Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to The Vampire Diaries, TV show or books. However I decided to have a little play around with the characters (I would definitely like to play with Damon).
Tyler stormed out of the front door, slamming it behind him as he began pacing up and down on the front porch and running his fingers through his hair. Caroline quickly followed behind, only to find him getting stressed out over what had just taken place over the phone with the information Klaus had given Rebekah.
"Every time I think I have him, that son of a bitch gets the upper hand." Tyler growled, as he stopped pacing to look at Caroline.
"We won't let him hurt you." Caroline promised him. "Stefan and Elena will bring back the cure."
"If they get to it first! And if they don't, Klaus kills me." Tyler told her, beginning to panic. "I need to get out of town to figure out how I'm gonna stay alive..." he told her.
"Wait, hang on, okay?" Caroline stopped him. "Gosh! Before you get all doomsday, just...At least let me try and talk to him." she added, throwing her hands in the air in frustration.
"He's got nothing to lose, Care." Tyler explained. "His hybrids are gone, he won't be able to make any others because Elena won't be able to take the cure. All he wants right now is blood, starting with mine." he said, his panic rising once more, as Caroline walked over to him and cupped his face in her hands.
"I'm not gonna say goodbye to you again, do you understand me?" Caroline said gently. "Let me fix this." she reassured him as Tyler nodded back at her and she smiled in return, hoping she'd said enough to calm him down for the time being.
Rebekah left Elena lying on the rocks, dead for all to see, however the Original knew it wouldn't last long, and she may have only a few minutes head start on her before she woke up. She made her way around the lake, only to spot the body of a dead man laying on the ground face up. He had blue and white face paint markings on his face but more significantly, his throat had been slit, which meant it was unlikely to be a vampire, unless they were covering their tracks. Rebekah suspected the man hadn't been dead too long, maybe only a few hours as his body was still 'fresh'. Sidestepping around him, she continued until she found the cave, which according to the translated map, was the place where the cure was hidden. Just before she reached the cave, she noticed a man leaving, and making his way towards her. As he got closer, Rebekah noticed he also carried the same markings on his face, she also noticed that he had the tombstone in his hand.
"So you were the one who stole it from me!" Rebekah demanded as she vamp-sped up to the man who looked confused by the accusation.
"No." he replied. "The Professor has given me this as payment for his services." he told her.
"What would you want with an old rock?" Rebekah asked, raising an eyebrow in confusion.
"I'm a witch." the man told her. "This rock is significant to me."
"Is that all we needed it for?" Rebekah asked. "To make sure you allowed Professor Shane to get to the cave safely?" her voice began to grow increasingly louder.
"It is." the man replied, nodding his head.
"Is it just significant for your people? Or is it significant within the witch community." Rebekah asked.
"Why do you want to know?" the man eyed Rebekah suspiciously.
"No reason." Rebekah smiled sweetly, pretending to get ready to leave. "Well, I must be on my way, I've got a cure to find." she added as she suddenly snapped the man's neck. Sighing with frustration as she realized she'd left her bag with Stefan, Rebekah decided to hide the rock next to a large boulder a little way off as it was the only significantly different looking rock around. She wasn't sure why she wanted the tombstone, but if it was useful to witches, it was obviously something of value to them, which could be helpful if she ever needed the assistance of a witch in future. Once hidden, Rebekah stood up and smacked the dust from her hands, before making her way back towards the place where she'd killed the witch, before climbing up the rock face and into the small entrance of the cave.
Katherine crouched down out of sight of Rebekah as she watched her jump off the cliff, before crawling over towards the edge to watch her snap Elena's neck down at the bottom and set off to find the cure. Knowing she was short on time, Katherine rummaged through the bag which Rebekah had thoughtfully left, containing the dagger and white oak ash. Her original plan was to snap the Original's neck which would hopefully have been enough to keep her at bay, long enough to get in, grab the cure and get out. Although she couldn't dagger the Original herself, she'd hoped that she'd be able to talk the Professor into doing the job for her. Katherine had noticed his behavior around Rebekah at the campsite, and suspected that he'd be more than happy to do it before she killed him later. With this in mind, the dagger and ash was a bonus she hadn't previously anticipated, meaning she would hopefully have more time to deal with Damon, the witch and the hunter after killing the Professor.
