Caroline woke up, but that didn't shake the creepy feeling she had the night before. The feeling of dread knowing that now she had to watch over Elena like a hawk, or else she'd fall prey to Rebekah. Caroline Forbes did not need this, she was stuck between her Hybrid ex boyfriend and his Hybrid Master.
She was beginning to feel like a yo yo, she couldn't see a end to this madness in sight. She dragged her eyes over to her alarm clock and saw that it was only 4 AM, so she had hours left to go until the sun came up.
She instead looked at her windows.
And saw someone staring back at her.
She opened her mouth to scream, but then the man was on her, his hand covering her mouth.
"I've found you." He singsonged.
Caroline met the eyes of Kol.
She threw him off of her, getting out of her bed and landing on the floor, "How'd you get in here!" The real question was: how the fuck did you get into my house.
"Your Mother is quite the lovely lady when compelled, I must say." Kol throws her a loose grin.
Caroline could feel anger boiling under her skin, her fangs begging to pop out so her veins would pop out around her eyes, "Get. Out." She snapped.
Kol sits on the edge of her bed, "But dear Caroline, I thought this would be appropriate for our first date."
"Date?" Caroline says in disbelief, "If you wanted to ask me on a date, breaking into my house and compelling my Mom is hardly the way to do it."
"Sorry, getting used to the whole 21st century gist of things." Kol waves his hand carelessly, "I must admit, you intrigue me."
Caroline was getting so tired of Originals talking about how 'intrigued' they were with her, "Oh yeah? How?"
He grins, "The underdog of the group? Come on Caroline, you know that we tend to root for the Underdogs. I believe that there is some vampire left in you."
Caroline looks at him with questioning eyes.
"Aren't you tired of drinking blood bags and killing bunnies?" Kol questions, strolling her room.
"People stay safe."
"And life stays boring."
Caroline glares at him, "Sorry I can't be entertaining."
"I didn't say you weren't entertaining. You're quite the entertainment on your own, Miss Forbes." Kol throws her a wink, then Caroline's bedroom door is open and Caroline's Mom is standing in the doorway with a gun in her hands.
"Thought you could compel me?" Caroline's Mom shouts, taking the safety off the gun.
Kol's eyes widen and he then shakes his head, laughing, "Well then I guess I have to kill you-" He begins.
But Caroline attacks him, there is a rush of fabric as Caroline's distinct blonde hair sticks out as they become wrapped up in each other. Caroline is throwing various punches, trying to find his chest so she can rip out his ignorant heart!-
The door slams and Caroline's Mother is no longer in the doorway, but Klaus is there.
Hell, he's always there.
"Kol." Klaus says through tight lips, "What did I say about disturbing Caroline?"
Caroline quickly pulls herself from Kol, both of them breathing hard as they glower at each other.
Kol does the same, brushing a hand through his hair, "I seem to have forgotten. Maybe having a dagger in my heart caused some memory loss."
"You know very well what I told you."
"You told me explicitly that you'd rip my heart out and burn it in the fire place if I bothered her again, I call your bluff brother." Kol winks at his brother.
Klaus makes his lips into a growl, a low sound rumbling out of his chest. Caroline sees him leap and she screams from the surprise.
Kol isn't dead though, he's being restrained against the wall, a smirk against his face, "I knew you couldn't bare to kill your own brother."
Klaus was breathing hard by now, "One time Kol, this one time I let you get off."
Kol smirks, "Well, curse me, Nik, but it almost seems as if you have a heart. Trust me brother, you've most certainly changed since the last time we saw each other."
"Kol, shut up before I regret my decision on ripping your heart out."
After finally ushering the two men out of her house, Caroline was tired and retreated upstairs to bed and passed out immediately.
She wasn't sure if she could suffer through another encounter with any male at all. After all she'd been through, all she needed was a shoulder to cry on and Hot Cocoa to drink. She later got that when she arrived at Elena's house with Bonnie in tow, even though Bonnie was still mad about Jeremy leaving, Caroline forced her to come.
Equipped with hot cocoa in hand, Caroline happily chirped.
"So what's Klaus like?" Bonnie asked Caroline, interrupting their marathon of Gossip Girl.
Caroline looked down at her hot cocoa, taking a long sip before answering, "Vindictive, annoying, pestering, oh, did I forget to mention a sadistic murderer?"
"So that about covers it." Bonnie adds with a dry laugh.
"He's drunk a majority of the time too." Caroline adds for her own entertainment.
Bonnie grins to herself, "A Sober Original is a dangerous Original, a drunk Original is a whole other story."
Caroline smiles, "Exactly. But I'm so relieved to be out of that house. I mean really, I turn a corner and my heart is nearly ripped out."
"It was sort of like a death trap. Maybe Klaus had his hybrids do that to freak you out." Elena says.
"Here we go with Elena's conspiracy theories." Bonnie waves her hand in the air, "Go on Elena."
Elena blushes, "They are not conspiracy theories!"
Bonnie playfully shoves Elena, "Oh come on, we all know that you always go and assume."
"Its better that one of us does that." Elena rolls her eyes, "Did you see that Klaus has his family back? Thanks a lot for that Stefan." Elena staggers on his name, she always does.
Caroline looks down at her lap, feeling heat spread across her cheeks.
