Darkness within
She walks towards the gym at the local high school. A place she never got to experience first hand. A place where she was supposed to have the greatest days of her life, but was abruptly taken from her. She exhales lowly. No use of thinking about the past now. She wasn't that girl anymore. She was older, four years to be exact, and would've been a senior here now, if she hadn't been sent away. She knows her mother made the right choice. She needed to get to know herself. Her powers and how to control them. She knows she probably will regret coming here, but her mother had been desperate, trying to appeal to her once human-side and plead Elena's life. She really didn't care either way, but she still held a form of affection towards her mother and agreed to come and help the town she grew up in.
Her mother had briefed her on the situation and she wanted to roll her eyes. Why couldn't they just let Elena die and let the problems be gone? One simple life for a whole town? It didn't seem like such a bad deal to her. She knew of Elena - the doppelgänger, Bonnie - the witch, the Salvatore brothers – the vampires and mostly, she knew of the originals. She knew about everything, all the backstory and still she wanted to help her mother out. She had changed from the once sweet innocent girly Caroline she once was, to the young woman, growing into her powers and responsibilities. She knew what she was, what she could do but her advantage was that no one else in the pathetic little human school knew about her.
She heard voices shouting, screaming and crying before opening the doors. She fixed her lips into her well-known smirk and walked into the gym, gaining everyone's attention. She saw the look of shock and confusion flash across Elena and Bonnie's faces, while the Salvatore brother's looked at her resigned. She smirked wider, feeding on their ranging emotions, feeling her strength increase. She looked at the two blonde originals with a gleam in her eyes, telling them she wasn't a friend.
"Caroline?" Bonnie said with shock lacing her voice and Caroline showed off her pearly whites and nodded with a wicked gleam in her eyes before walking further into the room. She walked to Bonnie, biting her lips, trying to conceal her excitement of what she would do. She watched her once best friends stand in their places, not moving and she chuckled.
"Oh… Not going to say hello to me, Elena? Bonnie, what about you? You guys don't have anything to say?" She asked with amusement, before sensing the older Salvatore brother flashing to her, getting in her face and she smirked wickedly and inhaled. "Hello Damon."
He frowned at her and grabbed her by the neck, lifting her in the air. "Who are you?!" He hissed and she licked her lips, trying so hard to contain her laughter. She flicked her wrist, making him hit a wall, suspending him there, with him trying to get out of her invisible grasp. She rolled her neck, cracking it slightly and grinning at him and hummed.
"I will get to you later, Mr. Salvatore." She said and looked at the two young girls again. "Just you hang in there." She said and laughed.
She heard the hybrid clear his throat and she turned to him, smiling widely, biting her lip. "Oh, I'm sorry I forgot my manners. I'm Caroline Forbes, you must be the infamous Niklaus and you must be Rebekah." She said and looked at the blonde original who glared at her. "Great! Now that the introductions are over…" She trailed off and released her powers, pinning everyone to the walls, trying to get out of her grasp. She chuckled and spun around once, looking at all the people hanging from the walls. "I'm sorry to take such harsh measures in use, but I do need you all to stay calm and tell me about the situation we're suddenly finding ourselves in. I mean, I get a frantic phone-call from my dear mother, telling me that vampires are back in Mystic Falls, pleading with me to come save some human girl and here I find not one, but two originals. Must be my birthday."
She looked around the gym, trying to figure out whom to start with, finally settling on the hybrid. She walks to him and smiles sweetly. "Hello Niklaus." She says politely. "Would you like to tell me what's going on here?"
He growls at her, his eyes turning golden and his double-fangs fall and she winks at him. "I see you have broken your curse. I wonder what you're still doing here then?"
When no one says anything, she squeezes them all harder, turning her head to Bonnie and smiling. "Bonnie… Be a dear and tell me the reason for Niklaus residing in this town."
"He doesn't know how to make his hybrids." She says automatically and Caroline grins, letting Bonnie control her own mind.
"Thank you, little witch." She says and turns to Niklaus again, cocking her head to the side. "You wish to make more hybrids? Wish to make more beings like yourself, Niklaus?"
He snarls at her, but doesn't utter a word and she grins, squeezing his dear sister for the information. "Yes! He wants an army!" Rebekah speaks and the hybrid snaps to her, looking betrayed and Caroline tsk's.
"Don't blame your dear sister, Niklaus. She can't help it." She said and looked at the door to the gym, hearing another set of footsteps. "Now who could be here other than you? Another original perhaps?" She asks as the doors open and Tyler Lockwood walks in and stiffens at the sight of her. She sighs, disappointed. "Oh… Its just Tyler." She says and pins him above the door. "What a pity."
"What are you doing here, Caroline?" Elena finally speaks. Caroline's smirk widens at the fear in her voice and she laughs, throwing her head back, before locking eyes with her former best friend.
