Katherine and Nadia took Emily back to her room, Emily's room was a single thankfully "no room mate to deal with" thought Katherine, Nadia disappeared into the bathroom to wash the remains of the blood from her face leaving Katherine and Emily alone. "What was that?" Emily asked, Katherine sighed "we save you from what could have been a mentally scarring incident" she said, Emily collapsed on her bed drained by the recent events "you killed them with your teeth" she said "why am i so calm?" she asked. "Because i compelled you not to panic" Katherine answered, the door swung open and Nadia stepped through "we should go" she announced still inspecting her hands for traces of blood "i heard a scream the police will be here soon". Katherine sighed loudly "shame i was hoping we could lie low for at least the first week", she opened the door and allowed Nadia through and went to follow, "wait" Emily said jumping to her feet "what about me?" she asked.
Elena gave up searching for the doorway the blackness surrounding her was unrelenting, if she was going to find it then she just have to do what she did last time sit and wade through the memory's. She didn't have to wait long as the darkness gave way to reveal a dimly lit room, the only light source was a fire in a grand fireplace, the walls were made from a polished wood panels "it looks like a mansion" Elena thought. She heard a door slam behind her but Katherine didn't look turn around instead she shoved her hand into her jacket pocket and quickly pulled out her phone. Elena could feel panic coming from Katherine as she desperately tried to unlock her phone, after a few seconds and more than a few curses the phone finally opened. "Come on come on" Katherine muttered under her breath. Katherine scrolled through the option stopping at her phone book, which she opened Katherine skimmed through the numbers until she stopped at one Elena instantly recognised her own.
Katherine hit the dial button and held the phone up to her ear she was practically shaking "what the hell is going on?" Elena thought.
Hello?
Elena don't hang up
Who is this?
Its Katerine don't hang up
What the hell do you want?
It's Klaus i didn't want to do it but there was nothing i could do he forced me
Klaus? Katherine what's going on? what did you do?
He made me call Jenna he told me to pretend to be you, Elena he's going to kill her
WHAT!?
you have to get to her before he does he's going to sacrifice her
Past Elena hung up the phone and the darkness quickly gathered. Instead of returning to the darkness completely a new image quickly replaced the last, This time the light almost blinded Elena once she had adjusted she saw grass and grave stones, they were at the Mystic Falls graveyard. Katherine seemed to be perched in a tree overlooking hidden behind the leaves, Elena could see her friends gathered around a grave all dressed in black but Katherine was focused on the person at the center Past Elena. One by one the group began to leave first the brothers then Caroline and Bonnie until it was just Jeremy and Elena who remained.
Katherine jumped down from the tree and walked over to Jenna's grave, the closer they got the bigger the lump in Elenas throat got if she eyes of her own she would be weeping, Jeremy noticed her first leaving his sister he store over to her anger in his eyes. Seeing Jeremy show this much aggression scared Elena he'd always been her sweet little brother but she could no fear from Katherine she didn't even take her eye's off of Past Elena. "What do you want?" barked Jeremy, Katherine didn't break stride a continued towards Past Elena "i need to talk to her" she said, Jeremy moved in her way causing Katherine to stop "you're not getting near her leave". Katherine smirked and looked down at his bare wrist "no vervain Jeremy?". Jeremy's eye went wide as he realised his mistake but before Katherine could do anything they were interrupted by Past Elena "it's fine Jer, just give us a minute" Jeremy looked back at his sister conflicted "fine but i'm not going out of sight" he shot daggers at Katherine and reluctantly moved out of her way walking towards the gate. Katherine walked up to Past Elena and stood next to the grieving girl, "Elena i am so sorry" Past Elena didn't acknowledge her she just stared at the stone in front of them. Elena could feel Katherine emotions well up the pain in her chest reminded her of being staked getting worse with every heartbeat. "Don't be" Past Elena said, her voice was hoarse Elena could remember hours of crying that must have taken it's toll on her voice "this is all my fault" Past Elena wiped her tears on her sleeve her body shaking. Katherine reached out a hand to comfort her "no it's not", Past Elena lent into Katherines touch "yes it is i'm cursed" she sobbed "everyone i care about only gets hurt", Katherine pulled her closer closing her arms around the girl in a hug "it's not your fault Elena you did everything you could" Katherine insisted.
