A/N: Okay, first off, I would like to say that if any of my previous readers are reading this, I am so sorry for the delay, but The Vampire Diaries only came back on in the UK last night, and I updated as soon as I could. Secondly, I am sorry that this chapter is so short, I have to get back into the story, but I promise, I will be updating again now that the series is on air again, and the chapters will be better than this one. Thirdly, read and I hope you enjoy it even though it is a rubbish chapter:)
Okay, so we didn't actually get to go to Rome, no, because Mystic Falls always, no matter where you are headed or running away from, seems to suck you back into its depths – it is relentless, and I have no way to escape from it.
Damon's been in contact, apparently Klaus is back in Mystic Falls demanding to know where Stefan is because Stefan stole something – though, I wasn't exactly going to tell Damon that it was Katherine who set Stefan to stealing Klaus' family, that might have caused a few extra problems, but now I have to go back and act like I know nothing and be the good Petrova girl I am.
"What I don't get, Katerina, is, why can't you just let them be and move on?"
"The Salvatore brothers?"
I shook my head and looked ahead, "Klaus."
"You care?"
"I was with him for centuries, I may not be as close as I was, but this is a twisted game, I still care – I just don't know how much."
"What about me?"
"It's not always about you, Katerina."
"Yes it is."
I chuckled to myself, "right now, I'm doing something you never could."
"What's that?"
"I'm going to help solve a mess that I helped cause instead of running away like a lost little girl."
"Running away keeps you alive."
"It makes you a coward."
"It'll be the death of you, Yordana."
"I'm already dead. You can drop me off here."
She pulled over just outside of Mystic Falls and I got out from the car, "Don't die."
"Don't do something stupid," I replied, slamming the door shut and running into the outlining forest.
The sun was out but the forest was completely silent – stopping somewhere completely in the middle I closed my eyes and listened; "Don't do it Jeremy." Tyler, perfect.
I raced off in the direction that Jeremy and Tyler where in, stopping just a few metres away.
"Why not? You stab my back, I stab yours."
"I didn't stab you in the back," Tyler snapped, jumping over and fallen tree.
"Is that why you wanted to hang out? To get me off the vervain."
"Klaus asked me to, I never thought he would try to kill you."
"It's Klaus, Tyler, what did you think was gonna happen?"
"He doesn't care about you, all he wants is to get his family back." Jeremy took a shot at Tyler; "What the hell?"
"Whenever he wants something, someone ends up dead, think about that next time before you blindly do whatever he says."
Silence followed for a few seconds before Jeremy walked off, "Jer, you should get home, stay inside, Klaus isn't done with you yet."
Another pause followed as Jeremy left and I walked over to Tyler.
"What do you want?" He snapped.
I rolled my eyes, "Klaus lost his family?"
Tyler shrugged, "What's it to you?"
"Nothing, I was just curious, I heard his brother Kol was a hottie, and since he's missing, that's a terrible waste, I could help find them, and since I'm on the market..."
"You don't want to anger Klaus like that?"
I laughed, "Why not?"
"He's not in the best of moods, right now, what with a backstabbing ex, missing family, seems like nothing is going right for him."
"Couldn't have happened to a nicer person."
"That's hilarious coming from you."
"I'm lovely, you know that, Tyler."
"Klaus disagrees."
"Why's that?"
"You left and betrayed him; that tends to make someone bitter."
"Klaus was always bitter with a bad temperament, doesn't faze me."
"Maybe it should, he will kill you."
"Klaus doesn't scare me, and anyway, I know something he doesn't," I shrugged, "but seeing as you're not being helpful, I'll just be on my way, watching in the wings." I turned on my heel to walk away before turning back, "Oh, and, don't tell Klaus about this little meeting, he thinks I'm gone, I need him to stay oblivious for a while, comprende?" Tyler nodded slowly.
"What are you up to? Ever since you got here, you've been very evasive, saying that it was to help your sister at first, but then being linked to Klaus, and now you act like you don't care – nothing changes that much that fast."
"My motives are none of your business, Hybrid."
"Then whose are they?"
"Mine, and mine alone."
I turned to leave again, taking a deep breath before Tyler called to me again, "One more thing;" I turned back to him and nodded, "did you ever even care about Katherine? Damon? Or even Klaus?" I stopped short, staring at him in confusion, furrowing my brow; how could one boy who is such a dimwit, actually be the only one to have the courage to ask me whether or not I cared about anything.
Within seconds I was in his face, he didn't budge at all, just carried on staring, "like I said, my motives are mine and mine alone, you'd do well not to test me, Tyler."
"You'd do well to decide whose side you're on, because no one's going to wait around forever."
"They will if they have forever." I stepped back and studied him for a moment; "I must say, you do pick up on things – but like I said, my motives are mine and mine alone; I may care about all of the people, or none of them, but I'll do what's best for me and those around me at the time – that is all you need to know." He nodded slowly, "And don't forget, keep this discussion between us."
I turned and walked away from him, leaving him to head back to Klaus, I suspect. I headed my way, to some shabby B&B, waiting until I would need to do anything else.
