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Katherine Pierce believes her own lies. ([info]believesownlies) wrote in [info]wariscoming,
@ 2013-09-26 07:35:00

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Entry tags:hal yorke, katherine pierce

Katherine & Hal
Talking and things!
Wednesday evening, September 25, 2013; House of Lust
PG13 (some dark themes and a little blackmail; will update if needed)/Complete

She didn't know what was going on, but she knew it was serious.

Katherine had seen Hal's note to her almost immediately and had responded just as quickly. Even over the computer screen, she could hear the sheer urgency in his tone. She didn't know what was going on, but she knew it was serious, so when he said he needed to meet with her, she wasted no time and immediately agreed.

There were so many things going on lately that she could hardly keep up with it all. Death's request for not one but two of their own to trade places with Him seemed to be a thing of the distant past, so long ago now that it couldn't quite hold a candle to everything else in it's wake. Lucifer's threats, his little gifts to people, they had everyone on edge. Those already on the receiving end rattled by their personal mementos, haunted by things from their pasts or their futures not yet lived. The rest, fearful of what may come for them. And there was Henry, that boy, in every right her best friend's son, so full of goodness and light, all of it stolen away by the demon that had overtaken him. Only a few days, but God, so much damage. She didn't want to think of just how wrecked he would be coming out of the other side of this. But at least he was home now. Safe, with Emma, where he belonged.

But right now, none of that was where Katherine's focus stood. Instead, it was on Hal and what could possibly have been this important. There were hundreds of possibilities, but she couldn't begin to guess which one was correct.

There was a knock at the door.

"And there's the answer," she muttered to herself, pushing her way towards the front of the house to open the door. "What's going on?" she asked immediately, giving him no time to small talk, a look of concern on her face.


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[info]needstheroutine
2013-09-26 01:50 am UTC (link)
And there it was of course, just for an instant, Just for that moment when she started backing away. Running from him. What bloody fool ran from someone like him. Oh he was going to have his fun with her. He smirked, grabbing her wrist before she could go too far and laughed. "Oh well you do bring the worst out in people don't you Katherine? You have to know that this, all of this, is for the best and yet what, you're scared? Well let me tell you how this is going to be. If you want to keep him, if you want to keep your friend around then its me you have to bargain with. Not him. Its me you have to sate because he's so very weak right now."

He shrugged. "Besides if you don't, I'll bite you instead, and wouldn't you just love that, you do hate being mortal, well how about being like me." That said, he leaned in, personal space having never been an issue for Lord Harry and breathed into her ear. "I've had you on my mind for some time, poor little mortal Katherine and the things I could do to her. Do you think you'd scream for me if I..."

A splutter, a cough and it was Hal again, who jumped back as if he'd been burned. If there was a time to ask for help, a time to let himself be taken, this was it. And perhaps in a room with Alex, or Mitchell. He might have, but her blood was calling to him, screaming to him and all he wanted to do, the only thing he wanted to do was drink her down.

"You see, you understand now, I have to. I have tried the other alternatives, how many times have they locked me down now. I have tried every routine I have, everything I know how to do and its this Katherine. Its you, you're the only way I have. And...he will, he'll hurt you. You have to let me keep him sated and you are the only one I trust that can."

Guilt, blackmail. Oh how the mighty had fallen.

"Please." he asked, very much Hal right now and very much wanting her to trust him.

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[info]believesownlies
2013-09-26 08:21 am UTC (link)
She gasped when he grabbed her, staring up at him, eyes wide with fear. The things he could do to her right now. Soft and slow and gently breaking her down or quick and rough and tearing her apart. Which way would he go, or another way entirely? She didn't know. This wasn't Hal, her trusted friend, this was him, the other side, the one he was so afraid of surfacing ever again. And he was mere inches from her. "No," she whispered, but everything about her from the tone of her voice down to her very demeanor made it oh so obvious that her resolve was breaking. Katherine was never a strong person, not in the moral sense. She was selfish and focused on one thing for all of her five centuries: Survival, specifically her own. "please, you just have to understand, this is what he told me would happen. But it doesn't have to be like this." But then that threat. That so very well-placed suggestion that he turn her. "I don't want to be like you." she said, her tone almost a low growl.

She saw it, that switch when he jumped back as if he'd touched fire. He was Hal now and he was making so much sense, but going against everything she'd been told before and this was all so confusing. "Hal..." she stared at him, lost and utterly alone in trying to make a choice. But instead, her mouth formed different words, words she likely shouldn't have spoken. "If you hurt me, Elijah would have no problem ripping you apart." A challenge. And one she had no basis for in that moment because Elijah was very definitely nowhere near enough to save her. But she had to try. One more bargaining chip. One last ditch efforrt before she gave up. Gave in. Because if nothing else, she knew. She knew it would kill her. And wouldn't it be better to give him what he asked for and live than keep resisting and die?

