Caroline woke up, and for once, she didn't question if she was going to die this day. She finally woke up to a Klaus-free world, where she would never have to deal with his constant onslaught of trying to kill her friends and kidnap Elena. She felt her heart clench and she closed her eyes so tight she saw red. She had been practicing this, trying not to cry whenever she thought of Tyler.
This was how Caroline recovered from a death, she'd cry for a few days then she'd find a way to stop the crying. She found out the way to stop her tears was to lay in bed all day and skip school, despite her Mother's protests, Caroline merely let her glimmering wet eyes out from under the covers.
Her Mother just phoned in the school then to let them know that Caroline had strip throat. Then she left for work, a kiss on Caroline's forehead was placed before she left.
"It'll all be okay, honey." She would say before she left. Then Caroline, after hearing the door close, when crawl out from under the covers and watch re-runs of the Bachelor.
But today was different, her phone chimed with a text from Bonnie.
I need your help. The text read, Caroline quickly thumbed over the reply button.
Currently in mid-life crisis, boyfriend just died, leave me to mourn and possibly die.
Caroline texts back, then setting her phone on the sofa next to her. But then it begins to ring with Britney Spears 'Toxic' filling the air, Caroline groans and grabs the phone, ready to press the decline button, but decides against it and presses answer.
"How long are you going to mourn again?" Bonnie's usually chipper voice says from the other line of the phone, but today, her voice sounds dreary - tired.
"Maybe until the end of the school year." Caroline says, getting off of her couch and walking to the kitchen, grabbing a pint of Ben and Jerry's Chocolate cookie dough, "I already have replaced Tyler, with two other men, Ben and Jerry." Caroline says, hunting for a spoon.
Bonnie's sigh is loud and audible through the cell phone, "I'm sorry Care, but it's been about a week - not enough time to get over someone you loved, but I need your help."
Caroline groans, shifting on her two feet, annoyed, "What on earth do you need my help with? Klaus is dead, therefore, we're all safe now." She waves her spoon in the air, "Yippee. See? We already had our bye bye Klaus party, did we forget something? I could totally get streamers and we can try again-"
Bonnie is getting annoyed too, "We do have other Originals that probably want Elena dead because Klaus is dead. Anyways - that's not it."
"Oh yeah, they have that whole 'redemption' and 'revenge' thing going on, uber creepy. Tyler is dead but they don't see me running over there and killing them off. It's called building a bridge, and getting the hell out of Mystic Falls." Caroline retorts, opening the pint and putting a spoonful of ice cream into her mouth.
"I need Klaus's body." Bonnie just quickly says it. Caroline stops eating ice cream and freezes.
"Um, why on earth would you need that? Probably burned to a crisp right now, feel the need to spread his ashes over a ocean or something Bonnie? You're too sappy-" Caroline begins to tease, "Have you been reading too many novels or something?"
Bonnie breathes out through her nose, promising herself not to get frustrated, "You're going to hate me."
"It takes a lot for me to hate someone." Caroline says, thinking of Alaric, when he told her he killed her father, she had cried, but that hadn't made her hate him. She only began hating him after he kidnapped her and tortured her in front of Elena. Only for Elena to save her life and Caroline running into Klaus's arms.
Then she began to hate Alaric.
"Just, drive over here, please. Body first would be nice though. I've already made sure Elena distracts the Salvatores." Bonnie says, "It's very important."
"Fine fine fine." Caroline says, "The Bachelor was boring anyways." She says grumpily, hanging up the phone and going upstairs and jumping into the shower.
She comes out with her skin glistening in heat, she bends over and grabs clothes out of her drawers, when she turns to the mirror she see's Klaus. But when her gasp comes out, he's gone just as fast as he came.
Caroline is breathing hard, her chest rising up and down, "Okay, you're just going insane because your sired boyfriend died." She reassures herself after sliding on a tee and some jean shorts and a pair of heels. She curls her hair and puts on make up and walks out of the house to her car. Driving over to the Salvatores.
Arriving at the Salvatores, Caroline felt her skin crawl, she hadn't spoken to either of them since Tyler died. She couldn't bring herself to do it, not to mention Damon's sharp tongue made Caroline want to rip his heart out.
So now, she was here to rob them. Caroline picks the lock of the door and walks to the basement, they always hide stuff down there.
She picks the cellar door lock and waa-laa! Klaus's polished coffin is sitting in the middle of the room, teasing her, 'look at me, burned in all of my glory'. But when she opens the coffin, she doesn't see ashes.
She see's him, the only thing that's different is that his eyes are closed and his chest isn't moving. His face is highlighted with stone and he's been chained down, talk about being cautious and paranoid.
Caroline slams the coffin shut and rolls him up the stairs, many swears are inserted in between the banging against the stairs.
When she hits the smooth surface of their living room, she thinks of something else. How in the hell is she supposed to put a coffin inside of her car without anyone noticing? Answer: She doesn't. So Caroline flings the coffin open and grabs him after undoing his chains.
Caroline sits in Bonnie's living room, sipping from a hot cup of tea while dead Klaus lays on the floor between them. Bonnie had shoved her living room table out of the way for him, and now Caroline waited.
"So what? Why'd you need him?" Caroline asks, curling her legs up under her, staring down at him, "Why couldn't you just leave me alone to my own pity party?"
Bonnie's knee is bouncing up and down, she is chewing nervously on her bottom lip, "I did something really bad, Care."
"I know, you said that on the phone." Caroline says, folding her arms across her chest, "What did you do?"
Bonnie kneads her hands together nervously before meeting Caroline's waiting eyes, "Klaus isn't dead."
