Slowly Burning

Chapter 25

Caroline

Caroline clung to Klaus's body as she cried her heart out. Klaus couldn't be dead. She had to find a way to get help, but first she had to take care of Ansel.

"Why are you doing this?" Caroline cried.

She pulled back her hand and looked at the blood on her hands. Klaus's blood.

"I'm surprised you or Klaus haven't figured out why I'm doing this yet. Children are so stupid now a days."

"Then why don't you enlighten me."

"Very well. You should get off the floor before Klaus's blood soaks through your clothes."

Caroline scooted towards the locker praying to God that someone would find them soon.

"I'm going to tell you a little story of when I was a young boy. Around Klaus's age actually. I loved a woman. Her name was Esther and before you ask the extremely stupid question you're gong to ask. Yes Esther is Klaus's mother. Well at the time she was married to Mikael, but she was bored and needed some excitement in her life so she turned to me for that excitement."

"What do you mean?"

"I don't see what Klaus sees in you. You're kind of an idiot. It means that we slept together while she was married to Mikael, but you see a few weeks later she found out that she was pregnant with Klaus, but you see it wasn't Mikael's it was mine."

"You mean Klaus is-"

"My son yes. Now let me explain where your dear old dad comes in. I wanted Esther to run away with me and raise Klaus together, but she said that she wouldn't she told me that she loved Mikael and she would do everything in her power to keep my son away from me. That's when she told Mikael about her indiscretions and they hired your father to keep me away from my son. It proved to have worked and I was no longer aloud to see Klaus unless he sought me out. You see because of your father, I lost the joy of raising my own son. That's why when I found out he had a family. Two of them I decided to plot my revenge. First by killing your mother and brother and then y killing you, but you see you were harder to kill. That's why I had to kill your mother so I could get both you and your brother here to kill you both. The fact that your brother was with your mother that day was just a plus to me."

"Why didn't you just kill me the first day I got here? Why did you wait this long?"

"I like watching people suffer. Plus it humored me that you were falling for my son no matter how much you claim you hate gang members. How does it feel knowing that your dad is the reason that you can't live a full normal life? How does it feel knowing that your mother and brother died because of what your father died?"

A tear spilled down Caroline's cheek. She knew what she had to do now. She had to turn it off. She had to kill Ansel herself. It was the only way to bring justice to her mother and brother.

"I'm so sorry mom." She said.

That's when she got up and rammed into Ansel. He threw her into the locker and placed his hands on her neck chocking her. She gasped for the breath she couldn't find as her wandering hands searched for the gun. It had to be here somewhere. She spotted the gun on the floor lying in a puddle of Klaus's blood. She just had to find some way to get to it before getting killed herself.

"How does it feel to lose little girl?"

"You tell me." She gasped out striking her legs out in the one spot she knew hurt.

He dropped her to the floor and she gasped crawling over to where the gun was. She grabbed at it and lifted it up to Ansel.

"You're not going to shoot me little girl. You're not capable of it."

Caroline smiled as the lifeless form of her mother and brother flashed before her eyes. She knew exactly what she had to do.

"You don't know me at all."

Caroline shot the gun as Ansel collapsed to the ground with a bullet hole in his brain. Brain matter splattered all over the floor as she got up and dropped the gun. What had she just done?

"Someone help! Help Please!" she yelled grabbing onto Klaus once more and cradling him again.

It was over. It was finally over.