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Jade AUs

The list of AUs and a description. AUs will have their own tag if you want them.

Warning

Some of these AUs are really dark and deals with content some may find disturbing. Read at your own risk

Blood Orange

The OG Timeline

Contract of Blood (Dark)

Raphael summoned a demon, pledging his soul for them to serve him and bring back his family, who were killed and their souls stolen. The demoness that was summoned was the Duke Jade Clementine, skin of Orange and yellow, horns bursting from her head, and a winding tail that was pointed at the end. She had long pointed ears and fangs that poked out of her mouth. Brown hair was tied up in devilish twin tails; her clothes were made of red leather. She takes the deal and promises to faithfully serve and protect Raphael until the day he dies.

They go on a journey to retrieve the souls of Raphael’s family, fighting many foes along the way while also bonding. Jade perhaps gets a deeper appreciation for her current holder. A fondness that she’s unfamiliar with. A love and devotion that in the end, she doesn’t take Raphael’s soul during the final battle and he perishes, instead giving it back to him, her one and only order to him being to live a long and happy life, sealing the order with a kiss before vanishing back to the underworld, the contract completed.

Gold and her Lap Dog (Dark)

Ok ok, so first things first Jade is more of a bitch in GAHLD. She walks with an air of entitlement. Her ego is big and her narcissism and vanity are forefront issues. I see Fazbear Entertainment working more with Big Mama. Jade is a frequent spectator at the Battle Nexus, and she really likes Raph. It’s in no way a sexual or romantic way. It’s more of “oh he looks nice and strong. I want him. He’s be such a pretty pet and a good guard dog.”

So she discusses it with Big Mama. “That one, I want him. How much?” “Oh Ms Jade you’re quite amusing with your jokes!” “I’m not Joking Big Mama. I want him. I will pay a pretty penny for him. How about this. $100mil plus I make you some pretty strong fighter bots. I could even make the sentient if you’d like.”

Somehow she gets him without selling her soul. Jade being introduced, walking into the enclosure. Probably armed guards nearby just in case.

Gets Raph a red leather spiked collar with a golden name tag

Uses him as a guinea pig for her robotics, such as making him a robotic eye

When Jade was about 11-12 she went wandering where she shouldn’t have. This was one of the few times she had actively broken rules. The Sun ran after her, actively leaving the daycare because of where she was going.

Jade found her way into the old pizzeria where she met William Afton, now burntrap, the purple man and yellow rabbit that she had dreamt about for years. It didn’t matter that she had Afton blood in her veins, he wanted to kill her. He needed to.

The DCAs got to her, but it was a fatal mistake. Using the virus, Afton took control of the jesters, forcing Eclipse so they both would be doing so. He made them attack Jade.

She begged and screamed, promising she’d be a good girl and never break any rules again. They didn’t hear her, they couldn’t respond, forced to silently watch as they practically killed a child they deeply cared about. The hold over them was only released after Jade was in the hospital, and Sun and Moon were deactivated.

Her family promptly moved to New York after this, Fazbear Entertainment and Afton Robotics setting up a partnership with the Nexus.

Jade started going to watch the fights at the Battle Nexus after she had healed enough, so around 13.

Her experience/trauma made the bloody fights entertaining, almost empowering. It gave her a morbid interest, making To The Death fights her favorite.

From the very beginning she deemed Raphael her favorite, and only after watching a few of his fights, she decided she needed to have him. So while setting up her plan to take him, Jade became his personal sponsor. Care packages, treats, many many things.

Bad Future

Raphael has died

The Kraang have won

Jade spends all her time in her lab

She’s trying to bring Raphael back to life

Builds him the perfect robotic body, so close to being alive

Lab is turned into a bunker. She barely uses the house

Jade is chubbier, hair is long and tangled as she keeps it down, and she has dark circles under her eyes

Bad Future (Husk)

After Raphael’s death Jade stopped being a person. She’s empty and doesn’t speak. She only comes home to eat and sleep, always covered in Krang blood. The day she lost her other half was the day she died inside.

Captain my Captain (Questionable)

Mermaid/pirate AU

The races are divided into two with subspecies in each. Man and Mer

Jade is a lion fish mermaid, one of myth and said to sink ships with her haunting voice

Jade is quite big despite being built for speed, 6’5” if measured from tail to head

The boys are the most infamous pirates on the seas

At some point Jade is captured by the boys, originally to be sold at a high price, but they grow a fondness to her. She’s kept in a tank in the captain’s office, where the maps and everything is kept.

She sings sadly in both the times due of man and mer. Refuses to speak in the tongue of man to anyone but Raphael, calling him “my Captain”

She begs to be freed but never is. The boys are selfish.

She eventually falls for Raphael, and one mating season she escapes her tank. Instead of taking the chance to escape back to the sea, she finds her way to Raphael, laying on top of him, kissing him and asking him to mate with her.

