Silas dropped the gun on the table. "I think that you should start thinking about talking Caroline."
She dragged out a long breath while pulling out the latest bullet that was lodged in her leg. "I know about guns, you have one bullet left and I don't have much time to live so we should make this quick. Don't miss the heart the next time and we can all go on our way." she dropped the bullet on the floor.
Silas left the table waving her phone. "I'm surprised that the hybrid hasn't galloped his way back to Mystic Falls to rescue his queen."
Caroline's eyes flicked between sadness and acceptance that he wasn't coming this time, at least not on time.
Silas knelt before her and cupped her chin, the movement made her rest her head against the wall, her skin was cold and ghastly white by now and her breathing was happening with such difficulty that it hurt even him by just listening to the heavy draw ins. "You think that he isn't coming because he is busy with his family now, his new family..." Silas was careful not to smile as he read her doubts and fears, they weren't there for his glee, they were personal and just like the hybrid's mind Caroline was powerful and assertive although guarded. "I find you and Klaus fascinating like no other. You are so similar, you both believe that you are not good enough for each other... it's all almost bittersweet."
Caroline lost the strength in her eyes that were already dim from all that light so particular to her. "Stop reading my mind..." she whispered.
"There's only the two of us in here Caroline." he foreshadowed her doom by standing up and reaching for the gun.
She closed her eyes for a second, images of the ones she loved raced through her mind and she settled on Bonnie, they would be together now and rock the other side and the thought made her smile, she would see Bonnie again.
"Tell me all that you know about Klaus' little plan to mess with the other side Caroline or I will wait for your mother to get home and take my frustration out on her."
Caroline pressed her teeth together and faced him with nothing but hatred.
"And I win again." Tyler smugly smiled.
Matt threw the remote to the side and picked up his beer. "Only because you have all those sharp senses now." he grumbled.
"It's one of the few nice things I got from all this..." Tyler had his beer leaning forward with a heavy sigh.
"Hey man... you have that gloomy vibe back, do you need to talk?"
Tyler softly shook his head. "The company is enough Matt."
"I still don't feel comfortable staying here now that you are back..."
"I'm sure you miss your really dark and miserable tiny room."
Matt pointed the tip of his beer towards Tyler. "I don't but this isn't my house either."
"You can always move in with Rebekah, I'm sure she would like that."
Matt stood up annoyed. "Things with her are... unclear."
"Are you really using the Silas thing to break up with her? She's not on my list of favorite people but still..."
Matt looked back at Tyler, he rubbed the back of his neck looking guilty. "She's an amazing girl but the entire time that we were together I kept thinking of all the things that her family did to us and things only got worse when we got back here." he still smiled reminiscing on the good memories that he had from their summer together. "But she's really great."
"Amazing and great? It sounds a lot better than what I have." Tyler mumbled from the sofa.
"Yeah man... what's with that? Caroline is in town and you are here playing X-Box with me..." Matt raised his eyebrow followed by a funny expression.
"She spent the entire summer talking to the man who forced me to stay away from her... the one who killed my mother."
"I killed Rebekah's older brother."
Tyler looked at Matt with a stagger. "That's messed up dude."
Matt sighed. "Do you want to know what's really messed up? All of us, we went from stressing out over the big game on weekends to fighting vampires. We die and come back, we mourn family and friends every week... our biggest problem isn't finding a date for after the game anymore, it's surviving the date."
"How did we all end up like this? Because sometimes I almost forget that Vicki isn't alive anymore and that Jeremy isn't just a punk kid with black nails and high all the time." Tyler's smile was sad, heavy on everything that changed around them.
"I miss her..." Matt indulged in a sadness that was always locked away.
Tyler nodded at Matt. "I know the feeling."
"I'm going to the kitchen and I'm getting two beers and we are going to kill a few more zombies to get over the really depressing mood." Matt mused headed for the kitchen.
