Having had a rather vivid dream on the night where there had been a full moon, I had seen Caroline locked up in some dungeon being tortured by a guy whilst restrained in a chair. He had been using the sun to cause her to burn and be overcome with pain as she screamed, begging him to stop whilst calling him her dad, which only sickened me further. Her dad was doing this? That's just messed up on so many levels. Anyway, I'd tried calling out to Caroline but it was only a vision, and I couldn't even touch her or comfort her, and when I woke up, I was covered in a cold sweat.
The dream had been so real, I had no choice but to accept that it had to be real, and that right now, Caroline was suffering. Part of me didn't want to care, turning over in my bed to bury myself into it's comfort, but every time I closed my eyes, I could see Caroline's agonised expression as she screamed under the sunlight with no daylight ring to protect her. "God damn it!" Grabbing a pillow I flung it at my floor, getting up in order to quickly shower and dress so that I could do something about this. I didn't want to have anything to do with any of them, but Caroline had been as persistent as can be in trying to be my friend again, and I couldn't stand the thought of her being in pain like that.
We weren't friends, but since Caroline had become a vampire I actually grew to like her personality more. She was way more caring than before and her optimism had reached a whole new level which I thought would have been impossible, but turns out I was wrong. She wasn't a bad person, and as much as I didn't want to be involved in all their supernatural drama, I couldn't stand the fact that I had Caroline screaming in my head with visions plaguing me, warning me that she was in danger. She better appreciate this, I had other plans today.
Once I was fresh and had changed into clean clothes, I sat myself down on my bedroom floor in order to meditate, letting the vision come back to me where I started to look around for some clues as to where she was. It was like I was literally right there next to her, surrounded by thick grey walls with a heavy iron door bolting her inside until her dad came back to resume the torture. Their voices were soft and distant, echoing slightly as her father tried to condition her through pain to make her reject her vampirism, which was just totally insane.
Leaving them in the cell, I was able to walk through the vision freely, leaving Caroline's screams behind me in order to climb the winding metal stairs and step out into the open until I was able to figure out where she was being kept. An old prison house built by the Forbes family where they figured people used to keep prisoners and criminals in town before the sheriff's station was a thing. Waking up from my vision, I quickly grabbed my keys and my phone, sending a text to Tyler explaining where Caroline was and to get there fast.
More worried than I cared to be, I drove there as quickly as I was able to before going inside, already hearing Caroline screaming. Her dad, Bill, was so focused on her that he didn't even hear me coming, holding the flaps of the window panes open to burn against Caroline's skin as she screamed I agony before her head dropped, falling unconscious just as I appeared at the door. He dropped the blinds, but then looked up and saw me standing there. "Who are you? You can't be here." Making to stride over to me, my hand shot out and lifted him up, making him yelling surprise before I slammed him against the wall and let him drop like a stone.
"Who's the real monster around here?" I scowled darkly, clicking my tongue in irritation before moving over to Caroline. She was hurt pretty bad, there were serious burns all over her body from the sunlight so I checked her hands after using magic to unlock her wrists and ankles with a flick of my wrist. There was no ring, but I noticed it on the ground so I picked it up and carefully slid it back onto her hand so that she wouldn't be burned anymore, then went over to where her dad was lying, a packet of blood near to him.
Taking it just as I heard Tyler and someone else arriving, I twisted open the cap then pulled Caroline's head back, helping her to drink it as I then saw Tyler and the sheriff rushing to the door. "She's okay, just a little burned. She'll heal up soon." I assured them both, holding Caroline's head in the crook of my arm as she moaned softly, guzzling at the blood from where she had been starved.
"My god, Caroline." The sheriff had come armed with her gun but she put it away immediately seeing that Bill was already knocked out and came to Caroline who was still unconscious but starting to wake slightly, dazed and confused at what was going on. "Thank you for this, Lia. You're a good friend."
"How did you know she was here?" Tyler asked me, lingering back slightly as Caroline finished the blood and I let her go, stepping away to see that my work here was finished.
"I had a vision about her being here. It's no big deal, so don't make a fuss about it." I brushed it off, folding my arms as Tyler helped Liz get Caroline up onto her feet before he could carry her. "Just do me a favour." They both looked at me, Liz stroking worriedly at Caroline's hair before turning. "Don't tell anyone it was me who found her, not even Caroline. I don't want people to know I was here."
"Why not? We gotta tell her Lia, you saved her." Tyler protested but I made them both promise me they wouldn't say a word, and to also make sure Bill didn't mention it either. Liz promised that after she got any vervain out of his system, she'd have Damon to forget anything about what happened, so I was satisfied with that. I helped her get Bill into the chair then shackled him down with some magic, making Liz glance at me with slight apprehension.
"Caroline mentioned something about you being a witch? Is that really true?"
"Sort of, I'm a different type of witch. A druid, to be exact. A witch has to channel her magic whilst I'm basically overflowing with it. It's hard to explain." Once Bill was in the chair and Tyler had taken Caroline up to the car, I viewed my work here as done, so I wished Liz good luck with her ex-husband before making my own way back home, driving a little more slowly and thinking that I wouldn't have to worry about anything else for the rest of the summer, but of course that didn't go so well either.
I started having more dreams, the same dream as what had kicked this all off where I'd then begun to see Elijah and Klaus, but now I could see someone else more clearly as well. The girl. Blonde and beautiful, but also deadly looking in her own way. When I stood before her, the mist seemed to circulate around the two of us, wrapping us up in a mystical veil as I would just stare into her eyes, graduating towards her name little by little every time I dreamed that same night until finally, it just popped into my head like it had been there all along.
Rebekah.
