Chapter II - A Friendship Built on Lies

A/N: Here I am, back at it again with a new chapter! Thanks for all the support from the previous chapter, its the reason why I want to continue updating this story. Anyway, let's just get on with the story. Just a little reminder, Caroline thinks that Katherine is a human, and she's hiding the fact that she herself is a vampire. Katherine however already knows who she is. I figured since Caroline is still a baby vampire, it may be harder for her to identify whether a person is a vampire or not.

I wish I own The Vampire Diaries, but I sadly don't...

Caroline and "Kathy" have been traveling together for a couple of months now and they were having the time of their life. You would see them on top of bar counters in Peru, shuffling on dance floors in Korea, and shopping till they drop in Italy. Katherine and Caroline were never apart from one another. Ask anyone in the party scene, and they'd tell you about the time Caroline and Katherine made out on the dance floor much to the pleasant surprise of their many suitors.

Even though Katherine was planning to snake out her best friend, and she was starting to feel a little guilt at the fact, she actually loved Caroline. Caroline was the best friend Katherine didn't know she needed. She talked to her about her one true love all the time, (without ever saying his name of course) and Caroline would just sit and listen. And Caroline knew that she wouldn't have made it far in the world without Kathy. Kathy helped her break out of her shell that was built during her time in that small town of her's. Although Caroline would admit to you that the similarities between Kathy and Elena were uncanny, too uncanny to be the twin stranger bullshit that Kathy spewed, she trusted her, so there was no problem.

Caroline hated hiding the blood bags she would have to steal from hospitals, and the thermos she would always carry wherever they went. So she decided she would tell Kathy about what she was when they reach Spain. And maybe Caroline would get a true answer on why Kathy and Elena looked so alike.

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A few weeks later in Spain

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Spain was great. There was so much rich culture in the Gothic Quarter in Barcelona, and gaudi architecture in Casa Batllo, and the peacefulness of Buen Retiro Park. Caroline never knew running away could be so fun. She had Kathy, she had all this! What else is there to live for but every last dying moment they had left on Earth? She wasn't going to give the Council any satisfaction.

They were staying at this hotel, that Caroline compelled, which of course Kathy was too slow to catch. It was a luxurious 5 star hotel. Caroline never thought she would ever find herself in a 5 star hotel in another continent. Caroline had to pinch herself a couple of times to believe this was all real. But this time around, she didn't struggle with the painful facts.

"I am a vampire running away from the town sheriff who is set on catching. I drink human blood from blood bags, I can use mind control on people, and I am currently staying in 5 star hotels where hot Spanish guys run around on every single floor." Caroline thought to herself.

But she still missed Matt sometimes. And even though she had Kathy, she kind of wished that she could be with Elena and Bonnie. School just ended, and they didn't do their yearly ritual of eating popcorn and sneaking into their parent's stash of beer, daringly trying a taste of that stuff. And than the next day they were off to being upstanding citizens of Mystic Falls. She wanted Bonnie and Elena and Matt back. More than anything in the world it was them that Caroline missed the most.

"Care bear? What's wrong?" Kat snapped her out of her thoughts with a pitiful look in her chocolate eyes.

"Nothing, uhm, I was just thinking."

Katherine glanced at her travel buddy. I guess she was still missing that Petrova doppelganger of hers. Katherine would listen to Care's stories and it sounded like one from the movies. Small town girl with the small town life, but a close knit community who always watched out for one another. Nothing like Katherine herself had when she was a child. But she guessed that she couldn't blame Caroline for what she was given. That life was all she knew.

"Don't think. Why don't you do something for me. I want you to get all these." Kathy gave her a list and demanded her to fetch her food, like she was her servant. At first Kathy's personality was unnerving, but she came to like that side of her too.

"Right, don't think. Just get...potato chips? Kat? I thought you hated potato chips?" Caroline read off the grocery list.

"Since when?" Kathy asked innocently, going for the dumb girl look.

"Last time I checked, you called it toxic poison." Caroline rebutteled, exasperated.