Don eventually pulls her off, having found out she escaped and following the trail of water, but it’s too late. Raphael has been thoroughly seduced. It would only be a few days later to where he would be bedded by the mermaid.

After successfully securing Raphael as her mate, eventually Jade is freed, giving Raph a scale to prove that she will come back. She stays by the ship, swimming along, but leaves for days to weeks at a time. She always returns.

One day she had been gone for a few weeks, long enough to worry the others, and she returns. She speaks excitedly in mer then us told to speak English. Jade exclaims that “Oh my love! Neptune has blessed us. Though there has been partnerships between man and mer, never a child. I carry a pup, and it’s yours!”

They eventually have a son, Jade carrying him in a baby carrier made of kelp. Jade and Captain would eventually have a second child later on, a little girl.

Both children are if the land and sea, having a man form and a mer form.

Jade in Horrorland

Non Canon AU

Jade falls into the underground with Olive

Little Jade Clementine, eight years old, falls into the underground. With her trust friend Olive and the help of a Flower she has to make her way back to the surface.

Summerboy

Jade is called Surfer

Raphael is called Candy

Summer romances are fun and freeing, a beautiful thing every young adult dreams about. And there’s only one rule.

Don’t get attached

Raphael has the chance to experience the summer romance of his dreams with the eccentric Jade Clementine. Whatever could go wrong?

The Hamatos are in California for the summer and Raphael just graduated. While walking the beach at sunset he sees the prettiest girl surfing a gnarly wave. Jade Clementine, the daughter of some old family friends he never met.

The two have a summer romance, not using actual names so that they don’t get attached when they eventually leave each other. But they do genuinely fall, and when they part, well there’s always next summer.

TM(N)T AU (Dark)

Jade is called Wallflower. All I’ll say is this shit it dark. It’s not getting shared.

Band Of Darkness

Jade is called Goth

Takes place 4 years after Krang invasion (making Jade and Raph 21)

Jade is the lead singer and guitarist for a band, they play shows in grungy places such as warehouses

Jade has been cut off from the family fortune

She lives in her own apartment and provides for herself

Raphael meets Goth one day by going to one of her shows. He falls head over heels for the lead singer. He comes home later covered in black lipstick.

Stalker! (Dark)

Jade never met the boys and April. After the closing of the Pizzaplex and moving to New York she was all alone. The isolation got to her and broke her, Jade tossing herself into robotics. As such she is the most technologically advanced Jade, but also the most unstable.

Her infatuation with Raphael started when he saved her from being crushed by a building. Since then she hasn’t been the same, obsessing over him. Walls covered in sneakily taken polaroids, drawings, and such. Hacking into their security system, playing a game of cat and mouse with Donnie. Sending gifts to the lair.

#ooc #jade au

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thebrotherssalvatore321 · 4 years ago

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Keeping Secrets Ch. 33

Keeping Secrets Masterlist

Pairing: Current: ElijahxOc. Past: DamonxOc, TylerxOc.

The first thing to enter Katie’s semi conscious state was the feel of Elijah sweeping her hair away from her neck. Half asleep she scooted forward following his scent of clean linen and cologne then found his arm and laid her head on it as she tucked herself into his chest with one arm thrown over his side and the other tucked between them. He smiled at her and simply watched her chest rise and fall. He still found it hard to believe that after one hundred and seventy one years she was there, in his arms once again.

Some things had changed, physically and personality wise, but so much had stayed the same. Like the way she sought him out in her sleep, the fact that she was one of the most observant people he knew yet she still had ditzy moments. Even some of her mannerisms had stayed the same. Her eyes were still the same shade of kelly green with golden flecks, her nose still thin bridged and slightly upturned. The only things that had changed about her physically were her lack of freckles, her hair was more relaxed and naturally darker and her breasts were a cup bigger, all of which he thought were improvements, not that she ever needed improving.

As he took her in she started getting the feeling that she was being watched and it pulled her from her semiconscious state to fully aware. Well, that along with the fact that he had rested his hand on her side and was absentmindedly rubbing it with his thumb. “Are you staring at me?” she asked sleepily with her eyes closed. When he didn’t say anything she cracked her eye open to see him looking at her in awe. “You’re staring at me.” She sighed with a small smile then closed her eyes. She would never tire of seeing him look at her like that or the feeling it always sparked in her.

“I prefer to call it gazing.” He told her with a thank you so much tone.

“Gaze away, I’m gonna go back to sleep.” She sighed not really planning on going back to sleep, she just wanted to continue to cuddle with him.

“You always did like your sleep.” He commented.

Katie opened her eyes and looked up at him. “And you always reminded me that nothing good ever happens while you sleep, but these days I beg to differ.” She told him with a smirk. “When I went to Duke for the summer we took a tour of the neonatal nursery and I held a baby. That night I remembered that you and I were thinking about adopting a child together.”

“A two year old little girl named Nora.” He recalled. “That was just another thing that Niklaus took away from me when he killed you.” he told her sadly.

