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Veronica was quiet as a mouse as she quietly tapped out a knock on the door before her. "Katerina?" She whispered.

The door opened slowly and the brown-eyed human peeked out at her, suspicion and a hint of fear in those brown eyes as she examined the vampire before her.

"They think we've gone to bed." Veronica informed the human, her voice as low as before. Katerina nodded and allowed her inside.

"Where is Biancella?" She questioned.

"She is coming. Kol is a bit more difficult to get away from than Elijah. Now get out of that dress. You're going to wear mine, and I'm going to wear yours." Veronica explained. Katerina complied and reached behind herself to work with the ties on her dress, as Veronica did the same.

"Oooh, don't mind me." A lower voice came from the door and the two twisted around in fear, only to sigh in relief when they saw that it was Biancella, attempting to and succeeding in impersonating a man. She wore a cap and clothing that Veronica had stolen whilst on an outing with Elijah a few days previous.

"Shut the damned door, Biancella." Veronica hissed and her older friend smirked, before doing as told, stepping inside the bedroom and quietly closing the door behind herself.

"Tsk, tsk," Biancella shook her head, the smirk never falling, as she neared her friend to help her in undoing the ties on her dress. "Such filthy language, Veronica. What would Elijah say?"

A deep growl rumbled through the blonde's chest as the words left Biancella's mouth. Katerina looked up, eyes wide. She'd never actually seen Veronica angry before - she was normally quite calm and collected. Biancella was a different story. She was known to be as merciless as her own lover, Kol, and sad to say, Katerina had been in the wrong place at the wrong time multiple times, during which she saw the monstrous duo at what could quite possibly be considered their worst.

"I no longer care for what Elijah has to say on anything." Veronica spat. Her dress fell to the floor and she was left in her undergarments. "Katerina, hurry. Our window of opportunity is slowly growing smaller."

The human nodded and began hurrying her movements, getting the dress off and trading with Veronica.

"Hurry!" Biancella snapped as the two began putting the dresses back on. Veronica had her own on first, and Biancella tied the dress with inhuman speed, before moving over to Katerina and doing the same. "Veronica, take one of Katerina's hats." Biancella yanked open the wardrobe full of clothing that the two of them, as well as Rebekah, had supplied for the human, and grabbed a random hat, tossing it to her friend.

Veronica caught the accessory with ease, placing it atop her curled hair and checking herself in Katerina's mirror. "I think we're set, ladies- Oh, I mean lady and sir." She smirked at Biancella, who simply tipped her own hat in response, wearing a smirk identical to her friend's.

- A Change in the Weather -

Kol smirked to himself as he neared the room where his lover slept. He planned to wake her up and take her out on the town, deciding that it'd been much too long since said town had suffered a massacre. Elijah had been, more or less, breathing down his neck to reign in his insatiable hunger, as well as his lover's, and he had grown quite tired of it.

"Ella, my sweet," He murmured as he opened the door and closed it behind him. Her form was buried beneath the blankets and sheets that covered the bed. "Darling, wake up. We're going to go out." He reached to touch her sleeping form and closed his hand around what looked to be her waist, only for it to squish beneath his fingers as if it were nothing but a pile of feathers.

Kol tore the blanket away, his smirk morphing into an infuriated scowl. His Ella was not underneath the blankets. No, rather than his Ella, there were pillows moulded into the shape of a body. He looked around the room, checking inside the wardrobe and the washroom. She was playing a trick on him. She was simply hiding, giggling quietly to herself as he searched the room like a madman for her.

No... This wasn't a trick.

She was missing.

Someone had taken his Ella.

The Original flashed out of the room in the blink of an eye and found himself outside of the room that Veronica and Elijah shared, said brother of his nearing the room just as he arrived.

Elijah raised an eyebrow. "Kol? I was under the impression you were retiring for the night."

"Someone's taken my Ella." The younger of the two managed through gritted teeth. He was infuriated. His Ella was missing.

Elijah's expression morphed from confusion to worry. If Biancella had been taken, Veronica would be brokenhearted. Although the two had gotten off to a bit of a rough start, they had become fast friends, forming a bit of a trio with Rebekah, and offering Katerina - the doppelganger, necessary to break Niklaus's curse - company when no one else would. He couldn't bear to see his beloved Veronica in such a broken state, and prepared himself as he reached for the door.

