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Now to the story...


Everytime I try to fly I fall

Without my wings I feel so small

I guess I need you baby

And everytime I see you in my dreams

I see your face it's hunting me

I guess I need you baby...

- Everytime, Britney Spears.

Three months later...

Katherine's POV.

"So... how are you doing?" Ric asked me in the moment I laid on the couch.

"How do you think I'm doing?" I asked him, staring at the ceiling of his office. "I have no freedom"

Ric chuckled at that. "You like overdramatizing, don't you?"

"Whatever..." I said, looking at my nails while he started writing something on his notebook. I hated when he did that, I sometimes wondered if he was just drawing or playing fucking tic-tac-toe or something.

"What exactly do you miss about the outside word?" He asked me and I snickered. Seriously?

"I miss cocain" I said honestly and he chuckled.

"Apart from that."

"I miss partying. Being on a stage. You know, all that stuff..."

"And what about your old life?" He asked me and I frowned. "Your life in Mystic Falls, before you were famous"

"I was a whole different person back then, Ric" I said honestly.

"But you must miss something from there. I mean, apart from your family who visits you once in a while." Alaric said, and I sighed. The guy loved making me talk about things I don't like to talk about. That's why I hate shrinks. "How did you like to spend time? Did you play with your siblings?"

"Not really" I said, wrinkling my nose. "No, I was practically the whole day hanging out with..." I couldn't help but smile when remembering of him. "...Stefan"

I think Alaric noticed my smile because he raised his eyebrows. "He is your best friend, isn't he?" He said, reading something he had written in another session.

"Was" I corrected him. "I haven't seen him in years" I added, sadly.

"He and you were very close, weren't you?"

"We never left each other's side." I told him. "He was the one who was always there even when my mom wasn't" I remembered and then I looked away. I didn't want to talk about this. "Whatever, we were kids and it's not important..."

"Was it hard for you to be separated from him?" Alaric asked me anyway, and I scoffed.

"Hell yeah it was..."

Flashback. Six years ago...

"Stefan, think fast!" Eleven-year-old Katherine told Stefan, throwing him the football while they were both in the backyard of his house.

Stefan caught the ball skillfully, but didn't laugh or show off or anything. "Katie-" He started saying.

"Wow, that was great!" She said, clapping her hands and jumping in emotion and he sighed. She always acted like she had had thirty energy drinks when she wanted to avoid talking about certain topics. "You're the best!"

"Katie, listen..." He tried to talk to her again.

"You should become a football player Stefan, I don't know where you got all that crap of becoming a boring lawyer..." She continued, as he started walking towards her.

"Katie-"

"I'm bored, do you wanna go swim to the lake?" She asked him.

"Katie" He said, standing in front of her.

"What?! God, what's wrong with you?!" She said snapped.

"You're leaving tomorrow" He said sadly.

Finally she stopped talking when he said that and her smile slowly faded.

"Don't say that" She told him and he lowered his gaze.

"But it's the truth"

She looked at him in the eyes for a brief moment. There was a long silence before she spoke again. "Can we go in? I'm tired of playing..." She said, now sadly.

"Sure, let's go to the treehouse"

Once they were in the treehouse, both of them sat on the floor and stayed in silence.

"You could come with me" Katherine told him suddenly.

"I can't. My parents are here, and I still have to finish middle school and go to High School" He said.

Katherine lowered her gaze again, starting to think again. She made a small pause before speaking again. "Then I won't leave"

"Don't say that, Katie" Stefan said. "This is what you wanted the most, since you were a baby, remember?"

Katherine's eyes started filling with tears. "Yes, I guess..." She said and her voice broke.

"Hey, don't cry..." He said. "You can still see me when you come for a visit"

"But it's not the same because I won't see you every day" She said in a shaky voice.

"Stop crying..." He said, pulling her into a hug as his eyes filled with tears too.

"I'll miss you, idiot" She said, burying her face on the crook of his neck.

"Okay, I have an idea" He said, pulling softly away from her and lookinq at her with a comforting smile. Like always he was trying to be strong for her even though he wanted to cry too. "Wait right here" He said before he stood up to go look for something between all the stuff he had in the treehouse.

"What are you doing?" She asked him, frowning while she wiped off her tears with her hand.

"I'm gonna give you something important of mine and you'll give me something important of yours" He said, going back to sit on the same spot as before, carrying something in his hands. "Then we'll have something important from each other and we'll always be connected"

Katherine stayed in silence for a moment, trying hard to hold her laugh until she couldn't anymore and she burst into laughter.