Caroline's brows raise up, her eyes twitching just the tiniest bit, from shock - undoubtedly, "B-But. Tyler died." She stutters on the first part, was her mourning really for nothing?
"That part is right." Bonnie says, "It's just, Klaus isn't."
Caroline shakes her head, her blonde locks flowing around her as she does so, "I.. I really don't understand Bonnie. Killing a Original kills everyone in their bloodline.."
"Why aren't you dead then?" Bonnie asks.
"Luck?" Caroline squeaks.
Bonnie stands up, "I couldn't stop the bloodline curse from getting to Tyler, and by the time I got to it, Tyler was dead. So, I took Klaus's soul and put it into Tyler's body so I wouldn't have to lose any of you."
Caroline stands up, "Excuse me? So -"
"Tyler was already dead Caroline."
Caroline paces the room, "So where has Klaus been staying?"
Bonnie points her finger upstairs, "Here."
"You're kidding me."
Bonnie shakes her head, "He's actually been really helpful with Abby, reassuring her and everything. He got her to stay." She says, a pointed look towards the staircase, "I still hate him, but I have to give him props on that."
Caroline runs her hands through her hair, "Tyler though? Really?" Her voice rises a bit on the really, her pacing turns frantic, "So you're going to put him back in his body now?" She points at the body.
"Yep." Bonnie turns towards the staircase as Tyler/Klaus comes down it.
Caroline can't held the fact that her soul lifts when she see's Tyler, but she dismisses it just as quickly, this isn't Tyler, this is Klaus. He walks like Tyler, his voice is like Tyler, but Caroline can't let herself get wrapped up in it. Because even though he is in Tyler's body, does not make him Tyler.
"I'll just leave while you do it." Caroline quietly says, disappearing from the room and going upstairs to Bonnie's room.
"It's hard for her." She can hear Bonnie telling Klaus downstairs.
"I figured it would be." Klaus replies in Tyler's voice, "But please get me out of this body and back into my own. I feel quite out of place."
Bonnie nods and she performs the spell.
Caroline squeezes her eyes so tightly shut she can see stars, she doesn't want to hear Tyler's lifeless body plop to the floor, she doesn't want to feel his body dragging farther and farther from her. She doesn't want to think of Tyler as in some kind of limbo because Bonnie put him there.
She can feel the magic whizzing through the house like a toxin. Then she can hear Bonnie's footsteps, knocking lightly on the door.
"It's over Care." She says softly, not bothering to even open the door.
Caroline opens her eyes and goes over and opens the door, "I'm almost over it." That's what she says to Bonnie before going down the stairs to see Klaus testing out his new body.
"Hello love." Klaus says, a smirk set between his pink, perfectly alive lips. While Tyler lays on the floor in the kitchen, his skin gray and his eyes lifeless.
Caroline forgets how to breathe for a moment, he's no longer Tyler, but he's there, just there in all of his Klaus glory, perfectly alive - practically glowing, "Klaus." She swallows hard, looking away from him and to Bonnie, "There, I helped you." She says softly, walking towards the front door, "You're welcome." She cries hoarsely.
She decided she'd need a few more days of mourning.
Tyler haunts her that night, he's been doing that every night now. First the dreams were pleasant, now they were nightmares, accusations. That night, his body was laying in her kitchen instead, but his eyes popped open, perfectly alive and chipper, just as he had been before. That's what scares her the most.
The idea that he was alive at one point, and now that he's dead.
Losing someone you loved was like losing clothing, it left you feeling naked and vulnerable to any attacks, you felt sensitive.
She curled herself into a ball, her lashes brushing against each other, whispering to herself.
"I'm so sorry, Tyler."
Caroline goes to Bonnie's despite her own moral protests, to her surprise, Klaus answers the door instead.
"I reckon you're here for your friend." Klaus says, leaning against the doorway.
"Aren't you supposed to be with your family or something?" Caroline asks, bumping shoulders with him and walking into the house, "The whole reunion thing. 'Hey, look, I'm not dead.' or whatever..?"
Klaus shuts the door behind her, "I supposed that I should let myself have a little down time to myself, considering I just got done coming out of limbo."
"Do you want a medal or something?" Caroline asks, looking all around the house for a trace of Bonnie.
"An apology would be nice." Klaus, has the audacity to smirk at her, as if he didn't just kill Tyler. He just had to go and get himself killed - then bam, back to life. Tyler didn't get to have that, Tyler didn't even get to have a future.
Caroline turns to glare at him, "That's exactly what you're not getting. I don't care if you die or not anymore, I don't even care that you're the one who created my line - Tyler's dead because of you."
Klaus grins, tilting his head to the side, "Shouldn't you be putting the blame on Alaric instead of me? He did also kill your father."
"Don't you dare." Caroline warns, her voice growing low.
"So as you can see, Alaric is perfectly happy with murdering the people you love." Klaus says, "So perhaps you should put your blame on someone else."
Caroline bites her lip and turns away from him, "We're not talking about this."
"You just want to put the blame on someone that is alive and going to talk to you." Klaus walks a circle around her, "You're lonely, aren't you Caroline?"
She freezes a bit, her normally strong exterior fades a bit, "I'm not."
"Yes you are, now you have no one there to tell you what you're doing is right."
"I'm not doing anything!"
"Maybe that's the problem."
Caroline sets a cold glare on him, "I don't know what you're going on about, but just tell Bonnie to call me."
"Will do."
She turns on her heel to leave, but Klaus grabs her by the elbow, pulling her back a bit.
"Oh, and Caroline. Think twice before you kiss Tyler goodbye next time. It may be someone you didn't expect."
The first Chapter of my new Klaroline fic! Enjoy! :)