Note: Flashbacks are in italics.
Elena had gone down to the basement to pick up some blood bags. She would've stuck around to ask Katherine more questions but she was too hungry to even think straight.
Katherine and Stefan were left alone upstairs.
"So Stefan, you have moved on from me",Katherine said sadly.
"Katherine, I...I couldn't stay hung up on you forever. Plus, I thought you were dead."
"I understand that. But don't worry, Stefan. I still care about you but I respect the fact that you've fallen in love with someone else." He would've responded but Elena had come back upstairs.
"I'm going to go hunting",he said. He wanted to go hunting not because he was hungry but because he wanted to give Elena some time to learn about , he needed to clear his head a bit. He went through the still open front door and closed it behind him. Then, he broke off into a sprint into the forest nearby.
"Why did you willingly turn, Katherine",Elena asked.
"I didn't. But I've learned that for generations, our family has told each other that I did to protect what really happened. In the future, they might be saying a lie about you too."
"What did really happen?"
"Well, I might as well tell you. But be warned, it might take a while."
"I don't have places to be."
"Okay then. Well, it was the night before my 18th birthday. I was patrolling in the forest when I got attacked from behind."
Katherine fell to the ground. Looking up, she saw Klaus, a vampire from her town, on top of her. No matter how hard she tugged and pushed, she couldn't get him off her.
"My sweet Katerina",he whispered while ghosting his hand across her cheek. She pulled out a stake from her skirt pocket and stabbed him in the arm with it. Instead of getting off her, he simply laughed. She couldn't understand why he wasn't writhing on the ground.
"Silly little, Katerina. I'm an Original vampire. Simple wood like this,"he took out the stake and threw it across the clearing,"does not affect me." He grinned an evil grin at her and bit his wrist. Then, he forced it down onto her mouth. She felt his blood go down her throat. What was his plan?
"I want you to be my queen, Katerina. Together you and I will rule the night. It could have been any girl in the village but you are special." He removed his hand from her mouth. "Tomorrow night, at exactly midnight, I will kill you and you will become a vampire. And you can drink all of the vervain tea you want but as I said, I'm an Original. Vervain won't affect me or my blood. Have a nice day. But remember, you can run and flee but I will find you. See you tomorrow." He quickly disappeared as quickly as he had appeared. She couldn't believe it. She was going to be a vampire.
"I practically drank all of the vervain tea in the house but Klaus was right, they had no effect. I could still taste his blood on my taste buds. At exactly midnight, he came for me."
Klaus dragged her outside and pulled her body against his. In the sky, a harvest moon shone.
"What a beautiful night to die, don't you think, Katerina?" He parted her hair away from her neck and brought his lips onto it. Then, she felt the sharp sting. It felt horrible having him drink her blood. She felt as if all of the life inside her was draining until she felt dizzy. Then, she collapsed.
"My family later found me outside",Katherine continued. "I hadn't woken up until that night and when I did, Klaus was there waiting for me with a village girl. He made me drink her blood to transition. After, he claimed to have an errand to run. I watched him as he compelled every single member of my family to think that I turned voluntarily. He did it so that they would exile me. When he got back, I attacked him. He eventually ended up on the ground with my hand jammed into his chest. Apparently being a vampire hunter turned vampire makes you really strong. I finally pulled out his heart and watched as all the life drained out of him. I then ran away from England as fast as I could only stopping at a beauty shop to pick up a special dye that would make my hair brown. I needed it to prevent anyone from my family from finding me and killing me. I was then that I changed my name into Katherine Pierce. I went to Italy and made up a story about being an orphan girl. It was there that I met Stefan and Damon"
"I liked Damon at first. I thought I was going to fall in love with him until I met Stefan. The first moment I saw him, I fell in love with him. I already knew he wouldn't fall in love with me so I compelled him to love me. I won't tell you the rest. Just know that I fed them some of my blood. One day, they went out and never returned. I went to look for them and found them dead. They were killed by Rebekah, Klaus' sister who was trying to get revenge on me for killing her brother. I knelt by Stefan and Damon's limp bodies and cried. I couldn't believe they were dead. Suddenly, a man approached me and accused me of killing them. Behind him, came Cecilia, my cousin, armed with a stake in her hand. Next to her were other vampire hunters. I ran to the forest and found a way to fake my death. After, I fled to France and changed my name. The rest doesn't matter. But I knew that Stefan and Damon would turn. So, I spent the centuries searching for Stefan with no luck. Until now."
Katherine rose up from the chair and headed outside to the front lawn. Elena ran after her.
"Wait, Katherine! Are you leaving already",Elena asked. Katherine smiled.
"Stefan's already moved on. Before, I couldn't understand why he didn't feel the same way about me like I did with him. Now I know that it was simply not his time to fall in love yet."
"But, don't go. I have so many questions! I need advice!"
"Do you know what I've learned after being alive for so long?"
"What?"
"That sometimes, the person you really love is right in front of you, but you're too occupied to realize what they feel for you. But when you finally do realize it, it's too late." She glanced somewhere behind Elena. But before Elena could see where Katherine was looking, the other girl had turned back to face her. "You have a chance at the eternity that I could never have. Don't make the same mistakes I have." She turned back around and walked towards the forest.
"Katherine! Wait!" Katherine turned half-way around.
"Don't worry, Elena. You have forever now. One day, we'll see each other again. Until then, this is good-bye. Don't forget about me, Elena." She disappeared.
"Never",Elena whispered to the wind. Turning around, she finally saw what Katherine was looking at when she had said that when she finally realized who loved her it was too late. She had been looking at Damon and Bonnie together on the bench in the back yard laughing.
Woah, that was LONG. What do you think of sweet Katherine? I personally think she's good like that. :)
