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"I DON'T LIKE NOT GETTING MY WAY," Athena's voice is low and steady, but the irritation is heard by all nonetheless. "I don't like when things don't go my way. It makes me homicidal."
"You should see a therapist–"
"I will hang your intestines like Christmas garland, Katherine, I swear to god,"
The doppelgänger huffed and rolled her eyes, sitting back against the couch with a petulant pout on her lips. "I don't even know why I'm here when all you people do is threaten me,"
Athena turns towards her, frustration burning in her dark eyes that makes Stefan hide his face behind his hand and Damon wince. "You're here because you are the eternal thorn in my side. Your existence was made to impede mine, and because you and all of the other doppelgängers exist, it means Elena Gilbert exists, which makes me despise you out of principle. And you– you– you're like a fucking cockroach! You just won't die! And you can't be trusted on your own, so you're under adult supervision until I find something better to do with you. That is why you're here, Katherine. That's why."
Silence fell upon the group tensely and Athena let out a stiff sigh, pressing her clenched fists into her eyes before dropping them back at her sides. "Look, I'm trying to come up with some way to outsmart Elena and handle this bullshit because Lord knows I'm always right about this shit and am therefore the only one capable of doing it, so I'm gonna need you all to contribute elsewhere."
"Where do you suppose that would be?" Rebekah's drawling voice had an inkling of taunting in it and Athena felt her shoulders tense again before she forced herself to relax and let out a calming breath.
Spinning on her heel, she faced the Original with a terse smile. "Someone needs to find Jeremy and remind him that I have a very short tolerance for people who don't do what I want them to do, and then tell him that I am a very experienced murderer."
Kol raised his hand, making Athena's eyes roll with a flutter. "What, Kol?"
"Who is Jeremy again?"
"Elena's little brother," She sighed, pinching the bridge of her nose. "He's got a savior complex the size of the Empire State Building, and all it has managed to do for the past year is make my life harder than it already is."
The Original nodded and she waited another moment to see if he had any more questions before she continued speaking. "In a few months, I'm going to be graduating high school, and then I'm going to live forever, and I refuse to do that with Elena Gilbert running around thinking she has any semblance of power over me. She needs to see that I'm not losing– I don't lose."
She sighs, raking a hand through her silky brown hair. "As much as it affected Tyler, I don't think Elena is going to necessarily care about Carol being dead. If she's running around with her switch flipped, it's gonna take something a lot bigger to draw her out. We need to do something that's going to get her attention."
