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So now it's time for some Sarah / Katherine. Someone cue the evil, sinister music. This one is entirely about the two of them and what they're up to between 'The Return' and 'Brave New World'. It's all original stuff and will hopefully give you all a deeper insight into the relationship between Sarah and Katherine, as well as setting up their new dynamic. I'll throw a warning in here just for the sake of it, as some of it might be uncomfortable to read depending on your own personal experiences, so if you want to skip it, that's fine, I'll have a few lines in the next chapter explaining more or less everything you need to know from this chapter.

I'd also like to give you all a humongous thank you as the first story has just hit 100 favourites! Which is Fucking awesome! Thank you so much you guys, even those that haven't made it this far yet. Can't wait for all of you to catch up and join everyone else on the story as it progresses. Thanks also to those who have favourited and followed both stories since last time, and I hope you enjoy the first meeting, in over one hundred years, between Sarah and Katherine.

Chapter 3: Captive

The world was still a blur, but Sarah had a good idea of where she was. Still in Katherine's clutches. She had hoped it all been a bad dream, wished for it, begged for it. But it was true. She'd ran off half cocked and gotten herself trapped, which was exactly what Katherine had counted on. Yet again she'd fallen into Katherine's little game and moved precisely as she'd anticipated.

"Are you awake?" Sarah would have jumped if she'd had the strength, but she was completely drained. She could still feel the slices on her limbs healing from where Katherine had sliced her open, draining her of blood. Sarah did however have the strength to move her head but Katherine did that for her anyway, turning her head until she found herself face to face with the devil herself. And right there, was that smile. That wicked sinister, pure evil smile that turned Sarah's entire world into a vortex of pure hell.

"Miss me?" Katherine asked with a light giggle. "Who am I kidding, of course you did." Sarah tried to pull her head away but Katherine's grip was too firm and she was far too strong for Sarah to fight in her weakened state. She reached for something and Sarah half expected to feel the sharp sting of a knife in her side again. Instead Katherine held up a blood bag, a somewhat concerned look in her eyes. But Sarah knew better than to trust those eyes. Katherine was a master of deception, even with her eyes. There was nothing you could trust about her. Nothing.

"Here," she said in that sweet voice she'd once used on Sarah and her brothers a life time ago. Sarah's eyes moved down to the blood Katherine was offering her, the top of the bag ripped open and tilted towards her mouth. The smell filled her nostrils, making her tongue water. Only she couldn't reach for it. Her body was too close to decomposing and as long as Katherine had a hold on her, she wasn't going anywhere.

"Don't worry. I'll help you," Katherine said with a flutter of her eyelashes as she gently pushed the blood bag into the gap between Sarah's lips. With no warning, her tongue found itself, worming its way into the bag, allowing the blood to flow into her mouth. The taste was extraordinary, exhilarating, it was just what Sarah had been craving for what felt like days now. "There you go. Feel better now?" Sarah nodded as she drank, feeling the hot blood make its way down her throat and filling her with life once more.

"See, Sarah. I'm not all bad," Katherine said softly as she brushed Sarah's dirty hair out of her face, her hand lingering on Sarah's cheek. Sarah hardly even noticed, so focused on the blood she so desperately needed. But then the sensation left her mouth as Katherine slowly pulled the blood bag from her mouth. Oddly enough though, Sarah didn't mind. In fact she let Katherine pull the bag away and place it on the floor between them.

She found her eyes moving from the blood to Katherine and then up to her eyes. Those soft, comforting brown eyes that made her want to spill her guts out. No! What was she thinking? This wasn't her. Sarah hated Katherine, hated everything about her, especially those eyes. Those chocolaty brown eyes that made her remember what it had been like when she first met Katherine. The love they had had, the passion they had shared. But it was all a lie, it was Katherine's compulsion that had brought out those feelings. She was sure of it. Only…

Looking into those eyes now, maybe it wasn't so hard to believe that those feelings had been genuine. She knew this wasn't compulsion, vampires couldn't compel other vampires. Could these feeling be real? Had she been so wrong about Katherine this whole time? Before Sarah could answer any of her questions she found herself leaning towards Katherine, who leaned over to her. Sarah pulled her eyes from Katherine's and looked down to her lips, seeing them part as they got closer and closer to her own. She closed her eyes and let their lips connect, sparks flying inside of her. How had she ever been so wrong?

