Chapter 13 – Suicide Squad
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"So tell me about all of your siblings." Caroline asked Klaus as she curled up next to him on the blanket they had set out in the middle of Central Park.
She had spontaneously decided to call her boyfriend that day and ask if he wanted to go on a picnic with her during his lunch break. While he had grumbled over how cheesy picnics were, he had obviously agreed just to see her.
"I mean I know Elijah." Caroline continued, popping a grape into her mouth. "And I know Rebekah kind of, even though I feel like she really hates me." Klaus chuckled. "But what about Finn and Kol? Finn is like, never here even though he helps run the business and you never talk about Kol."
Klaus sighed, leaning back on his elbow and leisurely trailing his finger down Caroline's bare arm, smirking when goose bumps appeared.
"Well 'Lijah and I are the closest, as you could probably guess." He started, making Caroline nod. "Rebekah is…she drives me nuts, but I love her more than she knows. All the authority that I try to impose on her is just to keep her safe, but of course she doesn't realize that. And Finn…well, Finn isn't really close to any of us. He was a mama's boy as a child and so he misses England a lot, which is why he is hardly ever here. But when he is we get along fairly well."
"And what about Kol?" Caroline inquired, laying back and turning her head to face him. "You said he moved to Chicago?"
Klaus sighed heavily, looking up at the bright blue July sky. He was silent for a few moments and Caroline didn't say anything, which he was grateful for. For her to be the most talkative person he had ever met, she had a knack for knowing when he needed silence.
"Ever since Kol was a child he resented being the youngest brother." Klaus finally said. "There was a six year gap between Kol and myself, ten for Elijah, and thirteen for Finn. So Kol was constantly trying to prove to us older ones that he was stronger, smarter, and more capable than us."
"I take it you didn't appreciate that?" Caroline asked.
"Well if he had just done it without so much arrogance we wouldn't have cared." Klaus said with a sad chuckle. "But Kol is like me in the sense that his pride is his undoing. He is always right, and anytime we try to help him it's not for his well-being but because we think he's weak." He said sardonically, shaking his head. "We got along well as children, especially when Elijah first moved out and Rebekah started to actually act like a girl." Caroline chuckled. "But as we got older our fights got more intense. Eventually we just started to hate each other."
"I'm sure he doesn't hate you."
"Oh he does." Klaus said assuredly, not making eye contact with Caroline. "Before he ducked out of the business and decided to move to Chicago he made sure to tell me so."
Caroline was quiet for a few seconds before she reached beside her and laced her fingers through Klaus'. He turned his head to the side only to see that she was already gazing at him.
"You're his big brother." Caroline whispered, her deep blue eyes boring into his own. "No matter what he says, that will never change. He looks up to you, he loves you. And that doesn't change just because of a few words neither of you meant or because he moved away."
"Love you don't even know him."
"I don't have to." She replied immediately. "Because I know you. And I know how much you love your siblings and I know that you would do anything in the world for them. And I also know that that isn't a one-way street with any of you Mikaelsons."
The corners of Klaus' mouth turned up as he stared at the beautiful girl beside him that was honoring him with the privilege of her own award winning smile.
"I love you." He said seriously, still being careful about when he used those words since it hadn't been that long ago that they each said them for the first time.
Caroline's smile grew even wider and she rolled onto her side so that her lips were hovering over his.
"And I love you." She whispered as she kissed him longingly.
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"How is he?" Caroline asked from her perch on one of Wes' many lab tables.
Enzo sighed, shaking his head as he closed the door that led to Klaus' cell and effectively drowned out the screaming.
"The same as yesterday and the day before that, Caroline." He grumbled. "Absolutely insane."
"It's because he's fighting it." Caroline snapped. "You heard Wes, this is how he's coping with the Infection."
"Well it doesn't make him any less bloody mad." Enzo barked, relaxing when he saw Caroline's pained expression. "Ah damn it Caroline, I'm sorry. He's fine, he hasn't hurt himself or anything like that."
Caroline let out a sigh of relief, closing her eyes for a few moments.
