A/N: The cure isn't still in Katherine, so if she gets bitten or anything, no one will become human like her and Silas doesn't need her for her blood. By now, Silas is long gone and dead because of Stefan. Time is still catching up with her, though.
It was a dark night in New Orleans, as Katherine Pierce, newly made human, walked on the route to the compound. She couldn't believe it had come to this; coming to Klaus for protection. If he didn't give her his protection, she knew that she would die. She didn't want to die, though she had lived a long life. After all, she had been a 500 year old vampire. She still something to live for. She had a daughter, Nadia Petrova, and Elijah Mikaelson whom she so dearly loved. He was her life. He and Nadia was the best thing that ever happened to her in centuries.
"What's a girl like you doing in a place like this?" a male voice asked from an alley way, before stepping into her view.
She stopped.
"Why don't you bother someone else? I'm not in the mood to deal with vampires. I'm just visiting someone," she replied, assuming he had plans to eat her.
He went to stand in front of her.
When he grabbed her and bit into the side of her neck, drinking from her, she kneed him in the gut, which made him let her go. She then stabbed him, just grazing his heart, before he could recover. And then she walked the rest of the way to the compound.
She walked inside and looked around, looking for an Original or a certain werewolf.
"Klaus?" she called at a normal tone. "Rebekah? Elijah? Hayley?"
She headed up the stairs, ignoring the pain from the bite mark on the side of her neck.
Once upstairs, a lady with blond hair came out of a room.
"Klaus isn't exactly able to help you right now. Maybe I can?"
"Why? What's wrong?"
"Elijah stabbed him with a magical knife to keep him from using it to kill Rebekah."
"I'm not even sure if I want to know why. What's your name?" Kat asked her.
"Cami. Elijah sent me here to watch him. Plus, I'm the only human with vervain in my system. It'll slow him down and Elijah needs him to stay here. What's your name?"
"Katherine Pierce. I was born Katerina Petrova, though. The only reason I'm here is to beg Klaus for protection, since asking won't bode well with him. I used to be a 500 year old vampire, but the cure for vampirism got shoved down my throat. Klaus is my worst enemy. I ran from him for 500 years after he slaughtered my entire village, including my family, in Bulgaria. After this, I need to see the witches to see if they can stop time from catching up with me. The cure is pretty much killing me. I can't even digest vampire blood. The only good thing that has come out of this is that my long lost daughter my father tore from my arms in 1492, Nadia found me," Kat answered her.
Kat walked into Klaus' room to see him out cold from what she assumed torture. There was only one magical knife she knew of. The one that is said to give anyone and anything torture beyond your comprehension or imagination. And even after what Klaus had done to her and her family, not even Klaus deserved that kind of torment. She couldn't help but feel sympathy and sorry for him.
She sat down on Klaus' bedside and looked down at him, as Cami watched from the doorway.
"Klaus?" she called softly.
Not getting anything, she rested a gentle hand on the left side of his face.
"Caroline," she heard him say in his sleep.
"Who's Caroline?" Cami asked her.
"A vampire I sired a few years ago. She's a lot like you. She wouldn't hurt a fly. He's in love with her," she summarized for the bartender. "You can go downstairs if you want," she added to Cami. "It might be a while before he wakes up. I'll let you know if you're needed. Besides, you're not the only human digesting vervain."
Seeing her point, Cami took Katherine's advice and went downstairs.
Kat took her hand away from his face and sighed. She needed him awake. She had to be careful, though so he didn't hurt or kill her when he got him awake. He was a hybrid and she was now a human again. She was more fragile against him than she had been as a vampire. So, gently, she patted the left side of his face.
"Klaus, it's me. You have to wake up. I need you."
A few minutes later, after she took her hand away from his face, he slowly woke up.
When he saw her on his bedside, he realized she was human again and had gone through hell for who knows how long. He knew it because of how horrible she looked. She wasn't all dressed up fancy like like she used to be. It almost made him feel sorry for her, but she was still the bane of his existence, he had to tell himself. He wasn't going to show how much compassion she was giving him by just being there.
"Katerina, what are you doing here?" he asked softly, since he was still weak.
"Apparently, helping you. I was going to persuade you to grant me your protection, but when I got here, I ran into Cami. She told me about what happened. Let me guess. She double crossed you again. This time, you literally want her dead."
"That about sums it up. If you help me, Katerina, then I promise to give you my protection."
"Thank you. Now what can I do for you?"
"You can start by giving me what I need."
She knew what he meant by that. He needed blood; human blood. He was weak and probably hungry, too.
