Hey, whoever is reading this! How's it going? I see you've stumbled across my story.

You lucky dog. :)

No, just kidding. But anyways, just so you guys know, it'll probably be a little bit longer for me to post Chapter 3, because I already had half of Chapter 2 written when I'd posted Chapter 1, and right now, I have yet to start Chapter 3. So yeah. But it won't take forever for me to post it, I promise.

Do I have to do disclaimers on every chapter, or only on chapter one?

Oh well, yolo.

(I do not take 'yolo' seriously. I do not mean it seriously. I think it's the dumbest thing this generation has come up with.)

(...besides 'swag'. Seriously, guys?)

Anyways, I don't own the Vampire Diaries, or any of the characters.

If I did, Caroline and Klaus would be married by now.


Chapter 2


"I don't understand," the beautiful hybrid says to Caroline. "I'm not supposed to have a doppelganger in my bloodline."

Caroline looks up from the chair she's strapped into, vervain ropes searing her flesh. "That's the thing... I'm not your doppelganger."

The strange replica of Caroline looks straight into her eyes, wooden stake in hand. "Then what the hell are you?"

She spit the words out in such a hateful, demanding way, they almost burned Caroline as much as the vervain ropes restraining her.

After a few moments, she finally gets the courage to speak again.

"I'm you."


Caroline woke up the next morning, slowly processing the real world around her. Confusion shook her to the core for a few simple seconds, as she expected for her to be sitting in a small wooden chair in a dark room made of stone, tied down by ropes that felt like fire.

But there was no darkness surrounding her, just a medium-sized room with yellows walls and the sun shining through the now-opened blinds.

The events from the night prior suddenly hit her, and the world came to make sense once more.

Sitting up, she looks to her left. There's no hybrid with a gorgeous accent next to her, and she's surprised at how disappointed she is by that.

Getting up, she's steps into her bathroom to get ready for the day, reviewing the events from yesterday.

She thought about Klaus, the party, and the new Miss Mystic Falls.

And then Tyler, and then Haley.

Sighing heavily, she finishes brushing her teeth.

After, she walks back into her room.

"Hello darling." A smooth voice chimes from the other side of the room, near the door.

Caroline jumps, surprised, and turns to look at Klaus.

He laughs. "Sorry if I scared you, love."

She smiles gently. "It's fine, I just didn't think you were here."

Shrugging, he responds. "Just went out for a bite."

"Right, of course." She noticed that he must've changed to, because now he was just in blue jeans and a simple gray t-shirt.

One that was skin tight on him, she noted subconsciously. He truly was gorgeous.

It took her a little bit, but she realized she had been staring at him, taking in the beauty of the hybrid before her.

He had noticed, of course, her lingering eyes, and smirked. His signature smirk, which usually drove Caroline crazy, due to the fact that she hated when he got egotistical, and that exact smirk always appeared on his face when he actually did become his usual egotistical self.

She rolled her eyes after tearing them away, pretending to be interested in her wooden floor.

After a couple long moments of a deafening silence, she looked up again, and past Klaus. She saw the drawing he had given her and smiled at it. Klaus followed her eyes, turned, and his eyes met the drawing as well.

He focused upon the way she sat in the drawing. The way she looked down at her drink with the most beautiful meloncholy expression, and the way she just seemed so out of sync with everything happening around her. Like she was just off daydreaming in some far away land.

"You're beautiful."

His words took her by surprise, and he said it in such a way to make it seem like he was off in the far away land as well.

He looked back at Caroline. "Breathtaking, even."

And he wasn't lying in the slightest. Every time he would even think about her, he had the wind knocked out of him. Not that he needed air to survive, but still, he couldn't help but notice the effect she had on him.

A simple baby vampire, and the most powerful hybrid on the planet.

But he swore to god, she would be the death of him.

He couldn't imagine a more beautiful way to die.


He looks at her longingly as they dance. "I'm glad you came."

"Well, it was either caviar or sympathy casseroles." she replies.

"I heard about you father," he says as they spin.

"Don't," she interrupts before he can go on. "seriously."

"Very well, on to more mannered subjects then like how ravishing you looks in that dress." he smiles.

"I didn't really have time to shop."

"And the bracelet I gave you, what's your excuse for wearing that?" he questions her.

She remains silent.

"You know, you're quite the dancer," he comments, after a few more moments of looking at her.

She pauses. "Well, I've had training. I happen to be Miss Mystic Falls," she says with pride.

He looks at her adoringly.

"I know."


"I don't know if this is really a good idea, Klaus..." Caroline speaks up, wrapping her jacket tighter around her. She'd changed out of her pajama's, and into a pair of black skinny jeans, a yellow flowery top, and her favorite leather jacket. This happened after she made Klaus leave the room first, of course.

