Enjoy dear readers :)) I have clearly switched around some things in the story line, so I guess this is a little AU? Sorry in advance for minor mistakes. All your support is appreciated!

/ I don't own TVD, if I did Katherine and Elijah would've had a much different ending *sighs* /

Katherine could tell something was wrong the second she woke up. Her skin was far too warm, and her throat felt as though someone had shoved vervain down it. Except she knew that couldn't be it; she had been a human for only five months, and she had hated every second of it.

Her whole body ached, and she seriously considered staying in bed. But she had big plans today -plans that may just involve travellers and jumping into a certain doppelgängers body- so she reluctantly dragged herself out of her cozy bed anyways. The sudden and tremendous pain in her head made Katherine start to worry something was seriously wrong with her. Surely this amount of pain wasn't normal for a simple headache?

Still she slipped on black jeans and a purple tank top and forced her body to keep moving in the direction of the Salvatore's kitchen. She opened the cabinet where her usual favourite cereal was kept and frowned when it was nowhere to be found.

"Looking for something?" Damon asked, sounding mischievous.

Katherine had been staying at the boarding house for the past few months and usually could handle Damon quite well - she found that threatening to stake him in his sleep tended to shut him up. But today felt different and she was in no mood to deal with the annoying vampire.

With a dramatic sigh she turned to face the elder Salvatore, narrowing her eyes and crossing her arms over her chest. Damon only smiled at her menacing stance as he shoved more cereal in his mouth. He stepped passed her and began to wash his empty bowl out in the sink, a stupid smirk still plastered on his face. Normally, Katherine would've given him hell for eating the last of her favourite Cheerios -the apple cinnamon kind of course- but she decides she isn't all that hungry anyways.

"This is the part where you're supposed to threaten my life." Damon says, giving her an expectant look.

She opens her mouth to retort but stops as her head throbs again. Gripping the counter for support she takes a moment to gather herself.

"Woah, you alright? You look like crap." Damon says, though he doesn't sound like he cares too much.

Stefan must've been lurking somewhere upstairs -probably writing in his diary or something sweet and touchy like that- because the second Damon says this he's downstairs. Noticing Katherine's clear discomfort he reaches out to help her and frowns at her warm temperature.

"You're burning up." He states.

"I'm fine." Katherine tells him, rolling her eyes. "I- I just need a second and then I'll be off."

"There's no way you are going out when you have this high of a fever." Stefan says, using his "you better listen to me because I'm not happy" tone of voice.

"You forget I'm a Petrova, It's going to take more then a fever to keep me bedridden Stefan." Katherine tells him with a strained smirk, releasing her grip on the counter and standing up straighter.

"You aren't immortal anymore, a flu can be dangerous to you if you aren't careful." Stefan warned.

"Don't remind me." Katherine snapped. "If you hadn't given the stupid cure to pathetic little Elena I wouldn't have to deal with situations such as these in the first place."

Stefan looks hurt at her words and Katherine almost feels a little guilty. With her head and throat (and pretty much the rest of her body too) screaming in pain everything seems to be pissing her off and whatever sensor she may have had on her words before seems to be on a strike.

"At least take some medicine." Stefan says, opening the cupboards and scanning them for any leftover bottles of pills they may have had from when Elena had been human and around so much they eventually started storing stuff for her. Unfortunately he can't seem to find any.

"I got rid of all them." Damon explains with a shrug.

Stefan looked ready to give his older brother a lecture, but stopped himself knowing his words would go ignored. Katherine suddenly felt her stomach doing flops, and she quickly bolted towards the bathroom and threw up all the contents in her stomach. Stefan was quick to rush to her aide, but Damon was too busy plugging his nose to block out the smell of puke to do anything useful.

"Ew." Damon said dramatically, leaving the boarding house at a far from human speed. There wasn't much that could gross the vampire out; but puke was where he drew the line. The stuff was disgusting.

Stefan had to hold back a sigh as his brother left. Damon was never too good with comforting others. The younger Salvatore remembered how panicky his brother used to get when the two of them were growing up and Stefan got the flu.

Hearing the sound of Katherine gagging in bathroom, Stefan rushed to help her.

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"Please can I take your temperature?" Stefan asked for the fifteenth time in the kindest tone of voice he could manage. He was holding the thermometer tightly in his hand and it took all of his willpower to keep himself from forcefully shoving the thermometer in her mouth.

"No. Now let me leave, this is stupid." Katherine said, coughing at the end of her sentence. She had already wasted a whole hour watching some stupid comedy tv show Stefan had put on, and she wasn't about to let the freaking flu screw up the rest of her plans for the day too.

