Damon and Katherine stood speechless in front of the Original family. Damon took a step closer to them.
"What is it then?" Damon said. "What does Klaus want with my brother?"
"This isn't the time or the place for that story, sister." Elijah said to Leah. Damon wasn't prepared to learn the truth. "Besides we should leave here."
"Tell me why Klaus wants my brother." Damon said facing Elijah.
"I said no. Not yet." Elijah said stepping closer to Damon.
"Fine." Damon snapped. "Later."
"Perfect." Elijah said. "We need to leave here. It's not safe."
"Where shall we go, brother?" Anthony said.
"Why don't we go back to my house?" Damon said.
"Sounds perfect." Elijah said.
"But as soon as we get there you will tell me everything about what Klaus wants from my brother." Damon said not taking his eyes of Elijah.
Elijah looked at Damon. He didn't want Damon to know what Klaus wanted from Stefan. Even though Damon annoyed him most of the time, he knew that the news would destroy Damon.
"Are you negotiating with me?" Elijah smiled.
"No. There's no negotiation." Damon smiled back. "You will tell me what Klaus wants with Stefan whether you want to or not."
That was it, Damon was pinned to the wall. Elijah was grabbing Damon by his throat. "How many times do I have to tell you that I'm an Original? When are you going to show me some respect?" Elijah smiled.
Neither of them could take there eyes of each other. They just stood there looking at themselves and everyone in the room was staring at them. Eye sex was happening between them and everyone was staring at them. Katherine stood in a corner of the room watching Damon and Elijah. She smiled completely turned on by Elijah and Damon. She was even jealous. It was the first time that she was in a room full of people and she wasn't the center of attention. Katherine decided to change that.
"When you start deserving my respect." Damon snapped.
Katherine rushed towards them fearing a fight between them that would most likely end with Damon dying. She put her hands on their chests trying to get between them.
"That's enough, gentlemen." Katherine said. "Let's go back to the Salvatore boarding house and when we get there we can talk about what we're going to do, but let's leave here first. Ok?" Katherine smiled at them.
"Fine." Elijah said letting go of Damon's throat.
"Ok. Let's go." Damon said moving towards the doors. "Follow me."
Everyone followed Damon to the car.
Damon, Katherine, Leah and Elijah's parents arrived at the Salvatore boarding house. As they all couldn't fit in Damon's car, Elijah stayed behind with the rest of his family. They were to find their own way back. An hour later, Leah and her parents were in the woods near the Salvatore boarding house breathing fresh air after being dead for centuries. Elijah and the rest of the family would soon arrive. Katherine was in Stefan's room, looking through Stefan's things.
"Watcha doing up here?" Damon said leaning on the door.
Katherine turned around shocked. "Damon, you made me jump."
"Katherine, you're a vampire, you should be able to sense me." Damon laughed.
"Of course I'm able to sense you, Damon." Katherine smiled. "I was distracted and not paying attention." Katherine said as she sat down on Stefan's bed.
"Ok, but why are you up here?" Damon asked.
"I…I was looking through Stefan's things I was feeling a bit nostalgic." Katherine admitted.
"Nostalgia's a bitch. I should know, I spent 145 years missing you." Damon smiled.
"And within a few weeks you fell in love with your brother's girlfriend." Katherine smiled back. "You clearly didn't love me as much as you think you did."
"No, I did love you. But when you weren't in the tomb underneath the church I got a little hurt." Damon smiled again.
They stood looking at each other for what seemed to be a long time but were only a few minutes. Katherine looked down to see Stefan's t-shirt in her hands and put it back on the bed. She then looked up at Damon who was still staring at her.
"Did you love me?" Damon asked. He had been curious about that ever since she said 'It's ok to love them both. I did.' He stared at Katherine with a serious face. He couldn't stop looking at her. He wasn't going to let her leave the room until she answered him.
"Damon, we've been over this. I love Stefan, it's always gonna be Stefan." Katherine said this in a way that seemed that she was not just trying to convince Damon but also herself.
"Yeah, I know that. But the other day, when you came to save me you said to Elena and, I quote: 'It's ok to love them both. I did.' So, if it's just Stefan you loved and love, then why did you say that?" Damon asked. He moved closer to Katherine standing right in front of her. Their bodies barely touching, he looked into her eyes and asked her again. "Did you love me?"
"Damon, can we just forget about this and get on with finding Stefan?" Katherine said turning around to leave the room.
Damon grabbed her wrist knowing that he wasn't as strong as her to stop her. "No, you're not leaving this room until you tell me the truth."
Katherine grabbed his hand and pulled them off her wrist. "We don't have time for this, Damon. We should be spending all our time looking for Stefan and Klaus." Katherine said looking into his eyes.
"And we will, just answer the question and we'll get back to looking for my baby bro and Elijah's baby bro." Damon smiled.
"Damon, please. Let's just forget about what I said. I lied." Katherine said looking at the floor. She couldn't look him in the eyes. She headed to the door but when Damon started talking she just stopped at the door, not looking at him and listened.
"Ok, you lied. That's nothing new. You're a liar. We both know that. Just tell me when you lied. All you have to say is that and I'll let it go, I'll never mention it again." Damon said looking at her even though she wasn't looking at him. "Did you lie when you said you loved us both or when you said you never loved me that it was always Stefan." Damon was half begging for her to answer. He needed to know to be able to move on with his life. To know if he still had feelings for her.
Katherine couldn't answer him. She wanted more than anything to answer him, but she couldn't turn around and face him. So, she did what she does best: walk away.
"That's it, Katherine. Just run away. It's what you do best. You run away when things get tough. You ran away from Klaus 500 years ago, you ran away from Mystic Falls 145 years ago and now you're doing it again. Why can't you just be honest for once?" Damon shouted at her.
Katherine turned around to look at him, she was angry and hurt. Damon had hit a nerve.
"You want to know why a run away, Damon?" Katherine shouted back at him, this time starting him at his eyes and not looking away. "I run away, because every time I bring these walls down that took me so hard to build I get my heart broken, I get everything I love taken away from me, my love, my baby, my family…my life. And I can't take it anymore, so when things get tough yes, run away." Katherine snapped. "I would think that you would know a little bit about building wall. You never let anyone in."
"I let you in." Damon said surprised at everything Katherine said. It wasn't what she said that surprised him, it was the way she said it, it was the pain and hurt in her voice that moved him and made him understand her. "You were the only person I ever let in. I met you and I thought you were the most beautiful woman I had ever met. I immediately fell in love with you and I poured my heart out to you. You knew everything about me. I had already suffered loss in my life. Before you appeared in my life I was lost, I had lost my mother and my father never cared about me. But when I met you, you were like fresh air. You were the woman I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. I gave up my humanity for you! My humanity, the thing I miss most in the world!" Damon addmiting missing his humanity for the second time. "I turned for you! And you weren't even there. I promised my brother an eternity of misery because I was hurt and I thought you were dead." Damon said tears in his eyes. "I spent 145 searching for you and all these years you knew that I was searching for you and you never cared. And then you show up here, proclaiming your love for Stefan, and yet, you still come to see me, seduce me and I'm supposed to believe that you love Stefan? That it was always Stefan?" Damon snapped. "You said you never loved me. But then you always seem to come back to me for more. So what is it? Do you get a thrill out of playing with me? I'm I just an ego boost to you?" Damon moved closer to Katherine. "The other night, you said you loved us both, after constantly repeating that it was always Stefan. Stop playing with me Katherine and tell me for once, when did you lie?" Damon shouted at her. The pain from all these years was showing all over his face.
Katherine just stood there looking at all the pain she had caused him over the years. She regretted all of it.
"I lied when I said that it was always Stefan." Katherine said staring into his eyes.
Damon just stood there shocked. He wanted to know the truth even though he knew it would be that Katherine didn't love him. But never in a million years would he think that the truth was that it wasn't always Stefan, that Katherine had actually loved him.
"What are you playing at, Katherine?" Damon said still shocked. "You say it was always Stefan, and now I'm supposed to believe that you loved me too."
"You wanted the truth, Damon." Katherine said looking at him. Neither could take their eyes off of each other. "That's the truth. It wasn't always Stefan. Why can't you believe that? You just asked me to be honest. I told you the truth. I loved you both."
