[Episode 36 - Crying Wolf]

The silver moonlight showers in peace through the wind as Violetta squeals.

The man rolls her over with a chuckle, arms around her slender waist as he kisses her passionately. Her thumbs run lightly over his jaw, as light as petals.

"You're quite a remarkable woman Ms. Pierce..." Elijah Mikaelson smiles into her jade eyes.

"I must admit Mr. Mikaelson, I'm flattered that you find me so..." she kisses him, rolling over him with her legs around his staunt waist. Her honey lips move to his neck and his throat.

The nobleman gently pulls her to look into his eyes "I'm sorry, but one taste..." his eyes turn red, black monster veins running to them with the urgency of hunger.

He snarls, extending his fangs into her neck, only to be surprisingly yanked by the hair by the maiden.

Her hold seems gentle yet powerful, as if she has power over him while not even trying. She smiles sweetly "Now now oh noble Mikaelson... Just one taste? I thought you thought of me as remarkable..."

"Who are you?" he fights off her definitely supernatural grip as he crawls back in confusion, not fear. Elijah was never one to be scared.

The girl pushes him back with a secure smile that assured him that she was of no harm. She crawls onto his bent legs and bends to his ear "I, my dear Elijah, am a Guardian".

He looks to her with wide eyes as he holds her hands in his. "I-It can't be... If you really were who you say you are then-"

"-you and Niklaus would be long dead?"

He sits up, letting go of the maiden who has captured his heart.

"I see something in the both of you that I never thought I would see..."

"What do you see?" he asks, she would only see monsters. The monsters that they were forced to become.

She leans in close, extending her hand, only to withdraw when the vampire cringes back slightly. She hesitates but smiles sadly, pushing her wrist towards his face inch by inch. Her eyes hold the tender warmth of the moon in the night light, assuring the nobleman of something he didn't know, but wanted to believe.

"I see boys, two brothers who would tear the world apart just to make sure their family lives through. I knew what you both were the moment I caught your eye Mister Mikaelson... I mean you no harm" she smiles, planting a gentle kiss on his forehead.

Getting up, she gets out of the plush bed and makes her way to the balcony. She stands looking at the silver full moon, all by it's lonesome, no one to appreciate it glory except those aware of the horrors it hides in its absence.

Arms of the Mikaelson come around her, not embracing her but enclosing her in between their owner and the intricately carved railing.

She turns around, skirt rustling against the man. She looks into his believing eyes hiding the monstrosities behind them "Can I trust you?"

Not a part of her body moves except for her chest rising and falling with heavy breaths and her hand moving towards his cheek.

She summons up the memory of his most painful time and the tips of her thin fingers glow silver like the moon above them. Just as his guilt and pain leaves his heart lighter, she smiles into his wide eyes "You can trust me Elijah, always. Always and Forever".

His smiling lips fall onto hers as if the biggest puzzle of the world just came into place. The puzzle of his heart.

The Guardian kisses him harder, more passionately. Their connection doesn't break even as the handsome man picks her up and rushes inside, onto the bed where they rip their clothes. One as desperate to touch skin to skin as the other.

Warm sunlight filters through the windows of Caroline's room. The only sounds are the crickets chirping in the lawn. That, and a Gilbert's phone beeping annoyingly.

Caroline pushes Kat out of the bed, whom she was spooning, with a groan, snuggling closer into Bonnie's arms behind her. She rolls out of her dream and the bed, looking around with a gasp before relaxing. Her jaw flexes when the dream comes flooding back in.

And then she scrunches her nose up with a groan, hearing the beeps of the phone. Who has the nerve to call in the morning? She crawls to the door and sits against the drawers as her hand stretches her hand up to grope for any vibrating hell-hole of a communication monster.

Kat Gilbert wasn't really a morning girl considering she finally gave in to slumber in the wee hours of morning.

"Heee-llo" she yawns shamelessly, focusing her eyes around to find a place after she chucks the phone somewhere.

"Hey beautiful..." she hears a familiar voice whisper in an amusedly husky tone, making Kat pull the phone away from her ear and see the caller ID.

"Wron-g twin" she yawns again into the phone "Hey 'Lena!" she throws the device onto the figure she assumed was her sister's. Bonnie groans up beside the younger Gilbert, grunting and making the light on the other side of the room flicker. "Get lost" she falls back onto the bed just as the light goes off.

Elena frowns awake "Unh. Shut up, tryna sleeep..." she looks around, finding the phone vibrating on her feet.