Once she'd found the dagger and ash, Katherine jumped to the bottom of the cliff and swapped her clothes with Elena's, giving her a chance to get close enough to Damon and Bonnie and stop them from taking the cure before they worked out who she really was. Katherine figured it would give her five minutes with Bonnie and about ten seconds with Damon. Especially as kissing him was now off the cards, he'd know straight away who she was with her kissing skills being superior to her lame doppelganger.
As soon as she'd swapped clothes with Elena she set off at vamp-sped around the lake, not stopping when she came to the dead body of the man who's throat she'd slit earlier, after he'd discovered she'd initially been following the Professor. It wasn't that she'd needed the Professor to find the cure, Kol Mikaelson had already located the cave when he arrived, and she'd just waited at the campsite to find out what was going on and then made her way to lake. There, she'd waited for the intrepid trio to arrive before she could put her plan into action.
When Stefan, Rebekah and Elena had arrived at the top of the cliff, Katherine wasn't surprised when she overheard Rebekah tell Stefan that there was only one dose of the cure. This was something she'd suspected all along as the cure was only ever designed for Silas and vampires didn't even exist when Qetsiyah created it, so why would anyone stupidly think there would be more than one dose?
Making her way past the man at vamp-speed, Katherine had almost caught up with Rebekah, prompting her to pause and hide behind a rock whilst the Original was talking to another man outside the entrance to the cave, with a rock in his hand. Suddenly Rebekah snapped the man's neck and took the rock (which Katherine suspected to be the tombstone) from him and began to walk in the opposite direction, away from the cave. Taking this as her cue to get ahead of Rebekah, Katherine slipped unnoticed into the cave, but watched on in interest from the entrance to see where Rebekah put the tombstone. If Rebekah felt it was important enough to steal, Katherine decided she wanted to get her hands on it too.
After Rebekah had placed the tombstone in it's hiding place, Katherine climbed deeper into the cave and sat in wait for the Original vampire as her only advantage was to use the element of surprise. Settling into a position behind a rock close to the well, Katherine waited until Rebekah arrived to make her move. Rebekah would never suspect her having the dagger as Rebekah had left it with Stefan.
Professor Shane was sat alone, his leg broken as one of the rocks had hit it when Bonnie had removed the spell from Vaughn. For the last year, he'd made it his life's work to raise Silas to bring back his wife and son. However, just as he'd gotten within reach of opening the tomb, when everything had gone wrong in one fell swoop of a rock. He suspected none of the vampires would help him, the only one who'd likely have tried would have been Elena, as the others appeared to want him dead. However, Elena had gone missing and unless she found him soon, he was probably going to die alone in this cave.
Suddenly Professor Shane heard whispering sounds fill the cave, he turned to look in the direction of the noise and saw his wife appear.
"Caitlin. I'm sorry, Caitlin. I failed you." Professor Shane cried in desperation.
"No. You didn't." Caitlin smiled.
"I'm sorry. I tried." Professor Shane begged, tears pouring from his eyes.
"Shh. You did everything I asked you to." Caitlin told him. "Everything is going to be just fine." she reassured him, as Professor Shane closed his eyes in relief, however when he opened them again, she was gone.
Damon, Bonnie and Vaughn climbed deeper and deeper down through the passage that had opened up after Bonnie had withdrawn the spell from Vaughn's chest. Although the tattoo was gone, Damon still didn't trust that Vaughn wouldn't want to kill him for being a vampire. He may have lost the urge as the mark had now been removed, but it had become his life's work and force of habit might compel the hunter to still attack him.
"Look at us." Bonnie laughed. "How come we are the ones that made it here this far?" she asked.
"Because we're awesome." Damon grinned.
"Actually, I think you'll find it was because of me." Vaughn said dryly
"Nobody asked you Shrek." Damon bantered back as they went quiet for a moment whilst Bonnie continued to lead the way. "Where is "here," exactly?" Damon suddenly asked.
"This way." Bonnie pointed the way forward.
"How do you know?" Vaughn asked curiously.
"I just know." Bonnie smiled as she continued walking, whilst Damon and Vaughn looked at each other and shrugged as they both followed.
