Caroline woke up, she always did, despite her constant attempts to stay asleep for the rest of her kidnapping. Yet time never seemed to fly fast enough, the seconds would tick by one second too slow. She was beginning to grow frustrated by the whole ordeal, after she heard Klaus leave last night, she quickly locked her door and climbed into her bed. Crying herself to sleep until the tears would no longer come, her eyes feeling tired, telling her that she had gone through enough sorrow for one day, that it was now time to rest.
She was afraid to leave her room, because of two things. Obviously, the first thing being Klaus, the second thing, she was afraid of going downstairs and seeing the dead girl still on the floor where she left her. In some sick joke that Klaus had administered just for Caroline. He knew he had control over her now, but that didn't stop her from snapping at him and contradicting him.
He believed he had broken her.
Caroline, after awhile, began to believe that he had broken her also. But the fight was still in her, laying deep down in her heart.
She heard a tentative knock at the door, she leaped off her bed to open the door, she came face to face with a female girl that was unfamiliar to her.
"Caroline. Hi, Klaus wanted me to take you out shopping for new clothes and stuff." The girl was a cheeky red head, she was fidgeting majorly, but her whole body was showing off the aroma of Hybrid, her eyes were dedicated to Klaus.
"Tell him that I don't care and that I'll live with what I have." Caroline was determined to shut her door in the girl's face, but the girl quickly put her foot in the path of the door.
"Funny, you don't really have a choice in that matter, Caroline. He told me that I'm taking you out shopping, and that is exactly what I intend to do. You do like to shop don't you?" The redhead inquired, looking at her through low eyelashes.
Caroline swallowed hard, "I don't even have a damn choice?" Caroline reluctantly stepped out of her room, "Well, lets go then."
On the car ride to the Mall, she learned that the redhead's name was Penny, she was a werewolf turned Hybrid (obviously) and she pretty much believed that Klaus was her savior. Caroline continually rolled her eyes as Penny went through her story of anger, and then triumph when Klaus came along and offered her vampirism. Penny described how she was opposed to the idea at first, but then she came around to it when she learned about the werewolf end of the bargain.
So, Penny seemed like a female version of Tyler.
Truly believing herself to have some kind of free will that didn't exist.
When they stopped and entered the mall, Penny had a tight grip around Caroline's wrist.
"Just so you know, we have Hybrids all over this place, inside and out. So escape is just stupid on your part." Penny chirped into Caroline's ear.
Caroline gritted her teeth at this fact, "He just has this all planned, doesn't he?"
Penny just nodded along, "He even gave me specific shops to take you to." Penny then reached into her pants pocket to reveal a Platinum credit card, "Unlimited spending, so go nuts."
"I'm already going nuts living with Klaus." Caroline muttered under her breath, and she noticed that Penny took measures to ensure that she didn't hear what Caroline was saying.
Penny then stopped in front of Victoria's Secret, "Our first stop on his long list." Penny nodded and Caroline let out a groan of frustration.
"You have to be kidding me. Is he some kind of closet pervert I don't know about? Why on earth would he think I need more panties and bras?" Caroline hissed under her breath, adding a few curses every now and then.
Penny pulled a piece of paper outside of her pocket and squinted at the cursive handwriting, "He said he preferably wants black."
"What?" Caroline turned a bright red, snapping her head to look at Penny with shocked eyes.
Penny just shrugged, "It's instructions, miss."
Klaus really did have his Hybrids wrapped around his fingers, all of them carefully wrapped, abiding to their needs to make sure they stayed loyal. Penny even went through bras and such herself, picking out things she exclaimed that Klaus would like.
"Why does it even matter what he likes?" Caroline asked, after Penny's third chorus of 'he'll like this!' rang through Caroline's ears.
Penny turned to look at Caroline, a light blush spreading across her features, "All of the Hybrids were under the impression that you were sleeping with Klaus.."
Caroline suddenly felt a surge of unease flash through her body, "Oh my god, is that what he told you?"
"Well.. yes. That's why he keeps you around."
"No, we are not sleeping together, feel free to spread that around your stupid Hybrid buddies. He kidnapped me to get his stupid coffins back." Caroline snapped.
