Title: Anything For His Carebear
Category: Vampire Diaries
Characters: Caroline and Tyler, mention of Mason.
Summary: After Damon about kills Caroline she ends up in Tyler's bed. Instead of kicking her out he takes care of her because he is nothing like Damon. He would never make her scared for her life. Takes place during season one
Status: In Progress
AN: I don't own anything it belongs to the writers and creators of the show and books. Tyler isn't dating Vickie and hasn't been either. Please leave a review if you can. They feed my muse.
Caroline didn't want to go home so she had gone upstairs after Damon had attacked her. She had convinced Elena she wanted to go back to the party. She hadn't wanted to, but home wasn't an option. There she would be alone and she couldn't be alone there right now. She had held onto Elena until she had gotten herself under control.
Under control didn't mean that she wasn't still scared. She had almost been killed right then and there because of Damon. She found her way to one of the bedrooms upstairs not caring whose room it was. She laid down on the bed letting more tears out wishing she hadn't fallen for the wrong guy yet again.
Tyler was bored and tired of the stupid party. It was always some party every month it seemed the town would think of some stupid thing to celebrate. He'd wanted to get into the whiskey, but that was out. It was why he was walking into his room now to get out of the damn suit and get his flask.
He had spent some time out there so he could say he had made an appearance. How the hell he had stayed sober he didn't know, but he'd promised his mom not to do anything. Promising her meant something, but he didn't give a shit if he'd told his dad that. His dad didn't give a crap what he did long it wasn't embarrassing the family.
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He got his clothes off and a pair of thin pants on before he even noticed that somebody was lying in his bed. He walked over to the bed looking down at Caroline. She was asleep, but he could see the tear stains on her face and there was dried blood on her neck.
He didn't know what had happened, but he could see bite marks on her neck too. Her shawl had slid down while she'd been asleep and the bite marks were noticeable as well. "What the hell," he said; he couldn't believe that somebody had hurt Caroline.
Tyler went to the bathroom getting a wet cloth coming back and cleaning the blood away from her neck. She had to be exhausted if she wasn't waking up when he turned her so he could clean her neck wound. He'd heard about the animal attacks on the news, and he remembered what Matt had told him about his sister.
He just couldn't believe that Caroline would be walking in the woods alone. It was not like her at all, she hated the woods at night. He remembered the times they'd played hide and seek after dark. She had punched the hell out of Matt and him when they scared her. Sometimes he swore he could still feel the bruise even now.
Caroline didn't even move when he took her shawl off putting it on the end of the bed. He wanted her to be comfortable as she slept so he took that off and let her hair down. He pulled her shoes off putting them on the floor. He found a clean spot on the wash cloth wiping her make-up away gently. "You look better without it," he said even though she couldn't hear him.
They'd been taking care of each other for years. She was there every time after his dad took his anger out on him. He was there when her dad left to be with some guy named Steven. She gave him hell all the time when he did something stupid, but it wasn't out of disappointment or anger.
When she yelled it was to stop him from doing something stupid. He sometimes wondered if she talked to his Uncle. He missed Mason being around; he'd left when he'd been 12 for the second time. That didn't mean he had stopped talking to him or told him things in the last few weeks that some would think were insane. He'd thought Mason was insane at first with the whole family curse thing.
He had come up here for another reason too; it was to watch the video he would probably have by now. However, it had to wait because Caroline needed his help. He couldn't do anything for Mason since he wasn't there, but he could take care of Caroline again. He was glad that he could after two months of trying to get with her.
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Caroline woke up feeling arms wrapped around her and she didn't want to open her eyes thinking it was Damon. She thought he had found her, taken her away, and was using her as his prisoner again. She bit down on her bottom lip trying not to start crying, but she couldn't help it.
It didn't take long for them to turn into sobs remembering the night before. Her entire body was shaking and she tried to catch her breath, but it was hard. The only thing she could feel were the fangs in her neck as Damon drunk until he yelled out. She didn't know why he had yelled in pain, but she was so thankful.
"Care, I'm sorry?" Tyler had woken up when she started shaking and he moved so he wasn't so close, but still next to her. He hadn't meant to get tangled around her while they had been sleeping. If she'd been attacked it probably had scared her.
Caroline rolled over hearing Tyler's voice before she sat up. She hadn't meant to end up in his room, but she was glad it was him beside her. "I messed up so badly, Ty," she said, "I thought I was going to die," she could see her life passing by her as Damon drunk from her and it all came back to the person beside her.
She had told herself if she got to do things over she would change. If she lived then she would tell him she loved him. He was her Matt, because they had been friends since kindergarten. They just hadn't given it that chance at more, it had almost happened freshmen year, but it never happened. She just couldn't figure out why he hadn't asked her out or why she hadn't.
Tyler wrapped his arms around her, "I got you, nobody's going to hurt you again," he wasn't sure if it was Stefan's brother or an animal that had hurt her, but she was scared to death. He hadn't seen her this bad since her dad had left. She hadn't been scared then though, but he'd sat with her all weekend just watching bad TV with ice cream.
Caroline held onto him tight scared that if she let go he wouldn't be there, "Don't leave me," she couldn't take it if he left her now.
"I'm not," he said back kissing the top of her head, when she wanted to talk he would be here to listen, but he knew she wouldn't right now. He laid back with her his arms around her telling her it was going to be okay. He would make it okay, he hated seeing her like this. He was going make ever who hurt her pay for it that was for sure. He'd never told her, but he loved her, and it wasn't a sibling love either.
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Tyler didn't go back to sleep that night, he stayed awake holding Caroline. He didn't want her to wake up scared again. He just wanted her to know she was safe with him beside her. He had seen all the bite marks on her body that were showing. He couldn't believe that somebody could do that to her. He had seen the guy she had come with because he'd been just outside the door.
The guy looked about Mason's age and he was doing god only knew what to Caroline. He remembered last month when he'd asked her out, the guy had been there too. He had been the one told him to buzz off; Caroline didn't need him for anything.
He should have known something was wrong then because she was his best friend. The only thing he knew about the guy was that he was Stefan's brother. He didn't like Stefan; he'd taken his best friend's ex- girlfriend, but his brother he despised.
Caroline didn't open her eyes right away, but she knew she was safe because she could smell Tyler's scent. She had it engraved into her brain since those weeks after her dad had walked out. She would never forget that scent, it was him with just hint of something else. She figured it was the body wash he used, because he didn't wear cologne or aftershave. She breathed in deeply as she snuggled closer to him not wanting to have to leave the safety of his arms.
"Can I just stay here forever?" She asked hoping that he wouldn't turn her down. They hadn't talked much since she'd started dating Damon and she hated that. She hadn't meant to push him away, but she blamed her ex. She knew he did something to her to make her not talk to Tyler. She had wanted to tell him everything, and then she felt like she couldn't.
"If you want, I don't mind waking up with you beside me," Tyler said moving a strand of her hair from her face. "It's Saturday, so no school, we could go get breakfast at the Grill?" he offered, he wanted to kiss her, but he would never do that to her when she was like this.
"Can we just stay here? I don't want to go anywhere," Caroline said, her fingers making circles on his chest. He had never put a shirt on because he'd found her in his bed that morning early. Moving meant what had happened was real, but if she stayed here with Tyler then it hadn't happened. She could pretend that Damon hadn't tried to kill her, that she hadn't even met him.
"Sure, I'll get us something out kitchen and come back," Tyler said before he got out of the bed. He didn't want to leave her, but to get food he had to. If he could make her forget what happened to her he would. He would give anything to have her forget what she had been through.
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