Chapter 24

I look at the noise coming from the room as an unknown language is being spoken as someone else was in pain. As I enter I see the room, Katherine delivery a baby, then I watch the man, probably Katherine's father next to me watching as Katherine asks for something by the gestures I believe she wanted to hold her child but her father comes in with a rude voice and takes the baby, leaving with him as I see Katherine heartbroken, screaming and crying and the only world I could understand was mama, mother.

I wake up suddenly as I noticed I am not in my room as I look around remembering what had happened and looking for Elena.

"Hey take it slow." Damon tells me touching my hair as I noticed that I was in his room, in his bed. I look and I see that I am wearing one of this skirts. "I brought you were after you passed out. I couldn't get you to wake up so I changed your clothes."

"You changed my clothes?"

"It was me, Elena or Stefan, and I don't think you would like Elena to see the scars or Stefan see you naked at all."

"Well you thought right." I tell him trying to get up as I flick with the pain in my arm.

"Let me help you."

"I hate this." I protest as he helps me sit on the bed. I hate needing other people.

"I can see by your face. Now we did all we could about your arm but it's still pretty terrible." He says as push the sleeve and noticed the stitches are all renovated but there was still very purple. "I did all I could."

"How did you stitch all them so perfectly?"

"I compelled a nurse."

"That makes more sense. How is the arm better?"

"Blood transfusion. I made it so my blood healed you but not completely like it should and your old scars didn't disappear."

"So it's only made it better." Well one for thing for the list of thing I am not normal. "I was losing a lot of blood so the transfusion helped. Thank you Damon."

"It's was nothing believe me but you can't move your arm."

"What does that mean?" I ask him as he looks at me with a smirk. "No Damon I am not using one of those scarves to hold my arm into my wait that is a no. No."

"Oh you are and we need to talk something. It's about your sister. Rose was here last night, she told us something you should listen."

"Of course."

"Well I got you some clothes from when you used to."

"Sleep here." I finish with a smirk as he gave me also one getting my clothes from a draw.

"Okay, you have to understand I only know what I've picked up over the years and I don't know what's true and what's not true. It's the problem with all this vampire crap but Klaus, I know he's real."

"Who is he?" Elena asks us as we were both sitting on the couch listening to Rose.

"He's one of the originals, he's a legend."

"From the first generation of vampires."

"Like Elijah?"I ask them remembering my father telling me that the originals were very closed once open a time.

"No. Elijah was the Easter bunny compared to Klaus. He's a foot soldier. Klaus is the real deal."

"Klaus is known to be the oldest."

"Okay, so you're saying that the oldest vampire in the history of time is coming after me?"

"Yes." Rose says at the same time Stefan denies as I look at Damon waiting a better answer.

"What they're saying is, I mean if what she's saying is true"

"Which it is."

"And you're not saying it so I don't kill you."

"Which I'm not."

"Then we're looking at a solid maybe."

"Look, Elijah's dead, right? So no one else even knows that my sister exists."

"Not that you know of."

"That's not helping."

"Look, I've never even met anyone who's laid eyes on him. I mean, we're talking centuries of truth mixed with fiction. We don't know if he's real. For all we know he could just be some sort of stupid bed time story."

"He's real and he doesn't give up. If he wants something, he gets it. If you're not afraid of Klaus, then you're an idiot."

"Alright, we're shaking. You made your point." Damon jokes as I send him a dirty look; this was not the time for joking this is seriously, life or death seriously.

"Where are you going?" I ask as I see my sister get up like nothing had happened

"School. I'm late."

"Let me grab my stuff, I'll go with you."

"It's okay, I know where it is. Please make sure my sister rests her arm."

"She's in denial."

"Shut up, Damon." Stefan and I say at the same time as I am getting up as Damon looks at me stopping.

"Where do you think you're going?"

"Work, you do that place where I go to teach kids dancing?"

"You're not going anywhere, you're calling days off."

