Chapter Nine: Torture Me

Caroline woke up slowly and heard chains rattling. It took her a moment for her to realize where she was and even then it didn't really seem to register in her mind. Her eyes opened slowly as she tried to ignore the pounding in her head.

She felt something wet in her lips and she moved her tongue slowly thinking that it was water, but then she felt something burning her lips. It wasn't water, fuck it was vervain. She spit out the small amount that she had drank, but she could still feel the burning across her lips.

"I'm sorry love, this is not quite the way that a person wants to wake up."

Caroline's blue eyes flashed as she glared at Klaus. Finally, everything seemed to make perfect sense as she tried to remember what had happened at said party. She was really starting to regret it now and made a point that she would kick Kol's ass later.

Caroline stared at her surroundings and guessed that she was in the Mikaelson basement. She was still wearing the party dress that she had worn at the party. Her arms were tied up in chains and she imagined that she looked like a lazy letter V.

"Where am I?" she demanded of him

Klaus smirked at her, looking slightly amused, but Caroline noticed that he was wincing slightly. Perhaps Klaus was really a mushy marshmallow after all, at least when it came to her.

"You are in a lovely room in our house," Klaus said sounding like an awful tour guide as he looked around the dark, depressing room. "Is it not up to your standards my darling?"

Caroline raised an eyebrow and said slightly sarcastic. "Well, I think it could use a little color, but other than that, it's just perfect." She murmured. "What are you planning to do, Klaus? Talk to me death? Or bore me? Look if you're going to scold me will you just hurry up and get it done with- "

"Shut up," Klaus hissed. "Just stop talking, Caroline, you have obviously not seen what you've done. You have managed to break everything Elijah and I have tried so hard to undo."

Caroline scoffed. "And what is that, Klaus? This stupid alliance treaty that you're working so hard on. What do you think is going to happen? That all the witches and wolves will suddenly be your friends and you'll live in perfect harmony? Don't be stupid, Klaus it doesn't suit you. We both know that they will never stop seeing you as the monster that you truly are."

Klaus grimaced as he turned around.

"Aw, what's wrong? Did I hurt your feelings, or maybe you're finally hearing the truth and you can't accept it?"

"Your upset," Klaus said through gritted teeth. "This is not you, this is not the person I know that you are. You have lost your mother and Liz was a wonderful woman, but this is not you, Caroline and you need to snap out it love."

Caroline's blue eyes glared at him. "And if I don't?"

Klaus raised an eyebrow. "Well, then you won't like the consequences."

Caroline scoffed. "Consequences? What on earth do I have to be afraid of? You? We both know that you won't hurt me, you'd promise me that you would wait for me for a lifetime. You can't very well do that if I'm dead."

Klaus narrowed his eyes at her, he didn't want to hurt he, he wanted to love her. But he couldn't quite let her stay like this an emotionless monster otherwise she would end up dead sooner or later and Klaus would never forgive himself.

Without saying anything else, he shoved the rest of the vervain plant in Caroline's awaiting mouth. Caroline choked out, but she could hardly spit out the plant out until it dissolved in her mouth. Her mouth and tongue were both covered in sizzling burns thanks to the vervain. She could hardly talk because she felt like her vocal cords had all been burn out, but she did raise her head and glared at Klaus. It was the least that she could do at the moment and she would get her revenge sooner or later.

"Do not worry, dear Katerina," Kol said as he and Katherine stood in the patio on the Mikaelson compound while Klaus tried to take care of a venomous Caroline after the party fiasco. It was very late and everyone had left the party, Kol just hoped that his brother didn't decided to sink another dagger in him. "Our pretty little blond friend will join our trio once again."

Katherine scoffed. "Do you really think that Klaus is going to give back Caroline just like that? Wow, you really are naïve, he won't stop until Caroline is back to being that high and mighty blond we all love to hate."

Kol smirked. "That won't happen, our dear Caroline is far stronger than that," he pressed a hand against her cheek. "Besides if Caroline does go back to the light side them we can just be a happy pair you and me."

Katherine smiled slightly, until Elijah spoke up sharply. "Kol!" he turned to both of them said sharply. "Am I interrupting something?"

"No." Katherine said, obviously annoyed. She didn't want to see him. "I'm going to bed, good night Kol." She ignored Elijah completely.

"What?" Kol scoffed when he saw that Elijah was still glaring at him. "Why the bloody hell are you glaring at me? Did someone burn your suits or something?"

Elijah ignored his sarcastic comment. "Stay away from, Katerina Kol."

"Like that's going to happened. Why should I, are you jealous? Besides she seems to prefer me, a hell lot more than you."

Elijah vamp speed him against the wall and gripped his jaw slightly. "You are walking on a very thin line, brother. If you don't want to end up daggered I suggest that you do as I say and stay away from both Katerina and Caroline. You have done enough harm."

Kol smirked. "Are you sure you mean me? Maybe the real answer is that both you and Klaus have done enough harm on your beloved Katerina and Caroline."

Ignoring the jabbering that was going on between the brother, Katherine started walking towards one of the guest rooms and ran towards Rebekah. The blond was looking at her unfriendly. "What are you up to?"

"You are going to have to be a little more specific."

"Don't play dumb with me, Katherine," Rebekah scoffed. "Elijah might fall for your precious doe act, but unlike him, I'm not an idiot. I saw you leave the compound, where did you go?"

"It's none of your business," Katherine said sharply. "Now are you going to let me through or am I going to have to tear that pretty blond hair from your head?"

Rebekah frowned, but her let pass. "Thank you."

"Just don't be an idiot, Kat. Don't do something that you will regret."

"What took you so long?" Klaus demanded as a tired Stefan Salvatore made his way inside the compound a few days later. "Did I not make it clear that this was not an emergency?"

Stefan raised an eyebrow and said sarcastically. "Yeah, I got that from your 3 billon voicemails. Klaus you are an expert in torturing people, why do you need me for?"

"Excuse me, I thought you were Caroline's friend. You're supposed to help her," Klaus insisted. "Besides I'm running out of ideas. You were off the wagons a few times and your dear friend Lexi helped, perhaps you could use some of those methods on Caroline and help her see sense."

-End of Chapter Nine-

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