A/N: Now the story is finished, I'll be reading over and proof reading it as I go along so if it says i've updated it, that's the reason why.

Enjoy :)

And buckle your seats brotherpuckas this is a bumpy ride.

"Stefan, where are you guys? Hurry please!" Caroline shut the phone and began pacing inside the cave; Silas sat on a rock watching her. He looked menacing in light of the flaming torches.

"Why do you help them?" He asked. "They don't care about you."

Caroline sighed and looked at the immortal. He had Stefan's face. Ever since she found Stefan in a coffin at the bottom of the river and found out Silas was Stefan's dopple-ganger, they made it their mission to get rid of him for good. Bonnie had managed to contact Qetsiyah from the other side- Bonnie was dead- and they were currently brewing another cure. But only one was allowed to be made. Anymore and the spirits would be out of balance and yada yada yada. It had taken months and that was when they had been searching for ingredients night and day. Not to mention the human sacrifice that had to be made, this caused a lot of strife. In the end it was a prison inmate guilty of murder that became the sacrifice. Caroline had been given the duty to baby sit Silas while they final preparations were going on. Using help from a witch they managed to contain him in the middle of the expression triangle, aka underneath the school.

"Look, I know you can get inside my head and right now you're just rabbiting my own insecurities out loud. But could you try this new fangled thing called being quiet." They had a break from College so the timing for this was perfect. Though, honestly, she was a little pissed she couldn't have gone travelling like she planned.

"You're scared-"

"I know! I know that. God you're annoying." She cut him off. "I don't even know why Qetsiyah would want to spend eternity with you."

Silas looked at her darkly. Caroline's words had wounded the immortal. She was just outside his containment area so even if he wanted to hurt her, he couldn't.

"Got it." Damon came into the cave holding the cure precariously in his hand. As anticipated Silas ran to grab it but collapsed before he reached it. A wooden stake was poking out of his back. Without hesitation Damon crammed the cure down his throat and clamped his hands over Silas's mouth. Caroline helped; even with their combined strength it was difficult. With a last ditch attempt to thwart them Silas began changing his form, first he became Damon, then Alaric. When that didn't work he became Elena. Damon's grip loosened a little.

"It's not her!" Caroline screamed, and Damon used his full might to keep Silas's mouth closed until they were sure the cure had dissolved into his bloodstream. Finally, he stopped moving, his eyes wide in shock. Caroline and Damon let go.

"What have you done...?" Whispered Silas. Colour rushed to his face and he began sweating. He was human. Stefan, Jeremy and Elena ran into the cave quickly, panting. April was behind them, holding a Grimoir. Not just any, Bonnie's one. Caroline had seen it enough times to know what it looked like. Silas was in too much shock to move, or even grasp what was happening. So was Caroline.

"What's going on?" She asked.

"New plan." Stefan murmured, much too quietly for human ears. They were standing in front of April acting as a barrier. She opened the Grimoir and began chanting.

"She's a witch." Stefan muttered to Caroline. "Not just any witch. From Qetsiyah's bloodline."

Caroline's eyes widened as the flaming torches around the room began to flash. "April's a... A Bennett witch. How-what? That doesn't make any sense!"

"Bonnie's great grandmother had an illegitimate daughter. The birth was concealed."

Caroline took her time to wrap her head around what he just said. April was related to Bonnie? That seemed ridiculous. Also because they looked absolutely nothing like each other. Though she remembered Bonnie talking about her great grandmother getting shunned for having relations with a white man. But this was ridiculous. April couldn't be... Could she? She made a mental note to ask how they knew, later.

"What is she doing?"

Stefan gave Caroline a glance heavy with worry.

"No," Caroline breathed, realising what was going on. "She's lowering the veil?"

He nodded. "We kill Silas and he passes on to the other side. To his one true love. Not Qetsiyah."

"Stefan! Why? Who cares where he goes as long as he's gone! Don't you remember what he did to you?" She looked at him, wide eyed. There were so many things that could go wrong with this plan. Qetsiyah was sure to become vengeful if she knew what they were doing.

"That's exactly why. Caroline, being in that box made me realise exactly what it's like to be on the other side of the veil. Silas did everything he did for love. I get that. He made a mistake when he became immortal." Stefan huffed and rubbed his forehead. "Look, I know you may not get what I mean, but trust me. This is the right thing to do."

