"Who is she?!" I loosen my hold on his throat when he tries to speak "WHO?!"
"Hayley" he gasps as I let him go and throw him to the middle of the room "Hayley Marshall"
"Thank you Tyler..." I whisper when I suddenly rip off the wooden leg of the table beside me and push it into his stomach when he suddenly leans on me. I stare straight ahead into the fire and let him drop making sure that the wood is imbedded into his stomach. I look at the others staring at me when my eyes fill with tears. I turn and begin to walk out of the door.
"I wonder if the wolf will put up a fight before I rip her apart?" I say resolutely as I continue to walk and let a tear slip down my cheek.
"Caroline stop, please stop!" I hear my mom shout after me. "Damon, stop her."
"Sorry Liz, but I think that this time Blondie's on the right track. If I was her, I would be doing the exact same thing." He drawls out.
"Difference is, she' isn't you!' I hear her footsteps as she starts running towards me to hold me back. "Care, please stop, this isn't you." I turn swiftly and glance behind her to see everyone watching us.
"Isn't me? When someone tries to kill my mom, how the hell am I supposed to act? She tried to kill you, she tore into your throat and tried to drain the life out of you! If you think that I'm just going to stand here and let that happen, then your sadly mistake." I hiss at her and then look over her shoulder to Rebekah. "Rebekah, make sure she stays her, and under no circumstances will she follow me. Clear" she nods once, just as I'm about to flash away, I feel Klaus' fingers wrap around my wrist and hold me to him.
"Caroline, sweetheart, your mother is right. Don't do anything drastic. Killing the wolf won't undo this." He pleads and I search his eyes for manipulation which isn't present. I twist my mouth up into a smirk.
"You're right it won't" I move closer to him and whisper "but it'll make me feel so much better..." I drawl out leaving his eyes wide and I use that moment to flash through the forest to get to my house. I hit a hard body and my arms are grasped tight pulling me in. As I breath in from the shock, Klaus' scent fills me and I try to pull free. I stop as he pulls me in closer to his body and our noses are inches away from touching.
""Caroline, stop." he says resolutely in an authoritative voice. I roll my eyes at him and continue to pull myself away.
"Let. Me. Go...Now!" I whisper in a deadly tone but he shows not emotion in return and just continues to stare into my eyes.
""Calm down, sweetheart. I'll help you find her and then we can take her down. But you must calm down first." I take a deep breath and let my body relax.
"Ok...I'm calm" I say as I breath out. He nods and slowly releases his grip on me. I continue to breath slowly and channel all my rage into my hands which I use to throw him into a tree, breaking it in the process. I flash to my car and start driving, hitting the gas pedal to the max and passing through 3 red traffic lights to get onto the highway to head to Lucy's bar. Lucy Bennet, a witch that I met at the masquerade at the ball when we tried to kill Katherine, she stayed in town for a couple of days and we hung out together at the Grill and swapped numbers and addresses if we needed each other's help.
I make it to the bar and enter it to see it full of customers talking to one another. The bar is low lighted making it seem mystical but by it being full of voices, it seems lively, unlike the Mystic Grill. I head towards the red haired bartender and stand waiting for her to reach me.
"Hi, I'm Tamera, what can I get you, lass?" she has an enthusiastic air about her which, otherwise, I would enjoy but now I find utterly exasperating.
"Scotch. Neat." she raises an eyebrow at me as she pours my drink.
"Needing the tough stuff, huh?" she smiles which I don't return.
"Definatly." I keep my replies short and to the point/
"What was it, cheating ex?" I roll my eyes and clench my teeth.
"Not even close, more like, cheating ex's whore tried to kill my mother, so I'm going to kill her." I say with a false smile and revel in her sudden change of mood. Her smile and bright eyes drop and are replaced by wide eyes and quivering lips. I gulp back the scotch and enjoy the cool burn as the liquid runs down my throat. "Oh by the way, you wouldn't happen to know Lucy?" She swallows and runs a towel in between her hands as she nods slowly.
"She wouldn't be the one you're trying to kill...right?" I laugh and shake my head.
"Nope" I say popping the 'p'. She nods in return and gestures to the back of the bar.
"Caroline, what can I do for you, Cherie?" a dark skinned woman with chocolate brown eyes and hair as black as the night approaches me.
"Lulu!" I say as I wrap my arms around her and she returns the gesture. She looks into my eyes and what she sees causes her to gesture to the red head to mind the bar as she leads me away to the back room and lets me slump down into the worn arm chair. She hands me a shot glass of Tequila which I throw down my throat.
