Couple(s): Klaroline & Kalijah

Genre(s): Romance/Drama/Action/Adventure

Author's Note: Thank you everyone for reading Chapter Four and thank to Ceaa and chibichibi98 for reviewing. So I hated writing the last chapter because it was so boring. Though I did enjoy writing Klaus because he's character is just so appetizing!

So here's Chapter 5! Read, enjoy, and review!

Part One: Chapter Five

"A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war and a time of peace."—Unknown Author

[1492/England]

Air. Air. AIR!

The burning that Katerina was feeling in her chest was horrible and almost crippling. She could feel her heart pounding and she felt as if it was trying to break through her chest. The blood rushing through her veins was no longer blood, but a liquid fire that grew hotter with each second she couldn't get oxygen into her lungs.

At first she has struggled against John's hold against her and tried to smack his hands away from her throat, but to no avail. Katerina's eyes wandered to the girl- the witch- that was in the room with her. She was still screaming and still had that horrified look on her face. Why wasn't she trying to get help?

Her vision was tunneling and as she looked up at the face of the man she thought she loved and wondering why he was doing this. If he truly cared about her she would have never touched her like this, with such murderous intent. And just when Katerina thought she was going to pass out John let her go and she sucked in a large breath.

"How dare you! You cannot turn the doppelganger! There are already enough of you blood sucking fiends, the world has no need for another." Katerina looked at the door and she saw a red headed woman walk into the room. She was dressed elegantly and Katerina, who was currently not in her right state of mind, wondered if she was a princess. "She is lucky that I decided to come when I did. John what were you thinking?"

Katerina heard a whimper of pain that she wanted to assume was John. "I didn't want Klaus to get to her. I didn't want her to die." John's hoarse voice whispered. The red head started to say something, but Katerina's mind was covered by a sleepy haze that she quickly succumbed to.

Trevor was giddy with excitement. Sure Donatella did betray him, but Rose had caught her in her infidelity and had quickly warned him of what she was so obviously planning. Wiping a stray hair away from his eyes he smiled as he mounted his horse.

"Everyone!" he shouted. All of the vampires turned their full attention to him and he squirmed lightly from all the eyes. "We are leaving to find the Petrova doppelgänger, so everything must go seamlessly. If anything goes wrong then Elijah, and furthermore Klaus will have our heads. Is this understood?"

The mean nodded their head in understanding and Trevor could spot the slight fear in their eyes. Of course mentioning Klaus would make them understand that the importance of the mission. "Okay then, everyone we leave now." Nudging his horse, Trevor rode off, knowing that the doppelgänger would be riding back with him in a matter of moments.

Rose had been in the dress shop with Carolina for hours and they were still trying to choose which fabric Carolina's dress should be. Luckily, Rose was able to help Carolina narrow the choosing down to two different dresses. Carolina now had to choose between a deep ocean blue color with gold stitching or a bright crimson color with blue stitching.

"I think that you should choose the red one," Rose suggested. "It will make your eyes look darker and like make your hair look more golden then it already does."

"Yes, but it will also make my skin look pale and make me have to pinch my cheeks more to give them color," Carolina complained.

Rose sighed, "Then chose the blue." Carolina turned to her with a pout and crossed her arms.

"Rose, I need you to take this seriously. Klaus is of high standing and I know that going to parties such as this may be something of a habit to you, but this is a completely new this for me. I want to make a good impression," Carolina whined. Rose knew what she meant, but she just didn't like the person she was trying to make an impression on.

"I understand my friend, but you must understand that I do not understand why you must try so hard on choosing fabrics."

"Because I want to look good. My mother always told me that the first things people see are your looks and that they will first judge your character based on your looks then on your personality. And I intend to impress everyone with both," Carolina said with a determined look in her eyes.

Rose chuckled and Carolina pouted at her. "I know that it sounds silly, but I have been dreaming of things like this since I was a child," Carolina said as she looked at the two choices in her hands again. "I always wanted to be invited to things like this. I thought it would be my shining moment, when I was finally the shining star. Childish, I know, but I can't help but hope a little bit." Rose said nothing and just looked at her new friend.

