Soaring through the air on a private jet was something that Caroline had grown used to over the years. For so long, people had been bound to the ground and now they were soaring through the air at breakneck speeds. It was something to marvel at.

Caroline leaned into the plush seating of the private jet and leaned into Klaus's side. Being kidnapped and almost dying had made her realize somethings.

She loved Klaus. She loved being with him. She loved his hair and his eyes. She loved his voice and the careful cadence of his words. She loved his anger and violence and the sweet tenderness that he care for her with. She loved him and everything that he was. While she had needed time away from him she did not have to wander so far afield that he could no longer see her.

Caroline knew as she lay in that basement that she never wanted to be parted from Klaus again. That she wanted to stay with him and love him for as long as she could live. She sighed and snuggled in closer to Klaus. She brought his hand towards her face and kissed his hand. Klaus smiled pulled her in closer.

"What's all this?" he asked her as she pressed another kiss to the back of his hand. Caroline sighed. If it was possible she wished she could meld into his skin and become one with him. "Hm?"

"You know being trapped in that basement put something into perspective for me,"Caroline started. She tilted her head up so that she could look him in the eyes. "I remember what happened in Mystic Falls and I remember wanting nothing more than to run away. I need time to process."

Klaus sighed and nodded his head. Caroline frowned when she saw him shut his eyes. No, she needed to see him and look at him. She reached up and cupped his face. He leaned into the warmth of her hands and she pressed her hand against his face, willing him to look at her. When he opened his eyes they were guarded. He was preparing himself for something, to be hurt again. Caroline frowned.

"I left because I thought what I needed was space. But just because I need space does not mean that I have to leave you to get it. We can still be together and I can still have my own space." Caroline leaned in, placing both hands against his stubbled cheeks and kissed him. The kiss was soft and sweet. Full of the longing that had grown in their time apart.

In their time apart, Caroline had missed this. She had missed his touches and their kisses. She had missed Klaus and everything that he was. When they pulled apart she rested her forehead against his and smiled. This was what she needed. This is what she had been missing in their time apart.

Klaus smiled at her and pecked her lips, once, twice and then pulled away. "I think we have embarrassed our son."

Caroline turned around and looked to the other side of the plan where Marcel was. He was turned away from them with a pillow raised to blood his view of the both of them. Caroline let out a laugh at the sight and rose from her seat at Klaus's side. She trounced over to where Marcel was and pressed herself against his side. Wrapping her arms around her son she pressed her face against his side and laughed when he tried to swat her away with the pillow.

"Both of you have never changed. Always with the PDA," Marcel groaned. Caroline leaned forward and tickled his sides which made him laugh. Caroline smiled and pulled her hands away.

"Well you know how much I love Klaus and you. You are my two most precious people and I want nothing but the best for the both of you," Caroline said. She smiled as she listened to Klaus and Marcel trade barbs.

Her heart lightened at the sight. She loved them both so much. They were going to make it through whatever it was that the Expression witches had for them at the Island. They were older and so much more prepared for anything that was going their way. Caroline's plan of attacking the Expression witches strongholds and tracing their calls for help had worked and they had dispatched Kol and Rebekah to intercept them.

Caroline, Klaus, and Marcel were making their way to Silas's island to make sure that no other witches got any bright ideas. She tilted her head as she thought of the island. Maybe they should use the Cure for what it was intended for? Silas was an immortal and much more powerful than anything that Klaus and Caroline could deal with. She sighed and shook her head. They needed to deal with the witch and Katherine first. And then maybe they would be able to deal with the rest.

Rising from her seat, Caroline made her way to the back of the plane where their guest was waiting for them. Tied up with siphoning chains was Esther and she glared banefully when Caroline entered the back of the plane.

"You could be grateful you know. I could have told Klaus to put you with the cargo," Caroline said with a sigh.

"You have done nothing more than led my family into darkness," Esther said. Her words were lightly accented, but Caroline knew that it was the same accent that Elijah and Rebekah had over their words. Caroline tilted her head and then looked at her. Esther was nothing more than a shell of a woman. She was weak and looked as harmless as a newborn puppy. Caroline smiled down at her.

