Blood on the Moon
by Erin Salvatore
Disclaimer: I don't own the Vampire Diaries. I'm just borrowing.
Note: I got the idea for this Klaroline AU story while in the shower (don't ask). Caroline was 12 years old when she came home and found her mother murdered. 12 years later, as a homicide detective, she decides to reopen the case and meets the mysterious Klaus Mikaelson, who tells her that there is more to her mother's murder than she originally thought.
Like I said, don't ask, I was compelled to do this while showering.
Chapter 1
Forbes Family Home, Mystic Falls, Virginia, 2001
Caroline Forbes couldn't wait to get off the bus that day, mostly because she was excited. Excited that she just got nominated for the 7th Grade Class President at Mystic Falls Middle School. She had been nervous going in, especially since she didn't know if anyone would nominate her. Then, during the lunch period, she heard the announcement about the nominees and she was one of the candidates for Class President.
She had spent the remainder of the day mentally planning her campaign, because if she was going to win this thing, she was going to do it the way she had seen politicians do it on TV, despite the fact said politicians were adults and not twelve-year-olds. She was even planning on how to tell her mother that she had been nominated and asking her to help her get her campaign posters and everything ready for the weeks ahead, since she wanted to outdo her opponents and win the race.
However, when the bus reached her house, her excitement died, replaced by a sense of dread. That's weird, she didn't feel like this when she left this morning, why would she be feeling like this? Something was definitely not right. It was like something out of a horror movie or a crime drama, only much worse.
Ignoring her pounding heart, Caroline walked up the steps of the front porch and saw that the door had literally been ripped off its hinges. She slowly opened the door and walked into the house, seeing a mess all around the place, as if someone had forced their way and wrecked everything her family held precious.
"Mom?"
No answer. That's weird, why wasn't Liz answering her daughter's call? She told her this morning that she was taking the day off and that she'd be home, so why was it that Caroline was being met with silence.
"Mom? Are you home?"
Again, no answer. Okay, this was seriously scaring her. Caroline then saw something that scared her even worse than the fact her mother wasn't answering her. She saw Liz sprawled out on the kitchen floor, in a pool of her own blood. Carefully, Caroline went over to her and knelt down, gasping when she saw what looked like puncture wounds on her neck. Scared out of her mind and not caring that she had blood on her hands, she dialed 911, looking at her mother's lifeless body. Who could do this to her? True, there was the risk of danger because she was a sheriff, but which of the people she put away would puncture her neck like that and make her bleed out so mercilessly?
"911, what's your emergency?"
The operator's voice on the other end startled her out of her reverie and Caroline tried to hold back her tears as she said, "Yeah, this is Caroline Forbes, and I need an ambulance."
"Are you hurt, sweetheart?"
"No, it's my mom," said Caroline. "I came home from school just now and found her on the floor in the kitchen. She's bleeding and I...I think she's dead. She's got these nasty marks on her neck."
"All right, we'll send an ambulance to your house right away," said the operator. "Just stay on the phone and help will be there shortly."
Several Minutes Later...
Caroline was still in shock when the ambulance arrived and barely said a word as she watched the paramedics take her mother's body out of the house. It was hard to believe that in less than a day, her young life was forever changed. She had no idea that when she left the house this morning, it would be the last time she would see her mother alive. She was still confused about who would be so cruel as to kill an innocent sheriff whose only crime was trying to protect the town from those who wished to do the citizens harm.
In that moment, all of her plans for her campaign seemed trivial, because who could possibly think about that when one's mother was so cruelly taken from her?
Among the questions she was asked was who she could contact. The only person she could think of off the top of her head was Lillian Forbes, her grandmother in Atlanta. So, without a bit of hesitation, that was who she told them to call. She could've told them to call her father, Bill, but because she was still in a bit of a haze, she chose Lillian instead.
Once the decision was made, Caroline was allowed to pack some clothes and toys before she was escorted out of the house by one of her mother's colleagues. As she walked toward the awaiting squad car, she made a secret vow that she'd find the one – or ones – responsible for killing her mother, even though she didn't know exactly how she'd do it. The only thing she did know was that she couldn't let this crime go unpunished.
Note: Thus begins my new AU. I know things sound bad now, but they will improve. I will introduce Klaus in the next chapter, and there will be romance. Stay tuned!
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