Nothing belongs to me. This is based on a spoiler I read about and is set in season 2, episode 10, The Sacrifice.

Stefan And Katherine

The tomb was a place of darkness and death, a place that people feared . But right now it was looking positively homely...well, in a sick and twisted way. It had been a couple of weeks since Stefan had been stupidly trapped in there with the deadly vampire Katherine and Damon had brought them constant supplies of blood and candles. He had also brought books and magazines that he had said would help distract him from the bitch's manipulative words...but Stefan had thought it would take much more then that. Damon had almost successfully kept true to his word and kept Elena away from this place and him.

But the books and magazines lay unopened and untouched, they lay scattered on the floor where Bonnie had thrown them. Damon, unable to get things into the tomb itself without also being trapped had managed to persuade Bonnie to help him. It had been a huge big deal, with Bonnie being as against vampires as she was, But Elena hadn't wanted Jeremy going back there after what Katherine had done to him and so Bonnie had finally agreed to do this for her best friend, although she had said it was the last thing she would ever do and after this she was done with it. Of course they still needed her to try and get Stefan out of the tomb, but Damon was confident that they could talk her round eventually with enough guilt laid on her.

Stefan unfortunately, had not succeeded in being distracted and Katherine's whispered words had slowly started to get under his skin and she was beginning to drive him seriously crazy. It was like she could read his thought, always praying on his insecurities and his weaknesses. He was surely going to kill her any day now. But if he and Damon had been able to kill her wouldn't they have done it by now? Of course they would have. But she had a hold over them somehow and he didn't know how to break it.

He missed Elena terribly. The first couple of days when she had snuck down to the tomb and he had heard her crying out how she wished she could save him and how she wished she could just walk right in there and screw Katherine killing her. But then eventually Elena had stopped coming, knowing how foolish that would be, her just walking right in and relying on Stefan to save her when he was evenly matched with Katherine and who knew who would win in a forced fight to the death?

This was infuriating and he didn't know how much more of it he could take.

"Plotting my death again Stefan?" Came her low hiss of a voice from the only place where there wasn't candle light.

He growled at her in response.

"I can tell just by looking at you. I could always read you so well, Stefan. Because it's always been you in the end."

"Shut the hell up," he yelled at her, wishing that he had a weapon of any kind on him but he had nothing.

She laughed at him. God damn bitch was laughing at him. "I said shut up Katherine. Can't you just shut up and give me a moment's peace?"

She shook her head in amusement. "My dear Stefan. You can't give yourself a moment's peace let alone me giving you any. You and your poor tortured soul. But it's ok. I forgive you for wanting to kill me because I know that you would never be able to do it. You and Damon never have been able to. Because you still want me."

"Keep dreaming," he turned away from her.

"Admit it darling you always wanted me. You can say that I compelled you all you want but deep down you know what bullshit that is. And you can say all you want that you love Elena for who she is and that you know she isn't me, which may be true but you where first of all attracted to her because she looks like me. And that's the truth of it."

She laughed again at his look of disgust.

"Face it babe," she stood up and walked towards him slowly, reaching out to take his hand and entwining her fingers with hers. "You couldn't kill me because you need me here. Otherwise you would be alone in this place with just your thoughts for company and that would be a fate worse then death I think, right? My thoughts are much better then yours of course." She ignored the flinch of his hand that he had made when she first touched him.

"You and I belong together. There's a darkness in you that's always been there hiding under the surface. You just have to let go of everything and let it out."

"You're lying," he spat at her. "How can you be so...interested in getting me when there's the threat of Klaus over all of us?"

She stiffened slightly and looked away from him but not before he had seen the actual fear in her eyes. "Klaus is terrifying even to me," her voice was barely audible but then she seemed to regain her strength and she looked back at him. "But like I said before, now I'm in the safest place I can be and I'm with you. If on my own I would be contemplating suicide by now but...you're here to keep me occupied. Why would I need to worry about him? But your princess Elena...she has to worry."

Stefan finally seemed to remember that her hand was mixed up with his and with the super human strength that vampires were known for he threw Katherine away from him with so much force that she slammed into the stone wall behind them letting out a cry of shock at what he'd done.

"You want to play at that game?" She instantly recovered from his attack and ran at him letting her rage at him explode in punches to his face so fast that he had no time to block them and then she whirled round and kicked him hard in the stomach, it being his turn to collapse into the wall.

"You hurt me I hurt you. I could keep this up all night you know."

"But you could knock over our blood supplies and then we'd go without until Damon next get's here," he pointed out wearily.

"Damn you," she muttered. "Do you always have to think of every little thing to annoy me? I was just starting to have some fun."

He looked at her then, really looked at her and he grew sad. Sad for the woman that she had become and the woman that she could have become. "You really think this is fun?"

She rolled her eyes back at him. "Yes. We are vampires Saint Stefan. Sometimes I think you forget that. It's our true nature to fight and kill no matter how we try and stop it."

"We should try to fight for survival not for fun..." she'd managed to do it again. No matter how hard he tried he couldn't stop letting her in. He was trying to explain something to her...he might as well just forget it right now. She would never change. The only reason she had ever helped them was to get something she wanted. If she ever got out of this tomb she would run the first chance she got to get away from Klaus and that would prove that she had been using him all along. He had to remember that and remember what she really was. No matter how much she tried to talk to him...it would always end up in violence because he couldn't ever agree with anything she said.

She shrugged and casually walked over to the bottles of blood that where stacked against the wall and she slowly opened the bottle and drank, making a face. "Animal blood. Damon's gone soft. And I can think of so much more fun things for us to be doing Stefan."

"Like it or don't." He sat down on the floor and thought about picking up a book but he didn't. He didn't want to know what it was she was thinking about. He really didn't.

"So you told the prince of darkness to keep Elena away from here," she said finally. "Don't have a clue why you did that. Want to give me any hints honey?"

"It's none of your business," he answered her sharply. He didn't want to go down that road if he could help it... but he knew he was asking for too much.

"But you're going to tell me anyway."

"If you promise to shut up for at least half an hour maybe I will," he muttered.

"Done deal." She didn't really care in the least but if it would keep him talking so she could forget about how bored out of her mind she was and that she could get to him some more all the better.

"She needs to start to forget me instead of waiting around for the slight hope that I might get out of here."

"Oh don't worry sugar I think Damon will be helping a lot with the forgetting you part."

She was suddenly worried about the look in Stefan's eyes when she said that and worried about what he was about to do to her. Maybe she had gone too far with that last comment...

TBC

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