AN: Sorry this took so long! I've been drowning in work! Hope this chapter was worth the wait lovelies!
Chapter 4 The Departure
Caroline gets off the small boat and jumps feet first into the sand. She takes off her boots and lets the soft warm sand seep through her toes and the cool calming waves crash into her. She walks further up the shore and basks in the new scenery. An inevitable smile plays on her face as she takes in her surroundings. The tropical breeze, the sun rays dancing on her skin and the wide-open spaces. Nothing is touched my human kind and she absolutely loves it – it's perfectly innocent. From a distance, Klaus watches her as she twirls around and curls her toes in the sand and he feels…happy when he watches her, a foreign feeling for him so he pushes it aside.
"Stop fooling around girl. We're wasting daylight." Klaus yells and Caroline glares at him.
"What are we doing here anyways?" Caroline asks as she stomps her way to him.
"That is none of your concern love." Klaus says.
"Actually, it is considering you're inconsiderate self dragged Elena and I onto this island and doing God knows what. So I refuse to move unless you tell what we are doing here." Caroline states.
"You're being an absolute child and bitch about this all. You're not a lady here Caroline, you can't be self entitled anymore." Rebekah says annoyingly.
"So what lets you become a bossy indecent brat?" Caroline comments.
In midst of her rage, Rebekah races up to Caroline and grabs her by the neck then pushes her down to the ground with such force, it takes Caroline's breath away. "You listen here, you stupid girl. You are in no position to talk back, prisoner." Rebekah spits.
Klaus comes up from behind and pulls his sister off Caroline effortlessly and throws her aside, "You are being a brat." Klaus states.
"And you are a prat." Rebekah comments.
"And you," Klaus points to Caroline, glaring at her, "What we are doing here is none of your business. Would you rather stay on the ship and suffer in the hands of the cabin boys?"
"I'm still not moving until you tell me what we are doing here."
Klaus becomes impatient with Caroline's behavior and pulls her up by her arm and throws her over his shoulders, "You're testing my patience Caroline." He throws her back down on the ground and extends his hands out. A goon passes him up a rope and Klaus ties her down to a tree.
"Are you serious? Klaus! Untie me this instant! Klaus!" Caroline yells, struggling with her bindings.
"Bring the other girl." Klaus orders and his men drag Elena forward as they move into the forest.
"Klaus! Don't you dare leave me here!" Caroline shouts.
"Be a good girl and stay love." Klaus says.
"Don't you dare hurt even a single hair on Elena! Klaus! Let me go!" Caroline yells but realizes it is futile since they continue moving into the forest so she just lets out a frustrated scream.
"Are you really going to leave her there?" Kol asks.
"Nothing is going to happen to her." Klaus states.
They reach a remote village by midday in the center of the forest. When they entered the village it is empty, no sign of human life. They wonder around and yet still find nothing. Klaus looks around and has a suspicious feeling about the village. Last he recalls, it was not this empty last time he was here. The huts are empty, the center of the village's fire is out and not even ashes lie around the pit, the water system stop working and there is not a single person or child in this town.
"This is all very odd." Klaus says.
"Where are we?" Elena asks.
"Do you think they are hiding?" Elijah asks.
"To what attack us?" Rebekah questions.
"Why would they anyways? They did not attack us last time." Kol notes.
"Can someone please tell me where we are?" Elena repeats this time louder.
"We're in an old tribe in the Caribbean. They have a witch that we are in need of assistance of." Elijah explains
"There are no such thing as witches." Elena claims.
"Shut your mouth you little brat. If you got out of your sheltered life you would realize there are a lot more to this world than you think." Rebekah says, pinching the bridge of her nose.
"Where is everyone?" Klaus questions while he looks around the tribe, seeing only empty huts and burned out fireplaces.
"Maybe they went hunting. Their weapons are gone." Kol points out.
The sudden sound of the leaves rustling made everyone turn around. It seems like the whole village emerge out of the forest, all cheering and stomping around giddily. Maybe Kol is right; maybe they were out on a hunt. The villagers notice the crew and stop in their tracks. The women smile at the Mikaelson men and the men courtesy at Rebekah. Elena finds their greetings rather odd to the Mikaelsons, almost welcoming. The villagers part away from the middle forming a path. The chief comes through and gestures some villagers to move on forward.
Elena gasps when she sees what the villagers are carrying…more like whom. In their vice grip is Caroline's rag doll like body. Her head is hanging and her blonde curls cover her face and the men drag her by her arms. Elena tries to launch forward to aid her friend but Elijah holds her back by grabbing her wrist tightly. She notices how Kol's grip tightens around his pistol and Klaus' eyes turn from a cerulean blue to a dark rainstorm. Elena feels uneasy at this situation right now.
"What do you think you are doing with that girl?" Kol asks.
Behind the chief comes out an exotic young dark skinned woman. Her hair is pulled back in a braid and her arm is covered with tribal tattoos. What draw Elena the most to her are the woman's bright hazel eyes, they are bone-chillingly haunting to look at. It sends chills down Elena's back just looking at her smirk at them.
"Bonnie." Klaus says through his teeth.
"Niklaus!" She greets happily.
"What are you doing with that girl?" Kol yells pointing at Caroline.
"A sacrifice of course."
They all sit around the small-protected fire in a hut. Elena plays with her thumb and constantly looks out the entrance to watch Caroline's tied up figure to make sure she is safe…well as safe as she can be in her situation. Everyone's stature is so frigid and stiff except the villagers and Rebekah's of course.
"Explain to us why you need that girl for a sacrifice?" Elijah asks.
"There is an old legend. They say that a girl that fall from the earth that has skin as white as the clouds, eyes as blue as the sky and hair golden, will approach our village. She is the fallen angel. The legend says that if the angel is killed she will be sent back to the heavens and our village will eternally be graced with protection and vitality." Bonnie tells.
"And what is the sacrifice?" Kol asks.
"We must cut out her heart and let her bleed out on a pedestal and the whole village will feast on her heart!" Bonnie states and Kol cringes at the thought.
"She's not an angel." Rebekah spats, "And for Christ sake I have the exact same features except that my eyes are green! I don't see you lot thinking I was an angel!"
"Rebekah." Finn whines, pinching the bridge of his nose.
"There is an aura around the girl, a powerful aura. She can heal." Bonnie says.
"She can heal not because of magic because she was taught! Rebekah is right she is not an angel. She is my best friend and I refuse to let you kill her." Elena claims.
"Niklaus, you want the map to the chest for immortality." Bonnie says and Klaus' eyes pop up, "I have it and I will give it to you for exchange of the girl." The chief nods his head at Cecelia's deal as she hands over the old worn out map.
"No!" Elena screams
"Yes." Klaus says.
"What?" Both Kol and Elena states but Klaus just looks at him and he stays silent.
"No! I will refuse to let you give away m—"
"Elena." Elijah says sternly and grips onto her wrist, "We are leaving. That is the end of it."
"Pleasure as always Bonnie" Klaus says sweetly before grabbing the map and leaving the hut. Behind him is Elijah dragging Elena away from the table and even though she struggles in his grip, he barely uses any effort to pull her light body away. Elena yanks her arm out of Elijah's grip and walks in front of Klaus in order to stop him.
"You better know what you are doing! This is my best friends life in your hands and believe me when I say this, I will end you if she dies." Elena threatens.
"Don't make threats you cannot fulfill little girl." Klaus says shoving Elena aside and walking past her.
"You do know what you are doing, right brother?" Kol asks.
"Of course. You'll get your girl back."
Somehow, saying those words to Kol is like swallowing poison. The words rot his insides slowly and he cannot even recognize what this foreign poison is.
"Finn, decipher this map." Klaus orders before handing it to Finn.
Caroline awakes in a haze and her vision is still blurry. She sees people scurrying around her and chanting. When she tries to move, it is then she realizes she is still tied down but this time she is tied to a pedestal by the wrists and ankles. A fire roars encircling her. Caroline looks around frantically and the chanting gets louder and louder. She struggles in her binds but it is useless. She sees a woman, the same woman she saw before it all went black, reciting something. The woman looks at Caroline with those burning hazel eyes and Caroline's body is pin to the pedestal.
"What is happening?!" Caroline yells, "What are you doing to me?!"
As much as she struggles, this invisible force keeps her down and it is immensely stronger than she is. The woman comes to Caroline's sides and she chants unrecognizable words. Her hazel eyes turn pitch black and it scares Caroline to the bone. The woman has a blade in her hands and she raises her arm up and in a blink of an eye the blade penetrates through Caroline's abdomen. Caroline screams from the pain till her throat is worn out.
"I'm sorry my lady, I missed." The woman says casually shrugging her shoulders while Caroline looks at in bewilderment.
"Bonnie." A man says sternly.
Bonnie does the procedure one more time and if she missed the first time, Caroline can only fear what her actually target was. But before she could stab Caroline again gunshots ring through the air and at least 6 people drop to the ground. Bonnie looks around frantically and moves away from Caroline. For the next few moments, Caroline can only hear the gurgling screams of the people and their bodies drop with a thud to the ground. She can hear Bonnie pleading for them to stop.
"The girl is not yours to claim." It is a thick British accent and a deep, hoarse voice. Caroline recognizes that voice, "She is on my ship and she belongs to me." Klaus.
