Chapter 6 – Our Truth

Based on the song "Our Truth" by Lacuna Coil

Elena: Sorry we weren't here yesterday.

Me: That's okay. [Watches Damon's every move.]

Stefan: [broods]

Damon: [inches away from me.]

Me: Damon, am I scaring you?

Damon: [smirks] a little, yes.

Me: [giggles hysterically.]

Stefan: I think you're scaring all of us, Nykki.

Me: douche.

Damon: She's got you there, Brother.

Stefan: [growls]

Elena: Guys! No growling!

Damon: [growls playfully at Elena.]

Me: [laughs.]

Elena: [laughs]

Stefan: [broods]

Elena: So, I hear Katherine's back in your story.

Damon: What?

Stefan: What?

Me: [inches away from the Vampires] Yeah…

Elena: That should be interesting. [Smiles.]

Stefan: Interesting? Elena, we need to get vervain… and stakes! We need to lock you in the basement where no one can ever, ever hurt you! Including me because I know if I did I'd go out in the sunlight without my ring because I love you love you love you! [Kisses Elena]

Damon and I: Bleck!

Damon: Okay, Edward Cullen, back off.

Stefan: Who's Edward?

Elena: [laughs]

Me: [looks at Damon] want me to tell him?

Damon: of course, my dear. [Smirks]

Me: [giggles hysterically before turning to Stefan.] Edward Cullen in a Brooding Sparkly Vegetarian Vampire from the book Twilight.

Stefan: Sparkly?

Me: Yes, he sparkles in the sun.

Stefan: You guys are calling me a brooding fairy? [Brood. Pout.]

Damon and I: [laugh]

Elena: [pats Stefan on the shoulder] it's okay. [Kisses his cheek.]

Damon and I: Bleck!

Nothing else that you can do to turn it back. Silent sneaking along my path. Rugged the road but we feel it like we're flying.

Katherine merely smiles. "Hello, Elena."

When Elena didn't respond Katherine said,

"I see you have both of the brothers wrapped around your finger." She smiles, a cold, taunting smile. "Tell me, dearest Elena. Which one do you like the best?" It wasn't until Katherine leaned across the counter slowly while talking that Elena realized the knife in her hand. Katherine laughed cruelly. "I know, it's hard to choose, isn't it? They're both so much fun."

"How did you get in?" Elena asked shakily.

"Your Aunt invited me in. Jenna, right?"

She thought Katherine was me. Elena thought.

Elena looked at her dying father. She dove for him, but Katherine was much, much faster. She grabbed Elena by the hair and threw her across the counter, causing the glass plates and wooden knife holder to fly off, and her onto the floor with lightning speed.

She cried out in pain and Katherine laughed again.

"Where's my brother?" Elena cried as she struggled to stand up. Before she could blink Katherine had her pushed against the wall.

"Sweetie, Jeremy's dead. He killed himself." She seemed almost amused by this fact.

"No." Elena struggled against Katherine. "He wouldn't-"

"Oh, yes he would, Miss Elena." Katherine's grip on her neck tightened. "It seems that your sweet Damon told him something about how Vampires don't feel pain."

"Wha-" Elena tried to speak, but Katherine's hand was blocking her air.

Katherine continued on, completely ignoring Elena. "So he took some of sweet little Annabelle's blood and swallowed some pills."

"How-"

"How do I know?" Katherine smirked at her doppelganger. "Well, for one, I heard him do it before Damon even saw me." She laughed, almost child-like. "Yes, Damon saw me. And he thought I was you."

Katherine let go of Elena's throat, letting her fall to the floor, gasping for air.

"You know, Elena," Katherine said as she bent over John, grinning triumphantly. "Damon really does love you. I didn't think he had it in him." She glanced over her shoulder at Elena's shocked face. "Too bad he'll come here to see me, in your bedroom, think it's you," She stood up and walked to Elena. "Maybe we'll have some fun. For old time's sake." She grinned. "Then, when I ask him to go into the kitchen, he'll smell the blood, cradle your dead body in his arms, maybe even cry a little." She seemed to enjoy the mental image of that. "I'll put a stake right in his heart. If he actually has one." She laughed. "Then," She bent over Elena. "I'll tell him that if I'm really the bitch he says I am, then why would I let you become a Vampire?"

Before Elena could respond, Katherine had a hold of her. She bit her wrist and shoved it into Elena's mouth. Elena tried to resist it, doing anything she could to get away from Katherine, but she was stronger.

When Katherine was sure Elena swallowed enough of her blood she took her face in her hands. "Bye, bye Elena."

Elena closed her eyes; waiting for Katherine to snap her neck when she heard two other Vampires (based on their speed) come in.

She opened her eyes to see Katherine smiling at someone behind her.

"Hello Damon. Stefan."

"Let her go, Katherine." Stefan begged.

Katherine laughed. "Good to see you, too."

"Let her go," Damon growled threateningly. "Or I will kill you."

Katherine raised an eyebrow. "Will you now?" She smiled. "Now, why would you do that?"

Elena stood there, watching Katherine, afraid to turn her head to look at Stefan and Damon.

