Treasure Planet: Katherine

Summary: Ten years ago the Princess Katherine Myers went missing. Kate is an orphan with no memory of her past, Jim is a con artist devoted to finding a girl to pretend to be the Princess to get the reward money from the Dowager Queen. Kate's only clue to her past is Mortornas; the Dowager Queen lives in Mortornas. Jim and Kate journey to Mortornas together, Kate to find her past, Jim for the money, but will they both find something else they're looking for?

SPH: Hey guys! Hope you enjoyed the last chapter! I do not own Treasure Planet or any of its content, they belong to Disney. The overall plot of this story is based off of 20th Century Fox's Anastasia movie which I also don't own. I only own Kate, the story, and all other OC's. On with the story!

Chapter 14

"Jim, you know she's me." Katherine said, "How else could she have known?"

Jim avoided looking into Katherine's eyes.

"Jim, please," Katherine said, "no one outside the family except you knew about the curse! You only know because I told you, remember?"

Jim used the servants quarters to sneak into Katherine's bedroom where he found her sobbing.

"Kate, Kate are you okay?" he asked.

Katherine wrapped her arms around him as she sobbed and shook her head.

"I-I'm scared!" she cried, "Ironbeard cursed my family to die!" she buried her face in his chest. "I don't want to die." She said, "I want to be with you! For the rest of my life! I want to be a normal girl, not a cursed princess!" she hiccupped. "I want to run away." She added softly.

Jim wrapped his arms around her and placed his head on top of hers.

"Don't worry." Jim said, "I'll protect you."

"Jim," Katherine said slowly, "let's run away together."

"What?" Jim asked, "Did you eat an overripe perp again?"

"No," Katherine said, "I bet, if I were to be a normal girl, then the curse wouldn't affect me because there'd be no line, I'd just be Kate! Not the princess Katherine."

"That's a bit of a long shot." Jim said.

"I'm willing to risk it." Katherine said.

"But are you willing to risk losing your family forever?" Jim asked.

Katherine bit her lip.

"Tell you what," Jim said, "the night of the fortnight we'll run away together, well, and my mom, I can't leave her behind."

"I don't want to wait," Katherine said.

"Kate, if we run away now they'll think me and my mom kidnapped you!" Jim said, "We need to wait until the fortnight!"

"And if no one dies and the curse is just a joke?" Katherine asked.

"Then, once you're eighteen we'll run away!" Jim said, "That way you'll be an adult and they can't say you were kidnapped because it would be your free will!"

Katherine sighed and nodded.

"Come on Kate, let's get you to bed." Jim said picking her up.

Katherine gave a startled yelp before blushing.

"Jim?" she asked.

"What?" Jim asked.

"What does being promised to someone mean?" Katherine asked.

"I-it means being destined to marry each other." Jim said setting her down on the bed.

"Mama said to only share the gift to someone I'm promised to, does that mean I'm promised to you?" Katherine asked yawning.

"I have no idea." Jim said his face red, "Maybe you should ask someone who knows more about the gift."

Katherine nodded and closed her eyes while Jim slipped back into the servants' quarters still blushing.

Katherine yawned as she sat up and stretched. She hadn't had the best night's sleep, but she'd still gotten a pretty good one. She yawned again as she thought back to her conversation with Jim. She knew she had to ask someone about the gift. Mama? No, she'd through a fit and would have Jim sent away or killed because he wasn't a royal or of noble status. Papa? No, he couldn't use the gift so he wouldn't know. Her sisters wouldn't be much help either, they'd just gossip and make it a bigger deal than it was and Alex could only change appearance. That just left one person.

"Grandmamma?" Katherine asked walking into her grandmother's room, "What do you know about the gift?"

Maria looked up from her tray a bit surprised.

"Is there more to it than I know?" Katherine continued, "Like what would happen if I shared it with someone?"

Maria chuckled.

"Oh Kathy," she said, "there is so much more to the gift than your parents and siblings know, but not a single one of them showed to be capable of handling more than they were shown."

"Am I?" Katherine asked.

Maria nodded.

"Yes, almost right from birth you showed the capability of handling the rest of the gifts." She said, "I am willing to teach you if you are willing to learn."

"Oh yes, yes, a thousand times yes!" Katherine cried.

Maria smiled as she nodded.

"Now," Maria said, "one of the gifts is a very confusing one. Should you somehow develop amnesia you'll be two separate beings, a physical and a spiritual."

"So I'll become a ghost?" Katherine asked.

Maria chuckled.

"No my dear," she said, "it might seem like that but a better way to describe it would be and invisible person that only someone with the Myers gift can see. As a spirit you will serve as your lost memories and be able to remember your time as two beings from both your body and spirit."

"Wow," Katherine said.

Maria smiled.

