A Closer Walk with Thee
Summary: Set in S1E20 "A Closer Walk With Thee." What if Katherine came to New Orleans to warn everyone about the Other Side? What will ensue between her and Elijah and her and Klaus? Read to find out what happens.
A/N: Katherine never died and never went into Elena's body.
It was a dark night in New Orleans, as Katherine Pierce, newly human, headed on the route to the compound. She figured the Originals lived there, so she was heading over there. She had to speak to them about what was going on with the Other Side if it wasn't too late.
When she entered the compound, she didn't see anyone, so she assumed that they were all busy somewhere upstairs or somewhere else in the French Quarter. She didn't head upstairs, though. She just stayed standing there, as she waited for any sign that they were home.
"Elijah? Klaus? Hayley?" she called.
When all she got was silence, she sighed and left to go find them. She had seen that there was going to be a festival, so she figured that they would be there.
Halfway down the street, walking through the crowd of people, she spotted the Mikaelsons and Hayley. She hadn't realized that Hayley was so far along now, but she saw that she was. She remembered that feeling, even though it had been 500 years ago when she had been pregnant with Nadia Petrova. Thinking of Nadia now though, emotionally hurt her. She could have saved Nadia by giving Klaus a call about Tyler biting Nadia, but she hadn't wanted anything to happen to either one of them. She had thought that if she had called up Klaus, he would have loved to just watch Nadia die, instead of curing her. If only Tyler and Nadia hadn't gotten into it, she figured, though she hadn't been there. She didn't know what caused Tyler to bite her. She didn't know if he meant to do it or not, but she figured it was probably an accident. Everyone in Mystic Falls hadn't known her for long, so they didn't have any grudges against her enough to cause Tyler to bite her. If she could, she would have killed him for biting Nadia, but she couldn't do that as a human.
As she headed towards them, she tried to think of what the best approach would be without causing a scene. When it came to almost anything and anybody, Klaus could be unpredictable. She knew that Elijah would never harm her, though.
When she was a yard away from them or so, she decided this was a best time as any to get their attention.
"Elijah! Klaus!" she called, which made them stop walking and turn around to face her.
"Katerina?" Elijah questioned.
"You're very brave to come to my city, Katerina," Klaus said with a low growl.
"I'm sure she has a very good reason, Niklaus," Elijah said, warning him to behave, as to not cause a scene in front of the humans.
"I do, actually. I came to warn you about what's going on with the Other Side. It's disintegrating and the spirits want to finish some unfinished business before they get sucked into a black hole. I thought I should warn you just in case it starts happening here, too. I think if someone can find out how to kill Marcos, the leader of the Travelers, we can save the Other Side from disappearing forever."
"Thank you for the warning," Elijah said to her.
"You're welcome," she replied, before walking past them to catch up with Hayley whom wasn't that far away.
Before she could say anything to the she-wolf though, the werewolf grabbed a pole with one hand and started coughing up blood.
As Katherine ran towards her, she looked back at the Originals, yelling, "Klaus! Elijah!"
As soon as they saw what was going on, they started heading over to help Hayley, but the street was too crowded for them to use their super speed.
Since Katherine was closest, she was the first one to reach her, before they even got there. And when she got there, she gently put her hand on her arm and looked at her. And when she did, she realized that whatever was happening was because of a witch.
As Hayley collapsed to the ground, Katherine caught her with an arm around her, before she could hit the ground. She didn't say anything to Hayley though, because there wasn't anything to say right now.
When they reached them, Klaus took her from Katerina and gently picked her up in his arms, before they all headed towards the compound to see what they could do for her.
Once they were at the compound and Klaus had gently layed her down on a table-like slab, they looked her over.
"She's not breathing," Elijah said. "But I can hear the baby's heartbeat."
"I won't lose that baby. She'll live if we get it out of her. I'll rip her out of her myself," Klaus said and was about to, but Elijah held him back.
"I won't lose either one of them," Elijah told his brother.
"I can help her," Katherine informed them.
"How?" Klaus questioned her.
"I recently learned that I'm a descendant from the Travelers. I know a spell. I can go to where Hayley's at right now and help her get back."
"Are you sure about this?" Elijah questioned her.
"About myself getting back, I don't know. But I won't let either one of them die. They're too important to let anything happen to them."
"Do it," Klaus said, not caring that Katerina could die saving Hayley and his unborn child.
Once she had recited what she knew she had to, she found herself right where Hayley was. And when she found Hayley, she was having a face off with Mikael.
Katherine grabbed a piece of wood and hit Mikael with it, which made him let go of her. She then stood between them, looking at Mikael.
"What the hell are you doing, Mikael?"
"Getting my revenge. Now get out of the way, Katherine."
"No. You'll have to kill me before I let you have your revenge against Klaus and the others. Does your hatred never end? You did enough to them when you were alive. Why can't you just stop?"
"Because he needs to be put out of his misery; that vermin deserves what he gets."
"Vermin? Klaus is so much better than you. He may have killed many people of different species, but he doesn't torment like you tend to do to him. You're just as bad as my own father was. The difference though, is that he never threatened or tried to kill me like you've done with Klaus. He doesn't deserve what you've done and are trying to do. Neither does Hayley and their child. Let them have a happy life already."
She looked back at Hayley.
"You need to find your way back to your body or you're going to end up dying. If something's drawing you somewhere, go there and you'll get back into your body. I'll try and be right behind you. Go."
Hayley silently did as Katherine told her to do.
