Hello everyone. Since we are all stuck in quarantine, i finally decided to write a TVD story, since i always wanted to do so. It will be mostly Katherine and Stefan centered, but later we will also have some Delena, Bonnie/Enzo and Klaroline. I hope you like it, and i'd like to apologize in advance for any grammar mistakes, since english is not my first language.

Elena Gilbert is stuck in a coma, and there is no prospect of her waking up anytime soon. Trying to find a way breaking the spell Kai did on Elena, he was captured by was captured by Sybil. Now, she wants nothing more than to him to give in to her so that he can help her capture souls to send right to hell.

Stefan, Caroline, Bonnie, Enzo and Alaric are trying desperately to save him, before is too late, as Sybil was getting closer and closer of permanently wrecking his soul.

The elusive Katherine Pierce finds a way of escaping hell, and coming right back to life, cheating death once more. She lets Damon find her after years he saw her die and thought he would never see her again. What could she possible want?

This story's events take place some years after 6x22. They don't exactly follow TVD's timeline, as some of the storyline from Season 7 - Rayna Cruz, the heretics, etc. - never took place, neither did Stefan and Caroline's relationship. All the events from Season 8 (Cade, etc.) didn't take place yet and probably won't either.

I do not own The Vampire Diaries and its characters. All this work is purely fictional and it belongs to the respective creators.

When Sybil saw Damon Salvatore for the first time, she felt that he would easily give in to her- she felt a wild, impulsive, intense energy from coming him. She was able to see that his soul was far from pure, that he had already fed on other lives and killed only for pleasure. Sybil realized that it wouldn't take much effort to make Damon succumb to her. But the truth was, it had been the complete opposite of what she imagined. Although Damon did not deny to serve her, performing the tasks that were asked of him, for example, never thinking twice before killing for her and even seeming to enjoy it. However, he wouldn't surrender completely to her mind control. It seemed to be impossible to actually make him, hers. He seemed immune to her several attempts to fully control him.

She spent days and days wondering why he was so reluctant to give in and she soon decided to dig deeper. She managed to enter his mind at a time when he was more fragile (because in normal situations it was almost impossible to penetrate Damon's head, he seemed to want to protect it at all costs) and found what made him resist her compulsion. A woman - of course ... At the end of the day, it all came down to a the love of a woman. And as far as Sybil could see, he was completely devoted to her and that was a kind of love that didn't go away easily. So Sybil took care to make sure that he no longer had this distraction and could finally hand himself over. So, in a few seconds, she erased all the years and years of memories that Damon Salvatore had of Elena Gilbert. Now, it was just her to get back to her tactics and in a short time he would be completely hers.

-Damon, darling. -Sybil said looking at him with a seductive look. - Don't bring me less than three people today. Damon turned his gaze to hers and nodded.

When Damon was about to approach the bar for a drink, his eyes found a very familiar face.

Katherine Pierce was sitting at the bar with her legs crossed and with her ruddy lips, she was taking a sip of her Martini. She was wearing leather pants and a black trench coat, that marked her waist. Her wavy hair was running down her back, even longer than the last time he saw her. She was completely flawless. And alive. She was alive. Damon looked at her, astonished. How? How could she be alive? He had seen her die years ago. He asked himself If he could be hallucinating, but he thought it was unlikely, as he could even smell her cherry blossom perfume entering his nostrils.

-Katherine. -he said approaching her. She looked at him, surprised - not because he had found her, as it was exactly her intention, but because he didn't mistake her for Elena. Katherine knew that her doppelgänger was in some sort of coma, but it was certainly more believable that Elena to come back from a temporary coma than that herself would come back to life.

-Hm… You're getting good at recognizing me. Apparently you learned how to do so, after you spent more than two weeks thinking i was your sweet little Elena. - Katherine showed a sarcastic smile, referring to the time she possessed Elena's body. But Damon didn't have the reaction Katherine was imagining - she actually expected him to react in any other way, not by looking completely unaware.

-Who the hell is Elena? -Damon said, looking confused. - But well, skip the small talk. What in God's name are you doing here alive?

-Nothing in God's name darling, that I swear. -she laughed. - I managed to allure death once more. - she gave a presumptuous smile.

- Care telling me how? It would be useful information trying to avoid you coming back from the dead next time I kill you. - Damon came closer smelling the sweet scent of human blood. Whatever she managed to do, didn't allow her to have her vampirism back.

- It intrigues me more to know why you asked me who Elena is.

- Well, because other than a psycho, you also sound crazy, Katherine. - he smiled sarcastically. Katherine was very confused about this whole not remembering Elena or pretending not to do so.

- Little mermaid seems to have fried your brains. -she finally said, figuring out what did happen.

- Since you managed to escape death, why are you here? In this middle of fucking nowhere? Far as I know, nobody acknowledges you being alive. Why aren't you enjoying European summer or whatsoever that you want?

- Put together 2 plus 2, Damon. I am here to see you.

- Don't you think that is a bit non-survivor of you? You are still a teenage human. And you come here? Directing yourself staigh into the lions mouth?

-Huh. -she laughed at his cockiness. - First of all, I am not scared of you.- and she emphasized the word "you" to make it clear that it wasn't gonna be him of all people that would scare the elusive Katherine Pierce. -Second of all, teenage traveller. But that again is something you would know If you remembered my last moments with Elena. -she smirked.

-What do you want with me than? Just tell me and get this over with.

- Damon. -she said changing the playful sarcastic tone of the conversation - or whatever that it always was between them both - to a serious one. - You need to get away from Sybil. Trust me on this.

- You came all the way from the other side to tell me something I already know? You're loosing your touch, Kitty Kat. As you should already know, is not exactly piece of cake getting away from her.

- I didn't came from the other side, I came straight from hell. You seem to be forgetting that you and Bon-Bon destroyed the Other Side. Now is either finding peace or well… perdition. And Sybil, Damon, she's literally a devil right from hell. If you don't fight this compulsion, she will sooner rather than later devour your soul. -Damon looked very chocked. Hell. He never heard of that. He didn't ever think it would be something so manichaean. Well, if a hell existed, his little nemesis definitely deserved a place there, to say the least.

- How is this an issue you should be concerned by again? - he said sarcastically. But he was also visibly concerned about what she just said. Again, he didn't know if any of it was true. With Katherine, it was impossible to know.

- Damon, just take care. She will ruin you. - and with that said, Katherine walked away from the bar and left Damon with a million unanswered questions running thru his head while he still smelled her perfume and the scent of her blood in the air. He would definitely need a drink.