Harry POV

'What are you doing here Katerina? Thought you were stuck in a tomb underneath Old Fells church?'

'Well after a lot of trouble to make it seem like that was the case. I've come to see you.' I sped over to her pushing her against the wall, catching a glimpse at her for the first time in 5 centuries. She looked fantastic as always. Her beautiful dark hair in curls all down her back. Eyes that I had found impossible to not get lost in all those years ago.

'Ok, and what's to stop me ripping out your cold, black, nonexistent heart right now, or better yet handing you over to Klaus so that you can never hurt anyone again.'

'Because I need your help and you could never quite say no to me, lover.'

'You shut your mouth and never call me that. You lost the right of any sort of friendship from me a long time ago, Katerina.' He growled.

'Come on Harry, we used to have something special. You and I, what happened?'

'Oh please don't try and play the victim, Katerina, It never suited you.' Placing her on the ground, before turning my back to her. 'Did you have to make such a mess of the place? I'm going to lose my deposit.'

'Well, I was waiting for a very long time, wasn't my fault I got bored.' She shrugged.

'Was it also not your fault that there appears to be a dead man in my bathtub?' I asked sarcastically, looking around at the damage she caused. 'Im definitely losing my deposit.'

'Hes not dead, just unconscious, I know you Harry, I know how you would react to me killing some guy in front of you. Besides he's actually a murderer so no harm, no foul.'

'That really isn't helping your case much, Katerina.' She scoffs at the name.

'Please call me Katherine. Katerina was the name of a weak human that lost her family to your psychotic brother.' That made my eye twitch barely. I sat down on one of the chairs that wasn't destroyed by her "boredom"'

'Ok, Katherine can you please tell me why I shouldn't just gut you now and be done with it.'

'Oh, Harry is it not reason enough just to come see you, I've missed you so much.' She then sits by me on the long chair, begins to drape her arms over my shoulders, the closeness of her bringing up long lost desires to me. 'Come on Lover, Is this not what you wanted? Us, together?' She sits up on my lap, her beauty mesmerizing, tough something is different.

'Maybe a long time ago, before you became who you are now. I loved you five hundred years ago but now, I just pity you.' I push her off of me just as she got close enough to my face to kiss me.

She looked both pissed and and almost regretful. 'So, I ask again, Katherine. What do you want?'

She begrudgingly told him. 'I need your help.'

'Oh this will be good.'

'Im tired, Harry. I've been running for five hundred years and I'm sick of it. So, for all this to stop. I need you.'

'For what, exactly?'

'Killing Klaus.' She smiles.

I begin to laugh.

10 full minutes later.
'-Ahahahahahahah. You want me to- ahahahaha- you want me to help you kill Klaus- ahahahaha-. Oh god, I haven't laughed that hard in years. Uhhh. Thank you, Katherine. Glad to see you haven't lost your sense of humour.'
'Im serious, Harry. I want your help to kill Klaus.' She crossed her arms petulantly.
I just at her in shock.

