"It is not working."
"I know. It's time to try something else."
"We threatened his child and the mother of his child. If that's not working, who else can we use? His family is too powerful. We won't be able to get close to any of them without one of us getting killed first."
"We need to find someone close to his heart. Someone he can't live without. That's the only way we're going to be able to get him to go along with the plan."
"We don't have much time left. She won't be able to last much longer."
"We will save her. Family first, remember?"
"Family first."
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She woke up confused and out of it, not knowing where she was. How did she get here? She sat up, feeling weak and dizzy as she took in her surroundings. A cell, she thought as she looked around. Everything was dark and dusty like someone hadn't been in here in decades. The room didn't have windows and the only way out was a door that seemed to be made of steel. Before she could start to come up with a plan to get out, the door opened and a stranger walked through it.
"Good, you're awake." A girl she had never met before said as she closed the door behind her with a loud thud.
"Where am I? Who are you?"
"My name is Sophie." The girl pulled a chair from a table next to the wall to sit down.
As soon as the girl sat down, she jumped up only to fall back down as the dizziness overwhelmed her.
"Don't bother trying to attack me, I will only knock you out again." Sophie said with narrowed brown eyes. Sophie was thin and short with brown hair that went past her shoulders. She was rather plain looking until someone looked in her eyes. There, anyone could see the determination, strength and resolve.
"What do you want?" She asked sitting back on the bed.
"I need your help. It seems like you might be the only one who can."
"Help? You drug me and now you want my help?" She snorted as she tried to keep her head from spinning. As a vampire, this was the first time she had ever felt like this. Every time she moved she was hit with more dizziness.
"Don't worry, you'll feel better as soon as the vervain wears off. But just so you know-"Sophie stopped speaking as a burst of pain ripped through her entire body. She cried out trying to breathe through it. The pain suddenly lifted and she looked at Sophie with anger filled eyes.
"There are ways that I can stop you." Sophie finished saying with a smirk.
"Fine, you're all powerful. Now tell where I am and why you need my help."
"You are thirty miles outside of New Orleans."
She rolled her eyes as things became clearer.
"This has to do with Klaus." Caroline said as she let her head fall back on the bed. Of course, she thought letting out a deep breath.
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TWO DAYS EARLIER….
Something didn't feel right, Caroline thought as she got in the car with Stefan. He had been acting strange for a while now. It had been a couple of weeks since Elena chose Damon, breaking Stefan's heart again. And Stefan wasn't taking it well. He was distant with everyone, not really talking to Damon or her. It hurt, because we were best friends that could talk about anything. She let the silence settle in as she gave him small glances every now and then. She understand Stefan not speaking to Damon or Elena but he always could talk to her, which is why something didn't feel right.
"So, have you decided about college yet?" Caroline said, breaking the silence as she turned to look at him.
"College? Why would I go to college?" Stefan said with a smirk.
That right there. Stefan never smirks.
"Stefan, are you okay?" She turned to look at him, trying to figure out it.
He looked back at her with a smile and nodded before he turned back to the road. Caroline kept looking at him to solve the puzzle. It's like he wasn't there, like his personality had taken a vacation.
"Stefan, what is it? You have been really distant from me lately. I understand why you don't want to talk to them, but we have always been able to talk." She said, placing her hand on his shoulder.
He smiled as he turned down a dirt road. "Just adjusting to all the change, Jeremy coming back to life and Bonnie dying."
Caroline turned to look out the window as sadness overwhelmed her. It was still hard to believe to this day that Bonnie was dead. She would be going about the day and something would come to her and she would think to herself, she needed to talk to Bonnie and it would hit her all over again. Jeremy can see Bonnie and talk to her but it wasn't the same for the rest of us. Just imagine trying to talk about Tyler or anything else she would talk to her best friend about and having to use Jeremy as the go between. It just didn't feel right. The lost of Bonnie and since Stefan was acting so strange, Caroline didn't have anyone to talk to. She hadn't heard from Tyler, though she had left countless messages telling him that he could come back home after Klaus told her he was free to return. Caroline pulled herself out of deep thought as she noticed that we were going in the wrong direction.
"Stefan, you took a wrong turn. We should have kept straight back there." She turned looking back at the way we came.
We were driving down a dirt road surrounded by woods and nothing else. Caroline looked ahead to see if there was somewhere we could turn around when she felt the prick on the side of her neck. She grabbed her neck as she looked at Stefan. "You'll asking too many questions" And darkness took over and she heard nothing else.
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(Back to Present)
"Yes, this is about Klaus, the hybrid." Sophie said as she leaned back in her chair.
"When he finds out what you did, he won't be happy."
Caroline was starting to feel like herself as the dizziness started to fade. She could focus more and she sat up again to look at Sophie directly.
"I know, but he didn't leave us much choice."
"Us?"
"I'm with a coven of witches and we reside in New Orleans. All witches have been banned from using magic within the city limits without permission since before I was born. A vampire by the name of Marcell controls the city and anyone caught using magic is put to death."
"Seriously?" With a tone of doubt.
Sophie's lips trembled before the resolve returned to her eyes. "My sister was executed a month ago because she used magic to locate someone to help us get Klaus to take down Marcell."
"I'm sorry" This time Caroline's tone was different. Maybe it was because she had just lost Bonnie and she was still mourning herself but Caroline started to feel sympathetic for the girl. She looked young but when Caroline looked in her eyes, she could tell the witch had seen or dealt with a lot that made her seem older, beyond her age.
"Marcell knows when we use magic within the city and he has plenty of followers that do his bidding, ready and willing to kill any witch that breaks his rules. We got Klaus to agree to take him down but he's not moving fast enough, which is where you come in."
"Threating Klaus isn't going to get you what you want. It'll just piss him off. He doesn't really like taking orders from other people." Caroline said, trying to let her know that this wasn't going to work.
Sophie smiled "Believe me, I know. But again, I don't have a choice. I had to find something to push him into action. I don't have a lot of time."
"So, what's the plan? Torture or kill me if he doesn't do what you want."
Sophie looked down before looking back with that resolve.
"If it comes to that. But I'm hoping that it won't. I will let him know that you're here and we will take it from there."
She got up to leave as Caroline's gums started to ache. "I haven't eaten in days."
Sophie turned quickly with anger. "I'm not bringing an innocent person for you to drain dry."
"You don't have to. A blood bag will do unless you want to go catch me a bunny."
"A bunny?" With the same tone of doubt that Caroline spoke with earlier.
"I don't drink human blood unless I have to. I've been on an animal diet since I was turned into a vampire." Caroline said with a smile.
Sophie arched her eyebrows with surprise and disbelief. "I'll see what I can do." She backed out of the room and slammed the door.
Caroline laid back down on the bed with a sigh. "Klaus, what the hell have you got me into now?"
But it wasn't Klaus entirely.
Why would Stefan put her in danger, she thought as the tears finally came spilling out.
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*Author's Note: Just dropping a note to say I'm sorry to everyone who had to suffer through the bad writing the first time. I finally went back and fixed my mistakes on the first three chapters. Hope it got better. Thank you Cathalinaheart and Entirely Torn for pointing it out in the first place and giving examples to make it better. As well as the guest Friend who reminded me. Sorry it took so long to fix. Thanks everyone.