AN: Hello everyone! It's been a long time since I've posted on here and I'm really glad to be back! Hopefully you like this story I've started because I'm liking the ideas I have for it.
I just wanted to explain a few things before I get into the fic. So, since this starts back pretty far, this fic will be hugely AU. I will be changing a lot of stuff and if you're not OK with that, you probably shouldn't read this fanfic. I won't be doing anything with the Originals as I'm not a big fan of the whole Klaus baby plotline or anything that's really happening on there right now. Just, FYI. Also, I won't be using a lot of direct dialog because I'm too lazy to look it up. If you have any constructive criticism or any ideas for the story, please leave a review or PM me. I love hearing from you guys and I like the back and forth that comes with writing on here.
Anyway, the beginning of this little prologue deal starts off when Elena goes to ask Katherine about Klaus during the episode Katerina, I believe.
Disclaimer: None of this is mine, blah, blah, blah. Credit where credit is due and all that.
Katherine swallowed deeply as the blood ran down her throat, briefly purging the fire in her lungs. "So, what do you want to know?" She asked Elena in that coy, mocking tone of hers. "My deepest darkest secrets as we braid each other's hair?"
Elena poured another small amount of blood into the cup and slid it across the dirt with a stick, which Katherine then snatched up and drank quickly, sighing gratefully. "Tell me about Klaus."
Katherine let out a tinkling, mocking laugh. "It's quite a long story. Are you sure you want to know?"
"Just start from the beginning."
Katherine sighed and leaned back against the stone wall, setting down the once again empty plastic cup. "I met Klaus in England in 1492 after I…left Bulgaria. Well, really I was thrown out."
"Thrown out?" Elena asked curiously.
The vampire shrugged noncommittally. "Yes, I had been disowned by my family. My indiscretions weren't tolerated back then." She gave Elena a faux look of shock. "I had a baby out of wedlock, oh the shame."
Elena's eyes widened slightly in surprise. "And they kept it a secret?" She pushed over another cup of blood and Katherine drank it just as quickly as the last ones she'd had, the thirst never being fully sated.
"Yep. After my baby was given away, my parents sent me away with my cousin, Anastasiya Vankova. Anastasiya was always better behaved than me and I think they hoped she'd tame me while we were gone. When I met Elijah and Klaus, a so-called friend of theirs, Trevor, had brought us. He knew that I was the doppelganger they were looking for and claimed that it was my beauty that would enchant his lordly friend. Anyway, it was clear from the moment I met Klaus that he had no interest in me.
"Of course I didn't know what he was or what he wanted with me at the time, but he couldn't even be bothered to keep up the charade of a besotted suitor. He took more of an interest in my cousin, Anastasiya."
Elena raised her eyes from the ground in surprise. "Klaus had a thing for your cousin?"
Katherine chuckled. "Oh yes, they were constantly conversing. They became very close. Even when he invited us to live at his manor after our courting was official, Klaus never bothered to try and entertain me. His days were spent either away from the manor or with Anastasiya. I ended up spending most of my days with Elijah as he could see I was losing my mind trapped inside while I watched my suitor essentially court my cousin right in front of me.
"Anastasiya and I were always close, like sisters, but our relationship was never the same after Klaus. She fell in love with him while I became more and more wary of him. Later, I found out what he was and what he planned to do to me, so I ran. I ran in the middle of the night, Trevor helped me because he was hopelessly in love with me and seemed to think we would be together forever."
"Yet another man you strung along to help yourself," Elena piped up bitterly as she slid over another cup, lost count of how many it was taking just to get her through telling this story.
Katherine shrugged nonchalantly, tossing back the blood easily and sighing when it made its way down her throat, cooling that burn she couldn't ignore. "He sent me to a cottage where Rose was to hide. When Rose realized who I was and who was after me, she locked me in a room until she could take me back to Klaus. I tried to kill myself, stabbed myself in the stomach, but Rose came in before I could die and forced blood down my throat to heal me. What she didn't count on was me killing myself again and accidentally turning myself in the process."
"What about your cousin Anastasiya?" Elena asked. "Where was she during all of this?"
"She had no idea what was going on or where I was. Klaus lied to her and told her that I'd gone home briefly to tend to familial problems," Katherine said, laughing slightly. "That was a mistake. Anastasiya knew that I was never to be welcomed back to Bulgaria, even if my entire family was on the brink of death. She ran after that too. Once I completed my transition, we ran into each other in the woods and took off."
Elena sighed, pausing in her actions. "Did Anastasiya stay human?"
