Chapter Five

"B-Brothers, what?" Elena narrowed her eyes at Katherine as Damon helped her up. "Did you seriously just say brothers?"

"Not the brightest, is she?" Loki cocked his head in Elena's direction and studied her as if she were an interesting specimen. "I must admit though, for a second she did look like you, physically at least."

"Yes, each of my doppelgangers seem to be worsening in quality." She cocked her head and stared mockingly at Elena. "I think she might be even worse that Amara. As for personality she certainly gives a whole new meaning to the words whiny and boring."

Loki and Thor looked at her confused. "Long story, I'll tell you later."

Elena glared at Katherine and she looked like she wanted to attack her, but Damon pulled her back. "Easy, easy you can kill her later."

"That's not possible," Elijah murmured. "When you left in 1492, I studied your family history, you only had one younger sister and she died when Klaus killed your entire family."

Katherine winced. "Yeah, about that, that may not be exactly true. You see everything you know, or you think you know about me is a lie. Katerina Petrova or Katherine Pierce has never existed."

"Are you drunk, Katherine?" Damon hissed.

"Oh, you're going to wish I was after this Damon," she smirked. "But I'm telling the truth, everything you know about me so far is a complete lie."

"Enough sister, you have played this game long enough," Thor said dryly. "We have no time to spare-"

He attempted to grab Katherine's arm, but Klaus tried to pull it away. "Hold on a second mate, we're not done."

Thor grabbed Klaus' wrist and he pressed him against the wall. "Do not touch me."

"What in bloody hell are you?" Klaus hissed.

"Ok, boys that's enough," Katherine stepped in between them and gave a knowing look to Thor. "Maybe you should wait outside, I'll be there in a minute."

Thor frowned. He knew his little sister had a habit of pissing people off. "But-"

"Thor, they need to know truth, I'll be fine, Loki's here. It will only take a minute." When Thor left, Katherine turned back to her awaiting audience. "Ok, let's make this quick before I die of a heart attack, get one thing straight my name is Katerina Odindottir, not Katerina Petrova. Petrovodottir was my mother's maiden name and I used it when my father kicked me out of my own planet."

Stefan crossed his arms over his chest. "What do you mean kick you out of your planet?"

"Hmm, how do I explain this? I live in Asgard it's a kingdom far away in a different extraterrestrial planet and it basically looks like a very shiny Disneyland. My father is the king and the God of Wisdom and I might have made a mistake or two that made him angry."

"Or twenty. Or fifty, Or a hundred."

"Shut up, Loki." She hissed. "Anyway long story short, I ditched my own wedding that would have made some sort of treaty to make our kingdom more powerful, that pissed him off and he sent me to earth as punishment over 500 years ago."

"You're lying, sweetheart through your teeth," Klaus announced. "Everything you just said comes from Norse Mythology."

"Believe what you want, but I am telling the truth. For once anyway."

"You said, your father is the king," Caroline pointed an index finger in Katherine's direction. "So does that make you a princess?"

"Correct, Care Bear I can see college is helping you use that little brain of yours." Katherine continued. "You're right I'm, or was anyway Princess Katerina Odindottir, the Goddess of Love and Beauty and I'm 2,030 years old, not 538."

There was a continuing amount of eye rolls in the room.

"It's a bit ironic, I must admit." Loki rested his chin in his hand and stared lazily at them. "But we were all given our gifts you could say. Thor is the God of Thunder, I myself is the God of Mischief, and well my sister you know how she's like."

"You're lying," Elena accused. "Your story, can't add up with the doppelganger history. You told me about your baby and-"

"Did it ever occur to you that I may have lied Elena," Katherine rolled her eye. "Though, I must admit that I did make up a good sob story, all of you fell for it. I'm not just some random doppelganger, I'm the Original one." She pulled down her blouse slightly exposing a small, heart shaped birthmark near her collarbone. "This is how you can tell the Original one from the fakes that followed."

"You can't be the Original one," Rebekah protested. "I met the original one that was Tatia."

"No, the first one was Amara," Damon shot back. "I saw the crazy one myself, she and Silas were crazy for each other. Literally."

"Will you please shut up, so I can explain," she snarled. Surpsingly they did as they were told. "Good. When I was 400 years old I pissed off a sorceress I shouldn't have, Aei. She placed a curse on me instead and said that every 500 years on earth there would be a copy of me on earth. I didn't believe her at first but then Amara appeared and when Tessa made her into stone I thought that there would be no more doppelgangers, but Amara had sisters to continue the gene and then Tatia arrived and even though she was killed for the vampire sacrifice her child lived."

"So you were the 15th century doppelganger?" Bonnie asked.

