This story continues off much later after Elijah frees Stefan from the tomb on Elena's request. He compels Katherine to remain in the Tomb and she is left once again alone and empty will no blood to survive. Unaware that another visit of the original was coming near much sooner then she expected.

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Katherine was sitting in her tomb once again alone and heartbroken that Stefan walked away. Leaving her again for his precious Elena.

How could she be so special?

She's nothing but a boring human.

The only thing she saw that would be appealing to him was that she looked just like her. Yet he treated her like she was nothing.

Soon her thoughts were interrupted but a new presence.

She shifted her feet slightly in the musty ground to stand up. Even without her vampire senses she heard footsteps outside getting closer to her.

"I'm not in the mood for more unwanted visits!" She snapped.

"Are you so certain Katerina?" A man's voice echoed back.

Katherine turned her head to the voices direction. She slowly came closer down her long tomb.

Elijah?

It can't be.

He just compelled her to stay and rot in this tomb forever.

Why should he ever come back?

But without a doubt she saw the familiar dark coloured hair and even darker eyes of brown.

"What brings you back here Elijah?" she said rather coldly.

"Last time we met, you compelled me to stay in here" She said as she came closer to the exit till she was almost a few steps away from where he stood in front of her. But no further.

"Has that changed?" She asked.

"No" Elijah said simply.

Katherine smirked and said "Then I see no reason to talk to you at all" and was ready to turn back down to her long tomb. But Elijah was faster and caught her in his grasp.

"Katerina!" He said annoyed and staring straight in her eyes firmly.

She of course could not look away.

"You will stay here and hear me out." He said as he compelled her. Then let her go.

Unwillingly her feet held her down so she had no choice but acknowledge him so she folded her arms with a rather annoyed look.

Elijah smiled and just stared at her.

"Well?" She said impatiently.

"You compelled me to listen to you"

"So talk."

"I'm sorry Katerina" He replied.

Katherine frowned.

What for?

That wasn't at all what she expected him to say.

Elijah wasn't one to apologise to anyone, even for someone like me.

Quickly regaining her composure, like a switch she was back to her snippy self.

"For what?" she said as if it were a stupid thing to say.

"Leaving me here in this forsaken tomb till my body turns to dust" she said with such sarcasm.

"For the part I played in your planned sacrifice" he continued slowly looking into her eyes.

First she was shocked then she was upset, then she was very, very angry.

Oh no! He does not get to bring up the past.

She felt herself grinding her teeth together.

Distorting her sweet face into an anger to behold.

"For what you….." Elijah started to say.

"Shut up" she interrupted.

"Katerina?"

"SHUT UP, JUST SHUT UP!" She screamed abruptly and raced at him forgetting the barrier of the tomb.

So she was rebounded a step back. Quivering of her anger.

If Elijah was shocked, he didn't show it but he did tighten his lips at her outburst with closed eyes.

Katherine inside was shocked of her own actions that she wanted to take it back.

But then something inside her said she had every right to. So straightened herself facing him. With whatever dignity she had left.

What's the use of staying in her place against Elijah, when Klaus would gladly come for her soon enough.

So she let her outburst deepen.

"Don't you dare apologise to me!" she snarled.

"You don't get to apologise to me, you KNEW what you were doing when you helped Klaus" She exclaimed with anger.

"I…." Elijah started.

"DON'T DENY IT!"

"You don't get that right!"

"Nothing you say matters to me."

Elijah sighed and very unlike himself held his head down in shame, but Katherine hardly noticed.

She wasn't finished. Her anger was taking her whole, despite knowing that talking back to original is always a bad move. But she couldn't stop.

"I finally get to appreciate myself worth after what you both did to me."

She said fighting back even the tiniest feeling of tears. Even revisiting her memories was as painful as acknowledging it out loud. Thankfully for her tears, they didn't appear on her face.

As if facing her old self. The naive little girl who believed in love and believed that there were people she could trust and care about her, no matter who she was.

Father made that without a doubt that it wasn't meant for me, as if disgracing my family for being with child ended all possibility of that. For not doing the right thing for myself and my unborn baby at the time.

She now hated her old self, blind to the realities of the world.

Weak, pathetic and all too well deserved to be left behind.

"Being a vampire was the best thing that ever happened to me. I never regretted that decision, never have and I don't plan to dwell on the past. So don't even start."

"I don't regret anything." She said with a heavy tone and almost out of breath of her running voice.

