The Fox Doppelganger TVD

The conversation upstairs went on without interruption but that is because the werewolf pack downstairs is taking precaution.

They had seen a group of Vampires keeping watch from a distance, it is obvious this place is housing something precious to Marcel. The group stood there expecting to be under attack at any moment but no attack came. 

"You people can't keep us here indefinitely. Whatever happened to the law?" The woman with blond hair shouted in outrage.

Her fear is apparent but she is not bowing down to her kidnappers. The infuriating thing is that no one answers her. Jake is amused at her spit fire like personality. He looks at Nate "Does she reminds you of someone? Blonde, feisty, and has the unfortunate tendency to dense at the sharp edge of a knife." Nate growls in annoyance at Jake.

"You are just going to ignore me while keeping me here against my will? Rude, all of you." She pointed at them all.

"Why are you so noisy? Did anyone hurt you? Do you want us to hurt?" June looked gloomily at the loud woman and sneered. 

"Hey! Is any way to speak? Where are your parents? Do they know you are keeping innocent people as hostages in a broken church?" She got more excited seeing that someone finally responded to her after almost two hours of silence. 

"We are his parents." Elijah's voice came from the staircase holding Katherine's hand trying not to fall face first on the wooden floor. His bones are a little wenky. 

"Elijah? Where did you come from? Wait, uncle did you really keep someone in here against their will?" The woman showed outrage. 

"Don't blame him darling, he is only human. He is also not in charge. My husband was not the only one up there." Katherine walked towards the door with Elijah while the woman remained stunned. 

"Let's go." Elijah said and the nine tails followed their leaders out. 

"That human is being manipulated by Klaus because Marcel cares about her. It's quite pitiful actually." Elijah said with slight guilt. 

"So, why were you kidnapped? Aren't you like super strong?" May asked Elijah.

"I was incapacitated by my brother Nicklaus." Elijah answered honestly. 

"So he is stronger than you huh?" June asked with interest.

"He is half wolf, he has superior strength and reflexes. Not to mention that nasty bite. But most importantly, he had the element of surprise. one minute we are having a conversation and the next, he stabs' me in the heart." Elijah explained to them patiently. 

"That must suck. Jake, if you ever do something like that to me, I'll shave your hair." Paige said to Jake who gasps and put his hand on his hair in terror. 

"I still don't understand, even if he is trying to win this person over, he could have put your body under his own care. We have proven there's a way to .... one of you. What if this Marcel found out and used you to test the theory?" May said in confusion.

"Nicklaus was probably still angry at me because of our last encounter." Elijah said with a clenched jaw.

"So you were just supposed to let his do whatever he wants to your woman?" June materialized out of the shadows spooking out the people. 

"Eeckk! Can you stop coming out of nowhere like that?" May shrieked in surprise. 

"You have to have your senses alert at all times. You would have notices him had you paid attention to your surrounding."

Katherine said making May stop chasing June who keeps poofing in and out of the shadows. 

"I'm tired." Katherine said and Elijah increased his pace.

"Where is Mikel?" Elijah asked.

"He got a call earlier and asked to be excused." Katherine said in response. 

The group walked to the house Mikel had built talking and laughing. 

.....

"Are you not going to ask for me to punish my brother? Especially after giving me whatever you gave me?" Elijah asked Katherine who sat on his lap as he reads a newspaper while she has her breakfast.

"If I ask, will you do it?" Katherine asked lightly with a bored tone.

"A good concubine knows to be sensible and not bring trouble for her husband, even when he favors the other women at the cost of her unborn children. " Katherine said and Elijah became speechless.

"Why are you a concubine?" Elijah asked intrigued.

"Because I know my place." Katherine said not seeing the darkened expression of her husband behind her.

"You are still angered by what happened." Elijah said lightly. He had thought she would raise a storm after she rested well. Elijah was certain she would take her bat and barge into Nicklaus's residence and beat him to a pulp.

