Phoenix Rising
Ch. 37
Katie woke up to find herself standing on black marble covered in an inch of water that she was somehow on top of. A sky of black hung over her head. Not the beautiful kind speckled with bright stars, but a glossy, inky darkness that caused her chest to tighten.
As she stood up she saw that she was wearing a plain white long sleeved off the shoulder cotton dress that flowed down to her feet. A child's laughter drew her eyes down into the water to see that a thousand shards of glass were scattered around her feet. The laughter came from one of the shards and she looked down to see within it a little boy around seven or eight with blond, bowl cut hair and innocent green eyes running though the woods.
As Katie reached down to pick up the shard, the little boy jumped, popping out of the glass as the vast darkness turned into a bright forest that smelled of pine needles and warn soil. She didn't know why, but the sent made her feel at home. "Don't be scared Momma, it's just me."
"And you are…?"Katie asked with a frown.
"Fun." The little boy bounced on his feet, full of energy. "Wanna play hide and seek?" he asked perking up with a smile.
"No. What I want is to know where the hell I am." Kate told him then looked around them.
"Hey!" the boy picked up a pine cone and threw it at her chest. "No swearing."
Katie leaned down to look the little boy in the eyes. "Look, you little brat, I don't know who you are and I don't care. I just want to get out of here."
The boy glared at her. "Be nice!" he ran off making Katie run after him. "Nanna nanna boo boo. I can out run you." the boy sang as he ran. Something about the phrase made Katie start laughing as she caught up to the boy and scooped him up in her arms.
"I remember you now." Katie told him as she made a claw motion with her hand and attacked his stomach, making him giggle from her tickling him. "Hello my sweet little Jonah." She told him as she set him down then kneeled down in front of him.
"Hello momma." He told her as he placed his little hand on her cheek with a smile. When she smiled back he evaporated into a mist that swirled around in the air forming a bright yellow ball. It sank into her chest causing a feeling or motherly love, caring and compassion overtake her.
With him gone the forest faded away and she was back in the dark place, standing in the center of the shattered glass again. "Phasmatos Tribum," Katie heard someone say and looked down at a piece of glass to see a beautiful almond skinned woman standing at a table in the bedroom of an old Irish homestead, working a spell. This time as Katie reached down for the glass, she got sucked into it and she found herself sitting on a bed while another, slightly younger woman that looked a lot like the woman working the spell, pressed a cloth to Katie's back making her hiss in pain.
"Sorry." The young girl told her. "Someone needs to show that man how it feels."
"Fiona." The woman working the spell snapped at the young woman. "Mind you tongue. If someone should over hear you it will be you on the receiving end of that whip."
"Yes mother." Fiona told her quietly. Fiona finished cleaning the wounds then sat down on the bed in front of Katie. "Hannah, promise me when we get old enough we will leave this place, both of us. I know you do not want to live under your fathers thumb forever and I don't either. Promise me that when you find a good man you will take me with you."
Katie had been sitting quietly on the bed, trying to remember this and when she looked into Fiona's dark brown eyes she did. She remembered that when she married Ronan she stole money from her father's office and ran with Ronan. They used the money to start Fiona's shop in the town they moved to. "I promise, Fiona. You're my best friend. I wouldn't dare leave this place without you."
Fiona wrapped her arms around Katie who wrapped her arms around her first best friend's shoulders feeling friendship and loyalty sink into her and when she opened her eyes she was back in the black place.
"Okay is see what's going on here. These pieces are me, I'm a mother and a friend." She said looking around at the shattered glass around her. "This is going to take a while."
"Not as long as you might think, Doormat." A voice came from one of the pieces and Katie looked over to see a woman pop up from the floor, joining her in the black place.
Katie looked at her, taking in her blond hair streaked with red, pulled back in a Vikings ponytail. A leather corset with buckles covered her torso while a leather Viking's skirt wrapped around her hips. There was a fire in her eyes and a spear in her hand. "Why are we still here? Aren't you supposed to take me to a memory or something?"
