Thanks for the reviews! I'm glad to know this is actually going somewhere.
And I'm just going to warn you, the timeline may be a little off, I'm not sure exactly if Elena is suppose to know everything she does yet, and it may be slightly OOC. So sorry if anything isn't right.
"What do you mean you sent for me?" Elena asked, her eyes widening.
Katherine looked down the stairs before grabbing Elena's arm. "It's not safe to speak of these things here, you will accompany me to my room."
"As if I have much choice." Elena grumbled, allowing Katherine to lead her down the hall and into a dimly lit bed chamber.
"I will answer your questions, Elena, but first you will answer mine." Katherine told her once the door was shut and bolted.
"Fine," Elena agreed hesitantly, "What do you want to know?"
"You are from the future?"
"Yes."
Katherine took a seat on the bed. "Then tell me what you know of it. Of me, of Klaus."
Elena looked at her challengingly. "Only after you tell me why and how you brought me here."
This made Katherine roll her eyes. "I have a witch, Emily. She's quite capable. And Klaus wants me dead, only I assume if I deliver him a living human doppelganger, he will be slightly more inclined not to end my life."
"So you've brought me here to die in your place?" Elena asked coldly.
"And there would be nothing you could do to stop me if I had." Katherine reminded her.
"However, giving you over still doesn't secure my safety. So tell me what is happening in the future. The truth, because I will kill you myself if I find you've lied to me. This is your chance to save your life. So start talking."
Elena studied Katherine for a moment. If she told Katherine everything, it could change the future, if not, surely she would die.
She sighed, deciding on telling her only the important parts. Parts she would care to hear.
"Well you're still alive. I've met you in my time. And you've caused no short amount of chaos."
Katherine shrugged.
"I know everything. About Klaus, the doppelgangers, all of it. Only what Klaus wants us for wont work. He wants to make hybrids. And we have to die in the sacrifice, but our blood is the only thing that can complete his hybrids transistion. So he screwed himself over. You give me to him, and he kills me. His plan still wont work. Whose to say he wont blame you for tainting me in some way?"
Katherine deliberated. "Fair point. But how do you know this?"
Elena laughed without humor. "Because he tried to kill me. If it wasn't for Stefan's delay, he would have.
"Stefan?" That had gotten her attention.
"Oh right, um, Stefan and Damon both turn."
A satisfied look spans on Katherine's face. "Of course they do."
"Oh don't get ahead of yourself," Elena layed down on the bed, thinking that she probably shouldn't feel so comfortable telling off a vampire that wanted to kill her. "Yes, Stefan and Damon both turn, they died trying to rescue you, but since you survive, I'm not going to give you any details on all of that. I can tell you that Stefan gets over you, while Damon spends the next century and a half pinning after you."
"And of course they are drawn to you in the future." Katherine grumbled, obviously not to happy with this layout.
"Well, sort of, things are...weird at the moment."
"What do you mean?"
Elena sighed, this should not be like a girls night pillow talk, but it would feel good to vent.
"Well thanks to you, yes both of them notice me. I met Stefan, we dated and I love him, and he loves me. Damon is a prick, a real sarcastic ass, again thanks to you. But now Stefan is off playing BFF's with Klaus and has all but lost his humanity, and Damon is being, well he's being Damon, but he's also been really supportive. And he thinks he's in love with me, and keeps doing all these things to prove it, but he also thinks I'm trying to turn him into Stefan, who is entirely moralistic for a vampire, well, when he has his humanity. And not everyone's stuck in this rut, and we are trying to figure out what exactly Klaus has planned, but nothing is working, and this all sucks."
Katherine just stared at her for a moment. "Stefan falls in love with you?"
Elena stared back flabbergasted. "Is that really the most important thing right now?"
"It is important, but Klaus is obviously not a threat to me at the time being, so yes, I can wonder over such petty things."
"Ugh," Elena groaned, "Well then yes, Stefan falls in love with me, but that was until he ran off with Klaus and I spent an entire summer looking for him. Now he doesn't want to see me anymore and says he's all but happy with the way things are now."
"And Damon?"
"What about Damon?" Elena asked confused.
"He loves you too."
Elena sighed. "I don't know. Yeah, I suppose so, but I loved Stefan first, I...it's complicated."
Katherine laughed. "Maybe for you, I'm finding it quite easy to manage them both."
"They're different now." Elena stated.
"Aparently," Katherine sighed.
"So what do we do?" Elena asked, staring up at herself.
