Disclaimer: Do Not Own Vampire Diaries.

Chapter One

... Three Days ...

She wondered if they had ever felt this way; Katerina and the other doppelganger; if they had ever felt this tired and this defeated. It was as if the will to fight to continue on had finally burned out, like the battery in her watch had finally died after so many years. As they pulled up to her lit up house she found herself not wanting to leave the safety of the car and walk into her seemingly cursed house.

"If you want I can go with you." Stefan's voice rang through the silent car.

She shook her head as she answered in a weary voice. "No … I won't be long, I'm just gonna grab a few things and lock up for the night, it'll only take me a few minutes." She said turning to him and he looked back at her with understanding.

"I'll be right out here if you need anything." He said as he watched as unbuckled herself and open the car door. "I will." She said with a half-hearted smile before she shut the door with a soft click behind her. Neither noticing the shadow that loomed about her bedroom as she walked up to her porch.

She had been positive that when she had left the house last night that she had turned off all the lights. Maybe Jeremy had come home? Hopefully he was, she needed to let him know that they were going to be staying at the Salvatore boarding house for a little bit. Well at least until things were 'straightened out' as Stefan had put it.

"Jeremy" She called as she walked into the house nothing, he must have had his headphones on.

Walking up the stairs she opened her door and walked in to find all her luggage bags out and packed with her stuff. 'Damon' she thought as she walked further into her room. "Damon I thought you had decided to stay." She started letting the sentence linger knowing that he must have been hurting. They had been friends, or something like it, this was a more serious blow for Damon than it was for Stefan.

There was a sound coming from her bathroom and she knew there was absolutely no reason for Damon to be in her bathroom, she had once had to have the most unfortunate discussion with him about the bowl system and how it didn't work for vampires seeing as they were well for a lack or better term dead.

Opening the door she was expecting to find the tall and lanky brunette doing god knows what in her bathroom, or her brother doing things in there that she didn't want to walk in on either. She hadn't expected to find a curly haired blonde hybrid looking through her cabinets for unknown reason.

She had froze at the sight of him and wondered if she should run or scream for Stephan, she was tired of running though.

"Love, where in the hell do you keep your tampons and pads or whatever the hell you use these days to take care of your bleeds?" He asked in his faux English accent.

She was not expecting such a question and she was sure she'd lost her voice. He looked at her then finally as he stood from his crouching position and grabbed her by the arm. "Well this is the first Elena Gilbert silent at the sight of me."

Arrogant, she really hated that about him, his arrogance was the one of the few things that made her want to slap him. "Klause … What do you want?" She asked as she found the will to speak. He smirked at her and she knew when his dimples deepened that it was not a good sign at all.

"Always on the defense my little doppelgänger." He began and she cut him off before he could try to do anything that she didn't want him to do. "Cut the crap, what are you doing here?"

His serious face was back and she knew he meant business. "We're leaving. I thought I'd make things simple and easy for you by helping you pack."

"I'm not going anywhere with you." She said with as much bravado as she could muster. Her instincts were telling her to scream and get Stephan in here to save her, but her heart was fed up with seeing everyone fighting and as always her heart won out.

"I wasn't asking you love, be happy that I didn't have Kol or one of mine come get you while you were sleeping. Or have to force themselves into the Salvatore home and we all know how those two attract bloodshed."

"You can't make me go I won't be your blood bank." Elena said as she stared up at him with defiant eyes.

He looked down at her neck and she knew that he was eying her necklace that was hidden under her flapper girl costume beads. "No it seems I can't make you go. But if you wish to stay in this cursed town and follow the path that Tatia and Katerina shared … The path of the doppelgänger. You can stay here in this town and continue to try to decided which Salvatore you want and watch as all your loved ones drop like flies around you, then there's the grief, don't forget that eventually the witch will get tired of it all and just end it for you somehow someway and it will most like end up being a bloody mess. … Or come with me."

"And be your hybrid baby-making machine … Excuse me for not wanting to help you create mindless minions that could destroy the planet."