"That bad, huh?" she smirks as she takes a seat opposite me. I sigh.
"Honey, you're not even close..." I rub my temples as I continue, "we'll get to that later. Tell me Lucy, how are you?" she lets out a gentle laugh as she twirls her necklace around her fingers.
"Not bad, doll face, nod bad. But let's focus on you." her concerned eyes meet mine, "what happened?"
"Someone tried to kill my mother, and I want to find them." she raises a perfectly curved eyebrow and pulls out a map from the side and removes her dangling necklace.
"Human?" I shake my head,
"werewolf"
"name?"
"Hayley Marshall" Lucy dangles the locket over the map and twirls it in circles. "Do you know anything else about her?"
"She's part of the Crescent clan wolves and she's a brunette." She closes her eyes and I watch fascinated as the locket drops onto the map and stands on a point. I flash over to her and look at the place.
"She's in Atlanta, sugar, specifically the Deciduous forest."
"Thank you Lucy, I owe you one." Just as I'm about to leave, she grasps my hand and turns me to face her.
"You ain't going alone, darling, I ain't sending you into the wolves' lair by yourself. I'm coming too." I smile and nod at her as she gets up, grabs her jacket and we walk to my car.
20 minutes later we arrive at Hayley's supposed location. The woods are full of bright leaves and tall trees as the sun shines in between the gaps. I follow the sounds of murmurs which I hear with my vampire senses. I feel the need to shiver as if someone is watching us trudge through the woods.
"Care, what are you going to do to her?" I look into her eyes but remain mute, letting her wonder of my forthcoming actions. We continue to walk through the fallen leaves and reach a camp and 3 cabins. There are men and women, as well as a few children, around the area who all turn towards me and Lucy as we enter the clearing. I hold my head high in confidence as they're eyes run over us.
"Vampire..." I hear a man whisper and the people start to murmur. "Who are you and what are you doing here?"
"Jake, step down son, let them pass." A man in his late 40s says as he steps out of the middle cabin. The people clear a path for us and we walk towards the building, I keep my alert sharp, making sure to be ready for any attack. "Come in" the man murmurs, I step in and he gestures for me to take a seat on a wooden chair. I sit down as he introduces himself. "I'm Samuel, the alpha of the Crescent clan, who are you?" he sits down and scans over me with his eyes trying to figure me out.
"I'm Caroline, Caroline Forbes, I'm looking for a girl, Hayley Marshall." His eyebrows peak.
"And may I ask what business you have with her."
"She tried to kill someone I care dearly about, I want to know why." He stares at me and I look back, not wanting to be the one to look away first. He lets out a smirk at my strength and looks towards a man standing outside the cabin. A few seconds later a woman in her early 20s with a tan and brown hair walks in, completely ignoring me.
"Yes, alpha, you called?" Samuel looks over at me which causes the girl to turn to look as well. She looks over me and raises her eyebrow in confusion.
"This woman has been looking for you."
"You're Hayley Marshall?"
"Yeah, who the hell are you?" she crosses her arms and stands with attitude. I stand up slowly which causes the people in the cabin to become alert and edge towards us when Samuel flattens the palm of his hand to stop them moving.
"I'm Caroline Forbes, the woman that was dating Tyler Lockwood whilst he was cheating on me with you." She has the audacity to smirk at me and flip back a strand of hair and scoff.
"Is that it, your here because who want to retaliate." I predatorily walk towards her as she stands still.
"Nope" I give her a fake smile and stop leaving a cm gap of air between our chests, "I'm also the daughter of the woman you tried to kill. Wanna explain that to me?" I continue to smile and she gulps as she starts to stumble back.
"I didn't..."
"You didn't...what?!" I hiss.
"I didn't have a choice, he made me, I couldn't stop..." my brows furrow.
"What do you mean you didn't have a choice." She continues to stumble back and eventually hits the wall whilst I keep getting closer to her.
"A man, he came here this morning and found me, h-"
"What, who was it?" Samuel moves closer and Hayley glances to him.
"I'm sorry, I can't remember..." she whimpers, "he came this morning and lead me to the middle of the forest and made me go to Mystic Falls and find the woman with blonde hair wearing a sheriff's uniform." I feel my anger rise and I grab her throat and lift her up so her feet don't touch the ground.
"Miss Forb-" I cut him off immediately.
"Who. Was. He." I whisper in a deadly tone. She struggles to breath and I loosen my grip on her minutely making sure that I still have a firm hold on her. "I won't ask again, darling. Tell me or you'll have the pleasure to see your heart in my hand." I smirk as she continues to look at me with wide eyes.
