Caroline lowered her head so she could see the landscape better, Klaus wasn't driving slowly enough for her to fully indulge in all the new images but he wasn't racing like she expected either. They reached a crossroad and Klaus turned the car to the right, making way to a wide road surrounded by big green trees on each side of it, like they were blessing the car between them. Caroline couldn't help the smile, this was breathtaking and she never in a million years imagined to be here seeing any of this.
She casually looked at the man next to her, he looked good behind a wheel but then again she had to admit Klaus was one of those men that looked good doing anything. By simply standing in one place he looked stunning and it was hard not being compelled by that.

She turned to her window and closed her eyes, it was so wrong to have these thoughts, she was cheating on Tyler with her thoughts, of how good Klaus looked and how awful his human days had been and how comfortable she felt around him. It didn't feel awkward like going out with a guy for the first time and she wasn't scared of him, she should be but she wasn't.

He didn't have that vibe around her.
She chuckled, he didn't have that vibe around her. Seriously Caroline? He killed people out of sheer boredom and he didn't have a dangerous vibe around her…


Klaus glanced at her, she was acting all weird now. First she couldn't get enough of the sights like he expected, so much he forced himself to slow down the car so she could properly enjoy it all. Then she kept looking at him like he was a rare species on the zoo, like she was trying to see something that wasn't there. And now she was laughing to herself, probably thinking of the dull life she had back at Mystic Falls with the other petty hybrid.

Klaus clutched the wheel, he couldn't stand the boy at all. Caroline deserved better than Tyler, he would never be able to give her all that she needed, history was full of women like Caroline. So beautiful that she would drive men into duels for her company, turn brothers against each other, start wars just by smiling and stealing hearts carelessly. But she had a good heart as well, there was good in Caroline, warmth that appealed to him because everything inside of him was so cold and dead. Klaus glanced over to her and caught her looking at him. He expected her to break the connection instantly but she held it a little longer.


Kol went through the set of books, only Mystic Falls would have such a small public library and so many self-help books. He rolled his eyes annoyed, Nik had far better taste; he came around another rank, he tapped the books that dealt with supernatural issues and was twice annoyed. It went on for the rest of the row and around it.
Typical.

He came around the corner at least happy that the silly teens of Mystic Falls were apparently all in school. Therefor the shock of finding Bonnie sitting on the ground reading, came out of nowhere. She looked up at him surprised to find him here as well.
He looked down on the book upset that she was reading the one that he was after.

Bonnie looked at him hesitant. "What are you doing here?"
"Already leaving love." He said and turned around.

Bonnie closed the book and stood up fast. "Wait!"
He ignored her.

"Are you still mad at me?"
Kol laughed. "Don't even remember what happened."

Bonnie rushed trying to catch up to him. "Ok, so maybe I shouldn't have said that back at your room..."
Kol shook his head. "Go back to your reading darling."

She pursed her lips. "I'm sorry ok?" She said a bit louder than she intended.
The old woman at the desk shushed them at once.

Kol looked at her. "Why would you use my brother against me?"
She clutched the book against her chest. "It's Elena…"

"Oh, of course, it's Elena!" he threw his hands in the air.
Bonnie sighed. "I know that you don't know what that is but I actually love my friend."

Kol came near her. "You should be worried about yourself."
It took her off guard that he sounded concerned about her. "Who is this guy?"

Kol looked at the image in the back of the book that she was tapping with her adorable finger. "Someone that I hoped at least had the book available online."
The comment made her smile. "Can you be serious for once?"

"Not a chance darling." He was smiling and she looked away from him, she knew that touching her hair was giving out how much she was affected by him but she couldn't help it.
She slowly looked at him trapping her hair behind her ear. "Why are you here?"

Kol stray away from her green bright eyes. "I wasn't… around when the original Five showed up. Klaus and Elijah took them down but they never spoke much about them."
"The five?" she asked almost in a whisper.

Kol looked around and then pulled her to one of the hidden rows, his hand was in her arm and she wished it was on her face instead. "I know that there isn't a cure, all I know is that five hunters were created to search, hunt and take us all down."
"But you can't be killed…" Bonnie frowned.

