To be able to forget

Alright, she might not like the people in this house, but she must admit that this place is amazing, it almost feels like she spent the night at a hotel. Now if her hosts could at least try to be pleasant this might not be that bad.

Though they aren't making the best impression when Kol burst through the door. Well, he did knock but didn't wait for her okay to come in. "Ready for your magic lesson, Bennett?"

"Do you always just walk into people's rooms like that?" she asks, relieved that she was fully dressed.

Kol looks behind him at the door and shrugs. "I knocked, what else do you want me to do?" it's not that she expected any different behaviour. "Now, come on, everything is prepared for us to start."

At least he doesn't try to drag her along. He just stands to the side, so she can walk first. "I need breakfast first, and I would like to talk to Caroline." She would like to know if her one friend her is okay after what happened with Tyler.

"As I said, everything is prepared, including breakfast." He answers her. "But you might have to wait a while for Caroline, Nik is keeping her busy and they aren't arguing any longer."

That was information she didn't need. She has accepted that this is what Caroline wants and that it makes her happy, but she doesn't need to hear about Caroline's and Klaus' relationship, she can be supportive without knowing details.

When she and Kol come downstairs to the room he has prepared she once more feels like she's at a hotel. The breakfast that is laid out has everything, to think that a house full of people that don't need to eat, has this amount of food prepared.

As soon as she has sat down with her plate Kol takes the seat opposite her and puts a book on the table. "Best to start at the basic." He says and starts to turn the pages. "I mother has the basic that is."

"That is Esther's grimoire?" she can barely believe it. Esther might have wanted to see all vampire's dead, but the with did impress her with her talents. To get to see the grimoire that started all of this, it is quite the honor.

Once Kol has found a page he thinks they can start with he turns the grimoire towards her. "Avoid telling Nik, he wouldn't be pleased that it's shown to someone outside the family."

She can understand that as she turns a few pages herself to get the feel of it. With all these spells, a powerful witch could do a lot of damage, even to the Mikaelson's.

There is something were relaxing in just watching Caroline sleep in his arms, it feels like nothing can go wrong in this very moment. All hell could break loose around them and he would still be calm.

He looks at her baby bump and even if he has worries about the future, it feels amazing knowing that it is his son she is carrying. He who has caused so much death and destruction could create something good with her.

The peaceful moment in their bed is disturbed by Caroline's mobile that Klaus hurries to quiet down so it is not too wake her. But as soon as he has pressed ignore, it starts to ring again with Stefan's name flashing on the screen.

With a sigh, he decides to answer. "She's sleeping." Can't they wait at least a few hours?

"I really need to talk to her," Stefan says. "Elena is awake, and we now know what Caroline's magic did to her."

No one had mentioned that Caroline had done something to the doppelgänger, not that there was any good time to mention it, and frankly, he doesn't care what becomes of her.

But he knows that Caroline most likely does. "I think you will survive until she wakes." Even if she cares, he isn't about to wake her. She might not need sleep as before, but the times she does feel tired it's best to let her rest.

The Salvatore brothers just don't seem to understand his reluctance because the next voice that comes through the phone is Damon's. "This has nothing to do with you, so just wake blondie up so she can come over."

He would prefer to hang up on the brothers, but they would most likely keep ringing and was he to turn off her phone, he wouldn't be surprised if they decided to show up all of a sudden, and that he could do without.

Maybe he should just wake her, so she can decide if she wants to go. "Wake up, Sweetheart." He nudges her lightly and after a while, she starts making sounds off annoyance. "I tried to convince them to let you sleep, but the doppelgänger seems to need you."

Still, half asleep she takes the phone from him. "What?" she asks whoever is on the other end.

"We could need you at the boarding-house, there is something you need to know." Stefan tells her.

She turns to look at the clock, it's way too early to move out of bed after the day she had before. "Can't you just tell me over the phone?" but no, that doesn't seem like an option. "Fine, I'm coming."

