Title: Give Me A Sign

Category: Vampire Diaries

Characters: Caroline, Tyler, and Liz

Summary: All Caroline wanted was to be with Tyler, but he is gone because of Klaus. However, Liz is not going to let her daughter suffer in pain. She does the only thing that she can as a mom. She tries to find a way to give her daughter the happiness she deserves; she just needs a sign.

Status: In Progress

AN: I don't own anything, if I did Tyler wouldn't have left.

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Chapter 1

It had been the same thing every night for the last month and Liz couldn't keep watching her daughter cry herself to sleep. It was breaking her own heart for her daughter to go through this hell. She had never cried when Bill had left her for Steven she had pushed herself into her work. She had been the sheriff and that was it. She had pretty much forgotten everything, except her job.

She had left Caroline alone nights and didn't even remember much of her little girl's life. She wasn't sure what she could do besides sit beside Caroline and to rub her back now. She held her and let her cry herself to sleep every night. When she woke up screaming out in her sleep she was there in under a minute. She didn't even say a word when Caroline showed up in the middle of a school day at the station. They would go out to lunch or just stay in at night.

She had made sure that she had her daughter's favorite blood type in the house, the whiskey she liked to drink, boxes and boxes of tissues, the candy that Caroline could eat pounds of all ready. She would even sit through the horrible movies that Caroline put on knowing she would end up crying. She did it because she loved her daughter so much and she blamed the original hybrid for her daughter's pain.

It was all because of Klaus and she didn't think she could hate somebody so much, but she did. She wished that Klaus had never came here or been born all those years ago. He was the reason her daughter was so broken hearted and she kept a check to make sure Caroline had no stakes near her. She knew that Caroline would never kill herself, but she still checked.

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Liz sat down at her desk looking at the latest update from a few other police stations. She was trying to see if there was any sign anywhere that maybe Tyler was leaving. There had to be some kind of sign just like when Damon and Elena were tracking Stefan all those months ago. She wondered if there ever would be any signs because he was on the run from Klaus. She just wanted Caroline to be happy again and the only way for that was to somehow find Tyler. She sighed again not seeing anything and she closed the page before she checked something she had set up herself.

It was an email address that was under Carol Lockwood's name, she missed her friend a lot these days. She had found her in the fountain and had known who had killed her. Caroline had called her and told her to be careful that morning since something was going on. She couldn't say what just to be careful and it was ironic because the one person that should have been careful was gone. She understood why Tyler had to leave because he really was in danger staying here. However, she felt that her own daughter was in danger too.

She sent out an email that was simple that said leave me a sign; I'll send C to you. She knew that Tyler had to at least check his voice mails and emails. Caroline was sending him voicemails daily, but he never returned them. Liz knew she wouldn't get a reply right away because it wasn't like he was waiting for some kind of sign.

She decided to just go home and she would check from her house later when it was late. Caroline would be getting home soon and she wanted to be there because it was the same nightly routine. They would get something from the Grill or Caroline would cook something, but lately she was hoping Caroline would just get food out. Her daughter couldn't concentrate on anything and ended up burning the food.

She had banned Caroline from the kitchen stove the morning before when she was trying to make breakfast. She stuck her hand on the eye of the stove and it had scared her to death. Fire killed vampires and she knew it wasn't on purpose; Caroline just was so lost to think right now. She tried to put the brave face on and act like the world was not falling apart, it just wasn't working anymore. Elena had even tried to kill her daughter after she had done nothing but try and help her. She was glad that Damon had taken her out of town. She had almost been killed herself by her best friend's daughter.

She wanted to make everything right, but nothing ever would be. She however could make her daughter feel better. Once she found a sign that Tyler was okay and alive, she had to laugh at that thought; she was sending Caroline to him. She couldn't stand the way Klaus kept watching her daughter, it made her sick. He was over a thousand years old by now. He had no right to even be near her daughter because it was not acceptable.

Caroline couldn't stand him and he had put her daughter through so much hell in the last year so far. He had taken Tyler from her more than once already. He had almost caused her death and Caroline had told her that Klaus had bitten her himself. She was only alive because Tyler had put how much the bastard loved her daughter to the test. She was so thankful her daughter was still alive, she didn't laugh at the thought this time, and Tyler was the reason for that.

She still remembered him coming to her begging for her to get her husband to help fix him. She had never blamed Tyler for Bill's death and she made sure that he hadn't blamed his self when he had come back. She'd told him that breaking the sire bond was the only thing that had mattered. He had repaid her ex-husband by doing that. His death had not been in vain because Tyler broke free of Klaus and Caroline had been safe again. Now, now her daughter was in danger again, but it was from a heart ache that she didn't know how to fix besides holding her daughter every night while she cried.

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Liz walked in the house and hung her gun belt up on one of the hooks near the door. She always kept bullets laced in vervian in her gun just to be on the safe side. It had started to be a need ever since Klaus showed up. They also had wolfsbane soaked in them too; she just hoped it would hurt like hell if she had to use them on Klaus. Tyler had told her how to kill a hybrid when he had come back. Chop off their heads or jerk their hearts out otherwise they would keep on living, so to speak. She just hadn't had a chance to put that to the test with Klaus killing all of the hybrids, except Tyler and himself. She went and changed out of her work clothes before checking to see if Caroline was home yet.