"I'm not a memory I'm a feeling." The warrior told her with a voice full of strength. "But if you insist on memories…here." The woman walked across the water with an eye roll and plopped her hand down on top of Katie's head. Katie telling Alaric about Mayor Lockwood abusing Tyler, telling her grand father off and telling Elena off when Caroline made them all have a sit down flashed through her head. The last memory was Katie fighting the werewolves that were holding Caroline hostage in a camper.
"You're my fight, my strength to keep going." Katie said as she lifted her eyes. "My inner warrior."
"You often forget I exist and quite frankly I'm tired of it. You need to learn to be a big girl and pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you have to. We're stronger than you think we are." She told her and Katie swallowed hard. "And if we're going to survive in this hard world you need me." she held her hand out to Katie who grabbed it and gave it a shake. The warrior pulled her into a hug and sank into her filling Katie with strength and power. Most of the other shards of glass floated up, turned into a big ball of mist that floated over her head then dropped, filling her with all the memories she had lost when she shattered.
After she absorbed it all she looked down at the last, large piece of glass and picked it up to see within it an auburn haired woman in a black, form fitting tank top, short black shorts and thigh high stiletto boots standing in the middle of a street as a man strolled past, the woman grabbed him around the neck and spun him around for Katie to see his face, he was an older man, too tan and too buff for his age. It was her grandfather. The woman's eyes turned red and fangs appeared in her smile before she bit his neck killing him before she tossed him to the side giving Katie an unforgiving smile.
Katie watched from an aerial view as people came to the woman as if drawn to her like flies to a honey. Each of them were either drained of blood or got their hearts ripped out. The last person to come to the woman was a little girl that looked no older than six and a man. Fear was clear in the girls little eyes as she watched the woman rip out the man's heart. The dark ruthless girl placed it in the girls hands making the girl scream and run. The woman looked up at Katie and hissed, showing off the blood on her fanged mouth and the veins under her red eyes.
With a hard face and fight surging through her she threw the glass away from her like a throwing star. The glass stopped in mid air a few feet away from her and materialized into the haunting, monstrous version of herself. She reeked of anger, hatred, danger and most of all an overpowering thirst for human blood. "I won't accept you." Katie told her.
The dark, terrifying woman whooshed over to her grabbed her by her neck and body slammed her into the granite. "Then you…will die." Her words came out as an angry growling hiss.
"No." Katie brought her feet up and kicked her in the chest sending her flying through the darkness. Darkness landed in what Katie called the superhero landing and skid backward splashing water up around her. Katie flung herself up and held her fists in front of herself.
"You think you can survive without me?" Darkness asked as she whooshed back over and threw a punch that Katie dodged.
"I will be better off without you." Katie told her making her laugh.
"Look at yourself." Katie looked down at herself to see she was now wearing a white ribbed racer back tank top, jeans shorts and black and white converse, but her arms were purple all the way up to her shoulders and spreading fast. While she was distracted Darkness threw a punch, catching Katie's jaw and she stumbled back from the blow.
"It will stop when I get out of here." Katie threw a punch that Darkness dodged.
"You get out of here without me and you will die within seconds." Darkness threw a punch and Katie dodged it then threw one of her own catching Darkness in the jaw then kicked her in the chest knocking her to the granite.
She grabbed Darkness up by her black tank top and glared at her. "I said no."
"And I said…" Darkness breathed hard from the blow to her chest, "You will die if you don't. You may be stronger than me, you may be able to keep me at bay, but if you go back to your body without me…without a piece of who you are…you…will…die." Darkness looked at her with a dead serious face. "No more Elijah. No more Klaus. You can kiss your friends goodbye too." Katie's eyes grew wide remembering everything everyone told her in the video Caroline made for her. "Accept me."
She blinked, tears slipping from her eyes. "If I accept you…I accept that I am not a good person."
