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sixteenth bite; and i do my little turn on the catwalk

Sorry if I haven't reached out yet. I found what I do here. Damon, you'll really appreciate this. I'm a model. Never mind my two degrees. Never mind that I went to Harvard. [ Granted, it was the 70's. But, still. Harvard. ] I've been booked nonstop since I ended up here.

( Mystic Falls minus Katherine )

What did everyone translate to in this reality? [ This... fake Paris. ]

( Bonnie Bennet )

Were your powers stripped?

( Elena Gilbert )

Paris is a big city. Forgive my not checking in right away. I got swept up in my... job here.

( Katherine Pierce )

Have you -- [ he's curious. how to word it. he can't exactly say 'gotten used to your heart beating' he pauses. ] Did you wake up here human? [ Not that she can be trusted. This is about curiosity. And not worry! He is not worried about Katherine. ]

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Not nearly as cute, either. [Her roommate... now he's quite nice.]

Why, Stefan, are you planning on being a distraction at my place of employment? I really can't have that.

[ Then she should focus on her roommate. She could have a Parisian. Fling. It'd be good for her. ]

I am not coming by.

[ He's keeping tabs. Why you gotta be difficult, woman? ]

[She'll be enjoying a bath tonight. You made her upset.]

Then why the sudden interest? You do realize I've been in the castle for a few months now and you haven't seemed interested in my whereabouts before.

[Because she LOVES him. That automatically equates to being a pain in his side. Or heart.]

[ Who, Stefan? When does he ever do that? Also, he doesn't need to know these things. Katherine can do what she wants. ]

Make no mistake, this isn't interest, Katherine. Keeping my distance, however, doesn't mean I don't like knowing what you're up to.

[ Not that he does. And that bothers him. He doesn't help, with the needling. ]

[Bubble bath. Deep marble tub. Glass of wine. Perhaps some Offenbach playing. YOU NEED TO KNOW ALL OF THIS, STEFAN.]

How exactly does that work, Stefan? Not caring, but still needing to know every detail of what I'm doing? It seems someone's still a bit confused.

[ Oh, please turn up the Offenbach. He's not LISTENING. ]

Yes, because this doesn't sound like the end of a love story. I've heard it before, Katherine.

[ You're a danger to -- well, he doesn't exactly know. He would've said Elena. And then he would've said other Mystic Falls people. But, after being filled in by Caroline and Katherine being at a different canon point blurs that line. But, he does know one thing. ]

You're out for yourself. You've always been. Whatever benefits you, you side with. If that's Damon and me, well, lucky us. But, the minute that isn't true, you skip town and you tie up loose ends. [ Emily Bennett. The Tomb Vampires. Mason probably would have bit it. ] Excuse me if I don't seem all that agreeable. I like knowing where you are because then I know where you aren't. [ Near Elena. What, it's kind of logic? ]

So insightful. [Her tone is oddly soothing, almost as if she's trying to reassure him that while he might be right about all of those things, they don't really matter here.]

Did you practice that in the mirror this morning? [OH WAIT. She's back to banter.]

[ He's beginning to see that. But adjusting his thought process of a hundred and some years? Kind of difficult. ]

I did. After I picked up my gel I like so much.

[ Two can play at that game. ]

[There's a soft sigh... perhaps she's getting ready for her BATH.]

You know, I actually preferred the lack of styling products. Just allowing fingers to run through your hair. [Sorry, she's back to dangerous flirting again.]

[ PERHAPS. But, Stefan doesn't care, remember? ]

Katherine.

[ If they are even going to be civil or, God forbid, friends. She'll have to dispense with that. ]

[can he hear the soft curve of a smirk that slips over her features?]

Stefan...

[Does he honestly think that he can get her to stop?]

[ Yes. He's very familiar with those curves. Or, features. Or, WAS. At one time. He is losing this game. ]

If we're --

[ What? Going to be... friends? ]

You can't do that. I'm with Elena. That's not changing. Whether any of us are human or none of us are.

You're right. Klaus isn't here. The tomb vampires aren't roaming about. You're loose endless. I'll concede that point. But, you can't play your games. Because, I won't participate.

[Well, he should be very familiar with her bratty pout too. She exhales a sigh of frustration. Though, she's not done.]

Did you just admit that I'm right?

[ He's completely missed that she's manipulated everything by doing nothing all this time, by having this conversation, by only replying when Stefan requests it. Sigh. ]

About one thing. Try not to let it get to your head.

[Isn't it fun when the best plan is NO plan?]

Mmmm... because you know what happens in my head, right? [SHE MAKES HIM THINK OF HER IN BED WITH HIM. /maniacal laugh.]

[ Even Elena is feeling sorry for Katherine, a woman who usually has A, B, and C plans. ]

If I haven't made it clear that it's tacitly implied that my mind and dreams are off limits, here it is. Stay out of my head, Katherine.

[You take away all her fun, Stefan.]

I'll do my best, but sometimes you make it so easy. It's almost as if you still want me in there.

[ It's kind of his job. ]

Yes. You're right. Deep, deep down in a part of me I just shove away at the back of my mind. A part I forget about, that sits there, betrayed.

That part? Died when I did, Katherine.

[See, here's the part she focuses on -- he says it died when he died. Not when she compelled him.]

You know I didn't want that to happen that day. It was going to be your choice when it came to pass. [Possibly a lie, but maybe not.]

Your father took that away from us. Away from you. [Her voice is soft, not quite soothing or coddling, just... honest. Stupid being human.]

