Summary: Set in S2E11 "Brotherhood of the Damned." What if the place Finn brought them was between limbo and a magical realm? What if Katherine found them? What will happen?
Elijah, Kol, and Klaus found themselves in what looked to be a cabin, with four animal heads on the walls; a fox, a stag, a bull, and a wolf. After Finn showed himself, they found that each symbolized four of their siblings. Klaus was the wolf, Kol was the fox, Finn was the bull, and Elijah was the stag.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf9iFEoTOQ1
"Why are we here? Don't tell me...it's about our mother? I didn't force her to drink blood and betray everything she holds dear. That was her choice," klaus said to Finn.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ8RPiQYZs2
"This isn't about mother, this is about YOU. I want you to know how it feels to be powerless! So I'm going to take the thing that matters the most to you: the city you've come to love so much."588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7HtVJPXt1d
"Are we quite done here? You will release us NOW," Elijah said.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3FRchc7mb0
"I will! AFTER sundown. Because AT sundown, when the marchers of Carillon Eve take to the streets, my barrier drops. Marcel and his hungry vampires will be unleashed to kill their way through the Quarter! I imagine that, after their atrocities, the supernatural community of New Orleans will be forced to find another place to call home."588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfVzNwjK1qQ
"Look, I don't care about the city. What I care about is that my very human body is lying at the feet of some very hungry vampires. Your fight is with them, it's not with me!" Kol said to Finn.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBJJq8cKEQx
"All you care about is your own fragile mortality. But, what if you were made vulnerable? What then?"588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhGaYc8ml03
Before Finn could magically cause Kol any pain, Katherine walked in, closing the door behind herself.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU8Y9sc4A9L
They looked at her, as she walked over to them.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBy5rEHnXg2
"Katerina?" Elijah questioned.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWUaHfW2bnN
"You must be the famous Katherine," Finn guessed.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH579kDfjMq
"The one and only. You must be Finn."588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxt3JZ8v35z
"What are you doing here?" Klaus growled.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9cSMjWhcY8
"I'm not here to cause you trouble. I just want to help. I would've come sooner, but I had to learn a few tricks first and I just recently got wind of what's going on in New Orleans," she answered the hybrid. She looked at Finn. "You think you're all powerful, but you're not. I may not be a vampire or human, and I may be dead, but I have something you don't. I'm descended from Travelers, so my magic is more powerful than yours ever will be."588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSfRxoaDjf4
"I never said I was. All I want is to make them suffer," Finn informed her.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGZ7xP210BG
"That was me for 500 years. I wanted to make Klaus suffer, but I didn't. I knew I'd lose Elijah if I did. Besides, family is power and loyalty and love. You don't turn your back on family. Nadia didn't and neither did I. We died together as family. The only difference is that she found peace and I didn't. Now if you'll release your family, I'd appreciate it."588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc0bT9Bkza3
"Not until sundown when I release some very hungry vampires," he told her.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJUJp1CvnXA
"Suit yourself. I tried being nice," she replied, before putting her hands out in front of her and throwing a bunch of magic at him, which was more power than he could work with.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiQhNEwcZZG
Klaus and Elijah watched, Klaus with a smirk, amused now, Elijah was silent, having mixed emotions.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSboIpjCQf7
"Okay; fine," Finn said, giving in.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡviGBhTTycq
She put her hands down, stopping, and Finn vanished.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4oXd5RnBKu
She faced all three brothers.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDbklspnM8Q
"You'll see me in the real world. There's a witch working on bringing me back without the fast aging part. I'll help you out."588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2uXNnp43LQ
"No offense, but you can't do much as a human," Klaus told her.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡphcLAnNsxg
"Don't underestimate me," she replied.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvQDRxQ4tRb
A moment later, Klaus had vanished.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSUTvIgCCYc
"We'll talk later," she told Elijah with a smile.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO0hvQNdONV
She watched, as he vanished.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZM2pYa1Pcq
"Thanks for the save, sweetheart. I appreciate it, darlin," Kol said.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT624K8Gim2
"You never change," she replied.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ1MOJzCyMK
She gave a smile, before he vanished.
An hour later, a very human Katherine arrived at the compound. She used magic to bring the barrier down so she and Klaus could walk inside. Elijah would've come too, but he and Cami were keeping a certain secret safe.
