A/N: This was written at the end of Season 4 of The Vampire Diaries and before any showing of The Originals. So this will obviously not follow any storyline set following that timeframe.

Disclaimer: L.J. Smith is the creator of the characters and I own nothing.

CHAPTER 5

Caroline woke up to find herself alone in a small common bedroom that she did not recognize. She had a bad ache in her neck from where it was broken and had rehealed. She went over to the door and just as she was about to turn it, Aldric Molineux walks in and she is forced back to sit on the bed.

"Hello Caroline. It is so nice to have a chance to be with you one-on-one after all this time." He is standing next to her, letting his fingers run down her hair.

She pushes his hand away and stands up to walk to the other side of the small room. "What do you want?"

"You have done what I needed actually. I have just grown so accustom to being near you, that I don't want you to leave right away."

She rolls her eyes at him, "OK creep! You had your fun. Now like you said you don't need me anymore. So why don't I just leave." As she is saying this she walks backwards toward the door, and places her hand on the doorknob.

He flashes over to her side and pulls her hand away from the handle. "Sorry. I can't have you just walk away." He pauses and thinks for a moment. "Yes, I do need you once more. Maybe one more day together then." He leans over and places a kiss on her forehead before leaving the room and locking it behind him.

"AAAAARRRRRGGGGGGG," Caroline yells aloud as she attempts to open the door he had just left by. When realizing it will not budge she kicks it with all her force. After about an hour of testing the integrity of the room trying to find a way out, she gives up and collapses on the bed and eventually falling asleep.

Soon her nightmare returned. In her dream she was being chased down an alley that she was living off of in Paris, but the way kept getting narrower and darker, and eventually she couldn't pass through any longer. She knew something was right behind her, getting closer every second, almost ready to reach her… to bite her. A wolf? It kept getting darker and darker. It was harder to breath, she knew she was about to die.

Then something changed, this had never happened before in her dreams. She started to see a light, it was warm like candles. And she heard a voice, it was Circe's' voice. She couldn't make out what she was saying, but just then as she was about to be attacked by the wolf she realized that she had a knife in her hand, it had been there all along. As the wolf leapt onto her she plunged the blade into its chest.

Caroline woke up suddenly, covered in sweat. She looked around confused again. Then realized in her hand was the blade she just had in her dreams. Without questioning it, she tucked it into her boot and headed toward the locked door of her room.

—

Klaus wakes up, finding himself in a darkened cell, in one corner he sees Elijah seemingly fine but unconscious and in the other Rebekah, who appeared to have been recently daggered but no longer with object in her chest. The cell has been dug into the ground like a pit, with bars overhead. He can see the night sky above him and as he is always aware of the moon, he can tell that the night has not passed, that he has been unconscious for only a few hours. He doesn't remember anything after that Caroline had that witch at knife point. For a moment he panics, "Caroline?" He calls out quietly. Hearing no response, he continues this time yelling louder. "Well it seems you have caught us Aldric. Now what do you want?" He stares up at the caged ceiling waiting for an answer.

Moments later Lianna is looking down at him from above, "Caught like a mouse in a cage. Not much of a big bad wolf are you?" She glances at the others in the cell with him, pausing longer on Rebekah. "Guess your siblings haven't woken up yet."

Klaus' eyes flash yellow and using the walls he leaps up to the bars holding himself there by his strength. "Let me out and I will show you what I am."

Lianna grins, "Soon enough." With that she walks away.

Klaus jumps back down to the ground, just as Elijah appears to be regaining consciousness. Even in a dirt pit, Elijah still attempts to be presentable as he stands up and begins to clean off his designer clothes. He first checks on Rebekah and satisfied that she will soon recover goes over toward Klaus, "Maybe they will be willing to talk."

Klaus snarls, "This is no time for diplomacy. They need to be dead. NOW."

From above they hear a different laugh and soon see Aldric walking above them, "Maybe you should listen to your older brother for once Klaus. If you had, this could have been avoided all those years ago."

Klaus smiled as he realized what this was regarding, "If you are speaking about how I refused your proposal to share my influence over the vampires back in 1663, then I guess you do win for holding the longest grudge. I told you then the same thing as I am telling you now, I don't share with anyone outside the family. And even then, I am not all that generous."

Aldric smiled, "I thought that your position would not have changed. Then I guess we have no other choice. The Mikaelson family is no longer needed."

Elijah interrupted, "And how do you expect to accomplish that Aldric. You know you cannot kill an original easily. And even if you do kill one, what is to stop the rest of us from coming for you. You wouldn't be able to kill Rebekah, that would end you and Lianna as well."

"Funny thing about sire-lines, apparently there is a witch-way around that one. Thankfully because of Rebekah, I learned about Klaus' weakness to the blonde, I knew she would lead me to him eventually."

Klaus clenched his teether hard at the mention of Caroline. "It wasn't like we were really hiding. I've been in the same place for the last fifty years. What took you so long?"

Aldric continued to look down at them from above, "I guess I was just having too much fun with Caroline, traveling and spending time in her dreams. That reminds me, do you have anything you'd like me to tell her before I kill her later today?"

—-

While finally giving into the idea that she was trapped in the room, Caroline began replayed her last words with Circe and the three Mikaelson's. "You will find their witch in the cemetery. But you will not be able to take her alone, she is strong. But you must find a way if you wish to over take the siblings. The young pretty one has strong blood. Different from yours. She can do it."

So Caroline had to somehow find the Molineux witch and kill her. Sure thing, easy, she laughed as she thought to herself, it isn't like I am trapped in a room or anything. Then she had an idea. She started to hit the door, hoping some guard was placed on the other side. "Look I'm hungry. I've been here God knows how long. Does anyone have anything for me to drink around here, or is it your intention that I starve to death." After about 10 minutes of this, she heard the door unlock and a young vampire guard entered the room. Before he was even aware as to what happened, Caroline twisted his neck and tossed him to the floor inside her room as she exited her temporary jail.