Just a few minutes later Damon, Bonnie and Vaughn reached a larger open cavern with a side chamber containing what could only be Silas's tomb. The sarcophagus looked as if it were built in stone, and shaped like a human figure lying on a table, covered in vine-like decoration.
"Well, here we are." Damon said. "What do we do next?" he asked, turning to Bonnie, who just shook her head and shrugged.
Rebekah made her way into the cave and down some steps leading what looked like and old mine shaft, before caming across what looked like a well, which had a rope already attached, suggesting someone had already been here. She suspected the rope would have been taken if they'd have left which meant the Professor, Bonnie, Damon and she guessed Connor must all be down the well. Rebekah checked her phone to make sure she was right when she heard a noise coming from behind a rock. Turning to see the source of the noise, she was suddenly attacked by what looked to be Elena, although Rebekah realized immediately that her assailant was too quick to be her, which meant the only other person it could be was Katherine. Before Rebekah had chance to retaliate, Katherine snapped her neck and the Original fell to the ground.
"Hello. Hello?" Katherine heard the voice of the Professor coming out from the bottom of the well.
"Professor Shane!" she called out looking down from the top of the well and shining a flashlight down below. "What happened?" Katherine asked feigning concern.
"Elena is that you?" Professor Shane cried out.
"Yeah it's me." Katherine replied. "What happened? Where is everyone?" she asked.
"I fell." he told her. "I think I broke my leg, but everyone left me." he complained as a smile grew on Katherine's face, her plan was going to go even better than she thought.
"I'll come down and help you." Katherine told him. "But I'm going to need your help too." she said picking up Rebekah's body and jumping down the well and landing next to Professor Shane.
"I'm going to need some of your blood to heal me." Professor Shane told her in a panicked voice.
"I will help you as soon as you put this into Rebekah's heart." Katherine promised as she handed over the dagger to a confused looking Professor Shane. "She was working with Kol." she explained. "She was going to destroy Silas as soon as we got to him. But we don't have much time." Katherine explained. "She could wake any minute and I was only able to snap her neck because she didn't know I was there. It wont work twice." she pleaded as she held Rebekah's body in front of Professor Shane.
"Why can't you do it?" Professor Shane frowned.
"Because I'm a vampire and it will kill me if I do." Katherine told him. "Don't worry, you're not actually killing her. If we pull the dagger out she'll wake up again, but you need to hurry, otherwise she'll kill us both." she urged, which seemed to convince the Professor, because he stopped hesitating and thrust the dagger into Rebekah's heart, causing the Original's skin to become gray and veiny, mimicking the death of any normal vampire.
"Can you help me now Elena?" Professor Shane asked. "My leg is broken and I'm in a lot of pain. If you feed me your blood we should be able to get going again." he told her.
"Why did they leave you here?" Katherine asked, bending down towards the Professor. "And which way did they do?"
"They went that way." Professor Shane told her, pointing in the direction of the passageway leading to Silas's tomb. "When we searched for Connor, but we never found him, instead we found another hunter. He's managed to convince Damon and Bonnie to feed the cure to Silas and kill him." he explained as Katherine nodded. "Please help, I'm in so much pain." he begged, tears filling his eyes as the blackness of pain overcame him.
"Of course I'll help." Katherine said sweetly. "I'll get rid of your pain for you, I'll be back in a minute." she told him as she headed down the passageway leading to the tomb..
Damon, Bonnie and Vaughn entered the chamber where the tomb was hidden, looking for clues as to what to do next. As the three of them slowly approached the sarcophagus and looked more closely at the detail, they could clearly see the hands of the figure holding a small box on its chest.
"Is this it? Is that the cure?" Damon asked.
"I think it is." Bonnie said looking at it closely as Vaughn began to try and prize the box out of the figure's hands.
"It's stuck." Vaughn told them. "I cannae get the thing out with this still around my hands." he complained, holding up his rope bound wrists.
"Move over." Damon said shoving Vaughn out of the way. "Here, take this." he told Bonnie as he handed her the rope. "I've got vampire strength, I might as well put it to some good use for once." he grumbled as he tried to remove the little box from the stone looking hands, yet to no avail.
