Chapter 18

Klaus and Rebecca were sitting in the living room of the manor.

"So what did you say to Jeremy to get him all hunter mode?" Rebecca asked

"I didn't say anything." Klaus said defensively.

"Of course not" Kol said walking in the living room. "You never do anything"

Klaus smiled at his little brother "you know me so well."

Everyone was quiet for a while thinking about what had happened.

Klaus was thinking about Cassie, how she just walked over and stood in front of him, and what she said.

It was so familiar to what she had done

Flashback

Mikael was in his face yelling about how he didn't manage to do all of his chores and Elijah had to do extra.

They were just outside of their house and everyone could hear but it was nothing new to their neighbors, Mikael was always yelling at his son.

"Your arrogant, lazy, worthless" Mikael spat at his son.

Klaus had have enough he started to yell at his father when she came and stood in between them. Her back to Klaus.

"I'm apologize sir, it was my fault that Klaus didn't get all of his chores done," she told him.

Mikael just stood there unsure of if what she was saying was the truth.

"I needed help carrying all of the firewood into the cave for tomorrow and Nicklaus helped me before it got to dark." She told him.

Mikael looked down into her eyes. Truth shone in her eyes.

Klaus stood there in amazement of her, standing up for him. Tatia would of never done that for him. He thought to himself.

Mikael just nodded accepting her truth and left, leaving Klaus and Anita together.

"Ani" He said softly calling her by his nickname for her.

She turned around, not looking him in his eyes he noticed.

"Nic" she whispered, "we need to talk"

Klaus grabbed her chin gently forcing her to look him in the eye.

"Do you love her?" she whispered tears forming in her eyes.

Klaus cocked his head in confusion.

"My sister" she continued whispering.

Klaus's eyes widen

That was all the conformation she needed, Anita took a step back and began to leave.

"Ani" he called grabbing her arm.

"No, Tatia comes first for a lot of thing Nic and I allow it because I'm her sister and I love her but not here, not with this. I will not be second when it comes for love." She said finding her voice, the tears no longer threatening to fall.

"I love you," he said urgently

"When Tatia is with Elijah, but the moment you get attention from her I am the last thing you think about. I am not some placeholder for her," she said.

Klaus stood there speechless, she was right and he couldn't say anything to make it right.

"Goodbye" she said and turned and left.

End flashback

You should of seen her and Damon at the grill" Rebecca's voice cam pulling Klaus back to reality.

"What?" Klaus asked

"They were so close to kissing" Rebecca said "it was so romantic, until we got the call"

"Someone should tell Elena that Damon and her sister are falling because its clear that she didn't get the memo," Kol said.

Klaus stood up "I need to figure out what else is needed for the cure." He said and left not wanting to be apart of this conversation.

Kol and Rebecca looked at each other as they watched their brother retreat.

"She is breaking his heart" Kol said

"And she doesn't even know it." Rebecca said

After Katherine snapped at Elena she went over to the gilberts house.

Alaric answered the door when she knocked.

"I'm not going to invite you in.," he said.

"I know, but one of Cassie's friends need her help so she wont be back until tomorrow." She told him.

"What Cassie is gone?" Jeremy asked seeing who it was at the door.

"She'll be back, but they needed her help if they had any shot of getting his sister back." She told him.

Jeremy nodded.

"Are you ok?" she asked

"So what now you are pretending to care?" Alaric asked.

Katherine glared at him "I saw what Cassie had to go through, I had to sit and watch as it literally drove her insane, I'm a bitch but even I wouldn't wish that on anybody." She said.

"I feel like I'm going to be torn in two" Jeremy whispered softly.

Katherine gave him a soft smile. "Try tea with passionflower, its an herb that will calm you down."

"I tried making it but I'm just to on edge." Jeremy confessed.

Alaric looked at the girl on the front porch and Jeremy. He sighed "I know I am going to regret this, but Katherine will you come inside and help him?" he asked.

Katherine looked shocked and just nodded her head unable to find words.

She walked into the kitchen and Jeremy and Alaric followed.

