A/N PLEASE READ THIS: I've been getting a lot of reviews lately that have been claiming to be or acting as if they are constructive criticism on all of my current stories. I would like to point out the difference between what kind of criticism is constructive and what kind is not here.
Constructive criticism is a helpful suggestion that could be used to improve the story in the future and that explains to you what kind of different things you could do instead of just pointing something bad out as a problem and leaving it at that. I am getting quite sick of people forgetting the difference and leaving me passive aggressive reviews that basically tell me that my stories might be able to be acceptable if all of this stuff didn't suck. These are people who do this and then continue to go read more and then review again or even people who have a story as one of their favourites and have been reading it for the whole time (In one case for 38 chapters and 125k+) before leaving this type of review.
An example of what would be constructive would be something like: "There's not enough Kol, I think that you should write from his point of view more" or "It would be good if you included more of Caroline's thoughts and reactions".
Examples of what is not constructive criticism and what is direct quotes of some of what I've been getting lately is stuff like: "I didn't like this chapter at all." And "I know they say "quality over quantity" but at this point, the quality isn't reaching its true potential because there's not enough of it." And "as you are in third person work on developing your work"
Before you review, please consider this. I am perfectly okay with getting constructive criticism if that is actually what it is. I am not okay, however, with just having you insult me and my writing, especially if you try to have the illusion of trying to help me in the review. I would honestly rather just have a review completely bash me than be one of the ones that claims to be trying to help me out when it is clearly not. So if you have something to say that falls into the constructive criticism minus the constructive part category, then please just go away and stop reading my stories because I honestly do not want you here.
All that people like that do is make me quite angry and make it so that I don't want to write or update when I'm putting in all of this effort just to have someone come try and act superior with no helpful suggestions whatsoever. This isn't fair to the readers who actually are enjoying the story and want to read the story, so please just stop.
I am also completely done just sitting here and taking these reviews, from now on I will be responding to them and I'm sorry, but I can't guarantee that my response will be entirely kind if your review is not. It will, however, explain to you how what you said is not constructive criticism and I will point out anything that you said that I find to be incredibly inaccurate (which a lot of the times these reviews are) and even back it up with proof.
Thank you for reading this entire author's note to those of you who have. Unfortunately, I'm sure that the type of people who are actually the problem are probably not the ones who have actually read through this. I thought that it would be worth a try anyways and now I can point out the fact that I have a specific message about that kind of behaviour at the tops of my chapters.
To all of you who have been giving me kind reviews or actual constructive criticism, thank you again.
It wasn't long before another not so friendly face appeared in front of Caroline.
"What's the matter?" Carter asked. "You didn't think that you'd ever have to see me again after you killed me at that carnival?"
Caroline stared at the bloody bite mark on his neck in disgust.
"You want a taste?" Carter asked her. "Maybe you shouldn't have drunk it all last time then."
Klaus noticed that Caroline was once again looking over at something that wasn't there. He gently began to stroke her hair in an attempt to comfort her.
"Nothing to say?" Carter asked her. "I died because I was stupid enough to try and help out a crying girl and now you don't even have anything to say to me?"
Caroline flinched as he shouted at her.
"I bet that you had practically forgotten about me. That you'd pushed me as far back in your mind as you could," Carter continued angrily. "You know who can't forget about me? My family!"
Caroline began to shake in Klaus's arms.
"Did you even consider the possibility that I could have a family that's missing me?" Carter aggressively shouted at her.
"Caroline," Klaus said in an attempt to pull her away from whatever it was that she was hallucinating. "Caroline, look at me."
"Yeah, listen to him," Carter said sarcastically. "You look over at him and let him comfort you. Let him make you feel better about murdering me. I'm sorry; I didn't realize that my death was all so that he could comfort you."
"Caroline." Klaus said a little more sternly.
Caroline's head whipped around to face Klaus as more tears began to stream down her face.
Klaus hated seeing Caroline like this. He wanted to bring the hunter back to life for long enough to torture and kill him for making her go through this.
