all the silence. Unless I’m just in my own hell. I don’t want to be in any kind of hell, though. I had enough hell when Damon got inside my head and tried to torment me when I was dying as a human. I know he hates me, but I was trying so hard to be a better person. Nadia, my daughter, and Stefan, Damon’s brother, were the only ones that saw that. Stefan even tried to give me peace before I died, while Nadia tried to save me. In the end, Nadia and I died in peace. Now I’m here, wherever here is.

        I open my eyes and slowly sit up in bed.

        I look around and see that I’m in a bedroom.

        I get to my feet and go to the window and look out it.

        For a few minutes, I’m silent, once I see what it looks like. I don’t know what to think. It looks like I’m still in Mystic Falls, but it’s different. The cars and houses I can see look abandoned. Curious, I decide to investigate. So, I leave the house and take a walk.





        I stop walking to pick up the newspaper on Elena’s old lawn. And when I do, I see that the date is October 5, 2009. The day I turned Caroline Forbes into a vampire. That was a gift I gave her, so I figure I’m not in my own hell. I made her a better person by turning her. If I’m not in hell, then where am I?

        I drop the newspaper and continue walking.

        I stop walking, seeing someone standing not far from me, looking at me.

        I smile, as she approaches me.

        “Long time no see, Katherine. You’re probably wondering where you are, but it doesn’t matter. What matters is getting you out of here. Davina’s doing a spell as we speak. You’re needed in New Orleans. Esther, Mikael, and Finn have risen and are plotting against Klaus, Elijah, Hayley, Kol, Davina, Cami, and Marcel. Rebekah is returning with Hope. Hope needs protected. She was born a witch as well as a hybrid. Every enemy in the French Quarter think she’s dead, but they’ll soon find out the truth. You’re the only one I could think of that could help. You know what it’s like to lose a daughter. You also know the Mikaelsons very well. Help them. Please,” she says to me.

        “You’re right. Don’t worry. I’ll save Hope and help them the best I can,” I assure Sophie Deveraux. She’s an old friend and I want to respect her wishes.

        A moment later, I find myself in a mausoleum with a teenage witch. She’s probably Davina.

        “Welcome back to the land of the living,” she greets.

        “Thanks. Nice to meet you, Davina. I’d love to get to know you, but I have somewhere to be,” I reply, before walking out, not letting her say anything else.





        Before I know it, I’m at the Mikaelson family home.

        I walk in just as Klaus says, “To go get our daughter.”

        Before he and Hayley can go anywhere, I walk inside.

        A moment later, Klaus has me pinned to a wall.

        “Katerina,” he growls. “What are you doing here? You’re supposed to be dead.”

        “And you’re supposed to be going with Hayley to get Hope. Don’t worry. I pose no threat to her. Cliff notes is that I did die, but not for long. Sophie told me what’s going on and that she wants me to help. I promised her I would, so don’t kill me yet. Besides, I know what it’s like to lose a daughter, one way or another. I’m here to help protect her and help you defeat Esther and Mikael. So swallow that ego of yours and learn to trust me.”

        He lets go of me and I look at them both.

        “Let’s go fetch Hope and Rebekah. I’m not staying alone here and you’re the best protection in the world, apart from Hayley and Elijah, of course.”

        “I don’t think my brother will be much company or of use. Esther did something to him. Now he has killed a bar full of humans.”

        “Then I’ll bring him back from the deep end. He would never hurt me, no matter what I am or what I do,” I inform him.





        Soon, we arrive at the bar and I can see why Klaus is so clearly worried. So, once I tell Rebekah the cliff notes, we head back.





        Once Klaus has him on his own bed and has gone, I silently sit on his bedside, hand in his, waiting for him to come to. Rebekah didn’t know what else to do, so she broke his neck.





        An hour later, he awakes to see me.

        I smile.

        “Katerina?” he questions with one hand on the side of my face. “Is that really you?”

        “It is. I’m not a hallucination. I’ve come to help you and to help take down your parents.”

        “You’re human. What has happened to you?” he asks.

        “Long story,” I reply, before giving him the cliff notes.

        “Forgive me, Katerina. I would’ve helped if I had known.”

        “I forgave you on my deathbed. Don’t tell Klaus you know. I understand why he didn’t tell you. You would’ve dropped everything here to try and save me, and he needs you to stay here with him,” I say.

        We smile at each other in understanding and forever and eternal love.





        Soon, the Mikaelson’s parents are defeated and Finn is in a coffin for punishment, so all is well. Rebekah and Hope even come home for good. And Elijah and I even get back together, so I stay and Hayley and I become friends. I finally get my happy ending.

According to you

I'm stupid

I'm useless

I can't do anything right



*England 1492*



        It was a beautiful day, as Katerina ran through the woods, Elijah and other people in search of her. They were following what Klaus wanted. Bring her to him alive in time for the ritual so he could become the hybrid. 

        She tripped over a twig and looked up to see Trevor. 

