So what do you think so far? I know the chapters are short, I was just kind of writing it down as I imagined it and then fine tuned it, wasn't really sure how long the chapters should be until I was done. Wait until you see what Klaus' siblings have in store for him and Caroline! Please Review!

Disclaimer: I do not own the Vampire Diaries.

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Chapter 3

Klaus blinked slowly and groaned, his head swimming. He felt something warm and soft underneath his head, then a hand running through his short hair. It took a second for this to register with him, and then his mind focused and his sight sharpened. He stood up quickly and whirled around. He saw Caroline kneeling on the cement floor looking up at him with a tired expression. His brow furrowed as he looked around.

They were in a cell.

"We're still in the mansion, if that's what you're wondering," Caroline spoke up while getting to her feet to stand in front of him.

"I figured as much, we're in the basement cells," he muttered.

Then he turned to look her up and down, "Are you alright? I thought Elijah might have ripped you heart from your chest?"

"I could be better, but I'm healing, slowly."

He shifted towards her, "Where? Let me see." She hesitated, but then lifted her shirt to reveal a mangled wound in her abdomen and just below her ribs.

His eyes narrowed, then he looked back up at her, "Here," he bit into his wrist, "it will help you heal faster."

"No. I'm fine, your injured enough as it is," she insisted. But he frowned, "No, you need it; besides, I heal much quicker because I'm stronger," he smirked. She scowled at him, but glanced at his already healed wrist, then back at him. She took a deep breath then let it out, and stepped hesitantly towards him. He held out his wrist to her, his fist clenched, as she turned her back to him and gently took hold of his arm with both hands. He sighed as he felt her needle sharp teeth sink into his skin, she moaned involuntary as the sweet intoxicating blood ran down her throat. She leaned back into his chest, and he leaned his head against her temple.

After a minute or so she pulled away and turned back to him shyly wiping her mouth. Klaus looked at her curiously, "What were you doing here? Why did you put yourself in danger for me?" She looked down shyly, avoiding his eyes, "Well, I'd heard about your meeting with Stefan and Damon and was kinda pissed at all of you for trying to control Elena's life and-"

"But why did you try to help me? You could have been killed!"

"I don't know . . . I guess I just reacted without thinking when I saw those people torturing you. It was . . . instinct," she trailed off. Then she looked up at him with questioning eyes, "Who are those people anyway? You seem to know them . . ."

He sighed heavily, "They, are my siblings. My sister Rebekah, as you know, and my brothers Elijah, Fin, and Kol."

"So why we're they trying to kill you?"

"Because I had daggered them and locked them away in coffins for various amounts of years; Fin: nine hundred, Rebekah: about three hundred, and Kol: four hundred, Elijah remained loyal to me until recently."

Caroline was surprised, then realized she shouldn't be, "Oh, well I guess that merits a little frustration on their part," she muttered and looked up while lifting an eyebrow at him.

"I suppose, but I have my reasons . . ." She scoffed but whipped her head around when she heard the door to the cellar open. Klaus pulled her behind him and took a defensive stance. She was annoyed that he thought she couldn't defend herself but let it go, as all four of his siblings entered the room.

They apparently had gone shopping, as they were all wearing time period appropriate clothing, making them look more normal but also more menacing.

Kol stepped forward toward their cell, "Hello Nik, Caroline," he greeted with a smirk. Caroline's eyes narrowed, "How do you know-"

"Elijah gave us the low down, so we've got the jist of what's what" Kol interrupted her.

"So what do you want?" Caroline spat at him, already finding him extremely annoying.

"Oh, nothing, just a bit of refreshing revenge, don't you just love it?" He replied grinning.

Rebekah stepped forward and paced in front of the bars, "Nik's just getting what he deserves, and what better way to torture him than torturing the girl he fancies, although I don't know what he sees in you," she said disdainfully.

Klaus growled and his eyes turned yellow, as Caroline's eyes widened in realization.

"You touch a hair on her head and I'll-"

"You'll what, Niklaus? Tear us to pieces?" Fin mocked as he crossed his arms, "you should be more worried about yourself as you usually are, isn't that why you locked us in coffins for hundreds of years? To get us out of the way of your plans?" he taunted him.

Klaus' face softened, "No, that's not-"

"Enough, Niklaus, we will see justice, no matter what excuse you come up with," Elijah said firmly

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Kol stepped in front of the bars to open the door and as soon as he stepped out of the way swinging it open Klaus grabbed Caroline and ran at the doorway. But as soon as Kol stepped out of the way Rebekah stepped in front with a gun pointing straight at them, Klaus tried to duck out of the way but Rebekah shot off five rounds with extreme accuracy. He and Caroline fell back with a groan. He had three bullets lodged in his shoulder, abdomen and thigh, burning his insides out, and Caroline scrambled to claw the bullets out of her shoulder and stomach. Klaus groaned, "Vervaine . . ."

"And wolfsbane, just to be sure," Elijah added and rushed forward, stabbing a syringe into both him and Caroline. Caroline moaned, "Shit." And there world went dark again.

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Caroline slowly opened her eyes and looked up. Her mind focused immediately across from her. Klaus sitting in a steel chair with his hands tied behind it, and slumped over. She jerked forward only to stop, realizing she was in the same position. She cursed quietly, and looked around. They were in another concrete room but the only thing in the room was a reinforced steel door and the two chairs they were in. The chair Klaus was in was bolted to the floor, as a part of the room, but hers was welded, as an afterthought. They were placed so closely in front of each other that their knees touched.

"Bastards," she hissed. She nudged Klaus with her knee, but couldn't do much else as her ankles were tied to the chair legs with rope soaked in vervaine. It bit at her ankles, and she could still feel the bullets shift in her shoulder and stomach. No doubt they left the bullets in Klaus too.

