Road Trip {Part 1}

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Warnings: Tyler Bashing, Werewolf bites, I refuse to watch the Originals - so if things aren't accurate according to the story don't worry, they weren't meant to be, Mild Damon bashing

Info You Might Need To Know: Katherine is staying with Caroline

Word Count: 4.0 K

Requested: By no one

Today's Special

When a man loves a woman,

can't keep his mind on anything else.

He'd trade the world for the good thing he's found.

~ Percy Sledge

Caroline opened the door to her dorm, only to slam it shut. The knocking from the other side of the wood began once again. "Caroline, please. Just let me in." Tyler cried through the wood.

"Give me one good reason to." She called back.

"I'm injured. Please. It was one of Klaus's hybrids." He answered, wincing as another wave of pain hit him.

Caroline paused at Klaus's name. She was still tempted to turn back around and ignore her ex-boyfriend. But her curiosity, and the threat of noise complaints compelled her to open the door.

"What do you mean by Klaus's hybrids? You unsired all of them, remember? And then tricked him into killing his own pack." Caroline fired at him.

Tyler clenched his fists in anger, but was aware of his position. "Yeah, well apparently they were only decoys. He had another pack, a true pack, somewhere else. One that was truly loyal to him. And he sent some after me." As much as he hated it to admit it. Caroline was his only bet. He's shaken the hybrids off a while ago. But he probably only had at best two days before they found him again. But he was betting on the fact that Klaus probably gave the hybrids special orders to stay away from Caroline. "Please." He begged. "I'm injured."

Caroline looked down to indeed see that he was clutching at his bandaged arm in pain. As much as she hated to admit it. Despite everything Tyler had done to her, all the ways that he had hurt her. She felt her eyes soften. "All right. You can only stay the night. And you need to be gone by morning." She told him. Katherine was staying with Nadia for the night. The dying woman wanted to spend as much time as she could with her daughter before she would be forced to meet her fate and Nadia would be forced to loose her mother once again.

Tyler didn't like the offer. But he assumed he could easily play at her heartstrings and convince the blond to let him stay for a couple more days.

Caroline stepped aside and let the man enter the room.

The sun rose the next day, and a paranoid Tyler with it. He turned to see Caroline on the bed next to his, facing towards him.

She was sound asleep. Tyler propped himself up with his elbows and was getting up when he heard it.

A faint murmur of the name, "Klaus…"

The hybrid wiped his head around almost as if someone had slapped him. For a second he thought with his must have misheard it. Though with his werewolf and vampire hearing, he doubted it.

But his doubt was cleared when he heard it again. Caroline let out a sigh as the name "Klaus…" escaped her lips once again. A little louder than before, and a lot clearer.

This time he knew he wasn't mistaken. Anger filled Tyler as red clouded his vision. Before he knew what he was doing, Tyler was pulling Caroline up with her shoulders roughly. The blond's eyes shot open as a scream escaped her. "Tyler! What are you doing?" Caroline asked, eyes wide.

Without giving her any time to think or analyze the situation Tyler forced her head to the side and bit down hard at the dip of her neck.

Caroline let out a pained scream as she felt the hybrid venom enter her body like boiling water. She gathered all her strength and pushed him off her. She winced as her hand went up to cover the wound on her neck that she knew wouldn't be closing.

"Get out!" She screamed at him, betrayal written on her face.

Tyler, without a hint of remorse stared down at the blond, with clenched fists she spun around and stormed out of the room.

Caroline collapsed onto the floor, letting her body rest against the bed. She clenched her eyes as once again another wave of pain hit her.

The door once again opened and Caroline immediately sat up straighter and ready to defend herself, only for her tense muscles to relax as she saw it was Katherine.

The older woman's eyes widened as she saw the vampire's state. She rushed to the blond's side. The ex-vampire knew that time was of the essence and didn't waste any time with meaningless questions. "What happened?" She asked, picking Caroline up, and swimming one of her arms over her shoulder.

