"If I hate you, it's because I love you with a passion that unhinges my soul" -Julie de Lespinasse
Chapter Five: Toxic Valentine
Katherine's POV
I opened my eyes and tried to makes sense of what was going on around me. Everyone was shouting "Elena, wake up!" and "Elena, fight Katherine off!" while the witch Bonnie was saying "It's too late, she's here" and Damon seemed to be in denial of everything. A glimmer of hope shinned in his eyes when he realized I was awake and he slowly propped me up against a tree.
"Elena? Elena, are you okay?" Damon asked and stroked the side of my face
"Damon, it's not her" Bonnie said
"How do you know?" Damon hissed towards her
I had to decide now on what exactly I wanted to do before Little Miss Perfect found a way to take control over her body again, at least for a little while.
"Damon" I said and it came out almost like a whisper
Damon's attention swung back over to me and the hopeful fire in his eyes brightened.
"Elena, I'm right here" He said "Are you okay?"
I nodded my head and Damon picked me up and held me in his arms.
"Damon, I'm telling you, it's not Elena" Bonnie said "Katherine came back when Emily did. Instead of leaving, she took over Elena"
"Bonnie, it's Elena" Damon said through clenched teeth
"And how do you know? Your not the one who just felt her come back from the dead!" Bonnie hissed
"I know it's Elena!" Damon said
"Your in denial!" Bonnie hissed "If Katherine stays in there long enough, Elena will be gone for good!"
"I don't wanna hear anymore of this" Damon huffed
"Damon, come on, I think you should listen to Bonnie" Jeremy said "If Bonnie says Katherine came back…I'm thinking she came back and your not holding my sister right now"
"You too?" Damon asked "How can you be so sure?"
"Well, there's the fact of that she's glaring at me right now and her eyes are all red and demonic looking" Jeremy said and took a step back
I couldn't stand all of these idiots arguing. I wasn't going to stand it for one more second. I was back, it may not be my body, but Elena's body was powerful enough to handle a vampire, after all, she was the dhampir that killed me. I finally felt strength come back into my body and sprang out of Damon's arms and in the blink of an eye had Jeremy pinned down to the ground.
"Told you!" Jeremy yelled out to Damon and tried to fight me off, he somehow managed to throw me off of him and slammed me against a tree, after so many years, I almost forgot what it was like to actually get hurt and not heal right away
"Jeremy!" Bonnie said "You have to be careful! If you kill her, we lose Elena forever too"
"Then how do we exactly get rid of Katherine and get Elena back?" Jeremy asked and stayed in attacking position while I tried to stand up again
"I don't know! I'm not an exorcist!" Bonnie said
"You called Emily here! Can't you get rid of her the same way?" Jeremy asked
I looked around the scene and everyone was in panic mode, they didn't want to kill me because I was in Elena's body, yet they wanted to attack me because I took over Elena's body. Finally one brave blonde girl walked up to me and tied me up with rope by my hands and feet.
"There! Now everyone, STOP YELLING!" She hissed and sat down next to another vampire that I vaguely remember from when they attacked my house
"I can't, she's in Elena's body, not mine, it's not the same" Bonnie sighed
"So what? Need me to go steal an exorcist or something?" Damon asked "I can go compel one and bring him here"
"No…not yet anyway" Bonnie sighed "I just need to look through my books at home, if I can't find anything by sunrise, then you can go steal one"
"…Fine" Damon said
I started trying to untie the ropes behind my hands and once they were free I tried to untie my feet before they noticed.
"So what do we do with her for now?" Jeremy asked
"Lock her up in the basement of the Boarding House" Bonnie sighed "Keep her there until I can find something"
"Alright" Damon sighed
Before they could react and come get me, I stood up and took off from where they were, I wanted to get away from them. I wasn't used to running human speed, or dhampir speed, and it was still weird having a beating heart and not needing blood for the first time in a few hundred years. But I heard them coming after me, they were all coming after me, they were right behind me. I finally heard a familiar voice in the woods, the one voice I always loved hearing. I followed that voice and found him, he was there, just him.
"Elena?" He asked once he noticed I was there
"Try again" I said and smiled at him
"…That's not possible" Stefan said and took a step back from me
"Don't you miss me Stefan?" I asked
"…Yes" He said "But how-"
"Don't ask how" I said "I just need you to protect me from Elena's little friends. Their trying to kill me again. You won't let me die again, right Stefan?" I asked and kissed him on the cheek
It was right then and there that I saw I had him wrapped around my finger again, just as I did the first time we met back in 1864.
"I'll protect you" Stefan said and scooped me up in his arms and heard everyone that was looking for me getting closer and closer
A/N: Yes, Now Stefan is tangled up in the very complicated web, again. He always falls for Katherine's charm, weather she demoniacally possess Elena's body or not :P I know everyone is like freaking out probably by now like "NO KATHERINE CANNOT BE BACK!" but, she is. But who always wins? The good guys! So Katherine may be back right now, but there is no possible way I can let Elena get lost forever, remember, Elena's a fighter too, she isn't gonna back down. And technically, she's still there in her body, it's just that Katherine is overpowering her right now. Which also will complicate things because now Stefan has Katherine/Elena, so what's gonna happen when Elena get's back control for a little bit and doesn't know where she is? Plus, there still is Aislinn who has Stefan wrapped around her finger too, but she doesn't know her necklace is destroyed yet. And what do you think will happen when she realizes that Katherine is back and has Stefan under her spell again? Thus, the web of complication grows even more...complicated xP
Okay, so I hope you guys like this chapter, I'm gonna try to stick to writing the chapters shorter and making more of them because that seems to be working right now for me, and plus that also means the chapters will probably be getting written faster too, so you guys can read them faster :] I love you guys, and I hope you like this chapter! xoxo, Avril
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