IV. 'You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love 'til it kills you both. You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other 'til it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends. Real love isn't brains, children. It's blood. It's blood screaming inside you to work its will.'- Spike
"You cannot do this Niklaus." Elijah said pushing him back, "Think about her."
"I'm doing this for her." Klaus stated
"You are doing this for yourself."
"I love her. And I am not spending eternity alone. If there should be anyone in the world I would spend eternity with it would be her without a second thought or hesitance. I love her and I cannot bear to watch her live her life with another man and then die."`
"Klaus you cannot change her into the demons we are. You are taking away her life and it will be in your hands. Can you handle that?" Elijah asked
"As long as she loves me, I will not regret this decision. Now move Elijah."
"I did not know the Forbes were witches." Bonnie states
"Oh we are. In fact, we are the one of the original witches. My mother was an original witch." Caroline says
"So what are you a hybrid like Klaus?" Bonnie asks
"Well no. I'm still full vampire."
"Then how do you have the powers of a witch?" Elena asks
"When my mother found me dead on the floor she was distraught. So she called among the other witches to help her resurrect me by channeling their powers into me. But because they sacrificed their blood to save me, I was in transition during a resurrection." Caroline explains
"Wow that's complicated. So the two just merged and…"
"Presto. I am the first ever person to be changed into a Vampire and the only Vampire with the power of a witch." Caroline says joyfully
"How are the witches alright with that?" Bonnie asks
"That's why they made this necklace. It stores all my witch powers. Without it I am weak." Caroline says playing with her necklace.
"I did not see that coming." Elena says falling back into the couch
"So question. How do you expect to kill Ester?" Bonnie asks
"Well that would not cancel the bond. She'd have to do that herself." Caroline says
"And do you think she would?" Elena asks
"Well Ester has been known to be unpredictable." Caroline replies
"I guess that runs in the family then." Elena comments
"I still cannot believe someone like you would fall in love with Klaus." Bonnie says
"But it's still quite romantic with the whole wanting to spend eternity with you despite being a psycho maniac killing monster and all." Elena adds
"He was never like this you know? A monster. He used to be such a gentle, caring, honest person…he was human." Caroline says sadly. Elena and Bonnie look at her sympathetically almost able to feel her pain while she reminisces the days when Klaus' love was worth more than a thousand stars.
"Ester has fled Caroline." Elijah tells her
"Then how do you expect me to undo the link?" Caroline asks
"Why don't you do a locator spell?"
"To locate an original witch? The amount of magic that would take."
"Locate Finn then. We are linked. Take our blood. It should be easier." Elijah suggests
"True. See this is why I like you Elijah. You're the smart one." Caroline says messing his hair
"What do you plan on doing to Ester anyways?" Elijah asks
"Before I could even face Ester I'd need to channel all the power from my ancestors. Once I've gained the upper hand in strength I could finally have Ester where I want her. I can remove her powers." Caroline explains
"Plotting my demise love? It would be smarter to not do so in my own home." Klaus interjects
"I wasn't aware you were still around. Now that you are, I must leave before my repulsion turns into a vindictive murderous feeling." Caroline says
Before Caroline could manage to get out of the room, Klaus grabs her arm. He glances over at Elijah, signaling him through his glares to leave the room. As curious as Elijah, he decides to leave the two alone believing it is probably best they finally confront each other. Caroline watches Elijah leaving the room, daggering glares at his back inwardly cursing at his every step. Her glares avert from Elijah and turn to Klaus.
"Let go of me Klaus." Caroline said through her teeth
"If you promise you will not run I will." Klaus says
"Fine I promise I won't r—"
"Or physically abuse me in any way." Klaus interjects and Caroline sighs in defeat
Klaus lets go of her arm and with a quick movement she throws him across the room as he crashes into the couch, shattering it. He rolls his eyes and inwardly curses at himself for not predicting that. He speeds towards her and grabs her by the throat before slamming her to the floor while she winces at the new found pain. She lifts up her arm to try and smack him but he grabs hold on it tightly and uses his other hand to restrain her other arm.
"I'm stronger than you Caroline."
Caroline glares at him and he suddenly feels a fire igniting in him, burning his insides. He could slowly feel the blood in him boiling and his whole body heating to an extreme level. His grips loosen as he slowly falls back.
"Caroline." He sneers
Soon enough, a trickle of blood starts to drip down her nose as the fire in him intensified. An excruciating pain arises in her mind causing her to cease the burning inside of Klaus. He takes this opportunity to restrain her once more. Before she could defend herself, Klaus shouted out,
"Stop it." She looks at him intently with a rage burning in her eyes that slowly killed Klaus
"Why do you hate me so?" Klaus asks and she breaks into a hysteric laughter
"Where do you want me to start?" She remarks, "How about when you daggered me?"
"I was protecting you sweetheart. There were people after you." He says in a low growl, irritated with repeating himself
"Selling me to a landowner so you can obtain the land for yourself." Caroline continues
"I killed him on the same night so he couldn't do anything to you." Klaus says casually
"You betrayed my love."
