"The Gilberts really have a knack for ruining lives, don't they?" she quipped almost immediately, but shook her head, "Guess I do too, though." She could admit it, she could handle it, she could deal with everything she'd done. That was hat made her and Elena different as vampires. Elena couldn't handle the heightened grief and depression that came along with the excessive pleasure and excitement. It was too much and she had to turn it off to et away from the bad. Katherine supposed she was naturally more apt to not feeling for others enough, where with Elena...that as all she seemed to do.
"He's real." she said, nodding, "And so is the cure. There was a whole fight to it, who could get there first..." She sighed, leaning back further into the couch. "Rebekah wanted it for herself, thinks living a human life will make her a better person somehow. Almost everyone else wanted it for Elena. Me? It was my bargaining chip with Klaus. The cure, which he could do whatever he wanted with--and we all know he'd use it on Elena for her Doppleganger blood--for my freedom. The plan was perfec and Elijah was helping me, but..." she trailed off, one hand up in the air. "plans changed."