Maria Salvatore || The Vampire Diaries

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Maria's POV

Katherine told me her version of the story, she told me she promised some guy name Niklaus Mikaelson that she would participate in some sacred ritual he had planned for a long time. She told me that once she found out she'd have to die, she couldn't do it, so she drank the blood of a vampire named Rose and killed herself. That part kind of threw me off, Katherine never told me how she turned before and to find out she did it herself was kind of eye opening but alas it was Katherine so I wasn't really shocked.

She then told me that ever since then- Niklaus has been searching the earth for another human doppelgänger meaning: Elena Gilbert really wasn't safe at all.

She didn't tell me much about Niklaus himself, just that he was a really old vampire, who was one of the firsts. It kind of amazed me, I never really stopped to think about how vampirism was originally made and to find out the person who was partially responsible was still roaming the earth was more than fascinating.

Katherine did however tell me that since she betrayed Niklaus all those years ago in such a deep way, he was still seeking revenge, and some how along the way my name was thrown into the mix.

I was seemingly important to Katherine, and with that information floating around the supernatural world, Niklaus was not only looking for Katherine but for me now. I've always known I'd get into deep trouble, inescapable death trouble, with Katherine if I continued to venture on with her. I just didn't realize it would be so soon.

I was angry at first, how could she not tell me that we both were basically running for our lives the last 150 years? But then I got scared, Katherine was never intimated by anyone, and to see her basically shiver every time the name Niklaus left her mouth was not calming at all.

Once she explained the whole story to me, she let me go. She said it was my choice to leave with her in the next few days, or to stay and eventually face my fate when Niklaus came searching.

I didn't know what to do.

I just got both my brothers back, but Katherine is the only family I have ever known, I was conflicted.

"Where the hell have you been?" Damon immediately asks once I step through the front door of the boarding house.

"I need a drink." Is all I reply before walking past him and opening the first bottle of bourbon that was sitting there, it burned my throat and the taste was awful, but it helped.

"Katherine needed to talk, I guess sending a text was too old fashioned, she made Jeremy stab me and then Caroline I assumed snapped my neck. By the way; tell Elena not to trust Caroline, she's working for Katherine." I tell him carelessly and take the bottle with me as I pull off my shoes and lay on the soft couch.

"How do you know that? Besides I don't think Elena will be around much longer, Stefan and her kinda broke up an hour ago." Damon's words confuse me, why would they do that?

I raise my eyebrows but shrug, taking another swig from the bottle. "What did Katherine say to you?"

I open my mouth to tell him but I stop, "Uh Katherine things. Nothing important." I answer and he stands there with a sour look on his face.

"What did you find out about Mason?" I ask, trying to change the subject entirely.

"I stabbed him with a silver knife, turns out that was nothing but a myth. Bastard didn't even die, but now I got us an enemy so.. you're welcome."

Damon's sarcastic tone was something I always used to miss. Now that it's back, it's just as annoying just as it was before.

"Hypothetically speaking, if you knew death was coming, would you run or try and fight it?" I ask, just as he was about to leave the room, he gives me a look but I don't meet his eyes, "Uh depends on what we're dealing with.."