I - Worldly Travels
A/N: Hey guys! My name is Ann. I'm obsessed with the idea of Klaroline, I decided to do a time travel fic. I understand that the idea has been done before, but the scenario in which this occurs in is different, and I tried to make this story overall a bit different than what you have read before. I hope you enjoy the chapter guys!
It's been a couple of weeks since Caroline has turned into a vampire and already she's shown to adapt to her new circumstances really well. Caroline was freaking out about her mom, Liz, finding out what she was, and she was determined not to let her find out. Stefan reassured her that none of them would let that happen, but Caroline was scared. Liz was the town's sheriff for God's sake. If she so much as suspected that Caroline was a vampire, Caroline knew she had to kiss her life here in the small town of Mystic Falls goodbye.
So she threw herself into school. She was the head of 5 committees including the Prom Committee, the Mystic Falls Beautification Committee, and the Environment Club. She was getting above average grades. Who said Caroline was going to settle for anything less than perfect? And she had Matt. Her high school sweetheart, and her first love. Caroline loved him so much it hurt. He was a good person, and more importantly he loved her back. For the first time in a long time, Caroline felt loved by someone. She needed him. She needed her school community, she needed a small sense of normalcy before she started bursting out in tears, knowing she could never be normal.
Caroline was trying to make her human life work, she really was, but she wasn't normal, things weren't going the way they were supposed to. She was supposed to marry Matt, after pursuing a career in journalism, be the perfect wife in a perfect family. She was supposed to remain human! Where was that dream now? She was pretending for a long time, but she knew now that she was a vampire, this small town life was never going to be enough. She has eternity to travel around the world and to break out of her small shell. But where can she go? What can she see? Caroline had no idea. That was making her go mad even more.
Her emotions were unhinged and ranged from zero to a hundred real fast. There was no such thing as an in between for a vampire. Caroline was probably scaring away Matt, though, he wasn't fond of the whole possessiveness thing. When she found Amy flirting with Matt she compelled Amy to go drown in a well. Okay, so that was a bit much. But then again, Caroline was an only child, and realistically speaking, he shouldn't have been expecting much.
But regardless of her situation, Caroline was handling it quite well. Yes, she was.
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"What do you mean mom?", Caroline screeched into the phone.
"Dear, tell me the truth. Are you one of them? Those creatures?" Liz asked skeptically over her cell at the police station. And for a second, Caroline was going to lie. Reassure her mother that she wasn't a vampire, and playfully accuse her of being high on something. But her throat went dry at the thought. She couldn't hide this forever. So she told her mother to come home. That this wasn't something that they should discuss on the phone.
"Care? You didn't deny this. Are you saying what I think you're saying?"
"Mom?! Don't freak out. I'm still your Care Bear. Come home, and I'll explain everything." She hoped that saying her old nickname would regurgitate all the remainder that this was her daughter they were talking about.
"How can I? I don't have a daughter. I only have a blood-sucking vampire parading around as her." Liz abruptly said, before cutting the phone on her family. Caroline could feel herself sinking toward the floor and her vision was clouded from the tears welling up. She couldn't believe it. She knew that her mom would never accept her as a vampire but the smallest part of her hoped her mother would, just for her. Liz grew up her entire life knowing only one side. She couldn't fathom that another layer of being a vampire existed. All this talk about never letting her mother know and Caroline was the one to ruin the perfect, delicate situation. Oh my God, what was she going to do? What about Stefan? What about Bonnie? Would they hurt her too? Or how about Tyler?
All these names were rolling in her head. And Caroline knew there was only one thing she had to do. She had to run, and leave before her mother got an idea that there was more than one of them in Mystic Falls. So Caroline started to do what she knew she could do best.
Make lists.
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She packed all her clothes and her important keepsakes, which included a photo of her mother and another one of Elena and Bonnie. She had her iPhone with all her valuable playlists on them. Over the past few weeks of being a vampire, unknowingly music has become her solace.
She glanced back at her childhood room, and without looking back, she walked out of the house, grabbed the keys to her Ford, and drove to 2104 Maple Street, where she knew Elena and Bonnie would be.
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"Hey, Care. What's going on?"Elena asked as she opened the door to see Caroline, in all her mascara smudged glory.
"Elena, something terribly wrong happened. I made a mistake." Caroline replied in a cryptic manner.
"Care? You're scaring me what's going on?"
"My mom found out. She found out. I need to get out of here. I just need to let you know that I have to go. I'm so sorry I put you guys in danger." Caroline's voice started to crack, and tears were blurring her sight, she felt like crying just hearing the words out loud.
"Come in, here let me call Bonnie, she'll make it here." Elena gave her a comforting hug. Elena was moving with a sense of shock at her situation. Caroline was her best friend. And now she was a vampire because of her. Because she had to drag everyone she loved into danger. Because she was the doppelganger. "My best friend from kindergarten is leaving me. How am I supposed to do this without her?"
A moment later Bonnie charged through the door.