"Now we have more Originals to deal with." Bonnie sighs and leans back on the couch, "It'd be so much easier if we had one drunk Original."
"Tell me about it." Caroline mutters under her breath, if was only Klaus pestering her, Klaus she could handle. But Kol and Klaus? That was a whole other story.
Elena freezes, "What?"
"You didn't know?" Bonnie asks, "Didn't Stefan or Damon tell you?"
Elena shakes her head, looking as if she's deep in thought, "I can't believe this."
"They probably didn't want you to worry about Rebekah." Bonnie waves it off, but Elena isn't done.
"Well, I have to worry about her. Last time we talked I stabbed her in the back - literally." Elena runs a hand through her long straight hair, breathing a little hard.
Caroline can feel her heart beating like a hummingbird.
"Stefan and Damon will take care of it, they always do. They'll go to hell to protect you Elena." Bonnie looks away, as if she's disgusted by even the mention of the Salvatores, it was obvious Bonnie was beginning to harbor a dislike for the brothers. But you couldn't blame her, after all they put her through just to protect Elena.
Bonnie heard the microwave give a soft ding from the other room, "Hey Caroline, want to come with me to get the popcorn?"
Elena gives the two a strange look.
"Yeah, sure." Caroline shrugs and stands up, following Bonnie into the kitchen.
Bonnie pulls the popcorn out of the microwave and Caroline retrieves the bowls.
"Whats been up with you?"
Caroline looks up, startled by the question, "What?"
"You heard me, ever since you got back from Death Town you've been acting weird." Bonnie begins to pour the popcorn into three small bowls.
Caroline scoffs, "Me? Weird? Come on Bonnie, I haven't changed one bit." She says this and pops a piece of popcorn into her mouth.
"Not to mention that Stefan gave up the only leverage he had on Klaus to get you back." Bonnie goes over to the fridge and grabs out a can of soda, "Then he disappears."
"Disappears?" Caroline questions.
"He hasn't been in town ever since you came back, Caroline. He just disappeared off the face of the planet, I know that Damon knows where he is, but he isn't fessing up to anything." Bonnie scowls.
"Damon? Coming forward with information without anything in it for him?" Caroline laughs, "You obviously don't know him."
Bonnie says something under her breath that sounds like: "Thank fucking lord for that."
Caroline smiles.
After their marathon ended, Caroline looked out the window to see that the sun was just going down and it was around 7:00 PM.
"Hey Bonnie, want to grab some dinner?" Caroline asks as she walks over to her car, "I hear Matt's working tonight."
Bonnie raises her eyebrows at her, "Matt? I thought you were wrapped up with Tyler."
Caroline flushes, "That was not what I meant. Speaking of Tyler, I'm done with him. I'm not going to deal with his creepy sire bond a minute longer. I don't want to have to worry he'll shout out 'Klaus' while we're having sex."
Bonnie scrunches up her nose, "That was way too much information, Caroline.."
She shrugs and climbs into the car, Bonnie does the same except on the passengers side.
They drive to Mystic Grill and Caroline orders a salad while Bonnie orders chicken.
"Don't look now, but that new guy and Klaus keep looking over here." Bonnie keeps her eyes on Caroline, not allowing them to stray past her head.
Caroline puts her face in her hands, "Oh god." She moans under her breath, "Them."
Bonnie looks at her quizzing, "They been bothering you lately?"
Caroline scoffs, "All of the Originals bother me."
"Oh, right, stupid question." Bonnie pauses for a moment, "I'm not the best eavesdropper, but I can tell Kol isn't exactly being too quiet."
"I know, I can hear him." Caroline hisses, loud enough for him to hear, "Idiot. Can we just eat and get out of here as quickly as humanly possible?"
"Humanly?" Bonnie raises a eyebrow at her, waiting for a supernatural pun.
"Oh, I'm sorry. As quick as a vampire and witch can." Caroline winks at Bonnie.
Bonnie frowns, "They seriously won't stop staring at you, for the life of me, they look entranced."
"They know it's pissing me off." Caroline hisses, and she hear their chuckling.
So great, Klaus has teamed up with Kol against her, thanks for being on her side!
"Maybe we should leave now." Bonnie sits up and leaves a tip on the table, Caroline does the same and the two leave.
Caroline is just climbing into her car when she hears Bonnie omit a soft scream.
"Afternoon, love. Come out for a bit of dinner? Perhaps you can take the first bite." Kol has Bonnie against him, he's holding her neck out to her.
"Let her go." Caroline bares her fangs, ready for attack.
Then Kol doubles over screaming and Bonnie calmly strolls away from him.
"Kol, you never learn." Klaus says, strolling over to the bunch, hands in his pockets, "I did warn you."
"You didn't tell me she was a witch!" Kol hisses, holding his head, then looking pleadingly up at Bonnie, "Please stop." He screeches.
Bonnie lets the torture drag on for a few minutes before releasing him.
"Thank you." Kol says coldly, joining Klaus's side, "So is this our neighborhood witch?"
"I suppose you could say that." Klaus shrugs, and Caroline notes that he isn't even looking at her.
"Feisty, I like them feisty." Kol says, his eyes on Bonnie while saying this.
"I like them human." Bonnie retorts.
Kol smirks, "But where is the fun in that?"