Title: One Chance

Category: Vampire Diaries

Characters: Caroline and Tyler, Klaus, Bonnie

Summary: It's been a month since what happened in the finale of Vampire Diaries. Caroline left thinking Tyler was going to die, but he shows up.

Status: In Progress

AN: I own nothing. Another take on the finale of season 3

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Caroline opened her eyes with a groan as the alarm sounded, it was midnight. She'd set the alarm in case they fell asleep, which they had. Her body didn't show any bruises, but if it could it would. She felt sore all over, but in a good way because it was Tyler. They had gone four rounds before they had fallen asleep. She got out of the bed putting his shirt on before going over to where she'd drawn the circular trap on the floor. She covered it with a carpet before going to the bed hoping that Tyler was still there.

She knew the risk of him falling asleep, but they'd chanced it. She shook his shoulder hoping to find her lover still there. "Tyler, wake up," She said before he started to stir. She moved back just in case, but she knew how to tell them apart. They'd made a code word and all Tyler had to do was say it and she'd know. She just hoped that he was there long enough for this to be finished then they could really be together.

Caroline started putting the ingredients into the pot she'd gotten. She mixed Tyler and the wolf's blood together before adding her own. It was supposed to be the three of them; nobody else was going to get to be with them. She'd be damned if another man got to see her, touch her, or even come near her. She might not be a witch, but she had the strength to cast the bastard out.

Tyler sat up looking around trying to move, but he couldn't go anywhere. Iron shackles were around his wrists and ankles. Caroline looked over from where she was at trying to figure who she was looking at. The man she loved or the bastard that should have died a month ago. "You're not going to win, Love," it sent chills down her back. It was Tyler's voice, but it was clear he wasn't in charge any more. Klaus was the only one that called her Love.

"We'll see about that," She said back before shooting a dart of white ash against his throat, she silently sent up pray that Tyler would be okay and that she was sorry. She was going to have a bone to pick with a former best friend too. She didn't care if Bonnie promised Tyler that Klaus would jump out the first chance he got. Something had gone wrong and that had not happened at all.

Tyler was fighting to get back in control, but he couldn't, no matter how hard he tried he could only watch. This was worse than when the wolf was in control, then he had a chance, but now it was like he was in this small room with no lights. He could hear Caroline and hoped this worked, he'd told her to do it no matter the cost. He didn't care how much pain it caused either because he'd be free once the bastard was out of him.

The wolf growled from a separate isolated spot inside of Tyler. It wanted to tear the original apart limb from limb. Sink its teeth into him and eat him for every meal for a month. He'd destroyed what he had too; he took Caroline away from them. Tyler could hear the growls and smiled, somebody was going to pay and he knew what the wolf wanted. It was actually waiting on them when they got back too.

Caroline ignored the taunting coming from where Tyler was sitting. "You're never going to get him back, he's mine, he just got lucky, it won't happen again," he yanked the shackles that held him and was moving off the bed, but when he got to the carpet he was thrown backwards against one the walls. It was like the floor had burned his feet, his entire body felt like it had been shocked.

"You might be stronger, but Tyler loves me more, and that is a hell of a lot more power than you have," Caroline said throwing something into the pot before it sent a mist around the room. She'd melted part of the white ash stake into the pot. She refused to melt it all because she had a plan if this didn't work. She'd do it again; she'd keep him here until the next full moon and do the spell again. She didn't have much to stand against Rebekah if she showed, but she'd try.

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Caroline picked the pot up throwing the contents all over Tyler's body. She covered her ears as he screamed. She could see the fire coming off of his body before she closed her eyes. "YOU BITCH," Caroline stood there not able to stop the tears anymore; she could hear the screams and the words directed at her. However, Tyler made her promise not to do anything, not to cross into the circle. It hurt so much because it wasn't only Klaus that was suffering, Tyler was too.

Klaus wasn't going to win, he wasn't going to be there anymore, and he was going to leave Tyler's body. She knew that Tyler was going to be hurt after this; even if he could heal it was going to take time. Vervian and wolfsbane mixed together was dangerous for him, it had almost killed him once before. She just hoped the white ash didn't affect him too.

Klaus tried to get out of the circle, but it held him, he wasn't going anywhere. "Everybody you love will die, you will die," he said in Tyler's voice making her cry even more. "Dead by morning," he said before a bright blue explosion lit up the room.

