Do you trust me
Confused and uncertain of what happened to her she looks around the room. Klaus is sitting right in front of her and his presence is making her feel safe, safer than she has felt in a long time.
Behind Klaus is Tyler, and to her surprise, a living Kol is standing with them in the room. "What happened?" a part of her is wondering if she is dreaming.
It's like the three men expect someone else to answer and when they don't hear from that person they start to search for something in the room. "Where did she go?" Tyler wonders.
"Who?" she asks confused.
"Cyrena." Klaus answers her, grabbing her hand and stroking it with his thumb. "Caroline, when was the last time you feed?" he sounds almost nervous.
She doesn't understand the question, not really, but she makes her best effort trying to remember. "Before the pageant." Is the best answer she can come up with, it just feels like she should be feeling the cravings stronger right now if that's true?
Looking at Klaus waiting for him to explain why he asked, what has really happened to her, she finds herself feeling more and more nervous. "It appears that Cyrena did something to you, something about making you pure. She wouldn't really tell us more."
Instinctively she wants to make sure that he is okay, that he understands that she feels fine. She places her hand against his cheek. "It will be okay Klaus, I know that she is going to give her answers once she is ready." Who she is so calm about the situation, she can't explain.
Somehow it feels like this was meant to happen, whatever she has become it is her destiny. She can wait for answers because she knows that she will get them.
Looking to her boyfriend who is staring at Klaus, he is obviously not happy about the fact that she is this close to the older hybrid.
With a reassuring smile to Klaus, she gets off the couch and embraces her boyfriend. "I'm fine." She tries to calm him but the feeling when he embraces her back feels wrong.
Sighing he draws her attention to the one who is supposed to be dead. "Caroline, can you explain him?" he asks, and she understands that he isn't happy about anything right now.
She separates from Tyler and turns to Kol. "He is supposed to have answers." She recognises his face from her dream. "about someone that is not meant to wake."
As a response to her words, Kol smirks. "Well, it would have been nice if you had told your friends that before they left to wake Silas."
The answers Kol had given her were alarming, to say the least. He explained that some believe Silas capable of creating a hell on earth if he ever were to wake, which her friends are about to do in their search for the cure.
She needs a way to stop them, but there is no way for them to catch up and for now, they seem unable to pick up their phones, leaving Caroline helpless back in Mystic Falls.
While she believes every word Kol has said, Tyler is not as certain, and he is making that very clear after he has moved them up to Elena's room for some sort of privacy. "How do we even know that this is real?"
"Because Kol is the one that's supposed to have answers." She tries to explain to him. "And I don't think he knows of any other dangerous person that's meant to kept sleeping right now." She takes his hands in hers. "I know that it is a lot to take in, but I can feel that this is right.
Shaking his head, he removes her hands from his. "So what, you don't want them to find the cure?" she wants her friends to succeed, of course, but not at this cost. "What if this is another way to make sure we don't use the cure on them?" he tries to reason with her.
"Tyler, I know that you hate Klaus, you have every right to hate him, but this isn't a plan to make sure you are unable to force the cure down his throat." Thinking about it she wonders how they would even be capable of doing it. "You can't cure him." She ads determined.
Now he looks at her like she just grew a second head. "How can you take his side?"
Seeing how he is getting angrier by the second she is doing her best to stay calm. "I'm not, I'm taking my side." He shakes his head unable to understand. "I need Klaus immortal." She needs him to understand this. "What I did to Kol, Klaus is the only one that can wake me after something like that."
"Let me guess, that is something you just feel is right too." He throws his arms up and she wishes that she had better answers for him. "We should find a way to fix whatever this witch did to you."
Raising an eyebrow, she wonders if Tyler is fully aware of what he just said. "Seriously, you did not just say that." He is at least smart enough to look ashamed. "Last time someone wanted to fix me was when my father tortured me and I'm going to say to you what I said to him, I can't be fixed."
"You don't know that until we've tried." He takes a few steps closer to her.
"Tyler, what you want doesn't matter." She can see that he wants to argue but she stops him. "What I want matters and right now I want to wait until Cyrena is ready to talk." How are they to know that anything they try doesn't make things worse?
