Something always brings me back to you.
Katherine made her way to the apartment, the place where a few hours ago she tricked Damon and Rebekah.
She sat on the cough and took a deep breath, fighting her tears.
She is not the one to cry, to care and to feel but it is seem that her heart was decided otherwise and she couldn't fight it anymore. Her humanity was turned on and she didn't have the straight to prevent it. Katherine Peirce was sitting and crying over a guy she once knew. Was he really the reason to those tears? Or there is something much bigger than his?
Katharina, her birth name, and her past that she swore she will leave behind forever.
Forever, such a meaningless word and with this thought she smiled.
If someone would have told her she would react like that over one simple encounter with him she defiantly would laugh right in there face, telling them they are crazy.
Suddenly her glance was directed to the aquarium that she pulled Damon's head into.
Her thought drifted to the first encounter with Elijah since she found out about the cure.
"Yes?" He said in his British smooth accent.
For a moment there was a silence on the other side of the line, Elijah could hear a deep sigh.
"Long time" Katherine answered with her cocky voice.
"Katharina" The sound of her name said by him made her heart to skip a beat.
She could feel how her whole body starting to get weak and she was forced to lean on something not to stumble. So she leaned on the chair that was in her kitchen.
"For what do I own the pleasure? Last time I saw you, you were on the tomb...If I remember correctly" He asked her.
"Well, you know how I am, nothing can't stop me from getting what I want" She smile across the line.
"If you calling, and especially me from all, that means you need something... Clearly you wrong to think that I would help you Katharina after everything you did.
But I am a noble man and that why I will still listen to your offer" He said in his business voice. There was again a silence from the other side of the line which seemed to Elijah like she was considering his offer.
"Well?" He broke the silence after a few minutes.
Katherine didn't know how to approach him, she knew that she needed more than a simple offer to convince him to help her. He won't truth her that easily even if he agreed for the deal. She needed to prove herself to him somehow and that when it hit her, "I will meet you and tell you all the details".
Elijah didn't answer her and she knew she caught him by surprise and the thought made her smile.
"Where?" That was all he said to her.A sudden noise from the kitchen made her to come back to reality.
She immediately made her way to the kitchen ready for attack.
The darkness was surrounding the room and she couldn't see clearly if someone was standing there. She walked quietly to the kitchen and she saw that her window was open.
Than she heard a noise behind her and she turned around fast only to be hit in her head with something hard, losing her consciousness in the process.
At the same time she arranged the meeting with Elijah she was visiting London. It was very dangerous for her to stay in the same place for long, especially big city like this, she couldn't allow to get caught because her life was in the line after all.
It was a small coffee shop in some remote and unknown street that she ran into couple month ago.
She looked at her watch making sure she had some time left to go through her plan again.
She looked at herself in the elaborate Victorian mirror above the cherrywood dresser.
She wore a smokey eye makeup in silver colors which bold her eyes and cherry color lipstick.
She also wore a very tight black skinny jean and a 10 inch black heel.
To this look she also matched a silver strapless and her leather black coat.
'This bitch looking smoking hot!' She thought to herself walking out the room to the kitchen to grab a blood bag.
Her plan was pretty simple- she will meet up with Elijah and tell him about her plan to steal the cure from Sails. After that she will try to reach out to the noble man that cared for Katharina and convince him that she tried of running and that he owned her at least her freedom for all the pain he caused her.
In the worse case Elijah will refuse her and her charm on him wouldn't work and in the end of all this she will be dead. An option that really scared her but she was truly tired of running, she have done that in the last 500 years and she wants to live again.
'Doesn't she deserve a normal life like anybody else? She maybe messed with the wrong people but she was doing all of that for her survival and there is nothing wrong with that'.
She took a deep breath, closing her eyes and trying to control her heartbeats.
She was scared, she knew that but who could have blame her for that? Her last encounters with Elijah weren't exactly a piece of cake; he doesn't her friend, but does he her enemy?
She will find the answer pretty soon.
It was a middle of a sunny afternoon when she entered the coffee shop with her head high lifted. She could see him sitting there near the window, his hands was crossed on the table.
He ordered himself a coffee, she could see. He was looking out of the window all in thoughts not noticing her. Katherine took a deep breath and went to sit across him in the table.
He turned his head to face her, sitting there silently, taking her appearance in.
He was checking her out, his eyes traveling for the face to her shoes and she also used this moment to check him too. Elijah was always dressed so formally in his suits.
Black suit and grey tie, and she had to admit that he was super handsome, also the short haircut that emphasize his beautiful face features.
She was forced to stop measuring him when his eyes were backed to stare at hers.
When their eyes met each other only then she notice how fast her heart was beating and she swallowed hardly. Elijah could easily see how nervous she was, unable to hold his glance for long, looking to her hands that were under the table.
He sat there looking at her amused, not saying a word to her, trying to read her thoughts.
She was brave, meeting him here, doesn't she know that he could kill her easily in a few seconds? It really surprised him when she really showed up in front of him, he wasn't sure she actually come, more likely send someone to do the dirty work like she always does.
Still there was something different about her, near him she wasn't the confidence Katherine that was in control. She was a scared beautiful woman and somehow tired and broken inside. 'Did I cause that?' Elijah thought sadly to himself not letting go of those pretty brown eyes that always drown him to her.
She was so angry at herself at the moment, cursing herself for being so vulnerable near him.
"Katharina, look at me" he said to her, making her eyes to wide in surprise and look at him.
He thought that calling her by her name will cause her to talk but she just stared at him.
Elijah sighed in frustration and said "You wanted to offer me a deal if I remember correctly; well here I am so let's get to the point, shall we?" He wasn't here to neither forgive nor pity her. She didn't earn his compassion.
She was really angry at the way he treated her, so coldly like she was nothing but a stranger.
"I want my freedom" She said shortly, not scared anymore.
"And why would you think that I have any intentions to help you? As I recall we are not friends and I own you nothing dear" he said in amusement, a weak smile appear on his lips.
'The nerve this man has!' Katherine thought angrily.
"You right! You own me more than that because I am in this situation because of you and your family, so give me a break." She didn't wait for his reaction and continued taking, "The deal is pretty simple, I can get the cure from vampirism and give it to you in exchange for my freedom from Nicklaus, you will give it to him and the Mystic Falls gang couldn't use it on him. You can take the deal or leave it" She said in commanding voice.
Elijah didn't answer, he was still amused by her behavior, she was something.
"You are not in position to make demands, you defiantly forgetting with whom you're talking" He said calmly, putting his hands under his chin.
"No, actually I do, I am talking to a man whom I trusted and he chose to slaughter me like I am some kind of animal, don't worry I will never forget" She attacked him back.
"And I thought you were smarter than that, You should have known that I will never trust you word and as tempting as it sounds I forced to decline this offer" He said a little pissed.
"But still, I am very curious to know why you thought I would accept your offer in the first place?" He asked.
Katherine couldn't look at him anymore, she wanted to punch him very hard for everything he put her through and most of all she wanted to kill herself for even thinking that he would help her, care for her.
She didn't answer and suddenly stood up and turned to leave him when he caught her hand, act that made her to turned around to him.
"You didn't answer me" He said in empty voice, showing no emotion to her.
"Because I thought you still care for the girl you once met, a girl who thought she could trust you to be there for her. I guess she was wrong" She said angrily, getting free from his hold and walking out of the coffee shop in a hurry, not bothering to look at him.