A/N: Here's the next chapter! Thank you all so much for the alerts/favourites/and reviews. You guys are awesome. I'll be changing a bit in how things play out in this story from how they play out in the show, but I am trying to follow the plotline as best I can. Things should be picking up very soon, though.
Summary: Katherine, who had been locked the the tomb a mere few hours ago, makes an interesting discovery. They thought that all the tomb vampires escaped, but one still remained. Will Katherine's curiosity get the better of her and wake her up? And what of this new vampire's past with a certain Original? Elijah/OC(one-sided), Katherine.
She's The Option.
Chapter Two.
Cassandra was certainly more lively than before, but without a regular intake of blood, she was going to slip right back into her state of mummification. Which she hated Katherine a bit for, seeing as she woke her up. Going into that state was painful the first time, and Cassandra knows that it will be just as painful the second.
At least Katherine will slip into that state as well, granted that she had more blood in her than Cassandra had, but at least she was going to see her suffer a bit. If Cassandra said she wasn't sadistic, she would be lying.
Katherine had her nose in that book for days now, Cassandra feeling a little sad when she would see her sitting by the door, the light from the lantern casting a light glow on her.
"Oh, Katherine," Cassandra said, making Katherine look up from her book, "I don't believe that I've seen you this saddened since you were human."
"I thought you had returned to being a corpse, Cassie." Katherine said, raising an eyebrow as she watched the vampire fall to the floor with a thud, leaning her back against the wall.
"Nobody has called me Cassie since I was a small child." Cassandra admitted, not sure if she liked the nickname or not.
"Still, I'm waiting for you to return to the state you were in before."
"I'm not quite there yet," Cassandra muttered with a groan as her body ached, "though I'm close."
"Great." Katherine said, looking back down at her book. Cassandra looked away down the tomb, annoyed. She was the one that woke her up, could she show maybe a little more interest in her? Cassandra looked towards the open door of the tomb, a frown crossing her features.
"Say..." she started, "did you say that the tomb vampires got out? Yet, we are trapped in here..." she paused to clear her throat, though that didn't help to clear the rawness in her voice.
"Don't get excited," Katherine said, lifting her head to give her a smirk, "the spell is still in place, we do have a rather powerful witch in town."
"How...convenient." Cassandra kicked her legs out, the dirty and ripped dress only covering up to her thighs.
"Not really," Katherine muttered, "she's a buzzkill."
"Aren't all witches?" Cassandra asked, her mouth lifting up slightly at the corners.
"True," Katherine replied, closing her book to give her a look. She tilted her head, her brown hair falling to the side a bit. "What happened to you? All I really remember is that you were working with Klaus and Elijah, a tracker or something, and then you helped me get away."
"That's all true," Cassandra muttered, "and I repressed those memories for a reason, Katrina."
"Katherine."
"Are we not allowed to be called by our given names in this century?" Cassandra asked, sounding rather annoyed.
"I go by Katherine, now," Katherine explained, "Katrina was a scared human girl."
"Right," Cassandra muttered, "now you're an all powerful vampire hiding in a tomb."
"I'm not hiding down here, I was thrown in here."
"Well, I'm hiding down here," Cassandra said, "a tomb where vampires can't exit once they enter, it's perfect."
"Who are you hiding from, then?" Katherine asked, sitting up more fully, folding her hands in her lap. She raised an eyebrow when Cassandra let out a sigh.
"Same people you are hiding from." she answered after a few moments pause, "I figure that since I did let you slip out from my ever so watchful eye, they would no sooner kill me for letting you go in the first place."
"You're staying out of the line of fire," Katherine said, "how cowardly."
"If being a coward means that I stay alive then, yes, I am one." Cassandra said, rolling her head so that she was looking away from her. She looked thoughtful for a few moments, her body just wanting to fall back into sleep, but her mind was bring back images that she just pushed back down again.
"You were able to run while Klaus was searching for me," Katherine supplied, "that's why I didn't see you until 1864."
"Correct."
"So, why did you show up in 1864?" Katherine questioned, "I mean, you had ran so far, why walk back into my presence?"
Cassandra shrugged, "why must all my actions have motives? Could it have been a classic mistake of being at a certain place during a bad point in time?"
Katherine rolled her eyes, "right."
"It's true," Cassandra stated, see looked back at Katherine again. "Your choice to believe it or not. Are those Salvatore boys still around? Last time I saw them they were both rather in love with you."
"Oh, they are still around," Katherine said with a rather irritated tone of voice, "though they both have moved onto bigger and better things, apparently."
Cassandra only smiled at her, "it was bound to happen. You were a rather manipulative vampire."
"Who says I've stopped being manipulative?" Katherine gave her a sly smirk, which Cassandra returned with a blank stare.