"Because I wasn't in the tomb?" Katherine taunted. "Or because you learned that you and your brother were my little toys?"

Damon growled and obviously was about to move before Katherine said, "One more step, Damon and I kill her."

"Please," Stefan said. "Please, Katherine."

"Oh, Stefan you haven't changed a bit." She laughed her child-like laugh again. "Well, let's see how much Elena is like me, hmm?"

"What do you mean, Katherine?" Stefan was still trying to sound civilized.

"Well, Stefan, You both love her. You both loved me. You both slept with me. You both slept with her."

"Damon never did." Stefan said to her.

Katherine raised her eyebrows. "Really?"

Silence.

"Elena?" Stefan asked.

"Elena," Katherine turned to her. "Maybe you have something you'd like to share." She grinned.

"Yes." Elena said her voice full of fear. "I'm sorry I hurt you, Stefan." She said.

"Sorry?" Katherine laughed. "Sorry? What do you mean 'sorry?' Are you sorry you did it to Stefan or that you did it with Damon?"

Elena still said nothing. "I'm sorry I hurt Stefan." She repeated. She didn't regret sleeping with Damon at all and Katherine knew it.

Katherine laughed again. "Well, boys." She looked at them again. "This one's a keeper." Just as she was about to snap Elena's neck Damon launched himself across the kitchen, grabbing Katherine by the throat and throwing her into the refrigerator with so much force it cracked the door.

Katherine's eyes darkened as the veins pushed through her skin. "Now, now, Damon. Play nice." She growled and went for Damon until Stefan grabbed her and pushed her to the floor.

"Elena," Damon yelled. "Leave!"

In the blink of an eye, Katherine was back up, grabbing Stefan by the neck. "You don't feed on humans, Stefan." She said through her fangs. "You're not strong enough to beat me."

"But I am." Damon flung himself at her. She let go of Stefan to push Damon in the kitchen wall.

"Little boy, I made you." She glared. "I know your weaknesses."

The shock wore off enough for Elena to stand up and start to run before Katherine stepped in her way. She put her hands on both sides of her head again and said to Stefan and Damon. "You may want to calm yourselves, boys."

Katherine suddenly gasped and looked down. John was kneeling beside Elena, still bleeding, and Katherine had a wooden spoon stuck in her stomach. "Nice try John. You missed."
Katherine kicked John sending him flying into the wall. She looked back at Elena and shook her head. "That did hurt."
She glanced down at the wooden spoon in her stomach. She took one hand of off Elena's face and pulled the spoon out of her stomach. Elena made a grab for it when Katherine dropped the spoon and grabbed Elena, turning her around, either to see Stefan and Damon, or for Stefan and Damon to see her die. She put an arm tightly around her chest so she wouldn't escape.

Katherine ignored her current human prey and looked at the two vampire brothers, Stefan obviously too weak to do much more, and Damon only slightly phased. Stefan flitted over to John, trying to figure out a way to help him when Damon said to Katherine, "Well, Katherine. It has been a long time."

"145 years, right?"

"Yes." Damon hissed through his teeth. "145 years of trying to figure out how to get you out of that damned tomb. How to save you so we could be together forever, Katherine. Just like we planned."

Elena noticed that the emotional barrier he usually let down a little at the subject of Katherine was up, and stronger than ever.

Katherine's expression turned almost sympathetic as she slowly released her grip on Elena, who was still afraid to move. This almost gave her a sense of déjà vu from when Damon and Stefan did this. (A/N: Episode 13, remember :P)

Katherine let her go completely, and to Elena's surprise, moved around her to Damon. Stefan flitted to his brother's side.

"Oh, Damon." She smiled at him.

Damon melted a little and looked at her, all of the need and loneliness he felt without her showing through his walls. Katherine held her hand out and Damon looked at it, still not sure if he could trust her. Stefan stood rigid at his side.

He looked over her shoulder at Elena's fearful eyes and glared at Katherine. "Go to Hell."

Katherine shrugged. Before they could do anything to stop her, Katherine grabbed the wooden spoon and broke off a piece of the counter and thrust it towards them before Elena jumped on her back.

Damon and Stefan automatically tried to pull Elena and Katherine apart before Katherine flung Elena into the wall.

Stefan ran to Elena, whose eyes were closed and checked for a pulse. Damon grabbed the piece of wooden counter and stuck in right where Katherine's heart would be.

"Bye, Katherine," He said as she gasped and looked down at the blood gushing out of her stabbed chest. He looked at her as she fell to the ground with pure hatred. "You heartless bitch."

She let out a cough and Damon smiled as her skin withered.

Katherine's dead.

It wasn't until he turned and saw Stefan's anguished expression that his smile fell.

Wicked partnership in this crime. Ripping off the best condescending smile. Trying to forget, wasting my time. We're falling right through!

What do you think? Should I make Elena die and become a Vampire already, or do you think she should still live? Seriously, I want to know. LOL. Did you think I killed Katherine off too soon or did you say, "Good riddance?" What did you think about how I portrayed Katherine here?

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