Her heard was throbbing in pain the second she became conscious. 'Ugh how much did I drink last night?' She opened her eyes slowly and was blinded by the bright white lights. As she tried to shield her eyes from the light she realized her hands were tied down. Caroline then tried to sit up and move her head but noticed that she was tied down tightly to a metal bed. She opened her eyes and focused on the details around her, white walls, medical equipment everywhere and she could smell the sterilization. Was she in a hospital? How did she end up here?
It then hit Caroline like a brick, the parties, her friends, her running away, bumping into Dr. Maxfield and Tyler. Tyler! He had abandoned her! She was kidnapped by her professor who now knew she was a vampire.
Caroline pulled at the bindings around her shoulders and arms but they wouldn't budge, the same deal with the bindings around her legs. Caroline tried to control her breathing but she was worried, Dr. Maxfield saw what she was, what did he want with her?
'We're going to have so much fun.'
What did that mean? Caroline wondered.
"Ah patient 0247 is awake. Patient has been unconscious for 6 hours; signs pointing that vampire is young, very young. Patient is female, blonde, appears to be 17-20 years old, human years, longevity of unconscious state marks patient at 1-5 years old."
Dr. Maxfield crept into the room while circulating Caroline, talking into a portable recorder. He was dressed in a white lab coat, but the look in his eyes Caroline did not like one bit, whatever was going to happen she knew it would not turn out well for her.
"I don't know what's going on but please let me leave" Caroline begged.
"Of course you know what's going on, please state your name and how old you are in vampire years." Dr. Maxfield replied.
Caroline's heart stopped. So he did know what she was.
"I don't know what you're talking about" she whispered. "Vampires don't exist. Why are you doing this to me? I'm your student professor!" Caroline answered hoping to play the dumb card so he would let her go.
"Your name and age please." Maxfiled stated one more time, ignoring Caroline's pleas and lies as he set up equipment beside him.
"Listen asshole I don't know who you are but you need to let me go." Caroline growled. "Hey look at me!" she yelled.
Dr. Maxfield turned around to face her looking at the defenseless vampire in front of him.
Caroline quickly looked into his eyes and compelled him, "you're going to let me go, forget what you saw and while you're at it break a finger or two for treating a lady this way." Smirking, no one treated Caroline Forbes like this, not anymore.
Dr. Maxfield stared at the girl's eyes for a second before blinking; he then let out an malevolent smirk before grabbing the recorder. "Patient 0247 is aware of compulsion."
Caroline's eyes widened in horror at the realization that her compulsion did not work. Dr. Maxfield continued to grin at her reaction. "That's right dear I'm on vervain and if that little stunt wasn't enough conformation to my theory then maybe this will."
Dr. Maxfield then picked up a rather large bottle and dumped the contents out on Caroline's face, hair, and chest. Caroline screamed in pain and withered as she tried to free herself from the burning sensation. However as she screamed in pain more of the liquid entered her mouth causing her to swallow the painful liquid. Her skin began to blister and angry red marks appeared. Tears flowed down her face.
"Please stop! Please!" She screamed.
"You're name and age please" Dr. Maxfield answered.
Caroline let out another cry before yelling "Caroline Forbes, turned at 17, been a vampire for 3 years. Please stop." She cried as she began to sob from the pain.
"Patient is very responsive to vervain, face blistered instantly, theory shows that young vampires are weakened easily.
Caroline sobbed and tried to control herself. 'Easily weakened'. She hated begin powerless, being weak. Once again she tried to fight the bonds around her but nothing broke through and she let out a frustrated yell.
"Nice try, but even vampires a hundred years older than you can't break through, so don't think you ever will. As I stated before patient 0247, we are going to have a lot of fun together."
"Caroline." She whispered. "My name is Caroline, not patient 0247" she glared.
Dr. Maxfield smiled at her while running his fingers through her hair. "You say that now but just wait you won't remember anything but the name 0247 when we're done here. Welcome to hell." He laughed before reaching down and grabbing a salpal.
He started moving the blade towards Carolines left eye. Slowly as he tried to decide what angle to persue.
"What are you doing?" she asked her voice full of panic. She had expierenced torture before but this man was insane. "Please don't. Stop!" As she thrashed her head around.