"But what about you?" Enzo asks, hopping up to sit beside her. Wes was on the other side of the room working by himself as per usual. "How are you doing? Have you even left this basement anytime in the past week and a half?"
Caroline chuckles sadly, shaking her head. "No, not really. I'm kind of scared to go back to my room. Katherine and Elijah haven't been assigned one together yet so they've been…y'know…"
"Ah, I see." Enzo says mischievously. "The married couple catching up on lost time eh? Well good for them. Somebody should be."
Caroline laughed again. "Yeah, something like that. And then Damon and Stefan have been catching up a lot, which is good. They were never really close before The Outbreak so… And then I know that Elena, Rebekah, and Lexi have been helping teach at that little school type thing on the other side of the community. And Matt's been patrolling the wall with Alaric and Jeremy."
"And what about the other ones?" Enzo inquired. "The darker skinned girl and Klaus' brother?"
"Oh, Bonnie and Kol. Well Bonnie's been helping some of the nurses around here I think. She once said that her grandma knew a lot about medicinal herbs and that kind of thing, so she has a lot to contribute. And Kol has been pretty secluded lately according to Elijah. He's taking this stuff with Klaus really hard apparently."
"But I thought he wasn't even close with his siblings?"
Caroline sighed. "He wasn't. In fact he kind of resented all of them I think. I've never really talked to him much to be completely honest with you."
"What?" Enzo asked incredulously. "He's your boyfriend's brother, not to mention you just travelled all the way here from Chicago with him."
"I had never met Kol until The Outbreak." Caroline clarified. "I was in Chicago to see Katherine and Elena's Aunt Jenna, but Kol lived there with Bonnie too. When The Outbreak started, I tracked them down before we left the city."
"Ah, I see. But why did you never talk to him then?"
"He reminded me too much of Klaus." She said sadly, looking down at her feet which she was swinging from the edge of the table. "They both have these snarky, overly confident personalities."
"Oh, it all makes sense now." Enzo said slowly, looking off dramatically.
"What makes sense?"
"Why you can't stay away from me of course." Enzo replied in a haughty and teasing tone. "I mean come on Caroline. In case you haven't noticed I too am an overly self-assured British man that you just can't seem to stay away from."
"Oh shutup!" Caroline laughed, shoving his shoulder to which he just grinned. "You're my friend Enzo, you know that. And if you keep being so flirty with me people are going to start thinking the wrong thing."
"Oh I'm just teasing gorgeous." He said seriously, still smiling lightly. "Maggie is the only girl for me." He paused dramatically. "But hey in any other circumstances –"
"I've done it." Wes suddenly whispered, interrupting what was bound to be a disgustingly sexual innuendo. The doctor stood up from his microscope slowly. "I've done it, I've figured it out."
"Done what exactly?" Enzo asked slowly, hopping down from the table and extending a hand to Caroline to help her do the same.
"The cells." Wes continued as if he himself was in disbelief. "I've done the impossible, I've figured out how to target the Infected cells to attack themselves."
"You did what?" Caroline shouted incredulously, jumping down without Enzo's assistance and running over to Wes, her blonde hair flying in front of her face as she leaned over the table he was working on. "You've created the cure?"
"Yes!" The doctor shouted excitedly, looking back into the microscope with the biggest smile he'd had in ages.
But then his shoulders dropped as he observed the cells, Enzo immediately noticing his change in stature.
"What is it?" Enzo asked quickly. "Talk to us Wes, what the bloody hell is going on?" He asked with his voice raised.
"No, no, no, no." Wes grumbled, standing back up to his full height and briefly making eye contact with Enzo and Caroline before screaming in frustration and throwing all of his notebooks with various equations in them across the room.
"Wes!" Enzo shouted, grabbing his shoulders and turning him back around. "Get it together and tell us what's happening or so help me I will –"
"I had it the first time!" Wes interrupted with a shout, breathing heavily. "When I…when I was trying to design the cure for cancer before The Outbreak, I had it. I had found the cure, it was proven to work."
"But...The Infection…" Caroline trailed off in confusion.
