"Elena, you killed an original? You killed the brother of the craziest vindictive bitch out there? You killed Klaus's brother? Tell me are you insane? Or do you just like the thought of eternal torture? Cause that's what Klaus w ill do when he finds you." I shout over the phone. I had left for only 5 days, left with Tyler to visit his grandparents. Now I come home to this, Mystic Fall's on the threshold of chaos and anarchy.
"He won't be able to hurt us Caroline, Bonnie cast a spell, he's trapped in our living room for four days, and by then we would have found the cure"
"And what happens when we find the cure Elena? We don't know what it is, how big it is, what if it only cures one vampire? Then all of this would have been for nothing. You need it, Stefan wants it, Rebekah wants it to use on Klaus, what's going to happen when we have to choose? And this Silas guy, what if he's real? That'll just be another Mikael we have to deal with"
"We'll sort it out Caroline we always do" Elena as a vampire seems less smart than human Elena, is she seriously that blind? She signed our death warrants the minute she decided to kill Kol.
"Well what am I supposed to do? Just sit here and wait until all hell breaks loose?"
"We need you to decipher the runes on the Hunter's sword that Klaus dug up, it could be important"
"Since when am I a translator? And those runes have to be over 700 years old!"
"Find a way Caroline, we only have 3 days until the new Moon, when Klaus gets free and kills us all."
At those words I hung up on her. Fury flamed through my body. Her ignorance is what will kill us, as mad as I am at Klaus, as much as he deserves sentence for his actions, he is not the villain in this scenario. Elena and Jeremy killed his younger brother right in front of his eyes; as he watched helplessly as his little brother caught fire with the white oak steak thrust through his heart, of course he wants revenge. Wouldn't Elena if it was Jeremy? Wouldn't Stefan if it were Damon? It seems like ever since Elena has become a vampire her protective instinct has overpowered her sense of reason, as if only that emotion had been heightened, compensating for other emotions which remain at human level.
Klaus deserves no kindness, yet how could I somehow not feel sorry for him, the Mikaelson family is simply, in an understatement, dysfunctional. Their mother created vampires in her own children, only to then be killed by her son, invoking their father into promising a vow to kill them all. For over a millennia this family have fought and scraped for life, they've been together and they've been apart, yet they will always be family, and with family, there will always be love.
"Care…"
"Tyler, hey" I say as he walks into the living room, bringing me back to reality
"Are you alright? You looked kind of…out of it"
"I'm fine. That was Elena, it seems while we were gone she decided to kill Kol" I say with a voice of disapproval
"What? That's great finally give that son of a bitch Klaus a lesson"
"He's trapped in the gilbert house for 3 days, then he can get out and kill us all"
"Good, it'll give us even more motivation to kill him"
"Elena, Bonnie and the guys are already on their way to the cure, but they need us to translate the runes on Klaus' sword. I can do it alone if you can't handle it"
"No. You think I'd leave you alone with that sadistic barsted? No, I'm coming with you"
That's what I was afraid of. Tyler was mad, Klaus had not just killed Tyler's mother he had killed the only family he had left in Mystic falls. He couldn't bear to leave this place, even after all the pain that had conspired here, like it or not, this place was home, with or without his mother.
If the thought of Klaus in the Gilbert house seemed odd to me then the sight of it was extremely odd. After almost a year of Klaus manipulative games and ploys, they had always avoided the inevitable situation of allowing Klaus to enter. Yet now, there he stood in the Gilbert living room right next to the picture of Jenna and Alaric, just two of his countless victims. Search his house became a failed attempt, if a vampire and a hybrid cannot find something in a house than it is not there, we had no choice but to go to Klaus.
"Ah Tyler, and Caroline, now I must say I did expect Tyler, a gloating opportunity maybe, or perhaps, an attempt to kill me, but I didn't expect you Caroline" He spoke in his usual charming and confident British voice, yet his eyes were different, full of sorrow and sadness
"Save it you son of a bitch, we're here to get the sword, now where is it?" Tyler spoke with pure venom in his words.
"Now why would I ever tell you, twice you've tried to desiccate me now, once you actually succeeded, why would I tell you where the key to unlocking a cure for vampirism is when you're most likely going to use it on myself and then kill me huh?"