Tyler chuckled while setting up a new game, he frowned when the screen went all black. "Hey Donovan? I think that the TV just decided to ruin your plans, I think it's broken." he said now standing in front of it and touching a few buttons, he also tried the remote but nothing was working.
"We can always go down to The Grill." Matt came back with two ice-cold beers but froze as Tyler stood back from the TV seeing the same thing that he was.
Slowly letters began to appear on the black screen like someone was writing on it, when it stopped a familiar name appeared.
Caroline
Tyler looked at Matt slowly, this was definitely out of the ordinary.
New Orleans
Hayley didn't bother looking up from the magazine that she was only using to pass the time, she wasn't even reading it but she wasn't in the mood to look at Elijah either. "Long night, E?"
Elijah opened his suit and took the jacket leaving it on the smaller sofa, he looked at the girl brazenly sitting with her boots on in the big white sofa. "I've already asked you to address me by my full name Hayley."
She could feel him burning her with judging eyes and defiantly she crossed her feet making sure that her boot smeared the white fabric. "Stop being so stiff Elijah, it's annoying." she looked at him changing the pages on her magazine without any will.
"Well you would be an expert in that." Katherine came inside of the house with a smile.
Hayley looked at the other woman with a suspicious look. "What is this?" she asked as soon as another man came inside carrying a big bag.
"I've asked Katerina to move in with us." Elijah reached out his hand to Katherine.
She took it with a lazy smile. "How could I ever resist you?" she came near Elijah and kissed him.
Hayley pulled her tongue out repulsed by the long kiss. "So now I have to share a house with you?"
Katherine ran her finger along Elijah's chin. "Don't worry moon-moon, I doubt that Elijah and I will spend that much time away from the master bedroom."
"You will be sharing a room as well?" she tried not to sound surprised.
Katherine laughed softly as Elijah kissed her cheek before he went away to show the man where to leave her bag. "You weren't counting on warming that bed, were you?" she faced Hayley once they were alone.
"It's kind of obvious how you feel threatened by me." Hayley smirked. "But I'm just a simple girl who has no one and Elijah is such a perfect gentleman, always caring for those who need a hand."
Katherine made a small clicking sound as she slowly tapped the heel against the wooden floor, she pointed at Hayley's belly slowly. "Your mediocrity is showing, if I were you I'd keep those dirty claws away from my man. I might have lost my vampire edge but I've been a certified bitch for over 500 years and I can take you down without messing a single curl."
"This will be fun." Hayley smiled without showing fear and left the room.
Katherine almost wished that the other one knew how accurate her words were.
"I... don't... know..." Caroline whispered tired, everything was aching and burning with an invisible blaze that covered her body entirely.
"Why would he would do this? I thought that Kol wasn't that important to him."
Caroline raised her eyes to look at the man standing before her. "I said that I don't know..." her voice was barely audible now and she inhaled another really long breath that used the little air that she had left.
"You are stuck on repeat Caroline."
"Show me your real face." she asked him slowly.
Silas lowered his chin. "Do you want to see your mother? Or Bonnie? Or perhaps you would prefer to see Nik?"
She pulled the little strength left in her. "Your real face."
"This is my real face Caroline but if you tell me what you know, I will make you see who you wish to be there in your final hour."
She shook her head with effort. "Your true face Silas."
His hard unreadable features changed and softened enough for him to squat in front of her, he sweetly stroked the ivory features of the blonde. "I loved a woman once, there is nothing that I wouldn't have done for her..."
"When Klaus comes to cut your head off, tell him how much of a romantic you are, I'm sure you two will bond over that." she said with a smile before losing consciousness.
He pulled his hand away without a smile. "Now you are just hallucinating."
He straightened up taking his phone, it was time to call Liz to clean up this mess, letting Klaus know that he just killed Caroline wasn't exactly next on his plans, he was counting on the hybrid making an appearance but anger was as good as everything they so desperately tried to hide from him, he just needed time to prepare the next assault.