"Your boyfriend's calling. Stake him before I wake up" the elder twin crawls back to her sleeping blonde friend. She pushes her off again.

Rolling her sleepy eyes, Kat squeezes in between an awake Elena and spoons her witch friend who gladly obliges in snuggling back. Then every alarm in the room goes off, Caroline's phone, Kat's phone, the hall clock and Bonnie's phone, making them all groan and warn the walls "SHUT UP"

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"Well don't you look dapper Kat?" Damon kisses her as she chuckles "We're in my house Damon, walls away from Jenna who by the way, hates you, making out would be stupid"

"But stupid's so much fun" he groans and kisses her nose.

"What's all the pep for? You were almost off to your death yesterday" she jokes, putting her arms around him with a tired smile.

"Exactly, now I can offer my girlfriend, that's you by the way" he smirks "an invite to the Historical Society Tea Party"

She rolls her eyes, stepping out of the embrace as she opens her cupboard "Nope"

He frowns "Last I checked, I'm the most handsome bachelor in Mystic Falls"

"And I just happen to be Miss Mystic Falls, ergo... you can't invite me to the party, I'm inviting you over to the party..." she turns behind with a wink.

"Awesome" he shoots her with imaginary hand guns "So what's got your panties in a twist?"

"You need to get your eyes checked. Because I'm pretty sure you ripped them off a while ago" she smirks, bowing her head down to offer herself a high-five for avoiding the topic.

He vamps in front of her, holding her by the shoulders "Funny" he rolls his eyes "Did someone say anything? I swear if Lockwood did an-"

"No... No!" she assures him, hugging "It's just..." she murmurs into his shoulder "It sounds stupid..."

"You do understand I'm sleeping with you to get a rise out of your sister right? We hold that banner with pride, now out with it Kat"

"I.... um, I-"

"-am going to confide in Damon right this moment because he will not hesitate to snap my neck" Damon glares at her.

"I'mhavingdreamsofElijah"

"Huh... That's funny" he sits down beside her on her bed with narrowed eyes "'Cause I heard that you've been having dreams of Elijah..."

His best friend shakes her head, showing that she really wasn't being funny.

"As in one of the Original vampires Elijah? Give me a chance Elijah?"

She hugs him quickly, more of a request than an endearment "Please don't tell anyone"

He pulls her off with a look "What kind of dreams?"

"I, um, uhk-khh" she clears her throat.

He laughs, straight up laughs in her face "O god really? Kat, shit" he laughs.

"What in the name of hell are you laughing for!" she all but shouts, making him take a breath.

"I plan to rile Elijah up at the party. Since 'Violetta'" he makes air quotes "is his weak point, might as well give me a run for my money" he insinuates.

She rolls her eyes, kissing him on the cheek "Anything to make me forget..."

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"Hello Mrs. Lockwood" Kat lets go of Damon's arm to airkiss the woman whose son she was trying to avoid.

"Hello darling... And Damon, good to see you" she kisses his cheek, making the Gilbert secretly roll her eyes. "O, this is the author I was talking about Kat..." the interim Mayor beams as she beckons forward someone from the corner.... to reveal the Elijah Mikaelson.

"Greetings" he smiles, his eyes twinkling when it comes to Letta "I'm Elijah Smith, I've heard a lot about you" he takes Miss Mystic's hand and kisses the back of it.

"Pleasure" he smirks, making the Guardian nod with a smile "Nice to meet you Mr. Smith... I'm Katherine Gilbert, but people around here prefer to call me Kat"

"O, and I'm Damon Salvatore" the younger vampire puts in with a very endearing smile and an extended hand. Elijah, though not interested in going through the pleasantries with the baby vampire, entertains him with a polite handshake.

The elder Gilbert looks down at her phone, getting informed of her sister's whereabouts for the next two days.

Lena: Just reached lakehouse, yay ;-)

"Shall we?" Damon takes her arm and walks further into the premises with a tilted head as if to say None of the pining stuff. Jenna and Alaric soon join them, the former's nose scrunching up ever-so-slightly "Hello Damon, you came" she words screaming why did you come.

Elijah looks between the adult women, trying to act clueless as he asks "Excuse me for asking... But isn't Kat very... " he trails off, purposely letting the aunt fill in.

"Young? That's because she is..."

Carol continues, not wanting to be left out of the conversation by a mere college girl "She's Miss Mystic Falls and even a talented artist..."

Jenna points to one of her charity paintings hanging up on the wall "That's hers..."