"Tyler." Was the only response Caroline was able to get out, before another wave of pain hit her.

Katherine cursed under her breath and began to carry the blond out of the room.

"Where are we going?" Caroline asks, leaning against Katherine.

"I'll answer once we're in the car." Katherine told her, determined to carry the blond to the parking lot. It had been a few months since she had been turned into a human. And as much as she hated to admit it. She'd never been this desperate for her vampire powers. Because despite the time Sialis was after her, or when she heard the news she only had a few more months left. She wasn't nearly as desperate. She'd already lost so much in her life, she didn't know if she could bear to lose the baby vampire who'd wormed her way into her heart as well. Her original plan had only been to stay with Caroline for a few days and run, but she had grown attached to the blond.

"Nadia!" Katherine called out, relieved to see that her daughter hadn't left yet.

The brunette in question turned around. "Mother?" She asked confused, though her expression changed as she quickly rushed to their side as she saw the state Caroline was in.

Nadia took Caroline off her mother's hands and carried her to the car. She gently set the baby vampire on the backseat of the car.

"We need to get her to Klaus. We need to get her to New Orleans." Katherine told her daughter.

Caroline gasped at the news. "No. No Katherine. You can't." She took her head meekly. Katherine had been running from Klaus for 500 years, so it wasn't really a surprise to the baby vampire that she kept tabs on the original. What did surprise her was that Katherine was suggesting they go to New Orleans. "If he finds you…"

Katherine knew exactly what that meant. She'd been ready to spend the rest of her short human life at peace with her daughter, and the woman she'd begun to call friend. But if she went to New Orleans then…

"It's fine." Katherine smiled, reassuringly. "My only regret had been that I hadn't been able to come to peace with how I left things off with Elijah, but maybe this way at least… I may have a chance to say farewell."

"Katherine…" Caroline got out, before the pain became too much for her, and she began to pass out.

Caroline was woken by a gentle hand shaking her. The blond vampire whimpered as she looked up to see Nadia smiling down at her. "Get up, you need to eat." She said, as she stepped aside from the car door and let a compelled human take her place.

"But."

"No but's Caroline. You need to eat. You need all the strength you can get." Katherine cut her off. The woman had stopped at a gas station to refill the fuel. It was almost three and the sun was high in the sky. They still had two more hours to go.

Nadia helped the sweating vampire sit up, also using the time to gently wipe her forehead with a rag wet from cold water. Caroline leaned forward and let her fangs sink into the human's skin. Gulping down the warm blood in large gulps. But the action also caused the dark wound on her neck to pulse, sending waves of pain through the baby vampire. Causing her to moan in pain.

The woman was beginning to lose color, so Caroline pulled away. But her eyes were still dark, and her fangs stayed sharp.

"Caroline-"

"No." The blond cut her off. Shaking her head furiously. "I won't kill her. But you need to drink more blood. Your body needs it."

Nadia interrupted before the two women could get into a fight, "I'll erase this one's memory and go get another human."

Katherine stared at Caroline's reflection through the car window. She's met many vampire's in her life. But she doubt's she's met any with the baby vampire's control. There were vampire's out there who had lived for centuries and hadn't gotten anywhere near to her level. Yet the blond always hesitated when feeding from the vein. It annoyed Katherine to pieces.

Sometimes she wishes she'd stayed around, at least then Caroline wouldn't have had Steaphen's morales pushed onto her. Because despite thinking he was helping her, the younger Salvator brother's diet did nothing for her.

He failed to realise that his so called bunny diet, did nothing but build up, and then erupt like a dame of death causing the Ripper episodes. If only he's stopped and learned how to properly feed from the vein, maybe he wouldn't have killed so many people. People may call him the ripper, but in the end. Those death's were no one else's fault but his own.

Caroline turned her head to the side. Through blurry vision she could see the woman staring at her. "If you want to say something, why don't you just say it."

