History Hides the Truth - IV The Last Day
Summary: TVD Rewrite surrounding Klaroline. Caroline has spent centuries away from her husband after helping her best friend escape him. After finding a new companion in Chicago, she solves his bloodlust problems with a little help and forms a new best friend. In the present Caroline comes to Mystic Falls, eager to assist her best friend find love.
I do not own The Vampire Diaries.
CAROLINE
Once the coffin was opened, he stepped out. A huge smirk upon his features as he glanced to Maddox and the female witch.
"Now that's more like it," his voice rang in my ears as I eyes watched him closely. Klaus' eyes met mine for a moment before he stepped closer to me. I cowardly backed away as Katherine stepped to the side. His eyes were glued to me as he continued to walk to me.
"What's the matter love? Not pleased to see me?" His lips curled before he flashed behind me. His hair was cropped shorter than it was all those centuries ago. He was obviously trying to fit in with the modern times, like I had. As I took another step back I caused myself to fall into his welcoming arms that moved around my figure after he had flashed behind me. His lips moved to my hair and I felt every part of me wanting to accept the gesture but my head refused to follow my heart. I stiffened.
Katherine watched me sympathetically before Klaus turned me around to face him. His fingers entwining with my own as he brought my left hand to our attention.
"Let's correct something shall we?" He rhetorically asked before removing my daylight ring from my index finger. "Much better," he smirked as the ring was placed onto my fourth finger showing that I was taken property. Klaus' property. That's all I am to him.
He raised his palm to my cheek, gently caressing the skin there, while his arm was wrapped around my waist.
"Care to explain to me why we've spent centuries apart sweetheart?" Klaus murmured, his light orbs focused on my features. I just stared at him, trying to remove any emotion from my features.
"She did it for me," Kat spoke up when all you could hear was silence. "So if you want to punish someone for it, punish me."
"Silence Katarina," Klaus hissed, his hand freeing my cheek as he pointed sternly at my best friend. When his focus returned to me, the tone of his voice was softer. "I want to hear it from Caroline's lips." His hand returned to my face as he waited for me to speak.
"You're not the man I thought you were," I admitted before pulling myself from his hold. Sadly he refused to let me go. "I didn't expect secrets and lies when I married you."
"Shh love," Klaus moved his finger to my lips.
"No, you don't tell me what to do anymore," I spat.
"You still have fire," he smirked. "I've missed that from you."
I stayed quiet knowing anything more I'd say would be thrown back at me. Soon enough his lips were possessively on my forehead before he released me. I gradually relaxed my position.
Klaus took a few steps away from me before turning around. His finger on his lip in thought before he spoke.
"The ritual happens tonight, tomorrow we'll leave Mystic Falls," he announced before walking towards the kitchen cabinets.
"No, you're leaving Mystic Falls tomorrow," I corrected him as I followed my arms. "Kat and I are staying here."
"When did passionate love turn to such hatred?" Klaus faced me once again.
"When the truth passed your lips. Perhaps you and Elijah should remember than I am a vampire with enhanced hearing."
England 1492
I left my chambers at a late hour wanting Klaus to return to me. Recently he seemed too preoccupied to notice me. I felt us drifting apart and sometimes it was Elijah who gave me the attention. I had Katerina to keep me company but that didn't heal my thirst for Klaus' company. I had heard of many stories of husbands getting bored of their wives, causing them to be utterly alone while the husband found someone else to tend to their needs.
This time I'd had enough and wanted to confront him about my insecurities. If he still cares for me then he should want to try and make amends.
I walked along the floor bare foot using my enhanced hearing to work out where my husband was in the mansion.
"The full moon is tomorrow, brother. After all these centuries, it is finally time," I heard Klaus' voice from one of the sitting rooms nearby.
"I have been to see the witches," he was with Elijah. "They believe they may have found a way to spare the doppelgänger." Spare? I questioned internally as my steps halted, what do they mean spare?
"What does it matter if she lives or not?" Klaus confirmed my suspicions. He lied to me. "She's a means to an end that is all." Klaus told me he just needed her blood for the ritual, nothing else. Then I remember what he told me at his party when Katerina arrived. 'Become her friend if you wish, but do not get too attached love.' Don't get too attached because she won't be around for long…
"She should die for your gain?" Elijah asked seeming to want Katerina to live. Kat had told me about her feelings for Elijah and hoped that they were reciprocated, this led me to believe that they were.
"She is human. Her life means nothing," Klaus stated bluntly, showing no interest in Elijah's pleas.
"Caroline was human once, you never saw her as a means to an end," Elijah's statement caused my ears to listen closely wanting to hear his response.
"Are you so foolish as to care for her?"
"Of course not," Elijah's words didn't fool me of even Klaus.
"Love is a vampire's greatest weakness, and we are not weak Elijah. We do not feel, and we do not care," Klaus' words drew a crack on my heart. Thankfully Elijah asked the question I wanted answered.
"Then what is Caroline, your wife, to you?" There was a long pause but I heard Klaus' movement shifting.
"Simply entertainment." I couldn't stop myself from gasping. My mind was made up. I couldn't stay here no more. I needed to leave with Kat to allow us both to live the lives we wanted.
I flashed back to the chambers which I shared with Klaus. I curled up under the covers hoping Niklaus wouldn't join me later.
"You left me on the fact that I didn't want Elijah with Katerina?" Klaus raised a brow in disbelief.
"I left for Kat and for myself. So she could survive, and so I would have a chance of living something real. Without endless lies from your lips."
"I only said those things to convince my brother otherwise. I couldn't have him attached to the doppelgänger before I kill her now could I?"
