"555-0731," Elena said as she dialed the number. After she and Katherine ran through the alley and back to their car they decided to lay low for the night at a hotel just down the road. Katherine stood against the wall with her arms crossed, and Elena couldn't help but feel self-conscious as the phone rang. "There's no one there Katherine, I told yo-," Elena said still holding the phone to her ear, when she heard a female voice on the other end pick up, "Hello?". Elena yelled and hung up the phone as Katherine ran to her side. "What the hell is wrong with you? Did you just hang up on her?" Katherine demanded grabbing the phone from Elena's hands as the younger girl started apologizing over and over. "I panicked. I'm so sorry. Katherine really I am. Do you think it was her?" Elena asked, subconsciously folding her hands in front of her face in what looked like a silent prayer. "How am I supposed to know, like I said you hung up on her," Katherine shouted as she furiously redialed the number and placed the phone to her ear pacing about the room. "Hello?" someone said through the phone. "Hello, can I ask you this is?" Katherine said turning to look at Elena whose eyes were as big as saucers as she used her vampire hearing to listen in. "Sweetie I believe you called me. Twice."
Katherine blinked, still holding the phone to her ear, still not answering the woman on the phone. Paralyzed with fear and anticipation that the girl would be, in fact the Tatia Petrova she had been looking for long before this trip even began. "This is Katerina Petrova," she said, holding her breath waiting for a response. The seconds ticked by, but to Elena and Katherine it might as well have been centuries. "It is a pleasure to finally speak to you my dear Katerina, I take it that since you are calling me you already know who I am," the woman answered, a smile heard in her voice as she confirmed their suspicions. "Tatia," Katherine said, her voice so quiet it came out as a whisper, "can you-can you meet with us? We are staying at a hotel just outside of town but we can go somewhere else, anywhere else to see you," she finished smiling and with tears in her eyes. "Us?" Tatia asked Katherine after a moment's hesitation. "Yes, us, I mean me and Elena, my doppleganger," Katherine said quickly, terrified of scaring off Tatia and losing the opportunity to meet with her. "Elena," Tatia said happily, "so she made it off the bridge after all." Katherine shot Elena a look, as the younger girl sat on the bed with wide eyes and her mouth hanging open in shock. "Yes, she did. She's right here, we're all right here," Katherine said sitting next to Elena, and for the first time in a long time, she took Elena's hand and squeezed it in order to provide a mutual sense of comfort and understanding. Elena looked at her hand, held by someone she once considered an enemy, as she took a breath and placed her own on top of Katherine's, and as the girls heard, "I'll see you both soon," all they could do was sit together and wait.