She wished for those same things when she was a human. Being the one everyone was looking and talking about. Rose had once wanted to be the belle of the ball too and what girl didn't? The dream may be silly, but when the offer came why waste it; even if your prince was going to murder you.

"I understand, but I still think you should go with the red one." Carolina laughed and Rose smiled. She could at least give Carolina this small little thing before Klaus killed her.

Donatella released the spell that was causing John pain and walked over to Savannah. "Wake the girl up and tell her to forget this whole thing now!" Donatella commanded. John growled, but did as she asked. "You," she said turning to face Savannah. "You must leave immediately. More of his kind are coming and they are much more vicious then he is. You must grab all your belongings and run from this place." Donatella was slowly dragging the girl towards the door. "Go now!" And with that Savannah was out of the room and hopefully she would heed her advice unlike the doppelgänger and her friend.

Turning back to Katerina who was currently being compelled Donatella felt a little bad about taking away the girls memories, but she wouldn't allow anyone to be horribly scarred by the fact that they were almost murdered. "Compel her to sleep as well."

John huffed, but did as she asked. "So they have found this place," John said with a sigh. "I thought that I would have more time to hide the girl or maybe change her." John walked over to his desk and dropped himself into the chair. Donatella sneered at him.

"They would have found you with or without my help. You may have had a witch protecting you, and maybe some vampire, but those defenses were useless against me what made you think that it would stop Klaus's army of vampires?"

"You cannot blame me for hoping."

"There is no hope for the likes of you," Donatella spit out. John chuckled, but still sounded downtrodden. Donatella went over and sat on the chair that Savannah previously occupied. "How many witches do you have left here?"

"About nine or ten are left now that you have let Savannah go. I honestly don't see the point of them anymore now that the most powerful one out of them all is gone." The room was then caught in a long silence. For twenty minutes they sat there with nothing to say. John called in some manservants that lifted Katerina away and put her in her room, but that was the thing done, until John froze.

"They're here." He announced.

"No! Please tell me this cannot be true. He can't be dead! Please he can't be!" Katerina howled as she clinged to Carolina's dress. Tears were rolling down her cheeks like a water fall and Carolina couldn't help, but feel guilty.

Here her best friend was crying over her lost love and here she was rejoicing the fact that he had just died. Katerina had honestly loved that monster, but maybe he was only a monster to others not to Katerina.

Patting her best friends back, Carolina leaned forward a little bit as she hugged the girl who was hugging her waist. "It's okay Katerina. John wouldn't have wanted you to suffer like this. He would have wanted you to be happy and enjoy the rest of your life," Carolina murmured into her hair.

"Why? Why does misfortune seem to follow me?" Katerina cried out. Servants were walking by the room wincing when they heard the girl's screams of anguish. Carolina felt pity swell in her heart as she knew that Katerina was not only talking about her failing love life, but also her stolen daughter.

"I do not know, but they say that misfortune seeks the strong willed. You will make it through this, just like you did those other times. And I will be with you every step of the way." Carolina said as she pet her friend's hair.

"You are the only one that has left me yet. Promise me that you will never leave me." Katerina was looking up at her with eyes full of hope that Carolina couldn't bear to tell her anything bad.

"I promise, Katerina, to always be by your side," Carolina swore. She couldn't bear to say that by her eighteenth birthday that she may be there in body, but she wouldn't be mentally.

The whole way home Trevor and the rest of his men were laughing up a storm.

"Did you see her face?" one said.

"Yes!" another jeered. "Priceless! If only she knew!"

Another bout of laughter went around and Trevor was sure that he would fall off his horse. They were laughing about how the doppelgänger had reacted when they told her that her beloved John had died because he had a "heart problem". In honest, Trevor had ripped out his heart; that was what made the whole thing so funny. But throughout all the laughter Trevor couldn't help but feel a little bit of regret.