"You have excellent control. Why do you hesitate to drink from the vein?" Katherine asked, raising an eyebrow. Caroline stayed silent, so Katherine continued. "It's easy. Drink, then just compel them to forget. I know you don't have a problem…" Katherine trailed off, eyes widened as she realised something. Whipping her head around nodded in understanding, "It's not drinking that you have a problem with. It's compulsion."

Luckily for Caroline, or more likely Damon, Nadia came back with Caroline's second servings. A man this time. Caroline instantly latched onto the man's neck. Gulping down the blood gratefully as it gave her body some strength.

After that, she closed her eyes, pretending to be asleep so Katherine wouldn't ask any more questions, maybe she'd even forget about it, if given enough time. But knowing Katherine, it wasn't likely.

Caroline could feel the pain begin to subside a bit. But she knew that was only because of the fresh blood in her system, and that it would only be the calm before the storm. Because next, her bones would feel as if they'd been set aflame, and the illusions would begin.

Just as Caroline had predicted, the illusion came. They slowly become worse and worse.

First in the form of her mother. She always knew her mother hated what she had become. Though she had come around to accept that she was still her daughter. Caroline would never be able to forget the look of disgust that appeared on her face when she first discovered what Caroline had become. To the point she'd practically handed her over to her father to be brutally tortured.

God her father. He was next. These hallucinations were a lot harder. She could still feel the burn of the sun as it began tearing through her back after her father had taken her daylight ring and repeatedly forced her to endure the torture. Closing the blinds only to let her back heel, and then starting all over again. Her throat began to dry up with thirst as she saw her father waving a fresh blood bag in front of her face. She weakly tried to reach for it, only for her fingers to fall through thin air.

Damon was next. He was the reason she was afraid to compelled anyone. Everytime she tried, all she could remember was how he used her. She could see him, reaching for her neck, she desperately tried to move away from the hallucination, but her body was too weak.

And the worst of the worst, Klaus. Telling her what everyone else had been telling her since the beginning. That he only saw her as insufferable, stupid blond air head. Who wouldn't even think for herself.

Katherine looked back as she heard Caroline mumble. With her rapidly ageing hearing, she couldn't make out the words. Only names thrown out here and there. Her mother and Damon were two she caught. And she suspected Klaus was in there somewhere too. Judging by how her daughter's grip on the steering wheel tightened. She doubted it was anything good. "Speed up." She ordered her daughter.

"But-"

"No. I can guarantee you if Caroline draw's her last breath in this car. Then nothing will be safe from Klaus's furry. It'll rain down on everyone. Starting with the two of us. And it won't be the cat and mouse game he let me play. He will catch us, and he will torture us until we're beginning for the mercy of death. He's probably find a way to cure me just so he could torture me longer." Katherine explained the reality of their situation to her daughter.

"But it wasn't our fault." Nadia protested.

"He won't see it that way." Katherine shook her head. "He'll be blaming us for driving too slow. So unless you want that to happen. I suggest you forget about speed limits, and press on it as hard as you can."

The fear began to set into Katherine as they arrived in front the Mikelson's manor. This could go very very wrong. She was hoping that Caroline's condition may prevent Klaus from killing her on the spot. That she may at least get a chance to say goodbye to Elijah.

As much as she hated to admit it, a large part of her still loved the man, despite how they had parted ways.

Nadia picked up a limp Caroline into her arms. Her chest was barely moving. She needed the cure. And she needed it now.

The two rushed up the steps and loudly knocked on the door. In an instant the door opened with an irritated Rebeakh. "Katherine-" she began, only for the woman in question to cut her off.

"No time." Pushing Rebekah aside, Katherine moved forward. Rebekah was about to shout at the doppelganger, but all words died in her throat as she was the baby vampire in Nadia's arms.

"What did you do to her?" Rebekah shouted.

But Katherine ignored her, "Klaus!" She shouted.

The Mikelson's were in a meeting with the head's of the factions when they heard a knock. Elijah's eyes widened as he recognized the voice of the women calling for his brother, anywhere. He quickly followed Klaus outside.

They looked down from the second floor.

"Who is it?" Cami asked, curious.

