She never intervened...Until she did
She was known in the supernatural community for her conniving,mischievous ways. so I would become a surprise to many to see her as she is now.
Katherine kneeled down next to the unconscious female Salvatore gently brushing the tangled raven hair out of her face. If you only looked at Damon's face she looked to be sleeping however it quickly tuned into a scene out of a horror movie when you looked at the rest of her appearance, her white nightgown drenched in blood after being shot by her father.
"No more rules Damon." Katherine said tears falling down her face as she knew this would be the last time they'd see each other in a long time unbeknownst to Katherine however when they see each other again it would not be in the way she wished changing her plans for them forever.
"Remember what I taught you and you'll do just fine You'll thrive as a vampire I know it." She reassured before pressing a kiss to her forehead. "This is my last gift to you."
That's when she stepped back and said her goodbyes to Stefan before leaving behind the left behind the last hope she had at ever having a bit of normalcy of a human life again.
Katherine used her resources to keep tabs on them learning of how they were progressing as vampires
She learned Damon was doing everything in her power to find her and felt a pinch of sadness for having thrown her on a frivolous quest to rescue her but reveled in the fact of what a spectacular vampire Damon had become and the reputation that proceeded her.
How she'd become a ruthless and powerful vampire through experience.
She was proud of her pseudo daughter feeling responsible for the creature Damon had become.
By the time they met again however many changes had happened Elena Gilbert was killed by the eldest Salvatore Stefan had tried numerus times to tame his wild sister only to get bit in return. "He should know better by now." Katherine thought when she learned of the recent events happening in Mystic falls.
She also learned that Klaus was on his way to Mystic falls so she needed to move fast she had to find out where the moonstone was and maybe then she could barter for her freedom and ask him to take it easy on Damon.
She started out slow placing her pawn in Mason and Isobel who she'd sent to Damon to be turned in exchange for information on how the elder Salvatore was doing.
Mason lasted all but a week before being surprisingly mercifully killed by Damon.
Isobel however ended up a prisoner in the Salvatore boarding houses basement.
Katherine was quick to retaliate by turning a miraculously recovered Caroline into a vampire. She had noticed Damon had taken a inkling of a liking to the girl as she wouldn't have ever offered her blood if she hadn't especially after what she went through with Augustine.
Yes Katherine learned all about that little event in the Salvatore's life after growing concerned when it seemed the elder Salvatore had dropped off the face of the earth for five years.
Using all her resources the only information she was able to gather about what had likely transpired with Damon was that thanks to one of her traitorous relatives she'd become a vampire test subject for the doctors of the Augustine society to experiment on.
She knew that Damon had also turned off her Humanity for the next decade or so just to get out of feeling through the entire trauma she'd endured.
Though it was probably much worse for her considering she was their only female vampire subject.
They had kept her on constant immense doses of verlan to contain her and only enough blood so she wouldn't desiccate meaning she was at human pain tolerance through everything.
She knew little to nothing about how the Salvatore managed to get out of such conditions but she had a suspicion it had to do with whatever started the fire at the Whitmore grounds.
That's when she finally gathered enough courage to see the only other person who could bring out the humanity she thought she'd long since lost she knew going into the house a part of her would die as she had to break Damon in this one meeting she had to make sure Damon hated her if she were to protect her. She was her mother after all.
Damon was dancing to music drinking her bourbon when she entered the room shutting off the music abruptly causing icy blue eyes to zero in on her.
"Look who finally decided to show up." She said a grin coming to her face.
Katherine outstretched her arms in an invation for a hug only to be met with cold air not last of it she'd feel on this particular night.
"I only have one question for you Katherine. "Damon's voice was soft and vulnerable eyes staring at her begging for her to not be yet another person in her existence to let her down.
Katherine steeled herself knowing what she was about to say would ruin everything between them for eternity but at least both of them would remain safe the only thing Katherine would ever be able to offer her.
"I know your question and it's answer." Katherine closed her eyes at Damon's almost childlike hope filling in her eyes before forcing her voice to go cold and the words to come out. "I never cared for you not even for a second it was only Stefan you were just a pawn a pathetic little girl so desperate for any affection no wonder it was so easy to manipulate you."
Katherine's heart cold as and infinitely known to be as cold as ice shattered at the look of complete devastation of Damon's face. She left not a moment sooner not wanting to see the now comatose like Salvatore crawl into herself because of her any more tonight.
