CHAPTER 11: DAMN.
Nursing a glass of brown liquid, Damon was pulled out of his melancholy state when he heard someone furiously swooshing in to the house. Knowing it was Enzo, he ignored it, Blondie must have finally found a way to ditch him from the way Enzo was muttering to himself.
"Bonnie! Everyone! Get down here NOW!" Enzo shouted, what did blondie do to cause this reaction? He thought.
"What Enzo, it's the middle of the night, I know you vampires don't need to sleep, but I do." Bonnie said, annoyed at how she and everyone else in the house was rudely awoken.
"Oh well, apologies for waking you up at this ungodly hour madam, but your beloved blonde has just been kidnapped!" Enzo said, angry and annoyed at the same time. How the hell had he not noticed someone following them?
"What?" Bonne asked, "What do you mean kidnapped?! She was supposed to be with you!" panic rising from her voice, nothing bad must happen to Caroline. She was her only best friend right now and everything about nature and its balance, depended on her.
"Exactly as I said it, witchy, someone snapped my neck on our way back here, I woke up to find her gone, no clue, no trail. Another vampire took her, the question is, why?" Enzo asked.
"Well we've got to do something, Care can't be in any stress right now. She can't defend herself now that she's human and pregnant!" Matt said, sitting down on the sofa.
"We gotta try and locate her." Bonnie said as she moved past everyone, grabbed her jacket and purse where her car key was located and moved out the door, Jeremy following closely behind her.
"Bon, where are you going?" Matt asked albeit too late as Bonnie and Jeremy had already left
"Isn't it obvious? She's gone to the witch twins." Damon finally piped up after keeping quiet the whole time.
Caroline woke up to the worst headache she's ever had, as she tried to open her eyes, she suddenly felt blinded with the white light shining through a very large window.
As her eyes adjusted to the light, she realized she was in what looked like a warehouse that was converted into some sort of a loft. She was currently lying down on her side in a couch.
"I see you're up." Said a voice from behind her, she didn't know where she was but she's betting that this is the guy that took her." You know, I was under the impression that Caroline Forbes is a baby vampire. You however, are definitely not."
"Great observation. Ugh" Caroline said as she winced, clearly she hit her head somewhere when she was unconscious, "Where am I? Who are you?" she asked.
"Where you are, isn't important, who I am, well, let's just say I'm someone who needs your help." The man said as he stood in front of her. She had never seen this person before, of that she was sure.
"Oh I see, well, seeing as I don't have a clue who you really are, and that you freaking abducted me, I don't give a damn with helping you." Caroline said. How dare this man ask her for help after man- handling her!
The man laughed and looked at her once again, "I don't care if you don't give a damn about helping me, one way or the other, you will. I can compel you to do what I want." The man said as he moved away from Caroline and to the large windows across where she sat.
Caroline huffed and crossed her arms and muttered to herself "I'd like to see you try." To her shock, the man zoomed right in front of her and looked straight into her eyes, as he began to speak however, the door slid open and entered another man.
"Hey Diego, I need-" the man was saying but was cut off when he saw another person in the room "Who the hell is she?" he asked.
"This, is the solution to our problems. Caroline Forbes." The man, Diego as Caroline heard the new comer call him, said.
"Are you fucking insane? Why the hell would you bring her here!" the other man said.
"Why not? If what I hear is correct, then she'll be a perfect leverage for that damned original to leave New Orleans!" Diego said standing to approach the other man.
Caroline, upon hearing the word Original, began to piece things together, which to be honest did not do her any good because her heart began beating faster. If they were talking about the Originals, then that must mean she's in New Orleans right now.
"You have no idea what you've just done! You're going to fuck up my entire plan with this! And trust me Diego, when Klaus finds out about this, I am not going to save your neck!" the other man said, it was disconcerting to Caroline to see someone so angry.
"So that's how it is, huh. You get back with your original girlfriend and now we all don't mean anything to you?" Diego said as he moved away from the other man. "Well you might not give a damn about the rest of us Marcel, but I do! We all want our home back and this girl will help get it back or she will die." He said, the last part looking at Caroline as if the last part was meant for her.
"You are going to get everyone else killed because of this! And besides, how do you even know this is her?! She's a human in case you forgot your hearing senses! She has a heart beat!" The man named Marcel said.
"I've been watching them. She's Caroline Forbes." Diego said.
"You can't use her. You're going to fuck up my plan and I won't have it!" Marcel said.