She sighed, it wasn't the cleverest plan. But she understood why he had to do it. If Silas had a chance to be with his 'Elena' then Stefan would help him. He would never wish the pain of losing someone's true love on anyone else. "Alright." She agreed. Knowing he had Caroline's support relaxed him immensely. He hadn't been worried about telling Damon, or Elena. It was Caroline he was worried about telling. If she didn't agree then the plan would be sure to fail.

They went back to watching April Young chant. It felt wrong to see anyone else but Bonnie cast a spell. Silas was human; he was too absorbed in himself to hear anything. And then it happened.

The flames went out and everyone was plunged in to darkness. Seconds later the cavern was illuminated. Bonnie stood there in front of them.

Silas stood immediately, understanding what they had done.

"Thank you," he whispered. Stefan nodded without enthusiasm and snapped his neck. Silas's dead body dropped to the ground. It was done. He had passed on.

Elena and Caroline both exchanged unsure glances. Bonnie had Jeremy lie to them for months about her death. It was Stefan who had told them she was dead. Both girls were unsure of their feelings towards their friend. Yet both girls proceeded to hug her at the same time. The cave was filled with their cries of sorrow and joy.

"I'm sorry." Bonnie sobbed. "I couldn't say goodbye. It was too hard."

"It's okay Bon," Elena wiped her tears.

"No! Itsisnotokay!" Caroline sobbed; her words were muffled together as she spoke from deep beneath their hugging circle. "We've been friends forever. When you die at least have the decency to let us know!"

Bonnie laughed a little and hugged them both tighter. "I've missed you guys so much."

"Were you with us?" Elena asked, her face glistening with tears.

"Sometimes. Other times I stayed with Jeremy."

Caroline realised that Bonnie must have found out about April by contacting witches on the other side and tracing her family line.

They spent 15 minutes more, just the three of them talking as if they had all the time in the world. But reality soon caught up with them. Damon cleared his throat.

"As much as I genuinely hate to break up you're meeting, we have to put the veil back up. Soon."

Bonnie nodded. She said her goodbyes to the girls, then to Stefan and Damon. Her eyes wandered over to April. She looked so pale and scared.

Bonnie went over to her and hugged her in a comforting way. "I want to say goodbye to my father." Bonnie said.

Nobody objected.

"I'll drive you." Caroline said. "You can say goodbye, then we'll phone when you're done and April can put the veil up."

Elena came with Caroline and Bonnie as they drove to her house. Her father opened the door with a delighted look on his face.

"Sweetie," he hugged her. The next half hour was emotional torture for all of them. Watching her tell her father that she was dead and watching her say her final words to him was heartbreaking. He cried at first, he mourned her as she sat there. Then he denied it. He denied that she was dead. Finally he just held her close and Elena made the fateful call for the veil to go back up. She gave the phone to Bonnie when she asked for the phone. Bonnie didn't want any of her friends to feel like executioners.

"You can do it." Bonnie encouraged April on the other end of the phone. She stayed on the line with April as she chanted, still hugging her father.

"Guys," she addressed Elena and Caroline. "I love you both. And I don't want you to watch me die."

Begrudgingly they obliged, hugging her for the last time as they left the house.

"I'm gonna go check on my mom." Caroline said, her voice was barely above a whisper. "I'll walk. You take the car." She gave Elena the keys.

"You sure?"

She nodded. "I need the air." Both girls hugged and parted ways.

The walk to her home was much shorter than she expected. Caroline had hurried a little in case she met the witches on her way, but there was no one. Maybe the veil had gone back up already. A shiver went through her. It had gone up so quietly, for all she knew 12 witches were walking by her side whispering death threats in her ear.

The lights in the house were all on, her mom was home. She jogged up the porch steps and opened the door.

"Caroline?" Her mother's distressed voice called.

"Mom?" She answered, shutting the door behind her. Her mother met her in the hallway, walking slowly to her daughter. She looked completely normal, no sign of anything wrong. She had just come back from work, her Sheriff's uniform clung to her.

"What happened?" Caroline asked.

Liz Forbes looked her daughter in the eye and hugged her tightly. "They were here." She whispered into Caroline's blonde hair. "They told me what you did but I couldn't believe it. It couldn't have happened. Not you, not my little girl."

"What mom? Who came?" Caroline pulled back.

"The witches."

Automatically she turned around to see if they were behind her, but there was no one.

"Caroline," he mother whispered in a sob. She looked back at her mother. But she wasn't there anymore. No one was.