“We never got the chance to talk about it before Klaus killed me. Do you really think we could’ve raised her without her asking questions about why mommy got older, but daddy didn’t?” she asked as she propped her head up with her elbow and hand to look at him without craning her neck.

“We would have had to tell her what I am, but I thought at the time we could have made it work.” He told her honestly.

“Maybe sometime, years in the future, we can revisit the idea.” She suggested.

“Perhaps.” He told her with a small smile.

“Right now, however, I just want to make it to graduation, walk across that stage, get my diploma, and get the hell out of this stupid town.” She told him with a sigh. “I know it probably sounds stupid to want to graduate and go to college when I can live forever and do anything or go anywhere, but-”

“You don’t have to defend your dreams to me.” He cut her off.

“What are your dreams?” she asked curiously.

“I’ve never had time for dreams.” He told her with a shake of his head. “You were the only thing I ever looked forward to.”

“Well, here I am.” She said with a cheesy smile that made him smile. “Now what?”

“We figure that out as we go.” He answered.

“Okay, step one of figuring it out as we go…” she told him as she slid on top of him and started kissing his chest making him think she wanted a repeat of last night. But she kissed her way to his ear. “Food, I’m starving.” She sat up and slipped her hands down his chest to his stomach. “What’s the blood situation like here? Damon and Stefan kept a deep freezer of blood bags in the basement.”

Elijah flipped them over and kissed her neck then down to her chest then looked into her eyes. “We are not cavemen. There are blood bags in the kitchen, bottom drawer of the icebox.” He whooshed out of the bed and held his hand out to her.

She took it and slipped out of the bed.

“So food or shower first?” he asked as Katie walked over to the dresser and pulled the top drawer open to see seven matching bra and panty sets.

“It doesn’t matter to me.” She answered.

“Breakfast first.” He told her as he walked over and pulled the second drawer of the dresser open to reveal some pajamas and lounge clothes. “I’ll meet you downstairs.” He pecked her on the forehead then left her to go put on some clothes himself.

She threw on a pair of pajama shorts and a tank top then went down stairs to see Elijah standing at the bar in a pair of black sweat pants and a white t-shirt. She observed him as he emptied a blood bag into a clear glass that was sitting next to an already full one. He gave her a small smirk as he handed her a glass and grabbed the second one for himself. “What are you contemplating?” he asked seeing the familiar look on her face.

“Trying to decide if I like your butt better in suit pants or sweatpants.” She answered then took a drink of the blood in the glass.

He gave her a cheeky smile that showed off his nice teeth then quirked a brow at her. “You are much more brazen than you used to be.” He pointed out.

“Is that a bad thing?” she asked a little unsure of herself as she looked down at the rich red liquid in her glass.

“No.” he told her as he hooked his middle finger under her chin and lifted her head and she met his eyes. “You have to quit assuming that just because I point out how you’ve changed that I don’t like said change.”

“Okay.” He replied quietly and he dropped his hand from her chin.

“So which is it?” he asked, bringing them back around to what she had been contemplating.

“I don’t know, I think I need to do more research. Turn around.” She told him with a smile and a twirl of her finger. He smiled, turned around and walked over to a stool at the bar then sat down and faced her. “Suit pants, hands down.” He simply smiled and leaned back in the chair as he took a drink of the blood in his glass.

When her text tone chimed she saw that it was from Caroline and frowned. “What is it?” he asked.

“Caroline wants to talk to me. She asked me to meet her at her house.” She answered.

“You do not want to go?” he asked curiously.

“I don’t know what I want.” She answered as she walked over to stand at the bar across from him.

He watched her take a large drink from her glass. “I know you.” she set her glass down and looked at him. “You love your friends. Even Elena despite how much you say you hate her. It’s your hurt talking, not you.”

“So you think I should go?” she asked as she watched him tap his fingers on his glass with pursed lips.

“I think you should do what you feel is right.” He replied as he sat up and took a drink.

“Sometimes the things I love most about you are also the most aggravating.” She told him and he gave her a confused narrow eyed look. “You, unlike Damon, don’t tell me what to do, even when I want you to.” She answered and he finished off the blood in his cup and stood up.

She threw back what little was left in her cup and he held his hand out for the glass as he walked past her. “So what are you thinking?”

“I’m thinking that I love you and now that I have you back all should feel right in the world, but it doesn’t.” she answered as she turned and watched him rinse the glasses out and put them in the sink.

“And why is that?” he asked as he turned and leaned against the counter with a narrow eyed look at her.

“I thought by cutting ties with them, giving Caroline back the charm bracelet they gave me for my last birthday, I would feel better, but I don’t.” she said with a head shake. “When I walked into class Friday Caroline pointed out that I was strangely chipper and I wanted nothing more in that moment to gush and gossip with her like the giddy school girl that I am, but I couldn’t. We’ve been best friends since first grade and losing her and Bonnie because of Elena’s pettiness and my own…? It’s stupid.”

