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Summary:

When Katarina was young she was told she had an important destiny. All she had to do was find it. Little did she know that her destiny was centuaries ago. Eric/OC

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Chapter 1

When I got in from work at 6:10 pm I didn't expect to be falling down the stairs on the way down from my room , nor did I expect to fall through a white light that appeared from nowhere. Suddenly the bottom of the stairs wasn't the brown carpet I was used to. Instead I landed awkwardly on dewy grass before falling unconscious I couldn't help but wonder, why me.

Now, I know you're probably wondering who I am. Well, I'll start with name shall I? My name is Katarina Pettersson, I am 18 years old today incidentally. Isn't that just great? I have long dark brown hair, green eyes and a light tan. I'm from East Yorkshire not Athens. I stand 5' 6" and a slim figure from dancing since I was 3 years old. I'm also an empath. Life has also been hard for me from the beginning but fortunately I had my parents to stand by me through everything. Until I turned 17, three months later I got told by the police that my parents had killed in a hit and run with a drunk driver. After that I sorted everything with their estates and probate which took 5 months. I then sold the house, I just couldn't live in it anymore. Then about a month ago I rented a house that I could afford with my wages, it's a nice place near York city centre that I can get to easy. I work in a language centre teaching Spanish, French and Swedish, surprisingly. Swedish is my father's native tongue, so I wanted to learn it since I was small. I also work at York's Viking museum part-time, I also know Old Norse as well.

After coming home I went upstairs to get changed. Taking off my clothes and putting them in the wash basket, I headed for the shower. As the hot water washed over me I relaxed the shields on my mind holding out the emotions of others and I felt the tension drain away with the water. Washing my hair and shaving my legs I step out of the shower to dry off. Putting the towel on the radiator to dry off, I walk into my room to blow dry my hair. I normally let my hair dry naturally but I had to go out to pay my rent and put money in the bank, so I went for the quick option. Going to my lingerie draw I pulled out a turquoise lace bra and matching pantie shorts that set off the tan I had. Turning to the wardrobe I picked out a pair of black skinny jeans, teal tank top, my favourite hoody from Vanns and my black and white Vanns trainers. Picking up my backpack and my ipod I started out of my room and headed to the front door.

So, there I am coming down the stairs intent of paying my rent for the next months and I trip over air going through a white light that ends up with me meeting a muddy landing. Fortunately it was also a grassy area, so I landed as best I could from a 5ft drop and managed not to break anything. Rolling over from the impromptu landing on to my back I stretched out my sixth sense, finding a cluster of emotions 10 o'clock of where I am lying in about a mile and a half away. Opening my eyes I see that the sun is setting on the horizon, to the left of me. Getting up unsteadily to my feet I take in my surroundings, it was grassland. The grass came up above my hips and was a lush green colour, it was damp but it was fairly warm out. It was really weird the air smelled really really clean and I didn't recognise the stars in the sky that were visible, there were also a fair amount of bushes and trees about.

Where are am I? How did I get here? One minute I was in my house the next I am in a field and the nearest bit of civilisation was nearly 2 miles away. Sighing to myself, I get moving towards people, that will hopefully tell me where the hell I am.

Walking through the tall grass wasn't all that bad considering my size was below average, especially when I could pick my way through it in a certain direction. I even started to relax a bit after I had been walking for a while, as it always did.

Now I am in no way shape or form an outdoorsy type, I like my home comforts, but my parents did like to take me camping and all that malarkey. My dad in particular, was insistent that I learned survival in the wild, said that I would need later on in life to live. My dad knew things, that other people wouldn't, he said one time that information just takes to his brain that he didn't have before.

Also most people who had been dropped through a white light into the middle of nowhere might have been freaking out. A lot.

But I wasn't, too much had happened to me, to get that reaction. That and my dad, Alexander, had told me this would happen to put me on track with my destiny. Even though what he normally says is right, I didn't really believe him. I don't know why really, I mean 'Hello, Empath here!', just seemed impossible.

Apparently not.

He also said that the path to my destiny was going to be a hard one, but once my soul is complete, we would face our biggest challenge yet, and we can survive it if we stay true to each other. I hated all the cryptic bullshit he would spout, and whenever I said so, he just stated that I would know when the time came for me to understand.

Whatever.

So I suppose I will find my destiny sometime soon, as I have just been unceremoniously dropped by white light. I just hope that by going to the group of people I can feel now about half a mile away, isn't taking me away from my destiny.