"Well, I reserve the right to change my mind. Besides we're only human right?" Kathy giggled. She was hoping that Caroline would tell her about her vampirism and who she was running from, and judging the look on Caroline's face she was breaking her.

"Yeah about that. I need to tell you something." Caroline hesitated. She had no doubt Kathy would be the type to accept this part of her. She had come to learn that Kathy was scared of nothing and no one.

There was a part of her however, that was fearing Kathy would do something stupid like as her to turn her. And Caroline knew that would bring up painful trauma about what happened to her, how she turned.

"Kat, only one of us is human." Caroline revealed.

"Wait...what?" Kathy first giggled at the suggestion, playing the dumb girl look again, knowing that this time Caroline thought it was real. Katherine knew she was a vampire for a long time, she was just waiting for Caroline to tell her herself.

"This is serious, stop laughing." Caroline whined.

"What are you?" Katherine replied.

"A vampire." Caroline answered. This was not how this was supposed to go. She saw her best friend looking at her with a judgmental look in her eye instead of the feared look she was expecting. And this conversation should have happened with both of them sitting down, and Kathy was supposed to deny the existence of vampires before finally going along with the story. No way in hell was Kathy taking this easy.

"So what do you drink blood every day?". Caroline nodded her head in response

"You're not one of those crazy people that are crazy enough to drink human blood and call themselves vampires right? Cause I can't be hanging around the crazies." Kathy replied with certainty.

"No. Eww, no. Let me show you proof." And Caroline showed her true face to Kathy, who's eyes didn't widened in shock, but rather smirked.

"So my best friend is a vampire huh?"

"Yup." Caroline knew from that point on something was up with Kathy. At this point, Caroline didn't even know whether Kathy was her real name. But she vowed to find out her secret.

"Cool."

"Cool."

"But, I really need to know the answer to this question, cause I'm dying to know. Why did Miss Mystic Falls the blood sucker run away from home?" Kathy pried.

"My town is kind of radical in their views of creatures like me. They would rather have all of drop dead and die. My mom is the town sheriff. She's currently trying to track us down as we speak." Caroline spoke, ignoring the comment Kat made. There was the unmistakeable sadness because her tone dropped from its usual happy note as she traced shapes with her finger on the table beside her in a state of an absent mind.

"Care, you know when I said I had resources? I can help you get away from your mom. Just tell me her name, and consider it done." Katherine needed to be serious here. Get the mom's name, threaten her life in time for the sacrifice to get her to Mystic Falls and have him kill her to break that stupid curse of his.

"You don't want to kill her, do you?" Caroline almost screeched. She wasn't going to send her mother into death.

"Look, when I say resources I mean people who can give you a new identity and give fake tips to your mother. You can become who ever you want to become. A new name. A new life." Kathy explained.

"My mom can't die. You hear me. She's not getting killed by your 'resources' ."

"You got yourself a deal. Now, come on. Name?"

"Elizabeth Forbes."

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"Hey Kat, I'm off to see the city. I'll come back in a few okay?" Caroline couldn't wait to walk in the streets, to speak the new language she recently picked up, and to taste new foods native to the region. Caroline was walking the cobble-stoned streets when she came by what looked like an antique store that was jam-packed with cool little knick-knacks. The baby vampire walked into the store.

Really, Caroline was taking her mind off of Kathy. Thinking about it, there was so much she didn't know about the girl. Where was she from? What was her parents' names? And how did she get all those resources? What resources? All these jumbling questions and thoughts, Caroline was starting to get a migraine. Something she didn't even know vampires can get.

Her eyes were darting left and right, between the regal looking chandeliers, and the detail of the dice, which was hand carved, when her eyes suddenly fell on it. The painting.

Caroline pulled it out from between two ugly posters and had a closer look. Two men, and a younger girl sitting in a royal throne in front of them. They seemed so different from each other, from everyone else, yet had a look of family.

"They were related," Caroline realized.

