OK so I know I haven't updated in a while, please forgive me. Life seems to have gotten in the way, I have college coming up and well alot of stuff to deal with. Once again. I apologise for my tardiness. Hope you enjoy the next chapter and please do review. Here goes…..
Chapter 8:
The Bucknear en route to NOLA.
Caroline wasn't breathing. Klaus tried and tried yet the little blonde girl still lay limp in his sister's arms. Tears began to well up in Klaus' eyes. He tried to fight them back and focus on the girl. "Bekah, she's still not breathing…" Klaus said slowly, the emotion reflecting in his voice. "Bekah do something please…" Klaus begged his twin sister. For the first time in a long time Klaus Mikelson felt powerless. "Care… ", came a weak voice. It was little Stefan who had managed to become fully conscious. He woke from Rebekah's arms and crawled over to his sister. "Care…Care… wake up now…" he said softly to his unconscious twin. "Care… we gotta go home… come on Care, Katty's waiting.. she'll be very worried if we don't get home on time…" The twin vampires watched teary eyed as the little boy tried to revive his sister. "Care… please wake up now… please Care you're scaring me…" Stefan said a little louder. "Come on Care…" the boy shouted gripping his sister's shoulders and shaking her desperately. When she didn't respond Stefan began to panic. "Caroline! Wake up! Come on this isn't funny please!" Stefan screamed at his sister body. Rebekah pulled the frantic child away from the corpse. The girl had passed on from lack of air, they were to late to save her…
Stefan wrestled against Rebekah as Klaus picked up Caroline's tiny body and began to walk away. "Caroline no!, Bring my sister back, she's mine bring her back now!" Stefan screamed all the while struggling to reach his sister. Rebekah held onto him tightly and whispered slowly onto the boy's ear. " She's gone Stefan…, I'm so sorry". The boy had a crestfallen look on his face as if not comprehending what had happened and that his twin sister had died. "Niklaus, Rebekah I found Katherine…" Elijah called as he walked in with the girl only to be greeted with sad faces and tears. "Katty! They are saying Care's gone! Do something Katty bring her back…." Stefan begged his older sister who upon the sight of her sister laying on the ground jumped out of Elijah's arms and ran over to her sibling. "What happened? Caroline wake up!" the brunette tried to shake her sister awake, looking at Rebekah for answers. "Whats going on Niklaus..?" Elijah asked softly.
"Caroline's gone brother….we were to late…" Klaus said with tears falling down his cheeks. Elijah stood there not believing it at first. The utter shock of the little girl's death to much for him to move. "Niklaus…you are not serious…" Elijah asked. "Its true brother…" Klaus respond through tears. "NO! No! NO! Caroline wake up this instant! This isn't a joke Caroline wake up!" Katherine screamed at her sister's body, her own tears flowing freely. " Please Care…. Wake up we need you….please Stefan needs you Care….you know he can't live without you…please Care." Katherine pleaded sadly and the three originals felt their hearts break for the girl and her brother.
Rebekah felt a familiar pang of pain from when they had lost their youngest brother Henrik. "Caroline please… you can have all the berries you want… I'll get them myself I promise please just wake up…." Katherine cried loudly and buried her face into her sister's body crying loudly. " Caroline please wake up…." Stefan crawled next to his twin's body. " Please Care, wake up now….. please Momma and Papa already left us… you can't leave us too…" Stefan cried softly and Klaus turned away at the boy's heartbreaking words.
"Care… please….come on…Katty and I need you…" Stefan spoke whispering it into his dead sister's ear. As they sobbed, little Caroline's life begun to slowly creep back into her body. She suddenly opened her eyes and took in the scene in front of her. The brother and sister were hunched over her body crying and the three vampires were shedding tears of their own. Caroline lifted her tiny hand and placed it on her brother's head. " Stefy….Katty…." she said with a dry throat and strangled voice. That voice didn't escape anyone in the room who lifted their heads immediately to find a pale Caroline with her eyes half open and patting her brother on the head.
" CARE! YOURE AWAKE" her siblings screamed with joy, immediately engulfing the girl in a huge hug. Klaus stood there with a huge smile on his face and his brother Elijah stood utterly shocked by the girl's return. Rebekah smiled at the scene. Caroline was still very weak and Rebekah picked her up and felt the limpness in her bones. "Shes still weak." Rebekah stated. "Nik, Elijah do you think we should give her…..?" Rebekah said softly, afraid of her brothers reaction to her suggestion of feeding a child vampire blood. Elijah walked over to his sister and the girl and inspected her for himself. The child was obviously exhausted and dehydrated, she was frighteningly pale and her eyes looked hollow. "I think we should give some blood…she needs it, and considering the lack of food on this ship she has nothing else." Elijah stated. " I'll give it to her!" Klaus said walking g toward the girl. He crouched down to Caroline and Rebekah took Stefan and Katherine aside. Klaus brought his wrist up to his mouth and bite into it, drawing the red healing liquid. He placed his wrist to Caroline's mouth and told her to drink.
Caroline was still hazy from her ordeal. She couldn't see straight and everything was fuzzy. She felt a warm presence near her and realized it was Mr Klaus kneeling beside her. All of a sudden she felt something against her mouth and soft and gentle voice telling her to drink. She felt a warm liquid at her lips and she tasted it's sweetness as it seeped into her mouth. She immediately began to feel stronger and her vision began to clear up. She suddenly sucked at the liquid hungrily, until she felt it's source being pulled away. She whimpered at the loss and sat up to face Klaus who smiled down back at her. "Hi Mr Klausy!" she chirped and Klaus immediately engulfed her in a hug. She hugged him back and then ran to her siblings.
Elijah exited the room and used his vampire speed to get rid of all the dismembered bodies and dumped them overboard. He however did not know how to clean up the blood splattered over the walls.
When the children exited the Captain's cabin, they were carried out and told not to look at the walls that held signs of their struggle and the carnage that followed. Once they were back to their cabin, the children were tucked in and soon asleep. They deserved some rest after what they had been through.
Once the children were put down, the vampires began to think of their next move. " What are we going to do now?" Rebekah asked. " We have to get to NOLA soon." said Klaus. " We have no captain, who is going to steer the ship? I'm sure you two have no ideas on how to steer this junk heap." Rebekah sneered sarcastically. "Well we are going to have to try, I don't see us getting to NOLA any other way." Elijah answered back. Just then the ship jerked forward with an immense force throwing Elijah from his seat and sending the children as well as Rebekah flying forward out of the bed.
Once they regained their composure, the vampires and the children ran to the upper deck of the ship to find the source of the hit. It was another ship that had slammed into them, taking much of their hull with the strike. Their old ricketty ship was no match for such a blow and quickly began taking on water. Elijah stood stunned by the whole scene, his feet not moving even as the water quickly reached their ankles. " Uh….Niklaus…!" Elijah stuttered. Klaus quickly grabbed the weary Caroline and lift her up. "I know Elijah!" Klaus shouted back. "We're sinking….and fast!" Rebekah grabbed Stefan and lifted him out of the rising water. Katherine ran to Elijah clinging on to him. He quickly carried her too. The water was now to their waists and the deck was going to give way at any moment. "ABANDON SHIP!" Klaus screamed as all three vampires each still holding onto to one of the orphans jumped into the freezing waters of the Atlantic.