Hey, this is chapter five!
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Chapter Five: Heritage
Bella's Point of View
"Is she…Is she here?"
I'm sure they all knew who I was talking about, I mean, who else would the she be? Still, no one decided to tell me.
"Is she?" I asked them all again.
"Bella," Elijah sighed. "Are you sure that you really need to see her?"
"So, she's here?" I surmised.
Damon and Stefan shared a look. I probably shouldn't have mentioned her around them, knowing their past with her. Still, I needed to see her more than I cared about how those two were feeling right now.
"Well," Elijah mused. "Ever since someone killed me…the first time," he glared at Damon, who had the decency to look a little sorry, "Katarina has been freed of my compulsion. So, now she could be anywhere, with anyone, doing anything."
"Do any of you know what probably happened?"
"Maybe," Bonnie offered. "If Klaus is here, and if she really did escape him, I would think that he would want revenge. So, maybe he killed her."
No. Even if he did have her, which, when I admit it, he probably did, he wouldn't have killed her, not yet. "He would keep her longer. If he had her, he would want to make her suffer, put her through everything, and make her true feelings known. Make her care."
"But that's just it, isn't it?" Jeremy asked. "Katherine doesn't care. Not about anyone but herself, and how she'll make it out in the end."
That wasn't true. She cared about me. She still cares about me. "That's not true!"
"Regardless," Elijah said, "We do not know what happened, or where she is. If she is, indeed, with Klaus, then she's alive. She'll probably be in pain, compelled, but she is alive. I can promise that, which I couldn't if Katarina had just left. It's probably better that she's with him."
True. And if Klaus could get to me through her, he wouldn't kill her. But he knows what I would do if she was with him. But I knew what he would do too, and how he would think.
"So Katherine is with Klaus," Damon mused. Then, he stood up, scaring us all, and running upstairs. We heard a, "Damn it!" followed by a door slamming. The next second, Damon stood in front of Stefan. "She found it. She took it, and now she's gone, probably with Klaus."
"Damn it!" Stefan cried. Damn what? Would someone please tell me what's going on here?
"Huh? Katarina has what?"
"The moonstone!" Damon screamed. "She has the moonstone. And now Klaus has her. So, basically, Klaus has the moonstone."
Oh no. I knew what that meant, and so did Elijah. We looked at each other, and I started to cry, honestly bawl, because not only was Katarina in trouble, I would have to go back; back to my past, and the person that I had wanted to be.
"Who's in this, in this fight, until the end?"
Slowly, one by one, they all agreed. I would do what I had to do, and I would bring her back, no matter what. It was only fair, and I knew that she would do it for me, too, no matter what.
"I have only one question, though," Caroline said. I waited for her to ask, gesturing with my hands for her to continue. "Why does it matter so much to you?"
"Doesn't your mom mean a lot to you?"
So, that last sentence was a surprise, huh? This was a short chapter, wasn't it? Nah, I'm just kidding! More to read below. I would NEVER leave you with a cliffhanger. :)
"Katherine's your mom?" everyone asked, obviously surprised. Had they all forgotten that she had had a daughter? How else would Elena even be here? I mean, I was her great-something times grandmother.
"Yes, I'm her daughter."
"She did love you," Elena whispered. "When I went to see her, in the cave, she told me about her life. She said she had a daughter, that she loved, but her parents wouldn't even let her see…you. That she had to give you up for adoption, and then she was banished. So, you're my…"
"I'm your something, yeah. I'm not sure what though; there's too much time between us. My birth year wasn't even recorded; all I know is that I was born on September 13."
"How did you and Katherine know who the other was?" Bonnie asked.
"She had kept an eye on me, and when I was a teenager, I went to go see her. But, when I got there, I learned that she had been banished, and my grandparents had been murdered." My voice got suddenly harder. My smile was forced. "Klaus had killed them all, though you probably knew that, if you learned about me."
"So," Stefan said. "That's why you chose her over us? Why you listened to her instead of Damon and me; because she's your mother?"
"Yes. But, you also have to realize, that you she told me the truth, and you two were nothing but lying, cheating love-struck boys. I knew the entire time what she was doing to you, that she was using you, and feeding on you, and compelling you to love her. Katarina did what she did to you to protect me. She had to ensure that you guys wouldn't realize who I was, and that we were related, so that Klaus and…Elijah wouldn't come find me. Plus, she just wanted someone to love her. She had to give me away, and her parents banished her. Klaus just used her, because she was the first doppelgänger, and she had no one. You two immediately wanted her, and you fought over her. She was selfish, yes, but not any more so than that of anyone else." I finished my rant, standing up, and grabbing my purse.
"Where are you going?" Elena asked.
"The same place you guys are going, too. That is, if you're still in?" They all nodded, standing up. "We need to get a plane. We're going to Volterra."
See? No cliffhangers! Heh. Yeah, I know, I lied. I mean, I almost left you with two, but I only left a small one. Please forgive me!
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Okay, about my bonus chappies! I've only gotten one request for one, and Dark-Supernatural-Angel asked for a Damon chapter. See, because he's now hanging out with Bella, if I write a chapter for him, it will probably be a full chapter. For the most part, I plan on doing Bella. There will be a few more Edward, and a few more Aro, but mostly Bella. And, that doesn't include my bonus ones. Is there anyone else that anyone wants to read? If you want anyone else, I'll make sure to do it, and I will do a Damon one, for all you interested in that.
I don't have any more questions to ask, because really, the only question I had was asked in the above paragraph, and I don't want to sound like a broken record.
Look out for my new bonus Aro chappy. I still have to write it, but it'll be up later on.
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