Heart Like Yours | Klaus Mikaelson AU (ON HOLD)

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03/28/24

CHAPTER TEN: WAKING UP AND FACING THE CONSEQUENCES

MYSTIC FALLS, 2009

Kaitlyn shot up from the couch with a gasp, her hand instantly going up to her neck. Damon sat a few feet away, his leg bouncing up and down as he waited for her to wake up. His eyes stared at her as he waited for her to adjust for a second. "Kaitlyn?"

Kaitlyn whipped her head to look at Damon as she recalled what happened. Damon showed up with a milkshake and then he killed her. "You snapped my neck."

Damon held a ounce of guilt by the confusion on her face. "I...I know." He swallowed as the apology he was about to give just flew out of his mind. He picked up the blood bag and tossed it over to the couch.

Kaitlyn looked down at it, she could feel the hunger for something, she felt her body weaker than humans usually are. "What if i don't drink it?"

"Then you die." He simply told her. Kaitlyn was trying to weigh her options on what is the best option. Did she want to die? She wasn't sure. Did she want to live forever? She wasn't sure. She had this empty feeling in her when she was in New York, at least that's what she felt, like something was missing from her life and she didn't know what.

Damon knew that she needed time to process and wait for her memories to all came back and he didn't think he should be there for it to happen. "I think you need some time to figure out what it is you want to do. I hope you choose to feed but it's your choice." With that, Damon left her house and let her decide what he wanted to do.

PRESENT TIME

Kaitlyn had spent the night and morning trying to clean up the mess in her and Klaus' house in New York. She couldn't leave it like this, she refused to. She tried so hard to believe that maybe one day his memories would come back. Elijah said he had a plan and maybe they would help but she tried not to get her hopes up. She had no idea who could be stronger than Esther.

It seemed to be like a magnet--people showing up at the house for her. A knock sounded at the door and she sighed as she stood up in the midst of cleaning to open it. When she did, Elena stood on the other side. "Elena?"

Elene had a hesitant look on her face but remained calm, "Hi, can i come in?" Kaitlyn nodded and opened the door wider for her to walk inside, closing it when she did.

"What are you doing here?" She asked her sister as she went back to cleaning the place up.

"I came to check on you, to see how you're doing." Elena told her sister, looking around at the place, "is this where you lived?"

"Yeah." Kaitlyn was being short with Elena. Her twin barely spoke to her and she wasn't in the mood to argue about Klaus right now.

Elena stood awkwardly at the silence but eventually, took her jacket off and started to help clean. Kaitlyn watched her sister and tilted her head in confusion. "What are you doing?"

"I'm helping," she responded as if it was obvious.

"I meant, what are you doing here? You've made it clear how you feel about me, Elena. Especially when i became a vampire. You never even tried to understand me. Not when i left, not when i died and not with Nik."

Elena looked up at Kaitlyn, "Kaitlyn, i-"

"I'm not done." Kaitlyn interrupted her as she stood up and tossed the rag she had down on the ground, "i expected you of all people to understand. You fell in love with Stefan and with Damon. Vampires. Bad guys. Do you remember when i told you that you getting involved with the Salvatore brothers was gonna end bad for someone? I died and became a vampire and all you did was hate me for it. You would rather me just plain dead than being a monster. Well, guess what, Elena? It's not up to you." Kaitlyn may have been taking a lot of her anger out on her sister but it had also been pent up for so long and she never spoke to her sister about it because Elena avoided her. "And Jeremy? You think i don't know about the times that you compelled him? Again, that was never your choice to make. You just never know how to admit when you were wrong. That's your problem."

Elena had a shocked look on her face as she went on, part of her was trying to brush it off but some of it was getting stuck in her head. "And you know what? I love Nik and i plan to have a future with him--as a vampire. I'm gonna get his memories back and we are gonna be together because even though he doesn't remember right now, i love him and i know how much he loves me. I plan on fighting for him, even if it kills me." Kaitlyn got choked up a bit towards the end of her rant.

"You should." Was all that Elena said.

"What?" Kaitlyn asked in confusion.

"You should fight for it. For him." Elena nodded her head with a sigh. "I know i can't undo the past but i talked to Jeremy. I don't know what i would do if Damon was forced to forget everything about us. I don't know how i would even handle it. I wasn't there for you after mom and dad died, i wasn't there for you when you died but i want to be here for you through this."

Elena walked to her sister and wrapped her arms around her. Kaitlyn ended up giving in and wrapped her arms around her sister as she cried softly on her shoulder. She was in this constant state of unknown and confusion and it was eating at her. "It was Nik."

"What?" Elena pulled back to see her sisters face. "What was?"

"The reason i fed. After i died, my memories all came back to me and so i completed the transition and became a vampire. I've never loved anyone like this before, Elena, it's terrifying." Elena could see the fear in her eyes, the fear of getting her heartbroken and the fear of loving someone so much that it just consumes you. She felt it with Stefan and with Damon. She understood where she was coming from.

"I know. I know." Elena mumbled and hugged her older twin tightly until Kaitlyn was done crying. Elena ended up staying the night and helped Kaitlyn clean and the two talked. Kaitlyn only hoped that her sister had good intentions.