Staring intently at her eyes, Klaus realizes that the rage faded out and transforms into a pool of despair. His grip on her loosens and she slowly pulls out of his hold, rubbing the parts of her arm he had a death grip on. Caroline looks up from the floor and stares at him, she didn't mean to have such a rush of emotions surfacing, she blames her vampire traits.
"You do not get to play me like a fool Niklaus…not now, not then, not ever." Caroline states
"I did not intend to play you like a fool. To you, I was the fool in love."
"So it was foolish to love me?" Caroline asks
"No. It was foolish to let you go." Klaus says with a strong, assured voice
"You know…"Caroline starts, "You were always so worried that people would leave you. That I would leave you. That you didn't realize that you left me."
"I had no hold over my actions at that time. My humanity was lost."
"And the pain I had to bear when I watch you lose your humanity slowly! As you slowly fell out of love with me!"
"No!" He shouts angrily, causing Caroline to jump back a little, "I never fell out of love with you. Never. You were always the one I have loved," He says softer, closing the distance between the two before cupping her face and grazing his fingers over her silky skin, "You will always be the one." He says softly
His velvet voice sends shivers down her spine and begrudgingly, she places her hand over his and leans into his touch. She averts her stare and bites her lip to prevent any tears that threaten to fall. Klaus leans in and gives her a chaste kiss. Despite the delicacy of the kiss, passion flares in them both sending a surge of electricity through their bodies.
"Consider that a good bye kiss." Caroline says removing his hand and walking away
"We live for eternity Caroline. There's no such thing as good bye to us." Klaus finishes
Caroline walks through the woods in search for a prey. Despite the plenty of blood bags the Salvatore brothers have, Stefan refuses to give one to her every time she is hungry, resulting to her hunting for any form of animal, preferably a large animal. Rustle.
She turns around and scans her surroundings to realize that there is nothing there. Every step she takes, the rustling sounds and the frantic footsteps gets louder and louder. She sees a flash in front of her and when turning back, something knocks her out off her feet and pins her down the floor. That's when she hears someone snickering.
"You're too easy Blondie." Damon says
"You dick! What are you even doing here?" Caroline asks
"Stefan and I got worried. It's a full moon tonight. A wolf may bite you and you know how nasty that affect has, you get all sweaty and start to hallucinate, you don't look too pretty." Damon says pulling her up.
"Did you have to scare me though?"
"I told him not to. But he insisted." Stefan says
"Obviously your persuasion skills are impeccable as always." Caroline states sarcastically.
Suddenly, a loud piercing scream echoes through the woods followed by a demonic, deep growl. When the screaming ceased the air is intoxicated by the smell of blood. Caroline could feel her throat close up and the blood in her body rushing. However, the smell of the blood is too strong, too thick to have just come from one person. It plagued the air.
The Salvatore brothers and Caroline exchange looks before following the scent of blood. When arriving, the witness blood baths, a massacre, a…nightmare. The floor is covered by ripped body parts and the grass is drenched by blood. The surge of the smell made them almost repulsive instead of hungry.
They see a beast standing across them, devouring a body. They could hear the crunching of the bones and tearing of the skin. Blood dripped down its large fangs. The beast looks up, glaring at the three with its inhumane piercing yellow eyes.
"What the hell is that thing?" Damon asks
"It's nothing I've seen before." Caroline notes
"I think we should run instead of standing around talking." Stefan suggests
"You sulk too much lately brother." Elijah says entering the room
"And who's to blame for that?" Klaus says lounging on the couch in front of the fireplace
"What happened to, 'she's a mere girl'?" Elijah mocks
"What happened to brotherhood?" Klaus sneers
"Hypocrisy is not becoming on you brother."
Klaus throws the glass across the room, just every so closely passing Elijah. Klaus erupts into a scream while Elijah stands in front of him with a blasé stance. Klaus punches the wall, putting a hole through it. He breaths heavily and Elijah takes a seat.
"She makes my blood boil." Klaus states
"But you still love her. Love is a vampire's greatest weakness."
"But we are not weak." Elijah sighs
"You and Caroline. Had a love that many would envy. You two put Romeo and Juliet to shame. Made the love affair of Helen of Troy seem trivial. You two practically rewrote history. You've fought for centuries, went through blood baths and war and tore the world apart. But at the end, your love for her is stronger than your thirst for power, for blood, for acceptance. The strongest I have ever seen you be, was when you were in love with that girl." Elijah explains
"What are you doing Elijah?" Klaus asks
Before Elijah could respond, a loud scream echo through their ears. A familiar scream that triggers worry and fear inside of Klaus, "Caroline."
AN: Well here's the fourth chapter. Hope you enjoyed it :) the next one will come up soon do not worry. Also as a little footnote, I absolutely love this quote from Spike, it's just brilliant. Anyways. Don't forget to review. Thank you for reading.