Potential (Book Four, The Vampire Diaries)

Chapter 20__The Originals

A few days later, Elena was still locked downstairs in the cell. 

We were upstairs talking in the parlor.

"She's the calmest desiccating vampire I've ever seen," Damon told us. "I remember when you starved me down there for three days. I would've wept at your feet for an orange peel." 

"Look, she's not gonna beg for blood," Stefan told us. "Begging means desperation, emotion. She's still in no-humanity zone. "

"How hungry does she have to be before we can torture some feelings back into her?" Damon asked.

"A lot hungrier than she is now, apparently," I told them.

"So what are we supposed to do in the meantime?" Damon asked. 

Katherine walked into the room. "Maybe I can provide a little excitement." 

"Katherine," I said.

"The one and only . . ." Katherine trailed off, looking to the side. "Sort of. So, when's the 'Welcome Home' party?" 

Katherine walked past us, pouring herself a drink.

"Wow, look who went and gold bold," I said sarcastically. "Last time I checked, Klaus was plotting your eternal demise." 

"Well, it doesn't matter anymore, because Klaus is gone, no thanks to you," Katherine told me.

"Wait, what do you mean, he's gone?" Stefan asked. 

"Let's just say that werewolf girl, Hayley, turned out to be just the thing we needed to get Klaus out of our lives," Katherine told us. "For good." 

Katherine smiled.

Klaus and Elijah went to New Orleans because some witches were plotting against Klaus, abandoning everyone and everything in Mystic Falls.

Finally.