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"What's wrong, can you hear me?" Caroline was on her knees and had placed both her hands on either side of Klaus so she was half straddling him. And not the amazingly hot straddling they were doing just seconds ago up against the wall. His eyes were wide and mad with fury as he shot his head over to Caroline.
"What did you do to me? Was this your plan the entire time? Seduce me and then have me killed" Klaus grunted and spit through gritted teeth, as his hand went up to reach for Caroline's throat and missed. " I can't feel my entire lower half" He scream at her and tried to lunge but was unable to get the leverage he needed without the use of this lower half. Klaus hated being this vulnerable and had not been in centuries or possibly since his human days. He fell back down and hissed from the sharp pain it caused. Caroline dodged his hand and smack it away.
"Seriously? You think this was me? The only thing I had planned for the rest of the night involved you being a whole lot more naked not laying half paralyzed. I enjoy my men with a bit more vigor."
"My back .. My lower back.." Klaus' breathe heavily, the pain was burning through his lower back and almost felt like it was spreading even higher. He was going to disembowel who ever did this to him.
"OK. OK. I'm going to move you on your side so I can take a look. " Caroline picked Klaus up and rolled him so his front was facing away from her. Her face turned into a deadly scowl as she saw three rather large bullet holes in the back of his leather jacket. "Hunter." The words fell out of her mouth like she was spitting poison. They had finally come for her. This must have been their plan, get her alone and take out whatever vampires were around her at the time. The hunter must have been in or around Mystic Falls for days now just watching her. Caroline gently rolled Klaus back over so he was facing her again and looked at his face, the pain still twisted on it and marring his once perfect features.
"Connor Jordan I know you can hear me. Why don't you come out so I can take a look at that face, it's been so long since I've seen you." At the last second Caroline heard a bullet fly past her as she shot her self backwards and landed on the palms of her hands. She caught a glimpse of a wicked smirk as Connor took off at the end of the alley and she nearly flashed after him but paused as she glanced down at Klaus. A lesser person would and should have left him to rot there while she finally went and ended the torment of the past two years. He had done unspeakable acts over his many centuries and he would have left her to lie in the middle of an alley immobilized just to go after the hunter himself. There were two other Originals in town that would find him later with no problem but she couldn't do that. Not even to the Devil. This scenario was a nightmare for someone like Klaus Mikealson who had enemies just waiting for a chance to catch him vulnerable and weak. Caroline knew what that fear felt like. She let out a heavy sigh and went to pick him up but Klaus pushed her away while trying to sit up. He made it as far as resting on the backs of his arms before stopping and staring up at the little vampire.
"Go! I won't be needing your help." Klaus all but screamed at her and she just rolled her eyes at his male ego shining bright. Caroline looked him intently in his now black eyes and slowly reached for his face, placing her palms on his cheeks to keep him from turning.
"I need you to sit up and remove your jacket so I can see were the bullets hit you." Klaus didn't move an inch and kept his eyes on hers. Caroline had to restrain from smacking him at this moment, but kept her calm tone. "You can't move and certainly can't defend yourself if someone were to find you half paralyzed in a alley. Connor never travels alone anymore and that hunter isn't going to leave town until I'm dead. He wants me to follow him and I'm sure he has something special in mind when I find him again. I want to help Klaus just please let me. If I was going to kill you, I would have done so the second you fell to your knees... Or two days ago when I first met you. " Caroline stated raising her eyebrows.
Klaus scrunched his eyebrows together as if in deep thought but finally obliged her request. Caroline released her hold on his face and Klaus leaned on one elbow while shrugging off his jacket and then repeating the process for the other arm. Caroline flung his jacket across the alley as he rolled over facing away from her once more. She pulled his shirt up and could see how large the bullets were. They were larger than shotgun shells and her hand went for the bullet that was lodged in the center of his back directly where his spine lined up. Caroline hissed and shot her hand backwards as the wooden bullets burned her fingertips.
