Chapter Fifteen: Alive

"Yeah, I've done some pretty horrible things to survive, but unlike you poor, delicate Elena, I don't turn it off. I deal with it!"

-Katherine Pierce

"Rogers, relax." Tony said exasperated, they were back in the tower after their meeting with Fury and they saw Steve anxiously walking back and forth. "You pacing around it's not going to better the situation."

"Then what am I supposed to do, Stark?" Steve demanded as he sat on the couch. "Just sit around and wait for news?"

"Look I know the news of Bucky caught you off guard, but Stark is right it's better not to do anything hasty."

Steve looked less than pleased.

"Steve, Barton is right we don't have anything, we don't know where HYDRA is located, and we don't even know where Bucky is for all we know he can brainwashed as well, the only thing we do have is Siren." Natasha shrugged. "We crack Siren and we unlock all of HYDRA's dirty little secrets."

"All right," Steve said wearily. "So what do we do now? Peter and Gwen can't exactly ask her in the middle of English class."

"What we need is to formulate a plan of attack." Tony looked at the confused gazes around him. "Think about it sooner or later, Katherine is going to find out that we know about her and its better if we're not caught off guard when she does."

Katherine entered her apartment and saw that it was still messy and that the furniture was thrown all over the floor from her panic attack/ temper tantrum the other day. She really needed to clean up.

She headed towards her bedroom, today had been a slow day, and all she had really found out was that Parker had the attention span of a fly. She stopped short when she saw the carpet messily done. "No."

Katherine took off the carpet and pulled out her computer. She opened it and saw that it was turned on the words-DOWNLOAD COMPLETE stared back at her. Katherine closed the computer with a thud. She should have known that Parker was just a distraction.

She grabbed her headphones and connected to HYDRA's network. "Charles?"

"Yes, Siren?" Charles answered.

"They know." Katherine said into her headphones. "I'm going to need backup-send the Winter Soldier."

"Siren, he's already there."

Steve heard a knock on the door and he opened it, half fearing, half knowing who it was. He knew it wouldn't take long for Siren to figure out that someone had tampered with her things, the girl gave paranoid a new meaning.

Katherine stood in front of him and smiled. "Hello, Steve."

"H-Hi," he said. "What are you doing here?"

"I just wanted to visit you." Katherine gave him a sickly sweet smile, she held up a bottle of wine. "Can I come in? I brought a little gift to apologize for by behavior the other night."

Steve opened the door. "Please come on in." the key was to pretend that nothing was going on, that she wasn't a brain washed serial killer ready to kill him.

Katherine entered the small apartment and looked around the kitchen. "Do you have wine glasses?"

"Top shelf." He said.

"Thank you." She pulled out two wine glasses. "Sit down, I will be happy to do it." When Steve was in the living room, she opened the bottle of red wine. She also pulled out a small flask filled with white powder that was basically crushed sleeping pills. The American hero would be much easier to kill if he was half asleep. She put a small amount in his glass and quickly hid the flask.

She swung her hips as she gave him the glass. "Here you go." She sat in a chair across from him. Katherine took a sip of her wine.

Katherine and Steve sat across from each other in eerie silence. "You haven't touched your drink. You don't like red wine?"

"It's not the red wine." Steve said as he placed the glass on the small coffee table. "Why don't we both stop pretending that we don't know what's happening. You know that I know about you."

Katherine's eyes narrowed for a second filled with impression, but it was quickly gone. In a second she had pressed Steve against the wall.

"Who are you? What are you?" Steve asked as he pressed Katherine on the floor, withholding both of her arms.

Katherine scoffed. "Those are all questions you should have asked yourself before, captain." She jabbed her knee into his stomach and pulled out a knife. One quick jab in the forehead and he would be dead, but strangely Katherine couldn't do it, she just couldn't. She lowered her knife.

"We can help you." Steve huffed. "SHIELD can help you, HYDRA has been lying to you."

"I don't need your help," Katherine said coldly and instead smashed the wine glass against his head causing Steve to fall into unconscieness.

Katherine stepped over him and exited the apartment, but was quickly ambushed by Natasha. "The red head, lovely." Katherine murmured under her breath as she dodged a kick. Katherine threw a punch in her direction which Natasha seized.

Katherine used that opportunity to kick her to the ground. Katherine huffed, something about this was eerily familiar.

"I never had a graduation or a prom or you know a life!" Katherine knocked her head against Elena's, giving Elena a bloody lip. "But you did! You have everything and it's not because you're a good little girl that deserves happiness it's because you stole mine!"

"I stole your happiness?" Elena pushed her against the floor. "You killed my brother."

Katherine shrugged as she stood up. "I'll admit, that was nasty."

Wait, what? There was another girl that looked exactly like her. Half confused and losing her focus Katherine looked up and Natasha used that opportunity to punch her across the face and knocking her unconscious.

-End of Chapter Fifteen-