"I'm here to safe your life, Elena, if my mother would have any say in it. I haven't really decided on that part yet." She says offhandedly, turning to the younger Salvatore brother, walking to him with calloused steps. She reaches him and runs a finger over his cheek and hums. "You've got a delicious darkness in you, my friend. I haven't myself seen one of your kind before, but my temporary host have. Such a messy eater, aren't you, ripper?" She smirks and crinkles her nose as the Salvatore glares at her hatefully. "Oh, don't be angry now. Own what you are, you're so much more powerful when at your full potential."
"Caroline, please!" Elena shouts and she locks eyes with the youngest Salvatore, smirking at him and winking, before sauntering towards Elena. She reaches her and lets her down from the wall, but pinned to the floor.
"What is it, Elena? What do you wish from me?" She asks with a serious face. She cares not for the human doppelgänger. She knows her value, but still can't seem to care much about that.
"You said you where here to help. Please let us go. Klaus and Rebekah are evil." She pleads and Caroline runs her tongue over her lips, pretending to think it over, when Elena speaks again. "Save my life."
This makes her smirk wickedly and cocking her head to the side. "What about your friends lives, Elena? Don't you want them to live?"
She nods frantically. "Yes! Please, Care! Just let us go!"
Caroline nods, humming. "What's in it for me?"
Elena stiffens. "W-wh-what?" She stutters.
"What's in it for me to let you live? You only get to live if you make a deal, that's how I work." She says with a smile. "The way I see it though, I give you to Niklaus and the whole town is saved. So you better make the deal really sweet."
"Please Caroline! Help us!" Bonnie cries and she smirks, feeling and feeding on all the different emotions in the room, feeling herself getting more powerful.
"Is one person really so important to you, that you want to risk an entire town for a face that will show up again in five centuries?" Caroline asks. She knows humans and their thoughts, but can't seem to get a firm grasp on it. It's illogical in her mind. "Niklaus, what would you offer me for your precious doppelgänger?"
He looks at her with a glare, but seems to consider her words. "I have anything your little heart could desire. Money, art, jewellery."
She laughs at this. He thinks she wants mere wealth? "I don't want your material possessions, Niklaus. I want something much more valuable."
"What?" He asks with a smirk. "I have many valuable things, love."
She nods. "I'm sure you do. But I have no need for material things." She says with a smirk and looks around the room. "Maybe I should tell you a little about myself?" She asks the room, receiving silence. "In exchange for your deepest and darkest secrets and desires, of course. Fair is fair." She says in a chuckle and strokes her chin. "Now… Where to start off?" She says and looks around her, her eyes landing on Tyler. "You haven't said a word, little wolf. Why don't we start with you, hmm?"
Tyler widens his eyes and she feels the fear coming from him and revels in it, before forcing her powers into him. "I revel in my kills and only want more power." He says in a monotone voice and she smirks, letting his mind go.
"So power-hungry. It's not healthy, Tyler. Let me tell you a secret…" She says and smirks at him. "You will never be powerful. You will forever be the bitch of the pack." She turns around again, her eyes landing on Bonnie. "Bonnie, tell us what you keep hidden." She says and the witch shakes her head and she sighs, letting her powers take over.
"I loathe Elena for choosing to be with an abomination." Bonnie says and Caroline lets her mind go, the witch slumping down, not meeting the shocked eyes of Elena and Caroline giggles.
"Of course the little Bennett witch would think that. The spirits telling you the vampires are abominations. Should I tell you a secret too, Bonnie?" Caroline says, looking warmly at her. "Vampires were created by your ancestor. The Bennett witches are forever tied to the thing they hate the most. Ayana understood that nature must be balanced, and thus, vampires were born. Without vampires, nature would not be in balance, because of wolves, like Tyler. They balance each other out. The hate you feel isn't against your ancestors' creation. It's against yourself, for not being able to control them." Caroline says cheerily. "Isn't this fun? We're all learning so much tonight, aren't we?" She says and looks at Rebekah. "I think it's time you share, Rebekah."
"I told Mikael where Nik was, because he didn't approve my relationship with Marcel." The original girl said and looked down, not meeting the eyes of her angry brother and Caroline laughed. "Oh dear. That was good. But you must know, Rebekah, you will not find the love you seek by betraying the people you love. You are selfish, and that shows. People will use you for your stupidity. I would hold on with falling in love for a while… If I were you, of course." Caroline says with a smirk, before pointing at Stefan. "Ripper! Tell us something we don't know!"
"I enjoy killing. Enjoy ripping human's apart. I never regret killing, even when my humanity is on. My guilt is an emotion I force, so I can look myself in the eye." He says with a scowl on his face and she laughs at Elena's horrified look.
"Don't tell me you actually believed he would change for you, Elena? He's a vampire. A ripper. It's in his nature to rip people apart. To spread mayhem wherever he goes. Nothing will change that. Certainly not your little doe-eyes." Caroline says with a wide smirk.
"Niklaus…" She says and lets her powers work him over. "Tell me a secret." She says with a glint in her eyes.
He clenches his jaw tightly shut, before snarling. "I want ever lasting love and loyalty given freely to prove Mikael wrong."