The doppelgänger was much more beautiful than he expected and the face she had made when she was about to cry was enough to make even Trevor, who had enjoyed killing John feel a little guilty.

[1492/John's Manor]

John's heart was disposed of and now all they had to do was wait for the doppelgänger to wake up so that they could make a convincing lie so that they could get her to stay with Trevor until the day of Klaus's birthday party.

Trevor was giddy with excitement, but was also struck with awe at the way the doppelgänger looked. Olive toned skin, long eye lashed, narrow nose, and chocolate curls that cascaded down her back; the girl was a sight to behold. When, she started to stir Trevor sent the rest of the men out of the room saying that it would be very unsettling for the girl to find ten men looming over her when she woke up.

"Who are you?" was the first thing that she had asked when she woke up. Trevor smiled softly at her and walked over to her.

"My name is Trevor. I am a friend of John's. I just arrived to visit when…" he trailed off knowing that her curiosity would lead her to ask what had happened to him. She didn't fail to follow the unspoken script that Trevor was following.

"What? What has happened to John? Is he injured?" she asked, her voice going up a few octaves.

"Miss, I am sorry to inform you that…John has passed away." Trevor bowed his head in a show of respect when he actually was laughing loudly on the inside. The over men outside were trying to stifle their laughter.

"What? No…he can't be. He can't be dead. Please tell me you are jesting." Her eyes were brimming with tears and that made him feel a little guilty. The girl clearly cared for John.

"Miss, I am sorry I never caught your name."

"Katerina; my name is Katerina Petrova."

"Yes, Miss I am sorry to be the one to tell you this, but he is dead. He has been sick for a very long time now and we assume that it was the sickness that has killed him." Katerina shifted on the bed so that she was now sitting. She put her head in her hands.

"A sickness; he was ill and he never told me about it. Why?" Trevor could smell the salt water tears from where he was standing and decided that he was not going to stay to hear the girl cry.

"He probably didn't want to upset you with the knowledge that his time was limited." Most of the men left by now and went to go guffaw where Katerina could hear them. John's time on this planet was unlimited and the moment that he decided to keep the doppelgänger was the moment he became limited.

Trevor got on one knee and took one of her hands. She looked up at him and Trevor took this moment to compel her. "You will come live with me at my home. If anyone asks you will tell them that the death of John made you wish for a change of scenery." Katerina nodded and Trevor then bid her farewell, feeling slightly guilty, but deciding that he would get over it soon enough.

The feeling of guilt hadn't gone away yet, but Trevor just laughed continued to ride his horse. He couldn't wait to tell Elijah and Rose the good news. And hand Klaus a traitor.

"Again."

Donatella let out a cry of pain as she stabbed herself again in her stomach. And mixture of blood and spittle shot out from her mouth as she looked at Klaus with pleading eyes. She was compelled to do this as many times as Klaus told her to. The worst part was that he wouldn't let her die. Whenever he saw her waver in the slightest he would shove his bloody wrist into her mouth and force her to take mouthfuls of it until her wounds had healed completely. Then he would torture her so more and the process would start all over again.

"Please," she whimpered. "Stop this please." Klaus shot her a dark look and chuckled lowly.

"Tell me why in the world I would do that. I can't kill you because I need you in order to break my curse, but what is preventing me from torturing you a little bit for almost betraying me. Again." A horse scream ripped through Donatella throat as she shoved the knife into her body only to roughly yank it back out.

"I am sorry. Please Klaus. I will do anything. Just stop this." Klaus tilted his head and seem to ponder her offer.

"Anything? Will you allow me to use any of your family members whenever I need them? Will you always allow your bloodline to aid me whenever I need it?" Donatella mustered up a glare.

"No."

Klaus smirked, "Then I guess you must suffer a little while longer. Place the knife above your chest, but not close to your heart." Donatella's breathing accelerated as she looked at Klaus pleadingly. "Now stab yourself."

Donatella let out a scream, but it was cut off as she choked on her own blood. "Fine," she screamed as she pulled the knife out. "Use my bloodline however you wish, just stop this suffering!" Klaus flashed a dimpled smile at her as she went to the door to leave.

