Summary: Kai's reaction to Bill torturing Caroline

Place: Mystic Falls

Date: July/August 2010

How long had she been down here? No matter how much she cried and yelled and begged, her father never stopped his torture. So what if she equated pain with drinking blood? That would only cause her to be averse to drinking the one thing that sustained her. She'd turn gray and desiccate. It would be as good as killing herself. Why couldn't her father see that? Why couldn't he see she was better as a vampire than as a human?

As Caroline looked at the door, she wondered if anyone had noticed that she had gone missing. Kai had told her about the telepathic connection they shared as Procreator and Offspring. If anyone would find her, it'd be him.

God, how did she become so much closer to a person she only met a year before than she was with the friends she had known all her life? In a short amount of time, Kai had become her rock, her strong support, and her protector. He was the older brother she never had. She trusted him more than anyone else in her life. She had to stay strong. She was certain he'd come for her.

Kai walked through the streets of Mystic Falls frantically trying to find Caroline. He felt it when she was distressed. He knew she was in great pain, both physically and emotionally. But their connection was muddled due to her compromised emotional state. Once again he had to resort to using a tracking spell.

When he arrived at the old cellar, he saw the Sheriff and the pup making their way over from the opposite direction. "Kai?" the Sheriff said.

Tyler remained a step behind the Sheriff as he would never forget the threat Kai served him with after the incident with the werewolves. "If you hurt Caroline again, I'll serve you your balls on a platter. Are we clear?"

"Hello, Liz."

"Is it Caroline?"

"Yes, the tracking spell led me here," Kai said. "How did you know where to find Caroline?"

The Sheriff sighed but said nothing as she cocked her gun and went to unlock the cellar door. She aimed the gun at the man standing at the bottom of the stairs. "Hello, Bill."

"Liz…" the man said.

Although Kai didn't know how the two knew each other, he just moved past the man and went to the metal door. When Bill tried to stop him, he found himself flung to the far wall and pinned.

"Caroline," he called out. He moved quickly when he saw her pale, sweating form tied to the chair.

"Kai?" Caroline looked up, a small smile forming on her lips. "You're really here. I knew you'd come."

"I'm here, Caroline," he said as he smoothed her matted hair back from her face. He noticed the unhealed burn marks on her body. "I'm right here." He rifled through his pockets and brought a red capsule to her lips. "Here. I need you to bite down. It'll help you heal."

Caroline bit down on the tube and swallowed quickly. Her color improved and the burns on her back healed almost immediately from the high concentration of red blood cells in the capsule. He removed her shackles and picked her off the chair.

"Wait, my ring."

Tyler picked up the ring and placed it on Caroline's finger. Kai opened a portal to Caroline's bedroom and stepped through with Tyler and the Sheriff, leaving Bill in the cellar, still pinned to the wall. Kai brought over several blood bags for Caroline to drink to help her recover. He let Liz take over comforting Caroline as he left to talk to Tyler in the living room.

The pup's heartbeat had been erratic for a while now and he was sweating buckets. "Do you have something to tell me, Tyler?" He said nothing. "No? Then, I guess I'll have to painfully take the information I need from your mind."

Tyler found himself paralyzed before Kai placed his fingers on his temple. He held in his screams as the Heretic rifled through his brain, picking out everything he needed.

Kai finally let go and let Tyler fall onto the floor. "Well, at least you didn't stand back like a coward this time, eh? Lucky for you, you're not on my shitlist today."

Before he could leave, Liz called out to him. "Kai." He stopped. "Thank you for helping Caroline. You've been a great friend to her."

"She's been a great friend to me, too."

"You're going to see Bill, aren't you?"

"I won't kill him. I don't want Caroline to hate me." Kai left the house with Caroline asleep in her bed, safe with her mother.

He made his way to the old cellar, where William Forbes was pinned to the wall where he had left him. "You know, you remind me a lot of my father. He's the leader of the Gemini coven. The coven has this ritual called the Merge where the stronger twin absorbs and kills the weaker one. I was born a Siphoner witch, a side effect of the Merge, which gave me a natural advantage over my twin sister. But my father acted like being born a Siphoner was my fault. Like I chose to be what he considered to be an abomination." Kai's eyes bored into the older man's. "You remind me of him. And trust me when I say, that's not a good thing. I have so many murder fantasies involving him that I'd love to try out on you."

