"I don't think this will be good..." Stefan protests for the nth time as he drags Kat off. Elena looks, eyes glazedly narrowed at the pacing forms of Stefan Salvatore and Kat Gilbert.

Kat sets aside another chair from near the fireplace and sighs "We already talked about this Stefan"

Jenna frowns gently, coming in between her elder niece and the vampire "Look, I don't want her to do this either, but even Bonnie's saying that she needs those memories..." she trails off, realising how absurd she sounds. Damon scoffs and yanks his baby brother back "If I didn't know any better Stefan, I'd say you were concerned"

Bonnie enters with both, hers and Kat's Grimoires and puts them onto the floor by the cleared space at the fireplace "We need those memories back, Violetta accessed her witch side, her werewolf side and her Guardian side. So she was very powerful. We need to find out how she can be killed and what she planned for Klaus..."

"Exactl-" Kat halts to a stop. Her wide eyes meet Damon's and then Jenna's "What do you mean she accessed her werewolf side?" Damon's eyes narrow in confused mocking.

"Well, Luka's Grimoire mentions a page of how to deal with the werewolf side-" she opens the page and holds it out. Kat stands on the tips of her toes as she takes in the archaic notes.

"Your first human kill would make you a werewolf..."

Kat takes a shaky breath "Um, okay, memories, power... Floor" she gestures to all the people in the room. Elena sighs and sits down by the couch, Stefan and Damon sit with their backs to the fireplace, each a glass of bourbon in their hands.

"Where's Alaric?" Kat sits down, lying on her back with her head in Bonnie's lap. She sees Jenna shrug from the corner of her frantic glassy green eyes "He says he's with Carol and Liz, for the Council thing... The John thing spooked them apparently"

Speaking of the devil, the biological father enters just then, putting down the bags he brought "Here, I brought the roots that you asked for Bonnie..."

Kat smiles gratefully and eyes the tangled mass of cleaned pink tendrils that John hands the witch over her. He sits down beside, no inhibitions but grudgingly slides backwards on Jenna's glare.

Bonnie holds the blob on the Guardian's forehead "Now think of anything related to Katherine in the past life... Or Elijah, if you want to" she cracks a small smile, making the girl roll her eyes "Shut up"

She doesn't look at Stefan but sees Damon waggling his eyebrows.

Obliging, she takes a small breath.

"You can trust me, always and forever"

"Okay?" she hears Bonnie and harrumphs.

"Okay, now this might hurt-"

"You said it won't hurt...!"

"Shut up Stefan, let the witch do her wu-wu"

Searing white shines in the Guardian's eyes - her closed eyelids glowing.

"Bonnie...." Jenna warns in a shaking voice. Elena holds Jenna and John back with assuring hands. Stefan leans forward with wide eyes.

In Kat's mind:

The girl screams and stumbles down with a scream "Molya tei, Papa, nei, Papa, nei" (please, Father, no, Father, no) she pushes back, her green eyes teary, gold fighting it's way out and widened in fear.

The burly man kicks her down again, earning screams from Mama and Rina.

"Spri! Papa!" (Stop! Father!) Katerina rushes in front of her sister with angry eyes.

"Makhni se mi putya ot! Katerina, Makhni ot!" (Get out of my way! Katerina, get out!)

He takes a glowing hot rod with an angry sneer. Mama pleads "Tya malko momincheste, Spri! Spri!" (She's a little girl, stop! Stop!)

Papa kicks her off "Tya ima magiya vi ochite, tova neineyet uroc" (she has magic in her eyes, this is her lesson)

He holds the screaming girl down with his velvet foot. She struggles and writhes, able to do nothing but scream as he tauntingly throws the hot metal onto the exposed pad of her foot.

Kat screams, writhing and crawling into a foetal hug with a screech.

"You have to hold her down together!" Bonnie orders loudly, trying to take control of Kat's mind burst.

"Get her out! Bonnie, get her out!" Stefan and Damon shout. Jenna gasps and cries, "Stop it Bonnie!"

The witch shakes her head "She'll be alright, she told me not to stop no matter what, she needs this, now hold her together!" she shouts as another spasm of screeches overtakes the elder Gilbert.

She folds the ribbon from her hair and looks over in the mirror to see Elijah come up "Special day m'lord?"

He smiles, the happiest man in the world, yet the guiltiest "The most special" his arms loop through her waist "Two more days, and the world can know you are my wife". A blue diamond glints orange from the fire in the lamp.

"Every second is taking an eternity to pass, could we dive into the future?" she giggles, kissing his chiseled jaw.

