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AU

Chapter 5

Caroline was euphoric. She didn't know why. She felt like agreeing to everything and anything, she would even give Klaus a kiss right now. Well that wasn't exactly an impossibility. She had wanted to kiss him when she had learned about the truce. She felt like blowing someone's mind, building something magnificent, dancing with no music, forgiving anybody and forgetting everything. She was even singing songs to a sci-fi video that Matt had once made her watch.

What? They had catchy songs!

Elena was in a similar mood. It wasn't one of those happy moods, but a joyful one. Like she was choosing to be happy and despite everything that happened, she decided she was not going to live her life in a comatose state, crying her eyes out because of what she had lost. She was going to look at what she had gained, like perspective and a sense of peace. There was not a constant war. Her life was not dependent on the will of a madman. Her family was safe. It almost made her want to sing "My Eyes" with Caroline.

They were folding up sheets and picking up their bags when the room started emptying. One by one the people snuck out. Caroline, noticed this and smiled. Her voice must have really taken a nose dive in the past two years. She looked up to see Elena leave to brush her teeth after she finished. They were going to shower once they got to Canada,, which they decided would be their final destination.

Gradually, Caroline felt someone watching her. There was a creeping sensation on the back of her neck. She rummaged as unobtrusively as she could for the stake in the bag she was packing. Once she found the familiar smooth wood, she quickly turned around, stake in front of her.

Only to see Esther in front of her. The woman that had been the straw that broke the camel's back. The reason they couldn't return to Mystic Falls. Her brown eyes stared into blue, daring Caroline to make the first move.

"What do you want?" Caroline asked quite rudely . Her ire was up. This woman had cost her quite a bit. The deail they made still rang in her head.

"The blood of a doppelganger. Your cooperation. My son apparently still fancies you. And I need the blood for a very important spell."

"You can't have the blood of another one of my friends. You destroyed the last person you used."

"And I saved the ring bearers from themselves."

"In return, you asked us to give up everything."

"You already had lost everything. And you already broke your promise, your still alive."

"Elena hadn't lost everything. And she needed me just as much as I needed her. You would have lost your doppelganger, as surely as you would had mine and Bonnie's blood on your hands. You, who claim you want no more bloodshed, have been trying to kill others the moment you stepped out of your casket. Just because you can't control their actions. Human's have learned that you can't control others actions a long time ago. They only seek to protect their own. You seek to protect no one, you act simply to kill the regret of your own decisions, by killing your own children. All of your children are better than you because they fight to protect."

Elena listened to this speech from the outside of the room, back pressed against the wall, trying to steady her heartbeat. She personally thought it was true, but coming from Caroline it felt like a self-righteous and angry rant. Not likely to do anything to change Esther's intentions, but if it made Caroline feel better, then it was worth it. But she needed to hand herself over to Esther, before things got messy. She was almost ready to shift into view, when she was pushed into the wall by a sudden force. Suddenly a hand was placed on her mouth as she looked up into Damon's smirking face. He put a finger to his lips and then motioned to Stefan on the other side of the doorway. Stefan smiled at her, before motioning to a figure down the hallway, and the Jeremy came into view.

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10 minutes earlier

Klaus was waiting for 1. His brothers, and the MF group to arrive or 2. His mother to reveal herself to the girls. And he was hoping things would happen in that order. He had already taken out the surrounding vampires, but he hated the fact he would need backup when facing down his own mother.

It irked him to no end.

He paced next to the entrance, trying to come up with a plan. He would send Elena's "Brothers" in first. No need to involve himself and his family in a direct attack. They would probably be too stupid to care. He would need to go around and get Caroline out while Esther was distracted. He needed to make sure she was safe before he killed her, for putting him through that much pain. It didn't take much to remind him of her these days. He chuckled remembering the fight he and his sister got into when he accidently called her Caroline. Or she thought he did. In reality, he had just been thinking out loud.

He felt a breeze. and turned around to face the group. He smiled when he saw Kol with an Aluminum Bat, and Jeremy with his crossbow. He winced when he thought of the fact a hunter could have been around Caroline, and could have killed her with no one knowing where she was. Not that he had anything against this particular hunter. In fact he respected his loyalty to family. Something even Elijah could even learn from. But it would be too much to say he liked him. The human, Matt would be a weakness, but he wasn't here. Klaus dismissed his curiosity, and was just so thankful for the Salvatore's not being complete idiots.

Well, until he heard the first words that came out of Damon's mouth.

"Matt will be coming with a truck, in case Elena can't be carried out."

Klaus rolled his eyes, and ignored his brother's warning look. He couldn't possibly care less about the doppelganger, especially since her blood was no longer needed to make his hybrids.

When he explained the plan, he discovered he was right. Elena's 'brothers' were too stupid to care.

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Caroline sensed something was off when she was talking to Esther, using her hearing she could hear familiar arguing in the back. She tried to keep her face blank as she hoped Esther couldn't hear them to and began ranting at her. She let out all of her anger at the witch standing in front of her, all the problems she had long seen in her. All the while hoping Klaus had tracked down his mother, and planned to get rid of her.

But she was surprised to see Jeremy step into the room with a crossbow. He shot a dart at the woman's stomach, only to miss as an unknown woman stepped in front of her. It was literally as if she had appeared out of nowhere. Esther froze, eyes growing wide and face solemn as she looked at the woman, before fleeing, only to run into a very angry and equally solemn Elijah. And if he was stunned to see an injured woman on the floor when Klaus said he had checked the area, he didn't show it. Though when Klaus said there was no one there, there was usually no one there, at least on the enemies side. He took a dagger and stabbed her and watched her sink to the floor. He let out a breath he didn't think he was holding as her eyes closed. Then, without warning, her eyes opened and she, with a speed you wouldn't think she possessed, pulled out the dagger and stabbed Elijah in the leg. Then she disappeared, literally.

While all this was going on, Klaus grabbed Caroline and raced out of the hostel, ignoring the dying woman and Caroline's pleas to go back for Elena. When they got out there was another woman in front of the exit and when Klaus moved to push her out of the way, he was stabbed with a stake. Though, fortunately not white oak. Klaus gasped a moment before he sank to his knees. Caroline felt an unholy anger, and as the woman came towards her, she snapped the woman's neck. As the body fell to the floor, she helped Klaus pull out the stake, only to have him grab her again and drag her outside.

There was a dangerous look in his eyes.

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Damon had similar problems with Elena. She kept motioning for Damon to help Caroline, but he just raised his eyebrows and shook his head at her. Stefan stepped in to help Jeremy, and Damon started to drag Elena outside. There she saw Caroline was with Klaus, but otherwise unharmed. She was about to race over to her, but she couldn't get her arm out of Damon's iron grip.

"Let me go, Damon."

"They have stuff to talk about, little sis. So, do we."

Elena froze.

"I suppose you read my letters, huh?"

"All of them, but Jeremy, love. " Klaus said looking over his shoulder, and Damon noticed Elena slump down in relief.

Matt and Alaric chose that moment to appear with a huge van. When Alaric saw Elena, he jumped out of the moving vehicle to run to her. He looked at Damon to let her go and when Damon raised his hands with a smirk, Alaric picked Elena and spun her around.

Elena hung on and cried.