He had spent the night alone last night but she doesn't seem to have had any troubles sleeping without him by her side. She has been distant after coming back last night. Elijah knows this woman best and she likes to express herself to get things out and over with.

For her to be so reserved must mean she really feels helpless. He has actually made her suffer to this extent just after marrying her? Elijah feels immense guilt about everything and wishes to make it up to her. As soon as possible.

Which is why he wants to please her by giving into her every request until she forgave him. However, she just didn't made any demands or requests his brother's punishment.

"How are you adjusting to your new found strength? Are you now completely comfortable within your own skin?" Katherine ignored his previous statement and asked her own question.

"Yes. I am completely fine now. May I ask a question?" Seeing her nod, he proceeded.

"Why did you give me so much power? Aren't you afraid I'll betray your trust?" Elijah ha stayed up all night pondering this question. The only answer was that she was completely infatuated with him and believes in him without a doubt.

However, Katherine has always been very cautious about her feelings with him and treated him as if he would disappoint her any moment. Which brings him to another possibility.

"I am giving you a chance. You asked for me let you in and you will make me happy. I thought about it, I am a woman so I am intimately familiar with sweet promises said by people who just want to make noise and lie through their teeth. I can not know if your promises to me were sincere if you lack the power to achieve them."

"You say you love me and are in love with me. You say you will not let anyone hurt me and that you will protect me. You say you will relinquish your pursuit for your brother's redemption and seek your own happiness." Katherine looked at him without the heaviness present in her tone.

"I can upload your aspirations but to know for sure I need to see it for myself. That dagger will not work on you now, so you don't have an excuse of being incapacitated and un available or helpless against your brother with that much power which is only going to grow. Let's see when you go back on your words, who you are going to blame for your failure to do the things you set out to do." She said in a Klaus like manner that suggest that she is not holding her breath on the results.

"I am trying to be simple but you may have realized that I share traits with you, the inability to give away my trust being one of them. Now that you have what it takes to be all that you can be, let's see what you are going to do." Katherine said finishing her food.

"No pressure. When you leave for your brother's place I'm coming with you." Katherine concluded her speech.

Elijah sat there speechless. His wife really is different. He had known she won't make it easy. "It still a tremendously large gift that you have bestowed upon me. Katharina, thank you."

"You are welcome." Katherine went to take out her outfit and took a shower. Elijah realized she hasn't let him so much as kiss her since coming back. He stood at the hallway with a gloomy expression. He really doesn't like this version of his wife. The floor cracks at the leaking pressure from him. Hearing the sound, Mikel opens the door.

"It is better when she bashes your head in isn't it?" Mikel walked out from a bedroom and the door opened enough for Elijah to see a fast asleep pair on the bed. A boy with soft features which is a Vampire and a woman that seemed to be human. They both seem to be very tired.

Elijah looked at Mikel in surprise. Mikel smirked. "It's called a devil's three some for a reason." Mikel came out checking his phone headed for the fridge.

"She will come around, she gets like this when she doesn't know how your actions make her feel. Remember the doppelganger?" Mikel asked, Elijah followed him to the kitchen and took out a blood bag. After warming it he poured it inside a tea cup and drank it.

The blood is not normal. Instantly after entering his mouth it fills his taste buds with a delightful flavor, the taste is overwhelmingly delicious. He looked at Mikel. "She got you some powerful blood from some of the most accomplished humans who are donating their blood to our Vampires in exchange for power." Mikel smiled at Elijah's surprised expression.

"You will need large amount of regular blood now that you are upgraded. Instead of that, it's better to get better quality blood than more impurities from large amount of normal blood." Mikel smiled at him.

"The point I was trying to make is that she had genuine good feelings for Elena and wanted to be close to take care of her as the last known human descendant of her actual bloodline. But the response from the test she had put out for Elena had not yielded good results, in fact it had disappointed her, in response she went away and made a new family. Us." Mikel told Elijah but Elijah recognized the words as caution to not disappoint her because she will leave you.

