It was a dark night in New Orleans in the French Quarter, as Katherine Pierce, newly turned human, came upon the Mikealson family compound, limping. She had come from Mystic Falls after causing a car accident, when she and Jeremy had fought over the wheel. She only hoped they understood her need to survive. It was her instinct. Because of that crash, she was badly injured and had lost a lot of blood. She could tell, due to having to fight to stay awake.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtlAWOUyGpv
Once in front of the door, she knocked and then waited for someone to open it. And someone did.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPsQfsG6cAQ
“Well, well; If it isn’t Katherine Pierce, apparently human due to the cure. What do you need?” Kol greeted.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTklAGNff4j
“I need help and protection. Please.”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqLpNyQgftO
“I’d say that’s an understatement, darlin’,” he replied, seeing that she was injured, and realizing the condition she was in.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡywmNz1QG8L
A moment later, everything went black for her.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXj0mSBW8GB
As she collapsed, he used vamp reflexes to catch her from hitting the ground. Only then did he realized how much she truly needed help. She had, and was still losing a lot of blood. She looked worse than crap and she was alive but pale, injured, covered in blood, and her breathing was shallow. He could hear it with his vampire hearing.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡusRwwEn84u
He sighed, gently pulled her into his arms before getting to his feet, and then blurred upstairs to his room.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQT0XDCUtAb
Once in his room, he gently layed her down in his bed, and sat on her bedside. He bit his wrist and put it to her lips, making his blood go down her throat to heal and save her.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDfKvlbNnFg
A few minutes later, he took it away and it instantly healed, as her wounds began to heal.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnKVJulxVzM
He rested a gentle hand on the right side of her face and looked down at her, hoping she’d be okay. She was human now; weak and vulnerable. He’d have to let his siblings know soon enough, though. He just hoped Klaus and Rebekah didn’t harm her. Rebekah had wanted the cure and Klaus hated her.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvkEn89ybga
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When she woke up, she was in a room with Kol, Kol seated on her bedside, looking down at her, looking like he cared about her.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWoqGAV85E6
“You’re awake,” he stated. “How do you feel?”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRBGpo76u4x
She slowly sat up in bed.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsSyZoNM67p
“Better. Thanks.”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5JMXkBhXVQ
“You’re welcome. Now what do you need help with, darlin'?”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAuoCk46EYe
“I need protection and a witch. I’m human now, so if my enemies find out, I’ll be dead if I don’t have protection. I need a witch, because the cure did something more to me than make me human. I’m dying of old age at a rapid pace. Time is catching up with me.”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwjldZAnRfw
“Well darlin', if you’re on your best behavior, I’d be glad to assist you. It just so happens I have a witch at my disposal, and I don’t fancy watching you die. Besides, dying sucks as it is.”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡypSytrqN4L
“I promise to be on my best behavior. Thank you, Kol.”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQcH7vHpL4s
“You’re welcome, darlin'.”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEzU8Q7WDMh
He gave her a smile and she smiled back.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfkvt0uhpdH
He stood up.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO68cFP9f8H
“Get some rest. I’ll go speak to that witch and tell my siblings that you’re here,” he told her, before leaving his room.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdK4RFGFQai
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Half an hour later, he had informed his siblings downstairs and, as expected, Rebekah didn’t much like the idea and Klaus hated it, while Elijah would do anything to save her. And at the end of the conversation, Klaus left and Elijah went after him, while Rebekah simply went to her room.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaR6YVYqxNv
A few minutes later, he was speaking to Davina in the same room they had created the dagger that would temporarily put Klaus down if need be.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqW4A7KbXgQ
“I need a favor. Normally I wouldn’t be asking, considering who it’s for, but I do know a little of what she’s feeling. Usually, this would be Elijah asking for help in saving her, but since she did come to me, I’m the one asking,” he told the witch.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡypAJpbWW4V
“Who’s it for?” she asked him.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpGBg49LDMu
“Well, it depends what you prefer to call her as. I prefer Katherine Pierce. For you to understand her and why she wouldn’t come to Elijah, and most definitely not Klaus, I have to tell you her story.”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUsbXtdnkkM
“Okay. I’m listening,” she replied.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgpF5ruLKIR
