Hello again! I got this chapter completed sooner than expected. I wanted to make this chapter one big reveal on Caroline's past and abilities but it's already over 4,000 words and I was only halfway done. I stopped here or else it would have took me longer than I wanted to update. Hopefully this lives up to what you guys were thinking. Enjoy!

Dawn hasn't broke yet, the room Caroline slumbers in was still filled with darkness. Caroline's eye shot open and she inspected the room as she sits up to see if she was alone. She knew that she spent the night in Vicki Donovan's old room, Matt Donovan's younger sister that was turned into a vampire and killed at the hands of Damon. This was just her usual routine she had. Mornings in the past she had woke to a hunter lurking in her bathroom or the stranger she took to bed the night before had been an enemy, seducing her to get her guard down so they could strike. It was no wonder it had been months and she means months since she had even slept with someone. Her ego could only take so much and Caroline didn't feel like another romp in the sack turned assassination attempt. 4:15 am is what the screen on her cell phone reads as it lays next to her pillow as she glanced around the room and inspected what she saw. Vicki's old room was pretty bare, just a bed and dresser that Matt had left, any signs of her personal effects have been removed. She assumed Matt finally packed everything away into storage.

Caroline falls back on the bed and sighs, putting her hands behind her head. It was rare for her to ever sleep past 5 am and surprisingly when she end up here last night she went to sleep with little trouble. Although it was a restless sleep, always waking every few hours out of habit. Thinking back now, this was the first real bed she had slept in since the last time she was back in town. Caroline didn't count hotel rooms as beds. It almost made her sad to think that she was back in her hometown, the place she grew up her entire life and she couldn't even sleep in her own house.

"When would things get back to normal again" Caroline wondered to herself and stared at the ceiling. Being back in Mystic Falls brings back so many memories, happy times of her, Bonnie, and Elena having slumber parties and binge watching girl movies all night. They spent her sixteenth birthday drinking Tequila in a old musty tomb in Mystic cemetery. Elena's parents were not dead long so she opted for just some close friends to celebrate. Now they didn't even speak to each other. Well, they didn't speak to Caroline anymore. She always felt like the third wheel when the girls were around, Elena and Bonnie always shared this special connections she could never replace. Whenever Caroline left town she didn't hear anything from her former best friends, they never tried to track her down, not even a locator spell. Bonnie was a Bennett witch so she could perform one of those in her sleep. To say the least it hurt. The past several months have been filled with Doppelganger drama and Elena barely escaped death from the crazy hybrid's sun and moon curse but still. Caroline was gone for two years and the Originals have not been in Mystic Falls the entire time. She felt that almost an entire lifetime of friendship meant more than letting her drop off the face of the earth. It wasn't as if she was off jet skiing in Mexico the past two years. Caroline, was bouncing from hotel to hotel to keep the hunter's off her trail. The reason this all started was because Elena told Caroline's mother that she was a vampire and that is what lead her father to torture her. Bill Forbes had been taught long ago to hate vampires and his strong hate for vampires only grew with time.

Caroline groaned and flipped over on her side and looked blankly out the open curtains of Vicki's window. There was now a tiny glimmer of orange starting to peak out over the trees. It was too early to start thinking of her parents, the ones that should have been there for her no matter what. Bill Forbes, had always drifted in and out of town while Caroline was growing up, taking business trips. Really, how many business trips could one Dentist have and it was only later that she found out that the business trips were actually hunting trips to track down vampires. Liz Forbes, Sheriff of Mystic Falls and ever the dedicated officer, spending countless hours protecting the human citizen from the monsters that lurked in the night. The sad thing was, it was her sworn oath to protect the citizens from vampires but her daughter had dated and been used by the very vampire she called a friend. Damon Salvatore. Caroline rolls her eye so hard they could had flew out the window. He wasn't even worth the breathe or the mind space to think about. Sure Elena was in love with him, everyone knew that except Elena, and sure he was a different man when he was around her. Yet the other ninety percent of the time he was just a dick. A nickname Stefan used often for him.

Caroline lets out another sigh as she thinks about the months after her sixteenth birthday.

Flashback

Caroline sat in her kitchen, staring blankly at the table with her cup of coffee placed in front of her. She had started having these flashes of memories and started hearing strange voices for weeks now. But that wasn't even the strangest thing, they were not Caroline's memories or voices that spun around in her head. She shook her head and put her head down in her hands.

