Our New Life

Chapter 7

1987:

It’s been years since she had been living in New York. She was still working with Stark. Their friendship went deeper in these years. She enjoyed his company, well because she got to know a lot of stuff about Steve, his life as Captain America. And he enjoyed her company because she never complained about him telling her stories of the war hero. But that didn’t mean her’s and Damon’s friendship faded. They were still BFFs. No matter how much time Howard and she spent, nobody can compare Damon. Her relation with him was unique, a friendship she can never develop with anybody else. But she would never tell him that, she loves it when he gets jealous because of her friendship with stark.

She was sitting on her bed, a box in front of her. She wasn’t crying like she used to do but that didn’t mean she wasn’t sad. It was her parent's death anniversary, after visiting their graves she came back home only to find Damon to welcome her with a big smile on his face. 

They both were going through her parent's old stuff when they found that box. It had an album, a few letters and a journal inside it.

“I can’t believe I didn’t go through their stuff. Like I have seen these letters and this journal before,” she said chuckling. “What about this,” Damon said, showing her the photo album. “Oh, I know this thing, it has my most embarrassing pictures.” she sighed trying to take the album from him but of course that was Damon he didn’t give her that album and started to look at her pictures.

“Oh my god, is that you, baby y/n. I mean you were so cute what happened now?” Damon said, showing her the picture. She stared at him, gaping. Making him smirk. “You are a jerk, you know that right?” she hit his head with the journal making him hiss. He continued to see her pictures and kept laughing at her. 

He was enjoying teasing her until he saw a picture that made his blood run cold. His body froze which didn’t go unnoticed by y/n “what happened?” she asked. 

“You know who this is with your parents,” he asked, showing her. “By the looks of it, it seems she was some of their friends.” she shrugged. He kept looking at the picture, making her roll her eyes “what Damon?” “This is Katherine y/n” he hissed. 

She chuckled “Damon how could be this Katharine. She died in the tomb. You told me that remember.” “y/n I’m serious. This is her. Look I’ve got a picture of her.” Then he took a picture out of his jacket and showed her. She stared at the picture, she didn’t know what to say. All those years they were looking for something to get a person out of a tomb, trying to rescue someone who didn’t need to be rescued.

He looked at Damon and knew he was angry. More at him than her. “I was an idiot. I should have known she was a manipulative bitch. OF course, she escaped, she couldn’t let herself die and here I was thinking.” he whispered to himself like he was in a panic. “Hey Damon, don’t do that. She doesn’t deserve it. Please don’t blame yourself.” She tried to calm him down. After a few minutes, he straightened himself “I’m going to find that bitch at any cost.” he spat. That made her annoyed “ why do you want her now. She doesn’t love you, Damon.” “I know that. I’ll find her and make her pay for what she did. She ruined my whole life y/n. I mean even after her so-called death I was thinking of ways to make her come back. In all those years she never came to me ever. I want to know why? Why didn’t she ever try to reach out to me or even Stefen” he sighed trying to make her understand. And she did but there was just one thing she didn’t get “ you have every right to ask her that Damon but I just don’t understand, she wasn’t afraid of you or anyone or dare I say guilty. But why would she never go to her old town or you or Stefan? Maybe I could find something about her in these letters or journals.” she said with hope. 

She opened the letters which were from some Abraham Erskine they didn’t say anything about Katherine. They were about some serum, that he was working on that thing and couldn’t say anything yet. 

So then she opened the journal, thinking she could find something from there. The first half journal was about their daily life, their crazy experiments. But then she saw Katherine's name.

“We got that contract with ms pierce. Excited for working with her.” it was the only thing written on that page. And then on the next pages, their sentences got shorter like they had nothing to write about. 

“She wants to know about Abraham’s project. We can’t tell her anything, we can’t betray him like that. But we have to. There is no other choice.” 

And again, after that, some regular things were written. She took out the other journal, just a few pages were used Because her parents died in that year. 

“It’s been five years, our life isn’t the same anymore. We are scared, for y/n. What if she comes someday and does something to her daughter. But now there's hope. We have hope after five years. A hope of normal life again. Maybe she left us, maybe he found her, whom she was running from.”

And those were the last words written by her parents. “It says she was running from someone,” she told Damon. And then they knew why they couldn’t find her in all those years. 

But now y/n was also after her to know what Katherine had to do with her parents, why was she after them and that serum….