Before Liz took the call there was a knock on the door and he terminated the connection apprehensive, he smiled at Rebekah who greeted him with a wariness of her own.
"Stefan? Or..." she cuddled the little Maltese in her arms.
"It's Stefan, I heard that Silas harmed you and Caroline so I came to talk to her about it." he said closing the door enough to cut her view inside.
"I came to return Klausy. If she keeps leaving him with me, I will keep him." she introduced the white little thing that snarled at Silas and started barking angrily.
"He's not very friendly..."
"Usually he is... where's Caroline?" she asked trying to quiet the little raging dog.
"She's not available." Silas said with a warm smile.
"Klausy... stop it." Rebekah asked the dog but he was restless and she sighed bending over to release him into the house.
Just as she did so, Silas caught the fragment of her thoughts and looked ahead but it was too late as a spear ended on his chest.
Rebekah lost the friendly stance and pulled a stake from her sleeve burying it in his heart, he gripped her hand tight before she twisted the weapon but a second spear hit his shoulder and he fell backwards.
Matt ran with the crossbow in his hand while a blur went past him headed for the house as well.
Rebekah twisted Silas' neck incapacitating him momentarily just as Tyler stormed inside and rushed to Caroline, she looked dead to him and the image was hard to accept but his shaking hand pulled the smallest tiny whimper when he touched her face and he was taken over by hope.
The little dog was there too, licking her fingers and trying to wake any movement in her but her small consciousness didn't last.
Rebekah picked up the gun from the table and smelled it. "I think that it's wolf venom..." she looked at Matt who clasped his lips in that common way of his. "I'll call my brother Nik." she said wanting to erase the heavy worried line in his forehead but after a few rings she didn't have cheerful news. "He's not picking up."
"Maybe he is on his way already..." Matt stated what everyone was thinking.
"I wouldn't count on that..." Silas sat up taking the wooden pieces from his chest and dropping them to the floor with a nasty look. "He's not accepting any calls at the moment so it's a certainty that he's not coming and I'm not really Stefan, I'm essentially immortal as well."
"I call dibs on that status, if you don't mind." Rebekah shot him between the eyes.
"We need to do something, she doesn't have much time left." Tyler scooped Caroline up in his arms.
"Neither do we, if that is really Silas." Matt said uneasily.
Rebekah grabbed the little dog and left the house quickly. "We need to hurry."
Bonnie watched them all get into a car with tears, she couldn't stop Silas and she could only hope that they got to her friend on time.
"That was a slick trick..." Kol said next to her. "Writing the message on the screen about Caroline being held by Silas." He explained his little awed moment.
Bonnie erased all proof of her tears before stepping in front of him. "He almost killed my best friend."
"And my sister is so in love with the quarterback that she is doing everything to save Nik's sweetheart. It's all one big romantic novel."
"And I'm stuck in a horror movie."
"But you are such a hardcore fan of those." Kol turned his back on her.
Bonnie tamed her anger and went after him. "If you know anything that can help us kill Silas, you have to tell me."
"I love how demanding you are." he suddenly turned to face her. "Are you this commanding between the sheets as well?"
"I usually stab them when I'm done with men." she answered dryly.
He grinned winking at her. "It's almost full moon, I think that we should get together then, so don't go anywhere..." he amusingly whispered.
Bonnie honestly hated the guy, she couldn't stand his smirking personality but she wanted answers now so she strutted after him. "Why don't we skip the foreplay altogether?"
He laughed disappearing from her sight but Bonnie connected to his magic and appeared next to him on a cliff, when she tried to move backwards she slipped but Kol caught her hand and pulled her to him on time.
"Careful there darling." he said in a low voice as she clashed against his hard chest.
"Where are we?" she asked avoiding to look at his lips.
"You have one friend left in this town and he is lying on the bottom of that ravine."
Bonnie couldn't make a thing out of his words but she wasn't able to think straight now that he cupped her cheek. "Who is that?"