Kol licked his lips. "So they kill everyone around us, anyone that talk to us, helps us, anyone that gives us shelter or is remotely nice to us is sentenced."
Bonnie tapped the picture in the book without taking her eyes from him.

He tilted his head for a second. "Shane is a tracker."
"Was Grams…" she gulped down.

"A target? No… she was the woman Shane fell in love with and Elijah used that against him. That's all my brothers told Rebekah and I."

"So Grams knew Elijah… he must have compelled her… but this Connor is after Elena, she isn't exactly on any Original friend's list."
"Elijah has a soft rib for her." Bonnie gave him a raised eyebrow that made him smile. "Under all that walking nobility in a suit there is a soft Mikaelson that exchanged letters with Elena and she was important to Nik once as well, he really wanted her dead."

"Why did Klaus leave town?"
Kol was done answering questions for now and left, he ignored her all the way to his car and was actually surprised that she sat on the passenger side tired after running after him.

"You are inside my car." he said annoyed.
"I shared a horse with you, I can survive this." she tried to not get sidetracked from her mission. "What's the Five exactly?"

Kol started the car which left her slightly shaken, she wasn't expecting that. He was actually cooperating.
"Every Original has a hunter assigned, one of the Five that will learn all there is to know about his assigned Original, weaknesses and strengths."

"But you can't be killed!" she said again looking out her window, she realized they were headed to the woods.
"We can be desiccated and kept inside a coffin." he easily said.

"My mom put Mikael away like that…" she looked at Kol.
"I highly doubt your mother was one of the Five." Kol chuckled.

"Is…" she corrected him. "She didn't die, she still is out there… as a vampire."
Kol frowned at her. "She just left you?"

Bonnie gave him a look. "Like your family is so much better than mine."
Kol shrugged, she had a point.

"Are these hunters, vampires or human?" She asked curious.
"They can be anything; human, vampires, werewolves, witches, zombies…"

It made her laugh which was amazing to hear; he pulled over and she followed him outside, they were in the middle of nowhere so she thought at first, then she recognized the tree Caroline had started carving her name and the location looked familiar.
"Are we back where we spent our week in the past?" she asked the man leaning against his car and with his hands casually inside the coat.

"I was feeling nostalgic." he answered with a sly smile.
Bonnie picked up on the sarcasm in him. "You couldn't have told me all this earlier and prevent Caroline from going with Klaus to Europe?"

"This is all I know, Elijah and Nik have all the pertinent answers to the vital questions that are burning at your tongue darling."
Bonnie looked away, her tongue was burning with everything but questions. She focused on the landscape instead. "I just don't get why they would come after innocent people as well."

"We are the creatures monsters are afraid of, the ones that started all; the Five think that those who are kind to us or that matter to us should be terminated along with our family."

"A bit extreme…"
"I personally find them all a bunch of judgmental little punks."

Bonnie laughed even knowing she shouldn't but he had that going for him, he made her smile a lot.


Caroline felt tiny standing in the huge lobby inside the mansion. The road leading here had already left her flabbergasted and in awe, the huge house was classic and with that ancient vibe about it.
"I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw my brother step out of that car."

Klaus smiled at the older Mikaelson approaching them with his usual attire. "You fled after news of my death, I decided it was a good time to let you know I haven't actually died."
Elijah smiled. "Rebekah was kind enough to call me and let me know that she had been wasting her time mourning the brother that snapped her neck."

Caroline pulled her eyebrows together and gave Klaus a side look.
He was smiling at Elijah. "Rebekah tends to bring out that side in me."

"Everyone brings out that side in you Niklaus." Elijah returned the smile.
"Then perhaps everyone should stop testing my patience." he said as if it was that easy.

"Perhaps one day..." Elijah answered and looked at Caroline.
The girl smiled at him, he looked back at Klaus expecting an explanation.

"Caroline has questions for you. I will leave you both to it." he said walking away.
Both Elijah and Caroline looked at him but he was already making his way upstairs to the bedrooms.

Elijah sighed and looked at Caroline.
"Well this is… awkward." she smiled.

Elijah opened his suit and pointed to the living room, she took the lead and was again taken by the enormous room as they reached it. "You guys are really loaded…" She meant to say it low but Elijah laughed with the comment, she awkwardly sat on the couch that he led her to.
He took his place across her after she sat down. "We manage."