"I made alterations." Wes said in shame, looking down and shaking his head sadly. "I had the cure for cancer, but I couldn't stop there. I altered it so that when taken, not only would it cure cancer, but it would prevent any illness. Asthma, learning disabilities, psoriasis, the common cold."
"Well it didn't seem to turn out well, did it?" Enzo growled, bunching his fist up in Wes' shirt.
"No, it didn't." Wes said quickly. "The cure became The Infection, it was too intense. The body was never meant not to be sick. But what I'm trying to tell you is that I was right the first time."
"When you created the first cure?" Caroline asked, stepping forward to where Enzo was holding up Wes. "The one that could get rid of cancer?"
"Yes." He answered with a meek smile. "And now I've figured out that I had what I was searching for all along. The original cure would have done everything I was trying to alter it to do. Cure and prevent any type of sick cells."
"Including the Infection." Caroline whispered in realization.
"Including the Infection." Wes repeated.
"Well great!" Enzo shouted, letting go of Wes' shirt and clapping him on the shoulders. "Administer the cure you made ages ago then. Mass production, save the world, all that jazz."
"Well therein lies the problem." Wes said in a conflicted tone. "I don't have the means here to make it."
"Well did you save any of the original cure?" Caroline asked quickly with wide eyes as she stepped closer to them.
"Of course I did, I'm not an imbecile." Wes replied condescendingly.
Enzo scoffed. "Could've fooled me."
"Then just use your super genius science-y skills to duplicate what you've already made!" Caroline shouted incredulously. "You can do that, can't you?"
"Yes, it's simple."
"Then do it!" Caroline all but screamed, ecstatic at the prospect of saving Klaus.
"No you don't understand Caroline." Wes countered, looking at her with a pitiful expression. "I don't have it here. I only kept three vials of the original cure and I didn't bring any of them to Whitmore with me."
Enzo and Caroline both looked at each other as a tense silence washed over the trio.
"Well then where are they?" Enzo asked slowly, scared to hear the answer.
Wes let out a deep breath, looking at each of them.
"In my lab." He said in a defeated voice.
Wes' next words gave Enzo and Caroline the worst sense of dread they had ever felt.
"In New York City."
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Klaus cleared his throat to get Elijah's attention as he stepped into his older brother's office. Elijah looked up from his computer.
"Niklaus? Is everything alright?" He asked, noting the worry lines etched into Klaus' face.
"Yes of course, of course, everything is fine." Klaus said quickly. "I was just wondering though, have you uh…have you heard from Kol at all lately?"
Elijah smiled, leaning back in his chair fully.
"Niklaus if you want to call Kol and wish him a happy birthday –"
"Oh please, Elijah." Klaus rolled his eyes. "Kol is 21 years old, I'm not going to bother calling him to wish him a happy birthday when he is probably sloshed out of his mind." He muttered. "Especially when he probably wouldn't even answer the damn phone."
"He answered when I called him this morning." Elijah retorted. "And Finn as well. Rebekah even skyped with him last night and he seemed quite happy to talk to all of us."
"Well." Klaus mumbled, swallowing thickly. "Good for you all then. I think I'll just be going then –"
"Niklaus." Elijah called out as he started to leave. "Just call him. You haven't spoken to Kol in over a year, don't you think it's time you two worked out your differences?"
"Do you forget what Kol said to me when he left?" Klaus asked indignantly, spinning back around to face his brother. "He said that he couldn't believe you let me work in the family business when my last name shouldn't even be Mikaelson." He spat, pain flashing across his eyes as the memory resurfaced.
"I remember clearly." Elijah said calmly. "I also remember you saying several things that were out of line that night as well."
Klaus just looked away, jaw clenching in frustration.
"For the record, Kol is doing well." Elijah said, seeing Klaus glance at him out of the corner of his eye. "He and his girlfriend Bonnie are still living together. She just got into medical school, he's very proud of her."
"And his writing?" Klaus asked with feigned indifference after a few tense seconds of silence. "Is he still a sports critic or whatever he likes to call it?"
