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RECAP: Caroline tells everyone of her night with Klaus in hie werewolf form.
Present where Caroline is telling her tale...
She sighed as she finished her tale. She hadn't told them anything about their 'shopping trip'. She had just told them that Klaus had met her in the Grill and had taken her shopping. Then the rest, the part of his wolf-form story, she had told them in detail. The whole room was stunned into silence.
Elijah spoke first, his voice hoarse with surprise. "So Caroline, what you are trying to say is that you spent a whole night with Niklaus when he was a werewolf."Caroline rolled her eyes, "Yes Elijah. That's exactly what I am telling. Please try to keep up." Everyone in the room was looking at her with judging eyes except Matt who asked her, "But how does this relate to the compulsion?"
"Now logically speaking, Kol's exact words were 'Did you or did you not bed my brother?' He askedif I had slept with Klaus and I had slept with him. But not as Kol meant. He meant to ask if I had had sex with Klaus, but used the word bedded while asking. So, while answering, I meant, I had bedded Klaus, which is, slept in the same bed with Klaus and not had sex with him. So, I had bedded Klaus, just not in the way Kol meant. And even if Kol had asked 'Have you slept with Klaus' and I had answered yes, it would be true. Because I had slept with him, as in slept next to him and not slept with him. See?" The audience had shock written all over their faces.
"But that is just a theory. When Kol asked me if I had bedded Klaus, he compelled me the question. But he never compelled me to answer him. So I might have just answered another unexisting question or I might have argued with him or distracted him and he would never know. Because he never compelled me to answer him. See? It's all about how you phrase your compulsion." she concluded with a grin on her face.
Elijah shook his head in astonishment, "This is the first I have heard of it in all my years." Caroline had stayed with Klaus when he was in wolf form and was unharmed. Damon was looking impressed while Elena was looking confused. How was it possible? "You know, I have gone through many grimoires and I have never come across a thing like this." Bonnie said, thoughtful.
Damon grimaced, "I don't think such a situation even arose ever since the world started in which our Blondie found herself in."
"You're right." Elena whispered. But before anyone could say anything else, Tyler got up and threw himself at Klaus and threw a punch at him, which Klaus easily dodged and twisted Tyler's arm behind his back. "Careful mate." Klaus got off his seat and whispered "Think before you act or you may be deprived of a brain to think with."
"Fuck off." Tyler growled and pushed himself away from Klaus. He turned to face Klaus and growled, "You just have to come between me and Caroline, don't you?" Damon rolled his eyes, "Here we go again." he muttered. This time, Caroline agreed with him.
Tyler held Klaus by his shirt and tried to punch him when Klaus blocked it and held Tyler's fist and responded with a blow of him own. "Stop." Caroline shouted and squeezed herself between the two men and pushed them apart, holding each at arm's length. "Now will you please tell me what exactly is wrong that you two are bent upon breaking my house into rubbles?"
"Ask him." Klaus snarled and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. Caroline looked at Tyler who just growled at her. "What is wrong?" he growled. "My girlfriend is involved with the enemy! That's what is wrong!" Caroline frowned. "Look Tyler," she said. "We can talk about this later. Right now, we have better things to talk about."
"NO! You are my girlfriend Caroline! " He yelled at her. "You cannot be friendly with these Originals!" he spat. That was the last straw. Caroline had had a very stressful night and Tyler screaming at her in front of her friends set her off. Klaus went forward, probably to break Tyler's jaw, but Elijah held him back, giving him an assuring look that Caroline could hold her own in a fight.
"Oh SHUT UP Tyler! You don't own me!" she screamed at him. "I can do whatever I want. And just for the record, I don't hate anyone in this room. Not even Damon or Elena! Yes, I'm angry at them, but Elena will always be my best friend and Damon-" she looked at Damon. "You have become one of my friends and I don't hate you."
"Do you love him?" Tyler asked quietly, obviously not referring to Damon. "What?" Caroline shrieked. "Are you mad? Is all the times I tell you that I love you not enough for you?"
"Then why did you take care of him that night?" Tyler roared at her.
Caroline frowned, now very angry. "I would have done that to anybody. I took care of you during your transitions and we weren't even dating then. And do you remember when you tried to kill me, Matt and Damon? Klaus wasn't trying to kill me." she shouted. By this point, all they were doing was shouting and screaming at each other.
"Ooh. Quite a shouting match." Damon muttered. "And Tyler nearly succeeded in killing me. So I vouch for Caroline."
Everyone just ignored him, their eyes now set on the vampire and hybrid standing in the middle of the room, looking ready to kill each other. "You love me so you took care of me. Why him Caroline? Why did you let him inside your house?" Tyler shouted.
"Because he would have killed everyone in Virginia if I hadn't!" she shouted. "You should have seen him, Tyler. He was as big as a horse! And just in case you didn't know, he killed villages during his first transition."
"And how do YOU know that?"
"Because Elijah told me!"
"But you didn't know that when you took him inside your house, did you?"
"SO?"
"SO?" Tyler was shocked she was even asking him such a question.
"Yeah, so what?"
