My name is Katerina Petrova and I was born in Bulgaria. The year is 1490 and I am ready to leave Bulgaria. I need the break, because I am unhappy at pa'pa. I was pregnant and gave birth to a healthy baby girl, but she was illegitimate. I never got to see or hold her, because pa'pa took her from the maid. I'll never forget his unforgiving words, as he left without sympathy. He left with her as he said, "You have disgraced this family!" I was born here in Bulgaria, but I feel unwelcome these days. Pa'pa doesn't look at me and ma'ma is silent. They have disowned me, but ma'ma still cares enough to comfort me when pa'pa isn't around.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSHEo9RVzLB
I hope that when I leave tomorrow, that I'll find a safe haven and be successful. These times are hard, because my family and I have always been poor. We have always just barely skimmed by. Hopefully, my life as I know it, will change for the better.
-Katerina Petrova
It's a beautiful day, as I walk through a foreign place. I have left now. I am somewhere far away from my village. I am quiet as I walk, because no matter what I have been through, I am a lady. I must act like one, because I will never meet new people if I don't act like I should. Ladies are quiet unless spoken to. Back talk and negligence gets a lady punished. I must obey the law of the sixteenth century, because it is the right thing to do.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6tAo1Kvzxp
Soon, I meet a man that is clearly rich; very wealthy. He says his name is Lord Elijah. It surprises me when he invites me to a ball. There's a fancy ball tonight and he would like to have me meet his brothers. I oblige, because he is such a gentleman and I am alone.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5QnPcQnpnu
"Where shall I meet you, Katerina?" he asks me.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC9n41GECxs
"Outside this village, Lord Elijah."509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRx8RT5l0p6
"When?"509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQPacE4JOoJ
"I shall be there one hour before," I reply. I then do a curtsy and say, "Thank you, kind sir. You have been so graciously kind to me."509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrd2pkNLezu
"As have you, Miss Katerina."509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5g2RsWlIdv
He gives me a smile and I smile back, before I watch him walk away.
An hour before the ball, I wait for him outside the village. He arrives and escorts me to a house, not far from where the ball will soon be held at. He shows me to the bathroom and tells me that there's a surprise for me there.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYDZ6jupusA
When I go inside, I see a dress. It's hanging over the door. I take it and close the door. It's so beautiful with such fine trims and laces. I almost don't deserve it, because I have never had such a beautiful dress before. I put the dress on and look in the mirror. It fits and I'm so beautiful in it. Tears fill my eyes, but I bleak them away. I haven't been this happy for a very long time.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7zIxMfJJU3
I come out in the dress and take his arm, so he can escort me to the ball and introduce me to his brothers.
It isn't long before I meet them and the ball becomes lively around us.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrqDuWvCQlq
I do a curtsy.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4tkxy6rWMr
"Lord Niklaus. Pleasure to meet you."509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN4dIE3Zpht
"Please. That's what my mother calls me. Call me Klaus."509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYHKFbGtk19
I hold out my hand and he takes it, before he kisses it.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxcSvrzb3vF
"It's such a pleasure to meet you, Katerina. You are the most beautiful out of all the women I have met."509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7rkp5yO4xn
"Thank you, Lord Klaus. You are very gracious."509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLQ21RVZTzj
"This is is Lord Trevor," Lord Klaus introduces me.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpz9gJ9SuvS
"It's a pleasure meeting you, Lord Trevor."509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUkTSVYnQ2W
I do a curtsy.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP2pW220IYA
"Likewise, Katerina."509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6FYD9RTe1a
"Lord Klaus, it would give me great pleasure to let Katerina stay with us. She has been cast out and has no home," Lord Elijah tells his brother.
"She may stay," Lord Klaus replies.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCK3oaD9BTt
He gives me a smile, before he and his brother walk away. His smile says he knows something I don't, which gives me suspicion and makes me uneasy.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwVxLEdGjfc
Lord Elijah stands in front of me and says, "Be calm, Katerina. If anything happens, rest assure, I will protect you," as if he knows what I'm feeling.
The next day, Lord Elijah and I play chase for a while until I say, "You're supposed to catch me."509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcjhzrhexQR
"If I catch you, the game will be over," he replies with a smile and slight laugh.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPOMzZcVb0n
I stop and look at him.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9xsQ8SJ6S7
We both stop and turn to see Lord Klaus coming from the village. He stops not far from us. There's some blood on his white shirt.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP9165lOwo4
"What happened?" Lord Elijah asks.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzujSJPuLoe
"I got into a fight with a villager," he replies.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhOGOoQWGfJ
We watch him head towards the house.
