Oh ye who are sired to Klaus,
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Chapter 5:
Caroline turned to her side and opened her eyes. She looked at the bedtime clock to find it was 11 pm.
Wow; she slept for quite a long time. After saying goodbye to Klaus and going back to bed, she drifted off quite easily. Dreams evaded her this time allowing her to finally get some well deserved rest. She looked around, taking in the motel room. The bed next to hers was empty and made very carefully. Caroline laughed, shaking her head. Bonnie was such a clean freak; she just couldn't leave the job to the room service.
She wondered why the room was pitch dark. Looking at the thick curtains she remembered. She lost her daylight ring in the torture room. Groaning inwardly she got up and walked to the living room.
"I just don't think it's a good idea to do the switching there. What if the officers find us?"
She heard Bonnie say.
"Don't worry about that love; I can always persuade them to let us go again."
She heard Tyler's voice say with an accent only Klaus could pull off.
She opened the door separating her room and the living room slowly, looking left and right for any signs of sunlight. The windows were all draped.
"Good morning Care."
Caroline jumped. Bonnie smiled at her warmly.
"Morning." She replied, "Uhm yeah I kinda lost my ring." She said apologetically.
"It's okay Klaus has it."
On cue Klaus dug his hand into his jeans pocket and took out Caroline's blue lapis lazuli ring.
"My ring!" Caroline walked up to Klaus reaching for the ring when he suddenly raised his arm high enough that she couldn't reach it.
"Seriously?!" she indigently said.
"Well you deserve it since I didn't receive a 'good morning' from you." Klaus chuckled.
"Ugh, fine. Good morning. Happy? Now give it back." She jumped but to no avail.
Klaus's smile disappeared instead he held a stern expression as if scolding her for trying to throw him off. Like she was freaking five. The smirk returned after he handed over the ring.
She put it on, still glaring at him. Her expression softened as she gazed at the accessory in her hand.
"Where did you find it?" she asked him
"on the floor in your cell."
"Right. Completely forgot about it till now."
Klaus smiled back before turning to Bonnie, "So are we all clear? We will head to the warehouse, retrieve the body, we proceed with the ritual and then all would be well."
Caroline remembered Bonnie's words earlier.
"Yeah and then we get killed. Seems like a plan" she said sarcastically.
Klaus rolled his eyes, "fine, the three of us get the body and return here."
Bonnie nods.
"What about us?"
Caroline turned to find Carol Lockwood and her mom, both had their arms crossed. She bit back a laugh realizing how her mom hated being left out of things.
"I don't see any reason why you have to come along." Klaus replied.
"That's bull." Said Liz.
"Mom"
"No! I won't have you three running around the town with the police on your tail. You can use all the extra help that comes your way."
Klaus walked up to Miss Forbes, and placed a reassuring hand on her shoulder. She had the same defiant look Caroline possessed when she didn't get things done the way she wants them to be done. There was also concern in her eyes for her daughter. Klaus's eyes softened as he held the woman's gaze.
"Your daughter and Bonnie will be safe with me. I reassure you. However, if you insist on coming along with us you would do no help. You would merely be an extra load in the car."
Liz narrowed her eyes.
"No offense." Klaus added.
Sheriff Forbes studied him for a moment. She was certain he would take care of his daughter; she saw what he was capable of. She then conceded.
"Fine we'll stay here."
"Wait!" Caroline cried out. Everyone turned to her. She addressed Klaus and Bonnie, "We can't just leave them both here alone!"
"Caroline, I'm a sheriff. I can handle myself pretty well." Liz argued with her.
"Sorry mom but last time I checked you're human and so is Mrs. Lockwood. This is clearly a supernatural catastrophe. I'll stay here to make sure you both are okay from any vamps or witches or werewolves or even hybrids." She stopped and added a side remark to Bonnie, "I wouldn't be surprised if I would have to fight off fairies."
Bonnie's eyes widened and she glared at her idiotic friend.
"Caroline." She said through gritted teeth, "I don't want to be left alone with him." they both looked at Klaus. He had his eyebrows raised. He clearly heard everything they said.
"No offense." Bonnie added with a roll of her eyes.
"None taken, witch."
"Ugh! Kids! Fine I'll go instead. Bonnie you stay here." Caroline shook her head at them. They were still glaring at each other.
Klaus extended a hand towards Caroline, "Shall we?"
He was obviously ecstatic that they were going to be left alone once more.
Caroline scoffed before walking past him, not giving him the satisfaction of taking his hand.
He turned to the other ladies staring worriedly after Caroline.
"You have yourselves a wonderful day, lovelies."
Caroline fidgeted again.
"Uncomfortable, love?"
"We've been on the road for so long!"
"It's been five minutes, Caroline."
She groaned.
Klaus wondered when she would speak again.
"I smell like rabbit poo."
Klaus smirked, "well, you probably should have drank human blood rather than rabbit blood."
