It's a dark night, as I walk the streets of New Orleans. The year is 1864 in the cold month of October. I have just left my brother, for I could not stand to watch him kill anymore humans. Stefan says it's just because I'm weak from not feeding. I choose not to feed, because I still have my humanity. I don't want to kill. I won't. It's wrong. Stefan doesn't see how wrong a path he's on. He's too blood crazed. He's like...what did I once hear? A Ripper? Yes. I think my brother is turning into the Ripper; a vampire that is too blood crazed to care about anything but blood. And I don't know how to stop or help him. So I'm on my own.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjsAdUqnRpj
As I walk, the thirst wants to over power me. Something inside me is telling me to feed to become a vampire, but I'm too stubborn. I'd rather die. Dying is better than being a monster and killing.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAebHpB4G4f
I'm not sure how long I walk, my mind spinning with thoughts, but I suddenly find myself in a desolate area of the city, not far from a dark alley. And from that alley, a man steps in front of me. I can guess that he's a vampire.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr3C2GbI03U
"Can I help you?" I ask him.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF41vJlmEmS
"You can by telling me where Katerina Petrova is. I'm Niklaus by the way, but you can call me Klaus."486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3eRmgLbRKP
"I'm sorry. Who?"486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvOCWn2sQNR
"Maybe you don't know her as Katerina. Let's try this again. Where's Katherine?"486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ81r8F3kRsF
"Sorry to bare bad news, but she died back in Mystic Falls in a church with all the other vampires. She was burned alive."486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ891Q7lDh2U
"I checked and she somehow escaped."486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Qu23x9pZE
My spirit rises. She's alive? Now I'm thrilled. When Klaus leaves, I can go find her. Then she'll be at my side until the end of our existence, once I feed and transition.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBRK9Uqei9x
"I don't know where she is," I inform him.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhZUMLaWlzV
"You better second guess yourself. I'm not someone you want to have on your bad side."486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡerDJcjv6Tm
"I'm telling the truth."486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡthtIykC5Ou
He pins me to a wall of a building, hand around my throat. Then I feel pain, as he stabs me in the gut with a dagger. I realize suddenly, somehow, that he's only half vampire, as his eyes flash the color and shape of werewolf eyes. Until now, I thought werewolves were just folklore. As I feel the pain, I groan and then everything goes black.
I don't know how long I'm out, but when I come to I'm chained to a wall in a basement. I'm not alone. Klaus is leaning against a wall across from me, a table at his left, examining a knife; probably the one he stabbed me with.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqnvuLtkMZJ
"Good. You're awake. That'll make things more fun."486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3dnjjMSmac
"I told you. I don't know where she is."486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPIpe0d2gGx
"True. But if I torture you, she'll come. She'll feel it since you have her blood in your system. She'll feel your pain. That's the gift of siring someone."486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKVzL0XfUa7
That never occurred to either me or Stefan.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsNvGEpo6f4
"Why do you want her so badly?" I have to ask in curiosity.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsuZ0NIoyfj
"She's important to me. She escaped me back in Bulgaria before I could perform the ritual to awaken the werewolf in me. She was my doppelganger. I had to kill her, but she was turned by Rose before I could find her. So I killed her family to get back at her for escaping me. Now I'm going to get what I want. I'm going to kill her. After she's dead, I'll look for her doppelganger."486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6vS0KrSeRA
"Revenge then."486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf4tSeRAqAA
"Something like that."486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfWSFDrgWIc
He goes to stand in front of me and then says, "This will be so much fun."486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhGPD7LRRbs
He stabs me in the side.
I don't know how long it goes on for with him torturing me, but when I'm weak and about to black out again, Katherine walks in. And as darkness starts to cloud my vision, I see him drop the knife and start towards her.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHkEy10c2YH
"Glad you could make it," he tells her.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnVjInr3PBb
They rush at each other at vampire speed. Then everything goes black for me.
When I wake up, I'm on the floor on my back with the chains off me, Kat kneeling at my side.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiTVzNB2NCA
"You came," I say softly, still feeling weak, though my wounds are healed. She probably gave me some of her blood while I was out.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡefrnhndqnY
"Of course I came. You're my only family I have left."486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq50Cz5nl98
"Where is he?"486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd0drPkQCsr
"Staked. But he's an Original. He won't be dead for long."486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkcCGHg61jB
I then see him on the floor on his back with a stake in the middle of his chest.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡui46JFCNFg
She puts an arm around me, helping me to my feet. Then together, we leave to find Stefan and get a place to stay.
