Chapter 2: To be or not to be

Katherine looked out over the crowd she had in front of her. Nerds, jocks, cheerleaders, emos, gleeks and a lot of other high school related groups in every kind of shape, size and color, stared at her. She couldn't believe she was actually doing this.

Apparently she took too much time to begin, because irritated voices shouted:

"Can you start with your presentation any time soon or what?" And "What is taking so long?!"

For Katherine, time didn't go in the same speed as for these high schoolers. When you're a couple of centuries old, time goes different. So what for her seemed like a very, very short time, like a couple of seconds or so, was actually two or three minutes, and that's why everyone was so irritated at her.

Suddenly Caroline's suspicious voice broke through:

"Elena are you alright?"

Katherine snapped back and remembered she had a role to play. She had to be Elena Gilbert, the girl without anyone, who had lost her biological parents, her adoptive parents, her brother and her aunt.

She had to act like this sad, poor little fragile girl who lost everyone and couldn't choose between the two Salvatore brothers.

She was good at it, of course, but she didn't like it very much. The only time she enjoyed being Elena was when she got something out of it. Like… Well tricking Stefan was kind of fun, or scheming to get the moonstone! But being Elena just because that Bonnie bitch-witch Bennett was blackmailing her was not fun. At all.

She sighed, looked up at Elena's classmates and began her presentation.

Caroline met up with her after class with a worried face, surrounded by Barbie-like blond curls.

"What happened in there?" She asked, still very suspicious. Katherine felt a penetrating stare and looked over her shoulder to see a brooding and pensive

Stefan stand down the hall, listening to their conversation and backing Caroline up from a distance.

"I just… I don't know, I just kind of let my mind be somewhere else."

"Okay, but don't do that again Elena. People start to talk, you know that. And you got us worried."

Katherine pretended she wasn't aware of Stefan's pensive looks.

"Us?"

"Me. You got me worried."

Katherine lifted an eyebrow.

"Mhmm." She just said a little judging and started walking towards their lockers.

"Yeah, okay. So, Stefan might be worried too, you've been acting kind of weird lately."

"Oh, that's what those looks meant. I thought he was just trying to brood me to death."

She turned around just enough to see Stefan's lips form a quick smile and then fall back into his brooding face again.

"He cares you know, even if he doesn't want anything to do with you right now."

"Not helping, Caroline!"

Katherine found it annoying how easy she could be Elena. The answers just fell out on their own. It was like she had become her, this person who everyone were feeling sorry for.

'Poor Elena, she's been through so much'. Huh! Really!? She hadn't been through even half of the stuff anyone else had been through! Did she have to give up her child as a 16 year old or come home to find her whole family slaugthered because she had pissed of the wrong original? No! And so what they all were dead, she would have seen them die anyway as she would outlive them all.

God! Her dopplegänger was such a pain in the ass. Apparently miss My-life-is-worse-and-more-important-than-anyone-el se's had too skip town for a while because she needed to find herself again. So she and the bitch-witch Bennett went out on a "soul-searching" trip.

Katherine didn't believe in that crap for a second. It was probably just Elena who couldn't deal with the consequences of her being selfish and fled town. And because she didn't want anyone to know she fled town she just did what anyone would do who's got the opportunity (not), she just blackmailed her doppelgänger into taking her place. It was all like a freaking episode of The Lying Game!

Three months earlier

Katherine walked into the big barn. Her dark curls were wet from the rain and she shook her head a little so the most of the water would fall of. A noise from the barns right corner made her aware of the other persons in there and she was standing in front of them in less than a second. Neither Bonnie nor Elena so much as blinked when Katherine suddenly was standing in font of them.

"Well, well. The bitch-witch and the dopplegänger. What do you want?"

The both girls gave each other those lookes you give to your best friend that tells them everything and the "audience" nothing. Apparently their silent conversation was over and they felt like they could go right to the point because they turned towards Katherine again and Elena began:

"We want you to be me while we're away on a, lets call it soul-searching trip." She had her usual 'did I forget lock the door'-face on which usually made

Katherine go insane, but right now she was to shocked to get mad. How could they think they could trick her o come out here, in the middle of the night and propose such a thing!?

"And why in the world would I do that?"

"Because if you don't, we'll tell Klaus where you are. And I think you want to stay alive." Bonnie filled in.

"Thanks for the tip, now I can be somewhere, anywhere, else in 24 hours."

"Not so fast. I actually have something of yours..."

Katherine froze. She knew what that ment. If a witch has something of yours she can track you, you can't run or hide. Ever. But she could be lying and just saying that to make her do whatever she wanted. Actually how would they get something of hers? Kat snorted and turned around

"What? What have you got that's mine?" She said with a cocky attitude.

"Oh I don't know... Does the emeraldbracelet that was just laying on your desk, count?"

Katherine felt the panic come to her. She didn't see another exit through this one and she knew that what Klaus would do to her when he found her was worse than her worst nightmares.

"Fine, what do you want me to do?"

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