"You've never been a good person." Darkness told her as she jumped up. "When we were known as Hannah did we not think of a million different ways to turn that whip on Father, or to poison him? You even thought about running away in the night and abandoning your poor little sister. Then as Katie…you contemplated killing your grandfather in his sleep. You thought about tying him to a chair and breaking every bone in his body then slitting his throat for ever letting Mayor Lockwood touch you. You cheated on Tyler with Damon and yeah you knew it was wrong, you felt a little bad about it, but you weren't sorry. You slept with Klaus knowing that Elijah still loves you. Then of course there are all those people you killed after you flipped your switch. You don't feel sorry about that. You don't care that they had family and kids. Their blood tasted better than any blood bag ever did. You have power over humans and you revel in it. There has, and always will be, a darkness in you rather you want it or not. The only thing you regret is what you did to that poor little girl."
"I don't want you. Suppressing you is tiring. I managed to hold it back as a human, but now…every day is torture." Katie said with tears rolling down her cheeks.
"Then maybe it is time you accept me…accept the darkness in you…and find a way to embrace me instead of suppress me." She told Katie with a glare. "You have to accept me or need I remind you again. You'll. Die."
As much as Katie hated the darkness in her, she loved her friends. And she loved Elijah and Klaus. She still wanted all the things she always did out of life…she wanted to live. "I accept you…"
As soon as the words left her mouth the woman threw herself into Katie, not sinking into her gently like the others had, but invasively inserting herself into her. Like the splitting of cells, but reversed. Katie threw her head back and screamed out in pain as the darkness seeped into her, fangs formed in her mouth and veins popped under her eyes, pumping the whites of them full of blood. She squeezed her eyes shut and fell to her knees. After a while the pain subsided and she fell back in relief.
She expected to hit granite; instead she started falling down a black tunnel. She felt like she had been falling for forever when out of nowhere she stopped mid air and a woman appeared in front of her holding her hand out as if she was keeping Katie from falling further even though she was floating too. "Who are you?" Katie asked taking in the woman's long brown hair and blue eyes. She looked to be in her late forties.
"Dahlia." She answered. "It seems fated that you should end up here in the place of my slumber." Katie gave the woman a confused shake of her head. "You're soul shattered landing you neither on earth, passed on or on the other side. That's not something that happens often." Katie just glared at the woman. "When you shattered, your memories scattered throughout this place. While you were putting yourself back together I was looking at them and I've seen enough to know you've been intimate with my nephew."
"Look I don't know who you are, but I'm pretty sure my memories and who I'm intimate with are none of your business and I'd like nothing more to continue my journey back to my body." She told her with an attitude induced sway of her head. "So if you could kindly put me down it would be highly appreciated."
"Before I put you down I'm going to give you a gift." She told her still holding her hand out in front of her.
"What?" Katie asked.
Dahlia flicked her wrist causing an odd tingling feeling to spread over and sink into Katie's lower abdomen. "You're welcome." Dahlia dropped Katie and as she fell she looked up to see Dahlia disappear.
Katie shot straight up in bed taking in a deep breath. She looked around to see her friends in the doorway of her bedroom at Klaus's house, "What the hell happened?" she asked then looked up at the blood bag hanging on an iv that was stuck in her arm. "I'm starving."
As her friends came back into the room Elijah took the blood bag off the pole while she pulled the needle out of her arm. He disconnected the tube then handed her the bag. She grabbed it and sucked it down, the color returning to her skin as she did. "What is the last thing that you remember?" Elijah asked as he took the empty bag from her.
"You…making me feel with our link." Katie answered the realized that she didn't feel the pull in her stomach that she usually did when he was near. "Our link…" she sighed looking Elijah in his brown eyes. "It's gone."
"I assume you are relieved." He told her bluntly as he looked down at the tube in his hand.
She frowned remembering she had told him that she'd hoped it would break when she turned off her humanity. "I-" she was cut off when something started burning her chest and she grabbed it and pulled it off to see the necklace Damon had given her hanging from the chain in her hand. "Ouch." She sighed and put it down on the bed beside her seeing the picture Stefan had framed for her and the drawing of her in her ball gown that Klaus had made. "Seriously someone tell me what the hell's going on." She said as she took the necklace Elijah had given her off her wrist and set it on the bed next to Damon's. She noticed the bracelet her friends had given her and decided to leave it on.
"We thought you were dead, Katie Cat." Damon told her from where he leaned against the white post of her footboard.
