"We need to find Caroline." Klaus said on edge.
"Can't you just leave my girlfriend alone?" Tyler snapped as Klaus made his way to the car.

Klaus didn't bother answering him, he had to find her.
Tyler rushed and slammed the door as soon as Klaus opened it. "Stop chasing Caroline."

"As gallant as your pathetic jealousy might seem to you, she is in danger Tyler." Klaus said with a serious will to just end the hybrid in front of him.
"Danger of what?" he still wasn't convinced.

"You freed the hunter that was after me…"
"I'm not following…" Tyler said but Klaus was done explaining, he didn't have time for this so he got into his car and drove away fast.

"Why are you here daddy?" Caroline asked slowly.
Bill smiled warmly at her. "Let's go for a walk sweety."

"How can I see you? Am I dead?" She asked looking at her hand where that symbol had been just moments ago. She looked at the ground but the body was gone.
"No sweety… but you will be soon." Bill said and stroked her beautiful blonde hair.

Caroline felt the tears sting in her eyes. "Why?"
Bill reached for her hands and helped her get up, he pulled her into a tight hug. "Because you don't deserve to live Caroline."

Caroline held back her tears as much as she could.

"Ok… this a great time to stop…" she whispered but kissed him again, stroked his neck and moaned because his body pressed her against the door.
"I agree." he said kissing her bottom lip before moving his hand to her neck. He kissed her chin and moved to her ear.

Bonnie rested the back of her head against the front door of her house. "We… should like… stop and…"
She didn't finish her line because he was kissing her again and not so innocently.

The way his tongue swiftly tasted hers was really driving her insane and she was getting too aroused by his kisses. But she had to put it to an end because her ringing phone was urging her to answer.
She kissed him but took the phone out, she broke the series of kisses just to see who it was. The name made her frown, she didn't even know she had his number.

Bonnie stopped Kol's eager ways by placing her finger on his lips. He smiled and started nibbling on it, she pushed him away laughing.
"Yes?" she answered her cell with a smile.

Bonnie lost her smile at once, Klaus' words left her worried and serious and she slowly looked at kol.

"What have you done?" Tyler shouted at Hayley angry.
She smiled at him holding a bottle. "Awaken a new hunter. Connor was too narrow-minded, he hated all vampires and I needed someone who would focus and willing to do anything to kill just Klaus."

"I was with Klaus just now and he got all worked up because of Caroline."
Hayley narrowed her eyes. "Your plastic doll? Why?"

"You tell me, apparently he got all concerned over her when I mentioned that Connor was after him."
"Hummm..." Hayley said serious and then drank from the bottle.

"Hayley!" Tyler pressed.
"You didn't mention that it was returned."

"What was?" he threw his hands in the air upset.
"Klaus' infatuation with your girl."

Tyler shook his head. "You are not making any sense."
Hayley took a large sip from the bottle and then sighed deeply. "I set Connor after the one person that Klaus cared about. I figured he would go for Rebekah and when she killed him, she would have the hallucinations and I would have a decent new hunter."

Tyler looked down on the floor, he turned around facing the wall.
"A hunter knows things, we just… feel them. I can't explain it to you but we know exactly how to make our Original hurt. We can feel it in our bones who are on their side and who is a weakness to them. Our purpose as a hunter is to make them weak, bring them to the edge of madness and then finish them."

"So if Klaus was all worried about Caroline instead of his sister…" Tyler said with a clenched jaw.
"She is important to him… very important in fact but he isn't that indifferent to her Tyler like she has everyone believing."

Tyler quickly grabbed her bottle and smashed it furious against the wall.

Bill stroked her back gently. "Shuuu don't cry sweety… it won't hurt."
Caroline sniffled. "I don't want to die daddy…"

He pulled her away so he could cup her chin. "You are dead already Caroline, this is just the right way to end it."
"But… my friends, mom and Tyler… they need me."

Bill changed before her eyes and became Damon.
He gave her an annoyed smile. "You are useless, a waste of space and no one cares about you. When you die everyone will carry on as before, like you never existed. When will you get into that shallow head of yours that you are that invisible to everyone else?" He stroked her hair with a smile.

Caroline closed her eyes. "Stop it."
"Stop what?"