Suddenly shooting up right, Sarah's eyes shot open as she looked around the cave she was being held in. It took her all but a second to spot Katherine across the dark cave, her face lit up in pure glee with that sinister smirk that made Sarah feel so small. "What the hell?" Sarah gasped, having not felt so violated since she first met Katherine back before she and her family were vampires.

"Sweet dreams?" Katherine sniggered as she pushed off the cave wall and made her way over to Sarah, her heels clicking against the floor as she moved.

"More like a nightmare," Sarah muttered as she pushed herself against the wall, now sitting up and feeling her body tremble. She wasn't as hungry as she had been in the dream, but she was still hungry and in need of blood. She pulled her knees in and wrapped her arms around her legs, finding chains clamped around her wrists. Unfortunately the imprisonment part hadn't been fake.

"Come on, Sarah. We both know how you really feel," Katherine said with a smile as she knelt down, conveniently out of Sarah's reach.

"I hate you," Sarah snarled as she looked up.

"Now that's no way to talk to the woman who made you," Katherine said as she straightened up.

"You never made me," Sarah snarled as she stood up, shaking her shackles angrily as she tried to reach for Katherine only to be pulled back towards the cave wall. Katherine chuckled at her outburst, only making Sarah madder as she glared up at the she-devil.

"Fair enough," Katherine said with shrug as she pulled out a blood bag from behind her back. "But I could be the woman who feeds you. I just need one thing in return," Katherine said as she ripped open the blood bag before sucking out the contents inside. With longing eyes, Sarah watched the blood sway from inside the bag, her lips drying as she leaned forwards, mouth watering just like it had in the dream.

Pulling the bag away, Katherine then smirked as she tilted the bag over, letting half of what was left dribble onto the floor. Sarah shot forwards across the floor trying to grab some of the red puddle that was forming. But as usual, Katherine had somehow managed to calculate everything down to the letter and the puddle was just out of Sarah's reach, even when she stuck her tongue out like a dog desperate for water.

"Oh, poor, Sarah," Katherine said mocking as she knelt back down, smirking away as Sarah fought every fibre of her being and shoved herself back against the wall. No matter how hungry she was she wouldn't give Katherine the satisfaction of acting like a starving animal.

"What do you want?' Sarah whispered, breathing heavily as she fought her urges, ironically now getting a taste of what it was like to be Stefan.

"From you?" Katherine asked as she pointed the blood bag at Sarah. "Simple. I want you to turn your humanity off." Sarah's eyes widened. She was honestly surprised, she hadn't thought Katherine would ever want her to do something like that.

"Why?" Sarah asked in slow confusion as she frowned at the older vampire.

"I've seen what you're like without your humanity. I know that side of you would be a lot more willing to see things my." Sarah should have known. After everything Katherine had put them all through, of course she would have been keeping tabs on them. Nevertheless it still felt horrible to know that while she was running around without her humanity, Katherine had been admiring her. She knew why of course. When her humanity was off she didn't blame Katherine for anything, she thanked her for setting her free. She hated someone else entirely when her humanity was off and she could see why Katherine would prefer that version of her.

"Well I'm not turning my humanity off, no matter what you do to me," Sarah said spitefully as she looked away.

"Not that you could even if you wanted too." Sarah's head shot back to Katherine, eyes widening once more. "Gosh, Lexi really did lock away that side of you, didn't she," Katherine said with a gleeful smile as she sipped on the blood bag while Sarah continued to stare in shock.

"How could you… How could you possibly know about that?' Sarah asked.