Elijah looked down at his lap and smiled. Klaus may pretend that he doesn't care for their youngest brother but his actions have always proved otherwise, ever since they were children.
"His writing is going well. Kol has an entire column in the Chicago Tribune now."
"That's…good." Klaus muttered, briefly making eye contact with Elijah and hating how vulnerable he felt at that moment.
"He asked about you." Elijah said, making Klaus freeze. "He asked how you were doing. Rebekah has told him all about Caroline and we even had to convince him that you two were actually together and not just a part of some silly prank." Klaus smirked despite himself. "He says he would love to meet her one day."
"Well that's enough of that 'Lijah, I'll be going now, I –"
"Mr. Mikaelson?" Elijah's secretary suddenly popped her head into the office. "A Mr. Donovan is here to see you? He asked to speak to both you and your brother actually, so I'm glad I caught you now."
"Matt?" Klaus asked, looking at his brother. "Why the bloody hell would the quarterback want to speak to the both of us in the middle of the day?"
Elijah took a deep breath and stood up from his chair. "I think I know why." He mumbled ominously in a barely audible voice under his breath. "Send him in please Allison, thank you."
The secretary nodded and stepped out. A few seconds later Matt stepped into Elijah's office, clad in jeans and a t-shirt with his bar's logo on it. He looked flustered, running a hand through his short hair and swallowing thickly as Klaus smirked at him with an evil undertone.
"Mr. Donovan." Elijah said politely. "How nice to see you again. I trust you're doing well?"
"Oh yeah, yeah, I'm doing great." Matt stammered out, glancing briefly with a scared expression at Klaus who was still glaring relentlessly. "I um, I actually came here to ask you guys something. About Rebekah."
Klaus' stomach dropped and he whipped his head back to Elijah, fearing what was about to happen. Elijah just gave him a look that said 'calm down' and then turned back to Matt.
"Of course, go ahead."
Matt took a deep breath, bouncing a bit on his feet in nervousness.
"Well you see, I would like to ask you guys for your blessing." Matt finally managed to say. "To ask Rebekah to marry me."
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"Caroline you realize you're bloody insane, right?" Enzo asked condescendingly as he tried his best to keep up with Caroline's determined power walk towards the center of town. "This is mad!"
"Actually, it's not." Caroline snapped, her lips set in a firm line and her eyes piercing forward. "We have to go to New York City, that is our only option."
"Everyone knows that the most dangerous place to be is in the bloody city!" Enzo said in frustration, two seconds away from pulling his own hair out. "And you think you can assemble a team of people to walk right into their deaths for the very slim chance that the cure is still in Wes' lab? That building is probably burnt to the ground by now, or crawling with Infected!"
"But we don't know that!" Caroline shouted back at him, coming to an abrupt stop and facing him head on. "This is our only hope, Enzo. Our only hope to cure Klaus, and Aaron, and Maggie." It didn't escape her that Enzo's jaw clenched at the mention of his love. "And I'm going to go after that hope with every ounce of strength that I have left in me. And you don't have to go with me, I never asked you to. But what I am asking you to do is help me explain to my friends what's going on because they have the right to know."
And without another word Caroline spun on her heel and continued to head towards the middle of town where she had asked all of her friends and the mayor to meet her, a look of determination on her otherwise delicate features.
Enzo stayed where he was for a few seconds, biting his lip and cursing his own luck for becoming friends with Caroline Forbes.
"Ah damn you you bloody stubborn girl." He cursed under his breath, jogging to catch up with her. "Wait!"
When Enzo and Caroline reached the meeting point, they saw everyone else was already there. Damon, Stefan, and Lexi were all standing together talking, Alaric, Matt, and Jeremy were just walking up with their guns slung over their shoulders from doing wall patrol, and Kol was talking to Elijah while Katherine was messing with Elena's hair. The mayor, Tyler, and head of patrol Mason Lockwood were also in attendance.
Rebekah was also there and as soon as she spotted Caroline she rushed up to her.
