Once I went home and thought about my life decisions. I realized I had made the right choice. Besides, it was already done. I couldn't pull the dagger out, even if I wanted to. Regardless, now I need to keep a close watch on the doppelgänger.
So, the next day I headed immediately to the Salvatore house. She probably spent the night there.
Once I arrive, I knock on the door waiting for someone to answer. I usually walk right in, but I am trying to be more, polite..ish.
"Hello!" I scream at the house. "Anyone home!" No answer. I wait only a few more seconds before opening the door myself. At least I tried to be courteous.
"Hello! Anyone here? Damon? Stefan? Elena? Anyone?" I scream again. Finally, I hear a response coming from downstairs.
"Down here!" I hear Damon scream, and I head in that direction. I make my way downstairs, where I see Damon standing next to Elijah with a blowtorch.
"Um, what are you doing?" I ask him confused.
"Trying to see if Elijah is flammable. He is not." Damon says, disappointed, and I nod. I then turn my head to see Elena.
"Oh, hey Elena. I was looking for you." I told her and she got all tense. It was weird.
"Oh..." She says, clearing her throat. "Uh yeah, what do you need?"
I look at her suspiciously. She seems off right now. Why is she down here with Damon, instead of being with Stefan? I don't even think Stefan is here. Her body posture also seems off.
And before she cleared her throat, she kinda sounded like...
I turned to look at Elijah's body lying on the floor. Oh, bloody hell.
I threw her across the room and pinned her to the wall. Damon started laughing, which made my suspicions confirmed.
"What the hell is she doing here?" I asked, irritated.
"She tricked us into daggering Elijah, so she could be freed from the tomb." Damon explains.
Ugh, I knew she was lying.
"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't rip her heart out of her chest." I say with a smile, and Damon shrugs.
"Maybe because I can help you." Katherine says pinned to the wall.
"Really, how?" I ask questioning her. There is absolutely nothing she can do to help us. I already know everything about Klaus.
"Maybe because I am the only person in this room who knows what Klaus looks like, and what he can do. Unless you know something I don't Kalle." Katherine states, knowing I am lying about my personality here.
If she stays, she's going to blow it for me. But in their eyes, she's the only one who knows about Niklaus. Ugh.
I dropped her in defeat, and she smiled. "Just know that when Klaus eventually comes, you won't find me fighting against him to save your ass."
"Whatever." Katherine stated, walking past me. "Oh, and Damon. I wanted out of that tomb. I didn't care who paid the price. Of course I knew it would kill you."
She then walks out of the cellar, leaving Damon in shock. I looked at him surprised.
"Were you seriously this in love with her, that you are shocked she would have had you killed for her own benefit?" I asked him, and he didn't respond. He just looked down and his face turned angry.
"Wow. Maybe Katty is a witch because the spell she has on guys is crazy. Man, I'm having deja vu." I state irritatedly. I then leave Damon in his own despair.
I then head upstairs, when I see Katherine walking in the hall.
"Katherine wait!" I scream at her and she stops. "What is your plan?"
"What is my plan? My plan is to kill Klaus." Katherine responds immediately back. "Can't say you feel the same though."
"I want him gone." I respond back confidently.
"But not dead." Katherine states back. I nod yes, so Damon does not hear. "Listen, we both know you can easily kill me or just hand me off to Klaus. But you continue to keep me alive, why?"
"To keep the doppelgänger alive." I state, and she looks at me confused. "Look, I can't fully explain, but if I kill you, it will complicate things more than they need to be. Besides, you should already know I'm not the killing type."
"Oh, she's fully aware. Which is weird, because being a killer runs in your family." Katherine states, and I just roll my eyes. She then makes her way to the kitchen.
It's going to be a long day.
Damon told me about Elijah looking for the site of a witch's massacre. Apparently, this massacre would have been the key to stopping Klaus somehow. Not like he told me anything, so I'm completely in the dark about this.
I was helping Damon look through John's journals about the massacre, but we couldn't find anything. Seeing how he knew about the dagger and some other things about my siblings, I figured why not give it a look.
Then Katherine came and her and Damon started bickering. I was not even listening, but they are pointlessly arguing about their own personal problems when we have something bigger to worry about. I have no idea how, but it somehow ended up with Damon pinning down Katherine.
"You know, I'm kinda glad your not dead." I hear Katherine says pinned down.
"I can sense the sexual tension." I state, not even bothering to look up, but I can see Damon letting go of her in the corner of my eye.
"I'm surprised you don't know about the massacre, Kalle. Emily Bennett told me it was a big deal in the witching core." Katherine states, walking closer to me.
Maybe I would if I weren't so busy running from my father or being in a box for 100 years. Besides, anything that happens in the witch world is completely unknown to me. Since the ancestors believe I'm just another monstrosity to nature or something.
"Hmm. Well guess I haven't caught up in my witch business." I say putting down the journal and focusing on Katherine. "What she tell you?"
"When a witch dies violently, they release a mythical energy marking the place of their dead." Katherine states.
"Yeah. Already knew that. Do you know where this energy is?" I ask and she nods her head no. "Wow. So much of a helper."
"Elijah wanted to know the sight of the massacre." Damon states going back to the journals.
"What was he gonna do when he found it." Katherine asks.
"I don't know." Damon states. She looks at him intrigued and then faces me. I give her a clueless shrug since I sincerely have no idea what he was going to do.
"What papa witch and baby witch have to say?" Damon asks to someone.
"Wow, surprised you didn't kill her Kalle." I hear Stefan say. Can he at least present his entrance into the room.
"Tried. Realized she could be bait to lure out Klaus ." I state continuing to look at one of the journals.
"Good idea. Why didn't I think of that." Damon says congratulating my idea.
"Look, can we skip the secrets? I'm here to help." Katherine states annoyed.