"Oh God, Caroline." Bonnie rushed over to her companion and gave her a hug. Bonnie, as fun, as she was, always had wisdom beyond her years, and as ,surprising as it was that Bonnie was a witch, it made sense in the eyes of Caroline. She had an aura of power and old age. She was an ancient soul. It was just that everyone could see it but Bonnie herself. Caroline let herself feel comfort in the embrace of her friend.
"My mom, she got a call. Someone ratted me. But who?" Caroline questioned, as she was listing a bunch of names through her head.
"Caroline ,don't worry about that now leave that to us. We'll make them pay. But right now, we need you to be safe. Here, take this." Bonnie gave her a wad of cash. Caroline already brought her own, but there was no way she could accept this. But Bonnie wouldn't listen.
"Care, you need to get out of here, and to do that you need all the cash you can get."
"Here, let me get my cash too," Elena said before ran up the stairs to her hiding spot in her bedroom, full of birthday and Christmas money.
"Okay, listen. I'm going to cast a protection spell on you, okay? I need some of your blood." Bonnie said, redirecting the attention to herself. "I can make it so everything time the protection spell wears down, I can spell you again. Sounds good?"
"Yeah. Okay, let me just get a knife." Caroline absently walked to the kitchen to get one
And after a few vials of blood were spilled, Bonnie started chanting. Bonnie was desperate. Anything she could do to keep Caroline safe, she would do it. Caroline was worth it. In her misguided ways, she's always watched over Elena and herself over the years, and now it was time for Bonnie to repay the favour.
"Ille sanguis Forbes vivamus. Utcumque tueri, sua tuta." Bonnie chanted in Latin, a language that seemed as old as time itself.
Suddenly, the blood that Bonnie was using to channel power and keep her connection with Caroline, was bursting into flames, and abruptly, Bonnie's face pointed to the ceiling and starting chanting a different tune.
"Cum sphaera solis incidat diaboli anima ipsa se mutare in melius deteriusve"
"What the heck was that?" Elena started to get worried. Even though the situation called for it, and even though Elena was her best friend, Caroline couldn't help but think that Elena was the champion of worrying. But the moment she thought that, she chided herself.
Bonnie came back in a trance. Everything was so hazy for her.
"Bonnie are you alright?" Caroline asked cautiously. One thing about these witches, they got more than their fair share of prophecies and legends and demons.
"Yeah I'm fine. Why what did I do?"
Caroline hesitated for a second sparing a glance at Elena before responding. "Nothing. Don't worry about it. Hmm, is the spell done?"
"Yeah I think it is. Don't worry about it, I can reinforce it later. Care, you need to get out of here before the sheriff finds you." Bonnie replied hurriedly getting to her feet.
"Okay, yeah you're right." Caroline took a deep breath in. She looked around at the place that became her second home. She spent as much time here as she did her own home. As her eyes landed on a photo of Elena's parents, she couldn't help but feel bad. Why, out of all the things their parents were involved in, was Elena's parents killed because of a car?
"Thank you for everything guys. I'll miss you." Caroline said hoping that she sounded braver than she felt.
"We'll call you when it's safe. Compel yourself a ticket on an airplane to the last place they'd suspect. We don't know how far the Council will go to find you." Elena said.
Caroline wanted to see Matt so bad, but she couldn't. As much as she wanted to tell the Council to screw themselves, she couldn't screw over Matt. If anyone saw her going to Matt's house, then they'll hound him of questions he couldn't answer.
"Care, we'll tell Matt as much as we can." Bonnie calmed her fears as she read her thoughts.
"No, no, don't tell him. He's going to hate me."
"Don't say that Care, Matt loves you." Elena chided.
"Don't do anything. I love you guys. Stay safe". Caroline gave them both a hug. And with that, Caroline walked out of 2104 Maple Street, got into her car, and drove out of the driveway. A clean break was the best for all the parties involved.
"Oh Care," Elena whispered as she and Bonnie glanced out their bay window.
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"Mason, you can go screw yourself," Katherine responded in the snarkiest tone she could muster to her lover. She knew he would be begging for her not before long. But the real person she wanted wasn't going to beg for her, he was too busy playing babysitter for the immortal vampire who wanted her dead.
Katherine Pierce, 500-year-old vampire doppelganger, feared assassin to many. Power hungry, yet alone. Feared, yet was fearing of only one person on this planet. When the oldest immortal vampire on the planet plans on killing you, you run.
Katherine thought about throwing in the towel once or twice. "Let him just end me. At least I can see Mama again." But just before the Original would find her, she would always manage to get away. Secretly, as old as she is, Katherine could never really throw herself at the hands of death. She was scared of seeing all her sins flash in front of her eyes for 7 seconds before she died. She was half scared of seeing her Mama on the Other Side, or Heaven or wherever she will end up residing in the afterlife.
"Well I located the doppelganger, I have a witch, I have a werewolf. Just need to get me a vampire. No worries just gotta turn some poor innocent into one once I get to Mystic Falls."
Currently, she was in India. Yup, India. The country was not geographically big but had more than 22 official languages, but that didn't count the more than 1600 informal dialects in the region. It had a billion people, so it was easy hiding within the sea of light and dark skins.
