This is part 3, the final chapter of my three shot. I'm glad I wrote this short story since I've had the idea in my head for months now. This was my first Vampire Diaries fanfiction, and I had so much fun writing it. Hopefully I can write more in the future!

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Part 3

Klaus sat in one of his many rooms in his grandiose house leafing through files he kept over time of the places and events that occurred over his many years. He kept a close eye on his watch as he searched for a file labeled New Orleans. He imagined the town changed quite a lot since his stay there many years before. The anxiety that continued to build inside of him since he heard the news about the uprising in Louisiana stressed him out. He only toyed with the two doppelgangers down below in his ballroom for pure sport and stress reliever. He had no intention of giving Katerina the cure. He let her escaped once before when his focus became on creating hybrids with Stefan. This go around her luck would run out. Katerina Petrova's lifeline was up.

As he pulled the file from the oak cabinet, he quickly shuffled the papers around to make certain everything he needed rested there before he glanced at his watch and found fifteen minutes had passed. A huge grin spread across his face as he replaced the file in its rightful spot and made his way downstairs.

He turned the corner into the ballroom to find the two doppelgangers sitting in their chairs peering out in front of them. He assumed a fight might have broken out between the two while he was gone. When it comes to protecting and looking out for herself, Katerina proved time and again she thought of no one else. He figured she would have at least struggled to get out of the ropes and hurt Elena in some way. But it appeared that an attempt had not been made. He knew Elena wasn't a fighter, but seeing the both of them quietly sitting in their chairs without disruption seemed odd. Maybe fear had gotten to them both.

"Alright you two," Klaus said clapping his hands together and standing in front of them, "Which one is it going to be?"

"Oh please like you'll give us a choice," a voice said from his left, "I've been running from you for over five hundred years, I think I know my enemy."

"Oh! She finally reveals herself!" Klaus exclaimed.

"What's got you so scared you're willing to tick Silas off and create more unreliable half breeds like yourself?" Katerina fired back.

Klaus' smirk dropped from his face and the powerful hybrid appeared, "I'd watch my tongue if I were you. Especially since you're running on a good chance of me cutting it off and making you choke on your own blood."

"Why do this?" interrupted the girl on the right, presumably Elena, with a crack in her voice, "We can help you. If you die we die, remember? Whatever it is it can be figured out Klaus."

"Oh sweetheart, don't try to act like you care. Why would I want a group of lovesick vampires to help me when I can have an army of hybrids?"

"Remember that Lockwood boy is still out there," Katerina said, "He'll just find them and show them how to unsire themselves."

Klaus ignored Katerina's remark and grab the vial filled with the cure from his pocket, "Well Katerina it seems you have learned a little over the centuries. I had no intention of giving you two a choice. I just wanted to see you suffer a little and by the looks of it, I'm going to enjoy the next several centuries of your death even more."

"Klaus please," Elena begged, "Don't do this!"

Klaus looked at her and then began towards her. He grasped her head and tilted it back and then forced her mouth open. With his teeth he uncorked the vial and said, "Okay Elena. Remember same rules apply. Your blood on a regular basis until I say no more. You'll obey or your friends become awful sacrifices."

"Like Stefan and Damon are gonna let that happen!" Katerina shouted out.

Klaus let go of Elena's head and threw a hand across Katerina's cheek. The force of the punch knocked her and the chair to the ground, "I'll just compel her love."

The girl in the chair starred up at Klaus and he turned to her tightening his hold on her open mouth, "Bottoms up Elena."

With that Klaus turned the vial upside down, and the liquid poured into the girl's mouth. He could hear whimpering coming from the other side of the fallen chair but kept pouring the liquid until every drop fell. He forced her mouth shut to make sure she had swallowed the entirety of the cure.

Klaus stood back awaiting a moment when he could be sure the cure had taken. He peered over at the girl on the floor and she too stared waiting for a signal.

Then out of nowhere a scream so piercing filled the ballroom and Elena jerked around in the chair violently. Klaus ran to her placing his hands on her shoulders forcing her in the chair. He had no clue how this cure worked or what it looked like when a vampire was cured.

Blood soon filled her mouth and the screams continued. He grabbed a small knife from his pocket and cut the ropes from her wrists. She fell to the ground on her knees and spit out even more blood on the floor. Her hands then flew up to her mouth and tears fell from her eyes. As she pulled her hand away from her mouth, two teeth dropped to the ground.

"Oh my God," a voice to the left said.

A few moments later, the violent movements slowed down and the blood stopped pouring. She laid on the ground breathing heavily covered in red. Klaus knelt down beside her and moved the hair that stuck to her face. Her heartbeat had slowed and he could sense she was no longer a vampire. The burns and cuts from the tight ropes did not heal nor did the sores in her mouth from her fallen fangs. As the girl's eyes opened, a faint smile spread across her face.

"Did it work?" a scared voice behind him asked.

The girl continued to smile at Klaus until she finally caught her breath to mutter, "I got you," in Bulgarian.

A rage filled Klaus screamed to the top of his lungs, "Katerina! You treacherous bitch!"

Katherine continued to laugh. A laugh she had been waiting to laugh for centuries. She was human. Human. The Katherine Pierce. Could the world handle her as a human? She tired of running and always calculating every step she took. She didn't exactly wanted to be human, but it sure as hell beats the alternative. She spent her entire lifetime being scared of Klaus. Now he could never touch her. Her Petrova blood protected her in a way no plan ever could.

Klaus stomped around the room getting hold of anything in sight and throwing it, shattering the object into a million pieces. Elena lay on the ground still tied to the chair wondering what would happen next. She had made a deal with Katherine at the end of those fifteen minutes. Katherine was tired of living the life she had been for a while, she craved peace. The only way she could achieve it, is if she took the cure.

So they devised a plan in mere seconds to switch identities once again to trick Klaus. It was the only way Klaus would give Katherine the cure. In exchange for the cure, Elena demanded Katherine to never have children so the Petrova line would cease to exist after her human death. She refused to have anyone else go through this mess when Klaus decided he wanted more hybrids on his own time. She wondered what Stefan and Damon would think of this? Caroline and Bonnie? She knew they wouldn't approve. They would soon find out when they returned home tonight. The big question was what step would be next?

Elena noticed the sound of breaking glass and wood had stopped. She couldn't see in front of her since her back faced the open room. All she could see was a shadow coming from behind her and the sound of slow footsteps. Then a voice, "Now what am I going to do with you?" The quick sound of air being rushed around her filled her hearing and then everything went to darkness.

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