"What? Damon."

"You're staying here. Alaric can bring you some fresh clothes. Besides I already called the studio and told them you broke your arm."

"I didn't break my arm."

"Well not according to your nurse."

"You compelled her." I protest as I see Stefan and Rose looking at us amused.

"What did you expected?" He asked me and I realize he was right, if he didn't compelled her she would ask questions we couldn't answer.

"I am taking a shower."

"Do you want company?"

"Do you want a stake in your heart?"

"Are they always like this?" I heard Rose says as I leave the room.

I get to the bathroom and put the water running as I prepare myself and leave by the back door without making any noise. Who is the smart ass now?

I saw the tomb closes as I look around. Right I didn't think about this. I heard someone coming and I hide as I try to see who it is.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" I hear Caroline voice

"Yes, I'm sure. She's the only one who knows the truth about Klaus. The only one who can tell me how to stop him."

"But you're asking for the truth from someone who's probably never giving it. Are you sure about this?"

"Yeah. I can't just sit back and wait. I have to know, Caroline. Please."

"Yes Caroline please open the tomb." I say appearing as they both jump surprised to see me and I could see some worry in Elena's expression.

"What are you doing here?"

"Apparently we had the same idea. I just forgot the door problem." I say as the blonde vampire opens it for us.

"Katherine? Come on it's your favorite girls." I tell her as Elena and I look at Caroline.

"I'll be okay from here."

"I will take care of my sister Caroline and tell Damon, if he asks, that I'm busy."

The blonde leaves and we hear a noise and not much later we see Katherine appearing looking not so glamour as usual.

"Hello Elena. You come to watch me wither away? And you are my favorite girl Sofia."

"Of course I am."

"I can see your arm got worst."

"Yeah, it had better days but you lost all the fun." I tell her as Elena looks at us confused. She didn't understood because she wasn't like me and Katherine. She doesn't know my humor in the same way works how Katherine's attack at people boyfriends.

"Stefan knows you're here?" See what I was talking about

"I brought you some things."

"You came to bribe me? What is it that you want?" She says to my sister as I look at her surprise, a happy surprised because she thought about it. "You're learning from your sister I can see."

"I want you to tell me about Klaus."

"Hmm, you've been busy." She says as I sit close to the tomb entrance putting my bag close to me.

"I also brought you this." Elena says as I see an old book. Oh it must be the book she found in Isobel's things. "It's your family history. It says in here that the family line ended with you. Obviously that's not true." No, she had a kid.

"You think that if you brought me some family keepsake that I'd open up?"

"Probably no but I brought you this." I tell opening the bag and showing her a bottle of blood that I stole from the boarding house as I show it to the vampire with a smirk once she rushes to me but because of the spell she was inches from me. "You don't look so good, Kitty Kat. How long before your body shuts down? 10, 20 years? It must be painful to desiccate and mummify. I can't even imagine. Well I can watch that should be fine." I tell as she sits next to me and Elena on the other side and I put some blood in a glass and Elena pushes it towards her with a stick, smart move.

"You have the Petrova fire." She tells me as I look at her confused. "You're mother side of the line is the same as Elena's. Isobel and Emma are first degree cousins." She says as we look at each other surprised. I wanted to know more about that but now was not the time.

"More blood?" Elena asks as Katherine puts the glass on the floor and I put more blood in there as Elena offered it to her but I stop her with my good arm as Katherine smirked at me.

"It's a long story, Klaus and I. It goes all the way back to England, 1492, after I left Bulgaria or was thrown out." She says as I look at Elena and point with my head to Katherine as she gives her the blood.

"Thrown out?"

"My family, your true ancestors, they disowned me. My indiscretions were not tolerated at that time. I had a baby out of wedlock. The shame."

"It was kept secret?" I ask her since apparently I was doing the questions.