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Once inside, the barrier went back up and she went to stand next to Klaus on the balcony.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1z9u8XhCfl
As he spoke, everyone looked at Klaus.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZK4x8LJM04
"Vampires and werewolves of New Orleans; I have an announcement to make!" Klaus announced loud enough for everyone downstairs to hear. "By sundown, the barrier keeping us here will go down! Finn wants to starve out the vampires and then release them to feed on the streets, but we won't! I have an old, well, let's just say friend would be putting it too strongly, with me here! Dear Katerina has volunteered to help!"588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1YeIQBIQKC
Klaus left to go find Marcel and Kol, as Katherine spoke.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNwY0iQkCCi
"You're probably wondering how a human can help with an Original and magical problem. I have a lot of experience in being one step ahead of my enemy. That, and I'm descended from Travelers. Travelers are like very powerful witches; more so than witches during the Harvest season. If you let me help you, we can do anything. So what do you say we prove Finn wrong?"588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDaTB65h3FM
There were murmurs of agreement at the end of her speech.
In the end Finn was defeated and put in a coffin, Esther and Mikael were killed, and Klaus began to trust her enough to let her meet Hope and Klaus went back to the compound.
Katherine stood in the living room where Elijah and Cami stood, Hope held to Cami's side.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3C3FJnjjPr
"She's beautiful," she said with a smile and tears in her eyes. She was still dealing with Nadia's death. Her only child had practically died in her arms recently. She'd do anything to have Nadia in her arms again; to see her one last time.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUHBTyVkziM
Memories of her surfaced, as she looked at Hope.
*Bulgaria 1490*
Katerina Petrova sat up in bed with her mom next to her, after giving birth to a healthy girl out of Wedlock.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbaoXGiNnUW
"Let me see her," Katerina asked of the maid who held her daughter.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUOqGsVTmkm
The maid began to, but her father walked in.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡErgvaLpaB7
"What are you doing, woman? Give her to me."588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU8CIg7dGGC
The maid did, as she was told.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtAkcz3Orun
Katerina's father stopped at the doorway and looked at her, the baby in his arms, when she begged him with tears streaming down her face, "No! Pa'pa! Please!"588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡftKiEP0ZU9
"No! You have disgraced this family!" He replied, before walking away to get rid of Katerina's baby.
*Bulgaria 1498*
After getting off Klaus' radar, she went back to Bulgaria to find her baby girl, who was eight at the time, but couldn't find her. There was no trace of her, so she gave up and left Bulgaria.
*Mystic Falls 2014*
Katherine was surprised to find out that her long lost daughter, Nadia Petrova, was a vampire and, after hearing her mother's side of why she didn't raise her, wanted to bond with her and get to know her. Then, just in a few months time, Nadia died from a werewolf bite and Katherine died a few minutes later.
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*end of flashbacks*
She came back to the present to see Elijah standing in front of her.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHOGTZCvBb0
"Katerina?" He said, wondering if she was okay.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYXRCgcpziz
"I was just remembering my daughter, Nadia," she informed him.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5xYtXNHmts
As he stood there, he wished he could do something for her, but knew that he couldn't.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡadVFegMBEu
"I was unaware that you had a daughter."588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAl9cxSPNzl
"That's because I didn't tell anyone. I had her out of Wedlock and was banished by my parents. That's how I ended up in England. In 1498, I went back for her, but I couldn't find her. We didn't find each other until last year, when she protected me from Silas and told me who she was. Even after a little over six months ago, it's hard. She died from a werewolf bite and I died a few minutes later," she informed him.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN9vi3yPQZ4
"I'm so sorry, Katerina. If I had known, I would've come."588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB5ACx6UM3f
"I know, but you broke up with me. I wasn't exactly feeling forgiving."588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi9vwI3TBtL
She looked up at him with a smile.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDJyQpDHzuU
He smiled back.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxT40lbCn9k
"At least we can start over," she added.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvRB52muEoO
"That we can do," he agreed.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJAVfH8UOnK
"But first, I want to hold your niece."588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ZzYfSSxhS
He watched, as she walked over to Cami, who let her take Hope, and wished he could give Katerina a child of her own. Even though she hadn't raised Nadia, she was a natural.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9YcAvZQ3Lk
He smiled at them together, happy that Hope made his Katerina happy.
That night, in a room with the door closed, they began to start over and were as happy as they could be. They got back together and began to make out on the bed.
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