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Chapter 2: Waking Up
New Orleans 2112
Caroline opened her eyes to find herself in a large room. She was laying in a large California King canopy bed with silky black sheets and soft crimson pillows. She didn't recognize where she was and after a few minutes everything that had happened the night before came rushing back to her. The Originals, Amy the messenger, the graveyard, and the fact that she was 100 years in the future. She hoped that maybe everything had been a dream, but the unfamiliar surroundings were a huge clue that she was just being hopeful.
She took in the room from her position on the bed and couldn't help but gasp at the elegance of it. She slowly got out of the bed to take in the artwork decorating the walls each picture was beautifully made with intricate detail to each. She didn't recognize any of them but they were all so amazing she couldn't rip her eyes from them. There was a certain forlorn nature about each picture that made Caroline's heart twinge with emotion.
There was a large vanity in the corner with large amounts of make up and jewelry on it. There were also a few pictures on it that Caroline went to inspect. There were three of them, one was of Caroline and her parents, another of Caroline and Rebekah smiling and laughing at a Halloween party and another was of her and Klaus on what she assumed was there wedding day. She gasped when she saw the last one lightly touching the picture. Was this her future? A future with the most evil creature to walk the earth? Was she going to become a monster like him? Millions of what if questions littered her mind making her stomach queasy with unease. Was she doomed to live out her life with Klaus? And when did they even get together? How could she ignore all of the bad he had done? What was wrong with her?
Caroline quickly moved away from the pictures and towards the biggest walk in closet she had ever laid eyes on. She walked in tentatively and looked through the clothes, most of them were black or red, some were white, but none of the clothes looked like anything she would wear. As a matter of fact there was not one article of clothing in her closet back home that was black. She did spy a beautiful blue gown hidden in the back and she went to touch it when a voice called to her from the doors of the closet.
"That's a bit fancy for today isn't it, love?" a British voice asked with a chuckle causing Caroline to turn around in a rush. She fidgeted uncomfortably upon seeing the evil hybrid standing so close and watching her with a guarded expression.
She twisted the diamond bracelet around her wrist in nervous anticipation. Ironically it was the diamond bracelet he had given her on her birthday a few weeks previously.
"I-I was just looking for something to wear." Caroline stuttered looking away from him.
Klaus smirked at her and walked closer into the closet causing Caroline to move deeper back.
He frowned at her movements. "Love, what's the matter? Are you still angry about yesterday?" he asked.
"Yesterday?" Caroline repeated quietly.
"Our fight…" Klaus said trailing off.
"Oh, uh…yeah..." Caroline said turning away from him and back towards the clothes. She was scared to make eye contact with him. After all the last time she had seen him was when he had cured her from the werewolf bite, the one he made Tyler give her. She knew he was deadly and dangerous and capable of anything, so being stuck in the future with him was not her first desire, not by a long shot. If her desires were on a continent they would be in America while the desire to be with Klaus was in Antarctica dying a death by hypothermia. Plus her and him, were never going to happen. Although the picture on the vanity said otherwise. She shuddered at the thought.
Klaus sighed and dipped a hand into his pockets. Then he pulled out a small box. "I thought you might say that." He muttered before holding his hand with the box out.
Caroline stared at it wide eyed wondering what he could possibly be giving her. He raised an eyebrow and smirked at her.
"Well don't just stand there. Come and open it, love." He said coming closer to her. Caroline instinctively backed up and Klaus scowled.
"What the bloody hell has gotten into you, Caroline?" he snapped annoyed.
"N-nothing." She mumbled looking away.
"You're acting like a scared animal! Like I beat you or something! I know you're angry that I'm putting limitations on your hunting grounds, but really sweetheart it's for the best with everything going on." He yelled advancing towards her.
Caroline tried to maneuver out of the closet without touching Klaus, but it was two small and like always he was too quick. He grabbed her wrist and dragged her out of the closest throwing her on the bed like she was a rag doll. She got off it and tried to move away from him but he blocked her and nodded towards the bed a hard and angry expression on his face and she reluctantly sat down again.
"It's too dangerous for you to be hunting humans all over New Orleans, love. The people—" He began to say but was cut off by Caroline's expression of disgust. He rolled his eyes.
"What?" he snapped his anger levels slowly increasing the weirder she was acting.
"I don't feed from people." Caroline said crossing her arms and for the first time since coming to him she didn't feel afraid. In fact she felt annoyed that he would just assume because she was a vampire she'd feed from defenseless humans. She disliked his assumptions.
He looked at her with raised eyebrows and to Caroline's surprise he began to laugh. "You don't feed from people? Oh sweetheart, that's quite rich." He said between chuckles.
She scowled and tightening her arms around her chest. "I don't!"
Klaus stopped laughing slowly as he saw that she was seriously. He narrowed his eyes at her and came to stand in front of her studying her face.
"You don't feed from people…since when, sweetheart? Yesterday after you murdered over twenty people in the French Quarter? Or since this morning when the guilt became too much for you? I told you once Caroline I'm not going to let you turn it off because of the guilt you cause yourself. You have to live with the actions and the consequences. I won't let you lose what little sanity you have left." He said staring down at her intently.