It took a bit of convincing to let her go alone or to just let her go at all. Klaus thought it could wait, whatever the brothers and the doppelgänger needs help with. She is inclined to agree, but she had promised to come when they knew what had happened.

When she had left the house, she had overheard Bonnie and Kol discussing spells and she did consider telling her friend what was happening. But with no real knowledge about the situation, she rather not worries her friend.

She doesn't have to knock, they were probably listening after her, because when she gets in front of the door, it opens. "Good you're here," Stefan says and lets her in. "I asked Damon to leave, he isn't exactly in a good mood."

Something tells her that she is going to be thankful for that when she hears what has happened. "So, what is going on?" she asks, even if she could have done without doppelgänger drama for a few hours.

It takes Stefan some time to find his words and she actually starts to worry that she did something really damaging to Elena. "You mentioned consequences." He says after a while and she nods to show she's listening. "Did you know what they could be?"

Did she know what they could be? No, this was the first time she had just her magic in this capacity without the spirits or natures guidance. She just kind of tried to focus on stopping Elena and turn her humanity back on.

She wanted to help, to make sure that her friend wouldn't just turn them off again, but she can't say exactly what she did, she still has a lot left to learn about her powers. "Can you get to the part where you explain the consequences." She doesn't want to stand here all day.

Stefan nods and takes a deep breath. "She doesn't remember." Caroline looks at him, not sure if she heard that right so he repeats himself. "Elena has lost her memories."

Okay, so she heard him right, they can deal with this. "Like Bonnie did." Oh god, please don't say that they have to tell her about Jeremy, that wouldn't help at all.

The look Stefan has says that it's worse than that. "We aren't completely certain, she remembers who she is, but not us." He starts to explain and sits down on a couch. "She knows that she's a vampire, how she became one by drowning, but not the people involved."

"Have you told her anything?" she needs to know what Elena has been told at least before she goes to see her.

"We told her that we are her friends, but that's it." He answers her. "Can you do anything?"

She shakes her head. "I'm sorry, but if I try right now, I might just make things worse." She doesn't have the control yet to know what to do. "But maybe it's a good thing, she can start over after everything she has lost."

Stefan shrugs. "She's in her bedroom." He tells her. "Could you at least talk to her?" she always planned to do that.

When she walks past him, she lays a hand on his shoulder. "It's going to be okay, we have been through worse." This time there isn't some big bad they have to defeat to save Elena.

Once she leaves Stefan, she hurries up the stairs but pauses in front of Elena's room. She can't imagine what this conversation is going to be like or what Elena is going to know. She takes a deep breath and knocks on the door.

It doesn't take long before the door opens, slowly. "Hi," Caroline says when she sees Elena. "I'm Caroline." She holds out her hand.

Elena carefully takes it. "Elena, but I guess you knew that." She lets Caroline come into the room. "So, eh are we, like eh, friends?"

Caroline gives her a friendly smile. "We were, but if you'd like, we could just start over and you can decide for yourself." Her answer seems to help Elena relax.

They sit down on the bed and Elena asks Caroline to tell her something about herself. "What do you like to do."

She actually has to think for a while about what to say, it was so long ago that she just sat down and talk to someone about things that didn't threaten their lives. Thinking about it, she isn't sure if she really knows how to make new friends these days, let alone one that doesn't remember her.

But after a while of trying to come up with were to start, she decides to just talk. "I do everything, sometimes too much. But cheerleading and event planning have always been a big part of my life."

"I'm a cheerleader," Elena says and laughs. "Or I used to be, I think I quit." So, her friend remembers that at least.

The more they talk, the more Caroline starts to get a grasp of this memory loss. Elena can remember moments in her life, but not the people involved. It's almost like she has just moved to a new town where she doesn't know anyone.

She does seem to remember though what her family looked like. Her parents and a brother that she lost, but she doesn't feel the same pain since she can only just remember that they existed, just like she remembers that she has friends but not how they are.

To be able to talk to Elena like this again is refreshing, no supernatural danger or plans that have to be made, just simple girl talk that they haven't had in ages.