BECOMING KATHERINE

Summary: Kate is just a girl who watches 'the vampire diaries' on TV, until she has an accident. Instead of dying, she wakes up in someone else's body. The body of the one and only…Katherine Pierce. Begins in the last episode of season1, Founder's Day. Damon/OC.

Disclaimer: I don't own the vampire diaries or any of its characters, nor do I make money by writing this story.

Cloclomo, a Guest, wrote: Congrats on the 62nd story you will eventually abandon. Seriously put them up for adoption rather than writing them yourself, you have great ideas but you clearly have story commitment issues.

My answer: I know it may seem like that but none of my stories are abandonded, I just take a lot of time updating. I'll continue every single one. Next time, use your time better by leaving a more constructive review or don't leave reviews at all.

Another Guest wrote: This seems interesting so far. Don't make her Mary Sue though, I beg of you.

My answer: Sorry, I don't know what a Mary Sue is, and by that I mean that everyone seems to have a different opinion on what being Mary Sue means. For some people a Mary Sue is evey single FemHarry story for example. I have no idea how I could turn Katherine into a Mary Sue so I have no idea what you mean. Anyway, thanks for your review.

Guest sais: As much as I love your fics I have to agree with cloclomo...you do have commitement issues. I noticed that in most of your fics (first chapter) you say "I know I shouldn't be starting another one...", but you keep on doing it. You literally published 4 fics only this week :(
I mean... 62 stories. Honestly, I'm sure you are never finishing some of them (published in 2013), even though you said you were going to. Is really obvious that you just lost inspiration and instead of waiting for ideas, putting it on hold or abandoning it, you think the best thing is to publish another one, that you will, eventually, lost inspiration to, as well... it' a never ending cycle. I wouldn't be surprised if another came up tomorrow anymore.
Don't take this the wrong way. You are a talented writer, but please, stop publishing new stories when you have a LOT of fics to be updated.

My answer: This is ridiculous, I don't have committment issues or whatever. I don't lose 'inspiration' on stories, it's just that sometimes I get caught up in a fandom and I get ideas about that fandom (like now with TVD) then I get caught up in another fandom etc. When I want to focus on one specific story, I do. I write what I'm on a mind to write in that moment. Like I said, I didn't abandon any of my stories. I'm still writing and I still have ideas on all of them. You have a very wrong definition of 'abandoned' that doesn't corrispond with what's happening here. And don't tell me, stop publishing new stories because I will as long as I get new ideas. This week I was full of ideas and therefore I wrote all of them. Who are you to tell me not do it? I write fanfiction for me, because it's fun, because I like to write. If it becomes a chore because there are people like you that turn it into a chore that I 'have to' do than there's something wrong. Nobody is forcing you to read my stories or waiting a long time for updates. If you don't want to wait for updates, just don't. There are thousands of stories out there you can focus on, just read those.

Prologue

Kate was on a plane to Virginia and she was watching an old episode of the Vampire Diaries. The last episode of the first season, to be exact.

She arrived at the part when Damon was trapped in a burning building and Stefan entered to save him and then suddenly, the plane started to move in an erratic way. The lights started to go on and off and people started to panic. Kate grabbed the armrests and tried to stay calm but she was afraid. Something was very wrong.

The plane crew tried to calm people down and reassure them but they felt like empty words. Kate closed her eyes and started to pray – a very unusual thing for her to do but given the circumstances she just couldn't avoid it. The oxygen masks fell from the ceiling and that was when she realized that the situation was getting worse.

She still had the earphones on and she heard, like from very far away, Katherine pretending to be Elena with Damon. She heard Damon saying: 'I don't do good, it's not in me.' and Katherine replying: 'Maybe it is.' Then everything turned black.

She woke up in a hotel room, very disoriented. The disorientation didn't last long, however. She opened her eyes and looked around her, wandering where she was.

With the corner of her eye she spied a reflection in the mirror and turned around to look directly at it. She meant 'a reflection' because what she was seeing was definitely not 'her' reflection.

She got up slowly but instead she found herself in front of the mirror in less than a second. "Wait what? What just happened?" Even her voice was different.

She looked at the reflection she was seeing in front of her and widened her eyes. She touched her nose and lips with a finger and watched the reflection doing the same.

"What the hell?" She said, more and more bewildered. She looked like Nina Dobrev. More than that, she looked like Katherine Pierce. The hair, the clothes, it all screamed Katherine.

She started to get upset and scared and she noticed veins appearing under her eyes and fangs sprouting over her teeth.

She breathed deeply to calm herself down and noticed both veins and fangs disappearing.

"Okay, I must be dreaming. I must have fallen asleep on the plane. No big deal, I was watching an episode of the 'vampire diaries' after all."

But then she remembered. And she knew that she couldn't have fallen asleep. They had crashed, hadn't they?

"Am I dead? What's going on?"

She pinched her arm with force but nothing happened except for feeling the pain. Except that the pain lasted very little and the red imprint she had left on her skin disappeared immediately after.

Kate sat on the bed, trying to think. "Okay, let's recap what I know. I was on a plane. The plane probably crashed. I lost consciousness. Then I woke up here. In Katherine Pierce's body, vampire perks included. It appears I'm not sleeping but that's still not certain. I may be dead or in a coma but that's not certain either. What to do?"