Elijah looks seriously from that painting to her and smiles "It's beautiful, your art accomplishes a lot Miss Gilbert"

"Thank you..." she trails off, hobbling from foot to another.

Damon puts his arm around her waist and nods with his eyes appreciatively. Well, she isn't down in a puddle like most girls or wrapped around Elijah's finger like the rest of the women who've met him. Go Kat.

After the actual tea that the society's party is based on, Kat goes to Jenna, whispering in her ear excuses to get out of there. She got a message from Caroline about their plan to roofie Luka the son-warlock. Anything to get her out of here.

"Is Damon going with you?" her aunt narrows her eyes.

"Uh, no, I'm gonna be with Caroline, Damon's staying here..." she looks to Alaric who assures the strawberry blonde with a smile and nod. They all know how much she dislikes Damon, so if Alaric can keep him busy and away from her niece, that's all the legal guardian wanted.

"Bye Jenna, see ya Ric" she waves off with her clutch, walking off in search of Damon. She finds her friend having a face-off with her biological father and huffs.

"Damon" she pulls him back towards her gently, commanding his attention. He waggles his eyebrows tauntingly at John and turns to her. "I'm leaving, I'll be at Caroline's if you need me" she sends in a message I can't take it anymore so I'm out. He nods, suddenly looking over her shoulder. "Okay" he kisses her cheek slowly but lets go of her.

When she turns behind, she finds a serious faced Mikaelson looking at the older Salvatore. The smiling face of his in her dream flashes by her eyes, making her stammer and turn around with a hysterical smile, flashlighting out of there before she can stop herself.

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The Guardian hops into her blonde friend's house when she hears Caroline "We only have, like, an hour or two before my mom gets home, and these are all I could find..."

"Wow, did we skip straight from young little virgin to torture porn flick?" Kat chuckles as Bonnie's and Jeremy's noses scrunch up in disgust. But Caroline Forbes just snaps her fingers in realisation "That! That's exactly what this looks like!"

Jeremy stands up and Caroline hands him and his sister the candles in her arms, one by one.

"Place these evenly around the room" Bonnie instructs, not really meeting Jeremy's eyes.

"How does this work?" he asks her, moving around Luka, who's current placed on the back on the floor.

"Um, I'll put him in a trance and ask him questions. It's like hypnosis"

"You sure you're strong enough for this?" Kat frowns, hand immediately going to her charm, she could channel this.

"That's what the candles are for. I'll draw power from the flames"

"I'll get the matches" Caroline starts to leave the room but Bonnie Bennett waves the flames into existence, earning a proud smirk from the Guardian and an amused scoff from the rest of the group

"Never gonna get used to that" Jeremy mutters, shaking his head with a warm smile.

Caroline and Kat share a look and rest their arms on their hips "Oh, come on. That's pretty hot, and you know it" the jade-eyed Gilbert tilts her head.

"I need a bowl of water" Bonnie shoots off.

"Yeah," Jeremy gets up from his kneeling position "-yeah. I'll-I'll go get it"

Both the teasing friends look smugly as the littlest Gilbert rushes off. Bonnie throws Kat a look "Okay. What was that? It's hot?"

The witch's friends roll their eyes "He is so crushing on you"

"So?"

"So..." Caroline settles down opposite to Bonnie on the floor "What? You'd rather be with traitor warlock over here?"

"I'm not into Luka. It's just, you know, he understood me, and he was new and different..." 

"And you've known Jeremy since forever..." Kat begins "-and you only see him one way, as my brother, but you're a witch, and she's a vampire...." she points to Caroline.

"You know, it's not like we're in any position-" Caroline begins, but is cut off by Bonnie "To be picky"

"No. To judge" she amends, chuckling.

"Yeah, speaking of, what the heck was that dream?" Bonnie glares at Kat, making her heart thud.

"What dream?" Caroline asks.

"Y-You saw, you saw that?" she stammers, how can Bonnie possibly know that?

Bonnie's serious face morphs into a cunning smirk "Nope, but now you're gonna tell me what's got you gasping out of bed after girls night"

She groans, burying her face behind Caroline's shoulder, who shifts off "You're having dreams! Please tell me it wasn't about Stefan!"

The Gilbert girl cringes even more. Now that's two secrets out. Way to go Caroline...

"Stefan? Why would sh- Oh my God Kat!" Bonnie screeches, making Jeremy run in "What happened!?"

"Jeremy, uhm," Kat clears her throat "Bonnie needs the um, water?" she looks to her friend who forcefully nods "Yes, and chalk, don't worry, Luka's not going to wake up for a while now, he's out hard... Thank you Jeremy" Bonnie smiles awkwardly.