Penny turned a even brighter red than her hair.
"There is nothing between us. In fact, I bet that in time, one of us will be dead."
Caroline was pissed when Penny followed her upstairs silently to her bedroom to drop off her clothes and then quickly vanish. Caroline glared at the Victoria's Secret bag, determined to run across the room and fling it out the window, but she knew the sun would hurt her, and odds were, some stupid Hybrid would pick everything up, put it back in the bag, and it'd be nice and tidy at her doorstep.
She heard a knock at her door and Caroline quickly put away all of her new clothes, making sure to carefully secure each piece of clothing out of sight. Then she answered the door and saw Klaus.
"How was your shopping trip, love?" Klaus asked Caroline, shooting a look into her room, looking for the shopping bags.
"It was interesting." Caroline said through a tight lip, "Just so you know, your Hybrids gossip more than a average teenage girl."
Klaus just cocked his head to the side, looking curious, "They do?"
Caroline just nodded, "Anyways, what do you want?"
"I just wanted to let you know you had a visitor." Klaus gestured and then someone came walking up, this person wasn't human.
Caroline met the eyes of Stefan Salvatore.
"I trust you won't try any funny business." Klaus shot a warning towards Stefan, "Just so you know, I want my coffins back, and I won't hesitate in snapping her neck."
Stefan didn't even blink or flinch at the threat, "I know, but you aren't getting your coffins back." Stefan added with a dry smile, "So how about we stop with your little game and let me take Caroline back?"
"But she's quite fun to play with." Klaus said with a look towards Caroline.
Stefan shot a confused look between Caroline and Klaus, "She isn't a toy Klaus, she has a life you know. Unlike you, you just kidnap whoever you feel like."
Klaus smirked, "Isn't that the fun part of living?"
"It's still kidnapping." Caroline hissed under her breath, folding her arms across her chest.
Klaus gave her a amused look, "It's still fun, love."
He then stalked off.
"Caroline." Stefan immediately wrapped her in his arms, his face in her hair as his hand stroked her back.
Caroline's arms went around his waist, hugging him to her tightly, "Stefan." She whimpered.
Seeing Stefan made Caroline feel as if there was hope at the end of the tunnel. With Elena, Elena couldn't really do anything except not die, or at least not be killed by Klaus or any of the Hybrids, if anyone could find a way out of this, Stefan could. He would be her savior.
Or at least that's what she thought at the moment.
Stefan ushered her into her room and locked the door tightly behind him, he then pulled the shades and took off his daylight ring and placed it on Caroline's finger.
"Get out of here Caroline." He told her, holding her hand.
Caroline looked down at her hand, "W-What? But, you need this - you can't leave if you don't have your daylight ring! -"
Stefan looked down at her, a serious look crossing his features, "You have nothing to do with any of this. I put you here, so I'm getting you out of here. Go through the window."
She opened her mouth to protest but thought better then to decline her chance of finally getting away, Stefan cowered in a corner as she opened the shade. The sun still bit her skin, and she lurched back screaming in pain, the ring was still on her finger. Stefan quickly shut the shades, his fingers becoming red at the effort when the sun took a bite out of him also.
He just grimaced though, then returned to the screaming girl on the floor.
"That was so stupid. We shouldn't have thought it would be that easy." Stefan took his ring off of Caroline's finger and slid it back onto his own. He then picked her up and put her in his lap, stroking her hair as the burns began to slowly heal, reattaching the skin together.
"Of course it wouldn't be easy." Caroline groaned through the hazy pain, "He wants me to stay here."
"Bonnie still can't find the spell, she thinks it's really really old, because she can't find it any of her spell books. And those dead witches aren't telling her anything." You could hear the fury coming through Stefan's usually gentle tone that he used around Caroline.
Caroline finally picked herself up, beginning to feel sensation in her body again, "Well obviously it's old. The ring should have worked, it always works."
Stefan ran a hand through his hair, standing up off of the ground, "Fucking Klaus! At this rate, maybe I should just.."