Klaus rolled his eyes, he smirked, "Kateri…" The woman's name died in his throat as he saw Caroline limp in an unknown women's arms.

A growl ripped through Klaus's throat. Before anyone knew what was happening, Klaus was next to Caroline, and had snatched her from Nadia's arms. "What happened?"

"She was bit, clearly." Katherine answered. "We rushed her here as fast as we could."

Without hesitation, Klaus ripped into his wrist and raised it to Caroline's mouth. "Drink up Love." He told her, gently petting her hair.

Marcel let out a gasp. "What is it? Who is she?" Cami asked with a glare, not liking how Klaus was holding the woman.

"I don't know." Klaus's son answered. "But she is important. Not once in my life, have I ever seen Klaus feed someone his blood, directly from his wrist."

Once Caroline's breathing returned to normal, Klaus handed her to Rebekah. Within an instant he had Katherine in the air, by her throat. "Klaus, stop." Elijah pleaded with his brother.

"Give me one good reason." Klaus growled.

"Because we saved her life." Nadia answered.

"And I am to believe that? For all I know you could have done that to her." Klaus roared. He looked at Nadia, "Who are you?"

Katheirne begged desperately for Nadia to not answer the question, Nadia, taking the hint, stayed quiet. But Klaus didn't like that at all. So he repeated the question, this time, using compulsion.

The vampire, forced to answer siad, "I'm her daughter. Nadia Paterov."

"I see." Klaus smirked. "I thought I killed all of your family, Katerina." Klaus said, turning to her. "But don't worry, you both can burn in hell together."

"Klaus." Elijah called, desperately, but the hybrid only tightened his grip.

"Klaus." Another voice called, this one, the weakest in the room. But instantly caused the hybrid to calm down. He threw Katherine on the ground and turned to face the baby vampire. "No." She told him. "She saved my life. If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't be here right now. Don't… kill her…" Caroline got out, before her exhaustion took over her once again and she fell unconscious.

Klaus gently picked up Caroline in his arms, "The meeting's done. You're all dismissed", he said. He then turned around to look at his brother, "Make sure those two don't leave. Aside from that, feel free to do as you wish." Without waiting to see if anyone had listened, he looked Caroline upstairs to a room across from him. One that he has prepared ahead of time especially for her. For when she would come to New Orleans.

The room was painted a bright, matted shade of yellow. It had a four poster king sized bed in the middle. And a bedside stand on either side. There was a large window, next to a seating area and a coffee table, that overlooked the best views of the gardens. It had a special view to the white roses, her favorite flower, that he had planted especially for her.

He gently lays her down on the bed.

Now all he could do was wait for her to wake up.

Cami continued to stare at where Klaus had previously been holding Caroline. He's never so much as looked at her like that. Let alone touch her. Why that-

"I wouldn't so much as think that if I were you." Kol said in a sing-song voice, taunting the human.

"What?" Cami asked.

"I'm saying I'd cut that thought process off before it even starts." Kol repeated himself. "Don't bother comparing yourself to Caroline." Cami's eyes lit up, thinking he was on her side. But Kol was quick to shoot her down. "Because compared to her, you aren't even the dirt beneath her feet."

"Really?" Marcel asked, testing the waters and fishing for more information.

"Yeah." Rebekah nodded. "You were wondering why he's always in a good mood after coming back from mystic falls. Well there's your answer."

"I'm his physiatrist. He needs me." Cami huffed.

Kol chuckled darkly, "She's his queen. What he needs is her. She's the one keeping him sane. It's not your weekly little sessions. But they're daily phone calls. Without her, cities would burn."

Klaus watched intently as she began to steer. "Klaus." She called as her eyes fluttered open.

"I'm right here Love." He said, helping her sit up.

Caroline rubbed her throat, as the dryness began to set in. "I'm hungry."

"I know Love." Klaus once again bit into his own wrist, and let the baby vampire drink her will. She'd be exhausted from having to fight the werewolf venom as long as she did. But compared to human blood, the blood of an original, was a hundred times better at healing and replenishing a vampire's strength.