"Let me try." Bonnie said, handing the rope back a bemused looking Damon, before trying to move it herself. "It's, like, fossilized in place." she sad. "It's like trying to bend stone." she added as she looked up at Damon, when it hit her what was wrong. "Oh, my god." Bonnie grimaced.
"What?" Damon asked as Bonnie backed away, looking at the sarcophagus. "What is it Bonnie?"
"He's been frozen like a vampire statue for two thousand years." Bonnie told Damon as he suddenly began to realize where this was going. "There's only one way we're gonna get the statue to unfreeze." she said.
"How's that?" Vaughn asked from behind them, prompting Bonnie to turn to look at him.
"We have to feed him our blood." Bonnie whispered. "If we want to get the cure out of his hands, we...we have to wake him up." she said fearfully.
After overhearing the conversation outside between Tyler and Caroline, Klaus was sat, in an armchair in the Gilbert's living room, waiting for Caroline to come and plead for Tyler's life, expecting her to furious and upset, Klaus readied himself for the confrontation. However, when the front door opened and Caroline walked in, instead of the aggressive, angry beauty he was prepared to do business with, a calm and collected, albeit, sad Caroline was what met him, almost catching him off guard.
"You can't kill Tyler." Caroline told him softly.
"Not only can I, I have to. I have a reputation to uphold. Moreover, I want to." Klaus frowned.
"I'm not asking you to forgive him." Caroline explained. "All I'm asking is that you let him live, somewhere far from here." she said.
"So he gets to live a happy life after he turned all my hybrids against me, after he tried to kill me, after he made it his life's mission to find the cure so he could use it against me..." Klaus started listing all of the things Tyler had done to warrant his wrath.
"We all want the cure." Caroline said defensively.
"Do we?" Klaus asked as Caroline stared unblinking at him. "Do you?" he asked.
"It doesn't matter." Caroline replied, surprised by Klaus's question. "There's only one, so it's not like I'm gonna get it anyway." she deflected.
"But if you could...you wouldn't, would you?" Klaus smirked, as Caroline remained silent, however the look on her face gave away her answer to the hybrid. "You prefer who you are now to the girl you once were. You like being strong, ageless, fearless." Klaus took a step closer to her. "We're the same, Caroline." he whispered.
"Then show me." Caroline cried.. "You know how much I love Tyler. You can see how scared I am to lose him. If you and I are so similar, then show me your compassion. Show him the mercy that I would show you." she demanded.
"Mercy? For Tyler?" Klaus cried out. "Very well. Tell him to leave town immediately." he began to walk away but stopped before turning back. "And tell him to run and hide in a place I will never find him." he growled.
"Of course." Caroline agreed excitedly as she turned and went to grab her jacket.
"Tell him that this is the mercy I extend for your sake...that I will give him a head start before I kill him." Klaus smiled maliciously, causing Caroline's face to fall as she turned back to face Klaus.
"But you're still going to kill him right?" Caroline asked sadly.
"Only if I find him." Klaus admitted. "And the sooner he leaves, the more chance he will have of me not finding him." he clarified, prompting Caroline to rush out of the house to tell Tyler to leave.
When Caroline walked outside, she saw Tyler sitting on the porch swing, clearly aware of the conversation that had just taken place inside as he was looking down at his hands thoughtfully, before glancing back towards the window to see Klaus and then to look at Caroline, who came and sat next to him and placed her hand on his thigh.
"How many times are we gonna have to say goodbye?" Caroline asked sadly.
"At least this time we have a minute to do it the right way." Tyler joked, trying to lighten the situation but it didn't work, Caroline's face crumpled and she started to cry.
"There isn't a right way." Caroline insisted.
"This isn't goodbye." Tyler said reassuringly, trying to find the right words. "This is...until we find a way. We're immortal, remember? We will find a way." he insisted.
"What if we don't?" Caroline sobbed. "Tell me that you'll never think of me again. Tell me that you'll forget about me, tell me that you are gonna go on and live a full and happy life without me." she begged, not meaning a single word of what she was saying.
