Thursday's episode of VD was epic. I loved it, but I am truly looking forward to next weeks even more. :) I loved that they included Paramore's song Brick By Boring Brick in the last episode. That has been my favorite song for weeks now so I was very excited to hear it included. Part of this chapter was partially inspired by lyrics from the song (though I did NOT list the lyrics, this is not a songfic) you may not be able to tell which parts, but I thought I would throw that bit of info in here anyway. Hope you like it....

Where we left off....

"Well hello Elena, I don't believe we have been properly introduced. I'm Katherine."

Elena slowly bakced away from the door before turning to run. But, she had only just made it off of the porch wen Katherine appeared in front of her.

"Don't you know not to run from vampires, Elena? I thought you would know by now how pointless it is," Katherine said in an inncently evil tone. "Besides, when you run, it only provokes us."

Elena knew her fear was betrayed on her face, but she gathered what courage she could and lifted her head. She was obviously not going to get out of this so the least she could do was act as brave as possible.

"What's the matter Elena? You look so frightend. I'm just trying to help you," Katherine said in a silky voice. "After all, you never know what kind of vampires might be running around. Come on, lets go inside where we can sit down and talk," Katherine smiled.

Elena, knowing she didn't have a choice but to follow, walked back onto the porch and in the front door with Katherine leading the way. Elena walked into a quaint, respectable house of medium size. She thought it seemed a little low scaled for Katherine's standards but, she probably didn't have much of a choice. Katherine motioned for Elena to sit down on a small sofa in the living room and Katherine sat in the chair across from her.

"Why did you leave him?" this was all Elena could think to say. She had to know why. Why Katherine had hurt him so much, weather she had a reason, or if it was what she had always suspected. That Katherine was just to self centered to care about anyone else.

Katherine smiled and responded leisurely, "Which him might you be talking about?"

This was when Elena noticed that she had not said them. She had been thinking about Damon, again. This seemed to be happening to her a lot lately, and now he was even imposing on her attempt to find her mother. But, Katherine really had hurt Damon, more that she ever thought possible for someone as unfeeling as he seemed to be. She looked at Katherine and noticed her waiting patiently for Elena's answer to her question.

"Damon," she replied.

"Ahh. Well, I suppose I left him for the same reason I left all of the others. Boredom. An emotion that becomes quite common for a vampire," was her simple response.

"But, you knew he would be hurt when you left, and still, you didn't even bother to contact him to tell him you were okay. You had to have known that he would be looking for you. He was bound to find out that you were still alive somehow. But, did you even take his feelings into consideration? Even now, I doub't it's a coincidence that you ended up living this close to Damon. There's no way you didn't know where he is," Elena said.

"Of course I know Damon's back in Mystic Falls. Didn't I just explain to you the boredom spells vampires go through? I needed a source of entertainment, so I figured coming back here to watch Damon go through all of this trouble to find me, only to end up heartbroken and depressed, again, sounded like a pretty good idea," Katherine said plainly, as if it were the most obvious answer in the world.

"That's horrible. How could you act like you love him and change him into a vampire even, just for your own amusement?" Elena was really not shocked at all, though, it was exactly as she had guessed.

"Perhaps it is horrible...to a human. Tell me Elena, can you really say that you haven't seen Damon do something purely for the fun of it? Something that most mortals would find repulsive?" at the look that was no doubt betrayed on Elena's face, Katherine nodded. "It's the way of the vampire Elena. Damon understands that. Perhaps you should reconsider your feelings for him..." she trailed off.

Elena thought about what Katherine had said, and realized that none of it mattered. Elena knew that somewhere, maybe it was deep, deep down, but somewhere, Damon had feelings. He had a good heart, and Elena seemed to be the only one able to see that in him.

As Elena sat thinking, Katherine took the oppertunity to continue, "I notice how you have not spoken of Stefan yet. Am I to believe that your feelings for him are no more?"

"Of course not," Elena replied, uncomfortably. "I care for both of them."

Katherine let out a sharp, peeling laugh, "Oh Elena, you are so very much like me, in more ways than our appearence. It is not hard to tell that we are family."

"I am nothing like you," Elena responded, only a little stronger than she felt.

Katherine smiled at Elena, though, it was far from a comforting smile, "Of course you are. You found both of the Salvatore brothers, led them on, played with their emotions, and then left them. Just like me. Of course, the only difference is that you fell in love with them," Katherine said, with a slightly dangerous tone to her voice.

"I never led them on, every moment I have shared with them has been real and I didn't play with their emotions the way that you did. As for leaving them, Stefan and I broke up because there are too many things happening in our lives right now, and I have not been with Damon so it isn't possible for me to have left him," Elena said.

"You know what, Elena. I'm glad you see it that way. I've always found people who have a positive attitude toward things to be refreshing. I suppose that is the reason for my interest in Stefan. I myself, have had a life so full of reality that I find it difficult to be positive about things. But, I suppose that's for the best. It helps me to prepare for things that are coming," Katherine said, in a sort of remeniscent state.

