Chapter 15

Waiting is the hardest part.

Caroline was on edge for the next day. Everything made her jumpy and nasty. She snapped at Bonnie and could not stand being near Elena. She apologized to Bonnie a thousand times.

Then it was the night of the full moon. Bonnie looked out the front window as Caroline sat motionless for hours in an adirondack chair under a large tree in Bonnie's yard. The sun finally set and Caroline got out of the chair. She walked inside and met Bonnie's worried eyes.

"Don't even say it." she said and walked away.

"Come on Care. I am worried about you. This is almost crazy." Bonnie said as she followed Caroline into her bedroom.

"And what wouldn't you do for Jeremy Bonnie? What haven't you done to save Jeremy?"

"Caroline." started Bonnie then she stopped. There was nothing she could say. Caroline lay down on the bed and Bonnie lay next to her. Caroline turned and looked at Bonnie.

"Do you remember when we were younger how we would obsess about our husbands. Plan our weddings, name our kids. We would always live here in Mystic Falls and our kids would be besties too?

"Yeah." said Bonnie as she wrapped her arms around Caroline's arm.

"Things certainly have changed haven't they?" Bonnie said. "For all of us." Caroline looked at Bonnie and smiled at her. She moved to get off the bed. Bonnie didn't want to let go of Caroline. She felt like if she did she would lose her forever. Bonnie hated this feeling. The three of them had always been so close and now with everything that has happened they were moving apart. Bonnie wanted to hold onto it as long as she could.

"I should clean up and we should get ready to go." Caroline said and walked into the bathroom. Bonnie lay on the bed alone staring at the ceiling.

The two girls made their way up to Miller Hill. Bonnie set up the circle and they waited.

"What time is it Bonnie?" asked Caroline with the slightest bit of shakiness in her voice.

"Almost eleven. I told him to be here at eleven." Caroline nodded and paced the clearing again. She walked close to the edge where the trees started. She listened for any movement that meant Klaus was coming. She heard nothing.

"And you told him what he needed to do Bonnie?" Caroline turned and looked at an annoyed Bonnie.

"Yes Caroline. I told him…for the 800th time."

"I know. I'm sorry." Caroline said and smiled weakly at Bonnie. She walked around again listening.

11:05, 11:15, 11:30… Caroline started to freak out. Every movement she heard in the woods sent her whirling in the direction from where it came. Nope a fox. A mouse. A bat.

11:45… Bonnie's heart was breaking watching Caroline pace and search and concentrated on listening to the sounds of the night.

"Care… he's not coming." Bonnie chocked out the words trying to hold back her own tears as Caroline stopped and her body went ridged. She knew that but deep inside she could not believe it. She would not believe it. She didn't make up what they had together. Caroline did not turn and look at Bonnie as the hot tears burned her eyes and ran down her cheeks. He wanted the wolf more than her. She felt the hole he left in her chest growing bigger. Everything around her went quiet.

"You know its a difficult thing you have asked." She heard his voice from behind her. Caroline turned quickly and saw Klaus emerging from the dark of the forest. Her initial reaction was happiness. "And I felt you needed an explanation." he continued. Those words cut through Caroline like knives. He wasn't here for her. He was here to tell her why he had chosen not to go through with it.

Caroline cleared her throat. "An explanation?" Klaus stepped closer to Caroline.

"You have to understand that I have searched for my cure for hundreds of years. Oh I had such plans for myself after becoming the worlds only Vampire-werewolf hybrid." He said relishing in the thought. "Creating a master race of hybrids. The destruction."

Bonnie felt a knot growing in her stomach. But she watched how Klaus looked at Caroline.

Caroline felt like she wanted to hit him. How dare he come here like this. Like he was taunting her. Here I am in front of you but you can't have me.

"Over 1,000 years. Thats a long time Caroline." He said and moved closer to her. Their eyes met and she felt the heat that still existed between them. He reached up and caressed her cheek with his fingers and snaked his arm around her waist.

"And I am going to give that all up for the one thing that I never thought I would find." Her eyes searched his face for the slightest bit of insincerity but found none. What did he just say? she thought. Klaus leaned in and kissed Caroline softly on the lips not once breaking their eye contact.

"Bonnie." He said, still holding Caroline in his arms. "I have taken the potion. Three drops of my blood mixed with it. You can do the spell when ever you are ready." Caroline still stood stunned. But she was happy. Her body buzzed and reacted to his touch. He moved his hand down to her neck and let his fingers trail down her shoulder to her hands. He laced his fingers with hers. He pulled her hand up to his lips and kissed it. Caroline smiled but had to let go. Bonnie needed to start or they would lose out.

Bonnie started the spell as Caroline stepped away and watched. Klaus stood in the center of the circle Bonnie had made with his arms open staring up at the full moon overhead. Klaus jerked forward like he had been punched in the stomach and fell to his knees. Caroline moved to go to him. Bonnie threw her hand out in her path. She kept going with the spell.

"No Bonnie something is wrong." she pushed past her. Caroline watched as Klaus writhed and screamed in pain again. This can't be happening again. There must be something wrong. Caroline watched as Klaus began to change again.

Bonnie finished the spell and Caroline ran to Klaus. She grabbed at his shoulders to pull him off the ground. He looked up at her with his yellowed eyes. He had only half turned into the wolf.

"Klaus." she said and reached for him. "Bonnie what the fuck happened?" she screamed.

"I don't know Caroline." Bonnie was shaken.

Caroline turned back to Klaus. He was still disorientated from the change.

"Klaus." she said again and touched his face. Then his eyes fixed on her and narrowed. He snarled at her, saliva dripped from his mouth. Caroline stumbled up on her feet and stood. Klaus reared himself up and howled at the moon. Then focused back on Caroline. Caroline turned to run into the forest with Klaus close on her heels.