Summary: Set in S3E16 "1912" or S3E15 "All My Children." Will someone stop her from succeeding? What if Kat came back? Why is she back? What if Damon had to save Kat's life? Will he do it?818Please respect copyright.PENANAFagyRR2Jh5
It was a dark night, as Esther Mikaelson used a knife to cut Elena's hand. Alaric Saltzman was knocked out on the floor in the little shed-like place. Esther was going to use Alaric as a weapon.818Please respect copyright.PENANAZVVQmf3vhH
"No," Elena protested.818Please respect copyright.PENANAGDyC6sbkUw
"I'm going to do this whether you're willing or not," Esther said.818Please respect copyright.PENANAOsdpH9z20a
Elena tried to get free from Esther's hold on her wrist.818Please respect copyright.PENANABjedMIRweu
Suddenly, Esther was thrown and she hit a faraway wall, while Elena hit the floor.818Please respect copyright.PENANACW0mODOXWz
"You dare interrupt me?" Esther growled, once she was on her feet.818Please respect copyright.PENANAazqAz6Zh2m
"If Elena and Alaric are involved, yes," Katherine Pierce replied. "And don't use your magic on me, because I know witches. Leave before you piss me off and I kill you."818Please respect copyright.PENANAofxvPRrLJ1
"You wouldn't dare," Esther growled.818Please respect copyright.PENANAxDxO8BsOC2
"Oh, I would. Ask Damon or Elijah. I'll do anything to get what I want. I'm going to warn you only this once. Stay away from Elena and anyone else she associates with. And I don't want to see you again," she growled back.818Please respect copyright.PENANA4iRKuQGY0k
Elena watched from the floor, her back against a wall.818Please respect copyright.PENANAWET13uXhDZ
"I'm an Original. I can do anything and you can't kill me," Esther replied.818Please respect copyright.PENANAUErz96D9dy
"No?"818Please respect copyright.PENANAqwYhkSqCBO
Katherine pinned her against a wall with a hand around her throat in a blur, her free hand with a white oak stake that she had raised over Esther's chest.818Please respect copyright.PENANAuCTZbBDUsn
"You want a bet?"818Please respect copyright.PENANASO5sSmVhVQ
Esther growled. Then the Original through her off and the bowl of ingredients spilled on the floor, as Katherine hit them. The bowl shattered into pieces.818Please respect copyright.PENANAjwXuudEXHB
The Petrova vampiress got to her feet, stake lost in the mess on the floor.818Please respect copyright.PENANA5yBAGgqP4M
"You used to be so delightful when we met back in the sixteenth century, Katerina. Whom were you in love with? Elijah or Trevor? Oh, yes. That's right. They were both in love with you, but you loved Elijah. And you used Trevor to escape Niklaus. Right? I wonder how Elijah feels for you now. You didn't choose him."818Please respect copyright.PENANAQecauUTOHD
"Put the past behind you. I regret enough of my past that I don't need reminded."818Please respect copyright.PENANAGmKASKI5TP
Esther through her and she hit a faraway wall with a thud.818Please respect copyright.PENANA373N7y690S
"You have bad luck, Katerina. You tend to always be in the wrong place at the wrong time."818Please respect copyright.PENANAbeZcdX0Z6d
Katherine layed on her side in pain and looked up at her.818Please respect copyright.PENANAssRP8jozR4
"I don't care what I am as long as my family doesn't die again. I'll gladly die any day for Elena and the others," she confessed.818Please respect copyright.PENANAzYtYEUBn0Q
"Well, that's interesting enough."818Please respect copyright.PENANARcUY5AupB5
Esther lifted her to her feet with a hand around her throat and pinned her to the wall.818Please respect copyright.PENANAx3F6EBWTkP
"Believe me. I never thought I would feel love again after what Klaus did. But now, I can love again. Elena, Damon, Caroline, and Stefan are my family. I'll do anything for them," she answered, as pain sliced through her side and right arm.
