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The Gilbert Legacy

Katherine smirked at his young, handsome face. He wanted to be brave. He wanted to be strong. He wanted the moonstone, but she wanted his blood.

"You Gilbert men, so courageous." Katherine said, feeling the rock beneath her decapitating hands. He voice was hoarse and she had grown weak. Trapped inside the tomb by Damon, they thought they were saved. If only they knew what was coming for them, for their precious Elena.

She would be the safest out of them all.

"Give me the moonstone!" Jeremy demanded, swaggering up to the entrance, both angry and fierce. She had seen this scene several times before. Jeremy Gilbert had grown from the boy he had been a year ago, to the man who wanted his part of the action. Did he realise what the consequences would be? No, he just wanted to play the hero.

His blood smelled delicious. She could hear his heart thumping against his lungs. She could hear the bones in his fist crack. She could hear his sharp intake of breath as she welcomed him inside the cave. She was surprised by the ash that hit her face, and the stinging sensation that attacked her already cracking skin, but it wasn't enough to stop her. She fell to the ground with a scream.

Gilbert men. Did they ever learn?

He fumbled with the moonstone, the darkness engulfed him. Her mouth at his neck, piercing his skin she drank as much as she needed, dropping him to the ground. Delirious he looked up at her blood-stained face with one question lingering on his lips. Am I going to die?

She looked at the ring on his finger. Every Gilbert had one. The ring with the Gilbert crest. She remembered Jonathan Gilbert wearing one and she remembered each of his descendants, all wearing the infamous rings that brought them to life after a supernatural death.

She would get out of this tomb.

Jeremy woke, groaning and sore. Katherine smiled and bit against his healed wound, drinking again from him until he was weak at the knees. This time there was scream and Bonnie was holding her breath. Katherine remembered then, that Jeremy was hers, perhaps she could speed up the process? Stefan was staring at her like she was monster. Relishing in his delicious blood she felt a sudden impact against her chest and crashed into the opposite side.

She was on her feet, stunned and pleased by Stefan's need to rescue Jeremy. Bonnie dragged his body back and stared at Stefan's agonised features. "Well this is more like it."

"I'll be fine, go!" Stefan said.

"Oh the Gilbert boy will survive. I never killed any of the others, unless they deserved it."

"Katherine, shut up!"

"You just had to be the hero didn't you?" Katherine smirked, running her hand over his chest.

"Get off me!" Stefan yelled, baring his teeth.

"No need to be rude, Stefan. Jeremy Gilbert's already got what he came for."

"What do you mean?"

"Didn't you notice? I let him have the moonstone."

"Why?"

"Bonnie can try to destroy the curse, but it won't stop Klaus."

"I'm sick of your lies Katherine."

"I'm not lying. Klaus is going to come for Elena whether you, Damon or Jeremy like it. You're all doomed. Except, while everyone dies outside, you and I will continue to live, because nobody will dare to enter here, knowing they can't escape."

"Damon will find a way."

"That's another thing, did it occur to you that while you're down here, Damon will do everything in his power to "protect" Elena? I'm sure you know by now, how much he loves her?" Stefan's face gave away the truth and Katherine rested her hand again on his shirt:

"Trust me Stefan when I say, you're weakness is what always gets you into trouble, but I like it when you live dangerously. Perhaps that is why Jeremy needs to feel like a hero, because he craves danger as much as any of us. I know you miss me."

She moved closer still and planted her lips against his, lingering for just a moment, until he pushed her away for the hundredth time. She was annoyed with him, but they had plenty of time.

"When will you get it? I don't love you Katherine."

"But you did, once. You did love me Stefan, because why else would you come back to Mystic Falls?"

"I came back for Elena."

"Keep telling yourself that Stefan, but you came back for me." Stefan rolled his eyes. "I'm curious, when you killed Jonathon Gilbert were you aware of the legacy? Were you aware that the Gilbert men planned and killed as ruthlessly as you had? Do you think Elena would be pleased to find out that you were not a saint. Did you tell her of your not-so-perfect past? You looked out for yourself as much as I did back then, and you regret everything. Do not think I do not know you Stefan Salvatore."

"You don't and you never will, because as much as you pretend to, you could never love anyone more than yourself." Stefan snapped.

"That's where you're wrong, Stefan." Katherine said, walking to the seat and stretching her arms in the air. Jeremy's blood had healed her. She slumped against the stone seat and waited for Stefan to follow.

Katherine had secrets. They never knew her past. They never knew it was Klaus who had murdered her entire family in cold blood because she had defied him. They never asked, or realised the extent she had gone through to conceal her past or to escape the Original. They didn't know they should fear him. They didn't know anything about the Originals, or that one would be in Mystic Falls to collect his Doppelganger.

"You do realise you can't save them all?" Katherine said.

A/N: Wow this was going to be a drabble! hahahaha too bad! Please review.