A/N - So close to the preimer of season 6 now! I'm almost finished this book so I hope your enjoying it. :) Feel free to leave me a review and let me know what you think.
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March 5th 1895 (2)
Standing behind the place where Klaus had just been was a scared girl they had meet on the street. Having done their research, Elena and Katherine knew that a vampire couldn't use the dagger without dying themselves, and as neither of them wanted to die, they had compelled someone else to do it.
Elena grabbed the girl by the shoulders and compelled her to leave, and to forget everything that had just happened. The girl nodded and rushed out the front door. Elena turned to see that her sister had already run back to the basement. She didn't really understand the connection Katherine had with Elijah, but she decided not to ask. If Katherine was going to do anything good in the world, it was going to be for Elijah, and Elena wasn't going to get in the way of that.
In the past three decades of being a vampire, Katherine had only gotten more and more ruthless. Elena hadn't stayed with her, but she had occasionally visited, and she knew that Katherine was at her best when Elijah was around. She had no regard for human life, only survival. For the first twenty four years, she had been running from Klaus. She had only caught slivers of time with Elijah whenever they could, but most of the time she was alone. She had done whatever it took to stay alive, not caring who she hurt or manipulated in the process.
Elena, on the other hand, had hidden. She did whatever she could to stay low profile. She had made a few friends, and learned the ways of the supernatural community. She had only fed when it was absolutely necessary, and even then she was careful to cover her tracks.
But these past six years, Elena had noticed her sister had grown even worse. She indulged in blood whenever she felt like it, taking pleasure in the hunt and the kill. Elena had covered her tracks for the both of them, but it was only a matter of time before Katherine would do something that Elena couldn't forgive her for.
Elena shook herself out of her thoughts and looked around. Now that Klaus was dead, she didn't know what to do. Not wanting to interrupt her sister, she wandered around the house. She found herself in Klaus's room. Surely a thousand year old vampire would have a few valuable things in his room. Elena pulled open the drawers and checked under the bed. Nothing but clothing and a set of muddy shoes. Elena checked the closet and there she noticed something. The back of the closet didn't look quite right. She reached back and pulled the back wall down as easily as unwrapping a present.
There was a compartment with a box in it. Elena pulled the box out and opened it up, wondering what Klaus could possibly have hidden in his closet. It was full of files and miscellaneous objects that looked to Elena to be totally normal. She grabbed a white stone that was sitting there. It was beautiful and smooth, and fit perfectly in the palm of her hand. She put it into her pocket, thinking perhaps it would be useful later, and flipped through the files.
When she reached the last file she hesitated. The name on the label read, RUBY SAVANNAH. Elena grabbed it.
"PIERCE!" The yell rang throughout the house. Elena froze. That was a voice she would recognize anywhere. She shook her head. It was impossible. They had just daggered him. Quickly, she grabbed Ruby's file and sneaked out of the room. She made her way to the top of the stairway and caught a glimpse of Klaus as he headed down the stairs to the basement. To her sister. How he had survived even that, she didn't know, but she didn't want to stick around to find out.
Elena couldn't get out of the door fast enough to avoid hearing the yell of pain her sister gave. Her super hearing was a curse. She could hear the sound of Klaus driving the dagger back into his brother and every word that he said to Katherine. How he told her that she was going to regret ever having lived and died. He told her that he was glad now, that she was a vampire because he was going to have a good time torturing her for the next century.
And Elena ran, trying not to let a single tear make its way down her face.