Before she could register all of this, Kol is by her side cutting up her bindings and helping her sit up. When she could see the whole plane, all she sees are dead, bloody bodies on the ground and a tied up Cecelia. Her face is covered in her tears and Caroline cannot even register this blood bath that is around her.
"It's okay darling, I got you." Kol says. He places his arms around her and picks her up, "You're okay now, you're safe."
Caroline glances to the side and sees Klaus watching them. She cannot decipher the expression he is wearing but he is just staring at her with his eyes, those daunting blue eyes that shine under the moonlight. She puts her arms around Kol's neck and Klaus turns around and proceeds to lead his crew out of this massacre to the ship.
Kol puts Caroline down on the desk and immediately aids her wounds. Elena scurries off the bed and runs to Caroline. Caroline is in such a daze that she cannot comprehend the frantic words that are escaping Elena's mouth. Kol rips her shirt apart and places a cloth on the wound. The action made Caroline cry out in pain.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry I am not a doctor." Kol says.
"Is anyone on this boat a doctor?!" Caroline yells.
"Finn's is the navigator, Elijah's the scholar, Rebekah is the liaison, I do the fighting and Klaus is Klaus." Kol explains quickly, panic dripping out of his voice.
"Not helping Kol!" Caroline screams again when Kol presses down harder.
"There's just so much blood." Kol states, staring at his blood drenched hands.
"It's a deep wound Kol!" Caroline cries.
"What on earth is going on here?" Klaus storms into the room, "What do you think you are doing Kol?!"
"And I suppose you are the doctor?" Kol says.
"I'm sure even an imbecile could do a better job than you! You are probably going to be the reason why she dies you idiot." Klaus states
"You always think you're better, fine you decide what to do! We never had a doctor on board Nik! It may be a good idea to get one now isn't it?" Kol argues.
"Boys!" Elena screams but Kol and Klaus continues to argue over her.
"Oh because you have always been the responsible one Kol. You have been nothing but reckless and an impulsive pain in my ass since you were born!" Klaus yells.
"BOYS!" Elena shouts out.
"What?!" They both yell back in unison.
"Caroline." Elena points out to an unconscious Caroline lying on the desk, "She lost too much blood."
"We need to stitch her up." Klaus states.
"Does anyone know how to stitch a person up though?" Kol asks.
"Caroline does." Elena says.
"You're not being helpful girl." Klaus comments.
"Actually, Bonnie knows how to heal." Finn interjects.
"Where the hell did you come from?" Kol asks.
"I brought Bonnie." Finn drags Bonnie in the room by her arm, "You'll heal her right, Bonnie?" It really isn't a question, it is an underlying demand that no one can refuse.
"Yes." Bonnie says venomously.
Caroline's eyes start to open up but her vision is still blurry. Her head is pounding and everything is a daze to her. She groggily starts to come back to the consciousness and she notices that there is a blurry figure sitting next to her. At first, Caroline thinks it is Elena but when her vision clears up, the figure did not have long, dark raven hair or olive skin or even a female. She looks at the figure with wide eyes and scurries to sit up and move to the other side of the bed but her head sends her to a whirlwind of dizziness and she loses her balance. A firm, calloused hand holds on to her waist and settles her down.
"Calm down love, you're going to open up your stitches." Klaus says, setting her down the bed again.
"What…what are you doing here?" Caroline asks still in shock by his presence.
"Someone has to look after you. You are in my bedroom after all." Klaus replies.
Caroline looks around and notices the change in environment. The room is larger but it seems warmer in here. There is a dark mahogany writing desk and a bookcase next to it. The wall is adorn with world maps and maps of countries. But these sheets, these Egyptian cotton, beige sheets, they are so soft that Caroline could melt into them. It is a large bed, fit for a King with four posts and intricate carvings on the head of the bed.
"You should get some rest." Klaus says interrupting Caroline's daydream.
"Why did you come back?" She asks weakly but he merely shrugs before walking out the room.
"I need you as leverage." Klaus' voice is monotone when he replies to her.
"Well regardless, thank you." She calls out before Klaus could make it out the door. She can only see his back but she knows a smile is playing on his face, it must be such a foreign sight and she somehow yearns to see it now.
"Sleep well love." Klaus says before closing the door behind him.
"Is she okay?" Elena asks.
"She's fine, just need some rest."
"And why is it that she is resting in your room?" Kol questions.
"She's safest there." Klaus simply replies.
"With you in the room?" Elena asks incredulously.
"I'll be up till morning with Finn working on the maps."
"Where are headed now?" Elena asks.
"Mystic Falls." Klaus says.