"Take some of mine then," she suggested, before holding out her wrist to him.
Without question, he took her arm and bit into her wrist, drinking some of her blood.
A few minutes later, he let go. He thought about giving her some of his blood to heal her, but then she informed him of everything that had happened since he had left. She then informed him all that happened to her and that she couldn't digest vampire blood, because her body kept rejecting it. It made sense to him, because the cure made her human again and she turned 500 years ago.
"So, what's your plan? What do you need me to do for you?" she asked him, not having a plan herself right now.
"I need to get back at my siblings. I think you can figure out the rest of how to do that for me. I can't exactly kill her right now after what Elijah did. They have to pay."
"Not to defend anyone, but If you hadn't tried to kill Rebekah, Elijah wouldn't have done this to you. I think it's kind of your fault for trying to kill your own sister. Sure, I understand that she back stabbed you without your knowledge, but If you want her to pay, I think the only way would be daggering her. That's something I can't do. As for Elijah, it's not exactly his fault. He most likely didn't know about her plans and he only stabbed you to save her life."
"How could you possibly understand, Katerina? You have no family left."
"You're wrong. Before I met you, I had a daughter out of wedlock. My family disowned me because of it. I came back for her in 1498, but couldn't find her. She found me when Silas was looking for me and she protected me from him. Her name is Nadia Petrova. She's all I have left other than the Salvatores. I love her and I'd do anything for her. So, I can relate."
"Why would you tell me that you have a daughter? I could go kill her as soon as I'm done teaching my siblings a lesson," he wanted to know.
"Because I may not trust you, but I trust that you won't go after her. Besides, you'd have to go through me and Caroline. We're quite the allies now after I helped Caroline make everyone at college think that Elena's not a vampire. We can't have anyone that's not supposed to know vampires existing, finding out that they exist," she answered him. She then added, "I'm gonna go help you out. You need to rest. Get your strength back."
He watched as she left his room, before he went back to sleep.
Katherine walked into the living room.
Cami looked at her from where she sat on the couch sipping a shot glass of wine.
"I'm gonna go, but I'll be back as soon as I can. You should probably continue watching Klaus. Make sure he doesn't leave or anything. He's supposed to be resting."
Katherine left, before Cami could say anything.
As Katherine walked the streets of New Orleans, she took out her phone and called Elijah to let him know that she was in town, why, and what Klaus had informed her of.
"I hope you aren't considering working with him," he said, once she had finished.
"Of course not, Elijah. I would never double cross you. I love you. But I do have to make him think that I'm going to help him teach Rebekah a lesson. That way he'll be willing enough to help me. I'll let Rebekah know as soon as I can so we can work something out."
"Be careful, Katerina."
"I will. Besides, if anything happens, you'll protect me with your life."
They hung up.
She rang up Rebekah next, but couldn't get her, so she left her a message to let her know what was going on and that they needed to talk about what they were going to do.
As she waited for Rebekah to call her, she continued to walk around New Orleans, admiring the newly made town after 100 years of being rebuilt.
When she had found a herb shop, a stranger came up to stand on the right side of her.
"Katherine?" he questioned her.
She looked at him.
"Yes. May I help you with something?"
"I need you to come with me."
"And why would I do such a thing? I don't know you. For all I know, I could be leverage against Elijah."
"I assure you, I don't have a feud with Elijah. I wouldn't dare start a war with him. Klaus on the other hand, is a different story. Everyone is getting ready to start a war."
Curious of his intentions, she finally made up her mind to go with him, mentally calling herself stupid for going along with a stranger that she didn't know.
When Elijah got home, Cami was in the living room.
"What seems to be the problem?" he questioned her, as she paced.
She stopped and looked at him.
"Finally you're home. I couldn't stop him. He left to go find Rebecca."
"Go home, Cami. I'll deal with my siblings. Inform Katerina of the situation if you run into her. She's in town and do not wish any harm upon her."
Before she could ask him what he meant, he was gone.
She left to go home.
When Elijah found his brother, he was back home.
"Did you find her?" Elijah questioned him.
"Yes. Let's just say she's having a nice long nap for about a century or two."
He wasn't happy that she was daggered again, but he was glad that he hadn't killed her, after all. Maybe Katerina had persuaded him not to kill her. He'd have to think her for that later.
Elijah left the room.
Klaus poured himself a shot glass of Bourbon, before sipping it and sitting down on the couch to relax. He was waiting for Katerina to come back so they could talk about what they could do for her.