He walked over to her and placed his hand on the bar, tapping it with his fingertips before he looked up from it to her. “When you envision your future, are they in it?” after a few seconds of thought she nodded. “Then I think you know what you need to do.” She pursed her lips and pulled them to the side as she nodded. “Come, let’s shower then you can go to Caroline.” Katie nodded and grabbed her phone, texting Caroline back as they made their way upstairs.

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When Katie knocked on Caroline’s door, she couldn’t help but wonder what exactly was waiting for her on the other side. She could see Caroline through the window on the front door as she walked up and pulled it open. “You came.” Caroline looked surprised.

“Should I not have?” Katie asked politely. “Because if Elena and Damon are waiting inside to vervain me again we’re going to have some major problems.”

“You attacked Damon.” Caroline countered.

“Since when do you care about Damon?” Katie asked with a shake of her head.

“Good point.” Caroline replied then stepped aside and motioned her in.

Katie walked inside. “So why am I here?” she asked as she followed Caroline to her room only for Bonnie and Elena to come into view sitting on Caroline’s bed. A tray of candles sat on the bed between them and the smell of burned sage filled the room.

“What is she doing here?” Elena asked before Katie could.

“We’re all going to work out our differences.” Caroline answered. “I’m tired of sitting back pointlessly hoping the two of you will work it out.”

“She threatened me!” Elena yelled at them with wide eyes.

“And you all but threw yourself at Damon while we were still together.” Katie said with a glare.

“I don’t have to sit here and listen to this.” Elena said as she got up off the bed and headed for the front door. Caroline smirked at Bonnie who smirked back. Katie knowing something was up walked past Caroline out of the room to see Elena try to walk out only to be stopped by an invisible wall. She hit it a few times with her open hand then turned back to look at Bonnie who had also left Caroline’s room to watch Elena. “What did you do?”

“Simple boundary spell.” Bonnie shrugged. “Neither of you are going anywhere until I say you can.”

“Okay, I’ll play.” Katie sighed as she walked into the living room and sat down on the sofa.

“You’re not going to call Elijah for help?” Elena asked as she walked in and sat down in the recliner across from her.

“Why would I? He doesn’t fight my battles for me.” Katie asked as she threw her arm across the back of the couch.

Caroline and Bonnie walked into the living room and sat down forming a circle of girls. “Okay,” Caroline sighed and looked at Elena, “vent. Tell Katie everything she’s done to make you mad.”

“Well for starters there’s Damon. You let him think you were going to choose him over Elijah all the while you practically pushed him away and made it seem like he was the one falling out of love with you when you were the one who fell out of love with him. You strung him along knowing that you were still in love with Elijah.” She told her coldly.

“We fell out of love with each other and in love with other people. It’s as simple as that.” Katie countered. “Next issue please.”

“You sat by and watched Klaus make Stefan kill two innocent people and didn’t do anything to try to stop him, you actually thought about joining him and you acted like killing me would be doing you a favor.” She told her with a sneer.

“One, I’m not stupid enough to think I could physically stop Klaus from doing anything. I tried to stop him from hurting Tyler and he threatened to kill me. Two, you have no idea how hard it is to resist fresh blood. Three, I was pissed at you and lashing out. If you haven’t noticed I had a temper as a human… shit get amplified as a vampire, get over it.” she told her as she leaned forward and put her elbows on her knees. “Next?”

“You told Damon you would go to the dark side in order to get Elijah back.” Elena pointed out.

“I told Damon I didn’t know what lengths I would go to get him back.” she corrected her then made a come at me motion.

“We were right not to trust you because you did work with Klaus to get him back.” Elena told her.

“Because my friends who I would have thought would help me, turned their backs on me and left me no other choice.” Katie told her with anger flashing behind her eyes.

“Okay, Elena, is there anything else you want to say?” Caroline asked and Elena shook her head no. So Caroline looked at Katie, “You have the floor.”

“Okay, I was told to vent so here it goes.” Katie said then leaned back. “You flirted with Damon while we were still together. You stabbed Rebekah in the back despite the fact that she helped all of you get Klaus here. You, unlike me, really are stringing two men along. You turned Damon against me. You gave Rebekah to Klaus and told him that she knew that he was the one that killed their mother just to ensure that he would not only never un-dagger her but would also never un-dagger Elijah because he knew one of you would tell him and turn Elijah against him yet again. You would think that ensuring the love of my life would never see the light of day would be what hurt the most, but it’s not. I don’t have family. I considered all of you family and YOU turned them away from me.” she didn’t bother pushing back the blood that rushed to her face or the tears that slipped down her cheeks as she stood up to glare at her. “I have never felt more alone and isolated than I did then. That, Elena, is what hurt the most.”

“Katie I think that was a bit much.” Bonnie spoke up seeing the tears slipping down not only Katie and Elena’s cheeks but Caroline’s as well.

