Chapter 6
Katherine hadn't been lying to Elijah when she said she didn't have any plans. She really had no idea what she was trying to accomplish in this place. The one thing she did know was that her brother had been hiding something from her.
'I might be more inclined to help you if you told me what you're up to.' Katherine had said.
As a response, Eli en her had gone for a ride. She had resigned herself from asking too many questions in case he changed his mind. Katherine didn't really know why she was so interested in Mystic Falls but It's too late to get out now, she thought.
Elijah stopped his SUV on the edge of the town's centre and got out. While Katherine reached for the door handle, he had already circled the front of the car. He opened the car door for her.
'Well, thank you.' She said and stepped out.
'Jonas Martin' He said. 'And this is my son, Luka.' Well hello. This was Kathy's first reaction at seeing the 'warlocks' Elijah had been hanging out with. They looked a bit like each other. Both had a dark skin colour but Jonas was wearing glasses. Then came the sudden realization that Elijah had been hanging out with a bunch of warlocks. Warlocks are basically just male witches and in general, Originals don't tend to hang out with magic people unless they need something badly. Of course, in those dangerous times Katherine should've expected nothing less. It's not like we're immortal or anything.
'So this is the big secret you've been hiding, badly, from me?' She asked. 'Why do you need witches anyway?'
'I needed the witches to find the Gilbert-girl...' Elijah said.
'Warlocks, actually.' Jonas interrupted. They both ignored him.
'Okay, you know what? This is how it's going to go...' Katherine said. She'd had enough. Witches? Oh excuse me, warlocks. Salvatores? Doppelgängers? History teachers? This is getting ridiculous. Why am I even wasting my time here? I've got another troubled family to look after.
'You do whatever you want to about Klaus and Elena Gilbert. I, on the other hand, am going to leave this shitty town and GO HOME!' She yelled and turned round.
Elijah was suddenly standing in front of the door.
'Katherine, please. I just...' He stopped himself.
'You just what?'
Elijah refused to say more and looked at everything else but her.
'Yeah, right..' Katherine mumbled and pushed him out of the way. In a second she was back in front of the building and next to her brother's SUV. Better not steal the car. I'll just walk.
Katherine didn't really know what had happened just then. She hadn't even thought about leaving him before meeting the warlocks. And she was pretty sure that she didn't even give a shit whether there were any or not. She had this nagging feeling in the back of her mind but she ignored it. It's just a bit of guilt, that's all. I said I would help him and now...I'm not. I'm just guilty that I'm leaving the one brother I can actually trust.
Katherine spent the next few hours wandering around town. She didn't really know why. Her vision was blurred and it was like time was moving slower than usual. In an effort to shake off the strange feeling, Kathy stopped and blinked. She was standing directly under a street lamp. It seemed too bright to be a normal lamp. Katherine couldn't even see her surroundings anymore. She just saw white and beyond that, black. Like staring into an abyss.
Her head was throbbing and she began to lose her balance. Everything around her started spinning.
Or was she? The light got brighter and brighter. It burned into her eyes as she heard a sharp high-pitched noise. It was coming from above her. Katherine tried to cover her eyes and ears but it didn't help.
Any moment now her eardrums would shatter. They would heal right away of course but what good was that if the noise was still there? It took a while before she realized the light had gone. It was only then that she noticed, she was laying on the ground hold up in fetus-position, covering her head with her arms. The high-pitched sound had ended completely when she rolled onto her back and opened her eyes gingerly.
'Hello.' A voice said. There where purple and black spots dancing in front of her eyes so she couldn't see anyone.
'Ghnhnn.' Was the most she could get out.
Then, the vague silhouet of a man wearing a light-brown trench coat helped her up. The man put one arm under hers and lifted her up with ease.
'Castiel, I'm going to kill you.' Katherine had found her voice.
Castiel had his hands on her shoulders, helping her keep her balance. Katherine blinked a few more times so most of the spots had disappeared.
