A/N: I know it's only been a few days, but I just couldn't resist posting another chapter. I see I've gotten about 28 followers which makes me believe this story is getting readers. I'm trying my hardest to keep some of TO's actual storyline in my story, but wanting to add my own little twist to things, so you may see things or read lines from the series. Definitely don't see things going my way in the Klaroline department on the show, but you never know. Hayley has a little bit of a part in this chapter, honestly she's not my favorite character but something about Hayley becoming a possible love interest to Elijah intrigues me. I'd rather it be him than Klaus. haha. anyway, chapter 4 awaits! please please please, review! it means a lot to me, I like knowing what you guys think of this story of if people are urging me to update soon.
Klaus made his way to the witches' hideout, just outside of the quarter. Hayley followed behind him.
"Do you really think they're going to help us get Elijah back?" She asked, looking over at Klaus.
He kept his attention to the road in front of him.
"You don't like me very much, do you?" Her words came out in a rush.
He laughed at that question. "I don't really have a category for you love; you're just kind of here. Just do as I say and we will be alright."
Hayley nodded, rather irritated.
She didn't like being treated like this. But crossing Klaus never ended well.
"I just want Elijah to be home with us again." She sighed.
Klaus smirked, "You're fond of him." He told her, not even needing to ask.
She shrugged; this wasn't necessarily something she wanted to discuss with the man who was the father of the child in her belly.
Any feelings for Elijah would be a good way to add to the family drama.
How would she explain that to her child? 'Your father and I did not think it was possible for us to have children, so you're kind of a miracle. But your dad is kind of a nut job and I'm in love with your uncle Elijah?'
Love was a strong word, way too strong a word for Hayley to even being using unrealistically.
"He's a good man." She told Klaus.
Klaus nodded in agreement. "That he is, too good of a man. That's what makes him so vulnerable."
Hayley stopped abruptly. "He's vulnerable to who Klaus? To you?" She asked agitated with Klaus once again.
Klaus opened his mouth to respond, soon realizing he had no way of coming back from that and shut it quickly.
Hayley shook her head in disappointment but from what she knew of Klaus, he was good at disappointing people.
"It's not considered vulnerability when the people you come to love and trust the most betray you continuously." She snapped, picking up her pace and walking ahead of him.
They reached the witches hideout; Sophie was reading a thick black book. Unaware that she had visitors.
"Doing some light reading, Sophie?" Klaus asked as he entered the candle lit tomb
. She closed the book, tossing it down beside her.
"What do you want Klaus?" That was the only thing she had to say to the hybrid that stood inside of her safe haven.
"It's more of a what I need from you, rather than want."
Sophie stood up, looking at Klaus with so much courage "What is it you need?"
Klaus smiled taking a seat. "I need you to do a locator spell to find where Marcel hid my brother's body." He told her simply.
She looked at him in disbelief.
He knew what could happen, and he just did not care.
"Are you crazy? If I get caught I'm dead…" She nodded toward Hayley. "So is your child." She stated.
"I have some unfinished business back in Mystic Falls that I need to take care of. You need Elijah; he is your only hope of surviving while I'm gone." Klaus looked at the scared witch that was in front of him.
"This is your chance, take it...or leave it." He hissed, watching the words of what he just said sink in.
She met Klaus eyes; a look of determination replaced the look of uncertainty on her face.
"I need someone of his, to being the spell." She said, not meeting his eyes.
Klaus patted her on the shoulder lightly, "That's a good witch." He smiled triumphantly.
Klaus and Hayley walked into the front door of his manor, "I'm going to bed." She told him, heading up the stairs not waiting for a response from Klaus.
Clearly, she was still angry at him. Not that it affected him in any way.
Klaus headed up the Elijah's room, rummaging through anything and everything.
He came up empty handed, because Elijah had nothing of enough importance to activate a location spell.
Klaus furrowed his brow, noticing the tiny box pushed away against the wall of his dresser, behind a massive amount of items.
He grabbed it, and when he opened the box his breath caught in his throat.
The Mikaelson family ring.
The ring was gold, with a massive face on it. The face had the bold letters E.M. Engraved on it.
He picked up the ring, examining it in the palm of his hand.
This ring brought back great memories for Klaus, and massive amounts of guilt.
All of the damage he'd done to his family, all of the pain and suffering he'd caused, all of the betrayal to the ones who loved him the most….all of the guilt came crashing down on him like a rogue wave.
He tucked the ring away in his pocket, leaving his brothers empty room and heading to his own.