“Esther is planning on killing all of her children.” Elena told her as she wiped at the tears on her face. “She’s linked them together so if one dies they all die.”

“Elena!” Bonnie scolded her.

“What?” Katie asked as she stumbled back to sit back down on the couch.

“I’m sorry, Bonnie, I can’t let her kill Elijah. He found a way to save me when Klaus wanted to sacrifice me.” She looked at Katie as a few more tears slipped down her cheeks. “He doesn’t deserve to die and I can’t hurt Katie any more than I already have. We’ll find another way to kill Klaus.”

Katie grabbed her phone and dialed Elijah’s number, but Bonnie knocked the phone out of her hand and stomped on it. “I can’t let you tell him.”

“Bonnie!” Elena stood up at the same time Katie did.

“Drop the barrier.” Katie told her as her eyes grew dark.

“No.” Bonnie argued. “I’m sorry, but Klaus has to die and it’s happening tonight, on the full moon. Esther needed a celestial event.”

“You’re working with her?” Katie asked in disbelief.

“She’s channeling the entire Bennett ancestral line for power.” Bonnie told her as she lifted her chin in defiance.

“Drop the barrier Bonnie!” Katie yelled as once again the blood rushed to her eyes only for her to be knocked to her knees in pain as Bonnie held her hand up. Not knowing what else to do Katie closed her eyes and called to Elijah.

In less than a minute he was at the front door, but couldn’t come inside since he hadn’t been invited in. “Katie!” he called hearing her groans in pain.

“Bonnie stop it!” Elena begged and Bonnie stopped.

Katie whooshed to the door and threw it open only to be stopped by the spell that was still in place. “What is going on?” he asked with a look at her friends behind her.

“Bonnie’s trapped me in here.” She told him then turned to look at Bonnie then Elena. “Tell him what you told me?”

Elena walked over to stand next to Katie on their side of the barrier. “My blood was in the champagne toast last night. Esther used it in a spell to link you and your siblings together. She’s planning on killing you all tonight during the full moon.” She told him and Katie saw anger flash in Elijah’s dark brown eyes.

Katie turned and walked over to Bonnie. “If you do not drop that barrier I will never forgive you. What would you do if things were reversed? If it was Jeremy that Esther was trying to kill.” Katie asked, hoping to appeal to Bonnie’s humanity. “Please.”

Bonnie reluctantly closed her eyes, holding her hands out to the side for a minute then dropped them and opened her eyes. “It’s down.”

Katie waved her hand through the doorway freely then whooshed the short distance into Elijah’s arms. As they hugged Elijah whispered in her ear, “Grab Elena and give her to me.” She pulled back and gave him a questioning look. He gave her a hard faced nod so she turned and looked at Elena who was still standing inside the house.

“Sorry in advance.” Katie said as she grabbed her and moved her out of the door. Elijah took her and whooshed away. Katie whooshed after them, keeping track of them with her link to Elijah since he was faster than her. When she caught up to them Elijah had found one of the tunnels that ran under the town, made a hole in the ground and put Elena inside. “So why did we just take her and put her in a random tunnel?”

“We are going to need the Salvatore’s assistance. Elena’s safety will be their motivation.” He answered as he pulled out his phone and called Rebekah. He informed her of what was going on and gave her the task of keeping an eye on Elena. “Some of your friends might die today. If you do not want to participate I will understand.” Elijah told her matter-of-factly.

“If I’m being completely honest I’m still in a bit of sock over the fact that your mother is trying to kill all of you and…I don’t like this.” She motioned to Elena in the ground and Rebekah who pulled up in Elijah’s car.

“Do you have another suggestion on how we should precede?” he asked with narrowed eyes.

“No and that’s the problem. I don’t want anyone to die today, but it seems there’s no way around it. So I’m going to participate and do everything I can to save everyone.” She told him and she saw a fleeting frown. “You would prefer me not to?” she asked and he nodded.

“You are aware that you can’t save everyone, right?” he asked seriously.

“I am fully aware, but that won’t stop me from trying.” She told him with a shrug of her shoulders. He pursed his lips and looked past her with a glare. “I’m pissing you off.”

“No, you are not.” he told her as he looked at her and placed his hand on her neck. “Things could get dangerous and I do not want to lose you again.” He told her solemnly.

“I’m not going anywhere.” She told him sternly. He was tucking her hair behind her ear with his middle finger when Rebekah got out of the car and walked over.

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Elijah sat in the high back chair in the parlor of the boarding house while Katie stood behind him with her arms crossed over the back of it. “I couldn’t find her.” Stefan said as he walked through the front door and his eyes landed on Katie and Elijah then looked at Damon who was leaning on the archway that led into the parlor.

“They have Elena.” Damon told Stefan without looking at him.

“Actually Rebekah has her.” Katie corrected. “You can probably guess at all the screwed up ways Rebekah has imagined killing her.”

