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March 12th 1921:
Katherine didn't struggle anymore. Klaus came in, took hold of her hand, and took her back into the past. She should have been used to it by now, but every time he came up with a new way to mess with her head.
This time she went back to the day that would forever change her sister's life. It was almost midnight on August 25th, 1864. It had been the night of the council's roundup. Katherine had run to warn Elijah, but he was gone, so she did her best to disappear as well. However, as a new vampire, in a town full of vampire hunters trying to round up as many as they could find with a compass that pointed toward the nearest one, dissapearing was harder than it sounded.
Katherine ran. She didn't know exactly where she was running, except that it was away from that town. She found herself watching out of the corner of her eyes as Mr. Gilbert took Pearl away. She continued running.
Before long she was in the woods. Someone called out. Normally, she wouldn't have been able to hear them from her distance. Her new supernatural hearing changed that. "Over here!" they yelled. "It's Katherine Pierce, she is one of them!"
She put on another burst of speed and tried to lose them in the forest. A shot rang out behind her, but she didn't feel any pain. She looked down at her body and couldn't find any blood. It hadn't hit her. Then she heard a thud. It was the sound of a body falling to the ground.
"I hit her!" One of them yelled. Katherine barely noticed. She was at the body in a second. It was Elena. Of course it was Elena, they had thought it was her. Katherine felt for a pulse, even though she already knew there was no heartbeat.
"No, Elena. I'm so sorry. It's my fault. They thought you were me." Katherine shook with guilt and fear. Her brain barely registered the footfalls as they came closer to collect her body. They meant to put Elena into the church and burn her alive.
"What the . . ." said the two men when they reached where Elena had fallen and saw Katherine standing over her dead body.
She slowly stood up and turned to face the two men from the council who had shot her sister, sealing her fate as a vampire. She felt her fangs grow out and the veins protrude on her face. She hissed as she leapt at the two men, not bothering to drink their blood, they were probably on vervain anyway. She plunged her hands straight into their chests and ripped out their hearts.
She turned back towards Elena's body and lifted began dragging her body away from the sight where she had died. Katherine didn't want anyone finding her before she woke up. When she got Elena to a satisfactory distance from her death sight, Katherine put her down, looked around, and ran.
Suddenly there was a figure standing in front of her. This isn't right, Katherine found herself thinking.
"So you turned her into one of us, and then you left her." The man in the shadows stepped forward.
"Klaus." She said, her memories coming back to her. How she was actually locked up in a cell with him digging through her memories.
He gestured around to the trees and dark of night. "I didn't even have to change anything in this memory." He walked toward her. "You got her killed and then left her all by yourself."
She closed her eyes, concentrating on the cell she knew she was actually in. When she opened her eyes again, she was an inch away from Klaus's face and sitting in an extremely uncomfortable position on the floor.
She didn't let her face show any emotion except hate. She watched him as he got back up, smiling. "It's been a good day today, don't you think, Katherine?"
She didn't even give him the dignity of an answer.
