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Chapter 20A

Caroline ran heading straight for Klaus but stopped in her tracks when she caught just the smallest sense of someone else around her. She turned and followed the scent until she found the source. Elijah and Rebekah were locked inside of a small section of the caves, weak and dying on the other side.

"Elijah?" Caroline attempted to talk to him since he was still awake, Rebekah had gone unconscious on the floor, and something was obviously weakening them. Elijah turned to see her and his eyes lit up with hope. That was the best part of Elijah, he was good and hopeful and heroic. No one could resist his good nature.

"Caroline," he almost whispered, immediately sending him into a coughing fit, spewing out blackened blood as he reached for support on the wall. Caroline ran to the bars but flew back when her hands touched the vervain-covered steel that burned her.

"I'll get you out, Elijah, I promise." Elijah only nodded and sat down on the ground, while Caroline looked around for something to use. Nothing was around her and she almost gave up, yearning to go to Klaus when she thought of her surroundings. She pulled as hard as she could on a boulder in the wall, freeing it and crashing it into the bars with vampire strength, denting them just enough for her to get them out. Elijah brought Rebekah over and she sleepily opened her eyes when Caroline picked her up and snuck her through the dent in the bars, careful not to let her touch them. Elijah quickly followed and when he stepped out he took a gasp for air, it was like he got relief somehow.

"Elijah what's going on?" Caroline asked, Rebekah still in her arms, slowly waking up.

"Kol has been using us. His witch friend Sarah channeled our strength to him so that he could use it against Klaus. The closer we are the more of us he gets, we have to leave, now." Elijah stated in that professional, controlled tone that he had. Rebekah stood up but quickly bent over in pain, yelping as if she was being staked. Elijah was at her side and Caroline looked at him quizzically, wondering why he was so much better than she was. He answered her as if reading her mind. "He got her first. Once she passed out he started using me."

"Well you guys need to go. Take Rebekah and find blood-"

"Caroline you must come with us. Once we leave Kol will be weakened and Niklaus can easily take him down."

"Not with a witch at his side. Please, Elijah, I have to help him. Just go, as fast as you can go as far as you can, please."

Elijah looked at her holding a calming Rebekah in his arms and seemed to consider it once more, but just as quickly he was gone.

Klaus was on the floor at the hands of his brother who had been beating him, torturing him for what felt like some time now. He started to wonder if Kol had any plan at all when Kol stopped. Klaus was weak, stakes were all over his body that wouldn't kill him but still sent incredible pain throughout his body. Kol stepped back, his hand to his heart and a confused look on his face.

"Why…what in the world…" he knew that he was getting weaker, but why? There was no way that they could have… "Caroline." Kol realized it with a hard grimace on his face, and with a sudden look in the other direction Kol disappeared into the darkness of the caves. Klaus' eyes widened at the mention of her name. No, no, no, no, he thought, she'd better have left. He had to keep Kol away from her, so with his teeth clenched Klaus tried as quickly as possible to yank every stake from his body, screaming in pain as the wood brushed against his flesh, and he followed Kol, hoping that Caroline was long gone.

Unfortunately, she wasn't. Kol appeared in front of Caroline, stake in hand, as soon as Elijah and Rebekah left. He took one look at the bars and empty space before pushing Caroline against the steel making her shout in pain as her entire backside burned at the rough pressure. "That was your last mistake, love." Kol said, right before staking her directly in the heart, sending Caroline into an overpowering light of unconsciousness…