UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Anon asked: Could you please write a drabble where Marcel gets Caroline and threatens Klaus so he has to save her?

"Let me go!" Caroline screamed at the vampire before her. He simply stared at her with an impish smirk that angered her even more.

"Sorry babe, no can do." He answered nonchalantly and Caroline's brows were now stitched together. "Now keep quiet."

"I swear if you don't let me-" And before she could finish her spiteful threat the spunky chap pulled out a glock and shot a wooden bullet right in her direction. The stray bullet hit her left breast and she hissed painfully. She felt the wooden splinter stop half way through her chest and just before her heart. This was the 5th bullet she had taken and all because she was being defiant and 'full of questions' as her captor would claim. She panted softly and glared at the man who watched her closely. Her back against the wooden wall and her wrists cuffed behind her back, she was powerless. Vervain faintly coursed through her veins. She could smell her own blood which repulsed her ever so greatly.

"Isn't this fun?" He teased. Caroline glared at him as he smiled at his pistol that he seemingly twirled in his hands.

"Go to hell." Caroline hoarsely said through her teeth.

"You're lucky blondie. My master is here so you just saved yourself another bullet to the face." The man said fiercely with a grin that seemed out of place to his horrid demeanor. Caroline scoffed and spat a hoard of vervain filled saliva to the side.

"What are you trying to do Marcel?" Hissed a very familiar voice. Caroline tried to tune in but found out that she didn't have to when the voices neared.

"Why don't you see for yourself." The other voice interluded. Caroline peered up to see two fuzzy shadows.

"Caroline." The mystery man growled. She corrected her vision to see it was her savior, Klaus. His face held a tight expression full of hurt, pity and sadness.

"Klaus?" Caroline whispered hoping that her eyes weren't decieving her. His eyes watered and so did hers because she was relieved and he was hurt. He couldn't stand seeing her like this that it brewed up rage within the thousand year old hybrid.

"What in the world is this all about Marcel?" Klaus roared into Marcel's face with his arm flung into the direction of where Caroline's limp and lifeless body laid. "Tell me!"

"Cool it Klaus, I was getting to it."

"Well?" Klaus raised his brows expectantly.

"I want you to flea town." Klaus's face fell at Marcel's proposal. The Original inched Marcel with a ghastly look in his orbs. Marcel stood his ground and stared down his good mate showing no fear or mercy.

"Come again." Klaus asked in a low deathly tone.

"Leave town now." Marcel commanded echoing his friends motions. "Or! Just stay and watch the love of your life, the girl you seem to care about ever so much... die."

Klaus ground his teeth together and stared at his protege with a stern look that read somewhere between the lines of 'you-wouldn't-dare.' Marcel glowered with a sly grin, his eyes looked at his buddy who raised his chin waiting for the go to signal.

"Jacob, you know what to do." Marcel said under his breath and before Klaus was able to register things in the sound of Caroline's scream broke him out of the curious trance. The gutsy vampire had shot Caroline in the face. Blood trickled down her nose and past her mouth as she began to sob softly.

"NO." Klaus growled loudly. Instinctively his hands went for Marcel's neck, holding him in a choke-hold. His facial features morphed into those of a vampire. He glared at his mate with his anger reaching its brink.

"Your humanity is starting to show, Niklaus." Marcel laughed and Klaus loosened his grip letting his friend go. His features softened and he gave himself some time to cool down.

"Just let her go." Klaus urged hastily as he avoided eye contact.

"And why should I?"

"Just do it Marcel." Klaus raised his voice violently as it shook the thin walls surrounding them.
Marcel sighed and nodded at suspicious Jacob.

Klaus burned a heated gaze at his pal. His ears could hear the lock click and the ropes slowly being unfastened. Caroline wobbled upright to her feet and began to trudge out. Her head was pounding and her feet felt like feathers. She was about to walk past Klaus but he stopped her and appeared before her.

"I want you to go home, back to Mystic Falls." He told her carefully and Caroline nodded with a blank look on her face. He didn't compel her, no. She was just lost for words. Slightly traumatized by all this. "Do you hear me?"

"Yes." She whispered shakily and his face faltered the slightest. He saw the fear in her eyes and the pain she was trying to hide. He noticed that she was troubled and it hurt him to see it.

"Now go." He said a little too harshly.

Caroline gave him one last look before using her vampire speed to dash out. Klaus exhaled deeply and then looked over to his friend.

"I believe we have some unfinished business to take care of."