Caroline gulped taking one more glance at Klaus before chanting the spell she'd been dreaming of for days. It wasn't Latin. It was something much more ancient and harsh.

Klaus stood petrified. Elijah and Bonnie were taking entirely too long…

Suddenly there was a howl in the distance and Klaus lifted his head, a smile forming.

Devin sensed it as well because he shifted nervously.

"Garnet?" Devin asked.

His sister's eyes were shut but she answered angrily. "What?"

"Wolves. So many," Devin murmured.

She turned to look at him.

"So deal with it," she hissed. "You are a wolf."

"I can't…I can't even turn anymore."

"Just deal with the pests!"

Klaus steadied himself as Elijah flashed next to him.

"Took you long enough," Klaus said.

Elijah chuckled. "Sorry. It seems that tracking wolf packs has proven to be extremely difficult."

"I can't say that I'm sorry about it," Klaus said. "And the other witches?"

"They are here as well. They oppose another New World Order."

"Fantastic," Klaus said.

Caroline was vaguely paying any attention to her current settings. She was trying to find something that linked her to Bonnie. Her plan was working. Garnet believed Caroline was using her spell when really that was all Caroline had wanted.

Her mind had projected to Bonnie hours earlier and together they had devised a plan. She could feel her powers coursing through her veins, her chanting influencing nature. There was a roll of thunder as the wind forcefully picked up. A sudden pull in the pit of her stomach almost made her want to yell out in happiness.

Bonnie! she thought quickly.

A moment later, a response fell through. Caroline. We have to hurry. Rebekah and I are feeding energy from Kol but we're not sure how much longer we can keep it up.

I know. Caroline responded. Garnet's plans have changed—she wants to wait to kill Klaus and his siblings.

Then why does she need you right now? Bonnie added.

Something about breaking down the Otherside. After this, she's going to use me to make sure that no vampire ever returns no matter what. She's going to get rid of them completely.

Caroline continued. But I'm ready. I feel the link between me and her. I just need you to keep the Otherside down long enough so I can get her through.

…We're ready, Bonnie answered.

Caroline's heart pounded and she stopped chanting. Time seemed to slow down.

Garnet's cold eyes widened as she came to that things weren't going her own way. The blonde felt the knife fall into her hand as she made eye contact with Garnet.

"I'll see you in Hell," Caroline said, plunging the knife into her own chest.

Elijah steadied himself, wiping a trickle of blood from his mouth. They were distracting Devin long enough for Caroline to do what need to be done. Devin wasn't turning but his strength was keen enough to take them all on. HIs eyes were still somewhat empty; something Elijah assumed had to do with Garnet's control over him.

But Garnet's piercing scream broke the brawl, all of them halting and turning in the direction of the noise. Klaus shoved his father aside, eyes wide.

"Caroline, no!"

Elijah watched as Garnet and Devin collapsed, convulsing.

Klaus flashed to Caroline, his eyes desperate for a sign of life left in her. He saw her eyes flicker and for a moment he was reassured.

Caroline felt his warm hands support her as she lied on the stone plat, her body burning in pain.

"I am so sorry," she whispered, tears falling messily across her face.

"Stop apologizing," Klaus commanded, biting into his wrist with the intention to heal her, but she shook her head softly. "I need to heal you."

"You already have," she murmured sleepily, feeling her heart beat slowing down. "This is what I was meant to do."

Klaus shook his head. "No. You were meant to stay. To be here—to live."

His entire body shook with emotion, his hand covered in her blood as he founder her cold hand.

"I love you," she whispered. "I do."

"Don't say it like it's goodbye," he stated angrily. "Stop."

She smiled, her vision blurry as she was beginning to see dark spots. Her wound didn't even hurt anymore—instead she was taken by a blinding light.

The room was too white and so silent that Caroline could practically hear her thoughts.

"Hello?" she called out, her voice echoing a thousand times into nothingness.

"Caroline," a female voice responded warmly. "Welcome."

"Where am I?" Caroline questioned. "And who are you?"

"Fear not, I'm your guardian. I've been watching you, Caroline. I have watched you suffer and lose so much. But I have also seen you fight and sacrifice yourself for something greater."

"So that's why I'm here?" Caroline assessed. "Is this heaven?"

"Yes," another voice answered, male this time.

"So I'm really dead," Caroline deduced, her voice small. Now that she had done her deed, she felt incredibly lonely. She hadn't realized how isolated she would feel.

"Not quite," the female said. "You're still floating between both worlds. However," she hesitated. "We've decided to grant you a choice."

"A choice?"

"Yes," the man said again. "We've seen your bravery and after all, you are part angel. You've been granted one choice. Either you choose to move on into heaven or you can choose to return to earth."

"Why?" she asked. "Isn't my job finished?"

"An angel's job is never finished, but I can grant you solace that Garnet is no longer alive. She is gone, the Otherside was held down long enough for her to die and then pass on to where she will serve her sentence."

