Caroline enjoyed calling her first weekend out 'the vacation from hell', so when she woke up Saturday morning, she was more than happy to leave and pack her things. Today, her hair was curly for reasons she had yet to understand, her hair had a habit of making itself what it wanted to be. No matter how hard she straightened it, her hair remained curly.
So she just gave up on the hair. She zipped her suitcase shut with a few of her belongings and bounded downstairs to see Klaus and Stefan standing by the door.
Caroline shrank away from the sunlight streaming from the door, Stefan gave her a quizzical look.
"Come on, Caroline." Stefan shrugged it off and walked through the doorway.
Klaus had a pleased look on his face when Caroline passed him, when she reached the sunlight, she didn't burn and begin to scream. She felt normal, as normal as she had been in the house at least. Caroline breathed in the fresh scent of pine and a tad bit of mint in the air also. She beamed to herself.
"Been a while since you've seen the sun, huh?" Stefan called from the car, the drivers door already opened as he stood behind it.
"Been forever actually." Caroline met her eyes with the blinding sun for a few moments before looking at her surroundings, it seemed as if they were in the middle of no where, "Where are we?"
Stefan shrugged, "I don't know. Klaus was the one who brought me here, he'll be picking you up on Monday morning."
Caroline frowned to herself, "I feel like I'm in Prison and everyone's just tossing me around to see where I land." Caroline walked over to the passenger side of the car.
"We'll get you out of this soon, Caroline." Stefan told her, a promise in his eyes.
"For someone that lost their humanity, you don't seem that bad." Caroline teased him, climbing into the car.
Stefan just put on his sunglasses, "For a blonde girl, you aren't that stupid."
Stefan drove right over to Caroline's house, and when Caroline entered her home, she heard a chorus of cheers.
Damon, Bonnie, Elena, her Mother, Tyler, and Matt were all standing in her living room, a banner hanging above them.
Welcome back!
The banner read. But she felt as if the message was lost on them, maybe they didn't get the memo she wasn't really back, more like visiting.
"Caroline!" Bonnie pushed past the crowd and hooked her small arms around Caroline and hugged her.
Caroline eagerly wrapped her arms around Bonnie's small figure, "Bonnie!" She squealed, hugging her close.
"Thank goodness you're back. Damon's been driving me up a wall since he lost someone to annoy." Bonnie smiled, pulling away from Caroline.
"Is that so?" Caroline asked, eyeing Damon.
Damon shrugged, "What can I say, blondie?"
Caroline noticed that Elena was giving Stefan the death glare and Stefan was just staring back at her with blank, humanless eyes.
"Hey! Would you two knock it off? I really don't want any of your drama to bash my homecoming." Caroline snapped at the two.
"I'm sorry, it's just.. weird." Elena broke off, looking away from Stefan to Caroline.
"Well, get over the weirdness, for me?" Caroline asked her.
Elena smiled, "Of course."
"Well anyways, I thought we were having a party!" Matt said over all of the awkward that seemed to have spread across the room.
Tyler grinned and held up a bottle of wine, "Couldn't find anything else, so this will have to do." Tyler shot a twisted smile over to Caroline.
She felt her dead heart leap a beat or two.
After everyone had left, the party now ended with a few drunk vampires and hybrids and witches, adding a few humans into the mix. Everyone was well on their way home, and thank goodness for that, Caroline barely had time to thrive in the fact that she was home again.
Yet her Mom couldn't be found anywhere.
"Mom?" Caroline called through the house, "Mom?" She asked once more, walking into the kitchen to see a man's back in the fridge.
The man turned around and revealed himself to be the annoying Hybrid that she had thrown against the wall.
"Hey blondie. Mom's out for the weekend." He shot her a pointed grin, "We never really got to meet, I'm Daniel."
Caroline ran a hand through her hair, "Of course, I shouldn't have been so stupid to think Klaus would let me off on my own. So you're my babysitter huh?"
"We could say that, if you'd like." Daniel pawed through all of the human fridge in the food, "No blood?"
"I usually just get it from Stefan and Damon." Caroline shrugged and sat down at the counter, "Can't you just leave and tell Klaus that you watched over me like a good hybrid?"
Daniel grinned and turned away from the fridge, resting his arms on the counter in front of her, "You see, that would be against my orders."
Caroline met his eyes, "You mean against your compulsion?"
Daniel smirked to himself, "Same thing isn't it?"
"You're being controlled, you don't even have your own free will anymore. It'll never be the same thing." Caroline told him, yearning for him to understand what was happening - not just to him, but to her also. She thought if she sympathized with this Hybrid, she might be able to get out of this whole 'deal' a lot quicker.
Daniel just shook his head, "He told me you'd do this. Klaus told me you'd try to put ideas in my head, ideas of rebellion. Listen here, kiddo, Klaus knows you better than you know yourself, so don't even try that with me." He brushed a hand across her cheek.
She resisted jerking away from his sudden touch, "Oh does he? He probably told you that I'd beat the shit out of you and get Damon to kill you too, didn't he?"
Daniel just grinned.
Caroline jerked away from his touch then and leaped against the counter, attacking him. She was punching him everywhere, whatever she could touch - she was punching, she fumbled for a clear view of his heart but he wouldn't stop moving wildly under her. Suddenly she was flipped and he was on top, his fangs bared and a low hiss coming through his lips.
