Previously called The Allure of Darkness, now known as Wicked Sins.I hope you all enjoy!!
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The fire's out but still it burns, and no one cares, there's no one there.
Flares: The Script
XX
Vampires have enhanced emotions.
They feel everything on a deeper level. Some will push them down, and probably end up flipping the switch. Some will thrive, they don't let the emotions hold them back. They use them to their advantage.
Caroline had to learn this the hard way.
The unexpected amount of rage that will come crawling out of nowhere. It makes you want to kill, anything and everything. Now, Elena was dealing with her new enhancements, and it wasn't going good. Rebekah wasn't helping either.
Caroline let's out a deep breath, while she and Stefan sit on top of a table outside the school, watching as Elena paces back and forth in front of them.
"It was a valiant first day effort. No one will judge you if you want to go home."
"I don't want to go home. I want to take the white oak stake and kill her. That's how mad I am. She made me murderous!"
Stefan speaks up, "How about we just leave the murdering to Damon?"
He gets up and walks towards Elena, who asks, "And-and then do what? Ignore her to death?"
Stefan sighs, "Look, she's trying to make herself feel better. She knows that everybody hates her, so she's trying to hate harder. Tell you what, let's just skip the rest of the day. Go have some fun. I feel like this day is severely lacking in fun." Elena looks towards Caroline, who smiles up at her.
The brunette reluctantly nods in agreement, "Yeah. Okay, fine." Stefan smiles, "Then, we'll go to her party and show her that she can't intimidate me. I just have to go home and change first."
She waves goodbye to Caroline and starts to leave, while Stefan turns around and looks at Caroline. She asks, "Does she seem a little off-balance to you?"
Stefan nods, "Yeah, she's channeling all her emotions into rage. It makes her feel like she has purpose. I used to do that too when I was...you know."
"Ripper-you?"
"Yeah. She needs to come to terms with it, confront it, let it in, before she can let it go."
Caroline nods, "You're good at this, you know that? You saved my vampire life, now you're saving hers."
They stand up and start to walk off together, Caroline states, "You should write a book. Go on The View."
"Hm."
XX
Caroline jumps up into Tyler's arms, once he opens the door. She giggles, moving forward, "I ditched Rebekah's ditching party." She kisses him, before glancing behind him noticing all the guards. "What's with all the testosterone?"
"Hybrids. I'm on house arrest."
Caroline scoffs, "Says who? Your mom?" She lowers her voice to a whisper, "Come on, let's sneak out."
"Not my mom, Caroline."
Caroline frowns confused, and Tyler gives her a pointed look. She gasps in realization, "You're kidding me. Klaus?"
Upstairs in the study, Hayley picks up a picture and looks at it when Klaus appears in the doorway behind her. "You're a new face."
"And I take it from your accent you're an old one." Hayley turns around to look up at him. "Klaus."
"My reputation precedes me", he smiles."Hopefully not all bad."
Hayley shrugs, "A little bad. Mostly repulsive."
Klaus moves closer towards her, "So, you're a friend of Tyler's? That's strange, he's never mentioned you." He quickly tones out their conversation, when he picks up another one downstairs.
Tyler states, "You should go to the party. I'll be fine here."
Caroline pouts, "But, I'd rather hang with you."
"Trust me, I am no fun right now."
Klaus turns back towards Hayley, with a devilish look on his face. "And I think I know why."
XX
"She's quite fetching, that Hayley."
Klaus smirks, setting his feet up against the desk in on the offices. He needed to be made aware of who she is and what she wanted. He knew that anyone making their way into this dreadful town, always has something up their sleeves.
Tyler freezes, "Where is she?"
"Oh, she had to run, but don't worry." Klaus tries to ignore the way it makes him angry. The fact that the mutt had a girl over staying with home, while Caroline, his girlfriend, wasn't made aware of. "I had her take the back door, so Caroline wouldn't see."
"Whatever you think you know..."
"I don't know anything, but I've put together a pretty convincing picture." He smiles smugly, "Why don't you tell me where my imagination deviates from reality?" Klaus stands, moving forward to circle around Tyler. "You went off to the Appalachians to break my sire-bond. There, you met a pack of werewolves, begged them for help. Among them was a girl. She was gorgeous, with the same animal instincts as you. Emotions ran high, inhibitions ran low-"
Tyler interrupts him, growling. "Stop it!"