"If you loved us both, then why did you come back for Stefan? Why did you choose to save Stefan and not me when you made the deal with John?" Damon asked.
"I…I..." Katherine didn't know how to answer Damon. She just stood their staring at him.
"You what, Katherine? You what?" Damon shouted eager for her to answer.
"I couldn't have you know the way I feel about you. It was just easier if you thought I loved Stefan and I wanted to save him, even though I wanted to save you." Katherine said.
"If you wanted to save me then why didn't you tell me this when I went to see you at the tomb?" Damon asked still not believing her.
"Because I wanted out of the tomb and as I said before I didn't care who had to die for that to happen." Katherine said.
"Let me get this straight, you say you wanted to save me, but you made a deal to save Stefan? And you didn't care who died for you to get out of the tomb? Even me, and you just said you love me? What the hell is going on Katherine?" Damon said getting annoyed.
"There's a spell." Katherine said.
"A spell?" Damon asked feeling that Katherine was playing with him. "What spell?"
"According to legend, when a vampire uses a dagger to kill an original the vampire dies. What the legend doesn't say is that the vampire doesn't completely die. There's a spell to revive the vampire." Katherine said.
"So, I'm supposed to believe that you made a deal to kill me to then get a witch to cast a spell and bring me back?" Damon said.
"You're going to believe what you want, Damon. But you asked me to tell you the truth and that's the truth." Katherine said.
As Katherine stood in the same spot, Damon paced around the room thinking about everything that Katherine had just said. After a few minutes, he stopped and looked at her.
"Ok, let's say I believe what you said. What I don't get is why you would bring me back? Why say you love Stefan and that you never loved me?" Damon asked confused and annoyed.
Katherine sighed, looked at the floor and then stared at Damon. "You're my weakness. Even though I loved Stefan, I've never felt for anyone the way I feel about you." Katherine smiled at Damon. "I know you won't believe this, specially after the way I treated you, but I love you, Damon. More than anyone." Katherine smiled.
"You're lying. If you loved me, then why did you toy me and Stefan back in 1864? Why didn't you come back for me after I turned? Why when you came back to Mystic Falls didn't you say that you loved me instead of Stefan? You knew how much I loved you." Damon said.
"Because it wasn't safe, Damon. Klaus knew I was in Mystic Falls, if you had disappeared he would have known I was still alive. If we had a chance in the future, I needed you to be safe. I needed to find a way to get rid of Klaus first." Katherine said.
Damon believed that, it did make sense. "You could have told me about Klaus, I would have understood. I would have let you go."
Katherine smiled. "No, you would have followed me. You wouldn't have let me go."
"True." Damon smiled. "Wait, that still doesn't explain about why on your return to Mystic Falls you came back to proclaim your love for Stefan, when if you had proclaimed your love for me, we would be together right now."
"You're my weakness, Damon." Katherine smiled. "When I'm around you I don't think straight and I'm scared…I'm scared that if I let my guard down with you that I'd get hurt. That Klaus would come and take you from me. That he would use you to make me pay. I know the pain I've caused you all these years but I did it to protect you. I couldn't watch you pay for my mistakes, die for my mistakes..." Katherine said as she stepped closer to Damon.
"And don't you think I had a right to decide if I was ok paying for your mistakes? I could have dealt with all that." Damon said, stepping back as Katherine got closer. "But I can't deal with this." Damon said and walking away towards the door. He turned back and looked at Katherine. "I don't know if I believe you. You've lied to me so much, that I don't know what to believe." He looked at her for a few more seconds and then turned and carried on walking.
Katherine rushed in front of him before he reached the door. "I know you can't believe me. I know that I haven't done anything to deserve your trust. But trust this…"
And she kissed him. Katherine kissed Damon like she had never done before. She put her arms around his neck pressing his lips against her. Damon stood their shocked, but he couldn't resist himself. He kissed her back, wrapping his hand around her back. She continued to kiss him and push him closer. Damon felt that the kiss wasn't like any kiss he had ever experienced, even with Katherine. With that kiss Damon was starting to believe everything that Katherine had said. Including that she truely loved him.