Tyler took Caroline's hand and looked at her sadly, his eyes glistening from the tears forming. "I will live a happy life without you. I will forget all about you. And I will never, ever, think about you again." Tyler said, clearly meaning the exact opposite of every word he said as Caroline continued to cry. Finally Tyler leaned in and kissed her, it however was a goodbye kiss, it was full of love and wishful promises, but with no guarantees, as they held onto one another for a few moments, even after they broke away from their kiss.
"Until we find a way." Tyler nodded and kissed Caroline on her forehead. Realizing he was now leaving, Caroline's broke down in despair, as she struggled to gasp for breath before she finally let go of him. Tyler got up from the swing and walked down the porch steps and away from the house, leaving Caroline sat all alone on the swing crying tears of desolation.
Down in the chamber in Silas's crypt, Damon and Bonnie were desperately trying to find ways to get to the cure without opening the tomb. They knew if they removed the cure, people would be less likely to want to raise Silas, and as the hunter's mark no longer existed, it meant the map would forever disappear. To try and get to the cure, Damon's latest strategy was to try and violently strike the tomb with a rock.
"Ah, come on!" Vaughn sighed. "There's only one way we're going to get that little box out of his hands." he said.
"There's got to be a way to do this without raising him." Bonnie insisted, as Damon nodded in agreement as he carried on hitting the tomb. "We'll find a way..." she said.
"We have to raise Silas, and we have to do it now." Vaughn demanded interrupting Bonnie before quickly pulling a small pen knife out of his pocket and driving it into her back causing her to fall to the ground and drop the rope, before he made a small cut into his hand and rushed over to the sarcophagus.
"What are you doing?" Bonnie cried out in pain, her voice weak.
"What you shoulda done already. I'm gonna raise Silas..." Vaughn told her as he dripped his blood into the figure's mouth. "Then I'm gonna kill him." he said. Damon tried to attack Vaughn from behind but Vaughn was prepared and managed hold Damon off.
"You're a bit confused, Damon. I thought we we're on the same team here." Vaughn tried to reason with the vampire.
"You stabbed my friend!" Damon cried back angrily, who looked over to Bonnie who was already passed out, although Damon could hear her heartbeat, so he knew she was fine for the moment, whilst he tried to stop Vaughn from raising Silas.
"I don't mess around with witches." Vaughn scowled when suddenly a noise from behind distracted them both, and what looked to be Elena emerged into the chamber as she flew over to Vaughn and punched him, knocking him out.
"Be careful, don't kill him." Damon reminded her. "The hunter's curse!" he cried, causing Elena to pause for a moment and threw Vaughn to the ground, who looked to be unconscious as she vamp sped over to Damon.
"You okay?" Elena asked, her voice sounding full of concern as Damon smiled.
"We need to help Bonnie." Damon told her. "The hunter stabbed her." he said.
"Okay." Elena smiled, in a way that Damon recognized, but it wasn't Elena's smile. "I just need to make sure that you're okay first." she said.
"I'm fine." Damon said, suddenly realizing it was Katherine stood in front of him. "What are you doing?" he asked, trying to keep her distracted.
"I want the cure Damon!" Katherine told him.
"Katherine!" Damon whispered as Katherine grinned and snapped Damon's neck, causing him to fall to the ground.
"Sorry Damon. I'm sure you understand." she said as she walked over to Vaughn and fed him her blood, prompting him to wake up.
"You're Elena right?" Vaughn asked as he stood up.
"Wrong, I'm Katherine, and I want that cure, and you're going to get it for me." she told him as she grabbed Vaughn, vamp-sped him over to the tomb, and pushed his wrist to cover the stone figure's mouth.
Elena woke up at the bottom of the cliff with a sore neck, however she immediately realized something was wrong when she noticed her jacket was missing. Standing up she looked to the top of the cliff to see if Stefan was awake.
"Stefan?!" she cried.
"Up here." he replied.
"I've got some blood bags in my bag, are you okay to come down or do you want me to go back up to you." she told him realizing she didn't need to shout.
"I'll come down." Stefan said, as Elena suddenly heard a whooshing noise as she saw Stefan drop to the ground from the top of the cliff. As Stefan got to his feet Elena handed him a blood bag as they both sat to drink one each.