"Caroline I need to talk to you." Rebekah asked in a harsh whisper, her accent more pronounced like it usually got when she was stressed out.
"Not now Rebekah." Caroline replied.
"No Caroline this isn't really something that can wait. You see I'm –"
"Ah there she is." Kol cut his sister off in a snarky tone as Caroline and Enzo reached everyone. Rebekah sighed and went to stand next to Matt. "Well Caroline are you going to tell us why we're all here or are we just supposed to guess?"
"Be quiet, Kol." Elijah snapped at his brother. "Caroline, is everything alright? Is Niklaus okay?"
"Yes." She said quickly – almost too quickly. "Everything is great actually. A few hours ago, Wes – Dr. Maxfield – well he figured out how to cure the Infection."
Everyone jumped at once, stepping forward and asking a million questions all at the same time.
"How is that possible?"
"Did it work, is Niklaus cured?"
"Can he create more, can we administer it to anyone that's Infected?"
"Can it keep us from becoming Infected in the future?"
"How do you know it works?"
"Woah, woah, woah!" Enzo shouted, stepping in front of Caroline to keep the mass away. "Hold on people, she's not done yet."
Caroline inhaled deeply and nodded her thanks to Enzo who nodded back. Everyone stopped talking and took a few steps back to give her room to breathe.
"Right, as I was saying." She said in a shaky voice. "Wes figured out a cure. But…unfortunately, it's not here."
"Not here?" Damon asked incredulously. "Then how the hell does he know if it works?"
"Because he's already made it before." She called back to him. "Wes developed what he knows for certain can cure The Infection before The Outbreak even happened."
"How do we know he isn't lying?" Jeremy spoke up. "I mean this guy did start the apocalypse in case you've forgotten."
"His son is Infected." Enzo said dryly. "Trust me mate, he knows it will work. He wouldn't risk hurting Aaron any further."
"Look what I'm trying to tell you guys," Caroline continued, "Is that we know that there's a cure. Wes made it, and if we can get it for him then he can replicate it and save not only Klaus and Maggie and Aaron, but any Infected out there."
"Well if the cure isn't here…" Bonnie said questioningly, "Then where is it?"
Caroline took a deep breath and pursed her lips, pausing to look at Enzo before she answered.
"New York." She said, quickly stepping forward as everyone's eyes started to bulge out of their head. "But it's okay! Because I'm going to lead a group of people there and retrieve the cure myself."
"And who is this group going to be?" The mayor's brother Mason called out in disbelief. "Wait do you want us to go? After we worked so hard to build these walls so we could be safe from the Infected you actually expect us to go back out there and fight those damn monsters in the city where we don't stand a chance?" He all but shouted.
"Mason, quiet." The mayor hushed Mason, stepping forward. "Caroline, I'm glad that Wes has developed a cure, I truly am." He said sincerely. "And you can ask any of our people to join you that you want, but…don't be surprised when they say no. We may act oblivious to the world outside the walls but believe me – we all remember."
Caroling gulped, nodding her head at the mayor curtly and trying to swallow back the tears.
"I would never ask you guys to die for me." Caroline suddenly announced to the entire group in a grave voice. "I mean let's face it, I'm a nobody. I'm just Caroline Forbes, the annoyingly optimistic girl that has really nice hair." She saw Damon smirk sadly in the back as she brought up words that he himself had said about her before The Outbreak. "I'm not anybody worth dying for." She said seriously, pausing for a few seconds and making eye contact with everyone she could. "But I know that every single one of you has lost someone to The Infection. Some in worse ways than others. We've lost friends and family, we've lost our homes, we've lost our humanity. And now we have a chance to get it all back. And yeah, it could be a suicide mission. But I would rather die trying to redeem myself for everything bad that I've done and maybe even save the world than sit inside these walls another second knowing that the cure is out there."
Everyone was silent, the weight of Caroline's words pressing in on them. Elijah looked on at the girl he considered family with a just barely noticeable proud smile.