"Don't tempt me"
Tyler was trembling with anger, his muscles tense and his face red with anger.
"Tyler you need to get out of here now" I say, pulling him out the front door as Klaus yells behind us
"Yes Tyler go, before you suggest another idiotic suggestion"
"Caroline what are you doing?"
"You need to get out of here; Klaus is never going to tell us where the sword is if you're still here"
"No way, Klaus is a pathological psychopath he'll kill you if he gets the chance!"
"Tyler as much as I hate to admit it, he's not going to hurt me, I'm the only one that he's ever opened up too, this is our only chance"
"Do you want to be alone with him?" he questions, stepping back and judging me from a distant
"Don't be ridiculous, but you know this is the only way he'll talk" With a gruff and heavy sigh escaping his mouth he reluctantly agreed
"Fine. You have your cell, call me every hour until he gives it up ok? I'm going to go search his house again, bye" Solidifying his goodbye with a peck on the cheek before speeding away. Turning back to the house I slowly walk back in.
I don't know why Klaus seems so attracted to me, out of everybody in the world, all of the super models, rich girls and cultured women that he could have in an instant, why would he latch himself on to me? A small town girl who's never been anywhere. Was this a normal occurrence? Every couple of decades he'd stumble upon a girl who he seemed to like and woo her until she gave in? Perhaps, he of course, never stayed around, yet he's stayed around here, in Mystic Falls, even after my countless betrayals and distractions while my friends plan to kill him, it seems he still "fancies" me as he calls it. I'm sick of being the Klaus bait, I'm sick of everybody demanding me to play him.
"Ah I see Tyler's gone, just you and me now love" His smile quickly enrages me.
"Shut up! You don't get to be charming! Not after what you did to Mayor Lockwood" the smile quickly vanishes and a look of shame soon appears.
"Look Caroline…"
"Oh you're going to try and talk yourself out of this one? I hope your excuse is really good, you know just when I started to think you had changed, that you were capable of actual human feelings you go and kill someone, an innocent someone!" it was as if my thoughts over the past week came flying out of my mouth as shrapnel aimed at Klaus, ripping through him at full force, tearing him up and healing him at the same time. I'm not sure whether anybody's actually spoke the truth to Klaus, told him their real thoughts of him, everybody seems too scared of him, everybody except me.
"I don't know what to say, I'm a barsted son rejected by the man I thought to be my father throughout my childhood with a mother who wants to kill me and siblings who hate me." His face now displayed the emotions I see in his eyes, sadness
"I wanted to create the hybrids to accompany me, hybrids that would never leave me, hybrids that would protect me from the bitter years of lonely immortality, but it didn't work, they tried to kill me, so I killed them"
"yah I know I was at the party when Hayley snapped my neck and stopped me from stopping Tyler" I say with my arms folded and my voice judging,
"You tried to stop Tyler?" He says, looking up from his shameful glance to the floor
"Yes. Look as bad as you are mostly all of the time, and as much as I hate to admit it you do have some good in you." I hate to admit a lot of my thoughts around Klaus, because thoughts are honest, and honestly, I barely saw a difference between Klaus and a man wanting to be accepted and loved.
"I didn't plan on killing Carol, I liked her, but she was the closest thing to Tyler's heart except for you, I've killed so many people I don't even know what good is anymore, I'm not capable of good" he says through gritted teeth, the tortured soul that is Klaus shining through.
"Of course your capable of good, everybody is" How could he think that? After the amount of time he's saved me?
"Name one good thing I've done since I've arrived in Mystic Falls"
"You've saved my life twice for one, why wpould you do that if you didn't have a hint of good in you?"
"because I Fancy you"
"and that's why I know your good, because you care about love and companionship, you don't want to be alone"
A moment of silence passes, Klaus smiling to the floor, an enlightenment is tiring work.
"I am sorry for killing the Mayor, truly I am"
"Tyler won't care, that's not going to bring him mum back"
"I don't care about what Tyler thinks of me Caroline, I've never cared about anyone's opinions, I could be the Ripper in their eyes and I wouldn't care, I just don't want you to see me like that"
"Well I don't, But I'm still mad'