She opened her eyes and gasped covering her mouth, the only man she killed when she was first turned was before her eyes. His neck bleeding from the wound and dead lifeless eyes.
She backed away scared shaking her head and then flashed away.

Jeremy sat on the couch with a lot of eyes on him. "What's going on?"
"Do you feel different?" Elena asked him sweetly.

He gave her a frown. "Are you high on blood or something?"
She looked at Stefan who sat next to Jeremy. "Are you having weird dreams or nightmares?"

"No…" he said worried about the two vampires eyeing him with suspicion.
Elena slightly signaled Stefan and they went to another room, leaving Jeremy on the living room truly lost. "Maybe she was just playing us…" Elena said quietly.

"Either way, we are not risking it, Damon is making sure that no one gets their hands on the only weapon we have able to kill them."
Elena smiled and reached for Stefan's hand, she always loved how warm and reassuring he was.

Klaus knelt next to the dead man, he heard the car pull over next to him.
"Klaus." Bonnie rushed to him. "Where is Caroline?"

"I don't know… but if he came for her and she killed him…" he clasped his lips tight and then stood up. "I need you to go home and fetch something for me." he addressed his brother.
Kol pursed his lips. "About that Nik…"

He glared at Kol. "What did you do?"
His younger brother stepped in front of Bonnie protecting her. "We all have our reasons."

"Hand me that amulet now Kol." Klaus said threatening him with all his malice.
Bonnie gulped down and restrained from touching the necklace around her neck.

"Your girl is doomed anyway. If we have hunters popping up in every corner, I'm keeping my corner safe."
"I can easily kill the witch and put you out of your misery for another century or so." he smiled so darkly that Bonnie shivered.

Kol didn't budge an inch not even when Klaus motion to go after Bonnie. "If you wanted Caroline safe maybe you should have given her the amulet before I snatched it."
"I don't want it for Caroline." Klaus said between clenched teeth.

Kol gave him a side look. "Why do you want it then?"
"I'm going to need it because I'm about to go kill a hunter."

Bonnie reacted by stepping in front of Kol which left him upset but she easily ignored him. "Why would you do that?"
"It's the only way to stop the hallucinations that surely Caroline is already having."

"But then you will have them yourself…" she said perplexed.
"I'm an Original, I can handle them… she however won't make it past tonight." he said recognizing the chain around her neck.

She took a step back when he came at her but Kol easily stopped Klaus by cutting his way to her. "That amulet doesn't leave Bonnie's neck."
"Maybe her neck leaves her body and everything becomes so much easier." Klaus shot back with his chin low and his eyes up spitting anger.

"If you touch her I will find Caroline before you."
"Kol!" Bonnie snapped and stepped between them. "Both of you stop it."

They gave her the same look, a mix of surprise and annoyance.
She took a deep breath. "My best friend is out there alone and God knows how she's feeling and you are both fighting each other."

"Then give me that necklace." Klaus easily smiled.
She sighed. "So you can go and kill someone and be haunted instead?"

He didn't see her point and squinted at her.
She looked at Kol. "Are you going to let him do this?"

Kol shrugged.
She raised her hands in the air. "Elijah said that Shane tracked the hunters for centuries, there has to be another way to stop these hallucinations and I bet he knows it."

"Why do you figure there is a way to stop them?" Klaus asked giving her the inch of a chance she needed.
"This amulet? It wouldn't be possible without a real cure to these hallucinations; an amulet only traps magic that already exists."

Klaus nodded, this he could work with; he knew enough about magic to know this made a lot of sense. He turned away to his car and dialed Elijah's number on the way.
Bonnie smugly looked at Kol proud of the way she got them out of this situation.

"He might speak witch but I speak sheer violence. I'm going after Hayley." he started walking away.
"What? Why would you do that?" Bonnie asked stunned.

Kol sighed and looked at her. "I might loathe him and think he is an obnoxious moron driven by the need to control everything and everyone but he did save me in Romania and because he killed that hunter he was tormented for years."

Bonnie smiled. "That's so sweet…" she whispered enchanted.
"Lord help me." Kol mumbled and turned around.

She smiled even more; he was so cute and sweet under all that tough attire.
She wanted to cuddle him; well, right after some serious hot sex that was.

