"We're here" she breathes.

Mystic Falls looks just like when she left, except that it's almost summer now. The wind is warmer and the sky brighter. They run past the school. Caroline remembers when she walked here with Stefan. Stefan, who might be dead.

"Where's the house?" Brad pants.

"Just over here."

They run faster. She can feel her blood pumping harder in her veins. Just on top of this hill. Just a bit further. And there it is. Big and old and home. She has to blink to fight of the tears. This is her home.

"The windows are shattered" Brad hisses.

She swallows and yes, she sees it too. Glass is scattered all over this ground. The house looks empty, deserted.

"Someone might be inside" she whispers.

"Let's find out."

She carefully steps through the open door. No furnisher is broken; just one chair in the corner, but someone has tried to mend it so it must have broken before the witches came. Nothing is out of order. Just the glass, all the glass has splintered. Caroline goes further.

"Caroline" Brad hisses.

She turns. He's still in the doorway.

"It's okay" she whispers. "I think it's empty."

"I can't get in. I'm not invited in."

"Oh, right."

She hesitates for a second, wondering what it means.

"Does that mean that Elena is alive?" she asks.

"Maybe" he replies.

He's annoyed, she can tell, but it's not her fault that he can't get in.

"I'll look around" she says.

"Hurry."

"I will."

...

She quickly goes through the rooms. Damon's, where the glass in shower is scattered all of the tiles. Stefan's, where frames to photographs are destroyed. And her own. Every room is empty. No blood, no disturbance, just empty. She has to stop and breathe. Something happened in this house. Caroline has been around Bonnie enough to know that witches can do almost anything. What did they do this time?

"Caroline!"

It's Brad, she hurries out. He looks impatient.

"Anything?"

"No" she answers. "It's empty."

"Back on square one then. Do you have any idea where the witches might have taken them?"

Caroline's mind is blank. She can't think.

"I don't know."

"Think!"

He shakes her; she's taken by surprise and falls to the ground. He sighs again. She probably looks pathetic to him.

"Maybe the tomb. They locked the vampires in the tomb before."

He nods.

"The tomb it is then, lead the way."

...

Caroline feels it as soon as they move nearer to the tomb. She freezes in the woods and pulls at Brad's arm. He stops too.

"What?" he hisses.

"Can't you feel it?" she whispers

"Feel what?"

She doesn't answer. It's stronger now. The power. She has felt it before. Whenever Bonnie does something magical, Caroline can feel the power, but now it's a hundred times stronger. It tingles in her fingers and gives her a head ache. Maybe Brad hasn't been around witches enough to recognize it.

"They're here" she whispers. "The witches."

He tries to look through the trees.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, I feel it. Don't you?"

He shakes his head. He looks at her like she's mad, but for some reason he doesn't move forward.

"How many?" he asks.

"Many" she whispers.

"We need backup" he whispers.

She nods. They back into the forest again and Caroline feels the power grow more distant, but she doesn't stop until she feels completely normal. All that power messed with her head.

"Who will you call?" she asks.

"Katherine" he replies.

"What?"

"She was the one who told me. She will help."

"Katherine turned me!"

Brad sighs.

"We don't have a choice."

And he dials.

Katherine and her crew are there within a few hours. Caroline still can't over the fact that she and Elena looks exactly alike. It hurts her heart. Elena. She has to be alive. She has to. Katherine brought twelve other vampires. They're all young and handsome and Caroline imagines that Katherine turned them all.

"Well hello Blondie" she says. "Long time, no see."

Caroline ignores her. She will never forgive Katherine. Never.

"Do we have a plan?" a bulky blonde vamp asks.

"No" Brad answers. "But we know that they're in the tomb. Caroline felt them."

His tone is mocking and the others turn to face her. She shrugs.

"I recognize the feeling."

"It seems little miss Mystic Falls might be helpful" Katherine smiles.

Elena. Elena. Elena. That smile is Elena's.

"And the brothers, are they alive?" a boy asks.

Caroline closes her eyes.

"We don't know" Brad says.

Caroline opens her eyes and exhales. She can see Katherine purse her lips, her eyes desperate. She still loves them, that's why she's here.

"Henry and Kyle, go and inspect. Don't kill, it will draw attention to us" she orders.

The blonde boy and his friend get up and nod. They're gone in a flash.

"Let's eat" Katherine exhales. "I'm exhausted."

...

They take in shifts to watch the tomb. Henry and Kyle spots at least 10 witch guarding the place. They couldn't move closer than a hundred feet before hitting an invisible wall. Nothing could break it. Brad and Hispanic looking boy kept watch after that and caught a flash of Bonnie. They recognized her from the picture of her that Caroline kept in her wallet from their junior prom.

"We're next" Katherine hisses in Caroline's ear.

She nods. Of course Katherine arranged for them to keep watch together. Of course. As if all of this wasn't hard enough.

"Do you feel it?" Katherine asks.

They're a hundred and fifty feet from the tomb.

"Yeah."

She feels it alright. Her whole body is tingling, her head is light and if she closes her eyes, she sees small balls of red light.

"They talk about you a lot" Katherine says.

"Me?"

"No, all of you. You, dear Stefan, darling Damon and that Elena. The unlucky girl that the evil Katherine turned, the beautiful Salvatore brothers and their human. The girl that both brothers love."

Caroline closes her eyes again. She can't even stand hearing about them. They might all be dead. Dead.

"And the Bennet witch. The three vampires, the doppelganger and the witch. It sounds like fairy tale, don't you think?"

Katherine smiles. Caroline looks away.

"Oh, Caroline. Don't be mad. I made you vampire, you should be grateful."

Caroline snorts.

"Thank you for making me a monster."

"Brad told me that you left, that you live in New York now."

Brad has a big mouth. Katherine doesn't need to know all this.

"Yes."

"Why? Did you fight?"

Caroline stands up. She can't stand this anymore.

"We have to quiet" she says.

Katherine pouts.

"Well, where's the fun in that?"

But she shuts up.

...

They sit in silence for almost three hours before something happens. Katherine hears it first and quickly shakes Caroline. Someone's talking. A woman and a man.

"She's still showing resistance."

"They must have found a way to compel her."

Caroline tries to stretch her neck. She can see an elderly woman and a young man. Maybe grandmother and grandson.

"If we kill them, will the compulsion disappear?" the son asks.

No. No. Please no.

"Maybe" the old woman replies.

"They will die eventually" the boy says.

"Yes, but death isn't enough. We have to teach them a lesson first."

"And the girl?"

"Her death will be a punishment to the boys."

The young boy nods. They part and the boy enters the tomb again.

"That was good news" Katherine says.

"How can that be good news?"

"Well, we know that they're alive."

"And that they will die."

"Well, we just have to save them. Won't we?"