The moment she's sure that the boy gone outside, she crawls towards the duo with a confused glare "Stefan!" she whispers "You're having dreams about Stefan Salvatore?" she rambles, causing Kat to cringe hysterically and wave her hands for the friend to lower her voice.

"No! No, not Stefan... Elijah!" she whispers closer to the girls, making both of them gasp and narrow their eyes "What!"

Kat groans and rubs her hands over her face "Elijah...."

"Please don't tell me it was a sex dream" Bonnie and Caroline sync in prayer. 

The poor girl, feeling ganged up on, cringes her head into Caroline's cold shoulder. The resignation makes one groan and one gasp.

"How? W-Why? Wh-hat!" Bonnie whispers, keeping one eye on Luka and one out for Jeremy.

"You do know that I, uh, am Katherine's sister right?"

"Uh-uh, reincarnation you said..." Bonnie nods.

"Well... that Kat 'liked' Elijah" she makes air quotes, cringing. This is so awkward. "Oh my God....! And Stefan!?" Bonnie's eyes widen, putting saucers to shame.

"Um, uh...."

"C'mon! Why didn't you tell me I was right?" Bonnie's groans to Caroline, bringing the Gilbert girl's head out of the blonde's shoulder and stare at the witch. Caroline looks around sheepishly, "Um.... I, um, sorry?" she cringes now, smiling widely nonetheless.

"Wait," Kat sits up shocked "What do you mean I was right?"

Bonnie gives her best friend a look "You really think I'm blind don't you? Newsflash, I can see very well..."

"And I heard you both yesterday night..." Caroline outs in energitically.

"You do realise Stefan is my sister's boyfriend right?" Kat asks, and immediately scrunches her face up as she realises how traitorous she would be in their minds "Okay... That sounds so wrong".

"Hey... I'm not saying you should love him with all your heart or something.... But it's not absurd liking him...." Bonnie puts in, hugging the girl. A lot just fell on her, making her grow up faster than she had to. Now she's a confused mess about liking her sister's boyfriend... Yup, luck wasn't on her side, so she'll have her friends.

"Aw" Caroline joins the hug, making the girls chuckle.

"Someone's gotta say it...." Kat begs.

"Ok..." Bonnie accepts, playing her part. She sits upright, making her frown seeming as realistic as possible "Katherine Gilbert!" she says "You are such a horrible person - I mean... A Salvatore!" Caroline follows suit and holds her shoulders roughly "And having dreams of a man who might be our enemy! Shame on you! A more sinful person never walked this Earth!"

All this makes the Guardian chuckle "Okay, okay, timeout.... Thanks" she smiles kindly.

A minute later, her baby brother walks down the stairs, holding up some chalk powder "This was a bitch to find by the way" he hands it to a smiling Bonnie. She makes the circle for the lied they came up with and gives it to Kat with a slight wink.

A few minutes later, the warlock son starts stirring. Bonnie dips her hands in the bowl of water and places them on either side of Luka's head. She shuts her eyes, concentrating. Kat feels the magic buzzing around her and soon, the candles flare up gradually at first, and then intensely.

Luka starts breathing heavily, trying to move but too weak to do so. He writhes a few inches more "Please stop. Please..."

"How long is this gonna take?" Caroline asks in worry. Liz was due home in half-hour and everyone in the room was freaking out with their own reasons.

Bonnie was worried Luka would have to die. Jeremy was scared that Bonnie would pass out with exhaustion. Caroline was worried her mom might walk in after sometime.

And Kat was freaking out because all of this.... Seemed wrong. Elijah is protecting her loved ones. Albeit he practically signed Elena's and her death sentence. But he trusted her to do something... Bringing Luka here would just push the protected gang of Mystic Falls a step towards Elijah cancelling his deal.

Suddenly, she gets Elena's call. She gets up, glad for the reprieve and walks out to the Forbes' porch.

"Hey 'Lena... What happened?"


"Um... Nothing, I just wanted to uh, ask you how you're doing...."

She sighs, clueless "I'm fine...? Why would you ask?"

She gets silence from the other line before her sister gives up with a worried sound "Stefan told me that you got hurt, and I swore that my sister would have told me everything first before my boyfriend"

"Look, Elena" the elder Gilbert pinches the bridge of her nose "Now's not the tim-" she hears something in the background and looks around her.