"Why so open with me?"818Please respect copyright.PENANA5HghaOVaji
"Because you can relate; you love and you care for your family. But one thing is this. I will never be the monster you are."818Please respect copyright.PENANAY15s6OoXpw
With her free hand, Esther slapped her across the face with anger clearly in her expression.818Please respect copyright.PENANAxGG5JoFnAK
"I am not a monster. I am a mother."818Please respect copyright.PENANA4WvUgkVxEm
"Yes; a mother that wants every vampire, including your own children, to cease to exist. If I had been able to raise Isabelle, I would never had become what you are. A mother that cares little, has no remorse, and is a selfish bitch."818Please respect copyright.PENANAdxApwAnWBt
Esther growled.818Please respect copyright.PENANAo2AAVpyOPX
"How dare you speak to me like that!"818Please respect copyright.PENANA6J70VoVbxb
Esther through her and she hit the wall closest to Elena pretty hard.818Please respect copyright.PENANARtUD7Qt7VP
"Enough, mother. If you have something to say, say it," the voice said.818Please respect copyright.PENANA7yJFFSjtGx
Esther turned to face her son.818Please respect copyright.PENANAVFNaCBgU4Y
"Niklaus."818Please respect copyright.PENANAJ9HT4lJOgp
She looked at the rest of her children calmly.818Please respect copyright.PENANAgVm9vwId5y
"Shall we discuss this somewhere else?" Elijah said.818Please respect copyright.PENANAoHmTXCVRqV
"Yes. We should. Mother?" Klaus said.818Please respect copyright.PENANABhoKRCqT5m
Elena and Katherine watched them go.818Please respect copyright.PENANAXeGBaphjai
"Are you okay?" Kat asked, as she layed on her back in silent pain.818Please respect copyright.PENANAcEtHL6s974
"I think I'll be okay," Elena answered her.818Please respect copyright.PENANA3NioyLnie0
"I'm glad. What the hell did I miss?" Ric said, as he got up.818Please respect copyright.PENANAewkNJCKGwj
"Esther was going to make you a weapon, but Katherine stopped her. Klaus made Esther leave," Elena summarized for him.818Please respect copyright.PENANA65bFRiSDqE
Alaric started to his feet, as the doppelganger went and knelt by the vampiress.818Please respect copyright.PENANAkg6FynNb6S
"You're hurt," Elena said to her.818Please respect copyright.PENANA9rcZevhhFr
"Yes. I'll be okay when I heal. Don't worry about me. Decides, Damon is pissed off at Esther. When I went to the rescue, I saw that he was heading over to save you."818Please respect copyright.PENANAVCkHxvB3fA
"Thank you."818Please respect copyright.PENANA6Nu34WksRW
"Anytime, Elena."
Alaric headed over to them.818Please respect copyright.PENANAflUlwpXVuH
"We should head back."818Please respect copyright.PENANAsmJL8mTQUI
"What about Katherine? We shouldn't leave her like this."818Please respect copyright.PENANAXTafwNUgC5
"She'll heal, Elena."818Please respect copyright.PENANAlhDNYB9W3E
"Go. I'll be fine," Kat urged.818Please respect copyright.PENANAcSO40RrAlB
"She saved me and you both," Elena reminded him.818Please respect copyright.PENANAxhq7upABd2
"And there's the hero of the day come to the rescue," Kat commented.818Please respect copyright.PENANAS5yjg3SnWk
Damon walked in and headed over to the three of them.818Please respect copyright.PENANAemhbbhSQRc
"What happened?"818Please respect copyright.PENANA2jJmRbkC96
"She saved us," Elena answered.818Please respect copyright.PENANAkRDz2sAgEv
"What the hell are you doing back here?" he asked Kat, as he glared coldly at his Sire.818Please respect copyright.PENANARAxcpANhFr
"I want to finish off Klaus. I'm done running," she answered.818Please respect copyright.PENANAoaZ8GgfPc1
"Let's go home," he told Elena and Ric.818Please respect copyright.PENANA4GRMRz9ayf
"Go ahead. Leave me," Kat urged her descendant.818Please respect copyright.PENANAyOFkUoVOGm
"I shouldn't. I don't want to."818Please respect copyright.PENANA50cG4MJYnI
"Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do. Please, Elena. Go home. Keep your family, friends, and Damon safe from getting themselves killed."818Please respect copyright.PENANAPICy37bFfr
"No," Elena protested.818Please respect copyright.PENANA7rwVciCmYa
Damon sighed.818Please respect copyright.PENANAcR9LYtN4E8
"She hurt you," he realized. "Where?"818Please respect copyright.PENANA9cllPa1PXj
"Just my side, arm, and head."818Please respect copyright.PENANAAktkJBnnF2
He knelt at her left beside Elena.818Please respect copyright.PENANAZrotGWjrZM
"Which one?"818Please respect copyright.PENANAqZD1sG3iRx
"Right arm and side and the back of my head; I hit it on the wall."818Please respect copyright.PENANApEwsvxkChE
"I'll take you to Elena's and we can both help you," Ric told her.818Please respect copyright.PENANABRKyA0qHAr
Damon got to his feet and looked at the Vampire Hunter.818Please respect copyright.PENANAVlxDw5ekYP
"If you need anything, let me know. I'm going home."818Please respect copyright.PENANAtVA3hbHDVE
Alaric watched him go.818Please respect copyright.PENANAvIv1HzE8QE
Elena put an arm around her and helped her slowly to her feet, as she got to her own feet.