Elijah just remained silent through the whole lecture like confession, he lifted his head as she finished and his earlier expression of shame gone to be replaced with no expression on his face as if this happened everyday and looked into her eyes.

Elijah's hands slightly shook at his sides. But Katherine was too absorbed with hate for this man she didn't notice.

"Did you ever know that I wanted to save you?" He said without his stern usual voice. But instead filled with sorrow.

"Save me?" She said with confusion.

"More like lie and deceive me."

"Yes I did" He said.

"But not all of it was a lie Katerina."

Katherine shook her head at what she was hearing. Knowing he was just playing with her emotions.

"Do you remember anything in 1492 after playing chase in the woods?" He said softly with a hint of hope.

Katherine's anger slowly dissapeared and she couldn't help but smile at that memory.

"How could I forget, it's still my favourite game" she chuckled.

Elijah almost caught his breath like he could see the girl he once remembered.

"But do you remember what I said about true love?"

She rolled her eyes and started to comb her fingers through her musty brown hair.

"You said you didn't believe such a thing as love" in a bored tone.

"I meant it" He said.

"When I spent my time with you then"

"I enjoyed every minute."

Katherine smiled.

But not with that sweet innocent smile Elijah distinctly remembered and cherished once.

But with the cold vindictive smile of her present self.

Her tainted self.

Just comparing the times, she wasn't the same girl yet, she was.

"Now I know you are playing me" she said spitefully.

"No Katerina I'm not."

"I mean it, you have my word" Elijah sincerely said.

She gasped a little of this move. He never said that unless he made a vow of honour to another person.

"I know I don't deserve you to listen to me but I needed to speak out my regrets as I've carried them for too long."

As he said this he moved a little closer to her.

Katherine was getter scared and backed away a little as he went pass the barrier and then held her face in his hands.

She wanted to turn away as she no longer wanted to be compelled or even look at his eyes anymore but as she was weak right now, she could do nothing but whimper in his hands.

"Don't be afraid, I apologise for compelling you but if I didn't compel you, you wouldn't hear me out of how I felt before all this happened."

With a pause in between they just stared at each other, he finally said something that made her heart stop.

"Know that it was real"

She wanted to speak so badly but something about how he was looking at her right now made her voice abandon her.

"I just wish you trusted me to save you, it wouldn't of ended like this" Elijah said in a pained voice.

"You may like being the vampire now but I loved you all the same as a human."

He then looked at her over.

Gosh she was so pure before me and Klaus.

So good. No matter what anyone else thinks.

And we crushed it.

"I just couldn't walk away from you without you knowing I had cared" He whispered.

Katherine was lost in his words. Conflicting feelings clouding her face.

"Why did you have to tell me now?" she said quietly while looking into his eyes.

"Because I didn't know I had the courage too" he replied.

"As the girl I knew was gone."

"But somehow I felt I had to say it to you anyway."

Katherine finally let her eyes water and a single tear glided down her dirt smudged cheek.

Elijah smiled sadly and wiped it away with his thumb.

"I apologise again Katerina, but I can't let this get out and I can't trust you to ever reciprocate this feelings back to me, so I have to do the one thing I can do."

"Make you forget" he said letting his compulsion take over.

He let his hands drop and kissed her forehead as she was still under its control.

Elijah knew he only a few minutes till she would be in control again.

So he quickly said.

"Until we meet again Katerina"

Author's Note

I hope they continue the Katherine and Elijah storyline like in Season 2. They were so sweet together. I ship them almost as much as I ship Klaus and Caroline. I don't know. I guess the appeal of innocence that was shown through Elijah chasing after Katherine and Klaus teasing Caroline by withholding her application out of her reach, brings out this beautiful childish love.

Sometimes this is forgotten as you grow up and have to face the fact your child life is over and your adult life is beginning.

That's just my thoughts but may they be together through fan videos, fanfiction and maybe in future season 4 episodes.

Oh before I forget I made my first fanvideo on Elijah and Katherine Heres a link on youtube.

watch?v=f4aYSbJ-oEc

or type

Elijah/Katherine - Mess I made (user Puffu618 )

Please comment there or here and tell me what you guys think. ^_^

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ATTENTION FAN READERS OF THIS STORY !

Two very lovely readers wanted me to update this. And I have. Will put it up soon.

One spoiler I'm going to give away is that it's going to set a season ahead of this story. Not absolute sure if I'm going to link in to this story as a second chapter or put it as a Brand NEW seperate story.

Who knows. But I am going to continue with more Elijah and katherine.