The girl sitting in the throne was beautiful, as only a royal could be. Her hair was only a shade lighter than Caroline's, and the dress she wore was a deep shade of pink, almost like a magenta colour, which contrasted nicely on pale white skin. But her eyes conveyed a bit of rebellion which masked the sadness Caroline saw on her face. Her eyes traveled to one of the brothers with chocolate hair. His entire demeanor was that of a noble man. Strong, protective. A chiseled jaw, and with his legs slightly spread out, it looked like he ready to pounce at anyone.

"Looks like someone needs to get that stick out of his ass," Caroline thought to herself, before giggling quietly to herself.

Caroline's eyes landed on those sea-blue eyes of the sandy red-haired one, and she knew that that one, had the look of a playboy at it's finest. But God, was he beautiful. His stubble, the smirk on those gorgeous red lips, and mischievous look of the devil in his eyes, like he was a little kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar.

"Who are these people?" Caroline pondered within herself. "Wonder where their graves are?"

"Excuse me. Who are these people? They don't look Spaniards?" Caroline asked the store owner. Her eyes traveled to the name tag of the chocolate-skinned girl. Ebony. She looked a bit like Bonnie.

"You are right miss, they are not Spaniards, but rather ones of British blood."

"Why is this painting here than?" Caroline glanced back at the painting.

"The painting was done in Britain, the painter who did this piece, Wilhelm Arthur, was well known to do pieces for those of noble title." Ebony responded, with a thick Spanish accent before continuing, "The painting was placed here when a small manor was getting cleared out, and being readied to put up in the market. I suppose they owned property here of some sort."

"So it was an abandoned manor?" Caroline asked.

"Hmm, yes. Let me get the address. You seem awfully interested in this family." Ebony responded.

"Yeah, I don't understand it either."

Ebony glanced at the vampire that walked into her store. She was the one the spirits kept reminding her would come in. Well, some of them anyway. Half of them were so against what Ebony was going to do to save The Originals. But it needed to be done.

She recognized her from the messages the spirits were always sending Ebony. Some of them were so cryptic about the terror that would come if this golden - haired blood sucker was to meet the most terrifying Original to walk the Earth. But Ebony only saw this aura of light from the vampire. She could tell that this Caroline was a good person, one that would stay with her humanity.

Ebony spared a glance at the grimoire hidden underneath the shelf. It would drain a lot of her power doing this spell, but she knew it had to be done. Altering the past, was the only way she can protect the future of her child.

Before she chickened out, Ebony grabbed the grimoire, flipped to the page and started performing the spell. She took a dagger and cut into her palm chanting all the while. It was that moment the doppelganger, Katherine Pierce walked in.

Ebony's eyes widened in panic at first, but later thought otherwise.

"Perfect chance to channel the doppelganger's presence"

With the help she felt confident she can finish the spell to her satisfaction. Meanwhile there were sounds of chit-chat from the two vampires to Ebony's side.

"Caroline, why do you find this worthy of your time again? You can barely see where you're going."

"Kathy, this place is cool okay. Maybe if you can chill out and allow me to look around." Caroline whispered back.

"Yeah, not in this place. Where are the cute guys again?"

Ebony was almost finished the spell. Not that they noticed.

"Well, not everything is about cute guys,"

"Tell that to the guy you were swallowing tongue and all," Kat bickered to Caroline.

"Well, I was drunk," Caroline was never the drunken one at parties, but Kat soon realized that when she was drunk, she loosened up a bit.

That's when Katherine first heard the floor shake. The low grumbling sound felt like it was the sound of some earthquake coming from the core of the Earth, but by now Katherine knew better. This was dreaded witch business. Beside her Caroline was still murmuring about something, but she gripped on to Caroline's arm, fighting to keep her eyes open, she needed to be conscious to see everything.

Suddenly the floor stopped moving. Caroline was the first to tilt her eyes downward, to see the forest floor, not the cheap-tiled one they were standing on minutes ago.

"Where are we?" Caroline dared asking, but as she looked to her travel buddy, who's eyes darkened, Caroline figured that she didn't know much either.

Kathy's eyes darted from left to right, up and down, noting every single leaf on every single branch on every single tree in the forest. Like she confirming something she already knew.