"Ah! Looks like Connor has some new toys and new friends as well. Larger wooden bullets and they appear to be spelled bullets since there is no vervain stench on you. " She took another look at Klaus and then spoke, " This is going to hurt." She stated and rammed most of her hand into Klaus' back to grip the bullet and both of them cried in agony at the same time. All she felt was a burning sensation and as soon as her hand was free she immediately dropped the bullet on the cement ground beside them. Her fingers were red and blistered from the spelled bullets. She was absolutely was not doing that again. Connor was known for building his own weapons and explosives to kill vampires but he never had the help of witches before.
"I can feel the pain start to ease already. The remaining two bullets don't seem to limit my mobility. " He said as he was now sitting up straight and attempting to get up. "Just a burning sensation is all that is left."
"Good. Your siblings can do the rest. I have a hunter to kill."
Caroline roamed the streets of Mystic Falls following the scent of Connor Jordan. She had come across him in the past, it was usually always him that found her. The scent was easy and familiar for her to pick up among the others around. When Caroline was still human she had actually met him once, she was about thirteen years old and he had came to visit her father one day in Mystic Falls. If only she had known what the future would hold, she would not have been so nice to him. She followed his scent to the edge of town and his scent floated to the woods where the old cemeteries were held. The scent only intensified as she found the large concrete building that held the Salvatore's family crypt. "How creepy." she blurted aloud to no one or so she thought no one but froze as a man stepped out from the doorway of the building. She inspected every inch of the man, to his dark blue shirt and black pants and on up to his dark hair. She heard a crack of a twig and three more hunters stood side by side roughly ten feet behind Caroline. Her head fell back to side to glance behind her and she smirked while doing so before her eyes went back to the hunter in front of her.
"Welcome father, it's good to have you back home after all this time. Wheres mother? I want to know if she is dead or should I just cut right to point and rip out your throat. " Caroline questioned as she took a few steps forward and the hunters behind her followed suit. She spoke without looking at them, "Easy boys. If I was going to kill him this second you couldn't catch me if you wanted to."
"You really shouldn't call me that. Father. My daughter is dead and all that is left is a creature that wouldn't die. " Bill Forbes spoke with a even, calm tone as if he was discussing the weather. His soothing tone was once used to easy Caroline when she was as child and scared but now it just seemed mocking. He looked and spoke like the father she grew up with but she wasn't fooled. She had no father anymore.
"Well most people that fail repeatedly to kill someone would give up at some point. I guess some people just never give up do they? I am surprised your here, you were too much of a coward in the past to face me so I assumed this time was no different. " Caroline crossed her arms over her chest and awaited his response. It never came as it was interrupted by a gurgle that escape from behind her and she flashed around in time to see two of the hunters fall to the ground. Klaus had his hands extending outwards, still holding onto both their hearts. His hands were dripping in blood and he had a gleeful, sinister smirk on his face. He dropped the hearts at his feet and focused on the final hunter left standing that was now inching away. Klaus flashed his hand with hybrid speed to grasp the mans Adams apple and stepped forward to stand near Caroline.
"Most would stand here and pretend to care whether this hunter lives or dies or try to bargain for his life but I simply don't care." A loud snap echoed through the trees as Klaus broke the mans neck, near removing it completely, as he tossed the hunters limp body aside as if he was trash. Clearly still had lingering rage from his attack in the alley earlier. "Allow me to introduce myself, I'm Klaus Mikealson Original Hybrid. Perhaps you've heard of me? My apologizes for the eavesdropping, but I gather from the conversation you two just had, you are Caroline's father." He stated most unapologetic and his hands, still covered in the hunters blood, were hung low in front of him, one hand holding onto the other wrist. Caroline fought back the small relief she felt as Klaus stood next to her, staring down her father with that same smirk painted to his face. She has never actually went up against any of her attackers with an partner before. Since Klaus had been shot in the back multiple times, this was as close of an partner she was going to get right now.
