Chapter Twenty-One

We arrived at the Mikaelson's mansion and it was dark. The only thing that lit the circular drive way the dim lighting. I was nervous. Could I go through with this? I spotted Klaus's SUV, along with Elijah, Kol and Rebekah and even Finn. Everyone was here.

"Show time." Mikel said smiling.

I climbed out of the car slowly with Mikel by my side. I wasn't going to lie I was afraid to die. A part of me didn't want to die. I wanted to live. Live as a vampire. Feed and kill. "NIKLAUS." Mikel yelled.

Here goes nothing. My heart was pounding in fear. But it was also pounding because I know the affect Klaus has on me when he is close by. Instantly I watched the front door swing open. Stepping outside was Klaus, Elijah, Rebekah, Kol and Finn. Not a smile on their faces. They were ready for battle and I was the person on the other side. I was the enemy.

Mikel gripped my arm as we stood several feet away from Klaus. Klaus was angry. I could see his face harden. I watched as tears filled Rebekah's eyes as she looked only at me. I was afraid how this was going to end. And worst of all I was confused why I was feeling like this. "Caroline." Rebekah trembled.

Klaus's face hardened as he glared at his father. Stared at him with such vengeance and hatred. Klaus dressed in his dark denim jeans and a gray long sleeve Henley with the two top buttons undone. He looked sexy. Why does his father want to kill him? What has he ever done to him? I just don't understand it. I knew once the stake hit the heart of a vampire it would burst into flames. Leaving nothing left on this earth to kill any original.

"Father" Klaus growled.

"Still up to your old tricks huh? When will you get it through your head?"

"You know nothing about me. You never tried to. You have always seen me as a monster so why hide what I am? In fact you're the one who created me."Klaus snapped.

Mikel grinned as he gripped my arm more tightly. "Yes, true I did but this time I have something that matters to you. Like the life of this girl." Mikel snarled.

I whipped my head back starring at Mikel. What was he doing? This isn't what he told me. Was he planning on killing me all along? Was this pain and hurt I was going through not worth it? Was everything he told me a lie?

"I don't know what you are talking about. I have no bloody heart." Klaus snapped.

He was staring directly at me. I watched as he was fighting back tears that threatened to spill down his cheeks. "Niklaus, this girl means nothing so then you won't care if I kill her?"

"Go ahead. See if I care." Klaus snapped.

Mikel grasped my arm tight slamming my back to his chest. Grabbing the stake from his jacket he placed it right where my heart was. But something has changed me the last couple days. Like I am feelings things I shouldn't feel. Remorse, fear and something else I can't explain. Little does Mikel know is the real white oak stake is in the waist band of my belt. He still had a stake at my chest. Something that could kill me.

"What the bloody hell is wrong with you? All we have ever wanted was to be a family. But you. You are the reason we had to continue to run. If anyone is a monster it's you. Not us and not Caroline. You are the reason she can't feel." Rebekah yelled.

I watched as Kol grasped Rebekah's arm. He was afraid she was going to attack. I glanced at Klaus. I could see hurt, pain and fear in his eyes. He was afraid that Mikel would really go through with it. He would really kill me. So was I. My heart began thumping at the sight of Klaus. He brought something out of me that I didn't know what it was. Something I didn't understand.

"So what now Niklaus? After this girl becomes gray and cold what then? You going to live forever? With no one by your side. Nobody cares about you anymore boy. Who do you have once this pathetic baby vampire is gone? No one." Mikel chuckled. "No one"

I glanced around seeing fear in everyone's eyes. They stared in fear. They knew the man Mikel is. A real monster. A monster who doesn't care about his children or others. What he said reminded me a lot of what my father said. How my father hated me. Standing motionless I zoned out. Remembering how my father tortured me because I was a vampire. How he hated me because of what I am. How he tried to condition me.

Tears streamed down my face as I remembered all the hurtful things that he did. The same thing that Klaus's father just said to him. Things that weren't true. Klaus wasn't alone. He had his siblings and he had me. He would always have me. Because I love him. "Caroline" Rebekah said staring at me confused.

Rebekah has always been my best friend. She knew me better than anyone. She knew something was happening to me. It was the breakthrough I needed. The breakthrough that would allow me to turn it back on. To feel again. Closing my eyes I took a deep breath. Click. When I opened my eyes I was overcome with feelings. Love, pain, regret, remorse and death.

"Change of plans." Mikel whispered.

Before I could react Mikel thrusted the stake into my chest missing my heart. I dropped to my feet as I gasped in pain. "CAROLINE" Klaus said with tears in my eyes. I watched as Mikel was slowly making his way toward his children. I couldn't let him kill the man I love. I grasped the stake from my chest gritting my teeth in pain. Slowly I took a step toward them. I watched as tears streamed down my face. I needed Mikel to think I didn't just turn my humanity. I bit my lip to force back the tears as I slowly approached Klaus. I was fighting back tears. "Caroline. Love please don't do this." Klaus whispered.

"She's under my power. She feels nothing. Like the monster she is."

That last comment made me angry. I knew what I was going to do. I wasn't going to kill my friends or the man that I love. I was going to kill the man who hated his own children and who hated me.

"So Mikel he has no one? And no one cares about him you say?"

"Yes, now kill him." Mikel said.

