The Vampire Diaries: Trinity

Chapter Thirty One: Katerina

Flashback: 1490, Bulgaria

Katherine is delivering a baby. Her mother is helping her. "A little more dearest, a little more. Push...a little more. A little more. A little more." She pushes and screams. She delivers her baby. Her mother takes it. Her father is watching. "It's a girl."

"A girl. Please mother, let me see her."

Her father steps forward. "Woman, don't! What are you doing?" He says. She gives the baby to her husband.

"Let me at least hold her once... just once." Katherine pleas.

"Forget it! You have disgraced this family." He leaves the room with the baby.

Katherine cries and screams. "Father, please! No, father, no!"

"No Katerina, it's better for her!" Her mother embraces her.

"No mother, please..." She cries.

"Let her go...let her go Katerina."

"Please, mama..."

Present

Elena knocks on the door and Damon answers it.

"Hello, Elena."

"Is Stefan here? He called. He said it was important."

"Right this way." He lets her in. She sees Stefan and Trinity.

"Hey." He greets.

"What is this about?" She asks. She sees Rose walk in. "You."

They go into the living room and Elena sits down.

"Okay, you have to understand I only know what I've picked up over the years and I don't know what's true and what's not true. It's the problem with all this vampire crap but Klaus, I know he's real." Rose says.

"Who is he?"

"He's one of the originals, he's a legend." Damon says.

"From the first generation of vampires." Stefan asks.

"Like Elijah?" She asks.

Rose snorts. "No. Elijah was the Easter bunny compared to Klaus. He's a foot soldier. Klaus is the real deal."

"Klaus is known to be the oldest." Stefan says.

"Okay, so you're saying that the oldest vampire in the history of time is coming after me?"

Rose and Stefan speak at the same time.

"Yes."

"No."

"What they're saying is, I mean if what she's saying is true." Damon says.

"Which it is." Rose cuts in.

"And you're not saying it so I don't kill you."

"Which I'm not."

"Then we're looking at a solid maybe."

"Look, Elijah's dead, right? So no one else even knows that you exist." Stefan says.

"Not that you know of." Rose says.

"That's not helping." Trinity tells her.

"Look, I've never even met anyone who's laid eyes on him. I mean, we're talking centuries of truth mixed with fiction." Stefan tells her. "We don't know if he's real. For all we know he could just be some sort of stupid bed time story."