"My business isn't with you, just Caroline. Your day will come with me, just not today." Bill declared with a smug look and now turned his eye to his former daughter once more, " She is a freak of nature that must be stopped. Your half beast, half vampire and she is a hunter turned vampire with unnatural abilities that should not exist. "
"Well seeing how I was shot with three of your hunters magical wooden bullets, two of which are still lodged in my back might I add, it does involve me." She wasn't sure how Klaus kept his composure so well, the only sign anything had happened to him was the bullet holes and blood on the back of his long sleeved shirt. Only a hint of annoyance ran across his face.
"I'm sorry, can we go back to the part where you think I should be hunted down and murdered because I wouldn't allow you to use me for your own selfish gain. I wouldn't allow you to manipulate me. I believe my mother's exact thoughts were you calling me your own secret weapon. So because I won't allow you to do those things, I should just be killed for it?" Caroline was inching closer and closer to her father but they were still several feet away from each other and Klaus kept in step along side her.
"Vampires are unnatural, created by magic centuries ago. That is the entire reason hunters even exist is to kill vampires and rid the world of you. Caroline, your mind manipulation is unheard of and to combine that with being a killer ... you must be stopped. That is just how it has to be." Bill explained, almost as if he was trying to reassure himself for his actions. Caroline stood still at her father's words and gave a tense sideways glance to Klaus. His features were still schooled in a blank look but she knew his mind was racing at what he just discovered. Bill noticed this and smirked,
"Have you not explained to your new boyfriend here what you are capable of? It is probably a good idea, I have heard stories of the Original family and how ruthless they can be. He would have killed you the moment he found out and THAT would have spoiled my plans."
"Where is my mother, Bill. You still haven't shown me she isn't already dead." Caroline was tired of the back and forth mind games and wants this over with. To finally rid herself of this man once and for all. There was a loud booming sound and Caroline felt a surge of pain as she fell to her knees. Her hand went to clutch her side and her hand was now covered with her own blood. The same burning sensation that she felt when she removed the bullet from Klaus' spine was now traveling up her side. Her head darted up to the direction the bullet came from and saw Connor walking smugly from behind the Salvatore crypt and past the trees that surrounded it, a massive shotgun slung over his shoulder. Connor had his hand gripped into the back of Liz Forbes short blonde hair and guided her over to stand next to her former husband.
"Sorry about the bullet, I like to make an entrance." Connor smiled.
Caroline's heart dropped to her feet and she flashed forward to grab her mother but was met by the invisible barrier that kept her in place. She slammed back against it and nearly lost her footing and Klaus grabbed her arm to keep her in place. Bill smiled and turned towards the entrance of the crypt, "Come." was all he spoke as two older women in their fifties, stepped outside to stand on the opposite side of Connor. Caroline's jaw tensed as she looked at the women, assuming they were witches and the ones that put the barrier up. She observed her surroundings further to see bundles of herbs dispersed around them on tops of several gravestones. She inwardly cursed herself for not being more observant. Witches are only a few, if not the only, supernatural creatures that could easily take down any vampire without much effort.
Klaus stepped forward and spoke, "So this was your grand plan, lured us away to the woods and trap us? I'm sorry but I was expecting a bit more. Those silly bullets won't kill me and I can easily kill you the moment you cross this prison you have built for us." One of the witches raised her hand and Klaus fell to one knee, holding onto his head at the same time. A loud growl poured out of his mouth as he eyed the witch from his kneeling position. Caroline shot to the ground next to him but quickly focused her attention on the witch giving Klaus a aneurysm. Caroline was breathing in and out deeply while running a hand on his back, trying to show some comfort, although it did no good. He still grunted and spit and held his head. Witch's minds were similar to a hunts brain, they were naturally built to keep their mind resistant to compulsion and Caroline's mental capabilities were no different. It wasn't impossible for her to break through a witch's mind, it just took longer and more energy. The bullet was still shoved deep in her rib cage and the pain in Caroline's side was creeping lower to her thigh as well, weakening her even further. The witches hand started to twitch and Klaus could finally raise his head, dropping his hand down. He gazed over at Caroline with wide eyes, not sure if he even understood what was happening. The second witch must have noticed Caroline's intent and raised her hand to drop Caroline on her back. She screaming in pain from both the impact and the bullet wound.
