Versatile | Elijah and Katherine's Daughter [Book 1]

Chapter 23: I'll Rip Her Doe Eyes From Her Skull

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[Rebekah is sitting next to Katherine and Elena sits opposite Katherine inside a diner.]

ELENA: Where's the cure?

KATHERINE: What? No "I'm here to avenge my annoying little brother" speech?

ELENA: People die. We move on.

[Elena drinks from a mug, expressionless. Rebekah looks at Elena, who keeps looking at Katherine.]

KATHERINE: After turning off our humanity switch. So sad for the boys, though. Their special snowflake of human frailty...gone. Well, if we're gonna be a while, I'm gonna go grab some menus.

[Katherine starts to stand up but Rebekah stabs her hand with a fork, pinning it to the table. Katherine moans in pain and sits back down.]

REBEKAH: You're not going anywhere.

KATHERINE: [through her teeth] I forgot how charming you were.

REBEKAH: I'm surprised you remember me at all, seeing as though you were so busy wedging yourself between my brothers.

[The waitress stops at their table.]

JOLENE: Oh, my god. What happened?

[They look up at her. No one says anything, so Elena kicks Katherine in the foot, and smiles up at the waitress.]

KATHERINE: [sighing] I'm fine, Jolene. [compelling her] You didn't see anything.

[The waitress nods, smiles and leaves. Rebekah is smiling at Elena.]

ELENA: Every minute you two waste with your yapping is another minute we give Stefan and Damon to find us.

[Rebekah grabs Katherine by the chin with vampire speed.]

REBEKAH: [compelling Katherine] Where's the cure?

KATHERINE: [smiles] I'm sorry, I'm on vervain.

REBEKAH: Oh, I get to torture it out of you. Fun. [She releases Katherine's chin.]KATHERINE: Why do you two want it, anyway?

REBEKAH: The question is, why do you want it? Let me guess, to kill Niklaus?

KATHERINE: I've spend the last five hundred years running from your big brother. I have no intention of being within sniffing distance of him. But, since it can be used against him, I'm sure he's just itching to get his hands on it. I give him the cure, he gives me my freedom.

REBEKAH: [sighing loudly] Oh, you poor victim. Where's the part in your plan where you screw us over and somebody dies?

KATHERINE: I have no reason to screw you over.

[Rebekah chuckles.]

KATHERINE: I know you don't believe me, but it is the truth. People change. I'm not the girl you think I am.

[Rebekah laughs again, Elena sighs. Rebekah aggressively searches Katherine's pockets with vampire speed.]

KATHERINE: I don't have it on me.

[Rebekah throws Katherine's phone to Elena.]

REBEKAH: I didn't think you did. But I'm sure there's something in that, that can help us find it.

[Katherine looks worried as Elena searches Katherine's phone. Elena finds an appointment for 2PM that says "meet em and am".]

ELENA: Who's "em and am"?

KATHERINE: [struggles to find words]...Friends.

ELENA: It says here you're meeting at two.

[Katherine sighs, looks worried.]