Katherine winced as she felt the needle enter her vein. How bothersome it was to be mortal; how she wanted Bonnie Bennett to pay for not following through on their agreement to make her truly immortal.

She snarled at Klaus, her eyes filled with loathing as her tormentor smirked. "Am I going to have to do this everyday," her words laced with contempt.

"Only for the next couple of decades until your frail human life ends," the hybrid rubbed salt in her wound. "And now I get to kill two birds with one stone; making my hybrids and fulfilling my promise of torturing you for your betrayal."

"You did what," Jeremy couldn't believe what he was hearing.

"I traded her to Klaus," Elena told her friends. Jeremy, Stefan, Caroline, Damon and Matt were with her at the Boarding House. "Look, if it were anyone else in this world I would never have done it," she explained. "I've been on the other side of this and being Klaus's prisoner isn't something I would ever wish on anyone- else, that is. But she killed Jeremy and she's the reason Aunt Jenna was killed in the sacrifice. She has never once thought of anyone other than herself in all of the schemes she concocted. Everything that's happened to her is of her own doing. If she had ever once been a decent human being I would have never offered her to Klaus."

"What did Klaus say about all of this," Caroline asked. She was still waiting for Tyler to come home and if truth be told, shaken up over Klaus's speech from earlier.

"He was surprised," Elena recounted, "I guess he didn't think I had it in me to be cut throat but then he recalled all of the times I managed to ruin his plans. I didn't even mean to bargain for her but when he offered to give me something in trade I couldn't refuse."

Damon squinted his eyes and took a swig from his bourbon. "Do I even want to know," he asked her; swinging his glass.

"Well, we've always been opposite team Klaus because of the whole 'kill Elena, Break Hybrid Curse' thing-"

"-As well as reprogramming Stefan, and killing Tyler's mom," Jeremy added.

"And this seemed like the perfect opportunity for a peace treaty. I mean, we've seen what being his enemy is like. Wouldn't it be better for us to be his friend?"

Elijah watched from the hallway. When he had left Mystic Falls to join his brother in New Orleans he had thought he was also leaving her behind but here she was.

Here. Where he was. Tormenting him. Haunting him as always.