"Huh?" Katie asked.
"When Elijah reached out to you with your link he overpowered your soul and shattered it." Bonnie answered. "Without a soul, your body started dying."
Katie looked over at Elijah. "Did you know that would happen?"
"No." he answered simply. "If I did I never would have reached out to you like that."
"Okay, I'm out of here." Elena said and left the room.
"Good to see you up, Katie Cat." Damon said as he walked over to her and kissed the top of her head. "Try not to die again, okay?" he told her then rushed after Elena.
"Yeah, I'm gonna go." Stefan spoke up feeling awkward since he and Katie hadn't been on good terms for some time now.
He started to leave ,but Katie spoke up. "Hey Stefan?" he turned and looked back at her. "I don't hate you, just do you know. You weren't really yourself and you rightfully wanted revenge. I just happened to be on the bad side of that." Stefan just looked at her. "We good?"
"Yeah, we're good." He told her with a closed lipped smile and a nod then left the room.
Katie looked at Bonnie and Caroline, "Is a fresh start too much to ask for?"
"No, we're good too." Bonnie told her with a teary eyed smile.
"So we're all friends again?" Caroline asked with a bright smile that made Katie smile.
"Yes." Katie answered. "Well, the three of us are. I'm not sure what was up with Elena."
"She flipped her switch, but that's a long story for another time." Bonnie told her looking sad all of a sudden.
Caroline looked at Katie, sitting on the bed with both Elijah and Klaus at her side. "We'll give you three some space." She hit Bonnie's shoulder with the back of her hand to get her attention then jerked her head to the door. "We'll see you tomorrow?" Caroline asked Katie who nodded.
With them gone Katie looked back and forth between Klaus and Elijah. "I need a drink." She slid off the bed and headed downstairs. She grabbed a bottle of bourbon out of the liquor cabinet and a glass. When she turned from the fridge from putting ice in the glass she found Klaus and Elijah sitting at the bar behind her. "I have no idea what to say to either of you. Somehow, I'm sorry just doesn't seem to cut it."
"You don't have to apologize." Elijah told her and she sighed.
"Yes, I do. I shouldn't have told you about me and Klaus." Klaus blinked at her and tilted his head to the side. "Not like that anyway." She poured some bourbon over the ice and capped the bottle. "But you know what?" she picked up the glass and pointed her finger at Elijah. "My love life stopped being your business when you…what did you call it again?" she asked looking around in thought even though she remembered exactly what he'd said. "Right, you let me go. Like a bird that wasn't perfectly find with the cage she was in."
"Niklaus, will you give us a minute?" Elijah asked with a look at Klaus. Klaus looked at Katie and she gave him a nod. So he walked away. "I left because I thought it was what was best for you." he told her and she opened her mouth to say something, but he held up his hand and she closed her mouth. "But as you pointed out before we passed out, you've had enough people telling what to do. I will forever regret becoming one of them. All I can do is hope that you will one day forgive me both for leaving you and shattering your soul."
Katie took a drink then set the glass down. "You hurt me, Elijah. You broke me, my trust and my belief in love." She took a drink as she watched him straighten the place mat in front of him. "And yes, I'm relieved that our link is broken." he stopped and looked up at her with a frown. "But it's not because I hate you for leaving me or any other malicious untrue reason. It's because the whole time I was with you I didn't know if what I felt for you was real or if it was the link pushing me to feel something for you. I blindly trusted it and jumped in feet first because I wanted so badly to feel loved and wanted." She paused to take a breath and another drink.
"I will admit it was unfair of me to expect us to simply pick up where we left off. I just missed you so much and waited so long to find you again that I overlooked that while you are exceptionally similar to the woman I fell in love with you are also vastly different." He told her not looking her in the eyes.
Katie threw back what was left of her drink and poured another. "I told you that I would always love you, link or no link and I meant it." she walked around the bar to stand in front of him.
"As did I." he told her and she smiled a little then let it fall.
"I'm going to be honest with you, I was hoping when that link broke that I wouldn't feel anything for you. That I could have an easy out of the pain that loving someone inevitably brings. But I look into your eyes and I feel that pain and heartbreak. So I know it was real."
