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A/N: Thank you for all the follows, favorites, and reviews. To be honest I originally only intended for this to be five chapters at the most. But with all the feedback, I'll just keep writing until it naturally ends on its own.
Chapter 7.
Bonnie was gone.
Carlise, called out to the rest of her family before she turned and ran down the hall towards the kitchen. They looked at her in alarm.
"What's wrong Car?" Siren asked. His usual playful manner gone.
"Sweetheart what is it?" Klaus asked.
"Bonnie is gone." Carlise explained.
"What?!" Caroline shrieked.
Klaus pulled out his cellphone and tossed it to Carlise which she caught dutifully.
"Call the Slavatores, let them know that the witch has took a missing."
Carlise nodded, dialing the numbers and making the necessary calls. She watched as Klaus mumbled something to her little brother before the two moved to the door.
"Where are they going?" she asked her mother once the two men had left.
"Off to retrieve your aunt and uncles from the woods. They'll probably search the woods. She couldn't have gotten far," Caroline replied. Carlise nodded to her mother. When her Uncle Damon answered she sighed.
"The witch awake yet?"
"Uncle Damon. We have a problem."
She may have imagined it but she was almost sure she heard a sigh on the other end of the phone.
"For the last time. I'm not your uncle. And what do you mean we have a problem? You guys are all from the future shouldn't you be all knowing?"
Ignoring the smart remark. She continued.
"Bonnie is missing."
"She's awake?"
"She wasn't in the room when I went to check on her. My dad and the others are looking for her. We need you guys to search her house and other places she might go, if you find her, get her to the caves."
"You got it." He replied tersely before hanging up.
Done with the call, she looked to her mother. That off feeling coming back from earlier.
"Hey mom. What was the last thing you remember before waking up in Caroline's body?"
"What do you mean?"
"Like where was dad?"
The older blonde's face scrunched up in confusion.
"I…don't remember."
Fear raced through her at her mother's words.
"Mom. What's the last thing you remember?"
"I had just sent Siren here…I was preparing for the spell that would bring me here…oh and your brother. Evan showed up earlier that day asking what was going on…he was looking for your father…" Caroline replied, her voice trailing off. "But I don't remember what for."
Carlise grabbed her mother's face in between her hands. It was time to take drastic measures. As her blue pupils dilated she spoke "Mom. Tell me what happened with Evan."
"Evan…he got angry when I told him that I didn't know exactly where your father was. He used compulsion on me. I can't remember what he made me forget," Caroline said, her voice trembling with a combination of fear and anger.
Carlise pulled her mother into a hug. Consoling the older blonde as she continued to shake.
"Mom. It's gonna be ok. We just need to find Evan. He's been acting a little strange since the others left. And now he's vanished along with Bonnie." Carlise briefly wondered if they were together.
Caroline nodded. Just then Klaus' cell began to buzz in her pocket. Releasing her mother, she opened it to see a new text message from Damon:
'Found the witch. Meet us in the square.'
Carlise replied back that they were on their way.
"We gotta go. The others found Bonnie. You alright?"
"I'm fine."
The two disappeared out the back door and into the night. All too soon they arrived in the town square. Damon, Elena, her brother Jeremy, Stefan, and Bonnie greeted them.
"Where are the others?" Carlise asked as she realized her brother and the rest were still missing.
"They got delayed I'm afraid," A new voice said as the figure emerged from the shadows.
"Evan? Where in the hell have you been?" She asked moving a little closer to her mother whom had begun to shake again.
Evan smirked. "Had some business to take care of."
Carlise looked at the others and realized they all had an all too familiar look in their eyes. Compulsion.
Training her attention on her brother she frowned. "Evan what is going on? I need to feed Bonnie so she can go let the veil back up."
"I'm afraid there has been a change of plans little sister."
Her eyes narrowed slightly as her brother let out a chuckle. She looked at him. Then her mother spoke up.
"You're not my son."
Evan looked at their mother and frowned. "Damn. Thought my compulsion would last longer…Interesting."
Carlise noticed that not once since they arrived had the others moved. "What's wrong with them?"
Evan laughed. "I compelled them not to move and to remain silent."
"What is wrong with you? And what did you do to mom?!"
"Oh please. I barely touched her," he said brushing off the accusation.
Caroline suddenly flashed forward, eyes black with rage. Carlise's own eyes widen in disbelief when Evan swatted her away like a fly. She felt her own anger rising.
"You're not my brother…what are you?"
As he opened his mouth to respond, Carlise used that as her opening. Moving on autopilot, she launched herself at her "brother." The two superbeings traded blow for blow. Carlise felt herself getting the upper hand. Delivering a nasty left hook that sent him spiraling to the ground, she smirked.
"What's wrong? Tired?"
The man rose off the ground and growled at the blonde.
"Well you sure are a hell of a lot more stronger than your father, I'll give you that. But I bet you'll beg for your life just as he did when I-" He never got to finish his sentence before Carlise was on him again. Her strikes filled with rage. She wasn't even aware of her talons growing out of her nails.
"Who are you!"
Evan laughed, even with a split lip and surely broken nose.
"I'm Silas."
"You lie!" Carlise refused to believe it. She couldn't. If she did then she would also have to believe his other words. That her father was…dead.
"You know it's true. I can see it in your thoughts. You don't want to believe it. Hate to break it to you but your father is dead. Look on the bright side. If I let you live, you'll have your brother to go back to. Evan had spunk, so I didn't kill him. Bit messed up though."
"My father is not dead!"
Silas chuckled. "Oh please, get out of denial land. He's dead! I didn't have time to rip his heart out but I can assure you that he is dead."
"Guess they don't make dead like they use to mate."
Silas turned wide eyed at the newest arrival just before everything went dark.
Carlise wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry at the appearance of the newest arrival.
"Dad." She moved to embrace him only to see a blur of blonde hair leap into his arms. She let out a small giggle as the tears ran down her face. Her father held on to her mother as she rained peppered kisses down his face.
After what seemed like forever, the two split and Carlise made her way to the pair.
"Dad."
The hybrid pulled his daughter into a hug.
"Did you all really think I would let you have all the fun? Leaving me to listen to the incessant nagging of your Uncle Damon and Aunt Rebekah ?"
Carlise giggled at her father's words just as the others arrived. She noticed with some amusement that Siren looked between their father and his past self as if his mind couldn't comprehend what he was seeing.
"Evan?"
Nik looked to his wife. "Evan is fine. He's back home letting his aunt Rebekah and aunt Elena fuss over him. He wouldn't came along but he didn't want there to be any confusion between him and this sad lump," he said, kicking the still unconscious immortal.
"What now?" Carlise asked, as always looking to her father for guidance. Now that he was here she was more than sure everything would work out.