"I wouldn't try that again. We know all about you and what you can do. Despite how strong you think you are, you are not stronger than I. I have decades on you little girl. " The older witch spit out, looking back at Caroline as if she was disgusted by the sight of her. The other witch that was still torturing Klaus dropped her hand and released him from his pain. Klaus stood on his feet and lock eyes with the foolish witch that gave him the to aneurysm.
"I will murder you and every person you have ever meet." he bellowed at the witch. "You think this barrier will keep you safe! It won't last forever witch and I will find you wherever you roam and take your bloody heart out. Your entire coven if I see fit." The witch took a hard gulp but otherwise kept her composure. Bill Forbes raised his hand in the air and stepped closer to his estranged wife, Liz, and his other hand found a silver butterfly knife that was tucked into his back pocket.
Caroline flashed forward, " You never had any intention of releasing her."
"In spite what you think of your mother Caroline, she loves you. Even when she was going to sit back and let me use your talents to my advantage, she still loved you." Bill sauntered over grabbing Liz Forbes by the arm and bringing her to her knees. "I am honestly not sure if she would have let me use your talents very long but it doesn't matter now. You were only of use to me when you were human and I could train you to be a hunter. As a vampire you are just a monster, a killer that shouldn't exist. No matter what your mother will always love you and that means she will protect you against anything, especially me and I only have one purpose. To wipe out all vampires. You get your stubbornness from her," Bill's eyes minutely soften at the memory but immediately turn hard again." So I don't need any complications. "
The next few moments flash before Caroline could process what was happening. Bill nodded his head to both witches, they raised their hands to began chanting. The skin of her arms slowly heating and burned her from the inside. She cried out in pain and both vampires fell to the ground next to one another. She could feel the burning flow upwards toward her chest. Caroline looked over to where her mother and father stood, Bill Forbes was now standing behind Liz with his hand placed under her chin. The silver knife flung open as Bill's hand went in the air to strike.
"NO!" Caroline screamed and flung herself against the invisible barrier, her hands pressed against nothing, falling to her knees. The knife went swiftly into Liz Forbes neck and blood falling down. All Caroline saw was red. She slammed her fist hard against the ground and vamp sped over to where Klaus grunted out in pain, his own skin red from the witches and grabbed his arm. Klaus looked over at Caroline with wide eyes as she demanded,
" I need blood ... NOW and I can end this. " Caroline demanded and shrieked in pain as the witches intensified the pain. Klaus gave a short almost unnoticeable nod and Caroline barely gave him enough time to respond before lunging at his wrist and drinking his blood. Black veins shown freely underneath her eyes and her sockets turned bloodshot. To say the least Klaus was in aw of what he was watching and stared into her eyes. Caroline release her fangs from Klaus wrist, blood still on her lips and focused every bit of attention to the two witches that now had a intense look to them. The first witch gasped and dropped her hand to grasp her throat instead. Fear flashed in the second witches eyes as she felt her palms shaking but still tried to hold her ground. Klaus could do nothing but stare back at Caroline as she spoke,
"Can you feel that WITCH? The air being trapped in your lungs, the burning in your chest that won't go away. No matter how hard you gasp, nothing can ease the pain? That's you suffocating and once you die this barrier will be down and all of you will be dead." Klaus' blood was truly powerful and Caroline had never felt her mental abilities so strong or come so quickly to her. She easily broke past the witches mental barrier and she smiled a wicked smile. The second witches wrist snapped backwards and she cried out in agony. Klaus rose gracefully to his feet and tested the invisible wall with his hand. The smirk slide across his face and flashed over to the remaining witch that still breathed. His hand went straight to her heart and ripped it from her chest.
Connor Jordan and Bill Forbes both looked on in horror as both vampires were now free. Caroline's eye were only set on her father as she stalked gracefully to prey and the look of shock was embedded in his eyes. Connor went to raise the shotgun but Klaus countered his move, snatching the shotgun as he slammed the butt of the gun in Connors face. He barely had time to hit the ground as Klaus ripped the heart from his chest.