"That means you took him in because you wanted to and not because you had to."
"Tyler! I think we had established the fact that Klaus was a sociopathic murderer even we before he came to town or for that matter, before we even set our eyes on him. Of course! How would you know? You were busy running away with that bitch Jules, who by the way nearly killed me, Stefan and Damon if it wasn't for Elijah, after revealing all our plans and putting Elena's life in danger!"
"I broke all the bones in my body for you. I broke my sire bond for you!"
"Oh shut up." Caroline said, incredulous. "You broke your sire bond for me? That's absolute rubbish. You broke the sire bond because you did not want Klaus to have any control over you. You didn't want to be forced to do anything. That's why. You did it for yourself, not for me."
"You slut-" He started, but never got to finish. SMACK! Caroline's hand connected with Tyler's cheek. He touched his stinging cheek and looked at Caroline with blazing eyes. He moved towards her, but she was too quick. She held his neck and slammed him into a wall.
"Damon. Do something." Elena tugged Damon's arm. Damon rolled his eyes. "No thank you. I don't want to be in Blondie's tantrum's receiving end a third time. Getting my ass kicked by her two times is enough humiliation." Klaus raised an eyebrow at this. Twice already? He would have to find out more about it.
"You may be a hybrid," Caroline snarled at Tyler. "But I am older than you and definitely angrier. Now get out of my sight. We're done." As soon as Caroline released him, he flashed out of the door.
She sighed as she turned back to the rest of them. "Sorry guys." she said. "Bad day. You guys continue while I go check up on Stefan." She headed away towards Stefan's room.
"Okay then." Bonnie said. "I have been able to translate the map on Jeremy with the help of Klaus last night. He brought the sword and translated the location. I translated the spell needed to get onto the island without buzzing off any alarms to Silas."
"Island?" Damon asked.
"Yes, island." Elijah said. "Silas is kept on a island."
"Okay then. We have the map, the spell and the hunter." Damon said. "So what's stopping us from going?"
"Nothing." Jeremy said. "We were thinking we could leave tomorrow."
"Yes." Elijah said. "So, any preparation or plans or anything that anyone has to mention?"
"Caroline is best at planning." Bonnie sighed.
Just then, Caroline came upto them and slumped onto the empty seat between Klaus and Elijah. "He's still unresponsive." she sighed. "Tried to feed him some blood. It didn't work. So, I heard my name mentioned. What is it?"
"We were planning to go to the island in which Silas is kept tomorrow. So were hoping you could help with the planning." Bonnie said. Caroline brightened at once. "Yeah, sure." she grinned. "Bonnie, could you hand me a paper and pen?" Bonnie fished them out of her bag and handed it to Caroline.
"Okay then. Now what are the essentials?" she muttered. "Okay, first of all, we need to eat. So, Damon here shall bring some human food, a supply of blood bags from your treasure stack and oh! I hope you bring a bottle of bourbon. That would probably get you into my good books. And you shall be carrying that load." Damon rolled his eyes, "Really Blondie? Are you sure we don't need something more important? And besides, we can hunt on the island."
"Relax Damon; Caroline knows what she is doing." Bonnie whispered.
Caroline glared at Damon, "Now you are not using your brains. Do you really believe that we'll be able to hunt on the island? That island will obviously covered with magic. Who is to say the blood of the animals won't affect us?"
"She has a point." Jeremy said.
"Now if anyone else will not interrupt me," she stared pointedly at Damon who just raised his hands in surrender. "We shall need ammunitions and weapons, which Elena here can bring from Alaric's stack and I am sure Jeremy can make some stakes using his Hunter abilities and please, minus the creepy carvings. And yes, people shall be carrying the loads they bring with them. Elena, bring everything you can find. Everyone must be armed. I'm sure there are some things on that island which cannot be killed without weapons." Elena and Jeremy nodded.
"And Elijah, you can bring your camping stuff." she continued. "Matt, you can stay here, in Mystic Falls, so that if we need any help with technology, we can contact you. I'm not sure internet works there." Matt nodded. "And Bonnie here just needs to bring her witchy magic." Caroline grinned. Bonnie grinned back.
"And Klaus, you see if I have missed something and get whatever I have missed which you think is important." Caroline continued. "And oh! Essentials for everyone – a flashlight, some extra batteries, a rope and maybe a small bottle of alcohol just for you. Remember, you must have them all. The alcohol is just in case. That's all about the loads." Klaus looked at her admiringly, smiling at the way she handled thing so efficiently.
"And about the most important thing – clothes. Everyone should wear light clothes. Free cotton T-shirts - preferably dark, so that you remain warm and a pair of jeans. Carry another pair of cotton shirt and loose knee-length cotton pants just in case and yes, carry a jacket with you. A cosy jacket which will keep you warm. That way, if you are dressed in this outfit, you can be comfortable even if it's hot or cold. It gets cold, just wear your jacket. And yes, all please wear leather boots – preferably knee-length so that it will help you while trekking, which I suspect we'll be doing a lot. And please don't forget to feed. We'll need our strength. So, everything clear?"
Everyone nodded. "Okay then." Caroline concluded. "Let's move. Get your things ready people."
