Here we go, with another chapter! Hope you like it! I know some people weren't exactly happy with how the last chapter ended but it was necessary. Hope this chapter will make up for it. One last thing, before I leave you to it, since some people pointed out, rightly, that werevolves can't be compelled, I changed my plans about Mason and changed chapter1 accordingly. In fact, I know exactly how I'm going to finish this story and I'm also planning a sequel. Can't tell you about what though because it would reveal too much about how this story will end. Anyway, read and review, tell me what you think!

Chapter 4

Kate left very early the next morning, leaving Damon a vague note about having plans for the day. To be honest, she needed to put some distance between her and Damon after what had happened the night before. She was still extremely pissed and hurt and she couldn't allow herself any distractions caused by hurt feelings at the moment. She needed to put the first phase of the 'getting rid of Klaus once and for all' plan in motion.

Thanks to her knowledge of the TV show and all 500 years of Katherine's memories, she knew exactly what she needed to do. Or at least, she had various options in mind and hopefully one of those would finally work in her favor. It wasn't going to be easy, dealing with the threat that Klaus represented and, unfortunately, some parts of the plan had many variables that could cause very dangerous consequences for her and the ones she loved. Still, she needed to start acting now and deal with those consequences as they came.

The first order of business was contacting Lucy and then, she would deal with Mason Lockwood in a way that would hopefully convince him to fight on her side instead of going against her. She knew that telling Mason the truth (or at least, most of the truth) was dangerous, who knew how he would react? Still, she felt bad about what she had done to him, the way she had manipulated him, so she hoped that this would make up for what she had done. If worse came to worse, she would offer Mason to Klaus as the sacrifice or she would have to kill him herself but she hoped it would not come to that.

"Hey Kat!" Lucy's voice came from the other line of the phone.

"Hey Lucy! So, I need a favor. Can we meet?"

"Sure. Tell me where and I'll come to you."

The two of them met at Mrs. Flowers' bed and breakfast and immediately embraced. Though she knew that, at first, Lucy had worked for her because she owned Katherine a life debt, she hoped that they had become actual friends in the years they had known each other. Lucy knew about Klaus and the curse and, as long as Katherine stayed away from any Bennett witches, she knew the two of them would get along.

"So, what do you need?"

Kat explained what she had in mind and watched a frown marring Lucy's beautiful face.

"Do you think it's a good idea?"

Kat shrugged. "Maybe not. But I think it would be good to have him on our side, for real. I'm hoping that telling him almost the whole truth and offering him what I have in mind, would sweeten the deal. So, do you think you can pull it off?"

"Yeah, sure. I mean, it has never been done before but thanks to the Grimoires you collected during the years, a few modifications to the daylight ring spell, the black kyanite and the full moon. Yes, I'm rather certain I can do it."

Kate smiled at her. "Perfect. I knew I could count on you Lucy. You're a lifesaver."

Lucy smiled back at her. "I like to think we're friends, Kat. You know there's nothing I wouldn't do for you, as long as…"

"As long as it doesn't hurt your family. Yes, of course I know. I would never hurt a Bennett witch. Emily Bennett was my best friend. I only wish I could have saved her…"

Lucy sighed. "I know. But you had to disappear. I don't blame you for that." Then she added, a little reluctantly. "Are you really sure about this? Giving Mason a way to control the transformation would pose a risk for you and all your vampire friends every day as opposed to only the three nights of the full moon. It's very dangerous."

"I know. But as long as I can get Dr Maxfield to…cooperate, he will have a cure for the werewolf venom in no time."

"Yes, but all your plans are based on Mason allowing Maxfield to take the venom from him. What if he doesn't allow it?"

"I'm going to offer him the only way a werewolf can control his transformation and, of course, he's not going to get it until he does what I want. I'm many things, Lucy, but I'm not stupid."

Lucy laughed. "Oh, I know. You're probably the smartest person I've ever met."

"Still, just to be on the safe side, I'll wait to talk to Mason after the full moon for this month passes, hopefully I will have the moonstone by then. Just in case he gets any ideas about biting me because he's furious with me. In the meantime, I'm going to visit a certain professor at Whitmore." Kat and Lucy shared a smirk. "I'm going to enjoy this."

"What about the…other thing? Have you thought about how are you going to get it?" Lucy asked then.

