The Sacrifice

Katerina - 3

ENGLAND 1492

Katherine has run all night but she finally found the cottage Trevor instructed for her to got to.

"Help, please help me." Katherine begs as she rapid pounds on the door.

An old woman opens the door slightly ajar.

"Please, help me." Katherine begs the old woman, panting from all that she's run.

"I don't invite strangers into my home." Says the old woman.
Katherine begs once more. "No, Trevor. He said that you'd help me."
Rose is inside and overhears the conversation.

"Damn him. Always making promises I don't want to keep." Rose retorts she appears at the door.
She looks at Katherine, when she saw how disheveled Katherine looked she quickly changed her tune.

"Let the girl in."

The old woman opens the door wider, and allows Katherine to enters. Rose goes over to the woman and compels her.

"Bring her water and something to eat." She orders and the woman complies.

Katherine looks at her. "You must be Rose. Thank you. Trevor said to show you this." She shows her the moonstone.

"To prove I am who I say and that you'd help me to freedom."

"You stole this from Klaus?" Rose asks shocked.

"It was to be part of the sacrifice ritual, so I grabbed it and made my escape."

"People do not escape from Klaus. Everyone who tries ends up back in his grasp and anyone who helps them dies." Rose exclaims.

Katherine continues to breath heavily. "I know the risk you bring on yourself by giving me aid."

"I'm risking nothing. At nightfall, I'll bring you back to Klaus and beg him to show us both mercy."

She catches Katherine and pushes her in an empty room.

"No! No!" Katherine yells as Rose closes the door on her.

PRESENT DAY MYSTIC FALLS

"Rose never ended up taking you back to Klaus, did she?" Elena asks with an eyebrow raised.
Katherine pouts. "No, but not because she had a change of heart."

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Rose enters the room in which she is holding Katherine, with rope in her hands. Katherine lays across the bed.

"It's nightfall. Time to go."
Katherine breathes in heavily which makes Rose frown, she grabs Katherines arm which covers her stomach and sees that Katherine is hurt, blood covering her dress.

"When did this happen?" Rose asks confused.

"In the woods, I tripped." Katherine lies.

Rose scoffs. "It's a lie, I would have smelled it." She finds a knife in Katherine's hand and takes it away.

"I'd rather die than go back to Klaus. Please, just let me die." Katherine begs.
"If you die then Trevor dies with you." Rose tells her.

She bites her wrist and puts it to Katherine's mouth, forcing her to drink the blood. "No. No!" Katherine screams as she tries to fight Rose off but can't.

Her wounds heal, leaving Katherine in shock as Trevor arrives.

"Where is she?" Trevor demands as he barges in the room.
Rose rushes over to him and leaves Katherine alone. She pushes him against the wall.

"You have set us both on the path of death. I only hope Klaus sees the honor in returning that girl to him." 

"He will sacrifice her." Trevor argues.  "Then so be it!" She yells at him.
"I love her, Rose." Trevor admits, making rose speechless. 

"He'll kill you. He won't stop until he has all of our heads." She says, trying to reason.  "Then we shall run until we die."

They hear a noise in the room. They rush in to see what's happened and find Katherine hanging from the ceiling by a rope. Dead.

PRESENT DAY MYSTIC FALLS

"You killed yourself?!" I exclaim in shock as I sit up against the wall.

Katherine tilts her head at me. "Klaus needed a human doppelgänger. As a vampire, I was no longer any use to him."

Elena frowns. "But it didn't work. You didn't really escape, you've been running from Klaus ever since."

Katherine sighs, "I underestimated his spirit for vengeance but living in a suitcase is better than dying so you can have your blood spilled over some silly little rock."
Elena looks away ill at the thought of the sacrifice.

Katherine pretends to care. "What's wrong? Afraid I'm right? You don't want to die? There's another way out."  Katherine cuts her wrist with her nail and bleeds.

"Better hurry" Katherine teases.

"Your opportunity is going, going, going and gone. I made the other choice."

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Katherine wakes up in the cottage, gasping for air.

"What did you do, Katerina? I would have helped you live." Trevor says in pure disappointment at her.

Katherine stands up, rubbing her neck. "You would have helped me run. That was never going to be enough."

"It was enough for me." 

"Do you not see, Trevor?" Rose says as she makes her way to him. "She used you to help her escape and me to turn her. Klaus will see our role in this."

"And for that I'm sorry." Katherine apologizes.

"As am I....for this." Rose says before She rushes over to Katherine with a stake but Katherine grabs the old lady and pulls her in front of herself for protection. Rose stakes the old lady on the shoulder and Katherine drinks the old lady's blood.

Katherine looks up at them both, blood on her mouth. "Please understand."
"You have just signed our death sentence." Rose says.

"Better you die than I."

She throws the old lady into Trevor's arms and leaves with her new super speed.

PRESENT MYSTIC FALLS

I pace and point an accusing finger at Katherine. "Rose and Trevor spent the last 500 years running because you used them. Trevor just got killed." I exclaimed.

"I never thought he would last that long." Katherine comments as she opens the book.
"You don't even care that you ruined their lives." Elena says.

Katherine narrows her eyes at her. "I was looking out for myself, Elena. I will always look out for myself. If you're smart, you'll do the same."