"What is going on with me" Caroline pleaded to her herself. Was she seriously loosing her mind? It only happened when she was around other people, she noticed. If she was staring at her friends for too long or if she was focused on that person, she started to see images flash before her eyes. It was as if she saw the thoughts and memories of the person in front of her. It was freaking her out to say the least and she just needed it to go away.

"But that can't happen. That's insane!" Caroline shrieked out loud and realizing she was talking to herself, she dropped her head to the table. "I am so totally loosing it." A knock on the door shook her and she jumped from the table. She peaked around the corner at the clear glass window of her door, she noticed the hot mail carrier with a brown package in his hand. Perfect. She had to test this theory somehow and why not use what she was born with to test her theory. Caroline smirked and turned her back to the carrier, she straightened the pink cotton robe she was wearing that just barely covered her behind and let the ties that kept it closed fall open. It revealed a tiny pair of shorts with a thin tank top that showed most of her stomach and the tank top clearly showed she wasn't wearing a bra. If Caroline couldn't make this guys thoughts run wild she was giving up on the art of seduction all together. She swayed her hip, walked over to the door and opened it wide and kept her hand on the door and her other hand on her hip casually so that she uncovered her body freely but hopefully not to obvious to the mail carrier.

"Hey Jeff, great day today huh?" Caroline asked as she flashed her best Miss Mystic smile while she mentally focusing on his face, waiting for something to dart out at her. Some image to come flashed out at her so Caroline knew she was not going completely crazy. The mail guy Jeff looked her up in down not so subtly, he was after all barely over eighteen.

"Hey Care, it's very lovely" his eyes creeping down to the thin tank top that had her nipples poking through and she wanted to scold him for being so obvious. Suddenly, Caroline got the very distinct image of Jeff's hand running along her chest and his lips kissing her breast. Caroline froze at Jeff the mail carrier's very graphic imagination. Yeah this guy was a creep and so not getting any from her. Now all Caroline wanted was the package and the images that he was thinking, the two of them bent over her kitchen table and him taking her from behind, to stop.

"Um thanks, bye." She blurted out as she grabbed the brown package and slammed the door on the baffled mail carrier's face. She leaned up against the wall and still a bit in shock that it had actually worked. " I just did that. I just peaked into the pervy mind of Jeff the mail carrier. I totally need to figure out how this works."

Caroline was now sitting up on the bed cross legged, the sun fully risen and now shining in the window. There were no more delays, she would have to face someone today. Stefan was expecting her to drop by the Boarding House and she was sure her former best friends would be there was well. They all knew Caroline was back in town and that meant her mother surely knew as well. Plus she had to figure out what Matt said to Rebekah to get her to back off. All she caught last night was that Rebekah was reassured that Caroline would do no harm to the Original family. Let's hope that Klaus felt this way as well because the last thing she needed was the crazy, yet insanely attractive, hybrid on a mission to kill her. Letting a heavy sigh escape her lips, she got up from the bed and headed towards the shower. If she was going to be facing her past head on today, then she was going to look perfect doing it.

Rebekah was positioned on Matt's couch who was positioned next to Caroline, a very nervous looking Caroline. This was the first time Rebekah has seen the girl show any sort of weakness in front of the Original, she had kept her composure even with Nik's hand placed around her throat. This girl was odd to say the least and she really needed to start talking before she slapped her. Rebekah had made a bargain with Matt last night at The Grill, Rebekah and her family would stay away from Caroline as long as Caroline would explain exactly what was going on with her. If what she said was true and there really were hunter's on the way to Mystic Falls, Rebekah and her family needed to stay alert so they didn't get caught in the crossfire. Matt said that she was a different type of vampire and she had no clue what that meant. Rebekah has also sworn to never tell her brother what Caroline was supposed to reveal. It drove her mad last night to say the least and she showed up first thing this morning at Matt's house to get some answers. Matt told her just the bare details of how Caroline's father was a vampire hunter who tried to "fix" Caroline of her vampirism so she wouldn't want blood anymore and then tried to kill her once she couldn't be "fixed". Now she was hunted by her own father and it would be a lie if Rebekah didn't sympathize with her situation, given the fact the she ran from Mikeal for a thousand years before Nik eventually killed him.