"Wait." Bonnie said. "What about Shane?"
Caroline frowned, "What about him?"
Bonnie frowned, "What do we do with him?" she asked.
"That's easy." Damon said. "Take professor Creepy along. He'll be of some use with his Witchipedia knowledge to help us if we need it and who knows, he might even be tasty. We can snack on him and just compel him to forget it if he has a problem with it. As simple as that."
At the same time, both Bonnie and Caroline stood up, glaring at Damon, "No!"
Everyone, including Bonnie looked at Caroline in surprise. They hadn't been aware that Caroline cared for Shane. They hadn't even met properly. Caroline took no notice of the others staring at her. "Over my pile of ashes!" she hissed. "How can you even make such a suggestion with me in the room?"
Damon rolled his eyes. "Look. I was just being practical."
Matt rolled his eyes. "Dick." he muttered.
"Practical?" Caroline screeched. "Is that your word for being an abusive controlling dick?"
"Yes." Damon said, frowning angrily. "If that's the way you put it." He stood up to face Caroline.
"So were you being practical with me too when I was human?" Caroline growled in his face.
"Yes." Damon hissed. "Atleast I made your life interesting. Looking back on it, I was helping you."
"I didn't ask for it." Caroline snapped.
"Caroline, calm down" Elena said. "Damon doesn't mean that."
Caroline looked at Elena, an incredulous look on her face, "Grow up, Elena. Of course he means it. He will never change." She turned to look at Damon. "You will never stop being a dick, will you?"
"Not interested to stop." Damon said, glaring at Caroline.
Caroline lunged at Damon, who pushed her. She banged against the opposite and slumped to the floor. She got up and looked at her hand. "You broke my nail." She said, eyeing him like a predator. "Now I will break your bones." Everyone sat in their places, not wanting to get in between the two vampires. Bonnie and Matt were tensed while Rebekah sat back in her seat, as if she wasn't concerned. And Elijah was the only thing that stopped Klaus from ripping Damon's arms off.
Klaus was surprised that the witch and the Hunter were not trying to stop Caroline and even that human boy - Matt muttered, "He deserves it." What had Damon done to his Caroline that all the goody-shoes had no problem with his ass getting kicked?
"Let's see you try." he snarled. "Come on." he said, he clapped his hands together twice and beckoned to her. She smirked and grabbed the lamp next to her. She threw off the lamp shade and broke the stand into two pieces and threw one at him. He ducked behind the sofa. "You missed." he called out, getting up from behind his protection, but immediately ducked as the next piece of the stand followed. This time, the wood scraped the side of his head, drawing blood from him. "Missed again." he called out.
"I don't think so." a voice came from behind him. He whirled around to find a smirking Caroline standing behind him. She banged the painting in her hand onto his head. The glass shattered and rained onto Damon, cutting him in several places. Then she broke the wooden frame in two and stabbed each of the pieces in each shoulder of Damon. She kicked him and Elijah and Klaus, who were sitting on the sofa, ducked as Damon flew over their heads and landed across the room. Elena screamed, but did not move from her place, scared of getting in Caroline's way.
Caroline flashed over to where Damon was slumped on the floor, pulled him up to his feet and threw him out of her door, which was already open from where Tyler had fled.
"Damon." Elena whimpered, but didn't dare to go out as Caroline was blocking the door. Caroline turned back to them and snapped, "Alright. Get a move everybody. Get your things ready and for God's sake don't forget to feed. I'm going hunting."Without a word further, she walked out of the house.
Caroline felt the three Originals behind her. "What?" she turned to face them. Elijah came up to her and hugged her. "How are you?" he whispered, his chin rested on her hair.
She snorted, "What do you think, Elijah? I have faced my worst two nightmares and as a matter of fact, I'm quite relieved. Tyler finally showed his true self and I got to kick Damon's ass for the third time. It's like I've dealt with all my personal demons."
"I hope your nightmares subside after this...incident." he replied, his voice concerned. She smiled against his chest, "I hope so." She pulled back from him only to get jerked back to him by her locket chain that was stuck around Elijah's jacket button.
"I see you like my gift." he smiled as she untangled the chain. "Yes," she said, stepping away from him. "It's become a part of me. I liked all your gifts. The herbs have really been helpful." She was interrupted by Rebekah who patted her on the back and put an arm around her. "I liked the way you kicked their asses, Caroline. I knew there was something about you that I liked." she grinned.
Caroline grimaced. "Yeah... I'm going hunting. Nice to have a new girl-friend." She smiled at Rebekah, who replied, "The feeling is mutual."
"I have to get going." Caroline murmured and walked away from them. Klaus wordlessly followed her, throwing a smile at Elijah as he passed by him and resumed followed his blonde angel. Elijah and Rebekah smiled seeing him so concerned. They both had smiles on their face as Caroline, followed by Klaus disappeared around the corner.
"So, would now be a good time to give you crap about playing truant with Caroline and keeping me in the dark, not to mention kissing her?" Rebekah smiled innocently at Elijah, who groaned. He was going to have a hard time explaining.
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