Caroline sat in the mystic grill checking her messages for what must have been the hundredth time that day, she saw Elena strolling in from the corner of her eye, she ordered a coffee from the bar and came and sat opposite Caroline.

"Hey" she said with a roll of her eyes as she slumped down on the chair, Caroline smirked raised her eyebrows at a suffocated looking Elena.

"I'm surprised you actually managed to escape the Salvatore's with this new big bad murderer on the loose, you know there's something seriously ironic about Damon going out of his way to protect you from all these murders when just last year he was the one committing them." Caroline scoffed, she wasn't Damon's biggest fan and with good reason too, when he'd first come to town he'd used her as his own personal blood bag, compelled her, verbally and physically abused her and made her feel worthless, but of course that was just swept under the table and everyone acted as if it had never happened, she dreaded to think how everyone would react if anyone had treated Elena the way Damon had treated her.

As if right on cue Damon came strutting in like he owned the place standing over Elena with an irritated look on his face.

"Speak of the devil and in he walks" Caroline commented bitterly, not especially pleased with the new arrival. "actually no, I take that back, calling you Satan would be actually be an insult to Satan."

Damon rolled his eyes

"good to see you too Blondie" He turned back to Elena "we're leaving" he ordered glaring down at her.

"stop telling me what to do" Elena scolded. "I'm staying here, I've been locked up in that house for days and I'm not your prisoner, but if you insist on being my personal bodyguard, you're welcome to join"

Damon rolled his eyes and took a seat next to Elena much to Caroline's dismay, Damon was the last person she wanted to speak to right now on top of all the stress of her mum disappearing off the face of the earth, she understood that it was a big case you mum was working on but she said she'd probably be back in around a week and it had been two and why wasn't she picking up the phone?

"Caroline?" Elena's voice interrupted her thoughts "what's up, you're doing that table tapping thing you always do when you're stressing."

"it's my mom!" she burst out, relieved to finally be able to share her concern with someone "she went off on to work on some case and she told me she'd only be gone for a week, but it's been two and now she isn't answering her phone and she hasn't left me any messages and I'm just.."

"Caroline, calm down!" Elena stopped her "the case is probably just taking longer than she expected and her phone died."

"or she was taken by the mystic monster.." Damon's voice joked earning him curious looks from both girls at the table "you haven't heard the myth of the mystic monster?" he asked

"not all of us are hundreds of years old, now spill." Caroline demanded.

"Well rumour has it had that when Klaus Michaelson was still in power of the city of New Orleans.."

"who's Klaus Michaelson?" Caroline interrupted him

"you've never heard of Klaus Michaelson?" He asked with raised eyebrows "he was the original hybrid, half vampire, half werewolf, he and his family were the first vampires in existence but he was the most powerful, anyway the guy was evil and psycho etcetera, etcetera, you know the drill until one day he disappeared of the face of the earth and obviously died since he was never seen or heard from again, the legend however says that the original witched placed a curse on him, some say the curse would immobilize him, some say it made him fat, some say it made him, some even say it turned his skin green" He scoffed at the speculations "truthfully nobody knows what this so called curse did but the legend has it that he was so humiliated that hid himself away from the world and now lives to this day, hiding away in non other than the forest of mystic falls." he finished with a smirk "he's basically the towns version of the Loch Ness Monster."

"that's it I'm calling Bonnie" Caroline decided, dialling her friends number as she hopped of her seat and headed out of grill, she heard Damon laughing behind her and what sounded like Elena hitting him on the arm.

She was sitting in Bonnie's kitchen who looked equally perturbed by the story Caroline had just told her of the big bad hybrid.

"look Bonnie, I just need you to do the locator spell, I brought her hairbrush and everything" Caroline informed her holding up her mothers hairbrush, looking extremely proud of herself.

"why is it that people only ever come to me when they need something?" Bonnie sighed getting a little tired of being the gangs go to witch, solving all their problems and gaining little appreciation for it, ultimately though she knew she'd always do whatever she could to help, it was just who she was.

Caroline was surprised and her first instinct was to argue back and defend herself but she knew her friend was right. "look, I know we always don't always show enough appreciation for everything you do for us but we all really are grateful, or at least I know am" she smiled "I mean seriously we'd be pretty screwed without you." that earned her a laugh in agreement from Bonnie "plus you're my best friend, so I'd probably be here anyway even if I didn't need something.

Bonnie smiled at her friend and rolled her eyes as she grabbed the hairbrush out of Caroline's hand and began to perform the spell.

Klaus and Caroline will finally meet next chapter, now I can get to the good part! ;) huge thank you to everyone who's favourited and followed by the way! :)