“So, if you want to save Elena’s life, I need you to help me stop my mother.” Elijah told them as he rubbed his thumb over his fingertips of his hand that rested on the arm rest of the chair.

“I’m a little embarrassed to admit, but when it comes to killing thousand year old resurrected witches…I’m a little rusty.” Damon told them with a sarcastic eye roll.

“Yes, unfortunately even when killed my mother doesn’t seem to want to stay dead. Not with the spirits of nature at her side.” Elijah told them.

“So what are we supposed to do?” Stefan asked as he walked down the two steps and into the parlor.

“The witches that released my mother, she’s drawing her power from their bloodline. That line needs to be broken.” He told them.

“Broken?” Stefan asked.

“Yeah, he means…” Damon said, then drew his pointer finger across his neck.

“You want us to kill them.” Stefan said more than asked.

“Actually I’ve been thinking. No one needs to permanently die.” Katie chipped in making Elijah look up over his shoulder at her since she hadn’t said anything to him about it. “Turn Bonnie’s mom. Turn a witch into a vampire and she’s no longer a witch. That should put a kink in the bloodline and cut off Esther’s power.” She walked around the chair to stand next to Elijah.

He gave her an impressed look. “That is extremely clever of you.” Katie just shrugged.

“Why don’t you two do it?” Damon asked.

“We would.” Elijah answered. “But we have absolutely no idea where they are. Besides, seeing one of us, they’d immediately know our intent.” He stood up and wrapped his arm around Katie’s waist. “They won’t expect to be harmed by the likes of you. In any case, you have until 6 minutes after 9 to find them.” Katie reached over and grabbed Elijah’s suit jacket off of the chair he had draped it over and handed it to him.

“Oh, how super specific of you.” Damon popped off.

“By 9:07 the moon will be full. My mother will have the power she needs to kill me and my family. If you do not stop her before then, Rebekah will kill Elena. So we all have our timeline.” Elijah told them as he walked over to stand not far away from them. “I suggest you get started.” He walked between them hitting both of their shoulders with his.

With him on his way out Katie walked over to stand close in front of Damon. “I’m sorry we took Elena. I don’t like it, but it’s the only thing that we knew would light a fire under your asses.” She placed her hand on Damon’s chest and looked him in the eyes that she once loved. “Please don’t let her take him from me.” Damon swallowed hard and gave her a nod. She dropped her hand and walked over to Elijah who was waiting for her at the door.

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They had parked outside the grill where they knew Klaus and Kol were and were getting out of the car when Elijah fell to the ground with a groan. “Elijah?” Katie asked and whooshed around the car to see him turning blue grey. “Damn it Damon.” She growled to herself realizing that someone had daggered an original and Damon and Stefan were most likely behind it.

Katie and Klaus both heard a scuffle and whooshed at the same time almost colliding at the entrance of the alleyway beside the grill, but she saw him and came to a grinding halt while he went down to the ally and pulled the dagger out of Kol’s chest, threw Alaric into the wall then when Stefan came at Klaus, Katie whooshed down grabbed him by his neck and body slammed him into the ground so hard he was knocked out. “Hello there, Sweetheart.” Klaus greeted her as she turned around and whooshed to his side, glaring at Damon.

“I asked you for one thing. One thing, keep Esther from killing people I care about!” she yelled at him.

“What did you just say?” Klaus asked with a look between the two of them.

“Leave him.” Elijah’s voice from behind them made them turn to see Elijah standing at the top of the stairs that led up out of the ally. “We still need him.”

“What did mother do?” Klaus asked. “What did she do Elijah?”

Elijah stuck his hand in his coat pocket as he walked down the steps past Katie and Klaus to Damon and pulled his phone out. “You tell me where the witches are or I’ll have my sister kill Elena right now.”

Damon looked up at the clock tower. “You told me we had until after nine.”

“I’m sure Rebekah would be more than happy to start her work early.” Elijah pointed out.

“They’re at the witch massacre house.” He told them with a sigh.

“I should have guessed. That place is a witch juju hot spot.” Katie said with a sigh as she walked over to Stefan, picked him up and shoved him into Damon. “Hop to it and don’t screw it up this time.” She motioned him to the stairs and he whooshed off. With him gone and Kol starting to wake up Katie looked between Elijah and Klaus. “I’ll give you three a minute.” She entered the grill through the side door and to the bar where she grabbed a bottle of bourbon and a glass as she walked around the bar and sat down on a barstool.

She was a fourth of the way through the bottle when Elijah came in and took the bottle from her hand. “Would you mind doing me a favor?”

“Anything.” She told him as she slipped from the stool and stood up straight.

“Come with my brothers and me to stand against our mother.” He told her and she let her shock show on her face. She thought for sure that he would ask her to sit it out and let his family take care of family business.

Katie kissed him on his cheek. “Of course I’ll go with you.”

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Katie held Elijah’s hand as she and the brothers walked up the hill to the house where a salt pentagram with a lit torch at each of the points had been drawn on the front lawn. “Katie, your presence here is highly disrespectful.” Esther pointed out. “This is a family affair.”