"What are you doing?!" Kol snapped and Elijah scowled at him. "If Biancella has truly been taken, Veronica will be destroyed. I was-" Elijah cut himself off. Not once in a century had Veronica gone to sleep without him by her side. Not once. So why was it that he didn't hear the humming he always heard when he arrived at their shared quarters every night?

The door was practically torn off of it's hinges as he opened it and saw that the room was empty. Kol frowned as he noticed that, unlike his own bed, where one would find the pillows shaped into a figure, Elijah's bed was made as if no one had been near it since that morning.

Elijah hurried into the room, checking every possible crevice for Veronica. She was missing as well.

"KOL!"

Elijah did not abandon his search upon hearing Niklaus's enraged shout. Kol, however, did turn away to see his cursed brother making his way down the corridor. "Klaus," Kol began, his tone matching his brother's. "I don't-"

"Your lover's stench is all over Katerina's room," Niklaus spat. "From which the latter is missing from. Knowing her history, I have reason to believe that Biancella-" He cut himself off when he looked into Elijah's room to see his brother in a state of distress, and no Veronica anywhere. Elijah's gaze shot from the empty bed to his brother.

"Katerina is missing as well?"

Klaus nodded slowly, his eyes flicking around the room as he looked for his brother's lover.

"I don't think Biancella was taken, Kol." Elijah deduced, looking at his younger brother. "I believe that she has run away, alongside Veronica and Katerina."

Kol's eyes narrowed at the statement and he shook his head. "My Ella would not-"

"Your Ella would," Niklaus growled. "And she would take Elijah's lover and my doppelganger with her!"

"They can't have gotten far. It was not long ago that they left us." Elijah stated, making his way out of the bedroom and down the hall. He paused, glancing back at his brothers for a moment.

"We should have no trouble finding them."

- A Change in the Weather -

"Hurry!" Biancella hissed as they ran through the woods. She and Veronica were forced to run at a more human pace due to Katerina being with them, but thankfully the human managed to run quite fast considering the heavy dress she wore.

They knew they were being followed. Trevor had informed them of this not long after they'd escaped, having heard Klaus and Kol's enraged shouts and Elijah's final statement before they'd gone.

There was a thump and a gasp and the two vampires shared a look. Katerina had tripped and fallen. Turning around, they were unable to spot her anywhere in the woods.

"Follow her sce-" Veronica's mouth snapped shut when she heard the disembodied voice of her now ex-lover echo through the woods.

"Veronica! Katerina! I know you're near."

Biancella went to usher Veronica on in their search for the fallen Katerina, but stopped cold when another voice echoed out to them.

"Ella, darling! You can't hide for long!"

"It's pointless to run." Came Elijah's voice once again. He was speaking to Katerina. "Klaus will find you wherever you are. And Veronica, I will find you."

"And I you, my dear Ella." Whilst Elijah's tone had been serious, Kol's was almost lighthearted. As if this were all a game to him.

'An extremely deadly game.' Biancella thought, swallowing uneasily. She glanced at Veronica, who nodded slowly, and the two hurried toward the scent of Katerina's blood, finding her pinned to a tree by Trevor.

"We don't have time for this!" Veronica snapped, anger pulsing through her again. The two broke apart and Trevor bowed his head in apology, before looking up. "You'll find Rose's cottage not far from here." He promised. "You'll be safe there."

The two vampires nodded. "Katerina, hurry." Biancella instructed. The human nodded, panting and gazing wearily around at her surroundings, before she began running again, the two running after her.

Daylight began to shine as the three ran and the two vampires were thankful they'd hung onto the rings that Elijah and Kol had had procured for them upon their becoming vampires.

"Katerina!" Klaus's voice joined the mix. He was angry.

"Veronica!" Worry.

"Ella, my sweet!" Amusement.

"Katerina!" Veronica blurred over to the human. "Biancella and I are going to lead them astray. We will meet with you at the cottage - understand? Keep moving."

