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Last thing she remembered was dying in the Salvatore Boarding house on her deathbed of a crime she didn't commit not that they would have believed her even if she told them. She was guilty of many things but killing Jeremy Gilbert wasn't one of them.

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Katherine blurred inside the tomb which imprisoned Silas only to stop the hunter Galen Vaughn about to kill Jeremy Gilbert.

"Elena! Thank God you are here, you have to help Bonnie." Jeremy said pointing at a figure sitting on the ground leaning against the wall.

Katherine couldn't help Bonnie not without acquiring the cure first which she could see was being held by the statue of Silas that lay silently on the stone altar. She knew that the moment she did, she would immediately know that it wasn't her best friend and would stop her. No. she needed to buy her freedom from Klaus not to cater to the whims of someone who couldn't handle being a vampire.

"In a second jeremy, first we need to get the cure before someone else tries to…"

"We will get the cure but Bonnie needs your help first." Jeremy spoke staring worriedly at her girlfriend.

He was wasting her time. Katherine rolled her eyes in annoyance before grabbing the boy by his neck and slamming his head against the wall the same way she did with Vaughn. Once he had passed out she crouched to pick up Vaughn and bit his neck before dragging him to Silas's mouth.

The stone corpse began to suck the blood before pulling its hand off of the box that held the cure inside only to hold the head of the passed out figure for support as it continued to suck the blood.

Seeing her chance, Katherine picked up the box and blurred away from the tomb.

A few weeks later she met up with Elijah.

"You killed Jeremy Gilbert."

She stared at the man in suit wondering what he was talking about. "What are you talking about Elijah, the last time i saw Jeremy he was perfectly fine."

Elijah shook his head in disgust. "You will never change will you Katherine? "

Katherine narrowed her eyes slightly. She was done having to explain herself for her actions "I've done terrible things in order to survive being annihilated by your dear Elijah. I fled with the moonstone only to have my entire family slaughtered. For centuries i'd had to be ruthless and manipulative the exact opposite of the girl whom you met 500 years ago because that was the only way i was gonna stay alive."

She took a single step forward staring into his vacant eyes. "I could have killed Elena's entire family and delivered her to Klaus when she held the moonstone but i didn't, so why the hell would i kill her brother whom i saved in the first?"

"How do i know you are telling the truth? That you aren't deceiving me?"

It was her turn to shake her head now. "You don't and frankly i really don't care anymore."

Elijah blinked in shock at that blase reply.

"Meeting you here to part with the cure was meant to be an apology aimed at your brother for robbing him of the chance to shed my blood on a rock so he could break his curse. It was also an attempt to show you that i was willing to do the impossible to go the extra mile to win you back by saving him from those who would try to use it as a weapon against him. I could have used it against him to avenge my family but by doing so i would have lost you."

"So what are you going to do now? Use it on him or destroy it?"

She laughed humorlessly, "neither, i'm going to do what i was afraid to all these years. I'm going to confront him and hand it over. If he decides to kill me, fine but if he decides to call a truce then great. It's time that i started living my life free from threats hanging over my head or be dead because frankly i'm tired of running."

She then blurred away leaving a thoroughly shocked original behind.

To say that it was a shock for Klaus for Katherine to approach him in surrender and handing the cure to him would be an understatement.

The cure would go on to be handed over to Silas who would then lose it to the Mystic Falls gang. Damon finally gives it to Elena who refuses to use it transform back into her normal self only to force feed it to an unsuspecting Katherine still convinced that she killed her brother.

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"Charlotte are you okay?"

It has been centuries the last time she heard that name spoken of with that boyish voice that seemed all too familiar. Opening her eyes slowly she realised that she was lying on the cold hard floor.

"Get up you ungrateful runt!"

Was that… Petunia. Oh my God she was back to that hell hole wasn't she? And to think she was off to the other side when she touched Bonnie's hands who had now been the anchor to both worlds.

"Get up and cook dinner!"

She rose up slowly feeling a surge of hatred course through her. Gone were the days when she would be pushed around. She stood up against her greatest and lived. She was Katherine Pierce and she wouldn't bossed around by vile talentless, mediocre and stupid people.

"No."

You could hear the sounds of crickets at the silence that followed at her declaration.

"What did you just say?!" Petunia shrieked.

"I said no Petunia." she responded calmly ignoring the sting in her head. Years of consuming vervain left her strong willed. "I will no longer do ridiculous amounts of chores that leave me barely functional with no benefits and neither will my brother for that matter or i will inform the British Government."

Petunia opened her mouth and closed it whilst Vernon who was sitting in the living room looked as though he wanted to punch the girl.

"That's right, the first thing i will do at school is head over to the headmaster's office and strip naked to show him the scars of the abuse i suffered in your hands in the previous years." She took a threatening step towards Petunia her dark glare never leaving her. "Do you understand that?"

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