Chapter Seven

Katherine paced around the room of the hotel they had checked into, rummaging a hand through her mess, greasy curls trying to keep her thoughts together.

Yes, her brothers had come to her rescue, but they had forgotten to mention that they didn't exactly have a cure to cure this whole aging thing. And it didn't help that she had just blurted out all her dirty secrets and that everyone back in the Salvatore house was probably planning her destruction.

"What about, Eir?" she asked, regarding the Goddess of Healing.

"She could probably stop the aging." Loki shrugged as he helped himself to another slice of pizza. "But she wouldn't be able to turn you back into a Goddess, this food isn't that bad."

"Loki, focus." Katherine snapped, though she had to admit that the pizza was pretty good though she would feel better if her life weren't currently hanging by a thread. "What other options do we have?"

"We could always ask father," Thor said for the thousand time ever since they arrived at the hotel. "In your current state, I don't think he will hesitate turning you back into a Goddess."

Loki snorted.

"Thor," Katherine said flatly. "Odin will laugh in my face if I ask him. He won't do it, I know he won't. Just like he didn't bother rescuing me when Klaus was ready to suck me dry. No, I can't ask him."

Thor looked disappointed with her response, but then Thor didn't know about what if felt like to be the lesser child in Odin's eyes, Loki because he was adopted and Katherine because she was a girl.

"We were thinking of traveling to Vanaheim," Loki said mentioning the sister town to Asgard where powerful sorceress lived and their mother, Frigga had been born. "There is a myth that one of the sorcerers there created the Fountain of Life. If you dip yourself in it, it performs its magic."

"What kind of magic?"

"If you're human you turn to whatever species you were, in your case Goddess. If you're are a species your turn fully human. But you only get one chance, you can't do it again and there is no cure. The fountain is made of the most powerful magic in the world."

Katherine couldn't help, but be disappointed. That sounded great and all, but there was only one small problem. "It's a myth though, what if it doesn't exist? Then what, I wait for our father to find some goodness in his heart and save me, because I doubt that is going to happen."

There was an awkward silence in the room, before Thor stood up. "I'm going to take a bath. You should rest, sister."

When Thor closed the door, Loki turned back to Katherine. "Do you want to travel to Vanaheim, at this point Katerina is our only option for your survival?"

She nodded slowly. "It's worth a shot. I don't have anything to fall back on," she lowered her voice. "Though, I'm glad to see both of you it still surprises me to see you and Thor actually being civil to each other after everything that happened in New York."

"Well, we have a common goal."

Katherine bit off the crust of a slice of pizza. "He's our brother, Loki and he cares for both of us. I know Thor, he isn't like father to judge a person by their race."

Loki didn't respond and instead said casually. "If the fountain of life turns out to be real and you become a goddess again are you going to go back home?"

"I do miss mother," she raised her chin. "Though, there is something I want to do first."

Loki guessed correctly. "You want to destroy the doppelganger."

A sly smirked played on her lips. "True. I want to kill Elena permanently, but that's not all."

Loki looked at her slowly. "You want to undo the curse so that there are no more doppelganger."

Katherine sighed as she dropped the empty pizza box in the trashcan. "Well, let's just get to the Fountain of Life first and then I'll figure out how to destroy my annoying doppelganger once and for all."

The door opened and inside came Rebekah. Katherine flinched and moved away a little. "Come to finish me off?"

"I was," Rebekah pursed her lips. "Until I overhead your little conversation about the fountain of life."

"This should be good."

"I go with you and we both dip ourselves into the fountain. You turn into a goddess and I turn into a human and have the life I always wanted. I'll even add a bonus and I won't kill you."

"Didn't you hear the last part?" she clicked her toung. "About me killing sweet Elena afterwards I thought you had join the Save Elena cheerleading squad."

"I could care less about that backstabbing bitch." Rebekah replied. "She deserves some form of payback after what she did to my brothers. I want to be human, so do we have a deal?"

After a moment she shook Rebekah's hand. "Rebekah Mikaelson, we have a deal."

"Here, drink this." Damon held up a cup of tea. Everyone had left and now in the living room there was only Stefan, Damon, and Elena. "It will make you feel better."

Elena's face was streaked with tears, she hadn't stopped crying since she had kicked Katherine out and neither of the guys knew what to say. They had known that Katherine was a bitch, but not the queen bitch, or princess bitch or whatever and they were overwhelmed.

Elena grabbed the tea cup and threw it at the fireplace. Her entire body was shaking. "I hate her! I hate her!" she checked out. "I should have killed her when I had the chance, but I let my stupid humanity get in the way."

"Come on, Elena." Stefan said gently as he patted her on the arm. "Would killing a human Katherine, make you feel better?"

"Yes." Damon and Elena responded at the same time.

"Don't you get it?" she scowled. "Everything that happened, it's because of her! We wouldn't have had to deal with Silas and with Tessa, we wouldn't have lost so many people if she hadn't turn the Originals into vampires, and she admitted to killing my parents like it was nothing!"

"The damn bitch has been playing us for centuries." Damon continued. "We've been her damn puppets in the worldwide production of The Life and Destruction of Katherine Pierce and she crossed the line when she killed Elena's parents."

"What are you guys going to do, huh?" Stefan asked. "A much as we hate Katherine, her brothers are gods and Loki knows sorcery and we lost our witch."

Elena stood up. She was tired of feeling sorry for herself. "I don't care about her brothers, but I'm going to kill Katherine if it's the last thing I do."

-End of Chapter Seven-

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