[s2e9] Katerina File

But the shadow of her father loomed over them. He didn’t see a grandchild; he saw a mark of shame that had disgraced their family name. Ignoring his daughter’s desperate pleas, he took the child and walked out of the room, leaving Katerina to scream in a hollow agony that would echo through the next five centuries.

Five hundred years later, that same agony had hardened into a diamond-sharp resolve. Now known as Katherine Pierce, she sat in the shadows of a tomb beneath Mystic Falls, a predator caged but far from defeated. [S2E9] Katerina

Across from her stood Elena Gilbert, the girl who wore her face but possessed none of her ruthlessness. Elena had come for the truth about Klaus, the Original vampire who had hunted Katherine across the globe since 1492. But the shadow of her father loomed over them