"Mhmm. My baby was given away. I was banished to England and I had to learn to adjust so I quickly became English. It was there that I caught the eye of a noble man name Klaus. I was taking with him at first until I found out what he was and what he wanted from me and then I ran like hell."

I see Katherine running with a large dress as she falls and hides behind a tree. Of course with that dress running is almost impossible. Then I see Elijah and other man looking for her.

"She's here. Katerina! I know you're near, I can smell your blood. It's pointless to run, Klaus will find you wherever you are."

"This way. There is more blood over there." Oh, the death guy, Trevor, so this is when he is going to betray Elijah. "Head east. I can't lead them astray anymore."

"I can't run anymore."

"Never mind. There's a cottage. You'll be safe there. Go now. Go!" he says as I see her leaving and the scene going black.

"You're ok, it seems like you zoomed out."

"She doesn't know." Katherine says surprised as my sister looks at me. It was now or never, I needed to tell her the truth.

"Remember when I said I would explain how I could make you calmer?"

"Yes."

"I can control people's minds."

"You can what?" She says surprised.

"I can control people's minds."

"Like compulsion?"

"Better." Katherine says as I send her a dirty look she was not helping at all and making me sound like a, ok nothing she may make me sound wasn't something I haven't done before.

"I can control your mind, read your thoughts, and access your memory, pretty much everything involving the mind."

"You can read minds."

"Yes but not supernatural ones. I tried but I can see they pass."

"What do you mean?"

"When they are talking about they pass I have, like, flashbacks, where I see what they are talking about." I tell her as I wait for her to fully understand all I said and then I turn back to the vampire. "So, what did Klaus want?"

"The same thing that he'll want from her. He wants to break the curse."

"By sacrificing the Petrova doppelganger." Not if I don't have anything to say about it.

"He wanted to drain every single drop of blood from my body."

"What does the Petrova blood line have to do with Klaus?" Elena asks her after giving her another glass.

"It's really tedious but…" She says drinking another glass.

"You already are more of her color. Now speak." I tell her joking but also telling the truth as she looked at me with a serious look but I could see the counters of her month rising.

"The curse was bound by the sacrifice of Petrova blood. Witches are crafty with their spells. The doppelganger was created as a way to be able to undo the spell. Once the doppelganger reappeared, the curse can be broken."

"So you ran before he killed you?"

"Something like that."

I see Katherine arrives at a cottage. Probably the one Trevor told her about as she knocks on the door

"Help, please help me. Please, help me."

"I don't invite strangers into my home." The old woman tells her as I see the desperation in Katherine's face.

"No, Trevor. He said that you'd help me." She says as I see Rose appearing.

"Damn him. Always making promises I don't want to keep." She says and that made me smile. "Let the girl in. Bring her water and something to eat." She says as Katherine enters the house and I follow her.

"You must be Rose. Thank you. Trevor said to show you this." I see the moonstone in her hands. "To prove I am who I say and that you'd help me to freedom."

"You stole this from Klaus?"

"It was to be part of the sacrifice ritual, so I grabbed it and made my escape."

"People do not escape from Klaus. Everyone who tries ends up back in his grasp and anyone who helps them dies."

"I know the risk you bring on yourself by giving me aid."

"I'm risking nothing. At nightfall, I'll bring you back to Klaus and beg him to show us both mercy." She says as I see her locking Katherine in an empty room.

"Rose never ended up taking you back to Klaus, did she?" I ask her because she was here and Rose is on the run just like Trevor was.

"No, but not because she had a change of heart."

"It's nightfall. Time to go." Rose says as we both see Katherine bleeding. "When did this happen?"

"In the woods, I tripped."

"It's a lie, I would have smelled it." she says finding the knife in Katherine's hand.

"I'd rather die than go back to Klaus. Please, just let me die."

"If you die then Trevor dies with you." she says giving Katherine her blood against her will.

"Where is she?" I hear Trevor says as he enter but Rose immediately pushed him against the wall.