She glared up at him angrily. " You're lying! I would never hurt an innocent human life!" She accused him.
He glowered down at her and suddenly pinned her to the bed. She could feel his breath on her face and she knew that she had pissed him off. She didn't exactly know Klaus by any means, but she was there that night in the gym when he turned Tyler. And she was aware of his psychotic behavior, so pissing him off was probably the worst thing she could have done.
"Please don't hurt me." She whimpered softly staring into his eyes.
He frowned at her and slowly moved away back to standing in front of her. "I'm not sure what games your playing, but it's not funny anymore. I want you to stay here. Do not leave the palace. I have some things to attend to today so Rebekah will be staying with you until I return. I brought you breakfast as well." Klaus said going to open the bedroom door. Caroline's eyes widened when she saw a girl walk into the room holding a plate of fruit and some eggs.
"Try not to leave a mess when you finish up." Klaus said before leaning down to kiss Caroline goodbye. But Caroline recoiled from him and shimmied to the opposite end of the bed in disgust. He stared at her for a long minute in anger before taking the food in the girl's hands and threw the plate against the wall right above Caroline's head.
She hissed in fright as she ducked trying to avoid the flying pieces of glass and food, but nothing hit her as it all fell to the floor. She cracked her eyes to see where Klaus was and she saw he was still staring at her the same rage in his eyes. She slowly uncurled her body from the ball she made and was about to open her mouth to tell him how childish he was being despite her better judgment when he grabbed the girl by the throat and snapped her neck with ease.
"Now you can eat your dinner cold." He snapped before leaving the room and Caroline's expression of horror at the callousness behind his actions and words.
She began to cry, scared of what was to come of her. And she wondered for the millionth time since arriving in this futuristic hellhole what had made her choose such a dark man to be with. She wiped her eyes after a long cry and began to pick up the shattered plate and food. She tried not to look at the dead girl on the floor as she worked and eventually she had cleaned up the whole mess. After she was done she had no choice but to look at the girl and decide what to do with her. She looked around the room for some kind of hint as to how to discard the body when her eyes landed on a picture of familiar blonde hair. She squinted and walked closer to the picture trying to make sense of it. She recognized her face and the blonde curly hair framing it. She was surprised and a little sickened however to see herself naked in the painting. She knew that if vampires could vomit she would have right on the image of herself laying naked for Klaus and the world to see.
Mystic Falls 2012
Caroline grunted as she looked through the small closet of bright clothes. She was looking for something to wear since her mother had woken her up early to tell her to go to school before going to work herself. Besides for hearing her voice Caroline had yet to see her mother. She was slightly afraid to see her honestly, it had been so long and she desperately missed the woman over the past one hundred years. She knew though that she had to act like her old self so she could discover how to get back in one piece and not arouse suspicion. So she got up like the dutiful daughter she used to be and got ready for school.
After leaving Damon the night before she walked back to her house and wasn't surprised to find that she could get in without an invitation. She creeped into her room and began to skim the contents of everything she could find trying to look for clues. But the only thing she found was a memorial service pamphlet for her father. She frowned when she had found it confused. Her father had died with her mother, not separately. This bit of information had confused Caroline, and now she was a little unsure this past she was stuck in. Obviously her father had died before the time-traveling had taken place so she hadn't messed up any timelines, yet.
So Caroline didn't understand how her father was dead and not her mother. In her past her father had died along with her mother, savagely murdered by someone Caroline had considered a friend. In her time that had been the straw to break the camels back (of course there were some other things that lead to her turning her humanity off) and it was the beginning of the process to warp her into the woman she was today.
Finally deciding on a bright yellow sundress (against her better judgment) and wedge heels Caroline went off to school dreading having to pretend to be her old chipper sweet Caroline self.
She also hadn't slept the night before and was quite cranky since this was the first time she had slept without her Nik in a hundred years. She missed him dreadfully and wondered where he was and what he was doing. She also wondered about present Klaus and what he was like now, she remembered that he was vicious when they had met, and over the years he'd softened while she had became more murderous. And she couldn't help but think about the Caroline that was now in her place and what she was like. Was she still sweet and innocent? Was she still Miss Mystic Falls? Was she still hung up on whatever ex-boyfriend she had currently? Had all of the bad things happened to her yet? Obviously not if her mother was still alive, but her father wasn't. How peculiar.
She twisted her wedding ring around anxiously as she got ready for school and tried to calm herself. She would find a way back and then make whoever did this pay. She looked down at her wedding ring for reassurance and touched the simple necklace around her neck that Nik had given her for an anniversary some years before.
When she arrived at school she realized she didn't know her schedule anymore nor her locker combination, would it be the same? So she tried it and was surprised to find it was. She was also surprised that she found a schedule for that semester tapped in the locker. So she began to go to her classes, although halfway through the second one she got bored and hungry.
