So this ended up being a one-shot more than a drabble. It also was one of the awkward requests, that isn't so awkward after all...idk how that happened. Anyway...

Caroline, Klaus, and Tyler are thrown together, trapped until they confess their secrets.

Springtime was in the night air and Caroline bounced happily along the road, high on the excitement of the approaching prom. She was in a nothing-could-bring-her-down mindset, the prom committee had approved the last of her details for the dance and she just scored huge on a deal for decorations that were going to make everyone happy and help them stay within their budget. Never call Caroline good for nothing, she managed to single handedly plan prom, cure Klaus from the mighty Silas, and not manage to flip her humanity switch.

It was a blessed relief to be doing something again that was purely a human convention, it made the guilt disappear from the past couple weeks for a little bit. Lost in her thoughts Caroline failed to notice the sound of growling and snarling until her nose picked up two no, five familiar scents. Whipping her head around Caroline saw Elijah, Rebekah, and Bonnie trailing after a rolling ball of arms and legs snapping at each other.

It was dark outside, night fast approaching, and they were rushing away from town into the trees but Caroline identified the smells already-Klaus and Tyler. Rushing over to Bonnie she surveyed the other two originals watching the fight with calm indifference.

"What the hell is going on?" she turned to Bonnie.

Bonnie turned towards Caroline with a grim face and Caroline was worried for a second that Silas had possessed her friend again. Turning to the fight brewing in front of her she raced at them calling their names. "Tyler! Klaus!"

Elijah held her back, when a hand came dangerously close to slicing her throat. Caroline could smell the blood sweetening the air and her heartbeat pounded erratically at the sight. She could not tell who was winning and was worried that neither seemed to noticed that she was calling to them.

Bonnie placed a firm hand on Caroline's shoulder, "We need to do this."

Caroline glared at her best friend, "Do what?"

Caroline was trying to grasp the situation. Tyler was back in Mystic Falls and Klaus said that he was going to kill him and it looked very much like that was going to happen if she didn't step in soon. Now Bonnie was saying this need to happen?

"Are you crazy, he is going to kill him!" Caroline screeched.

She conveniently left out which "he" was whom. Elijah's lips quirked at Caroline's choice of words and finally let her go. Caroline jerked out of his arms, straightening her jacket before jabbing her nose in the air. She ignored the small huff from Rebekah.

Elijah calmly turned to Caroline, his emotionless face unnerving her. She would take Klaus' mask any day; she could read him better than herself. Elijah frowned before speaking, "Tyler has been gifted the cure by Katarina in a double cross of all us. If Tyler gives the cure to Klaus then everything is lost and Silas will rain down on everyone."

Caroline felt the ground drop out from beneath her, struggling to keep her balance. Tyler had the cure? Was he insane? There was no implication what would happen to the blood line if Klaus took the cure. Plus she had to make sure Silas took the cure, it would be the only way to unburden herself about the deaths she caused. She wouldn't let Silas roam free.

Another panic ticked at the back of her head, the memory of Klaus and the events of last week. The emotions that had been thrown around in that room as he lay crouched over in pain from a bit of the white oak stake in his back. Caroline pushed the flutter of emotion aside, focusing solely what was in front of her.

She turned between Bonnie and Elijah, "Let me talk to them! I can get them to calm down. Maybe we'll end this without anyone getting their heart ripped out."

Rebekah snorted, "Do that and the only heart getting ripped out will be yours. One of them will kill you before you even get close enough."

"No, I have better idea." Bonnie firmly stated, glaring at Rebekah.

Rebekah flipped her hair and returned to watching the fight. Caroline watched as Bonnie began chanting in her secretive ancient tone, her voice reverberating off the trees around them, the wind picking it up and wrapping them in the powerful words.

Caroline watched as a barrier of magical energy began to erect itself around the two fighting hybrids. Then with no other thought that someone else needed to be in there with them, she blurred to their sides, jumping in as the last spot of air was trapped in the bubble.

"Caroline, what have you done?" Rebekah yelled at her, her fangs out and eyes blood red.

The two men immediately stopped fighting, blood and torn flesh falling from both of them, Tyler significantly roughed up more than Klaus. Rebekah's ferocious call had snapped them both out of it, trying to find the source of distress.

It was then that Klaus turned around and caught sight of Caroline. They locked eyes, his softening just the slightest at sight of her but then hardening into black coal as he saw the ebbing and flowing of magic around them. Klaus growled under his breath and turned to face his siblings and Bonnie.