"Ok...ok" she gasps as I release her and she falls unceremoniously onto the floor. "Like I said I can't remember, but that shouldn't be possible right, I don't have amnesia and I remember what he told me perfectly well...but I just don't know what he looks like." I take a deep breath in and look towards Lucy who has a confused look on her face.
"Lucy?" she snaps back to me and opens her mouth.
"Compulsion." I shake my head
"Of course not, werewolves can't be compelled." I turn back to Hayley.
"Maybe, but what if it's a very old vampire, with that kind of ability, they would have to be at least a thousand years old." My eyes lock onto hers.
"Someone like an Original maybe?" she nods but narrows her eyes. "Is there a way to see where a person was at a certain time?"
"If you know exactly what time, then yeah, I don't see why not. Do you have a map?" she asks Samuel who nods and digs one out a drawer. "Cherie, I'm going to need some of your blood to pin point your mother's location." she says to Hayley who hesitates to give some. I grasp her hand and prick her finger with a knife at the side and hold it over the map as it drops down. Lucy hovers her hands over the map and murmurs in Latin which causes the blood to move to the forest we're currently in. "That's where Hayley was when she was compelled, so you're telling the truth. Now for the other people, do you have they're blood?" I remove a small locket from my neck which holds Klaus' blood. The one he gave me after I was attacked by the second wold a few moths ago.
"Here, this is the blood of one person, the others are his siblings so you could just use that." She raises her eyebrow at the blood which I give to her but decides not to question why I had it around my neck.
"How many people in total do are there doll face?"
"Four." she nods and places four drops of blood around Hayley's drop. Lucy again repeats the process and three of the four drops move to the Mikaelson mansion whilst the fourth moves to a bar in Georgia. I nod, feeling the weight lift from my shoulders. It wasn't them...it wasn't Klaus. I sigh, no closer to finding out who it was. "Thank you Hayley, but let me warn you, if you so much as put a foot in Mystic Falls, I will hunt you down, skin you alive and tear you apart. Clear?" She nods and moves closer to Samuel who continues to look at me.
"Crystal."
"Thank you for the help Samuel, it's been a pleasure." I walk out of the cabin, past the people and back into the woods. I stop in the middle and my hand curls into a fist and slams against a large tree causing the birds to become alarmed and immediately fly away.
"Cherie, I know you're less than pleased right know, but what are you going to do?" Lucy asks as she places a hand gently on my shoulder and turns me to face her.
"I'm going back and getting some damn answers." I sigh and run my fingers through my hair. I walk away towards the car and get in as Lucy follows. I drive her back to her back in silence as questions fill my mind.
"Thanks darling, and if you need any more help, call me, yeah." she crosses over and hugs me tightly. "Keep yourself safe Cherie"
"You too, Lulu." she releases me and then she smiles and walks back to her bar as I look to the sky. I feel a burning sensation crawl over my skin as if someone is watching me. I swiftly turn my head to look around but no one seems to be there. I shake my head and drive back to Mystic Falls.
I stop in front of the boarding house and can make out the voices of everyone, even the Originals. I prepare myself for the oncoming slaughter of questions. Walking in, everyone's eyes turn towards me and my mother runs to me and holds on tight as I wrap my arms around her waist. She pulls away and looks over me as if she's checking for bloodstains.
"Caroline...did you..." I roll my eyes at Tyler and release my mother. I shake my head.
"No, no I didn't. But I did find her. Turns out that she was compelled to attack you mom." Klaus stands up and narrows his eyes at me.
"Impossible, werewolves can't be compelled by vampires."
"Apparently vampires who are over a thousand years old can." I walk over to Damon who hands me a glass of bourbon which I drink in one go and then slam the glass back onto the table.
"Sweetheart, I assure you it wasn't an-" I wave my hand at him.
"Yeah I know it wasn't you or any of your siblings."
"How?"
"Got a little help from a witch friend. But the problem is, someone put a target on my mother, vampire who is a thousand years old was able to compel Hayley to attack and I know it wasn't any of you." I slump down onto the couch and stretch my arms over the back of it. "So the question is...if it wasn't any of you...then who the hell was it?"
"Naïve little girl. Just like him. They deserve each other and I will tear them down." The black eyes looked upon Hayley's face. He grazed a finger down her cheek, trailing the path of her tear. "Thank you for the help Miss Marshall. You may return and forget..." the man flashed away as Hayley blinked rapidly, adjusting to the bright light of the clearing. She wandered aimlessly back to her camp letting her mind haze over the gaps in her memory.
...the storm id coming, ladies and gentlemen, I suggest you start running...far...and...fast...