"Again." Donatella was sure she was incapable of screaming any louder.

"Were moving again?" Katerina huffed as Carolina fussed once more.

"Yes. John's friend offered us a place to stay at his home," Katerina said and Carolina shot her another disbelieving look.

"We're moving again, not to mention we're moving in with a man that you've just met!" Carolina shouted as Katerina shoved her dresses into a trunk. She didn't understand why Carolina couldn't just be happy that they were offered another place to stay. "What if he just wants to try to sleep with you?"

Katerina turned to her best friend with eyes full of fury. "Why can't you just be happy? You never liked John and we're leaving his manor so why are you being like this?"

Carolina shot her friend a worried look, "I am worried about you. You loved John. I do not understand why you would be so quick to leave to place where you were to spend the rest of your lives together."

Katerina sighed and sat on the floor. Change of scenery, was what her mind whispered to her, but it didn't feel right; like the thought wasn't her own. "I just, don't want to be haunted by his memory. I know he wouldn't want me to cry over him for the rest of my life. I think in order to move on I need a little change of scenery."

Carolina smiled softly at her and wrapped Katerina in a hug. "If that is what you think you need then I am going to support you."

I need a change of scenery. Katerina reassured herself. I need this.

"You invited the doppelgänger to stay at our home? Trevor do you know what will happen to us if anything happen to her while she stays here! We could be killed!" Rose shouted. "Klaus will be sure to make it painful."

Trevor nodded, but Rose knew that he wasn't listening to her. "That is why one of us will always be with her. Anyhow who would want to kill the doppelgänger knowing that Klaus wants her more than anything?"

Rose made a noise of exasperation. "Some days I wonder why I turned you." Trevor threw her a grin.

"You turned me because we're the best of friends and you don't know what you would do without me." Rose smiled. She would have to do a lot of things to get them out of the mess that Trevor put them in, but what are best friends for.

Savannah's carriage was still rolling by as she watched the scenery pass by. That red headed witch had helped her run away leaving her at the mercy of the vampires that she claimed were worse than John.

John hadn't always been nice, yelling at her and making threats, but he knew that if he followed through with those threats that she would have never helped him ever again. So at best John was tolerable. These vampires that were supposedly worse than John, how bad could they actually be?

Savannah was left to imagine. She could imagine vicious beasts that cared for no one, but themselves; blood sucking monsters that manipulated people for their own personal gain. This was what Savannah thought of now that she had lived with vampires.

"Beast," she murmured. "They are all beasts."

And so Savannah Bennett decided to pass down the tale of how vampires, the abomination of nature, were nothing more than manipulative animals that would only ruin your lives and take your innocence. That would be told to all witches that now came to into the Bennett bloodline and would be reinforced with the death of Emily Bennett.

Vampires and Witches cannot co-exist. Savannah now knew this as a fact.

Author's Note: Okay, as for the last part I decided a while back that the Bennett witches must hate all vampires because they must have done something to their family to piss them off. So I made up the last part.

So, what did you think? Was it good? Was it bad? I sort of liked this chapter. I mostly enjoyed writing Klaus and Donatella's torture scene because I got to explore Klaus's dark side a little. I am sorry if that scene was bad or you didn't enjoy reading it.

OMG, school starts in starts in a week. I haven't even bought school supplies yet! I am excited 'cuz I'll be a freshmen. I'm gonna be a fishie! So excited!

Anyways next chapter is what I think/hope will be Klaus's birthday party. With that will come a lot of Klaroline and Kalijah interactions and some one-sided Trevor/Katerina action. Also the arrivals of Kol and Rebekah will happen in the next chapter, I think.

So yay! The sacrifice won't happen until like a couple more chapters, but that will give us more time to make Klaus and Elijah fall for our pretty little girls. Maybe Carolina will make friends with Kol and Rebekah while there.

Well I hoped you enjoyed the chapter and review.

Until next time,

Winterangel44