"Then she's of no use to me. If I can't have her drive them away, then I'll just have to get rid of her. Klaus will never know." Diego said and with that he zoomed at her, ready to snap her neck.
The next thing she knows, Diego dropped to the ground unconscious from having his neck broken by Marcel.
Caroline, too shocked from the intensity of everything froze and then broke down crying, not caring of who the other stranger was.
"Hey, don't cry. He's out for a while, I suggest we get you out of here before he comes to his senses." Marcel said as he helped her up of the couch.
"Why are you helping me?" Caroline said as soon as she had calmed herself down.
"Because using you to free my city of Klaus is a stupid idea. Letting Diego go ahead with his plan would be putting my people at risk and I won't have that." Marcel said as he led her to a car and drove of.
"Where are you taking me?" she asked.
" Somewhere safe, while I think of a way to get you out of here." Marcel said.
Nothing was said between the two until they reached the welcome sign of New Orleans.
"Welcome to New Orleans, Caroline Forbes." Marcel said, as he looked at Caroline.
"We need your help" Bonnie said as soon as the door opened at the motel Liv had said.
"So let me get this straight, you want us to help you but you won't help us?" Luke said, "Clearly you think that we're at your beck and call. Well guess what, we're not so unless you're here to help us stop the veil from crumbling down, then I suggest you go away and come back when you've decided other than that, you aren't getting any help from us." He added, these people are crazy if they think that he and Liv existed to help them out at and be at their beck and call whenever they pleased. They had bigger fish to fry.
"Look, sorry about Damon, but we" Bonnie said, looking at Jeremy, then back at Luke "We'll help. But we need you to locate someone first, It's Caroline, someone took her and with everything that's going on, we can't let anyone harm her." Bonnie said.
"I'll locate her later, for now we need to talk about how to fix the veil. I'll wake Liv" he said as he motioned the two to come inside the room and sit on the couch.
As soon as Liv appeared with her brother she said "So you want to help us fix the veil?"
"Yes" Bonnie said, "But we need you to locate someone for us first."
"Right. You guys won't do anything without getting something in return." Liv said as she rolled her eyes.
"It's Caroline and trust me, we need to find and protect her." Bonnie said.
"Why? She's a vampire she can protect herself, we need to work on the veil first." Luke said, annoyance etched in his face.
"She isn't a vampire, not right now any way and she's in more danger now." Bonnie said, she didn't trust Liv and Luke as much but she figured, as witches, it was their duty to protect her so she had to tell them Caroline's secret. "She recently came into her family's gift. As to how, we're still not sure but as witches its our duty to protect her." Bonnie said, she may not have her powers anymore but she still classified herself as a witch, regardless.
"Why? What is she?" Liv asked.
"She's an Elemental. Earth. To be exact." Bonnie said, knowing full well that the twins knew what she meant.
Looking at one another, Luke and Liv came to a silent agreement and began to get what they needed to perform the locator spell.
After what seemed like hours of driving, Marcel, the man who had come to her rescue, as Caroline found out his name had stopped just outside of the French quarter.
"Where are we? Why are we stopping?" she asked. Over the last few hours she had learned who Marcel was and his role in Klaus' life.
"You need a place to stay where I can keep an eye on you while I figure out what to do with you." Marcel said as he began unbuckling his seat belt.
"What? You could just let me go you know or take me to the nearest bus or train station that goes to Georgia and I'll be on my way. Besides my friends would be worried about me as it is." Caroline said.
"Look, you can't go anywhere anymore cause you would be detected by Klaus, he runs the city right now and he has eyes everywhere. What do you think he'll do once news reaches him that a certain blonde female from out of town with a distinct knowledge on vampires arrives in town?" Marcel asked as he whooshed to her side of the car and opened her door.
Realizing what he meant, Caroline swallowed, stood up and nodded then said, "Alright, so what happens now? I can't exactly trust you. You hate Klaus and me being connected to him somehow doesn't exactly put me in a positive position right now."
"Well I did just save you from one of my men, Diego isn't exactly known for listening right now, not when I've been by Klaus' side all the time. And I don't exactly hate him, he raised me made me the man I am today. I just don't appreciate him swooping in after a hundred years and acting like he did everything this city is now, when that credit is mine." Marcel said as they continued to walk into the forest, "besides, I don't hurt pregnant women or children. It's been my number one rule. Clearly something is missing in this whole puzzle. Why was Diego so sure you're the Caroline Forbes he wanted when clearly everyone knows she's a baby vampire." Marcel said as he looked back at her.