"What happened?" Elena asked, not sure exactly what had caused Rebekah to suddenly betray them both, however she suspected the Original had told Stefan before she snapped his neck.
"According to Klaus." he told her. "There's only one dose of the cure." he said sadly.
"There's only one cure?" Elena asked in surprise as Stefan just nodded in response. "And that's why Rebekah left?" she asked, again Stefan nodded. "And she never offered it to you?" she frowned in surprise, Elena knew Rebekah had a soft spot for Stefan and would have possibly given it to him to take over her own needs.
"She knew I'd give it to you." Stefan told her, looking down at his feet before looking at Elena.
"I can't take it. I mean, not above everyone else who deserves it just as much as I do." Elena sighed. "It's over." she said.
"I'm sorry." Stefan apologized.
"Don't be." Elena reassured him. "Maybe it's a blessing in disguise." she suggested.
"How so?" Stefan asked curiously.
"Things changed the minute that I went off that bridge, Stefan." Elena told him. "Even if I could be human again, I wouldn't be the person that I was." she said as Stefan nodded slowly. "So it's about time that I accept the person that I am now and figure out a way...to start living the rest of my life." she smiled determinedly.
"The rest of your life...with Damon?" Stefan asked sadly. "Not having a chance to grow old and have a family as you wanted."
"There's no point if I can't have a family without Damon." Elena admitted, as Stefan stared out at the lake.
"I want to say 'Isn't it a little soon to make that kind of commitment?'" Stefan joked. "But I'm not surprised." he went on as he turned to look at Elena. "He's your soulmate isn't he?" he asked, Elena just raised her eyebrows before smiling and nodding in response. "Well, who am I to fight fate?" Stefan smiled. "Let's go and see if Rebekah or anyone else has found the cure yet." he suggested. "Although it looks like you'll have to break the news to Jeremy that you're stuck being a vampire forever." he joked.
"I guess I'll have to deal with that when I get home." Elena laughed, however she suddenly realized something and her face fell. "Oh my god...Home. Klaus. Bonnie's spell isn't gonna hold him much longer." she cried.
"And after what we did locking him in your house, if we don't ram that cure down his throat, he'll kill us all." Stefan said, wide eyed.
"Pity party over." Elena said, quickly getting up and wiping her hands on her pants. "We have to go." she added, putting her bag over her shoulders.
"What happened to your clothes?" Stefan asked, suddenly realizing Elena was missing her jacket.
"I dunno." she said. "Rebekah must have took it after she snapped my neck." Elena suggested.
"Why would Rebekah want your jacket?" Stefan asked checking through their bags to see if anything else was missing. "The ash and dagger are gone." Stefan told her worriedly.
"I don't like this." Elena frowned.
"Me neither." Stefan agreed.
"I think we need to just get going." Elena said as Stefan nodded in agreement. Picking up their bags, they vamp-sped towards the entrance of the cave, sidestepping the dead man Katherine had killed, before they arrived at the entrance of the cave where they discovered another dead body.
"It looks like someone is leaving a trail of dead bodies." Stefan frowned. "I think we need to be careful." he advised Elena as they climbed into the cave.
Vaughn tried to fight back, but with no weapons and no element of surprise, he was no match for the power of Katherine. Whilst she held the hunter's hand over the mouth with one hand, she tried grabbing the cure with the other, however, although there was a little give, she still couldn't remove it from the stone figure's hands.
"Right, I'm done playing nice!" she said. "I don't have long, and maybe this will speed up the process." Katherine exclaimed as her teeth elongated and she bit into Vaughn's jugular, opening a large wound in his neck. She removed his hand from the mouth of the desiccated figure and pushed Vaughn's neck to its mouth, allowing a faster flow of blood to enter Silas. Keeping Vaughn's head to Silas's mouth, Katherine tried once more to remove the cure, except this time the stone fingers gave way and released the box into her hand. Katherine pulled Vaughn up from Silas's mouth and looked at him cruelly.
"No hard feelings." Katherine told him. "But I hate having loose ends." she said as she snapped his neck and he fell to the floor. Taking in the scene around her for one last time, Katherine fled the chamber, and jumped up out of the well, passing Rebekah's and Professor Shane's daggered and unconscious bodies. Once she left the cave, she quickly searched for the tombstone Rebekah had hidden, before setting off to leave the godforsaken island for good.
