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However, I do own Catherine Matthews/ my very own Katherine Peirce, her backstory, the storyline, and any additional characters that do not belong to The Vampire Diaries or The Originals. Characters in this story may not have the same opinion as you. These characters are all fictional.


"What a surprise," An alluring British voice greeted her. "I was considering sending out my hybrids on a search party in a day or two's time if you didn't show up."

"So, seeing I didn't waste your resources, I ought to get another freebie," Katherine retorted shamelessly.

"Ah! I see why you are here!" Klaus reckoned as soon as the words left Katherine's mouth. He then turned towards Stefan, who was looking around, trying to spot the hot-blooded, sexy blond.

"And you, old friend," Klaus acknowledged the younger Salvatore, taking a threatening step towards him. And Katherine mechanically stepped in front of Stefan before she could even think it through, making Klaus halt in his midstep, almost amused at her protective streak. But that didn't stop him from saying what he wanted. "What are your intentions for my sister? Shall we discuss a dowry?"

"Nik," Rebekah Mikaelson's disapproval was heard before anyone even noticed the blonde.

"What? Isn't this the gentleman that you helped sneak out of the house the other day?" Klaus defended in an innocent tone, without turning back. "I am just trying to be a protective brother, is all."

"Niklaus, stop alienating our sister," Elijah drawled in a deep voice, chiding his younger brother as he came down the stairs, looking pristine as ever in his thousand-dollar suit.

"Then she shouldn't have destroyed my art room-" He didn't get to finish his sentence when Kol announced his presence.

"Did I just hear my partner in crime?" Kol questioned, and as soon as he saw Katherine, a devilish grin appeared on his face. "Are we going for another massacre?"

"Ah...No," She answered the unexpected question dumbly. "I am here on a personal mission, actually," she confessed.

"Shame," And Katherine was sure she will get the hang of Kol's untamed spirit in no time. "Does it involve killing someone?"

"No!" Katherine confirmed and looked at him in honest bewilderment. "Do I look like someone who kills people just because I have some free time on my hand?"

"Yes," Kol answered the rhetorical question almost immediately.

"It was rhetorical," Katherine explained to the youngest brother. "Anyways, as I was saying before everyone oh-so rudely interrupted, I am here to hire Maddox and Greta for a couple of days-"

"And there it is," Klaus interrupted the doppelganger, somehow already knowing the answer. Because one cannot catch up with elusive Katherine Pierce if she doesn't wish for them to meet. And the only use the doppelganger has for the thousand-year-old all-powerful Original family is, surprisingly, with Klaus's witch and warlock.

"Well, that's the only thing you are useful to me for," Katherine stated, offhandedly, insulting the only 1000-year-old Original Hybrid on the planet. "Also, It's not like I take them for free. I always make a deal, won't I? A favor for a favor."

"And what more do you have to offer that can possibly tempt me?" Klaus asked, smirking.

"I don't know-" Katherine began languidly, "My precious time, maybe. You have been waiting to have a chat with me for quite some time now, so let's do that. I will try my best to answer your questions unless they are not too personal."

Klaus wasn't expecting that to be the response. He just wanted to know what she had to offer. Or how she would manage to bluff her way out of it if she didn't have anything more to provide. Because even if Katherine didn't have anything to offer, he was still going to lend her his witches. After all that the vampire has done for him and his family, intentionally or not... Katherine Pierce has earned their backing for as long as she needs it.

However, he is not gonna lie. The offer is tempting. Answer -something he and his brother Elijah were ransacking about since day one of meeting the eccentric vampire who calls herself Katherine Pierce. She is a far cry from the naive human girl they met 500 years ago. She is too different now -difficult to estimate her motive, how she acts, how her mind works. Katherine Pierce is dangerous, unpredictable, and far too machiavellian for their likes.

Klaus's eyes met Elijah's in a silent inquest, and from the looks of it, his brother wanted to get some answers as well. Having decided... Klaus's face broke into a grin as he exclaimed, "Alright! Answers for my witches," he said, motioning Stefan and Katherine to the empty couch opposite to him.

Stefan looked extremely uncomfortable with meeting the whole original family, bar their eldest brother Finn, who wasn't there, after rolling in sheets with their little sister. He cleared his throat, trying to dissuade some tension. "Where's your other brother -Finn?" Stefan inquired as he sat down next to Katherine, who, from the expression of it, looked like she was preparing herself ready to tackle down any ridiculous questions that are about to be thrown her way.

"We had a visitor yesterday," Elijah answered, his face impassive as ever. He looked at Katherine pointedly, "Sage."

A look of recognition crossed her face, and Stefan identified his friend knew who Elijah was talking about. "That's Finn's girlfriend from 900 years," she explained to him calmly before turning back to Elijah. "So, the two love birds went on a tour around the world then."

Elijah's lips twitched at that, "Mystic Grill, actually."

