She parked her car in front of the town hall. It was long past midnight when she hurried towards the back entrance of the old city jail. When she had made sure that no one was watching her, she quickly unlocked the door and went inside.
She switched the old, rusty ceiling light on and walked down the spiral staircase. She hated this place, it always reminded her of the time when her father had locked her up down here to "free" her from her vampire aspects.
She always got shivers when she stood in front of the old iron door.
But she had offered to do this, she had offered to help Stefan, because she had never forgotten how he had helped her when she was turned by Katherine.
Elena, Damon and Bonnie were out of town, trying to find a way to kill Klaus. They have been gone for two weeks now and she had hardly heard from them. According to Damon Bonnie had been able to decipher the runes in the old cave and now they were trying to solve the riddle of the runes. Apparently it was about another dagger, one that would be deadly only on hybrids.
While the others were driving from place to place looking for it, Caroline had agreed to stay behind to take care of Stefan. At first Elena had refused to leave town, but Damon and the others had made it clear that it was too dangerous for a human to be alone with Stefan. And besides they needed her to lure Klaus to them, once they had found the weapon.
Caroline snapped out of the memory and pushed the door open to Stefan's cell.
He was still bound to the old chair. After Lexi had stripped away his bloodlust Damon allowed him only one bloodbag per day. At first a mix of human and animal blood, later pure human blood. "He really needs to control it, it can't always control him or he'll again end up in a situation like this before he can even say "blood"," Damon argued. So now it was Caroline who walked down the cellar once a day, or rather once a night, to bring him a blood bag. It was just enough to keep him conscious, he was weak and therefore no danger anymore. His ripper side was mostly buried deep down again, but so were his feelings. Usually he just sat there, staring blankly ahead, not saying anything. At first she had been glad that he had stopped it with the snarky comments but after two weeks of this silent treatment she wasn't so sure anymore of what she preferred. Like Elena had said, he was just like a ghost.
"He Stef, brought you some blood", she said, trying to sound cheerful.
He looked up at her, no emotion visible on his face.
"Ok so you're still not talking to me? Fine!", she opened the blood bag and held it to his face.
He started drinking immediately, gulping down the blood in a few seconds. He looked a bit better now, but it wasn't enough to really fill his hunger. They wounds that Lexi had caused him had only barley healed, it was saver to keep him weak.
She stared at him for a few moments, stared into his lifeless eyes, the ones who had once contained so much love, so much happiness.
she remembered how he had held her in his arms after she had been turned. Everything had been so overwhelming and she had thought that she was going to lose it. But he had been there, holding her in his arms, not letting her fall apart. He had looked her in the eyes, promised her to always be there for here.
It made her so furious to think that all this was gone now. That she'd never get the old Stefan back if the others didn't find the dagger to kill Klaus.
She missed her best vampire friend so much.
"You know, you are such a liar, Stefan Salvatore. You promised me that you'd always take care for me, that you'd be there for me when I need you. And now you're just sitting there like... like a ghost. And every freaking day that I have to come here and see you, I remember what it was like between us. And I just don't get it, how could you throw it all away! ...you were never really my friend", with every sentence her voice became louder and louder, until she found herself screaming at him.
suddenly he looked her right into the eyes, "Oohh you're not my friend anymore, this makes me so sad Caroline", he sneered at her.
For a second she was shocked that he suddenly started talking to her again, but then it mad her even more furious.
"Yes this should indeed make you sad, I was one of your best friends. But I'm done with you, I'm done with this", she gestured at him, at the room, before she slapped him as hard as she could.
"You can rot in here for the next 500 years", she stormed out of the room, slammed the door behind her and with vampire speed ran away from it all.
He stared at the place where she had stood just moments ago. Something inside of him felt strange. It was almost like a little tugging pain in his chest, that had nothing to do with physical pain. For a moment he knew that what he had said was wrong, that he had upset her, that this wasn't how it should be between them. For a moment he wanted to jump up, run after her and tell her that he was sorry. But before he really knew it, it was gone and the only thing he felt was the slap of her hand, still burning on his cheek.
I miss these two so much! They haven't had ONE real scene together this season :( I think that Caroline is the one who should help Stefan finding back to himself. About the dagger: I know that there is probably no such thing, but since we don't know yet how they are going to kill him, I just made this up. ;) Please bear with me, English is NOT my native language so it's possible that I use the wrong tenses, grammar or spelling.
