KatherineI don't think red's really your color, Bon-Bon.
And here I was hoping the ghost of anyone would have killed you already.
Katherine
Funny you should mention death because I'm here to collect that immortality you've promised me.
Funny you think you're still going to get it. I told you, Qetsiyah's the only witch who knows the immortality spell. If she was a no-show, you're out of luck.
Katherine
See? Here's the thing, Bonnie. I can't disagree with you because I have been feeling out of luck lately, but you know who has been getting all of my luck? My beloved doppelganger, Elena. My shadow self is living a better life than I am, so if I don't get that immortality, I may just have to get rid of her altogether.
Did you just threaten my best friend? I can crush your skull without even flinching.
Katherine
Go ahead. Make your move.
Katherine
Would you believe I'm having a bad day? [She picks Elena up and throws her against a wall of lockers. Elena gets up but Katherine speeds over and kicks up her leg to press her booted foot over Elena's neck.]
Katherine
It started when Bonnie denied me my Silas-like immortality.
Of course, because Katherine Pierce can't be happy with good old vampire-caliber immortality. [Elena finally manages to throw off Katherine's foot and uses her leverage to slam Katherine to the ground. Katherine immediately slams Elena back against another wall of lockers. Elena rips off one of the locker doors and swings against at Katherine's face. Katherine grabs onto the door.]
Katherine
I deserved it. I never had a graduation, or a prom, or, you know, a life. But you did.
Katherine
You have everything, and it's not because you're a good little girl who deserves happiness, it's because you stole mine.
I stole your happiness? You killed my brother!
Katherine
I'll admit, that was nasty.
Katherine
I have nothing. [She beats Elena with the stick.] But I'm about to change that. [She kicks Elena.]
Kicking someone while they're down. Classy to the end, Katherine.
Katherine
[laughing] Your end. [She stabs the broken end of the stick into Elena's throat. Elena gulps and struggles against it as Katherine digs it in deeper.]
Katherine
Bye-bye, little girl.[Elena finally pulls the cure out of her pocket and shoves it into Katherine's mouth and forces her jaw to close around it. Katherine's eyes widen as the cure dissolves in her mouth, and falls to the floor beside Elena, unconscious.]
Have a nice human life, Katherine.
Why are you in my brother's bathtub?
Katherine
Why aren't you?
I will say that's a tempting offer.
Katherine
Mm. He flirts. I like Elena-less Stefan.
You know, human looks better on you than I would have guessed, Katherine.
Katherine
I think you just accidentally gave me a compliment.
Nope. I mean it. You sitting here all weak and vulnerable. It works.
I know I said that it didn't bother me that you have some psychic connection to your ex-boyfriend, but I don't need a play-by-play, Elena.
You're right. It's weird. Sorry.
(sighs) Fine. Tell me. I'm sure whatever's in my imagination is ten times worse than what's going on in your subconscious.
It was just so vivid. I saw Stefan walking out of this bar. It had a red awning and this broken neon sign, and he was screaming in pain.
Well, should I go check in the attic, see if there's a crystal ball? Maybe you could conjure up an address.
Katherine
Route 29. Joe's bar. I think I had the exact same dream.
In 1864, there was a vampire roundup in Mystic Falls.
Katherine
Was there? I'm bad with dates.
Word on the street is that you sold out many vampires, including your best friend Pearl and her daughter Annabelle.
Katherine
I was running from Klaus. I needed to jet solo. I threw a couple of vampire names on a hit list. Sue me. I also impersonated a teenager to get my ex-boyfriends to make out with me, staged a fake fight to trigger my lover's werewolf curse, ooh, and I chopped off this douchey guy's fingers with a butcher knife once. That was cool.
What about ripping a mother away from her daughter? Having her killed for your own benefit?
Katherine
What are you getting at?
Now a little bit about me. I had myself turned into a vampire to hunt you, to even the playing field, to track your every move for however long it took me until I found you, and I did this because you killed my mother. It happened in Paris, 1645.
Katherine
I go to Paris for shoes. The shoes I remember. Everything else requires a few more details.
Her name was Lily Atoma. You were on the run from Klaus. She took you in, but when his minions show up, you pointed at my mom, and you said, "That is Katerina Petrova. She is the one you want." So they took her away.
Katherine
You were never going to let me go, were you?
No, but I'd hate for you die on an empty stomach.
Katherine
I want to know why you made up that fake story about your mom.
It was a test. You failed.
Katherine
I knew it was a fake story. By 1645, I'd been running from Klaus for a century and a half. There's no way any of his minions would have mistaken anyone for me. But you know how my brain works, right? So you must have known that I wouldn't have fallen for that sob story.
I wanted to get under your skin, and it worked because here you are.
Katherine
What kind of sick game are you playing?
It's not a game, Katherine. You did kill my mother, but it wasn't Paris. It was in a little cottage in England, and it wasn't 1645. It was April 6, 1492, and she was all alone, exiled by her family two years earlier. You stuck her head in a noose, pushed her off the chair, and snapped her neck.
Katherine
Who are you?
My name... is Nadia Petrova... and you are my mother.
