"You have to come with me Caroline", Tyler Lockwood said for what seemed like the hundredth time. Still, Caroline Forbes' answer did not change.

"I can't Tyler" she said. "I won't leave my mom and friends behind especially if you are right and Klaus is on a killing spree. He could easily go after my mother to get to me, and therefore get to you."

Tyler stood there watching her with his dark brown eyes. She could see he was hurt, both by his mother's death and by Caroline's refusal. She couldn't help it though, and if Tyler decided to flee, it was his decision. They had gone through so many rough paths in their relationship. All these difficult moments always seemed to be directly linked with Klaus. Their first argument came when Klaus had sired Tyler after transforming him into his first successful hybrid. Caroline had tried to convince Tyler to fight against the bond; to free himself from Klaus' power but Tyler just kept saying it was impossible that he couldn't do it… until Klaus told him to bite Caroline. She had almost died that night, the night of what would have been her 18th human birthday, but was saved by the Original hybrid himself, his blood being the cure to werewolf bites. Tyler had later left Mystic Falls to try and break the sire bond himself after almost killing William Forbes, Caroline's father. Caroline still couldn't stop thinking that if it wasn't for Tyler's attack, her father would still be alive right now. He had been given vampire blood at the hospital where he had been treated for his injuries to help him heal faster, and after being killed by bad Alaric and going through the vampiric transition state, he chose to let himself die, not wanting to become a bloodsucking monster.

Of course it wasn't fair to put all the blame on Tyler. If it wasn't for Klaus, Tyler would not have had to transform into a werewolf multiple times with the help of her father to break the sire bond, and then would not have attacked Mr. Forbes. Yet again, Tyler was a werewolf before Klaus came into town, the attack could still have happened in another situation. But she got over that feeling in time; she didn't want to think about her boyfriend as the reason for her father's death.

When Tyler came back, the sire bond broken, he learned about Klaus' gifts to his girlfriend and ran into Caroline at a dance where she was Klaus' date. Of course this didn't mean anything to Caroline, but Tyler got jealous and they went into a heated argument. Seriously, Caroline had thought, how could Tyler think that Klaus could fancy her, as far as she knew Klaus was incapable of having feelings for someone else other than himself. Tyler had been hard to convince but in the end he gave in. Then, when Caroline was asked to keep Klaus busy while their friend Stefan Salvatore was planning on freeing their other friend Elena Gilbert from his imprisonment, Tyler got pissed off because Caroline got Chris, one of Klaus' hybrid, killed by Jeremy Gilbert in order to save his sister from the hunter curse. Although Caroline knew she might have been insensitive to Tyler's feelings towards his hybrid friends she couldn't understand how he could put Chris in the same boat as Elena. After that he had been curious to know how Caroline got Klaus to sacrifice one of his hybrids and when she told him she agreed to go on a date with Klaus, he got so angry he threw his glass of scotch across the room in rage. Finally, their latest argument came when Tyler and Hayley had planned on taking down Klaus with the help of their now unsired hybrid friends. The hybrids had kept both Stefan and Caroline captive so they wouldn't interfere, and Caroline couldn't believe Tyler could do that to her and that he was going to sacrifice himself without letting her know of his plan in advance. She had been pissed at him but had in the end she had forgiven him.

Their confrontations were always heated and Tyler's reactions were always quite violent. Although he never physically attacked her, she always felt like he pointed out how thoughtless and stupid she was. She knew they had grown distant in the past few months, even more since Hayley came in the picture if you asked Caroline, and she felt sad at the thought that their relationship was slowly coming to an end.

"Tyler, I can't go with you. I'm sorry, but this is my final decision. If you wish to leave than I am sorry but you will need to do so alone." She hoped he would stay and they would fight Klaus together.

Tyler looked shocked but quickly recovered from the blow. He bowed his head, gazing at his feet.

"I won't be alone", he whispered but she could easily hear him with her vampiric hearing.

"Of course, how stupid of me" she said bitterly. "You're bringing Hayley with you."

"Don't say it like that", he spat. "I owe it to her, Care. I need to protect her, as male Alpha, she's part of my pack. At least what's left of it…"

"She's the reason you're down to two pack members now" Caroline cried out. "She lied to you, went behind your back to get all your hybrid friends killed. For one thing she is the reason why your mother is dea…"

Before she could finish her sentence she was pinned to the wall, Tyler's forearm across her throat.

"Klaus is the only person responsible for my mom's death Caroline. And I will make him pay as soon as I find a way around the vampire bloodline problem. You don't want to be with me anymore, fine. Stay here. But just keep away from Klaus, stay safe."

He released her and without giving her the time to react he grabbed her in a tight embrace and kissed her lightly on her lips.

"I love you Care."

"Tyler …"

"Goodbye Caroline"

And just like that he had vanished. She wondered if she would ever see him again, and then finally, the emotions hit her hard and the tears slowly started coming down her cheeks.

Caroline woke up the next morning in her room quite dazzled by the light that came from her bedside window. She couldn't remember falling asleep. She remembered her encounter with Tyler. He had come to her house just a few minutes after she came back from the Salvatores' mansion. Stefan had been devastated after learning Damon and Elena had sex. She felt awful being the one to tell him the news, plus she had promised Elena she would keep the information to herself, but she couldn't keep that from Stefan, he was her friend after all, and after that big speech on trust and friendship, she had felt it was her duty to tell him.

When Tyler arrived on her doorstep he told her how their plan went wrong. How Hayley had gone behind his back and had had all their hybrid friends killed by Klaus. Finally he went back to the Christmas party to find his mother who had left him a message, and had found her drowned in the fountain. He was convinced his mother was killed by Klaus as a revenge to get him. She had held him in her arms saying soothing things trying to calm him down, she just couldn't process the information herself. He had later tried to convince her to follow him god knows where, away from Mystic Falls, away from her mother, away from her friends, but mainly away from Klaus. After he left she had cried for Carol, for the apparent end of her relationship with Tyler and finally she had cried because of Klaus.

This was all his fault. They had all lost so much because of that monster. She wanted to go to him right now and rip his head off. She couldn't believe that just a few hours ago, she had felt bad for him, she had felt bad for playing him and lying to him. She felt so stupid now. If Tyler was right and Klaus really did kill Carol out of revenge, she could never forgive him. She needed to know, she needed him to look her in the eyes and tell her he killed Tyler's mother. For some reason a part of her hoped he would belie the information, saying he had nothing to do with it.

She got up, brushed her hair, put on a pair of jeans and a silk blouse and left her house, ready for battle.