AN: Thanks for reading and your reviews. No beta still and see you at the bottom!
Elijah had carried both Caroline and Klaus back to the cabin. He wondered if the house would let him in. He stepped over the threshold confirming that Caroline was in fact dead. He placed her on the couch and his brother on the floor. Matt rushed over to Caroline.
"What happened to her?" Matt asked
"Appears she took a fall" Elijah said
"Caroline? Caroline wake up" Matt said
Elijah turned his attention back to Klaus.
"For an original hybrid you take far too long to heal. Any day now, it wasn't even that high." Elijah said
"Why isn't she waking up?" Matt asked
"Because she's dead"
"She's not!"
"I walked into the house without an invitation. She's dead"
Matt held Caroline close and began to cry.
"No, you can't be dead. We have so many places to go see, graves to dig up, natives to piss off and get chased by. You can't be dead!" Matt yelled
"There's no need to yell" Elijah said
Matt brushed her hair aside. He could see the blood and dirt on her skin. He lifted her up and carried her to the bathroom. He filled the tub with water and started to bathe her.
"You're not dead. You're going to wake up and be so mad that I did this, you're going to wake up" Matt said
Rebekah and Kol came back to the cabin and were surprised to see Elijah inside.
"How did you get in?" Kol asked
"Apparently the owner of the house died" Elijah said
Rebekah took a step inside and realized it was true. Kol walked in as well and looked at Klaus's body on the floor.
"What happened to him?" Kol asked
"He fell, rather they both fell" Elijah said
Rebekah could hear Matt crying in the bathroom and went to see what was going on. He found Matt holding Caroline in the bathtub.
"Wake up! You have to wake up!" Matt yelled
Rebekah grabbed onto Matt's arm.
"Stop" Rebekah said
"I can't leave her like this"
Kol kicked Klaus's body on the floor.
"What's taking him so long?" Kol asked
"It was a rather long drop, you know how long it takes to heal bones" Elijah said
"And painful"
Klaus's body suddenly jerked forward. Kol and Elijah turned to face him.
"Caroline!" Klaus yelled
"He's awake" Elijah said
"Took you long enough" Kol said
"Where is she?" Klaus said getting up
"The human took her to the bathroom" Elijah said
Klaus ran to the bathroom to find the bathtub filled with dirty water. He flashed throughout the cabin to look for her.
"Where is she?!" Klaus yelled
"Rebekah!" Elijah said
Klaus flashed outside and saw a small fire near the lake. He flashed over there with Kol and Elijah following. Matt placed Caroline on a boat on the edge of the lake, He held the small torch in his hand.
"I guess this is how she would want it" Matt said
Rebekah didn't say anything. She was wondering what was going through Matt's mind.
"We've been through so much, I always thought it would have been something huge that would kill her in the end. Not a fall off a cliff. We out ran headhunters and cannibals, dug up so many graves, even saw a few ghosts, I always thought we'd always keep on going" Matt said
Rebekah heard someone coming and stood in front of Matt. Klaus appeared and saw Caroline laying in the small boat.
"Are you mad?!" Klaus yelled
"What?" Rebekah asked
Klaus flashed over to Caroline and picked her up.
"What are you doing?" Matt asked
"Matt just wanted to give her a proper send off" Rebekah said
"She's not dead" Klaus said carrying her back to the cabin
"Bloody hell, he turned her" Rebekah said
"So she's alive?" Matt asked
Elena answered her phone when she saw it was from Damon. She was in a car with Stefan driving.
"Where are you Damon?" Elena asked
"Driving, tell me you're not at home" Damon asked
"Stefan's taking me to Atlanta"
"Good, look I did something really bad so you're gonna have to lay low for a while"
"What did you do?"
"I bought us some time"
"What did you do?"
Klaus sat next to Caroline's body on the couch. He tried to make her as comfortable as possible much to the surprise of his siblings. He sat there waiting for her to wake up.
"How does he know his blood reached her in time?" Kol asked
"Because it did! I know it did!" Klaus yelled
Elijah looked at Kol who nodded and left. Elijah got up and walked over to Klaus.
"You said you gave her your blood as you both were falling. Are you sure it was enough time to enter her system?"
"It was, I know it was"
"Do you feel anything through the connection from the blood sharing?"
"No"
"I'll send Kol and Rebekah to retrieve the Salvatore"
Elijah turned to leave.
"Thank you Elijah" Klaus said
Elijah sighed and turned back at Klaus. He watched as his brother held onto the human's hand and waited. This girl had changed him, and if she did not turn, he knew the outcome would be a bloody rampage to start with. He turned to leave and went outside.
"Kol" Elijah called out
Kol flashed before him.
"I need you and Rebekah to fetch Damon"
"Finally something fun to do"
"Don't kill him"
"I know, Nik wants to do it"
"It may be all he has right now"
"He really likes this girl doesn't he?"
"More than he cares to admit"
Rebekah was outside with Matt who seemed intent on finishing the bottle of vodka.
"So she's alive?" Matt asked
"she's in transition"
"Which means?"
"Which means she's turning into a vampire"
"Oh"
"She needs to feed on human blood to complete the transition"
"But she's still her right? It doesn't change you does it?"
"No, it merely amplifies who you already are. In her case quite annoying"
"But she's Caroline. She'll still want to go out and dig up people, find relics and piss off a bunch of people right?"
"Why are you asking me this? She's your friend"
"But she's turning into a vampire now. And I'm still human. Why would she want to stay with me?"
Caroline could hear things in the background, they were getting louder and louder. They were becoming deafening. Her eyes flew open and she gasped for air. Klaus sat there anxiously waiting for her to wake up. Her chest flew forward and she sat up. She looked around and saw Klaus sitting across from her concerned. She looked at her arms and touched her chest.
