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CHAPTER 9
Clickity-clack clickity-clack
The heels of Elena's combat boots sounded against the damp wooden floor of Wickery Bridge. She let out a bored sigh. What was she even doing? Was she that bored that she kidnapped Caroline? What was she thinking? Wait...why is she even contemplating if this was the right choice or not? Who the hell even cares? Not her, that's for sure. Her feelings were off. Zip. No. No way it would ever come back. She wouldn't let it.
"You planning on ever dying your pink streaks back to brown. It's getting kind of tacky."
"Damon." Elena said. For a moment, she saw a sad look pass over his face but it was gone as soon as it came.
"Where's blondie and why, among all things you could do with this crazy unemotional conscience of yours guiding you, did you kidnap her?"
Elena ignored the question. "I don't recall leaving you the note. Hmm. Must be getting the two brothers mixed up." She shrugged with a nonchalant look.
Damon's face suddenly went serious. "He was supposed to meet me here a few hours ago." He smirked. But since he's late, I though why not just save blondie myself."
"Well, I don't think that you care enough to save her, Damon." Elena felt a rage she couldn't explain build inside of her. "Stefan is the one who does. I would even go far as to say that due to some crazy reason, he's developed-"
Elena's rant was cut short by the ring of a phone.
"Excuse me for a second. Stef! Where the hell did you-"
"This isn't Stefan." Elena froze. She knew the sound of that voice. Sam Winchester, one of the guys who were staying in the boarding house. She knew there was something different about them.
"Listen carefully. We got the list of all bloodsuckers residing in Mystic Falls and your brother is one of them. As are you. Now I'll give you ten minutes to surrender everyone and meet me at your boarding house or he dies."
Damon's face was careful but you could see a worried expression just beneath the surface.
"How do I even know you have him?"
A gunshot resounded in the other line. Elena's cold demeanour faltered as she heard the accompanying scream of her ex boyfriend.
Stefan.
"Wh-what?"
"Ten minutes." Sam finished.
With an annoyed glare, Damon put down the phone.
"Damon. What is happening?"
"Elena, listen. We don't need any more trouble. Just tell me where blondie is, we save her, we save Stefan, everyone's happy."
Something inside her switched. She felt it all. It was coming back little by little, what she did to that girl in the cheerleading competition, what she did to Stefan, what she did to Caroline. Caroline.
"Oh no."
"What?"
She watched the first ray of morning light touch the horizon on the lake.
"It might be too late." Elena's voice cracked. She was swaying where she was standing. It was becoming too much for her.
"What do you mean too late? Elena, where is she?"
The weight of everything she ever did was finally sinking in and her small hands opened to reveal a silver ring with a blue gem embedded on it.
"Damon, what have I done?" She raised her tear-filled eyes to meet Damon's wide icy blue ones.
Stefan, Klaus, Sam and Dean all crowded around the receiver. The connection was still open and they could hear every word of the conversation between Damon and Elena. The plan worked. Elena was breaking and they just needed to know the location of Caroline and then everything would be smooth sailing from there. But what did she mean when she said it might be too late?
"What do you mean too late?" Damon's voice sounded urgently from the phone. "Elena, where is she?"
Klaus clenched his fists. If anything at all happened to her, no one would be ready for the amount of damage he would do to everyone, especially this doppelganger bitch. He wouldn't let Caroline die, he promised himself.
"Damon, what have I done?" Elena's trembling words seemed so ominous. Just get on with it already! Caroline's life is at stake here!
"You have her daylight ring..." Klaus stiffened. He didn't know what to do. Every part of him was pulling himself in every single direction, to find her and not even wait to know where she is. He would search the whole world in a heartbeat and get her to safety. He heard a sharp intake of breath, not from the receiver but the man beside him.
Dean's eyes suddenly turned dangerous, his every nerve focused on the conversation. Klaus felt a pang of jealousy. Who was he to even feel protective over Caroline. They've barely known each other for a month and—
"I'm sorry. She's in the high school on the rooftop. Damon! We need to do something she's going to burn and it's all my fault—"
Klaus didn't even know what she said next. In a flash, he was gone, headed to the Mystic Falls High School to save the girl before it was too late.