Dr. Maxfield moved behind her placing a metal band over her forehead to keep her head steady on the table. "Don't worry I'm just going to cut out your corneas, pupil and retinas to examine them under a microscope, they'll grow back in about 3 hours. I will warn you though this will hurt."
Caroline whimpered as the blade moved closer and closer, she let out screams hoping someone would hear her, anyone. No one did though and finally the pain hit her on full impact as she screamed and begged for him to stop, tears caught in her throat. Her screams filling the whole room.
Tyler decided to meet up with Stefan, Elena, Damon and Bonnie the next day for lunch and also just to get together without any supernatural drama. Tyler's heart was beating rapidly in his chest; he could not sleep last night, his mind to focused on what had happened last night. How could Caroline sleep with Klaus? What was that guy going to do to Caroline? The biggest thought on his mind however was how could her have left her? The guilt was eating away at him but he kept reassuring himself, Caroline is a smart girl, she'll get away and then come charging at him like a bat out of hell.
"Dude you look like hell" Damon called out as soon as Tyler made his way over to the group drinking what appeared to be a bottle of bourbon.
"Had a rough night last night, couldn't sleep." Tyler mumbled.
"Tell me about it. The three of them couldn't sleep at all because apparently our vampire Barbie decided to shack up with our loving original hybrid." Damon mocked. "So guess who had to hear about it all night."
"Yeah I heard." Tyler stated. He wanted to get off this subject. He didn't want to imagine the two of them but most of all he couldn't stand the guilt that was eating away at him.
"Who told you?" Stefan questioned.
"I uh ran into her while she was leaving the party, told me you guys were mad at her then told me why, told her I couldn't forgive her so she told me she was taking off to travel or something, get away for a bit." Tyler lied hoping they would buy it.
Damon stared at Tyler for a while, he had noticed the dog looked extremely jumpy the second he walked in. He had a feeling he was hiding something. "Don't you think it's odd that Blondie just decided to leave? When has she ever run away from a problem? Especially without trying to make amends with her best friends first? Plus she didn't even take anything with her." Damon rambled on as he gave Tyler a pointed look.
"I don't know dude! I was a little to pissed to ask who her travel agent was! That asshole killed my mother and then my ex girlfriend goes and sleeps with him? Sorry for not giving a crap!" Tyler exclaimed. He was angry at Klaus, angry at Caroline, angry with himself but most of all angry that Damon just wouldn't buy his story.
"Damon leave Tyler alone. He deserves to be angry after what she did to him, after what she did to all of us. And then she goes and just leaves? Let her be." Elena said annoyed at what her best friend had done, how selfish she had been.
"Hey I was just saying it didn't sound like the Barbie we know and love." Damon said defensively trying to watch his words in front of his girlfriend.
"Well maybe this shows that we just don't know her at all. Ugh I can't even think about her right now, this is suppose to be a fun day so lets just forget about Caroline." Elena said.
"Elena, I know you're upset but she's still our friend." Bonnie explained trying to reason with her friend. She was upset as well but Caroline was one of her best friends she couldn't just shun her.
"Well guess what Bon? Our 'friend' just left us not caring to see if we were alright so I have every right to be upset so drop it!" Elena scoffed.
"I agree with Elena. We should just let her be, she'll come back eventually, I think we all just need some time to clear our heads." Tyler stated, smiling at Elena in support. He needed to not think about Caroline, and he certainly could not tell them the truth, they'd hate him.
"Okay we'll let her be vacation Barbie." Damon sighed. Stefan and Bonnie looked at each other before agreeing to let her be, reluctantly.
"Good! Now who wants to go down to the swimming hole and just lay in the sun, jam out to music like the old days?" Elena smiled glowingly.
Caroline must have past out at one point during her 'surgery' Dr. Maxfield put it. When she woke up she could hardly see, her eyes burning and blurry but she appeared to be in some cemented prison cell. Her eyes blistered as she took in her new environment. She placed a hand up to her eyes and noticed all the blood that appeared on her hands she slowly made her way over to a mirror on the wall, the only object in the room.
Her beautiful cerulean eyes were now crimson red. Blood dripped from her eyes down her cheeks. Her eyes were now just bloody holes. She closed them in shock as her body started to shake from the tears she was desperately trying to hold in.
Where was she? Why was he doing this to her? Her friends would come for her though; they couldn't be too upset with her. No matter what they always put each other first and this would be no different, they would find her shortly and they would make up fast.
