Chapter Fifteen

Flashback: Katherine, 623 years old

The entrance hall was adorned with gold vases sprouting white flowers. Everything was ready it seemed for a wedding. The guests from other realms had arrived, the feast was ready, and her family was in position. Thor and Loki weren't bickering like they usually did and Katherine was dressed in a long, white gown and in the jewels that had once been her mother's.

But there was a problem, the wedding should have taken place an hour ago Katherine should have been married by then.

But he had never bothered to show.

"Calder, is not going to come is he?" Katherine asked Frigga as she removed the flowers from her hair and let her curls fall loose.

"I don't think so, sweetheart," Frigga said softly as she squeezed her arms. "But don't think about it, he doesn't deserve you. You deserved better."

Frigga hated to say this but she and Odin had anticipated this happening. Calder was not a trustworthy man, but Katherine had been insisting on marrying him.

Katherine squeezed her eyes shut, already feeling the hot tears wanting to come down. She had thought that after everything, that after the doppelganger curse she would finally be happy. And to be stood up at her own wedding that had just been downright humiliating.

"Katerina?"

Katherine grabbed the golden jar holding the flowers and threw them to the ground smashing it to bits. She grabbed the table and flipped it over letting her anger evaporated before the tears started falling.

She felt Frigga wrapped her arms around her as she ran a hand through her messy curls. "It's going to be ok, darling it's going to be ok."

"Finally!" Katherine closed the door of the black convertible that they had stolen. She rearrange the black sunglasses over her new glossy curls while admiring her new peep toe black heels. First thing that she had done after leaving that awful place and threatening Elena and watching the fear on her face was do all the things that she couldn't do all summer. Which meant getting her hair done and buying a new wardrobe, much to her brothers' annoyance. It felt so good to have magic again, sure it wasn't as easy as compulsion but it worked in her favor either way.

"What are we doing here in New York, though?"

"We are meeting Thor's friends." Loki said with a touch of irony in his voice. "Well, you are meeting them, I already meet them."

"It won't take long," Thor promised. "Director Fury wanted to meet you, sister."

"So we're finally meeting the famous Katerina?" Tony pushed his elbows up on the table in front of him. "Is she hot? She better not be all muscly like some Amazon warrior."

"I thought you had a girlfriend Stark," Natasha narrowed her green eyes. "Pepper."

"Geez, what's your problem?"

Clint shrugged. "Potential villains put her on edge."

"Right this way," the heard Phil say as he opened the door and let them in. Katherine, Thor, and Loki entered the room, they flinched when they saw Loki. "Well, I'm glad to see that I am remembered."

"I know her." Steve murmured. He didn't know from where, but he had seen her.

"Cool, it cap I doubt she was in Playboy." Tony teased.

Then in hit him. The training camps. 1943.

"I know you!" he suddenly blurted out without introducing himself.

Katherine stared at him confused. "I've never seen you before."

"Yes, you have," Steve blurted out. "Training camp, during the army in 1943. You were one of the drill sergeants, along with Peggy Carter. I'm Steve Rogers. I was the skinny kid in the back. Steve Rogers."

"Rogers?" That sounded familiar, she looked at Steve's new form. "Wow, you really changed in a . . . very good way."

"You were in a training camp, for war?" Thor asked his sister confuse. "Why?"

"Probably to drain the life of the poor souls," Loki guessed, "Easy food and Katerina gets to be in control, that's her favorite pastime."

"What do you mean easy food?"

"I was a vampire." Katherine said simply.

Steve looked at Katherine strangely. "Like a myth?"

Natasha shook her head. "Not a myth. Long story, we'll tell you later." She offered her hand. "Natasha Romanoff, Agent."

"I'm Katerina." She shook her hand. "But please call me, Katherine."

"Clint Barton." Clint eyed Loki. "Your brother and I already meet."

"Dr. Bruce Banner." Bruce said politely.

Katherine gave a squeal. "I saw you, you're the big green one, right?"

Bruce flushed as Tony put an arm around Bruce's shoulder. "Don't mind him, he's still shy." Tony said snarkily. "I'm Tony Stark billionaire, playboy, philanthropist, and where have you've been all my life?"

Katherine giggled. "Hiding under your bed. I like you." She eyed Steve who was frowning. "Though your friends doesn't look too happy to see me."

Tony shrugged. "Don't mind him, he's moody. Comes with the age, right gramps?"

Steve scowled and moved away.

"Miss Pierce if you will come with us for just one moment," Agent Hill cleared her throat. "We just need to take some pictures. Thor, Loki can you come with me please as well?"

Katherine smiled. "Pictures? Well, I'm liking it here already, see you later." She grabbed her purse and followed Maria. Thor and Loki followed.

Tony rested his chin against his hands. "This just got interesting, so now we have Nala, Scar, and Simba from Pride Rock."

Natasha watched in the direction that Katherine had left. "Actually I was thinking more along the lines of Marie, Toulouse, and Berlioz from the Aristocats."

"Can you take the picture from the right, Bernie?" Katherine cocked her head to the side.

