dark in my imagination ♔ little-carolineforbes
Sanatorium!AU: One of our characters is a long time resident in a sanatorium and the other is the new staff member assigned to care for them.
This was how she tracked every single day that passed in the defunct and paltry lay out that was the Saint Gardner's Sanatorium, room 4C. It wasn't up to Katherine's standards at all, long gone was the opaline estates and designer clothing.
She was merely a ghost of her former self, and she acted like one too, it was never not mentioned how much she hated life here. All because she'd attacked Elena Gilbert.
Too bad Elena Gilbert wasn't real. Or she was, but not the version Katherine had fabricated in her mind. No, the girl that she'd been pried off of, the girl she'd flayed within an inch of her life with a piece of glass, was an ice queen, stark opposite of Katherine. She just played the role that Katherine needed to lash out at.
This story she'd created in her head, believing she was a vampire, that she had a doppelgänger, that someone had stolen her identity. And she couldn't stand her, because Elena had stolen everything from her. Her happiness her life, the Salvatore's. Another phony embellishment to make her story all the more interesting.
Every girl needed a little romance.
A ripe scar still showed shiny and bright on her stomach, she didn't let them dress it. She wanted the reminder, that visceral feeling of pain whenever it was touched. She needed to know that something, was real.