"We will be reaching Silas's island soon enough and then you will all your plans fail," Caroline said with a grin.

Esther sighed and then dropped her head to her chest. Caroline smiled and then exited the room.

The boat puttered on. The motor sputtered from time to time but it never gave out. The three of them chugged one and Bonnie could feel the cold of the fog and the wet settling into her bones. But she knew that they were getting close. Soon enough, everything that she had been planning, everything that she had been waiting for, was going to come into fruition. Her plans were about to bear fruit.

Bonnie curled in on herself as a harsh breeze drifted by. She needed this. She needed the air to be cold and bite into her. It made her more aware of her surroundings. Bonnie breathed out and watched the breath cloud before her before it joined the rest of the fog.

Soon they would all just be like her breath.

"We cannot out rule the thought that Niklaus got ahead of us," Elijah said. Bonnie raised her head to look at him. He and Katherine were pressed up against one another. They held hands and watched Bonnie. She shook her head, her curls bouncing around her head. Bonnie had taken to wearing her hair in jerry curls, something about the spring of it reminded her of someone. That someone was her grandmother that she now just remembered.

"They found us once. They probably already know that we are heading to the island," Bonnie said. Katherine huffed from where she sat.

"And what do you suppose we do?" Katherine said with a frown on her lips. Elijah was quick to press a gloved hand to her cheek. The pressure made the smile melt away into a grim line, but it seemed that was all that Elijah wanted and he pulled his hand away. Bonnie tilted her head.

Could that have been Kol and her? In the time that Bonnie has been planning and not remembering, she had felt the sting of loneliness. She felt it in her bones as it settled into her with an ache that could not be soothed. Bonnie sighed. Kol. She remembered bits and pieces of their time together. Warm laughter and magic. There was so much magic in their moments together that it made Bonnie recoil. But she could not get that final image out of her mind. She could not get their last moment together out of her head.

Kol running as she held her Grams, broken and dying, in her arms. There was no coming back from that. And Bonnie knew that whatever had happened, whatever had ended up killing her Grams, was Kol's fault. She knew that it was him who killed her and it was magic that he wielded to do it.

Bonnie sighed and turned towards the fog. "We will complete the plan. Just as we always have. There will be nothing but peace once our mission is done. There will be nothing but peace." Bonnie closed her eyes and smiled.

In just a few more minutes there would be peace and then… And then…?

Her breath halted in her throat. She had never once thought about what came after. Once her plan was complete what else was left for her. It was something that she had to figure out. It was something that she would deal with once peace was established. Bonnie nodded her head and turned back to face Katherine and Elijah.

"We will fight them the same way that we fought Rebekah and Kol. And they will be dealt with." Bonnie scooted down the seat and then pressed a hand to Elijah's. She muttered the spell under her breath and his hand jolted in her grip as the spell settled. She nodded her head and then pulled away. "Elijah you will fight Klaus. Use that hand. I spelled it so that if you reach his heart it will incapacitate him."

"How?" Elijah asked looked down at his gloved right hand.

"Desiccation," Bonnie said with a shrug. "You've all been daggered by Klaus. Time for him to get the same treatment right?"

Katherine smiled and shook Elijah's arm. Elijah looked down at his hand with a pensive look on his face. Bonnie felt something in her stomach roll. Elijah was the one thing that she could not account fro in her plans. Somedays it seemed that he was all on board with getting rid of Klaus and other days he would get this long and wistful look on his face like he wanted nothing more than to be back under Klaus's thumb. Bonnie knew the allure of family. She was doing all this because of Grams, but even she knew that whatever relationship that Klaus and Elijah had was not healthy.

Bonnie smiled and patted Katherine's knee. "And you will handle Caroline."

The doppelgänger nodded and Bonnie turned back to face the fog. There in the distance a shadow was forming on the horizon. The boat driver pulled something and the motor sputtered before whirring faster. The boat sped towards the island that was forming through the fog. As they drew nearer and nearer it Bonnie saw the island where they kept Silas.