"Miss Pierce, this isn't a photo shoot," Phil Coulson said slightly irritable from the other side. "We just want to have your picture on file."

Katherine rolled her eyes. "Fine."

After they had done taking her picture, Phil sat in front of her with a tablet in his hands. "So, I just need some information from you."

"Like what?"

"Preferences, status that sort of this."

Katherine leaned back in her chair. "Well, all my life I have always dated brunettes but they always end up betraying me in a way or hurting me, so I'm thinking of starting to date blondes or maybe a red head-"

"Um, not that kind of information."

"But I have so many interesting stories to tell!" she pouted.

Phil nodded. "I'm sure you do, but all we want is your basic info first to have something on file."

"Do you have something for Thor and Loki?"

"More than enough actually." He placed the pad over his lap and was generally surprise when Katherine started babbling on. Apparently, she liked talking about herself.

"Well, I'm 2,030 years old. I am Odin and Frigga's youngest daughter." Katherine rested her head against the chair. "I'm the Goddess of love and beauty, I was turned into a vampire over 500 years ago. But after getting the fountain I became a Goddess again. That enough for you?"

He nodded. "Just one more question. How long are you planning on staying here, on earth?"

"Not long," she smiled innocently. "I just have to do a little errand first."

Katherine pulled Loki inside one of the empty SHIELD offices.

"Katerina, what do you-"

"Lower your voice," Katherine hissed. She looked around to make sure that nobody heard them. "Will you still help me kill, Elena Gilbert?"

Loki looked interested. "And I thought it was just a whim of yours."

"It's definitely not a whim of mine," she said frustrated. "I want to take everything away from her and see her eyes as she realizes that I ended her life. So will you help me, big brother?"

"It will be my good deed for the day, little sister." Katherine and Loki exchanged smirks. "To get rid of all the annoying doppelgangers."

"I knew I could count on you."

"You wanted to see me?" Katherine pushed the glass door open and found Nick Fury sitting in his office. When Agent Hill had told her that Fury wanted to speak to her she had been surprise since Nick Fury had barely said two words to her since she had arrived.

"Yes, Miss Pierce, or do you prefer Odindottir now?"

She shrugged as she sat in the leather chair in front of him. "Pierce is fine, I've used that name for over 500 years, and it takes a while to get used to the old one again."

"Of course."

Katherine and Fury didn't speak to each for a few minutes, they simply stared until Katherine said impatiently. "Well, are we just going to stare at each other?"

"No," he squeezed his hands together. "I couldn't help, but overhear your conversation that you had with Loki. About killing your doppelganger, Elena Gilbert is it?"

Katherine gave him a bewildered expression.

"Super spy." He shrugged. "I have eyes everywhere."

"And by eyes, I think you mean web cams." She crossed her arms over her chest. She couldn't have Fury babbling this to Thor who didn't seem to share Katherine's hate towards Elena. Figures. "Let me guess you're going to stop me from hurting a hair on precious Elena's head because you are all about saving people."

"Elena is a vampire, which means technically she's no longer my concern," Fury said. "But Thor mentioned you had two other cures with you. Are you going to use them on Elena?"

Katherine scoffed at the stupid idea. "And give that bitch everything she always wanted? I'm not her fairy godmother, not I want her dead, dead." She cocked her head at Fury. "Face it, Fury you don't want Elena around as much as I do. She's the only doppelganger left and for some strange reason her blood is the key to everything. If she's a vampire sooner or later some master villain will want her blood, I know how these things work if I turn her human then she will be a hybrid breeding machine. No, what's in our best interest to both of us is for me to get rid of Elena Gilbert forever."

"You seem to hate the girl."

"Oh, please." She smirked. "You and I both know that this world will be a much better place without Elena Gilbert. So how about a deal you let me kill her without you blabbing to Thor and as soon as I do, I'll go back home to Asgard and never bother you again."

"What I don't want Miss Pierce is for those vampire to seek vengeance on us."

"Oh, I can take care of that."

"How?" Fury raised an eyebrow.

"A protection spell."

"What are we doing here?" Natasha looked between Loki and Katherine suspiciously. Her gun handy just in case.

"Relax, Red." Katherine said as she looked at the remaining Avengers. "We just want to do a protection spell on you. We want to help you."

"No offense, kitty kat." Tony clicked his toung as he pointed his index finger at Loki. "But your brother tried to kill all of us less than a year ago, so you have to forgive me if I don't trust him."

"Or you." Steve narrowed his eyes, obviously still feeling betrayed by the whole 1943 issue.

"Perhaps, I want to repair my ill-fitting reputation with good deeds." Loki said with a straight face.

"Is there any good in you?" Clint asked with a hard voice, obviously remembering the way that Loki had mind control him.

Loki only smirked in response

"Well, I don't need it," Bruce stepped out and when they all stared at him he reminded them. "Big green guy remember, he generally doesn't like being attacked."

"Now," Loki faced them. "Shall we begin?"

-End of Chapter Fifteen-