"Nik's other sweetheart." he smiled entertained with the flustered and extremely confused look on her face.
New Orleans
"What can I get you?" Sophie asked without turning to see who just came inside the bar.
"A shot of tequila, a little insight to your soul and maybe a kiss because damn... you are looking hot Sophie. I love the tat." Leah neared the counter lazily.
She lost the easiness and spun around faster than she intended. "What are you doing here?" she gasped looking at the familiar woman.
"I had the liberty of turning the little sign around. We are closed for now." Leah said waiting for her drink.
"You can't be here. I'm trying to stay hidden from Marcel's radar and nothing but trouble and darkness follows you Selene."
Leah smoldered her way out of the stool and into an empty table. "Why don't you use your powers to drag me away?" she laughed with a silly gesture of her hand. "Im sorry, I almost forgot that you have no powers left."
"Because you took them away." Sophie accused her.
"You misbehaved." she waved her finger at Sophie. "Bad things happen when children don't do as they are told."
The other woman recoiled in her place, she stayed behind the counter quickly looking at the door as Elijah stepped inside.
The Original bowed his head greeting her and then sat across Leah at the table. "Thank you for agreeing to meet me."
"I would never refuse the chance to be face to face with the infamous older brother."
"You are too kind with your words Selene."
She made a loud pleased sound. "Almost made me want to go back to using my given name there, Elijah."
"It's a lovely name but it wouldn't look as lovely on a tombstone."
"Did you all take lessons on being dark and mysterious and insanely hot when you're threatening someone?"
"By now Niklaus has narrowed down at least five different things that he can use against you."
She gave her shoulders a small move. "Typical villain modus operandi. He wouldn't be Klaus if he didn't search at least five generations back into my line."
"As soon as he gets what he wants from you, he will kill you and everyone you ever looked at."
"Tell me something that I don't know about Klaus, this slaughter routine is getting very boring to hear."
"I have a deal with Sophie..." Elijah rested his palm over the table.
Leah stopped him at once by bursting into laughter. "You have a deal with the witch who can't do anything but good comfort food?"
"Marcel killed her sister, she is motivated enough." Elijah assured her.
"For what exactly?" Leah looked back at the other brunette who came off nervous to her.
"To keep my brother under control and in exchange I deal with Marcel and give the city back to the witches."
"Umm... I love the suit and the hard cheekbones and all that but I'm not forfeiting one brother over the other one." Leah left the table at once.
"Sophie told me about Davina."
Leah slowly glanced over to Sophie. "I wonder how you will cook after I cut off your hands."
Sophie rested her hands over the counter. "I'm sorry Selene but I've picked sides and I like this side of the fence a lot more."
"Help me ensure that Niklaus' baby is safe during the upcoming war and after the dust settles I will free Davina from Marcel's hold."
Leah sat back down on the chair hating herself for even listening to what Elijah had to tell her.
"Have you come to return my phone? Your pesky guest took it with her when she was last here." Klaus left the books he had open on the table to look at his brother who showed him how upset he was.
"She told me about your field trip."
Elijah sounded controlled but Klaus knew better and looked down on the books ignoring him entirely, just that Elijah was that predictable and closed the book to demand attention.
"Niklaus, when will you see your wrong ways? There needs to be an end to all of this, you need to stop."
"A warning always comes across more powerful when it is delivered wrenched with blood." Klaus threw in an easy smile moving away from the table.
"You killed that poor girl's family. There is no excuse for what you did and disenchantment isn't even a strong word to cover what I feel when I look at you."
"Let me offer you a simpler word Elijah, disappointment. It's close to what I feel for the brother I wanted by my side. We are given the chance to start over, as a family and instead of taking my side you are choosing to harbour a girl who is nothing to us?"
"Should we simply turn blind to what she is carrying inside of her? Is that what you are expecting from the rest of us?"