He grinned at her as he leaned against the bathroom counter. "Trust me love, if I wasn't supposed to be what I am then nature would have not given my mother the power to do it and being my baby-making machine will be a hell of a lot nicer than realizing that people will eventually walk out on you if you don't choose a side … and I don't just mean mine or theirs I'm talking about the Salvatore brothers as well as the witches side of wanting to destroy all of us vampires and werewolves and everything in-between."

She had no say to that and he seemed to realize it as well, but as they stared each other down she watched as his face contorted changing into a look of concern. "The two of us are bound together by a curse Elena, our fates entwined with one anothers. Even if you were to die tomorrow I'm sure by some miraculous way there would be another carbon copy of you by the next century or so and it will be another fight with more unnecessary bloodshed. You are a good person, a selfless person, if you come with me we can stop part of this silly war."

War. "Weren't you the one that started this a millennia ago? Aren't you the one trying to create an army of hybrids to take over this world? I'm not about to become part of your insanity."

She was about to call for Stephan but before she could he had placed his hand over her mouth successfully silencing her. He spoke softly to her. "Three days, give me three days to show you exactly what you would be doing for this world." He said.

Three days … away from Mystic Falls. Away from the drama, the horror, the heartache. Could she just get up and leave Jeremy when she was the one who had brought him back in the first place only to be heartbroken by the last father-figure he'd have? Could she just leave Bonnie the mess she had created that fateful day she'd laid eyes on Stefan Salvatore's vampire side? Could she leave Caroline after being the sole reason why she became a vampire in the first place? Could she leave Matt behind after dragging him into all of this? … And Damon and Stephan could she leave them wondering if she was okay? Wondering which one of them she really loved. Could she leave all that for three days?

Three days, without having to be worried and fussed about, three days without having to think about which brother she wanted, three days not having to see the look of disappointment, sadness and slight disgust on Bonnie's face.

"Three days." She said after he took his hand off her mouth.

"Three days." He assured her before a grin was plastered onto his face as he spoke again. "Now going by what I remember of Tatia and Katerina you should be about due for your bleeds correct?"

"I'm not telling you that." Although it scared her just how right he was, how much alike her and the other two actually were. "I'll take that as a yes, now you can get them yourself or I will."

The thought of Klause touching such private objects of hers didn't feel right. Instead she walked passed him into the bathroom opening the medicine cabinet. "I always forget about those damned mirrors." She heard as she picked up the box and the pills.

He took them out of her hands and when she blinked he was already zipping up a duffel bag of hers. The luggage that had been there moments before nowhere to be seen.

"Come on now; we don't want to bump into Stefan now." He said as he slung the bag over his shoulder and grasped her by the elbow leading them down the stairwell quietly making sure to turn off the lights as they did so.

He led them towards the kitchen and out through the French doors. Klause made it a point to be as quiet as a needle falling onto the floor so as not to alarm the Salvatore waiting in his car in the front yard while they walked through her backyard. He opened the gates with ease and she walked out behind him to see a black SUV waiting for them.

"After you." He said as he opened the door to the backseat for her while throwing in her duffel. She was hesitant, but she knew that Klause had always made it a point to keep his side of a deal when it came to her. .. At least to a point. Sliding into the backseat she heard the bored voice of the one person that seemed to have wanted her dead the most. "About time I was about to leave without you."

"Oh Becca you out of all people should know how stubborn this doppelgänger can be." Klause said as he slid into the car and put it into drive.

Rebecca huffed at him as she crossed her arms. "Oh don't be like that, Elena is practically family after all at the least you could say hi."

Finding her voice she spoke up. "You didn't tell me Rebecca was coming as well." She could hear the grin in his voice as he replied. "That's because I knew there wouldn't be a chance in hell to get you to even bargain with me."

And he was right. "Now if you girls would be so kind and play nice for me I'd very much appreciate it." He said with finality.

Good? Bad? Yay or Nay? First fanfic. First Klause/Elena Fic. First Vampire Diaries Fic. Let me know if I Should continue.

Falling Feathers.