She was running throughout the woods, she didn't know where her legs were taking her, but she knew she needed to get away, running away from those 'things'. She didn't quite know what to call them, so she just settles with the living dead.
Even though they had been around for about a year, she was so frightened of them, although she would never admit that to anyone, she had never been so scared in all her 500 years of being on this earth, maybe except for Klaus. But she had gotten use to it and now killing the dead has become like a second nature to her, but it's the herds that has her scared. Now that she's human, she feels so helpless. 'thanks a lot Elena' she thinks to herself. But then she thinks about if she hadn't gone after Elena, this might not have happened in the first place. 'oh well, you can't change the past'.
She keeps on running no matter how much her legs hurt, when she thinks back to another time in her life. 'it's ironic that I'm here running through the woods, reminds me of the day I became a vampire, all that needs to happen is….' thunk! She has tripped over a big log that is sticking up from out of the ground. She all of a sudden felt like she was having a big wave of Deja vu and would laugh if it wasn't for the situation she was in.
she hisses as she goes to get back up when she realises that there was blood dripping down from her leg. She now knew that she needed somewhere to hide now because she couldn't outrun them like this. She didn't survive five hundred years to just be devoured by the dead.
So now she's walking as fast as she can with a limp, and sometimes even a hop as she looks behind her to see that they have come a little bit closer. She keeps walking until she stumbles across a cabin. She limps up to it and looks through the windows to make sure there's nothing in there. When she doesn't see anything, she turns the handle and fortunately its unlocked, so she walks inside and turns around to lock the door when she sees its been broken so she quickly grabs a chair and sticks it under the door handle just to be safe.
She sits down on the ground with her knees pulled up to her chest with her knife out in case she needs it as the dead comes scratching at the door trying to dig their way in. she then realises that she is going to have to stay there until the morning, and hopefully the dead are gone by then. 'this is going to be a long night' she thinks to herself.
During the outbreak, she has run into a few people, but she never ended up staying with them, she couldn't, because if she did, she would end up caring about those people and caring for people is what will get you killed. At least that is what she thinks. That she's better off on her own. 'I've made it this far, haven't I?' she thinks. She starts to wonder something. 'What happened to all the vampires anyway? You would think you would be everywhere since half of the human population has been wiped out'.
The next morning Katherine had woken up although she didn't remember falling asleep, she hadn't wanted to fall asleep. She stood up feeling a bit dizzy, realising she hadn't had any food and barely any water for a couple of days, and looks down at her leg seeing that it's getting worse as is the pain. It must be infected.
She takes a look around the room for supplies that she may find useful but doesn't see any, and by the looks of it this place has already been scavenged and they took everything that they could find, then she looks at herself in the mirror on the wall, she hadn't known what her appearance looked like ever since the outbreak, that was the last thing on her mind.
She looked at her clothes, she was wearing a singlet and even though it was black, she can still see the dirt and blood from the dead covering it, then she looked at the jeans she was wearing which looked pretty much the same and dirt and blood covering her skin. Her hair was in a plat going down her back with a bit of her hair that had fallen out of the hair band that are framing her face.
She looks out the window to see that all the dead had scattered except for 2 who were still wondering around out there. Now two she knew she could handle, it's the herds that are the problem. She gets her knife ready and removes the chair from under the door handle and opens the door.
She limps towards the first one trying to be quiet and stabs it in the head, because you know, it's gotta be the brain. The second one turns around seeing its meal and starts walking towards her and tries to sink its teeth into her shoulder and Katherine, being weak from the wound on her leg and not having anything to eat stumbles to the ground with the dead falling on top of her. She has dropped her knife next to her and needing to use two hands to keep it from biting her, she couldn't reach her knife.
Then, all of a sudden, the dead goes limp against her and she uses all her strength to push it off her as she realizes there's was an arrow in its head that wasn't there before, she grabs the knife from the ground and quickly stands up and spins around with her knife held out in front of her to see a guy with his crossbow aimed at her head. They just stand there with their weapons aimed at each other having a staring contest. Neither of them had moved for what seemed like hours which was only a few seconds before Katherine decided to break the silence. She thinks about lowering her knife, knowing that this would be a fight that she can't win, as her eyes keep flickering from his face to the crossbow.
"well, are you gonna kill me?" she asks him as the earth starts spinning and she feels as if she's going to lose her balance at any second. She stands her guard because she is not going to show anyone her fear.
"I ain't no killer, the question is, are you?" she didn't exactly know how to answer that, because if she said no that would kind of be a lie, not that she is a killer now though, because she has killed a lot of innocent people before, but that was also when she had been a vampire, but one thing that hasn't changed and that is she would do anything to survive. Before she can respond her vision starts to go blurry as her legs give out on her and she falls to the ground, with darkness consuming her.