"So, who is this "better thing" that the Salvatores have moved onto?"
Katherine frowned slightly at that and let out a sigh, "well, some things never change. Her name is Elena, she's the spitting image of myself, the next doppelganger," she looked at Cassandra, who looked a little surprised, "and they both love her."
"Hm," Cassandra nodded her head, a smile crossing her face, "now I'm much more happy to be down here, seeing that she's the next doppelganger, we both know who will be turning up."
"I thought you would say something like that," Katherine said, watching as Cassandra closed her eyes for a few moments, letting out a sigh through her nose. "I thought that you would at least be a little more excited, seeing as where Klaus goes, Elijah usually follows."
There was a pause, Katherine thinking that Cassandra had passed out again, but her voice cut through the silence.
"I would prefer that my past stays where it belongs, in the past," she stated, "and, I would also prefer that you stop with the questions before I decide that human blood isn't as appealing to me and I switch to vampire."
"Touchy." Katherine said with a smile, happy that she had got to her. She watched as the older vampire didn't reply, her body just slumped against the wall.
Cassandra waited for fatigue to take her body, but it wasn't coming as quickly. She was struggling to keep her emotions in check, her indifference shifting to irritation, anger, hurt, and a few others. She had a feeling that being stuck in a tomb with Katherine wasn't going to be as simple as she thought it would be.
Damn Katrina, she thought to herself, also damning herself for letting some of the feelings back in and showed Katherine a weakness, which she was sure she was going to use to her advantage.
At least she would be bloodless before Katherine would be, which gave her a small bit of comfort. A small smile tugged at the edges of her mouth as her mind became blank.
"Cassie, you foolish girl. Get down from there before you hurt yourself." a feminine called out to her, Cassandra smiling to herself. She hadn't heard that voice in a while, a long while, and she had missed it.
"Cassandra..." that was a sigh, sounding like her father. Aspirated with her, as he usually was. She had missed him dearly, too. She could feel her hands grow wet, her green eyes looking down as a red liquid stained her skin. She found herself standing in the parlour of her father's estate, blood on the floors and two bodies laying where most of the blood was on the floor, Cassandra's mouth hanging open in a silent shock.
She wanted to cry out, but no words came. The image was gone before she could blink, a voice whispering out to her.
"Miss Cassandra, please."
"Katrina..."
"Cassandra." There was that smooth voice, the one that made her go weak in the knees. She wanted to yell out, telling them all where she was. To stop calling out to her.
"Cassie!"
"Cassandra."
"Cassandra!" That voice was raw, gravelly. Cassandra coughed, groaning as pain shot through her body. Her throat burning like fire, and she wanted to just be numb again. She wondered if she imagined it, ready to drift back into darkness.
She smelt something familiar, a saltiness. Rusty.
Blood. It was blood.
"Come on," the voice was needy, but it was Katherine's. "I got your breakfast right here."
"Katherine!" that was a new voice, Cassandra frowning as her green eyes opened. She took in her surroundings first, she was still in the tomb, Katherine crouched in front of her. There was a boy in there with them, he looked to be dazed, a bite wound on his neck.
A man stood behind them, his green eyes angry. He stood on the outside of the tomb door, a girl that looked exactly Katherine with him, Elena, if Cassandra recalled correctly. But, Cassandra could only see the blood on the boy's neck, and she looked at Katherine with blood red eyes.
"He's got the Gilbert ring," Katherine stated, "he'll just come back."
"No!" Elena called out, Stefan looking ready to run in there. Cassandra latched her mouth onto the boy's neck, letting the blood enter her mouth. She swallowed a few gulps before she was pulled roughly away. She let out a yell, a pair of hands rapped around her neck as Katherine's brown eyes connected with hers, amusement written all over her features.
"Stefan, no!" Elena yelled out, looking horrified.
"Stefan Salvatore..." Cassandra said with a smile, her voice much clearer than before, though the roughness was still there. "Interesting."
"Who are you?" he demanded, Cassandra grabbing his arm and bent it at an odd angle so that he would let her go.
"Cassandra." she stated, shoving him back. She leaned against the wall, Katherine smiling at Stefan's backside as the vampire realized his mistake. He glanced over at Elena, who stared at him.
Stefan picked up Jeremy, moving him towards the front of the tomb and pushed him through the barrier where Elena caught him.
"Hopefully his ring will be enough," Stefan said, Elena just holding her brother and looked at him through the door.
"You have to go, Elena." Stefan stated, Elena only nodding her head and carried her brother out of the tomb. Stefan turned to look at the two vampires, Cassandra wiping the blood from her mouth and Katherine met his gaze.
He was screwed.