        "Please. I can't run anymore," she begged. 

        She stood and he gave her the moonstone. 

        "There's a cabin not far from here. Show her this and tell her I sent you. Go. I can't hold them off much longer."

        She did as she was told and Rose let her in. 

        After she was fed and had had water, she was put in a room. 

        Soon, Trevor came, and he and Rose had an argument, Rose wanting to take her back to Klaus, Trevor wanting to save her. 

        While they argued, Katerina hung herself with Rose's blood in her system, and later woke up in transition on the bed. 

        "Why did you do it? I would've helped you escape," Trevor said. 

        "No. You would've helped me run, and that wouldn't have been enough," she replied. 

        "Don't you see? She used your love for her to get what she wanted," Rose said. 

        Rose tried to stake her, but Kat put the old woman in front of her, and Rose accidentally staked the owner of the cabin.

        "I'm sorry. Forgive me," Katerina said to Trevor, before feeding. She then tossed the body to Rose, and fled. 



*Bulgaria 1492*



According to you

I'm difficult

Hard to please

Forever changing my mind

I'm a mess in a dress

Can't show up on time

Even if it would save my life

According to you

According to you



        It was a dark night, as Katerina arrived at her village on horseback, only to see her entire village had been slaughtered. Fearing the worst, she ran inside where she had lived with her family, only to see her father hanging from a wall with a sword through his chest. Then she saw her mother on the bed with her throat torn open. 

        She cried over her mother for what felt like hours, until she couldn't cry anymore. Then she fled to stay far away from Klaus. 



*1492 Ball*



But according to him

I'm beautiful

In credible

He can't get me out of his head

According to him

I'm funny

Irresistible

Everything he ever wanted

Everything is opposite

I don't feel like stopping it



        It was a beautiful night, as she and Elijah danced, enjoying each other's company. Dancing with him in the dress he had given her, made her happy for once. She could tell that he was happy, too. 



*Pennsylvania*



So baby tell me what I got to lose

He's into me for everything I'm not

According to you



        "I've missed you," he told her, as they stood by a gazebo that day. 

        She smiled. 

        "As have I."

        He kissed her, and she kissed back.



*Mystic Falls Mikaelson Mansion*



According to you

I'm boring

I'm moody

You can't take me any place

According to you

I suck at telling jokes 'cause I always give it away

I'm the  girl with the worst attention span

You're the boy who puts up with that

According to you



        It was a dark night, as they looked at each other. He had just said that he was leaving to go help Klaus in New Orleans. 

        "Elijah, please. It's our turn."

        He kissed her on the forehead.

        "Goodbye, Katerina."

        A moment later, he had vanished from sight. 



*New Orleans Compound*



According to you

I need to feel appreciated

Like I'm not hated

Oh...no...

Why can't you see me through this eyes?

It's too bad you're making me decide

According to you



        Klaus pinned her against a wall and growled. 

        "Do not lie to me, Katerina!"

        "Temper, temper."

        She smirked at him.

Introduction



        There is a story of two vampires. One, Katerina who later was known as Katherine. The other, Elijah who was very loyal to his family but loved her all the same. Their love reached to an epic level of compassion, loyalty, trust, betrayal, lies, deceit, and forgiveness. He had so much faith that he could find his Katerina behind what he called “this Katherine façade.” He had so much faith and trust in her, but he found himself second guessing his loyalty to her. By 2013, he didn’t know whether to trust her or not. She kept doing things that made him second guess whether he could still trust her or not. He still loved her, though. He would always love her. She loved him too, but she had lied and ran for so long to survive, that she didn’t know who she was when they first met back in England in 1492. She told him that she wanted to find out, though. She even trusted him with something called the cure for vampirism. The last that they had seen of each other after that was when he said goodbye to her and kissed her on the forehead, saying “goodbye, Katerina.” He felt that he had to leave, because he had to help his younger brother, Klaus, deal with some witches in New Orleans. He chose his family over the girl that he had loved for 500 years, and would love forever more. Little did he know what would ensue once he had left Mystic Falls. This is their epic story.

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        Elijah was born a human to Mikael and Esther Mikaelson in the tenth century in the New World, later named Mystic Falls, Virginia. He was the eldest of his siblings after his elder brother died. His other siblings were Finn, Kol, Henrik, Niklaus, and Rebekah. He calls Niklaus his brother, though they are only half-brothers. Niklaus was born a werewolf, because of their mother, Esther, having an affair with a werewolf and getting pregnant with Klaus.

        When they were kids and still human, Elijah took Klaus into the woods to teach him how to hunt. He encouraged him, telling him that his aim with the bow is improving. Mikael snatched it from Klaus though, and scolded him for encouraging Klaus. When he snatched the bow away, he told Klaus that he wasn’t man enough to hold a weapon. Klaus apologized, but Mikael started to beat him. Elijah tried to stop him, but was scared off when Mikael threatened that he’d be next if he intervened.