The second she was far enough away from the boarding house she broke down for the first time since she had found the dead body of her mother mutilated by Klaus she cried broke down really.
From then on Damon's behavior changed she and her brother had repaired some of their bond when the Original family came to town.
Klaus was the first Original to show up furious over hearing his doppelganger was dead and thirsty with revenge only to be met with a snarky raven-haired beauty with a vial of blood and a moonstone. Damon managed to negotiate a deal where he and his family could stay in Mystic falls just as long as they only fed on non locals and didn't do anything that could potentially destroy the otherwise quiet town.
She knew it was partly her fault she viewed Rebekah the way she did in the first place.
He agreed to them considering she was holding a spell she'd gotten from a witch friend of hers that could lift his hybrid curse with only the vial of blood in place of the living doppelganger.
Katherine thought it was interesting but unsurprising to find out Klaus had a thing for Damon considering how many times he let her off for things other vampires would have lost their heads for.
She watched as her relationship all but repaired with her brother as she wormed her way into the heart of another original Kol and caused quite an internal family feud over her affections especially when Caroline was kidnapped by people who wanted to get in touch with Bonnie Bennett and they learned her kidnappers were followers of Sila's and a hunter of one of the five.
Klaus daggered Kol after he had tried to stop him and Rebekah from going after the cure both for their own reasons. But Katherine also suspected their was a different reason he daggered him as well and she had blue eyes and black hair.
Damon had never liked Rebekah thinking her both weak and immature often calling her Barbie Klaus to her face. But considering Rebekah had tortured Damon after discovering she was just using her new found friendship with Rebekah to get in her head to fish for information for a weapon that could destroy her family. It hadn't gone over well and they both held a grudging yet mocking respect for each other since the incident.
The Petrova vampire couldn't help but feel partially responsible on how Damon viewed Rebekah.
Katherine knew Damon absolutely hated Elijah and found dark amusement in the insults she always though his way. She knew Damon wouldn't take fondly to his hypocritical self righteous ways.
Not long after everything having happened with Silas the originals were called away to New Orleans and surprisingly Damon didn't go with them deciding to instead go on a road trip with Caroline a vampire she had gotten surprisingly close with.
By the time the summer had ended Katherine had been forced to take the cure by an angry witch named Tessa and travelled the streets of Mystic falls hungry and defenseless.
She went to the Salvatore boardinghouse as a last ditch effort to find some relief only to be met by the icy blue eyes of the eldest Salvatore.
"Sheesh the hell happened to you." Damon muttered as she marched passed her like she owned the house.
"I'm human Damon some Psycho crazy powerful witch forced the cure down my throat and made me Silas bait." Katherine spat out.
Damon was over to her in a flash slamming her to the wall holding her up by her throat.
"Silas." She hissed. "I thought we dodged that bullet I haven't heard from my brother in three months after he promised to dump his body in the quarry."
Katherines eyes widened not bothering to hide her worry as she never did when concerning the younger Salvatore. "Stefan's missing?."
Bitterness flashed in Damon's eyes before she spat. "Yes Katherine while it's been a pleasure talking to you please go get someone else killed as I have no time on my schedule for it today.
The next few days happened in a blur for Katherine as she found out Stefan was in the quarry the whole summer and Silas was on the loose also Stefan was Silas doppelganger and they were related to him.
She had escaped from being killed by Silas by her daughter she had thought dead long ago. Lost her daughter due to hybrid bite and was now in her last days as Silas had managed to drink the cure out of her after he'd taken Stefan hostage and Damon had to choose between them. It caused her to age rapidly.
Not before the feeling of rage consumed Katherine and in her last moments she used a spell to transfer over to Caroline.
That's where she now found herself being confronted by the last of her humanity the Salvatore siblings.
"So which one of you will be the one to kill the elusive Katherine pierce once and for all." She asked looking between them knowing one of them held the blade that would destroy her and bring alive Caroline.
She turned to Damon looking for any emotion in her eyes that still showed she felt something other than pure loathing for her but was met with icy steel.
When Damon went to open her mouth she held up her hand. "Ah see you got say what you needed to say but I never got to say what I needed to say.
She looked at Damon trying to convey to her how truly she meant these words that they went for everything that had happened between them. "I'm sorry."
Damon blinked but the emotions in her eyes didn't change so Katherine let the frustration get the best of her and continued what she originally wasn't going to.
With an exasperated tone she continued with. "I'm sorry that you blame me for what you are now."
