John looked around his room, he wanted to get out but he had been told that if he left the bed he wouldn't like what would happen, so he had stayed put. Sarah had gone to work and he was glad, he still didn't know what she did, he didn't ask she didn't tell.

But still he was bored, so very bored. There was nothing for him to do other than sleep, look at the clock or look at the paint on the walls. None of which sounded very nice to him at all, but still he needed something to do. John sat up and the door to his room opened.

"Hello John."

He looked at who had came in, he knew who it was despite the fact that she was wearing someone else's clothes.

"Katherine."

She smiled at him, it was full of teeth. He knew that she was trying to scare him, trying to get him to lose his calm. But still after dealing with Sarah for five days, he could handle whatever Katherine threw at him.

"You look well."

John scowled at her before retorting

"Yeah no thanks to you!"

Katherine blinked in surprise she wasn't expecting that, she would of thought that he would of cowered and begged for his life, but instead he was biting back. He was giving back as good as she gave despite the fact that he was human and she was a vampire. She had to give him points for that. Katherine sat down on the chair and looked at him, she could smell Sarah's scent all over the chair, but it was faded. As if she hadn't been in the room recently.

"So were is your guard dog?"

John snarled at her as he pushed himself up

"None of your god damn businesses!"

Where had this fire came from?

It hadn't been there before, she had known that. She had seen the fear in his eyes when he had looked at her. When he had figured out just who she was and what she could do, but now?

Now he had fire, the sort of fire that she had rarely seen. The one that came from people who would fight back no matter what, even if they died they still wouldn't give up. Because giving up was worse than dying.

Katherine played with a lock of her hair, the same lock that Teddy had stuck in his mouth that day, it was strange. She didn't know how they did it but they had, they had warmed her heart up. She hadn't allowed anyone in her heart since she had been human and fell for Elijah, that had been a mistake. She knew that now because Elijah would always put his family first and she couldn't compete with that, so she had ran, ran and turned herself into a vampire.

She had thought she had found love again when she had met Damon and Stefan. The way that the two had looked at her, the devotion in their eyes. It had sparked something inside of her.

But she had to leave, the town had a council that knew about vampires and they had began to hunt them one night. When she had fled the town she had seen the bodies of Damon and Stefan and for a brief second she had mourned them, but only for a second then she had ran.

Ran and didn't look back she had to keep one step a head of Klaus, he had been hunting he down for years and she didn't dare stop.

But here she was in the same little town that she had fled years ago, she had never thought that she would be back here. But she had been proven wrong, then she had saw Damon and Stefan and felt a brief flicker of happiness before she had squashed it.

She couldn't make attachments, she couldn't. Because of she did she feared that she wouldn't leave the town, then that would bring Klaus here and put everyone that she cared about at risk. But still there was them, that mix matched family that had taken her in. They hadn't of invited her into the house she could understand that but they made feel alive again, she didn't know if she liked it or not.

John glanced at Katherine and could see that she was thinking, he stared out at the window as he asked

"They took you in?"

Katherine looked at him sharply, she didn't know how he knew what she was thinking but he did. John looked at her before speaking

"They do that to anyone and everyone, no matter their past. they even took me in, and I had shattered Sarah's heart but back then it had only been the two of them."

Katherine hummed

"They make me feel..."

"Human and alive."

She looked at him sharply she had no idea why she was trusting him this much, why she hadn't turned and ran the moment that she had met the family. But she knew why she was attached to them, they were so welcoming and warm. Normally people said vampire and they went running and screaming not take them into their homes and treat them like family. She jumped slightly when she felt John's hand on her own, she looked down at the human

"Give them time, and you will see why."

Katherine didn't know what it meant but strangely she was willing to find out, her head was screaming at her to run. But her heart told her to stay and for the first time in a long time Katherine listened to her heart.

~~~~~New York city, place unknown~~~~~

Elijah glared down ta both of his wrists, he had been fine there had only been one letter on his wrist but now there was two. On his left wrist he had the letter

'H'

That had been the only letter for a few weeks, then the outline of the second letter had began to appear which he had been fine with. What he hadn't expected was for him to wake up and find another letter on his wrist this time on his right on

'D'

Elijah wanted to kill someone, if this was someone's idea of a joke it was a very poor attempt at one, it truly was.