The driveway looks deserted in the middle of afternoon, making Kat concentrate again. Elena drones on "It's just, I feel that we're growing apart and I don't l-"

"Elena shh"

"No, you don't understand, I want us to be close ag-"

"No seriously Elena. Shut up, I'm hearing something near you" that makes Elena go silent, looking around herself at the lakehouse.

"Don't move!" she hears a small shout.

"Wait, why is Tyler there!" Kat freaks out.

"What? It's only me and St-" they hear a growl, making Kat's eyes go wide with anger.

Just as Kat takes her first step to get her car keys, she hears shuffling on feet and a crash on the other end. A man groans and something metal clanks down. Elena doesn't respond to her sister's frantic shouts.

A man scoffs "I can smell you"

"Hey Brady!" Kat shouts into her phone, trying to gain the dick's attention.

She hears him pick up the phone, just as she gets into her friend's house and snatches off her keys, earning weird looks from the audience.

"O it's you.... How's the shoulder treating you huh? Too bad your sister will be of no use to Elijah soon"

She gets into her car and floors it. "Listen dog, fifteen minutes" she growls into her phone "fifteen more minutes and you'll see me face to face, you're dead" she turns onto the shortest way to the lakehouse.

"Well, I like my games, stay on line bitch" he snarls, chuckling as he taunts her with closing doors and shuffling feet.

"Come on out Elena, you're sister's on her way... And you know how much I'll enjoy taking away both of you" Many sounds bombard the Guardian, making her speed to the place at 85 miles per hour. She turns onto the dirt road, eyes going amber in bright daylight.

Thankfully, if there's something Brady absolutely had, it was the spirit of revenge. And he didn't learn from his mistake yesterday. He keeps taunting Elena. Feet shuffle and a heavy door closes, followed by Elena's gasping. "Do you hear that girl?" he snarls to the Guardian on line as he holds Elena to the wall.

Kat swishes into the mud road leading to the lake house. Not bothering with anything else,the girl speeds out and into the house, seeing Brady holding her sister to the wall by her throat.

Snarling, she rips off the werewolf apart from Elena. She looks into his dilated eyes as he looks at her golden eyes and murderous twinkle. She growls and relieves the asshole of his heart, throwing the mushy organ out the window.

Without words, she hugs her aghast twin, who buries her shaking head into the elder twin's hair.

"You're okay... Shh, you're fine...." she coos, running the non-bloody part of her wrist over Elena's hair. "Oh my God Elena!" Stefan and Tyler rushing in, the latter standing guiltily at the threshold.

She lets her sister go, letting Stefan embrace her after the scare.

Casting a look at the Lockwood, she sighs, looks away and walks out to wait by her car that is coated with the dirt of rushing here with her foot on the accelarator. Tyler apologises to Elena and Stefan and walks out with a guilty look. He stutters down to Kat at the far end of the dirt road, looking away at nothing in the air.

"I-I'm sorry Kat...." he hugs her slowly, and to his surprise, she lets him.

"I promised I won't let anything bad happen to you, but I do realise that you can't stay around here, you need to be with your people" she places her left hand over his heart, a sad look on her face.

"This is our conflict Tyler. Not yours, not mine, ours ...."

He kisses her forehead with a sad smile "Stay safe okay?"

She inches forward and kisses his temple "Keep calling... I'm here..." she steps back with the same smile.

And when he walked away, she felt her heart tighten. She's watching her brother walk away, no one knows when or how he's going to come back. She looks to her right, away from the retreating figure of the Lockwood boy. She sighs, imagining Mason there "He'll be safe.... Right?"

What she didn't expect was, Mason Lockwood standing right there on the Other Side, a sad smile on his face. "He'll be alright..." he sighs at his god-daughter.

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"So they're here for Greta..." Kat slumps down onto the couch in the lakehouse. 

Stefan stands against the granite platform in the kitchen, glaring hard at her. That's all she can say?! Her and her sister's lives are on line, and are definitely going down, and here she is, sitting calmly and avoiding the elephant in the room.

"Damon called me earlier" he looks between the martyr sisters "He learned that Elijah's planning for you to die in the sacrifice ritual"

The Guardian scoffs and gets up as her twin hugs herself "I know the deal she made, Stefan. Elijah's very careful with his words. He promised to protect our friends. He never said a word about us..."

Stefan looks to Kat, who's busy groping about the underside of the kitchen counters. Finally, her eyes widen in satisfaction as she pulls out a bow from deep under the gas connection area. The Salvatore ignores the bow in the Guardian's hand, having enough of her silence "So that's what you wanna do?" he yanks it out of her grip, throwing the twins a pained glare "Be martyrs! You'll let each other die!"

