Hey guys! I'm back with my new chapter after updating yesterday. (I swear I didn't do anything except delete my author's note). I started this story almost a year ago, and it sucks that I only have six chapters up. I have a lot of time on my hands now that school is over for the year, but we all know how many times I've said this before. Just assume that while Big Brother and Big Brother Canada are on air, nothing else matters to me.
I hate those filler chapters that usually come up in fanfictions. I'd rather you have something going on in every single chapter. And now I'm afraid that this has happened to me! But read and judge for yourself will you?
BTW: Thanks for the 90 follows!
This chapter picks up right from the discussion they had the previous day, when Caroline held a very human Katerina in a choke hold.
Chapter VI
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The Day Before
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Klaus finally calmed Katerina down, compelling her to forget that Caroline even held her at a chokehold. When he gave her to Elijah, to escort her back to her room, Klaus turned to Caroline last.
She could notice the obvious anger in his eyes. But they were only a reflection of her own.
"Katherine betrayed me," Caroline mentioned calmly.
"Yes, Katerina did...Why do you keep calling her Katherine?" Klaus asked her incredulously.
"We've known each other for a while now, actually," Caroline answered, "Doesn't answer why you hid this secret from me. Why didn't you tell me where she was when I first asked about her?"
"I don't need to reason with you. You are a guest in my home, do not forget that,"
"I haven't exactly been treated like one, have I?" Caroline shot back.
"That doppleganger is very important to me, I can't have -"
"Doppelganger...where have I heard that word before?"
"I've had every single member of two warring species looking for the Petrova Doppelganger. Surely you know 'Katherine's' last name?" Klaus mockingly asking the second part.
"But why would you want her?" Caroline demanded for Klaus's answer.
"Why would you?" Klaus accused her of hiding something.
Caroline deeply inhaled, obviously annoyed at the turn the questioning took.
"Look, she betrayed me. I don't why, but she ousted my mother's name to the people that were chasing me,"
Klaus got angered very quickly and surprisingly Caroline just got more annoyed.
"Listen here, Old Man. You don't even get to pretend to be mad. You were the one that locked me in a cage like a rabid animal. Shocked you're not the first one to do so?" Caroline taunted. Klaus had the decency to look down on the ground in shame.
"Why were those people chasing you?" Klaus inquired.
"Do they need a reason? Look at me...I'm a monster,"
Hysteria started forming in Caroline as she started to breathe ragged breaths.
"I can't get home…my mom…," Caroline started to panic. Klaus had no idea what to do with the woman in front of him.
"Caroline," Klaus cautioned.
Caroline started tearing up in worry of her mother. She had no idea how accepting she would be of Caroline's vampire situation, but that didn't change the amount of love Caroline had for her mother.
And while she was stuck in the past, Caroline's mother would have to fend for herself from the big,bad vampires.
"Caroline, why would Katerina want to do that to begin with?" Klaus decided to push how far he can go with his questioning.
"I don't know but it doesn't matter, I need to get out here,"
Klaus quickly responded.
"I can take you to your mother. The people that are chasing her won't defy me,"
"You don't understand! You can't know where I live,"
"In Scotland you mean,"
Caroline stood her ground. A calming voice sounded next.
"Where I live - only a witch can take me,"
"I think you mean a boat," Klaus was starting to get amused.
"No, I mean a witch,"
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Present Day, 1492
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"We are at Ebony's. I have some questions to ask regarding you, and clearly you have questions regarding getting home to your loved ones,"
Klaus stalked towards the stall selling the fancy fabrics where Ebony was tending to another customer before turning her attention back to Klaus. He didn't bother with checking for Caroline, but did hear her quiet footfalls, so it was safe for him to assume she was behind him.
"Ebony!" Klaus called out for the witch. He could feel Caroline's glare on Ebony as well. Which reminded him of that little vampire hunt that the wench seemed to conduct against Caroline.
"A little birdy told me that two years ago you put an entire community of vampires to sleep?"
"I am afraid I have no idea what you're talking about,"
"Sure. Of course you won't disappoint me Ebony," Klaus taunted her while using his both his hand to hold her face.. He needed to speak with Caroline later it seems.
"Of course, M'Lord,"
"Right, let's get to work, shall we?
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Katherine and Elijah found themselves at another stall. Far away from Niklaus of course. Elijah did not want to be at the tail end of Klaus's wrath. Or the end of his dagger.
"I warn you, this one is not easy to please," Elijah warned Katherine.
