Katherine

I wanted nothing to do with that girl. I wanted her dead—that pathetic little human. She only felt higher up because she had Vampire on her side. Well, now she has an army of Vampires that want her little human head on a silver platter for bringing harm my daughter. In fact, I almost did exactly that but my god forsaken husband held me back.

Elijah wanted to kill her too but it took him-a thousand-year-old Original Vampire, Stefan, and Tatia to stop me from ripping her to pieces.

As Anelie went limp Katherine caught her before her body collided with the ground. The mother laid her daughter down gently. She and Stefan looked at each other exchanging worried glances that soon, for Katherine, turned to rage; her blood boiled but she tried her hardest to keep her sanity. Rebekah and Caroline kept Cassie from even moving. Stefan left his post to tend to his daughter who was unconscious on the ground with a murderous Katherine Pierce at her side.

Elena knelt beside Kiara, her wound had not healed yet, she touched the bite marks and hissed when her fingers contacted the blood, her skin sizzled from the touch.

"I think Kiara consumed Vervain," Elena announced as she wiped off the blood from her fingers onto her pants.

Katherine looked over at Elena, "That should not matter—Anelie has been sipping Vervain for longer than I have, it can't hurt her."

"Then why did she faint after consuming all of Kiara's blood? It doesn't make sense; a vampire doesn't just faint after drinking blood." Rebekah added.

Katherine now had a murderous look in her eyes as she turned her attention to Cassie. Cassie's eyes went wide when Katherine rose and lunged at the weak human.

"Katherine, no!" Stefan yelled quickly to pull her back but she fought and was too strong for him.

"A little help would be nice—," he groaned, "Anyone, come on!"

He spoke through his teeth.

Elijah grabbed Katherine and could keep her in place but she still fought to gain her freedom, the gain access to the human girl.

"You think that it is okay to hurt my daughter? First, you betray her after we take you in and then you hurt her like this, Cassandra? Well guess what: nobody hurts my family and gets to live!" Katherine threatened running out of energy. Her daughter was her world and nobody, especially not a human would get away with hurting Anelie.

"Katerina, you must stop!" Elijah yelled.

Finally, Tatia helped and they sat her down in the same spot Kiara had been. Katherine grumbled under her breath.

Elijah sighed when they finally got Katherine to calm down.

Stefan stood behind Katherine, his hands on her shoulders.

"What are we going to do with this one?" Asked Caroline referring to Kiara who laid unconscious.

Tyler was first to come up with an idea.

"If we want this compulsion thing to work then we better lock her up for a couple days. Have the Vervain get out of her system and then we will go from there."

Elijah nodded.

"There is a door behind the staircase, it leads to the dungeons...the keys to the cells are hanging at the bottom," Katherine informed to the room.

Tyler nodded and picked up Kiara's limp body.

Katherine leaned back and turned her head to look at Stefan whispering something into his ear; he nodded and looked to Caroline and Rebekah.

"Grab Cassie, both of you, and follow me." Stefan demanded

Rebekah nodded and ripped Cassie from the chair.

"No need to manhandle me,"

"You're lucky we are only doing that." Caroline spat shutting Cassie up quickly.

Stefan led the way grabbing a ring of keys from a small door under the main stairwell they all continued up the steps to Cassie's bedroom. Rebekah and Caroline sat Cassie on her bed. Stefan went over and checked the window.

There wasn't any way for Cassie to get out. The window would have to be broken and everyone in the castle would hear.

Caroline and Rebekah left the room and Stefan stopped between the doorframes and looked back at Cassie.

Cassie was looking down, she felt his gaze burn through her, but she did not care.

"When you came to the Boarding house after the disaster happened, we all thought that you were a sign of hope." The Salvatore began to explain.

Cassie looked up meeting his green eyes, he shook his head wetting his lips.

"But since coming here you have done nothing but bring us more hell…" Stefan informed her harshly

Cassie said nothing.

"I feel sorry for you Cassandra and I hope that my daughter, for your sake, decides to show you remorse and spares your life." He spoke with sincerity.

Stefan closed the door and locked her in from the outside.

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Katherine scooped Anelie up cradling her child in her arms; she looked to Elena and asked if she would help her to bring Anelie up to her and Stefan's bedroom. Elena accepted without hesitation.

The twins made their way up the stairs meeting Stefan in the hall as he was leaving Cassie's room.

"Where are you bringing her?"

"Our room," Katherine answered

Stefan nodded and glanced from Katherine to Elena to Anelie and back to Katherine, "I'll take it from here Elena, thank you." Elena nodded and gave a soft smile, "Of course," before she left the couple she stepped in front of her doppelganger, leant down, moving Anelie's bangs away from her forehead and planted a soft kiss.

"Tell us when she wakes up, okay?"

Katherine nodded, "You'll be the first to know,"

Elena began in the opposite direction of the couple going to her bedroom where she found Elijah.

Stefan opened their bedroom door and let Katherine walk in before him; going straight for their bed she gently laid Anelie down. Katherine kicked off her slippers and she crawled in beside Anelie taking her into her arms.

"Cassie's locked in her room…I'll bring her food later, but she won't be allowed out for a while."

Katherine let out a humorless chuckle, "She's like a caged dog."

"They both are," Stefan admitted; He closed the door and moved onto the bed slithering his arm over Anelie to grasp his wife's hand that held their child's.

"Why did she faint, Stefan? What was it about Kiara's blood that made her fall unconscious?" Katherine asked. Stefan shook his head and sighed softly, "I wish that I could tell you, Kat…I will have Tyler and Matt take a vile of Kiara's blood. We could have tested it…"

"With what, your chemistry major and secret mad science lab in the basement?" She retorted

Stefan couldn't help but chuckle, "I don't know if you know this my dear, but I actually do know people…I did not put in enough time for school. I was too busy fighting in wars."

Katherine giggled, "Right, I forgot."

Stefan gave her a smile he leaned up over and kissed her softly, pulling away he considered her eyes, "I'm going to go make a few calls. We need to know what this might have been. If you need anything I'll be downstairs."

"In your secret science lab that I have no clue about?"

Stefan shook his head smiling, "You wish I was that cool." Giving her another kiss Stefan left the room closing the door behind him leaving Katherine and Anelie in peace.

What a wonderful way to spend Christmas, huh? Just so you guys know. This story is already written. I have 50+ chapters altogether. I've stopped at a place that I deem a good end. But, it leaves the option to continue if I that is what I decide to do.

But please let me know what you think of the story so far!

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