Elijah called her phone several times, only to keep getting her voicemail, which made him think that something had gone terribly wrong.
"I'm gonna go find Katerina. It's not like her to ignore my calls," he informed Klaus.
Klaus stood up.
"Let me do the honors. She did help me. It's only fair."
Elijah watched, as Klaus sped out of the house to go possibly rescue Katerina.
As Niklaus walked through New Orleans, he used his senses to guide him to her scent which led him into the woods.
He stopped, seeing her phone on the ground, and picked it up.
No wonder she hasn't answered. Someone must have taken her. As leverage, most likely. I promised I would help her. I have to find her. She's in trouble.
He put her phone away and continued to follow her scent that he knew all too well. He would always know her scent. It was forever embedded into him. And as he continued, it became mixed with the scent of her human scent, her fear, and the familiar scent of vampire. And as soon as he sensed the scent of vampire, he picked up the pace. Whoever it was, would pay for taking Katerina from under their noses without their knowledge whatsoever.
Soon, it ended him up at an old abandoned warehouse. He didn't care if he was walking into a trap or not. He had to get her back. And it wasn't just because Elijah loved her. Klaus had promised to help her out and he would do just that. If he didn't, he would be breaking his promise to her. And Niklaus Mikaelson never broke his promises. Never. And he wasn't about to start breaking them now.
He walked inside to see some vampires. One of them he knew. The one vampire he had turned 100 years ago and had treated like his own son. He had been like family and had betrayed and back stabbed him. Marcellus. Also known as Marcel.
"Took you long enough," Marcel greeted the Original hybrid, trusting that Klaus wouldn't kill him, since Klaus seemed to not be able to kill him, no matter what he did to Klaus or those close to Klaus.
"What do you want, Marcel?"
"My home back. It's mine. I built it."
"I thought we settled this, Marcel. You took it away from me. It's my home. If memory serves me right, you've been banished."
"Give the French Quarter back to me and you can have the girl."
"She has a name and she's not just a girl," he corrected Marcel.
At hybrid speed, Klaus had him pinned against a faraway wall, hand around his neck.
"I should've left you there to be a slave for the rest of your life," Klaus growled at him. "You will pay for endangering her life."
"For once in your life, you actually care for someone that's not family? I'm surprised. After all, you never did have a heart."
"Good-bye, Marcellus," he growled, before ripping out his heard, tossing it to the floor and letting his body fall to the ground. Rebekah would hate him forever, but it didn't matter. Besides, she was in a box. She didn't know what was happening.
He turned to face the vampires that had followed Marcel. Then he slaughtered them all at hybrid speed. He had hoped that Marcel hadn't had any followers, but he apparently still did. But no more. Marcel and his vampire followers were gone now. Now it was just him and his brother's girl in the warehouse.
He was instantly at her side where she was chained a lot like how Marcel and his vampires had done to him in the recent events before Klaus had taken over as King of the French Quarter. He then unchained her and gently picked her up and carried her, heading back home, grateful he had gotten there in time to save her life, since he could tell that she was still alive. If anything happened to her under his watch or authority, he wouldn't forgive himself and he didn't know how Elijah could.
After he layed her gently down in a guest bedroom and set her phone down on the end table and Davina had done a spell that kept her from dying of old age and being the universe's target, he sat at her bedside, as Davina left. He was there to ensure that she was okay and that no harm came to her under his watch. She was the only good thing that had ever happened to his elder brother and he would not let the only happiness Elijah had, be utterly destroyed by mere local vampires. He would not let that happen. If need be, he would be there to protect her every time she needed it. He knew he had helped her and she had helped him and they had both kept their promise and there was no need to do more, but he couldn't help but care about her now.
When she didn't come to after two days, he began to wonder if something was wrong with her on the inside, so he couldn't help but to probe inside her mind. And when he did, he saw everything in her point of view. He knew what he had done to her was wrong and what he tried to do to her was not right, but at the time, he hadn't had sympathy or kindness like he did these days. And he couldn't help but feel pity upon her when he saw everything she had been through for 500 years, including the present events. It began before he came into her life when she was human for the first time around.
Katerina Petrova sat up in bed after having a healthy baby girl. She had just had her out of wedlock and was Illegitimate.
Her ma 'ma was seated on her bedside silently.
"Let me see her," Katerina begged the maid.
The maid started to give her to Katerina to at least see her, but stopped when her father came into the room to stand by the maid and said, "What are you doing, woman? Bring her to me." Then he took Katerina's baby girl and started to walk out of the room with her.
