Hello guys! So this instalment is going to be slightly different…

So this chapter is based off 3x22, so yeah, let's get started, shall we?

Disclaimer: Yup, still own nothing.

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The whole gang had gone to collect Elena, Caroline thought that there would be 'safety in numbers'. Elena had told them that she did not want to be smothered, but Caroline ignored this as soon as they walked through her front door.

"Couch." Caroline said in a soft, but commanding voice. Caroline linked arms with Elena and in turn Elena leant on Caroline a slight bit for support.

"I'm fine. I just- I want something to eat first." Elena said pleadingly. Tyler and Matt were in front of them and watched as Caroline practically dragged Elena to the couch.

"We're on it. As soon as we make sure no one's lurking in the closets." Tyler said as both he and Matt split off, Matt walking upstairs and Tyler walking down the corridor.

Caroline smiled at Tyler over Elena's shoulder. But she was still slightly mad at him -even though she didn't show it- for toasting to Klaus' downfall. She had too but only because she didn't want to show them how much they annoyed her, telling her about him being ruthless and vicious. When she had seen the caring and polite version of him. Whenever she was with him she had to keep reminding herself of what a monster he was. Otherwise she would be thinking thoughts that she should not be thinking.

They had told her the other night that they were going to drop his body in the Atlantic. When she heard it felt like her stomach had just been dropped in the Atlantic, however much she tried to deny it or acted like she couldn't care less. She supposed that it was because he was constantly trying to make her his. Not because of any lingering feelings, surely not?

"All right, couch. Now." Caroline said. She was using Elena as a distraction, from her thoughts. She pushed her forward gently.

"Ugh, I told you, I'm fine." Elena said as she threw her arms up in exasperation. As they walked Caroline grabbed a thick blanket. She was like a sheep dog herding her single sheep –Elena- to the couch.

"Doctor says rest, you rest." Caroline ordered … Elena didn't try to hide her sigh of exasperation. "Now what can I get you? Do you want some tea?" Elena was getting herself comfy on the couch as Caroline threw the duvet over her. "Maybe some vodka?" Heaven knows that Caroline needed some vodka right now. "Both will help you sleep." She smiled as she threw another blanket over Elena. Elena sighed again.

Caroline grimaced and looked up, then back at Elena.

"I know. I'm being smothering. It's what I do." Elena let out a small giggle and said "No. It's… It's nice." Caroline was squeezing Elena's hand reassuringly and they both let out a small laugh.

Caroline wanted to tell Elena about Klaus, she wanted to be told how wrong it was to feel like this. I mean, Elena should be an expert in pro's and con's concerning boys. She must have had two very long lists, a very long pro's list for Stefan and a very long con's list for Damon, But Caroline knew she couldn't she would just bury these feelings. She was never going to see him again anyway. Quit worrying. Caroline told herself sternly.

"I'm thinking… Maybe tea with vodka." They both giggled. Caroline stood up and walked past the couch and into the kitchen. When she got there she called to Elena.

"How much sugar?" But there was no answer. She could hear soft breathing and she smiled. Elena had fallen asleep. Her phone started to ring. She recognised the ring tone. It was her mom. She hardly ever got calls from her mom. Caroline quickly opened the French window door and stood on the patio facing the back yard.

"Hey, mom." Caroline said tentatively.

"Care, you and Tyler need to come to the Lockwood mansion, right now." Liz's voice was stern, Caroline had hardly ever heard it like this.

"Uh, okay mom. Any reason?" Caroline asked curiously.

"I can't explain now, just come quickly." Then Liz ended the call. Caroline was confused as she walked back inside. Matt and Tyler were in the kitchen, Matt was still making Elena some tea despite her being asleep.

"Ty, we have to go. I just got a call from my mom, it's urgent." She looked at Tyler seriously. Tyler had a curious expression on his face, he looked like he was about to say something when Caroline said. "Now."

Tyler did not argue. Caroline nodded bye to Matt.

"Bye, man." Tyler said to Matt.

"Yeah, you stay safe, okay?" Tyler nodded and then both he and Caroline walked out of the house.

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Caroline and Tyler drove in silence. They did not exchange a single word. When they arrived at the front steps Tyler jumped out of the car before it had even properly stopped. Caroline got out and they both ran inside with Tyler leading.

When they entered the marble foyer it was empty, Caroline could feel the knot of anxiety in her stomach clench horribly.

"Mom?" Tyler yelled, Tyler's voice bounced off all the walls.

"In here." They heard Mrs. Lockwood yell back. Tyler jogged into the room on their left. Caroline shut the door behind her.

"Mom?" Caroline said timidly.

When they entered the room Liz and Mrs. Lockwood both had pained and tense looks on their faces, and they gave off an aura of someone with bad news to tell. Caroline's knot clenched still more.

