A/N: Here's the next chapter. There may be minor Originals and Legacies references. Don't worry, as usual you can still understand even if you haven't seen those shows.

I was standing in front of the main antagonist of The Vampire Diaries who as it turns out is suddenly more powerful than Hope for some reason. I understood one thing though. I don't stand a fooking chance with her. Even though I tried to be calm, my heart was beating really fast. I was starting to hyperventilate.

Her hands now pierced my chest and wrapped around my heart. Shit! Sheila's dead so injury protection spell also had expired I think.

"Katherine, please don't kill me." I was begging her through my teary eyes and unbearable pain. Turns out someone trying to take your heart out feels like you were ran over by a 1000 tonne truck over your chest.

"How do you know my name? I haven't seen you in my entire life except on TV" Petrova was now confused. But still her hand was over my heart. She was just tapping on my heart with her index finger apparently for fun.

On my end, the feeling was not fun. It still pained like hell. I screamed.

"Oh! Oh! Oh! Where are my manners?" She removed her blood covered hand from my heart and out of my chest.

It still pained a lot but was a little lesser than when she had her hand inside my chest.

"Let's talk but just not here" I swear I have told this dialogue at least three times in this universe.

Her eyes suddenly widened as she found that Hope had disappeared from the spot.

I was immediately taken out of the spot and I found myself standing back in my place with Hope. But it turned out that none of our guests were there. All the 3 vampires had disappeared and both the old people were no where to be found. But Katherine was surely there.

"Hello!" She smirked.

"Incendia!" Hope chanted and Katherine was immediately on fire.

"Invisique!" Hope chanted again.

"Silencio!" She chanted again as I was about to scream due to extreme pain.

Then within seconds, we were both in front of Salvatores' house.

I was having my mouth wide open and was screaming but there was no sound. Great. Aphasia Spell.

Hope bit her wrist and then fed me a little bit of her blood. I could now feel my body healing up.

"Thank You" It just turned out to be me just mouthing it as the Aphasia Spell was still active.

Then immediately I found myself surrounded by many doors in a corridor. There was something familiar about this. Right. This was how it was when people mind dived into Elijah's mind in The Originals. But there were minor differences this time. The walls were white in the show 'The Originals' but here it was green with dark brown doors instead of white walls and white doors. I found Hope standing next to me.

"So are we in my mind?" I asked her.

"Yes. We've been trying to talk but could not find enough privacy to do it. I thought this might be the only solution for our situation. I will not access your memories without your consent" Hope explained her case.

"Wait. I have vervain in me. How are you able to do this?" I asked the first doubt that I could think of and face-palmed.

"Of course. You're a witch. Witches can mind-dive" I corrected my mistake.

"Ok. Hope Andrea Mikaelson. Daughter of Niklaus Mikaelson and Andrea Labonair, let's do this" I consented to the mind dive while taunting my knowledge.

We now went ahead and opened one of the doors. Don't Blame Me by Taylor Swift was blaring loudly on my smart phone and I was dancing happily in my bedroom. Not a care in the world.

"Wait. Who's this?" Hope asked me.

"That there is me. The real me. Fat, Indian and a Swiftie. And happy." I looked fat in my real life with dark brown skin and black hair. Also you know Taylor Swift makes you feel things.

"God! My eyes!" Hope closed her eyes.

I glanced down and noticed that I was completely naked in this particular memory. Oh yeah. This was that one time I had just finished my bath. I immediately closed the door.

"Why would you show me that?" Hope screamed at me.

"Sorry. I don't know how that came up. The next door I'll open and check it first. If the stuff is not inappropriate, I'll show you" I profusely apologised to her.

I went ahead and opened another door which was to my right from the previous door. I saw myself singing and dancing Naatu Naatu from RRR.

"Hope you can come and see now" I called her.

She hesitated for a bit. Then she joined me. We were able to see everything from me going through something white. Turns out it was a portal of some kind. I was now able to see a bit of sadness in Hope's eyes. I made a mental note of it. Then she saw everything. From me waking up in Logan's body, talking with Elizabeth and Richard Lockwood, approaching Jenna for help, approaching Sheila for help and getting my injury protection spell, being tortured by Damon, nearly being killed by Katherine and getting choked by Hope herself. Basically my entire journey in this universe.

"Wow! That was .. something" Hope was trying to find some words but I am guessing she could not find any words at all.

"Yeah. So you told me I killed Alaric. I am still confused as to how that happened. I am not a murderer." I tried to find out how and why Hope was out of her time.

"Ok fair. I saw your mind and you see mine" After she said that, the entire place changed to one with white walls and white doors. She directed me towards a door and I opened it.

I was standing in front of the Salvatore School. There were a lot of decorations. Apparently, it looked like some sort of birthday party.

'Whose birthday party is it?' I thought.

My question was answered when there was a big banner with the following:

'Happy 23rd birthday to Josette Saltzman and Elizabeth Jenna Saltzman'

Well that answered it. Also the fact that adult Josie and Lizzie Saltzman were actually standing on a stage and were cutting a birthday cake helped matters.

Josie cut a piece of cake and fed a piece of cake to Hope by carrying it in her mouth. Then after the piece of cake fell from Josie's mouth into Hope's, they kissed. That kiss warmed my Hosie shipping heart.

I could hear someone clearing their throat and I found Hope standing next to me. Her face then immediately turned sad.

I was now able to see that Josie, Lizzie and Alaric were getting disintegrated similar to how people were taken out of existence in Avengers Infinity War.

Hope. The one who was in the memory was now crying profusely. In the place of Alaric, there was another person standing there which was none other than Logan Fell. In the exact kind of dress in which Alaric was previously wearing.

There was a white portal that was starting to form around both Logan and her. Yes, the portal looked same as the one that sucked me inside. Then I found her going through the portal and immediately landing inside Salvatore house. We all know what happened after that. She snapped Damon's neck. Choked me. Then so went the sequence of events.

"Ok. I get it. I took his place, and in your grief, you thought I am responsible for Alaric's death. I don't know if it was the actual Logan that you saw or me in Logan's body as I am now. Also I am extremely sorry for what you had to go through. Losing your dad, mom, uncle, father figure, boyfriend, best friend, girlfriend and father figure. I assure you that we are going to fix this" I found myself feeling very bad for her. She's been through so much in The Originals and Legacies and she does not deserve this too.

"But what are we going to do? How do we fix this?" Intelligent Hope suddenly became clueless. I am guessing watching it all again made her become a bit more traumatic.

"I have an idea but before that let us get out of our minds. But first, you go and compel the Salvatores and Lexi to forget about us" I know the scene was traumatic and all but someone has to use their brain here.

Then both of us were out of our minds. Then both me and Hope opened the door but were treated with a brutal sight. Katherine was standing with her left hand over Damon's heart and her right hand over Stefan's heart. She was also stamping on Lexi's throat. All three of them were now spitting blood. The sun was supposed to have risen up by now but it was still dark.

But what surprised me the most was that Katherine had black wings with horns on them. Eerily similar to Lucifer from The Sandman Netflix series.

Great! Katherine's the Devil. This is a weirdly powered up version of series finale Katherine. This is beyond bad.

A/N: And that's my explanation for why Katherine's more powerful. Katherine will explain it even better in next chapter. We're in the endgame now. At max 2 or 3 more chapters and then this story will end. Keep supporting me with your votes, comments and messages. Also this is the longest chapter by far in this fic. Thank You for patiently reading through this chapter.