Day #2
Caroline was bored. There was no other way to describe how she was feeling. She felt hungry, lethargic and frustrated. All of those emotions together summed right up to boredom. She sat up in the fluffy bed, looked around, huffed and then flopped back down. There was nothing to do! "Klaus!" She called again, for what seemed like the umpteenth time.
Finally, she heard him coming down the stairs. "What, Caroline?" She could hear the stiffness in his voice. He was annoyed.
"Oh I'm sorry. Did I interrupt something important?" She asked.
"As a matter of fact, you did." Klaus answered.
Caroline snorted. "Good. And yes, I can see that you're annoyed with me. But maybe if you had thought this plan through and given me something to do like maybe cable, I wouldn't be bothering you so much."
Klaus rolled his eyes. "Caroline sweetheart, you're supposed to be a prisoner. You're not staying in a five star hotel."
"I would hardly consider this a five star."
He clenched his teeth. "If I bring you down a TV, will you stop bothering me?"
She nodded and as he retreated, she called out, "Make sure I have cable too! And bring me a blood bag, I'm getting hungry."
Klaus was beginning to think that he kidnapped the wrong vampire.
Bonnie was at her wit's end.
Trying to convince Stefan to give up those coffins, when the only emotion that he was capable of feeling was blind rage to Klaus, was proving impossible. He had simply laughed in her face, something that Bonnie did not take kindly to.
She wasn't proud, but she may have given him a teeny tiny brain aneurysm before she stormed out of the Salvatore boarding house.
So last night proved to be a bust, so she called in reinforcements that were more likely to come up with a better plan than Stefan. So Bonnie, Elena, Damon, Tyler and Alaric sat around the Gilbert table, brainstorming a way to get Caroline out of there without giving up the coffins.
"Just do a locator spell, Bonnie. I'm sure we can find enough muscle to take down Klaus, especially with the element of surprise." Elena suggested.
Bonnie tried her best not be frustrated, reminding herself that she had not informed Elena of Klaus' threats. "Klaus threatened to harm both Caroline and I if I tried that. He says he has witches ready to take me down."
The ever cocky Damon laughed. "He's bluffing. You should do it."
Tyler shot him a glare. "And what if he's not? Are you really willing to risk Caroline's safety on the off chance that he is bluffing? And Bonnie? Without her, we have no chance at all."
"Relax, hybrid boy. Caroline won't be harmed because he's bluffing."
Tyler, ready to retaliate, was cut off by Bonnie. "No. I don't care about my safety, but we are not taking that chance and risking Caroline, especially when we have no idea where she is."
Tyler sat back, looking all too smug and Damon rolled his eyes. "Whatever, your choice," he muttered.
Alaric, sensing the tension, spoke up. "Alright guys, so the locator spell is out. Anyone one else have any other ideas?"
"I have a great idea. How about we just torture Stefan until he gives up the coffins?" Of course that was Damon. Elena automatically smacks him.
Bonnie shook her head. "He knows that if we kill him, we have no chance of getting them back. And he's not scared of us."
"This leads us right back to the locator spell!"
Elena's face starts to change. "Bonnie, Tyler… I think he's right. It's our only option. We owe it to Caroline to at least try and hope to God that Klaus is bluffing."
Bonnie, unfazed about the chance of getting herself injured, turns to Tyler. "I'll only do it if you're okay with it."
After a quiet minute of deliberating, he finally nods, resigned. "It's our only choice. We're going to need to call the Sheriff."
Damon was on it, and it didn't take very long for Liz to show up at the Gilbert house, looking sick with worry. Damon takes her arm and leads her into the kitchen, where Bonnie is quietly sitting in front of a map. "I'm really sorry about this Liz, but we're going to have to slice open your hand and take some of your blood." He says gently.
"It's okay with me if it'll help bring Caroline back. I should have never have invited him in." She moaned.
Bonnie lifted her head. "It's not your fault." She said gently. "He's just evil. Now step forward so I can take your blood and find her." She took Liz's hand in hers gently and slices her palm open with a small knife. Liz flinches, but composes herself and Bonnie drips her blood overtop of the map on the table, lets Liz go, places her hands on the map and starts chanting.
The others stand back silently and watch as the blood starts forming itself around the map. It seems to head in one direction when all of a sudden, it starts bubbling like acid, burning through the map. "What's happening?" Elena asks from the side.
Bonnie's eyes fly open and she watches the now acid blood head towards her hands. She tries to move, but she's paralyzed. The acid creeps up over her fingers and the skin across her entire body starts to smoke. She can't help but let out a terrifying scream as her smoking body starts to shake.
The others watch stunned as Bonnie's eyes roll into the back of her head and the whites of her eyeballs start to shake. Suddenly, the smoking stops and she turns towards the group, face devoid of any emotion. "I have a message from Klaus." The voice says, sounding like Bonnie but so clearly not her. "He says 'I warned you. Now Caroline will suffer along with your witch. You have 28 more days to successfully give me my family and I suggest, no more tricks.'" And then Bonnie goes stiff, gives one last jolt and falls off the chair, unconscious.
