Chapter Eight:
"I surrender who I've been for who you are!
For nothing makes me stronger than your fragile heart!
If I had only felt how it feels to be yours..."
Turning Page - Sleeping at Last
Katherine:
"N-No!" I yelled at him, his 'comrades' were clearly hybrids – Klaus had no-one else. He never had. He either compelled them or they were sired to him. He even betrayed his own family. Well, I wasn't exactly obliged to say anything about family. I loved my family.
Even when they took away my own flesh and blood, that sweet baby girl...It was for the best. They were only doing it to protect us. Little did they know that a long line of Petrova doppelgänger's would evolve.
Hybrid A shoved me out of the way and I stumbled to the floor, I growled loudly at him and I punched him around the face when he smirked evilly at me. No way was he getting his way. No way would they take Jeremy away from me without a fight. He seemed alarmed by my sudden right-hook and he stalked towards me. I blurred out of the way and I took Jeremy's hand and started to run with him.
Hybrid B held me up by the throat and lifted me off the ground, Jeremy was grabbed by Hybrid A and Klaus clapped in approval. The one holding me placed me back on my feet and he held me tightly against his chest, Klaus walked over to Jeremy slowly and I tried to get away all the more, the closer he got.
"Now why would someone like you be tagging along with Katerina?" Klaus asked, "Surely you know what she is and what she could do to you."
"Of course I know. I'm not a complete idiot." Jeremy snapped back at him. 'Careful, Jeremy! Be careful with your words!' I yelled at him through my thoughts. My God, right now I really wish that I could send him telepathic thoughts. That would come in handy every now and again. Klaus shook his head in annoyance then he turned to me and smiled at the frustration and anger on my face.
"I never thought that I'd see the day when I saw Katerina Petrova care. And a human!" Klaus clapped his hands together again and he stalked towards me. "Now that I have you here. What am I going to do with you? Stake you?" He paused for dramatic effect. "No. That would be too easy. You deserve to be punished for what you did to me all those years ago."
"If you wanted me to be punished then you would've done it already!" I spat at him and he sighed.
"I've been busy, my dear." He ran a fingertip across my jawline and Jeremy struggled even more when he touched me. Jeremy please...don't! I tried to get out of the hybrid's arms and they were never going to let me go. Jeremy had no chance. Not in a million years. If Jeremy was a vampire then we wouldn't have been in this mess. We could've been free. We could be laying in that messy hotel room together, without a care in the world. Jeremy never deserved any of this.
"Let him go." I pleaded to him, "Please, just let Jeremy go." Klaus took a step towards Jeremy and he lifted up his right hand, registered the ring and let it fall back down. I shook my head, already realising what he was about to do. Klaus snapped Jeremy's neck faster than I could blink and the hybrid dropped his body to the floor. My eyes widened in shock. No. no, no, no, no...I-I gave him my blood. This couldn't be happening. No! He wouldn't be a vampire! Would the ring protect him from turning? I bloody hoped so. My God I hoped so. Klaus clicked his fingers and the hybrid threw Jeremy's body over his shoulder and he walked away. No...Jeremy...
Klaus turned to me and he tutted in disapproval.
"My dear, Katerina. Look at you," Klaus ran his fingertip along my cheek and he lifted a tear onto it and he tasted it slowly. "I never thought I'd see the day when I saw you of all people crying over a human life." I turned my head in the opposite direction and I growled low at him. "Now, now, don't worry about the boy. He'll be taken to a safe place."
"Safe!" Whatever Klaus said was 'safe' was completely the opposite.
"I'm not interested in him. Only you." Klaus smiled slowly and the hybrid released me, Klaus nodded to him and before I knew it I was unconscious on the floor before I could fight it or stop any of it from happening.
Jeremy:
I groaned as I opened my eyes and sat up, I ran a hand through my hair and I scanned the room. Wait a second. I was home. What the hell was I doing home? I was out; with Katherine. In a forest...Klaus...He was there. I threw myself off my bed and I ran out the room and I banged on Elena's door, when there was no answer I shoved the door open and she shrieked and jumped when she saw me.
"Jer, what the hell?" She yelled at me. I swallowed hard as I tried my hardest to not make eye contact with her. I couldn't. She looked like Katherine. "Where have you been!" She shouted at me.
"I've...Been busy." I muttered, I went to her window and I sat down, I pulled my legs up to my chest and I stared out. It was late at night, and when I was last with Katherine it was night...And it would've taken hours to get home again. A whole day must've gone by. Oh my God.