"You're the one being stupid! I don't care if I have to lock you in this room for the next twenty-four hours...you are not leaving!" Stefan tells her, beginning to lose his patience.

"You will NOT lock me in this room Stefan Salvatore." Katherine says in a serious tone.

"Fine, I won't. But only if you promise not to go anywhere until you are better." Stefan huffs.

"You're not in charge of me!" Katherine says, using the loudest voice she can manage with her sore throat.

"Fine, be difficult. If you need me I'll be downstairs, I'm going to give you a chance to rest." Stefan says in a exhausted tone, moving in the direction of the bedroom door.

When Katherine notices he's about to lock her in she curses in a definitely not English language and attempts to chuck a pillow at his head. He is able to easily dodge it and quickly leave the room -locking the door behind him and ignoring Kat's continues swears.

Stefan let out a loud sigh. This was going to be a very long day.

Elijah was done with New Orleans. After Hayley had lost the baby she lashed out at him and his whole family, even going as far as asking the witches for help in destroying them. Of course, all her attempts had failed, and her betrayal had cost her dearly.

Needless to say Elijah was very much in need of time to gather his thoughts and get a break from the chaos. Rebekah had eagerly asked to tag along, not wanting to be all alone with a still severely pissed off Klaus. Elijah's plans had been to drive until he found somewhere interesting to stay; Rebekah's were to return to Mystic Falls and visit Matt.

His sister had quite the fixation with the human, and Elijah knew how serious she was when she cared for someone. He could only hope that Matt would be good to her and the rest of his family (because it would be a complete shame if Klaus killed another of Rebekah's boyfriends.)

This is what led him to the situation he was currently in, sitting in the grill watching his sister fawn over Matt. The only thing currently keeping him company the glass of bourbon he still hasn't taken a sip of. He turns his head as someone noisily sits down in the stool next to him, he has to stifle a sigh as Damon Salvatore smirks at him.

"Damon, what a pleasure." Elijah says, his voice monotone. He subtly looks over at Rebekah to see if she has noticed the elder Salvatore's entrance -she wasn't exactly his biggest fan- but she's still completely focused on her conversation with Matt that seems to be about their time spent gallivanting around Europe together last summer. Elijah wouldn't be too surprised if they ran off together again sometime soon.

"Did you really miss me so much you had to come visit? I feel honoured." Damon says in tone laced heavily with sarcasm.

"Unfortunately I don't have plans to stay in town for very long." The original says - not even trying to hide how very not sorry he was. As much as he liked mystic falls it held many bad memories for him, and the whole idea of leaving New Orleans was for him to get a "fresh" start.

"Huh, well I know a certain doppelgänger who will be very disappointed to hear that. It's not too early in the morning for a drink is it?" Damon says distractedly, eyeing all the empty seats in the bar. He decides it isn't and waves the bartender over; ordering himself bourbon.

"Things didn't run very smoothly the last time I encountered Miss Gilbert, I can't see her being too ecstatic about me and my sister being back in Mystic Falls." Elijah says, not thinking much of the Salvatore's strange comment.

"Elena?" Damon barks out a laugh. "I'm not talking about her!" He laughs for a few seconds before suddenly stopping and looking in Elijah's direction with a mischievous smile. One look at him and anyone could tell he was up to no good. "Wait a second...You don't know, do you?" He asks.

"Katerina," Elijah says quietly in realization. He looks at Damon questioningly; "Katherine is in town?"

"Oh yeah," Damon says, his smile somehow getting even bigger. "Stefan's invited her to stay with us because he feels guilty about the whole human thing."

"Human?" Elijah asks, his mind racing. It couldn't be, could it? He says nothing for a moment or so before his curiosity gets the best of him and he asks anyways. "She took the cure?"

"It wasn't exactly taken by choice." Damon says, sounding peeved as he continued. "Let's just say she isn't exactly too happy about the whole thing, and human Katherine is a major bitch."

Just like that, the original brother knew he needed to see her. Because it's his Katerina. No matter what differences they may have ever had, or what terrible things she had done; he knew that there was nothing he wouldn't do for the girl.

"Good day, Damon." Elijah bids his goodbye - as much of a gentlemen as always- then he leaves the grill without a moments hesitation.

Second part will be out next week! Please let me know what you thought, your feedback makes me unbelievably ecstatic. Oh and I've never had apple cinnamon Cheerios, so if they taste like crap, oops sorry but they're going to be Katherine's favourite anyways!