OKAY major Kaljah in this chapter. Also the science of IVF is not in this chapter as I magic is involved so the story moves a little faster. Also this is the longest chapter yet :)

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FYI translation of Bulgarian is at the bottom


Katherine has never been so relieve in years. It had been four days since she had became human. Two days since she had been taken to New Orleans. She had woken up and her bed sheets had been bled on.

Klaus had taken Katherine and himself on a road trip Shreveport.

"You do realize I will have to get hormone shots and stuff before I can actually become pregnant" Katherine pointed out as she sat in the back seat of Klaus' car.

"That is why we are driving out of New Orleans. We are going to visit a witch who so happens to be a doctor. She is going to get some of you eggs. Freeze some and cook some" Klaus said looking at her through his mirror.

"Now the plan is. We wait out in Shreveport for two weeks. That gives us time to harvest eggs and put a baby in you" Klaus

"Oh how romantic" Katherine snapped.

"What was it last time, romp in a stable?" Klaus asked. Katherine's eyes narrowed.

"You know nothing about my life 500 years ago Klaus" she snapped her voice full of venom.

"Oh touched nerves have we." Smirked Klaus in the mirror. Baiting Katherine for a reaction, she didn't give him one.

Shreveport was just as Katherine had remembered it. Not that she was awake for the two week period she was there.

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"So this is the doppelganger?" asked an Irish woman, her wild unruly red hair was pinned up on her hair.

"Yes the one that got away. So Kiore how long do you suggest this will take?" Klaus asked.

The odd woman circled around Katherine, eyeing her up. A crooked smile appeared onto her lips.

"If I do this all by magic, a week, but the pregnancy will be natural, I cannot guarantee she will carry the child full term. She has the same odds as any human" Katherine let out a breath but the panic was still evident.

"Why is it not a guarantee?" Klaus asked eyeing the witch for lies.

"The type of magic would need a sacrifice, to give life, life must be taken. A balance. But a life that is as valuable as hers. I only see one person a blonde girl. The name Caroline calls out to me"

"We will just have to go for human odds, wont we love" Klaus said gripping Katherine's shoulder.

"Very well" Kiore croaked. The last thing Katherine remembers is her face been held between to icy cold hands.

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Katherine felt like a bag of wet sand. She felt as if she was heavy and belonged to part of the mattress she was laying on. Her muscles ached slightly. But it was a delicious feeling stretching them. Murmurings sounded throughout her room. Katherine slowly opened one eye before opening the other.

"You said it yourself you have a gift" Elijah said. Katherine felt drawn to his voice the most. Am I still in Shreveport? No she was back in her bedroom. The boring egg shell painted walls and dark carpet.

"So tell us, is she with child?" Klaus asked looking at a brunette, who pulled a disgusted face at the man.

"Let me concentrate" snapped the brunette.

"I apologies for my brothers action. Miss Sophie" Elijah's ever authority bring voice said. Katherine tried to move but was too tried, too heavy, but she saw the woman close her eyes.

"Yes" Sophie whispered. Klaus beamed with joy at the prospect of having a doppelganger in a few 100 years time.

"Shame you couldn't have been this happy when it was your actual child" scolded Sophie, before turning to Elijah. "I am leaving now"

"I will walk you out" Elijah politely said smoothing down the front of his black suit.

Klaus moved from his position in the door way and crept towards Katherine. She still couldn't move. Panic started to grip her like a vice. Klaus knelt down next to the bed.

"In case you are wondering I compelled you to stay like this while in Shreveport, guess it hasn't wore off yet" Klaus chuckled. "But I thought I would come and share my congratulations to your little bun in the oven" and with that Klaus rose and left Katherine's room.

Katherine laid there deciding sleep was the best action right now.

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Elijah watched as Katherine slept, her body finally being released from the compulsion as it moved around the bed. She was dreaming and more Elijah watched more he knew it wasn't a good dream.

"Не моето момиче. Momma моля. Папа моля. Нека притежателя. Momma. Momma моля. Папа моля ви" Katherine muttered in her sleep. Her voice sounded so broken and her fists grasped at the sheet. It is moments like these Elijah know Katerina is still in there. Her body tenses and her heartbeat quicken. She is awake.

"Morning" Elijah said as he was sat near the window. Katherine tested her arms and legs before pushing herself up into sitting position.

"Well congratulations on the child" Elijah said his voice empty. He didn't know what emotion to convey. What was the appropriate response? "Good job, you're not going to die yet". No. There was no appropriate response so he kept his voice void of all emotion.