Caroline laughed. "You manage? The Salvatores manage, you guys… with the private Jet, the expensive suits, the movie mansions…"
"Niklaus has his ways but he is good with money."

Caroline pulled an annoyed face. "He's an ass."
Elijah frowned at her choice of words and she immediately changed the subject becoming serious.

"I'm here because of Elena."
Elijah reacted to the name. "How is the lovely Elena handling the new reality?"

"Badly!"
Elijah smiled sadly. "It can be hard to settle into a life as a vampire specially when you are constantly overwhelmed with good like the one that lives inside of Elena."

Caroline smiled. "She could use someone like you in her life… to show her the ropes to the new side of being a vampire. She's really not handling it well and now we have a hunter problem as well."

"A hunter?" Elijah asked intrigued.
"Yes… what can you tell me about the Five Elijah?"

Elijah was very serious and stood up from the couch. "I'm returning with you tomorrow to Mystic Falls."
"Elijah wait…" she called but he was already leaving the room.

Caroline slumped against the couch, well that was useless.


Matt finished his shift and grabbed his coat, he was tired; it had been a rather long day but he also knew that Elena's constant hunger was slowly breaking him. Donating blood every day was starting to claim a price that he wasn't too happy to provide.
He clenched his jaw; the fact that he didn't have a car now also wasn't making anything easier, he still left work by the exit door so used to go to his parking slot.

Which he found occupied with a shiny pickup, Rebekah showed up next to it with a smile. "It's in your name and a full tank, all you have to do is drive it."
He shook his head. "Why don't you just give up Rebekah?"

"Because I don't want to. I'm not the giving up type." she said with a smile.
"You tried to kill me!" he said appalled.

"And you killed my older brother." she tried to tame her temper.
Matt gulped down, so she knew about Finn. "We had to help Elena..."

Rebekah sighed exasperated. "Spare me the mention of her name please. I want to vomit every time I hear it."
Matt shook his head and left; she huffed and slowly gave in, she followed him and started talking easily.

"I can exchange it for a fast sports car if you prefer."
"I prefer if you left me alone." he said shoving his hands inside his pockets.

"Matt… we don't need to be so cold around each other. I forgave you and you need to forgive me, nothing actually happened. Stefan pulled you out of the water and that thing became a vampire."
Matt pressed his lips. "Elena is my friend, she was my girlfriend once."

"We share the same taste in men, I'm just waiting for her to shag Damon and have her world changed forever."
Matt gave her a look.

"I'm not good at this… I'm talking about other men around you but I really like you Matt."
"Are you going to draw me a picture as well?" he asked her serious.

Rebekah laughed softly. "My sketching abilities are as good as enduring Elena's voice without the urge to bleed her to death."
"You have a grudge problem."

She smiled because he didn't sound so serious now. "So do you Matt."
"I don't have much going for me Rebekah, I don't have any actual family and my friends are all I have..."

She gave him a sweet smile and dangled the key in her hand. "You have a shiny new car..."
Matt hesitated for a second before he started laughing, his entire body shook with laughter and she just ate that all up. "Are you serious Rebekah?" he asked stroking his tired face.

She nodded and handed him the key, Matt looked at it tempted.
"Maybe just for a few days, I'm too tired to walk to school every day." he sighed.

Rebekah was worried about him and their fingers touched when he reached for the key, for a second there he forgot she was this powerful vampire that could easily kill everyone in town on a whim. She was just a beautiful girl with a warm skin that he wanted to keep feeling, she smiled and lowered her head, the flawless blonde long hair fell covering her face and he wasn't thinking, he reached out and tugged that golden treasure behind her ear.
Rebekah felt her human heart wanting to come alive, these were the hardest moments to accept, that she would never be able to feel it race again triggered by the touch of a man.

"Get away from him!"

Rebekah frowned and Matt looked behind him, Elena was standing there watching them both.
She came between them and looked furious at Rebekah. "Stay away from Matt."

