Chapter 28
An hour later they were all stood near the front door and Caroline and Rebekah were kissing Klaus and Stefan goodbye. Bonnie and Kol kept on glancing at each other and although she thought that no one could tell, Caroline made a mental note to ask her about it later. Klaus handed over his credit card to Caroline and she happily took it as she knew he wouldn't let her leave without it or Rebekah would end up taking it. The tree girls said their goodbyes and then got into the car at the front of the house. Just as they put the keys in the car Bonnie said "so how are you going to tell Liz?"
Rebekah also looked at Caroline who was in the driver's seat and Caroline said "I have no idea".
Rebekah giggled and said "she is going to flip for you not going straight away or even texting".
They were now driving away from the house when Caroline said "she won't".
Rebekah scoffed and said "Bonnie, is Liz stubborn?"
"Err I guess why?" Bonnie said.
"Because all of Caroline's family through the ages has been stubborn. See, Caro, she's as stubborn as the rest of your bloodline".
Caroline rolled her eyes and said "blame Thomas not me".
Rebekah rolled her eyes and Bonnie laughed "why do I get the feeling you blame your brother for a lot?"
Caroline opened and closed her mouth so Rebekah answered "she does. As a human if something went wrong they would both blame each other, its how they work".
"Ayana said something similar. She said the two of you were trouble, bantered a lot with each other but you loved each other".
"Yep" Rebekah nodded "that's sounds like them".
"Hey I wasn't trouble" Caroline said "all the trouble was due to him. Thanks Ayana" Bonnie and Rebekah laughed at the look on her face.
They soon arrived at Liz's house but were surprised as they were not the only ones. They parked just out of view but saw that Liz was stood in her front garden and was talking to Damon, Elena and Alaric. Liz said "for the millionth time, I am not compelled".
Alaric said "sheriff, Caroline is not your family. You've been compelled to think that".
Liz rolled her eyes "she is my family, so stop it with the compulsion accusation".
"How about you get off of her property" they all turned around to see that Caroline, Rebekah and Bonnie were stood there. Rebekah continued to speak "and stop patronising her or heads will start to role". Caroline and Bonnie looked at each other and smirked and Rebekah said "what?" before the three of them laughed a little.
Liz took a step forward and said "Caroline Forbes, where the hell was you last night?"
Caroline's smirk got wider and she said "hello Lizzie".
Liz's fake judgmental mother look dropped when she heard that name and that English accent. She smiled and said "Care-bear". Caroline smiled and nodded. Liz rushed over to her and they gathered each other into their arms.
Liz eventually pulled away and punched Caroline playfully in the arm. Caroline laughed and said "what was that for?"
"For not coming to me when you first got your memories".
Rebekah was smirking and she got a glare off Liz. She said "hey don't look at me, not only have we got Caro back but I have my husband back".
Liz smiled and said "congrats" she glanced at Damon then back to Rebekah "so that's why he's in a mood".
"He still hasn't accepted it".
"Wait, wait, wait, you know Stefan is her husband. Since when?" Caroline said.
"Since Nik dropped you off we constantly send letters to each other and I started to tell her about some of our stories. I told her about when we were human and some about when we were vampires".
"So I take it you all know each other" they all turned and looked at Damon who is the one who spoke.
"She is none of your concern" Rebekah said.
Bonnie rolled her eyes as she knew that this was just going to cause another argument. She looked as Liz and said "were having a bit of a girls day out and we were wondering would you like to join us".
She shook her head and said "I have work".
"Come on, Liz. From what I have been told you have as much reason to celebrate getting Caroline back as anyone else" Liz looked at Caroline and Rebekah and they both put on pouty faces.
"Okay fine" the three girls smiled.
They began to walk towards the car but then Damon grabbed Liz's wrist and said "I think you need to explain to the rest of us what is going on".
Liz glared at Damon but then Caroline grabbed Damon's wrist and squeezed so it let go of Liz's. She flipped Damon, so his arm was around his back and she pushed it up, so he hissed in pain. She sneered "you touch her again and I will rip out your heart and feed it to a bunch of rabid dogs" she kicked his leg so hard that a bone came out of his knee "consider that a warning" she then threw him on the floor and Alaric and Elena quickly rushed over to help him.
Caroline, Rebekah, Liz and Bonnie all got into the car and Bonnie said "you made a promise to Stefan".
"No Stefan's exact words were 'won't kill anyone in here'. He was referring to the boarding house, which we are not at".
Bonnie shook her head and Rebekah said "I wouldn't try; she learned how to work around words from Nik. That's why they are both hard at making deals as they can get out of them".
Liz said "was that really necessary?"
"He could have hurt you" Caroline said.
"You may have your memories back now but I still have to protect you and you nearly killing someone on my front lawn is going to draw attention".
Rebekah said "she won't be in danger much longer".
"What do you mean?"
Caroline and Rebekah smirked at one another and Caroline said "Nik became a hybrid, the curse is broken".
Liz smiled and said "the plan is coming into play".
Bonnie said "soon the hybrids will be made and you can take on Mikael" Bonnie saw that Rebekah stiffened when she said the name and Caroline's hands tightened on the steering wheel "I'm sorry for what he did to you, all of you. No one should ever have to experience that".
Caroline sighed and Rebekah said "we lived through it and we will again. This time round we will be free and happy and we won't have to run anymore" Rebekah sent Caroline a comforting smile as she was affected more by Mikael than what Rebekah was. They soon arrived at the Mystic Grill so they could get something to eat but were surprised when they saw the rest of the family there.
Caroline greeted Klaus with a kiss but then said "what are you doing here?"
He smirked and said "Kol has become partially depressed so we thought that we should get him a drink".
Caroline looked at Kol to see that Elijah and Stefan were tying to cheer him up but she caught the glance that he casted at Bonnie. Bonnie turned her head away and it looked like Kol had a painful look on his face. She could hear Bonnie's heartbeat increasing and she knew that something defiantly happened between them.