She nudged Klaus' knee again, "Hey, Klaus!" She whispered loudly. No response. She hissed out of frustration and knocked him harder, "KLAUS!"

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He stirred, blinking lazily and moaning as he slowly came to. He registered the bullets still burning in his body, and then the knees touching his. He looked up quickly and saw Caroline tied to a steel chair, opposite of him. He snorted, knowing that they were taunting him by putting her so close that they were touching, but couldn't move.

"Finally! Took you long enough."

"Sorry about that love, they put a bit more vervaine and wolfsbane in me than I'm used to, threw me for a minute there." he replied sarcastically.

She sighed, "They're going to torture us aren't they?"

Klaus' eyes grew sad, "Yes, they will."

She stared at him with her big blue eyes, "Will they kill us?" she whispered.

"They can't kill me, I'm immortal, but you they can," he looked into her eyes and saw the fear there. "But I won't let it come to that, we'll figure a way out of this." he said reassuringly.

She smiled weakly at him, and he returned the favor. He quickly dropped the smile and became serious, "Now, let's see what we can do here."

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Elijah, Fin, Rebekah, and Kol stood in the next room listening in on Caroline and Klaus' conversation.

"He's right you know, we can't kill him, it's not possible," Rebekah said.

"Doesn't mean we can't try," Kol replied slyly.

Elijah frowned, "I agree that he must be punished for all that he has done, but do you see what this girl is doing to him? She is changing him."

Fin spoke up, "Let's just see how much she's changed him," and they all headed into the concrete room.

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Klaus and Caroline immediately went silent as the door creaked open, and his siblings filed into the room. Kol circled the two with his hands behind his back, smirking, as always.

"So how is my darling brother and his lady doing?"

Caroline's faced scrunched up, "I'm not 'his lady'," Klaus glanced at her a little miffed.

"You're not? Oh, well I guess he wouldn't care if I did this."

Kol ripped the ropes off of her left wrist then grabbed her arm and twisted it viciously until you could hear the cracking of bones. Caroline screamed and tears brimmed in her eyes.

Klaus lurched forward, "No! Stop it! Please!" he yelled desperately.

"Whoa!" Kol cried, letting go of a whimpering Caroline, "did you hear that? He said 'please'! Perhaps we could get him to do other things . . ." He muttered darkly.

"Kol," Elijah warned.

"Alright, alright, Elijah, just let me have my fun then it's your turn." The rest of them left the room and headed upstairs knowing this would take a while, leaving Klaus and Caroline alone with Kol.

"Now then, shall we begin?" He grinned.

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Klaus kept his eyes on his brother as he retied Caroline's arm to her chair, still twisted. He was furious, Kol hurting her to hurt him. He got angrier by the second, his eyes turning yellow, the black veins crawling under his eyes, and his canines growing. He growled at Kol, but noticed Caroline flinch and was staring wide-eyed at his teeth.

"Nik, your frightening the girl, where are your manners?" Kol teased.

Klaus looked at her and she stared back, her body stiff. He saw how nervous she was, because of course his bite could kill her. Seeing this he closed his eyes and breathed, trying to calm himself down, and she relaxed as his face went back to normal and he opened his blue eyes and looked into hers.

"Oh good, know that you've got your temper under control, let's see if I can break it," Kol said cheerfully and whipped a stake out of the back of the waistband of his pants and stabbed into Caroline's leg as she screamed with clenched teeth.

Klaus' chest rumbled as he jerked around, thrashing to get free of his chains and ropes as Kol ripped it from her leg and plunged into her stomach and she crumpled over gasping.

"No! I'll kill you, Kol!" His control snapped, his eyes turned golden-brown, his canines grew in his mouth, and fur sprouted all over. Kol grinned, then but then looked shocked as Klaus broke free of his bindings and fell to his hands and knees. The bullets were forced out if his body and fell to the floor as he changed into a handsome grey wolf.

He stood up on all fours and lowered his head at Kol and beared his teeth menacingly, fully aware of what he was doing.

"Shit!" Kol exclaimed as Klaus lunged at him, and flashed to the other side of the room, but as he turned he was knocked to the floor and pinned. Klaus sank his teeth into Kol's shoulder and whipped his head back and forth, tearing the flesh as Kol howled in pain until the whiplash snapped his neck and he went still. Klaus released Kol's shoulder from his jaws and let his body slump to the floor, with blood spilling from his shoulder, but slowly healing.

Klaus trotted over to Caroline who stared at him in fear. She looked into his golden-brown eyes and he whined and nudged her hand with his nose. She seemed to understand that he wouldn't hurt her, but protect her, and relaxed a little.

He gently put his teeth between the ropes and tore at them until they broke, even though it burned his mouth and he let out a high pitch whine as he repeated it until she was free. As soon as her hands were free she wrenched the stake from her abdomen and sighed in relief. She rubbed her wrists and rolled her angles, but her arm was still on fire. He watched as she set her arm back in its place and began to heal. Next she dug her fingers into the bullet holes and ripped the vervaine soaked bullets from her body with grunts.

She slowly got out if the chair and cautiously crouched in front of him.

"Klaus?" She asked wearily. He made a whining sound and ducked his head and stared right into her eyes. She reached out her hand hesitantly, and touched the top of his head. He let out a sigh and closed his eyes. She took this as encouragement and gently stroked his soft fur and ran her hands through his scruff. He leaned towards her and so did she. They rested their foreheads against each other, and he opened his eyes to look deep into hers, and she smiled gently.

Then Klaus whipped his head around with his ears perked up, to watch Kol shift as he moaned. Klaus looked back at her and she nodded as they both sprinted out the door.

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