Chapter Seven

"Elijah," Katherine said as she ran towards the stairs when she saw that Elijah was heading upstairs. To be honest she was still upset about what Rebekah had said. If she found out that the blond bitch was right and that Elijah was just using her to fulfill his weird Tatia fantasy, then Katherine would end him.

Elijah frowned. "Katherine, what's wrong? You look worried."

"Of course, I'm worried," she said trying to hide her irritation. "I just found out that my pack has been attacked. Trevor, my previous Alpha has been killed."

"I know," Elijah said as he took a deep breath. "Klaus informed me. A pack known as the Crescent Wolf Pack. All female members, sound familiar?"

She shook her head no and Elijah continued. "Well, to make a long story short. They ambushed Trevor. They told him and the rest of the pack that they were willing to make an alliance, but that was false and instead they killed them. Or at least most of them. I don't know all the details. Klaus is still finding out more details."

Her mother, Katherine's blood ran cold. She needed to save her mother, she needed to know if her mother was all right. "Elijah, we need to go and rescue them. The ones that are still alive. Please, Klaus has a powerful pack- "

"It will be a foolish thing to do, Katherine," Elijah replied without a hint of remorse. "We don't know how many members there are in the Crescent wolf pack and we don't know how strong they are- "

"I don't care!" Katherine snapped, her voice shaking. "They have my mother, Elijah. I'm not going to stand here and wait for you to come up with a plan!"

Elijah sighed and put a reassuring hand on her shoulder. "You're tired and you're worried, it's not helping your judgement." Elijah didn't bother telling Katherine that her mother was probably dead. He wasn't that insensitive. "We will think of a plan, I will talk to Klaus and then we will go save your mother and what is left of your pack."

Katherine threw him a very dirty look as she left the room, her brown curls nearly hitting Elijah in the face. Before Elijah could even get a word in, she had left.

Katherine had been too busy cursing at Elijah and kicking the dirt under her toes that she hardly noticed when Rebekah joined her. "Why are you in such a foul mood?"

"Wouldn't you like to know," she hissed at her. "Your brother is an ass."

"That I do know." Much to her surprise the blond sat next to Katherine. "I heard what happened to your pack. What is Elijah going to do, I mean your mother still lives there doesn't she?"

"She does," Katherine felt her throat tightening again. "And nothing. Elijah plans to do absolutely nothing. He wants to wait. I don't know why. I want to rescue my mother, not bury her."

Rebekah raised an eyebrow. "And you're just going to wait around and do as Elijah says?"

"I don't exactly have a choice," Katherine said sarcastically. "I've been banished, and he's right about one thing I don't know what I'm dealing with."

What Rebekah said next surprised Katherine entirely. "So? Take me with you, then you won't be alone."

She stared at her obviously confused. "Seriously? You want to help me? What's the occasion? You don't even like me."

Rebekah shrugged. "True, but I am craving adventure." She sighed. "Nothing ever happens here, I am craving to do something even if it is saving your poor mother."

"Gee, thanks," Katherine responded sarcastically, but she felt herself relax. Perhaps Rebekah was an ally, not an enemy. Though she still didn't trust her. "When do we leave? My pack is far from here."

"Tonight," Rebekah smiled. "Pack light, only what you can carry on your back."

Elijah would be lying if he said he wasn't feeling guilty especially since the last time they had talked Katherine had been so angry and almost crying. He sighed, he had tried to explain it to her gently, but then again perhaps Elijah wasn't so good at explaining.

"Katherine," he knocked on her door, but there was no answer. "Katherine, open up please we need to talk." Again, no answer and Elijah was growing annoyed. "Katherine, open up now." He waited a full ten seconds before he opened the door.

He didn't care if she wasn't decent, after all he had already slept with her. But there was no one in the room, the room was completely empty. He let out a series of curses as he tried to wrap his brain to where Katherine might have gone. She went to rescue her mother, of course. It should have been more obvious from the start.

Elijah went to Klaus' office where the blond had been enjoying a cigarette. "She's gone!"

Klaus raised an eyebrow obviously bored. "Who's gone?"

"Katherine," Elijah hissed. "She must have left without me knowing, we need to find her Klaus."

"Hold your horses, Elijah." Klaus said with a raised eyebrow. "Are you even sure she's gone, maybe she is with one of the girls."

"Of course, I'm sure."

"She couldn't have gone alone. I just talked with Bonnie and Elena. Dear Katherine has become quite friendly with them. She would have told me if the brunette had been planning something."

Elijah raised an eyebrow as realization slowly came to him. "You know who we haven't seen in a while, our dear sister."

Klaus raised an eyebrow. "You think they went together? They haven't exactly been the best of friends."

Elijah nodded his jaw tense. "I am almost sure of it. This has Katherine and Rebekah written all over it."

Katherine felt someone shaking her awake and she groaned when she realized that it was Rebekah. She was back in her human form while Katherine was in her wolf form since it was warmer to sleep in her wolf form. She turned back to human and she shivered at the cold. Rebekah threw her, her clothes. "Hurry up and get a move on. We'll almost there."

Katherine raised an eyebrow grateful for the response. "Really?" They had been traveling for two days and Katherine felt exhausted.

"Really." She nodded. "Now hurry up, don't bother getting dressed. We'll be faster in our wolf form."

"Klaus, we've been searching for two days and there are nowhere to be found," Elijah said as he massaged his temples trying to maintain what little composure he had left, but Katherine and Rebekah seemed to have taken all of it. He and the wolves had been searching for the two girls in the surrounding areas of the forest, but at the end hadn't achieved anything, much to his annoyance. They had truly gone.

"Now don't fret," Klaus said. "Katherine and Rebekah are more than capable of- "

"I don't care what they are capable of," Elijah snapped. "They are still wolves, they could get killed with that attitude that they have- "

"Elijah, man," Damon Salvatore interrupted. "You do realize that Bekah can take care of herself perfectly and that Katherine is no Tatia."

"I know that," Elijah said coldly.

-End of Chapter Seven-

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