It was like a force she'd never seen before either, Tyler's body was hit by a lightning bolt. He was held in place screaming in agony as she watched it striking him over and over. She watched as the bolt burned him from his neck down. She cried seeing the bone in his leg break as he started turning. "I love you, Tyler, just hold on," she cried hoping that he could take this pain.

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Tyler couldn't help, but scream as he felt his flesh being burned away. The lightening was hot and as it struck his body he felt the urge to shift. He felt his leg starting to turn and his arm, but when his leg snapped he screamed. He couldn't find his voice because he was pinned in mid-air trying to get through this hell.

He clung to the thought of Caroline as he looked over at her. She was crying standing just outside the circle. He felt something happening to his body, but he wasn't sure what it was. It was like he was being stripped of part of himself. He could hear the wolf howling inside of his body trying to claw its way out. It didn't want to be going through this pain either, but they had no choice. It was the cost of being free of Klaus. He finally found his voice and the only thing that could come out were screams yet again.

He felt as his bones were burnt from his body. They weren't breaking; they were burning away, something that felt a million times worse than drinking wolfsbane. His eyes shifted to golden as the wolf fought to break free of his body. He closed his eyes feeling like the wolf was being forced from his body. He could hear Caroline's voice yelling as she kept telling him to hold on. The only thing he could think of was it had to end soon.

It finally stopped after ten minutes sending him against the far wall. The wall wasn't inside the circle that Caroline had made and she could see Klaus ghostly form still standing there. He was no longer inside of Tyler, he was almost see-through. He couldn't talk though and for that she was glad as she smiled. "I think we won,"

Another lightening strike sent Caroline flying as well so hard that she made a new door in the room. She screamed as it struck her holding her for the same amount of time before it had sent her flying. She hit the wall in the other room crashing down on the table that was there breaking it into pieces. She laid there feeling weak knowing she had to get to Tyler soon. Her body hadn't been burned thankfully, but she knew Tyler's had. She could smell burning flesh and knew where it was coming from.

She couldn't hear anything from the next room as she lay on the floor. She'd been weak for days now, but Tyler's blood had healed her body. The lightening had hurt however; it had taken almost all of her strength she had gained from his blood. The tears were falling from her eyes because she didn't know if Tyler was alive or dead. She had to get to him, but her body just couldn't function at the moment.

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"Caroline," Tyler groaned, he didn't know if he was alive or dead because he couldn't seem to move. He didn't hear Caroline, nevertheless he tried looking around, but he felt paralyzed. He looked at his torso feeling as if he was on fire. The white ash had burned his skin and patches of it were gone, the fire had been scalding and he knew it had done something to him. The way he had been held in mid-air floating as if he was standing. It had then turned to him on his back being hit over and over; he'd finally passed out from it all.

He was supposed to heal faster now that he was a hybrid, but until the white ash was gone he wasn't going to heal. Caroline had also mixed Vervian and wolfsbane together making it that much stronger. He yelled out moving his leg, he knew something was broken. He called out again for Caroline because laying helpless there not knowing where she was terrified him. He didn't give a damn if that made him weak, he'd be fucking weak. He needed Caroline, plain and simple, without her he wasn't getting up. If it hadn't been for her Klaus would still be inside of his body and he wasn't about to live like that.

Caroline got up off the floor finally hearing Tyler; she had to let him know she was okay. She made it to his side before she fell down again. "I got hit by the lightening too," she said feeling weak, she'd grabbed the bag beside the bed before she'd fallen down next to him. She didn't know if she would be able to move any time soon. He'd stolen blood from Damon's freezer before he'd come here. She was glad because she'd only had three bags left and it wouldn't have been enough for the both of them.

Tyler tried to lift his head to take the blood, but he couldn't. Caroline sat up slowly moving against the wall pulling him so he was too. He was resting between her legs when she got him as comfortable as she could. She had tried to get him sitting up as much as she could, but it was hard for him. "I'm sorry," She said as he cried out in agony. She let him drink first knowing he had to heal soon or the damage would be too great.

"You drink," he said once he'd taken enough to start healing. She was going have to take care of the both of them. She needed more so she could get them more blood later. He closed his eyes wishing that he could feel her hand on his body, but he couldn't. It was like being shocked by electricity only a billion times worse.

"He's gone," Caroline said drinking from the bag. She'd watched the lightening take Klaus' ghostly form away.

