Chapter 1: Punching Bunnies

She was curled up in a ball on the floor of the forest.

She didn't quite know just how long she had been there; it could have been an hour, maybe two, maybe even four. Caroline thought that she would have run out of tears to cry a long time ago, but every time she thought of Tyler she just broke down into fresh bouts of sobbing, and then she got angry, really angry. It felt like it had been going on like this for an eternity, switching from being so heartbroken that it physically crippled her, to being furious and running around the forest, ripping down trees and punching bunnies. If Caroline was being completely honest with herself, she preferred the angry phases, because when she hurt, it was all she could do not to flip the switch and turn off her humanity, the pain was so intense, it was killing her. How could he have done this to her, she loved him, and he had loved her. He had told her that the whole reason he went to the Appalachians was to get over his sire bond for her. Because he loved her, but instead he had gone and slept with the first were-bitch he saw, and then had the nerve to go and get insanely jealous and over protective of her when he came back and saw Klaus' gifts. He was a hypocrite! And he didn't even try to apologise when she ran out of the Lockwood mansion, he had just tried to justify sleeping with another girl, which, yeah, of course, Ty, you're completely allowed to do.

FLASH BACK

Caroline was suspicious of Hayley, she was way too pretty, and the way she looked at Tyler, and the glances he kept sending her, but Caroline was sure it was nothing, Tyler had told her so, and she believed him, because she loved him, and he loved her too, and he wouldn't lie to her. But she was still suspicious. Oh, Caroline, she sighed internally, neurotic much?

Tyler was about to ring Klaus to prove he had broken the sire bond. Caroline was trying to pay attention to what was happening around her but her brain kept distracting her, thinking up conspiracies, telling her that she should be wary of Hayley, saying 'What if, what if, what if'. Caroline knew she should probably listen to the doubts she was having and question Tyler further, just to get reassurance, but she didn't want to. She wanted to trust that what he had told her was true, that he didn't cheat on her, that he hadn't lied to her face, that he would always tell her the truth. She tried to listen in to the conversation Klaus was having with Tyler.

'Tyler! I hope you're not causing problems!'

"I can do whatever I want; I'm not sired to you anymore."Tyler said, he really shouldn't have done though, Caroline knew it was just going to cause trouble.

'Fair enough, although I do happen to know your little secret about your time in Appalachia' Caroline froze, what secret? 'What was your friend's name? Hayley was it? You'd probably prefer I kept that to myself.' If Caroline's heart was still beating it would have stopped. She looked at Tyler, who had also frozen, and Hayley, who wore an expression of guilt.

'I'm sorry mate, are you going to answer or should I just assume your back to being… how did you phrase it? Ah Yes! My little bitch.'

Tyler hung up the phone in defeat and told the hybrid to 'do whatever the hell he wanted'.

That was when Caroline ran from the room and out of the mansion, tears threatening to pour. She could hear Tyler racing after her, calling her name. She got halfway down the driveway before spinning round and snapping.

"What?!"

"Just let me explain…" Oh, this guy had some frickin' nerve. Had Caroline not been in such a fit of blinding rage she would have been tempted to listen to Tyler's explanation just so she could laugh at how pathetic it was, but Caroline was angry, like, not just angry, but Klaus angry, which was pretty damn angry…

"Excuse me! Let you explain what?! Let you explain that you didn't really cheat on me with that were-slut…"

"HEY!" she heard Hayley protest, but she ignored her, she was mid rant, and nothing stopped Caroline when she was mid rant.

"… That you didn't really lie to my face when you told me nothing had happened between you, because if that's what you're going to tell me then please, by all means, because I would love to hear you say that! I would love for you to tell me that I'm wrong, that you didn't lie to me, that nothing happened, that I'm just overreacting, because, after all, it was Klaus I heard it from, and I know you're not so insensitive as to let me hear about you cheating on me from someone else even if it was true. So if that was what you were going to explain to me then please, by all means" she whispered, trying, and unfortunately, failing, to stop the tears from escaping and falling down her face "Go ahead…" she sobbed.

Tyler just stood still and stoic, looking at his feet in guilt, not uttering a word.

"That's what I thought" She whispered, "You know Tyler, I really thought you loved me…"

And with that Caroline ran from him, away from the hurt, away from the man she thought she loved, the man she thought had loved her, and away from the girl he had broken her heart with.

And it was while she was running, that she realised, he hadn't even bothered to apologise.

Hello… yeah, some of you may have read this already… before it was ripped from the internet, for which I can only apologise… sorry :/

Hello, wonderful people who have decided to read this for the first time, I hope you enjoyed. Sorry about the lack of Klaus, but I promise he will make an appearance next chapter.

Au revoir

Penguinnumber4 xxx

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