Kat sighed again. "It's not going to be easy but what other choice do I have? I can't wake Silas and bring about the apocalypse, that would defeat the purpose of me getting rid of Klaus if I end up dying because of Silas, right? And anyway, the whole process to get it is so convoluted. The easiest way to get it is through one of the two prison worlds and it just so happens that I know the person who has the ascendant for the 1994 prison world. Once I get it, we'll go to Nova Scotia, you'll open the portal or whatever is called, I'll go, take cure and then you'll get me out. Can I trust you with this? A great part of my plan is based on the fact that I'm counting on you so, can I?"

"Of course. I won't let you down, Kat, I promise."

Kat smiled at her. "I know you won't. Thank you, Lucy, I don't know what I would do without you."

"What about Elijah? Have you thought about what are you going to do about him?"

Kat shook her head and rolled her eyes. "Elijah is a wild card. But right now is not the time to worry about him. I'll deal with him when he shows up. As much as he says he's a man of his word, when it comes to his crazy family…Anyway, thinking about him still hurts and, to be honest, I'm already dealing with Damon's hatred towards me, I don't want to add any more emotional baggage to my already full plate. I still have to tell Damon and Stefan the truth and that is a conversation I'm definitely not looking forward to. For now, let's focus on the things I can control and deal with the rest later, okay?"

Lucy nodded and then they parted ways, Lucy to wherever she was staying and Katherine towards Whitmore College to kidnap a certain professor. Though she couldn't kill him for now, the rest of the Augustines were fair game. After what they had done to Damon, they deserved this and worse.

Damon woke up that morning feeling like absolute shit. Thinking about the night before filled him with shame and that was a feeling he had no idea how to deal with. It wasn't his thing to regret his actions, or at least, once he screwed up, he would usually figure there was no point in dwelling on it so he would just try to forget about it. Hating himself for the bad things he did was his brother's thing, not his and yet…and yet. Saying sorry and making amends would mean letting go of his pride but he didn't know he could do that since his pride was pretty much the only thing he had left at the moment.

What had happened yesterday wasn't planned. In fact, he'd have preferred avoiding Katherine's room altogether but the temptation of having her there, only a few doors distance away from him, it was just too much. He had missed her so damn much and the power she had over him was still too strong to just ignore her. And that had made him furious. So furious in fact that he hadn't even realized what he was doing. He just knew that he wanted her and that he was angry at her because of it so he needed to punish her, make her feel like nothing, just like she had done with him. But he had taken things too far, even he could admit that. She didn't deserve that, no matter how much hurt she had put him through in the past.

He still didn't know if he could trust her, of course, but that didn't justify what he did. The problem was that, when it came to her, it was impossible to see things objectively. How could he trust his own judgment when it came to Katherine Pierce? He had been wrong before, or at least, he had thought he was wrong but then, maybe he hadn't been after all. Katherine kept repeating that she loved him but could he really believe her? What if it was just another one of her games? Katherine loved to play games so who could tell really if she was finally being sincere for once or if this was just another one of her lies? What was her endgame here? What did she want? Why was she back? Was Stefan right? Was Katherine here just to mess with them? Or was Katherine telling the truth, that there was an explanation for everything? Damon didn't know what to think and these doubts were driving him absolutely mad. He didn't know what to do. And most of all, he didn't know how he could face her again after what he had done.

He got up from the bed he was lying on and focused his hearing on the rest of the house. But there was no heartbeat except for his own. Neither Stefan, nor Elena, and least of all, Katherine was here. Damon sighed in relief, grateful he didn't have to face her just now though he worried what she could been up to so early in the morning.

After a shower and a few blood bags for breakfast, he went to pour himself a glass of bourbon and that's where he saw it, a note, in Katherine's elegant handwriting.

I've got stuff to do today. Don't wait for me. I will see you and Stefan and Elena tonight. We still need to talk. -K

Damon sighed. No mention of what had happened yesterday but the note seemed cold, impersonal and that was all the proof Damon needed that Kat wasn't over what he had done. He wondered if she was going to bring it up the next time they saw each other or if she would behave differently with him now. And how was he going to behave towards her now?

God, what the hell was wrong with him? He was Damon fucking Salvatore. He didn't do awkward or uncertain. Why was Katherine the only woman in the world who could twist him up in nodes like this?

