Three: A Situation

Normally Katherine would have gone for the throat, that was Elena's first though when she felt Katherine practically sitting on her chest with her nails scratching Elena on her collarbone.

Elena was surprise that Katherine hadn't broken her neck yet. Katherine's slaps and scratches didn't hurt, in fact it felt like she was fighting with Jeremy when they were younger. A regular cat fight if you will.

Katherine was screaming and her and hissing at her as if she were some kind of cat. Damon had to practically pull them apart. "That's enough Katherine! Will you stop Jesus! You're acting like some high school chick."

"It's her fault," Katherine practically screamed. "It's always her fault! Poor precious Elena, because people are always bending over backwards to get her what she wants is the reason why I ended up like this."

"What is your problem, Katherine?" Elena managed to sit up, but she still felt slightly dizzy as Damon tried to keep her doppelganger from ripping her eyeballs out. "What the hell are you even doing here? And I haven't done anything to you!"

"I really want to break her neck," Damon grumbled as he held back Katherine's skinny arms. "So why am I hesitating?"

"Will someone please explain what is going on?" Elena demanded. No one was saying anything. Katherine was screaming and Damon looked like he wasn't telling her everything that had been going on. "Damon?"

Damon looked at Katherine. "If I let you go, do you promise to behave?"

Katherine was still fighting with him somewhat, she was still moving her arms as if she were a newly released psych patient. After a while she finally nodded. "Fine, I can control myself."

Damon snorted, but let her go. Elena did not understand anything that Damon or Katherine has just spattered out and both of them were still glaring at each other as if their life depended on it. "Elena," Damon tried to compose himself, but how could he tell her that she was human? It would destroy her. Correction, it would destroy him.

She was back to being incredibly vulnerable. "Just tell me Damon, I can take it."

Katherine glared at both of them as if they were complete imbeciles. "Oh, for god's sake do you have to be so dramatic? You're human Elena, your idiotic friend Bonnie made us human!"

Caroline stared at her face as if she were hoping for something strange to have happened to it, but no. Her faced looked exactly the same. Her eyes were still a clear blue and her forehead wrinkled a bit when she was upset. Which she was right now.

"Are you sure that I'm human, Stefan?" Caroline looked back at Stefan trying to keep her voice from trembling. "Maybe it's low blood sugar or something-"

"Caroline," Stefan shook his head. "I know it's hard to believe, but you're human. You drank whatever Bonnie put in that cup." Liz had now gone to Caroline's side and was rubbing her daughter's arm, but Caroline was not finding it the least bit comforting.

She was human again. Human.

She couldn't fucking believe it. It was like a nightmare waiting to happen. Caroline couldn't be human. She just couldn't. Caroline knew that it had been less than 5 years since she had become a vampire, but in all honesty she couldn't remember much about her human life other than she had been an insecure, bitchy mess.

"How did this even happen?" Caroline demanded. "Why did Bonnie do this?"

"She wanted to make the cure for Elena, Damon, and myself. She wanted to give us the chance of being human so that all three of us weren't fighting for the same cure. She was making them in the forest and Katherine went and attacked her and she grabbed one. Elena grabbed the other one-"

"And I was the lucky 3rd." Caroline mumbled as she started rubbing her temple. "Great, just what I needed. So how can we reverse it. Is it the old switch a roo? I drink vampire blood and then you snap my neck? If so let's get it over with. The sooner the better as far as I am concern."

"Caroline," Liz sounded shocked. "Don't you think you are moving too fast? You were a vampire just a short while ago and you were just given a second chance of life. Don't you think that you should enjoy it?"

"Mom," Caroline said gently. "I never enjoyed being human in the first place. Believe me, it's not something that it's worth celebrating. Elena was the one that was obsessed with being human. If Katherine and Elena want to stay human then that's fine with them. I on the other hand it's not something I want to suffer with. Stefan?"

Stefan hesitated, and Caroline gave him a pointed look. "Stefan? Why are you hesitating?"

"You know why," Stefan said without elaborating. "We have no idea what was inside this cure or the ingredients. What if I break your neck and you never wake up? What then?"

"Stefan is right, Caroline." Liz said firmly. "We are not doing this, not now-"

"Mom-"

"Caroline," Liz said firmly as she played with her hair. "You just turned human, can't you enjoy it for now? Just a little bit?"

"I thought you said that over your dead body you would come to New Orleans," Klaus said with a slight smirk as he barely looked behind his shoulder at his older brother, Elijah. "And yet here you are standing before me brother."

"I never said that I wouldn't come," Elijah corrected slightly. Klaus was back at the compound in his bedroom that overlooked his balcony. It was a crisp evening in New Orleans, summer was just around the corner. "I just said that you didn't make it sound too tempting."

"And you weren't doing anything," Klaus pointed out, but he knew that Elijah would rather happily chew his own tongue out that admit that he had chased Klaus here because he was worried or bored. "Well, whatever the case may be I am glad that you have joined me brother."

"What is the reason that you came here, brother?" Elijah avoided the question to stare at Klaus with an intent look on his face. "Why did you come back to the place that you once called home?"

"I was feeling sentimental."

"You are never sentimental. You are up to something."

Klaus smirked as he placed a hand on Elijah's shoulder. "Keep telling yourself whatever you need to tell yourself brother. You know where your room is, I presume."

Katherine stretched her fingers, she could practically hear her bones snapping. Had she always been so fragile? So delicate? So human? Her mouth twisted in disgust as she thought back at poor, innocent Katerina.

Just the thought of her former self made her want to vomit. Katherine looked at the blond next to her. Caroline looked pissed rightfully so and Elena was playing around with her hair and looking at Stefan and Damon, her two knights in shining armor.

All five of them were staring at Bonnie who had all the answers.

-End of Chapter Three-

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