"Now we both knew that wasn't going to work." Klaus taunted the dead hunter. "He's all your, Love." Klaus stated as he motioned towards her father.
Bill Forbes was now trapped between the two vampires and he couldn't hide his shock of how badly the situation had turned. Caroline studied his features and it reminded her of the day her father tortured her in the old vampire cellars where she was left to burn for hours on end. It was the look Bill gave her when he found out she could not be killed. His leg shifted backward as if he wanted to run but Caroline was already on him with her hand on his throat. Caroline had thought of this moment numerous times before but now nothing seem to materialize. All the ways she wanted to ignite suffering to her father as he had done to her. These were her final moments with him, the man that showed her how to ride a bike and the man she batted her eyelashes at to get an extra five dollars for the movies. Carebear was the affectionate nickname he used for her and it turned her stomach to think of.
"Goodbye father." Caroline sneered as she snapped his neck backwards and let his body fall to the ground, just feet from her mother's already cold one. Both her parents were dead and she had no family left. A heavy sigh falls out of her mouth as she glances over to Klaus who stood unmoved next to the corpse hunter at his feet. She stopped him before he could say anything,
"Caroline .."
"Just don't. I can only assume grieving and comfort is not your area of expertise so just keep it to yourself. I don't need the pity from anyone, least of all you. Can you call someone to get this cleaned up and I guess the others? My mother was the one that cleaned up the vampire mess but now it looks like she will BE the mess this time." Her head fell down to the ground as Caroline focused her full attention to the bodies that lay at her feet. The twisted neck of her father and the blooded brown uniform of her mother. Her head tilted to the side and Caroline could feel the tears start to build in her eyes, the adrenaline from earlier starting to wear off. A weight fell upon her chest, her breathing increasing and all she could do was fall to the ground on her knees. Caroline shifted to her bottom as a sob fell from her lips and picked up Liz Forbes head from the ground to place it on her lap. Their foreheads were placed together and Caroline stroked the blonde hair with her still blooded hand. Every emotion that was built up inside of her for the past two years seemed to be pouring from her at this very moment. She couldn't keep her body from shaking and started a small soothing sway while still holding her mothers limp body. She just sat there, not even sure how long and cried.
At some point Klaus had stepped aside and made his phone calls to his family and Stefan informing them of what happened. He had no clue what to do about Caroline and it was blatantly obvious she was devastated by her mother's death. For all of her talk of betrayal and hate, she still cared for her mother. Klaus was no saint and hadn't comforted anyone since his days of being human and wasn't about to start now. He stood in front of the little blonde vampire and took in her pain and her beauty. The remaining vampires of Mystic Falls and his siblings flash soon after to the Salvatore family crypt and stood frozen at the sight. Kol and Rebekah were half shocked, half impressed with the sight before them. Elena and Bonnie gasped at the sight of Liz Forbes blooded and tears of their own formed as well, comforting each other. The Salvatore's were close behind taking in the scene as well and Stefan went to pull Elena in his arm to sooth her. Caroline ignored them and continued holding her dead mothers body in her arms. The tears were still staining her face when she softly started to singing to her, Caroline's own form of goodbye,
Go in peace
Go in kindness
Go in love
Go in faith
Leave the day
The day behind us
Day is done
Go in grace
Let us go
Into the dark
Not afraid
Not alone
Let us hope
By some good pleasure
Safely to
Arrive at home
Let us hope
By some good pleasure
Safely to
Arrive at home
Caroline sat softly humming but one voice snapped her out of it. One voice that shot anger through her and the one voice that started all of Caroline's torment.
" Caroline, we are here for you when you need us. We won't go anywhere and we will stay by your side and get you through this." Elena's human voice crept closer and closer with Bonnie not far behind. The girl knelt down a foot away from Caroline and went to raise her hand to place it on Caroline's shoulder. " Just let it out." Caroline's eye flashed open and she slowly placed her mother on the ground to her side and placed her palms on her thighs. When she looked up at Elena her eyes were as black as coal and the very dominant black veins streaked across her eyes. It made the girl freeze her hand mid air and the Salvatore's flash at either side of the girls.