Much to his disappointment.

They were standing in front of the Mystic Grill, and Klaus was opening the door for her.

"Why not, love?" he asks her, confusion evident in his face.

"Because," she answers, "my friends could be in there. "

"And you don't want them to see you with me."

She nods after a couple moments hesitation.

"You do realize, if they see you with me, they'll probably assume that you're just trying to distract me more." he retorted.

She thought about it for a couple seconds.

"If they're in there at all." he added.

She sighed heavily.

"...fine."

Klaus smiled, pleased with himself for his victory.

Caroline stepped inside, with the hybrid following her, and noticed that the only people there were Matt and Damon, but neither of them noticed her and Klaus enter.

Klaus led her to a booth immediately, sitting her down in the left side of it, and he then proceeded to sit across from her.

They sat in silence, with him smiling at her. Caroline shifted uncomfortably.

"Hey, wait," she said suddenly, "isn't this the booth I was sitting in in the drawing?"

He smiled wider, and nodded. He then called the waiter over, and ordered a hot chocolate.

Well, compelled the waiter so he wouldn't have to pay.

She shot a surprised looks towards him.

"I didn't know that you liked hot chocolate," she giggled.

"I don't," he responded, "but you do."

Her eyebrows knitted together. "How do you kn-"

"It's what you were drinking when I drew you." he interrupted.

"Oh." she said silently.

Just as Caroline was about to change the subject, the waiter walked up with the hot chocolate.

"Here you go," the young waiter said, in a dazed manner.

"Oh, thank you!" Caroline said while smiling warmly at him, but he didn't notice, and walked slowly away.

"Well, your compulsion is pretty strong, isn't it?" she added, her sapphire eyes following the waiter, before turning her attention to the drink before her.

Klaus only chuckled. "I've had a thousand years to practice, love." he stated matter-of-factly.

She slouched in her seat a little more than earlier, getting comfortable. She dragged the drink over the black table to bring it closer to her, and slowly brought it up to her face, but blew on it to cool it off before drinking it. Klaus noticed this, especially since he found it strange since she didn't need to do that. Over the time that he'd known her, he had picked up on so many little useless things she does, and he guessed they had all just been for the huge effort she made to keep hold of her humanity.

As he started drifting deeper into his thoughts about the blonde angel in front of him, a familiar tune filled the air.

Caroline pressed the 'answer' button on her phone, and the tune stopped.

"Hello?" Caroline said lazily.

"C-Caroline! I need your help!" Elena's voice was in a panic.

Caroline immediately sat up in her seat.

"Elena, calm. What happened?"

Of course, Klaus had been listening in to the conversation, and he sat still, soaking up every word spoken.

"I-I don't know! Bonnie was trying to perform some spell, and then she just collapsed!"

Caroline stood up from the seat and then started walking to her car, which Klaus had, earlier that morning, hunted down since they'd left it at the party the night before.

He immediately started following her, cutting in front of her to make sure that he would drive. As they stepped out of the Grill, the transition from the warm interior of the building to the cold air outside made Caroline shiver slightly.

"Okay, Elena, where are you?" she asked, before opening the door of the silver car and ducking inside.

"We're at my house," Elena said shakily. "in my bedroom."

Klaus had already backed out of their parking spot, speeding over the speed limit to Elena's house.

"Okay, Elena, we're on our way. We'll be there in about a minute, okay? Just hold on."

Caroline seemed strangely calm, catching Klaus by surprise.

"I'll talk to you again when we get there. Okay?"

"Wait, y-you keep saying 'we', w-who's with you?" Elena questioned her, her voice still shaking.

"Uh, don't worry about it right now. Just focus on Bonnie."

"Wait, Caro-"

Caroline hung up.

Klaus looked over at her.

"You seem strangely calm." he said in the smooth accent that Caroline absolutely denied was gorgeous, especially not as gorgeous as the man whom it belonged to.

Not that Klaus was gorgeous or anything.

"I'm not," she said quickly. "trust me, I'm not."

"You're extraordinarily good at acting, then."

Her eyes fixated upon the road before them. "I guess so. Maybe."

Klaus was pulling up to Elena's house, but Caroline was already halfway out of the car.

Upon entering the house, Caroline noted the change in the atmosphere as soon as she had opened the door. The air was electric, alive even. Momentarily stunned, she came to her senses after a few seconds.

She raced up the stairs and, followed by Klaus, almost knocked the door off it hinges as she burst into Elena's room.

There is a small altar in the middle of the room, with candles and a grimoire fallen to the floor next to it.