Stefan looked at her in confusion and with some amusement. "What?"

"Nothing. nothing..." She said, trying to stop laughing. "That was really cheesy..."

He smiled when he saw her smiling again. "Are you making fun of me?"

"I'm sorry, it's just funny." She told him in amusement. "We've never been the kind of friends with a friendship bracelet and a secret greeting"

"I thought you'd said you'd miss me" He said in amusement.

"Of course I'll miss you, silly" Katherine told him like it was too obvious. "Come on, let's do this"

"Here..." He said, giving her his baseball, which he'd had since he was a baby and was his favorite one.

Katherine's eyes widened. "Your baseball? But you've had that since like forever..."

"And you've been my friend since longer than that, haven't you?" He said and she smiled softly at him while he handed her the ball.

"I'll give it back to you as soon as I come back" She promised him.

"Sounds fair"

"And what can I give you...?" She said, thinking about something important to her... then it suddenly downed to her. "Oh, I know..." She said as she took out her purple hair clip.

"No, not your lucky clip" Stefan said as she gave it to him.

She'd worn that clip for every audition and every special occasion in which she needed luck since she was five, because it was her lucky charm.

"I've had enough luck. Now it's your turn to have it" She said, smiling softly at him. "But don't wear it because it would be kind of ridiculous. You can just keep it in your pocket or under your pillow"

He smiled back at her. "I love you, Katie"

"I love you too" She said, hugging her friend once more.


Stefan's POV

It was sunday and as usual we were having a barbecue at the Gilberts. I was talking with Elena, Jeremy and my brother while Grayson, Miranda and my parents talked about other stuff, in the other side of the table. It was like we'd never grown up and there was still a 'children table' and an 'adult table'.

"Elena... I've heard you started dating Matt Donovan" Damon told her suddenly and I rolled my eyes. My brother was a sucker for Elena Gilbert, but she was so different from him... They didn't have any chance.

"Who told you that?" Elena asked, raising her eyebrows.

"Everyone's saying that" Damon said and Elena glared at me.

"What? I didn't say anything" I defended myself. Matt was my friend so I already knew that they were going out together. However, I hadn't told Damon about it.

"Did you know too?" Elena asked Jeremy.

"Yeah, Damon's right, everyone knows" Jeremy said.

"It's impossible to do anything in this town without everyone knowing, right?" Elena complained.

Elena was just like Katherine physically, but they couldn't be any more different in personality. Elena was a shy girl who always wanted to keep a low-profile. She'd always obeyed her parents and she followed the rules. Maybe it was one of the consequences of having a such an outgoing twin.

On top of that, being Katherine's twin had been tough for her. Mystic Falls was the only place in which she was quite, because if she went to any other town or city she immediately had a crowd of people surrounding her, mistaking her for her sister.

At that moment we saw Grayson standing up abruptly from the table, speaking on the phone. Just by his gestures, and by the look on his face we could all tell who he was talking to.

"What?" He asked, standing up and walking towards the house.

Everyone interchanged a look. Grayson and Isobel normally ignored each other, but lately with Katherine being in rehab, Grayson had wanted to be with her and support her, so they didn't have any other choice but to talk.

After a while Grayson came back, and luckily he had a happy face.

"What happened, honey?" Miranda asked him.

"Kath's coming out of rehab in three days" He said and I smiled.

"That's awesome!" Elena said cheerfully.

"But the doctors said it wouldn't be good for her to go back to the stage now" He said and everyone frowned.

"But... what is she gonna do?" Jeremy asked.

"She's gonna be staying here for the summer" Grayson announced.

Everybody dropped their forks, and looked kind of surprise. Then all of our faces lit up in happiness.

"Oh my god, that's so great!" Miranda said.

"We should throw her a welcome party!" Maria suggested.

Katie Gilbert back after six years...

I didn't know why but that kind of freaked me out. But at the same time, all I could think about was...

Finally.


Katherine's POV

"I have good news for you, Katherine" Alaric said while I was looking at my nails and laying on his office couch, and then I turned my head to look at him in interest. "You'll be discharged from treatment next week"

I can't even explain how happy I was at that moment. I would have literally stood up and kiss Ric if it wasn't for the fact that if I did that they'd never let me out. "Oh my god!" I said, sitting on the couch to face Ric. "Really?!"

