Title: Rise from the ashes like a phoenix...
Synopsis: Katherine: I've lost everything, I have nothing left, why I said this... because it's true... I have a broken heart. I just don't want to be here...
Katherine has lost everything, even hope, her friends and her sister didn't know what to do because after she lost her baby and Martin die, she is totally broken... the only solution that occurs to Elena is to made Katherine an inpatient in a Depression Clinic, Would she raise from the ashes like a phoenix?
"If you want a happy ending, that depends on this course, where you finish the story" Orson Wells
Disclaimer: The rights of the characters are not mine, they belong to L. J. Smith and the CW.
Author's note: This fic participates Challenge "Let's Play Alternate Universe" forum "The Vampire Diaries: Dangerous Liaisons".
This is the English version of a fic I'm writing for a contest, it will be a short story, just 5 little chapters. Hope you enjoy it.
All human, AU
Rated: M
"I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below." Ashly Lorenzana
Chapter 1 Ashes
I woke up this morning, alone in bed, it has happened what I feared most, Martin has not arrived, and he had said that his trip ended yesterday, he told me he would be back yesterday. I fear the worst thing I could think has happened. This year... definitely not my year...
Two months ago I found out I was pregnant, I was almost two months, when I told Martin he was happy, even bought a stroller and a onesie, that now I won't use, he also began making plans for the baby's room. But a month and a half ago I had a spontaneous abortion, and I went to the hospital, Martin didn't left my side not even for one minute, well only when I went to the operating room. Those were very sad days for both of us, but gradually we were overlaying.
I flood the memories, the pool of blood on the bed and in my nightgown, that morning, the pain in my belly. The doctor telling me that he didn't hear the baby's heartbeat, and after he did an ultrasound telling me that the small baby was no longer alive. He performed a D & C. And then we were asked if we wanted the baby. Martin said no, that having a grave for something so painful, was not the better thing for our mental health.
And now that Martin had to return yesterday afternoon, but he did not, I think he won't return. Since he left I had this terrible feeling in my chest, but I told him he ignored me. He said the trip was just routine, everything would be fine.
My phone rings, I'm thrill it must be him...
"Katherine" says, the voice on the other end of the line, I slowly recognize it, is my brother in law Ivo, Martin's brother and partner.
"Hello Ivo, How are you?" I answer thinking it's a social call, and probably like other weekend calls to tell me to pack suitcases with clothes for me and Martin; they will pick me up and Martin reaches us wherever we go. Valeria, he, Martin and I usually have so much fun. I know sometimes these trips are related to some case research, but well, yet they are fun.
"Katherine," he said getting serious, too serious I think, and for a moment he is silent "are you at home?" he finally ask.
"Yup, I'm here."
"I'll be there in 10 minutes" he finally says. His serious and solemn tone, I don't like it. And the hollow I'm feeling in my chest certainly does not help. Before 10 minutes, my doorbell rings, Sandra my cleaning girl, opens the door after asking who it is.
"Katherine" Ivo greets me with glazed eyes.
"What happened?" I asked alarmed.
"It has gone all wrong…" begins to tell my brother in law.
"What do you mean? What happened?" I ask again anxious, while Ivo was about to hug me.
"They were greeted at gunpoint, they were more than ours..." He says breathlessly, it seems that he has been running up here "Martin died." he says at the end.
"What are you saying?" I squealed. I cannot believe what he's saying...
"My brother is dead Kath," He repeated, even sounds like he cannot believe it himself. "The full task force operation was a failure, drug traffickers fled and we lost a lot. They'll send Martin's body in three days."
I feel like I'm going to faint, this cannot be happening, first I lose my baby and now this... it couldn't be true. Tears do not come out, I try to scream, I cannot, I just cannot mourn or cry, I am completely and utterly shocked; when I marry DEA Special Agent Martin Hristov, I knew that at any moment this could happen, his job was dangerous. But knowing that at any moment could happen is not the same as realizing it is happening in reality.
"He said it was an easy arrest that they already had everything planned, arrive and deliver the arrest warrant and he didn't told me it was a task force operation..." I told gasping for air, trying to breathe.
"Kath, don't torment yourself, we knew it could happen. I make some tea, lay down a while. Val is coming here to keep you company. And I call Elena... she called Bonnie, they will also come."
I drank the tea, but I didn't lay down. I plopped down on the couch, Ivo put his arm around me trying to comfort me. The tears start coming out of my eyes and not just tears. Also I start yelling at Ivo, I'm definitely hysterical.
"You're an ass, why didn't you go with him? Why did you let him go alone? You shouldn't leave him alone, who were they going to arrest? Was it a dangerous drug dealer? Who was with him in the task force operation? Where was the task force operation?" I began rambling, I spat all these questions without giving him the chance to answer… I even did it almost without breathing, eventually, I end up saying "¿Ivo, now what I'm going to do?" I have no idea what I'll do. Since I met Martin, he has always been there for me. A smile, no rather a grin forms on my lips, remembering that day.
That was a morning like any other after a party with my friends, I woke up feeling the brain inside my head as if in aqueous medium. I turn in bed, looked at my watch, I was late, I had an appointment with a client in less than forty-five minutes. I wore the first thing I found a gray formal pants and a pink lace blouse, not very high heels. I went to the kitchen to get some breakfast, there was nothing in the refrigerator that I could have for breakfast. Take my folder with papers, I left my house and decided to go to the cafeteria, near my office. I order coffee and a baguette, I turned around, there he was with in such a white shirt and a huge coffee stain just in the middle of it, I said sorry, he just smiled at me...