"What did you do?" he raged at them.

His anger was palpable and Caroline wanted to shrink away from the confrontation. She had seen him this livid before but that resulted in her getting stabbed in the stomach and the other time was just last week in trying to remove the stake and that resulted in a much different response. She wanted to smack herself for her impulsiveness to jump into the fray when she had no idea what exactly Bonnie had done.

Tyler was just as upset, "Let me out Bonnie! You've locked us in here with this bastard."

The immediate snarl from Klaus was only stopped when she gently touched the back of his hand. Tyler couldn't see the action but Klaus felt it. Snarling once more he dropped his other hand which had come dangerously close to Tyler's chest. Caroline let a sigh of relief and a breath she didn't know she had been holding.

Bonnie and Elijah just stared at Tyler unimpressed. Rebekah however was drinking up the situation, glinting at Tyler reveling in his discomfort.

Elijah turned to Klaus, "I'm sorry Niklaus but we need the location of the cure and this is the fastest way to do so. There is no telling how fast Silas will be in reconstructing those who have died."

The air around them tensed immediately. All of them knew the unspoken severity of Elijah's words. Caroline shuffled her feet, immediately feeling her stomach drop into sickening twists and turns in remembrance of her part in this Silas disaster. Sweat trickled down the back of her neck as the air felt thick and tight.

Bonnie saved everyone.

"It's a confession spell. No one can leave until the darkest secrets of their heart have been brought to light."

The silence returned but this time instead of pure horror paralyzing her, Caroline felt the red hot blush of embarrassment flash out over her cheeks before the color dropped from her face altogether. Confession? Like what Catholics did in all the TV shows and movies she watched?

She didn't want anyone to know the secrets of her heart, the ones she kept hidden behind an infinite number of doors with no doorknobs. There was a reason she hid them so well, everything would change if they got out.

Klaus was seething his whole body starting to shake in fury, Tyler not far behind. All at once the both of men burst into speech each yelling at Bonnie for pulling something so stupid.

"I will not listen to you witch. Rebekah, sweetheart, get a witch to remove this barrier."

Rebekah just laughed which furthered the lines of fury on her elder brother's face. "I quite enjoy this situation Nik. I'd rather like to watch how this plays out."

She settled against a nearby tree, crossing her arms and ankles with a smirk so wide Caroline knew exactly which brother she learned it from. Klaus turned to Elijah but his oldest brother stood there just as poised as ever in cold silence. Caroline could tell Klaus was itching to tear something apart, knowing he was trapped like a caged animal. She was starting to feel that way herself. The air in the bubble began to become stale and unusable.

Tyler pushed himself right up to the barrier in front of Elijah, his body snapping back as the cackle of magic burned his touch. "I don't plan on giving up the cure's location so just as well might get comfortable, because we aren't going anywhere." he sneered at Elijah.

"Tyler!" Caroline called out.

She really wasn't in the mood for a pissing match. He needed to realize what was at stake here. She understood that he wanted to kill Klaus but he needed to understand that Silas was worse, much worse. She shuddered at the memories.

Klaus beat her to the punch though, turning to Tyler getting right in his face.

"You had better give that cure's location or I will tear the heart from your chest," he hissed.

The flash of Tyler's hand towards Klaus' chest was all Caroline saw before the both of them were snarling at each other again, rolling on the earth, clawing and tearing at each other. The sickening pop of human bone alerted her that at least one of them was beginning to transform. Blurring over to the two, she grabbed whatever spot of material she could from each of other and flung them apart as hard as she could. They both flew through air, bouncing into opposite sides of the enclosed space. The contact with magic crackled across the air as they flew to the ground giving off the strange scent that was unique to magic.

"That is enough!" she yelled, hands out to her sides, her own fangs popping out and eyes reddening over. "Tyler, unless you want everyone to die give him the damn location. I know what Silas can do and trust me you want him to put in the ground more than killing Klaus."

She was doing her best to not sound like a whiny little girl. Tyler and Klaus were staring down the other, both approaching her Klaus only stopping when his chest bumped into Caroline's outstretched arm and hand. She felt a tremor of relief flood through her veins at once again feeling Klaus' chest beneath her fingers.

