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&& I want to say I'm back , haven't posted in a while because of final assignments in school and all that jazz, but with summer right around the corner I should be updating pretty frequently. Thanks for all the great reviews :D and enjoy...
''Katherine...'' Stefan voiced, silently cursing himself for calling her in the first place. '' We're going to split up into search parties and look for her.'' he continued starting towards the door.
''Rebekkah and Matt , Me and Damon, Klaus and Caroline, and Bonnie try doing a locator spell and see if you can find her.'' Stefan said quickly nodding to everyone and then he and Damon zoomed out into the night in search of Elena. .
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''Elena!.'' Caroline called as she walked through the dark forest , Klaus trailing right behind her. ''Elena!''
''You know love just a thought, perhaps calling out the name of a girl running away from you lot isn't the best idea.''
Caroline rolled her eyes and continued to look around ''Then what do you suggest?''
''Something more stealthy, a blare horn or fireworks perhaps.'' He responded mocking Caroline.
''Seriously? No one asked you to help look for her you know.''
''Actually I believe our dear friend Stefan paired us up for that purpose exactly.''
''Yeah, remind me to thank him for that.'' Caroline replied sarcastically as she continued to survey their surroundings.
''Surely with Tyler gone-''
''Shh!'' Caroline said halting her movements and raising her hand to silence Klaus.
''We're going to have to discuss it sometime , sweetheart.''
''No, shh... I think I hear something.'' Caroline said trying to hone in on what exactly she thought she heard in the distance. Then gun shots rung out across the forest , Caroline's eyes went wide in fear and she quickly zoomed off towards the sound.
The first thing she noticed at the scene was a discarded gun laying on the ground. Then Caroline looked up and saw the Elena's back as she dropped someone lifeless on to the forest floor. ''I'm so hungry.'' she said licking her lips and turning around to face Caroline, her mouth splattered in blood. Caroline briefly looked at Elena's face and then turned her attention to the person on the ground.
Immediately she was on her knees next to the body; the horrific thoughts she had as she heard the gun ring out threw the forest had just become a reality, the person lying on the ground was none other than her mom.
''Mom...'' Caroline said grasping the collar of her mother's sheriff's uniform. '' Mom!.'' She began shaking her intensely, but still her mom was unresponsive. Caroline heard a gust of wind and a snap come from behind her , but she was too panicked to acknowledge anything but her mother. ''It's okay mom, I'll fix this.'' Caroline said biting into her wrist and putting it to her mom's lips. ''Drink! Drink mom.'' She said trying to force her mom's mouth open and make her heal. She didn't know what to do , her mom wasn't drinking. Caroline quickly looked around , grabbed her mom's gun and disassembled it , then throwing away all other parts except for the tube looking one and jammed it into her mom's throat. ''Sorry...'' she said as she bit into her wrist once more and dribbled the blood into the tube.
After mere second her mom gasped and Caroline removed the tube, and rubbed blood over the wound she had made healing it. She could hear her mom's heart beating at a steady pace and Caroline started to cry and laugh at the same time as she collapsed on to her mother.
She remembered she wasn't alone when she heard Klaus say '' We have your doppelganger, come get her before things become rather unfortunate.''
Caroline looked down at Elena's unconscious form for the second time that day and felt rage. She turned back to her mom and started to gently shake her once again. '' Mom...'' Caroline began a small chuckle forming on her lips '' Mom, wake up.'' But although sheriff Forbes' heart was beating at a steady pace and she was breathing, she wasn't waking up, not matter how hard Caroline tried.
''Klaus... what's happening. She's...she's not waking up.'' Caroline said beginning to gently sob.
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Caroline paced anxiously in the waiting room , hoping that the doctor would come back with good news. Damon and Stefan had come to pick up Elena and bring her back to the boarding house, Stefan promising he'd return later, but Caroline wasn't paying attention; she was only focused on Klaus as he picked up her mother and they both zoomed over to the hospital.
''Caroline Forbes.'' The doctor said as he approached Caroline, Klaus hopped up from his seat and went to stand next to Caroline as the doctor spoke. '' We ran extensive tests on your mother, all of them came back negative for any brain damage.'' she said looking through a clip board of papers. ''It seems that her body went through a traumatic experience when she was attacked by that animal, now all we can do is wait for her to wake up.'' the doctor said gently touching her arm.
''Can I see her?'' Caroline asked.
''Of course, room 308.'' The doctor said pointing down the hall. Caroline gave her a quick thank you and moved around her to go to her mom's room. Klaus began to follow when the doctor put up her hand to stop him '' I'm sorry sir, family only.'' But Klaus wasn't about to take orders from this woman and be made to stay away from Caroline when she was in pain. '' You will-'' Klaus said beginning to compel her to let him go in.
''Klaus.'' Caroline said gently touching his arm and breaking the compulsion '' I'll be okay, you can go home.'' He was about to protest , when he saw the look in her eyes that told him she just need to be with her mother, so he obeyed her wish and left.