"So what does that mean for us?" he asked as he propped his elbow up on the bar.
"It mean's that while I still love you and I always will I can't overlook that you chose to leave me. It mean's I can't just…jump back into it with you. However what I can do is forgive you for leaving me and shattering my soul. We both need to let go of the past and move on." She told him.
He looked back down at the place matt, tapping it with his fingertips. "And do you intend to move on with Klaus?" he asked quietly.
She sighed and leaned her hip on the bar. "If he will still have me, yes." She saw a pained look flash across his face. "I hope you know it wasn't my intention to hurt you by sleeping with him. I never intended on having feelings for him at all it just kind of happened."
"You do not have to explain yourself to me." He told her as he took his hand off the bar and stood up. He looked around with squinted eyes and pursed lips before he sighed and placed his hand on Katie's cheek, touching her for the first time since she woke up. Her eyes slipped closed from the comforting, familiar touch before she opened them and looked at him. "Does he make you happy?"
She picked up her foot and started tapping the toe of it into the hard wood floor. "Yes."
"Then you have nothing to feel bad about." He told her then leaned down and pressed a kiss to her forehead as her eyes slipped shut. "Goodbye, Katie." By the time she opened her eyes he was gone.
She was getting a blood bag out of the icebox when Klaus found her. "I see Elijah is gone."
"Yep." She said as she ripped the corner of the bag off with her teeth and spit it onto the bar then poured the blood into a clear glass.
"And you're still here." He observed.
"Is that okay with you?" she asked as she lifted the glass to her lips and took a drink.
"You are kidding right?" he asked as he walked around the bar and picked her up by her hips making her yelp and attempt to not spill her drink as he set her on the counter. She set the glass to the side and wrapped her legs around him as she rested her hands on his broad and toned yet kind of skinny shoulders. These actions told him all he needed to know before he pressed his lips to hers in a slow passionate kiss. After a few seconds it broke and he pressed his forehead to hers. "Do you know how hard it was to not kiss you the second you opened your eyes?"
"Not a clue. I've never wanted to kiss myself." She popped off and he pulled back to give her a get-serious look that made her smile a cheeky smile at him. "How long have I been out?"
"Three weeks." He answered.
"And how long since I flipped my switch?" she asked. "I kind of lost track of time in that horrible windowless room you and Elijah locked me in."
"Around three months." He answered and she slipped her hands down his chest.
"A lot can change in three months," She pointed out looking him in the eyes.
"A lot has changed." he told her as he looked into her eyes and brushed her cheek with the back of his fingers, "I'm hoping we haven't?"
She smiled and bit her lip. "We haven't." As soon as the words left her lips he kissed her hungrily and slipped his hands under her white tank top. She pulled away. "Whoa, hey, what about Rebekah?" Katie asked.
"She has her own house now." he told her then started kissing her neck. "We had a bit of a falling out."
"Something tells me a dagger was involved." He rolled his eyes at her then started kissing her neck. "Slow your roll there Big Bad Wolf." she told him as she pulled back and smiled at the aggravated sigh that left his lips. "Before I get too lost in you can I have a few minutes to myself to shower and just…take a beat?"
"Of course." He told her then back up.
She hopped down, grabbed her glass of blood and down it. "I'll find you when I'm done." She told him with a flirty look as she headed upstairs.
Since they had the house to themselves she didn't bother grabbing clean clothes before she went to the bathroom, turned on the shower, waited for the water to warm up then stepped inside. As the warm water cascaded down her shoulders and back she thought about everything that she'd done since she flipped the switch, every kill, every person she compelled to do her bidding...none of it bothered her. She knew she should be weeping at the thought of taking someone's family away from them, of how many grieving people there were in the world thanks to her and her blood lust, but she didn't feel the need to. Yes she shouldn't have killed them, but she couldn't beet herself up about it.
Then she remembered the horrified look on the little girls face as she placed her dead father's still warm heart in her little hands. The thought of her face being the stuff of that little girl's nightmares, how much therapy that little girl was going to need just to function as a human. The realization that she single handedly crushed that little girl's innocence broke her. Tears slipped down her cheeks as she pressed her back against the shower wall and slid down wrapping her arms around her wet knees as she let it all out.