"Like I said. I've been watching you. Though I must say, I'm glad that Lexi whore is dead." Sarah's shocked expression turned to an angry glare as her jaw clenched. "Too be honest, I was thinking of killing her myself anyway. Get her out of the way before she did the same to Stefan. But then I realised she was the only one other than you who knew how to unlock that side of you." Katherine leaned forwards, smirk present once more. "Not that it matters. You'll give me what I want sooner or later." Her mere confidence irritated Sarah to no end.

"You know Katherine, it must kill you to know that Lexi was more important to us than you ever were." Seeing Katherine's face drop, Sarah knew she'd hit a nerve and kept going without any intention of stopping. "She saved us, showed us more love than you ever did. She pulled us out of the dark pit you left us in and no matter what you do, what you say, nothing is ever going to change that. Lexi was our best friend and she will always mean more to me than you ever will, you good for nothing Bitch!"

At Sarah's cry Katherine lunged forwards, her hands clapping around Sarah's head as she dug her fingers deep into her scalp. Before Sarah knew what was happening she was falling backwards with Katherine on top of her, her mind flying into a whole other world. In the blink of an eye Sarah found herself in the same cave, only she was no longer chained up. She was free. A sharpened stake in hand. And knelt over the pined down Lexi who was beneath her.

Her breath caught in her lungs as she took in the situation. She knew it was wrong. This was Lexi. Someone who had always been there for her and her brother and even Damon on occasion. She'd done what she could to help bring the Salvatores back together and when she had died it had broken Sarah's heart. This situation was all wrong. It was another of Katherine's mind games. That was all it was, Sarah just had to force her out. She shut her eyes and tried to focus, but her mind wouldn't clear, thoughts racing around while her veins itched for blood, the need to scratch all over raising up as she tried to clam herself. It was no good, she was too hungry to focus.

"Come on, Sarah," Katherine whispered in her ear. Sarah's eyes flew open, air rushing into her. Her head didn't move from the horrified Lexi that was trapped beneath her. But out her peripheral she could see Katherine's demonic grin. "Do it for me," Katherine said in the same hushed tickling tone as she moved round to the other side. Sarah could feel her hands on her shoulders, as if she were a puppeteer. "Kill her."

It was like she was being compelled all over again. She tried to stop but she couldn't. She gripped the stake with both hands and lifted it up. Her body trembled with effort, trying to stop herself but Katherine was in control now. Like she'd always been. "Good," Katherine said slyly, pleased as she slithered over to the other side once more. "Now bring the stake down. Stab it into her heart. And kill her." Sarah kept trying to hold on but she couldn't. Her body wasn't listening to her and no matter how hard she tried the stake continued to lower. All she could do was stare into Lexi's trembling eyes as she silently begged for Sarah to stop.

"Please," Sarah whispered. She couldn't do this, couldn't lose one of her closest friends all over again. Couldn't kill her. Couldn't save her. Couldn't care less…NO! That was Katherine, in her head again, playing with her mind like she always did. She hated her. Hated that demon. With her stupid blonde hair and - "Stop it!" Sarah shouted in her mind, eyes close once more as she tried to stop.

"She turned you against me, Sarah. Remember how it was before she came along. You loved me," Katherine said, her lips so close to her ear she was practically kissing her. "She poisoned you, turned you into her play thing and stopped me from saving you. But that's over now. You're going to kill her and we can be together again. You, me, and those handsome brothers of yours."

"Yes," Sarah sighed, not understanding why but knowing it was right. That Katherine was right. Lexi had to die, it was the only way. Giving in, Sarah let her hands fall and watched as the stake plunged into Lexi's heart. She gasped in one last breath of pain, and then the life left her eyes, as her once youthful looks turned dark and cold.

"That's my girl," Katherine said proudly as Sarah caught her breath. "Now…come here." Feeling Katherine tugging at her shoulders, Sarah turned willingly to face Katherine. The ancient vampire smiled sweetly back at her, brushing Sarah's long raven hair from her face before touching her check tenderly. A smirk formed on her lips as she leaned in. Sarah didn't fight it. She just waited patiently as Katherine's lips pressed against hers.