Caroline shook her head and looked out the window, "On the way back can I at least just stop by my house and grab a few clothes?"
Klaus nodded. "Sure."
They both stared out at the road for a while.
"So…" he started to say, "What are you going to do once Tyler returns?"
Caroline sighed.
"I don't know. Maybe leave town for good."
Klaus felt a pang of jealousy. She was willing to travel the world with that boy rather than with him.
"Maybe I can get Damon and Stefan to help with the whole police-trying-to-get-me-and-Tyler-killed issue. I don't think Alaric ratted them out. What about you?"
"I guess I'll just leave town too."
Caroline looked at him, "Aren't you gonna try and find your family?"
Klaus's eyes darkened.
"They're probably celebrating my death as we speak."
"I doubt that."
Klaus gave her one of his intense gazes.
"Trust me. They're better of thinking I'm dead."
She looked back at the road, her breathing heaving a little. She still didn't understand how he can look at a person like that and make them feel so… naked. Caroline shivered.
"Cold?"
"No I'm fine."
After twenty- five minutes…
"I'm hungry."
Klaus chuckled.
She gave him a glare. "I'm seriously starving. We didn't have breakfast!"
"We can have motel food once we return."
They remained quiet for a while
Caroline started humming a random tune.
Klaus looked at her with raised eyebrows.
"What?!" she scoffed, "I'm bored."
"Want to stop by and drink a few truckers?"
"No thank you. I meant I want entertainment."
Klaus switched on the radio and to Caroline's surprise We Radiate by Goldfrapp came on.
She grinned.
Klaus raised an eyebrow, "what is it? Favorite song?"
"No Elena's" she said with a laugh.
Klaus awkwardly stared back at the road.
"By the way do you even know which room your coffin is? Or are we going to have to open each and every one of them. There are probably thousands of them, just saying."
" Oh Damon told me."
Caroline waited. She raised her eyebrows at him. "Well?"
Klaus smirked before saying, "666"
Caroline burst out laughing. Klaus stared at her. He adored how the laughter absolutely took over her body, making it shake.
Feeling hot, he fixed his gaze at the road like his life depended on it.
Caroline watched him for a while, her grin starting to fade away. "Klaus?"
"Hmm?"
"How come you didn't take advantage of being in Tyler's body?"
Klaus was surprised, he looked at her, "did you want me to?" he said smirking.
"No, I'm serious. You could have just had your way with me, but you didn't." she said, her brows drawn together in genuine curiosity.
"I told you, Caroline." He locked eyes with her, as serious as can be. "I'm not as low as you think I am. I told you I'd wait and so I will."
they stayed staring at each other for a while until he brought his attention back on the road.
Caroline let out a breath she didn't know she had been holding.
It was mid afternoon when they reached the warehouse. Klaus parked the car in the forest nearby like before. He sat there, not aiming to get out of the van, just stared before him. Caroline watched him. This is where he got staked, she realized.
Klaus's mind went back to that godforsaken night. He remembered Rebekah and wondered whether his earlier words with Caroline were true or false. Was his sister done mourning him already? Where was she? He hoped she was safe and sound, with Elijah probably, and Kol.
For the first time ever Caroline saw worry take over Klaus. Worry for whom or what she did not know. Probably himself, she thought with disgust.
"Let's get this over with." She said before getting out of the vehicle. After a moment and a deep breath Klaus followed.
They walked along the corridors everything was so quite. Caroline was never here before and she never wanted to come back. Everything was so sinister. A couple of rooms were opened revealing disheveled things like lost toys or rugs that have gone dusty over the years. The dolls freaked Caroline out. Some were deformed, having lost an eye or a limb. The ceiling was white but she saw the paint peeling off. This place is old, she thought to herself, and very scary. She could hear the faint ticking of a clock. Other than that it was so quite it hurt her ears.
A hand touched her arm.
She positively jumped in her skin. She turned around ready to fight when she saw it was just Klaus.
He looked at her with concern.
"Sorry I got freaked out." She whispered, "I don't like it here."
He smiled softly and pointed above her head.
'666'
"Right." She declared. The door was like a garage door, the hand at the base, "Well, Satan." She nicknamed Klaus. He smirked at her as she grandly bowed down and grabbed the handle.
"After you, your evil Highness." She started to pull it up as she continued to milk the joke, "Oh devilish one." The door was at its maximum height, and fixed, "Oh sir luci-"
She stopped joking around once she noticed the look on Tyler's/Klaus's face. He was absolutely furious. Caroline flinched, never seeing Tyler's face contort that much. He was staring into the room, hands clenched into fists, shaking heavily with anger. Caroline followed his gaze and gasped.
The room was absolutely empty.
"Damon…" Klaus whispered before he disappeared. Caroline walked to where Klaus stood a second ago, listening intently with her vampire senses.
"Can you move any slower?"