Elijah enjoyed the blood, It may not be as delicious as his wife's but it is indeed better than regular blood by a large margin. He wonders if Katherine will have a bar here too.

He doesn't know how to handle his own wife not able to look at him for more than a glance.

"I'm ready. We can go." She looked at Mikel. "Feed your guests, don't be rude. I hope she gets pregnant." Katherine crossed her fingers with a joking tone but it is obvious she is not herself.

"Clan leader, how can you say such a thing?" Mikel widened his eyes. Elijah laughed at him.

The walk from the house to Klaus's place began with silence. "You're avoiding me." Elijah said suddenly. Katherine kept silent. Elijah stopped but Katherine kept walking. Seeing she is not stopping he to her and held her tightly.

"Forgive me, Katharina." Elijah said but there is no response from the woman in his arms. The connection feels like a distant eco, not at all like the vibrant line that connects two lovers who just got married.

Elijah started kissing her exposed fair neck all the way to the mark he had put there. Biting lightly on the mark, the psychic connection that had been dormant buzzed and Katherine went limp in his arms. It is not just her he felt a zap of delightful electricity from his mark that rand throughout this entire body making him grunt in desire for her.

He felt her intense need for a split second but his connection too her got severed just as quickly. leaving him with a raging hard on that made a feral growl leave his throat. A few birds in nearby trees flew off in fright.

He kissed her sensitive spot, delighted when she shuddered ever so slightly and the body in his arms became hot. They hadn't left the house for a long time but Elijah carried her back. Speeding pass the eating Mikel that he only realized when a door closed in Katherine's master bedroom that they came back.

Elijah used his skills well this morning also being very gentle with her. Katherine hasn't been with him for a long time that she has been very horny. It was very easy for Elijah to get her to scream his name with extreme pleasure.

"I love you, Katharina." Elijah inside her said these words at the peak of her pleasure. Katherine granted an I love you too with her back arched and nails digging into his back. Elijah, satisfied gave her more of his attention kissing his mark trying to get it back but even as they are in this position, it remained unmoved. Even the slight tremor from before is gone.

Elijah is scared that the trauma of almost loosing the children might have made Katherine realize the dangers of being with him and now she is pulling away. He loves her. The idea of her leaving him and taking the kids with her make him feel an approaching crisis.

The bed broke. "I was very careful just now. Did we get heavy?" Elijah asked puzzled.

"You are still inside me Elijah, I want you to move husband." Katherine moans out. Elijah got very happy hearing her sinful plea. He really missed his demanding wife.

Elijah move inside her hot nether region. His wife is so tight. He sweated trying to hold himself back, it has been a while since he has entered his Katherine, the excitement is a bit too much. "Katharina.." his voice hoarse and low that Katherine came on the spot. She shuddered and shook. Her tight folds squeezed his cock making him groan in pleasure as he finally let go and came inside his wife.

They panted but Elijah's cock didn't even seem to have gone tired. Half a day went by just like that. "Katharina...." Elijah sucked on her mark. "You have to love me, alright? You can't give up on me. Promise me...my dear wife." Elijah doesn't seem to be tired at all. Katherine thought it is not good for the babies to be poked all day long.

"I'm sorry Elijah, I can't promise I won't give up. I am just as flawed as any person. Your obsession with Nicklaus is not usual. I love you and I will try my hardest but I will not lie to you." Katherine looked down.

"As long as you try. I'll take it. I will meet you halfway." Elijah kissed her forehead. At the very least this woman understands him and knows of his struggles.

...

"Where did you go?" Klaus looked at Mikel with slight blame.

"I had a date...sort of. What's up here?" Mikel asked Nick who seems to be in a particular bad mod.

"This is the map of New Orleans I want to know which one of these holds Marcel's secret weapon." Klaus said looking at the map.

"The day walkers didn't help?" Mikel asked. Shortly after he resurrected the two Vampires he sent them back in as Klaus's spies. He slowly got bored by the tedious political games between Marcel and Nicklaus but he still follow Nick in order to learn.