"No! Pa 'pa, please!" Katerina begged, as tears streamed down her face.
"No! You have disgraced this family!" he said back to her, before disappearing from sight.
"Pa 'pa!" she begged.
"No, Katerina. Katerina," her ma 'ma said to her.
"No. Ma 'ma. Ma 'ma," she said, as she sobbed and her ma 'ma tried to comfort her.
Seeing this scene made him realize how her family came to disown her and that she truly did love her daughter, but couldn't be the mother she should have been. And it was her father's fault which made him thankful for what he had done to her father. If he hadn't killed him, who knew how much more pain her father would've inflicted.
"You're supposed to catch me," she told Elijah one day, as they played chase and she laughed delightfully.
"If I catch you, then the game will be over," he replied to her.
Later, they were seated on a bench and ended up talking about love.
"I don't believe in love," he told her.
"If we cease to believe in love, then why would we want to live?"
Before he could reply, Klaus interrupted them when he arrived and took her with him after he had a feast. But Katerina didn't know of that, of course. She hadn't know just yet what he and his family were at the time. She had just been an innocent girl full of light.
It was a gorgeous day, as Katerina ran for her life in the woods, running from Klaus, Elijah, and the others.
When she tripped over a twig in the woods and fell, it was painful to her but she got right back up, only to see Trevor.
"Please. I can't run anymore," she begged him.
"I'll hold them off, but I can't hold them off for long. Take this," he said, before handing her the Moonstone. "There's a cabin a mile away from here in that direction. A woman lives there. Show her this and tell her that I sent you. Go."
Without hesitation, she took the moonstone, ran for the cabin, and once there, banged on the door, before an old woman answered the door. Then another woman, younger looking, came to stand by the older woman.
"Please. Trevor sent me. You have to help me," she begged the younger woman, whom she later found out to be named Rose.
"Bring her food and water," Rose compelled the old woman whom owned the cabin.
The old woman nodded and then disappeared from the doorway.
"Come inside. Quickly," Rose said, in which Katerina obeyed, and Rose closed the door.
When she had been fed and had had water, Rose put her in a room.
When Katerina cut herself with her knife, Rose smelled it and asked, "What happened?"
"It happened in the woods," she lied to Rose.
"No. I would've smelled it."
"Please. Just let me die," Katerina begged, before Rose force fed her her blood so she wouldn't die.
Katerina gagged from the taste, but it did heal her.
Soon, Trevor arrived and in that room, Rose and Trevor had an argument.
"Don't you see? Whoever double crosses Klaus, always ends up in his debt," Rose said to him.
"I love her, Rose," Trevor said.
Katerina took this opportunity to hang herself by length of rope that was hanging from the ceiling.
When Katerina woke up, she was back on the bed and Trevor was standing over her.
"Why did you do it?" he asked her. "I would've helped you escape."
"No. You would've helped me run and that would have never been enough."
Rose came at Katerina with a stake to kill her, as soon as Katerina stood up, but she ran from her and put the old woman between them, which resulted in Rose accidentally staking the old woman instead. And then, because of the overwhelming scent of her blood, Katerina said, "I'm sorry. Forgive me," before biting into the side of the woman's neck and drinking from her, before tossing her body to Rose and fleeing from the cabin before either one of them could do or say anything.
When Katerina arrived at her village on horseback, her entire village had been slaughtered.
She ran towards her cabin where she had lived the past 20 years of her life, fearing the worse, in which she found to be true when she entered a room in the cabin. She saw that her father had been killed with a sword through his chest and was hanging from the wall, but she didn't care much about him anymore. He was the reason that she didn't have her baby girl with her. The only person in the room there that she truly still cared about and love was her ma 'ma.
She ran towards the bed where her ma 'ma lay on her back with her throat torn open, and sat by her.
"No. Ma 'ma. Ma 'ma," she sobbed.
She stayed there and cried over her ma 'ma until she could cry no more. Then she left Bulgaria to continue running from Klaus.
Katerina Petrova searched every cabin, village, town, and anywhere and everywhere in Bulgaria in search of her daughter. She tried with all her might to find her. She really did. But in the end, she was nowhere to be found. Where she was, Katerina had no clue, but knew she had to leave Bulgaria so she wouldn't run into Klaus. Though, he doubted that he'd double back to Bulgaria.
Katerina went to Mystic Falls, Virginia with the new name of Katherine Pierce, her friends Emily Bennett, Pearl, and Annabelle with her in coach, to continue her journey of hiding from Klaus.
