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"I'm not a fool, Elena. Of course this possibility occurred to me, but what kind of man would I be if I didn't try to find my Katerina beneath this Katherine façade?"

Is Elena right? Is he foolish to be searching for the girl he has longed for for the past five hundred years?

When they started working together all the memories of those lazy afternoons in 1492 washed over him until he felt as if he was drowning; he found his feelings completely unchanged after all these centuries.

There were times when he could almost see through her act, he could see the girl who changed his belief on love, but these times were few and far between. And at each turn she gives him yet another reason not to trust her.

"Oh Katerina, why must you lie?" Elijah shook his head. Jeremy Gilbert had been the last of Elena's family; Katerina had condemned her to endure the same life she herself has had to endure. But then, he thought as he watched Katerina's retreating figure, at least Elena has the Salvatores and her friends to care for her and help her through the loss whereas Katherine has had no one.

He looked down at the small white box she had placed in his hand. Is this just a ploy to get her freedom or is she genuine? Can Katerina Petrova really be saved?