Summary: Set in the S4 episode when Stefan saved Elena from Jeremy who almost killed her. What if Katherine had come back and saved Elena, instead of Stefan saving her?
It was a beautiful day, as Elena Gilbert stood in the front row watching Caroling Forbes announcing names of contestants and escorts. That's when Matt, her friend and ex-boyfriend, went to stand at her side.670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfhl5BK7q5n
"Have you seen Jeremy?" he asked her.670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2HxuvUD2wW
She could tell he was worried. And she didn't need vampire senses to tell her this.670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6TRxsVAdbY
"No," she answered.670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqd2cSEtuN9
"Did he tell you about the nightmares?"670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAL4X6gSvBC
"What nightmares?"670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvkIkbtaIp9
"The ones where he kills you."670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaQW4CuXPZ6
"I'll go find him."670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgSS5d5GleL
"Be careful, Elena."670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdMNyyL181v
Before she could go anywhere, she turned around to see Damon Salvatore and Caroline Forbes.670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ5cwGCLktG
"Something going on?" Caroline asked.670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGKhdf1ha08
Caroline had just announced that April had won Miss Mystic Falls and was now finished with announcing. Now she was free to join her friends and Damon.670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmFPd6BIQHh
"Jeremy has been having dreams about killing Elena," Matt answered.
"And Elena wants to find him," Damon added, having overheard with his vampire hearing.670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE9dDqshz0k
When they looked at him, he knew they knew he had eavesdropped; especially, when Elena spoke.670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWGsFosHz46
"Do you have to eavesdrop all the time? Don't answer that. I'm going. No arguments. I'll be careful."670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcgEXwO43Ih
They watched as she walked away into the distance.670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXFr1NkoX8y
"If she isn't back in half an hour, I'm going after her," Damon informed them before going to sit at a table by himself.
When she walked into the parlor, there stood her brother with a stake in his hand at his right side.670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBUdRsGoGFc
"Jeremy, it's me; your sister. You don't have to do this. You can put it down and we can talk."670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpI2UlAMceD
"You're not my sister," he replied, and then he lunged at her, pinning her down, her on her back.670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBnkD4Va1ux
He clearly was on a killing spree, but she tried anyway.670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS5u6If97PG
"Jeremy, it's me. I don't want to hurt you."670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡye42huX5Pv
She felt pain come, as he drove the stake through her. But he missed her heart. And as her vision blurred and she felt tired and nauseous, she saw Katherine throw him off her and compel him to join the others. And as her breathing slowed, her eyes closed.670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHxQvxCPWmv
Katherine watched him leave and then was instantly at her side on her knees. She pulled the stake out, ignoring the pain from the vervain that was on it. She tossed it away and pulled her into her arms. She then bit her wrist, putting it to her lips, positioning her head back, making her blood go down her throat. As she did, Elena was limp in her arms. And she could hear her scarcely breathing.670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCnzzQNgibk
"Come on, Elena. Come on. Wake up. You can't die; stay with me. Please," she begged and pleaded.670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbAvz1swlxZ
She knew she was dying from too much vervain, but she didn't want her dead. She would die before she let Elena die.670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtRjPqqvt94
After a few minutes, Elena started to get better. Kat took her wrist away and it instantly healed. Kat looked down at her, as Elena started to come to a moment later.
"Elena, can you hear me?"670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvo1AA2DuG8
When she woke up, she saw her Petrova bloodline.670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz5fulZbLlY
She sat up.670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk3jMt9SqMg
"Katherine?"670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ02NaMYJDa7
"I'm back. And I'm glad you're okay."670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3LQjciXd9G
Kat got to her feet, as she helped Elena to hers.670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEEmeX8IGpW
Suddenly, Kat felt pain and knew Damon was hurt. She gasped in pain.670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡywwRUA7LOP
"Katherine?" Elena questions, not knowing what was going on.670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlNDaQ2TeYf
"Damon's hurt. I feel it."670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ86eifHKwCa
And with that, she vanished from sight.
She found him just inside with a stake in his lower stomach, gasping in pain, leaning against a wall. Kat went over and pulled it out, tossing it away. Soon after, Elena caught up and went to stand at Kat's right side.670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHEfacIHpNB
"Are you okay?" Elena questioned with worry for him.670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaHYbX4cFqK
When he was fully healed a moment later, he looked at Elena and said, "I'll be fine; don't you worry." And then he looked at Katherine. "Why are you here? You shouldn't be here. Klaus is somewhere out there. If he sees you, you know what he'll do; not that I really care or anything."670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnsCUrW71IV
"I'm here for good. I'm not going anywhere and I' not here to cause any chaos as you might think I am. For your information, I just saved Elena's life. And as for Klaus, well, he can do whatever the hell he wants. If he sees me or hears that I'm back, I don't really care what he does; as long as my family is safe as they can be; as in you, Elena, Caroline, and Stefan. I won't watch or let him destroy my family again."670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuK7EsStBbB
"Do you blame me for thinking that way, Katherine? After all you have done, do you blame me for what I think of you? You played games with us; toyed with us. What am I supposed to think?"670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtIiGmjuRYH
"You should look past that, Damon. No matter what you think, it's not really true. I love you both, no matter what you have done."