Matt who was already sitting in there jumped when he saw her. "You invited her in?" he asked.

"She is here to help." Jeremy said.

"Come here baby gilbert, I am only going to show you how to do this once." Katherine called from the stove.

Jeremy walked over there while Alaric and matt watched them.

"Do you trust her?" matt asked

"No, but she helped Cassie go through this so she knows what Jeremy is going through." Alaric answered.

Matt nodded.

"So tell me how did you end up at the boarding house with a white oak stake?" she asked Jeremy.

"Honestly, I have no idea" Jeremy answered "matt and I were playing video games and then the next thing I remember was walking up the steps to the boarding house."

"Did you have anything to eat or drink while you were playing games?" she asked

"I had one soda, I know that Cassie said no caffeine but its just one soda." Jeremy said.

Katherine stopped and stared at Jeremy "no caffeine, look at what just one soda did today Jeremy." She scolded him.

Jeremy nodded "I'm sorry I wasn't thinking."

The two of them worked in silence until the tea was done. Jeremy went over to matt and Katherine turned and grabbed a bottle of tequila and two shot glasses.

Handed on to Alaric she poured herself a shot.

"You were really good with him." Alaric said.

"Don't tell anybody I'm a bitch remember." She said downing her shot.

Alaric laughed and poured himself a shot. "Don't worry I wont besides who would believe me that Katherine has a heart."

Katherine chuckled "I wasn't always like this" she mumbled.

Alaric remained quiet; he knew enough drinking with Damon that sometimes you just needed to be quiet.

"I had a family, Klaus killed them all, I remember walking into my house and seeing all of them dead. " she said before downing another drink. "If you tell anybody this I'll kill you but if I had known that he was planning on killing my family, I would of let him use me in the curse. My family didn't deserve to be punished for my mistake, and I miss them."

Alaric was stunned he poured her a shot and handed it to her. Katherine smiled and took it, she stood up. "Don't worry I'll pretend that this invite didn't happen if you will."

"Deal" Alaric said and just like that Katherine was gone.

He sat in silence thinking about Katherine and Cassie, they were so much alike, allowing themselves to be the bad guy when they truly care, he had know idea how hard it must be for them.

Elena walked into Damon's room.

"Damon" she called softly.

She turned around and saw him behind her.

"What do you want?" He asked

"I'm sorry," she whispered looking up at him through her eyelashes.

His heart melted, he knew he could never stay mad at her for long.

Elena walked up to him and grabbed his hands.

"I know that you and Cassie have gotten close but I need you to understand why I am hesitant to trust her." She pleaded with him. "Its like when you first came into town and Stefan didn't trust you, I don't trust Cassie "

Damon wasn't really listening to anything she was saying at that point in time.

He pulled her close and kissed her. Passionately. She moaned and her darted his tongue in her mouth. His hand ran through her hair while hers wrapped around his waist.

They pulled apart for air "Damon" she said

Damon picked her up they blurred over to his bed. He pulled off her shirt and resumed kissing her, running his hands over her newly exposed skin.

Elena quickly unbuttoned his shirt and ran her hands over his chest.

"Elena" he said moaned as they broke for air.

Damon looked down at Elena waiting there for him to start again. Elena bit her lip and he stopped.

Cassie bit her lip right before she agreed to play darts with him. Damon remembered how she made him feel alive again and they weren't even kissing again. What did her feel with Elena?

"Damon" Elena said again grabbing he face with her hands and kissing him again.

Damon stopped and got off of her.

"This isn't right," Damon said.

"Damon" Elena said, "This is right."

"Elena you need to make up your mind I cant keep doing this." He said

"I know and you're right, it's just that I can't lose anybody else." She said

"Elena I know but I can't keep doing this." He said running his hang through his hair he picked up her shirt and handed it to her. "I wont"

Elena put her shirt back on and left the room.

Damon sat back on his bed. He didn't know what was going on with him. One moment he is so close to having Elena and she does that one thing and all he can think about Cassie.

He picked up his phone and called her.