Caroline was still sitting on the porch swing after her talk with Tyler. She knew she should have gone back inside to check on Klaus but she couldn't face him, so she'd stayed outside for what must have been at least a couple of hours, thinking of all of the ways she and Tyler could maybe try and be together in the future. Hearing a noise coming from the house, Caroline looked up and noticed the sun was much lower in the sky, then suddenly the front door opened and Klaus walked outside.
"How did you get out?" Caroline cried out, shocked and fearful at the same time.
"I fear something awful has befallen your friend Bonnie." Klaus shrugged as he began to approach her causing Caroline to automatically tense up. "Don't worry, love. You know I'd never hurt you." Klaus said softly.
"You've done enough." Caroline scoffed back, still angry, hurt and upset by Tyler leaving, all on the account of the man stood in front of her.
"I've done more than enough." Klaus cried back, before taking a step back. "I've shown kindness, forgiveness, pity...because of you, Caroline. It was all for you." he said his voice suddenly gentle as he stared at her softly. Caroline said nothing in return, for deep down, she knew Tyler had brought some of Klaus's wrath upon himself, and in that moment Caroline realized that Klaus had shown her more kindness in that one act, than Tyler, from Klaus's perspective, deserved. They stared at each other for a moment longer, before Klaus nodded his head and left.
Stefan and Elena jumped down the well to be greeted by Rebekah's daggered body face up on the ground. They both looked around, and spotted the passage, however they couldn't see anyone else in the cave with them.
"Well it looks like Rebekah didn't take your clothes or the ash and dagger." Stefan said. "Let's go." he added.
"We can't leave her here." Elena insisted.
"We can." Stefan said to Elena "Look, you need to go ahead. I'll undagger her and I'll be right behind you." he said as Elena hesitated for a moment. "Go." Stefan insisted as Elena ran off down the passageway into the chamber which housed the sarcophagus of Silas.
Elena took in her surroundings, she saw a man she didn't recognize lying dead on the ground at the base of the tomb. Looking round she spotted a rope on the floor, tied to the dead man's wrists, and a knife covered in blood. Suddenly she spotted Damon, who looked to be waking up from what was presumably a snapped neck. She flew over to Damon and wrapped her arms around him, however he initially flinched at her touch.
"You okay?" Elena asked, worried by Damon's response to her.
"Elena?" Damon asked, as Elena nodded confused, when they heard a noise behind them, prompting them to both turn around in the direction of the noise as Stefan entered the chamber.
"I took the dagger out of Rebekah." Stefan told them, brandishing the dagger whilst taking in the carnage around them. "What happened?" he asked, frowning.
"Katherine happened." Damon replied as he looked around the room. "Where's Bonnie?" he asked as Stefan and Elena looked at each other and then to Damon.
"We only found you, this dead guy and a daggered Rebekah outside." Stefan told him.
"Professor Shane?" Damon asked, confused, as Stefan and Elena shook their heads. "That's concerning." he said slowly, frowning at the same time.
"Why? What happened?" Stefan asked as Damon stood up.
"Professor Shane fell down the well and ended up with a broken leg. He couldn't have gone anywhere without help or vampire blood." Damon told them.
"Maybe Katherine fed him her blood." Elena suggested.
"But why?" Stefan asked.
"They could have been in on it together." Elena said, turning to Stefan, before looking back to Damon before wrapping her arms around his waist.
"Admittedly, that does sound very Katherine." Damon agreed, as he put his arms around Elena and kissed her affectionately on the head.
"So what now?" Stefan asked, feeling awkward.
"We go find Bonnie." Elena told them as Damon and Stefan nodded in agreement,
"We need to take Rebekah with us." Stefan reminded them as they began to leave, however Damon stopped to look at the sarcophagus.
"Looks like Silas is staying asleep for the rest of eternity." he said smiling, tapping his hand on the shoulder of the statue, before they left the chamber to go get Rebekah and find Bonnie.
All the while, in a small unnoticed side chamber, Bonnie lay, still unconscious with the very dead, and now bloodless, body of Professor Shane, whilst her friends left to go and search the island for her.
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