Eventually though she realized crying wouldn't make it any better. So she stood up, finished showering then wrapped her towel around herself and went to her room. After throwing on her usual lounging around outfit of a tank top and shorts she found Klaus in his room, lying shirtless in bed, reading a green faux leather book. "So this is your room huh?" she asked from the doorway as she looked around. Brown and cream sheer curtains hung over the windows, a brown and cream bedspread covered Klaus's lower half and a round dining table sat under a crystal chandelier that matched one of the chandeliers that had been in her holding room. Several framed hand written letters hung on the wall over the head of the bed. A lamp that sat on one of the bedside table's dimly lit the room.
"How was your shower?" he asked having heard her crying. She walked over to his side of the bed and hopped up on it then straddled him. Instead of answering him she pressed her face into his neck and wrapped her arms around his waist. The hug surprised him. Yes, they were close, they spoke intimately and had sex, and he'd hugged her when she cried about Elijah leaving her, but this hug was something more. This hug showed a certain amount of neediness and that wasn't something he'd felt from her before. She cared about him she wanted him, be he never thought she needed him. The fact that she did shook him to his core as he wrapped an arm around her waist and held the back of her neck with the other hand. The words I love you almost slipped over his lips, but he kept it to himself. Her soul had just shattered and in doing so flipped her switch back on, she was dealing with enough emotionally without him adding to it.
So instead of saying it, he slid down in the bed, keeping her on top of him as he grabbed a pillow and put it under his head. In an attempt to further comfort her he started playing with her damp hair. She hummed, closed her eyes and started lazily sliding her fingertips up and down his side. "That feels good." Her words made him smile. "Klaus?" she asked quietly.
"Yes, Sweetheart?" he asked still playing with her hair.
She found herself wanting to say those three little words, but she couldn't let herself. If she said it out loud she'd be letting him in. If she let him in, he could hurt her and if he said it back…she could hurt him. He was the last person she'd ever want to hurt. So instead of I love you she simply said, "Thank you."
"Any time." He told her making her smile. Then she opened her eyes and saw the green book on the bedside table.
"Is that my journal?" she asked putting her hand on his chest as she pushed herself up.
"Yes." He answered and she sat up to straddle him.
"Why were you reading it?" she drawled with suspicious eyes.
"Desperate times call for desperate measures." He answered and she glared at him. "I'm the reason you abandoned your humanity, I wanted to be the one to help you find your way back."
"So what did you find out from reading the melodramatic bull crap that is my journal?" she asked as she started drawing nonsensical shapes on his chest.
"I know you like Italian food, hate chocolate and love cheesecake and strawberry ice cream. I found out that you lost your virginity to Damon, poor choice if you ask me, as well as a plethora of other things, but what caught my attention most was the poetry."
"Ugh." She made a disgusted noise and wrinkled her nose. "Why?"
"Because it's good." He told her giving her thigh a light squeeze. "And I like poetry."
"So…" she sighed deciding to change the subject before he decided to start filling her head with compliments. "Fill me in on what I've missed, please."
He pushed himself up to lean against the headboard then moved her around to sit between his legs leaning back on him with his arms wrapped around her.
From there he told her everything that happened since she flipped her switch. How when he found out about Katie flipping her switch he made Bonnie put him back into his body that hadn't been completely burned because the casket he was in when be was stabbed got closed and extinguished the flame.
How the hunter named Connor showed up in town. He was part of a group of five supernaturally gifted vampire hunters whose mission was to find the original immortal, Silas, and the cure to immortality, cure Silas then kill him. Klaus had to leave Katie with Elijah to help control the hunter. The freshly turned Elena killed the hunter and therefore became haunted by the hunters curse. When Elena killed the hunter, the tattoo that only hunters and potential hunters could see, showed up on Jeremy and the only way for Elena's hallucinations to stop was for Jeremy to kill a vampire. Caroline talked Klaus into letting Jeremy kill one of his hybrids.