Klaus ignores him, "-Then, in a moment of weakness, the thick sexual tension became something much more real."
Tyler turns sharply yelling, "I said stop!"
Klaus gleefully continues, "And Caroline has no idea."
Tyler looks back at Klaus flabbergasted, but their conversation is cut off when he's phone starts to ring. Klaus picks up the phone, sees that it's Damon calling Tyler, and smirks as he sits down in the chair and answers it for him. "Hello, Damon."
Damon frowns, "Klaus? Where's Tyler?"
"Tyler's otherwise occupied, making big decisions about honesty and whatnot. Is there anything I can do?"
"I'm going after the vampire hunter, so if he'd like to join...?"
Klaus nods, "He wouldn't. I, however..."
XX
The Hunter was exactly what he needed. Klaus needed someone to take his frustration out on. He needed someone to hurt, and Conner was the perfect option.
Conner grunts, trying to pull the arrow out of his side, while Damon and Klaus stand to the side watching gleefully. Damon calls, "Keep it up, buddy. We'll be scraping you off the ceiling."
"You two are gonna kill me anyway."
Klaus smirks, "Well, let's not be too hasty. I feel like we're just getting to know each other!"
"Let's start with the basics. Where are you from? What do you know? Maybe you can cue me in on this 'greater evil,' because I've fought this guy," Damon points towards Klaus, "and there's nothing more evil than that."
Damon hands Klaus the letter Pastor Young wrote to April that he stole from Connor's trailer, while Klaus smiles in amusement. "Yeah, truth be told, I'm as evil as it gets."
Connor shakes his head, "I'm not telling you anything. And-- if you think if you kill me, it's gonna be over-- there's another waiting to take my place."
Damon smirks, "See, this is what I like to hear; vague threats, ominous prophecies, disappearing tattoos."
Connor looks up at them, while Klaus glazes down at the Hunter and stops smirking. "What do you mean, tattoos?"
Damon scoffs, "Don't bother, you can't see the damn thing."
Klaus kneels down next to Connor, "There's more to you than meets the eye, isn't there?" Connor looks at him. He attempts to stake Klaus, but Klaus is too quick and catches his arm. "Nice try, but I'm faster than your average vampire."
Klaus twists his arm and grabs the stake out of his hand. He sees the mark carved into the wood and recognizes it. "You're one of the Five."
"The what?"
Connor moves forward, heading towards the string of the bomb. "And I'm faster than your average hunter."
Damon quickly rushes out of the room, leaving the other two men behind. The rush of heat, pushes Damon through the air, he quickly glances behind him as the massive fireball disperses.
XX
Klaus enters the bordering house, following the voices up to the bedrooms. Stefan sighs, "You came."
The hybrid nods, not bothering trying to state that it was Caroline's voicemail that made him come. "I did, and for future reference, one voicemail is just as effective as nine." Elena moans, while the poison presses through her system. "What's wrong, love?"
Klaus tries to ignore the way he feels as the nickname slips past his lips. The tainted taste it left dissolving in his mouth.
Stefan states, "She has werewolf venom in her system. You know you're the only one that can heal her, Klaus. Please."
"And what would you have done if I were no longer here? Hm? If you and your friends had succeeded in ridding the world of me? Let's play that game for a moment, shall we?"
Stefan angrily moves forward, "Whatever you want from me..."
"I don't want anything from you." He moves over towards Elena, sitting on the bed next to her. "Her, on the other hand..." He pauses for a moment. "If you had told me a few hours ago, I wouldn't have cared a lick about her dying. But, as it turns out..." He pauses, biting into his wrist, "You may be of use to me after all." He placed his wrist into her mouth, while she tries not to greedily drink down his blood. "Yes, there we go."
Klaus watches the doppelgänger consume the amount she needs. He can't help, but think of the only time her ever let someone bite him and enjoyed it.
XX
Flashback:
The venom was spreading through her system rapidly. The power of the hallucinations come down crashing, almost overwhelming her. They take away her strength, both mentally and physically.
She can't hear anything from downstairs, even going as far as doubting they have stayed to witness her doom. She lays weakly on her side of the bed, tucking her arm underneath her head.
Caroline doesn't hear him come in.
She does watch him freeze suddenly in the doorway, but she can't bring herself to care about how his breathing hitches. She weakly leans forward, "Are you going to kill me?"