He gulped the bourbon in one swallow and poured himself another glass. It wasn't even noon but what the hell, vampires never stayed drunk for long. He would be fine in half an hour, more than enough time to sober up for when he would meet Carol at the Lockwood Mansion. Maybe he could figure out what the deal was with that family. At least it would work as a distraction for the day.

Damon was in the sitting room of the Lockwood Mansion with Carol.

"So, I understand John Gilbert has left town. Have they found the vampire that attacked him?"

Damon almost smirked at the question but managed to keep his face neutral. "Well, the sheriff has asked me to take the lead on that and I promise you I will get to the bottom of it."

"Which brings me to my next subject. With Richard gone, I'll be acting as interim mayor until the elections and I'm going to need someone to spearhead out the council. I'd like that person to be you."

Damon put on his best responsible and honored look he could master. "Whatever you need Carol. As a founding family member it's something that's very close to me so I would be honored to help keep this town safe from vampires."

Tyler Lockwood and his uncle Mason entered the house just then. Carol got up and closed the door of the living room, effectively cutting them out.

"Is it safe to talk?" Damon asked with false concern.

"It's my brother-in-law, Mason. He's still visiting. I just don't want him to hear us. He didn't want any part of the council when he lived here and I see no reason to bring him into it now."

Damon started listening into their conversation while keeping an ear out for what Carol was saying.

"What was that? Like seven?" Tyler was saying.

"Six. I don't count the last one. You crawled it." Mason answered.

"What?"

"I think Grandma Lockwood actually passed you, in her walker."

"Yeah, okay. Shoes off. Mud...my mom..."

"Yeah, yeah." Mason presumably took off his shoes. "So all this anger and aggression you're talking about, you notice a difference when you exercise?"

"Dude, I play three varsity sports. I work out four times a week and run three. I'm gonna say no."

"Do you have episodes? What happens exactly?"

"Starts out normal, I get angry typically over nothing. I'm an angry guy. I know it just amplifies and I just go off."

"You black out?"

"Yeah, it's like I go blind with rage."

"Is there a pattern? Like once a month, only at night?"

"All I know is I lose myself, you know? For that time I become something else and I hate it."

"More tea?" Carol asked, bringing Damon back to the present. "Damon?"

"Oh yes, please. Thank you Carol."

Damon was pouring a blood bag inside a glass when Stefan arrived.

"Care for one?" Damon immediately goaded him.

"No, thank you. I'm not hungry, just ate."

Damon almost snorted at Stefan's response. Of course he was hungry, vampires were always hungry, especially those who only drank animal blood.

"Are you worried that one day, all the forest animals are gonna band together and fight back? I mean, surely they talk."

Stefan rolled his eyes. "I'm just happy that's a blood bag and not a sorority girl supplying your dinner."

Damon smirked. "I like this. You, walking on eggs shells around me because you think I'm gonna explode. Very suspenseful. Is Elena worried too? I bet I'm your every conversation."

"Have you heard from Katherine?"

Damon ignored his question. "I think the Lockwoods have a family secret because the Gilbert device affected them but vervain didn't so they're not vampires, they're something else."

"Is this your new obsession?"

"You'd rather some unknown supernatural element running rampant upon our town. Fine, I'll drop it."

"We haven't seen the last of Katherine, you do know that right? We have no idea what she's up to."

"Yeah, about that." Damon finally decided to fess up. "She was here yesterday."

"What? What did she want? What did she do?"

"Well, I decided to play the same game you did. You know, trying to see if I could…persuade her…to tell me what she was up to…"

"And…?"

"And she said something about Klaus and the Original Family, the very first vampires. From what she said, Klaus is apparently after her, had been for 500 years, since she became a vampire but she didn't go into any specifics. She said she's going to explain everything to us and Elena tonight."

"Wait. Klaus, Klaus? Is he real? And you believe her?" Stefan asked, part skeptical and part intrigued.

Damon shrugged. "She's Katherine. Can we really, ever, believe her words? I don't know what to think. But we should, at least, hear her out, no? What do we have to lose?"

Stefan nodded and asked, "And where is she now?"

"How should I know? I'm not her keeper. She will show up when she wants to. That's what she does. She comes and goes as she pleases and brings chaos wherever she passes."

Damon had decided to show up at the Carnival for want of anything better to do. Mostly so he could keep an eye on Mason and Tyler Lockwood.

He watched with boredom as Tyler arm-wrestled in a competition in one of the carnival stands.

"You're lurking." Stefan said from behind him before coming to stand next to him.