"Kat, you already seem to know the answer, now tell me. Where are we?" Caroline was getting a bit scared at the Kathy in front of her.

"Care, there's something you should probably know. You know how you told me you were a vampire?"

"Yeah, Kat what does that have to do with anything. We know the witch at the store had something to do with this."

"Damn, Care Bear is smarter than I thought."

"Yeah, it was. But, I should probably let you know that I wasn't so forth coming either." Katherine was freaking out, and she has never been scared of anything before, but this, she was scared of. She didn't want to lose Caroline. Not now, she needed the help getting back home.

She took a deep breath in, and showed her true face to Caroline. Her red veins and white fangs were in their full glory. Katherine was trying to gauge Caroline's reaction but before she could, she was slammed against itchy bark of the tree with a forearm to her throat.

"How could you? Why?"

"And you should probably know that something bad is going to happen to your mom."

"What?" Caroline screeched louder this time. Katherine's betrayal was hard to swallow. This was someone she considered a good friend of her's, and she hated that she was taken advantage of. Especially to her mother, how stupid can she be? She talked to strangers and went on world trips with them. Caroline was pretty sure that she broke the biggest rules of all time.

Caroline should have just trusted her gut.

"Why my mom? Why her, Kathy?"

"I'm going to tell you everything, Caroline. Everything. Just let me breathe first. Okay, let your arm down." Katherine soothed Caroline. But instead, she pressed harder earning her a yelp.

"My name is Katerina Petrova. Born 1472, in Bulgaria to a farmer." Katherine gulped. She was going to continue before she was stopped.

"Kat, what is this?" Caroline's tone softened, but not by much.

"Let me continue. I'm going to tell you the whole story, and than I'm going to run. If you were smart, you'd do the same," Katherine continued.

"I had a child out of wedlock in the year 1492. I didn't get the chance to raise her," Katherine huffed out some air, "In fact, I couldn't even hold her. My father ripped her out of my arms, and I was kicked out of Bulgaria. The reason why me and your friend are related is because we're both Petrova 's my great-granddaughter,"

"Doppelgangers," Caroline breathed out.

"When I was in England, which is where I fled to, I became English in nature. I became Katherine Pierce. It was there that I caught the eyes of two lords. Lord Klaus Mikaelson, and his older brother Elijah Mikaelson. I had some feelings for both of these vampires, and while the older brother returned these, Klaus...Klaus wanted me for a whole other reason. He was trying to break some curse that was placed on him."

"What does that have to do with me and my mom?" Caroline butted in.

"I'm getting there, wait." Katherine gave a death glare before continuing, clearly not appreciating the interruption,

"In order to break the curse, he needed a vampire,werewolf, doppelganger, and a stone where the blood of the sacrifices needed to be poured on. Now being me, I didn't want to have my blood spilled over some silly little rock. So I took the stone and I ran."

"What happened than? Will this happen to Elena?" Caroline pushed on. She couldn't believe this. This couldn't be happening. Curse. Sacrifice. No way. Caroline was a newbie to this whole thing, not like any one will allow her to forget, but even she knew that this isn't the thing you hear every day.

"I hope it does. I need the curse to broken this time around." Katherine's bluntness surprised Caroline. She knew that Katherine was the type to not care about a lot of people or their opinions. But this was something Caroline wasn't prepared for. Katherine actually wanted Elena dead.

"Why? Elena is family to you,"

"Care, I betrayed Klaus 500 years ago by running away. I was supposed to die, but I ran. And Klaus has been chasing me ever since. I wanted to be free of his rage. So I located the doppelganger, and a werewolf, he's your friend..."

"Tyler." Caroline finished for her.

Katherine nodded at her before continuing, "And your Bennett witch, and I needed to get a vampire. And then you walked in, and said that you were from there. I had everything I needed. So I needed to lure you back to your home. I guess I thought if I handed you guys over, than he would free me," Katherine started feeling guilty.

"So you betrayed me. Katherine you could have just told me. We could go to Klaus, and talk to him. Explain to him that this curse isn't worth it..."