Some guy named Shane who was a professor that took over the college class that Grams used to teach, started teaching Bonnie a type of magic called expression not telling her that it was a dark magic. Stefan and Elena broke up. Klaus and Stefan started working together to grow Jeremy's tattoo that would lead to the location of the cure to immortality. They both want it for Elena.
They found out that Elena was sire bound to Damon. Meaning she was in love with him before she turned. Klaus found out when they all tried to neutralize him that his hybrids had broken their sire bonds to him and Tyler had led the rebellion. Klaus killed all of his hybrids and Tyler's mom. Kol found out about them trying to find the cure and knew that if they did Silas would unleash hell on earth so he tried to thwart any attempt to find Silas. Klaus turned a bar full of people for Jeremy to kill and complete his mark, but Kol killed them before Jeremy could. Elena asked Klaus to help keep Jeremy safe from Kol who was trying to kill him to keep them from following the hunters mark. Kol also compelled Damon to kill Jeremy so he got locked up in the basement for a little while.
Kol tried to cut Jeremy's arms off to keep the tattoo from spreading, so Elena killed him. Klaus was going to burn them both in the house, but Bonnie managed to trap him in Elena's living room with a spell. Because Kol's whole sire line died, it completed Jeremy's mark. Klaus was stuck there while the others, besides Caroline and Tyler, went to Nova Scotia to find Silas and the cure. Tyler told Klaus that his plan was to cure Klaus and kill him. Caroline cleaned up Kol's body while Tyler taunted Klaus on exactly how he was going to kill him. Klaus took his anger at Tyler out on Caroline by biting her. Tyler left Caroline there to make Klaus watch her die. Klaus couldn't let her die and cured her. The next day Klaus, Caroline and Tyler used a hunter's sword to decode in Jeremy's tattoo, revealing that there is only one dose of the cure. Because Tyler tried to kill him, Klaus ran him out of town. Katherine killed Jeremy by feeding Silas his blood in order to get the cure out of his mummified hands.
Jeremy's death put Elena in unbearable pain and Damon told her to turn her humanity off not knowing it would break the sire bond. She burned her house down with Jeremy in it.
"Can't say I haven't thought about burning my house down." She commented.
"After everything I just told you that's what you comment on?" he asked putting his chin on her shoulder as he looked at her face. She just shrugged. "No comment's on the fact that I slaughtered my hybrids and killed your ex-boyfriends mother?"
"I get why you killed your hybrids, but on the flip side I get why they tried to kill you." he poked her in the side. "What? For someone who wanted them for a back up family you kind of treated them like slaves." She told him bluntly. "As for Tyler's mom…she had her nice moments like trying to help me win Miss Mystic, and she loved her son, but mostly she was just a bitch. I've lost count of how many times I've heard her call me trash. Pretty sure if you didn't kill her I would have eventually." She told him then turned around and straddled his lap.
Things were comfortably quiet for a little while as they both just enjoyed being with each other. "Happy birthday, by the way, I'm sorry I did not get you anything."
"You're the only birthday present I need." She told him then wrinkled her nose. "That sounded far less cheesy in my head."
He smiled. "I do not mind cheesy."
She glared at him playfully. "You secretly love romantic chick flicks don't you?"
He laughed looking a little embarrassed. "Maybe." Katie smiled and looked at her hands exploring his torso. "Is that a bad thing?"
"Nope. I like it." she told him then leaned down and kissed his neck.
"So what do you want for your birthday?" he asked as she kept placing random kisses over his neck and chest.
"An art lesson." She answered surprising him.
"The woman that colored in a coloring book to pass art class wants a lesson?" he asked and she stopped showering him with kisses to look at his face.
"I would have liked to learn, but the teacher sucked and it was kind of nice to have a break from my other, harder, classes." She told him as her hands slid over his shoulders and down his arms to his hands that rested on her thighs and grabbed them in hers. "I want to know more about the things you're passionate about." She admitted as she pressed her palms to his.