Caroline chewed on her lip watching the huge waterfall, she managed to answer her doubt finally, the original waterfall still existed. She watched the water fall harsh and felt that her tears would fall harshly as well soon.
"It's all right sweety… you don't have to be afraid, I'm here with you." Bill said in that sweet voice.

"Why do you hate me daddy?" She asked sniffling.
"Because you are not my baby girl anymore… my Carebear…"

She saw the sadness in his eyes. "I'm sorry daddy… I'm sorry that I'm such a disappointment… that I was turned into… this." she said with a hoarse voice. Her fingers touched her ring. "But I'll make it better…" she nodded and took it off dropping it down on the water.

"Caroline?" a soft voice called and she looked away from her father.

She saw Klaus standing there, in his hot long-sleeved shirt with a low V and his leather jacket and his stupid necklaces and his really stupid stubble that she wanted to hate but found herself wanting to touch with each growing day. "You shouldn't be here… it's not fair." she said and looked down from him.
Klaus came cautiously closer to her. "Why not sweetheart?"

"Because out of them all, you never made me feel like I was a worthless." she said looking at the water.
"You are not worthless Caroline or shallow or useless…" he repeated the words he knew by heart now, from the day she dreamed of Damon.

She smiled sad. "You are kinder than the other hallucinations."
"I'm real Caroline, I am not a fabrication of your mind." he said reaching out slowly to her.

She shook her head and gave a step closer to that dangerous edge. "It doesn't matter… my father… he tried to fix me but he couldn't... I can't be fixed Klaus."
Klaus stopped inches away from her. "You can't fix what is already perfect Caroline."

"Why do you always know what to say? Or what to do? Even when I was in that awful smelly dress... I was covered in dirt and you still looked at me like you are looking now..."
"I do find you beautiful Caroline but that's not all that fascinates me about you..."

She closed her eyes smiling and gave that step over the edge but Klaus scooped her fast in his arms. She laced her arms swiftly around his neck and rested her head in that little space that she had forbiddingly missed. "I knew you would catch me…" she whispered against his chest.
Klaus held her closer to him.

Tyler opened the door to his house upset, he was in no mood to talk or see anyone, especially Bonnie and the Original that smiled at him. "What do you want?" he asked folding his arms.
"The hunter that you are hiding in your house." Kol said and came inside. "Thanks for the public party the other day by the way." he smirked.

Tyler looked at Bonnie. "Hayley isn't here."
"It's Caroline, Tyler…" Bonnie was appalled.

He gritted his teeth. "What the hell happened in that time travel? Did she go around with him in the woods?"
Bonnie took a second to close her open mouth. "Are you even serious?"

"I don't know anymore… she goes off to moron age with you and comes back to run off to Europe with him again, if she's cheating on me and didn't even have the balls to tell me, I'm not lifting a finger to help her. Let Klaus the hero, do it."

"Well to be accurate… if you are going to offend my Viking glorious days at least be inventive about it and right after that vomit speech I'm cheering for my brother and the blonde." Kol said kicking a chair.
Tyler faced him. "Did you come to my house to kill me?"

"Believe me, it started off so much different but I'm having a hard time digesting how much of an ass you actually are."
Tyler snarled at him but Bonnie once again stepped in. "Where's your friend Hayley? The one that you did go around the woods with?"

Kol chuckled amused with his girl.
"I don't know." Tyler simply said.

But the sexy brunette showed up fearlessly. "I'm right here…" Everyone looked at her which made her smile. "So, who wants the nightmares? Who is going to kill me?" She teased them with a petulant smile.

Klaus placed Caroline gently on the bed, she curled into a ball and stayed like that in silence, her head was hurting and she moaned silently touching the side of it. Klaus pulled a cover over her fragile body and slightly touched her hair, he closed his hand though and ordered himself to keep his hands away from her.

He had to do something, he couldn't just stay here and not find a way to stop what was coming; he barely managed to endure it when he was tormented, she would feel it all and not have enough strength to fight it. He was by the door when a louder moan came and he closed his eyes unable to leave her, he just couldn't.
Klaus returned to her side. "Caroline?" he asked softly.

She let out a soft cry and he was worried, he turned her around gently but she whimpered with the movement.
"What's wrong Caroline?" he asked her concerned.