Katerina nodded and continued to run east, whilst Biancella and Veronica began running toward the southeast, Biancella even shouting out "HURRY, VERONICA!" for an effect.

That, of course, earned her a slap upside the head from her friend. "You idiot! We're meant to lead them astray with our scents, not our voices!"

"And now we're doing so with both, ultimately distracting them from Katerina! Now run!"

The two continued hurry away, until they finally banked back to the east, knowing they'd led their ex-lovers astray long enough.

The cottage was in view and Biancella reached it first, knocking rapidly. The door opened and an elderly woman appeared.

"You'll invite us in." Biancella compelled her before a word could be said and the woman simply nodded. "Come in, both of you."

Veronica and Biancella entered. "Rose-Marie!" Veronica called as the woman shut the door. "We know you're here! Where is Katerina?"

Rose-Marie appeared, her eyes wide when she realized who they were. "What are you doing here?!"

"What does it look like?" Biancella quirked an eyebrow. "We're running away, taking Katerina with us. She doesn't deserve the fate Klaus has planned for her."

"You can't run away!" Rose-Marie snapped. "You'll only get yourselves killed, as well as I!"

"Where is Katerina?" Veronica posed the question again, ignoring what Rose-Marie said. The vampire's eyes narrowed as she wordlessly pointed toward a back room.

"Thank you. We'll be staying here until Trevor informs us that it is safe to run once more." Biancella stated, making her way past Rose-Marie and toward the room Katerina would be in. Just as she opened the door and saw Katerina resting on a bed, looking fearful and angered, there was a loud crack from behind her. Biancella spun around in time to see Veronica fall to the floor, her neck snapped, and Rose-Marie reached for her.

Before she could react, Rose-Marie repeated the action she'd performed on Veronica, and Biancella fell to the floor as her world was enveloped in darkness.

Finally, the two awoke and it was in time to see Katerina jumping from a chair and kicking it out of the way, but instead of hitting the floor like the chair had, she hung from the ceiling by a rope.

Biancella choked on air. Katerina had hanged herself.

Rose-Marie and Trevor appeared in the doorway, eyes wide and mouths agape.

"You couldn't have just let us go?!" Veronica shouted, rounding on Rose-Marie.

"You shouldn't have come here in the first place!" Rose-Marie returned.

"Enough!" Biancella's enraged voice broke the impending fight apart and all three turned to her, eyes widened in fear. "What happened after you snapped our necks?" She growled, scowling at Rose-Marie as she awaited an answer.

"She attempted to kill herself once before." She answered. "I gave her my blood to heal. Trevor arrived moments after, and you awoke as she hanged herself."

"She's going to be in transition when she awakes." Veronica whispered.

"Then we'll give her human blood and she'll be able to run as fast as us." Biancella resolved, using the chair Katerina had kicked over to reach up and bring Katerina's body down from the noose she had formed.

"No!" Rose-Marie tried again. "You'll have signed our death sentence!"

"Whether she is dead or a vampire, Klaus will still see you at fault for this, Rose-Marie! There is nothing that can be done, now!" Veronica argued back and once again Biancella was forced to silence their argument with an angered shout. "I said enough!" She placed Katerina's motionless form on the bed and turned to face the three in the room with her. "Your lovely friend will supply the blood for Katerina," Biancella motioned toward the next room, where the elderly woman would've been found. "And then the three of us will be on our way. Do you understand?"

Rose-Marie left the room instead of replying. Trevor remained silent as he stared at Katerina's motionless body. It wasn't long before a gasp came from her and she began coughing. Veronica and Biancella spun around to look at her as Trevor had been, but neither of them were the first to speak.

"What did you do, Katerina?" Trevor's voice was low. "I would've helped you live."

Katerina stood, holding her head. "You would've helped me run. That was never going to be enough."

Her two fellow runaways remained silent, Veronica watching the exchange with a hint of anger at the fact that Trevor was hindering their attempt to leave, and Biancella watching the exchange with a hint of amusement. Katerina had planned this. She had to give the girl credit.

"It was enough for me." Trevor responded as the two crossed the room, Katerina nearing the elderly woman near the fireplace, and Trevor standing where she once stood. Veronica and Biancella both took a step closer to Katerina.