She jerked her knee up and he fell off of her, she fumbled and found a kitchen knife, stabbing him with it in the chest. Caroline stumbled to get off Daniel then, obviously he hadn't lasted long.
Daniel then reached up and grabbed the knife out of his chest, "He told me you'd do that too." Daniel grimaced when the knife came out with a sickeningly sound.
"Come on! Can I not catch a break?" Caroline growled, standing up off the ground and marching upstairs to her room.
"Not with that kind of attitude, sweetheart!" Daniel called after her.
She slammed the door shut, rattling the hinges.
Caroline absolutely refused to be a prisoner in her own bedroom, she slid open her window and climbed out and her feet met the ground. She ran to Elena's house.
She knocked quickly.
"Caroline?" Elena asked, sleep obviously still in her eyes, "Oh, come in." Elena stepped aside to let a frazzled Caroline Forbes into her home.
"Sorry, it's just, Klaus sent one of his stupid Hybrids to babysit me. So do you mind if I crash here tonight? I'm not entirely comfortable with that psycho downstairs crashing on my couch." Caroline quipped.
"Sure you can sleep here. I'll sleep on the couch - you can sleep in my room if you want." Elena just shrugged.
Caroline bit her lip, "Yeah, sure, that sounds fine. I hope Jeremy won't be too freaked that I'm here though."
Elena just smiled, "Don't worry about it."
Caroline couldn't sleep on Elena's bed, not at all, she heard a knocking on Elena's window and expected it to either be Stefan or Damon. She was leaning more towards the 2nd option, Caroline had made up some fantasy that Damon came to Elena's in the middle of the night to make out with her and then compel her to forget.
But when she crossed the room to the window, she shrank into the shadows.
Klaus.
"Caroline, I can still see you, nice try though, love. Would you like to tell me why you aren't at home?" Klaus asked, "While you're at it, why not open his window, love? Don't make me open it myself."
Caroline came out of the shadows and quickly opened the window, and he hopped in.
"I'll scream." Caroline warned him.
"What exactly would that do? The Doppelganger can't harm me, and I highly doubt her little brother would offer much help." Klaus cocked his head to the side, a smile on his senile lips.
"Why'd you send me a babysitter?" Caroline asked him, "I can take care of myself, thank you very much."
Klaus just smirked, "Caroline, honestly, I'm fairly certain that you would have stayed locked up in the Witch's house to hide from me."
Caroline licked her suddenly dry lips, "Not hiding. Just avoiding, in case the fact bypassed you, you're kind of insane."
Klaus grinned, "Insane? Very.. selective choice of words, Caroline. You should know that you cannot get away from me."
Caroline locked her eyes with his, "I will soon."
"When that day comes, everyone you love in Mystic Falls dies, beginning with Tyler." Klaus warned her, his eyes promising death.
"But he's your hybrid." Caroline quickly sputtered out.
"Loads more where he came from." Klaus nodded towards the door, "I'll just take blood from my Doppelganger."
Caroline made a run for the door then, wanting to scream for Elena to run and get out, to hide Tyler and to hide everyone, to disappear altogether. It was a fit of hysteria.
Klaus caught her around the waist before she could even take two steps, he held onto her hips, tossing her onto Elena's bed, the springs groaning in protest as the two got tangled up in each other.
He finally got the upper hand, straddling her and holding by the shoulders.
They were both panting hard.
"Valiant effort, yet wasted." Klaus grinned to himself, "When are you going to understand that you cannot win."
Caroline was breathing harder then he was, "When I die." She said.
Klaus looked deep into her eyes, as if he was searching for something, "You're very brave, Caroline."
Was he actually complimenting her?
"Very defiant, you may be one of my biggest challenges yet, Caroline Forbes. I should have settled with kidnapping Jeremy, he's much more breakable then you." Klaus said, "But you know the saying, 'if you dig the hole, lie in it until you can get back up and dig yourself out'."
Caroline wasn't familiar with this quote.
"You're trying to break me?" Caroline asked in a small voice.
Klaus leaned down, so that their lips were barely touching, "Exactly, love. I'm trying to show you the true vampire nature."
"So kidnapping is the true vampire nature?" Caroline asked with a raspy voice.
"No, love. Temptation is." Klaus whispered, his lips gently brushing hers for only a moment. The moment so quick, it felt almost accidental. He must have been too close and his words too strung out, he wouldn't have actually kissed her.
Caroline's undead heart did a few excited leaps.
"Am I tempting you, Caroline Forbes?" He kept using that raspy whisper, his hand now trailing up her side, "You know what is the most, strangest thing about being a vampire?"
Caroline locked eyes with him, suddenly interested with what he might have to say.
"You're absolutely horny, all the time." Klaus said, "It's outrageous, and considering our position. It must be quite the hassle for you, since you're a young vampire."
Elena then threw open the door, "Wha!-" She began her shriek but then, Klaus was gone just as he had arrived.
Caroline quickly sat up, suddenly feeling exposed, almost naked.
"What was that?" Elena asked, running over to Caroline, "Are you okay?"
Caroline was still breathing hard, "I.. I don't know." She said, looking at the window as the air blew into the room.