"I think I'm going to head to Chennai for a while." Katherine thought out loud. Yeah, Chennai would be a good change of scenery.
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"One plane ticket to Chennai please," Caroline asked, her sunglasses exemplifying the cool persona she had surrounding her.
"Excuse me, miss. You're not on our list. Who are you?" The attendant asked her. She noticed the blonde-haired beauty in front of her. She was young, and daring for sure, trying to get on a plane with no passes. But there was something about her.
"Please, I'm sure this one favour wouldn't hurt?" Caroline pushed her sunglasses down to the bridge of her delicate nose. She hated using compulsion, but it was the one thing that had her to an advantage. The worse that could happen to the lady was the loss of her job, but Caroline could lose her life. Which reminded her she needed to speak to the attendant's supervisor after this was done.
The attendant didn't know what came over her. Looking into her ocean blue eyes, and her dilating pupils, it was like she needed to do this. But she didn't want to.
"Oh, and call your supervisor when you get me on the flight, yeah?" Caroline asked again.
The attendant pulled a tight smile on her face as she responded.
"Of course"
After compelling the supervisor, she was handed her boarding pass and directed to first class. If Caroline was going to be the subject of a wild goose chase, then might as well travel in style.
Caroline didn't know why her finger landed on Chennai. She didn't even remotely think of India when she was thinking of places to run to. Scratch that, she didn't even know a city called Chennai existed in India. But then again, if she didn't think of it, when would her mother right?
She put the ear pods into her ears and put on her playlist of favourite songs on her phone and closed her eyes. Caroline was going to struggle with a long day on the plane.
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Katherine got herself on the dingiest train she could find. The Originals travel in style, so she knew they wouldn't find her here. Her clothes made her stand out and she could practically hear all these men and their drooling mouths. This was a constant no matter where she went in the world.
Caroline got herself off the plane, and with a thermos full of blood in one hand, and suitcase in another she ran to catch a train.
That's when she spotted her.
"Elena?" Caroline looked at her from afar. She styled her hair in fashionable curls instead of her statement pin straight hair, and she certainly did dressed much sexier. Her all black outfit was certainly new. But that was had to be her best friend.
"Oh sorry, you must have got the wrong person." Katherine started to say, but she stopped. 500 years on Earth and she could tell what she was talking about. Vampire, werewolf, human,witch, anyone. And right now, she was speaking to a baby vampire.
"Who's Elena?" Katherine replied in a much deeper voice than her doppelganger in Mystic Falls.
"Lena, stop playing with me. You came for me. Is everything okay back home? Can I come home again?" the blonde had a spark of hope in her eyes as she said those words
"Oh, so she's a runaway too, huh?" Katherine decided maybe she could take some pity on the little baby vampire. She kinda reminded Katherine of herself in the beginning stages.
"I don't know who you're talking about. But I could use a travel companion, so why don't you join me?" Katherine replied in the friendliest tone she could muster. "I'm Kathy by the way." Katherine often resorted to her "fake" name. She wanted to trust this vampire, but for all she knew, this could be a trap from that son of a b-.
"I'm Caroline Forbes. It's nice to meet you." Caroline responded in a half sarcastic tone. She kept staring at Kathy. There was no way that she wasn't Elena.
"What?"
"No, it's just that you look a lot like this friend of mine from back home," Caroline responded.
Katherine needed to learn more about this Caroline Forbes. This baby vampire running away from home. She seemed like she had a perfect life.
"And where's this home?"
"Mystic Falls. But what brings you to India?" Caroline questioned,changing the subject from herself. She didn't feel like answering questions that were better left buried.
"What can you say, I crave adventure," Kathy replied but her mind was elsewhere. Her gears, however, were churning. The doppelganger lived in Mystic Falls. Elena Gilbert, the human doppelganger. She had taken that phony white name, but Katherine knew she was of Petrova blood. And this Caroline Forbes was her best friend. The baby vampire. So maybe she didn't need to turn anyone. She had her vampire right here. Katherine started smirking as she looked through the window at the perfect fields. Everything started falling into place. Before long, Katherine can find her freedom.
A/N: So there you go. Chapter I! I know, I need a beta really bad. Like really bad. Any willing to help?
Anyway, in case you haven't picked this up already, this story does take place before the sacrifice where Elena dies to release Klaus' dormant werewolf side. So no, Klaus and Caroline don't meet in the future like they do in the canon. And they don't realize that Katherine is on the trail.
For anyone interested in the translation of the protection spell Bonnie placed on Caroline, it was "The one of Forbes blood must stay alive. Protect her at all costs, keep her safe." I have to admit, I don't have much skill in rhyming.
Just to let you know, this chapter is a bit short, I just needed to warm up a bit, but the next chapter would be a full-fledged chapter of a decent length I promise.
Thanks for reading the chapter, though, I hope you find it interesting. You will see Klaus in the next couple of chapters I promise, but this story is primarily in Caroline's perspective. When Klaus' character is introduced then the perspectives might switch throughout the chapter.
And as always, please review guys. Help me improve my writing.