"Stop it!" Sarah cried out as she flung forwards, finding herself back in the cave once more. The chains digging into her skin as she used that pain like a tether to pull herself back from the nightmare. Once again, Katherine was in front of her, just out of reach, smiling away pleasantly. With the raise of her chest, she let out a dramatic sigh and then chuckle of amusement.

"You're definitely more fun than your brothers," Katherine said, brushing a lock of her brunette hair from her face as she continued to smile away at her prisoner. "But I guess I shouldn't play favourites," she said as she stood, a disappointed sigh floating from her lips before a smirk formed. "Here you go." A 'clang' followed as Sarah's eyes shot to the floor where a key lay nearby. "It's for your chains. Figured I've spent as much time with you as I did with your brothers. Don't want them getting angry now do we?" Sarah didn't bother with a response. She lunged for the key, trapping it beneath her in case Katherine suddenly tried to take it back. When the vampire's heels shoes didn't move, Sarah retrieved the key from beneath her and quickly undid the locks.

But even after all the chains were gone, she still remained sat against the wall. Rubbing her bruised wrists in an attempt to get the healing process started. She looked up nervously at the woman who'd turned her and waited for her to say something. She didn't. Very un-Katherine like. Instead she just stood, smiling away as she gestured to the caves exit. The white light at the end of a tunnel.

Sarah stood suddenly, but made no move to run. She just waited for Katherine to react. But still she didn't budge. Smiling that tactical little smile of hers, like she already had the next ten moves planned out. Sarah looked over to the exit, no trap insight, but that was the first sigh of a good trap. Her eyes moved back to Katherine. She advanced, coming to a stop before the older vampire. If she was free to go then there was no harm in asking some questions. She needed to know what was going on, make all this worth something inside her head, so she didn't feel like a complete idiot for getting captured by Katherine.

"Why?" Sarah demanded.

"'Why', what?" Katherine replied, playing dumb.

"Why are you doing this? Why are you messing with my head and keeping me here?"

"You're free to go," Katherine said, waving a manicured hand at the cave's exit.

"Stop with the games and just answer the question!" Sarah snapped, her fists clenching. She couldn't afford to lose it. She needed to stay in control. She was weak and needed blood and a fight with Katherine in this state was only going to end one way. With her back in Katherine's hands. "Why did you do all this to me?" Sarah asked, feeling a like a small child in the presence of Katherine.

"Because I still care about you Sarah," Katherine said as she reached forward with a finger, running it along Sarah's collar bone. She flinched, stepping back and Katherine smirked, holding her finger up like it was all she needed in the world. "You and I, we had something special. Something your brothers and I never got, something you can't have with either of them." She placed her hands on her hips and began walking towards Sarah, and with each step Sarah matched it by taking one back. "Sure. I love Stefan. And you love them both. But what you and I have-" Suddenly Katherine's arm swung forward and her hand got behind Sarah's neck, pulling her towards her. Sarah yelped but remained still as Katherine held her face inches from her own. All Sarah could see were Katherine's brown eyes and the soft delicate features that surrounded them. "-Something so much better."

"I…I…I don't know what you-you're talking about," Sarah stammered out, feeling her body tremble beneath Katherine's heated stare.

"Don't lie to yourself, Sarah," Katherine said as she ran her hand down Sarah's cheek. "You can't deny that feeling inside of you. That craving you have. I have it too. That need for something other, than a man." A sincere timid smile formed on her lips as her doe eyes captured her soul. "I'm on your side. I know you better than anyone, even those brothers of yours. You want family, you'll get nothing better than me." She gently lay Sarah's back against the cave wall and leaned in ever so slightly as she held her with one hand while other caressed the young vampire's cheek. "Don't run from it anymore, Sarah. Embrace it. Embrace it with me."

She didn't force herself on Sarah this time. She merely closed her eyes and waited. Sarah was ready to leave. But she couldn't deny what Katherine was saying. There was a part of her that had always feared being intimate with the same sex, ever since Katherine had her way with her. But now that Katherine was laying it all out on the table, Sarah couldn't deny there was part of her that wanted this. Then before she knew it, her lips were on Katherine's for a second before she leaned back. Katherine's eyes opened and she looked stunned that Sarah had kissed her. Sarah felt her cheeks heat with blush as she waited for Katherine to react.