“500 years ago in England 1492, after she was banished from Bulgaria by her parents for unknown reasons, she met Elijah and Klaus and a friend, Trevor, on Klaus’ birthday at a ball. Trevor and Elijah fell for her, but she only loved Elijah. Things were complicated, because Klaus needed her to break the curse in a ritual my mother set upon him. She was Elijah and Klaus’ first love’s doppelganger; Tatia. She didn’t know until Elijah told her though, and Trevor helped her escape to a cabin, where she met Trevor’s friend, Rose. It didn’t go well. Rose fed her her blood when she was willing to die, instead of Rose taking her back to Klaus. In the end, she killed herself and turned into a vampire and fled back to Bulgaria. That’s where she found her family slaughtered by Klaus. She fled from Bulgaria and ran from Klaus for 500 years. She made herself a liar and deceiver and learned how to survive, all in fear of my brother. Six months ago, after 500 years of claiming to love her forever, Elijah broke up with her. After that, apparently she had a fight with her doppelganger, whom shoved the cure for vampirism down her throat. Now she’s dying of old age at a rapid pace. I know what it’s like to be dying, so I promised her that I would help her. Besides, if I don’t, no one else will. All the friends she ever made were all killed in a church in the 1860’s. She has no one. She’s alone, human, and rightfully afraid,” he explained. Although Katherine hadn't said how she'd gotten the cure, he could only assume that Elena had shoved it down her throat.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxx2HP7sbm7
After hearing her story and knowing what it was like to almost die, she said, “I’ll do it. What kind of spell do you want me to look for?”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIyPevt7XKs
“Something to reverse what the cure did,” he answered her.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi3tF7n0U9q
“I’ll see what I can do,” she replied.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡssjwb0SS8s
He left to head back to the compound, while she searched for what would help Katherine.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡloIkmNFZS1
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Half an hour later, he entered the compound where his siblings were, Elijah wanting Klaus not to harm her, and Rebekah wanting the same, despite being unhappy that Katherine had become human instead of her.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa8IssELA91
Kol simply went to his room to check on Katherine, not wanting to have a brawl with his siblings.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAfIHFSuuf5
He sat on her bedside and looked down at her and, for the first time, actually saw the aging. Wrinkles and a few gray hairs were showing, which he hadn’t seen before. And even though he’d never met her as a vampire, he realized that being human had changed her. She was kind and didn’t lash out anymore. He was actually beginning to see what Elijah saw in her. Though she was dying, he could see a glimpse of light in her; something he hadn’t realized that she had even had.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhQ1Yf7xB8h
She woke up to see him, and she smiled up at him.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3qlqdLo6WC
“How long have you been there?” she asked.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMYdTBxdjtA
“Just for a minute. I spoke to the witch, Davina, and my siblings. She’s working on saving you and they’re working on it.”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKe5QgNUcWO
“Thank you, Kol.”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡisQPACp7wy
“You’re welcome, darlin',”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDLLIEwG1KS
He gave a smile.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ96TAPzn7tv
“Do you think you could let me walk around the compound, at least? I may be human and dying, but I don’t have to stay in bed 24/7 for you to protect me.”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡclPLAww4rN
“Of course. I just thought you could use some rest. You can go wherever you want, but let me know if you need any help.”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBSHmOb1mOt
“I will.”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡICY2yok641
She got out of bed and, after a change of clothes and a shower, left his room to admire the compound.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY0dfwhLBXM
He watched with a smile, as she left the room.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡREvO50BW9m
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As she descended the stairs, she saw his siblings, so she went slowly. They were arguing over her, and speaking of some family drama.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg11r1rjWZM
“She can’t stay here. I won’t allow it,” Klaus growled at Elijah.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIsfOy4t9Xu
“Niklaus, she has nowhere else to go. She’s not just some human. Despite what has happened, we do care. Do not cast her out.”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt0c8LXHN6q
“Fine. Then she may as well make herself useful, and help take out our mother.”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZa1EyMUz7f
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“I’m right here, Klaus. If there’s anything you’d like to tell me, I’m all ears. I am dying though, so you best make it quick. But I do have a witch and at least three Mikaelsons on my side, so be careful what you say.”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1neD3B3T2b
“I don’t care what state you’re in. If you’re going to stay here, you’re going to be useful.”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7QTP3qjZYb
“So, what has your mother done this time?” she said with a sigh.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ94ddDdlKz
“It’s what she’s trying to accomplish,” Klaus corrected. “She’s looking for me and Hayley’s daughter. Hope is cloaked with a spell with help from a witch Rebekah enlisted. We need her destroyed.”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYSTKR0DLls
