hey, everyone here is my contribution to day two of klarolineauweek: butterfly effect. this will have a follow up I promise as I already have the rest of the plot mapped out.
warning: this is not your fluffy kind of story but I will not go as far as to say it's dark. It does however have dark-ish themes and power play between our faves. there's also what can be considered mind games.
I hope you'll enjoy. :D
Her name is Caroline.
And she was seventeen when her world changed.
She remembers hospitals, pillows and choked breaths.
She remembers blood bags and a burning sun.
A stake to the heart and monster eyes.
A collateral damage killed in the crossfire between two worlds she didn't know existed by someone who was a mirror of her friend.
Everything that surrounded her was frightening, suffocating, soaked with a fear that gripped her and didn't want to let her go.
So she ran, god she ran so fast.
From a cold home and horror filled faces.
From a mother's disgusted eyes and her friends weary ones.
She ran so fast, until she couldn't run anymore.
And so she became trapped.
She often heard tales of beasts, of monsters trapped in men skin.
But she never suspected she would be one of those.
And she never thought she'd meet the strongest of them.
She never overvalued her worth, you know.
She knew exactly where she belonged.
To the hidden world, to the shadows.
'And collateral damage' her mind- her unmerciful mind- would never fail to remind her.
So when she was traded for the sake of a monster- one trapped in a man skin- a monster who once held her down and tied her to a silent world, empty of thoughts and control- she wasn't surprised.
And why would she.
She belonged to this world, not.
Still as she was left as a bargaining chip by her so called friend Stefan, she couldn't help sending him a betrayed look though in it there was a plea, she didn't ask for much,'just don't leave me' she begged
but the only thing she received in return was the words "I'm sorry Caroline".
And in the ends that's the only things she gets, the only thing she has left.
Words.
Her new captor was of different breed. She found out.
Hybrid he called himself, a mixture of wolf and vampire, two different breeds mixed in one being..
No hint of man that one.
"You'll call me Klaus" he had said, dismissively as if she was a servant or a slave "now love go on now and pack your bags we'll be leaving shortly"
She ignored her fire that burned with a fire that rivalled a thousand suns at his statement and the way he 'handled' her.
He thought he has rendered helpless, that having killed her -former- best friend in a sacrifice and tormented the others had made her scared and will keep her silent.
She scoffed.
Maybe Klaus had never encountered someone like her before, pity.
Because as the car passed the town limits her fire had never been stronger, and her fire had never burned brighter.
She had been caught. Again.
Klaus's grin was wide as ever as he caught sight of her trapped in his witch's spell.
"You know love, this game between us I am beginning to enjoy very much" he said as he caressed her cheeks almost lovingly- as if "pity the ripper had never told me such fire was in you, we could've had so much fun from the start"
In the background the witch chanted the spell of her freedom, but his eyes kept watching her in rapt fascination, capturing every detail, the wicked gleam in them never fading.
When the petite witch finished her spell, she stood uneasily, her legs quivering from the intensity of the magic that had imprisoned her, but she kept walking in the direction of their residence –she'd never call it home, she never had one, not one that welcomed her anyway- mentally preparing her next escape already, however his voice momentarily stopped her.
"Don't forget sweetheart, there are only so many times you can escape"
She didn't reply merely continued on her path but as she walked her stance whispered one thing 'We shall see'.
'Why do you need hybrids?' she asked one day.
Her eyes followed the movement of his hands as they smoothly glided on the sketch book, the charcoal pencil creating soothing sounds as it made friction with the paper. It took a few moments for him to reply, his eyes darting every few seconds from the sketch to her, making it obvious that he was drawing her, though she didn't comment on it.
"there are things better left untold, Caroline".
She snorted.
"so what you're just going to drag me across the states on an anonymous journey?"
His eyes flickered to her again though it lingered longer this time, a hint of an emotion she couldn't name faintly appeared in them.
"anonymous journey, you say? what happened to all of the escape plans that are just waiting to be hatched".
Her eyes hardened at his mention of her failed attempts for freedom.
"Who's to say I don't have one right now"
An amused laugh burst out of him.
"try as many times as you want, your attempts at fleeing are too much entertaining for me to stop, as long as you remember that you can't escape"
"what if I already did". she said and Klaus's eyes flashed up to hers causing them to meet and, and again she saw that unnamed emotion though this time with, dare she say, confusion reflected in those big blue orbs of his.
For the first time Caroline saw a hint of man in those monster eyes.
They didn't mention that conversation after that.
And she didn't say out loud that the eyes she thought were monstrous turned out to be not quite so.
Because if Klaus isn't only just a monster how can she only just be not one?
Blood covered the floor, the gurgles of the red liquid choking her victim filled the air. On the other side of the room lay Stefan's greyed corpse with a hole where his heart should've been. Blood soaked his clothes from the many stakes that were thrusted into him, she played the body no attention however focusing on his companion instead, fangs ready and bared with veins crawling on her face, her monster came out, ready to hunt and play with her prey.
*flashback*
Hiking had seemed like a good idea when Klaus had told her they would have to take a path in the forest to reach one of the wolf packs he located but now she regretted agreeing to it. The weather was unbearable and although she couldn't feel the humidity in the air, it wasn't a nice feeling having her clothes sticking to her.
She sighed "isn't there any water around here? I need to freshen up"
"Uh, I forgot how easily tired baby vampires get" he said with some humor in his voice "use your senses love you, your ears should be able to pick up the sounds, we're close enough".
She scoffed "what is this baby vampire training cour-"
Her words were cut off when the sound of water crashing caught her attention "I hear it"
Moving towards the water's direction she almost crashed into the Klaus and she frowned as he blocked her way, his face completely emotionless.
"What?" she asked incredulously.
"oh come on now love, you don't think I will let you go all by yourself, do you?"
She groaned impatiently "I won't run away, if that's what you're worried about".
"Yes, of course proven by your less than entertaining attempts, last week".
"I thought my attempts were "amusing", what happened?" Caroline mockingly asked but then sighed "look, I am not going to escape" She looked into his eyes to let him see her honesty.
"This time" She couldn't help but add cheekily.
Her eyes faintly caught a little curve of his lips before it faded quickly, she began moving again and this time Klaus didn't block her way.
Though as she walked it struck her how unusual this conversation was. It had a simplicity to it even with the hostile undertones that was never there before.
However she refused to think anything of it, of the complications it aroused, preferring to simply savor the freshness of the water she found. Her lips curving up from the beauty she saw.
Suddenly she heard a crunching sound and before she could find what the source was or even move, darkness enveloped her.
*flashback*
They should have thought about their plan better, if she may say so, because now they released something they had never seen before.
so this is it for the first part. Was there a specific moment you enjoyed? a theme? which situation did you like best?
please don't hesitate to tell me what you think as your reviews mean very much to me.
love, Me 3