14 minutes later.
I continued to look at her, as she sits there patiently. 'Abso-fucking-lutely not.'
'Ah, he speaks.'
'Are you taking the fucking piss? I am not going to help you kill my little brother. What? Are you stupid.'
'No, I'm not strong enough to kill Klaus on my own, but together we stand a chance. I'm tired, Harry. I just want it to be over. I want a life and I want you to be in it.' That almost killed me, the words the irrational parts of my brain had been wanting since I met her. I wouldn't fall for it though, I know how she would use people with her honeyed words.
'Please, you don't and have never cared for me or anyone else for that matter. Do you seriously believe that I would help kill my little brother for you? That I would throw away my family after a thousand years, for a false promise?' I asked the younger vampire. 'There is nothing in this world that I care for more than my family. Especially you.'
'That's not true Harry, I do care, I have loved you for 500 years, you saved my life when Klaus wanted to use me to break the curse, you betrayed your own brother for me. After I turned I began to realise how much you cared for me, and how much I felt for you too. When I found out that Klaus daggered you for 150 years, I wept. I thought you had truly died to protect me. I loved you all the more for it.' I thought she sounded sincere but chalked that up to centuries of practice in the art of persuasion.
'That was a very long time ago Katherine. When I saved you it was because you didn't deserve to die like that, to be sacrificed because of a vendetta that my parents held for Klaus. You were innocent then, but now?' The doppelganger looked down in shame. 'After all the people you've hurt, you put Stefan and Damon at odds for almost a century and a half, Damon went completely insane, been trying to release twenty bloodthirsty vampire's from a tomb in the hopes of getting you back, you were never even there. Rose-Marie and Trevor, two people who helped you knowing that Klaus would be furious, almost died protecting you, had I not compelled them, they might have died or maybe even be on the run, just like you.' I was livid, how dare she try and twist my affections for her into being her pawn.
'I know I've done terrible things Harry. I have to live with that-'
'Actually, you don't.' I interrupted. 'I do, I created this. I'm the one who saved you, I'm the one who turned Rose, who in turn sired you. All the people you have hurt, all the lives you've ruined, they're on me. As is the right of an Original.'
'So what? My actions aren't my own, everything I've ever done your fault. I know I've hurt a lot of people, Harry but that was because I chose to. I chose to compell Stefan, manipulate Damon. You cannot carry the weight of the world on your shoulders forever! Not everyone can be saved!'
'Im not a god, Katherine. I know I can't save everyone, I have never wanted nor tried to. But I wanted to save you! I failed to save the woman I loved and others have paid the price for it, because the truth is I did love you Katherine, I probably still do but I know that you can never be the person you were. Nor can I be the person you need to save you from yourself.'
'I don't need you to change me Harry, I just want you to accept who I am, here and now. Klaus has hunted me for 500 years, we have been apart for so long and it has broken my heart more times than I can count, I don't want to be alone anymore. If I have to kill Klaus for us to finally have a chance then so be it.'
'Yeah? The problem is, Klaus has not been looking for you in centuries.' The look on her face is priceless and honestly? Kind of sad. 'What would be the point? He had lost his chance to use a Petrova doppelganger to break the curse. Why waste time with one doppelganger that he can't use when he can wait for another to be born that he can use.'
'Then why? Why kill my entire family?'
'He didn't, Katherine. My father, Klaus' stepfather, Mikael did. So that Klaus can't break the curse.'
'You're telling me that I have been running for five hundred years for no reason, that Klaus has not cared enough to search this entire time?'
'Basically. Yes.'
'Oh my god.' She fell down onto the chair behind her. 'Half a millennia, I have ran for nothing.'
'So go, live your life, stop running nothing is stopping you now. Leave and never come back.' I got up and open the door for her.
'No.' I gaped at her. She smiles beautifully at me. 'If what you say is true and Klaus isn't gunning for me. Then I don't have to go anywhere. I'm not going anywhere.'
'What?'
'I told you that I wanted to be with you and I was serious. I'm not going anywhere unless you are coming with me. I swear that, no matter what I will never leave your side, because I love you Harry. I always have.'
'You are being awfully straight with me Katherine. Even 500 years ago you were always telling half truths. What is it you want? What do you hope to gain from me.' I began the compulsion, hovering above her while she was sitting in an armchair, covering all her exits so she can't escape.
'I told you, I truly want to be with you.' She spoke sincerely. 'For 500 years I had to stay away and it hurt the entire time. Even with Damon and Stefan. I tried to fill the hole you left but it never worked.' Quicker than even I could react she grabbed the sides of my head and pulled my head down to her level, our lips touched and it was like fireworks. The passion and love I could feel through our connection was addicting. I had wanted to kiss her for half of my life and now I was doing it. She wrapped her long legs and arms around me closing all gaps between us, I straighten my back carrying her up with me, she weighed almost nothing thanks to both her lithe, alluring figure and my enhanced strength. Rushing us against a nearby wall, crashing into it, our tongues battling for dominance. 'I love you.' She broke our kiss to finish her earlier point before capturing my lips again.
Her soft hair, in their perpetual ringlets tickled my neck as she started kissing it. Her scent was intoxicating. Unable to escape her, I begin to release her bra through her tight blue shirt, she tears my black leather jacket off of me and throws it to the floor before doing the same to my shirt. She kicks off her heels and I begin to peel off her skin tight black jeans.
I was going to regret this in the morning, wasn't I?