One

Katherine Pierce fluttered her eyelashes so that they opened and closed. She could literally feel her strength leaving her. She noticed with a heavy heart that she was closed to death, and even though it was expected it still scared her.

When Silas had sucked the cure out of her, she started aging, but she honestly hadn't thought it would end up being this bad.

She could honestly say that she was having a bad day. She had been at the hospital that morning, everyone was cheering to her future death, and Damon Salvatore had played with her mind reliving her to her most awful moments.

The only one who had been halfway decent to her had been Stefan Salvatore, he had already said his goodbyes and now Katherine was lying on her bed waiting for death to claim her. If it would only hurry up.

Katherine's brown eyes filled with tears, but she refused to let them fall. She had, had a second plan in motion, but Katherine had realize that it had fallen through the cracks. Katherine rested her head against the pillow and hoped for sleep.

Damon opened the door and was surprised to see a dark hair witch standing in front of him. She said in a thick, English accent. "Is Katherine Pierce here?"

"Hopefully, the Grim Reaper already took her. What the hell do you want?"

"I have found a way to save her." She raised her chin.

"Which means there's no way in hell that you're going to come in." Damon snapped. "The best thing that Katherine will do is die and let everyone have a little bit of peace."

The witch raised her hand which caused Damon to be pinned to the wall, unable to move. "I owe her a debt and you will not stand in my way." She turned towards Stefan. "Where is she?"

"Stefan," Elena Gilbert whispered as she clutched his hand. She glared at the witch. "Katherine Pierce has made my life hell, there is no way that you're saving her! We are finally going to get rid of her."

The witch raised her hand again and Elena started coughing up blood. "If you don't tell me where she is, I will kill you."

"She's upstairs." Stefan blurted out.

The witch lowered her hand. "Thank you for your cooperation."

The witch made her way up the stairs and found Katherine in Stefan's room. "Katherine."

Katherine squinted. "Carmen? You got my message? You found a way to save me?"

Carmen nodded as she pulled out a small jar from her bag. "Here it is, the cure." She said. "I managed to find an antidote. Once I give this to you, my debt to you is over. I owe you nothing for saving my family from that fire."

"Done." Katherine said wheezing. "Give it to me, please."

Carmen handed her the jar.

Katherine paused for a moment. "Carmen, thank you."

Carmen's face softened and she looked surprised at Katherine's thankfulness. "Drink. You're welcome." And then she snapped her neck.

Caroline Forbes stepped into the Salvatore's living room removing a stray leaf that was entwined in her hair, trying to keep herself from bursting into giggles like a thirteen year old. Klaus Mikaelson had come to gloat over Katherine's corpse to be, but Caroline had managed to sway him away so that Katherine could die in peace.

Instead Klaus and Caroline had ended up having sex in the middle of the woods. And Caroline could honestly say that it was the best sex she had had, in her entire life. Klaus could be extremely talented when he wanted too.

Caroline still felt goose bumps in her skin when she remembered his kisses around the delicate arch of her neck.

The silly smile was still plastered on her face when she entered the room and saw Damon and Elena looking grim while Matt, Jeremy, and Bonnie looked nonchalant. "Hey, what's wrong?"

"The bitch is still alive, that's what's wrong." Damon murmured darkly into his drink.

"I don't know why you sound so surprise." Matt shrugged. "She's Katherine Pierce, she's a survivor."

"Well, couldn't she stopped being a survivor just once?" Elena asked irritably.

"Ok, guys still out of the loop."

"It seems that Katherine had a witch named Carmen on her side," Bonnie explained to her confused friend. "She created a potion that made Katherine a vampire again."

"Couldn't have said it better Bon-Bon." Katherine said as she came down the stairs, her smile lightening up the whole room. Her hair was now back to her chocolate curls, her skin was flawless, and she looked better than ever. She was dressed in a pair of skinny jeans and black top. Stefan was behind her apparently confirming that she was alive. She looked at all the faces that were glaring at her (mainly Elena and Damon) "And as much as I would love to stay here and rub it in your faces that I'm still alive, I have better things to do and more importantly things to buy. Adieu, hopefully I'll never see any of your pathetic faces again. Care bear, you have a leaf in your hair. Toodles.

Bonnie felt her voice break, but she refused to let the tears fall from her face. "What?" she croaked as she stared at Jeremy. "You want to what?"

"Break up." Jeremy said gently. "I'm sorry, Bonnie it's just . . . it's not working out. . ."

"Because I'm the anchor right?" Bonnie demanded. "You can't handle the fact that I'm the anchor."

Jeremy flushed. "It's not that." He looked at the floor. "I'm sorry Bonnie."

"I am too, believe me." Bonnie said, as soon as Jeremy closed the door of their dorm room, Bonnie burst into tears.

"Crying over a man? Come on witchy, I thought you were better than that, stronger-something tells me that deep down you're a love sick fool like my baby sister Rebekah."

Bonnie turned around and glared at the ghost, Kol Mikaelson that was smirking while lying down on one of the beds in the dorm. "I told you not to do that. Don't you have anything better to do than stalk me?"

"Well, you can't really do anything about it darling," Kol said as he approached her. "As for the stalking part, how dare you? I'm merely offering my company to prevent myself from going insane. Being lonely on the other side can drive a person mad," he traced a finger down her neck. "Thankfully, I have you to keep me company."

-End of Chapter One-

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