"Mom?" She called to the house. No one replied. Caroline walked into the living room, hesitantly.

She paused at the sight in front of her. "Mommy..."

Her mother's grey body lay facing the ceiling on the carpet. Caroline collapsed by her side. She could hear no heartbeat. Ripping open her arm, she attempted to feed her mom her blood. "Mom y-you ha-ave to d-drink. Okay?" The blood just trickled down her chin. Caroline's eyes were full on falling tears and her voice came out in broken gulps. She searched Liz's uniform for a needle, maybe she could save her like before. But in her heart, she knew. She knew it would have no effect, even as she plunged her blood into her mother's heart.

"Mommy please," she begged, looking into Carol Forbes hollow eyes. "D-don't le-eave me, mom. I still need you." Caroline curled up into a ball and lay down next to her mother's dead body.

Chapter 2

Stefan dialled Caroline's number once more. It was the fifth time he had called her within an hour. The Veil had gone up almost two hours ago and he hadn't heard from her since.

"I'm going over there." He shook his head and put the phone away when it reached voicemail. His words were aimed at no one in particular. It was six thirty am in the morning. Elena had gone to bed with Damon, as had everyone else. He assumed Caroline had and that was why she wasn't replying. But she was a vampire and normally she replied within seconds no matter what time of day. The thought that she may have just been sleeping was what had stopped him from going over there after the first unanswered text.

"Stefan," Elena sighed from upstairs, "I know Caroline. When she's really tired she switches her phone off. She's fine."

Stefan shrugged. "You're probably right."

She would have been fine in the first hour if someone found her. By that time all she was thinking about was her mother and how life would be without her.

"Mommy promise you won't leave me!" Caroline shouted. The little girl gripped her mother's hand tightly. Liz Forbes looked down at her daughter and kneeled in front of her, tucking her blonde curls behind her ears, she smiled. "I have to leave you sweetie." It was Caroline's first day of Kindergarten and she didn't want to be without her mother. Caroline's bottom lip quivered. But her mother soon soothed her. "I promise I'll come back at the end of the day."

At that, the little girl frowned apprehensively. "Promise?"

"I'll always come back to you sweetie." Liz smiled.

"Come back to me Mommy. Please." Caroline lay still next to her mother. If someone had found her at that moment, she could have been saved. But no one came.

"Mommy sing to me." Caroline was in her bed, chicken pox covering her face and a teddy bear tuck under her arm. Liz was sitting with her. Caroline rested her head on her mother's shoulder. Bill Forbes entered the room.

"How about a duet?" He chuckled, sitting on the other side of Caroline.

"You are my sunshine," he began.

"My only sunshine," whispered Caroline to her mother's dead body.

"You make me happy, when skies are grey." sang her mother.

"You are my sunshine," Bill sang.

"My only sunshine," Liz continued.

"Please don't take my sunshine away." Caroline sobbed. Her mother wasn't singing back. And her father wasn't singing anymore. She was alone now. An Orphan. The worst part was that she didn't get to do anything that she promised to do with her mother. They didn't ever leave this godforsaken town, and she never found her a man. Now she never could, because her mother wasn't coming back to her. Nor was her father. The look on her mother's face was one which she would never forget. She died knowing the monster Caroline really was. She didn't have any wounds on her, there was no blood because she didn't die of an injury. Her mother died of a broken heart. She died knowing her real daughter was dead and Vampire Caroline was a murderer. Caroline's last link to the human world was gone. She couldn't go on pretending that everything was normal anymore. Because it wasn't. Life was so screwed up. She didn't want to live anymore. She didn't want to feel anything. The pain in her chest burned her. Her finger crawled up her chest and pushed against her skin. The pain magnified as she kept pushing. Her warm blood coated her fingers as they delved deeper, attempting to yank her heart from her chest. Caroline didn't want to feel anymore. This was the only way.

"I'm going to find her." Stefan shouted as he slipped on his coat and ran out the house, not waiting for a reply. Running would be quicker than his car. Sticking to the cover of the trees, he ran to her house. There was a sick feeling in the pit of his stomach and it only heightened the closer he got to the house. The lights were all on, but there was no sound. Though the closer he got, the more evident it became that someone was in there by the sound of their sobs.

He entered the house with ease. "Oh no." He breathed. "Caroline." Stefan whispered. The blonde Vampire was curled up on the floor beside her mother's dead body, her fingers were coated with blood. He followed her eyes and found them staring at Liz's dead body.