Soon, I learn that I am a doppelganger and they are vampires. I'm fine with the truth of what they are, but it's what Lord Klaus will do that scares me. He wants to break the Moon Curse tonight, but he has to kill me during the ritual. So I run for my life through foreign woods with them after me.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ51KRA00dqV
When I trip over a twig and then get to my feet, I see Lord Elijah.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrtgzxciQ5A
"Please. I can't run anymore," I beg.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2OAMnjLbN5
"There's a cabin that way." He takes out a necklace and hands it to me. I take it and he continues. "Take this and show the woman there this necklace. Tell her that I sent you. Go. I can't hold them off for much longer."509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF8H4qlh3P7
I run with what strength I have left, and soon reach the cabin. I bang frantically on the door, hoping that I won't be caught.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5nbjd4AVix
A few minutes later, an old woman opens the door and another woman comes to stand at her side. I show the necklace as I hastily say, "Elijah sent me. Please. You have to help me."509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCr1zdpNzIh
A moment later, the younger woman turns and looks at the older woman.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3iiadyWq5u
"Bring her food and water."509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaRjzDaXR4F
The older woman nods once, and the younger woman says to me, "Quickly. Come inside."509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgqLMWbEG4R
I oblige and she closes the door behind me.
When I have eaten and have had water, the younger woman leaves the bedroom. I'm seated on the bed.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4CxSz8u0Fa
Soon, the younger woman comes back into the bedroom with Lord Trevor. The old woman watches them on the sidelines, as they argue.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ5boiwrEKl
"I'm taking her back to Klaus. Maybe he'll show us some mercy."509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH2n2itryTe
"He'll sacrifice her."509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9mQF8nKaFc
"Then so be it."509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcAz7G7hMdW
"I love her, Rose."509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5RiBhzrkcx
"Don't you get it? Anyone that double crosses Klaus ends up in his debt."509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZFcRv1PKeM
While Rose and Lord Trevor argue, I slit my wrists with my dagger. Rose smells the blood and comes over to me.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdZEj4RAEEE
"What happened?"509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL0oTsWvWwV
"I tripped. It happened in the woods."509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP2Iktf4NOj
"No. I would've smelled it."509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaXduGpOT8L
She bites her wrist.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGYY2MtgNGn
"No. Please, just let me die."509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwaYizG2Q8V
She forces her blood down my throat and then takes her wrist away. I gag and she and Lord Trevor go back to arguing. As they do so, I see a length of rope hanging from the ceiling. I tie a noose, stand on a chair, put the rope around my throat, and knock the chair over. Then everything goes black.
When I wake up, I'm on the bed and in transition to become a vampire.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnpTjGX1nlu
"Why did you do it? I would've helped you escape," Lord Trevor says, as he stands over me.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI9QzxyRumz
"No. You would've helped me run, and that would never have been enough."509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyaQyhKKt0c
I get to my feet.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLFizUBWvMZ
Rose comes at me with a stake, but I push the old woman between us. Rose accidentally stakes her instead, and the blood overwhelms my senses. I bite into the side of the old woman's neck, before I look at Lord Trevor.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡew4rJn6qOX
"I'm so sorry. Please forgive me."509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBjxC3tlRQD
I go back to her neck and drink.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGNsar03dZz
"Don't you see? She used your love for her against you," Rose tells Lord Trevor.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9n6OrJJwgQ
A moment later, I throw the old woman at Rose and then flee the cabin.
When I arrive back at my village by horseback, everyone is dead; slaughtered. I weep over my ma'ma who's on her back with her throat torn open. Pa'pa and the maid are on the floor in the same position with the same wound. Uncle Cornelius is against the wall by the door of the bedroom with a sword through his chest.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3G7ATqitnF
Soon, I flee from my village on horseback. Klaus did this to get back at me for running. He's a monster! He ruined my life!
Soon after, I go to England but am later banished. I'm young and don't have anyone to teach me how to act human, so I was found out. So I travel around the world and make up my mind to go to Mystic Falls, Virginia.
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When I arrive in America, I change my name to Katherine Pierce.
When I arrive in 1864, my story is that I'm an orphan, due to my family being killed in a fire. I stay at the Salvatore boarding house on their estate. I meet Giuseppe and then Stefan, his younger son. And then, when the elder one, Damon, comes home from fighting in the war for the south to see his brother, I meet him too.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfWAQY5HujZ
After a while, I let them know that I am a vampiress. I compel Stefan not to be afraid of me, since he's so afraid when I tell him. Damon isn't afraid, though. Each night, I give them a little of my blood.
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When Pearl, another vampire and my friend, shows me that there's something called vervain that some of the villagers are buying, this worries me. Secretly, I make a deal with George Lockwood to help me escape if a vampire raid comes. He agrees.
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When the night of the vampire raid comes to be, George helps me escape after I give him the moonstone. Sadly, I had to sacrifice Emily, a good witch, and all of my vampire family. I wish I didn't have to, but this is survival. Pearl and her daughter, Annabelle, are alive though. Anna escaped, and I made sure that Pearl would end up in the tomb. As for Damon and Stefan that I fell for, they were shot dead in the street by their father for trying to save me. They will think I'm dead when they awaken in transition.
