AN: This is a (somewhat) rewritten story. It was my very first KC fic that I wrote and posted (on Tumblr) about a year and half ago. It's gotten to a point that I could end it fairly easily, so I'm uploading it now. Probably be 3-4 parts. Please be kind in any review.
Blue eyes were the last thing Caroline could make out before everything blurred. After a moment of darkness, a light beckoned her to move forward. Everything was blurry again but Caroline managed to recognize Bonnie.
"Did they find a host?" Caroline croaked before groaning. It felt like she'd been run over numerous times, the transfer must have been hard. Bonnie stopped dabbing Caroline's forehead, eyes growing wide.
"Caroline?" Bonnie sounded surprised causing Caroline to frown and look closer at her surroundings closer.
What Caroline saw caused her stomach to drop. She was in a hospital gown and the pain seemed to come from her stomach area. It finally clicked when a beaming Alaric wheeled in a double hospital bed for babies.
"Oh, God…..," Caroline started to hyperventilate, trying to keep the tears at bay over the betrayal.
Alaric stopped and looked at Bonnie, confused.
"It's not Jo," Bonnie said quietly, looking down.
"Of course it's not, it's MY BODY! My body was jacked and forced to carry someone else and they're kids!" Caroline snapped, getting up from the hospital bed, "How long?"
"Caroline, listen," Bonnie began as Alaric just stared at Caroline.
"How. Long?" Caroline asked firmly, her vampiric features coming out advancing on Bonnie. Bonnie snapped her mouth shut, Caroline had never flashed her Vampire face at her like that. She started to back up, scared for the first time since Caroline was Turned.
"It's been a little over 9 months since the wedding fiasco," Alaric croaked out, eyes full of tears.
Caroline sucked a shaky breathe in before flashing to him and fed from him before dropping him. Caroline scoffed at Bonnie's cry of surprise.
"Oh please, he's still alive. Jo, although, isn't. She would still be if you guys had placed her and the twins in another body, like I asked. Why were they in me, a vampire, and not in you, a living witch, or even Elena?"
Bonnie opened and closed her mouth numerous times, trying to come up with an explanation. Her mind flying for an excuse.
"Let me guess, Damon didn't want anyone but him to impregnate precious Elena and you didn't want potential Siphoners to drain you of your magic? So that left me," Caroline sneered.
"That wasn't what happened!" Bonnie objected, shocked that Caroline would think that.
"Really, then why was I violated again?!" Caroline almost shrieked. She was so close to being done with Bonnie and the rest of the gang.
Bonnie was silent, she was confused on the 'again' part from Caroline. She'd been abused like this before? Why wouldn't Caroline had said anything? Bonnie would have cursed the guy.
"Please tell me Alaric didn't try to get with Jo while she was in my body?" Caroline suddenly asked, her stomach dropping. Flashes of Damon appeared interspersed with Alaric giddily torturing her.
"No," Bonnie's response was fast and firm.
"Well, small mercies," Caroline swallowed the memories. Caroline didn't know what she would have done if Alaric had.
"Why is Jo gone and how do you know?" Bonnie asked, her mind catching on to what Caroline initially had said.
"Has to do with the fact that my soul/spirit has exclusive rights on this body. Jo (probably) only came along because the spell to transfer the twins wasn't specific enough, making Jo connected to the twins. If you guys had looked for someone brain dead and transferred the twins into her, Jo would have gone also," Caroline explained as she looked for her clothes.
A nurse showed up to check on the twins, tried to rush to Alaric's aid but Caroline intercepted her.
"He's fine, just overcome with emotion. Get me some clothes to change into please," Caroline compelled the nurse. She smiled as the nurse promptly left the room.
"Where are you going? We need to make sure that Julian and Lily don't get the twins," Bonnie asked, slightly disgusted with Caroline.
"Away from here, obviously," Caroline scoffed, "I thought I could trust you guys to care about my safety but since I'm not Elena, I can't."
"We care about you," Bonnie protested, a little hurt. The nurse returned with scrubs.
"No you don't. If you had, then I wouldn't have gotten my bodyjacked," Caroline countered, putting on the scrubs, "Another thing: since the twins spent an extended time in a vampire, they will be drawn to death and death will be drawn to them. They maybe have a month before they die, if they're lucky."
