Katherine Pierce finds herself captured by Klaus, as he finally catches up to her after 500 years of playing cat and mouse. She wakes up in an unfamiliar apartment, realizing Klaus has finally come to Mystic Falls possessing the body of Alaric Saltzman. What follows is a high-stakes dance of deceit and danger, where trust is a rare commodity, and pain is a common one. Amid the breaking of Klaus's curse, and the Mystic Falls gang's neverending quest of saving Elena's life, Katherine must navigate her uneasy realtionship with her captor. But will she be able to escape him this time?

"Don't be cautious, don't be kind You committed, I'm your crime." - Copycat by Billie Eilish Hatred is defined as being an intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility towards someone. Katherine Pierce and Klaus Mikaelson have prided each other for centuries by saying these are their feelings towards one another. So then why when Katherine Pierce shows up in New Orleans human and dying, Klaus does not take this opportunity to kill her but instead offers her shelter and protection from anyone else who may want her dead? And why does Katherine, despite their constant arguments, feel like he is the only person on the planet who can understand her? Could it be that these two have not indeed felt hatred for one another for the past five centuries, but rather passion? Defined by any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate.