The Chronicles of Katerina Petrova and Niklaus Mikaelson: I Will Always...

Ch.1: I Know What You Did Last Summer

It was a dismal night in Mystic Falls, Virginia as Niklaus Mikaelson walked through the woods, his destination being the Mikaelson family mansion.

Suddenly, with hybrid hearing, he heard the noise of a car crash that he knew came from passed the Whickery bridge a ways. He normally would've ignored it, but he didn't when he heard Katerina weakly plead Jeremy Gilbert, Elena Gilbert's younger brother and a former Hunter, to help her. And as he headed for the Whickery Bridge, he heard Jeremy leave her there to die. He understood why. No one in this town liked her. She was still the bane of his existence to this day, but on the contrary to what he made others think, he wasn't a complete monster. Unlike Jeremy, he wouldn't leave her to die. Not hurt and alone. Besides, she was still the girl that he had met 500 years ago. The girl that had been so full of light was still deep inside somewhere, just waiting to come out. He sometimes saw it just below the surface. Especially, when she was around his elder brother, Elijah Mikaelson whom was constantly trying to find a way to help Niklaus find his way to the road to his redemption.

As soon as he saw the car, he raced towards it.

"Katerina!"

He tried to open the door, but it was jammed.

He looked at her and knew she was in bad shape. There was blood on either side of her head, and he could smell more blood. Her eyes were closed and the right side of her head was resting against the passenger's side window. He then saw that the front of the car was crinkled and there was a part of the street lamp pole on top of the roof above where Katerina was. He knew he had to be careful, as to not hurt her more than she already was or get her killed, trying to rescue her. So he went to the open driver's side door and crawled inside, stopping when he had reached her.

He rested a gentle hand on the left side of her face.

"Katerina, can you hear me?" he called to her.

She didn't respond, so he took his hand away and gently and carefully pulled her out of the wreckage. He then gently picked her up in his arms and headed home, despite what he knew his sister, Rebekah, felt about her. Besides, Rebekah was most likely spending the summer with that football player. Matt.

Stay with me, Katerina. I didn't rescue you for you to die, he thought.

When Kat woke up, she was in a bed in a room with someone dabbing at the wound on the right side of her face. She thought it might be one of her vampire family members, but when her focus settled, it wasn't.

"Klaus?" she weakly questioned, still feeling weak.

"Don't worry. It's just me."

She wanted to scoot away from him, but felt weak from the crash.

Sensing her fear that always came whenever she saw him, he told her, "Don't be afraid, Katerina. I saved you. You should at least thank me."

"Why not just let me die? I'm the bane of your existence. You don't care about me."

"I've been asking myself that same thing since I rescued you. I decided that I don't have an answer. Something about letting you die from a car crash seemed unnatural."

"Nothing about tonight is unnatural."

"What happened, Katerina?"

"Damon told Jeremy to take me back to the boarding house where Silas was. He was going to hand me over to him, so just like always, I fought back. Damon broke his promise that he'd protect me. Now I don't know what I'm going to do. I can't go to college and hide out, because either Elena or Caroline would kill me just for being there."

"Well, you have me then. I may not be the best companion or protector in the world, but I'll do what I can. I promise."

Even though she had never trusted him or liked him, something told her that she could trust in his promise. Klaus was many things, but she knew he never broke promises.