Thank you! Made my day. Please read on, and tell me what I am doing wrong. :D

By the way. This is set in season 2, before the episode where Elijah dies at the dinner party. I just wanted to make it clear where it was set, because until I started writing this chapter, I had no idea. This means, that Elijah – instead of compelling Katherine to stay in the tomb - compelled her to leave Mystic Falls and never return.

2. Once Upon a Time

Elijah stood, staring angrily back at his own reflection. Why was he angry? He didn't know. But there was certainly something annoying him.

Was it the fact that he was being forced to protect Elena? No. Was it the fact that he was being forced to play historian? No. Was it the fact that he had not seen Katherine that day? No. Was it the idea that not seeing Katherine had made him upset? Probably.

Elijah hated his heart, he hated that Katherine had such control over him. Elijah turned away from his reflection and stared at the empty bed that sat in the middle of the room. He was still frowning as he flopped down onto the bed, spreading his arms out wide beside him, almost reaching from one side of the bed, to the other. He let out a big breath of air and shook his head. Begging himself not to think about her.

Because if he thought about her, it would make him more likely to skip Damon's dinner invitation and go – instead – to find her, and he would much rather spend a torturous evening trying to figure out what the eldest Salvatore was up to, rather than finding the girl who was determined to rip his heart out. Literally. Elijah sighed and sat up, looking back at his reflection with tired eyes.

Elijah knew that he ought to have left by now; probably five minutes ago would have worked better. But as he stood, he knew it was better to be fashionably late, allow everyone else to arrive and scheme everything first.

He smiled humourlessly and stood up, moving to grab his jacket which was folder over a chair in front of his window. He threw it on and headed out the door to the Salvatore's.

Katherine was pacing. Her mind going into overdrive, her plans spiralling out of control. Elijah thought that she wouldn't be able to cause any trouble when she couldn't get into Mystic Falls. And he was right, she couldn't.

But she could find out all she had to about where Klaus was. And she could certainly still get herself a werewolf, vampire and hell, maybe even throw Elena into the bargain somehow. And maybe he would grant her, her freedom. That was the prize right? Freedom.

Katherine shook her head and continued planning, the problem was she had no idea where she could possibly come across a new werewolf on such short notice and not being able to return to Mystic Falls where she had been successful in turning that little Lockwood chap into a wolf. And dearest Caroline would do just fine for the vampire, and then Elena was there too. But Katherine was not there.

Katherine threw up her hands and sat grumpily on the chair in her small room. She looked at her reflection in the mirror, and that cheered her up slightly, seeing her perfectly kept curls falling down below her shoulders was a sight any man found hard to resist. Katherine prided herself on her abilities to charm men into doing her bidding. She frowned again, remembering Elijah and how he wanted nothing to do with her.

She had not seen him that day and that dampened her spirits a little too much for her own liking. But she persisted with the days planning, determined not to let the fact that Elijah was not there to tease her, or annoy her or get her angry. The hilarity in this was that his absence was making her angry. He was succeeding in his plans, without even doing anything.

Katherine let her temper get the best of her and she hit her lamp of her bedside table. She frowned at how much damage she could do when one little thing upset her, and then she smirked, knowing that this came in very handy.

Katherine was quite proud of the ease she showed while conducting chaos. She was extremely good at it, and despite her "ditzy" attitude sometimes, she was actually very clever. Katherine knew her plans back to front before she executed them, and barely ever left anything to chance.

Unfortunately though, she had learnt this the hard way. Katherine stood and resumed her pacing, trying desperately to think of her plan. Not being able to go back to Mystic Falls was like her death sentence.

Katherine frowned and thought about returning to Mystic Falls, or trying to. She began moving, she got in her car and began driving. Little did she know that Alaric Saltzman had put a dagger through Elijah's heart, and he was lying dead in the basement of the Salvatore Boarding House. Katherine was free of Elijah's compulsion. Free to go back and wreak havoc in the precious little town of Mystic Falls. Katherine was free.

So, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. PLEASE review. I know it is shorter than the last one, but I didn't have anywhere else to take it in this one.

Next chapter – Jonas and Luka will be appearing.