Klaus responds softly, "On your birthday? You really think that low of me?"
"Yes."
She does. He's the big bad hybrid.
Klaus walks closer to the edge of the bed, carefully trying to examine the damage the bite has caused. The wound is yellow and dirty, looking dreadfully painful.
"That looks bad." Klaus is honestly surprised she can still talk. "My apologies, you're what's known as collateral damage. It's nothing personal." He touches her bracelet softly, "I love birthdays."
Caroline scoffs weakly, "Yeah. Aren't you like...a billion, or something?"
"Well you have to adjust your perception of time when you become a vampire, Caroline. Celebrate the fact that you're no longer bound by trivial human conventions." Klaus pauses smiling gently. "You're free."
"No, I'm dying."
Klaus sits on the bed next to her and whispers to her, "And I could let you die, if that's what you want. If you really believe your existence has no meaning. I thought about it myself, once or twice over the centuries, truth will be told." He pauses, "But I'll let you in on a little secret."
Caroline freezes, holding onto every word he drops. There was a way he captured her attention, unlike anyone else. If he was in the room, people would always know.
"There is a whole world out there, waiting for you. Great cities and art and music, genuine beauty. And you can have all of it. You can have a thousand more birthdays." He smiles, "All you have to do is ask."
"I don't wanna die."
Klaus lifts Caroline's head up and offers her his wrist. "There you go, sweetheart. Have at it." She gently bites into his skin, taking in the warm, thick blood.
It's different from the blood bags and animals, Stefan had wanted her to eat. It was better than everything else she has ever had.
"Happy Birthday, Caroline."
Klaus tries not to think about how it makes him feel. The spark he so desperately wants to ignore, but it doesn't work. He leaves that night, after gifting her that special diamond bracelet.
He can only think about her.
XX
Caroline opens the front door to the boarding house, while Stefan sits in the parlor with a drink in hand. She calls out, "Hey."
Stefan looks up from starring mumbling down at the drink, "Hey. Thanks for coming."
Caroline walks into the room nodding, "Not every day I get summoned by a Salvatore. So, what's up?"
Stefan sighs, "Do you remember what you were like before you turned?"
"You mean an insecure control-freak?" Stefan laughs, while Caroline sits down. "Yeah."
Stefan nods, "You grew into yourself when you became a vampire. You changed. And Elena, she's changing too, and I want her to be able to enjoy it, without all the guilt and shame that I went through." He pauses, trying to let it all sink in. "And there was a moment today when she did. And when I'm with her, every bone in my body tells me to join her. To enjoy it. But, I know that if I do, even a little, I risk becoming him...the Ripper. I love her, and I don't want to hold her back."
Caroline nods, starting to understand. "But you don't know how to be around her and still resist that urge."
"Damon promised he'd help me stay off the edge, but he and I...we're not in a very good place right now. Not when it comes to her. I just thought, you're so good at it, at being a vampire."
Caroline laughs, "Because of you, Stefan. I'm good at it because of you. Come to me, whenever you want, and I won't let you lose control."
XX
Connor wakes up confused on the couch in his trailer. He attempts to get up, but is pushed back down by Klaus. "You saved me."
Klaus nods, "Congratulations, you just became worth more to me alive than dead."
"What-what did you mean when you said I was one of the Five?"
"You don't know your own history?" Klaus kneels down next to him. "Well, let's just say, it's made you the most well-protected vampire hunter in town."
XX
She didn't know what to feel.
She could tell that someone was home, because a couple of the lights were on inside the house, but she's scared. It had been ten years since she had last seen anyone in this damn town.
Caroline and Liz.
They only people she even missed.
Stepping out of the cab confidently, she takes in the white small house. "Thank you," she says softly. Handing the cab driving a couple hundred dollar bills, before shutting the back door.
Walking towards the house is one of her worse experiences, and that's saying a lot for someone like her. Her insides feel like their getting cut up by glass shards.
Stepping onto the porch, she gently moves forward knocking against the door three times. Before starting to play around nervously with her jacket sleeve.
She looks up as the door opens.
Elizabeth Forbes, stands there shocked. Even though she knew the brunette was coming, it still was a shock after all these years.
The brunette brushes her hair behind her ear, before whispering, "Hello Liz."
"Alice."
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Did you see the sparks filled with hope? You are not alone. 'Cause someone's out there, sending out flares.
Flares: The Script