Kat purses her lips and snatches her weapon back. Discarding her jacket, she starts going out when Stefan rushes to her, blocking her way "Why do you want to die? Huh! The both of you, enough! Why won't you fight?"

She looks back at her distraught sister with a sarcastic look and pushes the younger Salvatore out of the way "When Niklaus comes, and he will, we want all of you standing. Don't be a hero Stefan, he's never the one alive"

"Is a martyr? Huh? You both really want to die that much?"

She shakes her head with a scoff, "I promise you this Stefan, you'll have your girlfriend and your friends alive" She starts crossing the threshold but Stefan steps in her way again "Elena needs you alive, I need you both alive"

She takes the vampire's hand and twists it with growling golden eyes that shimmer even more in the evening light "I'll be at the garage behind, call me when dinner's ready"

A minute later, Kat stands in front of the target and aims her arrow with pursed lips.

"Always and forever" a ghostly whisper rings in her.

Her grip falters. She throws the arrow down. It isn't cut properly, she tells herself. She pulls another from the quiver on her back, her muscles stretching and releasing.

"Can I trust you"

This time, the arrow falls involuntarily, making her slap herself openly "Katherine Gilbert! What the heck is wrong with you!" she stomps up into the garage, leaning her back against Stefan's car and her knees against her own. "You won't let some silly dreams control you!" she bites her teeth in frustration. Looking up, she fists her palms and opens her mouth in a silent minute-long scream.

"God help me Blai-" 

The orange garage light falls onto the Guardian's Grimoire in the backseat of her car. Good thing she didn't take it out after the Brady incident by the Falls.

"One.... Two.... Three...." she counts and propels herself to open the door and rush her hands towards the book. She quickly flips past the pages, not even freaking out that she can perfectly understand Bulgarian from her past life.

"Mens restituet" she whispers slowly, stopping on one of the last few pages. Mind restoration.... Well, that would work....

She had written beside that it can only bring back periods of a soul.... Not the whole.... Well, worth a try.

She closed her eyes, picturing Elijah in ancient clothes. And she reminds herself the hard rolling voice of Niklaus that plagued her in many dreams since Katerina's arrival.

"Okay...." she looks back to the actual spell. 

"Revertas Phasmatis Ut Victus... Okay... It's simple... Revertas Phasmatis Ut Victus... Okay,"

She practices it as simple saying for the first five times and then shakily clutches her charm.

"Revertas Phasmatis Ut Victus..." 

Elijah smiles, kissing her hand in a small cursty "You must be Miss Pierce..."

She smiles shyly, curtsying to the nobleman "Please... Call me Violetta"

"Revertas Phasmatis Ut Victus"

She paces in the night, near her carriage. Elijah comes out of the edge of the forest, arresting her in a kiss and a hug "Please don't go Letta" he holds her face.

She smiles sadly, tears in her eyes "I can't let him do this Elijah, I'm sorry, but I have to do this... He'll come running for me... My lord, you are going to let your brother do it, you're going to let him kill me... I love you" she kisses him and gets into the carriage, whipping the horses and hurrying into the dark.

"Revertas Phasmatis Ut Victus"

Klaus looks into her piercing glowing eyes, staggering back "What have you done? What have you done!?"

She smiles triumphantly, "Shouldn't have killed me Niklaus" fire grows from her fingertips as her eyes darken to black and she wipes the blood from her eyes and shoves the monster to the wet ground. 

"Qui lupum occidere custodem vocant, Qui lupum occidere custodem vocant, Qui lupum occidere custodem voca-" something sharp plunges into her ribs from behind.

Tears blind her eyes and falls down into the arms of Elijah Mikaelson. "I am sorry..." he drives the wood deeper, making her gasp.

No.... Elijah....

"Me too" she grunts "c-cus-cust-todem-m vo-c-an" Klaus steps the foot deeper into her ribs with his angry foot.

The last thing she sees is Niklaus' angry eyes.

"Kat! Kat! Stefan!" the Guardian is shook again and again, something wiping her nose fast before she's shook again.

"Stop" she croaks out, cringing her eyes open to the usually dim light of the garage, but looking like the sun.

"What happened!" Elena holds her up against Stefan's car, making her realise that she fell down. Stefan tears into his wrist, ready to give her blood.

She just waves it off "I, um, the spell failed..." she lies, her erratic heart beat all over the place.

"What happened Kat?" Stefan presses, emphasising slowly. If there's any werewolves around, they're dead. "I, um, thought that I could, um, get my memories back" she sees Stefan go rigid at those words for a while but regain his posture when he realises what she meant "Your old life ones?"

