Caroline woke up breathing heavily and grasping her arms to make sure she wasn't still trapped in a dream. She could barely see where the sun was coming up and the two moons were receding into the day. She rolled over to see Alexander and Elijah were gone. Another fear rose in her chest when she considered that they were the only allies she had in Wonderland up until this moment. His murderous brother was able to find her in dreams and he had just left her vulnerable in the woods.

"Elijah?" She whispered as she stood up, nervous about what might be lurking nearby. Pushing the blankets off of her, Caroline rose to her feet and dusted the back of her pants off, if she could call them that. The blankets disappeared and Caroline wondered where they would end up. "Elijah!"

"Could you not yell like that? I think the murderers have well established that you're by yourself." Caroline whirled around to find Katherine at her back. Even though it was barely dawn Katherine looked like she had been awake for hours. It was clear that she hadn't spent the night sleeping on the ground.

"Nice of you to show up." Caroline pursed her lips and crossed her arms over her chest.

"Miss me?" Katherine feigned a cute pout but Caroline wasn't interested. She understood why the girl had left them at the bar but it didn't mean she had to agree with her decision.

"Do you know where Elijah is?" For all she knew the little minx was the reason he was gone.

"Actually, no. I had been searching for the three of you and I could hear your voice shouting." How? Where could she have been to have heard her voice?

"Where did you come from?"

"I don't want to trouble that pretty blonde head of yours but let's just say I have selective detection," Katherine walked over to the log that Caroline and Elijah had shared just a few hours before. Where could he have gone?

"He left me by myself in the woods," her voice came out like a small child who needed their hand held. She didn't want to lead Katherine to believe that she was completely defenseless but she still didn't understand why she was alone.

"He never would have left you if he thought you were unsafe. For all we know he could be out catching breakfast for Alexander," crossing her legs she leaned back, "helpless, little, sparrows, just like yourself."

"Why did you come looking for us? Don't you think that we led Klaus to you?" Caroline stopped right in front of the brunette but refused to take her eyes off her. If Katherine felt they had betrayed her she may be waiting to repay the favor.

"You might have but Elijah…never. You see Klaus is in love with me and—"

"Oh my god," Caroline fell onto the log and put her face in her hands.

"Excuse me, what is your problem?" Katherine crossed her arms over her chest and raised an eyebrow at Caroline.

"Klaus isn't in love with you; he just wants to use you in his war for the throne." Caroline had no idea if what she was saying was true but she couldn't allow herself to believe that one more person loved Elena's twin. Her head would explode. "If you were able to find me so quickly, how is it that you can't find Elijah just as fast?"

Katherine's brow furrowed at Caroline's words and it took a moment before she finally said anything, "I can't find him."

"Even my pretty blonde head knows that but—"

"No, I mean that even my freaky detection senses can't see him," she said that last few things through her teeth and glared over her shoulder at Caroline. "Before you ask any other pointless questions, this means that either someone is blocking me or…he's dead."

"Dead?! Why didn't you share this information earlier?" Caroline jumped to her feet and had to stop herself from hitting the girl across the face.

"It's hard to think when I've got something rambling in my ear," Katherine stood and seemed to be lost in thought. "We need to leave here and find out where he's gone."

Before Caroline could ask how they were going to do that, Katherine reached out for her arm and time seemed to stop. Then it accelerated rapidly. At first she was able to see trees rushing by but then everything blurred together and it took her entire focus not to get dizzy. They finally stopped outside of a house and Caroline leaned over, stuck her head between her knees and threw up.

"What…was…that?" Caroline's words shook as she tried to catch her breath.

"A girl's gotta get around, right?" Katherine walked past her and right up to the door of the house. Without knocking she walked right in and Caroline assumed this was her home. The way they travelled must have been the way Katherine had left when Klaus had arrived the day before. She quickly followed inside not wanting to be left out in the woods.

The house was filled with random items, from an assortment of weapons that littered the floor to pieces of jewelry and clothing that lay strewn all over the furniture. "Is this where you live?"

"It would be a loose definition of live, I think of it more as a storage space of sorts."

As Caroline looked around the room she missed home. This building, like so many of the others she had seen, was run down and it made her home seem like a castle. She ran her finger across a table and was able to see the trail she left through the dust. "Your storage space could use some cleaning."