"I'm alive, I'm alive" Caroline said
"Sweetheart," Klaus moved closer to her
Caroline punches Klaus across the face hard, which causes him to fall back a bit. Caroline looks at her hand and then back at him. Klaus shakes it off and straightens up again.
"Caroline, I know you're mad"
"Mad? MAD?! You freaking hesitated there! That crazy psycho was going to drop me and you had to think about it!?"
"I didn't have to think about it! I already knew what the answer was!"
"I felt it! I felt your confusion, and everything else you were feeling. You couldn't make up your mind!"
"That was never an issue!" Klaus yells as he grabs her, "I was thinking about how to get to you before he killed you! I didn't trust him not to hurt you"
"Well I'm fine now no thanks to you!"
"Sweetheart, I have to tell you something"
"Oh no, stay the hell away from me!" Caroline pushed him away and got off the couch
She took a few steps and suddenly felt weak. Klaus flashed over to her and caught her before she fell.
"What's going on? Why do I feel like this?" Caroline asked
"I've been trying to tell you before you decided to go on your rant. Do you remember falling off the cliff?"
"Yes"
"Do you remember what happened?"
Caroline replayed the memory in her mind, Damon shoved her off the cliff. She was falling, Klaus jumped after her and held onto her. She remembered his eyes looking at her, almost pleading with her. He shoved his wrist into her mouth. The blood. He had given her his blood.
"I'm sorry"
She heard him say it before he flipped them both over, she was watching the rocks at the bottom getting closer and closer. She was going to die. She held onto him tighter, was this going to be the end for her? No more adventures, no more Matt yelling at her, no more curses, hexes, witch doctors and relics.
"I love you"
She had heard him say it right before everything stopped. Caroline lifted her head up to look at him. He had said it. It only took a near death experience for him to say it.
"I heard you" Caroline said
"What? You mean you were actually listening to me?"
"You gave me your blood. Why did you do that?"
"Caroline, sit down, relax"
"No, what's happening to me!?"
"We both know what's happening love"
"I'm dead?!"
"Caroline-"
"No! I'm not dead! I'm not!"
Caroline sobbed out and pounded her fists on his chest. Klaus pulled her closer, and she cried in his chest.
"I'm not dead, I'm not dead" Caroline sobbed
Klaus held her close, his hand gently stroking her hair.
"It was the only way to save you"
"You could have healed me"
"You wouldn't have survived the fall"
"You don't know that!" Caroline pushed him away
"I wasn't going to risk it!"
"Why?!"
"I couldn't let loose you! I couldn't live in a world without you!"
"Why did you do this to me?!"
"Because I can't let you go! Because there is nothing in this blasted world worth saving except you!"
"More than your army of hybrids?"
"How can you doubt what I feel for you?!" Klaus grabbed onto her shoulders
"I heard you. I heard you say it before we..."
"Then you know I would never let you go"
"But I'm just human"
"No, you were never just human, you were special"
"Only to you"
"That's the only thing that matters"
Caroline jumped into him, crashing her lips onto his. Klaus took a step back to steady himself. He kissed her back, but then slowly pushed her off.
"Sweetheart, there are things I have to tell you" Klaus said
"Later, I just died, can we talk later?"
"Caroline, you're in transition, you have to feed on human blood to complete it, otherwise you'll just burn out and die like your father"
"Why would you bring him up right now?!"
"This is serious!"
"I'm trying to have sex with you and you're bringing up my dad? Talk about daddy issues!"
Matt was outside sitting in his truck. He heard yelling from the cabin and went to see what it was. He walked into the cabin to find Caroline and Klaus arguing.
"Care you're alive!" Matt said
"Matt!" Caroline ran to him and hugged him
"I thought you were gone"
"I'm still here you can't get rid of me that easily"
"Good the human is here," Klaus said
Caroline turned and looked at Klaus who was walking towards them.
"No, leave him alone" Caroline said
"You need human blood to transition, you want to transition don't you?" Klaus said
"I, I, I-"
"You what? This isn't a choice, there is no other option"
"So you're taking my choice away from me?!" Caroline yelled
"I didn't give you my blood moments before you died just to have you be indecisive and flip flop about the subject matter!"
"You're the one who couldn't make up your mind on whether you wanted your hybrid army or me to live!"
Matt backed away slowly from the two. They kept arguing and yelling at each other. Matt reached the door only to bump into Elijah.
"Are they always like this?" Elijah asked
"Yeah, except this time it's pretty bad"
"We should leave"
"Yeah"
The two of them started to leave.
"Elijah! Keep that human from leaving!" Klaus yelled
"He has a name! It's Matt remember? Or are you too old to remember names now?" Caroline yelled back
"We'll be by the lake" Elijah said
"I will not have my hand be forced by you or anyone else!" Klaus yelled
"So you'd rather do it to me?! Mr Big bad Hybrid thinks he can just boss me around like I'm one of his minions!"
"You are stubborn and infuriating!"
"I just died, excuse me if I'm just a bit upset here!"
"I saved you and all you can do is yell at me!"
Elijah and Matt were walking by the lake when Elijah suddenly stopped. Matt looked over.
"What's wrong?" Matt asked
"They stopped yelling" Elijah said
"That's good right?"
"I suppose, but, oh, they're not mad anymore"
"You can hear that?"
"Vividly, I'm going to the other side of the lake now"
Matt watched Elijah flash away. He kept walking around the lake. He looked back at the house and then kept walking. Elijah was shaking his head trying to get the sounds that he had heard from the cabin out of my mind.
Course Caroline was gonna be mad at him. Yes he did save her life sorta, but he did hesitate. XD hope you were amused. the question is, will she or won't she transition? thanks for reading.