"Wait, you know what she's talking about? Stefan knew?" she turns to her sister with wide eyes.

"I was going to tell you over dinner"

She huffs, getting up, "You know what? Don't even bother. My sister tried to get her past life memories back and she was winging it solo"

She stomps out, almost in tears and Stefan looks between the two distraught sisters.

Kat waves the younger Salvatore off "Go on..."

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After eating dinner outside, and away from the couple, Kat slowly stalks into their parents' room and into the bathroom. Borrowing a couple of plaid clothes, and a towel, she goes inside, but not before palming a syringe of old concentrated vervain.

Soaking in the cold water, the Guardian looks to it with a throbbing head and a future that seems to be resting only in her hands.

She sacrificed herself so that she could kill Niklaus. But Elijah stopped her. Why would he do that?

And if all vampires and werewolves are fighting to break the curse, why isn't Elijah one of them? He wants to kill Klaus, sure, but doesn't he want to break the curse himself?

And Violetta loved Elijah, he killed her... But she somewhat escaped.

"Lubov?" she wonders. He just let his friend kill her, and kill her entire family. Elijah's hiding something in plain sight. And she feels closer to the only thing Elijah has against the supernaturals of Mystic Falls.

Custodem vocant Custodem vocant Custodem vocant... Whispers creep upto her temples and she groans.

Oh god no. Without even thinking she plunges the syringe deep into her veins blindly and hisses at the sting of vervain and the prick of the needle. She jerks it out after the light green liquid residue sticks to the walls of the plastic.

Throwing it off, she rubs the spot with a curse. She needs to speak to Elijah. He killed her once, but she came back, and Niklaus killed her later, it seems, for the last time.

But how can she be dead?

"Okay Kat" she steadies herself neck-deep in the stagnant water and takes a deep shaking breath. The lack of supernatural voice from all around her makes her close her jade eyes in relief. She doesn't know for how long she sits there, imagining up weird situations to tell Stefan about how she lied, telling Damon about how confused she is... Caroline and Bonnie would freak.

She slowly slips on the itchy but familiar clothes. The one piece of her simple past, if she ever had one. She throws the curtains of the room open, looking at the crescent moon.

"The deal is off..." she hears a familiar voice shout out loud from beneath.

Furrowing her brows, the Guardian opens the curtain further to peek at none other than Elijah Mikaelson. Her face does a double take. Elijah Mikaelson, a hole through the suit he was wearing, anger shining through his calm eyes, posture not giving away the acts of the past.

Clashing her teeth, Kat runs down the staircase and almost out into the Original's line of vision when a cold hand cups her mouth close, inadvertantly pulling her back.

She struggles, and writhes, but the man pulls her back towards the wall. She sees the D on a gaudy ring shine under the isle light. She kicks his shins but he doesn't give. He just yanks her head closer to his neck and she feels him move his head. Suddenly, her kicking legs swing lesser, now in the vampire grasp of Stefan. Her eyes widen as she tries to kick them off. Damon pins her elbows to her chest.

Kat feels the vervain finally inkling into her system as her reactions become weaker and more tired. She tries to scream but doesn't get enough breath.

All her protests cease when a sound of metal slushing through flesh sounds, elliciting a groan from the threshold of the house. The brothers let go of Kat, watching silently as she stumbles onto the wooden floor in a slide. She slips out into the living room, looking at the scene out, beyond the threshold.

Elena holds a patch of dark on her torso, and Elijah lies just beside her, desiccated and still. Stefan runs past her and gives his girlfriend vampire blood to heal.

Elena Gilbert gratefully gulps it down, and it is then that the Guardian's eye takes in how she looks.

To say the least, the younger twin looks like her sister. Hair curled... and green contacts over her eyes.

"What have you done?" she whispers, staggering forward.

"Kat, I-"

"What have you done Elena!" she stumbles down at the threshold, in front of the fallen Original. The cicadas chirp in the pale night as Letta lets out a strangled croak.

"He's not dead..." Stefan states, crawling to her shaking form. The vampire's words bring her distraught eyes up from Elijah, the very man who held a link to her past, the man who begged for another chance.

"He's just daggered, he'll live" Damon whispers, motioning Elena aside and sitting beside the quiet duo. His hands hesitate above the Guardian's shoulder.