Kate decided first of all to figure out when she was. If she was in the vampire diaries – dream or not – she wanted to know when in the vampire diaries she was. It didn't look like 1864 seeing as she was dressed in jeans, top and high heels. It was probably during one of the seasons of the vampire diaries and probably one of the first four since in the fifth one Katherine was human.

She decided to check the phone she could see on the nightstand. The date was 25th February 2010. Founder's Day. End of season 1 then.

It was still very early in the morning and she still didn't know where she was. She decided to check the GPS in her phone and find out if she was already in Mystic Falls or not.

The GPS said that she was in Charlottesville, exactly three hours away from Mystic Falls.

Suddenly Kate didn't care if she was dreaming or not, if this was really happening or not, if she would go back to her life at one point or not or if she was in a coma and imagining everything or if she was dead and this was some very strange afterlife.

All that Kate really cared about at the moment was that she was Katherine Pierce before Katherine came to Mystic Falls and caused all the havoc that she did.

A wide smirk appeared on her face at the thought. "Damon still loves Katherine at this point, or at least he isn't completely over her yet, though he has already developed feelings for Elena. What if…" She stops, feeling kind of silly for even thinking about it but it wasn't like such a chance happened every day. Not only the chance of meeting Damon Salvatore in person but also of him being in love with you? "Well, not me, since I'm not really Katherine." She amended. "Though I'm Katherine now, am I not? I'm in her body so…I wonder if I'm going to get her memories as well at one point or another. Don't know if that would be a good or bad thing."

Anyway, the point was, she could go to Mystic Falls and at least meet Damon while in Katherine's body. Depending on how long she would be there, she could try to change some things. Avoid breaking Damon's heart for once. Explain why she hadn't contacted the Salvatore brothers once in 150 years, why she had even pretended to be trapped in that tomb. The whole Klaus/curse thing. She could do some real good while she was there, especially if she stayed for a while.

Then there was also the fact that there was a certain freedom to being Katherine. Sure she didn't mean to turn into a selfish, heartless bitch like her but Katherine had definitely a fun, sarcastic side that Kate appreciated, a lot. And she was also always so confident and sure of herself and her attractiveness – sometimes a little too arrogant though which wasn't good but still…And she was so good at having men falling in love with her (though she was so damn manipulative, using men and breaking their hearts left and right). Still, Katherine looked like someone who could really enjoy life and made you enjoy it too. She decided to channel all of Katherine's good qualities and forget about the bad. She needed to pass for Katherine after all but she had no intention of being as cruel as she was. She wanted to go to Mystic Falls to meet Damon (and maybe make him fall in love with her as well) and help Elena against Klaus instead of going to Mystic Falls just to collect people to hand over to Klaus for his sacrifice.

That reminded her. There was the Mason problem she had to deal with, somehow. She didn't want to kill him but she definitely didn't want to sleep with him and pretend to love him either like Katherine did. Though she still needed him to retrieve the moonstone.

Kate decided to think about that later. Instead she packed everything that was in the room that obviously belonged to Katherine and then left the hotel from the window. She checked around for someone to compel so she could steal his or her car.

At the idea of people, she felt the veins in her eyes appear again and she realized suddenly that she was very thirst. Her throat was on fire. Was that what it felt like to crave blood? It wasn't very pleasant.

She noticed someone, a woman, walking with a grocery bag in her hand. She decided to follow her until she would be alone. A few minutes later she entered an alley and that was the moment when she decided to 'pounce'. She really hoped she would be able to stop herself from draining her dry because she really didn't want to kill anyone and also, that she would be able to compel her. She was counting on the muscle memory in Katherine's body – she was after all a 500 years old vampire.

She got the hang on vamp-speed quickly and appeared in front of her. The woman screamed in fright so Kate looked deep into her eyes and ordered: "Don't scream." The woman immediately stopped. Kate grinned to herself. "Okay, now, don't run and don't be afraid. I'm going to drink from you but it's not going to hurt. You won't feel any pain. When you start to feel faint, you'll tell me and I'll stop." The woman was rooted in place, though she didn't appear scared anymore. "Nod if you understand." The woman nodded. "Good."

Kate looked at the vein in her neck and felt her fangs appeared. She was so thirsty. She bit on the woman's neck as slowly and carefully as she could, feeling the warm blood invading her mouth. Part of her – the rational part – felt a little disgusted at the idea of drinking blood but most of her was too thirsty to care. And really, the blood was delicious.

She drank in small gulps, feeling her thirst receding slowly. Then she heard the woman's voice saying "I'm feeling faint." Kate took a few more small gulps and then stopped.

"How are you feeling? Answer honestly." She ordered.

"A little weak but good."

Kate nodded to herself before ordering her to give her her car. The woman said that it was at her house. Kate followed her until they reached the woman's house. The car was parked right outside. At that point, she compelled the woman to tell the police that her car had been stolen and to forget everything that happened.

The woman left her the keys and then went inside the house like nothing had happened. Kate smiled to herself and got in the car. She programmed the GPS and then started the engine. Her direction, Mystic Falls.