"How do you know this," Bonnie's mind was racing; she had to keep Caroline at the hospital. Damon and Stefan were on their way.
"Met some knowledgeable people where I was sent when Jo possessed my body," Caroline shrugged, going through her phone (thankfully the password hadn't changed, but there was a lot she would have to delete).
"Caroline, there's a lot you need to know, a lot that has happened since the wedding," Bonnie started toward her.
"I bet and just whose fault is that?" Caroline taunted, approaching Bonnie, knocking her out, and placing her in the hospital bed.
Once outside, Caroline realized she was in the hospital at Whitmore. Sighing she went through her contacts wondering who to call. A minute later she called Matt, gambling that Matt was out of the loop like usual.
"Hello?" Matt asked slowly.
"Matt, it's Caroline, as in actually Caroline in Caroline's body," Caroline rushed, hoping he wouldn't hang up.
"..ok.."
"I was wondering if you could pick me up? I'm at the hospital in Whitmore," Caroline asked, hopefully, "Please? I'll explain everything once you do."
"Actually, I'm on my way there. I should be there in a couple minutes," Matt replied.
"Thank you so much!" Caroline gushed, relieved, "Oh, please don't say anything to anyone else."
Matt groaned but agreed. A few minutes later, a SUV showed up with Matt at the wheel. There were also 2 girls with him, a blonde and a brunette. Both girls looked at Caroline a little weirdly.
"It's actually her, the other one isn't there anymore," the brunette said looking at Matt.
"These are 2 of the Heretics who were going to help me get you back, but you seemed to have done it already," Matt explained, rubbing the back of his neck.
"Actually I didn't, I just woke up after the twins were out," Caroline said, tearing up as she hugged Matt.
"We should get going, Julian and the Salvatores are surely on their way here," the brunette said urgently.
They all piled in the SUV and Matt drove back to Mystic Falls. Between the three of them (the new blonde, Mary Louise and the brunette, Nora), Caroline got caught up on what she had missed and caught the others on what had happened to her. Caroline asked if one of the Heretics would spell a sharp object, like a knife, for her. She needed it to release the others.
"Would a letter opener work?" Matt asked as he declined a phone call. Caroline had spied that it had been Stefan.
"It needs to stab someone," Caroline confirmed.
"We can go to the Lockwood Mansion, get that, and you can get your clothes," Matt stated as they crossed the town border. His phone rang, but he declined the call again.
"Why have you been dodging calls from Stefan and, now Bonnie?" Caroline asked, intrigued.
"I don't want to talk to them," Matt said turning his phone off.
"Ok, totally understandable. But you didn't explain why you aren't working with the others," Caroline asked.
"The twins are wanted by Julian so he can harness their power for himself. The Salvatores are trying to prevent that," Mary Louise explained.
"After finding out what happened to you, I objected to it. Had a feeling Damon was lying," Matt muttered.
"Matt appealed to me and Nora. We did a locator spell and it gave us puzzling results," Mary Louise started.
"It said you were in Mystic Falls but not in Mystic Falls," Nora finished.
"Well it was right. I was in a condensed Prison World, centered on where Bonnie was when she and Damon disappeared. There were boundaries that we couldn't cross," Caroline shrugged, as she looked out at Mystic Falls.
"It doesn't look like anyone is here," Matt commented as they pulled up to the Mansion, "Your stuff, and no Jo didn't wear any of it, is in my room."
It was the fastest Caroline had ever packed, even counting the time she and Tyler were outed to the Council. When she noticed some more bags in the back of the SUV before Matt added some of his.
"Wasn't sure on what you needed otherwise I'd have packed you a bag," Matt said sheepishly before Caroline hugged him again.
"Julian's on his way, I think the Salvatores got the twins away from the hospital before he got there," Mary Louise said, her face drained.
"And he's mad," Nora emphasized.
"Well do it on the way to the next location," Matt said shutting the front door, "Where to?"
"Head southwest," Caroline said shutting the front passenger door, then, "I don't want this to not work, so I'm going to play it a little close to the vest."
Matt conceded the point, before heading out of town. A couple minutes later, Caroline gave the Heretics the written spell for the letter opener. The girls were surprised on the complexity of the spell but also how easy it was to perform.
Caroline's phone rang after the black glow subsided from the letter opener, it was Stefan.