Elena is sitting on the floor next to Bonnie, tears spilling down her red cheeks, and her head snaps up to the sound of the door opening.

Her mouth opens to speak. "God, Car-"

"She's alive." Klaus interrupts.

Caroline goes next to Elena and crouches down next to Bonnie. She picks the witch up, and lays her on the bed. Turning, she addresses Elena.

"Tell me exactly what happened."

Elena stands up, looking between Caroline and Klaus, wondering why Caroline had brought him. She pushed it aside, there were more important things at hand.

"Well she had asked yesterday if she could come over today to practice a spell Shane had showed her," Elena began. "and I said okay. She brought this stuff that he had given her over, and she was really excited. She said that she could feel it. That the spell was going to work. She said that she knew the spell would be extraordinary. She was so excited to start practicing magic again..."

She paused, taking a deep breath, before exhaling and continuing.

"She said she needed a little bit of my blood. I didn't know why, but she said that Shane had told her it would just help the spell run smoother. You know, doppelganger blood. So I said alright. I didn't think it would help, since I'm not even human anymore, but she insisted. She mixed some sort of potion thing, and it started... boiling. It was almost like it was alive. And angry. She was chanting something, and then she finally added my blood. It calmed down then. Everything became pretty quiet then, and it was like maybe it was over, or the spell didn't work. I don't know. Then all of a sudden, there was a flash of lightning and she was on the ground, and the potion was just... gone. You're the first person I saw on my contact list, so I just called you."

Both Caroline and Klaus had been listening intently to every word.

"But... there's something else too. Before she went silent and collapsed, she was muttering stuff about darkness. It didn't actually seem like her, though. It was like someone else was using her body to speak."

Caroline stared at Elena. "Darkness?"

Elena returned the stare. "In a sense. She went on to talk about bringing back the dead, or something."

Klaus looked up immediately. "You said Shane had told her about the spell? And got her the things to perform it?"

Elena brought her gaze over to the hybrid. "Yes, actually. He had persuaded her to do the spell."

"Bringing back the dead..." Klaus muttered.

Caroline stood staring at Klaus, and Elena moved to the bed to sit next to Bonnie. She was silent for a few moments, before speaking up.

"Is Bonnie going to be okay?" she whispered.

"Yes, she'll be perfectly fine, she's just drained from doing such a powerful spell." Klaus answered immediately, gazing at the floorboards.

"What do you mean 'powerful spell'?" Elena responded. "It was only a simple one."

Klaus stayed still. "No, it wasn't. I'm almost certain I know what spell she performed," he said smoothly. "but you better hope I'm wrong."

"What are you even talking about? What spell?" Caroline asked.

He looked up towards the baby vampire. "If I'm right, that spell is centuries old. Millennia, even, if the legends are truthful."

She looked back with alarm. "What are you-"

He cut her off. "The spell bends nature. It does things it shouldn't. But the main purpose of it is to bring back those who've died."

Caroline soaked up the information. "But why would Shane tell her to do the spell then?"

"What you should be worrying about," the hybrid replied, "is where the potion went."

As Caroline was about to respond, Klaus continued.

"And I think I know where."


They were all in the car, with Elena holding the unconscious Bonnie in the backseat, and Caroline in the passenger seat while Klaus sped down the street.

"Klaus! You need to tell us what the hell is going on!" Caroline said with anger and impatience.

Klaus breathed deeply. "The spell has to be finished somewhere special. It doesn't matter where it starts, but it has to be completed somewhere powerful." He finally began to leak more information.

She looked at him quizzically, as he grows quiet again. "Well where, goddammit?"

He glances over to her out of the corner of his eye, and then back to the road. "Remember when Alaric was transformed into-"

"I don't want to remember. But yes, I do. What about it?"

"That particular spot was chosen for a reason. It was chosen because that's where I had killed my mother. Her death was so violent that that spot was marked for all time. It contains power. And if I'm right, that's where Bonnie's little professor took the potion."

She stared at him, looking away from the road. "What makes you think he took it?"

"What makes you think he didn't?" he retorted.

She looked down, contemplating.

"I can hear him." Klaus said suddenly.

They was trees on both sides of the road, and Klaus took a sudden turn into the forest on the left.

"What the hell are you doing?!" Caroline yelled.

"About to stop this from getting worse than it already has, love."

She opened her mouth to yell again, but then he slowed the car and put up a finger to motion to her to be quiet.

He looked into nowhere, focusing on what he could hear.

Slowly he looked up, and looked at Caroline.

"What?" she asked him.

"Your boyfriend's there." he spoke.

Caroline's eyes widened, and she moved to get out of the car, but Klaus already had his hand on the door to keep it closed.