"The wolf bite… it hurts…" she barely touched her shoulder like she was in excruciating pain.
Klaus closed his eyes for a second; she was experiencing her worst pain. He moved her shirt a little and she whimpered again in pain but there was nothing there, it was all in her mind. He clenched his jaw; he couldn't even give her his blood because it was all in her mind.

She looked at him in pain. "Where am I?" She was confused, she couldn't remember how she got here.
"You are in my bedroom Caroline and you haven't been bitten… it's all in your mind sweetheart, it's the result of your hallucinations."

She closed her eyes. "But I can feel the poison burn, eat away my flesh."
"It's not real…" he crouched next to the bed and cupped her face.

She sniffled.
"You can do this Caroline, you are strong and you can fight this until we find a way to make it stop." he said determined.

She nodded again and smiled looking at him. "I can do this… I can…"
He gave her such a sweet smile that made her melt but then she coughed, there was something in her throat. Caroline coughed harder and felt sick, she felt her insides turn and felt even dizzy.

"Caroline?" Klaus asked worried.
She coughed again and then covered her mouth, she felt so sick and before she could help it she was throwing up blood on the floor. She whipped her mouth. "Oh my God… what's wrong with me?"

Klaus came out of the bathroom with a wet towel and she cleaned herself, embarrassed to look at him. "You are dying…" he said slowly.
She looked up at him now.

He tugged her hair behind her ear. "Your mind is ordering your body to shut down."
"Who was that man? A hunter?" she asked him enjoying the cold towel against her skin.

"Yes. When he died he infected you as I call it…"
"He came at me and then killed himself but my hand was on the knife and I saw a mark."

"You were marked… to endure the worst you have ever been through… over and over again." he said concerned.
"For how long did your hallucinations last?" she asked him weakly.

"Over 50 years I was tormented with my father and I relived every beating he ever inflicted on me over again but I pushed through, you can do it as well. You have to."

She felt the tears come and didn't stop them, she didn't want to go through this, she was tired already and everything was hurting and her head was throbbing and she couldn't get her father and Damon's words out of her mind.
She didn't realize she was sobbing and that Klaus moved to sit in the bed holding her close. She cried in his arms and she didn't feel so bad, she didn't feel alone and slowly calmed down.
Exhaustion took the best of her after a while and she finally fell asleep in his arms.

Shane looked for the switch in his new office at Mystic Falls High and grimaced at the small space, so much different from the one at college. A small price to pay for bigger goals, he was sure.
He dropped his bag on the dusty table and went through the drawers that thankfully were empty, no morbid signs of the old teacher that died not long ago.

A knock made him look at the door, he stood up when he saw Elijah step in. "I wasn't expecting you." he said uneasily.
"I'm here on official business therefore… no champagne." he said touching the dust. Elijah cleaned his hands at once and looked at Shane.

"What do you want Elijah?"
The Original smiled and closed the door behind him, the single motion of Elijah locking them inside the small office was enough to make Shane gulp down.

"He had sex with me… over and over again and I didn't remember it and he fed off me, during sex and after and I was nothing more than food and…" Caroline sat on the shower, letting the hot water hit her, she was mumbling the words over and over.

She washed her mouth again, she had killed someone tonight, a man. With a family and she just bit him, she was no better than Damon. She was a murderer now and she couldn't understand how all this happened.

What did she do?
Why was she being punished?

Hadn't Damon done enough to her with the compulsion and the abuse?
Now that she was a vampire she kept remembering everything and she felt worst by the second.

Elena should have let Damon kill her.

Caroline opened her eyes, she was having these dreams again. Reliving painful memories, she moved a little, she was alone in the bed.
Panic came over her at once.

"Klaus?" she asked afraid that he wouldn't be here, that he left her as well.
"I'm right here." he said dropping his phone on the table and stroking her sweaty cheek.

She tried to smile. "Will you stay with me?"
He smiled, his thumb gracing her delicate skin. "As long as you will allow me love."

She gave him a small tired chuckle. "I'm dying and you are still trying to woo me?"
"You are not dying Caroline Forbes. I did not save you on your birthday for you to go and die on me because of a silly hunter."