Caroline stopped in her track, "You know about me?" she asked.
"Yes, Rebekah does seem to have an opinionated mouth sometimes and she brings up your name just to rile Klaus up, of course vampire hearing and all, anyone within their compound's vicinity would hear that so…" Marcel said as he continued to walk again once he heard Caroline's footsteps once more. "Now my question is, what happened to you?" he asked as he stopped just in time for him to turn around to find Caroline just in front of him.
Choosing not to answer, Caroline continued to stare at him before loking around and asking, "Where are we?"
Sighing, Marcel shook his head and said "Avoiding my questions now are we, no matter, I'll find out soon enough." He said then he turned around again to an abandoned little cabin, "Corinne! It's me, I need a little help here!" he shouted.
"There's no one here." Caroline said, crossing her arms.
"And that is precisely why he brought you here." Said a voice from behind them, making Caroline turn around as fast as she could.
She saw a woman dressed in a simple off white dress with her hair loosely braided on one side of her head. Her skin was dark but her eyes were a light brown color that reminded her of her best friend, Bonnie. She had a warm face that made Caroline want to trust her.
"Corinne, Its nice to see you again." Marcel said as he approached the woman named Corinne.
"I know, Marcel. But I think it is best if we take this whole conversation inside. My spells are wearing thin as we speak, I must recast them." Corinne said as she made her way past Marcel and approached Caroline.
"My dear." She said as she took Caroline's hand and turned it so that she could see her palm, "It is true then. Come we must go inside." She said as she wrapped an arm around Caroline's shoulders and led her into the old abandoned looking cabin.
"I will not wait for you to move, Marcel, you either come now or my spells will ward you off my property." Corinne warned once she was in the open door. Marcel didn't need to be told twice and immediately zoomed in front of her and said "May I come in, Corinne?" with a knowing smirk on his face.
"Yes, come in." Corinne said.
As soon as all three had entered the cabin, Corinne instructed them to sit down on the couch and began to recast her spells, after a few minutes, she returned to the living room where Marcel and Caroline sat, bringing a tray of hot tea and some sandwiches for Caroline.
"Eat," she said, "you must be very hungry; vampires often forget that humans need food to survive. " Corinne said to encourage Caroline. Sensing her hesitation, she added, "Do not worry about me, I will not hurt you, in fact it is my duty to protect you and the one you carry."
"How did you know?" Caroline asked.
"About your pregnancy? Child I am a powerful witch, I can hear news from the other side when I connect with the others that have passed." Corinne explained.
"Wait, so what do you know about Caroline?" Marcel asked.
"Unless you have decided whose side you choose to fight Marcel, I cannot divulge it to you. " Corinne said, "And yes, you can leave Caroline here, she will be safest with me after all."
"Corinne, come on, I just rescued her and took her here, I'm not going to hurt her! Just tell me what is going on!" Marcel said.
"Perhaps some other time" she said then faced Marcel "It's time for you to leave now. Do not speak to anyone about Caroline's whereabouts and do not let Niklaus find out you took her from Diego." Corinne said, putting Marcel in some sort of trance.
Caroline watched in amazement as Marcel simply nodded and bid her a goodbye, saying that he'll be back tomorrow and just left.
"Finally. Now eat. We have much to talk about." Corinne said, finally turning her attention back to Caroline and then sitting next to her.
Caroline obeyed while she began to think: What the hell is going on?!
AN: Here's a semi long chapter! What do you think? I'm so excited to finally have a chapter out! Its been a while since my last one! Who do you think is this Corinne? (she's my made up character by the way. She's the only thing that's mine so far)
Anyway! Let me know what you think and where you think this story is heading to? I feel like I've created a lot of loose ends right now for every character! There's the mystery with Elena/Katerina then Katerina's thing with Elijah, Tyler's whereabouts, Stefan's current dead status, Haley's role in this story, The different kinds of veil, Caroline's current condition and of course, Klaus' reaction to said condition!
Gaaah! I can' wait to tackle them one by one!:)
BTW, if I created some inconsistencies, please point them out to me so I can correct them? I went over this chapter a few times but I may have missed some parts as I was half way asleep already! :)
PS: Had to change the new witch's name from LUCY to CORINNE cause someone pointed out that Bonnie had a witch cousin named Lucy too! (honestly the only reason I named her Lucy in the first place was cause I just watched Lucy (scarjo) haha! :)
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