They were alone and free of the Original Hybrid and she knew that Tyler was going to be healing for a while. She could see one place that the ash had burned him so badly that she could see his rib bones. A few spots his muscles were showing through the burned skin. There were three spots that she could see that his bones had been burnt and broken off. She bent down slowly and kissed the top of his head. She had missed his face entirely when she had thrown the mixture and she was thankful.

"I know, I felt it, I just wish I could feel the rest of my body," he told her that he couldn't feel anything above his waist yet. He didn't even know how he was swallowing because he felt numb other than tingly all over. Caroline let the tears fall because she didn't know how long it would take him to heal. Stefan had healed in no time that time he'd been in the well. This was different because it was three things combined and magic of the moon too.

"We'll figure it out," Caroline said giving him more blood before drinking some too. She divided each bag out with him and by the fifth bag she was feeling better. She watched some of the skin heal over his torso, but the bigger spots still hadn't mended.

Tyler drank the sixth bag down after Caroline told him she was full. She had to figure how to get him up off of the floor because his legs weren't working yet even though he could feel them. She could tell one was hurt more than the other by the way it was turned under him. She could see his knee cap where the flesh had been burned away by the lighting. He had put a pair of boxers she'd had with her for him on before he'd fallen asleep. She leaned him against the window seat before she went to the bed getting the pillows and the blanket. She said she'd be back going downstairs finding what she needed before going back upstairs.

"What's that for?" Tyler asked seeing the sheet and two boards she was holding.

Caroline knelt down telling him she was going have to set his leg; she couldn't risk it healing wrong. She knew it would hurt like hell, but she said she was sorry before she did what she had to do. She'd expected him to scream out, but he was ready for it and he just whimpered. He'd dealt with the pain of turning over a hundred times.

She kissed his leg not caring that it probably seemed gross. She'd taken care of him after a full moon plenty of times. She put the boards against his leg before wrapping them with the sheet. It would do until his leg healed. She figured a few more bags and it would be healed maybe or at least his knee cap. She would have to figure how to get him cleaned up soon because that was really going to be painful.

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Tyler fell asleep a few hours later after drinking the rest of the blood he'd brought with him. Caroline made sure he was comfortable before she got her keys. She didn't want to leave him, but she had to get them more blood. His leg was healing slowly, but was going to be weak for a long time. She locked the doors before making her way to the car she'd gotten. It was under her Aunt's maiden name so nobody could track her down. She'd let Tyler know if she ever had to run then she'd do that. It was how they would find each other in times like these.

Caroline went to a nearby hospital getting in and out in less than two minutes. She'd gotten the blood and first aid supplies also. She then went by the local store getting some food because they would need that as well. She compelled the clerk to sell her the alcohol when he denied her it. She wasn't in the mood to deal with no id check.

Tyler woke up finding the note she'd left him and his phone lying beside him. He didn't remember having his phone there, but Caroline probably put it there. It started ringing and he groaned barely able to answer it. His muscles still weren't working right, but he got it, "Hello?" he wasn't sure who it was because his sight wasn't back yet either. It had been going in and out since he'd been covered in the ingredients. He had put the phone on speaker because holding it up wasn't going to happen.

"Where in the hell are you at? I've been calling you for hours now," Bonnie said trying to find her spell book. It was nowhere to be found, she didn't understand where it could have gone. She needed it and soon. Her room was trashed, but she didn't care, she needed to find the book. She had even checked the Lockwood cellar where she'd had it last.

"I had some business to take care of," Tyler said, trying to seem like he was still Klaus. He didn't need Bonnie tracking them down. The bitch had done this to him, she'd put Klaus in his body and made him live in hell for a month. It didn't matter that he had agreed, it wasn't supposed to have been a month, "We talked about this, you do not call me," he was awake for some of the times Klaus and Bonnie had meet. The one rule was she didn't call him, he'd call her. He hung up the phone hoping Caroline got back soon.

"Business, you are supposed to be here, you wanted me to put you back in your body," Bonnie yelled into the phone. She couldn't believe he'd just taken off on the night she was going to help him get back in his body.

It would have been all to his self and Tyler would have been free again. She threw the phone down pissed off that he would do this. She'd gone against her friends doing this and nobody knew so far. She had some things of Tyler's here, she'd track him down. She had to find him and get him back before something happened.

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