Spoilers for 4x16. Hell hath no fury...

Caroline couldn't sleep. She lay tucked in next to her mother, images of Elena holding Liz against a paneled wall of the Salvatore boardinghouse playing over and over in her head. There again were her best friend's eyes, filled with the blood from the veins below them, fangs bared, ready to tear into her mother. This image far outplayed the one of Caroline on her knees in the woods beyond the cemetery, Elena primed to stake her in the back. That one surfaced only when she drifted to sleep.

Thank God Damon and Stefan had found them when they did. After Damon had ripped Elena away, Stefan had driven Caroline back to the boarding house where he'd given her a touch of bourbon and made her promise to help Elena find her way back from the edge. Then, impossibly, the night had gotten worse. Answering a text from Matt, she'd rushed to the Lockwood Mansion, her heart filled with hope that Tyler was there regardless of how foolish the thought was. As she'd read the note he sent through Matt, his words, disguised as a declaration of love, drove home the final nail in the coffin and Caroline had finally fallen apart. Matt drove her home, got her into her pajamas, made her a cup of tea and offered to stay on the sofa in case she needed him. Past the point of comfort or the need for company, she'd sent him home to his new mansion with a promise to call in the morning. He hadn't been gone five minutes when Caroline found herself standing in the doorway of her mother's bedroom, watching Liz sleep fitfully. Knowing she wouldn't sleep any better with the fear for her mother crawling across her spine and her heart breaking into a million pieces, Caroline had slipped into the queen-sized bed, spooning up against her mother like she did when she was five and had a nightmare. Only now the nightmare was in the form of her best friend killing her and her mother.

Turning with a sigh, blankets twisting around her legs, Caroline's thoughts drifted to Elena's suggestion that turning off her own switch would allow her to think dirty thoughts about Klaus. As if she needed her switch off to do that. Damn him, she thought. He was always there, right at the edge of her mind, telling her over and over "It was all for you". Yeah, right, she scoffed, rolling her eyes. Just then, her phone vibrated, indicating a text message. As if she'd conjured him, Caroline saw Klaus' name pop up on her screen.

"Could this night get any worse?" she thought, grabbing her phone before it vibrated right off the night stand and woke up her mom. Unlocking the screen, she clicked on the message, which opened to a picture of Klaus, naked, a sheet across his waist, seemingly asleep. A caption ran across the bottom, "Yum, almost as tasty as Tyler".

For a moment, Caroline didn't know what she was looking at. Well, clearly it was a sleeping Klaus, but her mind couldn't wrap itself around the context. His hair was tousled, as if someone had run their hands through it more than once. He had a bite mark on his neck and a satisfied look on his sleeping face.

"What the hell?" she whispered, slipping out of bed and padding out of the bedroom to the living room sofa. "Is this some sort of joke? Who would send-"

For a second she considered that Elena was playing at yet another game, but Caroline knew this wasn't from Elena. On the corner of the picture, she could see a bracelet lying on the bed, one she'd seen before, on that she-wolf bitch, Hayley.

"You've got to be kidding me!" Klaus had slept with this wolf slut. He'd all but told Caroline that he loved her, that he'd done everything for her, and then he'd had sex with Hayley. He knew, he knew, how she felt about the werewolf, how much the girl's presence in Tyler's life had hurt her. Not to mention the fact that the bitch had helped Tyler remove the sire bond from all of his hybrids. What the hell had he been thinking?

Caroline saw red as she flashed to her room, dressing as quickly as she could and ran out the door. She didn't even take the time to consider what she was doing. She only knew that this day had completely sucked and Klaus was the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back.

This is my first multi-chapter story and will definitely appreciate some feedback. The story is outlined and I'm hoping for at least 3 chapters, provided the characters don't take over...