The Originals: Rewritten

Ch.7: Bloodletting

It was a beautiful day, as Katherine woke up to see that she was in a cabin with her hands tied with a rope.

She sat up.

Tyler walked into the cabin with a guy she assumed was a friend.

"You're awake," he stated.

"What do you want, Lockwood?" she demanded. Though she was human now, she wasn't afraid of the young hybrid. Even human, she could deal with Klaus, so she knew she could deal with Tyler. She wasn't friends with him, but she knew him well.

"I've been asking questions and found out that you got yourself knocked up by Klaus. That's a long way from the Katherine I know. You would never willingly be close to the one person that ruined your life. So, I asked around and guess what I found out? You warmed up to him and got pregnant with his spawn, which just so happens to be something special to some species, and an abomination to others," he stated.

"This is about Klaus killing your mother," she guessed. "You know, vengeance is overrated. Take it from me."

He knelt down in front of her and used a knife to cut the rope, freeing her hands. He then got to his feet.

"You think Klaus cares for you and that baby? He just wants it for hybrids," he informed her.

"You're wrong," Katherine replied.

"See for yourself," Tyler said, before giving her a cut with the knife and having the vampire feed from her. Then he snapped the vampire's neck. "That child will help him make an army of hybrids. He doesn't care for either of you."

"Just because our child can make hybrids, that doesn't mean that that's what he's after," she argued with the hybrid she'd known since she'd first come to Mystic Falls and had played his Uncle Mason.

Meanwhile, Klaus and Elijah were walking around in the Bayou, searching for Katerina and her captor. Klaus was raving mad, but innerly controlling his anger. If anything happened to either of them, there was going to be consequences.

"You seem quite determined to find Katerina," Klaus commented. He knew Elijah had broken up with her, so there shouldn't be anything between them anymore. Besides, Katerina was going to be having his child. Not Elijah's.

"If I'm moving too fast for you, Niklaus, you're welcome to wait in the car. Do be certain to leave the windows down," Elijah replied, a little irritated at him for insinuating that he may not care about Katerina anymore.

"Ah, so I've touched a nerve," Klaus stated, before sniffing the air and looking around.

"Have you found her scent?" Elijah questioned, hopeful. If anything happened to Katerina, her captor would have no mercy. If need be, he would kill whoever took her as consequence if she was harmed.

Klaus came upon Tyler's SUV and started searching through its contents in the back of the SUV.

"No, but I found someone else's. This vehicle reeks of someone I thought I was rid of. Tyler Lockwood," he informed him with a growl. He was going to kill that hybrid if he'd harmed her.

"And why would your little hybrid-sidekick from Mystic Falls have any interest in Katerina?" Elijah had to ask.

"He wants revenge because I went after his girl."

"Why do I suspect this is the least of your offenses?"

"Back when I had the means to sire hybrids, he was my first. Although, I didn't give him much choice in the matter." He pulled out a blanket from the abandoned car and sniffed it. "He was loyal in the beginning, but he grew insubordinate, turned my hybrids against me. I couldn't have that, so I massacred the lot of them. Tyler ran like a coward before I could finish him off."