It's a dark night, as I walk the streets of New Orleans. The year is 1864 in the cold month of October. I have just left my brother, for I could not stand to watch him kill anymore humans. Stefan says it's just because I'm weak from not feeding. I choose not to feed, because I still have my humanity. I don't want to kill. I won't. It's wrong. Stefan doesn't see how wrong a path he's on. He's too blood crazed. He's like...what did I once hear? A Ripper? Yes. I think my brother is turning into the Ripper; a vampire that is too blood crazed to care about anything but blood. And I don't know how to stop or help him. So I'm on my own.533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtAotUSZV4M
As I walk, the thirst wants to over power me. Something inside me is telling me to feed to become a vampire, but I'm too stubborn. I'd rather die. Dying is better than being a monster and killing.533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVbyT9laoOq
I'm not sure how long I walk, my mind spinning with thoughts, but I suddenly find myself in a desolate area of the city, not far from a dark alley. And from that alley, a man steps in front of me. I can guess that he's a vampire.533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIx6tTUyMPs
"Can I help you?" I ask him.533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7x3ZVmI0OU
"You can by telling me where Katerina Petrova is. I'm Niklaus by the way, but you can call me Klaus."533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnwpjWNQWla
"I'm sorry. Who?"533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3FZ4pPWbAx
"Maybe you don't know her as Katerina. Let's try this again. Where's Katherine?"533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFUcrFTLxbF
"Sorry to bare bad news, but she died back in Mystic Falls in a church with all the other vampires. She was burned alive."533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRTVwCDCpTl
"I checked and she somehow escaped."533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpqqbzQhhUg
My spirit rises. She's alive? Now I'm thrilled. When Klaus leaves, I can go find her. Then she'll be at my side until the end of our existence, once I feed and transition.533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyR26ojEMwg
"I don't know where she is," I inform him.533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgIuKI2WYH6
"You better second guess yourself. I'm not someone you want to have on your bad side."533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlqMn8nixZU
"I'm telling the truth."533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmPlfAUHrDa
He pins me to a wall of a building, hand around my throat. Then I feel pain, as he stabs me in the gut with a dagger. I realize suddenly, somehow, that he's only half vampire, as his eyes flash the color and shape of werewolf eyes. Until now, I thought werewolves were just folklore. As I feel the pain, I groan and then everything goes black.
I don't know how long I'm out, but when I come to I'm chained to a wall in a basement. I'm not alone. Klaus is leaning against a wall across from me, a table at his left, examining a knife; probably the one he stabbed me with.533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrxHTbeAwrN
"Good. You're awake. That'll make things more fun."533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnJmwR984B9
"I told you. I don't know where she is."533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx7Nip5RwhL
"True. But if I torture you, she'll come. She'll feel it since you have her blood in your system. She'll feel your pain. That's the gift of siring someone."533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwOLCN18T6Z
That never occurred to either me or Stefan.533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZzMHpatNWm
"Why do you want her so badly?" I have to ask in curiosity.533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaFvWQyAfhw
"She's important to me. She escaped me back in Bulgaria before I could perform the ritual to awaken the werewolf in me. She was my doppelganger. I had to kill her, but she was turned by Rose before I could find her. So I killed her family to get back at her for escaping me. Now I'm going to get what I want. I'm going to kill her. After she's dead, I'll look for her doppelganger."533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQNOoedpgHm
"Revenge then."533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ21roNT7zrC
"Something like that."533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3yA7nt3s66
He goes to stand in front of me and then says, "This will be so much fun."533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI44zc6PjpH
He stabs me in the side.
I don't know how long it goes on for with him torturing me, but when I'm weak and about to black out again, Katherine walks in. And as darkness starts to cloud my vision, I see him drop the knife and start towards her.533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3PVpfdN0zG
"Glad you could make it," he tells her.533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvChiD5xGKk
They rush at each other at vampire speed. Then everything goes black for me.
When I wake up, I'm on the floor on my back with the chains off me, Kat kneeling at my side.533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCiGQ8g8orK
"You came," I say softly, still feeling weak, though my wounds are healed. She probably gave me some of her blood while I was out.533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0aeD0XYN4q
"Of course I came. You're my only family I have left."533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY8sCoIDCSb
"Where is he?"533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsQIltjWl7O
"Staked. But he's an Original. He won't be dead for long."533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq7pG6B8DPn
I then see him on the floor on his back with a stake in the middle of his chest.533Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0EfMW8GusN
She puts an arm around me, helping me to my feet. Then together, we leave to find Stefan and get a place to stay.
