Yay for chapter 2! I hope you guys will be able to enjoy it. I tried to put more details in it. Hope I succeeded.
And thank you again to my beta, Elle for correcting all grammar mistakes. You're the best!
Enjoy chapter 2 of The Other Side ;)
Eerie. Silence. Moor. No chance of escaping. These were the words and legends used to describe the other side, but nobody really knew what was actually there. Until now.
Klaus opened his eyes in an effort to find out where he was. He didn't recognize the place. Everything was so unfamiliar and strange. Where am I? What is this place? And how did I even get here? were the only thoughts crossing his mind. Yet, he could not answer his own questions. As hard as he tried, he couldn't. But answering these questions weren't as important at the moment. The more important one was ... How am I going to get out of here?
After minutes of asking himself the very same thing, he decided to explore the area. Surely, he could find someone else in this place. Someone, who would be able to help.
Trying to stand up from the cold ground he was lying on, he thought that he saw something move in the distance. Not entirely convinced what it was or whether he even saw it, he still made the decision to follow it.
"Klaus." He heard a blurry voice calling his name.
"Anybody here?" he asked, waiting for a reply. Even after couple of minutes, he heard nothing but eerie silence so he got back into following whatever it was he saw earlier.
"Caroline, calm down!" Stefan demanded with a raised voice.
"Caroline, calm down?" She mocked the sentence, trying to imitate his voice. "How can I calm down after what you did?" The tears started to roll down her cheeks.
"Caroline, please. Don't make this even harder for us. We needed to do this. He ruined all of our lives," He tried to explain but she covered her ears with her hands. She didn't need any more stupid excuses on why they had to kill Klaus. Yes, he was dangerous and a threat to them all. But that was before he met her. He was completely different person now.
"Don't even try to explain it to me, Stefan! I do not need any more excuses. All I need is to find a way to get him back to me."
And those were the last words she said before she stood up, and made her way to the fire place. He looked at her with sympathy. He felt terrible for her and yet, he had no power to undo what was already done. And even though he could, he wouldn't. He trusted Caroline but not Klaus.
"Hey," He said, walking towards the fire place to give her a tight hug. She didn't respond at first but after couple of minutes, she hugged him back.
"Why am I never the one?" she suddenly asked him. "Why do the guys that I want never want me? And when I finally found someone who makes me feel like I'm important, he has to be destroyed, or in this case, sent to the other side? WHY?" Tears were falling to her cheeks like waterfalls. Nothing could stop them.
"Caroline, do you remember what I told you?" Her stare was fixed on his face now.
"What?" she asked, barely whispering.
"You're strong. You're beautiful. You're good," he continued, "You are worth so much more than Klaus. I know you love him because he makes you feel like you're important and everything but…" stopping for a second, he gave her enough space to disagree.
"I'm not. I am always the one who is everyone's second choice. It's the way it is." She whispered.
"You're not giving yourself enough credit, Caroline. Can you not see what an amazing person you are?"
"No, I can't. When I was human, I was a bitch. I wanted to be in a charge of everything. People only talked to me if they needed something done because they knew I would do it." Taking a breath, she explained some more. "When I became a vampire, everything changed. I ran around the city killing innocent people!" The thought of the memory made her grow weak in the knees.
"And then, you helped me. I felt like I finally had a real friend. But that wasn't enough. Not for me. I wanted more."
"Caroline," he sighed.
"No, let me finish," She interrupted him.
"Okay," he simply stated. Hoping she wouldn't start the topic that included him and his girlfriend and Caroline's best friend, Elena.
"Happiness is all I've ever wanted. Having someone, who would care for me the way you do for Elena."
Oh, no. Here we go again. He rolled his eyes. She saw it but continued with her speech anyway.
"I thought it was that when Tyler and I were together but I was mistaken. He cheated on me the whole time. With Hayley. You remember her, don't you?"
Hayley, the werewolf girl that had helped Tyler break the sire bond from Klaus. "Yes, I do," He answered. Of course he remembered her.
"And when I found out, it broke me. I loved him so much. The thought of losing him to another girl was unbearable. And then…" she stayed quiet for a minute.
"What then?"
"Klaus came into my life," She paused. "And everything changed." She said with a voice softer than any other he had heard before.
This can't be happening. Stefan kept repeating the sentence in his head. Only now he saw what effect Klaus actually had on Caroline. He needed to find a way to make her forget about him and he knew exactly how to do it.
After hours of following the shadow, creature or just a glimpse of something he saw, Klaus felt tired. There was a possibility that what he saw wasn't even real. His mind could be playing tricks on him like with the voice he heard before.
He looked around, not able to see anything that showed any form of life. All he saw was a plain with nothing but mud around for a far as he could see. It was never-ending. He more he trudged on, the more he realized his attempts were futile. There was no way out.
Sitting down, he took out the locket he kept in his left pocket. It was the only gift he had ever gotten. Nobody had ever given him anything. Not until she came into his life. Caroline was the only light in his darkness.
He opened up the locket and looked at the picture of her inside. God, wasn't she the most beautiful girl on planet? he thought. With this thought, his mind wandered into the past. More specifically, to the night he invited her to his family's ball.
"Good evening." He greeted her, politely.
Caroline was walking towards him, she had no idea why though. He was the bad guy. The one who killed, slaughtered and took everything he wanted. Yet, she found him irresistible. His accent and the way he looked tonight had a lot to do with it.
When she reached him , he made her even more nervous. Desperate to hide the effect he had on her, she simply said, "I need a drink," and walked away in the direction of a bar.
Klaus, now immersed in memories about their moments together, started to caress the locket and gave a kiss to Caroline's photo that rested inside.
"I'll find my way back to you, I promise," he said with certainty. "You're the only pure thing in my life, Caroline," he continued, "And nobody will ever tear you apart from me."
"Oh, how romantic, Niklaus," a very familiar voice, stated. "I'm not entirely sure you can keep your promise, though." The voice continued.
Klaus didn't even need to turn around. He had already recognized the voice.
"Mikael,"he said in disgust.
"Good, I see that you remember me, my dear son," He said, walking towards where Klaus was sitting.
"How could I ever forget?" he glared at him. Mikael was the reason of everything bad that happened to Klaus throughout the years. He was not his son by blood and so his stepfather treated him like nothing.
"We're gonna have a lot of fun, you and I," he smiled, devilishly. Before Klaus could say anything sarcastic, Mikael spoke again. "Do you know where you are?" He raised his eyebrows.
So he knows. How could he know? It made no sense. But then Klaus started to think more. His stepfather was dead. He killed him. There was no way he could be alive, was there? Oh, crap. Klaus thought.
"We're on the other side, aren't we?" he said, his voice breaking.
"Indeed and you have a lot of enemies here, my dear boy," He burst into a huge laugh. "And there's no way out. Once you're here, you never leave. NEVER." He made sure he emphasized the last word. "We're your death. And you will never break free." He continued.
Wait, we? What does he mean by "we"? But before he could ask what he meant, more figures came from the shadows. Their devilish grins were staring at him. He recognized most of them. They were all supernatural beings he had killed throughout the centuries. And now they were back to take their revenge.
"Alright, bring it on," he whispered.
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