"So I may not ask you to die for me but I will not hesitate ask you to die for everyone we've lost." Caroline continued in a strong voice. "For Jenna." She looked at Katherine and Elena and Alaric. "For Anna." Jeremy looked down at the ground. "For Lee, for everyone we've watched die! And for the millions that will continue to die if we don't step up and do this. So," She took a deep breath and stood up straighter. "Who will join me?"
"I will." Elijah said instantly, taking a step forward. "For Niklaus."
"Me too." Katherine stepped forward with her husband who turned to her incredulously.
"Katerina no, you must stay here."
"Elijah what part of 'I won't lose you again' don't you understand?" She asked him in disbelief. "Because when I said that I meant never again. We both know that we're stronger together than when we are apart so do not fight me on this because trust me, you'll lose."
"Katherine." Elena whispered, stepping up to her sister with teary eyes. "You…you can't, you can't leave me here."
Katherine smiled weakly at her twin sister, stepping over and putting her hands on Elena's cheeks.
"Elena I love you. You and Jeremy are the best siblings I could have ever asked for, but I have to do this. For Elijah, for Klaus. For Aunt Jenna."
"If it's for Jenna then we're coming too." Jeremy said, gesturing to himself and Alaric.
"No, you're not." Katherine said immediately. "You two are the best patrols out here and I'll need both of you to look out for Elena, do you understand me?"
"But –"
"No buts, Jer." Katherine cut him off. "You're staying here."
"I'm going as well." Kol announced before turning to Bonnie. "And you are staying here."
"Excuse me?" Bonnie asked incredulously. "Oh hell no, if you're going then I'm going, that's not up for discussion."
"I'm not asking you a question Bonnie." He said in a serious voice, taking Bonnie's hands and leaning down towards her face, showing the compassionate side that only she could bring out in him. "You are the best part of my entire life, Bonnie. And I'll be damned if you get killed when you could have a real chance to survive here. You're helping people, healing them. You belong here."
"But you belong here with me." She argued.
"You're right, I do." He smiled, reaching up to caress her face. "But I have to do this for my brother. I've done a lot of awful things to Klaus in the past and this is how I'm going to redeem myself. Please understand."
Bonnie was crying but she nodded all the same, leaning forward and resting her forehead against Kol's.
"Count me in." Tyler stood up from where he had been crouched on the ground. Caroline looked at him in surprise. "Hey don't look at me like that. The Infection ruined my life and you'll need strong fighters by your side. So I'm in."
The mayor and Mason both started to argue with Tyler, but Caroline tuned out when she saw Damon grab Stefan's arm as he went to step forward.
"Oh no you don't little brother." Damon said as he pursed his lips together. "Don't you dare. Just because you have hero hair does not mean you can actually save the world."
"Damon I have to. Klaus saved Lexi's life when he could have just left her to die. I owe him this." Stefan said firmly, leaving no room for debate. "And don't even think about coming along just for me because we both know you are no help in a fight if all you're thinking about is Elena."
"And you're no help in a fight if you don't have someone watching your back." Lexi cut in, stepping up to Stefan. "So I'm going too. And don't even try to tell me no because I'd really rather not embarrass you in front of everyone when I kick your ass."
"Rebekah?" Kol asked, turning to his little sister who had been oddly quiet this entire time. "What about you? Care to make this a family affair?"
"I…" Rebekah started, her face growing paler by the second.
"We'll go." Matt said for her, stepping up beside his fiancée. "There's no way she's going without me and I know she wants to do this for Klaus."
"No." Rebekah suddenly whispered ominously, making everyone look at her in shock. Surely Klaus' sister would be one of the most willing to help save him. "I-I can't, I can't go."
"What?" Kol asked incredulously. "Niklaus saved your ass a hundred times over and now you don't want to help him?"
"It's not that I don't want to Kol, it's that I –"
"Hey man back off." Matt interrupted.
"Oh I'd love for you to try and make me Quarterback." Kol sneered.
"Both of you be quiet." Elijah ordered. "Rebekah does not have to join us if she does not wish to."
"But that's not it Elijah!" Rebekah shouted. "It's not that I don't want to it's that I physically can't!"
