"Where were you?" Elena asked.

Caroline knew that she couldn't dodge the question. She had already been through it with her mother, who was very angry with her for "running away". She was being punished for skipping town and for leaving her mother very frightened. Yet another reason to dislike Klaus. She got in trouble for him kidnapping her.

"It's complicated Elena," Caroline said looking out her own bedroom window. She felt terrible for her friend. She had know idea what it was like for her to wake up and discover that she was gone without a trace.

"I don't get it," Elena stated.

"Look, I don't really want to talk about it, okay?"

When Elena left her house later, Elijah had appeared, knocking at her front door. Caroline expected him to walk right in but remembered that he couldn't without an invite.

"What are you waiting for?" Elijah asked.

"Once I invite you in, there are no take backs. I'm just making sure I'm doing the right thing," Caroline answered.

"Look at it this way, if you don't invite me in Klaus can still come in and I can't stop him from getting to you."

In an instant Caroline replied, "Elijah, please come in."

Elijah moved swiftly passed her and headed for the living room. He took a seat on the comfy chair as Caroline sat down on the couch. Her hands touched her knees, which began to shake a little. Elijah was offering her protection from his brother but Elijah was a vampire and could turn on her at any moment. Either way she was screwed.

"Why is he obsessed with me?" Caroline asked finally.

They had not discussed that part at all since Boston. On the trip back to Mystic Falls, Elijah was very silent and often appeared to be in thought. Caroline also didn't want to say anything to him on the chance that she would say something wrong and he would take out his vampire rage on her. With Klaus she knew he truly wasn't going to hurt her, except for the turning part, but with Elijah she had no clue. She didn't really know how he operated.

"Let's just say you remind him of somebody from very long ago," Elijah replied.

"That doesn't answer my question," Caroline said forwardly, regretting it somewhat.

Elijah sighed. Whatever it was that he knew seemed to give him a really big headache. But he wasn't the only one. Caroline felt the familiar sharp pain that she had when she was living in the old house in the middle of nowhere with Klaus.

Caroline.

The girl's voice called to her. She wanted to take her away from this. She wanted to pull Caroline towards her. And she did. The last thing Caroline remembered was sitting across from Elijah when she blacked out.

Elijah noticed the pain that Caroline was experiencing and got up to her aid. The girl's hands were held to her head and her eyes were squeezed shut.

"Caroline?" Elijah asked.

A few seconds later the girl removed her hands and opened her eyes, blinking a few times. She got up from her seat, moving past the tall man and went straight towards her reflection in the mirror, resting over the fireplace. She looked into it expecting to see someone else appear, but she just saw herself, which ultimately caused her to form a wicked smirk. Elijah saw the smirk and asked again.

"Caroline?"

The girl turned around with deviousness painted all over her face. She crossed her arms and let out a sinister laugh.

"Nope. Want to try again?"

"Madeline," Elijah breathed out.

"Elijah. You haven't changed at all. Except your hair. Let me just say how long hair did not suit you," Madeline laughed.

"What are you doing?" Elijah asked. His eyes were hard and could have been made of steel.

"What does it look like? I'm reclaiming my life."

"It's not your life. For God's sake she's just seventeen."

"So was I when it happened. But I didn't get a say in my life and whether it was to be kept or destroyed."

"You can't do this," Elijah said.

"Oh? But I already have. Everything is set into motion. And by the time I'm done, I'll not only have a brand new body of my own, but I'll be with my sweet Niklaus again."

"Don't you mean Klaus? There's nothing left of him that was ever Niklaus. You made sure of that didn't you Madeline?"

"Don't get all self-righteous with me Elijah. Just stay out of my way and everything will be fine."

"That's not going to happen," Elijah said as he used his speed to get to her. He grabbed her by the arms and forced her to look into his eyes. "You're forgetting that I now have the blood blond with Caroline. Meaning I get to call the shots on who stays and who goes."

Elijah used all of his willpower to push Madeline out of her control and succeeded. He knew that she could come back. He believed that the only reason Klaus wasn't able to get her out before was because Caroline was more in control of her body. But with every second that Madeline lurked from within the more control she could gain. He couldn't let that happen.

Caroline woke from her blackout to discover Elijah's in front of her and his hands on her, she drastically pulled away confused by what had just happened.

"What's going on?" She asked.

Elijah debated on telling her. He knew it was probably for the best that she knew. But she looked so innocent and scared in that moment that he couldn't bare to tell her that a psychotic spirit from the past was trying to take over her body. Caroline may have looked like Madeline but she was nothing like her. She actually reminded him a lot of his younger sister with her innocence that she held in her sea stormed eyes. But she was gone.

Elijah brushed away the thoughts of his past family and shook his head at her question.

"It was nothing. You just blacked out. Probably from your mind being messed with so much by Klaus," Elijah lied.

Caroline didn't know if he was telling the truth but decided that it was an acceptable answer. She moved back to the couch to rest on it feeling slightly week. Perhaps it had something to do with the blackout.

"What happens if Klaus shows up here?"

"Just leave everything to me," Elijah replied.