Wicked Schemes

Chapter 27

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But there's no you, except in my dreams tonight
I don't wanna wake up from this tonight
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It wasn't hard to find Katherine. They had been careful on their journey across the town to the old motel, unsure if Silas would be tracking them, but the immortal hadn't made his presence known. Not that any of them would have been able to notice if he was following them until it was too late. They had Davina with them though and no doubt Silas would sense she was a witch and deduce she was part of the Leseid Coven and the fact that he'd need all of the members in order to get the Veil dropped would probably keep him away. At least for a little while. Or perhaps the immortal was off gloating about his apparent successful takedown of the Harbinger. Whatever the reason they weren't about to look a gift horse in the mouth.

"Still not good at the whole making friends thing, huh?" Damon commented as they entered the room and found Katherine handcuffed to the radiator.

She glared up at him, ready with her own retort but it seemed to get caught in her throat when she noticed the little witch and Klaus entering the room as well. She had thought this was a rescue mission or at the very least a 'get Katherine the hell out of town and out of our lives' mission. She could always count on the Salvatore brothers to do that, though it sometimes alternated between which one of them would be coming to her aide. From the company Damon was keeping she had a feeling he wouldn't be the one this time. Which left Stefan and considering Silas was walking around with his face on, Katherine had a feeling he wouldn't be coming either.

Klaus stepped forward passed the others and into the room, stopping so that he was standing in front of her. He could smell her fear, hear her heartbeat speed up, even as she tried to not show any of it in her features. He'd need to do something about that. After all the trouble she had given him through the years, putting distance between him and Elijah for some time, ruining his first actual chance at breaking the curse, Klaus didn't want her to think she could escape this time as she had done so every other time. He could see that flicker of hope in her eyes, belief that her time hadn't run its course and Klaus meant to make sure that all she saw was his face when she realized there was no longer any hope for escape.

"What do you want?" Katherine demanded, jutting out her chin in open defiance of him. If she was going to die today, which she was pretty sure was about to happen, she wouldn't do so begging for her life. Not from the monster who had done nothing but make it hell since she had first met him.

"We need the cure," Davina informed her, stepping forward with a small vial in her hands. It was a lot like the original one and Katherine scoffed at it.

"Newsflash it's in my blood. Not gonna fit the entirety of it inside of that little bottle." Katherine thought it was a good retort. Maybe they hadn't realized it was moving all about inside of her. Like Silas had told her, he needed all of it, not just a tiny sip to cure himself. Maybe this knowledge wouldn't hold them off forever if they were so determined to get the cure, but it should give her a little more time to make a break for it. Surely they wouldn't be able to do it in the hotel room which meant they'd have to get her out of the handcuffs and she'd escaped Klaus before-even if he'd just been a vampire then-she had a chance of being able to do it again. And a chance was all that she needed, no matter how small.

Katherine really didn't like the twisted smile that formed on the girl's face.

"I know," Davina replied and lifted a hand in the former vampire's direction. Katherine let out yelp as her body was lifted into the air, one hand still attached via handcuff to the radiator. "Klaus." The witch motioned toward the obstructed arm.