She turned to look at him. "I need to help him Klaus! Let me out!"

"It's not just him. All of my hybrids are there." he said softly, hardly paying attention.

"Why would they be there?"

Elena's phone burst out in upbeat music.

"Hello?" she answered cautiously.

Caroline and Klaus looked back toward the doppelganger.

"Elena! Where are you?" Stephan's voice responded quickly.

"Uh, I-I'm with Klaus and Caroline. Why?"

"Good. Stay with them. Don't. Leave."

Elena's eyebrows knitted together. "Are you alright?"

"Honestly, no. I'm locked in with Damon and Tyler in the cell where Alaric turned. Elena, Damon was right. Professor Shane isn't good-he's outside performing some spell with Haley."

Caroline stared off into space. 'Haley? What the hell?'

All of a sudden, before she even knew what she was doing, she was out of the car and racing towards the voices that were getting gradually louder with every step.

She heard a second person coming up from behind her, faster than she was going.

Klaus grabbed onto her as they ran. "Just make sure you stay behind me," he said softly. "I don't know what I'd do if he hurt you."

She ran faster, with the hybrid by her side.

After a little bit longer, they could see the altar, along with Shane, Haley, and twelve unconscious hybrids.

As they approached, they slowed. They came to a complete stop about ten yards away from them.

Shane came to a stop in his chanting by the altar in front of the small building, and chuckled.

"So nice of you to join us Klaus." he opened his eyes. "Oh, you brought your girlfriend I see."

Klaus stared at the professor sourly. "What the HELL do you think you're doing?!"

Shane smiled. "I'm bringing back Haley's parents."

Klaus's eyes grew dark, and his voice became murderous.

"Do you have any idea what type of magic you're tapping into?" he said lowly.

"Yes, I do." he retorted while smirking.

Klaus let out a low growl, and lunged toward Shane, before falling to the ground around a yard away from him.

Klaus looked up again, surprised, getting onto his feet.

"You see Klaus," Shane said, "I'm tapping into the type of magic that can not only bring back the dead, but also create barriers strong enough that not even the world's most powerful hybrid can penetrate."

Klaus stared furiously at him, blinded of anything else around him.

"What about a Bennett witch?" a voice said from behind Shane and Haley.

Shane turned swiftly, to come face to face with who spoke.

His eyes grew wide, and he smiled nervously.

"Bonnie, I-"

Before he could finish, she had swiftly knocked him out simply by touching two fingers to his forehead. She turned to face Haley before the werewolf could react, and threw her into a tree ten feet away with sudden newfound magical strength. She raced over to the mausoleum before Haley could react or Shane could come to again. She tore off the vervain soaked lock off of the vervain soaked cell bars, and tore open the door.

Damon rushed out at vampire speed, furious.

"Caroline, Klaus, the barrier is broken," Bonnie spoke weakly. "I'm getting weak again from all of the magic, though."

Caroline walked closer, and Stephan rushed over to Caroline before she could respond to Bonnie, frantic.

"Where's Elena?" he said quickly, eyes wide with worry.

Before she could even reply to that, a loud crack rang through the forest. Everyone looked over to see Damon pressing Haley up against a tree split through the middle, and he held the brunette's neck as he hit her head against the tree again, full force. He was too furious for words, and his eyes were as black as night, frightening enough to send chills down everyone's spines. Just as he was about to do it a third time, Tyler came and threw Damon into a different tree.

At the same time, all hell broke loose and Professor Shane came to, and got ahold of the first person he could find.

He still had powerful magic bursting inside of him, as he grabbed Caroline and pushed her up angrily against the altar and stood.

The entire scene went into slow motion. Damon ran back over to Haley with murderous intentions, as Tyler stood in his way. Stephan went to keep Bonnie from being overpowered by all the forced magic, and Shane took a dark wooden stake from underneath the altar, trying to end Caroline's un-life with it.

Caroline and Shane fought to push the stake in opposite directions, and Caroline looked to Tyler's direction with fearful eyes. Tyler looked between Haley and Caroline, as if trying to decide. He knew that Damon really would kill Haley, but he also knew that Shane really would kill Caroline. After a few more moments, he directed his attention towards Damon, fighting and pushing him away.

Everything went silent for everyone, and as they continued fighting, they all heard ancient words from a dead language pulsating through the air, charging it with a sort of electricity ten times more powerful than that of the electricity at Elena's house.

Transparent shades of violet began to seep through the air from some sort of portal, and like lightning, Klaus had grabbed Caroline to push her out of the way, and they stumbled into it.

The last thing Caroline remembers was Klaus's arms wrapping tightly around her, before it all went black.