Katherine shrugged nonchalantly, "Close," she said. She rubbed her palms together, "So, who goes first?" she asked, looking at the original family.

"Me," Kol jumped before anyone can open their mouths. "Why do you want Klaus's witches."

"As I said, it's personal," Katherine pointed out again. "All I can say is I am helping a sociopathic kid break out of a prison so that he can help me with something in return."

"Ok... that just raised even more questions," Rebekah muttered, shaking her head.

"Well, that's all you are getting," Katherine declared before speaking up again. "Next."

"You seem to know more than you let on. How is that?" Klaus questioned.

"What do you mean?" Katherine asked, confused by the vague question.

Klaus hunched forward a bit, "About my father, my mother, about my curse, and even about my mother's talisman." He narrowed his eyes, waiting for an answer, he thought so much about. "You are right about everything, always. It seems no matter what the problem is, the solution will always lie with you-"

Katherine blinked at that, not foreseeing the particular question with endless answers. She quickly thought of what she prepared to say for questions like that. Ignoring all the curious eyes on her, she began with the fabricated tale she has managed to come up with.

"Well, as I said, I am a curious person. You see, eternity gets boring without a purpose, and I spent years traveling around the world, learning everything I could about supernaturals. About how they came to be of existence. About why my life is such an ugly mess that no normal person would touch with a ten-foot pole. And every time I learn something new, I move on to another mystery. And I have been doing so for a while."

"First, I started out with why doppelgangers are a thing, how they came into being. Why me? Why my family? And those questions lead me to the immortal Silas, Qetsiyah, and Amara's love triangle. The Otherside, and ghosts and afterlife ...and all that stupid jazz," Katherine began, "Then I researched about you...or, more importantly, how I can kill you." Klaus made a face at that, causing Katherine defended herself quickly, saying, "No offense, but you and your brother were dicks." Klaus rolled his eyes at that, and Elijah had a perfectly good sense to look a little ashamed.

"And then, I came up with nothing solid, other than the white oak which is extinct. So, I dropped it after a while. But there was no way you were gonna leave me be, so I thought of ways that could contain you like the silver daggers do your other siblings. In the meantime, as a backup plan, I started working on different theories about your stupid curse, hoping to make a deal with you. But I learned that there was no way Stefan and Damon are gonna give up on Elena, so I dropped the plan again and thought to think of something else. But you caught up to me this time, killing my best friend Isobel and the lovely landowner Mrs. Flowers in the process, for which I am still pissed at, by the way," she snapped at the last part. "And the rest is history."

"So, you are saying all you got to know was due to research," Elijah asked skeptically, a little trouble believing. It sure sounded stupid.

"Of course," Katherine lied without batting an eye. But knowing they would want some solid proof to believe it, she started with something interesting, "Do you know what all you can learn if you put your minds to it, Elijah. Tell me, you guys have lived for millennia now - Do you know how werewolves came into existence?"

The siblings looked at each other, expecting someone had the answer, and when they shrugged, Katherine smirked in triumph. "Thought so..."

"I have always expected them to be extant since the beginning, like witches," Elijah said.

"No, it's due to a curse placed on seven tribes by a dying psychotic teenage witch," Katherine said.

"Ooh! I sense a good story here," Kol announced excitedly. "I am all ears."

When no one made a move to stop them, Katherine began the story about the Hollow from what she remembered. "It's around the fifth century. She is called The Hallow. Or, Inadu. She is the offspring of the union of two powerful Native American rival witch tribes. They thought that by uniting in peace, they would enter a new age of harmony."

"A ceremonial wedding," Elijah concluded, receiving a nod from Katherine.

"Let me guess, something went wrong," Klaus foretold.

"Doesn't it always," Stefan muttered, knowing full well what to expect from his friend's stories.

"That marriage bore a child," Katherine said, not minding their interruptions, used to Hayley's ramblings during their time together. "For nine months, the tribe elders visited the mother, using magic to grant the child great power in hopes that the newborn would become a symbol of prosperity. Soon it was clear that Inadu was stronger than anyone could imagine. And that she had a terrible hunger for more power still. And that's how the Hollow was born."

"Interesting," Kol piped up, "I should've brought popcorn. Go on, darling."

Katherine rolled her eyes, knowing Kol's fascination with witches, "Over time, she grew and craved more power. Inadu channeled life in all its forms. Her hunger was insatiable. She loved the fear she inspired in others. Her people knew her as ruthless, unfeeling, empty. Until that became her defining quality. So they began to refer to her by that single trait- The Hollow."

"She killed them all?" Rebekah guessed, and Katherine nodded.

"Just for the sake of fun," Katherine added.

"Well, to be fair, we all have our bad days," Klaus's said, earning a sigh from Elijah and an understandable nod in agreement from Kol.

