Caroline stood in her kitchen, pouring herself a glass of orange juice, her hand was shaking so badly she was afraid she'd spill all over the counter. Klaus left a short while after Tyler, saying how he needed to do something, he pecked her on the cheek and left. However, Caroline was mortified, she had just slept with the enemy voluntarily, and she had ruined Elena's plan.
They were going to kill her, stamp her as a traitor and send her off just like they did with Katherine. Hell, Damon would rip her heart out and Stefan would have her coffin nice and ready for her. Bonnie would be trying to fend them off and Elena would be hysterically crying at Damon.
But tonight was the Full Moon, major stuff was going to go down today, and she had to be prepared for it. Tonight would be the night where she had to pick a side. There was no more jumping over the line and swapping sides whenever she felt like it, it was judgement day.
"Hey, Caroline." She heard a voice say from the kitchen doorway, she turns to see a Original. But not he Original that was in her bed, she sees Kol.
"Kol." Caroline can sense a twinge of annoyance rush through her, then she feels guilty, she wonders if he knows he's going to die shortly.
Kol strolls across the kitchen as if he's lived here all his life, "Caroline, my dear. I understand that what you've told Klaus about our mother is true?"
So, he does know. Caroline avoids his eyes, she doesn't want to miss him too, "Of course."
He nods slowly but surely, she can see a twinge of hurt in his eyes, "I figured, the woman was never good for anything. She may have been my Mother, but she's no creature I'm familiar with now."
Caroline's never heard Kol sound so angry before, his words may be simple, but they seem to be holding much more depth. A tiny story about a vampire family doomed to death due to a silly doppelganger and a rampant mother. She wants to believe that they don't deserve it. But it's the universes revenge on the Originals.
"I saw my brother leave here." Kol walks over to the opposite side of the counter, facing Caroline, "Quite curious."
Caroline looks away from him, she knows if she does, her face will give away everything, "About what?" She questions, staring down at her orange juice. Wishing she could just disappear.
"Are you sleeping with Niklaus now? Quite the choice, considering that you could have had me." Kol says, laying his forearms on the counter and looking at her with much interest.
"What's so special about you?" Caroline retorts, resisting the urge to scoff at him.
"What's so special about Niklaus?" Kol shoots back, reprimanding her.
Caroline glares at him, "He understands me."
"I could understand you." Kol quickly counters, his eyes glowing with amusement. For a dead man, he was surprisingly cocky.
Caroline rolls her eyes, not even wanting to bother with the Original, "Oh could you? It's just, weird." Caroline takes a sip of her orange juice.
"Are you going to go on about how you two have a connection of some sort?" Kol asks her, looking faintly bored.
Caroline rolls her eyes again, obviously he was put on this earth just to piss her off, "Are you going to keep going on about my sex life?"
Kol's eyes widen, "Oh, so you really are. What do your little friends think about that?"
Caroline can feel her cheeks reddening, as much as she scrambles to hide it, "Well, they don't really know."
"How lovely."
Caroline raises her eyes to glare at him.
"Makes things so much more fun." Kol grins and begins to back out of the kitchen, "So I'll assume that I'll see you at the ceremony tonight? Wouldn't you love to see your lovers death tonight? It'll be quite the show. Don't let your witchy friend know though, I don't need any blisters tonight."
Caroline does go, but so do Stefan and Damon.
There is a circle in the center of the room with a big star in it, Esther and Finn stand by side, Esther rampaging about how Finn will gladly sacrifice himself to rid of the evil she created within her sons and daughter.
Can't she realize she's killing her own children?
They were the first of the vampires, they didn't know any better, they just knew they needed blood.
Elijah looks stealthy, as if he's already prepared a plan. Stefan and Damon appear out of no where, shooting Caroline a confused look.
"Blondie, what are you doing here?" Damon questions, a usual jump in his voice.
Esther glares at the three, "What are you all doing here? Get out!" When she shouts, the fire rises, she raises the blade, ready to raise it to Finn's throat. But Damon is downstairs in a flash, not enough time to even blink. Caroline watches him curiously, following him down the steps to see Bonnie screaming.
She watches Bonnie get torn apart by Damon as he snaps her mothers neck. Bonnie cries when she sees her mother, on a rampage about how they always need to protect her - by her, they were obviously referring to Elena. She called them idiots blinded by love for a human girl they would never have.
Caroline had to help a weeping Bonnie off of her mother who lay on the ground motionless.
"You can't turn her into a stupid bloodsucker!" Bonnie thrashed in Caroline's arms, wanting nothing more then to kill Damon and Stefan. But her magic wouldn't touch them, she couldn't concentrate. All Bonnie knew was that there was nothing else in the world except for her and her mother.
"I finally get her back!" Bonnie cries, finally breaking free of Caroline's arms and flinging herself at Damon, who catches her in his arms, "And you - take - her!" Bonnie is screaming by then.
Caroline goes upstairs to see Esther disappearing in a whisk of flames, taking her son Finn with her. She sees Elijah, Klaus, and Kol just standing stunned, Elijah reaches for his phone, mouthing two simple words.
"Release her." He breathes, hanging up the phone immediately.
He can hear Bonnie's cries, he can hear them perfectly, but his family is safe and he doesn't care for her or her family.
"Mom." Bonnie's desperation is seeping through her voice like wine on cloth, her tears can be heard as they clatter carelessly on the floor.
"I hate you." Bonnie finally sobs, standing up to face Damon and Stefan, "I don't care who snapped her neck. But I hate you both, you are both foolish men fooled by the simple idea of love. She isn't going to choose either of you idiots, she's human! Don't you see? You can never have her, she'll wither away and die, just like any human."
