Fate
Chapter Fourteen - Written in the Stars
Caroline Forbes never thought she'd be running towards the Mikaelsons again and again in her life, but now as she moves across the French Quarter with Vincent she knows her life will forever be tied to theirs. The heavy leather book in her hands tells her that for certain, and the theory of who Hope really was. As the pair burst through the doors of the compound, the usual group is standing nearby watching as the blonde and her witch companion dart upstairs to Hope's room.
"Caroline...Vincent? What are you two doing here and together? I thought you guys didn't know each other," Hope questions as she looks up from the book on her bed. She quickly wipes away the watery eyes that she'd been trying to hide from everyone today.
The blonde vampire sighs noticing her friends grief and makes a mental note to take her somewhere joyful soon. "We think you're part of this whole Kyros thing just as much as I am Hope." She takes the book and slowly walks towards the young Mikaelson while Vincent stands back watching the two women interact. "There's a prophecy that we found, and it talks about Kyros and his students. How they were going to be killed and enacted a plan to save the world from their Teacher while protecting the supernaturals to come themselves in death."
"Yes you told me the story that Kyros shared while you were his prisoner. What does this have to do with me?" The frustration is clear on Hope's face as she tries to keep up with where they're going, but the foggy mind from her overwhelming emotions is evident. Caroline didn't need to probe her mind to know she wasn't focused.
Caroline takes a slow, soothing breath, using her energy to share that calm and clarity with Hope and the wolf visibly relaxes. "The legend is true, we found it in a book of prophecies that have been long forgotten. There were 5 students and said to be 5 reincarnates someday. They would only appear when the Teacher is said to have gained the power to escape his prison, and now he's out." She pauses briefly seeing her young friend capture the information and process it, "and we know I was taken because I'm the doppelganger of his wife. Which makes me a reincarnate since she was one of his students. Kyros took you and Freya because he wanted something. Unfortunately Freya is dead, but I think it's because he wanted it to be that way - Kyros wanted you to trigger your curse. I think it's because you're a reincarnate too Hope. Specifically the one that has the gift of sight."
"Did you say sight?" Her voice shakes as she remembers the last moments spent with her aunt. The visions she'd seen of Freya's death soon approaching by her own hands, and the flash of when her aunt had taken a poison hundreds of years ago. "I think you're right…"
Vincent takes this time to approach the two and chime in, "what did you see Hope?"
"It's only happened that one time that I can remember, and I can't make it work. When Freya and I were trapped, I touched her...and I saw her die." Tears fill her eyes knowing that she could have stopped this if she'd just heeded the vision as a warning. "I can't do this right now," the young Mikaelson climbs off the bed and darts out the room before anyone can stop her.
"Let her go," Vincent states as his hand takes hold of Caroline's arm.
"What?! Are you crazy, there's a psycho witch out there trying to take us all for who knows what reason. I can't just let her run off." The blonde yanks her arm free and flashes out of the room in search of Hope.
Hope had ran as far and as fast as she could. The blood pulsing through her vessels, her chest rising and falling rapidly, and the tears pooling in her eyes begging to be set free. She finds an alley wall nearby to collapse against and allowing the sobs to wrack her body. Safely away from the compound and all the sympathetic hands and hugs.
"Hope?" She wipes her tears and straightens her back at the sound of the voice.
"Go away," the young witch attempts to keep the sound of her sniffles contained as she makes sure to not face him.
The footsteps approach despite her protests though, "please stop turning away from me." His hand touches her shoulder and slowly turns her to face him. Isaac's caramel eyes stare at Hope's trembling lip and tear streaked face. She quickly moves to hide her face from him, "hey hey don't do that. I'm here, what's wrong." He moves his hands to hold her face gently on her cheeks "You can talk to me."
Hope's voice trembles as her body shakes against her will with another sob. "I could've saved her. It's not your fault, it's mine. You were just trying to not get anyone hurt. I saw her die and I just let it happen. I could've saved her Isaac!" Her cries grow louder and more hysteric with each word as she weakly beats her fist against his chest and his pulls her to his chest.
"Shhh, it's okay Hope. She forgives you I know she does. Freya knew what she was doing when she sacrificed herself for you." Isaac simply stands there in the alley where he'd found Hope. Holding her tight in his embrace and tracing patterns with his hands on her back trying to sooth her cries.
