AN: I know that this chapter is shorter than others, but instead of cramming other things inside I felt that it should stand on its own. Anyways, have fun and review if you feel inclined.

Chapter 4

The road was empty as it usually was in this time of night. He was pleased with how things went with the Salvatore's and maybe he could finally make some headway. Glad that things didn't need to escalate any further than they have already. He didn't want to be an animal if he didn't need to be.

A small whimper caught his vampire senses. There was something or someone nearby and in a fair amount of pain if he could guess from the sound.

"Ignore it brother. We are not meddling in any unnecessary business. We must keep are head on the goal."

He did intend to do just that but something pulled him towards the sound. He would just glance at it and be on his merry. There was no harm in a glimpse.

As he got closer he could finally make out a car wrapped around a rather thick tree. The sound was coming from the inside. He recognized it as a very shallow breathing. Someone was dying. At the death's door.

Without thinking too much about it he ripped the door open and was met with a bruised and battered girl inside, as the rod from the steering wheel was completely imbedded in her abdomen. She didn't have much. He would make it quick.

"Please... I want this to end..."

His face was already starting to change but her voice stopped him. The desperate plea for him to end her pain so close to his memory as he used to plea for his own end in that cage. His face morphed back and he tried to get her attention. Her drowsy eyes caught his. Blue on blue.

"Do you really want that, love? Does your life amount to so little that you think it is better just to end it? Truth is I thought about it once or twice over the years."

Her eyes gained a bit of clarity as she continued to gaze at him. Awareness was back in them and she tried to hold on.

"What is your name sweetheart? At least the name of the person I am sharing her last moment with."

A hard breath was drown into the shattered body and a small whisper escaped.

"Caroline..."

Just her name was enough to have him nailed in that spot ready to offer her what he has never offered before. He could hear Elijah telling him to stop the madness and move on.

"Niklaus do not get involved. We do not need this now. Just end her life and move on."

He would if he could but in her he saw the same lost soul twisted and turning hoping to find that final release.

"What if I can give you a chance at life, instead of death? I am a very special person and my blood can heal you. I can give you another chance, all you have to do is ask."

Her eyes welled up with tears and some of them found a way down her bloodied cheeks and it tugged at him. The memory after long hours of torture at the hands of Mikael as he lay twisted in himself, blood dried over the sealed wounds and tears that he just couldn't let fall. Memories of his last moments of humanity.

He smiled at her softly, he knew what I was like to be at the end of the rope.

"There are great cities, art and culture ready to be discovered. A whole world waiting just for you Caroline."

He saw her struggle, fighting to let the words fall from her lips. The tears only started to fall faster and he heard her strangled cry.

"I don't want to die."

He let a reassuring squeeze with his hands on her shoulder give her strength and in a second he ripped his wrist open and put it to her mouth. She was afraid at first but her need to live surpassed that and she took the blood he offered. He knew that his blood would heal her as it had done to him so many times before. He soothed her as she whimpered at the sensation.

"There, there love. Have at it."

As she took enough, he pulled the pole out of her and tore her out of the totaled car. In the next moment he speed her to the populated place where people would help her. Before he left he had to do one more thing. He could already see her wounds starting to heal slowly. She will live.

Grabbing her face in between his hands he locked her eyes with his once more.

"Now sweetheart, listen carefully. You had an accident, managed to get with minor injuries from it and you walked here in search for help."

His compulsion did the rest as she stared blankly for few moments. In the next she didn't know him, so he just moved away and shouted at the nearby people.

"Hey! Over here we have an injured woman. She needs help!"

As they started to run towards them, he flashed her one smile and saw that she was looking much healthier and the beauty she possessed blossomed out of her. She really was a light. A lost souls shining once more.

"Now that's more like it, Caroline."

As the crowd surrounded her offering help, he slipped past and disappeared into the night, not seeing that her eyes never wavered from him.