Yeah, and somehow my choice turned into an eternity of misery courtesy of my brother. [ God, Katherine. You ruined everything. How can you live with yourself? ]

My father knew you were a monster. He knew you were using us.

[She lives with herself quite well! It's just... right now she's a bit of overwhelmed.]

Yet he allowed me to live in his house, for months. To dine at his table, live within the city - all because.. why? Because he knew what I was?

He only grew suspicious when you were insistent. [She pauses, her voice going quieter for a moment.]

I don't blame you, Stefan.

But you can't blame me for the choices you made after you were changed. After you were sired all of my compulsion went away. You went after your father of your own will. That was not me. It was nothing that I made you do.

I thought he would accept that I loved you.

[ And that's the truth. Maybe, he caused everything. But, Katherine still... compelled him. And that's the leg he has to stand on. ]

But, had you not been feeding us your blood, we wouldn't have had to make a choice. We would --

[ They'd be dead. Or, they could've been the ones with Gilbert family rings. Of course, they couldn't have but... it makes sense? Emily could've -- something could have changed? Was anything avoidable? ]

I hated our father for what he did. And I was a monster. Compelled or not, you helped make me that way, Katherine. You left without --

[ Saying goodbye. Saying where you went. ]

Fine, Katherine. You loved me. For real. But, you left.

[ Saying everything he's meant to for years? Not on the menu. But, being human makes it hard keeping these feelings in check. ]

You looked after you. You left Emily to be found, to be burned. You disappeared!

Do you realize what would've happened if it had gotten out that I wasn't in the tomb? That a Lockwood had made a deal?

It would've changed so much more than what had already happened.

[She draws her mouth into a tight line. It's interesting that hearing these things doesn't assuage her in anyway. It doesn't make her feel any better, if anything all the feelings just keep swelling up in her.]

I had to look after me... I couldn't be found. I ran for so long and the moment I stopped to actually try and have something for my own it all burns.

Do you understand that I stopped running for you? [She swallows thickly, not wanting to let these emotions get the best of her.]

Klaus, Elijah - searching for me for hundreds of years. Slaughtering my family. Wishing me pain upon pain. If I had stayed, I would've brought him to you, too.

Stopped running for me? You showed up because I was dating Elena and threatened all of our lives. And you used me as the excuse.

[ He... can't fathom it. It's just -- so crazy. ]

You spent months terrorizing us. Getting Jenna to stab herself. Getting me stuck in the tomb... Yeah, I was told about that. I'm sure I love every second stuck inside the tomb with you.

[ Sometimes, it really sucks to not have lived through things he's heard about. ]

Hearing everything else. It makes sense. Klaus. The tomb vampires. All those loose ends. You were saving me. Saving Damon.

You continued to play games with Damon and me. Because... you find it fun. Because, I didn't give in.

[ Because, that hurts. Stefan had moved on. He'd had no choice and maybe, considering Elena and her resemblance, he hasn't quite. And he may never know. But Elena is better for him then Katherine ever will be because when it comes down to it, Katherine's out for herself. But, she's right about one thing. Damon gets to blame Stefan. Because Stefan did those things. Katherine: 1. Stefan: 0. ]

Okay, Katherine. I don't blame you. I still don't even know if I believe you. [ Her. Capable of love. ] I did those things. It was me. And knowing it all? It makes sense. In some twisted, survivalist way.

Just admit it. Admit that most of it was about saving yourself. All the side-changing. Isobel. John.

[ He hasn't been told about Katherine's second deal about getting out of the tomb, how she chose Stefan to live and Damon to die thanks to the dagger. Caroline had blanks she couldn't fill. And maybe they'd give him context. But, how can he get past a woman whose foremost priority is her own self-preservation. ]

I'd die for Elena, Katherine. And at one time, I died for you.

We both did.

[ Another beat. He thinks back to their conversation on the Lockwood property. He had so much disdain for her. The games. Kissing Damon. And yes, he had held a grudge. But, this conversation has done more wonders than -- anything else has. But, one thing seems clear. He is with Elena. He was with Katherine. Elena isn't Katherine. He loves everything about Elena that isn't Katherine. ]

There isn't a love story here because we lost the chance for a love story.

[ Because she strung two brothers along, got them killed, and then ran to save them. Even that small, selfless part of her doesn't change anything. What's the saying? Too much has happened? This can't be water under the bridge.

And fuck, he hates emotions. Aren't some humans good at compartmentalization? He huffs, air escaping. It could be a laugh. ]

I can't believe I'm having this conversation in front of the mirror while my hair sets.

[ So. Freaking. Absurd. ]

[She had meant... in 1864. She risked it to stay for him. Even when Pearl warned her that she was being reckless, she stayed. Everything else she honestly can't say she did for them. It was part of a larger game that most times she was just a piece of the puzzle too.

Isobel was with Klaus. John... was an idiot.

Elena was what Klaus needed and if he ever found her, if he had ever made the connection of Katherine to Stefan to Elena...]

Then don't have it.

[She stayed one step ahead because she had to, because no one understood just how dangerous everything was. She wasn't going to admit that it was for herself, because even if it was - there were still bigger parts of the picture that she always kept in her sight.]

You believe whatever you want to believe. I know what I did and why and I'm done explaining my motivations to you, because all you see is what you need to see so you can hate me.

So hate me. You seem to be exceptional at it these days. [She... doesn't mean any of this, but she really is at a loss for what else she's supposed to do. Other than break down and cry. Which - she refuses to do.]

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