"I'm observing." Damon said.

"More like obsessing."

Tyler won the match and Damon frowned. "He's got strength."

Stefan looked uninterested. "He's a triple letter varsity athlete, of course he has strength. You're reaching."

Mason arrived in that moment to challenge Tyler. "I bet I can take you."

"Enter the uncle." Damon commented.

"That's ridiculous." Stefan said.

Mason beat Tyler.

"Okay, he's the champ, who wants to go next?" Tyler said to the small crowd around him.

"Stefan wants to go." Damon immediately proposed.

"Yeah, sure, I'll...give it a shot." Stefan said, resignation clear in his voice.

Stefan joined Mason.

"Get him Stef!" Damon cheered with fake enthusiasm.

"My brother over there thinks I can beat you." Damon heard Stefan saying to Mason.

"Your brother's wrong." Mason replied.

They started wrestling, both putting in hard pressure. Mason beat him after a few minutes and Stefan went to rejoin Damon.

"You didn't put in any effort at all." Damon said angrily.

Stefan frowned in suspicion. "Yeah, actually I did."

Damon widened his eyes in surprise before saying "Come with me."

Damon and Stefan went in the hallway, away from prying eyes and hears.

"Is he...?" Damon asked.

Stefan shook his head. "No, no, it wasn't that kind of strength but it was more than human, if that makes any sense."

"What is up with that family? They're not vampires, what the hell are they?"

"Ooh, ah, maybe they're, um, ninja turtles!"

Damon frowned at Stefan's bad joke. "You're not funny."

"Or no, zombies, werewolves."

Damon rolled his eyes. "No comedic timing at all."

Damon turned his head and saw a boy repairing something. Stefan followed his gaze and immediately asked Damon, "What are you up to?"

"This is reality and there's no such thing as werewolves or...combat turtles."

"I said ninja turtles, actually."

Damon ignored Stefan's words and went towards the guy. "Hey you!"

"I have a name." The guy said.

"Yeah I don't care." Damon caught his shoulder to keep him immobile and compelled him. "I need you to pick a fight with someone, a kid named Tyler Lockwood."

"Damon, don't do this." Stefan intervened, joining Damon's side.

Damon turned towards Stefan and shooed him away with his hand. "It's just an experiment." Then he turned toward the guy and kept compelling him. "Get him mad, don't back down no matter what he does, okay?"

"I won't back down." The guy said, eyes blank.

Damon smirked. "I know you won't." And with that he released him and pat him on the back before the guy left.

"Do you realize someone is going to get hurt right?" Stefan asked him.

"No, someone is going to get mad, as in rage."

"What's that going to accomplish?"

"That Tyler kid is incapable of walking away from a fight. Let's see who intervenes; maybe it's the ambiguous, supernatural mystery uncle."

A little while later Damon was walking alone in the school hallway when Caroline arrived. Damon sensed her, stopped and turned around to face her.

"Hey Blondie, they let you out?"

Caroline glared at him. "I remember."

"What do you remember?"

"I remember how you manipulated me, you pushed me around, abused me, erased my memories, fed on me."

Damon was taken aback. "You're crazy."

"Memories have been coming back, in pieces."

"You can't remember. It's impossible, I mean unless you're becoming a..."

Caroline smiled at him, it wasn't a pleasant smile. "I have a message for Katherine. Tell her that Aurora wants the moonstone. If Katherine doesn't give it to her, the next time she kills someone, it would be you."

Damon looked at her, confused. "Wait…" Damon tried to stop Caroline from leaving but Caroline pushed him away with strength and he was thrown backwards and slid on the floor.

"You suck." Caroline said to him before walking away.

Elena was talking to one of her classmates when Damon approached her. "Elena."

"Yeah?" Elena noticed immediately Damon's worried look. "What's wrong?"

"I need you to come with me, right now." Damon ordered without giving her any explanation.

Elena frowned. "Damon…has something happened?"

"Come with me and I'll explain." Elena sighed and followed him, wondering when did exactly this become her life. Why couldn't she have just one day to be normal? Just one?

"How did this happen?" Stefan asked. They were inside one of the many empty classes inside the school.

Damon shrugged. "Well, I fed her my blood and someone killed her in the hospital and A plus B equals…"

"But why? And who would do this?" Elena asked.

"Caroline said that she had a message for Katherine from someone named Aurora. Who that is…I have no clue."

