Chapter 3 From Below

I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below. I cannot stand to be without him. My only thought was that he was no longer with me. I felt I couldn't continue living this way. I needed my half... now I was incomplete.

On another side of the city. Narrated by someone else.

While Katherine, walked like an automaton aimlessly. In the office of "Gilbert and Salvatore: Associates" law firm. Elena chatted with her husband, Damon, on the next case they had in court...

"Ma'am, you have a call, from the office of Katherine Pierce" April, Elena's assistant interrupted them.

"Transfer the call please, April" Elena instructed.

April transferred the call her boss office. Katherine's Pierce office, Elena's sister office, was the most important event organizers office in the city.

"What are you talking about? What do you mean by she didn't show in the office today?" Elena asked alarmed at the news that Sophie Devereaux, one of Katherine's employees told her. Katherine didn't show in her office and they had a meeting with Esther Mikaelson, the mayor's wife, to plan a party for their 40th wedding anniversary, it was the most important event that year, Katherine wouldn't miss that meeting unless something really bad had happened to her.

"And she isn't answering her phone..." Elena grew increasingly worried, it is true that she only knew her sister for seven years, most of her life she had thought she was the daughter of Grayson and Miranda Gilbert, not of his uncle John and a woman named Isobel, and that her only brother was Jeremy. But it wasn't like that. And she didn't realize it, until that day... and she began to remember.

She had finished her last summer as a high school student, she was now a college student at Harvard's law school, that day she was walking around campus absentmindedly, and she was talking on the phone with Damon, her boyfriend, on classes that she would take. Damon was advising her. Damon was newly graduated and he already had a job and an important firm in the city. When suddenly, a girl, just as distracted as her, went out from the attached bedrooms of Business Administration and Economics School and hits her squarely. What would be their surprise: they were identical, both of them... the girl told her, her name was Katherine Pierce.

Katherine and Elena had been so intrigued with their similarity that decided to ask for a DNA test to see if they were related. Their DNAs were identical Bonnie, Elena's friend, and Sloan, Katherine's friend, premed students, told them that such thing only could happened if they were identical twins, Katherine told Elena that she was adopted, that the Pierces had told her when she turned 17, a few months before they died in a plane crash. Elena said that was impossible, that her birth certificate said she was the daughter of Miranda and Grayson.

They decided to research further; fist they reviewed Katherine's adoption records. With Damon's help they unlock data from the closed adoption, and they found the names of Katherine's biological parents, Isobel Fleming and John Gilbert. John was the man that Elena had always considered her uncle. Elena confronted Jenna, her parents had died three years earlier. Jenna told the truth. Grayson was just newlywed and newly graduated doctor, he and Miranda weren't ready for the responsibility of two babies so they kept only one, but took care that the other one ended in a very good family. Katherine said she had made a very good choice; she had it all, her parents had never denied anything even always they had spoiled her a little bit and now that they were gone they left a very large inheritance; and a proof of it were her Max Studio jeans, her Nanette Lepore top and her Christian Louboutin shoes.

The two girls decided to get to know each other at the end of that year they were very close. Katherine's friends met Elena's and Elena's friends met Katherine, the whole group got along very well.

"Sophie, I will send someone to her house and I contact you with news if they find her" Elena sighed and send Connor, one of the firm's P.I., to go to Katherine's home and look for her.

Although, Elena had send Connor to Katherine's home, she call all her friends to see if anyone had heard of Katherine. None of her friends knew anything about her. Elena was very worried, so she called Jeremy in order to him be in her office when Connor called with some news of Katherine... Elena needed her brother support.

Later Connor called Elena, saying that Katherine wasn't home. In her bedroom were her purse with her wallet and IDs, and on the nightstand next to her bed her phone, the binder with Mikaelson's party information; her laptop and her tablet, on her desk. Connor was going to follow a trail, a neighbor told him: he had seen her walking, crying, heading to a nearby park early in the morning, so Connor deduced she had been walking for about three hours. Connor knew that when a person is depressed walks slowly in a straight line. Katherine should not be too far, maybe about four miles from home. In fact when he found her, she was outside the cafeteria where she and Martin met, standing watching people coming in and out.

XOXOXOXO

I don't know how I got here, I guess my subconscious betrayed me somehow. I just watch from below as everything happens around me. I see people go on with their lives, regardless of anything or anyone.