"Don't insult me Elijah, bloodlines are just a genealogy exercise, what has kept me linked to all of you during the centuries runs much deeper than that. Or perhaps you are trying to tell me that you don't see me as a true brother because we don't share the same paternal blood? What about Rebekah who I have always seen as my little sister, are you now her only older brother?"
Elijah looked down from Klaus, the pain was the one thing that Elijah had never been able to stand seeing in Klaus. "Of course not. None of us have ever regarded you as anything but our own flesh and blood."
"Then don't stand there patronizing my choices, I did not give a second thought to that girl after I was done with her and what she claims to be mine will be nothing but a mistake and from my personal experience I can assure you that that child better not be mine or it will grow up wishing that it was never conceived."
Elijah sighed unable to face his brother, he could imagine the tears that Klaus so stoically fought his way against. "I still hoped that you would ensure that this child would never have to suffer half of the harm that was inflicted on you." Elijah's mind flew to the past and to everything he watched Klaus go through, always feeling powerless to stop it. "But if not even this is enough to wake humanity in your dead heart then I'm afraid you will end up alone brother."
"I have lived my entire life so."
Elijah met his eyes without a clue of what he was supposed to say now and their staring was done silently, never a harsh truth was this prevailing between them.
Klaus had always felt alone, trapped in his own world and tormented by his personal demons and none of them had ever been able to help him and with that came the horrible realization that his entire plan was in danger of becoming a clear statement of how much he had failed as a brother.
"I have lived a fantasy that maybe my sweet brother with a tremendous amount of love to share with the world was not lost to us the day that you were turned but I see now that you died that day and everything that you became after that will never change. You will never change... Klaus." Elijah faced away from him and headed to the door ready to leave.
Klaus wasn't about to call him back but Elijah halted because Rebekah surprisingly stormed inside of the house.
"Where is your phone? Why are you not taking any calls?" she asked Klaus on edge.
"Elijah's protégé decided to prove how mature she is and stole my phone. What was so vital that you came all the way to Louisiana to tell me?" Klaus asked without much interest and desperately trying to shake the previous heavy conversation.
Of course that he wasn't expecting the horrific image of Tyler walking inside of his house carrying a dying Caroline in his arms.
The fading white look on her features, the uneven and barely audible breathing took him back to the only time he had been truly scared of losing someone... of losing her.
Klaus ordered his legs to move and rushed to them. "What happened to her?"
"Her body is full with our venom so she needs your blood to heal." It wasn't the easiest thing to do and he looked at Klaus briefly displaying how unhappy he was with this but she mattered the most so he did the most painful thing to date, Tyler handed Caroline over to Klaus.
Klaus easily made sure that she was safe in his arms and carried her to his bedroom, this was as far as Tyler was able to go and he stayed behind with the others.
Klaus sat on his bed cradling her carefully against his chest and moved the long locks that covered her ivory face, he quickly bit into his wrist and then rested it against her lips, as he expected Caroline didn't react but he kept his bleeding wrist pressed against her lips to make sure that the blood dripped into her mouth and reached her system.
His worried eyes glanced over to the bullet holes in the green top and her Jeans, she had been shot several times and the fury that blazed its way through his veins was something that Klaus was familiar with, still all answers to search later, knowing who did this to her was second to the fact that she was reacting and that her hand was moving to rest over his.
Klaus smiled as she pushed her eyes open, he loved that there was a weak smile as she saw him. "Is this becoming another thing of ours?" he asked her in a low voice.
Her weak smile grew. "We don't have a thing Klaus, I told you that already."
"I'm a little short on champagne, I wasn't expecting you today in New Orleans."
She frowned not understanding how she got here.
"I deem that Rebekah used the Jet but such details are for later, you need more blood now." he chuckled when Caroline gave him a seriously look. "It's time for you to use those fangs that never taste blood sweetheart." he teased her with a mocking smirk.
She narrowed her eyes with a soft scowl and grabbed his wrist harshly sinking her teeth into it.