He threaded his fingers through hers and pulled her into him catching her lips with his in a kiss that slowly deepened. After a few minutes of making out he let go of her hands, grabbed her shirt and pulled it over her head. He looked into her eyes as his hands found her breasts and kneaded them as he kissed her neck, his actions pulling a sigh from her as he slid down to lay on his back. She grabbed his chin and kissed his lips then kissed down his jaw line to his neck, pulling a sigh out of him with her touch. Her hands explored his torso as she kissed his collarbone, the hollow of his neck, the center of his chest then surprised him as she kept kissing lower, making his breath quicken when she threw the covers over her head and took in into her mouth. The grunt her action pulled out of him made her laugh only giving him that much more pleasure.
She was just started to have fun when he threw the covers off of her, grabbed her chin and pulled her up for a heated kiss. "Do you have any idea how much I've missed you?" he asked between peppering kisses over her neck and shoulders and his hand caressed her back.
"Show me?" she asked and he pulled away from kissing her to look her in the eyes as he rolled them over. She wrapped one arm around his torso while her other hand held the back of his neck. As he hovered over her, braced on his hand on the bed next to her head, he slipped his hand down her chest. He didn't break eye contact as he moved his hand to her breast, kneading it before he pinched her nipple making her moan and dig her fingertips into his back. Desperate to have his lips back on her she pulled him to her for a needy passionate kiss. As they kissed his hand moved down her stomach then slipped into her shorts and panties. His talented fingers pulled a whimper from her that made him pull back and look her in the eyes as he pleasured her.
After a minute she pushed off the rest of her clothes, grabbed his wrist, pulled his hand away, rolled them over then sat up. When she slipped his slick fingers into her mouth he thought he was going to lose it, but he managed to hold back as he slipped them out and sat up. He grabbed her beast in his hand as she slid her hands over his toned arms. A growl left his lips as he attacked neck with kisses and nibbles making her laugh then sigh before he whooshed them around and sank into her.
A sigh left her lips as she squeezed her eyes closed and wrapped her legs around him. His sighs and groans only fueled her fire just as her whimpers and moans fueled his. He could tell she was getting close and as if on cure she sighed, "God, Klaus."
"Come for me, sweetheart." His words tipped her over the edge making her dig her fingernails into his back and tighten her legs around him. The slight pain of her nails in his back and intense pleasure of her orgasm sent him tumbling after her and pulled a loud grunt from him, making her smile as he led his head fall to her chest.
After they had both come down from the high he picked up his head and looked her in the eyes. As she moved her hands from his back to his chest she saw the blood on her finger nails and her smile faded. "Did I scratch you?" she asked taking her hand off of him a little shocked at what she had done.
"Mmhmm." he hummed and started kissing her chest absentmindedly.
"Did it hurt?" she asked still looking at the blood on her fingertips.
"Only a little." He answered.
"I'm sorry. I've never done anything like that before." She told him.
He stopped kissing her to look her in the eyes. "Pain and pleasure sometimes go hand in hand." She just looked at him with a frown. "It's fine. I liked it." he assured her.
"If you say so." She told him deciding not to harp on it. He rolled off of her to lie on his side, turned off the lamp then pulled the covers over them. He smiled to himself when she tucked herself into his chest, intertwined her legs with his and wrapped an arm around his waist. She was being clingier than usual and he couldn't help but love it.
He thought she was just reveling in the calm after the storm like she used to, but after a few minutes her breathing changed and he looked down to see that she had fallen asleep. So he kissed the top of her head and let sleep over come him, happy that she was back in his arms.
A/N: So I don't know how many of you have been affected by hurricane Laura, but my family and I were. We currently do not have lights, the skirting around my mobile home is blown off the house as well as some of the shingles blown off the roof, really it could have been worse, we were on the "better" side of the storm. So if any of my readers were affected, my heart goes out to you. I am currently staying with my grandmother so I may not have an update next week. I don't have as much time to write these days.
A/A/N: I hope this made sense. I suck at writing fight scenes. In case you don't know who Dahlia is, she's Esters sister. Ester went to her and asked her for a fertility spell, in return Dahlia asked for Esters first born as well as her children's first born children and so on and so on. Dahlia wanted the children to use them for their power.