Author's Note: So basically this story continues from where TVD and TO left off the main difference being that I decided to make the events of "Cold as Ice" happen Christmas Eve and the events of "Savior" happen Christmas day so the girls get to New Orleans just after Klaus discovered Cami dead.
P.S. tell if you like it. If so I might I'll continue if not I'll likely just do a few chapters before forgetting about it completely. So tell me soon I take all types of criticism just don't be mean for the hell of it. Tell me what I'm doing wrong and how I can do better. Thanks
I sat on the floor numb.
"Not again, not again" I repeated dazed. I was once again kneeling on the floor with my dead best friend Stefan Salvatore.
Stefan was dead and I was magically pregnant with my former teacher's magical twins. That's when the laughing began, I opened my mouth and it started, loud hysterical booming laughter, I laughed until it hurt and kept going I held my sides as they began cramping. It wasn't funny, not even it the slightest but I couldn't stop it, I didn't even try to, it just kept going then the crying started, the warm liquid started to pour down my face and the laughing stopped then, I fell to my side the tears pooling on the ground beside my face, the rug was itchy I wanted to scratch it but I didn't move I couldn't not yet.
"Oh my god" I heard Bonnie say. It was still too much, too much to think, too much to move, so I didn't respond. My loud sobs had turned into hiccups but I still couldn't talk, not yet, if I did the sobbing would re-start and I almost had it under control. Damn pregnancy hormones. Bonnie came up from behind me wrapping her arms around me, chin on my left shoulder. "Shhh, shh you're okay, Caroline what happened, who did this to them?"
I took deep long breaths in and out it took a while but I the crying stopped my eyes ached from all the crying but that didn't matter what mattered was telling Bonnie what happen how Julian had killed Damon and Nora had killed Stefan, how I knew why Julian had done it but for the life of me I couldn't understand why Nora did this to Stefan when I could finally speak I did, I told her all of it.
And then she told me about what that dumbass Damon had done, talking Mary-Louise was a stupid move. Even broken up her and Nora were obsessed with each other of course she retaliated by killing Stefan seeing as Damon was already dead.
"We need to find out more about that stone and Julian" Bonnie said after we finished.
"I have an idea" I said scrambling up. "I need to find my phone" I told Bonnie.
"Why what are you thinking?" she asked me. Helping me find my phone.
"Klaus" I stated bluntly.
"Klaus?" she asked wearily.
"Klaus" I nodded.
"How's he gonna help us?" she wondered.
"He's the oldest and strongest vampire we know, if anyone knows anything about a psycho like Julian and a weapon like the Phoenix Stone it's him or at the very least he knows someone who does."
I pressed 5 speed dial finishing the all too familiar number. Placing the phone between my shoulder and ear I kneeled again absently stroking Stefan's "hero hair" I smiled to myself sadly.
The phone rang…..and rang…..and rang.
Then I got his voicemail "I didn't answer because I don't want to talk to you, leave a message at your own peril"
Narcissistic jackass.
There was a beep and I hung up. "He didn't answer"
"So call again," She suggested. "He'll answer for you he probably thought it was a butt dial and didn't believe you'd really called on purpose."
"There's a good chance he's just listening to my request to never have to see or talk to him again," I bit my lip. "We have to go to him"
"What? Why?" she asked confused.
"Like I said he promised never to come back here. Please just trust me."
"Fine are we telling Alaric?" she inquired.
"What? No he'll never let me go, he-" I started but Valerie came running in.
"Damon, Damon Nora got her she-Oh god. What happened?"
"Your psycho sister and father killed Damon and Stefan with that damn sword" Bonnie snapped at her.
"Bonnie stop, Valerie's coming with us"
"What" they both said at once.
"We're driving to New Orleans for help against Julian and you're coming with us" I commanded "Don't ask I'll explain on the way," I grabbed my purse. "I'm taking first shift" I informed them as I reached the door yanking it opened. I glanced back at them and started for my car, they both came running.
"Are you sure about this, about talking what a 16, 18 hour drive to New Orleans in your state?" Valerie asked me.
"14 and I think doing nothing would be worse for me, because if I'm not doing something to get Stefan back I will fall apart and that would not help these things growing inside me" I tell her pointing at my swollen abdomen. "Are you coming or not." I got in the driver's seat. Bonnie grabbed the passenger seat and Valerie slipped into the back.
"You may want to MapQuest it" Valerie suggested.
"I know the way" Bonnie turned to me brows raised "I considered going there last year when my emotions were off before Stefan caught up with me in that motel." I defended not mentioning the dozens of other times before and since that I'd checked on it.
I turned the key in the car and, the clock blinked on at 11:17 pm and, we pulled out of the boarding house driveway.
Five hours later
"Care pull over," Bonnie said.
"Bonnie I'm fine" I protested.
"Care I can see your eyelids fluttering you need some sleep before you kill all five of us"
"Five?" she glanced at my stomach. "Right" I said pulling to the side of the deserted highway, the edge of the horizon had already turn orange the informing me sun would soon be rising just beyond the tall mountains. I got out the car the cold bit into my bare skin "Cold, cold, cold" I said dancing around the car to the passenger side door. Hopping in I turned up the heater and Bonnie re-started the car and began to drive.
I thought I was too wired to sleep but once my seat was leaned back and my eyes closed sleep grabbed me and dragged me, embracing the way dreams do, and I felt happy and safe for a few hours that felt like minutes.
I woke hours later and we weren't moving.
"Bonnie!" I exclaimed. Jolting both her and Valerie awake.
"What" she yelped deliriously "I'm sorry I was tired and you guys were sleeping."
"How long?" I demanded. Valerie had already lain back down.
Bonnie glanced at the clock it was noon "Three hours" she told me.
"Okay that means we've got five more hours," I paused "Move over I'm driving"
Bonnie got out and came around to the passenger side as I slide over to the drives seat.
Turning up the radio we continued our drive finally reaching New Orleans at about six p.m. due to traffic.
We grabbed some clean clothes from a boutique at the edge of the city, checking into a hotel to freshen up and change.
We finally got to Klaus' home at nearly eight o'clock, Bonnie and Valerie both flanked me as we walked through the large doorway and into a large courtyard, it was then that I heard it, crashing, braking, and then a howl. He came into view his wolf features out, his rage written clearly in his stance and on his face. He was hyperventilating and covered in blood which at the time I'd assumed was likely from someone he'd killed.
"I don't think it's a good time" Valerie whispered to me.
Klaus must have heard too because his head suddenly snapped towards us confusion and then shock crossed his face.
His eyes met mine.
"Caroline" he gasped.
I fainted.