The only difference between Caroline and herself was that she seemed to be doing this all on her own. At least Rebekah had her brother's to take care of her. Whether they were being giant assholes or not was besides the point, they were still there for her. Niklaus always made sure she was protected and that Mikeal never got close to her, even if it meant a dagger to the heart and shoved in a box. Rebekah managed to suppress a sigh as she thought of what her family was like now. Full of lies and betrayal along with the occasional dagger in the back when you got to hostile with Nik. They hardly stayed together anymore, their time in Mystic Falls was the longest in sometime, even Kol has been around lately and that was a shocker in itself. Elijah was off on his own and last she spoke to him he was enjoying a nice stay in Italy. Elijah hardly seems to come around anymore, as if he can't bare to look at what his family has become. Rebekah snapped herself out of her inner pity party and snapped Caroline out of hers.

"So are you going to start talking soon or are we just going to sit in silence?" Rebekah questioned. Caroline let out a huge breathe of air and begun.

"OK so before I start, Matt has sworn you to secrecy from telling your brothers?" Rebekah nods her head for reassurance. "If word gets out about me and what I am capable of, my father will be able to find me faster. Plus I'm also afraid that your brothers, specifically Klaus, will try to use me in some "take over the world" evil plot. I won't be used as a weapon for anyone." Caroline stated firmly, the strong, confident vampire was back.

"Yes, yes. We even had a secret brotherhood handshake to seal the deal. Get on with it." Rebekah barked. She had enough of the run around. How important could this girl really be.

"Well seeing how you didn't need to be invited in this morning when you showed up, I would guess that you and Matt did a bit more than shake on it?" Caroline grinned, cocking her head to the side but continued before Rebekah had a chance to try and deny anything.

" Anyways... I first realized I was different when I was sixteen. I was still human but yet I had this incredible strength and I could run faster than any person I had even met. My parents noticed my added strength one day while I was obsessively cleaning the house one day and lifted the couch with one hand without even thinking. That was when my father told me that he was a vampire hunter and that I carried the hunter gene which was were all my added strengths came in. I just thought that I hit a growth spurt or had extra hormones kicking in so I never told anyone about it." Rebekah raised a questionable eyebrow at her naive nature.

"I was sixteen alright and wasn't aware of anything supernatural was anything more than a scary bedtime story ... And clearly I wasn't the sharpest crayon in the box either."

"Clearly" Rebekah smirked. "So your strong and fast, big deal so are we. Why would Nik want to use you as a weapon?"

Caroline started running her fingers across the pillow on her lap and stared down. " Because.. I have another abilities that no human or supernatural creature I have ever met has. I can read peoples thoughts and now that I have practiced, I can manipulate what people see or their actions. Sometimes it is almost like they are hallucinating something and they are the only ones that can see it or feel it." She dared a glance up at Rebekah who just stared at her with her eyebrows smashed together, concentrating hard and she had this uneasy look on her face. She knew that look, it was the same one her parents gave her everyday once they found out.

"Don't worry, I have never used this on you before. I was compelled when I was still human and used as a human blood bags and plaything. I hated not being in control and hate even more to be manipulated. I give people the benefit of the doubt and don't go poking around in their heads unless provoked. Even your brother Klaus after he nearly strangled me to death, I still left his mind alone." Rebekah still sat on the couch, not talking. "Please say something." Caroline plead inwardly. Mercifully, Rebekah finally spoke up,

"Well Nik most certainly would not like someone digging around in his head and what he has locked away. And neither would I for that matter. So why did you leave Mystic Falls while you were still human?"

"After I told my parents what was happening to me, they changed. The avoided me for weeks afterwards, dad had more trips out of town and mom would take extra shifts at the station. When I did come face to face with them, I got the same distant and uneasy look. The same look that was on your face when I just told you what I was capable of. I can handle that look and attitude from strangers but it broke my heart to see it coming from the two people that were supposed to love me for who I am no matter what." Caroline's eyes were trained on the pillow laying in her lap. This was the first time she was discussing in great detail what happened between her and her parents with anyone. She wanted to laugh at the fact that it was Rebekah Mikealson who she was talking too, the Original Vampire Princess. It felt oddly good to say all these things out loud and Caroline kept going.

