Chapter 4
As Katherine awoke, she was profoundly surprised. She didn't know how long she had been asleep for, but it must have been a while. Everyone was well again. They were all sitting upright laughing at something Tex had just said. When Tex saw her push herself upright he smiled, "Morning princess."
Katherine looked at Tex confused. "What happened?"
Master Chief spoke saying, "Rachel did. She reinvented the vaccine, and now it's a cure."
Katherine blinked twice and sat up instantly. "A cure," she repeated a smile flickering on her lips. All at once the room became silent. Katherine looked around. "What?"
Rachel brought over a mirror saying, "Katherine I don't want you to freak out—"
"Give me that," said Katherine snatching the mirror. She looked into it and her mouth gaped open. Her hair was almost completely grey. Her eyes were bloodshot and she had wrinkles beginning to form around her eyes. "Oh my god."
Rachel sat next to Katherine and took her hand into not of her biohazard glove covered hands. even through the plastic mask, Katherine could see Rachel was crying. "I'm so sorry Katherine. But it seems as though the cure for humans only increases the progression of the virus in vampires. You can come out of here, humans can't be contaminated by a vampire, at least that when—"
"What? So when what? So when I die I won't be stuck in this plastic container? No. No. No.," said Katherine standing up. Her side hurt like hell, but ignoring it she shouted, "You need to fix this! I'm a survivor, Rachel. I'm the Katherine Pierce!"
Within seconds of Katherine's fit, Danny was running to Captain Chandler saying, "Sir. We've got a problem on the flight deck."
Following Rachel, the other five test subjects, Slattery, Danny and Chandler, Katherine ran onto the flight deck. The group had stopped suddenly when they saw a young girl with straight brown hair, a girl with slightly curly black hair, and two men with black leather jackets all collapsed on the floor. Never did Katherine imagine that she would see Elena, Stefan, Damon, and Bonnie on this ship.
As Elena began waking up, she rolled to her side. Seeing her get up, Stefan immediately went to help her. Snorting in disgust, Katherine stepped directly in front of Elena and said, "Well look at what we have here."