"Everything's going to be okay," Klaus told her even though he himself was concerned for her and what would happen.
"He's lying, you know," Damon's voice told her in a helpful tone.
Caroline turned around to see Damon's signature smirk spread across his lips.
"Nothing's going to be alright," Damon told her. "And can I let you in on a little secret?" His voice turned into a loud whisper as he said, "You're going to die."
Caroline watched in horror as an even bigger smirk formed on Damon's lips.
"And honestly you should just be glad that you even got to live for this long," Damon commented. "I mean I should have killed you a long time ago. Back when I was stupid enough to ever think that you could be of any use to me. You know what? I was right when I said that you were stupid, shallow, and useless."
Caroline remembered the night that Damon had called her those things the first time. It had been back when she was human and he had wanted her to get a necklace back from Bonnie for him.
"Every day that I have to see your face I'm reminded of how stupid I was to not kill you when I had the chance," Damon continued. "Even now the only reason that I haven't is because of Elena."
Caroline tried to make herself stop paying attention, but couldn't.
"I think that even Elena's starting to get sick of you. How could she not be?" Damon taunted. "All that you are is a self-obsessed, annoying, neurotic little waste of space."
"He's right you know," Klaus told her in his most casual tone.
Caroline turned to look at him in shock and horror. Her eyes widened to the size of saucers as she tilted her head slightly in confusion.
"What?" She asked quietly.
"I said that he's right," Klaus said as if he was talking to someone who was hearing impaired. "I should get an award for having put up with you for so long. But I guess that will be the reward of your death. You, you've got to be my best torture yet."
Caroline's brow furrowed in confusion as she continued to stare.
"When I spent time with you on your birthday I saw how much of a pushy little thing you were and I decided right then that a simple werewolf bite wasn't a painful enough death for someone like you," Klaus told her with a sadistic smirk. "So I decided to convince you that I had feelings for you. I wanted to seduce you until you couldn't resist anymore. I needed you to have feelings for me and think that I would never do anything to hurt you so that the look on your face would be that much better when you found out how I really feel about you."
Caroline wriggled in an attempt to escape his grasp, but he grabbed her arm and kept her from getting away.
"And now I get to watch you lose your mind to the hunter's curse until you do the job yourself," Klaus told her happily. "Oh, and don't worry, Love. If you survive the curse, then I'll just rip your heart out myself… Literally."
Caroline violently ripped her arm out of his grip and then ran as fast as she could towards the stairs.
As Klaus quickly dashed after her, he cursed under his breath for not having been able to stop her before she ran off. He had seen that she clearly wasn't hearing the words that he was really saying, probably not seeing the same face either, and yet he hadn't made sure that he was holding onto her tightly enough in case she would try to get away from whatever it was that she had been seeing instead.
He got to the top of the stairs and found her sitting on the floor of his bedroom quietly sobbing.
"Caroline?" Klaus asked cautiously. "I don't know what you saw before or if you're seeing and hearing something else now too, but it's me… Can I come over there?"
"No," Caroline responded quickly. "Just wait a minute. My head hurts and I'm trying to figure out what's real."
Klaus instantly froze in place and decided that it was best to listen to her instead of scaring her off again.
A/N: Please read and review! Thanks for reading and I hope that you guys enjoyed the update! :D
Another great big extra special thanks goes out to all of the incredible reviewers of the last chapter who helped me to reach more than 100 reviews on this story so far: arielmermaid, vampirelovver, jessnicole, Rose Jean Black, cupcakesweetheart5, justine, Cathalinaheart, Athena, DrawingMyHeartOut, SittingOnTheEdgeOfTheUniverse, MyloveforKlaroline, LitLover 101, Heidiionaanita, and HotHybridSex :)
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vampirelovver: You're just going to have to wait and see how many more chapters it will be. ;) I have a somewhat guess that I'm not one hundred percent be the truth, so you're just going to have to wait.