An old caucasian lady walked out from the stall, throwing curtain, that divided the inventory in the back and the customers looking to by the odd trinket, behind her shoulder.
She had a stern look on her face, but the sight of Lord Mikaelson, turned into a mask of indifference. The lady knew better than to show her disapproval of the Mikaelson brothers, but she wasn't ready to kiss their feet.
But her face changed the moment she saw the lady friend that was behind him. This time, it was one of recognition.
"Katerina?"
"Mme. Vasil?"
Katherine couldn't imagine finding this face on her journey back to the past.
"How do you know her?" Elijah asked in disbelief. He was in a state of shock seeing Vasil's face so happy.
"She was my third grade teacher. Don't be surprised, but I excelled in school. But Papa took me out after a while. He didn't believe girls should be in school for long," Katherine reminisced
"Katerina! What are you doing here?" Vasil asked in Bulgarian.
"I could be asking you the same question. How are you -" Katherine responded back,
"Don't be so nosy, girl." Mme. Vasil yelled at Katherine just like she used to back in the convent in Bulgaria.
Elijah was completely oblivious to the conversation that the two Bulgarian women were having in front of him. Of course he could respect their right to talk freely in their native tongue, but he was still learning the language and they were speaking much too fast and with too much slang for him to understand.
Stupidly, he tried to speak his own, slow and broken version of Bulgarian.
"We need your help, Mme. Vasil," Elijah started.
He felt Katherine's hand on his arm.
"Just let me do the talking,"
Elijah handed the reins over to Katherine, but he quickly realized how smart that was.
"Mme. Vasil, you can try to tell me otherwise, but I know that you are a Traveller," Katherine started.
"Just like you," Mme. Vasil countered.
"And you know just as well that my father didn't allow me to practice any Traveller magic,"
"Can't see why, it is one of the purest magicks around,"
"Of course," Katherine smiled an insincere smile before continuing, "Unfortunately, I know nothing of my heritage, but help me rediscover it again,"
"Cut the bull crap, Katerina. You want my help with what exactly?"
"I need your help with some time travel,"
Elijah's ears perked. Time travel. Katherine, or confusingly Katerina probably assumed that Elijah's Bulgarian was so weak, that he wouldn't understand the term 'time travel'.
Of course, children wish to travel into the future, and see how the world would function five hundred, even a thousand years from the present. The ability to travel time was something that many scientists wished to find the answer to. Leonardo Da Vinci, a brilliant man in all accounts, confessed to Klaus and Elijah one night in a drunken stupor back in Italy that he was trying to find a way to travel into the future.
But that didn't explain Katherine's incessant demand that a shopkeeper help her travel through time.
"Are you out of your mind, child?" Mme. Vasil rightfully questioned Katherine.
"I knew you would say that but please listen to me -"
"I need not listen to you,"
"I think you do,"
"Wha-" Mme. Vasil was interrupted by Katherine.
"I need your help. I do not belong here. I come from far ways," Katherine whispered quietly into her ear, although she knew that there was no point. Elijah could hear every word if he wanted to.
"Where?"
"The question is not where, but when," Katherine corrected her
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"Ebony, it seems like my lady friend here..." Klaus smirked while Caroline glared back at him, "...needs help finding her mother. Care to do a simple locator spell,"
"I need to talk to her privately." Ebony demanded.
Klaus's eyebrows went up in surprise, but regardless gestured for Caroline to follow Ebony behind the curtain.
Caroline's eyes first landed on the sage burning in the room.
"The burning sage keeps conversations in this room quiet to outside ears. Sort of like sound proofing," Ebony mentioned.
"Sound proofing? So you -"
"Yeah, I'm the witch that brought you here,"
Caroline only took a split second to have her by the neck, "You knew who I am?"
"Caroline Forbes, Miss Mystic Falls 2010," she paused, "I know who you are,"
"What good could possibly come out of having me wither away in fucking 1492?" Caroline almost screeched in Ebony's ear.
"You're probably angry, confused at the situation. Allow me to set things straight for you. You can't go home just yet," Ebony answering none of Caroline's questions in the process
"Who are you to tell me that?"
"A witch backed by the Bennett bloodline,"
"Bonnie," Caroline whispered to herself. She tried pulling answers out of the witch in front of her again.
"Why did you need to send me and Katherine back into the past? Where can I find her? What do you get out of this?" She asked in succession.
