A/N: OK, I know it has been a very long time since I've updated this but I've been having a really shitty time with work lately. And I mean, shitty in the extreme sense. But other than work I have been great. And there's one person to thank for that. Anyways… I'm going to let you get to this long awaited chapter. Enjoy :)
This chapter has been slightly edited. 2/14/13
"You're going to get me out of this… place? Why, other than to maybe kill me." Wondered Katherine.
"No other reason honestly. I just want you out of my life for good, and that includes the Salvatore brothers' lives as well." Replied Sonya calmly.
"Well, I hate to break it to you, but Elijah's the only one who can get me out of here and I doubt you would go against him and Klaus again." Katherine said, pacing in front of the Cave's opening.
In a flash Sonya had Katherine pinned to the side of the cave by her throat.
"I'm thinking that I could just rip you apart, right here, right now. Or… of I could just wait for Damon or Stefan come to see you to ask how to kill an Original which I was conveniently never told about… well, Klaus compelled me to forget. So in all honesty, I have no idea." Said Sonya thoughtfully.
"Your hurting me Sonya." Choked out Katherine.
"I know." Replied Sonya, tightening her grip with a dark smile. "That's the idea."
Sonya inclined her head to the side as she caught the sound of a car door closing, and reluctant let go of Katherine's throat, setting her back onto her feet.
"Looks like you get the latter Katerina." She said as her eyes began to dilate. "You wont remember me being here at all."
Katherine's face went blank and with that Sonya was gone.
Sonya walked into the Salvatore Boarding House to see Damon, Stefan and Elena in the foyer talking over a dagger and a small bottle of shiny liquid.
"This is one odd party you've got going on in here." She said sarcastically.
"Where have you been?" asked Damon.
"Around." Replied Sonya shortly.
"Around, where?" pressed Damon.
"Whatcha got there Stefan?" she asked, ignoring Damon's question.
"It's a dagger and ash from an old white oak tree. It's the only known way to kill one of you." He replied carefully.
"I didn't know there was really a way that you could kill an Original." Said Sonya touching the dagger softly.
"How can you not know how to kill an Original? You are one." Said Damon curiously.
"The first time I betrayed my brother, he caught up with me… That was around the time I last saw you, Damon. A few days after I left, Klaus and Elijah stuffed me in a small cage and tortured me for years…" paused Sonya as a tear rolled down her cheek. "I don't remember a whole lot other than the torture… They used compulsion on me to forget."
Sonya closed her eyes as a few more tears fell down her cheeks at the memory, her hands coming up to scrub at the trails of saline. Elena touched her shoulder in an attempt to comfort her.
"You wont help us kill Elijah, will you?" asked Stefan calmly.
"I cant, because what if he somehow doesn't stay dead and then goes to my brother? I'll be dead before I would even be able to run or hide." Replied Sonya, her voice shaking slightly.
"It's okay Sonya… you don't have to help us. I wont risk your life." Said Stefan with a reassuring smile.
"I can help, just in the background, Elijah cannot know about any of my involvement. Just to be safe, I'm really not ready for them to kill me." Said Sonya calmly.
"It's too bad you don't know anything about this stuff, could have been extremely usefully to have someone on the know." Said Damon.
Sonya was about the say something to him when her cell phone began to ring.
"Hello? Umm, yeah, I can be there in say… 20 minutes? OK, see you then." Said Sonya before hanging up. "I'll see you guys later."
"And where are you going?" asked Damon, folding his arms over his chest.
Sonya stopped and looked over at Damon blankly.
"Out. With a friend." She replied, nonchalant.
"Which friend?" Damon inquired further.
"Why ask when there's a very good possibility that you are going to follow me anyways?" Damon lifted his eyebrow at her. "And I'm not stupid Damon, I have known you for over a hundred years."
"Well, maybe now that you know I won't follow you." Said Damon with his arrogant smirk.
Sonya simply smiled at Damon knowingly and slipped out the front door.
Sonya walked into the Mystic Grill and scanned the tables and the bar only to come up short.