"Dean! Will you slow down? Klaus is already on his way, probably even there. I'm sure she's alright!"
"We're not putting the safety of this innocent girl in the hands of that lunatic." Dean's eyes were focused on the road. It had to be; he was driving at 200 kilometres an hour.
"Why do you care so much?"
"I don't. I just don't want anyone to get hurt in this case, Sam."
"I know you, Dean. You wouldn't drive this fast and risk your baby for just anyone." Sam said referring to his car. "Besides, if her safety is already guaranteed by Klaus, why are we still on our way?"
"We need to make sure she's fine."
Sam answered with a blunt stare.
"I don't know okay! There's something about her, the way she laughs and listens to me and how she's just so normal despite her being in a worse situation than I am. I mean come on! She's a freaking bloodsucker and still manages to make herself better than most humans out there."
"You're in love with her." It wasn't a question. And Dean wasn't sure if it was one for him either.
How long was she up here? For what seemed like eternity, she's been pulling at these vervain-soaked ropes trying to break loose. Caroline's hands were tied to the railings of the school roof deck and she had no way out. She was already hungry after a whole day with no blood and now her wrists were burning as if acid were eating away at her skin, further weakening her. Things couldn't get worse. But it did.
To her horror, the first signs of daylight showed itself. And her daylight ring was gone.
Okay. Don't cry, Caroline. You're not that helpless little girl anymore.
So many thoughts raced through her mind. If she was gonna survive this, Elena will be first to pay. She's going to hit that bitch so hard she won't be able to wake up 'til the next century. And what about her family? Her friends? What will happen now that she's going to disappear into a pile of ashes in a few seconds? She would never know where Tyler's been. And Dean? They were never going to find out more about each other. And she was never going to figure out what was it she had with Klaus.
At least I'll see daddy again. She thought with a sniff.
BANG!
The metal door opening to the rooftop burst open. Klaus emerged through and a look of relief crossed his face as he spotted the lost blonde girl with the tear-streaked face. He could almost swear that she was smiling.
"Klaus!" she breathed. If he weren't a vampire, he wouldn't have heard it. She sounded so weak. Immediately, a hundred methods of torture crossed his mind. Elena was going to have it this time.
"Agh!" Caroline screamed. Red marks slowly crawled over her exposed shoulder as the sunlight hit her.
A blur of action happened and the next thing she knew, he was holding her closely by the stairs of the school.
"Caroline." He murmured her name again and again trying to get her to awake from her bouts of unconsciousness.
"I can't..." she finally let out. She looked up at his urgent blue eyes and saw a scared little boy. It was amazing who lived beneath the evil hybrid shell. Did he really care so much for her?
She couldn't breathe, the sunlight burned and the vervain burned and everything was hurting.
"I need..."
"Caroline!" Dean Winchester ran in and stopped. His face was full of concern and caring...it was disgusting. He wasn't needed there. Klaus shot him a dark look but before he could do anything, he felt her leave his arms.
"Here." He said gently and offered himself. Her blonde head lay itself on his muscular shoulder and she relaxed into him. Klaus looked incredulously at the pair in front of him.
In what looked like an embrace, she bit tentatively into his neck and found his vein. She drank the sweet tasting liquid and felt her strength returning to her. She needed this. She needed him. Once she was done she looked into his eyes.
"Thank you." She said.
"No, no. Just rest okay." He lifted her up and carried her towards the exit as Klaus watched, too dumbfounded to even utter a word.
UGH YES. GETTING MORE INTENSE IN THIS DeanXCarolineXKlaus TRIANGLE. Please review more! I literally get more energy to continue so keep them coming! With that said, i apologize for being so late to update but I'll make time I promise. :) Leave me a review in that box below and I hope you guys are enjoying your life...but how could you...TVD's on hiatus :(