Caroline hums and nods, becoming serious for once, knowing that the hybrid is more emotional than what other's think. "And I promise you will find what you seek. You will find your ever lasting love and loyalty when you least expect it, given to you freely by your one true love." She says and Damon snorts, but she ignores him. "You will show Mikael he was wrong to make you believe you weren't worthy of love. And it's with this girl; you will finally defeat and kill him. You will just have to be patient a little more, and your love will show herself."
Niklaus looked at her intensely. And she smiled sweetly at him. She could see herself, the human Caroline, in him and wanted to reassure him his desires would be fulfilled. She nodded to herself, remembering her little game and turned with a smirk to Elena. "Now… Little sweet Elena." She says and walks to her. "What secrets could you be hiding?"
Elena looks panicked for a second, trying to resist her powers and Caroline only smirks. No one will be able to withstand her powers and she sees Elena finally give in and look empty at her. "I'm in love with Damon. I can't settle for one guy, I want everyone at my feet, giving me their attention." She says and Stefan looks hurt, while Damon looks intensely at Elena. "I will sacrifice everyone of my friends and family for me to live. I hide my true self, by being sweet and loving, but I can relate more to Katherine than I let on."
Caroline chuckles at the shocked looks on everyone's faces, but the originals. "I think that's enough for now. You've got plenty of secrets, don't you Elena? Always the little attention-slut later turned slut for real." Caroline says with a wink and turns to Damon. "Damon! Take us home!" She exclaims and forces him to talk.
"I'm in love with Elena, but only because of her face. I want her because of her resemblance to Katherine and I will get her, even if I have to betray Stefan." He said and glared at her and she cocked her head with a smile.
"Really? That's your darkest secret and desire? Tell us something we don't know." Caroline says smugly.
"I was the one helping Rose and Trevor in finding Elena, hoping to save her and make her love me." He said through clenched teeth.
Caroline laughed as his brother and the two girls looked at him horrified. "Somehow, that does not surprise me, but well enough."
"Now I believe the deal was you would tell us about you, love." Niklaus said with a smirk and she turned to him and nodded, before walking to the middle of the gym.
She stood completely still, closing her eyes, willing her natural features forth. Her eyes going silver, her hair turning a pale purple as her fingers became covered in light purple veins, her claws coming forth and her loose dress appearing around her, instead of the human-clothes she was wearing. She opened her eyes with a wide smirk and heard gasps from her former friends, but silence from the two originals.
"This is my true form. My true face and body." She says and lets her powers work over the gym, making the walls crack, the floor blow up and the windows break violently. "I can create chaos wherever I go. I can destroy everything with my powers. I was the first. Giving birth to the night, the darkness. Do you know who I am?"
She looks around the room, her natural features still on display. She chuckles. "I'm Chaos. I have walked the earth since it's birth. Have created magnificent cities, countries even, only to tear them apart. I feed from your feelings. Something you can never hide or put away. I will always have a food source and will always be able to lay the earth in shambles."
"And what, Chaos," Niklaus says. "Is your prize for the doppelgänger and the recipe to making hybrids?"
She smirks at him, walking towards him slowly, letting him go from her power, so he can move around her. "I will tell you all you need to know about making your hybrids Niklaus. I will even kill the rest of this group for you, if you agree to my deal."
"Tell me the deal then, sweetheart." He says and walks around her, admiring her new form.
She turns to him, a wicked smile on her lips. "I want your darkest brother." She says, making him stiffen. "I want you to give him to me – forever. I want his monster on full display; I want to teach him his true nature. His true destiny."
Niklaus looks at her questioningly. "And what is my brother's true nature, love?"
"He is to be my consort. The one thing that will walk the earth with me for eternity. The one man that will own my heart and will be able to lay countries at his feet."
Niklaus hums, seemingly considering the deal. "And you will not kill him, nor any of the other Mikaelsons? You will give me what I desire for my brothers eternity?"
Caroline nods and smiles sweetly. "Of course. That is the deal, Niklaus. If you choose to take it, we will make a blood-oath, making the deal forever, unless you betray me."
He hums. "Let Rebekah down, love." He says and she complies, showing her willingness to show good faith. "I do believe we have a deal then, Chaos." He says and puts his hands forward and she mumbles the spell for their oath, putting in their specific details and cuts her palm, before cutting his and shaking his hand, letting the blood-oath set in. He looks at her with a smirk. "Now tell me how to make my hybrids."
She chuckles. "Firstly, I want my consort, Niklaus. I will show you how to make the hybrids when he is by my side."
"Kol is cur…" He begins but she cuts him off with a loud laughter.
"I want nothing to do with Kol. Kol is amusing, but he's not the one I seek. Not the one Eros has appointed to me. I require your big brother. Your, at times, moral compass. I will have Elijah." Caroline says and looks him in the eye. "He is the darkest of the originals. The one to fall the furthest, but rise the highest. The one to roam the earth with me and slay millions upon millions of people and ruin cities. His darkness will battle mine." She says with a wicked gleam in her eye. "Elijah is destined to be my consort."