Her eyes were becoming more painful even with her eyes shut. She could feel her eyes repairing themselves and stitching themselves back together. If she thought it hurt to have her organs ripped out it was just as painful to feel them growing back.
Caroline let out a small whimper at the pain, which allowed the sob she was desperately trying to hold back escape.
"Hey Hun pipe down some of us are trying to get some shut eye." A British voice called out from beside her, on the other side of the wall.
"Klaus?" she cried hoping he had come for her.
"Wrong block love, the names Enzo." The voice replied.
Caroline could not hear the difference between the two. Enzo did not carry the confidence and sultry sweet voice that Klaus had, his voice did not sound as powerful as the Original Hybrids. Oh how she wished to hear that voice again.
"I'm sorry Enzo, you sounded like a friend of mine. Do you know where we are?" she questioned, as she made her way over towards the iron-bared door, closer to the man next to her.
"I call it Hell but the official name for this place is The Augustine Society. Bunch of wacko humans who experiment on vampires such as ourselves. Most of them are doctors using our impeccable abilities to find cures for silly human diseases. I think it's a load of garbage." Enzo explained.
"So they torture us? I mean that's what they did to me. He cut… he cut open my eyes" Caroline whispered, her voice breaking when she tried to explain what had happened to her.
"Eh I always hate the eye ones, very painful when they grow back, especially when you're deprived from blood, takes longer for us to heal." Enzo said a small touch of sympathy in his voice for the girl beside him, she seemed like a good person she didn't deserve this hell from the sounds of it.
"So I'll desiccate in here? That's what will happen if we don't drink blood right? I guess that could be better than what I just went through." Caroline tried to reason with herself.
"Ah don't worry about desiccation lovely, they give you the smallest amount of blood so you don't desiccate but enough to still keep you weak, that way you can still partake in all their festivities." Enzo said, his voice becoming colder.
"Well don't worry. My friends they'll come for us. They're angry at me right now but trust me they'll notice my absence and they'll find us right away." Caroline replied trying to stay optimistic.
"Yeah don't count on that one, I had a friend here once and he completely abounded me and never looked back, was a close friend of mine, so forgive me if I don't feel to confident in your friends." Enzo mocked.
"You don't know my friends." Caroline reassured herself.
"You don't know this place. It's well hidden from everyone, no one knows where you are, hell you don't even know where you are. Trust me lovely you won't be found." Enzo said coldly.
Silence filled the room before Caroline spoke again in a soft whisper "how long have you been here?".
"Let's see I was taken after World War Two, so roughly 65 years give or take." Enzo stated.
Caroline's blood ran cold. 65 years. That was older than her mother. She couldn't be here for 65 years, even if no one did know about this place she had the one thing no one else had, an Original Hybrid who would do anything for her.
Klaus would find her she reassured herself. However the more she tried to find reassurance the more insecurities crept up. He wouldn't come looking for her. Her friends wouldn't call the man they loathed. She doubts Tyler would confess to him what had happened if he wanted to keep his life. The one thought in her head that stuck out the most though was he got what he wanted.
Maybe now that Klaus had gotten in her pants he would leave her alone and forget about her. Find a new girl to obsess over and harass.
'He wouldn't do that to you' Caroline's conscious told her. 'He loves you.'
'He's stated before that love is a vampires greatest weakness. He doesn't know what love is, face it he got what he wanted and now he could care less about a dumb baby vampire.' Her insecurities shot back.
Caroline then remembered her promise. 'If you promise to leave and never come back.' Her heart stopped. Why had she said that? She was being stubborn; of course she never wanted Klaus to leave her. Look where her stubbornness had gotten her. She was now stuck in this hellhole where she would spend the rest of her life, or a large part of it. Caroline could feel the tears coming back as she began to hyperventilate.
"I take it back, I take back my promise. Please come back. Klaus. Please come back." Caroline mumbled to herself as her body began to shake from her hyperventilating.
"Hey" Enzo called out, his hand shooting out of the door and over towards Caroline. "Take my hand."
Caroline opened her eyes and saw the hand just outside her door she stretched her arm out and grasped the hand lightly. Enzo's tightened his grip around her hand.
"Listen to me… What's your name lovely?" Enzo asked softly.
"Caroline" she quivered.