"You have set us both on the path of death. I only hope Klaus sees the honor in returning that girl to him."

"He will sacrifice her." oh! He likes her. of course that is why he saved her.

"Then so be it!"

"I love her, Rose

"He'll kill you. He won't stop until he has all of our heads."

"Then we shall run until we die." At this a noise comes from the room and I follow them to the room as I see Katherine death hanging from the ceiling by the rope.

"You killed yourself?!"

"I bit dramatic if you asked me but it worked." I tell her as Elena looks at me shocked. "Klaus needed a human doppelganger." I explain to her.

"As a vampire, I was no longer any use to him." she completes my reasoning

"But it didn't work. You didn't really escape, you've been running from Klaus ever since." I tell her wanting to know why and the coast of that.

"I underestimated his peered for vengeance but living in a suitcase is better than dying so you can have your blood spilled over some silly little rock." She says as I look over at Elena who looks pail. She was scared. "What's wrong? Afraid I'm right? You don't want to die? There's another way out." She says cutting her wrist making her bleed as I roll her eyes at her, such a drama queen. "Better hurry. Your opportunity is going, going, going and gone." She says as the cut heal completely. "I made the other choice."

"What did you do, Katerina? I would have helped you live." Trevor was even a bigger drama queen than Katherine.

"You would have helped me run. That was never going to be enough."

" It was enough for me."

"Do you not see, Trevor? She used you to help her escape and me to turn her. Klaus will see our role in this."

"And for that I'm sorry."

"As am I…. for this." She says about to stake Katherine but the new vampire gets the old lady who is the one who ends up with the stake as she drinks the woman blood.

"Please understand."

"You have just signed our death sentence."

"Better you die than I." she says running away.

"And Rose and Trevor spent the last 500 years running because you used them. Trevor just got killed." I tell her but truly I wasn't expecting a happy story but thing far from what I made up in my mind.

"I never thought he would have lasted that long."

"You don't even care that you ruined their lives."

"I was looking out for myself, Elena. I will always look out for myself. If you're smart, you'll do the same." She says opening the book.

"So how much of your little story is true?"

"I have no reason to lie, Elena. I have no reason to do anything but sit here and read and rot."

"Okay, assuming it's even partially true, that's the reason why you came back isn't it?

"Because you wanted to be the one to hand Elena over to Klaus."

"500 years on the run, I figured maybe he'd be willing to strike a deal."

"So you got Mason Lockwood to find you the moonstone."

"Right again Sofia."

"What else do you need to break the curse?"

"Hmm, look who is getting smarter, learning from your older sister I can imagine."

"It's not just Elena or the stone, is it? Otherwise there would be no reason to trigger Tyler Lockwood's werewolf curse."

"Witches and their spells: so many ingredients, so many people to sacrifice."

"So you need a werewolf."

"Believe it or not, Sofia, they're hard to come by."

"What else?"

"A witch to do the spell. Mine bailed but Bonnie will do just fine.

"What else?"

"A vampire."

"And that is why you turned Caroline."I conclude.

"It could have been anyone I suppose but I like the poetry of Caroline."

"So you were gonna just hand us all over to be killed?

"Better you die than I." She says entering the tomb.

Elena stayed still for sometime as I let everything sink into her as I waited but now it was too much and she would start over thinking so I gather out stuffs

"Come Lena, time to go."

"Elena. Sofia."

"Stefan, what are you doing here?"

"I could ask you the same question." He says looking at both of us.

"Caroline told you."

"No, she kept your secret but it didn't take long for me to figure out what was the important that you'd have to keep it from me."

"I knew that you'd stop me."

"Listen to me, whatever she said to you is a lie. Do not listen to her. She's a liar, Elena." I wanted to believe in Stefan, I truly did but I saw it, the pass, it was all true.

"What if she isn't? You didn't hear what she said."

"You don't have to worry, I'm not gonna let anything happen to you."