"I could lose it you know" Katherine's voice held fear.

"Yes all pregnancies have risks" Elijah said rising from his seat.

"True but not everyone has to carry the child fearing for their lives if they lose it. I feel like Anne Boleyn" Katherine moaned. Elijah smiled slightly.

"Did you share the same queries with your last pregnancy?" Elijah asked. He had been curious ever since Klaus had sprung the whole deal upon her, Elijah would find her talking in her mother tongue about past events in her sleep.

"That is the one thing we never discussed. We discussed, flowers, ways of courting, love. We have talked about killing Klaus. Getting the cure. The Salvatores. We have even discussed at length how trashy literature is becoming but never your human life in Bulgaria." Elijah pressed. She clearly spoke of her time in Bulgaria while asleep but never spoke to anyone awake. It made Elijah curious. Another piece to the puzzle.

"Why dwell upon things that don't concern you, anyway I remember correctly it was you and Klaus who murdered my family" Katherine growled at Elijah who didn't even flinch from her venom filled tone.

"It was Niklaus who slaughtered your family. I had no part in it" Elijah snapped losing his normally calm composure. He had known his brothers plan but didn't take part. He didn't believe in slaughtering innocents.

"You didn't stop it either" she yelled. "The noble lord Elijah didn't stop your Ladies family from being torn to shreds" Katherine started yelling at Elijah who seemed taken aback by the sudden outburst. He didn't stop it she was right. He was fuelled by anger and let his brother do the dirty work. Katherine still clearly mourned her family, after all this time. Katerina was still in there. Beneath all those thick outer layers.

"Since when were you my lady?" Elijah asked. Katherine let out a shaky breathy trying to recover her thick skinned composure. Elijah had to change the subject, but he knew at the time, she was as good as his. He loved her and he was sure she loved him.

"Go Elijah. Go appease your brother. Play happy families" Katherine spat, getting up to make her bed. She wanted out the house. Even if she was going to be followed, by a compelled, minion.

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Katherine wandered the streets of New Orleans, staying away from Bourbon Street. The last thing she need was to get her caught up in the Marcel feud. As she turned the corner of a street she bumped straight into a tall familiar body.

"Elijah, all I wanted was peace and quiet. Away from you"

"Well I want to talk to you. Away from prying ears" Elijah said.

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"Hot, orange juice?" Katherine asked raising an eyebrow as Elijah placed the white ceramic cup filled with a red liquid which let off steam. Giving off a citrus aroma. It smelled appetising.

"Orange, lemon and lime tea, seemed different" Elijah said putting his own cup of tea on the table as well as an English scone.

"I prefer coffee, you know that" Katherine said taking a sip.

"You are pregnant, coffee has caffeine which is ill advised during pregnancy" Elijah told her taking a good gulp from his own drink pushing the English scone to Katherine. Who eyed it with disgust.

"Not hungry"

"You have to eat; you have someone other than yourself to think of"

"Oh yes the tiny ball of cells no bigger than the tip of a needle. It is defiantly going to care whether I eat a stale piece of quick bread or wait two hours and have a real meal" Katherine mused. Elijah sighed.

"So what is it you wanted to talk about?" Katherine asked crossing her leg over her knee.

"Us, Katherine. Us before my brother got a girl pregnant. Us when we were in New York"

"The same 'us' you walked out on to play happy families with Klaus?" she asked tilting her head to the side picking at the scone.

"He is my brother you can't expect me to walk away from him" Elijah argued.

"No, I didn't expect that. I expect you put 'us' before him though. Your sister Rebekah chose to put her desires above Klaus' but you didn't"

"I chose family first, like it should be. Like it always should have been" Elijah growled.

"Well congratulations on that Elijah. You are going to play perfect family with your brother" Katherine snapped before rising from her seat. Elijah grabbed her wrist.

"Sit down" he said his voice firm.

"Why?"

"If I wanted to argue, I could have just asked you to stay at Klaus' mansion"

"Speak then oh mighty Elijah. Tell me your wise, wise words" Katherine melodramatically said.

She didn't see him coming, Elijah's lips crushed against her own. Silencing her in the sweetest way. Katherine's mind remembers the feel of his lips against hers. His callous hand cups her cheek. He pulls away. Before Katherine opens her eyes he is gone.


Katherine was speaking Bulgarian and here is the translation.

No not my girl. Momma please. papa please. Let me holder. Momma. Momma please. papa I beg of you

may not seem like much but will play a major part.

bye you lovely lot.x