“Katie became my family the moment Fiona linked us, mother.” Elijah argued.

"Elijah, I find your attachment to this girl surprising. I would think that by now you would understand that any woman you love is fated to die." Esther told him.

"That’s why we’re linked." Katie spoke up.

"How many times do you think you can return from the dead before it starts to take a toll on your soul? There is a price to pay for cheating death. Nature always finds a balance." She told Katie who only glared back at her. Elijah pulled Katie into his side and Kol took a step closer to the salt circle.

“Stay beside me.” Finn told his mother as she walked into the circle.

“It’s okay. They can’t enter.” She said as Kol tried to enter and the torches flared.

“That’s lovely. We’re stuck out here while the favorite son plays sacrificial lamb.” Kol said. “How pathetic you are, Finn.”

“Be quiet Kol. Your brother knows virtue you can not even imagine.” Esther told him.

“Whatever you think of us killing your own children would be an atrocity.” Elijah told her with a glare.

“My only regret is that I did not let you die a thousand years ago.” Esther told them with a hard face.

“Enough, all this talk is boring me.” Klaus spoke up. “End this now, mother, or I’ll send you back to hell.” Katie looked at him to see an evil smirk on his face.

“For a thousand years, I’ve been forced to watch you, felt the pain of every victim, suffered while you shed blood. Even you, Elijah.” She turned her eyes to Elijah, “With your claim to nobility, you’re no better.” He shifted his weight on his feet and Katie gave his hand a squeeze that he returned. “All of you… You’re a curse on this earth stretched out over generations. If you’ve come to plead for your life, I’m sorry. You’ve wasted your time.”

They were all forced to watch as Esther closed her eyes and held her hands out to the side not long after she started working her spell the flames started misbehaving. “No.” Esther whispered. “Sisters, do not abandon me!” she yelled out but the torches spiked so high and hot that they all turned away and Elijah pulled Katie into him covering her with his jacket to keep her from the flames. When the torches went out they looked in the circle to see Finn and Esther gone.

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Katie stood on Elena’s porch, a note from Elijah in her hand as she lifted it and rapped on the door with her knuckles. After a minute Elena opened the door. “Katie.” She said a bit shocked to see her.

“I think it’s time we had an actual talk.” Katie sighed. “One where I don’t yell at you.”

“What’s that?” Elena asked with a point to the cream colored envelope in Katie’s hand.

“A letter from Elijah.” She said as she held it out to her. “For once I wasn’t nosey. I don’t know what it says, but I know neither of us feel very good about how things went down today.”

Elena took it and stepped aside for Katie to come in. “Rebekah threatened to burn me alive.” She told her as Katie came in and Elena shut the door behind her.

“Like I said, we’re not happy about it.” she told her as Elena walked into the living room. “We both did things we’re not proud of. He used his sister like a weapon against you and I suggested that Damon and Stefan turn Bonnie’s mom.”

“What?” Elena asked with a shocked look.

“The only way to keep Esther from using Bennett magic was to break the Bennett line. So that meant one of them had to either die, or turn. At least this way Bonnie’s mom keeps breathing to see another day.” Katie told her as she walked over to the couch and sat down. “I didn’t get a chance to thank you for telling me about Esther’s plan.” She watched Elena sit down in the white armchair that sat adjacent to the couch. “Why did you?”

“Because I’ve hurt you enough and it’s time we stopped fighting. We’ve gotten into our fair share of fights over the years. This one’s by far the worst, but we always manage to work it out and move on.” she told her with a shake of her head.

"The key difference between this fight and all the others is even though we were fighting, we were still friends." Katie pointed out.

"Do you think we can be friends again?" Elena asked.

Katie shrugged, "I wish I could say yes and things could go back to how they used to be. But...no, I don't. You guys are always going to be looking for a way to kill Klaus and yeah, there was a time when I wanted him dead too, but that’s changed." Katie told her as she stood up. "We can't be friends, but I don’t want to hate you anymore either. It's exhausting if I'm being honest. I came here to thank you and apologize for what I've done. So, Thank you, I’m sorry and," she walked over to the door and pulled it open then turned and looked at Elena, "Goodnight."

Elena gave her a tight lipped smile and a nod. "Goodnight.

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She stopped by her house and grabbed her school stuff then headed to the Mikaelson mansion. It was quiet when she walked in and she found Rebekah in the kitchen eating ice cream. “You got me hooked.” Rebekah pointed at her with the spoon in her hand and Katie gave her a small smile.

“Where is everyone?” Katie asked as she set her heavy bag on the counter.

“Elijah is waiting for you in your room and if I had to guess Nik is in his studio.” She answered. “Kol has fled.”

“I’m sorry things didn’t work out.” Katie told her then grabbed her bag and put the strap over her shoulder then headed up stairs. When she walked into the open door of her room she found Elijah sitting in the armchair in the corner. “What’s up?” she asked, feeling that something was off.