        For twenty years, they lived among werewolves. During the full moon, the humans would hide in underground caves while the wolves turned. During Elijah’s early life, Elijah and Klaus fell in love with a girl named Tatia who lived in their village. All the villagers wanted to be her suitors including Elijah and Klaus, both of them during their time with her, argued with each other and fought each other because they both wanted her for themselves. Tatia couldn’t decide between the two of them.

        When Mikael found Klaus making chess toys with his hunting knife, he whipped and beat Klaus so bad that his siblings feared for his life. Elijah tried to stop him, but he pushed Elijah away and continued to punish Klaus until Rebekah came in with a sword and wanted his abuse of Klaus to end. Mikael got furious at them for choosing Klaus over their own father and then grabbed the sword and left the three of them. One night, Rebekah had had enough of Mikael’s abuse towards Klaus, so she took his knife and intended to kill him in his sleep, but Elijah came and took it from her and sent her away before leaving and then going to sleep himself.

        One morning after a full moon, Niklaus came out of the woods, holding his dead brother Henrik in his arms. Elijah came running to join his mother as she grieved Henrik’s death. To ensure that the rest of her family would survive, Esther used a spell called the Immortality spell, since she was a very powerful witch. Mikael gave them wine laced with blood from Tatia, but they didn’t know that until after the spell was complete. Then he stabbed Elijah and his siblings and made them drink human blood. After becoming a vampire, Elijah, along with his family, made sure that the White Oak tree, the one true thing that would ultimately kill them, would be destroyed.

        Shortly after becoming a vampire, one night when Klaus made his first human kill, it triggered his werewolf side. Elijah and Mikael ran to Klaus and discovered the truth about him. Mikael and Elijah then shortly ran away before it got worse. Mikael then forced his wife to make his werewolf side dormant. Mikael also made Elijah help him tie Klaus up so that his mother could do the spell. Then one night, Esther was killed by “Mikael.” After burying her Elijah, Klaus, and Rebekah promised that they would never turn their backs on each other, and that they would stick together as one, always and forever.

        In Italy in 1114, Elijah was with Klaus and Rebekah. They came across a vampire hunter by the name of Alexander who was part of a group called The Five. Rebekah fell in love with Alexander. Elijah and Klaus took advantage as an opportunity to get closer to Alexander and find out his secrets. One day, the siblings were invited to a party at Alexander’s home where they were attacked by surprise and daggered. Klaus was unaffected because of his werewolf lineage and undaggered the rest of his siblings except Finn.

        In 1359, Elijah began to notice that Rebekah and Klaus were losing their humanity. However, as their older brother, he believed that he could lead them down the right path to reclaim their humanity and carry on the family legacy. But he believed if he failed, their family legacy would fall in ruins.

        During the 15th century, Katerina Petrova was born into a wealthy Bulgarian family on June 5th, 1473. In 1490, when she was about 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 but later fell in love with his elder brother Elijah.

        In England in 1492, Elijah and Klaus were noblemen in the late fifteenth century. Elijah met Katerina Petrova, who was the doppelganger of Tatia and moments later, showed her to Klaus. Katerina was the key to breaking Klaus’ Hybrid Curse through sacrifice. While he was helping Klaus to achieve his goal, he started to fall in love with Katerina. And when Elijah one day saw Katerina bored, he took her outside to have fun and then they sat on a bench and talked about love. Elijah confessed to her that he didn’t believe in love, but Katerina didn’t believe him, saying that without love, they wouldn’t have a reason to live at all. Klaus then came and interrupted, taking Katerina with him and away from Elijah. Elijah then tried to persuade Klaus to spare her life, but Klaus told him not to bother and that the ritual would go on as planned. On the night of the full moon, Katerina took the moonstone and fled with the help of Trevor. Klaus assumed Elijah had helped her because of their discussion the night before about sparing her life. Elijah promised him that he would find her and Klaus responded with a promise of his own, if he did not find Katerina, he would be killed, which meant that he would end up with a dagger in his chest and spending about a century or two in a box. Elijah attempted to track down Katerina, but failed.

        In 1492, when Katerina returned to Bulgaria after running from fleeing from Klaus and turning into a vampire to do so, she arrived on horseback to see her entire village, including her family slaughtered. She knew that it had to be Klaus that had done it. When she ran to her home, she saw that her father had a sword through his chest and was hanging from the wall, while her mother was on the bed with her throat torn out. She went to the bed and cried over her mother’s body, before fleeing from her home.

        In 1498, Katerina went back to Bulgaria in search of her long lost baby girl who was eight at the time, searching every single village. She couldn’t find her though, so she left.

        In the 1700’s, they fled from the New World from Mikael and sailed down the Mississippi river and arrived in New Orleans, 300 years from the present. Upon arriving off the coast of New Orleans, they slaughtered all the men who boarded their ship, but left one alive to question and carry their luggage, including the two coffins that held their daggered brothers, Kol and Finn. Elijah requested that man to find more help with the luggage and told him in a sarcastic way, “My sincere apologies.”

        In 1720, Katherine killed a man outside the French Court of Versaille. Her daughter was in search of her mother and was a vampire at this time. She offered to pay a man who witnessed Katherine kill a man, telling him that she’s been on the run for 228 years.

        In the 1800’s Elijah, Klaus, and Rebecca were living at the Governor’s mansion in New Orleans and paid him to keep quiet about the existence of vampires. One day the Governor threw a part for them. Rebekah went upstairs with the Governor’s son who she wanted to turn. Elijah was kissing a woman and having fun when Rebekah came to him with the Governor’s son and asked if Elijah would turn him, to which Elijah suggested would be a unwise move to turn the Governor’s son into a vampire. Klaus told her no and told her that if they turned every boy she fell in love with, the humans would cease to exist. The boy then argued with Klaus and he threw him down the stairs while Elijah tried to stop it. While they were going to attend the Governor’s son’s funeral, Klaus saw a boy being whipped and threw an apple at the man and made him stop whipping him. Klaus then came to the boy, named him Marcellus and brought him to his family. Elijah saw this and commented to Rebekah, “Perhaps there is hope for our brother after all.”

        Later in 1820, Elijah visited a witch, Celeste, who was taking a bath and looking at Elijah. Celeste mentioned that his brother is up to no good. He challenged her as if they had a fair fight. He then said, “I do grow weary of sacrificing my joy to temper my brother’s mischief. Surely, you can cast a spell to put him in his place.” But she mentioned that it would take 100 witches to put him in place. Elijah then mentioned that his brother certainly needs a little discipline, and jokes that maybe a spanking of some kind is in order. And told her that he thinks he shall need some rehearsal. They then both kissed before he left to meet his brother.

        When Elijah met his brother, he was challenging a man to a duel and soon was left standing as the victor and the other man was shot in the head. Elijah then became worried and said, “Brother! Please, this is high folly.” He then asked Klaus if it was enough, that he had slaughtered dozens in just these past weeks, and explained a word of a city littered with bodies would surely travel the oceans. He then asked his brother if he wanted to bring their father upon them. Klaus told him to relax, and that he sent rumor that the bodies were result of the witches seeking blood sacrifices for their rituals. Elijah then was a little shocked and said, “You did what?” He asked Klaus if he had forgotten that Celeste was one of those that he recklessly pointed his finger at. Klaus then asked who Celeste was. Elijah then gave Klaus a meaningful look and Klaus remembered the witch Elijah had been knocking around with. Klaus then told him, “Well, fear not. Harlots are like rats in the quarter. You trip over one every step you take.” Elijah then took his revolver out and shot Klaus. Klaus saw that Elijah cared about Celeste and warned that they were rounding up the witches as they were speaking. Elijah began to look for Celeste and found her lying in the bathtub, dead and blamed himself for her death.

        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 1882, 52 years after being daggered by Klaus, Rebekah had finally been undaggered by him. Elijah helped her reintegrate herself into New Orleans society and they went to the opera house together. It was a moment that only they shared together.

        In 1919, Elijah was in a meeting room with members from the Guerrera crime family, a werewolf crime family who were almost as the monsters they turned into on a full moon according to Klaus. Elijah told them that Mayor O’Connell was a little late but they would continue with business without him. Klaus then appeared and told his brother that he enjoyed these illicit, little gatherings. Elijah assured them that they didn’t need to be afraid of Klaus as he made a promise they would be safe and Klaus told them that his brother always kept his word. Then a witch appeared and Elijah told him it was a private meeting. The witch said it was a meeting between kings and that he was also a king and he had rules. He talked for the witches of the New Orleans Coven and that his name was Alphonz Bellatunde Delgallo. He told them the witches should get a fair share left with a gift to Elijah and Klaus, which was the Mayor’s head. Later when Marcel Gerard returned home from World War 1, he was greeted both by Elijah and Klaus. Klaus told Marcel, “The Prodigal son has finally learned to hold his liquor.” Marcel said that being in the army did that to you. Elijah said that it was good to have him back and told him that Niklaus was beside himself in Marcel’s absence. Klaus then told him that he and Elijah had had an argument that Marcel might be able to with a rouge witch who wanted a piece of the city they built. Klaus considered killing him and Elijah meant that negotiation was their best course, as Elijah knew how fast news could travel, but also the horrors of war itself. Klaus revealed that he invited the witch and Elijah told Marcel he could choose what they should do after he saw the witch. Elijah tried negotiation with him but after all his sacrifices, Elijah decided to meet with him in a private room. However, Klaus appeared instead as Elijah only came when they dealed, and Klaus came when the deal was closed.

        Later that year, Elijah met Clara Summerlin at the bar, while Genevieve and Rebekah were talking about Klaus and Elijah, looking at them from a distance off. Genevieve told her that she liked Klaus and Rebekah started to talk about Elijah. Clara, at that time, was possessed by Celeste, but no one knew that. She spilled her drink and Elijah gave her a tissue and left her with a smile.

