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

Ch. 6: Fruit of the Poisoned Tree

It was a beautiful day in New Orleans, as Elijah and Klaus sat around in the parlor, each reading a book.

Rebekah walked into the parlor and stopped, looking at both of her brothers.

"Is this what you do the first time we're back as a family? Vampire book club?"

"Reading educates the mind, sister," Klaus told her. "Doesn't it, brother?" he added to Elijah.

"Yes. That's quite right, Niklaus," he agreed.

Rebekah noticed that the dead lady on their coffee table was starting to bleed on the rug.

"She's bleeding on our antique rug," she informed them.

Klaus looked to the dead lady and realized it.

"Yes, well she was a peace offering for me daggering him."

"Yes, and I explained to Niklaus that forgiveness cannot be bought," Elijah explained to his sister.

Since they weren't going to be doing it, Rebekah went to disposing of the dead lady.

As Katherine was eating her breakfast at the bar, Rebekah walked through the kitchen and out the back door to get rid of the body.

Later that afternoon, Katherine Pierce sat in a chair reading a book, Rebekah having just entered the parlor room.

She set the book down on the arm chair, when she started to feel light-headed.

Rebekah noticed that something was wrong.

"What's wrong?" Rebekah asked her.

"I don't know. I feel light-headed all of a sudden."

Rebekah went to stand in front of her and felt her forehead.

"You're burning up," Rebekah informed her.

Great. I get a second chance to be able to raise my child, and a witch tries to kill the child. Probably both of us.

"Better call your brothers. I think a witch is doing this to us. There's a spell that a witch can do. It causes an unborn child to die. Sometimes, it even kills them both," she told Rebekah.

A few minutes later, with Rebekah's help, Kat was lying down in her bed upstairs, as she started to feel even more light-headed and warm. She was afraid for both her life and the child's, knowing what could happen.

After Rebekah informed them of what was happening, both Klaus and Elijah went to see Sophie whom informed them of what happened. So, they soon went in search of the witch that had done the spell. Agnes.

That night, as she lay there, wishing for this to all stop, she saw Elijah at her bedside.

She blurrily looked at him.

"Katerina, I need to get you to the pool. It should cool you down," he informed her.

She wrapped her arms around his neck and rested her head on his shoulder, as he pulled her gently into his arms. Then everything went blurrily past, as he used his vamp speed to get them outside to the pool.

A moment later, she felt the water, as he started to wade into the pool.

"We need to get her cooled down as soon as possible," he informed his sister, whom had asked what he was doing.

As she felt more of the water when he got to almost the middle of the pool, he asked her, "Ready?"

She nodded a little, unsure whether she could talk from everything that was happening to her right now, due to Agnes.

She gasped from the cold water, as he slowly dipped her into the water a little, still holding her.

A few minutes passed that she started to feel better, other than the feeling of the cold water, until she suddenly felt like she couldn't breathe.

"Elijah, I can't breathe," she was just able to say.

"Breathe with me," he said gently, which she did, matching her breathing with his, until she felt like herself again.

After she felt like herself again, she knew that it was over. They had both survived. And after that, she followed Elijah out of the pool and towards where Rebekah was standing not far from Sophie by the beach chairs. Sophie then unbounded her and Katherine from each other.

Later that night, when Katherine was home alone, she went to the front door, hearing a knock on the door.

"You must be Katherine. We haven't officially met. I'm Marcel," the guy she opened the door to introduced himself.

"Yeah. I know who you are. I'm not in the mood, so go away," she said, before closing the door on him. She then went to her room to lay down, only to get ambushed by the one hybrid she thought she would never see in New Orleans; Tyler Lockwood.

When Elijah and Klaus came home, only to find Katerina gone, Elijah called Rebekah whom was on her way out of town.

"Where's Katerina?" Elijah questioned her.

"I don't know. Why?"

"She's not here."

When Klaus arrived, Elijah was still on the phone, when he said, "Marcel's been here." And when she heard that, Rebekah decided to turn back around and help her brothers find Katherine and get her back.