"What's going on?" Tyler asked quietly. Mrs. Lockwood looked like she was on the verge of tears.

"Alaric outed us to the council. He told them everything. The whole council knows what you are." Mrs. Lockwood said quietly.

"He's got them looking for Klaus, and then they're going to come looking for you. You can't be here when they do." She was shaking her head and looking from Tyler to Mrs. Lockwood. She was avoiding Caroline's gaze.

"But, what are you saying?" Caroline asked. But she knew, she just wanted something to say because the other option was to leave. She wanted to prolong the inevitable.

"You both need to get out of town, now." Liz looked at Caroline. Caroline shook her head softly.

"I've pulled together some cash, and Liz has gotten you some new identification," Mrs. Lockwood's voice cracked. "And we'll get school records, and . ."

"Well, wait a minute, you want us to run?" Tyler said, just latching on.

"We can't protect you anymore." Liz said calmly, with a slight plead in her voice.

"Well, we can't just pack up and leave!" Caroline was not one to abandon a task. She would stick through it.

"If you stay, you're going to end up dead." Carol Lockwood said, looking at Tyler, her voice was cracking as she spoke "You don't have a choice."

Caroline looked from Carol to her mom, she looked pleadingly at them but Liz just shook her head.

"We will leave you two to talk." Liz said. Carol had been fending off tears all evening, but now she could not hold them back. Liz ushered her out of the room. Caroline waited a second before talking. She had been pacing the room whilst Tyler had just been sitting on the arm of the couch.

"We can't just leave town." Caroline was so frustrated. She felt trapped. And she didn't like feeling trapped.

"Yes, we can." He replied. Caroline looked at him in disbelief but then realised that Tyler had always been one to give up. One of his greatest turn offs.

"No, our friends need us." Caroline said, she was annoyed at him and at everything that was happening.

"And our mothers need us to stay alive! Look," He stood up. Caroline turned to face him. She was on the verge of crying angry tears, angry, frustrated tears. "Stefan and Damon are going to do whatever it takes to protect themselves, but this is our life. Let me protect you."

He was standing close now. She was looking into his dark brown almost black eyes. They seemed dull compared to those dark blue eyes that so entwined her. Ensnared her senses and bewitched her mind, made her think things that she did not want to think, she so longed to see those blue eyes again. Caroline sighed as she remembered that she would never see those eyes again.

"I will go anywhere with you." She held the back of his neck and ran her fingers through his dark hair. "And if we have to spend the rest of our lives running, I will run with you." She smiled. "But, first, I have to help out friends." His features fell. She knew that he just wanted to get out of here. But she would not let him go, not yet. He nodded slowly.

"I'll get some stuff together and meet you at the cellar in two hours."

"Deal!" She said whilst nodding her head sharply and quickly. She laughed. Then they came together and embraced. She could feel his soft breath on her neck, his hands on her hips. They were holding her tightly, not softly like he had held her.

"We've got to travel light. So what do you need?" Tyler said. Caroline was flustered. What did she need?

"Ah, just you … and .. Maybe a curling iron." She laughed. She gave him another peck on the lips before she pulled back. "Oh, I have to tell Bonnie."

"I'll call Bonnie, okay?"

"Okay… okay." She said quietly, she was so flustered.

"Two hours. Don't you dare be late."

"Okay!" She smiled and kissed him again. She ran off.

She did not see Tyler's look it was of dismay. He knew what he had too do to keep her safe.

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Klaus could hear them coming.

The elder Salvatore and the Bennett witch. Klaus knew somewhere in his heart that his sibling would pull through to keep him safe. Well not Kol. But Elijah or Rebekah surely.

"I'm not halfway out of Virginia and Elena sells our souls to the Originals?"

He could hear them. Faintly. But he could hear them, he knew then that his brother and sister must have come through.

"It's her call." The voices were coming closer. He was already bored of this dark box, the sooner he was out of it the better.

"You know what else is her call? Everything bad ever." Damon said. Klaus could hear them very well now.

"Where's the body? As long as it's unspoiled, Alaric is one witch away from finding it." Ah. So the hunter Alaric has replaced my father. Brilliant.

"Hidden. I was going to use unit six-six-six," Damon said. Klaus would torture him later for that. "But I figure that would be a little obvious. So… Ten-twenty. Mini fridge, a couple of bird cages, box full of "playboys"," Klaus could hear a rattling sound. "One beef jerkified original."

He heard the footsteps come up beside him, he could hear their hearts beating, they were out of time with one another. His eyes were closed but he could tell the coffin was open since the pitch blackness went to a slightly lighter grey.

He opened his eyes. He could see the Bennett witch and then he saw Damon Salvatore behind her. Hiding like a child.

