Title: Letting The Right One In
Category: Vampire Diaries
Characters: Caroline and Tyler
Summary: Matt breaks up with Caroline after Vickie's body's found. She takes off out of the door wanting to get away. Set in season 1
Status: In Progress
AN: I don't own anything
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Chapter 1
He'd broken up with her, which was all Caroline could think. He'd run to Elena, but she had Stefan now so wasn't like she'd take him back. Matt just ended things when she'd tried to help him. Vickie was dead and Matt broke up with her. His mom already hated her now it was like she'd just been tossed away. She didn't understand what she had done wrong.
She'd run down the stairs wanting to get out of there in a hurry. She'd come there with her mom, but she could leave. She'd walk if she had to or run, she could run home. She knew she'd been crying when she went past Matt and Elena.
She could feel the tears on her face and they hadn't even noticed her. She hadn't looked back when Jeremy called out her name. She'd just run as fast as she could out the kitchen door. Tyler had tried to stop her, but she kept going after pushing him away. She didn't want to be stopped on her mission of getting out of the house.
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She'd finally stopped not sure where at first sliding down the tree. The rain had stopped now, but her face was wet again from the tears. It would always be Elena she thought hugging herself burying her head in her arms. She didn't even say anything wrong this time. She had wanted to help him through this, but Matt wanted Elena not her.
She really would regret sitting down later. She could feel the water soaking through her jeans already from the horrible rain. An arm was going around her and she just started sobbing. She figured it was Jeremy since he'd been the one calling after her.
She had no reason to think Tyler would come after her. He thought she was annoying and narcotic after all. The only reason he'd been talking to her lately was Matt asked him to. Matt broke up with her so Tyler didn't need to go after her now.
Things had been okay till now with her and Matt. However, she knew now she would never be the first pick of anybody in this town. Her mom chose the town over her, she was cast away by Damon, and now Matt just dumped her. She knew that Bonnie and Elena were closer than she was to them too. Even her dad had left her choosing a guy over his daughter. If she thought about it she was ultimately alone.
Ever who she was crying on hadn't said a word. She really was scared to find out who it could be. Only two guys had been in there besides Matt. It wasn't Matt he was too sad hugging on Elena to come after her. She didn't really care though as she just cried until she was asleep. She couldn't help it; everything just fell away that had been almost perfect. She'd remembered saying that she was always the second choice before she fell asleep.
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When he came out here he hadn't expected to be the shoulder Caroline was crying on. He'd really come to see why she'd shoved him against the sink so hard. It wasn't like she'd leave a bruise but she had some strength in her to be a girl, cheerleader or not.
She kept saying something about being the second best always the one nobody wanted to be with. He had seen her that morning and she'd seemed fine. She'd been hugging on Matt before he started his shift at The Grill.
He knew how she felt, her mom didn't even pay attention to her, and he'd give anything for his dad to ignore him. It was like he was some shining beacon half of the time, wasn't much he could do without getting grief for it.
Most of the time his mom would help him out, but she had her moments too. Hell if he really had to admit it to himself if his mom saw him drinking she'd never say anything. She had on occasion, when his dad was gone, handed him a drink too. He wasn't stupid though, he knew his dad drunk. However, the bastard always gave him hell for doing the same thing. It brought him back to the present thinking about that.
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Caroline was fast asleep after crying herself that way. He wasn't sure what to do at first, he wasn't good with crying. However, he picked Caroline up after sending a text to Jeremy. He didn't know how he still had his number in his phone or when the hell it got there. Jeremy had been okay till he'd gone for Vickie, then it became a fight almost weekly over her.
Now Vickie was dead and he'd screwed up with her. He didn't know if he really felt something for her. She'd meant something just not what he'd thought somebody could be to him. He couldn't really show how he felt. It was just the way he was. Thinking about how Jeremy's number got in his phone, it was probably Vickie's doing when she'd borrowed his phone before.
It was a simple message I'm taking Caroline home tell her mom. He had gotten his car before driving over here after his dad had dropped him off at home. Jeremy had come with him; it had been a silent drive.
He could left him but he'd come out the Grill asking for ride, his dad had just said yes. Elena was there now so she could get him back home. Matt hadn't wanted to talk which was why he'd come here, apparently Elena was the one he wanted talk to.
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He couldn't help think of Elena and Matt's break up, now it was Matt breaking up with Caroline after a death. He never wanted to feel that kind of pain, if he ever lost his mom he didn't know what he would do. She showed that she cared in different ways.
He got her in his car before driving the two miles to Caroline's house. He'd been here when he'd been younger so he knew where the hide-a-key was at. His parents and hers used make them play together as kids. They were the Founding Families' kids they had to play together. He wanted nothing to do with any of that stuff.
He was glad that arranged marriages were done away with because he was sure he'd been married to Caroline by now. He might not be eighteen yet, but other countries married off kids early. He didn't want think about that though even when they'd been kids he'd always heard it.
They'd grown up and Caroline hadn't even been on his radar until lately. They hung in the same circle, but until lately he wondered if that even made them friends. Things had changed when Matt asked him to pick her up that day.
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Caroline was lying on her bed now still asleep, he sat down on the bed too and watched her thinking about stuff. He always hid it good; he'd never say it or admit it out loud. Thinking about it after this would be out the question. Something had always told him he should have been the one with Caroline. It made no sense though because that just wasn't his type.
He liked the bad girl because he was the bad boy, the dick as most called him. He didn't get to have the girl that was sweet even if sometimes he wanted to yell for her stop talking. He had always listened though, even that night when she'd been bitching about not being picked. He hadn't walked away and left her at the falls.
It had been second day back school at the party that was thrown yearly. He remembered getting really drunk and wanting to do it out there in the woods. It had ended when Jeremy showed up drunker than he was. He'd walked off leaving Jeremy and Vickie there.
Now he'd give anything to hear Caroline talking instead of the voice in his head. The one that kept telling him he didn't deserve to miss Vickie. He was a dick; he'd always be a dick. He was an embarrassment to his family; he always did the wrong thing. He didn't care though he had to live his own life.
Tyler didn't mean to but he fell asleep too. The sounds of the rain again and the long day was catching up with him. He would deal with Caroline freaking out later. She had moved in her sleep laying her head against his chest. His arm was around her and he wasn't thinking about how it was going to look when she woke up. He'd taken her wet clothes off so she didn't get her bed wet. He was lying there with only his jeans on.
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