"I"m sorry that I didn't leave you to die a nurse alone on a bloody battlefield." She growled striking deep on her next words. "That I didn't leave your father another moment to be disgraced by you that I brought out passion and drive into your life."
"Damon I'm sorry because I'm the one who taught you that it was okay to open your heart to love again." She ended passionately. Also knowing it would get under her skin in other ways considering she was hearing these words come out of the blonde vampire she was reluctantly fond of.
Damon backed up as if having been slapped hurt flashing in her eyes before she steeled them again. "Enjoy hell Katherine."
Katherine smirked in satisfaction before turning back to Stefan and grabbing his face in her hands. "Our love was real I wish you could believe me when I say that."
"I know." He whispered before steeling a kiss only for her to feel a stab in her back as she fell to the floor gasping the knife protruding from her back.
Looking at the two Salvatore's united as siblings again together she spoke her final words " I guess this is how our story ends."
Darkness took over Katherine their solemn faces the last memory she has.
She woke up on a soft couch darkness all around her only the flames illuminating the area around her she got to her feet startled gasping in panic of not knowing where exactly she was considering she was pretty sure she just died.
"Calm down Katerina." A smooth silky voice came from a chair she just noticed was beside the fireplace.
There sitting in a chair was a man she didn't recognize with a dark unsettling grin stretched across his face.
"I've been waiting some time for this day." He said getting up and holding out his hand which she hesitantly gave to him. He kissed her knuckles before speaking again.
"I hope you'll find your stay here most comfortable." He spoke with what she assumed was his version of a soothing tone.
"Not to be obvious but where exactly is here.." She asked gesturing around to the room they were in.
"Welcome to hell Katherine. "Cade said enjoying the look of sheer disbelief on her face.
"Then why aren't I screaming." She said crossing her arms and giving him a smirk of her own.
"Because I need more souls in my domain if I am to continue it." Cade explained before looking her over expectantly. "And I've been watching you enough to know you'll do whatever it takes to ensure your safety."
"So I want you to go down once every so often back to the world of the living and bring me back fifty souls to put on the rack in exchange that yours remains off it." he bargained.
And that's how she found out about Cade his sirens and how she managed to slowly weave him around her finger until she knew he wouldn't be able to slip off.
Sybil as she learned had taken an interest in Damon as a new servant for Cade only to grow an obsession for the female Salvatore after learning of her past when infltraiting her mind also after learning about the Salvatore ancestry and that Damon herself was a psychic.
What first was a business relationship turned into Sybil wanting Damon as her new partner in crime.
Sybil began training the Salvatore's psychic abilities only to be stopped abruptly when Sybil was kidnapped by Stefan and Alaric.
Katherine grew worried for Damon as she still believed the Salvatore had been through enough and deserved better then the end she was being ultimately given.
So she confronted her.
"Stay away from Damon." She said as cornered the siren at caves she was locked in for over a century.
"Is that an order from Cade." Sybil said mock sweetly eyes cold and calculating.
"No that's a warning from me." Katherine said a hard look in her eyes as she loomed threateningly over the siren.
"Well in that case." Sybil chirped only to use her powers to throw Katherine against the wall and strangle her with her powers.
"You might have been an important part of her life eons ago taking the place that wretched mother left behind but now I hold that position and I don't intend to loose it." She said.
"I'm a mommy." She cried in a very Drusilla like fashion that sent chills down Katherine's spine.
"So lets leave you with a little threat of my own I know you think you have Cade at your beck and call but the only reason it's that way is because I broke it off with him a couple centuries ago." She revealed letting Katherine breathe again but still pinning her to the wall.
"I know for a fact he still carries a torch for me so if you interne in my relationship with Damon I'll carry it for him again and send you to the rack before you can even blink." Sybil said before leaving her in the cold cave.
Katherine knew she had to do something Damon didn't deserve another unhealthy relationship so she turned to the only person who'd ever been deserving of one in Damon's life. The powerful witch she'd saved as a child named Milly.
She'd been Damon's closest friend and ally for over three decades and she'd be able to get through to Damon even with Sybil's claws deep in her brain.
She was the closest thing Milly had to family and other then Stefan the same was true for Damon.
So Katherine sent a message to the elusive right now traveling witch telling her through a magical note that Damon needed her help and that it was an emergency
Kathrine just hoped she'd get there before it was too late and the Damon they all knew at one point was lost forever.
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