Right, I'm back again with a new chapter! And I gotta warn you all, my dear readers: this chapter is cheesy and full of tragical twists and the reason why the story got rated M for I think this could be a little dark for readers under the age of 15. Including suicidal thoughts and intoxicating for suicidal purpose! Be warned!

Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Diaries (even if I would love to) and I do not own the quotes (even though I love them). I do not own a mansion in New Orléans, neither a cemetary there (or anywhere). I do not even own a monkshood plant (though I do not really feel sad about this...)

"One half of me is yours, the other half yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours." – The Merchant of Venice

Chapter 4 - Elijah

When he left the airport of New Orléans, his sister called him. "Hello Rebekah", the Original answered the phone call friendly. "You have to come home Elijah. And hurry!", was everything his sister said before ending th call. Immediately Elijah rushed to the mansion. Rebekah hadn't sound terrified but really tensed, more than he had ever heard from her in 1000 years of knowing her. When he opened the door he smelled it. That sweet scent of flowers, water and wind that was totally hers. Why was she - of all people the last he would expect to come - her? The Original entered the livingroom and saw something he would never have believed. There, on the divan, sat Rebekah and in her arms... a sobbing Katerina. He felt his stomach twitch. She shouldn't be crying. Elijah was surprised by the fact, she actually was. 500 years she never shed a single tear. When he stepped closer, Katerina jumped on her feet, whipped away her tears and looked straight at him. "What are you doing here?", he asked the girl cooly. She blinked a few times, then told him: "Honestly? I don't know" As the Original didn't reply, Katerina made her way towards the front door. "I shouldn't have come her the first." A few moments later she was out of the door. Elijah was to shocked to move the first seconds. Then he snapped out of his petrification. "What...?", he started but was interrupted by his sister. "What are you waiting for? She was a prisoner for 500 years and the first thing she did after breaking free was coming here for you despise the fact Nik is still wanting to kill her. Why did you act so cold towards her? Aren't you the one telling me how unconditionally you love her every day? -What, by the way, is really annoying - Don't you suffer from missing her each waking minute you spend?" With this in his mind he turned on the heel and ran. Ran for her. For the girl he now knew was still alive. He had lost her once and spent the following five centuries regretting it and searching for her. He would not lose her again. Not her! Not his sweet, incredible Bulgarian angel. His Katerina.

Chapter 4 (hasn't changed though) - Katerina

All alone I wandered the abandoned streets of New Orléans. I wished to be a vampire right now for then I could have just switched it off. The hurt, the pain. The fear, the feeling of being lost. The love for him, that killed me from inside out. But I wasn't. I never did it through out my 500 years of flight but now when I needed it, I couldn't. "Nice to see you again Katerina." I heard a voice I knew all to well. Slowly, tired, I turned around, my face only revealing resignation, facing Klaus. "Oh this is even better than I thought!", he stated. "Actually", I told him, "if you killed me now, you would do me a favour, so I won't do anything about it. But please deliver my last message to Elijah", I asked the hybrid. I pulled the simple leather ribbon off my head, including the cameo which was my very first sun protector. I had always connected it with Elijah, because the witch, who made it, only helped me in the first place because Elijah asked her to. "Tell him", I pleaded, desperately avoiding a sob, "tell him I always loved him and I will always love him. Not even death can change what even Kathrine couldn't avoid. And tell him I'm sorry! I gave Klaus my necklace. "Give him this along with it" The hybrid took my necklace and told me maliciously: "I will deliver your message, but I won't kill you. Seeing you suffer is so much more fun... but if I were you I'd leave and forget about my brother for that's what he will do about you." With those words Klaus left me alone. I felt shattered. It wasn't like the time Kathrine broke. I still had have myself to go on. But now... Now I had nothing left. No friends, no home, no love, no hope. I wished even more to be a vampire now so I would just have to take of my sun protector. But still I wasn't so I had to get something else.

When I entered the witch's little shop I didn't bother looking around but went straight to the counter asking her for monkshood seeds. The woman looked at me with great sceptic but passed me a small linen sachet. "May you find relieve", she told me when I left.
I went to the cemetary where I sat down on a bench. After inhaling a deep breath I took the monkshood seeds. "I love you Elijah, forever", I whispered into the chilling air of the night, then I bit down on the seeds... And everything went black.

Chapter 4 (won't change so far...) - Elijah

Elijah ran through the streets with supernatural speed. He had to find her. Then he met his brother. "What is it Niklaus?", the Original asked impatient. "Just a delivery I make for the beautiful Katerina. She asked me to give you this", the hybrid threw a necklace at Elijah, who catched it easily. "Along with her last words." Elijah recognized the cameo at once. Katerina's sun protector. Klaus already continued. "All in all it was mostly a confession of her eternal and undying love for you. Oh and she apologized for whatever..." Then Niklaus was gone. Elijah started running again. He knew what she would do. She had told him in England 500 years ago.

Katerina played with the seam of her sleeve. "You know, when I was banished I thought of committing suicide. I even searched - and found - blue monkshood to do so. They say the seeds are the easiest for they work the fastest but you have to bit down on them so you can over think it or bit your farewells. Now I'm glad I didn't." "Why are you glad?", Elijah asked the girl in front of him. "Because I met you"

Elijah looked for Katerina everywhere before he finally found her on the cemetary. She was sitting on a bench and took in the toxic seeds. He heard her whispered last words and saw her biting down on the seeds freeing the toxic.
The next moment he was by her side, gently holding her tense-less body in his arms. "No", he muttered unbelieving. This couldn't be. This wouldn't be. Without a second of doubt the Original bit himself in the wrist and forced some of his blood down the girls throat. Now anything he could do was waiting. Elijah took Katerina in his arms and carried her to the mansion, lying her down on his bed. He hoped she would make it. He hoped she would live.

He hoped.

Sooo... this chapters done to and the story comes closer to getting finished! There will be 3 to 4 more chapters (depending on how the story will end...) plus I will add a prologue & an epilogue when I finish them (and decide about the end)
If you wanna help me continuing faster, review and tell me what you would prefer happy or sad ending and why!
By the way: The Merchant of Venice is a play by the great William Shakespeare (author of plays like Romeo & Juliett and A Midsummernight's Dream)