Past Elena hugged Katherine closer burying her face in the other girl "NO, I could have stopped it" Elena said her voice muffled "you told me it was going to happen", Katherine Gently lifted Elena's face and looked her in the eye "remember" she ordered pulling Past Elena into her compulsion. Past Elena was stunned for a second and even stopped crying, but then she snapped out of it and the tears returned, Elena throw herself around Katherine sobbing harder than before, Katherine hugged her as tight as was safe for her to do so "It's okay Elena, it's okay" Katherine said "no it's not it'll never be okay it's my fault Jennas dead" Past Elena cried.
They stayed like that for hours until Elena could not cry anymore "come on" Katherine said gently "let's get you home" she put her arm around the girl and led her back to her car, Katherine took the keys and demanded to drive "your in no state to drive" she insisted.
They drove back in silence Past Elena stared out the window stuck in her own head, When they arrived Katherine helped Elena out the car almost had to carry her inside, She took Elena up to her room and laid her in bed grabbing a blanket and wrapping it around Elena. "Do you want me to call anyone?" Katherine asked Past Elena slowly shook her head her red eye's still staring off into space "Do you want me to go?" Past Elena didn't answer she just reached out and took Katherines hand refusing to let go. Her grip wasn't strong, Elena had been left weak from all the crying but it was desperate and urgent "Okay" Past Elena released her grip and motioned her Katherine to join her on the bed, Katherine complied huddleing close to the girl bringing her arms around Past Elena protectively. Past Elena drifted off to sleep in Katherine's arms leaving her to guard her sleeping body, she brushed Elena's hair behind her ear she looked peaceful asleep. Katherine closed her eye's but instead of black they saw a light spilling through a doorway, Elena gasped "that's the same door" she thought as Katherine traveled through it.
They were in the quarry, fire circles burned around them, Klaus stood in the center laughing maniacally blood pouring from his mouth, loud cries drew Katherine eyes to Past Elena who was kneeling in the mud clutching Jennas dead body close to her, Katherine walked up to the weeping girl "I'll make it better" she said. And with that the dark quarry fell away leaving just Katherine and Past Elena, she seemed shocked when Jenna's body disappeared but when she saw Katherine knelt in front of her she realised what had happened "thanks" she whispered staying on the ground a hopeless look in her eye. Elena could felt the stabbing sensation in Katherine's heart intensified "come on i want to show you something" Katherine said, a room formed around them Elena recognised it as her living room, But then it began to change. Lights appeared a tree and tinsel erupted from the floor present already wrapped beneath "christmas?" Past Elena asked struggling to her feet. "Come on Elena dinner's getting cold" the voice was unmistakable, "DAD?" Past Elena rushed towards the source and threw her arms around her father, after a hug Past Elena turned back to Katherine "thank you" she said wiping tears of joy from her eyes. Elena could feel Katherine's face form a smile and the stabbing sensation in her heart eased "your mothers in the kitchen" she said "in a time of crisis family is what you need".
Katherine stood in the corner of the room letting Past Elena enjoy her family uninterrupted, once she was certain the dream would not change back Katherine left the dream, opening her eye's they were back in Elenas old room. Katherine looked down at the sleeping body of Past Elena, a small smile had formed on her lips, bending down Katherine placed a small kiss on Elena's forehead before she held past Elena closer to her and joining her in sleep.
Again Elena didn't return to the darkness the room blinked back, it must have been the morning as sunlight poured through the window she could hear people moving around downstairs and muffled voices through the floor. Past Elena was still curled up in Katherine's arms but the beating of her heart told Katherine she was awake "i should go soon" she said, Past Elena didn't move "do you have to?" she asked "Jeremy didn't want me talking to you i don't know how'd he'd feel about this". Past Elena still didn't move "i'm not sure how i'm going to get through the day" she said "it's my fault how can i live with that", Katherine didn't say anything instead she put her hand under Past Elena's chin and lifted her face to her's. Katherine locked eyes with Past Elena and pulled her into compulsion "you won't remember me last night Stefan took you home and you had a dreamless sleep, you won't remember anytime you and i have spent together until i tell you to". Keeping their eyes locked Katherine untangled herself from Past Elena, the sudden cold and the pain of having to leave her made it feel like ripping off a layer of skin "you are going to go to sleep, you wont have nightmares and when you wake up you will forget i called you that day you will think its my fault Jenna died". Breaking eye contact Past Elena blinked confused for a few seconds before slowly falling onto her pillow.
Katherine wrapped her back up in the blanket "it's better if you hate me than if you hate yourself" she whispered, Katherine pushed Past Elena's hair out of her face and placed a light kiss on her lips. The image before Elena faded and finally this time it remained gone leaving Elena alone in the dark.