I am shocked at the response this drabble thing is getting and it's insane because it was meant to be a 500 word vent to get rid of my aggravation. But wow. I will try to make this into a full out fic, but I'll do that once I get some drabbles done and go back through and expand and link them together. So it will be a long work in progress.

Warning: Language and Violence ahead, maties!

Thank you all!

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Klaus stared at the late blonde baby vampire's phone. He'd scrolled through her contacts to land on his name, but was shocked by the picture saved as his contact photo. All those times he'd called her that day that seemed so long ago, she'd seen this picture light up her phone.

The shot was the corner of the faded paper he had sketched her and the horse on. But rather than focus on the drawing that had meant to flatter her, she had taken to record the words he had written on the bottom "Thank you for your honesty."

His words had meant more to her than the drawing.

He wasn't quite sure how that made him feel. Caroline Forbes certainly was an interesting girl.

Was.

When she had been alive, or at least, when she had existed on this earth in all her vampiric glory.

She would have been a great vampire had she allowed him to show her the world. And now he'd never had the chance.

All because Katerina had decided to draw him away.

He needed to talk to someone. He needed time away from his own spiraling thoughts. So he went to the one person he was sure didn't hate him.

But he was unpleasantly surprised to see two figures standing before her grave. He felt pure rage fill him as he saw the elder Salvatore and the cursed doppelganger there before Caroline's final resting place.

He listened in, curious as to why an emotionless vampire and her sire would be here.

"I don't know what you want me to do. It's a stupid rock, Damon. Shouldn't Stefan be here weeping over the loss of his best friend?" Damon's arm was gripping Elena's arm in a steel grip to keep her from running.

"Because some day you will turn your humanity back on, and you're going to be sorry you never came here to say goodbye."

"Point one, never going to happen. I like my freedom. Point two, because of point one, I'll never feel sorrow again. But since you still have your humanity on, shouldn't you be the one apologizing?"

Klaus' eyes narrowed and his ears perked up. What was the doppelganger talking about?

"She got over it."

"No, I don't think she did. You see, I never admitted it before because I was too blinded by my feelings for you, so I didn't want to listen to her or believe her. But now that I don't have pesky emotions, I can admit that she was right. You used and abused her. You liked having a personal blood bag you could compel to please you. Why do you think she hated you so much? She never actually got over it, especially once she realized you didn't care about her. She was just some tool in your plan. And little Miss Perfect couldn't handle being second best once again. Only with you, it was worse because not only did she lose to me again, she wasn't even second, she was never even a choice."

Before Damon could respond he felt a hand go through his back and grip his heart. In shocked pain his grip on Elena loosened as he fell to his knees.

Elena's eyes widened for a split second before the assailant's second hand grabbed her arm to force her to face him. Klaus' pupils widened as he compelled Elena to stay where she was.

"I hope for your sake, mate, that Miss Gilbert here was lying, because if she wasn't, you will know the worst pain there is."

"It's not what you think-" Damon cut off as he felt his heart start to pull from its place inside his chest.

"Wrong answer." Klaus released his heart to wrap his hand around his spine, snapping it just above the waist so the eldest Salvatore wouldn't be able to run.

"It's not like she didn't deserve it, she was a shallow bitch." The doppelganger's words, humanity or not, sealed her fate.

Klaus flashed behind her and sunk his teeth into her neck. He drained her to the point where she lost consciousness and dropped the body to the ground.

"No! You son-of-a-bitch, leave her alone!"

"Unfortunately for you mate, I lost the person I loved, but for hurting her, so will you."

Damon tried to get up as his spine began to heal, but Klaus slammed his foot into Damon's neck, snapping his spine there, paralyzing him from the neck down.

"Caroline would never forgive you for this. Elena was her best friend."

"Ah, but 'was' is the operative word."

"Yeah, 'was.' Because Blondie's dead, but that doesn't mean Elena has to be too!"

"And where have you been Salvatore? Elena hasn't been her friend since I came to town. What kind of a friend encourages another to be a distraction to someone who could kill them? What kind of a friend allows another to risk everything just because they don't want to be a vampire? Did Caroline get a choice in the matter? And what kind of friend tries to kill another or lowers themselves to steal a prom dress? Doesn't sound so friendly to me."

"Those were my ideas, and Elena's humanity is off."

"Ah, but Elena always foiled your plans if they put you or Stefan in danger didn't she? When did she ever extend the same courtesy to Caroline? And as for the humanity card you love to play, Stefan's was off too, and he fought it. Because he cared enough to not want to hurt those he loved."

"Elena is my responsibility."

"Then you're both guilty." And with that, he snapped the male vampire's neck.

The gravestone drew his eye, almost as if he could sense her anger at him. "Don't be cross, love, it's about time someone fought for you."

With a parting glance to the gravestone, he walked away, returning again to his thoughts as his hand played with a cell phone in his pocket.

I really don't know where these come from. It's something new, not actually planning what happens. Sorry if you like Elena (sort of) but she's hit an all-time low for me, mainly because she acts like she's the only one who's suffered in the show. And I know once her humanity comes back on everyone will forgive her like nothing happened.

And I think back to Caroline when she was a new vampire and everyone isolated her or tried to kill her. Then she got kidnapped, and her father tried to "cure" her. Did she turn her humanity off? Did she cry and whine and let that control her life? No.

Anyways, let me know what you think! I see lots of views, but I only get some feedback. Even if it's a smiley or a PM or whatever-send a carrier pigeon if you want.

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