"Whoa. Creepy."

Klaus was paying no attention to Damon. He was only looking at the Bennett witch. He had a very faint smile on his lips. She had agreed to put him in the body of the oaf. Tyler Lockwood's body, to save her friends. To save her mother. To save Caroline.

"I need a minute." Bonnie said looking at Klaus.

"Just jam the witch locator bat signal, whatever, and get on with it, Bonnie." Damon said indignantly.

"Elena and Jeremy lost Jenna and Alaric because of him. Tyler's a hybrid. My mother's a vampire. Could you give me a minute to appreciate this side of him?" She waited for him to leave before she leaned forward and said to him.

"You should burn in hell." Not the first time I have heard that, love. Believe me. "But if you die, so do my friends. So does my mother." Ah. The beauty of a sire line. "What am I supposed to do about that?"

Klaus gave a small, weak smile.

"Let's set some ground rules. One. Only jump if you have too. Life or death. Two. Do not talk to anyone, stay in the cellar and if Caroline comes, you give the best god damn performance of your life. Understand me?" Klaus rolled his eyes. Bonnie took that as a yes. "Three. You stay out of sight until you can jump into another body. Now, let's begin." She started casting her locator spell.

After she finished the spell she gave him one more disdainful look and shut the coffin lid. And he was back where he started. After a while he could hear, possibly a couple of floors below him, a scuffling sound. Then it went silent. Obviously Alaric had found him. Bloody brilliant. Klaus rolled his eyes.

He could hear a rattling coming closer, from two floors down to one floor and soon to the same floor.

Klaus was getting ready to jump into Tyler's body, however much it repulsed him. But then he heard his coffin being moved

"Let's go big, bad, hybrid." Klaus heard Damon say. Then they stopped. He heard a scuffling noise outside. Then they were moving again. This time it was at a running pace, he could tell by the way his body was bumping around carelessly.

Then they stopped. He heard a scream. Rebekah. His mouth went thin. He heard a groan from Damon. Then he heard the latch of his coffin being torn off. The lid opened. He saw Alaric holding the white oak.

"No!" He heard his sister scream.

Alaric raised the white oak. At that moment Klaus wondered if his time on the earth had been too long. If he should just… Die? But then he remembered all the people he would be killing by doing so. He would be kill some of his oldest friends. He would be killing Caroline. He quickly readied himself, he could feel himself losing consciousness, he was willing himself to go quicker, willing himself to enter the hybrid. The stake crashed down. And it all went dark.

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He woke up on the ground in the Lockwood cellar where he had locked in Caroline and Tyler. He looked down at his arms, they were broader more muscular than his. This must mean that the body swap had worked.

There were candles lit everywhere. Bonnie. There was a rucksack on the floor. Klaus picked it up and looking inside it. There was a note, addressed to him.

Klaus,

We were told that we had to run, council knew about us.

Remember, Klaus. Do not touch. And if you have too. Make it quick.

Tyler.

Klaus smirked, it didn't feel right on his face, the way that the lips curled, it was un-comfortable. He scrunched up the letter. He would not want to touch Caroline with these lips, it wouldn't seem right. He wanted her to know when she was with him.

Klaus hid behind the corner and started practising his American accent under his breath.

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Caroline was running to the forest when she felt her phone vibrate. She stopped and took it out of her pocket and read the caller ID.

Stefan.

Caroline answered it immediately.

"Stefan?" Caroline asked quietly.

"Hey Caroline." Stefan said solemnly.

"What is it..?" Caroline asked, she knew though, she knew deep down what had happened. Her breathing started to heighten and quicken.

"We just got a call from Damon." He paused. "Klaus is dead." Caroline took a sharp intake of breath. No. He couldn't be. He was Klaus Mikaelson. A survivor, he wouldn't just… die? Caroline's breathing quickened, then she couldn't breathe all together.

"Caroline?"

Caroline was taking large gulps of breath that didn't seem to reach her lungs. She could feel the tears start cascading down her cheeks. No. No, no, no. She could not breathe. She dropped her phone and ran. She remembered Tyler. Oh, Tyler. She could not stop crying. She just couldn't, her brain just wouldn't allow it.

Why was she crying? Caroline asked herself. Tyler. It was Tyler, but in her heart she knew only a small part of her cried for Tyler.

Klaus.

It was because she knew that she would never hear his voice again, never get the feeling of shivers going through her when he touched her. That he would never make her feel like the only girl in the whole world again. That she would never see his lips, those lips that looked so soft, that were so soft against her hand. She could not remember the tingle that she had got when he touched her. She would give anything right then to feel that tingle, just one more time. And those high cheekbones and those blue eyes that drew her in. She wouldn't see the flecks of light blue in them, she would never see eyes like that again.