"But," Caroline provided.

"But there's another future in which you are a part of, a future that hangs on your decision here, right now," the male said.

Caroline shut her eyes. "If I choose," she gulped, clearing her throat. "If I choose to go back, can I still ask one question?"

"Absolutely," the female said.

"Is my father here?" Caroline's voice was small, a tinge of hope lining the question.

"Caroline."

Caroline whirled around and let out a strangled yelp as she instantly wrapped her arms around her father's familiar hug.

"My little girl," Bill said happily. "You did it."

"You gave me the strength," Caroline said, pulling back and smiling. "You're here. You're okay."

"Don't worry about me," Bill responded. "I came to see you off."

"See me off? I haven't even decided yet about going back."

Bill gave her a strange look. "I'm not an idiot, honey. You have your whole life to live and it starts here. You don't have that destiny looming over your head now. You're free."

"But I can't if you're not there," Caroline rasped. "I need you."

"I'll always be with you, sweetheart. I'll always be listening. But my time was up. Yours is beginning."

They stared at each other for a long moment before she nodded. "Promise you'll always be there for me?"

Bill smiled warmly. "I'll always be there for you."

Caroline returned his smile and hugged him tight once more, her eyes shutting.

"Caroline," the female said. "I'm afraid you must decide soon."

She nodded, opening her eyes but still grasping a hold of her dad's arms. She wasn't quite ready to let him go just yet. Suddenly she could hear faint sounds of Klaus shouting and witches screaming. She could feel the heat from the flames. Caroline looked ahead of her, her mouth opening slightly.

She watched as the scene unfurled around her lifeless body. Garnet was disintegrating as Bonnie and Rebekah kept rolling their tongues with a spell. She could watch as Devin's body crumpled in on itself as If he were turning. Perhaps he was.

"You did the right thing," the male said. Caroline nodded emptily. "Garnet was a monster—Devin will be spared some judgment, of course."

"He really cared for Klaus, didn't he?" Caroline asked softly.

"He did, yes."

Caroline watched on as the last of Garnet faded away in strips of paper. The flames died out and the fight ceased as witches and wolves retreated. Within moments it was just the group, Miranda, and another stranger, her eyes wild—a wolf, Caroline assumed.

"We kicked some serious ass," the stranger said.

"I can't thank you enough for the help, Hayley," Elijah said, taking out a handkerchief and wiping the blood from his fingers.

"You said you'd help me find my family," Hayley said. "I brought some friends for help and now you owe me."

"No need to worry, my debt will be paid."

Rebekah and Bonnie were next to Caroline's limp body, trying as best as they could to preserve her and revive her.

"It's not working," Rebekah said in panic. "I can't. I can't bring her back."

"We have to try, you brought me back," Bonnie said.

"But this is different, Bonnie!" Rebekah rushed. "She's not stuck on the Otherside."

Bonnie's hands halted. "She crossed over?"

"She wasn't just a witch, remember?" Rebekah offered, her blue eyes shimmering with tears.

"Klaus," Devin strangled. His lips were bloody and Klaus knew why.

"You couldn't turn, could you?"

Devin shook his head. "My body—it rejected it after your mother left me and went back to your father."

"Do you think Esther did it?"

"I'm almost a hundred percent certain she cast the curse on me after she thought it was me who killed Henrik."

Klaus nodded, grinding his teeth.

"Garnet had found a way to stop me from turning during the full moons after that—she feared it would kill me in the process, so she made sure to keep me in check. She always controlled me after that."

He spat out a pool of black blood.

"I am so sorry, son," he said, his eyes darkening.

Klaus wanted to say so much then. He wanted to shout in fury because this was his biological father, he'd found him and he was so different from Mikael. Most of all, there was a strange feeling he got in the pit of his chest just knowing that Devin blamed himself and not Klaus—a refreshing take on perspective, honestly—for how Klaus ended up.

But he couldn't bring himself to open up about it out of pride and anger. A part of him—the part that had grown to protect itself in a hard shell didn't want Devin to know, didn't want to give him the satisfaction of being forgiven.

So he stayed quite as Devin took his last breath. He remained silent as he watched Devin's body crumble to ashes.

"Klaus," Rebekah shouted in panic. "This isn't working—we can't bring her back."

"I know," Klaus rasped, his eyes empty.

There was a pang of pain as Caroline watched on, her eyes watering.

She nodded then. "I have to go back. They need me and I need them."

"Go," Bill said, squeezing her arms.

Caroline looked into the empty white space.

"I'm ready to go back," she said. "I need to—I don't want to be a martyr."

"As you wish," the male said.

Bill smiled. "I'm proud of you," he said, letting her go.

"Goodbye, Caroline," the female voice said as Caroline's body and mind fell swiftly and spiraled into an abyss.