"And this Aurora killed Caroline only to send a message to Katherine?" Elena asked, appalled.

"Yup. She wants the moonstone, whatever that is." Damon explained.

"We need to talk to Katherine." Stefan said.

"Yeah, I know. If only I knew how to contact her. It's not like she left me her phone number." Damon said sarcastically before wondering, "Does she even use a phone?"

"Why choose Caroline though? Katherine doesn't even care about Caroline, she doesn't even know her."

"I don't know." Damon said, wondering the same thing.

"Caroline must be completely out of her mind, she doesn't even know what's happening to her." Stefan said then.

"Oh, I think she does." Damon explained. "All of my compulsion from the past started wearing off the minute she was in transition."

"We have to find her." Stefan said.

"Yep, and kill her."

Elena glared at Damon. "You're not gonna kill Caroline."

Damon turned to look at her. "She knows who we are. She's officially a liability, and we've got to get rid of her."

"Damon, absolutely not."

Damon rolled his eyes at his brother. "Need I remind you of a tragic little story of a girl named Vicki Donovan? Caroline, of all people, will not make it as a vampire. Her mother is a vampire hunter. Guys come on, we all know how this story's gonna end, just flip to the last chapter and..."

Elena crossed her arms against her chest in stubbornness. "It's not an option Damon."

"No? Your silence is deafening, Stefan. Wait, wasn't there a school carnival the night you staked Vicki? I never had a town where history repeats itself. You know I'm right."

"We're not gonna kill her." Stefan said to his brother but he didn't look too sure of his own words. Stefan left the room and Elena followed him.

"It's the only way." Damon said before Elena was out of the room. Elena kept walking, ignoring his words. Damon sighed and went looking for Caroline.

Damon smelled blood and heard Caroline crying. He sped up to where she was. Caroline had blood all over her face and there was a body on the ground. Ironically it was the body of the guy Damon had compelled to pick a fight with Tyler Lockwood.

"He's dead. I killed him. What's wrong with me?" Caroline asked him between tears.

Damon approached her and said in a way that he was hoping was comforting, "Hey, hey it's okay. I can help you."

"You can?"

Damon looked at Caroline's trusting face and felt a pang of guilt. "Yeah, I have to."

"What are you gonna do?"

"The only thing I can do. I'm gonna kill you."

Caroline started crying even more in fear. "Please don't! I don't want to die!"

"Yeah, but you are already dead."

"No! I'm not. Don't say that, okay? Just help me!"

"Okay."

"Okay? Just help me please! Please, please!"

"Okay, okay. It's the only way."

Damon hugged Caroline to his chest and raised his right arm in the air, holding a piece of wood that would work as a stake in his hand. Before he could stake her though Stefan arrived and rushed towards him, pulling his hand away. The stake fell to the ground. "Stefan!" Damon shouted, angry at his brother.

Elena stood in front of Caroline, wanting to comfort her but not knowing what to do. Caroline looked distraught like Elena had never seen her.

"Stefan, we've got to get her inside."

"It's okay Caroline, come with me." Stefan approached Caroline cautiously and said to her.

"She will die, it's only a matter of time." Damon called out to his brother.

Stefan barely turned around to look at him. "Yeah, maybe so, but it's not gonna happen tonight."

"Oh, yeah it is." Damon said menacingly before using vampire speed to appear in front of Caroline. He picked up the stake and rushed towards them but Elena put herself in front of Caroline. Damon stopped his hand just in time.

"Damon, she's my friend." Elena pleaded with him.

Damon grabbed the stake tighter in his hand but didn't made any other move. Elena refused to move and Damon sighed before dropping his arm.

"Whatever happens, it's on you." Elena nodded and made to follow Stefan and Caroline when two people arrived at the same time, from two opposite directions.

One was her best friend Bonnie and the other…Elena gasped, seeing Katherine for the first time. Bonnie was right. It was like looking at her reflection in the mirror, it was creepy.

Katherine moved to stand near Damon, tilting her head to the side and looking around her. "So, what did I miss?" She smirked but nobody answered her question.

"Caroline?" Bonnie asked, confused about what was going on.

Stefan tried to shield Caroline from Bonnie's gaze. "It's okay, come on."

In that moment Bonnie saw the blood on Caroline's face. "No, you're not! you can't be." Bonnie touched Caroline's hand and she was horrified by the truth.

