It was a miserable circumstance, really, to be trapped between two locations, yet wanting nothing to do with either. The invisible tether between the doppelganger and Mystic Falls, and the doppelganger and wherever the Original Family resided, superseded even death. It was the only thing in this world that had never left her side; and she wanted nothing more but to damn it to hell. Loopholes, conditions, dodges, footnotes, small print… No spell came without a price. Those who wished to use magic for freedom were really just trading one slaver for another. Perhaps if the Petrova had learned there was no such thing as true liberation before her death, she wouldn’t have taken the risks nor gone to the lengths to avoid captivity and travesty. ’Death in unavoidable. All you did was put off the inevitable and waste hundreds of years surviving, yet never living. Not even for a day.’ The voices in her head hissed at her, the …show more content…
Despite Esther Mikaelson’s best efforts in the matter, Katherine was still aware of what Hell had done to her. She could not remember specifics, no, but there was enough there in Katherine’s subconscious to tell the doppelganger that she had been through the most agonizing of tortures and the most purest torment. Coming back to this world had found her depraved, mentally dismantled, suicidal, and unhinged. The woman who once was cunning, graceful, and always one step ahead of any danger that threatened her had become nothing but a husk of a human being, an insane and pitiful creature whom could not handle even the slightest touch of another nor conjure up a single thought with falling prey to the darkness that had followed her from the blackest of worlds. Whatever she had succumbed to after her death was enough to push her, to make her want to live once more and find another way to immortality. She couldn’t go back. She wouldn’t go