"So, you are okay with this weird connection to Klaus." Of course, that's the problem, perhaps the only one really.
She takes a deep breath. "Just because you hate him doesn't mean I have to." Her phone starts to ring, and she sees that it's Elena. "I'm not saying that I forgive him and is planning to forget all that he has done, but maybe I'm willing to give him the chance to do better."
Before Tyler can argue back, she answers Elena's call and leaves the room. She knows that this is not the end of their argument, but after she tries to reach her friends she's not planning to ignore them when they are calling her, hopefully, they're not calling to say that they already found the cure.
During their time alone, the brothers have barely said a word to one another. Both, but especially Klaus has constantly listened in on the conversation between Caroline and Tyler upstairs. When Tyler says that he wants her fixed, Klaus bangs his hand against the barrier.
Studying his brother Kol sits calmly in an armchair, rolling his eyes at Klaus behaviour. Whatever Cyrena has done, they're going to need more answers before all hell breaks loose. The best would be to make sure Caroline's friends are kept in the dark for now.
Unlike Kol, Klaus has started to wander around the room, nervously. "Relax Nik, what's the worst that can happen, he convinces her to continue to hate you?"
Kol is given an angry glare from his brother. "I don't need your commentary right now, Kol." Soon after their both distracted by a phone ringing.
They can hear Caroline's voice and Kol can see how she is coming down the stairs with a worried look on her face, everything is apparently going wrong for her friends on the island and stopping Silas from waking seems almost impossible right now when Shane has disappeared with both Bonnie and Jeremy.
Caroline sighs as she joins the brothers on the other side of the barrier. "Elena there's something I need all of you to understand, so can you make sure that Stefan and Rebekah are listening?" while Elena is putting her on speaker Caroline makes it clear to Kol to stay quiet, she has the same idea about keeping them in the dark.
"Caroline, what is going on." They hear Stefan's voice through the phone.
"It's a long story, but you must do your best to stop Shane from waking Silas."
"If it's not too late already," Klaus adds very pessimistically. "Find the witch and hunter and then get the bloody hell off that island before you make everything worse."
"Since when are you so against this Nik, so afraid that they're going to cure you." Rebekah sounds annoyed over the fact that they aren't supportive of their endeavour.
As an answer both Klaus and Caroline are saying the same thing at once. "It's a long story." One neither of them are willing to tell right now.
Needing a way to find their missing people Elena reveals the real reason that they called in the first place. "We think we can find them with the pictures we have of Jeremy's tattoo, but we just can't translate the map." Not without the sword.
Caroline is looking to Klaus that is still in possession of it. "I moved it to the attic, in case someone planned to remove me from the equation by trying to steal it." Once the words have left his mouth, Kol leaves the house the only one of the three that can still get there with vampire speed, leaving Caroline to try and convince her friends of leaving the cure alone.
It doesn't take long for Kol to return with the sword in hand and around the same time Tyler decide to come down the stairs. To Caroline's relief, the two hybrids seem to ignore each other for now.
Needing the pictures, she collects Elena's computer and places herself on the couch. "So, how does this work?" she asks.
Kol hands the sword to Klaus who starts to remove the leather strap around the handle. "The cryptex will give us the translation to the pictures." He looks at her with a smile. "Cyrena didn't pack the knowledge of Aramaic into your brain with everything she has done?"
"I hope you don't ask because she needs to have done it." If they have to translate it with only the internet to help, well it could take some time.
"Don't worry darling," Kol says and sits next to her to look over the pictures. "We are well versed in the language."
Relived she starts to study the map seeing if she can understand anything or if this is something they just have to trust the Mikaelson brothers with, which she knows her friends wouldn't be very pleased with if they found out.
Looking at the pictures of the tattoo she starts to feel faint and, in the distance, she can hear someone calling her name, maybe Tyler while another voice is commanding that she is taken outside.
It feels like a fog surrounding her until she has been removed from the room and she can just hear the brothers discussing that whatever has happened to her, perhaps if she could control it, she wouldn't need the sword to read the map.
Turning her focus back on herself she takes a few deep breaths while Tyler is sitting quietly beside her in the hammock with a worried frown.
