Sent Away: Chapter 10
Caroline may have been the one to be forced away from home, kidnapped, and emotionally stretched every which way by the Bennett witch, but it was Stefan who looked like he'd been on a journey to Hell and back. As they sat in the sitting room of the Forbes residence she couldn't help but feel like she needed to fix his breaking heart; through their years as children he had been her rock, and now it was her time to be there for him.
"I'm sure that you're overreacting." Caroline said, not wanting to tell him the ever so classy, 'I told you so.'
"I can feel her slipping through my fingers, Care." Stefan ran his hands through his hair, "I've never met anyone like Katherine, I don't know what I would do if I lost her—especially if I lost her to Damon."
"Stefan if she isn't smart enough to choose you, then I have no doubt that you can do better." Caroline said, not bothering to hide how annoyed she was that Stefan was even considering someone like Katherine.
"Look, I know you don't like her, but give her a chance. For me?" he pleaded, giving Caroline those big puppy eyes that he knew she could never resist.
She gave a dramatic sigh, "Okay I will try to get to know her better, but you should know that I think your epic love is still out there."
Stefan chuckled, "You are the only person I know who uses that phrase, Care."
There was a knocking at the front door and Stefan rose to answer it.
"It's going to be huge one day, you watch." Caroline called after him, laughing as he threw a doubtful look over his shoulder
She settled back onto the couch, Stefan was always over at her home, so if it wasn't a servant opening the door most of the people in Mystic Falls expected it to be a Salvatore.
"Caroline." Stefan called from the hallway.
"What, can't even figure out how to open a door without me?" She joked as she wandered into the hallway.
Once she looked up, her footsteps halted. There standing just behind Stefan was the man who had made last night the most restless in her life.
"Klaus." She said, her voice breathless.
Katherine was feeling inspired—true love had a way of making her devious. Who would have guessed that her original pain in neck would have taken fancy to someone so easily disposed of? Humans were easily swayed; their love and allegiance could be obtained at the drop of a hat.
That is what Katherine would do; this girl would become her greatest weapon in survival. After a few candle-lit dinners and moonlit walks Klaus's heart would be Caroline's, and the girl's life would be in Katherine's hands.
"Emily?" Katherine called out, why the witch wanted to meet out in the middle of the woods was beyond the vampire's comprehension.
"Yes, Ms. Katherine?" She said, putting on the doting servant façade.
"Can you do the spell or not?" Katherine asked walking around Emily like a predator would their prey.
"Of course, but there are some steps that you would need to perform." Emily said.
"And those would be…" Katherine prompted.
"Well, for this to work in the long-term the Forbes girl would have to become vampire, and your bloodline is what she must belong to."
Katherine smirked; this was going to end smashingly.
"Then I guess for now, we will just have to wait." Katherine said.
Both girls gave each other a knowing look, and the vampire went back the way she came. Freedom was so close Katherine could practically taste it.
The pang of jealousy that Klaus felt when he saw Caroline smiling because of another man was irrational, but that didn't make it any less real.
"Hello, lovely, long time no see." He said nodding at the now petrified blonde before him.
"Stefan," Caroline choked out, "you should go now."
"Care…" the youngest Salvatore said, unsure of her safety with this stranger.
"I'm afraid she's right, mate. The lady and I have very important matters to discuss." Klaus said, never taking his eyes off of Caroline.
After a reassuring nod and smile from Caroline, Stefan shot one glare at Klaus, and looked Caroline in they eye.
"I will see you tomorrow, Care." He said, and made his way out the front door that Klaus had just entered.
"Are you crazy?" Caroline yelled after Stefan had left, sending an accusing look Klaus's way.
"It is wonderful to see you too, love. Although I must say that I found you much more agreeable at the ball." He said, delighted at the inviting shade of pink her face turned at his words.
"I wasn't in my right mind." Caroline said motioning for him to follow her into the sitting room she and Stefan were previously occupying.
Klaus took his time, properly absorbing the atmosphere. When he tricked William Forbes into inviting him, it had been all business.
"Your mental state wasn't what I was referring to." Klaus said, moving on to continue the banter that Caroline made so thrilling.
"Klaus," Caroline spoke softly as she tried to ignore the feelings stirring in her, unsure if they were real or just the aftermath of the spell that Emily had cast on her, "you cannot say such things. My father could be home any moment. He knows nothing of what happened at the manor, and if he did I may as well label myself a whore and cast myself out." She said, hoping to evoke his pity. Caroline wasn't ready to face Klaus, not yet, he needed to leave her home before she did something regrettable.
Klaus walked closer to her so that she was only an arm's length away, he reached out and caressed her face—it was too bad she was only a pawn, he really did enjoy her light.
"Ah, I'm assuming your father did not tell you of the deal we struck." He said pulling out the impish smile that made Caroline's heart beat faster.
"A deal made under false pretenses I am sure," Caroline said trying to regain her composure. She slapped his hand away to further illustrate her point of him not being wanted in her presence.
"Perhaps," Klaus said retracting his hand, "but a deal nonetheless."
Caroline's eyes grew angry. She was a woman, and as such the choices involving her were not her own, of this she knew for certain, but that did not make it any less frustrating that her father might have unknowingly sold her to the biggest monster to ever grace the presence of Mystics falls.
"What happened to wanting to properly court me?" Caroline asked, trying to appear angry and disgusted instead of fearful.
"What happened to the girl who cuddled into my embrace to fight the cold, or whose lips—"
"She's gone Niklaus." Caroline said using his real name to try to emphasize her point.