Rebekah could have said she wasn't doing anything but the little annoying bitch really got on her nerves. "I'm not the one using him as food, did you learn that trick from Damon? Or Stefan?"
Elena clasped her lips. "It's none of your business…"

"My loathe for you grows with every minute… why don't you feed on any waste that this town has in every corner? Why do you have to go for the boy who has no one? No one to stand up for him and tell you how wrong you are…"
"And who are you to tell me that I'm wrong? Do you keep track of all the people you have killed along the years? All the families you and your brothers have destroyed? I may be feeding off my friend to survive but you did it for fun."

A smile slowly formed on Rebekah's lips. "Do you know what else I do for fun?"
Elena squinted.

Rebekah flashed and easily snapped her neck, she dropped Elena to the ground and turned around with a happy smile. "Keep the car Matt." she said happy that she at least had the taste of killing Elena once. One of many she hopped.
Matt watched everything with hatred, just like that she reminded him of how awful she could be.


Caroline moved the smooth expensive sheet away, it was official, she couldn't sleep. She stared at the exquisite ceiling and after tracing every line of the complex art in it she finally decided to get up.
Caroline quietly came downstairs, she expected everyone to be sleeping so she easily wandered through the house. She placed her hands inside the warm wool cardigan and took her time exploring the house that belonged to the moron.

This one was obviously more personal than the one he had back in Mystic Falls, she counted at least 10 paintings with his signature. She touched his name in the bottom of every painting and tried not to think too much about how much she loved his handwriting.
The remaining art in the house was dark, gloomier like she found the house and for what she had seen so was the country, deeply buried in history. She was barefoot and quietly taking in everything her curious eyes were gathering when she heard the two voices coming from the living room.

"Rebekah was marked, she has a hunter set on her?" Elijah's voice was louder than usual, worried.
She heard Klaus sigh deeply. "She was, but truly? Who does she have in Mystic Falls? That blonde boy with the big chin?"

"This is not the time to be funny Niklaus. If she has a hunter, chances are that the rest are awakening as well."
This time Klaus sighed but annoyed. "I'm tired of these hunters… will they ever go away?"

"You know that their sole purpose is to kill us all… though I thought that with Finn dead the chain would be broken."
"Turns out it isn't… which I don't understand either. There are not five of us anymore and they are only awakened when there are five of the Originals together at the same time."

"Have you told Rebekah and Kol?" Elijah's words came out softly, warm and Caroline knew he was reaching for Klaus' softer side.
"Don't be ridiculous… there is no need for them to know."

"Kol has the right to know that he spent centuries daggered so we could keep the Five away in their sleep."
Caroline chewed on her bottom lip, her answers were coming a lot faster than she hoped for.

"It won't make a difference, what I want to know is who is next in tiny Mystic Falls to wake up one day with the sudden uncontrollable will to kill us and everyone connected to us."
"Next?"

Caroline sensed the worry in Elijah and honestly she was getting massively worried as well. But she could imagine the smile in Klaus as he spoke the next words.
"My hybrids caught this Connor right after I healed Rebekah. I spent the night before coming here torturing him for answers that he so heroically refused to give me."

Caroline closed her eyes; God, he was such a bastard, he tricked her into this trip with no reason whatsoever. He had the hunter trapped and he didn't tell anyone. She pulled her cardigan close to her body, covering the sexy nighty completely and left to the bedroom.
Caroline paced around a couple of times furious with him and his constant deceiving, she changed and waited for morning sitting on the bed, she couldn't wait to go home.


"Thank you for the ride…" Bonnie told Kol with a smile when he stopped in front of her home.
"No problem but you probably shouldn't be alone right now."

Bonnie laughed easily and got out of the car. "I'm not inviting a vampire into my home."
Kol stepped out of the car as well. "You have a hunter on the loose…"

"I am not afraid of him and besides I'm not attached to any of you, he will skip my name on that short list I'm sure..." she whispered amused.
But Kol was serious, he looked down from her perfect face that he has marveled upon all day. "A long time ago… in ancient Italy, Rebekah fell in love with a boy. She was head over heels with him and made plans of wedding the human and having a normal boring life with him…" Kol gathered his next words inside his mind.

Bonnie was serious now.
"… she was ready to settle down and maybe even turn him but one day he woke up and started carving these strange symbols everywhere, no one knew what was with him because we didn't know better. He stabbed Rebekah in the heart that night with a dagger and then lost his tongue and heart when Nik found out." he tried to finish with a smile.

