Author's Note: I didn't want people to be confused by where I was going with this, so when you read this next chapter view Elijah by seeing Caroline as like a younger sister. Someone who he could grow to care about but not love in the way Klaus does.

Also thanks for the reviews! You guys rock. I just wanted to say I don't know if I'm going to be updating frequently because on Tuesday is when I start my new classes. But I am a procrastinator when it comes to school so I don't think it'll affect the story much.

"Well I wish I could stay and chat, but I have to be heading somewhere," Caroline replied.

Caroline passed Elijah and headed for the nearest exit. She did not like the feeling she got when he seemed to recognize her. She thought over her plan. Maybe New York City was the best place to go. There were so many people living there that surely he couldn't find her. She hoped anyway. As she exited the airport and got to the curb where pickup cars and taxis were she heard Elijah call behind her.

"Klaus is after you isn't he?"

Caroline's heart dropped and she panicked. How the hell did he know Klaus? She had a bad feeling about this.

"Klaus who?" She questioned.

"You know who," Elijah said stepping forward in a classy manner. "Don't try to pretend. You reek of his blood."

As a forced reaction Caroline smelled her hair to see if she smelled bad. But she knew she wouldn't be able to tell. Elijah could because she figured that he was a vampire as well. That was just great.

"What do you want from me?" Caroline asked.

"It's simple," Elijah began. He took another step forward inching closer to Caroline. "I want to help you."

"Why?"

"Because Klaus has wronged me and now I want to wrong him. And what better way to do that than to keep him from the woman he loves?"

"How do I know that you're not just going to tip him off on where I am?"

"You don't. All I can do is give you my word that no harm will come to you," Elijah replied.

"I don't know if I can trust you."

Elijah let a hand search in his coat pocket for something. In a few seconds he fished out a tiny vial with liquid in it. He handed it over to Caroline as she took it, looking puzzled.

"Drink that and I can't compel you."

She thought about what the odds were that it was some kind of roofie and the next thing she'd know was that she was being shipped back to Klaus. Ultimately Caroline decided that the situation was already sucky to begin with so she might as well drink it at the chance of her being compelled-free. Caroline drank from the vial and coughed it down. It looked like water but tasted like medicine.

"Do I have to prove that I can't compel you now?" Elijah asked.

Caroline nodded knowing that she'd then know if it was a trick or not. Elijah looked deep into her eyes and spoke.

"You're going to leave with me now."

Caroline heard the words but didn't have the need to follow through with them. He was telling the truth about the liquid stuff. She took a big sigh. She was still confused on what to do.

"Do you trust me?" Elijah asked.

"For now," Caroline answered.

They arrived at a hotel and entered the room that Elijah had paid for Caroline. He had explained to Caroline that he wanted to send a message to Klaus in a big way.

"What are you going to do?" She asked.

Elijah didn't answer her question and instead asked one of his own. "Do you want to get rid of that pesky blood bond that you two share?"

Caroline nodded her head eagerly. The farthest away she could get herself from him, the better. Elijah had instructed her to go to sleep so Klaus would enter her dreams. Elijah wanted Klaus to see what was going to happen as well as feel it. She nodded off to sleep as she felt a dream surround her. Klaus appeared looking calmer than the last time she saw him.

"Where are you my dear? I'm getting rather lonely without you."

"Hawaii. I needed a tan," she replied. Klaus laughed at her joke as he tried to hold her in his arms. She resisted but in the end it was no use.

"Please tell me the truth my Caroline. Where are you?" His lips lingered on her earlobe and gave it a little nibble.

"She's with me brother," Elijah's voice appeared.

Klaus' embrace tightened around her as he looked up to see his older brother intruding in his dream.

"Elijah," he spat.

"It's time that I pay you back in full for the destruction of our family. You'll never get you're hands on your sweet Caroline for she is my Caroline now."

Caroline's head ached with a stinging sensation as she heard Klaus scream in pain. He was forced out of the dream and she quickly woke up. She shot up from where she laid and felt her mouth dripping with wetness. She raised her hand to her mouth and looked at what it was. She saw blood.

"The only way to break a blood bond is to replace it with a new one," Elijah said sitting at a chair by her bedside.

"You said I was yours," Caroline stated in fear.

Elijah sighed, "I don't find enjoyment out of treating people like possessions. I only said that to unnerve my brother."

"He was in pain. I heard him scream," Caroline said thinking back to the dream.

"That's because when a bond breaks it hurts the vampire," Elijah replied.

"So what are you going to do now? With me that is?" Caroline asked.

"I'm taking you home. If Klaus comes for you, then he's going to have to deal with me."