"Sorry, I just thought I heard Caroline."
"You probably miss your Lexi replacement or something."
"No, I'm pretty sure she's here."
"Why would she… Oh fuck he's here, isn't he? Well if he thinks he can get back to his own body and torture us some more, he's sadly mistaken."
"Damon!"
Caroline pulled away from her senses with a start. Damon was here! With Elena and another male… Stefan!
Oh no… Klaus probably heard them too.
With supernatural speed she started to roam the warehouse looking for any sign of her three friends or even an angry hybrid.
She stopped again to listen.
"Elena, move!"
"This is a really bad idea. We're gonna get killed! Please just leave him get to his corpse! I want Tyler to come back again! Damon please stop!"
"Did you hear that?"
"Stefan? What did you hear?"
"I thought I- never mind."
"Tyler? Is that-?"
An earsplitting scream sounded off. Caroline didn't need vampire senses to be able to hear it. She ran towards the sound stopping to see Klaus clenching Damon's throat.
The sickening sound of bones being crushed rang through the corridor.
"Klaus! Stop it!" she screamed.
He ignored her and instead flung him against an empty room. Damon sat up and spat blood. His jaw looked dislocated.
"Caroline?"
"Elena?"
"Tyler?"
"No that's Klaus, remember?"
"Guys?" they all looked at Damon who was being severely punched by Klaus, "A little help here?"
Caroline grabbed Klaus's shoulders to pull him away from the Salvatore.
That only made the Hybrid angry, turning to Caroline with golden eyes and fangs.
Caroline backed away. She just couldn't pull him off. Damon was a goner.
Stefan flung himself at Klaus only to have himself yanked off and thrown across the space at another room breaking everything in it.
"Klaus! KLAUS STOP!" Caroline all but screeched out. He didn't stop beating Damon, instead it seemed like he increased speed.
Elena looked at Caroline then back at the pair. The brunette suddenly threw herself at him. She grabbed Klaus's neck and pulled him to the floor, pinning him there with her hands and legs. She was full out vampire. Blooded eyes and fangs revealed. She hissed at Klaus who stopped, taken completely off guard. A shiver went down Caroline's spine. Elena reminded her of Katherine right then. She started to feel insecure and small again even though she knew very well it was just Elena. Klaus pushed her off and stood from afar studying the Doppelganger.
"Katerina?"
"No… Elena."
His eyes widened.
"You're a vampire…" he whispered disbelieved.
Elena just glared back, she grimaced a bit thinking it might not have been a good thing that he now knows what she is. He can no longer use her to sire more hybrids. He would be alone for all time. He's going to want revenge.
Klaus quickly regained composure from his shock, but he looked mad as ever.
"Well, well, well. Look what we have here." Klaus mused. Caroline watched him. She hated how cold he sounded. She couldn't believe she was just joking with him mere minutes ago. She couldn't believe she was actually civil with him. Now he looked absolutely menacing. Caroline felt the air turn cold. She shivered again. This is no Easter bunny. He wasn't just trying to get back to his own body and
have his family united once more. He's a monster. He would do anything to get his way, even when it means getting bloody and fowl. Caroline flashed by Elena's side.
"Please." She insisted.
Klaus only looked at her cruelly. She thought she liked his intense gazes but this one… was making her re-think everything.
"Caroline, step aside." He warned.
"Just listen! It's not her fault she's a vampire!"
Klaus continued to walk towards them with determination.
"She never wanted this! She was injured! The only way she could have survived was to have vampire blood heal her."
His eyes were set on the paralyzed Doppelganger.
"If Meredith didn't give blood to her she would be dead! And she would have been of no use to you." she continued, starting to get infuriated at how deaf he was to her.
His eyes started to turn golden, his mouth open into a snarl, fangs growing out.
"IT WAS YOUR FREAKING SISTER THAT KILLED HER!"
He stopped, shocked for the second time today.
"Bekah…"
"Yeah, your precious sister." Caroline spat out.
Damon and Stefan walked over to the girls. They watched Klaus process everything. They were waiting for the storm. It never came.
"My sister… why?"
Caroline hesitated, "she wanted to stop running. She had to kill Elena to kill Alaric."
He started to pace.
Taking this opportunity, Caroline walked over to the coffin on the wheeled table the Salvatores were intent on getting rid of.
"Klaus just, take your body and let's go. You don't need Elena anymore. It's not their fault."
Klaus glared at Caroline. Without saying another word he pushed his coffin towards the exit.
The blonde turned to the protesting Damon, laying a warning hand on his chest "don't. Push. Your. Luck."
And with that she turned to follow the Hybrid, wondering when he was finally going to explode.
Whew! So this chapter is shorter than the previous one, but I'll make sure the next is extra special because… well… *clears throat* Klaus is gonna get back to his sexy self! And it's a bit messy but…I tried :P
constructive criticism always welcome!
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