Katherine rolled her eyes at their murder happy children but continued with the story. "When her evil became too great to bear, the tribes united to defeat her. Tribe elders managed to capture her using mystical bindings. But even with all that power, Inadu was too strong. Death seemed the only solution. Four of the strongest elders each imbued a part of their magic into an ax. When the weapon was ready, they relied on her mother, the one who gave her life, to be the one to take her life. But before she could kill her child, Inadu cast a final spell. One powered by her own death. A curse upon all present that night. She bound them to the full moon so that once a month, her killers would turn into the very beasts they used to hunt her."

"Werewolves."

"Yes. The original seven werewolf bloodlines were created," Katherine said. "It's also said that, after the tribe killed Inadu, her spirit became more powerful. She haunted them. So they burned her remains, but not all the pieces could be destroyed. As long as those pieces were together, her power only grew. The indestructible bones were distributed among four families. Each charged with keeping the bones apart, so that they would never come together again."

"And not-so-quite surprisingly, they are few devoted followers, even to this day, who want to resurrect her by uniting the 4 pieces of its remains," Katherine said, concluding her story, successfully distracting them by giving necessary proof.

"Lovely," Kol drawled.

"Now that I think about it, it kinda sounds like our story," Rebekah couldn't help but say in a bitter tone. "Parents that wish to kill their own children because they turned out to be monsters."

"Your mother turned you into monsters," Katherine corrected her almost immediately. "Inadu was an irredeemable piece of little shit, to begin with. No one made her, but herself." Her unexpected confession surprised everyone in the room. But Katherine, however, looked deep in thought, pondering over some kind of information, thinking aloud. "And you guys, no matter how violent and blood-thirsty you tend to be, you still look out for one another. You are not hollow." She looked up at them with a smile, arriving at some kind of judgment in her own mind. "Always and Forever, right," She didn't notice their stunned looks as she said, "See...not total assholes."

Kol was the first one to recover, chuckling as she said in a sarcastic tone, "Thanks, darling. I didn't know that until you pointed it out."

Katherine winked at him, saying, "No problem. What good is a partner if I don't help you out with such things."

"So, any more questions?"

Elijah cleared his throat, gathering his bearings. "No, Katerina-" "It's Katherine" "But it would always be good to know what my reckless brother and you are up to. Kol's been a little tight-lipped about the details as to why he arrived at the house covered in human blood after you took him out for a threesome."

"Threesome?" Rebekha bellowed wide-eyed. She turned her accusing eyes at Katherine, demanding. "Are there any of my brothers you haven't slept with?"

"Hey. I haven't slept with any of your brothers, thank you very much," Katherine retorted. "I was courting Klaus, who has been a huge dick and turned out to be an even bigger liar. And there was no way I would sleep with Elijah when I was with that psycho, no matter how thoughtless he was in wooing me." The hybrid in question glared at her, half-heartedly, for being called names, which Katherine didn't seem to notice on the fly, earning a snicker from Kol and an amused smirk from Stefan and Elijah.

"I mean, we kissed," Katherine admitted in a low tone, much to the amusement of a few people as she thought back to canon Katherine's memories, justifying herself immediately, "-But that's like one time. Which is like totes different. Heat of a moment thing."

"Anyway," she said, waving her hand, deflecting the topic altogether. "And Kol and I's partnership is our own. And if Kol doesn't want you to know, I am not telling you. Co-worker confidentiality, and all that."

She turned to look at Kol to see he definitely approves the attitude, from the smirk he showed her. So she figured everything was progressing well. She turned to look at Klaus, feeling accomplished with the tricky task of the day. "So, now that I have answered everything I can, can I get Maddox and Greta for a couple of days?"

"Well, I don't know, love," Klaus droned slowly, "I mean, you did cheat on me-"

"-And you tried to kill me," Katherine was quick to counter his remark. "Tit for tat."

Klaus rolled his eyes and sighed. "Fine. When do you want them for?"

Katherine smiled in triumph and relief. "Tomorrow. Tell them to pack for three to four days," she said, getting up from the couch. "I will pick them up around 9."

Klaus just nodded his head. Katherine turned around to announce Stefan they were set to leave, but she paused in her tracks, remembering something. "By the way. Where's your mother?"

"Our mother?" Elijah repeated, confused. "She's dead, Katerina. For a week now."

"Dead?" Katherine uttered, stunned. "What? When? I thought she is living somewhere in your dungeons as a vampire."

"And risk her concocting another evil plan to kill her children," Klaus spoke sarcastically. "No chance. I ripped her heart out after turning her into the very monster she despised."

"Oh!" Katherine whispered, handling the newfound information. She has been too busy in her planning that she didn't even realize what's all happening right in the town. "I am sorry," she whispered to the family, surprising them once again. "For what's it worth." She smiled a small smile. "You are officially Orphans now, I guess. So, welcome to the club."


So, Hi.

It's been long I know. But I finally managed to clear my schedule and organize it accordingly with my work and studies. Hopefully, I will manage to update all my stories without any problems from now on.

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