She almost started to subconsciously rub her thumb back and forth but Tyler bumped into her other hand. His feel was familiar but not the excitement she was used to. Caroline gulped at the realization, keeping her eyes glued to her feet. She was afraid if she looked up to either of their faces, her darkest secret would be revealed.

Tyler's voice broke the awkward tense silence. "It's with my pack in Kentucky, just outside of Louisville."

Rebekah was gone before anyone could say another word. Caroline dropped her hands and let her shoulders slouch forward with relief. Klaus stepped closer both to her and Tyler, enough that Caroline could feel the raw energy rolling of him. It messed with her mind.

Klaus tilted his hand, face schooled back into arrogance with his hands clasped behind his back, "See that wasn't so hard now was it, little Lockwood?"

Caroline wanted to smack herself in the forehand, it was moments like these she wanted to smack both of them and swear off men all together. But the Klaus' proximity and Tyler's made her stomach jumble in knots. So instead she stepped away from both of them, determined to not let them sway her.

She approached the barrier and looked at Bonnie, whose image was slightly distorted from the magic.

"Stop, Bonnie can you take the spell down now. Tyler gave the location."

Bonnie just shrugged her shoulders and then gave a small grimace. "I can't the barrier will come down once there is nothing left from the people inside to confess. "

Caroline's mouth dropped open in shock and she fought the childish urge to stick out her tongue. Elijah turned to Bonnie as well, it seemed even he wasn't expecting that answer. Caroline closed her eyes, willing herself to stay strong and turned back to Klaus and Tyler.

Klaus caught her eye and she felt him pour all the heat from their previous exchange into it. They both knew he didn't need to confess a word, he already had. Her fingers started to shake, to which Klaus noticed. She was so absorbed in their wordless conversation she didn't have the slightest idea what Tyler was thinking or if he saw.

With that thought, guilt consumed her and she hastily broke eye contact with Klaus and focused on Tyler. Tyler scrunched his eyebrows at her, opening his mouth to speak but Klaus cut him off.

"I must confess this for once is not for me. " Tyler looked at him in confusion. Caroline said nothing. Klaus continued, "I have nothing left to say."

Caroline bit her lip. The unspoken line being he already told her.

Klaus raised a brow. "Now Tyler, could you have lied to us?"

The lofty lilt of his voice made Caroline snort in frustration. She would never understand his need to parade his power around, especially over Tyler.

"I told you the truth," Tyler grit out between clenched teeth, his fists just as tight.

Klaus just pressed further, "Another plot to kill me perhaps? Is that what is stirring in that juvenile brain of yours?"

This time Caroline really did roll her eyes. "Klaus stop it."

Klaus spun round to her at the sound of her voice, approaching her with a hunter's gait. She hadn't expected that.

"Or is it our former Miss Mystic Falls? Does she have something swimming around there that needs to be out in the open?" he lightly teased.

Caroline fought the blush on her face, keeping eye contact with Klaus to force him to go away. They both knew the truth of his words but she could play with the best of them. But her body betrayed her. Caroline could feel wet heat building between her legs as Klaus stared at her. She just prayed Tyler couldn't smell it.

Thankfully she was saved by Bonnie. "Klaus I am this close to giving you aneurism," her friend snipped out.

Klaus broke contact with Caroline and she suddenly realized how close he had approached her as their eyes locked in combat of who was the strongest. This time she could not fight the blush but managed a scoff for good measure. Out of the corner of her eyes she could see Tyler increasingly tense up, tight as a coil.

Klaus sneered at Bonnie, "To what point and purpose witch, you yourself cannot fix this, clearly it belongs to these two."

"Yeah well, how we do know you aren't telling the whole truth. Who knows what goes on in that black heart of yours?" Caroline bit back, desperately trying to use harsh words to misdirect the attention from her.

Klaus turned back to her, with a snarl on his face and a frown in his eyes. Caroline felt a sting in her heart from the hurt eyes but pushed it away. She needed the attention elsewhere; some things should never be brought to light.

He strode right up to her, his whole presence filling everything around her, blocking Tyler from her view. She kept a defiant stare on her face, determined to wear a mask as excellent as did. Tilting his head towards her, she felt his breath brush across her face. Caroline closed her eyes briefly at the sensation, memories pushed to the forefront of her mind and her body superheating.

"You know very well, love." He whispered low enough for her ears only.

She did know. Guilt crept back at her and she suddenly wished that she never stopped walking home from the prom committee meeting. This was too much and he was getting too close to the truth.

