Chapter twenty eight
The distraction
Elizabeth
I was up half the night, thinking about Klaus's note. He made a clear threat against Jeremy, that if I ever saw him again, he'd die. But was a selfless enough to let Jeremy go? I didn't think that I could.
In the morning, I walked down to the kitchen, needing coffee badly. I rubbed my eyes, as I poured myself a big cup. Nobody else was up, but the silence was a loud, suffocating one.
As I settled down on the couch with my coffee, I sighed as my lack of sleep hit me. I was probably going to pass out on the couch, despite my coffee. Suddenly, I felt that I wasn't alone.
"Elena?" I asked, confused, when I turned around and saw her. "What are you doing here?"
I saw her brown eyes widen slightly when she saw me. "Oh, I was with Stefan last night," she shrugged.
"Oh, okay," I said, before returning to my coffee. "Is he still sleeping?"
"Yeah," she said, as I studied her over my cup. She looked different, she seemed different. Prouder, more conceited. I frowned, and Elena raised an eyebrow at me.
"What, Elizabeth?" she asked, walking slowly towards me. I just shook my head at her, before standing up.
"I think I'm gonna go back to bed," I said, standing up.
Elena watched as I walked towards the stairs, empty mug in hand. She didn't even have time to scream, before I slammed her against a wall.
"What the hell, Elizabeth?" she exclaimed, my hands wrapping around her neck.
"It's been a long time, Katherine. I gotta say, I thought that you were dead. What a bummer, that you're still kicking," I smirked slightly at her, my hands tightening.
Katherine kicked me off of her, and I slammed into the farthest wall. "I thought that you were dead too, Elizabeth. I'm kind of glad that you're not- I always wanted that honor for myself," she smirked back.
"Now, what gave it away? I thought that I was getting pretty good at being Elena," Katherine asked, as I got up.
"Stefan slept over at Elena's last night. His room was empty this morning, and I would've seen if anyone had come in," I said, not believing my luck. If my father came back from the dead, then literally every single one of my demons would be in Mystic Falls.
"What the hell is going on?"
I saw Damon run down the stairs, Lily following closely behind him. Katherine smirked at my brother when she saw him. "Damon, it's been too long," she told him, as Lily frowned at her.
"Katerina?" she asked, her midnight black hair falling in her face.
"Lilianna. the last time I saw you, you were about to have a stake shoved into your heart by your sister," Katherine mused.
"What the hell are you doing here, Katherine?" Damon asked, and I was glad to see that he looked less than thrilled to see her.
"Just checking up on my favorite founding family," Katherine said innocently. "I had no idea that Elizabeth was still running around- how unfortunate."
I lunged at her, the thought of ripping her throat out the only thing on my mind. Katherine easily dodged my attack, and sent a punch into my jaw.
"Ugh, I gotta say Katherine, you've dropped on my Least Favorite Persons list. but now that I know you're still alive playing mind games, you just shot up to the top," I growled, as my jaw healed.
"Where's Stefan?" Katherine asked, before looking at me and smirking slightly. "Oh right, he's with Elena." Katherine's nose wrinkled, as anger flooded through me again.
I lunged for her again, but this time Lily held me back. "Calm down, Elizabeth," she told me warningly.
Katherine smirked at me tauntingly. "Yeah, don't let your temper get the best of you, Lizzie. It'd be a shame to ruin my nails, clawing your heart out of your chest. I just painted them."
Damon threw her into a wall when she said that, his eyes blazing. "Don't you ever threaten my sister again, you little bitch," he growled.
Katherine smirked at him, getting up from the floor. "You're so hot when you're angry, Damon," she purred, biting her lip.
I noticed Lily stiffen, and my passive friend turned aggressive. She broke a chair leg off, and shoved it into her stomach. Katherine groaned in pain, as Lily breathed heavily. Damon and I raised an eyebrow at her, when she turned to face us. Lily just shrugged, and walked up the stairs.
"You should call Stefan, let him know that we can add one more person to the list of people Elizabeth should be kept far away from," she said her passive voice, before disappearing.
When I looked back to where Katherine had been with a chair leg in her stomach, she was gone.
~LG~
I was on house arrest, locked in my room while Lily, Stefan, and Damon decided what to do. I hated that they were treating me like a baby. But, according to them, Katherine and Poppy had made it clear that they wanted me dead. And who the hell knew what Klaus wanted from me.
I used that time to think about what to do about Jeremy. I had to let him go, but I didn't know if I could. I groaned, and shut my eyes tight. I was stuck in a real mess, one that I didn't know how to get out of. The only way that I could be with Jeremy was if Klaus was dead. But Klaus couldn't die.
Despite being under house arrest, I snuck out my window. I needed to take a walk, and sort through my thoughts. It was overcast and cold outside, and I was careful not to past any windows, as I made my way into the forest.
I didn't know how long I had been walking, when I felt another presence. I figured that my brothers and Lily had found out that I escaped. "I'm sorry, I just needed to clear-" I started to say, but was cut off when my neck was snapped and everything went black.