Caroline stayed by her mother's side, pleading for her to wake up so that they could both go home together. She wanted to stay strong for her mom's sake , but tears streamed down her cheeks every time she thought about her never waking up. She sat in a chair holding her mom's hand as the minutes dwindled by, and then rested her head down to say a silent prayer. She had never been a religious person and even less so now that she was a vampire, but she hoped if there was a god he would hear her prayer.
Caroline stirred at the sound of footsteps drawing nearer to her mother's room. ''It's okay, I'm her brother.'' Came a familiar voice from the hallway and then the hospital door started to slide open , revealing Stefan in all his broodiness.
''Hey.'' Stefan said going to stand beside Caroline and rest a hand on her back. He rubbed her back gently and then went to sit in the other chair opposite sheriff Forbes, after looking over her chart. They sat in those positions silently , jumping every time Liz made a slight movement.
''I'm sorry, but visiting hours are over in 5 minutes.'' A doctor said poking her head into their room and then moving along to inform other visitors. They continued to sit there in silence, Stefan respecting Caroline's unusual need for silence. But as the end of visiting hours came he felt he had to say something '' Caroline, visiting hours are almost over. Let me walk you home.'' He said getting up and walking over to where Caroline was holding on to her mother.
''I don't want to leave her.'' She replied looking up at Stefan with teary eyes, her mother was all she had left in the world and if she left and her mom died... what then?
''You can come back tomorrow morning, they'll call you if anything changes.'' He said taking her hand and slowly moving her away from sheriff Forbes.
They walked in silence to Caroline's house, neither trying to start conversation or make light of a bad situation. He walked her up to the top of her driveway and watched as she hesitated entering the house.
''You know what, maybe you should stay at the boarding house for a while.'' Stefan offered as Caroline still stared at her front door unmoving.
''I'll be okay Stefan.'' Caroline replied , still not meeting his eyes.
'' I know you will, but-'' He began trying to persuade her to return home with him for the night, instead of spending it all alone in an empty house.
''I really don't want to see Elena right now, and I kind of just want to be alone.'' She said taking one last glance at Stefan before opening the door.
Caroline went up to her room and slumped down on her bed, she felt nothing. It wasn't a emotions shut off nothing, but a numbness deep inside of her. She looked out the window and found Stefan as she assumed she would , standing in the driveway. She laid back down, trying to even out her breathing as if she had fallen asleep and waited for five minutes before checking the window again. Stefan was gone, she waited another two minutes and then left the house as quickly as she could. She wasn't sure where she was going , all she knew was that she couldn't be in that house.
She walked around mystical falls, but everywhere she turned reminded her of her mother. She walked through the park ; remembering the swings her father and mother used to push her in back when they were a happy family. She stumbled on to a bench and a wave of with emotions hit her, the numbness was gone and instead it was replaced by sadness and anger. She sat there gently sobbing , until she felt a presence come and sit beside her. She leaned into him and after a while her sobbing turned into sniffles, until she just stopped doing anything and stopped thinking of anything.
His presence had that affect on her , she was either overwhelmed by his proximity and felt like her skin was buzzing with electricity or he would calm her; be the eye to her storm. '' I thought Stefan took you home, love.'' He said breaking the silence and gently moving a strand of hair that was blocking his view of her face.
''He did... I just couldn't stay there.'' She said looking up into his eyes '' not anymore.''
Klaus continued to look down into Caroline's sad blue eyes, and he felt a pull at the heart strings he had long forgotten he had ''Come with me.'' he said never breaking eye contact with her. At this Caroline looked down, and just rested her head on his shoulder. It wasn't a request, but the way he said it made her believe she had a choice in the matter. Caroline didn't respond , even if she didn't want to go with Klaus she didn't have much fight in her at the time being. So she just laid on his shoulder and stared out into the darkness; letting Klaus and the fresh air fill her senses.
She closed her eyes after a few moments , no longer wanting to even see the familiar surroundings. Klaus picked her up and brought her home with him , her eyes still closed. She wasn't asleep and they both knew that ; but pretending that she wasn't allowing him to take care of her was one of the only normal things she could hold on to.
Klaus brought her into a bedroom, lying her down on the bed and gently put the blankets over her body. He was about to leave when Caroline grabbed on to his arm ''Stay.'' She said opening her eyes to look at him. Klaus nodded and grabbed a chair from the desk in the room, placed by the window and sat down. She smiled weakly at that fact and then turned on her back so that she was looking at the ceiling.
She stayed like that , knowing that she wouldn't fall asleep. So she took in the room that Klaus had placed her in, it was very old fashioned. It was elegant and simple; she was lying on a king Victorian canopy bed with dark red sheets, it was a large room and there was a big desk across from the bed. Unlike with his drawings scattered about in his art room, the papers here were all neatly stacked on the oak top. Caroline spotted a book shelf near the door they came through , and another door she assumed lead to a bathroom, and finally behind Klaus was a large window/door leading out on to a balcony.