"I know where it is but ...." Mikel said and Nick looked at him speechless.

"And why hasn't this been told to me?" He asked in anger.

"Because the secret weapon is not a what, but a who." Mikel pointed at the spot in the map.

"How long have you been sitting on this information?" Klaus got angry but Mikel didn't even look at him as he answered lightly.

"A few hours. What's your plan here? Go in guns blazing and kidnap an entire person?" Mikel asked nonchalantly.

"That is not for you to know."

"I'm surprised. Are you just planning on going in there without backup?"

"You are backup." Nicklaus used one hand to drag Mikel.

"Look man, I am flattered but there is no way I am kidnapping a little girl even for clan leader, let alone you." Mikel made his stance clear and tried to remove the hand grabbing him tightly and dragging him to the door.

Klaus is about to leave the house when he came face to face with Elijah holding hand with a smiling Katherine.

He let got of Mikel's arm that he had been dragging and takes a step back. "Elijah." He said with a bit of fear. Elijah came inside the house and looked at Nicklaus. "Nicklaus." He then continued guiding Katherine to a couch in the sitting room.

Klaus's wolf became agitated at the sight of Elijah and Katherine. Klaus felt that his older brother has become a dangerous predator. "I had to do it, to gain Marcel's trust and have him lower his guard around me. I'm sorry." Klaus said but Elijah doesn't even give him a glance.

Katherine looked at the uneasy Nicklaus and then turned to see a beautiful lady on the staircase looking straight at Elijah with what seems to be relief and slight anger. Katherine narrowed her eyes but the action is so minimal that no one could see it.

The lady came down and walked straight to Elijah and gave him a hard slap. Only with Elijah's recent upgrade it hurt the girl to hit him instead of hurting Elijah. "Don't make promises you can't keep. Welcome back home." Katherine shivers hearing her words.

She looks around with a creeped out expression. "Please tell me this is not a house you call home Elijah. There's so much resentful spirits in here." Katherine said with obvious unease.

Elijah stops looking at Hailey and rubs Katherine on her shoulders lightly. He is about to respond when Klaus speaks first.

"No, this is not our home. Our home is currently in the hands of my enemies. Which is why I need to do whatever it's takes to win against Marcel." Klaus looked at Elijah hoping he will gain a response but Elijah remained stoic.

"Good, something as fragile as a growing fetus should not be surrounded by so many hateful and suffering dead people." Katherine looked at Hailey with interest.

"You must be Hailey. Hi, I'm Katherine." Katherine stands up and approached her, she stretched out her hand and shook Hailey's and then she pulled her into a hug.

"Poor girl, you must have suffered. And now you have to live with ..." Katherine lowered her voice as if to gossip.

"You know who...." She said looking at Nicklaus "Let me guess, he comes and goes without any meaningful conversation with you. You have been very lonely here. Everything you know has been stripped from you and now you have to work together with one of the world's oldest people who doesn't know how to be genuine and let people in." Katherine gave her a pitying look and hugged her again.

Hailey showed discomfort at being touched by a stranger. But seeing she means well, Hailey smiles and try to defend Nicklaus. "He tries." She said making Katherine shake her head.

"It's okay darling, I don't like him very much. You can be honest with me." Katherine smiled kindly at her. Hailey is speechless and looks at Klaus before looking back at Katherine. Seeing Klaus not coming to kill the nice lady, Hailey heaves a sigh of relief.

"Come with me to check where you're staying. Looking at this dust, it can't be very clean." Katherine tried to pull her back upstairs but Klaus blocks her way.

"You must be delusional if you think I'll leave my unborn child in a room alone with you." Klaus showed his werewolf eyes. Katherine let go of Hailey and went to Elijah holding him hid behind Elijah with a frightened expression.

"Dear Elijah, your first wife is so fierce. Do you think he wants to kill me?" She showed her head but when Klaus looked her way, she hid again. Elijah didn't know what to say.