"I sent you both back into the past because the spirits asked me to do so. I get nothing out of this except for protection for my family. As for Katherine's location, I'm sure Elijah can tell you the answer for that. You should probably be careful of that one,"
"Yeah, as if I don't know that already," Caroline muttered to herself before continuing, "Wait, how are you here?"
"I'm here to guide you. Think of me as your GPS while you're in 1492. I can guide you while you go through your purpose,"
"You won't even tell me what that is, Ebony," Caroline complained.
"I promise you standing in front of Klaus is enough to fulfill that," Ebony whispered for her own ears.
"What?" Caroline asked for clarification from Ebony, but she brushed it off.
"Don't worry about it. Just be yourself. I'll get you and Katherine back home soon in time for the ritual,"
"Ritual?"
"Let me do the worrying, Caroline," Ebony chided her.
"That is nearly impossible," Caroline walked out of the booth, Klaus expectantly looked at her.
"Let's go home, we have no answers here,"
Klaus looked back at Ebony standing at her booth. Their eyes locked, steely gazes looking at each other. Without a second thought, Klaus followed Caroline back to their meeting spot. Hopefully they can get home with Elijah.
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Elijah decided that he was going to casually ask Klaus what he thinks about concept of time travel.
"Elijah, don't talk to Klaus about this," Katherine warned him a second later.
"What do you mean?"
"I'm telling you, don't let him know I was with you," Katherine reminded him.
Elijah looked down at the ground. This woman was asking him to keep secrets from his brother.
"You are not keeping secrets from your brother. You're merely omitting parts of a whole truth," Katherine spoke as if she heard his thoughts.
"Do you even understand the severity of what you're asking me?" Elijah was astounded at Katherine's suggestion.
"'Lijah, please," Katherine gasped.
At this point, they were at the edge of the grounds. To their left, the rest of the booths remained. People went about their day, trading for the things they needed, completely oblivious to the supernatural world that lived right under their noses. To their right, the forest stood.
Elijah without a second thought grabbed Katherine by the neck and slammed her into the trees on their right.
"Ooh, kinky. I like," Katherine started playing with his hair. Elijah, was trying to stay focused.
"Don't," Elijah warned.
Katherine rolled her eyes before having her hands slump down beside her body.
"Did Mme. Vasil treat your headaches?" Elijah questioned.
"No. She sensed I was a vampire and didn't believe me," Katherine answered.
"Funny, I didn't hear the word vampire in that conversation. But I did hear the word time travel," he stared at her accusingly.
Katherine slowed for a second.
"Time travel," Katherine gasped in shock.
"No, Elijah that's ludacris. Perhaps your Bulgarian isn't as strong as you think it is,"
"Probably not, but I definitely know what the words for 'time' and 'travel' are in Bulgarian,"
Elijah started walking away, feeling Katherine's glare on the back of his head.
At that moment, no one could have guessed how defeated Katherine felt except Katherine herself. But then she reminded herself of the one leverage she had over all of them.
The moonstone.
She knew where the moonstone was. The one thing that binded Klaus's curse. All she had to do was go get it.
"It's show time, Kat"
So there it is! Katherine plans on using the moonstone, since she knows where the location of it is, as leverage! And all of that is because Elijah may or may not have found out Katherine is talking about time travel to Mme. Vasil! Let me know about what I've written so far. I want to thank all the reviews I've been getting so far. I know that people are asking questions, and so I'll start answering them at the bottom of every chapter.
Eils-emacsweeny asked about whether I'll be showing Klaus in the future. I would love to expand on that in a chapter, but that wouldn't come until much later. At some point, I would like to do a whole separate chapter on the characters in the future (2010).
Guest Serena asked why Caroline being in the past is hurting Katherine, and why isn't it hurting the Originals as well. It's not so much Katherine's head hurting because of Caroline being in the past, as it is because there is two Katherine's essentially in 1492. One is a human, and another is a 500-year old vampire. None of the other characters are dealing with the repercussions of having doubles essentially the way Katherine is. At the end of the day, this detail does come into play into my overall arc (assuming things go as plan, and I don't go veering off track)
Thanks for all the reviews so far, I would love to have more coming in, so please do so! I'm still working on the second part of WISH, which was supposed to be a two-shot about Elena and Katherine in an AU/AH world. Check out the first part if you haven't done so! And while you're at it, check out my Kennett one-shot SOULMATES. I hope to be writing out a lot more one-shots to develop my writing skills.
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Till Next Time,
Ann