Caroline closed her eyes,counted the amount of books on the bookshelf, she even tried counted sheep but nothing was making her fall asleep and the silence was starting to eat away at her. '' Is this your room?'' Caroline asked , still looking up at the ceiling.
''Yes, love it is .'' Klaus responded from his chair by the window. Caroline stopped talking, she didn't know where she was going with this. Did she genuinely want to have a conversation with Klaus? Or was she just trying to distract herself from the horrible thoughts of losing her mother? Either way she couldn't sleep , and she had for some reason asked him to stay.
''Where are you going to sleep?'' Caroline asked still looking up at the ceiling, but the moonlight casting into the room from the window gave her enough light to see Klaus' shadow move slightly out of the corner of her eye.
''When you fall asleep, I will go elsewhere.'' Klaus responded from the shadows.
''I don't think that's going to happen...me falling asleep I mean.'' Caroline quickly added , glancing over at him for a moment and then looking back at her spot on the ceiling.
''Then I suppose I will be here all night.'' The way he said it seemed final, as if to say I won't be leaving your side until you've fallen asleep, it's best not even to say anything to the contrary.
''You're going to spend all night on that chair?'' Caroline asked turning to look at him as if he were some crazy over protective friend? boyfriend? The latter didn't seem quite right, but neither did the former; either way she thought he was being over protective and very Klaus.
''Do you have any other suggestions sweetheart? Because I'm not leaving this room, no matter how much you protest.'' Klaus stated and although she couldn't see his face and she was looking up at the ceiling, Caroline could imagine Klaus staring her down trying to scare her into submission.
Although , him leaving the room wasn't the suggestion that popped in to her head. ''If you insist on staying here all night, then you might as well come lay down.'' Caroline replied , although call it vampire senses or maybe just knowing Klaus a tad bit more then she realized, but Caroline thought she actually heard the smile spread across his face. '' Don't get any ideas, this bed is so big two people could sleep on it and never cross paths.''she said trying to deflate his ego.
Of course this was a huge over statement, maybe three people could share the bed comfortably... but they'd definitely notice each others presence. Klaus hesitated as he watched over Caroline lying motionlessly under the covers staring up at the ceiling, her hair a halo spread out over the pillow. She was about to revoke the offer , when she felt the bed shift slightly and saw Klaus lying on top of the blankets beside her. He was far enough that she had her own space if she so pleased, but also close enough so that if she rolled ; a little more than a natural roll her head would be laying on his chest.
Caroline could smell his scent, hear his steady breath and most of all felt his weight beside her. He started to affect her again, although she had asked him to come lay beside her she thought his proximity would distract her and it usually did; make her confused and have all kinds of thoughts run threw her head.
But again , she was disappointed; his proximity for the second time that night didn't bring electricity but a calmness that was similar to the tranquillity she experienced in her oasis. She didn't want peace, she didn't want calm because that only brought her back to thoughts of her mother.
So she decided to do something she knew would cause a rift, she moved her hand out swiftly and put it over Klaus'. It was a small gesture ; one that managed to surprise even Klaus , but that innocent touch brought forth more electricity inside of her than she could have imagined. She wanted more, to feel more of that spark and less pain. Caroline turned to the side so that she was facing Klaus and captured his lips with hers. It wasn't like the first kiss they shared, it was greedier more desperate; and Klaus wasn't taking control of the kiss like he had done before. This didn't deter Caroline, she swung her leg over his waist and straddled him, continuing to kiss him with not as much response on his behalf.
As Caroline started to gently move on top of him Klaus flipped her so that she was now lying with her back on the bed. He kissed her softly and then broke apart, still hovering over her. He had sadness in his eyes and looked down and away from her face heaving out a sigh before he looked back at his sad angel.
''You need to get some rest, sweetheart. It's been a difficult day.'' He said placing a sweet kiss on her forehead.
''You don't know what I need!'' Caroline lashed out pushing against his chest ''Let me go, Klaus.'' She continued pounding harder and her emotions continued to rise. Klaus wasn't budging though, he was taking every blow she gave him effortlessly and with no emotions on his face.
''I hate you, Klaus!'' she screamed, her voice dripping with animosity. Klaus just looked at her as she continued to hit him. When he saw that she wasn't letting up, he lowered himself and kissed her forehead once more. ''I hate you!'' She said a little less convincingly; he kissed her cheek. ''I hate you..'' her voice became quieter; he kissed her other cheek. ''I...'' Tears started to form in Caroline's eyes and pour down her face, one by one Klaus kissed them away. She started to sob, feeling all the emotions she was trying to avoid, then Klaus wrapped one arm around her back and the other around her front; so that he was holding her in his arms.
Caroline leaned into him, unable to do anything else and cried into his shoulders until the calmness consuming her from Klaus' warm embrace lulled her off to a dreamless sleep.
