Telling a friend
Lying in bed together feels so simple, she can almost forget that there's a world outside where her friends won't understand how she can care about Klaus or the danger that always seems to happen around them.
Her fingers are following the patterns of his tattoo, the birds that come flying out of the feather. "Is this real?" Klaus asks her. "You want to be here?" there's doubt coming from him and she can understand if he needs recurrence that she won't disappear.
If there's one thing Caroline knows, it's how it feels to be a second choice. "I want this Klaus." She wants to be here, and nowhere else. "I do choose to give us a chance."
He kisses her on the head while whispering a thank you. "You don't understand how much that means to me."
She probably doesn't, but she believes that it isn't far from how she is feeling. She wanted someone to choose her, pick her. It feels like a lifetime ago that she had that conversation with Bonnie and she wasn't imagining someone like Klaus when she said those things.
Their perfect moment together is interrupted by the ringing of Klaus phone, and she would gladly have taken it from him and thrown it across the room if it wasn't Stefan that was calling.
Klaus apparently has a similar thought, or at least he plans to ignore the call. "It could be important."
"Your friends always seem to think that it is." But he does answer. "Whatever could you need my help with?"
Klaus puts the phone on speaker so that Caroline can easier hear her friend. "We need to figure out who to stop a third massacre to happen. Apparently, Silas has made it to town."
There was that thing about the danger that always surrounds them. But without the cure, they don't have a good way of stopping him and Caroline isn't sure of how much she can actually do in this situation.
"And I should just be inclined to help because you're asking." She looks upset at Klaus, he knows that they need to stop Silas so why is he making this so much harder than it has to be.
"Silas is a danger to all of us." Stefan says, sounding just as annoyed as Caroline is feeling. "So, come to the boarding house and I'll fill you in." he hangs up before Klaus can complain some more.
"Since when did he get the right to give out orders." Even if she's annoyed at Klaus unwillingness to work with her friends she can't help but laugh at his frustration.
Sure, she would rather stay in bed too, but the faster they deal with Silas, the faster they can find some time to figure out what will happen next with them.
She sits up and gives him a kiss. "Don't worry, you're still the stronger of the two of you." She says trying to cheer him up.
In response, he rolls his eyes. "Before all of this started, I was supposed to be the strongest being on the planet." His eyes settle on her stomach. "Annoyingly enough, I'm probably the weakest one in this room."
That could probably be debated, she thinks. Sure, she might be able to take him down, but doing so would most likely put her in a coma that she can't wake from without his help. but there's no doubt that she is more equal in strange to him now.
"Poor you." She says with a smile. "How are you going to survive."
"I'll do my best." He says kissing her shoulder.
"It's more than you could say about my clothes." She holds up her shirt that is far from useable. "You have to be more careful with my clothes."
"I'll buy you a new one." He comments. "In the meanwhile, you can borrow something from Rebekah's wardrobe."
She has to admit that his sister does have a good sense of style, but she can't believe he's serious. "She's going to kill me."
"Not certain she can, luv." He laughs. "She will most likely not even notice it."
Caroline isn't as certain of the fact, and if there is anyone that would figure out a way to kill her it would be Rebekah in retaliation for even touching something that is hers, but what other choice does she really have.
It looks like a tornado has made its way through the Salvatore boarding house. Red plastic cups are thrown all over the room, it seems like the people at this party has found every single bottle of alcohol in the house and she is certain that the furniture has seen better days.
Picking up one of the cups with liquid still in it she turns to Klaus. "Who do we think is behind all of this?" she has her suspicions.
The look Klaus gives her indicates that he is thinking the same thing, this is most likely the work of humanity-less Elena. "You're not planning on drinking that, right?" he points to the cup in her hand.
She shakes her head and makes a disgusted face while putting it down again. No, she has no interest in drinking someone's leftover booze, and especially not while she is pregnant.
Starting to wonder where her friend is after he's the one that invited them she calls out to him. "Stefan." It's weird that he's making them wait since it sounded urgent on the phone.
It takes a while for him to join them. "I had to finish a call with Damon." He excuses himself and looks surprised to see her there. "Did Klaus call you or…"
"I was at his when you called." She says not feeling like hiding the fact that she is starting to build something with the original hybrid. "We were supposed to talk about Silas." she sits down on the sofa trying to avoid the mess.
Stefan explains to them how Liz had informed him that blood banks in the area have had a sudden rising in thefts of their blood. Most likely it's Silas work, he has followed them from the island.
While Stefan has explained the situation, Klaus has poured himself a drink from Damon's bourbon. "What about Elena? Don't vampires with their humanity off tend to overindulge in human blood, or were you the exception?" he turns to Stefan smirking.
But Stefan shakes his head. "It's not Elena." With the amount of blood that has disappeared it's unlikely that she would have been able to steal it without their knowledge. "Look. Silas wants to die and be reunited with his one true love, but he's supernatural, so if he takes the cure and dies, he gets stuck on the Other Side."
"How Shakespearian," Klaus says taking a seat next to Caroline. "And you don't need to convince us that he has to be stopped, were already on board with that so let's speed up this storytelling."
Stefan looks a bit confused over Klaus willingness to stop Silas. "Damon mentioned that you had no intention of helping in finding the cure for Elena, so what happens when we get it from Katherine and Silas is stopped." He asks.
"But we need the cure to stop Silas." Caroline joins the discussion, hoping that her friend will believe her over Klaus. "I told you that I had a bad feeling about all of this." Stefan nods to show that he is listening. "Well, I lied that it was because everything we do usually makes things worse." She takes a deep breath. "I had these voices telling me he wasn't allowed to wake."
"And these voices, they're coming from where?" Stefan wonders.
Caroline shrugs. "The other side, I think that the spirits are talking to me." She looks to Klaus and takes a hold of his hand. "But we only get answers in pieces." She explains.
"From who?" Stefan asks.
She plans to answer but Klaus beats her to it. "A powerful witch, but we need to focus right now on how to use the cure on Silas.
Studying her friend's expression, it almost looks like he's feeling a bit defeated. "You're not going to help us save Elena?"
She shakes her head. "I can't." she wants him to understand her position, but it's hard when she barely can understand it all herself. "She's still my friend Stefan, but here and now, we need to think about what is best for everyone, not just Elena."
"And if you succeed in curing him, how do you intend to kill him? I don't think he is incapable of defending himself." Stefan asks. "And it's not like he's going to take the cure until the barrier between the living and dead is gone."
Caroline rises and makes her way over to Stefan. Taking his hands in hers she instinctively lets an energy pass between them. "I'm not completely sure on what I'm capable of, but I can take him down."
"What has happened to you, Caroline?"
She smiles kindly at her friend. "Apparently I'm pure or something like that. I'm not a vampire but still immortal." She knows that she isn't good at explaining it. "I think that I have become a part of nature, like a witch but not actually a witch."
Stefan looks just as confused as she's feeling about the thing. "And Klaus is a part of all of this?" he looks to the hybrid that is still sitting on the couch.
Caroline follows his gaze. "I need him to stay pure." She explains smiling. "Without Klaus, I would be in a coma that I can't wake up from."
Normally she might have hated being tied to Klaus like this, but she has come to accept it for what it is. As long as she doesn't fight it, there are worse people out there than Klaus when it comes to their treatment of her.