Klaus on the other hand is annoyed, he takes steps towards the pair "What did you call me?"

"First wife. Or are you so old fashioned you want me to call you the main wife and myself the concubine? I will do it. Just stop glaring at me with your beastly eyes. You are frightening the babies." Katherine said coming out from behind Elijah putting her hand on her stomach.

Klaus blinked and turned to Elijah. "Elijah what does she mean?" Elijah didn't answer.

"I must thank you for shoving that cure for immortality down my throat sister wife, it allowed Elijah's dead swimmers to best my now living eggs." Katherine smiled happily. Klaus listened and found three heart beats inside Katherine's stomach area.

"And before you insult me by making unfounded insinuations, I haven't been with another man. These are mine and Elijah's." Katherine smirked at Klaus's ever changing expressions.

"That's not possible." He looked at Elijah. "Elijah, tell me you're not buying this. A Vampire and some beast human can not make a child! You are being hoodwinked by this woman who is hell-bent on destroying me." Overwhelmed by emotions Klaus started shouting.

"That's a bit harsh. If anything I care about you. Well, that's also stretching it a bit. I feel for you what I feel for that hairy fruit..." She click her fingers trying to remember the name.

"Rambutan." Elijah says with a suspicious smile at the corner of his otherwise straight lips.

"Yes, that odd looking fruit. We buy it so we can say we have it on the list of fruits to choose from for when we go out to a picnic, but I wouldn't put that thing in my mouth. And should something change on the atmosphere and it couldn't grow anymore, I wouldn't mind. But I would not be so bored as to cut down the trees it grows from." A chuckle escaped Hailey.

"So you massacred my entire family. I forgive you. So you killed my child. I forgive you. So you tried to turn my werewolf pack into hybrids, I forgive you. So you shoved a cure for immortality down my throat, I forgive you. I forgive you Klaus. Not just for you but for me. I am taking back all the power you have over me by moving on from you and your deeds because I know you. You are a sad puppy. Even without me doing anything to you. YOU will do something that will lead to your downfall." Katherine said.

'Clap' 'Clap'

"What a rousing speech. But if I may inquire, why then, are you in MY home, in MY city with MY brother trying to get chummy with MY unborn child's mother?" Klaus folded him arms in mockery looking at Katherine and waiting for her answer.

"I can only answer one of those questions. The rest, blame it on my answer. And my answer is simple. Elijah. Don't you know? It has always been Elijah. " She said the last part with a ghostly whispering voice.

Klaus laughed menacingly. "Are you perhaps delusional about something? My brother will always stand by my side even if you marry him. Even if you push your bastard children as his on, he will always pick me!" Klaus shouted at Katherine who looked at him in amusement.

"Oh? I believe you. But, do you believe you? I mean, you have always known deep down that you are not worthy of his devotion to you, so you have spent this entire time waiting for the other shoe to drop. Hehe.." Katherine laughed coldly.

"Your brother only ever wanted you to be a better version of yourself. Grow, improve and stop your path of destruction. He wants you to go back to being his sweet artist brother who mixed plants to make new colors. But Instead of using the last thousand years to try and get through that emotional traumas your parents put you through and mature, you chose to remain stagnant." Katherine said gesturing with her delegate looking hands.

"And despite my inability to improve, the love that my brother has shown me never wavered. So whatever you wish to achieve here will fail. And if your end goal is to make Elijah sever his connection to me, then you best give up now because many women have tried and they all fail. Some of which, Elijah killed by his own hands." Klaus smiled at Katherine seeing her keep silent he sees It as his win and goes for the kill.

"You have ingratiated yourself in my family but make no mistake, they are my family and will always be my family not yours. Should you forget that but of news, I can explain to you in details how I relished every moment of every kill inside the place you once called home. Your mother's screams still sound sweet even now when I close my eyes I can almost taste her blood on my lips as I tore through her fragile neck." Klaus's vicious words brought back the memories of Katherine's entire family dead all over her childhood home.