[Whitmore College: Katherine, wearing a towel and holding a box of black hair dye in her hand, enters Elena and Caroline's dorm room. As Katherine walks to a mirror, she tosses aside the box. Katherine approaches the mirror and looks at her reflection. As Katherine looks at her reflection in the mirror, Caroline enters holding a cardboard box, not realizing that Katherine is in her dorm room instead of Elena.]
[To Katherine] I don't wanna know if Tyler called, so don't even tell me. [Puts the box on her bed] So do you wanna do small appliances or toiletries?
[As Caroline starts putting her things in the box, Katherine turns to her.]
I mean, I'd compel a cute boy to do it for us, but I don't think I wanna see a cute boy ever again. Except for Jesse, who's conveniently not answering his phone.
Katherine
Um, we're moving out?
Hello? Dr. Maxfield thinks we're vampires, you know. Threatened to expose us, told us to drop out.
Katherine
That sucks. [Tosses down the other towel and turns to Caroline]
[Exploding in ferocity and savagery, Caroline vamp-speeds towards Katherine, grabbing her by the throat and pinning her against the wall.]
What the hell are you doing in my dorm, Katherine?
Katherine
I just need a place to crash.
Katherine
I'm desperate, okay? Damon kicked me out, Stefan doesn't remember me, and I just spent my last $20 on a meal that I didn't even get to enjoy.
Aw. And how is any of this my problem?
Katherine
Look at you. Moving out? Giving up? It's very un-Caroline of you. You need me. Bad.
[Caroline lets go of Katherine.]
Katherine
In exchange for a place to stay, and Elena's meal card, I will help you deal with Dr– Whoever.
Dr. Maxfield. He teaches bio.
Katherine
I'm sorry. What? You're scared of a teacher? Aw, honey, you really need to take a crash course on Villain 101, but luckily for you, I have an honorary doctorate. What do you say, roomy?
Katherine
So what am I looking at here, hmm, blood clot, tumor, what?
MMax
I did a full workup on your blood, Katherine. It's clean.
Katherine
My hair is going gray, and my teeth are falling out. I'm not sure what the suggests, but it's definitely not health.
MMax
Patient is irritable. Not sure if this is a symptom or personality.
Katherine
(breaks the recorder) Personality. Now tell me exactly what the hell is going on with me.
Katherine
What?
MMax
You said you were turned into a vampire 500 years ago, give or take, and now that your human, let's say time is catching up with you.
Katherine
Ok. Ok. Well, how do we stop it?
MMax
We don't. It's just life running its course quicker than normal.
Katherine
How much quicker?
MMax
If it continues at this rate, you have a few months. I'm sorry.
You hate junk food. You call it toxic poison.
Katherine
Yeah? Well, I've decided to live a little. Now may I be excused, scary vampire daughter?
You've been avoiding me, I don't like it.
Katherine
clearly.
We had a moment you and i, there was a bond. and then nothing. You abandoned me all over again.
Katherine
Okay. first of all, i never abandoned you, you were snatched out of my arms at birth because my father thought i was a knocked up shameful slut. and second of all, it's been 500 years, do we really have to do this whole mother-daughter bonding thing? the estrangement is so much easier, don't you think?
sorry to Interrupt the world's weirdest lunch, [to Katherine] but you with the Doppelgänger blood, duty calls.
Katherine
wonderful, now that Katherine is a human and fragile, everyone thinks that they can just boss her around.
Look, I thought that killing Silas would allow me to move on with my life, but I was wrong. I spent my summer locked in a safe. One minute, I think I'm fine, the next minute I feel like I'm dying all over again.
Katherine
Oh. Classic PTSD. You survived a pretty traumatic event, and now you're back, and you've got nothing but free time to just relive that terrible experience in the safe. Well, allow me to give your life a purpose. Help me with one little favor.
Should have known this was gonna come around to you needing something from me.
Katherine
I'm just trying to help. What would I know about post-traumatic stress? I only had my newborn ripped from my arms by my judgmental father ,and then had to run 500 years after my entire family had been slaughtered by a psychopath. But hey, that didn't have any lingering side effects...
Katherine
(voice-over) Dear Diary, so here I am alive. Stefan saved me from killing myself. Now he's got me on suicide watch. He says it will be therapeutic for me to write down my feelings about the fact that I'm dying and there's nothing I can do about it. Deep thoughts, mortal coil, blah, blah, blah. Ugh. My hand's tired. (to Stefan) What kind of sentimental idiot writes down everything hey feel? Is this what the prophecy meant when it said that all the Doppelgängers were drawn together like magnets? Because if it is, I any my money back.
I'm just trying to make sure you don't slit your wrists.
Katherine
Well, this whole neurotic granny vibe doesn't exactly make me want to live. Do you really have nothing better to do than stand there all day and watch me write in cursive?
I'm trying to make sure you don't kill yourself.
Katherine
And how are you going to do that, you know, since you're still having your little panic attacks?
Katherine
Yeah. Of course. You are the picture of mental health, Stefan, after being locked for 3 months in a safe at the bottom of a quarry.
Katherine
I know. I mean, I heard you "dealing" with it earlier today in the library. It sounded like you freaked out and broke a chair, maybe even two. How are you supposed to help me stay alive if you can't even help yourself?
So does this mean you want to live?
Katherine
No. It means that I can't work with people who can't give me 100%.
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