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[info]needstheroutine
2013-09-26 08:32 am UTC (link)
It was true. Her lover probably could best him. The unkillable Original. Oh how very Katherine. Tie herself to someone who could protect her, keep her safe. She needed that didn't she, which is why the threat of turning from him, from Him, had had the desired effect. But she'd forgotten one thing about him. The Hal that was her friend, the Hal that was talking to her now. The only thing keeping him fighting was Alex. And already he had gone to far to have her forgive him this time.

"That's it though isn't it. Elijah would kill me. And maybe that would be a kind of release I can only dream of. No craving, no hell. But you, you'd be dead, or worse. There are very few ways this can end and only one of us is at all afraid of death."

He wasn't scared of her telling Elijah. Once she agreed, once she made that step and helped him then she was equally cursed. Alex would hate her, everyone would hate her and he was banking on that. Because all he needed from her was for her to comply.

"Katherine look, I don't mean to be cruel. And it is. I know what I ask of you is cruel but you have to know, you have to understand that he would be more cruel. He would tear you down, break you in every way known to man and beast and more besides. Elijah couldn't save you because...because there would be nothing to save. I'm pleading with you here to help me. To keep me safe because...I can't do this anymore. I can't walk that line and stay the man I am. Its not possible and its taken me till now to see it. I've not killed yet. I've come close but not yet, and there is only so long without blood that I can guarentee I won't."

It was a curse, and one he could no longer take.

"I know what I told you. And its me...right now at least its me. But Katherine, I've left a boy bloody and broken in the street because he picked the worst time possible to try and mug me. I've...I can't tell Alex. I can't loose her and Mitchell is...well he is the last person that could help me. So it has to be you. You understand me. You understand why I need it and god, just please!" he finally added, his voice pleading.

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[info]believesownlies
2013-09-26 08:50 am UTC (link)
There were so many things rushing through her mind in that moment, listening to his spiel, going on about how only she could help him, as if she was moral enough for that to sway her. But he was her friend. One of a very fair few she had here and one she very much did not want to lose, to others certainly, but even less so to that other side of himself that he tried so hard to keep locked away at bay. The conflict was ridiculous, but that was the point, wasn't it? To make her so muddled she couldn't make sense of anything and then she'd just agree. Well, she wouldn't be manipulated like that. He'd have to do better. Be specific.

"Why are you doing this? Why me? Why specifically me? Why not some random off the street?" Because he could have. That boy that tried to mug him, he could have so easily taken a little then. He was already battered and beaten and bloody, so who would have noticed a little extra blood that was taken? But somewhere underneath it all she knew why. She knew it had to be her because he could do exactly this. He could play on her friendship with him, on her desperate need for survival, on all those things she had confided in him, now being twisted and used against her to make her comply.

But if she was going to agree, she would do it on her own damn terms. "Just say it, Hal. Just say it ouright. Do it or you're dead." How could someone as desperate to live as she deny anyone anything when her life was on the line?

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[info]needstheroutine
2013-09-26 09:18 am UTC (link)
Why her?

Now there was a question. And really one he dreaded the answer to. Why was she pressing this so much when they both knew she'd cave. Oh that was part of it. Katherine Pierce, self serving to the point of her own destruction. She'd cast off anyone and anything to stay alive and right now he was threatening that which she held the most dear.

"Because its not going to be a one off. The boy, he would have been, and there'd have been bite marks and it would have raised all manner of questions. You are aware of what it means to be discreet. Where I can bite you to best hide it, how to cover it, hide it from your lover. You, can keep this going for quite some time and that is what I need. Just until I can work something out. Until I can manage. So you see, out of everyone. I knew it had to be you."

He stepped closer again, her words, her insistance he say it lighting a fire in him. Lord Harry grabbed her arm again this time pulling her toward him. "But then that seems to trite doesn't it, 'Do it and your dead' How about do it or death will seem like a blessing. How about 'Do it, or beg for your life and your virtue until you finally feed him enough that he retains his sad little measure of control. He chose you because you're easy, because you're breakable and because god you're hillarious when you're desperate. Now be a good little human and agree. He seems insistint on the agreeing. Me, I'd have you here and now and let your boyfriend listen. But then I am the classy one."

Hal slipped, again. Just enough and let her arm go.

"Katherine...its the only way this can work. You know it is."