As they walked up the walkway towards Elena's, Elena on her left and Alaric on her right, she smelled her own blood. And she was beginning to feel light headed. She only hoped that they would get inside before she blacked out. She knew it would come soon. And as they continued, she felt the stickiness in the back of her head. And that's when the events at the end came back to her, because she knew those ingredients that had fallen had done something to her. They had fallen with her to the floor and she had landed on them. Now she wasn't healing. One thing came to her mind. It inwardly thrilled her, as she thought it.818Please respect copyright.PENANAF42xpu7iYz
Am I becoming human?
They walked inside and Ric closed the door, as Elena and Kat headed upstairs towards the bathroom.818Please respect copyright.PENANANH1YsCkdYH
"Let me know if you need anything. I'll be in the kitchen. Then I'm going to bed," he told Elena, as he watched them disappear slowly upstairs.
Once in the bathroom, Elena closed the door and Kat sat on the closed toilet lid. Then Elena dug through the cupboard under the sink for the first-aid kit. As she did so, she tried to make her speak. The silence was making Elena wonder what was going through her mind. And that's where she started.818Please respect copyright.PENANAB9cvFVj6oz
"You've been quiet. That's not like you. What's wrong?"818Please respect copyright.PENANAUesOyznA2b
"Nothing's wrong exactly, but I've never had something like this happen. I usually heal fast, Elena. You've seen it happen. I don't know what Esther had in that bowl, but I think something happened to me. I didn't think much of it until a few minutes ago. I've never known it to happen, but in this world, anything can happen."818Please respect copyright.PENANAMVq4BdCMYN
"What are you saying?" she asked Isabelle's mother, as she set the first-aid kit down beside the sink.818Please respect copyright.PENANAoqBwPavyOP
"I'm saying that I think I might know why I'm not healing and why I'm not smelling or hearing as good as I usually can. I think I'm turning human."818Please respect copyright.PENANAMECCcOhxrl
Katherine had been looking at the floor throughout all of this with her hands folded in her lap. Now she looked up at her descendant.818Please respect copyright.PENANAUes3OmGAfk
Elena was startled a little by this new information, though she thought the vampire was just guessing. Was it possible, though? She didn't know.818Please respect copyright.PENANAiFnFdm3pXd
"Are you sure?" Elena had to ask.818Please respect copyright.PENANADS1V3pR1rV
"I'm about fifty fifty percent sure. There's a fifty fifty chance that I could be right. If I am, I'm glad to be human again. I'll finally get the chance to follow my human dreams."818Please respect copyright.PENANA1ehHJtd3Y5
"You are?"818Please respect copyright.PENANAvZ2EyT1OOS
"Yes. I didn't want to turn and I didn't know anything about real vampires. The only thing that I knew was that I wanted an escape. I wanted freedom from Klaus. My regret is turning. I couldn't do what I had wanted as a human. I was too poor to go to school with other kids and I never got the chance to be a parent. My father took my illegitimate daughter away and said that I had disgraced my family. I never saw her again until Isabelle came here. That's when I realized that Isabelle was my daughter."818Please respect copyright.PENANAn4cltop0nb
Elena tended to her arm and side.818Please respect copyright.PENANAydNzN6A4oP
"So, about what Esther said; is it true?"818Please respect copyright.PENANAAKchbPOND8
"Yes. Elijah and Trevor loved me, but I only loved Elijah. But I never used Trevor. He tried to help me because he loved me, but I turned into a vampire and then fled for him, in hopes of shelter. But Niklaus was one step ahead of me. He slaughtered my entire village, including my family. After I cried over my ma' ma, I fled to England. I was young, though. I didn't know how to act human, so I was found out and banished. Then I came here and met Stefan, while Damon was fighting in the war on the south side. I'll never forget how handsome he was in a uniform. Stefan introduced me to Damon. When I fell for them both, they brought me love again and made me feel young. I wanted to stay with them and never leave, but I didn't want to die. So even though they were dead, I promised them that we would meet again soon."818Please respect copyright.PENANAjwnM9HgTkU
When Elena had finished with her arm and side, she looked at her head. The back of her head was bleeding heavily.818Please respect copyright.PENANAearG8vAAr3
"Katherine…" she started.818Please respect copyright.PENANAtzq6brIlN8
The doppelganger didn't know how to say it.818Please respect copyright.PENANAARrfrAASna
"It's bad, isn't it? You can tell me."818Please respect copyright.PENANAmyjkhw6DAI
"Well, it looks bad, but I'm not a doctor."818Please respect copyright.PENANAG6Bff4XZ00