"Caroline. You're talking about reasoning with one of the Originals. Klaus and Elijah are a part of a family of siblings who happen to be the oldest vampires in the world. Every vampire today can be traced to one of five Mikaelsons. You don't reason with them Caroline, you either kill, or be killed. I need my freedom, and I turned my back on you before I even knew how much I'd come to see you as my friend. My family."

"So where are we?" Caroline ignored her last comment. If Katherine really thought that, then she wouldn't have betrayed her.

"I don't know." And for the first time, in Katherine's life, she felt scared. Maybe getting back to civilization might help.

"Why don't we walk, till we find someone who could lead us back to the hotel. Than, I'll get my stuff and leave."

"Oh, no. You don't get to ditch me that easily. You're going to help me save my mom. You were the one that put her in the position that needed rescuing in the first place"

"I can't. I have to leave. I'm sorry, Care." And with that, Katherine Pierce ran. Like she had for the past 500 years.

"God, I can't believe this."

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Caroline had walked for miles now, and you would think that the fact that her being a vampire might help her endure walking a couple miles, but she was aching all over in places she didn't even know could ache. Caroline reached a clearing, in the forest, and that's when she heard the voices.

"Shoot it!" The male shouted, and a shot rang out.

Caroline clamped a hand to her mouth, forcing herself not to react. Where the hell did the guns come from? Were they council members?

"Caroline. You're strong, you're fierce, you can do this," Caroline chanted to herself out loud, before walking in the direction of the clearing where she heard the voices, with the intention of doing more investigating.

She caught sight of the men a couple of seconds later. They were wearing clothing from a different era, one Caroline didn't recognize.

"Good to know they aren't Council members,"

Caroline walked even closer, trying to know who, or what, they shot. One of the younger men was the first to notice the baby vampire, and his eyes dilated in lust.

"Now, look who we have here,"

Caroline gasped. Obviously, getting caught was not the first thing on her list. The dirty man grabbed her arm, and spun her around so that he can see her face.

"Well look at you, beautiful,"

Caroline didn't want it to get to this position, she really didn't, but she needed to keep herself safe from that disgusting man who thought he can touch her. She grabbed him by his neck, and hoisted him in the air, pushing him against the bark of the tree, her hand still on this throat.

His screams grabbed the attention of the group of men who weren't already watching the man make advances against the blonde.

"I need you to take me to your town, and feed me. If not, I get to decide what to do with this ugly dude who decided he was going to take advantage of a lonely girl in the middle of the forest."

One of the other men, looked at this baby vampire with extreme interest. His eyes slowly widened at what he saw. When all the men were looking at their friend, who was the mercy of the blonde-haired beauty, he was interested in her clothes. Wearing what looked like breeches, but were much more form-fitting. And her shirt. It fit her perfectly, and was tight around her waist. She didn't wear what was expected of young women from reputable families would wear. She probably worked at a brothel than, he reasoned with himself.

But this being standing in front of him, was beautiful. Her eyes, were this blue, a shade only lighter than his own, showed so much fire and strength. Her gorgeous skin, would make even the most admirable princess jealous. Silky blonde tresses flowed down to her shoulders, which was short and left open. She is different, he realizes. He didn't know what a goddess looked like, but she would probably look like the vampire in front of him.

"Who are you?" the sandy-red haired man questioned mentally, "I need to have you."

As an Original himself, and considering he feared no one he snapped neck of everyone in the small crowd the girl managed to acquire.

It was Caroline's turn for her eyes to widened at the sight in front of her. The man, who just snapped everyone's neck and just left them like they were nothing. The man, who sped towards her with impeccable vamp-speed. She recognized him from that painting in the antique store.

"You," Caroline whispered.

"Lord Klaus, pleasure to meet you, love," before Klaus Mikaelson snapped her neck.

Guys, will you look at that. Finally Klaus shows up. And he's impressed by Caroline. But other emotions will seep through too. I don't know if you have noticed, but I tried to not write Klaus's name into anything, until later in the story.

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