She wishes that she had an explanation to what just happened if the brothers are right and it was caused by a power she is yet to control or if there is something in those pictures that whatever she has become reacts badly to.
Looking at her boyfriend, she is glad to have him there, but it feels wrong. Feeling like this, she wants it to be Klaus, knowing that his presence would have a calming effect, at least one that is stronger than the one Tyler is giving her.
Wanting to at least reassure Tyler that everything is okay she takes his hand in hers. "I feel better now."
But his worried frown and the sadness in his eyes don't go away. "Our plans just end in a disaster." He says and looks through the window at the brothers. "What happens when Klaus can leave the barrier?"
"What do you mean?" why would anything different happen to before.
Annoyed that she doesn't seem to understand him Tyler stands up. "Caroline, he is going to want revenge over the fact that I even thought of curing him."
She shakes her head and moves to stand in front of him, laying her hands on his shoulders. "I won't let him." She can't even fathom what Klaus would get out of it. "And if he for some idiotic reason tries he is going to have to go through me."
Tyler takes a deep breath. "You don't know that he won't do that Caroline, and I'm not going to use this weird connection you have with him as a shield." He moves her hands from his shoulders to hold in his hands. "Especially not when we should be working on getting rid of it."
She needs to take a few deep breaths to make sure that she doesn't sound too annoyed at her boyfriend. "I thought that I made it clear that I want to wait before we make any decisions about this."
"I just don't trust this witch, and what's to say that Klaus doesn't have anything to do with all of it." He tries to get her to see his side of things.
She understands that at least, that he is worried, but she also understands that he is probably not as worried about losing her as he is about losing to Klaus. In their game of dominance, she is the piece that Tyler has always had over Klaus.
"Tyler, I don't need you to trust anyone but me, but if you can't do that, then maybe we need to determine where we actually stand with each other and what we want." She will always care for him and love him in a way, but maybe this is as far as their relationship is supposed to go.
The fact that he isn't giving her an answer right now tells her that even if he does trust her, he mistrusts Klaus more and if what has happened to her is irreversible then that won't work.
An uncomfortable tension has been created between them, one that is barely even broken when Kol comes out to them. "We are done." He informs them. "We know where the professor should be heading."
He had managed to ignore the conversation that had passed between Caroline and Tyler on the porch, so when Tyler had chosen to leave instead of joining his girlfriend inside he did wonder why.
It's not until Kol has also left them after his sister and Caroline's friends have been informed of what they learned that he finds it appropriate to ask. "Is everything okay between you two?"
Caroline takes place on the couch with a sigh. "Do you really want to know or are you just asking so that you can revel in your own victory?"
Normally it might have been the latter but after everything that has happened, he wants to make sure that she at least feels somewhat okay about the situation. "I want to know how you are doing." He says and sits next to her.
"I'm fine." she says, not very convincing and when he raises his brow questioning it she laughs. He hasn't thought about it before, but he really likes her laugh. "Thanks, I need that." She adds when she stops laughing.
"I'm sorry." When the word leaves his mouth, she looks at him waiting for him to continue to explain why he suddenly is apologising. "For my anger, when I thought that you had played with my feelings." Now he knows that it wasn't her fault.
She takes a deep breath and turns so that she is sitting facing him. "Well, maybe I should admit that I didn't think there were any real feelings to play with." She takes his hand in hers. "What happens now, what do we do until Cyrena tell us more?"
He wishes that he could give her some answer, any idea of what should happen, but he is just as lost as her, if not more. She seems to at least have a feeling of understanding, this thing Cyrena has done to her lets her trust that they will get answers, something he doesn't feel.
"What do you want to happen?" he decides to turn the question back to her.
She seems to think about it for some time, and he is willing to give her all the time she needs. "I don't want my friends to know just yet." That is the thing she's the most certain with. "But I need time to think this through. Cyrena connected us in some way and for now, I would like to focus on the thing that has changed about me. It's nothing against you, I want to understand what is going on between us to but just not yet. So, if we can wait until I feel more ready that would be great."
A soft laugh leaves his throat when she starts to ramble. "Whatever you want, love." He rests his hand against her neck and moves closer so that their foreheads rest against each other. "If you want me to stay away I will do so until you are willing to come to me."