Elena rushes to Bonnie's side, shaking her and trying to wake her up while Alaric goes to find a cool washcloth. Liz stands frozen beside Tyler, who is cursing under his breath and she shoots a frantic look at Damon.
Damon feels overwhelmed with guilt for a short moment for this being his bright idea, although he would never admit it. And he knows that everyone is wondering the same thing.
What is he going to do to Caroline?
Back in the middle of nowhere, or at least that's what it felt like for Caroline, she was finally feeling content. She had a thermos of blood in her hands, a bag of chips and cable television. She hadn't bothered Klaus since he brought it for her, because she knew that's what he wanted. He was obviously up to something, or he never would have given into her demands so easily.
She didn't really mind though, whatever he was up to, he could do it as long as he kept Caroline fed and not chained up like some kind of animal.
Plus, he gave her O Negative blood. Definitely a step in the right direction for him.
She was contentedly watching the Price is Right and sipping on her thermos, when she heard a loud crash above her head, followed by a guttural roar.
Her heart leapt up into her throat, knowing that Klaus was definitely mad about something. And if it was something that her friends had done, he was two seconds away from storming down here and harming her.
She prayed that she was wrong, but she knew she was right when she heard the door open. She was looking at her lap, but she gathered the courage to look up timidly when the bars to her little cell opened. "Klaus?" She asked quietly, even though she knew it was him.
She could see the rage in his eyes and smell it rolling off of him. Oh no. She swallowed hard as her thermos was snatched out of her hand. "I am not happy." He growled. "It seems your friends really don't care for your wellbeing very much, Caroline, as they have betrayed my instructions. I do fear for your little witch friend's wellbeing, however if I were you, I wouldn't worry too much about her right now."
"Are you going to kill me?" Caroline asked quietly. It was definitely a sense of déjà vu for her.
"I'm mad enough to do it. But lucky for you, I'd lose my leverage if I did that. Although, it's not like they would know…" He seemed to think about it for a short moment, and Caroline actually started to get scared. If only she knew how he felt about her. He was really trying to find the nerve to harm her. Finally, he spoke. "However, I do have to make you suffer, unfortunately."
His face started to change and he snarled at her, as his eyes went yellow and he made the partial transformation to a werewolf. Caroline's heart started beating in panic when she realized he was going to bite her. "Please, don't." She begged.
Luckily for Klaus, he was out of his human instinct or else the terror in her voice would have been enough to make him hesitate. Instead, he bared his teeth and went straight for her neck.
Her scream would have woken anyone in a two mile radius, if there was anyone.
Instead, she was left alone as Klaus let her go, turned and made his way out of the basement. Caroline watched as her wound healed up quickly, and then she slumped to the ground against the wall in tears, waiting for the pain and the hallucinations to start.
She just wanted to go home.
Meanwhile Klaus, trying to push down the hint of humanity that was threatening to creep up on him, dialed Elena's cell phone with the phone that he had his witches spell so that it couldn't be traced. He would have called the witch, but he knew that she would still be passed out for quite some time. He hadn't killed her, as much as he wanted to, because he needed her.
Elena answered on the first ring. "Klaus."
He chuckled. "Hello Elena. Expecting me, I see."
"Where's Caroline?"
"Rest assured that she is still alive. However, she is not well. I bit her." He said solemnly. "And I will not heal her unless you promise me that you and your little friends will not pull any funny business."
Elena was silent for a moment. "How do I know you're telling the truth?"
Klaus rolled his eyes and headed back downstairs, where Caroline was curled up in a ball on the floor, covered in sweat and muttering under her breath. He put the phone on speaker and sat down next to her. "Caroline, love?"
She whimpered. "Daddy, please no more. I'm still your little girl, I'm still Caroline!" She cries out, pushing at Klaus' arms. "It hurts, it hurts."
Klaus stroked her matted hair. "He won't hurt you anymore sweetheart, I promise." He soothed and she went quiet with her head in his lap. "You see, Elena, she's already started hallucinating. I believe she has till the end of the day before the poison consumes her. So tell me, do I have your word?"
Elena was still skeptical. "If you kill her, you have no leverage."
"Don't be fooled dear. I have plenty of other tricks up my sleeve. This is just my first one. So tell me, do I have your word?" He emphasized.
Caroline cried out in pain again, which finally sold Elena. "You have my word." She said quietly.
"Good. As I said before, you have twenty eight days left. Better hurry." He clicked the phone shut and slid it across the floor, focusing in on Caroline. "I really am sorry that I had to do this again, sweetheart." He spoke to her quietly. He lifted her body up into the bed, where he let her suck some of the blood out of his wrist lethargically. "Rest now, love. You're safe now."
Her eyes closed and she drifted off to sleep. Klaus sat on the bed beside her for a moment, stroking her hair regretfully. He prayed that nobody did anything stupid again. He really hated seeing her in pain.
Klaus sighed to himself and sprung off the bed hastily.
Yep, he had definitely kidnapped the wrong vampire.