He went straight to his dresser, pulling a ring from his small jewelry box.
This ring read N.M.
he gritted his teeth in frustration as the guilt only became stronger.
Rebekah sat in the parlor with her legs curled up on the couch, playing with her phone.
Klaus marched over to the fireplace, opening up the palm that held his family ring and tossed it into the flames.
Rebekah tossed her phone to the side, puzzled at what she was seeing before her. "What the hell was that Nik?"
Klaus did not take his eyes off of the fire, he watched as the ring resisted, refusing to burn. "It was my family ring."
Rebekah pushed Klaus in aggravation.
"Why the bloody hell would you toss it in the fire?" She yelled, shoving him again.
Klaus wasn't in the mood to put up a good fight, so he let Rebekah throw her tantrum.
"I threw it in the fire, because I am not worthy of wearing it. You remember when we had those rings forged. When I had Mikael framed for mother's murder, we made a pact…that we would always stick together and trust one another….always and forever." He told Rebekah, refreshing her memory.
She nodded, "I see, so you tossed your ring symbolizing our pact into the fire?!Well, so much for a pact." She scoffed, headed to the staircase, to irritate with her brother to deal with him at the moment.
"Dear sister, you don't understand, do you?" He turned around to look at her.
She stopped on the staircase, her hand frozen on the railing.
Rebekah looked at Klaus, assuming she only stopped because she wanted to know what he was talking about exactly.
"I disposed of it because I have no right to were that ring, it is a lie. I've betrayed my family enough to last a lifetime. Probably more than that." He looked down at the fire, the blaze of the hearth reflecting in his eyes.
"I don't deserve to wear that ring, I never have." He whispered softly, staring at the words always and forever imprinted on the inside band of the ring that now sat in flames.
Klaus returned to the witches' hideout early that morning, just before the birds began to chirp.
He dropped the ring on the leather bound book that Sophie had been reading earlier.
She lay curled up on a cot, resting. "Wake up, love. I've brought something."
Sophie awoken with a startle, she jumped at the sight of Klaus. "Oh! You scared me!"
He smiled that charming smile of his. "My apologies, I have what you need." He said.
She sat up and got to work right away.
Sophie set up the table with all the supplies she needed to perform a location spell.
She put the map in the center of the table, placing the two candles on the map, one on each side.
"I need his ring, and your blood." She said.
Klaus held his hand out over the map as Sophie sliced into his palm.
Fes matos tribum nas ex viras, Sequitas saguines, Ementas asten mihan ega petous.
The flames of the candles flickered as the wind outside howled.
Fes matos tribum nas ex viras, Sequitas saguines, Ementas asten mihan ega petous.
Sophie tried to break through, holding her concentration as long as possible.
"I can't…find him. Someone's blocking the location with a spell of their own." She didn't understand how the spell didn't work.
"Rebekah did mention something about some powerful little brat keeping tabs on my brothers body."
All the color flushed from Sophies cheeks. "Davina." She breathed.
Klaus smiled pleasantly. "Ah, I've see you two must have already met by that reaction."
Sophie shook her head, hoping to make Klaus understand.
"She is not like us, she is very powerful…the only way to get your brother back is to fight fire with fire.." Klaus' brow creased in question at her words.
"I need another witch…just as strong. If not stronger." Sophie told him, with no faith on that happening in her voice.
"Not to worry, I know a certain witch who happens to be very powerful."
Sophie looked at Klaus her mind in a perplexed state.
"She just so happens to be a witch of the Bennett bloodline." Klaus smirked, watching the expression on her face turn from fear, to complete shock.
"That's…impossible." Sophie whispered.
Whitmore College
Caroline lay on her bed in her dorm room, flipping through a Cosmopolitan magazine.
She was beyond furious with Tyler.
She had everything planned out for their time together at college. But he decided to stay gone, too.
She flipped that word around in her mind a couple of times. The 'too' she was referring to had been Klaus.
She pushed down any thoughts of Klaus trying to resurface.
Caroline didn't want to be angry with him, but in a way she was.
After all, he left.
Not that I had a claim on him, I'd made it clear to him enough times I wasn't trying to go there. She thought to herself.
But for some reason she couldn't shake him.
After graduation, that was when things changed for her. She had never expected him to be so…selfless.
That wasn't the Klaus she knew.
He allowed Tyler to come back to Mystic Falls, which meant that their relationship would continue…at least in Caroline's mind.