"Listen to me Caroline. You're going to be okay, but you have to remain positive, none of that turning off your humanity. I'll make sure you're okay and you'll get out of here. Plus you're friends are coming for you soon." Enzo rambled on trying to reassure the nervous girl.
"No they aren't. They hate me, you said it yourself no one will find me." Caroline cried.
"Don't listen to me I'm an ass." Enzo joked.
"Caroline sniffled as she pressed her head against the bar to get a glance at her inmate. He was attractive. Dark hair, deep brown eyes, a nice jawline and he had a nice smile. She attempted to smile back at him giving him a half smile.
"Well look at you. You're gorgeous. You certainly don't belong here." Enzo smiled as he teased her. Hoping to make the girl feel better.
"No I don't think I do." Caroline teased back.
"Listen to me Gorgeous, we're going to get out of here and when we do we're going to find that block Klaus you confused me for. You're going to be okay, I've got a plan." Enzo smiled.
Caroline smiled and mouthed a thank you threw her tears that were subsiding. She closed her eyes leaning against the bars and realized just how tired she was. Enzo must have noticed as well.
"Get some sleep Gorgeous, he'll be back soon but I will do everything in my will power to make sure he does not hurt you." Enzo said squeezing her hand one last time before settling in his cell.
Caroline smiled as she made her way towards the back corner of the cell. It was cold, hard and damp but she would make due. Her and Enzo would be fine, they would get out of here she repeated in her head. However before she fell asleep her conscious shouted Klaus.
'Klaus'
Klaus woke up abruptly when he heard his name being called. However it wasn't the name that made him wake up quickly it was the voice. Caroline. He looked around quickly and made his way out of his room. However he couldn't sense her, it was only a dream.
"I could have sworn… my mind is playing tricks on me" Klaus mumbled as he made his way to the kitchen.
"Talking to yourself Nik? Need us to check you into the Looney bin?" Kol teased as he grinned at his brother.
"Maybe" Klaus answered quietly while he rubbed his head looking for a blood bag.
Rebekah, Kol and Elijah shared a look as they wondered what had their brother so bothered.
"Are you okay Niklaus?" Elijah asked making sure his younger brother was okay.
"Fine just… fine" Klaus replied.
Before anyone could make another remark Haley made her way into the Kitchen before making her way over to Elijah smiling at him slightly.
"You ready to go?" she whispered to him.
"Of course" he replied with a smile before giving one last look to his brother. "Haley and I have business with the wolves and then I figured I show her what New Orleans has to offer."
"I'll come!" Kol shouted and made his way over to them. "I'm bored anyways and I'd love to see what kind of tour guide you are. He's very boring." Kol added as he winked at Haley who shook her head.
Elijah glared at his pesty little brother "very well".
The three made their way out of the house, finally leaving Rebekah and Klaus alone.
"You know you can tell me anything? Right Nik?" Rebekah told her brother, breaking the silence.
Klaus stayed quiet for a bit thinking. His family had never been closer. They were at their favorite home, all was well between the three, he had given up his daggers to finally become a family again. He could trust his little sister, his closest companion.
"I slept with Caroline." Klaus admitted as Rebekah's eyes widened in surprise.
"I can't believe she gave into you" Rebekah mocked lightly with a smile.
"Yes, under circumstances. The weird thing is that ever since our encounter I can hear her in my head at times. This morning I woke up to her shouting my name, normally it wouldn't bother me but I couldn't help but feel like she was sad or in trouble." Klaus continued.
Rebekah stayed quiet trying to figure out what her brother was trying to say.
"It sounds crazy doesn't it?" Klaus laughed.
"Yes." Rebekah agreed. "However I have heard crazier, I don't know what to tell you, maybe we should talk to a witch?"
"I don't want any withes or anyone knowing about her while this war is going on. I don't want any harm to come to her. After the war I'll see a witch, but I told you because maybe you could look through mothers grimoires to see if anything sounds similar to what's happening." Klaus asked.
"Of course Nik, it may take some time to search through all of it but I'll see what I come up with." Rebekah smiled before leaving the room, not before squeezing her brother's shoulder.
Whatever was happening to Klaus he did not like it one bit. He didn't like to feel anxious or worried. That's all he felt though as he thought about Caroline. Hopefully something turned up, until then he had a war to win.
Let me know what you think! Are you a fan of Enzo? What do you think is going on with Klaus?