She laughed. Not that devilish laugh Sarah knew, but a light hearted caring laugh. "Wow," Katherine said in genuine amazement. "That was…"

"Nice," Sarah finished, with a timid smile.

"Yeah…nice," Katherine agreed, before Sarah leaned in to do it again. Only this time when Katherine tried to pull back, Sarah grabbed her head and pulled her back in for more. Katherine's laugh sent shivers through Sarah as she smiled into the kiss. Before she knew it she and her mortal enemy were full on making out and their hands were all over each other. "Wow, it's almost too easy," Katherine chuckled suddenly. Only it hadn't been Katherine that spoke, Sarah was too busy kissing to let her speak. But the voice had come from somewhere. Then it clicked and Sarah opened her eyes once more to find Katherine leaning against the cave wall across from her. That ever present smirk on her lips. "You were really getting into that time," Katherine teased as she twirled her hair around her finger in delight.

"Why are you doing this to me?! What do you want?!" Sarah cried out, pulling at her chains as a familiar burning sensation hit her wrists and ankles. The chains once again digging into her flesh. She cringed in pain and before she knew it she was crying. Apparently she had been for a while now. She could feel her cheeks burning with each tear that passed over them, leaving a sting before they dropped to the cave's floor.

"Well, besides you and your brother," Katherine said pointedly before recomposing herself. "I'd also like your help with something."

"No!" Sarah snapped. "Whatever you want, it's no. I will never help you after everything you've done to me and my family!"

"Yeah, kinda figured you'd say that," Katherine admitted dryly with a tilt of the head. Then she began to smirk, her plan now playing out as she undoubtedly planned. "That's why I'm going to give you a good old fashioned ultimatum," Katherine said as she took a few steps towards her captive, while remaining out of reach. "Do as I say. Or I kill Damon," Katherine said, crazed excitement flashing through her eyes.

"You're lying," Sarah declared as she sat back against the wall, letting her hands rest on her lap. "You loved all of us you psychotic-"

"Nuh-uh," Katherine cut in before Sarah could finish, wagging her finger back and forth with a thoughtful smile. "I never said I loved you all. I love you and Stefan. I could careless about Damon. He was just another of my plays things, which I quickly grew bored off after I realised how much of a problem he was," Katherine explained with a roll of the eyes. Sarah frowned at her last remark. In what way was her eldest brother a problem for her. "Thus," Katherine said more cheerfully, "I can, and will, kill Damon, if you don't do as I say." From behind her, Katherine the brought out a stake she'd been hiding. Sarah backed up at that, curling in on herself as she pressed her back into the jagged wall. "Relax, Sarah," Katherine said with an innocent look as she began twirling the stake back and forth in her hand. "It's not for you, it's for Damon. But whether I use it or not is all up to you."

Sarah lowered her gaze. "What do you want me to do?" Katherine smiled at that.

"Not much," the she-devil answered with a shrug. "Just a second opinion on my Elena acting. Figured you'd be good for that consider you went into the theatre for a couple of years. You were great in the Sound of Music by the way." A pause as Katherine grinned at Sarah who only glared back. "And I could also use someone to spy on those friends of yours. Keep me up to date on all the drama and anything else I might need to know," Katherine said with chuckle. "So…?"

"Like I said," Sarah began as she met Katherine's questioning look. "I will never help you."

Katherine's face dropped to a moody frown and she sighed. Then with a shrug she titled her head to the side. "Oh, well. Don't say I didn't try and warn you," Katherine said as she raised her hands before then heading for the cave exit. Stake in hand. Sarah hated it, but all she could do was watch her go, leaving her trapped in the cave. A few seconds after Katherine had vanished into the night, Sarah began pulling at her chains, trying to find a weakness that she could exploit to escape and get back to her brothers.