"No," Katherine said with a sigh, weakly gesturing for her to keep the blood coming. "She asked me to change her too. Anastasiya had no family left other than me, no friends. If I was to be immortal, so would she."
Elena slid over the cup before asking, "Then where is she now?"
"Beats me," Katherine snapped. "We posed as sisters for a while. I went by Katherine and she went by Ana. But after a few centuries, we began to grow apart. We decided it was best to go our separate ways. Last I heard she was living in upstate New York under the name Ana Valentine." She tossed back the blood quickly. "If you want to find out Klaus' weaknesses, go find Anastasiya."
Elena pondered this. Could Klaus' former love really be persuaded to turning against him? Katherine certainly seemed to think so. Obviously there was more to Klaus and Anastasiya's story than she was telling. Something darker and so Elena resolved to tell Damon and Stefan of this new information.
Mystic Falls, 1864
Ana stood at the edge of the ballroom, watching the exchange between Stefan, Katherine, and Damon. It had been months of this, Katherine turning the two boys against each other. She was feeding off of them, treating them like slaves to do with as she pleases and it scared Ana. The woman who did all this was not the sweet, ambitious girl from Bulgaria. Katerina wouldn't have been as malicious as Katherine.
The vampire made her way over to where Damon was, watching Stefan and Katherine dance with envy dancing in his eyes. She straightened out her dress, keeping her gaze on the smiling couple as well.
"You knew the price of loving my sister," Ana told him quietly, her expression giving away nothing when Damon turned to look at her. "Katherine is a lot of things, but she will never be committed to just one man. I warned you that it would come to heartbreak and yet—"
"I know what you said," Damon cut in sharply, his voice hard as steel. "But warning me and telling me of her…untraditional views on relationships does not cease my heart from feeling. It does not strike away the love I feel deep in my bones. No matter how she may feel, I love Katherine with all of me."
Ana sighed and her eyebrows pinched together as she frowned. "That is what worries me."
The night went on, Katherine reveling in the attention she received from both brothers. As the ball came to a close and the guests left, Katherine whispered in Stefan's ear, "Give me a moment to go up to my room to…freshen up." She left, casting him a mischievous smile as she went up the stairs.
Katherine went into her room, shutting the door behind her. She didn't expect to find Ana waiting for her, sitting on her bed, perfectly poised.
"What are you doing here?" Katherine asked Ana lightly, smiling as she began to remove her gloves and take down her lavish hairstyle.
Ana sighed and picked at the beading on her beautiful emerald colored gown. "We need to talk, Katherine."
The other vampire raised an eyebrow. "So serious. Well, then, Ana, let's talk." Katherine sat down at her vanity, facing away from Ana as she continued her process of getting undressed.
"Katherine, you're the only family I have and I love you more than anyone, but I can't do this anymore," Ana confessed in a rush. "I'm tired of going from place to place as you play your game of toying with men's hearts. You tease them, act coy, fool around for a few months, then kill them and leave in a flash. I can't watch your inhumane treatment of others anymore. And I won't be your accomplice in ruining the Salvatores' or any other family's lives."
Katherine's expression didn't change as Ana let it all out, but after knowing someone for centuries, her cousin knew her tells. She gripped each pin she pulled from her hair in a vice like grip. Her jaw was clenched and her eyebrows pinched slightly.
"Fine," Katherine told her nonchalantly. "I won't force you to help me in my debaucheries any longer. After we leave here, we'll go our separate ways. All our attachments will be severed."
Ana sighed, knowing it was for the best. However, she didn't want Katherine to sever all her ties to her. She would always care for her and she told her as much. "Katherine, if you ever need help, I'll always be there—"
The other woman turned around sharply and glared at Ana. "Save it for someone who cares, Anastasiya. I'm in no mood to pretend that we are still as close as we once were. Now, if you would be so kind as to leave, I'm expecting visitors."
Her cousin sighed, but didn't argue. Instead, she stood and slowly left the room, the door shutting with a heavy thud behind her.
It was only once her footsteps could no longer be heard that Katherine let her cold façade drop as the slammed her fist onto the vanity, cracking the wood. Her shoulders shook slightly as she laid her head on her arms for a moment, as she let herself mourn the last real companion she would ever have.
There you go, a little preview into why Katherine and Ana split up. How will the Salvatore brothers react to seeing Ana again? How many of the vampires does she know? And, most importantly, what happened between her and Klaus?
You will know in due time, my lovlies!
- HBTC