The auburn haired woman didn't understand how he had the effect he did on her. It was as if his very presence could infuriate her and in her time of need Isaac was the exact person she wanted and needed. It was as if Fate or destiny or whatever was pulling them together, and she didn't know if she wanted to fight it anymore. So she stood there letting the handsome werewolf hold her and comfort her sobs 'til they were silent.
Ingrid enters the compound laughing loudly at something Kol had just told her. The pure joy shared between the two like nothing either had experienced in life...or at least in a very long time. Whilst taking in the scene of emptiness around her, she spots the door to one of the small study rooms opened. "I'll talk to you later Kol, thank you for today." The redhead shakes her arm free from the original's and moves towards the door with a small light coming from within.
There inside, Caroline sits on one of the leather chairs with a glass of one of the many types of alcohols home to this place in her hand. "You do realize you can't sneak up on me right? I have hearing so delicate I have to pretend I don't know exactly what's going on upstairs in Hayley and Elijah's room." The vampire rolls her eyes and chuckles when Ingrid grimaces at her words. She takes another sip of her drink before setting it down to face her somewhat friend. "So what are you doing in here anyways? I thought you'd be with Kol right now doing more magic research and bonding."
"We're just friends," she tries to explain as Caroline simply holds her hand up to stop Ingrid.
"That's what I said about every guy I liked when I was young. Of course everyone knows that's a lie, and besides I see the way you look at him. He makes you happy, and you make me not as psychotic." She smiles slightly examining the young girl before her. Recently the blonde had taken extra strides to not use her powers on her friends for the sake of their privacy and her own sanity, but right now she felt there was a good reason to go snooping in Ingrid's subconscious.
For a few short moments the pair sit there in a trance-like state. Allowing the quiet to envelope and embrace them, and it was peaceful for a brief time. "I know what you're looking for." Ingrid finally voices in a small tone.
Caroline raises her brows slightly as she pulls herself from Ingrid's mind. "What would that be exactly?" She sets her glass down on the side table to focus her gaze more intently on the woman across from her.
"You've been trying to figure out who the rest of the five are. Kyros told you of who you are in as little detail as possible, and you've come to the conclusion that Hope is one as well. So you were searching my mind to see if I had a part to play in this story as well." The words the pour from her lips don't sound like her own, but as if the wisdom of another age came from her in that moment. The pair sit back staring at each other processing the things just spoken that neither of them could entirely believe.
The blonde vampire nods her head slowly and sits back re-thinking the list she'd seen earlier of the five Fates. "Yep I'm pretty sure you are involved. Ever heard of the Fate of Knowledge?"
Ingrid sits back into the leather couch and ponders over the strange occurances of the past month that she's seen and experienced. "I knew nothing of the supernatural world before meeting you Caroline, and somehow now I understand things that you've never mentioned or explained to me."
"Like what things exactly?" She questions cocking her head to the side as her inner leader takes over in search of information and facts. Just like Bonnie had told her earlier, she did have a moment of peace for now, but Kyros would come back sooner or later and she needed to be prepared.
"That night when Kyros attacked us all. He was after you, and somehow the Fates brought us together in that moment because I would've been unprotected I guess without you. Anyways when the first bombs went off I don't remember entirely what happened, but I blacked out for a while and then woke up coughing under a bookcase or something. That's when you found me, but I think I died when the first bombs went off...and then I came back."
"So what you're saying is that these reincarnates are all immortal...and it doesn't matter if they're vampires or humans?" Caroline sits back wondering if that's why she got stronger because she was already a vampire before all of this.
Ingrid shakes her head briefly, "yes we are immortal but we are not human. Because you are a Fate now, you are no longer just a vampire - only in part you are. When we were 'activated' for lack of a better word, we became a hybrid of sorts. Not like Klaus or Hayley because we don't have the werewolf gene, but my point is that we're no longer just human or vampire. The only reason we're immortal is to defeat Kyros and carry on the legacy of the Fates here on this plane where we can truly protect the supernatural world."
The vampire sits back staring at the load of information she'd received, "okay. Whoa, I think my head is going to split open or something. When the book said the Fate of knowledge they really meant you knew stuff. Please don't tell me anything more that's groundbreaking right now."
"Well I kind of have to since this bit of information is kinda pertinent to our little inner circle." Ingrid shrugs her shoulders and grimaces as Caroline rubs her temples, "wolves can take mates as you probably knew already. What you didn't know is that sometimes the Fates determine the mates of certain wolves, specifically alpha wolves, they call them 'true mates,' since it's almost like pre-destined for these two people to be together."