Katherine looked at Mikael again.
"You need to stay away from Klaus and his family, including Elijah. I'm not afraid to kick your ass if you try to or hurt Klaus or any of them. And I'll be warning Davina and the others in case you try to persuade them to bring you back to life."
Mikael pinned her against a wall, hand around her throat.
"You dare threaten me!" he growled. "You don't stand a chance. You're only a weak human."
"I may be a human, but I'm not weak. I've been taking care of myself for the past 500 years. Just because I'm human, doesn't mean I can't continue to take care of myself. I know how to be one step ahead of the enemy."
She pushed him off her.
Hayley gasped, alive again, and sat up.
Klaus and Elijah were relieved when she woke up, knowing that she was alive and both Hayley and the baby would be okay now.
"Hayley," Elijah greeted with relief.
"How are you feeling?" Klaus asked.
"Like I nearly died," she replied to Klaus.
Klaus helped her to her feet, not really knowing what to say.
As Hayley headed up the stairs, Elijah and Klaus looked at Katerina whom lay on the slab not far from where Hayley had been laying. She was still in the Other Side where Hayley had been, which worried Elijah and made Klaus wonder why it was taking Katerina longer to get back into her body.
Meanwhile, Katherine was still fighting against Mikael, when her daughter suddenly pushed him off at vamp speed with vamp strength.
"Stay away from my mother," Nadia growled at Mikael.
"Thanks, Nadia," Katherine thanked her.
"You're welcome. You need to get back before it's too late," Nadia replied to her mother.
Katherine followed her path to her body, leaving Nadia to deal with Mikael.
A moment later, she gasped and sat up, before looking at Klaus and Elijah. She then realized that Hayley wasn't there which meant that Katherine had succeeded in saving Hayley and the child's life.
"I should probably thank you, Katerina. You saved their lives today," Klaus said.
"You're welcome. And my daughter saved mine. She was a vampire but died from Tyler's bite. I didn't call you for fear that you might not cure her. So, she died. Her name was Nadia. Nadia saved me, considering Mikael tried to kill me for saving Hayley from him."
"If you need a place to stay, we have plenty of room," Elijah offered her.
"Thank you."
"You're welcome. It's the least we can do," Elijah replied to her.
Klaus and Elijah watched, as Katerina headed up the stairs to go find a room to sleep in.
"She's changed," Elijah commented. "She's not the Katerina we knew in Mystic Falls."
"Yes, well, it seems that she's human and a Traveler descendant. Anyone would change from that."
Klaus headed up the stairs.
Katherine was sitting on the chair on the balcony, having a moment to herself, hoping Elijah and Klaus would leave her be. She hadn't had time to grieve much after Nadia had died a few days ago. Just thinking of her made her grieve. It was so painful to her that sometimes she thought she couldn't bare the grief. But she wasn't as grief-stricken as she had been the first time she lost her entire family back in 1492. And as she sat there, looking up at the sky, she let the tears silently fall down her cheeks.
"Katerina?" she heard Klaus say, before entering the balcony.
"What now? Come to gloat over my pain? My guilt?" she questioned, not looking at the hybrid. She wasn't in a good mood right now and she knew that Klaus knew it.
"Why would I gloat over your pain, when you so clearly have beaten yourself enough over it? I came to talk."
"Then talk," she said to him.
"I'm sorry for your loss, Katerina, but why would you think that I wouldn't cure your daughter from Tyler Lockwood biting her?" he questioned her.
"Because I thought you'd want nothing more than to watch my daughter die."
"Maybe in the past I would have done so, but not now."
"I guess becoming a father has changed you," she commented to him.
"It has. It's more than that, though."
"I know. Caroline changed you. She brought out the best in you."
"You've changed too, Katerina."
"Yes. I've been the new Katherine ever since I got used to being human and found out that I had a daughter. I wanted to show her things outside Mystic Falls. I wanted to be her mother that I never got to be when my father took her away just moments after I gave birth to her in 1490. I never even got to see her. It shattered me; especially, when the last thing my father said to me before I found them all slaughtered in 1492, was that I had disgraced my entire family. But it didn't start there. Let me just say that he never would have won the father of the year award. Because of him, I can relate to you. My father didn't do what yours did to you, but he was just as ruthless. That's why I never grieved for him when you killed him. You did me and my mother a favor."
"So, tell me, Katerina. How is it that you're human?"
"I got the cure shoved down my throat when I was angry at Bonnie for not handing it over to me and I tried to kill Elena. I didn't know Elena had the cure and she shoved it down my throat. After that, it started to kill me, since I turned 500 years ago, but Dr. Wes Maxfield was able to find a cure for that. Now I'm okay. I just have to figure out what I want to do now without Nadia. After her, I don't have any family left and I can't exactly stay here in the middle of a war between factions. I may have Elijah's protection, but I can't be protected forever."
"True, but we can protect you the best we can. Maybe with your experience you can help Hayley."
"You want me to play nurse with Hayley," she commented, realizing what he wanted. She knew Klaus better than most people. She had learned a lot.
"Yes. I would like that very much. And Katerina? Thank you for your warning about the Other Side. Have a good night," he said, before leaving the balcony to go to his own room.
"He's changed," she said to herself, continuing to look up at the sky. She then left the balcony to go to bed where she immediately fell asleep. Today had been exhausting for her. Like when witches used their magic, using her Traveler magic had drained her. She had barely been able to return in time before it was too late. So, it was a good thing that she had a nice warm bed to sleep in tonight.
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