“We need to talk.” The four words made her heart plummet to the pit of her stomach.

“Nothing good ever comes from that sentence.” She said as she walked over and pulled the chair at her vanity out and sat down, putting her bag on the floor.

“I've been thinking about what my mother said." He started and the fact that he wasn't looking at her made a knot form in her stomach. "You have plans for your future, hopes, dreams, and if I am in your life you will never achieve them."

It suddenly felt as if the knot in her stomach formed painful spikes making tears pool in her eyes. "What are you saying?"

"I'm removing myself from your life. If I stay, you won't live long enough to have a life. I know that if you die you will come back, but how long will it be before you remember me and what kind of damage will it do to your soul?" He asked his face hard as he stood up from the armchair.

"You're leaving me?" Katie asked loudly as she stood up, the tears now slipping down her cheeks. He gave her a nod. "You let her get into your head. She's a liar, Elijah. Just because your history with women is tragic doesn't mean I'm fated to die."

"You have already died once because of me. I'm not going to let it happen again." He told her, his face still hard, as if he was putting on a face to keep from crying, but she could see the tears pooling in his eyes.

"You said you would never hurt me, that you would always love me." She sobbed pointing her finger at him accusingly.

"I don’t want to hurt you and I will always love you..." he placed his hand on her cheek, wiping at a tear with his thumb, "That is why I'm letting you go."

"Please don't leave me." She whispered as she nestled her cheek into his hand.

A tear slipped down his cheek, "I don’t want to, but I have to." He took a step closer to her and kissed her forehead then whispered, "Goodbye, my love." with a whoosh he was gone.

Her hands started shaking and she stumbled back until her legs hit the footboard of her bed and she sank down to sit on the floor as her body shook with sobs. Rebekah heard Katie’s heartbreaking cries and couldn't help going to her. When she saw her sitting on the floor with her arms wrapped around her knees she walked over, quietly sat down next to her and wrapped her arm around her shoulders. Katie was thankful to Rebekah. It felt like forever since someone had been there for her like that.

Eventually Katie quieted enough that Rebekah got her to get up off the floor and tucked her into bed. "There now..." Rebekah told her as she brushed her tear dampened hair out of her face, "get some rest." At that moment she didn't care that she felt like a child getting comforted by an adult. She was just glad Rebekah was there for her.

Rebekah walked over to the door and was about to turn the light off when Katie said, "Hey, Rebekah?" Rebekah turned and looked at her, "Thank you." Rebekah gave her a small smile and a nod.

She eventually fell asleep, but it didn’t last long before she woke up and looked at the clock on the wall to see that it was two in the morning. Knowing she wasn't going to get any more sleep she pulled herself from the bed and gathered some clothes and went to the bathroom.

After a cool shower she went down stairs to the kitchen where she grabbed a blood bag then started wandering around the house aimlessly. When she found a room with paintings on the walls, an easel with a blank canvas, and several drawings lying on a table she assumed she was in Klaus’s studio.

She was looking at the drawings on the table when she found one of her in her ball gown. Tears started slipping down her eyes again. "No tears on the artwork please." She heard Klaus say from the entrance of the room behind her. She wiped her face and finished off the blood bag in one go. She looked around the room and tossed the bag into a trash can that contained wadded up sketch pad paper. "I hate seeing you like this." He told her as he walked over to her then gently grabbed her chin in his hand and made her look up at him. "He has extinguished your fire." Her face twisted as she squeezed her eyes shut and started sobbing again.

Not knowing what else to do he wrapped his arms around her shoulders and pulled her into him. He was surprised when she wrapped her arms around his thin torso and nuzzled her face into his neck. With one smooth fast movement he picked her up bridal style and she wrapped her arms around his neck. He carried her back up to her room and laid her on the bed then lay down across from her.

"What's going on in that beautiful head of yours?" Klaus asked, but Katie just shook her head no. "Answer me sweetheart before I decide to bleed the vervain from your system and compel you to forget all about Elijah."

"How could he leave me?" She asked, his threat not even fazing her. "He waited a hundred and seventy one years to find me and he just… leaves?"

"How Elijah or any man for that matter could leave you is beyond me." He told her quietly. With a sigh she slid from the bed and grabbed her school bag and her car keys that were on the corner of the vanity. “Where are you going, Love?”

“My house.” She answered, sounding just as numb as she felt.

“I would prefer you stay here. At least for a few days.” He told her as he got up off the bed and walked over to her.

“You know what I would like?” she asked and he just blinked at her. “For people to stop hurting me. Just once, I want my emotions to not be a roller coaster ride.” She told him, talking with her hands. “I care too easily for people and regardless of what they say, people don’t care about me. If I stay here I’ll get attached to you and Rebekah even more than I already am and it will only hurt that much more when you leave too. Call it self preservation.” She told him then walked away.

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