        Six months later, Elijah and Klaus were with a werewolf named Lana who was the Queen of the Crescent Wolf Clan. Klaus talked of how werewolves, vampires, and witches and dirty cops were happy as clams and drunk as stoats. Elijah told him of the two new Era-collaboration in the face of prohibition. Elijah gave them drinks of shots and they all drunk. Elijah hugged Klaus and told him who would have thought it possible for the unification in New Orleans? Klaus grasped his shoulder and Elijah put an arm around his shoulder and whirled him around to overlook the scene before him. Elijah said, “Oh, certainly we worked together, Niklaus, this vision; this was all you.” Elijah and Klaus sat drank until they saw Rebekah and Marcel come. Klaus knew they were a pair. Elijah told him not to cause trouble, but to his surprise, Klaus allowed them to be together and sat with Elijah.

        The next day, Elijah entered Klaus’ room and saw Lana and joked of him sleeping with the enemy who was now their ally. Klaus told Elijah they got tickets to the opera house and asked to tell Rebekah to bring Marcel with her. Elijah then left them.

        When Elijah was getting ready for the opera, Mikael visited him and told him he saw the Le Grand Guignol piece in Venus. Elijah was shocked seeing him and Mikael told him, he only wished to talk. Elijah told him that he had hunted them for centuries and laid waste to half of Europe. Mikael corrected him that he only hunted Klaus and never his true children. He told him Elijah’s his blood and that he’s proud to call him his son. Mikael then asked him to help him kill Klaus. Elijah in rage attacked him only to be thrown against the wall. Elijah then told him that if he thought Elijah would betray Klaus for him, then he was a fool without equal. Mikael then told him that he’d forgive Elijah for his love for his brother, but told him that he needed to realize as he once did, when he learned that his mother had laid with a beast to beget. He told Elijah, “Niklaus is an abomination. You do not talk to abominations. You do not reason with them. Do not try to change them. You ERASE THEM.” Mikael then showed him the White Oak stake. Elijah tried to stop him but Mikael forced him against the wall and told him that either he stands with him or fall with Klaus. After Elijah chose Klaus, Mikael staked him with a normal wooden stake. After Elijah was awake, he rushed to the opera house and saw Mikael at the stage as he was feeding from Marcel. Elijah urged his siblings to flee the scene and Mikael then burned down the opera house and continued to hunt for his children. Elijah, Klaus, and Rebekah were a few blocks away. Elijah told Klaus and Rebekah to flee while he delayed Mikael for a brief time.

        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.

        When everyone knew that Katherine was in town, 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.

        In 2010 in Mystic Falls, Elijah came to collect Elena, the present day doppelganger, but did not succeed. He did however; succeed in killing Trevor for him helping Katerina all those years ago. He spared Rose though, believing that killing Trevor was punishment enough for her, since she had loved Trevor very much. Then, later on, he made a deal with Elena that he wouldn’t harm her or her family, in exchange in making a plan to kill Klaus. Then, in the tomb, he compelled Katherine to stay there, but she was freed from the tomb when Alaric Saltzman daggered Elijah during desert. Elijah was going to go through with killing Klaus, but couldn’t since Klaus told him that he knew where his siblings were and that he’d never find them if he killed him.

        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.

        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 Rebekah, his only sister.

        In 2012, Elijah found out that their mother planned to kill them all and that Elena had lied to him. So, he made a plan to undo the binding spell that Esther had put in motion. He and his siblings afterward, except for Kol, tried to kill Esther but failed. Before Esther was able to make Ric into a weapon later on, it was Ric who succeeded in killing her. In the end though, Ric died and everyone was left devastated.

        In 2013, Elijah went to meet Katherine in New York, but was tricked by Elena. It took him just a few seconds to realize that it was Elena. Later, when he and Katherine met up, she was going to make a deal for him to help her use the cure for her freedom from Klaus. By now, they had rekindled their relationship that they had had when they had first met centuries ago. Through his affection for her, he helped her, but when he found out by Elena that she had killed Jeremy, he got upset about her lies. Katherine tried to explain herself, but Elijah’s distrust of her made it hard for him to go along with her plans. She finally gave him the cure though, proving herself to him and telling him that she truly did love him. She just had lied so many times and ran for so long that she didn’t remember who she had been when they first met. She said she wanted to find out, though. She said that she trusted him and she liked to think that he felt something for her too and that she wanted him to trust her like she trusted him.

        In 2014, Elijah last saw Katherine as a vampire still, when she was at the Mikaelson mansion speaking to him. He told her that he had to go to New Orleans to help Klaus with some witches. She told him “Please, Elijah,” asking for him to stay. He said, “Good-bye, Katerina” and kissed her forehead, before he went to New Orleans. And that is the last that he has seen or heard of Katherine. He never checked in with her, because of everything that he has been through in New Orleans, trying to establish peace amongst the factions and later, fighting a war against the vampires and werewolves alongside Klaus.

        After Elijah left town, Katherine and Elena had a fight in the high school hallway and Katherine tried to kill her, so Elena shoved the cure down her throat. Then everyone tried to figure out why Silas wanted Katherine for. And when he came to town, Katherine met up with her daughter, Nadia Petrova who was the one to fill her in. Apparently, since Katherine was human, the cure was still inside her and Silas needed the cure, so he could die and join the Other Side to be with his love from centuries ago. Amara.

        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 Qetsiyah 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.

Here we are out here, me and you

Reaching out to each other

Is all that we can do

Here we stand trying not to fall

There’s no need to worry

Love will conquer all



        It was a dismal night at the Mikaelson place, as a human Kat fought against Julian. To avoid him from harming the Salvatores, she’d lured him here. She’d always loved Damon, but Elijah was the one for her. She didn’t want them dead, so her plan was to get rid of Julian. Just in case she failed though, she’d brought him here. She knew Elijah wouldn’t fail. He was an Original, after all. That, and if Julian killed her, she knew he’d rip Julian’s heart out.

        After half an hour of fighting, Julian rammed the sword into her, killing her, which Elijah arrived in enough time to see.

        “No!”

        Elijah immediately blurred towards him and, before Julian could pull the sword out of her to use it on Elijah, Elijah ripped his heart out.

        Elijah pulled the sword out of her and tossed it to the floor. He then knelt at her side and gently pulled her into his arms.

        “Katerina,” was all he could say.

        He looked down at her in grief, but after a few minutes, he composed himself, not letting himself break down. He had to get her out of the Phoenix stone. Having found out about Freya through Rebekah and Klaus in New Orleans, he called Freya, needing her help.

        Once he told her everything, she agreed to help, and left town to go to Mystic Falls.

        Elijah gently layed her down on the kitchen table and awaited her arrival.



Do you really want to know

Just how long we’ll last

Will all of the bad times pass?

How can we make things right?

Ooh and why, why is the world so unkind?



        Meanwhile, Kat woke up to find herself in the cabin the night her parents were slaughtered by Klaus.

        She got to her feet, realizing this. She wouldn’t give in to whatever it wanted to do to her. Besides, she already knew what happened to them was partly her fault, but also partly Klaus’ fault. She’d ran, and he’d slaughtered them.

        She turned around to leave, only to see her father.

        “It’s all your fault, Katerina. Everyone you cared about died because of you. You killed your family. You killed Pearl and Anna. You killed your friends. You killed Emily. You killed your parents. All of our deaths are on your hands.”

        “No,” she denied. “I was doing what I had to to survive.”

        “You lost yourself along the way, Katerina. You say that, so you don’t have to feel guilty for getting your friends and family killed. You need something, so you can sleep at night, so you tell yourself that, because the truth is too painful. Everything you touch dies.”

        She couldn’t deny the part about losing herself and that she’d killed people. She’d lost herself. She’d even killed some she didn’t have to kill. She’d thought at the time though, that she was doing what she had to. Survival had been everything to her. Her father was wrong about Pearl and Anna, though. She hadn’t had any hand in killing them. That had been just John.

        “You’re wrong,” she denied, disagreeing with the parts that were wrong. Then she left the cabin.

        A moment later, she was in Mystic Falls at the Mikaelson place. She recognized what was happening. This was when he’d chosen between her and Klaus. In reality, he’d chosen her, but this was another version.

        She watched, as Elijah walked away. Then he was gone, and Damon was suddenly there.

        Damon approached her.

        “My love was never enough for you, was it? Now you’ve lost the one person that would’ve done anything for you. You hurt everyone around you. You’ll never change, Katherine. You ruined me and neither of us can take that back.”

        “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to hurt you. I was trying to protect you. Elijah would never leave and I’m not naive. I know that I’ve hurt people. I have regrets. I wish I could’ve been there for you, but I was different as a vampire. I can’t take back the bad I did, but as a human, I get a second chance. I have my true love and I’ve already changed. I always loved you, but Elijah has always been the one.” She rested a hand on the side of his face. “I’m so sorry, Damon.” She put her hand down.

        “Then prove that you regret everything and let go. I’ll help you find liberation. Let go of everything holding you back from being who you really are, deep down.”

        “Never,” she stubbornly replied.

        “You’ll break soon enough, Katherine. It’s just a matter of time.”



We surely can find peace of mind

If we only see the light

Can’t you see that?

Can somebody tell me why?

Why do our dreams go wrong?

Why can’t we all get along?

Oh where did we start?

Oh and tell me when

When will we ever learn

There’s nowhere else we can turn

The truth is in our hearts

Here we are together



        Meanwhile, Freya and Elijah were by the table he’d layed her on.

        Elijah silently watched, as she did what she could to bring her back. It had to be as soon as possible, since she hadn’t dealt with a lot of things she’d done. He knew she had regrets, but things she’d done and that she’d had to go through, she hadn’t dealt with it, apart from when his brother had killed her family. She’d always ignored her past, instead of dealing.