"You stay away from her." Tyler roughly called out, pushing himself in front of Caroline.

Klaus chuckled at Tyler's actions. "You'll find much has changed since you left."

Tyler turned back to Caroline, "Care?"

Caroline wanted to stake herself, Tyler sounded like a lost puppy. Yep, she should have definitely just continued walking home. Shuffling her feet, and crossing her arms, she jutted her chin out in the air. She could do this.

"It's nothing."

Klaus glared at her.

Tyler caught the exchange. "What the hell is going on? What did you do to her?"

"Me? I did nothing that a gentleman wouldn't do." Klaus held his hand over his chest, the venom of his words reflecting the callousness of Caroline's.

"Gentleman my ass." Tyler spit out.

Caroline closed her eyes and rubbed her fingers against her forehead. This was going downhill fast. If she didn't do something soon, Klaus was going to tear out Tyler's heart- one more death to add on to her growing rap sheet.

Tyler grabbed her shoulders, cradling her in his arms. Caroline wanted lean into him because of the safety he had once provided but she found the feel of the arms weren't the right fight anymore. The thought scared her and her whole body stiffened up. Tyler tried to catch her eye, "Care, just tell me what this creep did. It can't be that bad. I'll just get Silas to kill him later."

A gust of air passing her was the only indication that Tyler had been swept aside, turning to see Klaus heaving with a maddening glint in his eye. Tyler was once again flung against the wall of the barrier.

"Stop it! This is stupid! He didn't do anything wrong. It was me. I kissed him, okay!"

Caroline clamped her hands over her mouth the minute the words escaped her traitorous tongue.

Almost in unison Tyler and Bonnie screamed out, "You did what?"

Caroline flicked her head to the outside, quite forgetting the presence of Bonnie and Elijah. Tyler was seething and Klaus was grinning with his classic smugness.

She cleared her throat, she just wanted to go home and bury herself in her pillows. Her face was so flushed now, she could feel the heat radiating off her skin.

"I-I kissed him. There happy now?"

The silence amongst the group grew thick and Caroline could feel all eyes on her. The only sounds were of the night life and the furious panting of Bonnie. It was like being under a microscope, or worse being the awful dream of being in class naked and told to present. It was unbearable.

It was a sharp barking laugh of Tyler that broke the silence. "I should have known this was going to happen. I leave and you suddenly jump in bed with the first set of eyes that flashes in your direction. How could you do this?"

This time Klaus really did reach Tyler, his hand digging into his chest to rip his heart out before the older hybrid was pulling his hand out, clutching his head pain. Tyler grinned wickedly at his maker's suffering, stepping back from the situation.

"Niklaus don't kill the pup. Bonnie, please stop hurting my brother or I will be forced to act." It was Elijah, it was the first time he had spoken since Caroline had foolishly stepped into the barrier.

Bonnie looked up to see the brutality in Elijah's eyes and knowing her friends were inside the barrier where they could not help, she immediately let go. Klaus grunted in pain, standing back up with great difficulty but managed all the same.

While Klaus may have listened to his older brother, Tyler was just getting started. He face was livid, "What did you sleep with him too?"

Caroline shook her head with an incredulous expression, "What no! Did you think it might not be me but you? Do you have anything to confess?"

She was misdirecting again. The question shut Tyler up instantly, his mouth snapping shut with a faint popping sound. Caroline saw a faint emotion flit past his eyes and gasped.

"Are you kidding me? All railing on me and you do have something!"

She knew the guilty look on his face anywhere.

Klaus was already in his face, eyes gleaming gold and fangs protruded. He was no longer in the mood for games. "The lady asked you a question, mate. I suggest you answer her."

Tyler shot a disgusted look between the two of them. "I'm not staying in Mystic Falls anymore because I don't want not because Klaus is chasing me."

There was a lot left unspoken but it didn't matter. The top of the barrier crumbled a little but Caroline paid no heed, pain breaking her heart. Yet she found that it wasn't as hurtful as she expected it to be.

It was then she noticed the fractured barrier but it still stood.

"Seriously, what else is there?" she was so over this. She had been embarrassed one too many times in the span of an hour and she added one more spell of ones she never wanted to be around when Bonnie performed them.

Tyler sneered at her before turning to Klaus, "Well since you two seem so cozy shouldn't you be professing your undying love to Caroline? Or promise never to hurt her again?"