"That's not even the worst part." her eyes finally meeting Rebekah's. " I couldn't take the silence anymore and I just had to know what they were thinking. I couldn't penetrate my father's mind because he was a hunter. Hunter's have this natural mental block much like how they can resist compulsion. So I peaked into my mother's mind and found a discussion she had with my father. How my father wanted to take me with him on hunting trips to kill vampires. He also wanted to use me to poke around in the minds of the human's of Mystic Fall's. I was so freaked out that night I left while my mother was on duty and my father was out of town. Imagine, being a sixteen year old and your father wanting to turn you into a trained killer and spy. My mother was just going to let him, didn't even put up a fight. All I wanted at sixteen was to keep my place as head cheerleader." Caroline breathed deeply, trying to keep the tears that she felt were going to start.

"So how did you take care of yourself when you were still human? You didn't even have compulsion yet?" Rebekah asked softly. She had only known Caroline a few days but her heart truly went out to the young vampire.

"My mom had some money stashed away in a lock box and I took what was there. I left a note behind for my mother, telling her what I knew. Telling her not to look for me because I wanted nothing to do with the plans they had for me. I went to the largest town nearby and stayed there the night and cried my eyes out. After that I just bounced around from town to town. I took odd jobs and stayed at random hotels. That lasted a good six months before I came back to town and to try to regain my life again. What a foolish dream that was ... That's when the Salvatore's were still in Mystic Falls. I was actually turned by Katherine Pierce as a payback to the Salvatore's for messing with her grand plan at the time. "

"When you left The Grill last night, you said you were left to burn alive. How are you now not dead?" Rebekah eye her cautiously. This had stuck out in her brain ever since Matt told her Caroline was a different kind of vampire. The only vampires in existence to burn completely and survive were the Original family. Any other vampire would parish. Caroline cleared her throat and looked around nervously.

"I can't be killed. Burn by the sun, stake to the heart. Nothing. The added strength I had from being a hunter and my abilities were only magnified once I was turned. That also is another reason why my father is so set on ending my existence, I am a freak of nature that must be stopped. I believe that was the wording one of the hunters that tried to kill me said my father told them."

Caroline could feel her emotions getting the better of her and had to get up from the couch, grabbing her cup off the coffee table on the way. She retreated to the kitchen to compose herself and leaned her hands against the counter in front of her coffee pot . It was oddly refreshing to have finally spoke this much out loud about her life away from Mystic Falls. Even Elena and Bonnie, heck even Stefan or Matt didn't know exactly what she had been up to. Last time she was in town, she gave vague details about what had happened, basically just stating her dad wanted her dead and that she had ran. Since the Salvatore's came back to Mystic Falls, there always seemed to be some sort of supernatural beings coming back to cause havoc and she figured the less they had to worry the better. Floor boards creaked behind her and Rebekah stepped into the kitchen.

"You don't have to tell me anymore today, I think I've heard enough. Plus your phone has been buzzing non stop since I got here hours ago. Stefan is pretty keen on talking to you today." Caroline turned to look at Rebekah who was leaning against the opposite wall, her face carefully composed.

"I'm supposed to go by the Boarding House to talk to the rest of the bunch today and I'm really looking to avoid it as long as possible. It will be disastrous to say the least."

"Well to make things even better for you, Nik has plans to drop by the Boarding House as well. He might not want to kill you, just yet, but he wants his eyes on you. " She said as Caroline's face tightens together also adding, " Believe me, count it as a blessing that your heart is not already ripped from your chest. I'm guessing that could kill you." With that she was gone, leaving Caroline alone.

A dark blue truck sits across the street, three houses away from the Donovan residence. A muscular, dark skinned man sits with the window rolled down and unknown to Rebekah as she steps outside and into her black SUV.

"So she isn't the only vampire in town anymore." The man wonders aloud. He had heard from the other hunters that there were more vampires in Mystic Falls besides Bill Forbes daughter but from the conversation he just overheard between the two blondes, the Original Vampire family are in town. "Looks like the bug I planted was a good idea. Seems as if I might need backup with this one. " Connor Jordan thought to himself as he started the truck and drove away from the Donovan household.

Author's Note:

Just wanted to say right away that if any of you recognize the hunter's name, The Five will not be apart of this story. I chose him because (1) I like to use TVD character's so you already have a mini background once you hear their name and (2) that's one of my nephews name so I picked him :)

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