"It's to easy to see the bad things in life. The challenge is in finding the good in the bad," Elena responded.

Katherine pursed her lips and seemed to study Elena intently, "You make a good point. But, let us move on Elena. I know you did not come here to discuss the fact that life is tragic. I assume you are here for your mother, correct?"

Elena just looked at Katherine, captivated by the idea that she might be learning something new about her mother. Katherine took Elena's silence as agreement and went on.

"It's a shame really, I had hoped you would have drug it out a little more before coming here. I suppose I will have to be finding a new source of entertainment now," Katherine said with a sigh.

"So you know where my mother is?" Elena asked.

Katherine smiled, "Of course I do. She's been with me since Damon turned her."

"Where is she?"

Katherine's face began transforming into one of irritation, "You ask to many questions. She is being held nearby, that is all you need concern yourself with."

"Your keeping her here against her will?" Elena questioned, beginning to worry about her chances of getiing out of here.

"Well I couldn't very well let her go free. She might have gone running back to Damon at some point, or she might have found Stefan, and I couldn't have that. After her infatuation with Damon, she's lucky I let her continue existing. I suppose I could have let her be, then killed her when she posed a threat, but it seemed much easier to take care of the probelem before it arose. Wouldn't you agree?" Katherine asked.

Elena was horrified, "What problem? What harm would have been caused in leaving her alone? So what if she had found Damon or Stefan again? Are they not allowed to know other vampires besides you?"

Katherine's face was edging beyond irritated now, "Of course they are. But if she had fallen in love with one of them then I would have had to put up with it for eternity, well, until I killed her, anyway," Katherine said with a wave of her hand. "But then that would have caused which ever one of them she was with to become depressed and I would have had to watch that for who knows how long before the two of them got back on the important subject of their depression. Me. It would have been much more trouble for me."

"Can't you just let them be happy? After everything you have put them through?" Elena asked.

Katherine laughed again, "Of course not. That would not be amusing for me at all. It's probably best that you don't try to understand it. At least, not right now. You will have plenty of time for that later."

Elena knew the fear was, again, apparant on her face as she asked Katherine what she meant.

Katherine looked slightly surprised for the second time this evening. "Now, Elena. You don't really think I can let you scurry back to Stefan and Damon, do you? Espically after everything you have learned this evening. That would be very dangerous indeed. Like I said before, I preferr to fix my problems before they arise. Though I did find your presence in their lives to be quite amusing. Your resemblence to me being a constant reminder for them every time they saw you. It was highly entertaining. But, I'm afraid, you know far too much now. You see Elena, you have also been consorting with Damon and Stefan. Did you really believe I wasn't watching? That I would let you get away with it?" Katherine asked, bemused.

Elena could only stare at Katherine in horror while thoughts of all of the things Katherine was probably planning for Elena's torture ran through her mind.

Katherine continued, "That was also the secondary reason for taking your mother away. If I had allowed her to go free, she might have turned you aswell. Then I would have had to put up with you being around them forever. Though, thinking about it, I suppose your death might have served as a painful reminder of my own disappearence from their lives. Hmmmm.....perhaps once I am through with you I will leave you somewhere for them to discover you," Katherine squinted at Elena, she seemed to be thinking very deeply about this new idea. "Well, Elena, you have just inspired me. I do believe I have just found my next method of entertainment.," Katherine smiled evilly.

Elena gasped and her voice came out in hurried, choked, sobs, "Why? I didn't do anything to you. I didn't even know you existed until I was already with Stefan..." her voice trailed off.

Katherine spoke again, though, this time she was not speaking to Elena. In a matter of seconds, two vampires that Elena had never seen before flashed into the room. Now Elena could feel the terror consume her entire being. Katherine stood and walked over to the two of them, speaking in tones too quiet for Elena to hear. Not that she would be able to anyway, her fear had caused a loud ringing in her ears and her whole body had started to tremble slightly. This only worsened when the two strange vampires walked over to each side of Elena and picked her up and began dragging her out of the room.

Elena struggled against her captors as much as she was able, but there was no point, she was not going to get free. Katherine watched Elena being drug away with a nearly blank expression on her face. However, you could see her amusement in the sadistic twist to her mouth. Then, Katherine tilted her head to the side and waved at her before Elena was being drug through a doorway and down a set of stairs. Elena thought she saw the words 'Bye, Elena' escape Katherine's lips before he basement door shut soundly, blocking her from view.

Even though the basement door had been shut, and the room itself was bound to be soundproof, Elena was sure her screams were heard.

Ooooh scary :) After the last episode of VD, I became semi-inspired to start writing chapter 4 and this was all I had for this chapter. For those of you who didn't want Katherine to hurt Elena, I didn't technically have Katherine hurt her. That was the best I could do. I mean it is Katherine we're talking about. Anyway, please review and I will try to have chapt. 5 up sometime soon.