She got a pass to go to the bathroom and found a girl wandering the halls who looked quite tasty. She compelled her into the bathroom with her and began to feed from the teenager not caring if anyone else was around because then that would be an excuse to kill them. Once she was done with the girl she compelled her and let her go back to class. As she was cleaning up a familiar blonde came into the bathroom to check her make up.
"Caroline." Rebekah sneered upon seeing the blonde.
"Rebekah!" Caroline gushed happy for the first time since arriving in this Godforsaken past hellpit. She ignored the Original's facial expression and tone.
Rebekah glared at her and then her expression changed as she smelled the fresh blood on her skin. "Were you…were you feeding in here?" Rebekah asked slightly astonished.
Caroline smirked at her and then turned to the mirror to fix her make up. "Perhaps. Tell me, dear sister, how are you?" Caroline asked looking at her in the mirror.
Rebekah looked at the blonde vampire in awe whether it was from being addressed as a sister or from feeding on students Caroline wasn't sure. So she sent her another smile and went to the exit of the bathroom.
"See you at practice." Caroline said leaving the bathroom with a saunter in her step.
Rebekah stared after her in shock not knowing what to think.
The rest of the day for Caroline dragged by slowly. She hadn't seen any of her so called friends and neither did she care that much. Although she was wondering how she would get herself out of this mess. She already knew that the only person that could possibly help her was Klaus and to find Klaus she knew she would have to find Rebekah.
So Caroline went to cheer practice later that day and dug up the rusty routines from her mind. Routines that she knew by heart despite not doing them for a hundred years. After a long practice Caroline cornered Rebekah once the other girls left.
"Can I talk to you?" Caroline asked as Rebekah sipped from her water bottle.
Rebekah glared at her and flipped her hair over her shoulder. She then gave the younger vampire a snotty look. "I guess." She snapped.
"Where's your brother?" Caroline asked after taking a deep breath.
Rebekah smirked, "which one?"
Caroline rolled her eyes annoyed with her future sister in law. "Don't play games with me, Rebekah. I'm talking about Klaus."
Rebekah raised her eyebrows at her, "Nik?"
"Yes." Caroline growled hands on her hips.
"What about him?" Rebekah asked.
"I need to talk to him. Do you know where he is?" Caroline asked.
Rebekah chuckled lowly. "Is this some pathetic excuse to try and kill him? You want to talk to him? I know what he did to you and Tyler and I know you're all pissed off about it."
Caroline frowned, "what did he do to Tyler and I?"
"Don't play dumb Caroline it looks bad on you." Rebekah said smirking.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Caroline growled annoyed.
"Seriously Caroline, what did you do? Get vampire amnesia? I'm talking about your bloody birthday when Nik made Tyler bite you." Rebekah's smiled evilly at Caroline as shock crossed her face.
"Or did you not know?" Rebekah added watching the stream of emotions play across her features.
"What?" Caroline asked faintly.
"Nik wanted to show dominance over your merry little group of pals and to do that he had to go for the weakest link aka you. The collateral damage." Rebekah said smirking as Caroline's already pale face turned paler.
"And it was so easy too, I heard Tyler didn't even try and resist biting your pretty little neck. Of course, Nik came in at the opportune moment to save you. Always trying to play the villain and the hero my brother." Rebekah taunted rolling her eyes and before Rebekah could stop it Caroline had punched her breaking her nose and splattering blood down her face.
"What the bloody fuck!" Rebekah cried feeling the healing effects of her nose already begin. Her eyes flashed black and she stepped closer to Caroline.
"I will rip your heart out you stupid bitch." Rebekah threatened and Caroline rolled her eyes.
"Where's Klaus I need to speak with him." Caroline snapped unperturbed by Rebekah's threats.
"Fuck you! Find him yourself." Rebekah snarled taking her stuff and going to the locker rooms.
Caroline sighed heavily and angrily stomped towards her car to do just that. Although her mind was reeling from what Rebekah had just said. Never had Klaus ever asked anyone to bite her before, least of all Tyler, a friend from high school.
Now Caroline was extremely confused.
What exactly was going on in this past, it almost seemed like she was in…an alternative reality? But what the fuck? How could she be in the past and an alternative reality? What did this spell do to send her not only into her past, but into another reality, one that was almost parallel to her own save for some rather big events, such as her parents, Tyler biting her, and…wait where was Elena? Was she a vampire yet? And Bonnie? She cursed under her breath almost wishing she had run into her friends today at least to find out what was going on with them and if Elena was a vampire yet and Bonnie was a super witch. It seemed she had a lot of investigating to do.
After her realizations she decided to stop at her house to gather her thoughts before she began to look for Nik. If anyone could answer her questions, Niklaus Mikaelson could. When she got home she was surprised to see a package on her bed neatly wrapped with a bow and an envelope on top. She tentatively took the envelope and opened it to see an invitation to a ball being held at the Mikaelson mansion. There was also a personal note from the hybrid himself asking her to save a dance for him.
Caroline smiled to herself knowing that she wouldn't need to go looking for Nik since he had already come looking for her. The ball was that night and she knew without a doubt she wouldn't miss it.
After all she needed answers and he was the only one that could give them to her.
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