~LG~
Katherine
Katherine found that distracting the Salvatores wasn't nearly as easy as it had been when they were human. But it was still possible- she had made them choose her over their precious baby sister. If she could do that, she could do anything.
The fact that she was running around, pretending to be Elena was a distraction itself. She didn't know how long she was supposed to distract them, along with Lilianna. She didn't like being back here in the first place. It went against every instinct Katherine had, being in the same town as the man she had spent her entire vampire life running from.
As Katherine walked right into the boarding house, she thought about the phone call that led her here.
"Who is this?" Katherine asked, when she answered her cellphone.
"Hello, love. I have a favor I need to ask of you."
Katherine froze. No, it wasn't possible. There was no way that he could've gotten her number.
"Klaus?" she asked, praying that it wasn't him.
"It has been too long, Katerina. But as I said before, I need a favor," Klaus said.
"How did you get my number?" Katherine demanded. She was going to destroy this phone.
"Let's just say, you're not nearly as good at hiding as you think," Klaus told her.
Katherine was about to smash her phone on the ground, when Klaus said, "I wouldn't hang up on me if I were you, sweetheart. I need you to do something for me."
"Why would I help you?" Katherine snapped.
"Because, you'll live longer if you do," he said casually.
"You've already made it clear that I'm going to suffer before I die," Katherine countered.
Klaus sighed. "The reason I'm even letting you run around, thinking that you're safe from me, is because I've been too busy to plan your death. You have two options, Katerina. Option one, you help me, and I'll let you live two centuries longer than I originally had in mind. Or, option two, you don't help me, and then we can begin your five century long death. What is your choice?"
Katherine gnawed on her lip. She could run, but something told her that Klaus's minions wouldn't be too far behind. "What do you need me to do?" she asked quietly.
"What you do best, love. Distract the Salvatores," was all Klaus said, before hanging up.
Katherine walked into the living room, to hear Damon, Stefan, and Lily arguing about her. Lily was glaring at Damon, and Katherine smirked.
"Trouble in paradise?" she asked, a hand on her hip. It had been obvious to Katherine the minute that she saw Damon and Lily, that they were together. It drove her crazy, too. It was Stefan and Elena all over again.
Damon groaned when he saw her. "Why can't you just go away?"
"Does that mean that you don't want my help, Damon?" Katherine asked, batting her eyelashes.
"Why would we need your help?" Stefan asked coolly.
"Well, Klaus is running around Mystic Falls again. I thought that you'd want to get rid of him, but I guess I'm wrong," Katherine asked innocently.
"You don't know how to get rid of him," Damon dismissed, but she could tell that he was curious.
Katherine smirked slightly to herself. Distracting the Salvatore brothers definitely was what she did best.
Elizabeth
I groaned when I finally came to. The first thing that I noticed was that I was tied to a chair, held down by chains. I could easily snap them, but before I had the chance, I was injected with something.
"Ugh," I moaned, feeling the energy drain from me.
I was slowly building up a tolerance to vervain, but it still weakened me. I looked up, to see an unfamiliar woman. She stared emotionlessly at me. I thought that she was a compelled human, but then a very familiar voice boomed into the room.
"Ariel, thank you love," Klaus smiled at the woman. "You can go."
Ariel nodded and walked out. Klaus turned to me, and I glared at him.
"Don't be like that, sweetheart," he sighed.
"You kidnapped me!" I growled in a hoarse voice.
"I prefer to call it borrowing. I'll return you," Klaus said, as another one of his minions walked into the room.
"Brady," Klaus greeted, and Brady whispered something into his ear that I couldn't hear. Klaus smirked smugly, and Brady left the room.
"Compelling humans to do your dirty work?" I asked, a permanent glare on my face.
"No, those were my hybrids, Elizabeth," he informed me.
I frowned. Because the world needed more hybrids like Klaus.
"My brothers are going to come for me," I told him. Klaus just smirked at me.
"I'm afraid that we'll have some time before that happens. They're a bit distracted right now," Klaus told me, and I frowned.
"Why am I even here?" I asked, feeling some of my strength return.
"Because love, you and I are going to take a trip down memory lane," he told me, before pulling a chair up in front of me, and sitting down in it. "I think that you're too focused on the bad parts of our past, Elizabeth. You need to remember the good parts, you need to remember how much you loved me. I must admit, this was a bit… drastic of me, but it is so hard to have a conversation with you, without having one of your brothers or Lilianna drag you away."
I glowered at him. "The past is irrelevant Klaus. It doesn't matter," I insisted, tugging at the chains wrapped around my arms.
"I beg to differ. What I have learned over the past millennium, is that the past is very important," Klaus said.
"Okay, so your plan is to tell me some pretty stories from when I was human? Go right ahead, as long as I can go home after," I said dismissively.
Klaus smirked at me. "Actually Elizabeth, some of the best moments between us happened when you weren't human."
My eyes widened slightly. I hadn't seen Klaus since he snapped my neck. how could some of our best moments happen when I was a vampire, when I hadn't seen him in 146 years?
~LG~
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