"Yes, you've improved a lot, and I think getting out of here and breathing a new air will be good for you" He said and I just couldn't stop smiling and nodding at everything he said.

"I couldn't agree more, yes" I said, nodding energetically. "You'll see, Ric, in the moment I get back to a stage I'll be completely sane again"

"Oh, no, no way" He said and I frowned. "You're not going back to the stage yet"

"What?" I asked in surprise, and then thought about it better and shrugged my shoulders. "Well, I was thinking about having holidays in Europe..." I said, already imagining myself there and smiling. "Maybe Paris would be cool... I could go shopping for shoes..."

"You're not going to Europe, Katherine" Alaric cut me off, interrupting my daydream. "I've made a decision with the other doctors that will be the best for you in this moment..."

Okay, the guy was starting to really scare me. This wasn't even funny anymore. "What decision, Alaric?" I asked him.

"You're going back to Mystic Falls" He said simply.

First I was shocked. Then, when I realized how ridiculous that idea was, I scoffed. "Yeah, like that's gonna happen..."

"It's going to happen, you already have a plane ticket to go to Mystic Falls in three days" He told me calmly.

"I'm not going anywhere" I said, raising the tone of my voice and talking seriously. "My mother won't allow that, my manager either"

"Both of them agreed with this, for your own sake" He said and I snickered. "Going back to the stage and to your busy life would mean you'll go back to taking drugs. None of us want that"

"Where's my lawyer?" I asked, looking around, starting to freak out. "Where is he?!"

"There's nothing you can really do, Katherine" Ric said, still talking in his I-know-it-all tone. "You're just seventeen, you're underage and your parents still decide where you live"

"Do you have any idea of who I am?!" I snapped. I'd already lost my patience with this guy. "I am Katherine Pierce. I have more Golden Globes than you'll ever have in your dreams!"

"You think that makes you better than other people?" He asked me, raising his eyebrows.

"Like hell it does!" I exclaimed.

"See why you need this, Katherine? So the old Katerina Gilbert comes back" He said and I scoffed.

"You want to ruin my life, right?!" I snapped. "I am royalty. Like seriously, I'm a princess. I only sleep between silk sheets and I have a kind of tea for breakfast that costs more than what you earn in a month" I said and he chuckled in amusement. This wasn't even funny! "You can't send me to the one-horse town where I grew up. It's like sending Cinderella back to her stepmother after she married the prince!"

"You should have made more comedies Katherine, seriously" He joked and I just rolled my eyes. "And dramas too, you would have won an Oscar"

"I would have won an Oscar next year if you weren't doing this to me!" I said, losing my patience.

"Hey, calm down, okay?" He told me. "It will be just for three months. Then you can go act on that sitcom you've been contracted and you can record your new album"

"I can't believe this..." I said, burying my face in my hands. "My whole career is over"

I could almost feel him rolling his eyes. "Don't be overdramatic, Katherine"

"I want to leave, is the session over?" I asked him, lifting my head.

"No, but you can leave" He said and then I stood up.

"Thank you for ruining my life" I told him and he rolled his eyes in amusement.

"Drama queen..." He teased while I walked away.

"Gosh, you gotta be kidding me..."


"Hey wait... mom, please don't hung up... This is unfair... Let me just talk... Hey!"

And she hung up on me. Again. Just like Klaus did. Nobody gave a freaking damn about me.

Now I was mad. Okay, at first I'd called them to beg them not to let me go back to live with dad and Miranda. But now I was calling them just to talk to them. Maybe it was just to complain, but hey, I needed a pair of ears to listen to me! Was that too much to ask?!

That was the crazy thing about my life... I was surrounded by people twenty-four seven, but in this kind of situation... I was on my own.

It wasn't a big deal for me either. I was used to this. I had to get used to this, if not I wouldn't have survived all these years being a celebrity.

I put on my PJ's and brushed my teeth. When my mom told me all those stories when I was little about how great it would be to become famous, she never told me this part. No, she just told me I would be like a princess, that people would love me and that I'd won lots of prizes... She never mentioned the downsides.

I sat on my bed and opened the drawer in my nightstand table. I grabbed the only thing that was there, that special thing that I'd kept all these years and that always made me feel better.

I smiled as I looked at the baseball in my hands.


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PS: About my other story, The Return, I'm in kind of a block so it's taking me a while to write this new chapter... On top of that I've been busy, but I'll try to finish the new chapter as soon as I can :)