"Hello" she answered

"I can't believe you left and didn't say goodbye." He said

"I had other things on my mind, so did you." She replied

"So I heard, look is there anything I can do to help you and your friend?" he asked

"I don't even know the situation but there probably something, I'll let you know."

"Do you want me to head over there now?"

"Don't you need to comfort Elena?" she asked

Damon didn't know what to say

"Listen I don't have time for this, I'll call you if I need anything." She said and hung up.

Damon threw the phone of course she would be upset, he almost kissed her then went and did that with Elena. He was no better then Katherine.

Cassie hung up the phone, she was hurt and confused. Damon and her haven't kissed or anything but flirted so why was she so upset about Elena and him.

Cassie pulled up to Isaac's house. It was thirty miles from mystic falls so she didn't have enough time formulate a solid plan but she knew that she needed to come up with one fast.

She got out of the car and looked around something was off, Isaac had a dog where was he?

She walked up the steps, the door was opened.

Cassie pulled a stake out and walked in.

The smell of blood hit her nose.

"No" she whispered as she walked into the living room. Isaac and Dominic were lying on the floor dead.

She fell to her knees as tears formed in her eyes. She closed her eyes and allowed a tear to fall for her friends before she went back to Cassie the vampire hunter.

She went through the house and filled a bag with all of their weapons and vervain, sticking the bag in her car she found a shovel and began to dig two graves for her friends.

She didn't allow herself to think about anything just shovel and dump. She soon finished the graves and she went back to the house. She picked up Dom's body first and carried him to his grave.

"Don't worry, I'll get her back." She told the graves.

No tears she told herself, she had a job to do.

She finished filling his grave and she went to repeat the process with Isaac's body. When her friends were buried she stood up and got in her car.

Now it was personal.

She pulled into the parking lot of the abandon building. She grabbed some vervain darts and her stake and walked through the back of the building.

There were three vampires sitting in the middle of the room victory clearly written across their faces.

Cassie looked around and found a metal grate; she picked up a pole and used all of her strength to hit it making sure they could hear the clang of it.

One of the vampires was sent to check out the sound. She hid and waited.

Click clack

To far away

Click clack

Closer

Click clack

Almost there.

Cassie gripped her stake.

Click

She turned and plunged the stake into his chest killing him instantly. She grabbed him before he hit the ground and dragged him to a corner.

She moved to the other side of the building.

The vampire who sent the first one went after him to see what was taking him so long.

Cassie stalked forward and tapped the vampire on the shoulder. She turned around and Cassie staked her much like the first one.

Cassie left this one in the middle of the floor and sat next to it and waited for the last vampire.

He blurred back to the main room and saw Cassie.

"You killed them?" he asked

"Where is she?" Cassie asked back

"Who are you?" he asked

"Where is she?" Cassie growled

"Why does it matter?" he asked

"WHERE IS SHE?" Cassie yelled.

The vampire laughed.

"You her aren't you, the one those two were waiting on?" he asked.

Cassie didn't say anything.

"One of them, I think his name was Isaac?" he said.

Cassie glared.

"He kept telling the other one he was sorry that he didn't wait, he just wanted his sister back." He said. Walking around Cassie, stalking her.

"Where is she?" Cassie asked once again not taking her eyes of the vampire.

The vampire laughed.

"She's dead" was all he said.

Cassie growled and pounced at the vampire, using all of her anger she drove the stake through his heart. She climbed off of him and left the stake in the vampire.

Don't cry she told herself not yet.

Cassie made it back to Isaac's house, she walked in and saw the living room, she couldn't take it any more she snapped.

She tore the books off the bookstore and smashed the grandfather clock. She destroyed the room. Once she was done she sat and cried, finally letting all of the pain go.

Once she had cried all of her tears she stood up and grabbed the alcohol from the kitchen she dumped it around the house. She got a lighter and lit it, she threw it on the floor and left the house while it caught fire.

Cassie got in the car and drove back to Mystic Falls.

AN: this chapter was hard to write i really wanted to expand the look we saw in katherine when she was looking at her families history.

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