She turned her head on the smooth pillow and closed her eyes. "I really love your confidence Klaus."
He straightened her golden locks spread across the pillow and again pulled away his hand but she caught it this time. Klaus looked at her but she wasn't looking at him, she had a small smile though and entwined her fingers with his strong ones.

"I'm waiting…" Hayley smiled.
Tyler moved closer to her. "No one is hurting her, she saved my life and she's in my house and under my protection."

Kol pulled his eyebrows together. "Listen Alpha Junior, I don't care if you are one of my brother's pets. I will kill you, feed my blood to that one and snap her neck. Then I'll give her some sweet Petrova blood and watch her turn into another one of my brother's pets."

"Then you will have the mark." Hayley taunted him.
"That's it, I'm killing her." Bonnie said determined and took the wooden stake Kol made from the chair. "Hold her down for me."

Kol gave her a double look, since when was she this hot and well, Hot?
She moved her hand so he would go hold Hayley down.

Tyler scolded her. "Have you lost your mind?"
"No, I have a friend going through hell while that one taunts us sure that we won't hurt her."

"And I'm right. If you were going to kill me you would have already… instead you are both dancing a silly tune that I can't be bothered with." she flashed a victorious smile.
"Well… in all honesty…" Kol said checking an incoming message.

She faltered for a moment.
He smiled that cheeky bastard smile of his. "Darling… it turns out that I don't need you dead after all."

She became serious.
Kol took the stake and flashed to Tyler staking him in the chest granting him enough time to do what he needed. Hayley backed away but he was strong and grabbed her arm, he dragged her to the kitchen followed by Bonnie.

Kol used a knife to slice through her palm and poured her blood into a glass. "Healing blood… just like Nik, a hunter's blood heals the nasty little tricks they pull."
Bonnie smiled happy and relieved.

"Thank you darling…" he told Hayley when he figured he had enough.
He held the door for Bonnie. "After you, feisty one."

Hayley clutched her open hand and watched after them, she lingered on the hot man.
That's one Original she didn't want to see dead… it would be such a shame.

Caroline sighed and opened her eyes, she was tired but she wasn't in pain anymore.
"Care?" Bonnie asked.

She moved in the really comfortable and big bed and smiled. "Hey…"
Bonnie sighed loudly. "Thank God… are you feeling better?"

Caroline nodded and sat up, she rubbed her shoulder. "Nothing…"
"It worked… Elijah found out that a hunter's blood heals the mark."

Caroline smiled and looked at her hand, her eyes caught the exquisite blue ring on her finger, she touched it frowning.
"I haven't seen that one in a while." Kol said coming closer to the bed.

"I… lost mine." she said and looked up, her eyes searched for the owner of the bedroom but he wasn't around.
Bonnie looked at Kol wondering about the ring, he sat behind her and her body unconsciously searched his. He stroked her back like that was something they had been doing forever.

"That was Nik's day light ring, once he became a hybrid he had no use for it anymore."
Bonnie smiled but not because of the words but because she loved the way his lips curved and the light in his hazel eyes. They looked at each other a bit lost in unspeakable doings.

Caroline looked down on the ancient beautiful ring, powerful like him and she wished he was here now.

Damon locked his car and made way to The Grill, he could use a drink now before heading back to Elena and Stefan, Stefan and Elena. He huffed upset with the way nothing ever went as he planned. As highly proved when Klaus showed up with a smile in front of him.

"Did we have a date that I forgot?" he asked Klaus annoyed.
"Not really." Klaus shrugged.

Damon gave him a whatever look and moved inside, Klaus stopped him with his hand.
"Your hand is in my chest Klaus… I might take that as a threat."

Klaus laughed amused. "This will only take a minute Damon."
Damon looked at him apprehensively.

Klaus smiled darkly and swiftly took Damon's ring off, the vampire covered his face yelling as the morning sun strongly hit him. He pulled himself together enough to go at Klaus that waited with his hands casually behind his back.

Damon was no match to him that quickly laced his arm around Damon's throat suffocating him, he tightened his arm around him and then hissed in his burning ear. "I figured you could tell me all about how you used Caroline as you pleased and I could torture you as I bloody please in return mate." he said and pushed Damon away.

He threw the ring at him with a smile and then walked away.
Damon placed his ring and stayed there on the ground licking his wounds.

Soundtrack:

Give me one reason – Tracy Chapman