Chapter 1

Hey readers and fans of TVD! This isn't my first fanfiction but it is my first Vampire Diaries one but I promise you, it won't be the last XD My friend Carly gave me the idea for this fanfic and helped me come up with a plot so I give her credit for it like she asked :) Also just a note, Katherine is human (Sorry if you haven't seen the season finale :/ ) but I'm waaaaaay too lazy to add the whole Silas is Stefan thing so just pretend Stefan is Stefan and most of this Fanfiction will be a flashback.

Without further ado, Chapter 1!

"So what am I doing here?" Katherine said in a bored tone. She was sprawled out in the Salvatore home on a couch, Her feet were kicked up onto the couch and she was extremely bored. She would have much rather been out hunting for a vampire to turn her than sitting on a couch watching Stefan pour himself a drink. But it wasn't like she had much of a choice, after the cure was shoved down her throat she blacked out and woke up in the Salvatore home.

"Oh nothing much,"Stefan replied, pouring himself a drink. It was a mixture that even Katherine didn't recognize but by the amount of liquor he was pouring in, she could tell it was strong. "We're just going to keep you here for a little while."

Katherine's softy doppelgänger was sitting across from her, obviously not even trying to hide the hate in her eyes. Katherine grinned, she took great pride in the fact that she had managed to royally piss off the girl. Elena was such a damsel in distress, everyone just HAD to drop whatever they were doing to save poor, little Elena. It was disgusting. Katherine had never gotten that kind of attention, she always had to fend for herself.

"We're just keeping you busy," Elena half spat out the words. There was such disgust and hatred in her tone that Katherine had nothing else to do but continue to be proud of herself for turning that obnoxiously sweet girl into a boiling pot of rage, just ready to boil over and scald somebody.

"Keep me busy from doing what? Drinking blood?" She mocked, "If you haven't noticed, I'm human now because SOMEBODY just couldn't handle their rage." Katherine turned to Elena and cocked her head to the side, "How's that working out for you?"

Elena made some kind of growling noise in the back of her throat but when Stefan gave her a warning glance she backed down. Katherine grinned in triumph. Katherine: 1 Prissy Doppelgänger: 0.

Stefan cleared his throat before he spoke, "Because we can't let you leave."

"And why ever not?" Katherine said, feigning interest. The truth was that she didn't really care all that much, she was just going to stay as long as it suited her and then find a way to leave and be turned back into a vampire. Then there would be no more cure to turn her human again and Elena wouldn't have the advantage to kill her.

"Because we're not going to let you go and turn back," Stefan said in that know-it-all, I'm-one-step-ahead-of-you tone of his.

"Well you can't keep me here forever," Katherine mocked, crossing her legs in an exaggerated fashion, "But I'll humor you for now."

Elena visibly rolled her eyes, was she trying to make Katherine laugh? Katherine was on the verge of hysterical laughter as the newbie vampire tried to look threatening.

"So, talk." Stefan said flatly as he sat next to Elena and sipped his drink.

WOW, Katherine thought to herself, She has seriously got him strung along. "Why would I do that?"

"Pass the time," Stefan shrugged.

"Or," Katherine dragged the word out, "You could talk."

"About what?" Stefan asked. Obviously Elena was not enjoying Katherine's company, she kept folding her arms and trying to look away from the older vampire.

"How's Alexia? Or what does she go by now? Lexi?"

The question obviously struck Stefan, he looked as if he had been slapped across the face. Katherine knew she had brought back memories for Stefan. She also knew that he hadn't expected that question to come up. According to him, Lexi had never even met Katherine.

But things are not always what they seem.

"How do you know about Lexi?" Stefan asked, leaning forward and resting his arms on his knees. He had suspicion laced with hurt and emotion in his tone.

"I asked you a question," Katherine sing-songed. Now that she had baited Stefan with something that he wanted to know it was time to play with him.

"She's uh..." Now Katherine was interested, why wouldn't he just tell her? Why did the mention of Alexia bring so much emotion to him?

"She's dead," Elena said without emotion.

Now it was Katherine's turn to look as if she was punched in the face. She shouldn't care really, her and Alexia hasn't talked for 300 years, but there was still a gut-wrenching feeling in the pit of her stomach at the news.

Stefan cleared his throat and gained his composure. Within seconds he was back to himself, "And who's fault was that?" He rolled his eyes.

"Probably not my best move considering you refuse to stop blaming me," Katherine groaned when she heard the all-too familiar voice. Damon stepped into the room and over to the alcohol. "I think you need to stop placing the blame on people," He waved his cup in the air as he spoke before pouring some dark liquid into the glass.

"Well I wouldn't have to if you hadn't stabbed my best friend," Stefan retorted in his sarcastic voice that he used a bit too much around his older, yet less mature, brother.

"So you killed Alexia?" Katherine asked, anger rising in her throat.

"Had to to get the council off my back, what do you care?" Damon said as he sat in a chair separate from the other two. Katherine observed closely the look that Damon gave his brother, was that jealousy in his eyes? Just because he was sitting next to Elena? Wow this love triangle is getting complicated.

"I knew the blonde a few years back," Katherine said, checking her nails. She was still acting bored but it was getting harder what with wanting to rip Damon's head off. Katherine shook the thought from her head, no. She doesn't care about Alexia, they weren't even friends! No one was friends with Katherine!

"Lexi said she had never met you," Stefan's eyes narrowed. It was quite obvious that he was skeptical about Katherine's intentions, making her more excited to mess with his head. It was what she did best.

"When you live for 500 years you meet people and who knows? People lie."

"So when was this?" Elena asked, trying to cut into the conversation. Katherine rolled her eyes, who did this newbie think she was? Alexia had nothing to do with her.

"It was sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s and I was around 200 years old by that time. It was Russia and-" Everyone stared at her in disbelief, "What? When you're avoiding an original it's smart to leave the country. Anyway I was married to some idiot king."

Again everyone stared at her in disbelief. "You were married?" Damon spat.

Katherine grinned and shrugged, "Not for long, he was an absolute ruler of Russia and a terrible one at that. So, naturally, I killed him." Now this didn't shock them at all, Katherine was known for killing when it suited her. "So have you ever heard of the great ruler of Russia, Catherine the Great? Lets just say we were very, very close."

"Wait, hold on a second," Stefan interrupted, "You were Catherine the great? But her name was Catherine with a C."

"Damn historians," Katherine growled, "They could never quite get it right. Yes, I was Katherine the Great." It took a minute for the information to settle on the other three but when it had settled one fact hit them like a freight train.

Katherine had ruled a country.

Oooooooo shocker right? Well, maybe not but anyway pleeeease review, favorite and follow if you liked it and even if you don't then still review! I love a helping of constructive criticism on my fanfictions. See you guys next chapter :)