"As your body remembers your spiritual form will slowly fade away, becoming more and more see through until you're finally whole again." She continued, "You'll also be an exception to the laws of physics as a spirit for certain occasions. For example you can't be knocked over unless physically hit by something. Another one is you cannot be injured or kill as a spirit, but your body can. You'll also be able to sense when your body is near or if it's in danger."

Katherine nodded.

"It sounds so interesting." She said, "I don't ever want to forget about any of you though."

Maria smiled as she placed a hand on Katherine's cheek.

"This next one is one of the most dangerous." Maria said as she and Katherine stood be Adela's bed.

"Why?" Katherine asked.

"Because we are transporting ourselves into someone's dreams." Maria said, "If we do not leave before they wake up we will be trapped in their dreams forever."

"T-then w-why are w-we doing it?" Katherine asked suddenly scared.

"Because you must learn it." Maria said. She gently placed a hand on Katherine's cheek. "Don't worry darling, I have done this many times before, nothing bad will happen."

Katherine nodded feeling better.

Maria sighed as she placed her and Katherine's hands on Adela's head.

"Now, close your eyes and picture yourself being transported into her mind." Maria said.

Katherine nodded and did so. When she opened her eyes she was no longer in Adela's room, but rather at a coronation, for Adela.

"I'm not surprised this would be her dream." Maria said, "As first born she is entitled to the throne, it only makes sense she'd dream of the day she finally took it."

"Yeah, it shows how stuck up she is." Katherine said.

Maria chuckled.

"Now, while we're here we can alter the dream for better or for worse." She said.

"How?" Katherine asked.

"Well, we merely imagine ourselves as something that will have a drastic effect on the dream." Maria said, "Whether it's for better or worse is ours to decide." She gave a soft smile. "This is the only time we can use the gift to completely change our appearance instead of just our clothes and hair style."

Katherine grinned mischievously. She pictured Adela in a white dress and herself as a giant glass of red wine before spilling all over Adela's expensive dress.

"No!" Adela cried.

Suddenly Katherine felt as if she was being violently shaken.

"Kathy quickly!" Maria called, "she's waking up and I don't think there's anything that could change this back to a good dream!"

"How do we leave?" Katherine asked.

"The same way we came, hurry!" Maria cried.

Katherine quickly closed her eyes and pictured herself back in Adela's bedroom, her hand on her head. She felt the shaking stop and slowly opened one eye. Once she saw she was back in her sister's room she opened both eyes and sighed with relief.

Adela bolted up gasping.

"Oh, I had the most awful dream ever!" she cried.

"Come now Kathy, time for bed." Maria said ushering Katherine out the doors of Adela's room before going to comfort her eldest granddaughter.

"So," Jim asked as he and Katherine sword fought in the far corner of the garden, "what've you learnt about the gift?"

"A lot." Katherine said, "I think my favorite was being able to transfer into someone's dreams and change it!" she smirked as she knocked Jim's sword out of his hand and into the air. "It's also the most dangerous trick!" she said catching the sword.

"Did you find out about, you know?" Jim asked.

"Oh! I completely forgot!" Katherine cried.

"Well, it doesn't matter." Jim said, "Tomorrow's the fortnight."

"Tomorrow we run away." Katherine said nodding.

"Hey," Jim said smirking, "how would you like to go to town and be a normal girl for a night, so you have some experience?"

"Oh I'd love to!" Katherine cried. She frowned. "But how?" she asked.

"I have a plan." Jim said grinning.

Jim slowly pushed open the wall in Katherine's room.

"Kate, Kate you awake?" he asked.

"Of course I am." Katherine barked, "I've been waiting for you!"

Jim rolled his eyes as he entered the room.

"Okay," he said closing the wall, "I've got everything we need in this bag!"

"Really? Katherine asked looking up from her dollhouse.

"Yup!" Jim said walking over. He pulled a small pouch out of the bag and dumped the ash inside it into his hand. "Close your eyes." He said.

Katherine barely closed them in time as Jim blew the ash in her face.

"Jim!" she cried, "What was that for?"

"Look in the mirror and tell me what you look like." Jim said.

"I look like a princess with ash all over her face." Katherine said frowning.

"Okay, how bout now?" Jim asked pulling her hair bow out and tousling with her curls.

"Like a princess with ash all over her face with a really bad case of bed head." Katherine said annoyed.

"Okay, now use the gift to make a copy of these clothes for a minute so you can see how they look." Jim said pulling out a top, pair of pants, boots, fingerless gloves, a coat, a scarf, and a headscarf.

Katherine sighed and did so.

"Now tell me how you look." Jim said once she was finished.

"I, I look like a regular girl." Katherine said smiling.

"Yup!" Jim said. He tossed her the clothes, "Here, change into these and we'll go into town."

Katherine nodded excitedly before going and changing in her closet.

"I'm ready!" Katherine cried stepping out.

"Good, let's go." Jim said grabbing her arm and leading her out of the palace.