"What happened? Who bit you love?" Klaus asked after Caroline and drank her fill.

"Tyler. I don't know why." Caroline told him, anger, confusion and betrayal painting her face.

Klaus cursed, "I knew I should have killed him a long time ago." He nodded as the pieces began falling into place, "and then Katherine brought you here. I wonder what she wants out of this."

Caroline immediately sat up, "No Klaus. You can't hurt her! She's my friend!"

Klaus let out a low growl of frustration. He knew the woman he fell in love with was fiercely loyal. It was one of the traits he loved most about her. But now, if she claims Katherine… and her spawn as well, and one of her own. Then Klaus's hands would literally be tied. He'd be forced onto a short leash.

Meanwhile, the eyes of the people outside widened in disbelief. They couldn't believe that the woman had said no to Klaus. And was defending Katherine. Everyone in the supernatural world knew Katherine's relationship with Klaus. And here this girl was defending her. She must surely have a death wish.

Meanwhile, Rebekah and Kol just smirked knowingly, well Elijah had a fond smile on his face for the woman who had brought his brother back to their family - and may be able to save his love as well.

Nadia held her mother's hand. "She's fighting for you." Nadia told her.

Katherine, for the first time, in a very long time, felt something bloom in her chest.

Hope.

Klaus took a deep breath, "Love. You do know she's the reason I had to wait another 500 years to remove my curse. Don't you?"

"Yes. But she's also the reason we met." Caroline argued back. "She's the one who, along with Elena, brought you to mystic falls. She's the one who turned me." Klaus growled at the thought of his enemy killing the blond in front of him, but Caroline just raised a hand to stop him from interrupting.

"It's true she's the reason your ritual didn't work. But she also saved my life today Klaus. Without her, I would have died in that dorm room."

Klaus's heart fell at the thought of Caroline's bright light fading and dying out alone in that dorm room several states away from.

"She did cause your ritual to fail. But she saved my life. So it's up to you. Decide. What matters more. Having to wait five centuries to break your curse, or me."

Klaus let out a deep sigh. "When you put it like that. There really is no competition Love." Klaus said, meeting Caroline's gaze.

The two exited the room and walked down the stairs. Katherine looked up at Klaus, her human heart beating in anticipation of her fate.

Klaus looked at Katherine, "You saved Caroline's life today. And that has earned you your freedom." Klaus told her. Honestly he still hated the wide smile that spread across the women's face, but he loved the smile that appeared on Caroline's face a thousand times more.

Elijah looked at his brother, "There's also the matter of Katherina's mortality."

"What do you want me to do about it?" Klaus asked, offended.

"Klaus!" Caroline glared at him.

"Fine. Kol. Reach out to a powerful witch you know. Freya's going to need some help in finding a way to reverse this." Klaus said.

Kol smirked, "I know just the one." Kol smirked, thinking of a certain Benette witch with a fiery temper.

"Freya?" Caroline asked.

Rebekah nodded. "Considering how Klaus never shuts up about you, or the fact that his studio is basically a museum of your face. Our older sister Freya has been quite interested in meeting you for some time now."

Katherine had finally snapped out of her initial shock and wrapped her arms around Caroline. Klaus glared at her, but Caroline returned it, just as fiercely. "Behave."

To everyone who wasn't a Mikelson's surprise, Klaus actually stopped trying to light Katherine on fire with his eyes.

Klaus's phone vibrated. He looked down to see a text from Kain, one of his hybrids, that they had found Tyler. He smirked, "You do know Tyler won't live much longer right."

Caroline sighed. "I know. I don't want him to die. But I also don't want him to hurt me, or anyone else I care about ever again."

"And I won't let him." Klaus nodded.

This was part 1 of Road Trip. I have a plan for part 2, but it's not complete. Again, this book won't be in chronological order. So look out for that, whenever it comes out. Because I guarantee you. There will be Tyler Torture in there.