Again she shook her head. "My father send me to that Bulgaria family, I told you I gave birth to my daughter out of wedlock, but that was lie. My supposed to be sister was the one that had a baby out of wedlock and was banished to London for a short time and I accompany her, but when she returned back home I stayed and had the misfortune of meeting Klaus and you know how the story goes."

"Quick question love, if I would have sacrifice you what would have happened?"

"Nothing." She said. "It wouldn't have worked. The curse was banded with fake doppelganger blood and since I'm the Original it wouldn't have worked. Oh, and nice job by the way I ask you to do a simple thing and you let me down."

Klaus raised an eyebrow. "What are you talking about, love?"

Katherine took a seat in a velvet chair. "Who did you think compelled that commoner right after I turned, to tell you where I supposedly lived and that it would have broken my heart if you killed my Bulgarian family? I did my best acting during that time. I was counting on you killing the doppelganger baby instead, but through some force of bad luck the night you killed my suppose entire family the baby was staying at the doctor's house. Her name was Adele in case any of you are curious."

"So because Klaus didn't kill Adele, Elena had a chance to live!" Caroline threw a grateful look at Klaus.

"A world without Elena Gilbert," she served herself a drink. "What a happy thought."

"Why didn't you kill the baby?" Rebekah snorted. "Am I supposed to believe that you have a soft heart for infants?'

"I don't actually, but I was on the run from Klaus so killing the doppelgangers wasn't my top priority at the moment. Besides Adele was a baby in the 15th century I figured that I didn't need to bother that she would just catch influenza or get run over by a horse and die." She shrugged. "Fun fact, she committed suicide in 1530 leaving her husband with like twenty kids."

"So the doppelganger prophecy isn't real?" Elena wondered. "And all this time we weren't descendants from Amara, but from you?"

"Correct. So in reality all of you that have fallen in love with Tatia, or Amara, or Adele, or Elena have really fallen in love with me for the past 1000 years."

"None of us are nothing like you!" Elena snarled, ignoring Damon's attempt to pull her back. "None of us are cold, manipulative bitches like you!"

"Aw, how cute you think you can actually change." She raised an eyebrow. "Wrong. I see it happen again and again the same story every 500 years the same doe eyes, the same sweet smile. Let me ask you guys a question since all of you have meet on of my doppelgangers, exclude me. Let's focus on Tatia, Amara, and Miss Perfect Elena. How are they personality wise when you first meet them? Sweet, kind, compassionate, wouldn't hurt a fly, but maybe you guys are too blind by love or devotion, but I see how they really are. All of them are exact like me selfish, manipulative, and complete bitches."

"I am nothing like you!"

"Oh, really let's do some counting and a history lesson," Katherine tapped her index finger on her chin. "Amara stole Tessa's hubby from under her very nose and then convinced him to steal the immortality elixir. Tatia played with both Klaus and Elijah and destroyed their brotherly bond, Adele committed suicide after her husband found out that she had been having an affair and that three of his kids weren't really his, and then there's you sweet, perfect Elena. Aren't you the one that's constantly toying with the Salvatore brothers, switching between them? I mean you choose Damon, but you still get jealous when Stefan looks at another girl, what are you going to do, switch brothers every other week? And haven't you notice by now that all these deaths that had been happening are because of you, for you, or by you. Come to think of it if you hadn't existed Jenna, Jules, Alaric, John, Isobel, Kol, Finn, Miranda, Grayson would still be alive, Bonnie's mom would never have turned into a vampire, Tyler and Caroline would still be normal human beings, Jeremy would never had to die, and Bon Bon wouldn't be suffering as the anchor."

"Hey, don't listen to her," Jeremy whispered hugging his sister close.

Damon snarled. "Shut up, Katherine!"

Katherine rolled her eyes. "You wanted to know the truth, and I gave you the truth. All of my doppelgangers are copies of me physically, but also personality like. Aei not only cursed me with having doppelgangers who will prove to be my competition, but so I can relive my unhappiness dozens of time, because as long as I'm not happy, none of my doppelgangers are allowed to be happy."

Elijah who had been silent until now, spoke up surprising Katherine. "My mother used Tatia's blood because she was convinced that the witches were guiding her, but that couldn't be possible since you lived in Asgard and therefore the doppelgangers weren't originally part of the witching community like vampires. Why did she use Tatia?"

Katherine hesitated a she clutched the glass in her hand. She couldn't bear the thought of Elijah hating her, but if he wanted to know the truth, she'll give him the truth. "I was the one who told Esther about the immortality spell and to use Tatia's blood to bind it."

-End of Chapter Five-

Katherine will continue her story in the next chapter!