"Okay, this is one place that I really enjoy going to." Jim said stopping outside a pub, "It's the only one that lets minors' in." he opened the door and he and Katherine went in.

"Brenton music!" Katherine cried.

Jim laughed as he watched Katherine jump up on a table and dance. He had to admit, he was a bit surprised she wasn't attempting a waltz, but the way she moved and would jump from table to table, well, he couldn't take his eyes off her. Apparently no one else could either and it was pretty clear they loved her.

Katherine laughed as she jumped and grabbed onto a chandelier before swinging off it. She landed on a railing and managed to continue to dance before sliding down the banister. As she did so Jim grabbed a rose off a table and tossed it to her. Katherine jumped to catch it. She did and landed in a standing position, but lost her balance and fell off it making her and the entire pub laugh.

Jim grinned as he helped her up.

"That was fun." Katherine said.

"I never knew you could dance like that." Jim said.

"Neither did I." Katherine said, "I just heard the music and my body did the rest."

She and Jim shared a laugh before leaving and exploring the rest of the town.

Katherine yawned as they snuck back into her room.

"That was fun." She said drying her face with the head scarf. They'd stopped by the kitchen to wash the ash off her face so no one would be suspicious in the morning. "I can't wait to do it again." She continued.

"Me neither," Jim said, "but we need to, we have to see if the curse is real."

"Please don't bring up the curse to anyone." Katherine said as she entered her closet to change into her nightclothes, "No one outside my family is supposed to know. Papa's taken great measures to make sure no one knows or if they do to make sure they think it's just someone trying to impress people with a huge bluff."

"I promise Kate." Jim said as Katherine tossed the clothes back to him, "I won't tell a single soul about the curse."

"Thank you." Katherine said crawling into bed, "Good night Jim."

"Good night Kate." Jim said slipping into the Servants' Quarters.

Katherine sighed as she entered Kate's dreams and made her repeat it. She smiled as she followed Kate and her sister through it. Not long after they reached the lake and giant minion with Iornbeard's face loomed over them.

"She's waking up!" Katherine gasped as she felt the shaking.

Kate screamed as the minion moved towards her. Thinking quickly Katherine changed into Jim and got in front of her. Pulling out a laser pistol she shot the minion three times, head, heart, stomach making it disappear. She knew in reality the laser pistol would have been useless, but this was a dream and she had to keep Kate asleep while in the dream. She gave a relieved sigh as the shaking stopped.

"Kate?" she asked turning around to see Kate had sank to her knees, "Are you okay?"

Kate shook her head and started crying.

"Don't worry Kate," Katherine said getting on her knees and hugging Kate, "it's over now. You're safe." She gently stroked Kate's hair. "I'll always protect you." She continued, "I love you."

Kate nodded as her dream started changing to something much happier. Once Katherine was sure Kate would be okay she smiled and left the dream before recording it in her journal and going back to sleep.

SPH: Whew, that was hard! I was so busy this week it was hard to find time to work on it. Okay, so I know a few chapters ago it states that Katherine didn't cry unless her grandmother would leave and that's true, this is basically the one exception because if the curse was real, she and her grandmother would be separated again. Now as shown in a few chapters Katherine will cry or at least come close to crying if she feels heartbroken due to something or other relating to Jim, namely her and Jim not being together again and as Katherine states in this chapter, she doesn't want to die because she doesn't want to leave Jim, she wants to be with him the rest of her life thus even though she was eight she was heartbroken that she might have to leave Jim behind forever which lead to her sobbing. Also, yes, Kate's eaten overripe perps before and they make her say things that sound crazy, actually, they basically have the same effect as if someone were to drink too much alcohol, minus the being bad for the liver part. I added the scene at the end just to explain how Katherine makes Kate's dream better. She knows Jim loves Kate and that he'd save her from any danger so she makes that clear to Kate, even if Kate doesn't realize that's the case. Also, please don't forget that Kate and Katherine are the same person, Katherine is Kate's real name and what I'm calling her spirit to try and avoid confusion, I'm saying this because apparently some people ship Anastasia and Anya together despite them being the same person and never once being shown to be more than one person. Granted maybe I overheard a fellow student wrong, but I have seen pairings just as weird so yeah. Anyway, next up we get to see Maria for the first time since the first chapter and we get to see if Kate can prove she's the princess. I'd of put Katherine, but that would basically just go against what I said and probably confuse some people. Kate's dance and the scene at the pub was inspired by the bar scene in Leap where Victor and Felicie go to a bar and Felicie dances on the tables so if you want to know what Kate's dance looks like just look up 'Leap bar scene' on YouTube and you basically have the exact same dance only Kate actually landed on her feet and lost her balance where as Felicie completely missed the landing. Alright, this is Samantha Peace HeartStar signing off for now. Peace out and keep spreading the Treasure Planet and Anastasia love! See ya!