"I'm just trying to protect her. Caroline would be devastated if she hurt someone."

"Protect her?" Kai scoffed. "Okay, let's say you succeeded in making her associate drinking blood with pain. She'd stop hunting and feeding. She'd grow weak, desiccate, and die. Is that what you're hoping for? You couldn't put a stake through her heart so you were hoping she'd commit suicide. Does that make you feel better as a father? To lead your daughter to her death?"

Bill shook his head, not willing to admit he was in the wrong. When he got the call from Carol that Caroline had become a vampire, he didn't think. He just acted. He just couldn't reconcile his beloved daughter becoming one of the monsters he hunted. He didn't have the stomach to kill her but he could help her become less monstrous. So long as she didn't feed on blood… He didn't stop to think about what would happen if Caroline no longer fed.

"You say you want to protect her, but where were you over the past year when this town became infested with the supernatural. You're a vampire hunter, who left your daughter in a town known for having vampire problems with no protection from compulsion or training to defend herself. You have no idea what she's been through in the past year."

Bill perked up at that. He hadn't been in town for a while and hadn't been paying attention to all the happenings in town. "I met Caroline last summer and became friends. After she entered school, she cut off all contact. You know, a decent father would've checked up on his daughter if she went a month without contacting him. It's what I did. When I found her, she was afraid and alone, shivering with bite scars all over her body." Bill's eyes widened. "Oh, right you were too busy burning her to notice that she had become a vampire's chew toy."

"Who? Who was it?" Bill yelled, thrashing against his magical bond.

"Oh, don't act like you suddenly care now. You should've given her vervain. You could've just given her a little bracelet with some dried vervain and ask her not to take it off so you'd always be with her. And she loves you so much she would've worn it forever without ever taking it off and she'd be protected like you said you wanted to do," Kai said. "Now I'm not done with my story. Your friend, John Gilbert set off a device to incapacitate supernaturals with sensitive hearing not knowing the Lockwoods had the werewolf gene. Tyler was driving and crashed his car with your daughter in it. She broke every bone in her body and suffered from internal bleeding. Had I not given her vampire blood to heal, would you have come to her funeral?

"Oh, and then she was smothered in her hospital bed by a 500-year-old vampire, who threatened her mom. Ah, let's not forget the torture by the werewolves and the fact that she was almost a sacrifice to break a thousand-year-old curse."

Bill had fallen silent as Kai told him of the events that had occurred over the past year. He hadn't known any of it. He barely noticed when Kai removed the spell pinning him to the wall.

Kai flashed to the man and bit him violently in the neck, causing him to cry out. Kai quickly spit out the vervain-laced blood and held Bill by his throat. He knew the man would likely be on vervain but he didn't care. He wouldn't kill Caroline's father but he wanted the old man to feel even a fraction of the pain he caused Caroline.

With his red eyes, swollen veins, and fangs on display he looked at Caroline's father. "Get out of town, Bill. Caroline doesn't need you to protect her. You're only adding to her trauma. I've been protecting her for the last year and will continue to do so so long as she wants me to. Even as a vampire, she has a kind heart. Thank your daughter, Bill. She's the reason you're not dead."

When Kai left Bill alone in that cellar, his fingers were itching to murder. He wanted to kill Bill Forbes and Tyler Lockwood and Damon Salvatore. He even wanted to wring the doppelganger's neck and everyone else in this annoying little town. But he couldn't.

He ran over to a larger town nearby, where miscreants were known to gather and he gorged on their blood. It was disgusting. Kai usually watched what he ate. He hated the taste of druggies, smokers, alcoholics, and the obese. His meals were tailored, which was why he preferred to feed in the blood clubs and on working professionals as they would be less likely to have those chemicals in their blood while at work.

But for the moment, the gang of drug traffickers would do. He was actually doing society a favor by killing them, anyway.

Place: Mystic Falls

Date: July/August 2010