A few minutes of tugging at her restraints passed and then cried out in frustration, realising her chances of getting out were none existent. "Sarah?" The vampire lifted her head at the familiar voice that called out her name. "Sarah, you in there?" It was Damon.

"Damon! Damon, in here!" Sarah cried out in joy as her brother came running into the cave. He took one look at Sarah and then ran over, dropping down next to her.

"Sarah, thank god," Damon said as he quickly checked her over.

"How did you find me?" Sarah asked as Damon moved onto her chains, pulling at them in an attempt to break them with his own vampire strength. He'd have a much better chance anyway, seeing as he was full of blood unlike Sarah.

"We've been looking all over town. I got lucky. Saw Katherine leaving this hole and figured you might be in here," Damon said as he pulled at the chains, desperately trying to get his sister free. "And don't think I'm not mad at you. Running off to kill Katherine without me, that hurts, Sis," Damon said with a smirk. "We'll be having a serious talk once I get you out of…" Suddenly his voice got caught in his throat, as if he was choking and his eyes widened in horror. Sarah didn't understand.

"Damon?" she asked before she spotted the grey views growing out for beneath his shirt collar. "No…" Sarah trembled as her brother's skin began to decay, turning a lifeless grey as he collapsed next to her, stake in his back…and right through his heart. His cold blue eyes turning the same lifeless grey as his skin. "NOOOO!" Sarah screamed as she fell down next to her brother, shaking his shoulders as she tried to get him to respond. He couldn't be dead. She refused to accept it. Not after everything they'd been through. He couldn't just die like this.

She looked up to see Katherine standing over her and her brother's body. That sinister gleeful smile of hers present once more. She shrugged, as if it was all out of her hands and Sarah cried. She turned back to hold her brother's body but found it was now gone. She was still crying, too far along in the process to stop but she was still sane enough to question what had happened. Then she looked back and found Katherine no longer stood up but sat down next to her. Back against the wall with a victorious grin on her face. It had all be another dream devised by Katherine. All of it, everything had been Katherine playing with her. She was hungry, but not as hungry or as weak as Katherine had made her feel. Sarah couldn't even tell if this was real, right now. She was losing her mind all over again and it was all because of the devil sat next to her. Katherine might have lost the ability to compile her, but she could still enter her mind and play with that. Just how strong was she?

"Let's try this again," Katherine said sweetly, tilting her head as her brunette locks drifted to the side. "Are you going to help me, yes or no?" Sarah stared back at her in terror. After all this, everything she'd just been put through it was still about her, about doing whatever Katherine wanted. All that talk of love it had been a lie, just buttering her up before getting down to the cold hard business of it all. She wanted to use Sarah, just like she had before. And even now, even when Sarah was a vampire, Katherine still had the advantage, she still held all the cards.

"I want an answer, Sarah," Katherine sang out as she ran her finger across Sarah's leg, drumming them against her skin. "Better answer quickly or I'll have to kill Damon, all, over, again." It was like water of a ducks back for her. Damon's life meant nothing. All that matter was what she wanted, and Sarah had no choice but to give it to her. It was just like before. Put up with her and do as she was told until Katherine got bored of her and her family and left, leaving nothing but destruction in her wake. But Sarah had no chance against her. After everything Katherine had just put her through she knew that. She couldn't win against the devil.

"Alright…you win," Sarah said in defeat as her head dropped forwards. "I'll do whatever you want."

"That's what I like to hear," Katherine said with a growing smile as she leaned over towards Sarah.

"Just, please, don't kill my family," Sarah begged as she lifted her trembling forest green eyes to meet the doe like brown ones of Katherine.

"Oh, Sarah," the vampire chuckled. "I don't want to kill your family. Oh, no." Sarah's heart stopped when she saw the cunning smirk that sent her all the way back to 1864, when she was human and Katherine was her master. The words still sounded the same, even after all those years. Still had the same demonic meaning behind them and still gripped Sarah's very soul with terrifying claws. "The plans I have for you and your family." And just like before Sarah was captivated, unable to look away from Katherine as she smiled. She'd already won again.