"Busy? Doing what exactly? It must've been important seeing as you haven't been answering your phone for days. Do you realise how worried I've been?" She got up off the bed and walked towards me, I turned away and I looked out her window instead.
I glanced at her reflection in the mirror and I looked down again. Wait a second...If I had been killed, then that meant that I would be turning into a vampire, surely? Maybe the ring healed me? I guessed that that was the case, considering the fact that I didn't have the urge to rip out her jugular any time soon.
"I'm sorry I didn't call." I said to her softly. She placed a hand on my shoulder,
"Jeremy, look at me. What's happened? Where've you been?" She said calmly as she knelt down to my level. I pushed past her and stormed back into my room. I slammed the door and locked it shut. I ran a hand through my hair in anger as I paced around my room endlessly, I pushed everything from my desk onto the floor and I punched a hole in my wardrobe. Everything was a mess.
I needed to be with Katherine.
Klaus had taken her away; there must be something that I could do to help her! I cared for her way too much than I should've; but I couldn't help it. There was just something about her. Elena tried to open my door several times and I sunk to the floor in the corner of my room, tears streaming down my face, a complete mess.
Elena:
"Jeremy, please!" I shouted at him through the door pleadingly, "Jeremy! Open the door, let me in!" I kicked the door in anger and I got my phone from the side of the bed and I dialled Stefan's number. He should be able to help me find out where Jeremy's been, if I rang Damon then he would've turned to violence and that was not the key when it came to Jeremy. My Brother was fragile.
"Elena, what's going on?" Stefan asked, ever since he had been trying to be his old self again, everything's just clicked into place. It was just like old times...But I couldn't ever let Damon go. Stupid Damon.
"Jeremy's back."
"He's what?" I swallowed hard.
"He ran into my room and he won't tell me where he's been. He won't tell me anything, Stefan." I ran a hand through my hair, "he's locked himself in his room and he's not going to come out without a fight."
"I'll get it out of him. It can't be that bad, surely? This is Jeremy we're talking about. He's hardly one for the dangerous types." I smirked slightly.
"Just get here quickly, okay?" I hung up and got changed in record time. Stefan knocked on the door a few minutes later and I made my way downstairs as a million different thoughts ran through my head. When I opened the door only one thought was there. Say it Elena. Say it. Tell him how you feel. Do it!
Instead, I wrapped my arms around him and held him close. He smiled and whispered into my ear, "let's go and sort this out." When we were standing outside of his door Stefan tried the lock and he kicked the door open without a second thought.
"Oh my God, Jeremy..." I whispered in shock. I ran to him in the corner of the room and I turned to Stefan. I wiped the tears which were streaming endlessly down his face and tried to get him to look at me but he seemed...Lost. Stefan knelt down in front of him and forced him to look at him,
"Jeremy. Where have you been? Tell us, otherwise we can't help you." Stefan stood and he held his hand out to Jeremy, I was surprised when he accepted it and he stood slowly. They both sat down on the bed while I paced back and forth.
"You really want to know where I've been?" Jeremy asked, his voice shaky.
"Yes, Jer." I said to him softly as I looked at him directly in the eyes. "Tell us."
Jeremy swallowed hard and he looked down, he played with his ring for a few seconds before I heard the words which I never thought I'd hear in a million years. "I've been with Katherine."
"Katherine? Why? What's she done to you?" The panic began to rise in me. Jeremy smirked slightly and he let out a small chuckled before talking again.
"It started off as a treat. A road-trip, if you like." He smiled slightly, "we ended up driving for hours on end, I had no control over what was happening. We stopped at a hotel and we..."
"Jeremy, you didn't. No way did you do that!" I shouted at him. He shook his head and I sighed deeply in relief.
"Started to get to know each other more. You really don't give her enough credit, Elena. Nobody does." He paused and he glanced at Stefan then me before continuing. "We decided to go for a walk in the forest. Little did we know that it was a full moon. We had no idea that a certain hybrid was there...Klaus. He took her. And he took me. But he only wanted her so he sent me back home when he was through with me."
"Where is she now?" Stefan asked,
"I don't know." Jeremy said angrily.
"You need to calm down, Jeremy." Stefan told him calmly, holding a hand out to him. Jeremy shoved it away.
"Why should I listen to any of you!" He shouted and he stormed past us and out the room. Stefan blurred in front of him at the bottom of the stairs.
"Don't try it." Stefan said slowly, "what's wrong with you?" I ran down the rest of the stairs to Jeremy and I came into his view. Jeremy stared at me with lost eyes and he muttered one word, "Katherine..." Before passing out on the floor before us.
