Between Love and Hate (EN) ✅

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"Katherine, it wasn't necessary," Elijah snapped.

"Oh yes. It was. Just look at how stupid she is," I sneered. Then I rolled my eyes and waved my hand. "No matter..."

Crouching down, I removed my shoes from Elena's feet and put them on mine feet. Theis shoes were too expensive for me. After all, I paid almost half a million for these shoes, I couldn't give it to some village girl.

Elijah also crouched next to my second's limp body, but did not stand up with me.

"Come on, Elijah. Let's go. She can sleep. She must be tired of pretending to be me," I urged.

"You let Kevin kill Jeremy Gilbert," Elijah said, standing up and turning to me.

I must have gotten serious, because now it was no longer funny. I had forgotten that I kept this part about Elena's brother silent. I sighed impatiently.

"Yes, Elijah. I let my son kill Jeremy Gilbert. My child avenged your brother's death because I couldn't do it," I admitted. "Kevin was just as precious to Kol as you and Klaus. Trust me, I wanted to kill Elena, but I didn't thanks to my friend Raphael. She talked me out of it. As I can see, my doppelgänger couldn't wait to complain to you about this. It's ironic that she has given up her humanity. I thought she didn't care."

"And I care," Elijah protested and waved at Elena, but approached me. "Do you really feel nothing for this girl? A girl destined to endure what you endured yourself? You allowed the last member of her family to die."

"A member of your family was also killed, Elijah. Why are you looking at me like I liked it now?" I asked, pointing to myself and following Elijah. He didn't seem to want to listen to me anymore, and I didn't even know why I was making excuses for him. "Don't let this sweet Elena manipulate you. She hates me and will do anything to hurt me. Besides, I want to protect Klaus just as much as you do. And all those I love."

"You could have persuaded your son not to kill Elena's brother. I didn't think you'd come this far," he said and went on his way.

"Elijah!" I gritted my teeth at him, but he didn't listen and didn't turn to look at me at least one last time. I narrowed my eyes at him, wondering how I would have to pass the medicine to Klaus now.

I'll have to go back to Mystic Falls soon anyway, because I can't leave Kevin, Nadia, and Raphael alone. Besides, Bonnie won't be able to keep the mystical creature's path to the city open for long. Therefore, Elijah was now my only chance to pass the cure to Klaus.

And this opportunity just slipped out of my hands, so I had to come up with another plan.

I went back to the woman I had left the cure with and asked her to give it to me. She stated that I had already been with her a good ten minutes ago and she had returned the cure to me.

So...

Elena Gilbert, it turns out, has become a lot more cunning than before...

After talking with Elijah and him leaving me standing under that bridge, Elena was gone, but before that I thought she just came back to Meah and the Salvatore brothers to tell them the news. I never would have thought that she would think of taking advantage of the identical appearance of the doppelgängers and take the cure in a nice way.

This time I had to admit that she managed to play me...

Unfortunately, not for much longer, because I'm sure I'll figure out how to get the drug back and give it to Klaus without letting Bonnie recreate it.

As I returned to my temporary home to pack my things to return to Mystic Falls, as I knew that's where all of Elena's scum would return, I already had the first inklings of my new and diabolical plan in my head.

I wasn't going to attack Elena and get back at her for tricking me, nor was I going to try to find a cure for vampirism just yet, but I knew exactly what I had to do to ensure that the dose of the cure was indeed the only one the doppelgänger had with her at the moment.

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A.M. Hello, dears! This time the chapter is very short, but it's only because I couldn't do otherwise: I wanted to keep the intrigue, so don't be angry about it. I'll try to make the next chapter a little longer than this one, and maybe longer than everyone else usually is. Let's go on! Happy reading! 💜

P.S. Sorry for my mistakes... I know that my English is not very well!