Chapter Ten: A Letter in the Sky

Caroline was thirsty and she desperately craved blood, craved for anything really that would take this metal taste away from her mouth. Her eyes flickered opened as she realized that she was still in the hell hole that Klaus had trapped her with.

Desscation really was the worst, she though. Honestly the better alternative would be to die. She heard the door creak open with a horrible sound and she forced her eyes to be open. No doubt it was Klaus again with his "I love you Caroline" speech as if that would change anything.

However, this time, Caroline noticed that he had a guest present. She opened her eyes and held out a groan. It was Stefan of course, who Klaus considered his only friend even though Stefan hated his guts. They both had one thing in common though they cared about Caroline.

"Good morning, love." Klaus' cheery voice irritated her. "How are you feeling this morning?

"Better than you look," Caroline managed to sass back. "What's this, the second part of your intervention? It's rather cute really, I mean if it wasn't so pathetic." She saw Klaus twitch in irritation and Caroline smirked.

Stefan sighed, this really was going to be harder than any of them had anticipated. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a worn out letter. It had taken him weeks to find it, but finally found in bury under Liz's old things. Apparently she had planned to give it to Caroline, but she had died before she had been able to give it to her.

"This is from your mom," Stefan said as he handed her the letter and Caroline stared at him suspiciously. It did look like her mom's handwriting. "Well, go ahead and open it."

Caroline snatched the letter from Stefan and cautiously looked at it. It was her mother's handwriting. It even had her scent, it smelled like her vanilla perfume. Caroline felt her eyes welled up with tears. She would not get emotional, they were just trying to break her and Caroline would not allow herself that. She was stronger than that and she would prove it even it killed her.

She ripped the letter in hundreds of little pieces and Caroline thaw the pieces of the letter at their feet as she stared at them with narrowed eyes. "Is that the best you can do?"

Stefan and Klaus exchange looks. "No, we can do better."

Stefan folded his hands across his chest. "This is your last chance, Caroline. We're not fooling you. Turn on your emotions or there will be torture."

Caroline let out a small giggle. "You are going to torture me, Saint Stefan? Please you get sick just by looking at a rabbit."

Without a second thought, Stefan jabbed his hands inside Caroline's chest squeezing her heart. Caroline felt the sharp pain in her chest as she started coughing up blood. She looked up at Klaus with pity eyes which he fell for. He pushed Stefan to the wall, growling in his ear. "That's enough, you're hurting her."

"No, you're hurting her." Stefan said sounding disgusted as he pulled Klaus away. "Don't you see Klaus, she's playing you. You're her personal pawn, get out. You're the weak link in this. You can't bear to hurt her because you're in love with her. Get out and let me deal with her."

Klaus hesitated and he looked back from Caroline to Stefan. He took a step towards the exit and Caroline gulped as she looked at him. "Klaus, where are you going? You can't leave me, Klaus!"

"Klaus can't save you anymore, Caroline." Stefan said with a frown. "Now, you're going to deal with me."


Katherine felt like she was being followed, she didn't know why, but she just did, but it was creepy as hell and irritating, or maybe she was just being her usual paranoid self. She looked at the back of her shoulder and saw nothing. Maybe she really was paranoid or maybe it was just the feeling of nervousness because she was about to do black magic.

Anne had promised her, practically swear to her that she would be able to revive Claudette if she just got her some materials. A cobra snake. Some of her blood. Precious stones. The list went on, but Katherine had finally gotten all of the material and she was going to get her daughter back. At least that was what Anne had promised.

She went towards Anne's little house and placed the objects on the table. "You came," Anne said sounding surprised.

"I told you, I would," Katherine said. "Now start the spell and I warn you that I don't want any surprises."

Anne smiled. "All right," she reached for Katherine's palm and place Claudette's photograph and then she cut the head of the snake and place it in the middle. Katherine grimace as Anne cut her palm and blood dripped from it. Anne started chanting and Katherine felt a sharp pain in her head and blood started pouring out of the nose. She needed to do this, she chided herself, for her daughter.

"Katherine!" she felt someone pull her away and it took a moment for her to realized that it had been Elijah and Kol and none of them looked pleased. "What the hell were you doing?" Kol demanded. "Rebekah told us that you were up to something."

Katherine looked up dazedly across from her and frowned. "Anne, where is Anne?" Anne was gone.

"Who knows," Elijah snarled. "The question is Katherine what on earth possessed you to try dark magic? You know how dangerous it is, you could have gotten killed or worse- "

"Cursed," Katherine said softly as she looked at the bright red mark on her hand. "It seems I'm cursed."


Caroline hit her head against the back of the brick wall, who knew that Stefan could inflict so much pain. He made Klaus seem like a kindergarten teacher. Caroline's skin felt raw and her veins seemed to be screaming from so much pain. It would be easier to turn it back on, a little voice inside her said, then you wouldn't feel so much pain. But she couldn't turn it on, that was the point, because if she did, then Caroline would feel nothing, but pain and she wasn't ready for that.

The door opened and Caroline groaned. "Just go away."

"Is that how you greet your friend bringing in get well gifts?" a voice said. "Well, well Stefan really did a number on you. I didn't see it in him."

Caroline opened her eyes and saw the Mikaelson blond. "What the hell are you doing here?"

"Call it a peace offering." The blond said as she threw a blood bag in her direction which Caroline took. "Now drink up."

Caroline raised an eyebrow. "Why are you being so nice to me? You hate me remember."

Rebekah shrugged. "Well, you know what they say, hate and love is such a fine line. Now do you want to get out of this hell hole and have some actual fun or not?"

-End of Chapter Ten-

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