"So where are you going with this?"
"I'm trying to say that Hope and Isaac are true mates, they just don't know it yet. And Klaus...well you're his. This is just where it gets complicated because you're a doppelganger and technically your shadow self was tied to Kyros. So taking a mate isn't as easy as it is for others because your blood, your heart, everything about you is linked to Kyros in some way."
Caroline's eyes widen as she attempts to process the assault of more information once again, "wait that's really cute about Isaac and Hope but ARE YOU FREAKING SERIOUS?" The blonde stands to her feet in a panicked uproar, "ugh seriously?! I mean I've spent decades trying to avoid anything emotionally connecting me to this man that terrified me when I was younger." She drags her hands down her face in frustration and then turns to face the redhead who remained sitting as the blonde stood and paced around frantically. "So what does this whole thing mean between me and Kyros with Klaus now in the picture of it all?"
She sighs trying to be a calm in the room to Caroline's storm, "it merely means that before the 'true mate' bond between you two can really be strong like it's supposed to be, we have to sever the link between you and Kyros. Which means we have to find a way to kill him and lock him away for good...and the unfortunate thing is that I actually don't know how to do this."
"Great, well that's just fantastic."
Hayley stands in the kitchen of the compound attempting to sneak around in just Elijah's shirt long enough to grab a few blood bags, but the conversation in the room across the courtyard brings her mission to a halt. The hybrid stands curiously by listening to Ingrid and Caroline talk about Fates, hybrids, Hope, and true mates. She doesn't know what shocks her more, the fact that Hope - her own daughter - and Isaac are true mates, or the part about Caroline and Klaus being destined for each other.
Before she can be noticed she flashes back upstairs to her room where Elijah is waiting and watching her expression curiously, "what is it?"
"You won't believe what I just found out about your brother and Caroline," she smirks at the thought of Klaus finally having someone to put him in his place that he can't dagger or kill or threaten; and it's all because he loves her too much.
Elijah chuckles as he takes one of the blood bags she offers him, "what did the two finally confess their undying love for each other? Better yet did miss Forbes learn that she can't hide or bury her feelings any longer?" The original earns a swat to the arm at his joking words which were a new addition to his behavior in their years of living in peace.
"No they didn't talk at all, but what Caroline just learned will inevitably push her towards Klaus in the long run. Rest assured it won't be long before the two are walking around like love sick puppies, and that is all I'm willing to say for now because we have some unfinished business to attend to," Hayley states as she bites her lip and moves in to kiss Elijah again.
The original forgets his blood bag, setting it on the bedside table. Their focus became centered on other things, like how long they could stay in bed today. The pair knew they were meant for each other because even after all this time together they could still never get enough of each other.
Brett sits in his cell that he'd been moved to a few days after his capture. They'd changed location from where he first was, and the last thing he remembered of that place was Freya and her niece Hope being in the cell next to him. They were poisoned and he had hoped somehow the two escaped, but he knew deep down something terrible happened that night. He'd heard the screams from Hope as the night carried on like nothing happened, and he wanted to join her partly.
Over the last few weeks the routine had been similar. He'd wake up early in the morning with aches in his body from the stone floor he slept on, and would attempt to distract his mind in some way. Then Kyros would come in and interrogate him briefly, but it would never go past the man standing outside of his cell and taunting him whilst giving nuggets of information.
All he knew was that he was a Fate, there were 4 others like him with different abilities and that he was a danger to the world because of his gift...at least that's what he was told. Brett didn't even know what his gift was or how to use it so he had no clue whether that was true or not. Then again the guy had his lackies snap Brett's neck to capture him so that might be his answer right there.
Somehow in the time locked away, the young man had the time to process the fact that he had died and come back. He didn't feel any different, but now in the presence of Kyros he could tell there was something buried within that was stirring and waiting to burst forth.
So now he sits and he waits in the silence wondering what will be next. Kyros visiting him again and again, or discovering what's deep within could help him escape. Perhaps both, or maybe just maybe, he'll find Freya again.
The dinner table was set and it would be full for the first time in a long while tonight. Hope had finally decided to come down to eat a meal with everyone in the compound, including Isaac, who had stuck close to the young Mikaelson ever since their encounter in the alley earlier in the day. In light of recent events the group had grown closer - well except Caroline and Klaus who she'd been avoiding like the plague ever since her return.