Sometimes the road gets hard to travel

Sometimes the pain’s too much to bare

Sometimes when life seems to unravel

That’s the time oh to say

We’re gonna make it anyway

Can’t you see that?



        After a few hours, Freya finally got her magically back into her body.





        When Katherine woke up, she was in her and Elijah’s room, Elijah seated on her bedside.

        She sat up.

        “You did it.”

        He rested a hand on the side of her face.

        “Of course, Katerina.”

        They smiled at each other and then kissed.

        Caroline and Elena were downstairs by a table talking about the fact that Caroline had had sex with Klaus in the woods, when Tyler came down the stairs and overheard.

        “Oh, my God,” Elena said, seeing Tyler.

        Caroline turned to see Tyler.

        He gave her a look, before walking away through a crowd of people.

        Caroline watched him go until she couldn’t see him anymore. She then left Elena to take care of the mess she had just made.

        When she found him, he was in a room drinking, clearly drunk and emotionally hurt. He had his back turned to her, standing in front of a table.

        “Get out.”

        She took a step towards him.

        “Just let me explain,” she pleaded.

        “No. Let me. Klaus killed thousands of people. Elena’s aunt, an entire pack of hybrids; my friends! Caroline, he killed my mom!”

        She took another step.

        “I know. I know. I am so sorry.”

        He through the empty shot glass at the wall and turned around to face her.

        “Just stop. I walked out last time. Now it’s your turn.”

        She was standing less than a foot away from him now and took another step.

        “No.”

        “Don’t take another step, Caroline!” he yelled.

        “If you would just—,"she started, but he cut her off.

        “I said leave!” he yelled with a growl, going all hybrid face on her.

        A moment later, both realized that he had accidentally bitten her.

        She looked at him in fear.

        His face was back to normal now.

        “Care…”

        “Don’t,” she said, as she felt the venom.

        Katherine walked in, having overheard, and so wanted to slap him, but refrained from doing so.

        “Nice going. Now she really needs Klaus,” she said to him, before putting a hand on her upper left arm, guiding her out. “Let’s get you to Klaus,” she said, as she guided her out.





        Three hours later, she entered New Orleans, Caroline out cold with a cool wet washcloth on her forehead, dying, Katherine driving her SUV as fast as she could. Luckily, she had already been ready to visit New Orleans, before Caroline had been bitten by her ex.





        As soon as she parked in front of the cemetery where Hayley had told her he was, she took the cloth off and set it on the dashboard. She hated leaving her, but she had to.

        “I’ll be right back. Don’t die on me.”

        She rushed into the cemetery and searched for Klaus.

        “Rebekah!” she heard him call out.

        She followed his and Elijah’s voices.

        When she caught sight of them, she walked briskly towards them.

        “You’re gonna wanna postpone your sibling rivalry. She needs you,” she said to Klaus.

        Both brothers looked at her.

        “Katerina?” Elijah questioned.

        “Who?” Klaus asked, though he had a good guess who it was.

        “Caroline. She’s in my car.”

        He followed her to the entrance and Kat, knowing he couldn’t leave the cemetery, went to Caroline’s side. She opened the door and put an arm around her, getting her to her feet, using her body weight to hold her up.

        Once he could get to her, he took her from Katerina. He layed her down on the ground and knelt by her, pulling her gently into his arms and biting his wrist, putting his wrist to her lips, making his blood go down her throat.

        Kat walked over to Elijah.

        “Whatever’s going on in Klaus’ head, you should probably get Rebekah out of here as far as possible, while he’s wrapped up in saving her life,” she said, before going into the place that the witches hung out at, because of the cemetery being filled with their dead ancestors.

        “Sophie?” she called, as she walked inside.

        The witch came in from a room.

        “Katherine.”

        “I need you to do a favor for me,” she told her.

        “That depends on what it is.”

        “I need you to find a spell that will stop me from dying faster than a normal human. My doppelganger shoved the cure down my throat when I tried to kill her. I was mad, and I took it out on her. There has to be a way that you can help me. I’m dying due to turning 500 years ago.”

        “I’ll see what I can find out.”

        “Thank you,” she replied to the witch.

        A few minutes after finding a spell to stop what the cure had and was doing to the former vampiress, the spell was completed, and Katherine wasn’t dying anymore.

        Afterward, Kat left the cemetery, but stayed in New Orleans.

        When it was dark, the Originals and Caroline were gone, so she went for a drive around the city to see if it had changed or not since less than 100 years ago when she had last visited.

        It was a dark night in New Orleans, as Elijah stood by his window, phone to his ear, in silent grief. His Katerina was dead, according to Caroline Forbes.

        “Thank you,” was all he could say before hanging up, thanking her for letting him know.