"What about me then? Did you not care that I would be losing my best friend?" I questioned, glancing to Kat as she watched from the side lines.
"I would help you through it."
"By compelling me no doubt," I muttered thinking it would be the only way he's let me stay on. He didn't need me grieving.
"You really think that low of me?"
"I don't really know what to think of you anymore?" I sighed, thinking the worst of him was better than the alternative. If I thought about loving him, then I would give in to him. I would shove the reasons why I left in a draw and forget them.
He sighed before moving closer to me once more.
"I have a few things to sort out," he glanced at where Alaric had collapsed before Maddox took him from the room. Once his eyes were on me again, he caressed my cheek again. "Stay in the apartment for me love." His pupils dilated causing my lips to repeat him quietly. He kissed my forehead before flashing from the room.
I glanced at Kat with a sigh.
KLAUS
I stopped by the grill after checking with my allies that I had a vampire and a werewolf. Thankfully everything seemed to be in order. The ritual would be tonight, and soon enough I'd be a hybrid. I'd waited centuries for this.
When I walked through the doors of the only decent bar in Mystic Falls I was drawn to a young blonde on the phone. I could tell he worked at the Mystic Grill from the uniform he wore.
"Hey Caroline, it's me. Are you avoiding my calls? Whatever I've done, I'm sorry but I need to talk to you. It's important," he spoke into his phone before hanging up. I would need to question Caroline about this young man I thought as I tried to retain the jealously inside me.
I looked towards the bar and noticed my past body with the one and only Damon Salvatore. This would be fun. I chuckled.
I walked up to the bar taking a seat beside the two gentlemen as I listened to their words.
"I screwed up," Damon stated with a sigh.
"Yeah you did," Alaric agreed.
"Gentlemen? Why so glum?" I smirked looking forward to the conversation to come. Damon and Alaric's eyes moved to me.
"Klaus, I presume," Damon assumed correctly.
"In the flesh," I glanced past the elder Salvatore to the history teacher. "Thanks for the loaner, mate."
"Any reason you stopped by to say hi?" Damon inquired. "Perhaps to give us an update on Katherine or Caroline?" So they'd worked out that I had Caroline and yet no one came for her or Katerina. So much for newly formed friends, they obviously didn't care much…
"Both are alive…for now," I stated, I had no intention of killing either but they didn't have to know that. "But I am told that you and your brother fancy my doppelgänger. Just thought I'd remind you to not do anything you'll regret."
"Thanks for the advice. I don't suppose I could talk you into a postponement, by any chance?" Damon requested.
"You are kidding?" I glared at him.
"He's not," Alaric interjected.
"What's another month in the whole grand scheme of things?" Damon tried again but I wasn't giving up.
"Let me be clear... I have my vampire. I have my werewolf. I have everything I need. The ritual will happen tonight. So if you want to live to see tomorrow, don't screw it up." I stated firmly before leaving them to their glasses of bourbon.
Since my visit at the grill, things began to turn sour. After completing a few more errands I received a phone call to announce that my vampire and werewolf had escaped with the assistance for the elder Salvatore. As any diabolical genius would, I had a backup plan. All I needed now was a little assistance from a certain doppelgänger.
As I neared Alaric's apartment, my ears caught hold of loud music blasting from inside. When I opened the door a large smirk was fixed on my face as I found Caroline and Katerina flaunting their assets with very modern dance moves and bottles from Alaric's collection their hands. My eyes were drawn to my wife as I stood in the doorway. For the first time I appreciated the shift in clothing for women over my lifetime.
A little squeal of embarrassment left Caroline's lips as she noticed my arrival. She stopped Katerina who hadn't realised. I chuckled, closing the door behind me and stepping forward.
"Oh don't stop on my account. I was enjoying the show," I smirked as I moved closer to Caroline. Sadly she stiffened as my arms encircled her waist. Her scent flooded my senses, reminding me about how much I'd missed her. "I can't say I miss the long dresses sweetheart, which hid you from me." I glanced down to her long legs under the short skirt that only hid her thighs. My gaze moved to Katerina who stood from a distance, her dark eyes watching us both. "Unfortunately things are not going to plan, so onto plan B. Katerina, I need you to do something for me."
England 1492
Word got out the Katerina was missing from her chambers. I rushed into Caroline's rooms that were separate from our combined chambers wondering whether the doppelgänger was with my wife. There was no sign of either of them.
I ordered for the whole estate to be searched for them both but nothing was found besides their scent trailing away from the Estate. I growled flashing into the library were Elijah sat reading. If anyone knew of anything it would have been him.
"What have you done?" I growled storming into the room.
"I don't understand," Elijah asked, glancing up from the large book in his lap.
"Caroline and Katerina are gone. They have fled."
"No," Elijah gasped, disbelief across his face but I knew better. Feelings for the doppelgänger grew inside him, never would he let her die for his brother.
"You told Katerina didn't you!" I accused, yelling at him.
"I told her nothing," Elijah denied. In an instant I wrapped my fingers around his neck and pushed into the wall behind him. Not caring about his chair that had fallen backwards.
"Do not lie to me!" I bellowed my features changing with my anger. "My wife is now missing because of your reckless feelings!"
"I will find them both. You have my word," Elijah promised, I reluctantly released my hold letting him leave the room. My fangs returned to their hiding place as I watched him with a glare.
"If you do not, I give you my word you will be dead," I spat at his departing figure. My anger relaxed slightly as sadness flooded over me. I sighed trying to keep my tears from flowing. She was gone.
A/N I still cannot believe the response to this. I hope the chapter lives up to your expectations! Please let me know your thoughts and ask you questions in a review. You give me so much encouragement! Thank you!