"Bonnie?" Caroline asked in a tiny voice.

Bonnie noticed Carter's body in that moment. "Oh god!"

"Bonnie…" Caroline pleaded but Bonnie refused to look at her. Stefan took Caroline away and that left Elena, Bonnie, Katherine and Damon.

Katherine looked at her doppelganger. "Hello Elena. It's nice to finally meet you."

Elena looked at her, blinking at few times, not exactly sure what to say to her. "How do we look exactly alike?" It was all she managed to say.

Katherine shrugged. "It would be too long to explain right now. How about we go to the Boarding House as soon as Stefan is done with Caroline and we all talk, huh?"

Elena nodded, still dazed. Damon refused to look at Katherine and Katherine ignored him for the moment.

Damon left for a moment to retrieve a shovel from the trunk of his car but Katherine didn't follow him. To be honest, she wasn't looking forward to stay alone with Damon right now. Though she loved him, what he had done to her…well, it was still a lot to process. She needed a little time to get over it. The humiliation and hurt was still too recent, too fresh in her mind.

Bonnie turned to look at her then and the hatred in her eyes surprised her.

"You! This is your fault! You and Damon's!" Bonnie spat at her.

Katherine raised her hands in the air. "Yeah, I haven't done this so, how about you just calm down, okay?"

Bonnie didn't listen to her. Instead she started to do that witchy migraine thing again. Katherine rolled her eyes, ignoring the pain. "I told you already. You will have to do better than that if you want to take me out."

Damon arrived in that moment, shovel in hand. He looked at Bonnie and Katherine alternatively, wondering what was going on.

In that moment Bonnie's attention turned to Damon. Damon fell on the ground and clutched his head in pain.

Katherine snarled at the witch. "Oh no, you don't!" Katherine sped in front of Damon, blocking Bonnie's visual of him. Damon groaned in relief but Bonnie wasn't done.

Using her powers, Bonnie opened a faucet and water immediately started to come out of a hose.

"I told you what would happen if anyone else got hurt." Bonnie said to Damon, still concentrating on the water.

"I didn't do this." Damon said to her.

"Bonnie, it wasn't his fault." Elena intervened. "Either of them."

"Everything that happens is their fault Elena."

"Bonnie, what are you doing?"

Bonnie didn't answer but the water soon turned to fire and it was headed directly towards them. Katherine acted immediately, picking Damon from the ground and sped away from the line of fire, literally.

She brought him to his car but left immediately, returning to where Bonnie and Elena were. She sped in front of Bonnie and grabbed her shoulders, hard. Bonnie cried out in pain and Elena screamed at Katherine to let her go but Katherine ignored them both.

"Listen to me, witch and pay attention. The only reason I don't kill you tonight is because a friend of mine is a Bennet witch and because Emily Bennet was my best friend, and that means something to me. But the next time you pull something like this again, actually the next time you look at Damon the wrong way, I won't be so forgiving…do you understand?"

When Bonnie didn't answer, Katherine shook her hard. "I said, do you understand?"

Bonnie nodded and Katherine let her go. "Good." She smiled at her sweetly and Bonnie whimpered in fear.

Elena sighed in relief. "Maybe we should get out of here?"

Katherine nodded at her. "Yup. But first we have to bury this poor guy. You go on, Elena, I'll meet you at the Boarding House. We have a lot to talk about."

Elena nodded and pushed Bonnie away. They left together.

Katherine sighed and looked at the ground. "Why do I always have to do the dirty work?"

"Afraid you will break a nail?" Damon said from behind her.

Katherine tensed at his presence and didn't turn to look at him. She faked a nonchalant tone. "Manicure is very important to me. Do you know how much it costs me every month?"

"Nothing, I imagine, since all you have to do is compel someone." Damon said in a casual voice that Katherine knew was fake.

Katherine sighed. "Yeah, you're right. Still, this is not my ideal way of spending an evening, you know?" She knelt on the ground and picked up the dead guy with one hand and the shovel with the other.

"Katherine…" Damon tried to say, voice uncertain.

"Please, stop. Whatever you are going to say. I can't hear it right now."

Damon sighed but nodded. Together they buried the body and then returned to Damon's Camaro. Katherine sat on the passenger seat and Damon drove them towards the boarding house. Katherine wasn't looking forward to the conversation they were about to have but she knew she had put it off for long enough. It was time to come clean, about everything.