I glanced at Klaus and whispered one thing so only he could hear me. "I'm sorry." Klaus looked at me confused. I turned and faced Mikel. The monster who deserved to die. No Klaus. Mikel. "You're wrong." I snarled.

I lunged at Mikel as I pulled out the white oak stake. Lunging toward Mikel. "CAROLINE NO" Klaus yelled. Mikel blocked me fling me hard. I cried out in pain as my back and head slammed into the side of the house. I collapsed to the ground unable to move. "You bastard." Klaus snarled.

I watched as the original's faced off with their father. Rebekah saw me lying there in pain. "Caroline?" I groaned in pain as I struggled to get up. I gritted in teeth. "Rebekah help." I begged. I watched as relief swept over Rebekah. "Oh thank god. Please tell me you turned it back on." Rebekah asked rushing to my side.

"Yes"

"When?" Rebekah asked helping me up.

"When Mikel was saying things that my own father said to me."

I glanced around looking for Klaus. The pain hurt but I would die for Klaus. I love him. I spotted him fighting with Mikel. "You will die just like the whole species of vampires." Mikel snarled.

"Rebekah I love him." I trembled. "I feel everything."

Rebekah pulled me in her arms holding me. Tears were running down my face. Stefan was kidding the longer it is off the more pain and hurt I feel when I turn it back on. I didn't know how I would make it through this pain. I didn't remember much but what I did remember hurt. "Nik" Rebekah gasped.

I whipped around and spotted Mikel pinning Klaus to the ground. NO. My heart was racing. I was so afraid to lose him. I couldn't lose him. Not when I was back. Not when I realized what I feel for him. Not before I tell him. "Goodbye Niklaus." Mikel grinned.

I wasn't going to let him die. I flashed fast. "KLAUS NO" I yelled. I flung myself hard. Channel on my emotions and all the hurt and pain into one thing. Saving Klaus. I flung my body hard as I pushed Mikel off Klaus. Saving the man I love. Mikel glared at me. "Impossible. Silias compelled you."

"Nothing is impossible." I snarled. "You're the monster not them."

Mikel flung me off of him. This time I had the stake. "Caroline." Klaus said. But I didn't stop. I owed this to Klaus. I owed this to Rebekah, Sage, Bonnie, Finn, Kol, Elijah and even Katherine. I owed them this. They kept trying to bring me back and I couldn't break that thin barrier that was stopping me from turning it all back on. That barrier that would bring the old Caroline back. The one everyone loved.

"Oh, so willing to die?" Mikel chuckled.

I flashed to Mikel's side piercing his skin as he cried out in pain. Klaus stood motionless and shocked. No one moved. Afraid and not sure what to do. No one has seen me like this. I used all my strength and pinned Mikel beneath me. He struggled to get free but I had the upper hand. I clutched his throat tightly. "You have taken everything away from me. So I am going to take something away from you." I snapped. "And you're wrong he does have someone. Me." I whispered as I slammed the wooden stake into his heart.

I knelt next to him as I watched his body erupt into flames. All I heard were his screams. Mikel glanced at me and grinned and said one thing before his body turned grey. "Remember."

It was like the moment he said that word I remembered everything. Everything that I didn't remember because of Silias. I remembered the moment Silias compelled me to turn it off. I remembered all the people I slaughtered. I remembered how I nearly killed Bonnie. I remembered how Klaus tried to get me to remember but I didn't. I remembered how I threatened their lives. I remembered everything. I felt the pain of every person I killed. Tears streamed down my face.

I glanced up to see everyone starring at me as I knelt next to the now pile of ashes that once was Mikel. I have ruined everything. I ruined my friendship with Rebekah and Sage. And I ruined the relationship I had with Klaus. Elena, Damon, Tyler and Hayley won. They would get their wish. I stared at only one person. Klaus. Tears filled his beautiful blue eyes as they bored into mine. "Klaus I'm…I'm so sorry…I"

"STOP" Klaus yelled cutting me off. "It doesn't matter. Thank you for saving my family Caroline. But as of this moment I don't want to ever see you or hear from you." Klaus snapped.

"Klaus, please listen to me." I trembled.

"Listen to you? No I've heard enough. You were going to kill me. How long has your humanity been back on Caroline? How do I not know that it wasn't ever off? You were nothing but a simple vampire I wanted to ravish nothing more. Leave before I kill you." Klaus snapped.

I watched as his eyes flashed yellow. He was serious. I was a disease. They all turned on me and walked inside. Like I wasn't there. Like I didn't matter. I held my stomach as I cried. Cried because of the pain. This pain in my chest that I didn't know if I could live through. This pain I didn't want to live without. How was I going to survive? Klaus kept me alive. He kept me hanging on "I'm so sorry." I trembled.

I didn't want to live if this is what I would feel. Like a knife twisting in my heart over and over. Like I was going to vomit. Like my stomach was in a vise gripping me harder and harder. "Goodbye Klaus." I cried quietly. I didn't know if he could hear me. I hoped he could. Gently I gripped my daylight ring pulling it off as I dropped it on the ground. "Goodbye Mikaelson's, goodbye Bonnie, Goodbye Stefan. I will never forget you." I whispered. Slowly I rose to my feet as the pain worsened. Soon I would no longer exist. I would just be a pile of ash. Like a forgotten memory.