Tyler was met with silence.

He scoffed, "That's what I thought. Give me a break, you aren't capable of love."

Klaus advanced but stopped after a warning from Elijah. Caroline was doing her best to look only at the ground. It really was too much now, every moment of the day curing Klaus of Silas replaying in perfect clarity.

Tyler caught Caroline's face noticed the pink and reds coloring her skin and let out a low whistle.

"Wow- you know what? I don't care anymore. It's not like you were going to stay with me anyway. It works out just fine; means I can go find a wolf and start a pack."

The barrier crumbled further. Before Caroline could call out at Tyler to come back, Tyler jumped out of the top where a small hole appeared and disappeared into the night.

Klaus eyed Caroline, his face just as hurt. She had said harsh words to him. It was like the night of the witches all over again. Without another word, he leaped out the hole as well. Instead of disappearing into the night he stood patiently on the other side of the barrier.

Caroline turned to jump out as well but the barrier sealed itself back up before she could get out. Her heart sank; of course it was her that stilled needed to spill her secrets. The one secret she had left, the one hidden behind so many doors, Caroline didn't know if it could be unburied.

Klaus cleared his throat calling her back out her thoughts. "How long are you going to place this game, Caroline? How long do you think you can stay in there?"

"I have nothing to confess." she defiantly snipped.

It was the worst lie of her life and they both knew it.

"So this is what you truly think. Do you really think I am that repulsive? The other day after you pulled that stake out of my back you didn't think so. Or was that just a game to ensure your survival?" he bit the caustic words.

Caroline groaned. She knew he was never going to let her live that down. It had been marvelous, for once letting herself slip out of reality and deluding herself into thinking that everything was perfect when she brushed her lips against his. The raw power of him overpowered her senses and it wasn't until she was pushed against the wall and her shirt shredded on the ground, her hands in his curls as he lavished her chest that she realized what she was doing.

No, he wasn't repulsive at all and that was the problem. She wanted him badly, more than she had wanted another person in her life and that scared her.

"No." she faintly breathed.

"I won't wait forever."

It was bitter and hurtful, but those were two emotions she could handle with ease.

She sniffed, defenses back up and a plan in mind. "Well you might as well, because I'm not saying it."

"You'll die from your stubbornness," he vehemently shot out.

A dazzling smile flashed across her face, "No I won't."

Caroline had come up with a plan. All she had to do was wait until everyone left, then she could speak the words and no one would hear. Bonnie and Elijah had already slipped away at some point during her conversation with Klaus.

Klaus was just as stubborn as she, "I'll wait here until you do."

The smug bastard had seen right through her. She shouldn't have smiled.

God, she was tired.

"I need you."

It came out so swift and sudden she wondered if she just imagined herself saying the words but the sudden disappearance of the barrier told her otherwise.

Klaus was grinning like a chesire cat. "That wasn't so hard now was it?"

Caroline rolled her eyes, relieved and horrified in the same moment. Those had been the same words Klaus had spoken to her when he lied diseased and broken at her feet. The more she tried to forget them, the stronger the words grew in her.

Until it was the only thought that consumed her, hence the need to resort to prom committee, the distraction helped her for hours. Now the words were out on the air never to be taken back again and Klaus knew it.

She moved to walk past him but he didn't let, grabbing her wrists, her brought them to his chest and captured her lips in one fluid motion. Caroline immediately held onto him- hand gripping his necklaces and the gripping the cotton of his shit. Her lips molded against his, shut her eyes and letting their bodies do the talking. As he cupped a hand to her cheek to bring her closer the other hand slid down her back coming to top of her behind, fingers splayed across the top smashing her into him.

When his tongue flicked at her mouth, Caroline gave him access matching his power with hers. Last time she wasn't prepared for his raw strength but now she was and she could match him as his lips made her whole body quiver in delight. This time as the heat gathered back in her she didn't blush but let it grow until the need for more of him was almost overpowering.

But Klaus broke from her lips at that point, running the back of his hand across her cheek. His labored breath mixed with her pants, her hands trembling from the sheer emotion of it all. Klaus smirked brightly, "See, that wasn't so hard; much better than dying from stubbornness."

Caroline frowned, pulling him back in for another kiss. Perhaps she would go back to being in denial tomorrow but she doubted now that Klaus would let her. They needed each other too much.