"Why?" she hardens her voice. "Why would you do that? He was the one thing keeping Elena alive"

"Kat yo-"

"I asked... Why would you do that Elena?" the elder twin's voice rises an octave with every pause. Everyone except Damon flinches at the steely tone. Shaking her head, Kat goes out, walking along the dirt road.

Her mouth still aches where Damon shut her up like he was holding a doll. She wipes off a shaking hand over the sensitive area.

"Kat... Kat!" Damon stalks behind her, following her out into the dark streets. "Kat come on! I had to do it!"

The girl turns about so fast that any normal person would have widened their eyes at the distance between them.

"Do what Damon? Huh? Dagger Elijah? The only one who actually knows what the heck will happen? The only link to my past?"

He stares right ahead, albeit with a faltered doubt.

"Or did you have to hold me hard like I was a monster? Like a doll who would blow up your fantastic little ass of a plan?"

She huffs and starts walking off, not even bothering to look at her car or her 'boyfriend'.

"Kat, come on! I said I'm sorry! What else could I have done, huh? You would have saved Elijah the first chance you got!"

"No Damon, I wouldn't have!" she turns about and runs with her human strength and surprisingly, Damon runs slowly, albeit with panicky steps. "Stop you bastard!" she shouts, looking down for a rock big enough to smash the asshole's head in with. She lifts a jagged one and holds it up with an angry shout.

"Kat wait! Hey! Hey! Oh my goodness, girl wait!" he jumps over the rocks around her with raised hands and wide eyes.

She throws it but the rock goes flying an inch beside the Salvatore. Frowning, she sits down in a huff, sniffling.

"Hey...." Damon tries to pull her up by the shoulders but she jerks off. "Get lost! Asshole" she mutters. Slowly, but too early, she feels her powers returning. She feels the familiar yellow take over her eyes, magnifying every inch of the lake and the forest around her.

Damon huffs and sits down beside her, placing his hand on her folded shin "I'm sorry... But we had to do it..."

"You think I don't like Elijah? He killed me in the last ritual Damon!"

"He di- wait what? How do you know?" he asks, concerned...

"I" she sniffles "got something back" she leans into his shoulder but stops herself. Why is she doing that! He's an asshole...

But she ends up resting against him anyway. He's Damon. He's meant to be an asshole.

"All... of them?" he asks.

"No... Didn't have enough juice it seems"

"You did magic! Kat!" he squeezes her hand but she doesn't respond the same way.

"Invisique" she mutters, getting and running off.

"Kat? Kat!" he looks around, pissed.

A minute later, the Gilbert's car wrooms out of the garage and she starts driving off "Don't follow me Damon!"

He huffs, kicking at the rocks. She knows how to get her memories back, and she's gonna want to wake Elijah up sooner or later. And they don't know bullshit about Klaus.

Without the Guardian and her previous life boyfriend, Mystic Falls' resident scooby gang might as well hand the girls on a silver platter.

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A flashlight staggers into the space in front of the opened tomb as Kat rushes down with an agenda. And a spell. "Come on out Rina" she calls, directly the dim beam onto the dusty opened barrier.

"It's Letta"

"Fuck off" the blood-deprived Petrova vampire croaks, pushing herself down at the entrance. Though her freedom lies one step forward, it was an eternity away.

"Now now, don't be a bitch, I come bearing gifts" the girl smirks, somewhat happy to see her sister. The last time she saw her, she was trying to drain the life out of Jeremy again and again.

"I'm tired of rereading that awful book"

"Oh, aren't you tired of rotting in there?" she places the open Grimoire down and sits cross legged with light aimed at the letters.

"Potentia libera mey, Potentia libera mey, Potentia libera..." she looks up to the ghostly face "...mey"

Rina raises a pale plucked brow as she looks around.

"No need to thank me sister, I won't leave you behind..." she gets up with a satisfied smirk.

"Siguren li si?(Are you sure?)" Katherine asks, trying to trick the girl.

She smiles, extending a hand towards Rina, the other hand cradling the torch and her book "Kazakh ti sestra (I told you sister), nyama da te ostavya sled (I won't leave you behind)"

Katherine Pierce slides one grey foot four inches near the broken barrier. 

Three inches. 

One inch.

She looks up triumphantly, proud of her Letty "Bikh mogul da te tseluna Letta (I could kiss you)"

This earns an amused giggle from the Gilbert girl, her eyes now glowing amber in the shadow of the white light as she hugs Katherine "Please, save that for the Salvatore brothers"

She just unleashed a bitch onto the Salvatores. Let's see how much they sabotage the human doppelganger's future when they're too busy dealing with a ghost from the past.