Katherine pulled her up, pointedly.
"You get to sit tight. Enjoy you're time here, but do not try to leave. I decide if I give you to Klaus or let you stay breathing. If you do me no good, I'll let you return to your time. But let me make one thing clear."
"And what's that?" Elena asked, bringing her chin up defiantly.
"Stay away from Stefan. I don't care how much you think you care about him. He's mine, and he loves me. Him and Damon both. And I wont have you ruining my fun."
This made Elena roll her eyes. "No problem, believe me, the last thing I want to do right now is complicate things more and get lovey dovey with human Stefan. This is the past. And it's because of you that they even take an interest in me in the future. So you can just go on about your business."
Katherine sized her up for a moment. "Agreed."
"Fine." Elena went to exit, only to find Stefan at the door once it opened.
"My apologiese mam, I didn't know you were occupied."
Katherine smiled before waving Elena off. "Nonsense. She was just leaving."
Elena nodded her head, but didn't look back as she walked out of the door, and ignored the fact that she was suddenly left alone in a hallway with no direction back to her room.
And that's when she heard a noise. It sounded like someone was sniffling, as if trying not to cry, and when she turned the corner, she never expected to see Damon there, looking a little rough, with actual tears in his eyes.
"Damon?"
He straightened up imediately. "Katherine?"
"No, I'm Elena."
His face fell again. "Oh, forgive me."
She felt her heart contrast at his pain. Vampire Damon never had his gaurd down, and she'd definately never seen him like this.
"Are you okay?" She asked him, truley concerned.
He smirked slightly, so maybe that hasn't changed. "I'm not quite so sure anymore Miss Elena."
"Well what do you mean?"
He sighed, leaning back against the wall. "Katherine has been spending a lot of time with Stefan lately. I know he loves her, and he's my brother, he deserves to be happy, but...I love her too. And she doesn't want just one of us. She says it's a game we all play, a game with no rules."
Not for the first time, Elena felt bad for Damon. It had to be hard to see the person you love, love someone else. She herself had tried not to be jealous when Stefan went into Katherine's room. But perhaps it was easier for her because this Stefan didn't feel like her Stefan.
"Why do you love her?" Elena asked, something she had always wondered, of both him and Stefan.
Damon looked at her, perplexed. "I don't know. It's just something about her. She's special. She's powerful, and she's not like anyone else I've ever seen or courted. And I know I can never truley have her, therefore I want her."
Elena thought about that. "At the expense of loosing yourself though?"
Damon shrugged. "I don't see it that way."
Elena rolled her eyes. "Oh come on Damon. Look at this. Your out in a dark hallway, alone, upset, while she's in her room with Stefan, how can you not see she's toying with you."
Damon sighed. "I know it's not right Miss Elena, but it's just how the game is played."
"Well, then, I feel sorry for you Damon." Elena told him, "Because neither one of you deserve that."
"Everyone deserves to be with the one they love, Elena."
She sighed again. "Perhaps. Anyway, could you help me, please. I can't find my room."
He smiled politely at her. "Of course, just this way."
He took her hand to lead her, and again, she could only marvel at how different this Damon was. And how sad. It was one thing to hear about it, and a complete other, to watch it fold out. Katherine was an inconciderate bitch. They both loved her and she only used them. Stefan almost didn't seem to care, but again, Elena knew he was the one Katherine cared the most for. Which made her feel even more pity for Damon, who was almost too sweet and kind, here anyway, to have his heart played with like that.
Then she felt uneasy. Was she not doing almost the same in the future. Forcing Damon to watch her pine over Stefan when he clearly loved her. She shook her head, No, she was not like Katherine, and she had told Damon the truth from the beginning. She cared about him, but she loved Stefan. Only lately, she couldn't seem to get Damon out of her head, and with Stefan being gone, nothing felt certain anymore.
"Well this is it, " Past Damon told her.
"Thank you, Mr. Salvatore, " She tried addressing him in the formal manor, but it still felt weird.
"My pleasure, and thank you for your company tonight Miss Elena. I did enjoy it."
She smiled. "Your welcome."
"I was wondering, if tomorrow, you'd maybe like to go riding?"
"Like, on horses?" She asked uncertainly, making him laugh.
"Yes, Elena, on horses."
"Um, sure, I guess."
He smiled again. "Wonderful. We can go after breakfast."
She nodded, allowed him to kiss her hand in parting, and watched him walk away, wondering what the hell she was getting herself into.