Stefan is hurt by this, but Damon, so used to pain, keeps his face as blank as a sheet.
Bonnie picks her Mother up, shocking since she's so small, but she's incorporating bits of magic to help her ghost her mother along, taking her home.
"How could you do this?" Caroline turns to Damon and Stefan, "Why do you need to fuck Bonnie over and over again?"
"They were going to kill Elena." Damon says, his face now protective and guarded.
Caroline's jaw falls open, running a hand through her hair, "Why don't you think of other people before you jump to conclusions?"
"Calm down, she isn't dead." Damon rolls his eyes, as if she was a over dramatic child.
"Funny, how Bonnie absolutely hatesvampires and then you turn her Mother into one. How is that fair to her? We've put Bonnie through so much." Caroline bites her lip to prevent from crying, "It's always Elena, isn't it?"
Her loyalty to Bonnie is startling.
Caroline turns on her heel, bounding up the steps with her heels clattering across each stone step before arriving back upstairs. Most of the flames have died out except for the torches on the walls, Klaus is standing stunned, surprised he's still alive. He was certain he was going to die.
He sees her then.
"Looks like plans didn't go as set." Caroline folds her arms across her chest as she crosses the room to him.
"Thank goodness for that. Thought I had a few thousand years left in me." Klaus grins, amused by her and intrigued.
He takes her into her arms easily, hugging her tight against him as if it's the most natural thing. As if he hadn't just almost died.
Oh Bonnie.
She's not thinking of him, she's thinking of Bonnie. She feels so bad she feels like her pulse is going to explode. Bonnie lost the only person she loved tonight to a vampire lifestyle.
"Well what is this?" Stefan asks, coming up the stairs also as Klaus releases Caroline from his arms, but keeping a arm on her waist.
Caroline should feel guilty, but she doesn't, "Draw a picture, Stefan." She can't stand Stefan right now, killing Bonnie's Mother had been a horrible decision on his part, why had he allowed it? All to save a girl he'd never have.
Stefan eyes the two, "Never saw it coming. Especially from you Caroline."
"Rather I shack up with Tyler instead?" Caroline plants a hand on her hip, waiting patiently for a answer.
"Better then a sadistic murderer." Stefan's eyes are on Klaus while he says this, he walks over to them and Klaus releases his grip on Caroline. She takes a few steps from him as Stefan grows closer.
"You don't deserve her." Stefan growls in his face.
"What makes you think that?" Klaus asks, a challenge lying in his eyes.
Stefan keeps his chin up, "Caroline's far too good for you."
"She is." Klaus agrees with ease, his face not even wrinkling.
Stefan takes a few steps back from him, "Don't you dare think I approve of this. I'd rip your heart out if you'd die."
"Challenge accepted." Klaus hisses back to him.
Stefan shoots a glare at Caroline that clearly says, don't get used to this, I'm getting rid of him the first chance I get.
Caroline lays on her bed that night, thumbing through multiple text messages from Elena, each saying remotely the same thing.
You and Klaus? What is going on! What happened to Bonnie!
Caroline ignores each of the texts, pressing ignore as her phone calls come through and listening to the voice messages, each of them sound husky with worry.
She draws her legs up to her chest and her Mother comes in with a mug of hot cocoa.
"Hey sweetie." Mrs. Forbes sits at the edge of her bed and hands her the mug, "You looked like you needed it."
Caroline lightly smiles at her mother, "Thank you." She plays with the spoon in her cup.
"You look like you were hit by a bus." Her Mother states.
"Thank you, for making me feel so much better." Caroline says, grimacing.
"You look very sad, Caroline. What happened tonight?"
She wishes she could confide in her mother, but she couldn't. She was the Sheriff and there was nothing she could do.
"Just, some pretty bad stuff. Stefan found out about me dating Klaus." Caroline takes a sip from the hot cocoa, it burns all the way down.
"Must be hard."
"It is."
"If he's your friend, he'll accept your decision and he won't try to compromise it." Mrs. Forbes states.
"What if he's trying to protect me?"
"Why would you need protection from Klaus?"
"He could hurt me just as well as any other boy could, Mom. Don't put him on a pedestal." Caroline says with a dreamy note in her voice.
Her Mother holds her hands up in defense, "I didn't mean to. Klaus doesn't seem to be the kind of guy too keen on hurting people."
"Doesn't everyone seem that way at first?" Caroline says guilty, she remembers slamming the door in Tyler's face.
His face when the door was almost closed, so full of hurt she thought her heart would explode.
"They do. But everyone is that way until they can prove they aren't." Her Mother gives her hand a reassuring squeeze.
Caroline looks down, she has proved herself.
"Do you think I'm that way?"
"Of course not."
Caroline flushes at this, "What if I am that way?"
"Then, that'll be something to deal with. But you probably aren't content with hurting anyone, but maybe yourself sometimes." Her Mother squeezes her knee reassuringly.
Caroline looks at her Mother with glowing eyes, "Thank you Mom."
Her Mother nods and hugs her, "I love you, Caroline. No matter who, or what you are." She kisses her daughter on the forehead and begins to leave, but just as she's about to leave, she pokes her head back in, "Make sure you put your mug in the dish washer."
Caroline laughs, "Of course. I love you too, Mom."
The door closes and Caroline sets her mug on the night stand.
She lets out a sigh of relief.
If anyone could make her feel better, it would be her Mom.