"There it is, that crack that lets me see the real Klaus Mikaelson. That sliver of weakness that makes you grow impulsive and go overboard every time you feel something akin to human emotions." Katherine smiled although the amusement from earlier is gone and replaced by something cold. The space between her eyebrows an imperceptible ruthless light flash. She points at him.

"In that crack I see the boy that silently prayed for strength, so that his father would love him. How does that feel like? Knowing the person you look up to will never love you back? My father disliked me, but it was just on the surface. He probably hated that I was a doppelganger and saw me as some sort of bad omen. Which as good instincts. But to be beaten and repeatedly put down all the times like that, in your own home, a place where you are supposed to feel safe, it must have been awful." Katherine's tone shows how unsympathetic she is.

Klaus got angry this time and his eyes turned golden as he took a step forward. Katherine raised her hands in mock surrender. "And that is how you get a rise out of someone. Do you think I'll be anywhere around you if I haven't grieved and let go of my resentments and the anger I held towards you for what you did? You underestimate me too much." Katherine rolled her eyes.

An envious look passed Klaus's face as he looks at the woman who once shook at the mere mention of his name. She has managed to take all that power he held over back and left him with nothing to use against her. But he doesn't buy it , even if she moves on, there must still be negative emotions left for him to exploit. Those people had been her family, how can she completely move on from that?

"I don't believe you. You can deceive everyone else including yourself to but you can't fool me. Deep down, you are still that naïve little girl who loved poetry and flowers. How can such a delegate little heart grow so stoic that the mentioned of your parents death doesn't move you even a little bit? You are lying." Klaus smiled a smug smile at Katherine who looked at him curiously.

"You may have killed my family but they all have found peace and probably reincarnated and lived hundreds of life times. Most importantly I accept that I am to blame for what happened to them. I blame myself for existing, for being clueless. Most importantly I blamed myself for being weak. I accept this burden and I carry it within me. However, I know my parents, my father, he didn't much like me but it always happened when he saw my face which let me to conclude it was because he knew what I was and what I represented for our bloodline."

"But he is loved me. Even as a naïve girl I knew he loved me. He would punish me by reciting traveler spells and make me do tens of copies of their scriptures because he wanted me to know how to protect myself. Tell me Nicklaus, what did your father do for you? One hated you while the other one hid like a bitch, too afraid to own up to his mistakes and give you what you needed. My father was an asshole but against a butcher and a coward. He wins hands down." Katherine lifted her hands and brought them down.

"My mother was weak and often helpless against my father's poisonous tongue and the endless string of mistresses but she took splice in the fact that he made it his mission to prevent any pregnancy of any of his mistresses so she could be the only woman to carry his seed. So she poured all her love into us especially me who was often sidelined by father."

"She made sure I knew how much she loved me and fought him for me even putting her frail body between us and would even pour water down his face telling him to wake up. She was no great beauty but she has the spirit of a princess. The first person to tell me to forgive myself would be her." Katherine said with fondness in her tone. Everyone in the room could see she loved her parents deeply.

"What did your mother ever do for you? What would she say to you right now? Would she tell you to forgive yourself and try to live better in the future? Or would she call you names and try to destroy you? So, in memories of mothers, I win. And you lose. You can rave and rant about the taste of my mother's blood but I know that even in death, my parents live on in my heart while yours are the source of all your deep emotional scars." Katherine said smugly.

In a matter of seconds Klaus had his hand against Katherine's chest trying to claw out her heart. Even the upgraded Elijah is caught unprepared. Katherine had taken the elixir much earlier than Elijah. She put up a space barrier that not only prevented Klaus from achieving his goal but shattered all the fingers on his recently healed hand.

Katherine looked at him and showed a helpless expression. "So violent. Nicklaus, you can just tell me if I am hurting your feelings. Your temper is the reason you have no girlfriend." Katherine mocked from the inside of the barrier.