"He was one of the Five." Bonnie said slowly.
"Before losing his speech he told Nik that he saw a mark on Rebekah, that he saw the same mark on his family that adored my sister. He killed them all before daggering Rebekah."

Bonnie gulped down. "I see where all the inspiration to exterminate entire families comes from."
"This is not something you should be messing with."

"I got that from the million times you've told me that already."
Kol's expression was hard. "Because you don't listen to me."

Bonnie smiled. "It's all that I've done today Kol."
He wasn't expecting that and that was a first, he had no idea what to say to her next. Bonnie trapped her bottom lip with her white beautiful teeth and the movement made him react; he wanted to be doing that with his teeth, to nibble on that full lip of hers and then afterwards run his tongue slowly along her sore lip and trap that silent moan that surely would leave her mouth.

Kol licked his lips captured by the vivid images inside of his mind, Bonnie lowered her head and then lifted her green eyes slowly to meet his. She made it so slowly and smoldering that his entire body was set on fire, he wanted to kiss her leaning against that door and feel her body under his hands once again.

"Do you want to come inside?" she asked him sweetly.
Kol took a few steps coming closer to her, he slowly touched her cheek with the back of his hand and smiled. "You shouldn't go around inviting vampires into your home."

She did that thing again, she traced her lips with her pink tongue and looked at his lips. "But you aren't just some ordinary vampire…"
Kol's hand reached her neck and he slowly placed his palm on her cheek, touching both her neck and her cheek now. His breath was hot, tickling her lips. "No I'm not…"

She smiled searching his eyes and leaving his full soft lips. "But I'm still mad that you lied to me so… you are not invited to my house Kol."
He let out a bitter chuckle. "Harsh Bonnie…" he came closer to her lips gently brushing them.

"Goodnight Kol." she said shutting him down completely and dead serious.
Kol clicked his teeth together and pulled away. He hastily left and got inside his car, he drove away fast.

Bonnie twirled a streak of hair in her finger, she was smiling hugely when she went inside her house, it was the first time she actually flirted openly with a man and that he reacted so strongly to it. It made her feel powerful but also happy, she would have loved the kiss but she wasn't going to make his life that easy.


Jeremy stood in the shadows watching them, he clutched the piece of paper in his hand, he turned around coldly and dropped the crumbled paper to the ground, leaving the symbols he made all day behind.


Caroline hadn't said a word since they left Portugal; she just sat straight in her seat with crossed arms and looking outside her small window in the plane.
"You are awfully quiet sweetheart." Klaus said frowning not understanding why she was like this, she wasn't even nervous about the flight.

Caroline remained silent which made Elijah smile from his seat.
"Caroline?" Klaus asked again, he was the one nervous that she seemed at odds with him.

She was determined in her ways and kept to herself.
"Why are you upset?" he asked trying to conceal that he didn't like this a bit but failing miserably.

She clicked her teeth together inside her mouth and ignored him. She did this the entire flight and he eventually stopped asking her pointless questions that she wasn't going to answer.
As soon as they arrived to Mystic Falls she stood up and grabbed her duffle bag, Klaus was watching her but she refused to look at him.

He caught her arm as she tried to flee once the jet door was open. "What's wrong Caroline?" he finally asked letting his guard down for one moment.
She eyed him mad. "I hate being used."

He narrowed his eyes surprised.
"I actually thought there was an ounce of the man I met in the past left in you. The sweet, honest man who had sad eyes and that touched my heart is gone. This… side you created, this mask? The sadist that enjoys playing mind games and controlling everything and everyone is not an act, it's very real. This is you and I hate it. I hate that you lied and deceived me into going away with you when I could be here helping my friend that needs me. You tricked me to go with you for answers that Elijah would never give me."

Klaus didn't say anything, he didn't even keep eye contact with her, he couldn't. Caroline had the ability to look straight into his soul and he hated that as well. He hated that she could see right through him, he released her arm and she quickly got away from him.

Elijah closed his suit jacket. "I liked the Niklaus that couldn't handle a sword properly better as well."
Klaus gave his brother an angry look and then looked outside to the lane. Tyler was waiting for her and she was hugging him, Klaus clutched the cabin phone and ripped it from the wall furious as the couple kissed.


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Hole in my soul - Aerosmith