BookLover1182 - There will be two more chapters, not including this one before Caroline finds out that she is pregnant.
Strange things are happening
The first thing he notices when he wakes up is that he's not in the mansion anymore, but that doesn't mean that he doesn't recognize his surroundings. It seems that the witch preferred his room back in England.
While he is lying in bed, she has placed herself in front of a dressing table, now looking a lot more like Marjorie Ceton then Cyrena Maganti. "Is this a memory?" because the entire scene feels familiar.
Turning towards him she gives him a small smile. "Something in that direction." He would have preferred a yes or no answer. "I thought that you would like it more, waking up here for now."
"And why is that?"
Her simile grows, and she moves to stand by the edge of the bed. "Because your body is processing the spells I performed while you were out and right now, you might feel a bit weak and cold."
He studies her, trying to read what she's after but the witch is giving nothing away. "What did you do to me?"
She takes place next to him on the bed, sitting there studying him back. He has a hard time focusing on her eyes, the one feature that truly tells him that this is still Cyrena since they are ever shifting in colour.
After a while of them just staring at each other she grabs his hand in hers and now she looks almost kindly on him. "I didn't do what I alluded to before, I would feel no pleasure being with you when your heart truly belongs to someone else."
Maybe that is supposed to make him feel better, but he would have preferred it over being powerless while she performed her spells on him, spells that he still has no idea of what they have done. "Speak clearly, witch."
Suddenly the hand that she is holding starts to feel colder than the rest of his body. Looking at it he can't see any difference, but he imagines that that is what his entire body feels like.
"You love her." She places her hand over his heart. "You gave her your heart without even knowing it." He plans to set her straight, that he is one that doesn't love but she stops him by putting a finger against his lips. "I know it's cruel, but a side effect of my spells. Caroline will make you feel stronger than ever before, anyone else, well you have gotten a taste of that." She looks at his hand.
What she is alluding to, it can't be possible, whatever spell can cause a side effect like that. Considering his behaviour towards Caroline earlier, and his decision to kill Tyler's mother, well she obviously hates him.
How did everything go so wrong for them? Sure, at some point maybe they should have understood that they would not be able to defeat Klaus, but if she ever sees Hayley again, she's going to rip out the lying werewolf's heart.
She had a good plan, Bonnie confirmed that it was a good plan, and all fell apart when the one person they had put almost all their fate in betrayed them. It's not like she ever cared about Hayley before, she mostly wishes that Tyler didn't have to be the one to get the short end of the stick.
It doesn't make it easier that the memorial they are having right now at school talks about Carol's death as an accident, she understands Tyler's reaction when he leaves, no one wants to hear their murdered mother being described as a drunk who fell in the fountain.
When her own mother asks them to bend their heads for a minute of quiet she as her classmates do ask asked, and once more she wonders, how did everything go so wrong.
Her day seems to be continuing in it normally wonderful way when she is informed that Rebekah is out of her coffin, well that's how it goes when you give vervain to a human and don't tell the vampires.
It also seems like her friends never learns, why in the world would it be any easier to take down Rebekah instead of Klaus and let say that their plan would have worked out, which it didn't because she is sitting compelled in the library, wouldn't Rebekah's brothers just want revenge for their sister's death.
Well talking about that compulsion, it feels unusually weak, like if she just tried to go against it, she would have been able to, perhaps she should look into that if it didn't risk making Rebekah even angrier.
Speaking of the devil, Rebekah enters the library dragging Stefan with her. Once she has them all seated and properly compelled she starts with her questions, wanting to know all they have found out about the cure.
Surmising correctly that somewhere along the line, something went wrong, since they have the sword, so they should have been able to locate the cure, but still, all of them are vampires.
"You're wasting your time," Stefan says after Rebekah have sent April away. "We don't know anything."
Rebekah scoffs not believing that for one second. So, you just gave up? I thought you would do anything to save Elena? Even if it meant taking the cure yourself, so you could grow old and die with her?" Elena's surprised face catches Rebekah's attention. "Why do you look so surprised?" but no one answers her. "I'm missing something. What is it?"
"They broke up, okay?" Caroline answers hoping that Rebekah lets them go if they give her at least something. "Now let us go." She rises from her seat.
Standing up might not have been the smartest of moves if Rebekahs irritated look is to go by. "Sit down," Rebekah commands but Caroline remains standing, which is when the Original sister tries to compel her again without effect. "Are you taking vervain?"
Just as surprised as Rebekah is, Caroline shakes her head. "I have no idea, why it isn't working." Not that she's complaining about being unable to be compelled but it would be nice to know why.
Since compulsion doesn't work, Rebekah chooses to resort to force to get Caroline to sit down once more. "Did your witchy friend do something?" she wonders once Caroline is seated.
Once again Caroline shakes her head, but it might be another witch, she thinks. "Cyrena." Comes out in a whisper and the reaction she can see on Rebekah mimics the one Klaus had. "You've heard of her too, who is she?"
She can see the nervousness that has come over the fellow blond that now decides to ignore her. "The cure, that is what we are supposed to talk about. Where can I find it?" she asks the ones that can be compelled.
"Hey, don't ignore me." Caroline protest.
Rebekah gives her a stern look. "Another word from you and your two friends her will be ripping their hearts out." She once more turns to the others. "The cure?"
"There's a professor, he knows where the cure is." Stefan answers her.
Once Cyrena had left his mansion, everything returned to more or less the same. He can still feel the spell moving inside of him, but whatever control she had over him seems to be gone. Thinking about it brings an ice-cold kiss against his lips, while thoughts of Caroline gives him a feeling of warmth.
Why this is so important to Cyrena, he would gladly know. But the witch wanted to keep her plans a secret, not telling him anything, when he asked.
He sighs, accepting for now that he will just have to wait for answers and picks up his phone to see if he missed anything while Cyrena occupied him. Apparently, three whole days have passed since the night she arrived at the mansion.
Deciding to keep himself busy as to not think about the witch's spells too much he decides to see how the hunt for the cure is going if their hunter has made any progress so far.
Still stuck in the library Rebekah had at this point got them to give her all the information they knew about the cure and more, she seems to find pleasure in tormenting Elena and Stefan by asking her friend about her love life.
The only time she had left them alone was when Kol showed up with Shane, but even with Rebekah gone, help was too far away for Caroline to do anything, but they all would have preferred that she had stayed gone.
During Rebekah's game of truth or dare, Tyler suddenly enters the library. "Ah, good, you're here. It was just getting depressing." her boyfriend seems quite surprised by the events unfolding in front of him. "Listen to the rules carefully. Stay in the building, no vamp-running in the hallways." Rebekah instructs them.
"Vamp-running from what?" whatever Rebekah has planned, they are probably not going to like it.
Instead of answering her, Rebekah turns to Tyler catching his eyes. "Turn." She compels him to everyone's horror.
Caroline guesses that she will be able to run, considering that the compulsion doesn't work in her, but her friends will be sitting ducks, just as Rebekah planned. With no more information to gain from them, they're of no use to her any longer.
Before she leaves the room, she gives the command to Tyler ones more and he is doing his best to fight it. While watching Tyler she starts to hear the whispers of something around her. But having to focus on running she does her best to shut them out.
Out in the corridor, she goes to the left while Stefan and Elena turn right, and she is doing her best to use her vamp-speed, but she can't, maybe Rebekah's compulsion had some effect still and she breathes a sigh of relief when she notices that Tyler isn't after her.