Chapter 9
A/N: I got a bit hasty with my writing so I thought I'd treat you to the next chapter merely hours after I posted the last one. I hope you enjoy this one. My story is actually coming to an end soon. There maybe only a handful of chapters left. So thank you for all our encouragement and kind words. In this chapter I wanted to kind of answer a few questions I'd opened up and just kind of wind things down a little. So thank you soooooo much.
Monster
"Caroline!" Tyler yelled, startling Elena and Damon. "CAROLINE!"
"Tyler?" Caroline whispered from outside as Elijah held her by the back of her neck.
"Shut up, silly girl." Elijah tightened his grip and she winced in pain.
Katherine walked over to the door to face Elijah and Caroline as everyone else convened in the kitchen by the urging of Stefan.
"Elijah." Katherine breathed. "I thought you were dead."
"Wishful thinking, Katerina." Elijah smirked and looked over her shoulder at the people in the house. "Hm … the Petrova doppelganger, vampires and are those two witches I see? It seems like a full house. Klaus will be here soon to break the curse. It was silly of you to collect all his ingredients in one place. And if I'm not mistaken there's a few werewolves in town too?"
"You are mistaken," Katherine lied. "They're all dead, thanks to me. So you should just run along."
"You know I care not for the curse. I want to kill Klaus," Elijah said. "So I think I'll wait out here until he comes."
"Well hand over the girl then," Katherine said. "She's of no use to you."
"Are you trying to save me, Katherine?" Caroline asked, shocked.
"Maybe I am, maybe I'm not. What does it matter as long as you're saved?" Katherine smirked.
"All she's done is talk my ear off. I have half a mind to snap her neck," Elijah said, forcing Caroline's head down to the side violently.
"No, no, Elijah." Katherine shook her finger at him. "Let her go and I'll let you live."
"As if you could kill me," Elijah laughed.
"I never said it'd be me who'd do the killing," Katherine smiled.
Elijah's smile turned to a frown and he appeared to be contemplating her words.
"I think I'll keep her. She must be of some importance if you want to save her," Elijah said.
Caroline struggled but Elijah was much too strong. He was hardly putting in any effort but Caroline couldn't move even the slightest without feeling pain.
"You better hope you don't kill her," Katherine threatened before she turned on her heel and headed back into the house, closing the door behind her. "You can all come out now, children."
"You all aren't safe in this house," Elena said, coming out of the cellar with Damon.
"Where have you been, Elena?" Stefan asked, but Elena avoided his gaze.
"I didn't notice you got back, Stefan. I was j-just checking on Tyler," she lied, shooting a quick glance at Damon that made him suspicious.
"Why aren't we safe here?" Bonnie asked, realizing a change of topic was needed.
"Because Tyler is going to transform soon and I don't think that cellar is enough to hold him," Elena said. "But we can't send him outside. Elijah or Klaus will follow him and kill him."
"Like we care," Damn said, rolling his eyes.
"We do care, Damon." Elena dared not look Damon in the face because every time she did she felt heat rise up her entire body.
Downstairs, Tyler was rushing around the tiny cell beating his fists on anything he could get his hands on. He shouted in frustration and sunk to his knees. But he knew he couldn't give up. He could smell the scent of Caroline's hair and could almost feel her milky, smooth skin. She was so close.
Tyler began to feel a sharp pain in his spine and arms. Could he be triggering his transformation early? At that moment he didn't care.
His eyes were flashing yellow wildly and his muscles were threatening to break through his shirt as he panted and gasped for air. He charged at the door and grabbed the bars with both hands and pulled as hard as he could. He let out a husky roar as he pulled the door straight off its hinges.
He leapt up the stairs on his hands, and he knew soon he'd be turning.
"Where's Caroline?" Tyler barked.
Everyone in the house looked at him with terror. His vertebrae were protruding from his back and he almost looked like a vampire with his fangs that had come in.
"Tyler!" Caroline screamed from outside from the front porch.
"A werewolf?" There was a flicker of fear in Elijah's eyes.