The island was a barren wasteland. It had a beach that was not made by rocks but with pebbles. Trees leant in the wind and had a grey cast to them. They looked more like wilted flowers than they did trees. The rest of the island were jagged crags and caves that tunneled into one another and over one another. She sighed and then she saw it.

Fires were alight along the rocky beach of the island. Bonnie straightened her shoulders as they drew near. Standing along the fires, through the haze were three figures. Two of them were obviously Klaus and Caroline but Bonnie could not think of who could be the third person. The boat sluggishly crawled onto the rocks of the beach and they dismounted the boat.

Bonnie drew her group closer to their foes and she smiled when she saw their faces. Caroline and Klaus's face were unchanged untouched by time. The third person was a man of dark skin and eyes they smiled. Elijah muttered under his breath.

"Marcellus…" he said.

Bonnie clapped her hands.

"It was kind of you to dispatch Kol and Rebekah to welcome us," Bonnie said. Her heart ached when she said Kol's name, but she shoved down the feeling. "They surely made us feel welcome."

"Well when you meet a witch that wants to bring about the end of the world," Klaus said with a chuckle.

Bonnie tilted her head and looked at Klaus. "End the world? Why does everyone seem to think that I want to end the world? I'm interested in saving the world, not ending it."

"Are you not here to raise Silas?" Klaus asked with a raised brow.

Bonnie shook her head. "I have no interest in Silas and what he wants. What I am interested in is the Cure." She could feel the eyes of both Katherine and Elijah on her but she ignored them. They did not need to know the true depths of her plan, not yet.

"Plan to make someone a human again?" Klaus had a cheeky grin on his face.

"That will be you Niklaus. If I do not desiccate you first," Elijah said taking a step forwards.

Klaus turned to look at his brother and the look was heated. It was filled with emotions that Bonnie could not name. It was a look of men of thousands of years and Bonnie felt as though she was intruding on something, some secret conversation, when she saw that look.

"Brother," was all Klaus said.

Bonnie clapped her hands again. "You are in the way."

"Bonnie—" Caroline started but Bonnie was tired of talking. She lifted a hand and sent a wave of power hurtling at Caroline. It hit and Caroline was sent flying back. Klaus and Marcellus gasped and Bonnie looked to Katherine and Elijah from the corner of her eye. They both nodded and ran forwards.

Elijah swiped at Klaus but his younger brother was fast and the two were soon entangled in a deadly dance. Katherine disappeared into the mist after Caroline. Bonnie smiled at Marcellus. Her fight would be a lot less heated than the other too.

"I never thought I'd see a Bennett witch use Expression," Marcellus said with a grin.

"I hear that a lot," Bonnie said. With a flick of her wrist, balls of fire conjured around Bonnie and she smiled for a moment before she sent them out to burn Marcellus to the ground.

Caroline rolled with the hit. Eventually she found her footing and sprung to her feet, but the moment that she did she was met with Katherine's face. Caroline's own face hardened.

"Hello Kat," Caroline hissed.

"Now, now don't do that," Katherine said with a frown.

"You are trying to kill the love of my life," Caroline said.

"The love of your life. Caroline you have never been with anyone else except for him. I doubt that he is the love of your life."

"Can you now see what he means to me. He liberated me! He made me who I am today."

"Not to be mean Care, but who you are today is a monster."

Caroline reeled back as though she had been hit. A monster… That is what they had called her sister when they had found out what she had been doing. Madness and demons had possessed her the people from their small town had said. The Devil is alive in that one. And Caroline watched as they carted her sister off, stuffing her into one of those wretched homes for the disease where she wasted away into nothing.

Vampire.

That was what Caroline was. She was a vampire. Vampire stalked their prey. They drank blood. They were the apex predators of the world. It was them that made sure that when the human race got rowdy, they settled down and humbled themselves. Caroline's fangs dropped and her eyes were muddied with blood.