"That's the problem, you won't but you'll die trying. How's that any better?" I was about to tell her how when Katherine return.

"There's nothing you can do, Stefan. I haven't even told you the best part of the story."

I see Katherine arrives at her parent's home as I follow and find dead people outside. So I run after her and enter the home. The first thing I see his her father dead and sees her mother also death as she cries over her mother's body.

"No, no, no mama. No!"

"He killed them." I say with a softness understanding tone.

"My entire family, just to get back at me for running. Whatever you do to escape Klaus, he will get his vengeance on your friends, your family and anyone that you've ever loved."

"No, look at me. No, do not listen to her, okay?" Stefan tries to assure her and I was to focus in my own thoughts to add something.

"Always the protector but even you must realize that she's doomed. There's nothing you can do to stop it unless of course you have this."

"What?" I say turning to see the moonstone.

"Oh no, there it is. It's the ultimate lie, isn't it? You spun this whole thing so that we would have to get the stone from you, didn't you?"

"I didn't spin anything, Stefan. It's the truth."

"No, let me guess. You want to trade that stone for your freedom, you manipulative, psychotic bitch."

"My freedom? That's where you're wrong, Stefan. I don't want my freedom because when Klaus shows up to kill us all and he will, I'll be in the tomb, where no vampire will enter because they can't get out. I'll be the safest psychotic bitch in town." She says as she looks at Elena.

"Come on let's go home." Stefan says and I knew he was in denial as he and Elena walked out. "Sofia."

"I will meet you back at the house." I tell him but I saw he wasn't moving. "I promise you."

I say her opening the book as I sat next to her and saw the picture of her parents and I saw the emotions on her eyes. She knew she didn't needed to put a mask for me, I seen right throw her, today and before.

"I was 13 when my father died." I tell her as she looks at me surprised but didn't add anything. "A fire in our house, my mother had left us, because she always did. Doesn't matter, the point is, everyone thinks my father died because of his work in the marine but it wasn't. He died because of me. So I know the feeling of being responsible for the death of the people you love." I tell her as I had tears in my eyes remembering not just dad but Nathan all everyone who was captured tortured and killed over the years in the brotherhood. I looked over at her and saw the tears in her own eyes. After some time I got up and walk knowing I had to return to the boarding house and put my mask back on. I needed to be strong and unbreakable for my family not weak and fragile.

"Sofia." She calls my name and I turn to her. "I'm sorry but you understand."

"I do." I tell her nodding. "So you also understand why I will do it." this time it's her who nods as I looked at her and saw the blood bag still with blood in it as she looked at me and back at her as I just nodded and walked away living in place knowing this was the first and only moment that Katherine and I would allowed each other to see thw weakness in us.

"How romantic did you girls wanted candles I could bring you some, maybe some soft music and sheets."

"What are you doing here?"

"I came home to know you weren't there so I called Stefan and he told me you were here the entire day plus I arrive and I see the nice Sofia-Katherine bounding moment."

"How much did you heard?" I ask him as I felt him touching my hair the second after seeing his eyes getting softer, great pity all I always wanted.

"Enough." He says with a soft voice as I kept my eyes from his. "How's your arm?" He asks me touching it but I shake him after a couple of seconds, I didn't need this.

"Perfect. Let's go."

"Sofia, damn it." He says using his vampire speed to be in front of me. "Why are you so reckless?"

"I am reckless, what about you, because the last time I checked you're the king of reckless."

"But I didn't almost died from an arm injection after being cut and busied doing god knows what. And don't you think that last night I didn't notice the new scars on your body."

"You want to know what I did those two weeks, fine. I was saving the life or my best friend, but the plan didn't go as planned and we were both alone without backup and it we ended up cornered by 10 man things went badly but we managed to get out. Do you want to tell me who we both got out." I say not almost screaming. "You need to stop thinking I am Elena, I am not my sister." Frustrated I walk away living him there shocked for my anger and probably because of the information I had told him.