"No, don't say that. We finally have the leverage - when he gets the coffins back, how long do you think it'll take for him to kill me?" Caroline stood up also, her eyes now frightened like a rabbit's.
Stefan bit his lip and then punched the wall, Caroline expected his hand to go through the wall, but he restrained himself just the tiniest bit.
"Damn it!" Stefan shouted, aggravated, he began to stalk across her room in a form of angry pacing.
You had to give Stefan Salvatore credit for trying, but they both knew how it'd end. This would end with Caroline's heart ripped out and laying on the floor, her body astray, her eyes no longer seeing.
"There's just no way out of this." Stefan said, quite miserably.
Stefan left a short while later, this whole situation was still wearing him down, but Caroline was still relieved for the company, regardless how upset her company was.
Caroline was going through her new clothes, carefully picking out a silky light blue night gown to slide on before she went to bed. Just when she was about to crawl into bed and have nightmares, there was a knock at her door.
She crossed the room and opened the door, expecting to see one of Klaus's hybrids or Penny.
She saw Klaus instead.
"You have blood on.." Caroline gestured to the side of his lip, and he quickly retrieved the blood with his tongue.
"Caroline, I know what you and Stefan were trying to pull today." Klaus said, brushing past her and entering her room, "I must say, it was a valiant attempt. But perhaps I need to keep a closer eye on you."
She felt the blood drain from her face.
"I will accompany you on the weekends to your home." Klaus held his chin up high, expecting a protest of some kind.
Caroline just dropped to the ground, "Why don't you just kill me already?" Caroline whispered.
Klaus seemed shocked by this sudden turn of events, walking over to her and kneeling down, "That wouldn't be fun."
She snapped her eyes up to look at him, "This has never been fun! I want to see my family again, I want to be able to walk in the sun without dying.."
Klaus picked her up by her forearm and began to drag her across the house.
"What are you doing?" Caroline demanded, trying to wrench her arm out of his tight grip.
He simply just kept moving along, "You want to have fun? I'll show you fun."
Caroline felt her cheeks become slightly heated, but then Klaus shoved open a door to reveal a single coffin laying in the middle of the room. Then he left go of her arm and shoved her towards the coffin.
"Open it." Klaus nodded towards the Coffin.
Caroline did as she was told, lifting the coffin carefully to see Rebekah laying in the coffin, still staked just as Elena had left her. She was still wearing that dress, also.
"I want to see my family again too." Klaus said with a raspy tone, "But I can't bear unstaking her, she'd kill me. Or at least she'd want to. Then I'd just be alone again."
Caroline looked sadly down at Rebekah, "What if she forgives you?"
Klaus just shook his head, not even considering the option, "I've done too many things to her that are quite unforgivable."
"So you're not even going to try?" Caroline asked him, yet not even looking at him, just looking at the stake protruding out of Rebekah's chest.
"I killed our Mother. The Doppelganger staked her, when she wakes up, she'll go after the Doppelganger, then she'll leave me." Klaus ran a hand through his hair, "Then I'll have to waste centuries trying to find her."
Caroline had never seen Klaus this vulnerable, this open to her - to anyone actually.
She wasn't sure whether to apologize, or tell him he deserved it.
"So Caroline, you are not the only one feeling alone." Klaus stared at Caroline, his eyes burning into her back, she turned around to face him, and she swore she saw tears beginning to dance behind his eyes.
"That's why you want the coffins back, you don't want to be alone anymore." Caroline closed the coffin containing Rebekah lightly.
"I was hoping that even though Rebekah will leave me, that my brothers will not." Klaus closed his eyes for a moment, probably making sure the tears remained in his eyes, "I know that after this, you'll leave me and return to your normal life, or as normal as a vampire life can be. Stuck between Stefan and Tyler, I assume?"
She glanced away from him, her eyes now a blazing red, "When did my love life become any of your business?" There she was, closing him up again even though he had just opened up to her.
Klaus just shrugged, "Since it became a soap opera, I suppose." He then opened the door again, "It's getting late, it's best for you to get some rest."
Caroline brushed past him, suddenly feeling cold when she left the room, she wrapped her arms around herself as she hurriedly made her way back to her room.
He had seemed remotely human.