Elijah's heart had beat so fast thinking Klaus had harmed her and the baby.

"Enough! The two of you, it's like having children who are always at each other's throats. Katherine, stop antagonizing him, and Nicklaus, are you really going to look a pregnant woman? Even one who is pregnant with your own blood? Have you finally reached that point?" Elijah sweated in anger. Katherine seeing his fury showed Klaus her tongue like a brat.

"She went too far!" Klaus tried to defend himself.

"And you didn't? The two of you don't know when to stop. What sort of picture are you painting for Hailey to see? How can she be assured of your capabilities as a father if you speak about relishing the slaughter of innocent mortals?" Elijah sounded angry now. Katherine smiled at is about to give Klaus a smug smile when Elijah turned to her.

"How is he supposed to heal if you keep reminding him of his most painful memories? Can you two just grow up please? You are pregnant and you have more important things to worry about. Like the fact that Marcel is using a teenage witch to control the entirety of the French quarter witches practice of magic." Elijah said unknowingly releasing a powerful aura that suppressed the people in the room excluding Katherine.

"Elijah come your anger, you can project your anger into your power and supress those around you. Right now, Hailey and the mutt can't breathe. She is a pregnant woman Elijah and if you cannot control yourself, you will kill her." Katherine said hoping the lives of Hailey and her unborn child will motivate him into learning to control his power quickly but it made him panic so he sped outside and went far away until he was sure he couldn't hurt them.

Katherine gave Hailey some of her spirit power to negate the pressure until she became capable of breathing on her own. Klaus she didn't bother and just watched him gasp for breath, his eyes roll to the back of his head turning white. She chuckled at the sight. Hailey panicked seeing him like this but she can't even move from her current position.

Katherine walked and stood in front of Klaus, she bent down and looked at his face with a delightful expression. "Your pain, gives me a special kind of joy Nicklaus. I wonder if you can guess what happened to your brother?" She saw Klaus widen his eyes in horror, she can guess he thinks she is hurting Elijah.

"He is not going to die and leave you if that's what you are worried about. I'm going to need you to ease up on attacking me from now on if it's okay with you. I am only here to help Elijah fulfill his dreams of keeping his family together. You have my word that I did not come here for you , mostly because you have little power to amuse me as an opponent." She still and kicked him lightly.

She sneers at his overly dramatic response. "So weak. Admit it, you need me around to help you against the birds of enemies that will come for you now that you have a weakness." She smiled and looked at him. She went closer to his ear and whispered the alternative.

"Or I will get inside his head little by little and change everything that made him loyal to you and replace your face with that of Rebekah or myself. The change in him will first be minimal, and gradual until I have completely changed the entirety of your relationship. One day he will wake up and ask himself why the hell did he waste so much of his time on you when you are clearly not worth it? That is the day that you will lose our little war and dead to be the main wife, in fact, when I'm done with him you will not even have uncle privileges to see the triplets."

"I know you love your brother but I am under the notion that I can make him even happier than you have ever made him. I want him and right now, I am willing to share him with you but if you keep attacking me insistently I will rip him from your life and then all your fears will come true."

"I am so powerful I can do anything right now but I want to be a good person and atone for all those horrible things I did in the past to be elusive to you. I am trying, but like all ancient powerful evils, my patience has its limits. Are we in agreement? Or do I have to begin Elijah's cleansing of all things Klaus?" She looked at Klaus with her fox beast eyes making him horrified.

"I may dislike you but it is because you remind me too much of myself. Push everyone away... Never show your true self to anyone even your enemies and bury your compassion so you don't run the risk of showing weakness. Even for your family. That last line makes you sadder than me actually." Katherine patted him as he rolled on the ground.

Elijah had turned the air very thin around him. Katherine is stronger than him, technically so his dominance won't affect her. At least not like it will affect other weaker people.

There is pressure on Klaus's shoulders that his body feels heavy to an extent that his lungs are crushed and he chokes on his own blood. As if someone is mercilessly stepping on his chest.