“Then you need witches to come against her. That, or you need someone to distract her so one of you can destroy her. I promise to help protect your secret and Hope, but right now, until Davina finds something to help me, I’m dying. I’m too weak to help you as much as I used to be able to help. You know I hate admitting weakness, but it’s true,” she said to him, and then headed out of the compound.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZUizGyHgbL
“Where are you going?” he asked.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQtS8kjq85J
“For a walk,” she answered, not looking back, as she disappeared.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9EgCOPOr9e
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As Kat walked, she held in her emotions. She was still grieving for Nadia, her baby girl. She had been taken from her because of a werewolf bite, for the last time. She couldn’t help, but be envious that others got to keep their kids, but she wasn’t able to.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLO3tl7UtDr
A few minutes after she left, Rebekah went after her. She didn’t like her much, but Katherine was human and she needed to be protected out on the New Orleans streets. And it wasn’t like her siblings, apart from Elijah and maybe Kol, would do it.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDDtbHKfPVA
When she caught up with her, she walked beside her and put a hand on her arm.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWEcQLqMB9Z
“Katherine, hey.”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbXgklPwP5t
They stopped walking, and the newly turned human looked at her.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡob3IzMiZda
“Let me guess; you’re my protector if something happens out here.”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡajo1a5Jy1m
“I am,” she replied, and then noticed that she looked upset. “What’s wrong, Katherine? If it’s Klaus, forget about him and his behavior. I may despise you, but you can still talk to me.”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ZZdUpkeHe
“None of you know why I came to England in 1492; why my parents banished me from the village. I had a girl out of wedlock and they disowned me because of it. I kept her a secret for 500 years. When I recently became human, we were reunited, only for Tyler to bite her. My fear of Klaus killed her.”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgAdlXOQnth
Hearing this news made Rebekah feel sorry for her.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKL4adB5VAw
“I’m sorry for your loss. I’m here if you need me.”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDN0nvQkg73
“Thanks, Rebekah.”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZYVt5quDU7
She smiled at the Original, who then smiled back.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWZEE1Po2t8
Suddenly, they were magically attacked. Rebekah was left in the ally, out cold, while Katherine was taken to the mausoleum in the cemetery.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡssOhvCN72J
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Half an hour later, Rebekah woke up and called Klaus, as she began walking. When she couldn’t get him though, she called Kol, who immediately answered.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAlnxxB9rTM
“We have a problem. Katherine’s been taken by mother.”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI5I7s6MfAc
“That is definitely a big problem,” Kol agreed.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQgxnOMbbYv
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An hour later, Katherine finally woke up to see that she was chained by her wrists with chains that were connected to the rock ceiling; a lot like how she had done to Elijah not that long ago.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAyiXDbCD6g
“You finally decided to join me,” Esther greeted, though she wasn’t in her Original body. She was in a witch’s body.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzkZdzz8Cty
“Esther I assume,” Katherine replied. “What’s your plan this time? Use me as bait? Torture me? Been there; done that. It’s not going to work.”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYhvARXT7Dl
“Oh, it will,” Esther replied.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIMZzeER3iP
A few minutes later, Esther had her under a sleeping spell, which made Katherine relive her past.
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*1490- Bulgaria*
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It was a dark night in her Bulgaria village, as she gave birth to a healthy baby girl, her mother seated beside her, the maid at the foot of the bed. Then, finally, her baby was born.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6tz0pNjqiR
“Please. Let me see her,” Katerina asked of the maid.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeha1qzeNwc
The maid began to give her to her to see her, but then her father walked in and asked the maid what she was doing, which made the maid stop and look at him.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCgKCCyrA0s
“Give the child to me,” Katerina’s father instructed, in which the maid did.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡenwM1abhS1
As he walked away with her baby, Katerina begged her father to reconsider, with tears streaming down her face, saying, “No, pa'pa! Please!”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIMA8Whysew
He stopped at the doorway to the room and replied, “No! You have disgraced this family!”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwEgG2MKUXf
Katerina could only cry, as she watched her father disappeared with her baby. That was the very last time she knew she would ever see her baby girl. She had screwed up, and for that, her family had disowned her, and she knew she would soon be banished from her home.