"Well why the bloody hell not?" Enzo jumped in, annoyed with all of the family bickering.
"It's what I've been trying to tell you all for days but nobody has bothered to listen to me!" She cried, making everyone get quiet. "I can't go because I'm…" She trailed off, not able to finish the sentence.
"I knew it." Bonnie suddenly whispered, making Kol look down at her curiously. "Rebekah I asked you about it the other day why didn't you just tell me the truth?"
"Say what?" Kol asked, looking between his sister and his girlfriend in confusion. "Say what?!"
"I'm pregnant!" Rebekah yelled, making Matt's eyes bulge out of his head.
"You're…what?" He breathed out.
"I'm pregnant." She repeated in a whisper. "Bonnie was able to tell yesterday when one of the herbs she gave me made me sick and…well, I've suspected for a while.
"How did you even…" Kol started to ask, cringing at his trail of thought. "Oh for Pete's sake did you actually manage to shag my sister while on the run from bloody zombies?"
"Kol." Elijah muttered in annoyance, Katherine trying to stifle a laugh beside him but miserably failing.
"You're sure?" Matt ignored her brothers, stepping up to Rebekah with worry etched into his strong features. "You're sure that's what it is?"
"I'm sure." She whispered. "I didn't want to say anything until we made it to Whitmore and then when Bonnie asked me and basically confirmed it…I was afraid."
"Okay this is all very touching and adorable and all of that." Enzo suddenly grumbled, annoyed as always. "But you two can discuss baby names once we finish up here."
"Enzo." Caroline started to scold him for his bluntness but to no avail.
"So," He clapped his hands together, "Is that all who is joining us? Mr. and Mrs. Sophisticated, The Annoying One, Biceps, and Sexi?"
"Sexi?" Caroline asked in confusion.
"Yeah. You know, Stefan and Lexi." Enzo clarified. "I thought it was clever." Enzo shrugged.
"Yes." Elijah answered sternly. "The five of us will join you and Caroline to New York to retrieve the cure."
"You'll need to train." Mason said in a bored voice from beside Tyler. "If you guys are acrtually going to be stupid enough to travel to the city then you need to prepare yourselves for what lies ahead."
"We don't have time to train." Caroline argued in exasperation. "We have to get to that cure as soon as possible."
"Yeah well if you leave here without preparing at all then you won't even make it halfway." Mason shot back.
"Mason is right." Alaric weighed in. "Just give it a week or two Caroline and get ready for the journey. Winter is right around the corner and that means more cloud cover during the day and dangerous weather conditions. You're going to be facing Infected left and right so you need to remind yourself how to fight."
"We can equip you with weapons." The mayor said. "Good weapons, and as much ammunition as you can carry."
"Thank you." Caroline said sincerely.
"So is that it then?" Enzo asked the group collectively. "Are we done here, have we covered everything? Blondie Number Two is preggers, Katty wears the pants in the relationship, and we're leaving in a week?"
"Must you be so incessantly irritating?" Elijah asked in a strained voice.
"Yes actually I must." Enzo smiled at him sarcastically. "It's how I cope."
"So this is it then." Caroline said. "Myself, Enzo, Elijah, Katherine, Tyler, Kol, Stefan, and Lexi. Is that everyone who wants to go? Because if not then back out now."
Everyone was silent. Elena was crying on Jeremy's shoulder while she held onto Katherine's hand. Damon was trying to keep a straight face, Mason was looking at Tyler with a proud expression, and Kol and Bonnie were still locked in their embrace.
"Well this is fantastic." Enzo said in mock sincerity. "We've got our own Suicide Squad all set and ready to go."
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A/N: WHATTTT? REBEKAH IS PREGNANT? THE CURE IS IN NEW YORK CITY? TYLER IS BACK IN THE MAIN PLOTLINE? WHAT COULD HAPPEN NEXT?
Review please! And I know this chapter had a major lack of Infected!Klaus but never fear! There is going to be a Caroline/Infected!Klaus scene next chapter that I think you guys will like ;) Remember to review! xoxo