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[info]believesownlies
2013-09-26 10:26 am UTC (link)
He was right, of course. The boy would have led to bigger things, would have been too much, would've raised too many questions. He couldn't risk it, neither side of him could really. She hated this, that it turned out like this, that she was his only logical choice in this. This situation, this moment, it made her regret ever making friends. What good were they if they only turned on you when it best suited them? But it wasn't him, her friend, not really. It was Him, even when Hal was shining through, she was talking to the other side. "Well, how lucky for me that I'm so special to you." The sarcasm was stupid, she knew it was, but it was as much a defense mechanism as anything else ever was.

And then it happened again, that switch back to Him and he was grabbing her, keeping the prey in place. "That's because he at least has some social grace, unlike you. You're just an animal." Yes, Katherine, insulting the man that could literally rip you to shreds in mere seconds, that's always a good plan.

The back and forth was absolutely dizzying, but she could at least keep up with it. "I'll do it." She said finally. "But just know...the second I think you're going overboard, taking it too far, I'm telling everyone. They'll hate me, sure, but that's nothing new is it? Just...get it over with." she sighed. She hated it, being compliant, being blackmailed, but at this point what choice did she even have? Death was not an option for her. It never had been.

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[info]needstheroutine
2013-09-26 11:03 am UTC (link)
Social grace. Now that...that was interesting given the man was practically a recluse scared of his own dammed shadow. How Katherine saw anything worthy in that was beyond him. But of course he was still pushing. Hal was going to be the one to do it, the one to drink from her because...oh, he didn't think He would be able to stop. Now that was precious. He wasn't the one with the raging control issues that had lead them here after all. "I'm not an animal so much as I'm the very top of the food chain. Sure your boyfriend could probably kill me, but could he really outsmart me? You've heard the stories, heard Alex talk about me, you know how much Mitchell fears what I can turn him into if I so choose it. He understands true power and its not about what can or can't kill you. Really my dear, its about what you can or can't kill, or maim, or twist, or corrupt. That's what it is to be an Old One."

He thought for a few moments, considering the options of what was to come. "I'm actually going to leave it to you Katherine. Who would you rather drink from you. The spineless idiot with control issues or...well, me." Hal smirked widely. "I won't kill you, I have no intention of it given just how much fun I intend on having with you once Hal finally stops fighting, and he will. Its fated really, night follows day and I follow him."

She would tell everyone. And Lord Harry didn't care a damn. Mostly because he knew her well enough to know that would be her last resort. They weren't actually all that different. Not at the very heart of things. Or at least they hadn't been, before she'd been stripped of everything that had once made her impressive.

"There's a good girl, now come here. If we're going to do this it's going to be right and you might even enjoy it, must be interesting being on the other side of it for once. You're even a little scared. I won't lie, that's remarkably sexy. Keep it up. But oh, now you haven't chosen yet. So go on, your dear friend, the one who asks this awful horrible thing of you, blackmails you even? Or me, the one who frankly, just wants to get his kicks"

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[info]believesownlies
2013-09-26 11:58 am UTC (link)
"You are an animal, whether you admit it or not. Because if it was just about food and sustenance, that would be one thing, but it's not. Because you get a thrill from it, you're entertained by the fear, by the screams, by all of it. You revel in it." And she didn't doubt that one bit. For her, it had never been about that, the torture, the mental breakdowns. For her, like so many other things in her life, it had only been for survival. "And you would, wouldn't you. If it suited you. You'd twist him into something you know he doesn't want to be just because you think it's fun."

She stared at him for a moment, considering that. He was giving her a choice. Why? That was just sick. Did she want the crazy mass-murdering fuckhead or should she leave the task to the friend she trusted? "You're twisted." It wasn't that she hadn't known, but seeing it up close and personal, it was disturbing. " Maybe it doesn't matter because you're still there under the surface, but... I want him. Hal. The real Hal." Because at least while she still had a choice, she'd rather it be her friend than the monster underneath.

"Of course I'm scared," she scoffed, "It would be stupid not to be. I don't know how you think I could enjoy it, but...just...just get it over with. Please."

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[info]needstheroutine
2013-09-27 04:53 am UTC (link)
Well that was disappointing, and boring. Katherine had no sense of drama. And she wanted her friend. And Lord Harry wasn't quite in control yet. Oh it was coming and he knew it. Hal knew it too much as he did not under any circumstance want to admit it. Which was adorable given circumstances. But fine, she wanted Hal she'd get him.

"You and me Katherine, we're not done." he told her, leaning in, ignoring any concept of personal space. His breath hot at her ear as he spoke. "You truly believe you can save him, you can't. All you are doing is biding time before the inevitable happens. Just you wait."