No, she was no monster. She was a Vampire. And with that came power.

"You of all people know what that word means to me," Caroline whispered through her fangs.

Katherine nodded her head and then tilted her head, sighing. "I know what it means to you and that is why I said it. Being with Klaus has not made you any better. In fact, it has made you worst. Caroline you have to hear this. You have become a worse person since getting with Klaus."

"Stop it."

"You kill and you murder. And you did nothing as he slaughtered my family. You did nothing as he made me hide for five hundred year."

"Shut up."

"Did you even advocate for me? Did you ever take the time to consider your old friend Katherine while you were fucking yourself on his—"

"SHUT UP!"

Caroline launched herself at Katherine. Tears blurred her vision, but it was only a moment. The two fought, down and dirty. They slammed each other into the ground and rolled. They clawed and bit and slapped and punched. Caroline was turned a couple of days before Katherine, but the strength that granted her was miniscule. They were both the same age. Their years added up to the same number.

And so the two of them were evenly matched.

It was truly a battle between friends. No one stronger than the other. They only had their wills to rely on.

"Huh? Did you ever think of me once in the past five hundred years? Did you ever ask Klaus to spare me?" Katherine hissed. The doppelgänger raked a hand down Caroline's face, but as soon as the wound appeared it was gone. Caroline flipped them over, straddling Katherine waist and pummeling her with hits.

"I fought for you! I told you where we were going and when and for how long. All so that you could stay the fuck out of his way!" Caroline said. Under the pressure of a fist, Katherine cried out as a rib cracked. Caroline would have smiled at the sound, but the moment that the hit landed, the roles were flipped once again and Caroline was on the bottom.

"You chose to stay with him. You chose that man over me Caroline. You chose a man over your best friend!"

The words hit Caroline like a ton of bricks. She had. She had chosen Klaus over Katherine. She had wanted nothing more than to be the apple of his eye. To have him turn and look at her and acknowledge everything that she was. It was all she wanted. And now that she had it, her friend, her supposed best friend, could not find it within herself to be happy for Caroline.

Caroline growled under her breath and slashed downwards on Katherine's clothing. The thin material tore under her hands and Caroline's hand dove downwards. The skin parted like paper and Katherine cried out as the hand plunged into her chest. As soon as the hand dove into Katherine's chest, Caroline withdrew it immediately.

What the hell was she doing? This was her best friend. This was Kat, the person who still remembered who Carolina was. Caroline could remember the moments from before they became vampires. The time before they left their homes under the cover of darkness. She remembered moments where they lay in bed together whispering secrets to one another.

Those were the moments that we so near and dear to her heart. Those were the moments that brought Katherine and Caroline together. Those memories when they were nothing more than Carolina and Katherina; two girls in a world not made to contain them and everything that they were.

Tears stung Caroline's eyes and a sob left her chest. She wanted nothing more than to go back to those days, to turn around and enjoy those moments under the bed with Katherine. Katherine tossed Caroline off of her but made no move to rise from the ground. Caroline lay beside her looking at the cloudy sky that hovered above them.

"What happened to use Caroline? Why did everything change?" Katherine said in heavy pants. Caroline's eyes darted down to where the wound was supposed to be and was relieved to only find the smooth expanse of skin. She sighed.

"Men. Men happened," Caroline said. She paused for a moment. "Is this really the only way. Do we have to fight one another to the death all because of the men we chose to be with?"

"I think… I think we have gone too far to stop now," Katherine said. The two women rose from the ground and faced one another. "This is going to end with one of our men dying or maybe even one of us."

"I love you Katherine," Caroline whispered.

"I love you too," Katherine whispered back.

And then they launched at each other once again.

Author's Note: And so the final battle begins! They have reached Silas's island and Bonnie has plans for the Cure. What could she want it for? I have been finding time at work to write so this chapter is coming out sooner than I thought. I am really happy with the way that it is turning out! I hope that you all enjoyed this chapter and await the next one. Have a great Wednesday!