Later on, she couldn't help but to fall for Stefan and Damon Salvatore. And then when she found out that the Founding Families of Mystic Falls were planning something big that included vervain and possibly doing something with vampires, she made a deal with George Lockwood. So, while the other vampires were slaughtered, Emily was burned at the stake for being a witch, and Pearl was put in the tomb under the church, she said her good-byes to Stefan and Damon's bodies, before giving George the Moonstone and leaving Mystic Falls. She truly did love them, but she had to leave for the sake of survival.
Katherine watched Damon and Stefan in Chicago from afar, but did not let them know that she was there, watching over them, protecting them the best she could, and looking after them. She would do what she could to keep them as safe as they could, but she couldn't do much. That's why she didn't do anything when she saw Stefan become a Ripper. Instead, she turned her head and left.
Katherine came back to Mystic Falls, only to realize that she had to try and win Stefan back, since he had fallen for her doppelganger, Elena Gilbert. And in doing so, she technically made Caroline turn into a vampire and she did many other things, centering Elena in the middle of everything. But she never truly wanted Elena hurt or killed. She cared for her. Everyone just thought of her as a total bitch. They thought she was heartless, had no feelings, loved to play games with everyone, and was a liar. They had everything wrong. It was just a mask she hid behind.
When Klaus came to town, she kept a low profile so he wouldn't know that she was in town. And then he kept her in Alaric's apartment until he finally freed her to have her give Damon his blood to cure him of the werewolf bite. And then she didn't come back to him. Not even to try and save Stefan. Instead, she left town but came back to help them all out to kill Klaus, since she hated him so much for the slaughter of her family 500 years ago.
After the failed attempt of killing Klaus, she left Mystic Falls, only to have a run in with Elena, Rebekah, Damon, and Stefan in New York when they were trying to find the cure and realized that Katherine had the cure.
When she came back, she helped everyone try and defeat Silas after she helped everyone get Elena to turn her humanity back on. And then, after she realized that something must've happened to Bonnie, she took her anger out on Elena in the school hallway, angry that Bonnie hadn't given her the cure. She wanted it so she could use it to get her freedom from Klaus. But in the end, Elena shoved the cure down the throat and when she woke up, she was in the hallway and human. And realizing it, she found a cap and walked around Mystic Falls, homeless for the time being, watching her back, making sure she wasn't spotted by any enemies. But then, after a while, she finally came to Damon for protection in which he granted to her.
When Nadia found Katherine, Katherine thought she was the enemy and so did Damon and Elena. Nadia almost killed Elena and had a human put vervain in Damon's drink. She then went after Katherine whom had ran and she captured Katherine, only to get stabbed by Katherine with part of someone's cane.
Katherine found her in an alley that night and asked her who she truly was, only to find out from Nadia whom she was and that Katherine was her mother. This shocked Katherine and she asked her where she had been in 1498, but Nadia was eight back then, so she didn't remember where she had been. She said she didn't know.
A while after Damon promised that he would protect her from Silas, he called her over, saying it was an emergency, only to feed her to Silas. It killed her temporarily, but she came back to life. And then Katherine found out that she was dying from the cure since she turned 500 years ago, she wrote a note for Nadia and stood on the clock tower to end it all. She attempted to die, but Stefan found her just in time to catch her before she hit the ground and he made her start writing a journal. It didn't help her much, though, and since she realized she had something to live for, and since Nadia wanted to keep Katherine around as long as possible, Katherine left Mystic Falls and came to New Orleans, only to get bitten by and have to save her own ass from a hungry vampire whom she didn't know.
Klaus came out of her head and looked down at her. He realized what kind of hell she had been through in the past year and wished that he hadn't needed Elijah. If he hadn't needed Elijah, his brother would've been there for her to help her through that. She wouldn't have tried to kill herself to stop time from catching up with her. He wished that maybe even he had been there for her. If there had been an Original there for her, he figured that she would've been safe from Silas and wouldn't have tried to kill herself because of time.
A few minutes later, she finally came to to see Klaus seated on her bedside, looking down with her with worry, sympathy, and looking like he cared about her and felt sorry for her for some reason, which made her think one thing, in which she just had to ask him.
"Sleeping beauty awakens," he greeted. "You worried me. You were out for two days."
"Well, I haven't exactly had any sleep lately."
"Yes. I know."
"Were you in my head?"
"I couldn't help myself, so I snooped."
"Thank you. You saved my life."
"You're welcome. I'll be downstairs if you need anything."
She watched, as he left the room.
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