He protested with a loud sound. "Easy love, that's Original flesh that you are tearing apart ruthlessly."
Caroline didn't answer him, she was enjoying her free meal and she had her eyes closed while rejoicing in it.
Klaus couldn't take his eyes away from her, she looked absolutely majestic while feeding and he couldn't stop his hand as it brushed her cheek that was gaining color and some heat.
Caroline let go of his wrist and touched her lips crimson red from the blood, just like her eyes were and she tried moving her head a bit, like she was shielding away from him embarrassed that he saw her like this but Klaus' thumb gently moved her chin so that she would stay exactly as she was and he contemplated on all the beauty before him.
She wasn't even sure why she was still in her vampire form but the way his thumb caressed her skin and the way he looked mesmerized at her left her without a rational reaction.
Within the flick of a moment she caught the change in his eyes and they were now of a deep dark yellow that she unexpectedly couldn't stop staring at, neither could she stop her fingers that touched the wrinkled skin under his eyes and it all made her softly gasp.
He wasn't looking at her like the monster that she was, the face that she always concealed from others was before him and yet it was as if he wasn't even looking at that, he was looking at her very soul and Caroline was doing the same on her end, she was looking behind the hybrid who held with him the supremacy of ending or saving her life.
Caught in a moment inside of his bedroom, they were nothing but two lost souls reflecting each other in a moment where there was no shame for what they were.
Klaus found the small group waiting for news in the living room. "Caroline will be all right but she is resting for now." he informed them but focused on Tyler who stood by the fireplace.
"Can we talk in private?" Tyler asked him.
"But of course." Klaus took him to the house den, closing the double doors behind him once inside.
Tyler took a meaningless look around the luxurious room before resting his eyes on Klaus. "We almost lost her today."
Klaus was surprised with the usage of the we word but said nothing, he allowed Tyler to carry on without interruption.
"I love her Klaus, I doubt that I will ever love anyone the way I love her but I can't keep her safe. She is fearless and she loves her friends so much that she will throw herself at anything without thinking of the consequences. She will always place herself in dangerous situations that I can't protect her from..."
Klaus lessened his eyes with a squint.
"But you can."
"I've learned by now that nothing can really stop Caroline and I won't be the one preventing her from doing whatever she wishes." Klaus made that clear before he eased up on his features.
"I meant what I said to you once, you have no idea what love is but I'm willing to step back if that means that you will keep Caroline alive."
"What shall I tell Caroline?"
Tyler smiled. "That I will call her every other day and that I'll be right there for her when you gloriously screw up and she realizes that I was the better choice all along. Tell her that this isn't goodbye, just me coming to terms that right now I'm not strong enough to keep her safe but I am your first successful hybrid so keep an eye on me Klaus."
"I will quote every word to her." Klaus smiled easily.
"I'm sure that you will." Tyler left the den without looking back.
Tyler didn't stop until he reached the sidewalk but he caught Caroline's reflection in the window of his car and looked back.
She walked to him slowly, with a shawl wrapped around her shoulders and a sweet hint to a painful farewell. "Were you leaving again without saying goodbye?"
Tyler held the door with a sad smile. "There's this distance between us Caroline and all the times that I left only made it bigger. I could stay and try to mend all that happened while I was away but I want a fair fight, and I can't fight for you until you admit why you kept his drawings and why the girl who once celebrated his death is now his close friend."
Caroline was too tired to say anything and watched him leave in silence.
There was a little square just across Klaus' house and she sat on a bench there, watching the agitation around her, a street band was performing energetically and a few people were dancing and singing with them, Caroline pulled the shawl closer and looked to the side as Klaus sat next to her.
For the longest time they sat there without speaking, they looked at the commotion happening like they were immune to it, like that was happening in a different world that didn't include them.
"I'm exhausted Klaus." she finally broke the heavy silence between them.
Klaus remained motionless, knowing that she wasn't expecting a real conversation, she just needed to get a few things out of her chest.