In a way Klaus decided to let her go
. Which was what she wanted, wasn't it?
Tyler's your first love; I intend to be your last…however long it takes. His last words to her before he left for New Orleans bounced around in her head uncontrollably.
She tossed the magazine aside, turning over and burying her head in her pillow.
God, he was so…annoying.
She refused to cry, it wouldn't do her any good anyway.
Beep, beep.
Her phone went off; she turned her head to the side, resting it on the pillow.
Caroline grabbed the phone on the nightstand next to her bed.
The new voicemail symbol popped up in the upper right hand corner and her heart excelled.
She ignored the feeling, and played the voicemail.
"Hello love, I was just…thinking of you, I hope you're doing well. New Orleans is magnificent. I hope you're enjoying college and your dorm room. Get that mini fridge yet?" She heard him chuckle softly, and couldn't control the smile that formed on her lips. "Goodbye, Caroline." She heard the pain in his voice.
"Maybe I should just…" She pulled the phone from her ear, clicking into her contacts list and found Klaus; her finger hovered over his name.
All he wants to know is how you are Care, just push the button. She thought, trying to convince herself.
The door to the dorm swung open, as Elena dropped her book bag next to the entrance.
"Ooh, that was heavy." She said, trying to even out her breaths.
"Did expect each class I took in college to require 3 books or more per class." Elena said in between pants.
Caroline flipped her phone shut quickly; Elena furrowed her eyebrows, looking at Caroline suspiciously.
"Who was that?" She asked, heading over to her side of the bedroom.
Caroline scoffed, rolling her eyes. "It was Klaus, leaving me yet another voicemail."
Elena rolled her eyes at his name. "Sounds like you have an insane hybrid stalker problem."
Caroline averted her eyes.
"Be nice Elena, after all…he did save us from those witches at graduation." Caroline didn't know why she was defending him.
Elena raised an eyebrow. "And you're sticking up for him because…?"
Caroline shrugged, meeting Elena's eyes with a small smile.
"We came to an agreement to be friends?" She answered Elena's question with a question.
"It's Klaus, Caroline; he's…damaged goods, not to mention crazy and evil with loads of daddy issues." She stated, opening up her physics book to begin her studying.
Caroline bit her bottom lip softly, she sat up in her bed sitting Indian style, staring down at the name Klaus in her contacts that she never managed to delete from her cell phone.
"I believe everyone is capable of change." She said.
Elena laughed, "All but Klaus. Did you forget he bit you, and just about left you to die?" She asked, trying to knock some sense into Caroline.
"But he saved me…" She kept trying to justify things.
Caroline pushed herself off of the bed and stood up, heading for the door.
She didn't want to continue this conversation with Elena.
"Where are you going?" Elena shouted, Caroline didn't turn back to look at Elena.
"Need some Caroline time." She yelled, walking out the door.
As she walked down the hallway toward the exit she unlocked her phone once more and called her voicemail.
"You have 12 saved messages." The automated voice reminded her.
She sighed, hitting the button to call Klaus.
It rang and rang, eventually sending her to his voicemail.
She sighed nervously, now was as good a time as any to let him in on what was going on in her life.
"Hey Klaus, it's me…Caroline." She laughed nervously, then quickly cleared her throat.
"Um, I was just calling back to let you know that I'm doing great, college is…wonderful. Tyler flaked on me…so I'm alone here aside from Elena." She paused, trying to figure out the right words to say.
"I haven't gotten that mini fridge, still waiting for you to mail it to me." She took another long pause.
"Klaus, I just want to say that…I miss-"
The voicemail was cut short when the phone dropped from her grasp as she nearly ran into a girl wearing a thin white dress, standing before her.
She gasped looking up hoping to see a familiar face, but this girl was a total stranger.
The dark haired girl didn't budge.
"Hello, Caroline." The girl said softly.
"Who the hell are you and how do you know my name?" Caroline asked in defense.
The girl placed her palm against Caroline's forehead, the second the two made skin to skin contact Caroline's eyes rolled into the back of her head as she fell to the floor, unconscious.
Two vampires came from behind the doors of the main entrance.
"Tie up her hands, and blindfold her. Once you're done with that, throw her in the trunk." The girl smiled, pleased with how well the first part of their plan had went.
A/N: Please review and let me know what you think. Favorite and follow as well if you'd like :) thanks so much for reading. I apologize for errors, I always finish my chapters late, by the time I'm proofreading I'm exhausted haha. So I am sorry for any grammar problems.