Chapter 11

Caroline made it back to Mystic Falls. She needed Bonnie. She could convince Bonnie to help her. A spell, a talisman. Something.

Caroline stood in front of Bonnie's house. Everything felt different to her. Even the smells of her home town were different, foreign. She felt like she didn't fit in here anymore but had she ever. And she missed him. She missed Klaus. She had to find a way.

Caroline walked up to the front door and rang the bell. She heard footfalls on the hardwood floor and a hand moved the curtain aside in the window. The door flung open.

"OH MY GOD CAROLINE." Bonnie yelled flinging her arms around Caroline's neck and holding on like she would never let go. Bonnie pulled Caroline through the door and kicked it shut.

"Oh Caroline. Where have you been? We have been searching for you? Are you ok?" Bonnie looked at her friend. Her hair was a bit disheveled and her clothes were dirty. But there was something different about her.

"Yes Bonnie I am fine." Caroline took Bonnie's hands in hers and looked into her eyes. Bonnie saw worry and sadness and desperation.

"Bonnie. I need your help." And then it was a jumble of information all at once. "The wolf is fighting him and I know he wants to be with me. And I have never felt this way about anyone before. We are more alike then I could have ever imagined. So much more in common. We are good together. So good together. I have never felt like this with anyone. We need to save him. We need to get rid of the wolf."

"Whoa Caroline wait a second. What are you talking about? What wolf is fighting him?"

"Klaus." she said.

"Wait. Klaus had you?"

"Yes. Well no but yes."

"Who is Klaus fighting?"

"No Bonnie. You are not listening. The wolf is fighting Klaus inside. It won't let him be happy. It won't let us be together."

It took a minute for Bonnie to understand. She sat slowly on the couch and stared at Caroline.

Caroline. You were with Klaus?" she asked.

"Yes." Caroline huffed.

"OK and you and Klaus are together?" she asked, afraid of the answer.

"Yes. Bonnie really. I have already gone over all of this."

"Together? Oh man there is too much information here to process right now."

"No Bonnie please." Caroline fell to her knees in front of Bonnie and grabbed her hands again. "Please Bonnie you have to help him. You have to help us."

"Are you crazy Caroline?" said Elena coming out from the dark hallway. "Klaus tried to kill Bonnie, and you, and me and he did kill Aunt Jenna. How could you?" Elena looked at her oldest friend in disgust. Caroline stood up and faced Elena.

"How could you fall in love with Stefan Elena?"

"That's different Caroline. Stefan is good. Klaus is an evil bastard."

"You don't know him Elena."

Elena snorted a laugh. "And you do?"

"Yes. We get each other."

Elena laughed again. Caroline stood straight and walked towards Elena. Elena backed up a little. Caroline had changed.

"We are vampires Elena. Its in our nature. We need blood to survive. Its what we done. Your precious Stefan still drinks blood. He couldn't live without it. Just like humans can't live without blood either. Vampires choose different ways to satisfy that need."

"Are you trying to justify this to me?"

"What if Stefan still drank human blood would you feel different about him?"

Elena was silent. Caroline took another step. She felt stronger then she had ever felt. She puffed her chest out.

"But Klaus is a killer. He is dangerous and he could snap at any minute and kill you." said Elena

"And Damon is any different?" Caroline said. Again Elena was silent.

"Damon has done so much more damage and he is still around. He is forgiven. He killed Vicki and made her a vampire. He tortured me mentally when he first came to town. He tried to kill Bonnie. He snapped Jeremy's neck and he is the reason that Aunt Jenna was turned and killed. But Damon is still here for another sunrise."

Elena stared at Caroline and she stared back, not wavering.

"But that's different. Because its you."

Caroline and Elena stood silent again, each waiting for the other to blink. Caroline decided to try to explain to them after all they were her friends.

"Klaus makes me feel after a lifetime of not feeling anything. I was more concerned about competing with everyone that I forgot to live my life and then it was taken from me."

"Who were you competing with?"

"You Elena. Everything about you. Everyone wanted you. Even after you and Matt broke up and we started dating I was always his second choice. If you had come back around and wanted him back he would have run to you."

"That's not true Caroline."

"Yes it is and you know it."

"I never realized how different I could feel with someone like Klaus. He changed me. Made me feel more… well everything. My outside matches my insides now. I am more confident and stronger and I feel beautiful and sexual and loved."

Elena still could not believe what she was hearing. Caroline looked back around to Bonnie. She sat on the couch still but looked back at Caroline this time. There were tears in her eyes.

"I see it." Bonnie whispered.

"Klaus makes me feel like what I want, what I feel and what I say actually matters." Caroline said smiling at the thought of Klaus.

"But you don't matter." Elena erupted. Caroline turned and looked at Elena. Bonnie stood up and walked to stand next to Caroline. "That's not what I meant."

"So what did you mean." Caroline said.

"You don't matter to him. He is playing you."

"For what reason Elena. He got what he needed from the ritual and now the wolf won't let him be happy with me."

"Oh poor baby. Be careful what you wish for." Elena snarked.

Bonnie took Caroline's hand and laced their fingers together. "I will help you Caroline. What do you need me to do?"

Caroline turned and faced Bonnie. She flung her arms around she and hugged her. Elena huffed in disgust again.

"is there any type of binding spell of talisman then can bind the wolf part again?"

"I can't believe you are even thinking of helping him Bonnie."

"I am doing this for Caroline." Bonnie said at Elena. Bonnie looked back at Caroline. "That is really old magic. I really don't know what to do." she said.

"How about going back to the house and ask the witches?" Caroline asked.

"I can't do that. They are angry with me. They wouldn't help me." Bonnie and Caroline sat on the couch next to each other.

"There has to be someone."

Then Bonnie stood up and walked across the room. "Dr. Martin." she said and turned back to Caroline.

"Dr. Martin told me how to defeat Klaus. Maybe he knows how to bind it again."

Elena laughed to herself and sat down on an oversized chair across the room.

"Its worth a shot." said Caroline.