Chapter One:
Elizabeth Forbes fell asleep, it was pleasant she just wouldn't wake up again, ever. Caroline rushed into her hospital room, then suddenly she stopped.
"She's dead. My mom is dead." Where was she suppose to go now, what did she do now. She has nothing left anymore. Her friends just aren't enough of a reason to stay, and honestly she was just a bit overwhelmed.
"I need to get out of here, away from her", she mumbled to herself. Everything felt like slow motion, but somehow she still couldn't register anything. She saw everything, she just couldn't understand it, maybe she didn't want to. Honestly she didn't really care, her mom was dead. She was now finally alone in the world, like she'd dreaded for weeks. She wasn't ready, now what?
"I didn't get to say goodbye", Caroline mumbled. She knew they needed to take care of the body, and she tried to move but something stopped her. She needed all of these people out of here, now, her mind was going a mile a minute and she just needed some space, now. "Hey guys, she turned around to Stefan, Damon and Elena. "Can I just get a minute alone with..", what was she suppose to say. Technically her mom was dead so she wasn't really her mom anymore, she was just gone. They could see her struggle getting to terms with the event and simply chose to give her some space. "Sure Care, we'll be in the waiting room, okay?", Stefan said, trying to meet her eyes but failing. Caroline stared into the floor afraid of what might happen if she saw their faces. They left, she was alone. She looked at her mom, "I'm not ready for you to be dead", she whispered. "Please come back to me", her eyes were suddenly blurry and she realised that she was crying. No she couldn't do this, she wouldn't. She walked out the room and straight up to a nurse ready to compel her. Her eyes dilated as she spoke "You will inform the doctor that the patient in room 305 is ready to be taken to the morgue, you will do so right away". The nurse walked away looking for the doctor. Caroline sat in the chair outside the hospital room, staring at the wall as if to try and make sense of what was happening. 20 minutes later the doctors had unhooked her mom and covered her up, rolling her down the hall towards the elevator, where they would leave her in the morgue. She shrugged, this was the process, she shouldn't be surprised. Then again she should also feel like she'd said her goodbyes, but she didn't feel that either. She started walking though she didn't know where she was going. She just kept walking, how bad could it be, right? She'd survived the worst.
Turns out her cruel mind had decided to punish her some more, ironic isn't it? Seeing as this all was her creation. Her mom wanted to die in piece, and of course like the spoiled brat that she was, she just couldn't let her be. Putting herself first while her mom had done the same, put her first, but who had prioritised her mom? Who took care of her and spent time with her? Not her apparently, because all she did was run after guys attention, I mean look at Stefan. That was ruined now, she couldn't do that anymore it would never feel right again. So suddenly she'd lost everything in one moment. Nothing was worth keeping anymore, she needed new. A new life, and suddenly she'd decided, she was done with this she was going to arrange a funeral and then she was going to slowly pack everything away.
She suddenly snapped out of her thoughts and saw her mom's face again, this time on a gurney. So a new place but the same face. She suddenly realised everything she'd never see again. Not her mom's smiles, or her police uniform which she basically lived in, or correction, she had lived in. It was all gone, and suddenly Caroline couldn't breathe anymore, she fell to the floor trying to understand what was happening. Panic attack, that's it, she was suppose to remember that she wouldn't die and to find something comforting. She picked up her phone and pressed on her mom's phone number. "Come on pick up, come on mom" she whispered. She went straight to voicemail. Her mom's voice appeared. "Hey you have reached Liz phone, I can't take your call right now, but feel free to leave a message".
Beep. The silence was deafening, truly. She was just about to leave a message when it hit her. Her mom was here, in this room, lying in a fridge. She'd never take her messages again. She wiped her tear stained her face and stood up. She kissed her mom's chin, closed the fridge and left.