"Hello, Sonya." Said a voice from behind her.
Sonya's body froze as the voice began to sink in, she knew whose voice it was and she was scared. She turned around slowly, her breaths coming out short and ragged, to see Elijah standing behind her.
"E-Elijah." She said shakily.
"Thank you for coming." He said with a small smile.
"Where's Jeremy?" she asked slowly.
"Oh he's at his house, asleep up in his room, peacefully of course. And unharmed." Replied Elijah, the smile still on his face.
"H-how did you know I was here? In Mystic Falls?"
"Jonas told me, he thought I should know that another Original was in town. And he was right, I did need to know." He paused, looking over her slowly. "What, pray tell, have you come all this was for?"
"I wanted to see some old friends. Is that okay with you?" she said starkly.
"Let's get out of this crowded place shall we?" said Elijah, the smile disappearing from his face as he grabbed hold of her arm.
Elijah pulled Sonya out of the Grill, his hand holding onto her arm fiercely, and pushed her into the dark alley, shoving her against the cold brick side of the building.
"Elijah, you're hurting me." Said Sonya, pulling her arm free from his vice like grip.
"Why have you been hiding from me, and please, don't lie to me."
"You know why Elijah. You and Klaus are not who you once were. Do you even remember what it was like before us all were vampires, I do, and I miss it so. I should have died all those years ago, we all should have died, but we're still alive and I hate it." She replied calmly.
Elijah looked her up and down again, making a small noise deep in his chest. "I sure have missed the way you talk, dear Sonya. The way that it is so… brash, you never were afraid to speak your mind. I believe that is what I loved about you all that time ago."
"I don't think that I have ever truly loved you, Elijah. I do not wish to be a part of yours or your brothers plans ever again." Said Sonya looking him in the eye.
"I plan on killing my brother." Said Elijah, his voice barely above a whisper.
"You wouldn't dare try and kill Klaus, he is stronger than both of us combined and even more malevolent. He does not care about either of us, he only cares about himself; always has and you know it is the truth."
"What do the Salvatore's have planned for me Sonya?" asked Elijah, ignoring her.
"I do not know what they have planned Elijah, I am not involved in any of it and I do not wish to be. Neutral." She said, lifting her chin, "And I always will be neutral, I don't care if we break the curse or if the werewolves break it. A huge part of me welcomes them to breaking it so I can die and no longer be in this world to which I did not wish to forever reside in, in the first place."
"Mmm. I know that if you really wanted to die you should have killed yourself a very long time ago. And you still can if you really want to, all you have to do it plunge a dagger with the ashes of a white oak tree on it through your heart. But make sure not to have another vampire do it." He said, leaning closer to her.
"And why shouldn't another vampire do it?" asked Sonya, truly curious.
"Because, my dearest Sonya, they will die as well." Replied Elijah.
"Good to know. Now let me leave."
"Very well. It was very good to see you again, love." Said Elijah stroking her jaw line with the back of his hand.
Sonya turned to walk away but another man stepped in front of her, blocking her path. She was about to make him move when he shoved a metal rod through her chest causing her to gasp in pain.
"So sorry about that. But I can't have you telling the Salvatore's about how to kill us. Do forgive me… if you ever live again." Said Elijah as Sonya clutched the cold, sharp rod in her heart.
Sonya's skin became ashy as dark gray veins began to etch their way across every inch of her once pale white skin and closed her eyes as she fell to the ground.
Elijah stopped at her side, looking down at her lifeless form as if to mourn her in his own little way then stepped over her and into the night.
A/N2: OK, so that's Chapter Nine. Sorry to end it at a cliffhanger, but that's what happens when I'm doing this at 4am and have to go back to another shitty day at work. I'll be updating this as soon as I possibly can, I just got back into it so that's not going to be a very hard thing to do.
And I know that some of you are probably a little confused as to why I exactly had Elijah have Sonya die - but remember, just like how he isn't really dead in the show, Sonya isn't really dead in this story. Can you guess who finds her?