A/N: Something that came to my head, not sure if it will go anywhere, but lets see. This is an OC fic, or, at least, it will be eventually. This is the prologue that centres around Katherine and introduces Cassandra (Cassie) . Anyway, here we go.

Summary: Katherine, who had been locked the the tomb a mere few hours ago, makes an interesting discovery. They thought that all the tomb vampires escaped, but one still remained. Will Katherine's curiosity get the better of her and wake her up? And what of this new vampire's past with a certain Original? Elijah/OC(one-sided), Katherine.


She's The Option.

Prologue.

Katherine's fists pounded on the door that had recently been shut, yelling out to Damon about Elena. The doppelganger. But, she knew that her cries fell on unwilling ears, and she soon backed away from the door. She cursed to herself, the coolness of the hard rock under her bare feet starting to numb her feet.

She was going to starve down here, that was for certain. Slowly, painfully, while her love Stefan was up there with Elena, the newest doppelganger. The Bitch locked away in the tomb to rot. Problems solved!

But, Katherine knew that their problems were only starting. But, she was locked in the tomb where nobody could hear her, so she was happy enough to think that they would eventually come back down here to "talk".

She sighed, turning and walking deeper into the tomb. It was dark, pitch black, but her eyes could see very well, actually. She could see the rocks, Katherine pausing to look at an area where a gate was set up. It was old, black with rather Gothic looking spikes at the end of each pole. She pulled open the gate, listening to it creak.

Katherine groaned, this was going to be a long week, years, or how ever long she was going to be in this dark place. She continued to walk, her hands running along the stone walls as she walked, strutted, and turned to look at a dark corner.

Something caught her eyes, a pair of feet. They looked sickly, gray, black veins lining her feet.

Katherine tilted her head, wishing she had some light down here. The vampire was female, as she could tell from the black hair that fell down her face, it looked to be pulled back, but had fallen out of place from the time she must have spent down there. Katherine had thought that most of the tomb vampires were out, or dead, at least. But, it looked like they had missed one

"Well," she drawled, placing her arm against the wall, looking down at the rather dead looking vampire leaning up against the wall. "At least I'm not alone down here."