The Originals X Katherine Pierce

She Is Your Humanity: Chapter 6

I answer my phone call from Esther and the next thing she wants from me is something that I really don't want to do. 

"Esther, I don't think I can do that." I say 

"You have to, Elijah needs to know the truth, and the only way I can get him to see that is if you help me. Please, I want to give my son a chance at redemption. You love him, wouldn't you want him to have that too?" She asks 

"I do love him, but I won't help you kidnap and torture him for whatever you want him to see." 

"Ugh, I didn't want to have to do this but..." 

She starts to chant and all of a sudden I start spitting up blood out of nowhere. I try to speak but all I hear is the gurgling of blood in my throat. 

"You hear that, Katherine? Right now I'm melting your stomach, next is your kidneys if you don't agree to what I want." She states over the phone 

I clear my throat of as much blood as I can before I spit it all onto the ground. I start to fall to my knees as I clench my arms around my stomach. 

"Fine! I'll do it, I'll do whatever you want. Just stop!" I shout 

After a few more seconds of excruciating pain, all of it stops and I can finally breathe again. I pick up my phone and put it to my ear. 

"You bitch!" I snap at her 

"Hopefully this taught you to do whatever I ask you to do. If you don't succeed in what I want, I will kill you, Tatia, Klaus, AND Elijah." She threatens before she hangs up 

I look down at the ground and of course, my shirt and pants are covered in my blood. I didn't notice but Elijah had made his way around the corner of the alley, making a b line towards me. 

"Katerina!" He shouts

As I'm about to fall to the ground Elijah speeds over to me and I collapse into his arms. He picks me up and I can feel the weight of my head slump down onto my chest. He says something but I'm too disoriented to understand what he says. He starts to drag me down the alley and places me on the wall. A moment I feel a wrist pressed against my lips and blood seeping through them. I reluctantly down the warm liquid and groan as the hunger that I didn't know I had, subsides. I look up to Elijah and it's his wrist pressed against my lips. 

"Elijah, I wish you weren't here right now." 

"What happened? There's blood everywhere." He asks

"Esther, she tried to kill me." I explain 

"Why would she do that, doesn't she need you to kill Niklaus?" He 

"I can't tell you, all I know is I have to do what she says." I slowly get up from the ground 

"What does that me-" 

Before he can finish that sentence I place my hands around his neck and snap it. He falls to the ground and I look at his face. 

"I'm sorry, Elijah." 

I pick him up and throw him over my shoulder then carry him to the car. I drive as quickly as I can to get him to the cemetery before he wakes up. I carry him to the back where Esther is standing outside of the crypt, waiting. I place Elijah down at her feet and when he's there I speed Esther into the crypt, pressing my hand against her neck. 

"You EVER do that to me again, I'll rip your head off and put it on a stick. Don't test me, Esther." I threaten 

"You sound just like Niklaus, Katherine. Maybe once he's dead, I kill you next." 

My grip tightens around her throat and she chokes as she tries to speak. I bare my fangs and flash my veins at her. 

"Don't compare me to him, I am NOTHING like him. You should be lucky that I don't kill you right now." 

I finally drop her to the ground as she tries to gasp for air. I walk outside and grab Elijah by his arm and drag him into the crypt. She takes one look between Elijah and me as a smile crosses her face. 

"Perfect. I need your help to chain him up." 

"I've already done enough for you, Esther. Chain him up yourself." I snap

I make my way through the crypt and I bump into Tatia on the way out. Without a word, she tries to walk past me into the crypt. I grabbed her arm and I gave her a warning look. 

"You don't want to go in there. You don't want to see what she does to him. Let's go." 

She just shakes her head and turns around. We get back to the hotel and she sinks down into the chair that's in my room. She lets out a sigh and then turns her head towards me.

"Why did Esther want you to bring Elijah to her?" She asks 

"That's not really any of your business, now is it?" I snap 

"You promised to not keep secrets, it's not nice to lie." She gives me this look that reminds me so much of me

Manipulation, so it's genetic I smile to myself. 

"Esther believes that she can give Elijah redemption, that she can fix all of his mistakes. She said she has to show him something so she makes sure he gets that redemption." I state 

"How does she plan on doing that exactly?" 

"She says that she has something to show him, something that he did that she believes with help in his decision. Before you ask, no, I don't know what it is. All I know that it was something he did years ago that will affect him." 

Tatia doesn't say something for a second but then her eyes open wide and she just stares blankly at me. She mumbles something under her breath but I don't catch it. 

"What?" I raise my brow 

"I thought he knew, I thought that's why he didn't say one word to me." 

"You thought he knew what, Tatia?" I ask

"I know what thing he did that she believes will help with his redemption." 

"Well, what?!" I raise my voice a little 

"To make a long story short, a thousand years ago..." She pauses for a moment 

"Tatia, what. did. he. do?" I ask once more 

She takes in a breath, releases it, and then looks up at me.

"He killed someone... important to him." She says 

"Who?" I inch closer to her 

"Me. He killed me."