Chapter Eleven

Katherine grumpily laid down on the floor. Great, Klaus had stomped all over her and just by locking her in her room. She punched the floor. Damn Klaus. Damn Elijah. Damn Tatia.

Belle whined from the loveseat near the window.

"Get off, Belle." She went to pick up her puppy (and currently her favorite living thing) but Belle scratched the window.

Katherine pushed the window open. Hmm, she should have gotten a dog a long time ago.

Katherine fixed her lipstick and took off her heels. "Looks like I have a party to go though."

Stefan had been quietly sipping on his drink while watching Rebekah and Marcel argue when someone placed both hands over his eyes. "Boo."

Stefan almost spilled his drink. "Katherine."

"Hey, Stefan." She said. "Nice tux."

"What are you doing here? If Klaus finds out that you came here he will bury you alive." He frowned. "How did you even get outside? Klaus all but bolted the doors together."

She shrugged. "I crawled out of the window and I'm not scared of Klaus."

Stefan raised an eyebrow. "A history of running for 500 years says differently."

She rolled her eyes. "Ok, maybe a little scared, but since I am carrying precious cargo the only thing he can really do is yell his head off," she surveyed the crowded party. "So did you manage to get Elijah's location from Sophie?"

Stefan shook his head. "No. Sophie refused to do a locator spell. They're all too scared of Marcel."

"Typical. Witches are spineless little things. So what does Klaus have?"

"Well, he asked Marcel if he can have Elijah back-"

"He said no obviously."

Stefan crossed his arms over his chest. "So now Klaus is going to take everything Marcel has, starting with his friends. Particularly, his best friend Thierry."

Katherine couldn't help but snort, "Excuse me, are we in kindergarten? There is no way that Klaus is going to take over New Orleans by taking Marcel's little pals away." She eyed the dance floor. "Time for a little lesson in Villain 101, the best way to get people to do what you want is by threatening the people they like." She saw Marcel now talking with the blond girl with the angel wings. "Well, we found our lucky target, what's with the crappy wings though."

"She's an angel," Rebekah said as she joined them. "Supposedly. It is a Sinners and Saints party. That's Cami, and she's here to make sure everything goes well. Speaking of which I thought you were grounded or something."

"Well, I heard you were missing a few sinners so I'm here to help you." She placed her hands on her hips.

Rebekah almost smiled. "Fine, just stay clear of my brother, otherwise he'll murder all of us if we ruin his plan."

"Should I be jealous?" Katherine teased. "She's flirting with my man, or actually my baby's daddy, since my own man is rotting in a box probably comparing me and some dead bitch."

Stefan looked at her confused. "What are you talking about?"

"Never mind." She sighed. She really wanted a vodka. "Hey, do you think the baby would mind if I had a shot of-"

"No."

Rebekah smiled as she saw Thierry enter the party, an armful of vampires behind him. Thierry looked nervous. Marcel approached him with an angry look on his face. "And action."

Katherine stared at Thierry. She hated being out of the loop. "What happened?"

"Rebekah found out that Thierry was in love with a witch named Katie-"Stefan began explaining.

"And I compelled a vampire to attack Katie until Thierry killed him." She whispered in Katherine's ear. "Killing your own members is a big no no in Marcel's group. Poor Marcel, he won't know where to turn, Klaus will be there to lend a hand and he will be so grateful that we'll have Elijah by midnight.

Katherine smirked. Obviously, impressed. "Looks like there are three sinners here. So that's it, Thierry will be locked in Marcel's chamber of horrors?"

Before either of them could respond the ground started shaking and they heard Katie shouting. "Come and face me you coward!"

Rebekah and Stefan exchanged looks. "What the bloody hell is going on?"

"It's Katie," Stefan said as they approached the growing group. "It has to be. She has come to take revenge."

"Marcel," Katie approached Marcel and his vampires. There was lighting and the buildings were shaking. "You will pay for everything you have done."

"Come and face me, little witch!" Marcel demanded.

"Katie, no." Thierry cried.

Katie let out a low growl as Marcel fell to the floor, yelling in pain.

Katherine felt someone grab her hand and turned her around, coming face to face with Klaus' angry face. "What are you doing here, Katerina?"

"Um," Katherine's mind went blank. "Are you sure, I'm you biggest problem right now?"

"She won't kill him."

Marcel let out another cry of pain. She faced Klaus. "Wont she? If Marcel died, there goes our hope of finding Elijah. Klaus, you know that."

Klaus looked conflicted, and instead just gave her a sharp. "Don't move." Katherine stood still as she watched Klaus ripping Katie's heart out and Marcel thanking him. She closed her eyes. Soon, soon she'll have Elijah back. She just needed to be patient, even if it was killing her.

"Well, you were right," Klaus opened the door and let Katherine in. "Marcel is so grateful that I saved his life that he's going to give Elijah back."

Katherine smirked. "I told you I knew what I was doing."

"Don't get cocky," he snorted. "You wouldn't be so cheerful if this plan had been an epic failure, which reminds me I'm locking your windows from now on."

Katherine shrugged. "You can do whatever you want. The important thing is that Elijah will soon come."

Klaus grew sober. "You really love him, don't you? What is it about my brother that makes him so approachable?"

Katherine grew uncomfortable and didn't have a sassy reply. "I don't know, maybe because he's the only one of your siblings that has treated me half decently and the only one who has given me a second chance despite everything I've done."

"And I killed your entire family and imprisoned you for the summer." Klaus said with an edge to his voice. "I guess it shouldn't have come as a surprise after all this time, even when we were human everyone preferred Elijah."

"Klaus, who was Tatia?"

Klaus raised an eyebrow. "Doing a little history about your ancestors, am I right? Tatia was very beautiful and very charming, she looked exactly like you and Elena. Physically, at least. We were both terribly in love with her when we were human, very much like you and your Salvatore boys."

Katherine gulped. Great, this is what she had been dreading. "Did Elijah love her a lot?"

"Who knows," he whispered in her ear. "Some say that Elijah loved Tatia more than I did."

England, 1492

"My lord?" Katerina set down the cup of tea gently. "May I ask you something?"

Elijah nodded. "Of course, Katerina."

"You said when we meet that I reminded you of someone," she asked. "Who? If I may ask?"

Elijah hesitated.

She shook her head. "Pardon me, it was a stupid question."

"No," he said slowly. "You reminded me of a girl that I used to know, but you two are so different-"

"Did you love her?"

Elijah didn't respond.

-End of Chapter Eleven-

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