"I'm exhausted of being tortured, I'm exhausted of fighting to keep some normality in all of our lives when no one else cares about it and thinks that I'm just a brainless twit. I'm exhausted of losing friends or having them turn against me. I'm just so tired of it all..." she confessed.
"You are 18 years old Caroline, I find it admirable that you will go to such extreme lengths to lead your life like nothing ever happened but you are a vampire and soon all the ones you know and grew up with will perish away and everything else will keep changing, fashion, music trends... all that changes and you can't do a thing about it love. You can only adjust and from what I've seen from you, I know that you are excellent adjusting to whatever life throws at you. Nonetheless, soon enough you will wake up and realize that things have lost meaning and that you didn't even notice the moment they became trivial. So perhaps, before all that once mattered the most becomes simply a mundane task in your life, you should truly start living it."
Caroline absorbed every word that he said just like she did the day he first saved her.
Klaus however broke eye contact and looked at the strangers dancing in front of them. "You should live your life without the burden of making everyone else happy because you are wasting precious time that you won't get back. Now is the time to be really reckless, bold and rebel and to do all the mistakes you can think of because you have eternity to make amends..." he smirked looking at her again. "Or not."
"Are you telling me to be all dark and evil?"
"I'm telling you to live Caroline. I did not save you and deliver that flawless speech about everything the world has to offer to have you waste it all in a small life."
Caroline smiled and stood up. "Nice try Klaus but I can't turn my back on my friends."
"What are you so afraid of Caroline?"
She lost the smile clutching the shawl instead of answering him.
Klaus stood up as well and kept her eyes hostage of his. "As a matter of fact you never told me Caroline..."
"Told you what?" she whispered unable to speak any louder.
"When I asked if you were capable of forgetting all the things I did, you answered that you would never know..."
Caroline held her breath as he came closer to her, she feared that he would stroke her face but he restrained from touching her at all and left her while sauntering a heartbreaking smile.
"I'm giving you a chance to answer that, I hope you will take it love." He said before leaving her side.
The range of emotion that crossed her tired features was a parallel to the thoughts occupying her mind.
Elijah watched Klaus walk away leaving the blonde in the square, battling a lot of feelings that even from where he was he could tell were overwhelming, he turned his attention to Rebekah as she joined him in the balcony.
"You really believe that fishy eyes is the key to bring our brother back?"
Elijah's expression showed just how much he doubted that now.
Rebekah beamed. "You chose fishy eyes over Caroline, the only person Nik honestly cares about outside this dysfunctional family. You are an ass Elijah." she turned around flipping her blonde hair with an attitude under a grave look from Elijah.
Caroline walked down the hallway searching for the administration office while trying to keep an ear on what Elena was saying on the other side of the call.
"Damon thinks that we are sharing a house with Silas instead of Stefan and he had a big jealous attack when I freaked out about it. But Stefan could be in danger and we should be out looking for him... you need to get back here Caroline. College can wait, I have a crisis on my hands."
Caroline smiled when she finally found the office. "I'm on my way back right now."
"Good... I need you here..."
"I'll call you the second I get there." she ended the call shaking a wall of soft curls and beaming at the old lady she found behind the counter. "Hi."
"Hi sweetheart, what can I do for you today?" The lady sweetly asked her.
Caroline handed her the papers she was holding. "I'd like to ask for a transfer from my former university to this one."
The lady went through the paperwork that Caroline handed her. "Everything seems to be in order, it might take a few weeks though to get the official clearance..."
Caroline touched the woman's hand and smiled compelling her. "Are you really sure about that?"
"You can start tomorrow." she easily said and handed her a pile of pamphlets. "Welcome to the University of New Orleans, commonly referred as UNO. Do you have family in the city sweetheart?"
"I have a friend." Caroline answered with a sweet genuine smile.
Soundtrack:
Bullet with butterfly wings – Smashing Pumpkins
Everything - Lifehouse
Roar – Katy Perry