And with that, another splutter, a cough and it was her friend again. Hal, scared, confused, hurting inside more than anything but resolute in the fact that this had to happen. He could keep that other him at bay. He could fight this. But he needed, he had to have blood to do it. "Look, it'll be quick. You give me ten seconds. You count it, and then you make sure you pull away if I don't. That'll be enough for...for a while. And then there's where I can...The neck, is that too obvious for...I don't know how I'm doing this. I'm sorry Katherine."

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[info]believesownlies
2013-09-27 11:29 am UTC (link)
She stiffened visibly when he leaned in so close to her, his breath against her ear and her neck made her shudder. "Maybe time is all I need." she muttered before Lord Harry was gone again, replaced by Hal once again. She almost foolishly hoped he'd say something against it all, but the denial, the refusal didn't come.

"Ten seconds." she nodded. She could do that. Katherine shook her head, "You can't, not there. Elijah, Regina...they'd see." And that was the last thing either of them needed in this situation. Her boyfriend or her best friend, either one would fly off the handle if they had any suspicions at all and that would only end badly for everyone involved.

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[info]needstheroutine
2013-09-28 08:34 am UTC (link)
Hal's gaze moved from Katherine's neck, down along her waist, and hips coming to rest at her legs, specifically her thigh. It was entirely uncouth. Barbaric even. But it had always been His preference for drinking from the various women he'd strung along, and himself, even with Sylvie, he'd found it very hard not to want it. Not to want that. It was more intimate than he wanted to be with Katherine and Alex could not forgive it, he knew that too, she had told him about Natasha of course.

"...I...there." he said simply, his hand resting at the hem of her skirt, sliding it up slightly.

She'd wanted him, this him, to be the one to take the blood from her and part of Hal wished she'd wanted the other. Wished it didn't have to be her friend she witnessed so desperately falling into failure. But the blood was screaming in his mind.

He led Katherine to a chair, guilt mixed with need in a fashion he had not felt in some time and once she was seated, knelt beside her, eyes black, like demons in this world, but vampires in his.

"Ten seconds" he told her and bit down hard before anything could change his mind. And god she'd tasted just as good as he'd imagined she would. A battle raged in his head, Lord Harry wanted more, wanted her, all manner of depravity's in mind but it was Hal in control. Hal who was doing this to keep that monster sated.

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[info]believesownlies
2013-09-28 09:43 am UTC (link)
She resisted the urge to squirm under that gaze. In another situation, it might have been flattering, but this? This as just downright degrading. She couldn't stop the slight shudder when he hitched her skirt up just slightly. And it wasn't in positive anticipation.

She didn't say another word as she followed him to the chair and sat down, positioned in far too intimate a way for any friend to witness. God, Elijah would kill them both if he found out about this. She just hoped she could keep it from him. From everyone. She had to, she had no other choice.

And then it was all fangs and pain. One, two, three... Katherine gasped at the feeling, back arching slightly against the pan and she bit her lip to keep from screaming despite the fact they were alone in the house. Four, five six... She didn't know what to think. How had it come to this? He had told her to never allow anything like this to happen and here she was, doing the xact opposite. But it was just a little, enough to shut the monster up and God, he hoped this worked because if it didn't, she wasn't sure how to handle the guilt that would follow. Seven, eight, nine... "Ten," she muttered, pushing on his shoulder slightly, "Stop."

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[info]needstheroutine
2013-09-28 10:06 am UTC (link)
It was ironic that every shudder and squirm which horrified Hal just thrilled Lord Harry. And there was a small part of him, the part with his hand grasping at his friends leg that wasn't entirely Hal much as he'd sworn to be. Hal was just focused on the blood, on that taste, fresh from the vein, not bottled and stale. Katherine, human now, was bursting with life, a life that she wanted to give up because she didn't have her power. It was despicable really, she knew nothing of what it meant to feel powerless.

Or maybe she does now came the thought, unbidden.

She knew now of course, and it wouldn't take much for him to placate her, lock the door of the room. Make appropriate threats about what would happen if she refused him and then...

But no, no....she reached ten, and much as it killed him he threw himself back away from her, and of course found himself unable to meet her gaze. How could he now? After what he'd asked of her, demanded of her. What right had he to ask anything of her at all.

"Thank you Katherine... I'm sorry I had to put it that way. And that you've seen this in me. I'm so very sorry."

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[info]believesownlies
2013-09-28 10:27 am UTC (link)
There was a small sigh of relief that he listened, kept his own word and stopped when she had told him to. There had been a part of her that knew it was a very real possibility that maybe he wouldn't. Somehow, in a twisted sense, the fact that he had somehow told her he was still her friend. A slightly askew and desperate version of him, but still ultimately he was still Hal because the monster would've ignored her warning and kept going until he'd had his fill.

