Little Witch

Handle With Care

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I held my phone to my ear as I spoke with Klaus, "Hey it's me.. I didn't really want to say this over a voicemail, but The doctors confirmed it this morning, It's a girl." I tell him, "Uh, Call me back please." I hung up and sighed as I went to my dorm. I walked in and closed it behind me as I grabbed my empty suitcase and started packing.

Katherine came out of the shower and grabbed the hairdye box, as Caroline comes in. "I don't want to know if Tyler called, so don't even tell me. So, do you want to do small appliances, or toiletries?" Caroline is putting her things into her bags. Not realizing that Katherine is in her room instead of Elena. "I mean, I'd compel a cute boy to do it for us, but I don't think I want to see a cute boy ever again. Except for Jesse, who's conveniently not answering his phone." Caroline groans.

"Um, we're moving out?" Katherine asked pretending to be Elena, "Hello? Dr. Maxfield thinks we're vampires, you know, threatened to expose us, told us to drop out." Katherine chuckled, "That sucks." She clears her throat, and Caroline becomes suspicious. She charges after Katherine and puts her in a chokehold against the wall. "What the hell are you doing in my dorm, Katherine?" Caroline asks, "I just need a place to crash." she says, "What? I loathe you.""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." Katherine says

"Aw. And how is any of this my problem?" Caroline asks, "Look at you. Moving out, giving up? It's very un-Caroline of you. You need me. Bad." Katherine points out, and Caroline loosens her grip on Katherine and backs away. Katherine clears her throat. "In exchange for a place to stay, and Elena's meal card, I will help you deal with Dr. Whoever." Katherine offered, "Dr. Maxfield. He teaches bio." I call out, Katherine starts snickering, "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?"

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I waited outside until Caroline called me in, Dr. Maxfield is moving his head side to side while seated in a chair, his wrists bound to the armrests. "What did you inject him with?" Caroline asked, "I don't know. It just said "avoid contact with eyes..."" Katherine looks at the bottle. "...and "do not ingest." Oops." As he's coming back to consciousness Maxfield says, "It's etorphine." Katherine jguesters to him, "There ya go."

In confusion he asks, "What are you doing, Elena?" Caroline just says, "We're draining vervain blood out of your system so I can compel you to forget that Elena and I are vampires." I walk over and place a hand on his arm seeing images of Jesse. "Wait, what? You'll kill me!""Shhh." Puts her hand up to quiet Dr. Maxfield "I'm just-- I'm trying to do some math. Okay. Uhh. So, if the average male has 5 liters of blood in his system..." Caroline says.

" That's about right." I say uncertain, "...then, carry the 1..." Caroline begins to mumble whilst running calculations. "Just round up..." I tell her, "Perfect! 4.7 pints, Should I use the right arm or the left arm?" "Untie me. I'll find the vein myself. You will kill me." Maxfield says. "Give me. It's not my first rodeo." Katherine says and Caroline hands her the IV. "Can you hand me one of those tubey things, and, um some tape?" Caroline walks across the room to retrieve the things Katherine asked for. They put the IV into Dr. Maxfield's arm, letting the blood drain into a beaker. "Oh, my God, it's totally working!" I say in surprise. "Ta da!" She grabs a scalpel from the table and touches Dr. Maxfield with it. "So, doctor, you tell me, who else knows about us?" She puts the scalpel against his neck.

"If you were willing to kill me, you wouldn't have gone through all of this trouble. You should have left when I told you to. They're on to you." He tells us."Who's "they"? The people you want to expose us to? That secret society thingy that you belong to?" Caroline asked, "There's a gathering today at Whitmore house. The society is using it to suss out potential candidates. They were going to invite you, until they started suspecting that you were a vampire." He tells us, "So all I have to do is convince them that Aaliyah Lockwood and Elena Gilbert aren't a vampire? Done." Katherine says making me smirk, "They'll never let you in and a vampire could never get past the threshold." He tells us and the three of us smile at each other.

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Katherine, pretending to be Elena, and I approach the front door of Whitmore House. She fiddles with her hair, before knocking on the door. Dianne Freeman opens the door. "Ms. Gilbert? Ms Lockwood?" She asks, "You know me?" I ask, "I'm Dianne Freeman. We met the night your roommate died." Katherine then says, "Of course. Crazy night. Anyway, We are here for the shindig."

"I didn't realize you'd be joining us." She says, "Did I forget to RSVP? Sorry, I've just been so busy with my studies." I tell her, "We just started the tea." Dianne ushers Katherine and I into the door and looks confused when Katherine crosses the threshold. "Got any food?" She asked, Katherine approaches a table filled with food, where she starts stuffing food into her mouth and her purse. She then notices Aaron staring at her.

"What? Are you the sandwich police?" She asked me as I ate a couple sandwhiches. "No. Just uh...trying to figure out why Wes told me to stay away from you." A guy says as I noticed he was next to us."Do I know you?" She asked, "Aaron. We met yesterday. You changed your hair...it's..." Aaron says, "Aaron. Duh. Hi! So, what are you doing here? Are you apart of the secret society?" He looks confused. "The what?" He asked, "You know, [whispering] the society." I asked, She gives him a quick smiles and wink. " I still have no idea." He says, "Either you're genuinely clueless or you're very good at keeping secrets." I say, as Katherine begins to cough.

She then turns around and spits a tooth into her hand. Noticing something is amiss Aaron asks, "Is that your tooth?" panicking and whispering to herself "No. What is happening to me?" Katherine turns to leave, as Aaron asks her if she's okay.

"Elena?" I asked frantic as I rushed out after her, but she was gone when I got outside.