Hi all! This is just a one-shot of what's going through Tyler's head after he bit Caroline in 3x11. Hope you enjoy it. Please review! :) Thanks! xx


She was always there for him. She understood what was happening when he was going through a massive upheaval in his life. She risked her life to make sure he knew she was there for him through the toughest nights of his life. Her selflessness, kindness, generosity, quirkiness and love for life are few of the reasons as to why he fell in love with her.

Yes he said it. He loved her.

It might have happened between the time she risked her life to stay for his first transformation or the time she cried into his arms about her dad. As she lay crying in his arms, he would have moved heaven and earth to make her forget about what her father did to her and for her to smile. The rage he felt against her father when he saw her sitting helpless in that chair had to be restrained. At that point, while she was dozing off to exhausted sleep, did he come to the realisation that he loved her.

He loved her.

She brought happiness and joy to his life. Filled a hole in him that his mother or endless girls couldn't fill; understood him on a level even his best friend Matt didn't understand him on. She made him realise that he was capable of being loved; that the abuse he faced at his father's hands didn't mean that he was any less of a human.

He loved her.

But it's all too late. He said it too late. He thought he had it under control; that being sired would not affect him or his relationship with her. How wrong he was. He didn't know anything at all. She was right all along. And then he did the inexcusable – he almost killed the woman he loved. She warned him that his sire bond will get the better of him but he scoffed at that.

He almost killed her.

If not for his incessant begging, grovelling and the surprisingly mellow mood his sire was in, she would have died. He lost her that day itself. He should have realised that it was too good to be true. He had to go and spoil the best thing that has ever happened to him. He lost her and he will never get her back. So be it then. If all he can do is stay on the sidelines and not be with her as long as his sire is alive, he will do it. He will protect her from everything as much as he can even if it means she will move on and he can't do anything about it. That's what you do for the people you love.

He loves her.