"Then you can call Meredith or Damon or both of them."818Please respect copyright.PENANAj7Dvm23TSf
Elena took some gauze and used it to apply pressure to the wound, while the vampire stood in front of the sink with hands on the counter. And as she did, Kat looked at the mirror part of the medicine cabinet. She had to grip the corners of the counter top, as the dizziness started and her focus kept going in and out. And then she felt her heart start beating in her chest.818Please respect copyright.PENANAkTa9T9CqoA
"How do you feel?" she heard Elena ask, but her voice seemed far away.818Please respect copyright.PENANAPalJiBjlnd
"Honestly, you should call Damon. I'm just dizzy, but I'm human. After 500 years, I feel my heart. I should probably lay down or something, though. In case it gets worse than my dizziness and focus," she replied, though her own voice sounded far away too.818Please respect copyright.PENANAu5S5Q3Y5tq
She saw Elena take out her phone and call someone; probably Damon. And then she started to feel light headed and disoriented.818Please respect copyright.PENANAd7WN9I9BnU
Elena guided her over and helped her sit back down on the toilet with her free hand.818Please respect copyright.PENANAVxt7vsXNw8
"I'll be right back."818Please respect copyright.PENANAPm6qi3PIT3
Elena left and went to sit on her bed, just as Damon answered.818Please respect copyright.PENANAngCrMKZV8O
"Damon, something is happening to Katherine."818Please respect copyright.PENANA2bOxR87psp
"What? Is she dying?"818Please respect copyright.PENANAVQpAX16iBR
"No. She's human and she thinks it was those herbs Esther had in that bowl that she and Esther shattered during the fight. I thought I should tell you before I get Meredith over here to take care of her head."818Please respect copyright.PENANAdhkMz69RRd
"Forget the crazy doc. I'll be there soon."818Please respect copyright.PENANAzyYy1KWG9E
"Thanks, Damon."818Please respect copyright.PENANAWN0CyvNrZu
She hung up.
The Petrova human girl looked at Elena, as she walked back in.818Please respect copyright.PENANANzHT47DZPF
"Let's go to my room. Damon's coming. He's going to help you."818Please respect copyright.PENANAfPteExVtlw
Elena helped her up and put an arm around her, before she shut the light off and walked out of the bathroom. And as soon as she had entered her room from the bathroom, she saw Damon in her room.818Please respect copyright.PENANAFwBaXmpPAQ
When he smelled blood and heard two hearts beating, he knew they were right. That meant that Kat needed help. She would bleed to death if he didn't help her soon. He could tell that she was pale, weak, and unfocused. He knew she was here, but not fully here. Right now, her life was hanging in his hands. He could let her die tonight or live. He had already chosen to keep her alive.818Please respect copyright.PENANAO5nw4OJZRU
He stood in front of her and Elena let go of her. Then he rested gentle hands on either side of her face.818Please respect copyright.PENANAZ4fa6ee4kc
"Try to stay with me. I'm going to help you," he instructed, though he wasn't sure how much she comprehended or understood.818Please respect copyright.PENANAoWSXZxZJrN
He bit his wrist, ready to save her life.818Please respect copyright.PENANAyNDPf2YCep
"Damon?" she heard herself say, as everything turned from dim to gray. And then, a moment before everything went black, she felt herself fall and saw Damon's worried look after she felt him catch her. Then everything went black.818Please respect copyright.PENANAjUf9wJOrfv
Damon knelt down and pulled her gently into his arms. He positioned her head gently back and put his wrist to her lips for his blood to heal her, once enough of it made its ways into her blood stream.818Please respect copyright.PENANATy5ZfSdtPF
A few minutes later, he took his wrist away which healed. He then looked down at her and made up his mind. She was human and he had given her vampire blood. She needed to be safe.818Please respect copyright.PENANAW3ErCC4ATr
He looked up at Elena.818Please respect copyright.PENANAtU2s7vHuEX
"I'm going to take her home. Have a good night."818Please respect copyright.PENANAwhCeAcvRZv
Elena watched, as he got to his feet with Katherine in his arms and vanished out of her window.
When she awoke, the new human saw that she was in Damon's bed in his room. He was seated on her bedside, which she had never seen him do before.818Please respect copyright.PENANAXRJaEMvrhN
"How do you feel?" he asked her.818Please respect copyright.PENANAManzz0isS0
"Normal and better. Thank you. You saved my life. How long was I out for?"818Please respect copyright.PENANAQrqTcspv4Z
"A couple days; do you want anything?"818Please respect copyright.PENANAWyWRNJPHYH
"I'll just be content to be human and enjoy the day with my family including you."818Please respect copyright.PENANAhMye62Oq30
She sat up and smiled happily at him.818Please respect copyright.PENANAYLj0TdeuV9
He smiled back.