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❝repeat the question❞
"WHY ARE YOU HERE, DAMON?"
Katherine glares at Damon as he leans just outside the tomb, a smirk on his face.
"I just figured I'd come see how you're doing, still stuck in this dirt-hell and all."
She scoffs. "Considering I'm still stuck in here, I take it you didn't kill Elijah like I'd hoped, which means you know exactly how I'm doing."
"I do," He says smugly. "I just find insane amounts of pleasure at the sight of your misery. Speaking of things that bring me pleasure— John Gilbert is dead."
Katherine's face drops in surprise and she takes a step forward before realizing the barrier is stopping her. "What? What are you talking about?"
Damon rolls his eyes and pushes off the tomb wall, standing up straight. "Oh, don't act like you care, Katherine. He was in the way, and now he's not. You're familiar with that strategy, right? Better he die than I,"
"This isn't funny, Damon."
"Of course it is, Katherine," He crosses his arms over his chest, his smug look unwavering. "You'd better watch out, too, you might be next on the list."
She falters slightly, her face twisting in a rare show of nerves. "What? What are you talking about?"
"I mean, Elijah compelled you to stay in here so we wouldn't have a rogue doppelgänger again. There can't be any mishaps during this ritual."
"So, Klaus is finally going to become a hybrid and then what?"
Damon looks at her like she'd missed the point entirely, his eyes fluttering irritatedly. "Obviously he's going to kill you. Or worse. That's what happens when you ruin someone's chance at unlocking a curse put on them by their dead mother the first time around, and then run for five hundred years."
Katherine clenches her weak fist at her side, glaring at Damon.
"Well," He shrugs again, nonchalant at the thought of a mortal fate of the vampire before him. "Point is, you're staying in Mystic Falls until Klaus is ready to deal with you, whether that be in this horrid tomb or out and about the town. That being said, he should be here soon, and I think I speak for all of us when I say we're anticipating his arrival."
Katherine slams a hand against the tomb wall, dirt crumbling around her. "Don't you realize that you'll end up all alone again? One they're done with you, they'll leave you in the mess they created, Damon. The only people the Originals care about is one another."
She doesn't give him a moment to respond as she continues on. "You have no reason to be loyal to them, unless," She trails off, and a smirk grows on her face. "Unless you owe them something, too. Everyone does, eventually. So tell me, Damon, what do you owe them?"