"I don't particularly like you but you entertain me so relax. I am only here for your brother. And he is here for you. Which is why I called you the first wife earlier. He left in the middle of our honeymoon to assist you and wipe your wolf's hide. So it shows that even in our marriage you lurk and leave your breath on him." Katherine said helplessly.

"This what you want isn't it? To have him be against me? You almost had me fooled with your fairy tale façade. You are here to turn him, the one who has always been at my side against me. So that I will be alone forever, just like how you had been when I slaughtered your family." Klaus said with a cracking voice looking at Katherine to see if she will confirm his suspicions. Amazing he can make out sentences in his condition.

"Hehe...This is good. Go ahead and be consumed by crippling paranoia so I can watch a good show. For the most powerful creature on earth it sure is easy to get to you. You are amazing! 1000 years of stagnation. You didn't even take a single month to work on your emotional traumas and heal the scars that remained. You are a bubbling boll of negative emotions busting out at every single step the people around you take. This is why your personal relationships regress."

"Think about it. You clearly love your family. Your siblings, one by one you drive them away in retaliation to a single mistake, even if you spend centuries with Rebekah bonding, growing close and caring for each other you would destroy all of it at the drop a hat and plunge a dagger through her heart. Then when she wakes up she doesn't remember the good times you two spent together and all the affection you have shown her over the years. All the sees is the king looming over her with a pointy object stabbed through her heart."

"This is why I don't need to do anything you. No one, needs to do anything to you Nicklaus, you don't want to change, you are very old, very powerful an most importantly, you are set in your ways." Katherine laughed happily.

"That is not true." Klaus said but even he doesn't hear any confidence in his voice.

"Isn't it? You love Finn, you wish he would give you his approval and teach you how to use a bow again. Instead of coming clean and telling him how you are saddened by his depression you leave him in a box, alone in the dark, starving for centuries just because you didn't know how to express your feelings.

"It is not just you though is it? Elijah, had probably been heart broken at the sight of Finn's condition but you are him helpless. Had he insisted on waking Finn you would see it as him choosing Finn over you."

"Kol, you adore him. You wish to be a big brother to him but you just can't get out of your own way. You hate yourself because of what your parents did and all the horrible things they said you are."

"You look your siblings and you see your reflection in their eyes, so you think they must deep down think of you the same way that your parents do. So you take everything they do and turn it into betrayal."

"In the end, all these people are helpless and they want to leave you because you are no longer their brother, but you have turned into a black hole that sucks all the joy and happiness in their lives leaving them cold and empty."

"So no, you are wrong that I want to turn Elijah against you. I don't. If anything I love him more for being able to be by your side all this time. And because I am not an optimist, I want to see just what is it that will finally drive him away from you. What would you do next? I'm excited thinking about it."

"So that's what my life is to you? A play for you to enjoy?"

"Yes. And if I'm right and you do finally drive your brother away.. I get the prize of being free from your breath all over our marriage." Katherine shoves him and stands up.

"What did you do to Elijah?" Klaus finally managed to come down and asked Katherine.

"Klaus, we are married. I can't share such things with you." Katherine said shyly.

"You know what I want to know. What was that earlier?"

"That was just his anger going out of his body, manifesting itself into the people around him. He will get the hand of it." Katherine said unconcerned.

"You did something to him. What. Did. Yo. Do?!"

"Ow, wow. We have upgraded to shouting now." Good luck with that." Katherine rolled her eyes. Why tell him when he can experience Elijah's change all by himself?

"I can't wait to see how your paranoia will deal with this new development." Katherine said with a devilish smile.

"No, what the hell did you do?" Klaus asked one !ore time before passing out. After knowing Klaus is really passed out Katherine answered him.

"I gave him the ability to keep his promises."

"Most importantly an new king is born. Oh Hail the king."

Katherine showed a toothy grin. New Orleans is about to get chaotic and she had the front raw seat to the show.