"Oh, do you not see, Trevor?" Rose-Marie reentered the room. "She used you to help her escape and me to turn her. Klaus will see our role in this."

"And for that, I'm sorry." Katerina apologized.

Rose-Marie's expression changed. "As am I... For this." She rushed forward, a stake raised to kill Katerina, but Katerina anticpated the move and shoved the elderly woman in front of her, the stake reaching the woman's neck rather than Katerina. Rose-Marie removed the stake as a look of horror appeared on her face. Katerina immediately fed on the woman before looking up at Rose-Marie and Trevor.

"Please understand," She began, but Rose-Marie spoke before she could finish.

"You have just signed our death sentence."

"Better you die than I." Katerina answered, before throwing the woman at the two of them and speeding out.

Rose-Marie pushed the now-dead woman aside and looked at Veronica and Biancella. "We've lost the doppelganger. But you two... Perhaps we'll be pardoned if we return you to Elijah and Kol."

Biancella let out a short, heartless laugh. "Good luck with that, Rose-Marie."

The two runaways were older than both Rose-Marie and Trevor and had no issue in snapping their necks before running out after Katerina. They caught up with the brunette vampire easily and Biancella pinned her to a tree. "And where do you think you're going, Katerina?"

Legitimate fear crossed Katerina's expression as Biancella pinned her there. She had seen what Biancella could do and she knew what Biancella had been doing for the past three centuries. She was no match for the older vampire and she knew it.

"You're not going anywhere without us." Veronica tsk-ed as she approached.

"You'll die if you do." Biancella smirked. "You don't even know where you are. I wouldn't put your faith in getting away alone."

Veronica glanced around. It'd been well over a day since they'd run off. Morning neared once again as they stood there. She and Biancella had led them all off the day before. There was no way anyone looking for them was nearby.

"Where shall we go, then?" Biancella proposed, looking over at Veronica. "Shall we pay a visit to my home? Or shall we visit yours? Or even Katerina's?"

Veronica opened her mouth to answer, but was never able to utter a word.

"Ella, dear, is that your voice I hear? I'm growing weary of this little game you're trying to play, darling."

Biancella's breath caught in her throat and Veronica's eyes widened in disbelief.

They were still searching.

"Up!" Veronica hissed, being the first to move. She motioned toward the tree that Biancella had Katerina pinned against, before climbing up the tree herself. She could hear Katerina and Biancella following behind her. The three took different positions in the tree and held their breath as they could hear their hunters grow nearer.

Veronica had the best vantage point and she was all but a statue as she spotted Elijah making his way toward the area they were in. He was flanked by two vampires loyal to the Mikaelsons, and not too terribly far to his right was Kol - to his left was Klaus.

The three practically refused to breathe as the men drew closer. "Veronica, your actions are futile. Where are you hiding?" Elijah questioned, a frown marring his handsome features as he looked around.

She looked down from her high point to where Biancella sat a few branches below. Biancella sensed her friend's eyes on her and looked up. "What?" She mouthed.

"I'm going to lead them off." Veronica mouthed back. Biancella's eyes widened and she shook her head rapidly. "No!"

"Keep Katerina safe. I'll meet with you later."

Before anything else could be done, Veronica leapt silently from the tree they were in to another.

"Did you hear that, brother?" Klaus spoke and Veronica froze in her spot upon the branch in the new tree, just as Katerina and Biancella did in theirs. "I thought I heard movement in that direction." He pointed toward the tree that Veronica was now in and Biancella's eyes widened even more as her gaze shot to the same tree.

And suddenly, Veronica was no longer in the tree. She was at the base of it, standing upon one of it's large roots as she looked at the five vampires that stood not far from her. Elijah felt relief flood through him upon seeing her there. Kol couldn't help the smirk that reached his lips. If Veronica was giving herself up, his Ella wasn't far behind.

"Veronica." Elijah greeted, his voice conveying the relief he felt upon seeing his lover where she stood. "Come." He motioned for her to return to him, but she did not move.