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*1492- England*
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It was a dark night in England at a ball, as Katerina followed Trevor, whom had said he wanted her to meet Lord Elijah and Lord Niklaus. It was an elegant ball, in which she had never seen or been to before.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlI31a3RHxe
Soon, he introduced her to Lord Elijah and Lord Niklaus who she did a curtsey for.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcqBWLI1DRG
“Pleasure to meet you, Lord Niklaus,” she greeted to Niklaus.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrKbPnW7kEg
He kissed her hand and then said, “That’s what my mother calls me. Please, call me Klaus.”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJDr0lwCMSa
When she had been acquainted further and Lord Klaus had been informed that she had no place to stay, she was told that she could stay with him at his estate, in which she obliged.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8eb55aJO02
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One day, after she and Lord Elijah had played chase outside, they sat down on a cement bench and spoke of love.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0lICCmnf25
“I do not believe in love, Katerina,” he said to her.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2VmY9bsoiN
“I’m sorry, my Lord, but that’s too sad for me to accept. If we cease to believe in love, then why would we want to live?”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQkfsec0kSx
He looked at her silently, and she was silent as well.
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*1492- Bulgaria*
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After Trevor and Elijah helped her escape Klaus, whom was going to sacrifice her in a ritual, Rose whom found out who she was, said she would return her to Klaus, so Katerina took matters in her own hands by killing herself, which ended in her waking up in transition, and killing the old woman who owned the cabin, which turned her into a vampire. Then she fled and headed for her Bulgaria village, only to see that her entire village and family had been slaughtered. There was a sword through her father’s chest and he was hanging from the wall, while her mother lay on her back on the bed with her throat torn open.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQByyzi3MZZ
“No! Ma’ma!” she said, going to kneel by her on the bed, and cried over her mother’s body.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkLzs1ejHF9
When she could cry no longer, she fled Bulgaria to run from, and hopefully, escape Klaus.
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*1498- Bulgaria*
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When she had escaped Klaus for a while, she returned to Bulgaria in search of her daughter whom, at the time, was only eight years old. She searched every village and town and city, but she couldn’t find her, so she left Bulgaria, giving up on ever being able to find her daughter and be reunited with her. Little did she know, several years later, she would finally be reunited with Nadia Petrova.
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*end*
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Later that night, while Esther was up against Klaus, Kol took the chains off Katherine and gently carried her, blurring back to the compound. Then, once in his room, he gently layed her down in his bed and sat on her bedside, looking down at her, thankful she was still alive at least.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoLsu4N8yOn
When they found out that she was under a sleeping spell because of Esther, Klaus got the cure that would wake her up, and gave it to Katerina. He then left the room and soon after, she began to awaken.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXv3EhI79sl
“Welcome back, darlin',” Kol greeted, once she had come to.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDxVQHai8uq
She smiled and he smiled back.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjJ2OFJW64h
“Thanks,” she replied.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx034ebKxIn
She slowly sat up in bed and looked at him.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6i3t0n7UB6
“I know I don’t need to say this, but I’m sorry for what my mother did. You don’t deserve anything of what you got,” he replied.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXgKGnrmKH7
“You’re right. You don’t need to apologize for her, but thank you, anyway.”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ87fgjwqw2V
“What did you see, if I might ask?”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNrYxvJVPZe
“If you must know, I relived my past.”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡywCrQv08gg
“Well, I never heard of your past except for 1492 England. What is your past?”555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡshqjQIrfr9
“It’s a long story, so go ahead. See for yourself,” she invited, trusting him. After he had saved her twice, she trusted him with all of her heart. She trusted him with her life. Besides, she knew that he would never hurt her, no matter what.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgC14luQnIE
He did as she asked and then, a few minutes later, came out of her memories and back to the present.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ80vLuYwqk0
“I’m sorry for what you have endured. No one should have to go through any of that,” he said.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVZrTXUD9xf
“Thanks for the sympathy,” she replied.555Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ44QhcES6f2
They looked at each other, and it was such a moment that, before they knew it, they were making out in his bed with the door closed.
