Insanity 2
Rebekah and Elena found Caroline withering in pain on the basement floor, hugging her knees to her chest. Both girls winced at the sight of the blonde covered in her own blood. Caroline started screaming in pain again as what looked like light burns from the sun appeared on her back. Her screams were so loud that Rebekah had to place her hands over her ears. After a few seconds more Caroline's screams of pain turned into whimpering cries.
"Caroline," Rebekah said in a soothing voice reaching down and stroking her bloody blonde hair. Caroline whimpered and leaned into Rebekah's hand relaxing slightly at the soothing gesture.
"He isn't down here is he?" Caroline said in a slight begging tone, knowing that if Rebekah was there then so was Klaus.
"No, he's not. But he can if you want him to be." Rebekah said hearing her brother start toward the stairs on the main floor.
"No," Caroline spoke in the strongest voice she could muster.
"Ok, ok. He won't come down. But Caroline I need you to stay with me and Elena, Ok?" Rebekah said as Elena crouched down to sit by them.
"I'll try, but he's so strong, I don't know if I can." Caroline said as another tug at her mind started to rise.
A few moments later Caroline started to twist and scream in pain. Elena and Rebekah trying to soothe her as best as they could.
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Klaus started pacing as soon as Caroline said that she didn't wish to see him. His pacing became more frantic when she started screaming in pain again. Damon sat with bourbon in one hand trying not to shatter the glass, as cries of pain came up the stairs. Stefan continued to grit his teeth and started flipping through books as fast as he could. Matt continued to call Tyler, even using Caroline's phone every few minutes. Elijah stood at the basement door looking ready to run down the stairs and help Caroline if need be.
"Why hasn't that Mutt answered his phone yet?" Klaus snapped as Matt started redialing again.
"I don't know, but I might just kill him for not coming when his girlfriend is in pain like that." Damon said remembering all the things he had done to the blonde, finding himself wishing he could apologize.
"Could someone… like snap her neck, so the pain will subside?" Jeremy asked repeating Bonnie's words, the witch not being able to take much more of her friend in pain.
All of the vampires heard a slight 'Crack' from the basement before Rebekah came up the stairs traces of Caroline's blood on her jacket. Face in a solemn frown at having to break the blonde's neck. Not many people knew that Rebekah and Caroline had become friends in secret, every day the two girls had texted. Rebekah was greatly saddened to discover her friend had been hiding something this big from her the entire time.
"We have to find that bastard and make him pay for what he has done." Rebekah said looking saddened at the blood from Caroline on her hands and jacket.
"I'll make some call to the witches in New Orleans and see if they know anything." Elijah said pulling out his phone and walking out of the room.
"Caroline, she whispered something to me before I snapped her neck. It was so quite that even I barely heard it." Rebekah said looking down at her hands in deep thought.
"Well, what did she say?" Klaus asked stepping to his sister in an almost menacing way.
"She said something about their minds having to be connected for him to torture her. But I don't get how that could be of any use." Rebekah said throwing her hands up into the air.
"Bonnie says that will help a great deal, if a witch could use Caroline while he's torturing her they could trace the link back to Silas." Jeremy said looking at the spot that Bonnie's ghost stood.
"I'll get Elijah." Rebekah said quickly running out of the room.
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Caroline started to wake up in the basement and heard everyone up stairs talking about getting a witch to help them. Feeling something on her face Caroline saw that Elena was doing her best to wipe some of the blood off of her. When Elena noticed her friend waking up she ran to the freezer and grabbed a blood bag before returning to her and helping her drink it.
"Go upstairs with them, I'll be fine." Caroline croaked out with pleading eyes.
"Okay, but someone will be down here in a few minutes to check on you and maybe sit down here with you." Elena said wiping away the last of the blood off Caroline's face before getting up and walking up stairs.
Once alone in the basement Caroline started to stand up and walked over to the freezer weakly downing another complete blood bag. Once the bag was empty she had more strength and threw the bag away walking out up the stairs as carefully as she could, making sure not to fall or make too much noise.
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"So did any of the witches agree to help us?" Klaus asked looking at his brother as he walked into the room.
"Yes, actually they did. Before I even told them what was wrong with her they agreed, apparently Ms. Forbes has family in New Orleans." Elijah said trying to think of anyone in New Orleans with the last name Forbes.
"Elijah no matter how hard you think, you will not find anyone in New Orleans with the last name Forbes." Caroline said slowly walking into the room from the stairs. At the sight of her Stefan, Elena and Rebekah all vamp speed to try and help her. Klaus is stopped from doing so by Elijah who reminds him that she had not wanted to see him in the basement with just a simple look.
"What do you mean Care? If not Forbes then how?" Stefan asks as they help her to sit down on the couch.
"Claire, the last name Claire." Caroline said noticing the shocked looks on all of the originals faces.
"Your mom's maiden name," Elena says recognizing the name.
"Your mother is a Claire, any relation to Davina Claire?" Elijah asks being the first one to come from his shock.
"Yeah, she's my younger cousin. My aunt had wanted me to go to New Orleans for something almost a year ago, don't know what." Caroline said with a slight cringe of pain.
"They wanted you for the harvest." Klaus muttered under his breath.
"Yeah that's what it is, but my mom said no and I was working on something." Caroline said with a shrug before she grabbed her head in pain and started to scream.