"If I wanted to be judged I would have left you in the woods to die because I never want to be judged," Katherine threatened her with a menacing glare and walked over to a shelf of books over a fireplace. She fingered through them before finally selecting a green volume. Upon inspection it had just as much grime as everything else in her home. When she set the book on the table it blew out a cloud of dust and both of the girls coughed. Opening the large book, she began thumbing through the pages, like they had all the time in the world.

"What are you doing? If we want to find Elijah we don't have time to read."

"Don't get your undergarments in a twist; pull up a chair as I figure out how to find both of them." It took a few minutes before Caroline understood that standing wasn't going to get her anywhere faster, in fact it was only irritating Katherine.

"What were you dreaming about?" Katherine's words startled Caroline, especially since she didn't even look up from what she was skimming through.

"How did you know that I was dreaming?"

"Everyone dreams, especially in Wonderland. It's another way that I was able to find you. The dream realm kind of takes on a personality all its own here, you'll have to be very careful, you're not even safe when you're asleep."

"Klaus came to see me. He wants my help in convincing Elijah to join him."

"That'll never happen," Katherine finally looked up from the book and laughed in Caroline's face, "Elijah wouldn't return to his old ways even if it meant his life. It's one of the reasons Klaus won't come to him himself, his threats no longer work."

"You're wrong, family means everything to Elijah, and he won't just give up."

"You've known him for a day and you think that you've learned enough about him in that small amount of time?"

"If you listen to people and try to understand them then yes, you can learn about them quickly. When Elijah was telling me about their past it became very clear that he wanted all of this to end."

Katherine went silent and continued to flip through the book. Caroline nervously looked around her and looked out the window. The sun had finally come up but she had no idea what time it is. Klaus could be already up and killing families to get his way.

She continued to look out the window as she watched a strange small bird land on a branch. When it became a little clearer she saw it was a rocking horse. Startled she looked away but then quickly looked back, fascinated. Katherine's chair rubbed against the floor causing Caroline to jump. She returned the book to its shelf and pulled off the one next to it.

"Why are so many people just letting this happen?"

"You're asking the wrong questions." Katherine circled around her like a cat playing with her mouse. What were the right questions? It was like trying to answer riddles and every time Caroline opened her mouth, Katherine was laughing at her.

"Is there anyone who can stand up to Klaus and his sister?"

A grin spread across her face almost in pride and she cocked her head in her usual fashion and let the curls cascade down her shoulder, "there might be but they're not showing their hand quite yet."

"You know who he is?"

"She. Please, you can see what happens when magic is in the hands of men." Katherine sat down across from her and rested her feet on the table. She looked at Caroline with mischief in her big brown eyes, "I think she'd like to meet you."

"I'm only interested in finding Elijah. Every time I meet a new person here my life gets put in danger. I think I'll stick to the few I already know."

"The choice truly isn't yours. If I want to take you all it will take is a one, little touch," smiling again Katherine held up one finger. How did she keep her nails looking so great in a world with very limited products for hygiene? She ignored her and looked back out the window. The rocking horse bird was gone but she could only imagine that it had flown back to its nest where there were smaller horse birds. How cute would they be?

"If you're going to kidnap me then we might as well get this over with, I just want to go home."

"Yeah, yeah, your ever constant mission to go home. You do realize that you're in the middle of a war leaving people homeless every day?"

"This isn't a war, it's a family feud." It was Caroline's turn to fold her arms and glare at Katherine.

"Listen, I'm just as determined to keep my neck out of this as you are but all the major players in the feud have what you need to get home. Elijah could have helped but now he's M.I.A. so you can either help me find him or saunter up to his sister alone. You're choice."

Caroline finally sighed in resignation, "What do we do?"

"Well, Elijah wouldn't have willing gone to his siblings for aid so he must have went somewhere else and been intercepted."

Understanding where Katherine was going, "he went to see the other person with a hand in the feud didn't he?"

"You're catching on quick little sparrow." Katherine slammed the second book shut and started to gather weapons off the floor. She outstretched a dagger in Caroline's direction and she just stared at it. "You want to go unarmed?"

"I've never used something like that before."

"Why does that not surprise me?" Katherine shook her head and kept looking around at her supply. "Do you see anything you could use?"

"I studied archery when I was little."

"Excellent," Katherine handed Caroline a bow and quiver. Caroline ran her hand down the intricately carved wood and appreciated the weapons beauty.

"What did you learn from the book?"

"I learned where she lives," Katherine grabbed Caroline's arm and the house disappeared from around them.