Setting: This happens the next night after Tyler's 1st transformation. I would guess this is the day before they go back to school, meaning right before 2x12 'The Descent', WHICH MUST COME NOW, NOT IN JANUARY.
Disclaimer: I do not own The Vampire Diaries or the characters from the book/TV series in this story. The plot is mine though.
Enjoy!
Caroline looks up to the night sky and flinches.
It's almost a full moon.
She immediately turns back to Tyler, sleeping on his bed, searching his face for any sign of discomfort or worse…pain. When she reassures herself that even if the moon was almost a whole 360 degrees, it wasn't. If she looks closely, she sees that the moon is waning and just like that, everything is right in the world.
It's the next night following Tyler's transformation. After she found him, cold and exposed in the early hours at dusk, it took the whole morning and afternoon for him to regain his strength and be able to walk without limping. Her thoughts linger on the horrific images that she knows she will never forget. She hears echoes of Tyler's screams in her head but seeing him fast asleep – alive and healing - deafens her to all of it.
Her fingers ghost over Tyler's cheek. She gingerly wipes away his sweat with a cloth in her other hand.
He isn't sleeping well, it is evident by the way he tosses and turns and the frown on his face. He's having nightmares. She silently curses herself for not being able to do anything for him yet again, just when he needs someone to do that exact thing. Kneeling by his bedside, lightly running her fingers through his hair, diligently wiping his sweat and when the nightmares didn't stop, she does something she stopped doing ever since her father left her.
She prays.
It feels wrong. It feels like she's violating something as holy and innocent as praying and the whole concept of God and religion because she's fairly certain she should be burning in hell. She is dead and yet she cheated and stays on earth as a blood-feeding parasite. She has eternal life and youth, strength and speed but she's damned and she doesn't deserve any help. She shouldn't be calling out to God or whoever it is up there.
But she does, it's all she can do.
But before she even utters a word, it becomes quiet all of a sudden. She looks back at Tyler and upon seeing his calm face, hearing his slow, deep breaths; she lets herself cry in relief. It is then and there that she decides that she's going stay there for the rest of the night. She'll just have to leave before Tyler wakes up so she won't freak him out. Anyway, ever since she became a vampire, sleeping became boring and something she only settled into as a last resort when she couldn't find anything to do with all the time she had on her hands.
She gazes at Tyler and she hates how cheesy and pathetic she looks right now but there's nobody looking. She gazes at him with a longing she doesn't bother hiding now that she has some time for herself. She thinks that if they see her right now, Stefan would probably shake her by the shoulders until she sees sense and Damon would probably laugh in her face until he cried his eyes out but neither scenario stops her from wishing she was a werewolf instead.
Sighing in irritation, Caroline stops thinking altogether.
She stays and then weirdly, she feels sleepy. She wonders whether it's because of what happened the night before with Tyler or it is because of Tyler. She rests her head on the bed by his side and closes her eyes.
She wakes to the incessant ringing of the alarm clock on the bedside table. She rushed and turns it off and looks back frantically at Tyler. She sighs in relief, seeing that he hasn't woken up yet.
She glances at the alarm clock on the bedside table, the alarm Tyler himself set so that he'd wake up for school. She had thought of chucking the alarm clock out the window so that it would smash into pieces when he told her what he was doing. He shouldn't be going to school after such an ordeal but then she remembers how going to school everyday like all was normal kept her sane when she was new to her turning so she understands how Tyler wants things to go back to normal as soon as possible.
She turns back to Tyler and just looks. A second later, she sees his warm, amber eyes.
She turns to run.
Tyler Lockwood stands up and catches her wrist. "You forget I'm as fast as you now, Care." He reminds her.
She curses under her breath and it's not because she has been caught. It's because she's all shook up at how affectionately he called her by her nickname. She's cursing because she's acting like a schoolgirl with a bad crush. She turns around with a bright smile on her face.
"Hi, Tyler!" She chirps.
He is still holding onto her wrist. Her wrist is on fire.