He gently withdraws from her lips, guilt and pity pouring from his mellow brown eyes "I'm afraid Letta..."

She looks down in calm and rewraps her fingers around her love's trembling palms, leaning her curly head onto his heart "We shall get through this, love... When all of the ritual is completed, Rina and I will be alive, and everything evil will be rid of. Do you trust me?" she smiles sadly.

He blinks through his worried tears and shakes his head "No I don't, I will trust you with any life except your own. Letta please... Come with me... I'll protect you, my brother... patience and love isn't his virtue, ple-"

"Shh" she places a faint finger on his lips to stop his worry "Everything will go well, I will come back to you... I will always come back to you, here..." she takes off her ring despite Elijah's shaky breath and reaches for the silver chain around her neck.

Smiling, she loops the token of love through the chain and turns around, arms around her husband.

"See this?" she holds it up with a brave smile "This is our love, something I have vested in you m'lord... Tomorrow, when the sacrifice happens, I need you to hold onto this very tightly... Because your love is what will bring me back Elijah... I will come back, for this" she kisses the ring, her dilated eyes never leaving his.

He kisses her as if it was for the last time he would get to.

Everyone slumps down in relief as Kat's breathing steadies and her eyeballs relax from their rolling.

"Can we stop, Bonnie please..." Elena pleads, almost whining. She doesn't think that her sister might know anything useful, and she's struggling a lot. There's no need for her twin to go through all those memories at once.

"Some more time... She'll know when to come out, she just needs to find the right moment"

The Guardian sits trapped in the circle, fire illuminating the border.

"Well well well, it appears as if Katerina's gone for a spin" Nikalus smirks "-not to worry, one doppelganger is enough to draw the other one in, your husband is on his way"

The witch at the front of the altar of fire smiles devilishly, standing in the middle of a howling man-wolf and an unconscious vampire.

She chants, eyes glowing white, and extends a hand towards the vampire. Niklaus rips the heart out mercilessly, never taking his eyes off Violetta's wide ones.

Next comes the werewolf.

"Brother..." Elijah rushes from the clearing "Katerina has escaped, but here is her blood, fallen over rocks" he hands Niklaus a glass vial, half filled with red liquid.

Gulping it down hurriedly, the Original turns to Letta "Lift the barrier"

The fire goes out, and the moment it does, he stands beside her, sinking his eager fangs into her bare throbbing neck.

As her eyes blur, the girl's lips turn up into a smile.

It's almost dawn when she comes back into the land of the living. She gasps upright, eyes glowing golden, same as the sun behind her.

Niklaus shouts, holding her up "What have you done? What have you done?!"

She smirks, wiping off the blood on her lips "You shouldn't have killed me Niklaus" she taunts, fire sprouting from her fingertips, stance oozing with the power of the Bond. Her eyes turn pitch black, blood flowing in two streaks.

She wipes the red off and pins Klaus to the wet ground "Qui lupum occidere custodem vocant, Qui lupum occidere custodem vocant, Qui lupum occidere custodem voc-" her words come to a gasp and morph into a groan.

Pain stumbles through her back as she falls down into Elijah's bloody arms behind her "I'm sorry..." he cries, driving the stake deeper into her back. She gasps, eyes blurry and clouded.

No... Elijah...

Falling on her chest, she cries into the ground "Me too!" she groans, getting up an inch from the earth and aiming her hand at the other Mikaelson "c-cus-cust-todem-m vo-c-an, anh" Niklaus pushes the stake deeper into her back with his broken leg.

The last thing she sees is her ring around her husband's neck.

The Guardian's back arches with a silent scream, her fingertips turning blue and fiery red.

"Bonnie..." Damon warns the witch who looks uncertainly from him to Stefan and then to her writhing friend.

"Okay... I'll try to bring her out-"

"What do you mean try to!" Stefan shouts over his best friend's screams.

"Stefan I'm pulling her out against her will, she won't experience those memories now, they'll just flood back in, so HOLD HER DOWN!" Bonnie screams, closing her eyes and chanting a soothing and reversal spell.

Suddenly everything flashes by, making Kat gasp in pain. She falls down to the ground when she hears screams and grunts.

"It's me, it's me Letta, Neraf! Neraf!" an old woman coos, approaching her with raised hands. A distraught Letta cries "Please... Elijah, please, I can't take it anymore... Elijah!" she shouts out, the sound of agony reverberating through her ears. She's pulled off with claws and thrown into emptiness.

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Another flash goes by and she's running in the forest, heart jumping and feet stumbling over thorns and bark.