Elena spoke.670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHZ08Z58TA4
"What do you mean again?"670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgqIUBGI6hf
Katherine looked at her.670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGMeBDU2r3U
"He killed my entire village and family five hundred years ago without remorse, to get back at me for running off; for escaping him. It was five hundred years ago in Bulgaria, but I still hold that grudge. I want him dead, just as he does and has always wanted. I hide behind a mask of hatred because of the sorrow that I still have. I bottled it all up and I have always been so lonely. I never told anyone about this. I never had anyone to tell that I was close to, because I felt that they wouldn't understand. Take it from me, Elena. If you bottle things up inside for too long, they come out one way or another. I hope that maybe you'll all forgive me for what I've done. And because some of you think that I lie, I'll leave this in your hands. Don't let it fall into the wrong hands. I know more than I should. I know enough that anyone would want me dead."670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyUnI3jkkSv
She handed Elena her diary and then added to both of them, "I'll be enjoying the party out there if you want to come find me."670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs3qiyhsTAW
With that, they watched her leave before looking at one another for a few minutes. Then Elena looked down at the brown, leather, worn down, Petrova journal.
That night, Elena and Damon sat on his couch and started to read her journal, Elena on Damon's right. And this is what it read:
August 20, 1645,
I am running for my life from an Original vampire named Niklaus. Apparently, I'm a doppelganger of his. I have to die in a ritual that he will do on a full moon night. I don't want to die. I'm only 19. I'm too young to die. I met Lord Elijah first before I met Lord Niklaus, as they call themselves. They were both so gentlemen like until I found out his plans. I must run. I should never have left my village. It was a safe haven. Now I'm in Hell. How could it turn out like this so fast? God, help me. Please. Give me some guidance of what I should do. All I can think of as I run for my life is my village and family; especially, my ma' ma and pa' pa. I love them so much and don't wish harm or death upon them. I hope Klaus will stay away from them and move on.
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September 4, 1645,
I'm still not safe. Trevor did help me escape to a cabin, but Rose found out about what I was and was afraid for her own safety and Trevor's. Apparently, whoever double crosses Klaus, ends up in his debt or dead. Trevor loves me, though and doesn't care. He just wants to keep me alive and I want to escape forever. So that's what I did. I escaped. As so I thought. After I found out Rose's plan, cut my wrists with a knife, and was force fed her blood, I took the chance of Rose and Trevor's argument over what to do about me to hang myself by a length of rope. When I woke up, I was in transition to become a vampire. And then it came. The over power thirst and emotions. Trevor asked me why I did it and told me that he would've helped me escape. I explained to him that he would've helped me run.
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September 12, 1645,
I am going to America. I have nothing left now. Klaus kill my entire village and family. Ma'am's throat was torn open, pa' pa died with a sword in him, and the rest of my family was killed just like ma'am. I grieve so much, because I loved them. You can't possibly know how it feels to lose your entire family and everybody you loved and cared about, unless it happened to you. The sight was so gruesome that I know that it was Klaus. Only Klaus would slaughter like that. He did it to get back at me for running from him and for the time being, escaping him.670Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdNV8IoJXJK
When I arrive in America I will be going to England first and will change any name from Katerina Petrova to Katherine Pierce. It should take Klaus a while to find me if I change my name. I will tell them that my family was killed in a fire and I was the only one to survive. And that will be my story.
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October 5, 1795,
I was banished from England, so I am now going to a small town by the name of Mystic Falls, Virginia. It will take a while to get there, since trains are so slow. But I will get there. And in the meantime, I will do my best to keep myself occupied. I was banished after they found out what I am. They called me evil. I'm not evil. Yes, I had a terrible time when I was young, but I'm different now.
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November 20, 1864,
Once again, sadness fills me up. I can hardly restrain it. I want to cry. I want to stay with them. I love them so much. I wish I could've let them know that I'm not actually dead. All I could do before the coach arrived was to run to them and tell Stefan that we would meet again and Damon that I love him so much. And to please take care of one another like they have always done, it seems to me. I love them both since I met Stefan first, but I love Damon more. I guess I'm into men in a uniform these days. And I didn't even know it. He's so sweet, kind, and a gentleman. And at the same time, he loves to have all the fun he can. He even likes to challenge their father's authority. I love that in a guy. I want to see them again soon, but I'm afraid to. I'm afraid of what they might think of me. So I will stay a distance off without them knowing that I'm watching, until it's the right time or I get curious enough.
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October 7, 1935,
I am watching Damon and Stefan here in Chicago. It's a fun city. But as much as I want to have fun to get my mind off the grief I have and still endure from what Klaus did, I have to keep an eye on them.
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August 15, 2013,
I'm sorry for everything I have done. I regret everything. If I hadn't run, I would be dead dead instead of my family and I bet John would still be alive. Though, he lived somewhat anyway until he gave his soul up and died to keep Elena from becoming a vampire when Klaus killed her and she had vampire blood in her system. I wish I could take everything back, but I can't. And I'm sorry for that. Please forgive me Stefan, Elena, Damon, and whoever else I have wronged. If you're reading this, Klaus will come for me for sure and I want you to know the truth, no matter who is reading this.
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They looked at one another in shock of everything. Most of what she had been telling them was the truth, from start to finish.
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