Caroline was sitting on her floor at her closet holding something in her hand. She didn't have to look up to know it was her mom coming in, she knew her mom's scent like the back of her hand. "He gave this to me because I loved wearing it so much," she said before she took her shirt off putting Tyler's football jersey on. "It still smells like him too," she wrapped her arms around herself before the tears started again. She wondered if she could cry herself to death, it seemed like she had been crying every second of the night. "Tell me I'm dreaming mom, tell me that he hasn't really left," she needed the lies because it hurt so much.

Liz sat down beside her daughter wrapping her arms around her, "He didn't leave, he's just busy at the moment," she'd give her daughter those lies because it helped. She would do anything to make Caroline's pain go away even if it was only for a little while.

She knew how much her daughter loved Tyler, it was written all over her face. Every time he had come over Caroline's face would light up and it never faltered. Caroline risked her life countless times chaining him up in the cellar during full moons. She had risked her life those months that she had left with Tyler helping him with the sire bond. She would never in her life let Caroline go if she had known, but her daughter took off one night with only a note said 'I can't let him do this alone.' Her daughter had the biggest heart in the world even if it didn't beat anymore.

Caroline couldn't help the sobs that shook her body. She kept trying to tell herself that what her mom said was the truth, but she knew wasn't. "I love him so much mom, I don't want live without him anymore, I don't want him find somebody else to make him happy, and I don't want anybody else either," Most of what she was making wasn't making sense because of the sobs, but Liz knew what her daughter was trying to say.

"I'm still looking for any sign of him," Liz said as she rubbed Caroline's back to try and sooth her. "Soon as I find him, I will find a way to get you to him,"

She would go as far as having him put in a jail cell till Caroline got to him. She had walked in the house the morning that Tyler had left finding her daughter sitting just inside the door with tears running down her face. She hadn't known what had happened and Caroline was just sitting there not moving besides staring at the wall. It had scared her until she saw her phone that was on the floor. It had said 'I love you, Carebear, now and forever; we'll find a way' from Tyler. It had taken her hours to get Caroline to talk and it killed her seeing her daughter that broken.

Caroline held onto her mom making sure not to hurt her with her strength. "Thanks mom," she said before she fell asleep like she had when she was just four years old. She was so glad that she had her mom because she didn't know what she would do if she was gone. She still cried sometimes because of what happened to Carol. Tyler deserved to have his mom still like she had hers. She had offered her mom up to be shared if he needed somebody to talk to and it couldn't be her. She had known he wouldn't do it though, little did she know he had once.

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Tyler wasn't even sure which state he was in if he didn't look at the highway signs once in a while. It had been a month since he had left everything behind to make sure he wasn't killed. He listened to Caroline's voicemails every single day wishing he could call her back. He was sitting on the back of the truck he had gotten with cash after leaving his car at his family's beach house. He had to laugh at that thought, he was the only one left, his parents and Uncle were all murdered. He technically had been murdered to earlier in the year.

He was trying to figure out where to go next because he had left the back woods camp site he'd been staying at the night before. He'd been in Georgia for the last week without any kind of signals for his phone or laptop. He hadn't risked checking the laptop yet, but he wanted to see if he had anything from Caroline there so badly. He risked logging into his email account and was shocked at first seeing an email that had his mom's name on it. She was gone, and it was dated just two days before.

He wasn't sure if this was some sick joke of Klaus' or what, but he saw the subject line that said give me a sign. He clicked it open and he knew who it was from then. Caroline's mom had sent it to him and all it said was to give her a sign and she would get C to him. He knew she meant Caroline by the C because it was the way he'd sent her a letter once, Caroline that was. He had sent Matt the deed to his house signed over to him to keep Caroline safe because he couldn't anymore.

He quickly typed a reply hoping that nobody else would get it. He was risking a lot, but he could hear Caroline's voice in the last voicemail. She was starting to fall apart and he couldn't let her do that. He typed out to tell her he loved her and he was miserable without her too. He never even thought about finding somebody else because there was nobody besides Caroline in his future.

He thought about how he could send something as a sign to the sheriff for Caroline to meet him. He just had no idea of what to do. He couldn't let it be a way that Klaus could find him too and it was when he thought about it. He typed one last thing before deactivating his wireless connection again. He told her mom three words before he finished the rest of the whiskey in the bottle and tossed it back in the bag.

Tyler needed to get a supply of blood before he left the last town so he'd gone to the blood bank. He'd only taken two packs in his favorite type, it was the same blood type that was in Caroline's body. Her favorite was his blood type and it was the words he'd sent to her mom.

Caroline's Blood Type

Her mom would look up the places that were missing blood and find the reports. It was the sign she wanted because he had gotten somebody at each place to notice they were missing. Klaus didn't know what type of blood he liked to drink and it wouldn't look like his way of things either. Klaus thought he still drank from a live person, but he didn't. It was Caroline's blood or bags. He put them in thermoses like Caroline did or a flask, but he couldn't drink straight from a bag.

He would go to another bank and leave Caroline a message in a couple of days until then he had to get away from here. He was heading to Louisiana now hoping that he could find something there. Once he had Caroline with him, he would get away from the east coast, and find somewhere else to go.

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