Chapter Four

Katherine was bored beyond words. How could such a big house be so boring? It had been two days since Elijah had told her that she could stay and so far, she had only seen him at mealtimes or sometimes not at all.

The Mikaelson Manor house was big, rustic, and a bit fancy, but it lacked in the entertainment department with only a few boring books all over the place and no Wi-Fi.

There were dozens of houses all around filled with families and young couples, but Katherine had always sucked a small talk so she had always curled herself against the staircase or she went back to her room and watch old soap opera reruns on her small TV.

She didn't dare turn into a wolf again because she didn't want to piss Elijah off and because her body was still slightly sore. Katherine sighed. She missed her mother and she wished that she hadn't attacked Trevor because then she would still be at home.

Katherine had been braiding her hair when two girls came forward. One of them was a dark-skinned beauty with short, black hair and the other one had doe eyes and long, perfect brown hair.

Doe eyed girl smiled at her and said shyly. "Hello, I'm Elena."

"I'm Bonnie." Bonnie said with a raised eyebrow. "You're new, here, aren't you?"

Katherine grimaced slightly. "Is it that obvious?"

The two girls exchanged looks. "No, not really you just looked bored and lonely. Having a hard time adjusting?"

Katherine ran a hand through her curly brown hair. "Something like that."

"Did you marry one of the wolves?" Elena quipped. "Or were you passing through? Perhaps you're a friend of our Alpha Klaus?"

"Something like that, Klaus arranged it. I was supposed to marry somebody." Katherine quickly told them about her broken engagement to Elijah and the girls threw her pitying looks.

"Maybe Elijah will change his mind," Elena offered.

Katherine shook his head. "I doubt it, there would be no way in hell that he would ever want to marry me. But it's fine. He's been nice I suppose and he and Klaus are letting me stay here until I find out what I can do."

They spent the next hour or so talking about what had been happening lately and discussing Elena's latest herb recipes when they heard the door open with a slam. The three girls turned around and they saw a pretty blond with a tilted chin and long blond hair.

Katherine had to admit that the girl was beautiful and she raised an eyebrow as she stared at Katherine in annoyance.

"Great," Bonnie groaned. "What did you do to piss off Rebekah?"

"I didn't do anything," Katherine hissed back. "I haven't even seen her before today."

Elena nodded. "She's right. Rebekah has been hunting all week. This has been the first day that she's been back. Though I don't know why she's looking like she wants to eat Katherine alive."

The pretty blond known as Rebekah glared in Katherine's direction before she seemed to pounced towards them. Apparently, she was some sort of Alpha female because even Elena and Bonnie seemed to pull back.

Rebekah glared at her. "Are you Katherine?"

Katherine wasn't going to lie, Rebekah looked intimidating as hell, but there was no way that she was going to back down. "I am."

Rebekah pursed her lip. "Well, aren't you the little slut who is trying to con my brother into marrying her sorry ass."

Katherine gaped as she looked at her. "Excuse me?"

"You heard me, there is no way that Elijah would ever marry you. Sorry to destroy your dreams."

"I didn't ask him to marry me," Katherine said irritated. "Your dear brother Klaus planned all of this."

Rebekah snorted as if saying I'm so sure.

"He did!" Katherine looked at the other girls for support but they had their heads bowed down. Apparently, they were afraid of Rebekah. Great, they weren't going to be any help. "He wanted Elijah to settle down and get married. He picked me not the other way around." Rebekah raised a plucked eyebrow and snorted.

Katherine could feel her irritation coming, she curled her fist. "So, what are you saying that I'm lying?"

Rebekah curled her lip and stared at her. "Well, you are a little slut there is no doubt about that." Sometime inside Katherine snapped as she lunged towards Rebekah. She didn't even think about it, all she knew is that one second she was glaring at the blond and the next second she was pining her to the ground while in her white wolf form.

Rebekah had also transformed quickly into a yellow, ashy colored wolf and was attempting to bite Katherine's paw off.

"Stop it!" she heard someone growl. "Stop it right now!"

Katherine flinched when she heard Elijah, he was pulling them apart and glaring at them both. "Transform back, now!"

Rebekah and Katherine did as they were told as Bonnie and Elena quickly handed them their clothes. "We will talk later," Elijah said to his sister. He looked at Katerina. "You, young lady come with me."

"Sit," Elijah ordered as he pointed to the chair in his equally scary room as Katherine tried to rearranged her clothes. Katherine did as she was told, but not happily. "What on earth go into you Katherine? You attacked my sister for crying aloud."

"Excuse me she was the one that attacked me first!" she couldn't believe that Elijah was taking Rebekah's side

Elijah's jaw clenched. "I apologize for that, Rebekah has always been a little unreliable and she will apologize, but that still doesn't explain why you two are fighting in your wolf forms, you could have hurt someone. Are you hurt?"

"No!" Katherine snapped not wanting his pity. Her jaw clenched as she felt like she wanted to burst into tears. Mostly because she missed her mother, but also, she had been dealing with the stress of everything lately.

She felt the tears fall down her cheeks. Elijah looked startled as if he didn't know what he should do with a crying female. "There is no reason to cry, Katherine. Why are you crying?"

"I miss my mother," Katherine croaked.

Elijah petted her cheek softly and for a second, Katherine thought he was going to kiss her. "I will send letters to your mother love and I will make sure that she gets them. Now stop crying."

"Really?" Katherine looked pleased. "You will do that?"

Elijah nodded and Katherine kissed his cheek. "Thank you!"

-End of Chapter Four-

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