She moved along the corridor surprised to see it so empty. She appeared to be on the basement level of a home, or building. No windows were present and she could find stairs leading up only. She followed one to the next floor, all the time listening carefully for voices or sounds. She made her way down the hall and stopped outside of a room. Inside she could clearly hear the sister's voice. What was her name again, right Lianna, talking to someone.

"How much longer do we have to wait, when will your witch be ready?"

Followed by Aldric's voice, "Only a couple more hours now, the spell can be completed then. Then we will have it, vivre sat vincere."

Caroline heard two glasses clink together, guessing that he must have used the phrase as a toast. She knew she had to get out of there as quick as possible, but what if they were talking about Klaus, where is he? She continued creeping down the hallway finding an exit to the outside.

Outside she realized that she was no longer in the city; but somewhere with land. The building she had been imprisioned in was nothing more then a small modest home. There were some older falling down barns in the distance, but otherwise the area around the home was fields. She was grateful that the sky was still dark, it was almost dawn but she was able to stay in the shadows. Just like inside she didn't see any people around. She started searching and listening for any signs that Klaus was nearby.

It didn't take long to find it. A pit in the ground, closer to one of the abandoned barns. Before approaching she again checked to make sure there was no lookout present. Not seeing any signs of guards, she slowly made her way to the edge and looked down. Caroline was shocked when she saw all of them. Like fish in a bucket.

—

Klaus always had an instinct that could tell him when Caroline was near, it rarely failed him. He felt it at the party a couple nights ago when she first made her presence known. So when he felt it again, he wasn't all that surprised when he looked up at the cage ceiling and saw her staring down at him. "Isn't this a pleasant surprise, love. Come to rescue us?"

Caroline rolled her eyes, "Will you please be quiet so I can figure out a way to open this thing."

It wasn't all that hard to unlock the cage, seems it was meant to keep people from getting out, not from getting in. With the cage unlocked, Klaus easily climbs out followed by Elijah and the just awoken Rebekah.

Elijah approaches her first, "Thank you Caroline… that was unexpected."

Klaus however continues walking and heads toward the house that Caroline had just escaped from, "Now we finish this," he mutters under his breath. As he continues to walk he begins yelling, "ALDRIC I AM HERE, NOT HIDING FROM YOU NOW."

Lianna walks out of the door first, and in a flash Klaus is at her side and pulled her back into the field his hand in her chest cavity gripping her heart.

Next coming out of the home is Aldric. He glances first to Klaus and then watches the fear in his sisters face. "Let her go."

Elijah steps up behind Klaus, "Now why should he do that. You and your sister have threatened our family. This is how we respond to that threat."

Klaus tears her heart out and drops it on the ground, the only other sound is the fall of her body.

"YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE DONE THAT" screams Aldric.

The Molineux witch comes out from behind chanting, and all three originals reach for their heads, temporarily incapacitated. Again Caroline is unfazed by this, hearing only the distant chant of a voice. With the Originals down, Aldric rushes toward Klaus with a stake in his hand.

Caroline looks to Aldric who seems about to stake Klaus while he is at his weakest, but quickly decides to take her chance and rushes upon the witch. Taking the blade she concealed in her boot after her dream and without hesitation this time, she slices through the witch's neck. Afterward releasing the body allowing it to collapse.

With the witch dying her spell over the Originals fails, Klaus comes to quickly and immediately is upon Aldric pinning him to the ground taking the wooden stake from him and holding it over his heart. "I don't expect this is how you thought this would end my old friend."

Aldric holds Klaus' gaze, but did not say a word.

Klaus plunges the stake into Aldric's heart and watches while his body turns grey. He whispers to him before standing, "vivere sat vincere, mon ami."

With the Molineux Family and their witch dead the grounds are silent. Klaus flashes over to Caroline. "Are you ok, love?"

Caroline drops the knife she was holding and with her lower lip slightly trembling she looks to him, "It is done?" She slowly feels a weight anxiety and paranoia that she has been living with for twenty years lift from her. And she collapses into Klaus' arms.

Surprised but responding quickly, he wraps his arms around her and places a gentle kiss on the top of her head, "Yes love, it is over."

Klaus takes her hand and leads her to join Elijah and Rebekah, who both have made swift work of any remaining vampire guards.

—-

Caroline woke the next day with the sun shining into her face. Without opening her eyes she stretched out like a cat and curled up again, placing the covers over her head.

"Do you intend to sleep all day sweetheart?"

She smiles, "I thought it was a good plan, doesn't seem like anyone is trying to kill me or you today. And I haven't had such pleasant dreams in a long time."

He takes her hand out from the covers and gently begins kissing and nipping along the inside of her wrist. "I look forward to personally making sure it stays that way."

She giggles and quickly pins him down on his back to the bed, with her straddling him. "Are you inviting me to stay then?"

She watches him, loving how his eyes change when he smiles. "I insist upon it, love." He reaches up and pulls her down onto his chest and kisses her lips roughly.

After a moment she pulls away, "You know you can't make me do anything I don't want to do," she says and then begins to trail her lips along his bare chest.

"Of course not. I would like you… should you be so inclined.. to stay here… with me." His hands run down the length of her body and rest against her bare lower back holding her to him.

She looks up at his face, and gently places a kiss on his lips. He deepens it and she finds herself flipped onto her back again. He pauses only for a moment, "I change my mind… I think we should stay in bed all day."

The End

A/N: Thank you for all your favorites, follows and reviews. This have been my first published story and your encouragement made it much less nerve-wracking. Thank you and I hope you enjoyed.