Klaus's eyes grew darker with the kind of look a cat might have before cornering a mouse. He wrapped his arm around her waist and sent her hurtling towards him.
"Now I don't think that's true," he said softly, stroking her spine as he held her up against him.
"Of course you wouldn't, you're too self-obsessed to notice anyone else's disposition." Caroline said giving up on struggling against his embrace after realizing he found pleasure in her defiance.
"How you wound me, sweetheart." Klaus teased tracing a pattern into her lower back, "I know not how much more my ego can take."
"Then perhaps it is best you go." Caroline said ignoring the warmth that spread through her at his touch, and continuing on her rational reasoning for wanting him gone.
Klaus pressed a chaste kiss into Caroline's neck, and had it not been for the fear that her father could barge in at any moment she would have certainly melted at the gesture.
"You're right. As smart as you are beautiful." Klaus said, stepping back from her and giving a mocking bow. He took her hand pressed his lips to the palm.
"Until tonight." He said giving her a knowing look.
As he started to walk away she began to defrost, and she called after him,
"Wait, what of this deal you made with my father?" Caroline asked, recalling his words from earlier.
Klaus turned around, and let a devious smirk play on his features; "I'll let your father explain it to you, after all that would be the proper thing to do." He mocked.
As Caroline watched him leave, his words began to sink in. 'Until tonight,' he had said, it seemed as though Caroline wouldn't be receiving the much-needed break that she desired after all.
At the sound of the door opening Elijah let out an annoyed sound, "Could you be on time for once?"
Klaus sat down at the head of the table across from Elijah and next to Rebekah.
"I had an important matter to attend to." Klaus said thinking about the wonderfully flustered blonde that was nearly as hot and cold as he.
"What happened to family above all, Nik?" Bekah demanded, still feeling off due to Nathaniel's strange and sudden disappearance.
"Well after what happened yesterday, I didn't think that Elijah would dispel any useful information." Klaus said, for yesterday when Elijah stopped Rebekah and Klaus's argument he gave no such details as to what this large ominous threat was, instead electing to say that he would 'gather more details, and alert us when the proper time came.'
"Yes, well I like to have all of my ducks in a row before I make a decision to avoid being rash or impulsive." Elijah said, shaking his head at the memories of his brother's past childish behavior.
"Then Elijah, by all means the floor is yours. What could possibly be more pressing than the threats we face on a daily basis?"
The elder Mikaelson thought of how he was going to explain this. He saw first hand how sweet the girl who Niklaus had taken a liking to could be, but if what the witches in New Orleans said was true, then the family needed to make a deduction based on fact, even if it lead to the death of the lovely Caroline.
"It is about the Forbes girl," Elijah began.
Klaus glared, "Don't tell me you want another repeat of Taita." He said.
"No, but there is something you must know. While still in New Orleans a few witches came to me. They spoke of a blonde who could make or break this family. Caroline, as lovely as she may be, is in the middle of something larger than either of us want our family involved in." Elijah said; sure that what he was saying must break through Klaus's thick skull on some level.
"She is just a human," Klaus said, "She has no power."
That's when Elijah saw it, a flicker of emotion that he thought had died all those years ago when they perished at the hand of their parents and woke up monsters. This girl could be Klaus's only hope at redemption, and Elijah's only hope at getting his brother back.
"You care for her." He stated.
"Don't be ridiculous." Klaus said, avoiding his brother's awestruck gaze.
"You do," Rebekah chimed in, "I can see it, this silly human means something to you."
Klaus stood up abruptly, "I do not care, I do not feel, love is a weakness."
"Neither of us said a thing about love, Niklaus." Elijah said, hoping that the softer tone in his voice would stop his brother from acting out.
Rebekah could tell that Nik was about to bolt, and do something that the three of them would probably regret so she added, "We'll protect her, whatever this threat is that surrounds her and could harm our family, and we will take care of it, together. Don't shut out what your feeling, Nik—all we have ever wanted is for you to be happy."
Klaus looked between both of his siblings, and all of his anger dissipated.
"Well, then it appears as though we need a plan." He said.
Emily stood in the middle of the woods, a cold breeze brushing up against her back. Katherine had left hours ago, but the real person she wanted to meet with had yet to arrive.
The sound of the crunching of debris left on the forest floor alerted the witch that her guest of honor had just arrived.
"Any news?" The witch asked the vampire who had kneeled before her in admiration.
"Both Katherine and Rebekah have taken the lies I fed them easily." He said.
"Good, for now we must wait there is much to be done and so little time." Emily said, knowing the ending to this story before it had begun.
"But, my lady, would it not just be better to kill the Forbes girl now, before her allies catch on to us?" The man asked as he rose to meet her eyes.
"Caroline has more power than you realize, for now she must go untouched, she is the key to everything we have worked so hard to achieve." Emily said as she turned her back to him and pulled something out of her pocket.
The man approached her, "Why won't you tell me what she means to all of this? I am here to help you, to fulfill my debt, to serve the only woman I could ever care for." He said putting his hand on her shoulder.
Before he could register what was going on, Emily Bennett spun around a drove a stake through his undead heart.
As he fell to the ground and his skin turned grey, Emily put a hand on his face, "you've done all that you could,Nathaniel," she spoke softly as if calming down a child in distress, "but now you are more help to me dead than you are alive."
Emily watched as the life drifted out of his eyes, and started the second phase of her dastardly scheme.
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