Stefan agrees. "Elijah had no weapon to kill Klaus. He believe if a witch could channel enough power, he wouldn't need one."
"Like the power you get with a spot marked with a 100 dead witches." Damon states and I look up at them. He was going to use me to channel that power, wasn't he.
"We just need to find it." Stefan states.
"Well then, let's get to reading." I tell them with a smile. Damon grabs a journal and hands it to Katherine. Well more like forces it on her, and Katherine grunts in annoyance.
"I'm going to go change." Stefan stated, leaving the room.
"I'm going to grab a drink. We going to be here for a while." I state getting up.
"Grab me something too." Damon states and I give him a thumbs up.
I head to the lounge area to grab a bottle from the cabinet. I pour both Damon and me a glass of bourbon. As I put the bottle away, my head starts to hurt.
It is sensing something. Something magical. I finish putting the bottle away, grab the glasses, and go to where I sense the magic. I get to the front door, but I don't see anything.
"You okay?" Damon asks me and Katherine turns around to look at me.
"Yeah. I'm fine." I state uncertain. I go to give Damon his glass and put my glass on the table.
"I'm going to use the bathroom." I state and start walking down the hall.
"Well she is acting weird." I hear Katherine say, as I walk.
I feel the magic coming from downstairs. Is this the magic of the dagger? No it can't be. I did not sense this earlier.
I head to the cellar where the magic is coming from. I don't see anything. I walk in closer, when I see the dagger in Elijah chest coming out. What the hell?
I try to use my magic to keep it in, but magic does not work on the dagger. I run to Elijah to keep the dagger in myself. There is a witch here, I know it.
"Your one of Elijah's witches aren't you?" I ask the invisible air. "I know you can hear me!"
"Kalle? Who are you taking to?" Katherine asks coming in the room.
"There is a witch here trying to pull the dagger out. A little help!" I tell her and she vamps speed over here.
"What the heck?" Katherine asks as she pushes the dagger in with me. All of a sudden, the force pulling the dagger out, stops.
We pause to look around the room. Katherine moves away, while I sense where he is. Then a wooden chair gets broken.
"What are you waiting for, kill him!" Katherine screams at me.
"I don't kill people! Especially not witches!" I screamed at her.
A stake is driven into Katherine's stomach, as Damon finally makes it downstairs after hearing all the noise.
"Katherine." I state shocked as Damon goes to pull the stake out of her.
"What happened?" Damon asked both Katherine and me.
I don't answer; instead, I face where I sense the magic. Once I get him, I give him a migraine, making it hard for him to pull the dagger out.
"Where is he?" Damon asks and I point at where he is. Damon then grabs the blowtorch from earlier.
"No. No Damon what are you doing-" I ask but then he starts using the blowtorch. He starts blowing all around Elijah's body. No! What the hell is he doing!
"What are you doing." Stefan asks coming into the cellar.
"Witch attack! Go over an do something about it!" Damon tells Stefan. Stefan then looks over at Katherine, laying weak on the floor. "Go!"
Stefan then leaves and it is just Damon, Katherine and I left in the room.
"DAMN ENOUGH!" I pushed him, making him turn it off.
"What are you doing! You know I could have burned you, right?" Damon says, putting the blowtorch down.
"What am I doing? Why the hell did you have to kill him!" I scream at Damon.
"He could still be alive." Damon says, unsure.
"Really? I've never heard of a human who can have a massive heat burn, like getting sprayed with a blowtorch, and still be okay!!" I scream at him.
"Why are you so mad, he was going to take the dagger out of Elijah." Damon argues with me.
"I had it handled!" I scream at him, irritated.
"Didn't look that way with a stake in Katherine's stomach." Damon stated.
"Since when do you care about her? I was caught off guard, okay! Not every day an invisible witch comes into a house to take a dagger out of an original." I respond back.
"Well, it doesn't matter. The situation is handled."
"You call this a handle?" I ask him, and he nods. "How ignorant can you be? You realize his dad will come after you now. Actually, no. Not after you, after Elena."
"What are you talking about?" Damon asked, confused.
"She's right." Katherine says, butting in, and we both turn to look at her. "You killed someone he loved; so he is going to kill someone you love."
I look back at Damon with disgust as he just realized he set a bed for Elena.
"He was an innocent boy, who was just following orders. And you killed him, for trying to survive. You know, for some strange reason I really believed you were different. No matter how many times you would threaten others, I really felt you would not actually kill the slimmest inconvenience, but I was wrong." I state disappointed. Why are all vampires the same? They need blood to survive, but they do not need to kill. Why is it so necessary for them to?
"Sorry to disappoint." Damon stated with a sarcastic tone.
"Mhm. Yeah, me too." I state, bumping into him as I walk out the room.
My whole life has been blood, fighting, death, kill or be killed, and I'm so sick of it. My siblings and I fought to survive from our abusive father. Fighting to survive from people who didn't understand us. But, it's different now. There are many supernatural creatures. I haven't even worried about my father since I parted ways with Nik. And yet, I'm still fighting. Still blood.
Still death.
It never stops. It's a never-ending cycle. Whether I'm with some strangers I met a few weeks ago, or if I'm with my siblings trying to survive. No matter where I go, who I hang out with, death is just all around me. Even if I don't kill, unless it's in a drastic circumstance, it doesn't change a thing.
I don't even think I'm mad at Damon. I'm mad at myself. I really believed that my brothers would stop their reckless killing. That somehow, I could stop both of them from killing the doppelganger. But I cannot. And I will not be able to.
The doppelgänger will die. My brothers will fight. Whether they fight to the death or not, that's to be determined. All I do know is that I cannot stop what is about to happen, without there being casualties.
I need to stop holding back. I need to fight.
Kill or be killed.