"Actually, I was just here to check up on you before I headed for school. You look great! How are you feeling?" She asks.
He smirks at her, looking wide awake and tilts his head as he pulls her closer. "I happen to know you stayed the night, Forbes." He teases.
"Well that answers the question. You're back to your egoistical self. How nice." She says dryly. "And by the way, I didn't spend the night here, why would I when-"
"You're wearing the same clothes from that night, what does that tell me?" He counters. He grins at her.
She pictures herself banging her head against a wall because she shouldn't be going crazy over how Tyler Lockwood remembers what she wore. She shouldn't be going crazy over Tyler Lockwood, period.
Now her whole face feels hot, even if it is impossible because vampires didn't blush but she can't help but notice that his hand slipped lower from her wrist and is now gripping her hand.
"I am not wearing the same clothes!" She protests but inside she knows it's no use. "I went home and changed and then went up here to check up on you. Gee, thanks Tyler, this is what I get for looking out for you."
He just shakes his head, his eyes twinkling with playfulness. "There's dirt on your clothes, Care. What did you do, hike here? Obviously, the dirt's from the old Lockwood property you and I were at yesterday."
Before she can think of a witty comeback, he tugs her hand and pulls her towards him until she is so, so close to him, until she can see that when the sun hits his amber eyes, they look like liquid gold.
Of course, she can't breathe. She doesn't have to but that didn't matter because he's breathtaking and that's what he's doing to her and it isn't fair. He leans in until his lips are against her ear, his hot breath caressing her neck.
She shivers.
"Besides, I could smell you." He says into her ear.
She pulls away. "What? Do I stink that much?" She fretted, obviously distraught. "Ew. Wait, are you playing with me Lockwood, I didn't smell anything!" She bursts.
"So you do admit you were here, in my bedroom, the whole night?" He looks at her expectantly, smirking yet again.
She swears she's blushing, realizing the double meaning of Tyler's words.
"No! I told you I was – I went – and…oh shit." It's a lame ending and she knows that this is the end. Tyler Lockwood just chuckles and once again he tugs her hand again, pulling her closer again.
And when he buries his face into the crook of her neck and inhales deeply, when his free hand comes up to the curve of her back and the other hand on her waist, she is suddenly frozen.
"You smell like…" He trails off, planting light kisses on her neck as his lips venture lower. Caroline moans softly as her hands grip his chest, "Ty- Tyler."
"Like vanilla, like peaches, like honey…" He whispers fervently into her hair and then he moves so that his lips are right at the corner of hers, almost touching.
He grins when he hears her whimper.
"It means a lot to me Caroline. You mean a lot to me. I knew it was you because you're the only one who's ever stayed with me, I told you that." He whispers huskily before he pulls back even more, only to cradle her face so tenderly in his hands that her chest constricts. His warm, amber eyes see right through her.
He leans in, pausing just when she almost feels his lips on hers. "I want you to know Caroline, thank you."
Her eyes widen, hearing the rawness and an unmistakable tinge of desperation in his voice. He presses their lips together with such ferocity and hunger that it burns. Everything burns. With him, she feels warmth she hasn't felt since she died. And-
"Caroline?"
She jumps up to her feet, startled and disoriented.
Tyler is staring at her like she just sprouted wings
"Did you…did you sleep here?"
All she can think about is that it is the first time she's had a dream since she died, which shouldn't happen because vampires can't have dreams.
She's already gone, but not before Tyler Lockwood sees that she was crying.
It was all a dream. I didn't add a partition because then it would be obvious that something's up. In the promo for 'The Descent', we see Tyler trying to comfort Caroline about something when he says "I'm right here." (YES, OMG THAT LINE IS JUST-AHHH!) So from here, connect the dots.
Oh, I made up the 'vampires can't have dreams' part. I just think that they wouldn't be able to, since they don't actually need sleep in the first place.
Sorry for any spelling/grammar mistakes!
Hope you guys liked it!
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