Summary: Set after Katherine becomes human due to Elena. Katherine finds a hurt Elena. Can she help her? Will she care enough to help her?
It's a dark night, as I enter the Salvatore boarding house, closing it behind myself. I am human now, so I need protection. And what better protection than Damon and Stefan Salvatore? They hate me I know, but they know that I will do what I can to help them destroy Silas once and for all. Klaus and the other Originals, excluding Rebekah, have left Mystic Falls behind and are now in New Orleans. The only threat now is Silas. I am to blame for waking him, but I will do everything I can to stop Silas. Even if it means that I will die.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxOnB0Vsjh2
When I enter the living room, I rush towards Elena Gilbert, my descendant, whom lays on her back by the foot of the stairs. I then kneel down beside her and search for wounds, as I look down at her in fear. She is my family and I will not let the last of my family, human and vampire alike, die. Family is everything to me, whether I have shown it in the recent past or not.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwqZtqwGGqQ
"Elena, can you hear me?" I call to her. "Elena."576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgWLFAI3Myo
She's out cold, but I have to try with all I have. I am determined, though I tried to kill her earlier tonight when I was a pissed off vampiress. I took my anger out on her and tried to kill her, which I should not have done.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ1Pkx1Nu57
I pull her gently into my arms and feel blood on the back of her head. I don't know what happened here, but I need Elena to wake up and tell me what happened.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjZmI2TYp7X
"Elena, drink," I say, as I put my wrist to her lips, hoping the scent of human will wake her.
A moment later, I wince in pain as her fangs sink into my wrist. Then she greedily drinks.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS3iOGiaNRi
She opens her eyes and sees it's me she's drinking from.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVfXDRFFm1z
At vamp speed, she slams me against a wall after letting go, pinning me there.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf33GbsQohz
"What the hell are you doing here!?" she demands.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8pqeSVV8l0
"This is the only place I can kind of call home. Now will you let me go and calm down? I just helped you," I answer calmly.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG3IJ56EbYA
She glares at me and then lets go of me.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLWBft6kdOa
"What do you want, Katherine?"576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiHoiyiabpl
"Nothing you will ever give me. I'm human, which means I need protection. You won't give it to me, but Damon might. I don't know where he is, though."576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDXvp2N9wxK
"He's at the Grille," she informs me.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNUuEAMvqOo
When I start to feel weak, I know Elena took a lot of blood from me, but I don't care. Not if it means that she will be okay. After all, my blood healed her I know. I don't see blood on her anymore. I feel myself start to lose my balance. Then everything is distant, before I black out.
I don't know how long I'm out, but when I come to, I'm in Damon's bed upstairs with Elena standing at my bedside.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeuItH1Ymt7
"You're awake," she says.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQBuTaq8D8O
I slowly sit up in bed.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSs13lZCC9Y
"Of course," I reply.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUqSkB1bxiK
"I'm sorry," she says.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCHN7ELVxBW
I know she's apologizing for taking too much blood from me. I don't have to be a vampire or read her mind to know that. She and I are a part of the Petrova bloodline. When she was human, she was a doppelganger like I was when I was first human. We are almost the same. We look alike and sometimes think alike. That is why I know what she means. If I was in her position, I would be apologizing too, though she hates me.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJzoJmj9BVQ
"It's okay," I tell her. "You were badly hurt. I don't care if I die, as long as my family is as safe as they can be. I did it to help you. Thank you for doing the same."576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLRqFsvdUDg
"You're welcome," she replies.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuXbZFEA5hO
Later, Damon and Elena let me know that they will give me protection, which I am very thankful for. A part of my family is finally starting to forgive me for all the wrongs I have done in the past. Some things will never change, though. My sorrow from my human family I lost due to Klaus in 1490 in Bulgaria will always be with me. I will mourn them for the rest of my life. I will never be the same again, whether I am a vampire or a human. And we will never stop being in danger of one thing or another. There will always be danger upon and around us, whether we are ready for it and whether we like it or not. But the one thing that will change is my family forgiving me, and us actually being a family for once in our lives. We were never a family, because I got separated from the Salvatore brothers in 1864. I watched over them without them knowing it, but I never showed myself to them. I knew that they thought I was dead, and if they knew I was back then, they would try to unite with me and that would bring them trouble. I was trying to protect them from Klaus. I couldn't let them know that I was alive, because I was always running from Niklaus. I was always staying one step ahead of him, which gave me a chance to run from him for 500 years. That is how long I have lived as a vampire. I was a 500 year old vampire. Survival was my first instinct. Keeping family together and safe was my second. But I am done and tired of running. I want to rest; stop running for my life from every danger that comes my way. All in all, family means the most to me and I will do what it takes, do or die, to keep my family together and safe. And that is where my old story ends, and where a new story begins.