"Veronica," Kol cut in. "Whilst you're on your way over here, could you, perhaps, snatch my Ella out of wherever she may be hiding? Or at least point it out to me so I may find her myself?"

Klaus went to make some statement about Katerina, but was silenced by Veronica's six simple words.

"Rot in hell. All of you." With those words, she spun on her heel and flashed away. "Biancella! Katerina! I'm coming!" She called as if they'd gone ahead of her. She knew that Elijah, Klaus and Kol weren't stupid. They might not believe that they'd gone ahead of her. She could only pray, however, that her call was convincing enough. Elijah's voice echoed behind her. "Veronica!"

Biancella and Katerina watched as Klaus, Elijah and the two unnamed vampires hurried after them. They would've leapt down from the tree already had Kol not remained. His smirk that had appeared when speaking to Veronica had yet to fall as he looked around the area he was in.

"Ella, my love, I've been with you for 300 years. You can attempt to disguise your scent with that of some unknown man's, you can run and you can hide. You'll never get away, though, darling. Never." It wasn't just a statement. It was a promise and Katerina looked up at Biancella who was frozen in her place. Slowly, she looked down at the newly turned vampire and mouthed one simple word. "Run."

Katerina didn't need telling twice. She leapt from the tree when Kol wasn't looking and sped away. Biancella silently hoped he'd see the brunette hair and run after her, but Kol simply chuckled. "I knew the two of you hadn't run ahead. Darling, are you in the same tree that Katerina was in?" He looked up at the tree that Biancella stood in, his smirk never fading.

"Come down, Ella, darling. This little game has come to an end. Let's return home, shall we?"

Biancella didn't know what came over her. She just knew that the words were pouring from her mouth and there was no stopping them.

"I'm not your Ella and that is not my home. You took me from my home, and because of you I'll never see that home again. You're both right and wrong, Kol. Where you're right? The game has come to an end. Where you're wrong?" Biancella jumped down to the ground then and looked him straight in the eye from across the small clearing. "I'll always get away."

A deep growl rumbled through Kol's chest at her words and he made to grab her, but she was already running off. He went straight after her, the chase continuing. For how long? They did not pay attention. Biancella only ran away, and Kol only ran after her.

Ahead, Biancella could see the familiar heads of brunette and blonde hair. Veronica and Katerina had reunited and were waiting for her.

She felt numerous conflicting emotions, but two managed to remain more prominent than any others. Relief - She'd found them. She was no longer alone. Anger - They'd waited for her. What kind of idiots would do that?

Neither of the two noticed Biancella's rapid approaching until she'd grabbed them both by their collars and dragged them into a tree, placing a finger over each of their lips to silence them.

They looked below, knowing that Kol was coming. By some miracle - some wonderous act of God that Biancella would forever be thankful for - he ran straight past and continued on until he was out of sight.

That was when Biancella felt the fear lift off of her shoulders. She was free. She knew it. They could get away. She had no doubts.

She grinned down at her companions. "We've done it, ladies. We've gotten away. We're free."

Katerina smirked and Veronica smiled. "Words I never thought I'd hear." Veronica stated. "Where shall we go then, Biancella?"

Biancella shook her head. "That is no longer my name, Veronica."

"Then what is it?" Veronica raised an eyebrow, and Katerina matched her expression, as interested as she was.

"My birth name is Biancella Emilia Tatiana Amoretti and that is what I have been referred to as, for over 300 years. No more. I am no longer the person I was when I was give this name. I am a new person, and so I need a new name. My original initials spell Beta, and so Beta will be my new name."

"Well, Beta," Veronica looked up at her. "You lead and I will follow you, always. To the ends of the earth and farther, my friend."

"As will I." Katherine promised.

The three exchanged looks of understanding, before they leapt down from the tree. Beta removed the cap she'd worn and let her hair flow free. She smiled as it blew in the wind.

"Freedom." She whispered.

Beta looked up at the sky through the trees, the sun rising as a new day dawned and her smile never faded.

"At last."

Aloha! So I had one TVD fic up, but I had no idea where I was going with it, and so it was deleted. This one, however, I have good ideas for and I'm going to see how this goes. Hope you enjoy it!

Review? xxx.