"Invite her in, Jeremy." Elena said, eying Tyler. "Now!"
Jeremy snuck around to the window next to the front door and hid underneath it. Alaric grabbed one of his vervain bow and arrows and shot a vervain dart right into Elijah's chest, breaking the window in the process. It distracted him enough for Caroline to break free.
"Caroline, come inside!" Jeremy yelled as Tyler pulled her by the hand through the broken window.
Tyler pulled her right into a kiss and his transformation seemed to reverse.
"Tyler," Caroline whispered, her arms falling over his neck.
The tears streamed down her face and she kissed him everywhere, all over his face - his eyelids, his cheeks, his forehead and finally his lips again.
"Don't ever do this to me again," Tyler said sternly, running his hands through her silky, blonde hair.
He stepped back from her so he could inspect and see that she was all in one piece. She looked back and saw that any transformation that had happened was completely reversed except for the yellow eyes.
At that moment Elijah kicked open the front door, but still could not enter.
"So you do have a wolf," Elijah said coolly.
Tyler hopped in front of Caroline and almost snarled at Elijah like a dog.
"Get out of the way, Elijah." A voice came from behind Elijah.
"Klaus," Elijah said, without turning around.
"Tyler, go!" Caroline whispered into his ear. "Go! I don't want him to see you as a werewolf. Please, just go."
"No, not without you." Tyler said. Caroline knew he'd never listen to her.
"You failed at killing me, Klaus." Elijah smiled.
"No. I let you live," Klaus said nonchalantly.
"Why?" Elijah asked, still not turning around.
"I'm not sure," Klaus replied.
Klaus reached for Elijah and rested his hand on his lower back.
"Good bye, Elijah." In one movement, Klaus ripped out Elijah's spine and tossed it to the side.
Caroline screamed in surprise and clutched onto Tyler's back. He could feel the same pains as before in his body and he knew soon he'd be a full wolf. But if he could hold out just a little longer to make sure Caroline was a safe distance from him, he knew that he could go through it more easily than last time.
Klaus kicked Elijah's body aside and surprised everyone by stepping through the door.
"How did you …" Caroline started.
"I'm very old," Klaus said. "Now I have a werewolf, a witch and a doppelganger." he seized Elena and held her against his chest. "Now I just need a vampire … Which one shall I choose."
"You don't want to do this, Klaus!" Stefan yelled.
"Maybe not right away, but yes I think I do." Klaus smiled his manic smile again. "I've waited 500 years."
"Then what are you waiting for now?" Damon said, jumping in front of Bonnie.
"Unda, terra, incendia, ventus," Bonnie began to chant over and over again. She closed her eyes and Klaus and everyone else watched her in curiosity. She seemed to gather some invisible force in her arms and she held it for a second.
Luka pulled Damon by the arm out of the way and Bonnie seemed to throw her ball of energy at Klaus. It knocked him back and threw him hard into the wall, which shook the entire house.
Elena ran into Stefan's arms and Damon glowered at them.
Bonnie passed out as soon as she released her spell and Jeremy rushed to her side. He picked her head up and put it in his lap and brushed the hair out of her face.
The pain in Tyler's body seemed to get worse and worse until he couldn't take it anymore and he collapsed to the floor. Caroline screamed, knowing exactly what was about to happen.
"Perfect," Klaus said, regaining consciousness. "I can only sacrifice a werewolf when he's in wolf form."
Katherine picked up a broken table leg and rammed it through Klaus' chest, making him cough up blood.
"Oh, Katerina. I see there are still hard feelings," Klaus said through coughs of blood.
Caroline dragged Tyler back into the cellar, knowing there wasn't enough time to take him anywhere else.
She sat with him in the back corner of the cell and held his hand through his first couple of convulsions.
"Please get out of here," he breathed. "I'm close. I'm real close. I don't want to hurt you. Please."
"I love you, Tyler." Caroline clutched onto him for dear life through his next spasm.
Caroline could hear the fight upstairs.
"Just breath, Tyler." Caroline tried to comfort him.