"It's fine." she said softly, but she didn't doubt he heard her. It wasn't fine, how could it be? But what else was she really supposed to say? As much as he couldn't meet her gaze, she couldn't quite look at him either. It was awkward, it was degrading, the entire situation was just a terrible one for both of them to be in.

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[info]needstheroutine
2013-09-28 12:25 pm UTC (link)
It was in no sense of the word fine. And Hal wondered if it ever would be again. He'd used her, possibly in the very worst way, and she had seen that other side of him. The side no one could forget existed but never quite talked about. It was not fine, he was blackmailing her and in truth they both knew it. The line was blurred now, and Lord Harry would follow in his time. Hal didn't want to die. Somehow, selfishly perhaps, he wanted to live.

"Look...I'll go. I shouldn't stay here right now, I believe we can both agree on that. Next time it will be easier, won't it? On both of us, we'll know where we stand and what has to be done. And it does have to. I'm so sorry that I...you were my only choice Katherine."

Hal stood, wiping his mouth, the blood, her blood

"...its not fine. It won't be fine and ...again, I wish there was another way"

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[info]believesownlies
2013-09-28 12:42 pm UTC (link)
She knew he was right. It wasn't fine, but she had to hope that it could be again, eventually. That what she was doing was worth something, that there was some kind of purpose to it. It couldn't just be this, could it?

She nodded dumbly at the idea. "Yeah, of course." were the words her mouth formed, but she didn't know if she really believed it. Could it really get easier over time? Would anything in any future meeting like this really be any different?

"I know," she said quietly, staring down at the floor beneath her feet.

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[info]needstheroutine
2013-09-28 03:19 pm UTC (link)
She didn't know. Not really. Not how much this was killing him nor how close he was walking to the edge of uncaring. Between this, the mugging, the girl Kol had sent. That look in Alex' eyes when she wasn't entirely sure she could trust him. There was so much that had gone wrong in the last few weeks and it was building.

All this could do was keep Him contained long enough for him to warn Alex. And he would warn her. He'd tell her. Of course he'd tell her.

But not yet. Not until he was safe. Not until he could be trusted again.

"I'll call you. You know, when..." he didn't need to say any more than that and they both knew it. And god he still couldn't look at her knowing what he had just done. Knowing the things He had said to her.

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[info]believesownlies
2013-09-28 04:13 pm UTC (link)
Katherine didn't know what was going through his mind, how close to that proverbial and maybe literal ledge he really was, but she knew that he didn't like this situation any more than she did. She could see that written plainly across his face when she dared peek up and steal a glance. She couldn't meet his eyes, though, and she wondered when that awkwardness would go away. Because it would, she was fairly certain, it would eventually fade and this would become some kind of routine. A sick, twisted, quiet little routine that no one could know about. Quiet things hidden behind closed doors. It made her stomach turn to think of herself being used like this. She was the manipulator, never the manipulated. But now...

"I'll...be ready." The phrase, given the context, was awkward. This breech of trust, of faith, of friendship passing into...something else entirely, she wasn't sure what to make of it. She wasn't even sure she wated to make anything of it at all. Keep it strictly business when they met like this. The things He had said...that threat to turn her into something like him... that was more than enough to keep her at bay. For now.

There was another moment of that awkward silence that continued to find itself surrounding them before Katherine finally said, "You should...probably go. Regina probably won't be long." She had no idea if that was true, sometimes when her friend left to visit her boyfriend she was gone for a few hours, other times she stayed overnight. But it was a good excuse to get him to leave and maybe she could have some time to process all of this before Regina really did get home.

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[info]needstheroutine
2013-09-30 08:14 am UTC (link)
She was right of course, he had to go. Leave her to...whatever she had been doing and try to let her regain some sense of a normal day. His friend, and he'd done this to her, what kind of man was he that could do something like this. He found he had to hold back on being ill, just from the cruelty that came so easily to him, just by sharing a mind with a monster.

Though where Hal ended and Harry began, could anyone be really sure anymore.

"Katherine..." he said, or tried to say would be more accurate. The word seemed to be choking in his throat. He had nothing he could say to make her feel better, did he? Sorry I used you, sorry I plan to use you again? Sorry for the things he says, sorry you're just helping me gain a few more weeks. He'd blackmailed her, and was continuing to do so.

...till next time then." he told her, bowing formally before taking his leave. As soon as he was out of sight of her property though, he slumped aginst the wall, disgusted with himself.

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