Cas looked tired. His hair was messy and it seemed like he had some worry-lines. But that was impossible. He was an angel. Angels don't...change? Their vessels heal from anything. Even worry-lines. It was probably because he had this permanent frown on his face.
'I doubt it.' He smirked. 'I am sorry about my entrance. You had some magic in you I needed to erase.'
'Magic? What do you mean?'
'I saw you enter the witches' building clean and leave it tainted.' Castiel lowered his arms.
'Tainted? Great. So I guess that means the Martins put a spell on me. That's it, they're dead.' Katherine said and headed back.
'No, you shouldn't do that.' Castiel stopped her.
'Why not?'
'I can't say but I advice you to stay away from this place for the time being. Dean and Sam need your help. You do have things to do here but not at this time.' Cas said.
'Not at this time, huh? And who told you that? God? Our Lord and savior?' Katherine said sarcastically.
'No, of course not. God has better things to do than to watch over you personally. A prophet did.' Castiel said like this was obvious.
'Okay...whatever..' Katherine felt like this conversation was going nowhere. 'So you expect me to drop everything because you say so?'
'Yes. You were already planning on doing that, were you not?' Castiel rested his head on his shoulder the way he always did when he was getting confused.
'Maybe I wasn't. I was under a spell right? And I was wondering why I got so angry and left all of a sudden. So the Martins probably made me feel like that.'
'Sam and Dean are in trouble, Katherine. I don't have time for this. Are you coming, or not?' Castiel asked impatiently
'They're in trouble right now? Well, why didn't you say so?! Let's go.' Kathy said and put her arm on Cas'.
Castiel didn't say anything else. He put his index and middle finger on Katherine's forehead and then he was gone.
No, she was gone too.
The next moment she was standing inside what looked like a church, on her own. Cas was gone and around her all hell was breaking loose.
She didn't know it at the time but that's what was actually happening.
She heard screams in the distance and laughter too. It was hard to focus on because the sounds echoed through the stone corridors. She relied on her sense of smell and picked the corridor with the blood-and-burning-flesh smell. She entered a long stone hallway. There was light coming from the end. Huge chandeliers hung from the ceiling and were vibrating vigorously. It took her three seconds to reach the other end. She passed random strangers, all in a line with their backs toward the wall. They didn't pay her any attention. A few were whispering in excitement to each other and some looked very nervous.
When she reached the end of the hallway, huge wooden doors were stood half open. She didn't waist any time and pushed them open. They creaked in their hinges.
The first thing she saw was a white light coming from the marble floor. There were cracks formed into some sort of symbol and a rumbling noise came from it.
'He's coming.' Katherine heard. A few feet next to the cracks in the floor, stood Sam and Dean with terrifying looks on their faces.
'Well, let's get going then!' She yelled over the rumbling. Before the brothers even had a chance to respond, Kathy had taken them by the collars and pulled them out of the room. It didn't take her much effort even though Sam and Dean were pretty tall guys.
They were out of the church in a matter of seconds and Katherine let them go in front of their car.
A black '67 Chevy Impala.
Sam had that I did a horrible horrible thing and I'm never ever going to forgive myself-look on his face and she had a feeling the cracking of the floor was not intended.
'Katherine? Wh..what are you doing here? How did you know..?' He stuttered confused.
'Cas brought me. We'll talk later. Now, you guys need to move.' Katherine said and turned towards Dean. 'Take Sam and drive as far a way from here as you can. Don't stop until you run out of gas, okay?'
Katherine whizzed around the car and opened the passenger car door. She could tell Sam was in bad shape. 'Get in.'
Sam didn't question her and got in the Impala. Kathy shut the door.
Dean had gotten in as well. He hadn't said a word but she could see lines on his face so she left it.
'Be careful and call me when you get to a motel.' She said through the window on Sam's side. She looked at Dean. He nodded and started up the car.
Then Kathy turned to Sam, said: 'And no pee breaks.', gave him a little smile and disappeared.
