"Klaus!" Stefan called out in a concerned voice as he entered the other man's home.

"What? Having Caroline ask didn't work, so they decided to send you?" Klaus asked him.

"No, Rebekah went," Stefan said, causing Klaus to angrily curse under his breath. "She was in there for too long and Caroline went in after her."

"First she goes and tricks Rebekah into this after everything that I said, and now she was stupid enough to go into a nest of vampires?" Klaus asked angrily.

"She didn't want to come ask you for help getting Rebekah back," Stefan responded.

Klaus was beyond angry. He was angry that Caroline had tried to use him yet again, he was mad that she had used Rebekah after he had sarcastically told her to, he was mad that she had gotten Rebekah stuck in there, and most of all he was furious that she had run into the nest to risk her own life instead of coming to him for help. Maybe he didn't like being used, but he'd rather be used than have her dead.

"Where are they?" Klaus asked through gritted teeth as he headed towards his front door.


As soon as Caroline entered the nest, all three vampire hunters turned towards her. Caroline let her fangs extend and the veins under her eyes darken as the mask of a monster took over her face.

Caroline instantly noticed Rebekah lying on the floor looking pale and realized that they had bled her practically dry. She had been right, Rebekah had needed help.

One of the hunters pulled a stake out of his pocket and lunged at Caroline, who put her hand up quickly to block it from reaching her chest. Although she had managed to keep herself from being killed, she still had a stake sticking through her hand.

She knocked the hunter back into one of the other two with her strongest kick as the third headed straight for her with another stake.

Caroline quickly ripped the stake out of her hand and dropped it to the ground. She then turned and grabbed the third hunter by the arm and pulled it behind his back, causing a loud cracking noise as she shattered a bone.

"I'm already having a bad day and this is me playing nice, so you'd better stop and listen to me before I get really cranky," Caroline said angrily as she held the man's injured arm behind his back and twisted it a little, causing him to let out a quiet whimper.

"You think that you can just walk into a hunter's nest and start ordering us around, vampire?" One of the others challenged.

"Yeah, maybe I do," Caroline responded. "Because I promise you that me and my friend are walking out of here. Whether you get to walk out of here alive or be carried out to get buried in a shallow grave is up to you."

"You really think that you could take us all down before one of us gets to you?" The hunter she was holding asked her.

"Maybe, maybe not," Caroline responded with a shrug. "But I know that I can drop at least one of you before any of you can get to me. And I have a lot of friends who will be very angry if I don't walk out of here. They probably won't let you die quickly either. I'm willing to give you that courtesy if you're stupid enough to ask for it."

"Don't you know about the hunter's curse?" The first hunter asked.

"The one where if you kill a hunter then you go batshit crazy and start hallucinating things until you kill yourself?" Caroline asked. "Yeah, I know about that. But at least I'd be taking you three down with me and that's better than nothing. So if I was you, then I'd go hunt vampires somewhere else. There are plenty of them out there."

"It's much more effective to kill an Original," One hunter pointed out. "And we want revenge for what your group did to the last hunter that came to town."

"Yeah, it would be a lot more effective to kill an Original if it was possible," Caroline pointed out. "But the only way to do that is with the last white oak stake, right? Well I watched them burn it. Did you honestly think that they were going to keep around the one thing that could kill them? They burned it like they burned the tree."

Caroline knew that what she was saying was a lie, but she also thought that there was the chance that she would be able to trick the hunters.

The hunter that she was still holding onto tried to jerk out of her grasp, only to cause himself to cry out as a shooting pain went through his injured arm.

"The way that I see it, you have two options," Caroline told them. "Leave town to go hunt vampires down somewhere else and give up your little need for revenge, or I start killing you off and worst case someone else finishes the job off for me. I'll let you choose, but it seems a lot more effective to kill off the ones who actually drink from people instead of blood bags."

One of the two hunters that she wasn't holding onto moved to go lunge forward to try and attack her, but the other held him back.

"What are you doing?" The one that had lunged demanded. "She's a monster."

"How long do you think it is before the other one's brother shows up?" The second asked. "They have friends and Vaughn's arm is already broken. How many do you think that we can fight off at once? If the white oak stake is gone, then we're better off leaving town."

"They killed Jordan!" The first one pointed out.

"Yeah, and do you want to get killed to?" The second asked.

"Just let me get her out of here and then leave town as soon as we're gone," Caroline ordered. "This is a limited time offer and you're quickly running out of time."

A predatory smirk formed on her lips.

The second hunter dropped his weapons and took a step away from them while raising his hands in the air. The first followed suit shortly after, although he didn't look very happy about having been defeated by a vampire.

Caroline threw the hunter that she had been holding, Vaughn, to the ground a few feet away and then cautiously made her way towards Rebekah.

She ever so slowly bent down and wrapped one of Rebekah's arms around her shoulder while she wrapped one of her own arms around Rebekah's waist.


Klaus angrily followed Stefan to spot Damon holding back a thrashing Elena. He didn't pay them much attention though as he faced the entrance to the nest.

He took one step forward, but then stopped and was a little surprised by what he saw.

Emerging from the entrance was Caroline, helping support a very pale and weak looking Rebekah as they began to slowly walk towards the group.


When Caroline saw Klaus standing there, she inwardly cringed a little that somebody had gone to go get him. She knew that she shouldn't be surprised when she had run in there alone, but she still wasn't looking forward to what he would have to say about what had happened.

It turned out that she didn't need to worry about what he would say about it, since he didn't say a word to Caroline. He just called out his sister's name in a worried tone before running over.

He grabbed Rebekah from Caroline and picked her up so that he had one arm supporting her back and the other under her knees. He sent a glare over to Caroline before running away at full vampire speed.


A/N: Please read and review! I hope you guys liked the update and thanks for reading! :)

A gigantic extra thanks goes out to all of the amazing reviewers of the last chapter: Jwakeel, jessnicole, DrawingMyHeartOut, chibichibi98, arielmermaid, The Hunger Games - My Life, cupcakesweetheart5, justine, saule-teja, and vampirelovver :D


REVIEW ANSWERS:

cupcakesweetheart5: Although I don't think that Klaus would ever kill Caroline over being upset about being used, I certainly would not be surprised if he'd end up going on a killing spree in the show if he was feeling like he was being used too much and turned into practically one of the good guys.

justine: I wanted Caroline to be all badass and save herself instead of Klaus having to run to the rescue, but I still wanted him to be trying to save her at the same time.

vampirelovver: Don't worry, I didn't :)