Voices speed into her ears, everything at once and the vision around her blurs into a fast-forward. A second later, she's on the wet forest floor, looking into Elijah's and Rina's eyes "L-L-u-Lub-Lubov Lubov"

Her mind spins, and she feels every joint in her body break, mend and rebreak and her vision clouding, going black and the sun rising.

Giggles and all her happy times flash by her eyes, fire and love, Rina, Mama, Marie, Neraf. She screams for it to stop.

All the moments in her mind come to a stand still and she stumbles into a dimly lit archaic garden, watching the sun rise. Feeling her hands on soft petals, she looks ahead, seeing someone at the far end of the parted crowd

"Stefan?"

Kat jerks up with a gasp. Every part of her body throbs with the onload of the moments she never remembers experiencing, but remembers happening.

"No, no no no no" she sobs, sliding away from them all but she bangs into Bonnie "Oh my God! I-I, no, Eli- Nikl- oh my God! No no no no!" she gets up onto her feet, everyone doing the same.

Jenna and John come in her way "Kat, honey, calm down! It's me Jenny! Jenny... Kat!" she staggers back into John as the stumbling Guardian pushes her off in a movement.

She speeds upstairs, into Stefan's room, clutching her head and looking around for the pain to stop. "Kat! Kat stop it! Kat it's me! Elena" her sister stands on the outside with her hands raised. "Oh my God Elena... Oh m- aaah!" she grunts under a new wave of piercing voices, all scenes flashing by her.

"Oh my God Stefan what's happening to her!" Jenna and John shout, looking with wide eyes and ready to step in. Kat falls to the ground with a cry, arching her neck with a screech. When she looks up with a panicked snarl, eyes are pitch black, tears never stopping "Please, no, no, tell them to stop! No... Ahh..." she feels arms go around her.

"Hey hey hey..." Stefan holds her wet face in his palms "Vivi! Viv! Viv! Look at me... Just focus on my voice, nothing else... There's nothing else okay? Everything's gonna be alright... Just my voice" her gasps turn into muffled hiccups as her eyes return to broken green beacons.

"I-It's too much, I-I can't..." she gasps again, eyes flickering between green, black and amber. Stefan presses his thumbs to her cheeks "I'll get you out of here... Got it? My voice... Just my voice... Only my voice, it's alright... Everything's alright..."

She breathes in and out, her lips finally giving up their trembling...

Stefan sighs sadly, hugging her. But when his eyes meet Elena's, he averts his gaze. "Damon...?" he murmurs lowly, Kat's head still buried in his chest like a little girl's.

"Come on, we'll be back..." the older Salvatore murmurs reassuringly to the girl's family and friend, stepping into the room with his words.

Slowly, both the brothers slip their arms gently around the girl and jump out of Stefan's french balcony into the forest.

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"Better?" Damon asks as they set her gently down on the grass.

"A-All of that... I-I, it was too much..." she sobs, leaning back onto the rough tree bark.

"Can you feel anything different?" Stefan sits down next to her, earning a raised eyebrow from his brother.

"I, um, just feel... You know, like a sugar high?" she frowns.

Damon's face scrunches up "You relived a gory episode of Back to the Future and all you can say it sugar high?"

"Well what can I say? That I feel chocked up with power, that I'm bursting with ideas and spells and all those nights I spent with Elijah!" She closes her eyes the second after the outburst.

"Um... Well..." Stefan gets up, pursing his lips and shoving his hands in his pockets "I'll uh, go now... Call me if you see trouble..." He doesn't wait for an answer, leaving behind a few flying leaves behind him when he vamps away.

Kat frowns at his sudden departure, her already overridden brain not catching the slight distaste in her best friend's oak green eyes. Damon nudges her with a roll of his eyes and offers her some bubble-gum.

"So... How are you holding up? Should I call time?"

Kat shakes her head "Niklaus is Elijah's brother... And the curse is worse than what we think it is..."

Complete two hours later, Kat enters the Boarding House to be warily approached by Caroline "Kat....?"

"Oh my God" her shoulders slump in relief as she rushes into her arms. Jenna and John smile relievedly, patting Elena. Bonnie doesn't even speak, she rushes into the arms of the elder Gilbert "Oh my God you're here!"

"I'm here" she smiles.

"I thought I pulled apart your brain or something!" Bonnie cries "Don't ever scare me like that!"

Elena and Jenna hug her next. Kat raises her eyebrows at her witch friend "Trust me, pulling apart my brain would've been much smoother..."

John smiles, for once joining the crowd to pat his biological daughter "Don't ever do that again"

She turns to the room. Everyone's eager and on their toes. Damon gives an assuring nod. Kat takes a breath "I know exactly how to kill Niklaus"