"Just let it out Caroline .. OK." Caroline repeated and dropped the Salvatore's to the ground as they shrieked in agony over the twisted limbs that once were there legs. In a flash Caroline shot up from the ground and had her bloodied wrist over Elena's mouth, forcing her to drink Caroline's blood. Elena's back was pressed firmly to her chest trying to break free of the vampire's iron grasp.
"Easy Love. Don't do something you will regret later ... Or who you might anger in the process." Klaus stepped forward with his hands up.
"Stop or I will drop you myself." He stood immobilized and clinched his fist in anger. "You have no idea what I'm capable of and your Original blood still flows through my veins. It's very potent stuff. "
"Caroline please, your taking her choice away. You never had a choice but Elena still does. Please. " Stefan pleaded from the ground where both Salvatore's lay in pain. Caroline was an absolute wreck, tears streaking her face from the moment of grief she allowed herself. Klaus' blood still covered her mouth and her hands from earlier and she now had her mother's blood soaked into her former yellow sundress. The next sound was a hollow snap of the Doppelgangers neck and her lifeless body falling to the ground.
"She still has a choice, Stefan. Live or die." Her gaze falls up Bonnie and the remaining Originals siblings in front of her, all in a bit of disbelief that she actually went through with it. Rebekah eased slowly towards Klaus who was still stuck in place by Caroline, in case he did manage to break free at some point. Caroline released the Salvatore's from their pain but still kept a firm hold on Klaus' position. She couldn't release him until she was long gone and couldn't find her and seek his revenge for killing Elena. Damon immediately shot up to Caroline and she snapped his neck with barely a flick of her wrist. She saw that coming from a mile away. Her face fell upon Stefan and Bonnie.
"How could you do this to her, after you were forced into this lifestyle and now you are forcing Elena as well." Bonnie looked appalled by what just happened.
"I'm only paying her back for what she started years ago. None of this would have even happened if she kept out of my business. You guys don't get it do you. This doesn't end tonight not just because I killed my father. I just started my own personal war with every hunter that Bill Forbes has ever met and any hunter those people have ever met. I won't know a moments peace for the rest of my existence, Bonnie. Every town I go to that has a vampire hunter will know who I am from a mile away. They will seek their revenge on the unnatural monster that killed a fellow hunter. " She twisted her arm around and motioned towards the dead bodies. "Two dead hunters. My father whispered my name and appearance to every hunter he came across and what my abilities can do. Things just became a million times more difficult for me. But please, keep thinking of only Elena in her time of need. While I am utterly and completely alone now and I have nothing left. I only ask that you bury my mother and burn his."
"We can help you Caroline, I'll come with you this time. You don't have to do this alone anymore." Stefan spoke as he reach out for her hand but she just shook him off. She knew better than to think that was the truth.
"Right Stefan because you would leave a newly turned Elena, the love of your life, in the hands of Damon Salvatore. I know that won't happen. " Both of their eyes were glued to the other and Stefan's jaw tensed up.
Caroline had enough and had to leave. It wouldn't take more than a few weeks for the hunters closest to Connor and her father to figure out that he was dead. The one thing she knew for sure was that all hunters kept in close contact with one anther in case something like this ever happened. Caroline had to disappear and had no idea where on earth to go to. She took one last glance at Klaus, his knuckles were nearly broke from the pressure he was placing on them. His face held a deadly stare but his eye just looked broken. Like he lost the last thing he ever had in life. His hybrids. She sighed and all she could muster up was "I'm sorry" before she flashed away.
Author's Note:
So how pissed are you guys? I love mamma Forbes too but it was a needed sacrifice and honestly even if I didn't kill her off, she wouldn't be included in the rest of the story anyways. Also Elena was destine to be a vampire anyways, I just changed the person that killed her. I also needed a reason for Klaus to be angry at Caroline and not try to find her and "whoo" her. But here is a mini teaser, we will see a new city and several new characters in the coming chapters. Plus points to you if you know where that song came from.
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