She was running to the cellar. It was ahead of her. She ran down the stairs, her footsteps echoing.

"Tyler? Tyler?!" She was just below yelling. She was gasping for breath, it was so enclosed down here. She needed to breathe, but she needed to say goodbye. She was sobbing and gasping. He isn't here. He is not here.

"Caroline?" Klaus-Tyler came out from the shadows. Caroline was crying, Klaus wanted to comfort her, he wanted to hold her in his arms.

"Tyler, oh, my god! You're still here" Caroline ran forward and hugged him, she was crying into his shoulder.

"Hey! Hey!" Klaus-Tyler said comfortingly. "Hey."

Caroline was dragging her fingers through his hair softly. Klaus had to keep reminding himself that he was in Tyler's body. That she was not doing this to, him. But to Tyler.

"Sorry, I was just with Bonnie." Her hair smelt like lilies. She was gasping for breath over his shoulder.

He was holding her gently as if she could break. This struck Caroline as slightly strange, she may not have noticed if she hadn't been thinking about Klaus. She pulled back and turned to look at him. Her eyes were swollen with crying.

"What's happened?" Klaus-Tyler said.

"It's Klaus, he-he died." She was gripping his shirt tightly. Klaus-Tyler had to try and remember that she was crying about Tyler's impending death not Klaus' death, not him. "He's dead."

Caroline was waiting for a reaction, something Tyler-ish, but he just looked down and looked back up at her. She was gasping. He looked at her and gave a small smile and run his hand down her shoulder comfortingly. Tyler had never been so soft with her. He had always been the 'jock' kind of guy, he was not very good at being gentle, another one of his turn offs.

"You're going to be fine, Caroline." He was looking at her intently.

"No, no. It's not me that I'm worried about." She was running her fingers through his hair.

Klaus was astounded, even when she could die herself, she was still worrying about others. He had not come across this amount of selflessness in centuries. And it was becoming rarer to find. He felt privileged to know this beacon of light in a sea of darkness.

"There's no point." He smiled weakly. There was a softness to him that she had never seen. "I'm a lost cause." Caroline was gasping and sobbing. She shook her head.

"No!" Caroline said forcefully. Like if she said it enough that it wouldn't be so.

"But you're strong, and you have a beautiful future ahead of you." He said, Caroline shook her head. "And when you make it through this… Just tell my mother I left town like I was supposed to, okay?" She nodded feebly.

She leant forward and kissed him. She wanted to feel his lips on hers one last time. One last time. He ran his fingers through her hair. She pulled back and kissed his cheek. She held his head and hugged him, as the friend that he had always been.

His eyes were wide. Klaus was taken aback. He had thought that kissing her would be enjoyable -which it was- but he had never felt something like that, he wanted to hold her, make her feel loved, cherish her, tell her that it was all going to be okay. But he couldn't. She was sobbing over his shoulder. He shut his eyes and smelt her hair. This could not go on forever. So he might as well end it now, however much it pained him to let go of this thing of light, he would receive and earful from the Bennett witch if he did not.

He groaned. Caroline knew what was happening, she wanted to stay with him. She didn't want him to be alone. He started coughing harshly. Then he stopped, she was breathing quick and heavily. She could see that he was clutching his rib cage. He turned slowly around to look at her.

"Do you feel anything?" His voice cracked.

"No." She shook her head. Her voice was high and her eyes were drowning in tears. "I feel fine." This was a relief to Klaus. He had not been sure that if his body was destroyed that she would go too. He felt a wave of relief course through him. He knew that it was time to say good-bye.

"I need you to get out of here. I don't want you to watch me die." He said while shaking his head.

"No, I'm not leaving." Caroline shook her head. The tears were making her vision blur.

He started groaning and coughing again. He fell to the ground. Caroline grabbed his shoulder and stroked it, she drew circles on his hand just like he had on hers. Klaus felt shivers go through him, he did not like it, the feeling of weakness it gave him. He did not want to let her go… but he had to.

"I'm staying."

"No." Klaus-Tyler said looking at her with those dark brown eyes.

"Yes." She nodded. She did not understand why he wanted her to go. Tyler would have wanted her there for the end, to be in her arms.

"You run. Or I'll make you run."

"I'm not leaving!" Caroline did not understand, he was frustrating her, she felt the tears cascade down her cheeks. Her voice was high and squeaky.

He nodded. He gave off a great groan and screamed. His back was arching. He was turning. Caroline was scared. Surely, he wouldn't… But he was, she could hear his bones snapping. She could see them. She wanted to hold him, she wanted to make this less painful. He looked up at her, his eyes were amber. Caroline jumped back.

"Go!" He yelled. His voice was low. She zoomed out.

Klaus was left alone. Once more.

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