So now all of them sit around a dinner table with food served on nice plates and wine in front of each of them (minus Hope of course). Every makes conversation with each other attempting to keep the mood light...that is until the dreaded topic arises of their current dilemma.
"I want to thank you all for searching for me and not giving up to find me," Caroline states as she sets her glass back down on the table slowly and carefully. The woman she used to be blending perfectly with the one she'd become in recent decades as she speaks. "I wish different circumstances had kept me here in New Orleans, but tragedy happens. Right now I want you all to enjoy this peace again, and take the time to truly mourn Freya as you lost a close family member and I merely lost a friend I'd just met. That being said, Kyros is still out there and I'm certain he's plotting something. I need to stop it and him, but I can't put anyone else in danger. So I'm leaving."
"Love don't be ridiculous," Klaus chimes in first with a chorus of agreements from the rest of the table. "You are not in this alone; and I don't know how many times I will have to make that clear to you. As long as you're here that man will not step foot near you."
Caroline shakes her head not daring to look the man in the eye after all she'd learned about them today. "That's just it. You're so focused on protecting me when you never stopped to realize I don't need protecting anymore Klaus, and I don't want it. Kyros needs to find me, to know exactly where I am and where I'm going. I'm not going to let him stay here and hurt any of you - and to do that I need to be gone. He will follow me I'm sure of it...with his obsession and all."
"Miss Forbes, if I may ask, are your intentions to draw him out of New Orleans using yourself as bait? If so how are you so certain that you won't be captured again just like before," Elijah questions this time knowing that if the young woman left now there would be no further development between Caroline and Niklaus. "Stay here and we can help create a plan that works in a similar way, but doesn't put you out there alone and at risk."
"I'm sorry Elijah but this is my decision and it's been made. I need to return home to take care of some things. Ingrid and I left in a hurry and there was so much chaos in that. I have to go back and rebuild, help my people cope."
Klaus stands to his feet pointing at the blonde with fury in his eyes as the rest of the room stills to watch their exchange, "I will compel you to stay in this very home if I have to Caroline. Do not make me use those measures, but do not underestimate my ability to do so if it keeps you safe."
She scoffs and rolls her eyes, "how heroic of you Klaus. Why don't you go try that on anyone else that can actually be compelled. You can't trap people when they don't listen to you. I'm not another one of your siblings that you've daggered over the centuries, and I'm not a random vampire you can compel or kill off. So either you let me leave or I will make you get out of my way." Her last words are growled out as the urge to leave this room, this place, and this city increase by the second. "I can't do this right now…"
Caroline stands from the table and quickly darts towards the doors, "fine leave then! Just remember that we tried to protect you when Kyros finds you again. See if I care," Klaus stomps off to one of the many rooms in the compound searching for art to burn or alcohol to drink...maybe both.
Now that the pair had left the room, the tension seemed to have left with them. Ingrid and Isaac merely stare trying to evaluate the situation and what would happen next. Elijah sits in his chair drinking his wine while Hayley rubs her temples. The youngest Mikaelson sits back and chuckles causing everyone's eyes to turn to her.
She shrugs her shoulders laughing once more, "I'm sorry but it's just too funny watching them argue. We all know they're practically in love with each other...they're just both too stubborn to admit it."
"That my darling daughter I can agree one hundred percent with," Hayley states as she picks up her own glass and takes a large gulp. "All we can do is wait and see what happens. There's no meddling when it comes to Klaus and Caroline."
"She'll be back, trust me."
I AM SOOOO SORRY IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO GET BACK! I'm back though! I've had severe writers block lately especially since my focus has been more with my college classes than writing, but I'll have a break soon to get back to writing. I think I finally planned out some details for a sequel and it's just a matter of getting from point A to B in this story to get you guys there. I really think you'll love what I have coming for this story and the next, and I'm trying my hardest to make the characters not seem OOC but at the same time show how they've grown and developed over the years before my story begins.
P.S. I wrote this whole chapter in the span of about 24 hours so if there are a good bit of mistakes it's because I legit just finished typing it a few minutes before I published it. I'll probably go back through the whole story after it's finished to fix any major editing mistakes though.
Anyways please follow/favorite and review! I will be back soon with chapter 15 I promise, and things will definitely start heating up with Kyros as well as KLAROLINE!
Always and Forever my friends :)