        As he stood there, he could only wonder if she died in pain, and if she had died hating him for not coming to save her. He would’ve if he had known what was happening. He had been too busy with helping Klaus and protecting Hayley to even think about Katerina, or even wonder why Klaus had come back from Mystic Falls in a good mood. He knew he should’ve checked on Katerina, but he hadn’t. Now, it was too late and because of that, he would forever blame himself for not being there for her, and he would forever grieve for her. Katerina was the kind of girl that would take forever to get over. He would forever miss her.

        “I’m sorry, Katerina. Forgive me,” he said to empty air, not sure what he was asking forgiveness for. Was it for leaving her, when she had pleaded for him to stay? Was it to give her spirit peace? Was it for all the wrongs he had done to her? Was it for not being there for her, when she needed him the most? He guessed it was for everything and more. Now that she was forever gone, he didn’t know what he’d do for eternity. Katerina had been what kept him holding on to his humanity, and he guessed he was the same for her. For 500 years, he had kept her safe from Klaus. No matter what, he had kept hoping that she would find herself, but what if he was who needed to help her do that? He had abandoned her. Left her all on her own after watching out for her for 500 years. How could he do that to her? Worse, he hadn’t been there when she had needed him the most. He had royally and completely screwed up, and he couldn’t fix his mistake this time.

        As he looked out the window, he wanted to cry, but he didn’t. He wouldn’t let anyone know he was hurting, because no one knew how he felt. This was his own hell. He was upset that he had lost her forever but was also angry at himself for not checking on her. He couldn’t change the past though, so all he could do was grieve for her. His 500-year-old true love. The one. For him, she had been the one.

        It was a dark night, as Katherine Pierce drove to New Orleans, her daughter, Nadia Petrova, in the passenger’s seat, pale, weak, and out cold. And as she drove, she called someone on her phone.





        Elijah Mikaelson was at home in Klaus’ room, when his phone went off. And when he looked at the caller ID, he saw that it was Katerina.

        “Katerina,” he greeted her. “This isn’t a good time.”

        “I need your help. My daughter is dying. Tyler bit my daughter, Nadia Petrova.”

        “I was unaware that you had a daughter.”

        “I gave birth to her before I met any of you. You have to help me convince Klaus to cure my daughter.”

        “I promise you that she will be cured. I won’t let her die.”

        “Thank you, Elijah.”

        They hung up.





        When they arrived, it was a beautiful day in New Orleans.

        Kat went around the car and opened the door, as Hayley came out to help her.

        “Do you need any help?” Hayley asked her.

        “Yes. Please. Help me get her inside.”





        Once she was in bed in a room, Nadia started to come to. And when she did, she saw her mother seated on her bedside, a pregnant lady standing not far from them.

        “Where are we?” she half-whispered.

        “New Orleans. Elijah promised that he’d get the cure for you.”

        “Why would he even bother?”

        “Because we go way back, and even after a few centuries, we have something. Elijah would do anything for me.”

        “We should stay then if he means so much to you. You haven’t been happy for centuries. You deserve it.”

        “I’m happy with you, too. We’ve finally found each other.”

        Elijah walked in and gave the cure to her.

        “Thank you, Elijah.”

        “You’re welcome, Katerina. Now, I must tend to a family matter.”

        He kissed her left cheek, before vanishing out of sight.

        Kat smiled, before giving her daughter the cure, which Nadia took.

        “I should go. I’ll be in the Bayou if anyone needs me,” Hayley informed Katherine, before leaving the room.

        Kat watched her go, before looking at her daughter whom had drunk the entire cure and had sat up in bed.

        “Welcome to New Orleans, Nadia,” she said to her with a smile.

Don’t bury me

Don’t lay me down

Don’t say it’s over

‘Cause that’s what sent me under

Under

Under

I died

Every time you walk away



        It was a dark night in Mystic Falls, Virginia at the Mikaelson Mansion as Katherine Pierce watched Elijah Mikaelson, her love of 500 years, walk away after choosing his family over her, yet again. She didn’t show it, but it hurt her deeply that once again, he hadn’t chosen her. Her unbeating, vampiress heart was broken in two. After everything she had done, she realized that he had lost his faith and hope in her.



Don’t leave me alone with me

See

I’m afraid

Of the darkness

And my demons

And the voices

Saying nothing’s going to be okay

I feel it in my heart

Soul

Mind that I’m losing



        Six months later, a very human and dying Katherine lay asleep in a guest bedroom at the Salvatore boarding house, stuck in her memories. The first was of finding her family slaughtered and crying over her ma’ma’s body, before fleeing to escape Klaus.



You

Me

You’re abusing everything I have to live

Don’t bury me

Don’t lay me down

Don’t say it’s over

‘Cause that’s what sent me under

Underneath the ground

Don’t say those words

I wanna live with your worse combunder

Only you can send me under

Under



        When she had died, Elijah got a call from Caroline Forbes and Elijah came for her body and, upon returning to New Orleans, he buried her in the cemetery and consecrated her bones, having learned that she had been descended from Travelers.