Set the fire to the third bar
My first TVD fic so I hope you and enjoy! This is just my take of the future ...
She took out the map that had been sat in the same draw for the past 12 months. Her hand shaking as she opened it, smoothing out some of the crinkles that lay in the paper. Never in the 12 months they'd been separated had she become this desperate, had she become so haunted by the voice in her head that she had considered going back there, back to him.
Closing her eyes briefly she took the pencil sitting on the side table and drew a small circle on the map where she was. Her eyes drifting across the paper to draw another where he was. On paper it looked only centimetres apart, a finger length if that. But in reality it was miles, over a thousand of them. She drew a line between the two circles, subconsciously mapping out a route of some sorts. The line went across state lines, from the place she was to where she knew he was sure to be. If the last year had taught her anything it was that she was a creature of habit, one who enjoyed her home comforts and this place she was currently residing definitely wasn't home. She hadn't spoken to him properly an entire year and yet she still felt exactly the same, it wasn't that she didn't love him, it was that she couldn't, their love was challenged, it was perfect to them but not to the rest of the world and it seemed in the short time they had managed to keep things together, everything else was destined to tear them apart.
A couple of tear drops hit the paper, sitting there for a few seconds before absorbing into the paper. She didn't want to cry but she had no choice in the matter, anything that came to him made her emotional. His voice in her head made her smile at the same time the tears fell, it was painful and joyful all at the same time. She would literally give anything to hear his voice again, to see his gorgeous green eyes, to feel his lips against as hers as he told her loved and that no matter what she would always have him. But all that changed, in the matter of a few months everything changed, their lives were flipped upside down in a twisted reality that changed the rest of their lives.
Letting her finger run across the map once more, she stood up from the sofa taking the map and the pencil with her as she darted up the stairs and to the room she had labelled her bedroom. She didn't know what it was that made her do it, instinct perhaps? Or that magnetic pull that seemed to keep her connected to him no matter where she went? She took her suitcase from the bottom of her closet, throwing in anything she could, as quick as she could. Doing the same in the bathroom and the other rooms upstairs before she went to her lounge and wrote two words on a piece of paper leaving them perched by the lamp "I'm sorry".
Placing 'supplies' in a cool bag, she locked the front door, threw her things in the car and drove, not once looking back. She was either stupid or crazy to be doing this, it was dangerous and potentially life threatening for everyone involved, but she didn't care…a 24 hour drive and the risk of potential death was nothing if she got to see him just one last time.
"Call Tyler" she called out to her car, smiling when the hands free system began to dial out. After a few rings he answered.
"Caroline Forbes, how can I be off assistance?" she could hear the smile in his voice
"I need your help…"
"What's broken now? And why can't Lover boy fix it?"
She swallowed the lump in her throat "A, there is nothing going on between Matt and I, B nothing ever will happen between Matt and I and C…I'm not home." The end of her sentence seemed to trial off a little.
"What do you mean you aren't home?" he asked "Where about are you Caroline?"
"Erm…" she hesitated, not wanting to tell him but also needed his help if she was going to do this.
"Caroline…"
She looked at one of the road signs as she drove past "I-30 Arkansas" she told him preparing for the reaction that was about to hit.
"Arkansas? Why the hell are you…" her face scrunched at his words knowing he'd figured out what she was doing. "No, Caroline You can't. You know you can't…" she could almost picture his face getting angry.
"Too late Tyler. I'm on my way to New York. Are you going to help me or not?" she asked
There was a sigh and then a deep growl "Do I have much choice? You're going to do what you want anyway, with or without my help" Caroline smiled, he knew her too well. "What do you need?"
She spent the next 30 minutes of the drive explaining her plan to Tyler, although she had to admit it was extremely flawed and altogether the most stupid thing she's done. "Do you think you can do that?" she finished
"Yes, I'm not happy about this Caroline. I don't want to see you hurt…"
"We'll be fine." She said gasping when she realised she'd let slip.
"We? Caroline tell me you haven't?" he groaned again
"What Tyler? I wasn't leaving her was I?"
"You've just put an even bigger target on your back, if anyone finds out…"
"Well there aren't going to." She said firmly "Please Tyler don't say anything."
"Fine. Just drive safe and I'll see you in New Jersey." He told her "And Care? Don't be tempted to drive through Mystic Falls, it's a ghost town now…"
"I know I can't go back there"
A little confused? intrigued ? Who is Caroline going to see, who is with her ? and what's happened to lead to this situation now?" back soon !
