History Hides the Truth - V As I Lay Dying
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.
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CAROLINE
Katherine and I sat on the couch silently waiting for Klaus to return from the ritual. Kat was positive that Stefan and Damon would do something to stop Elena from dying or to end Klaus. I knew it wasn't possible to kill him; an original with the hybrid gene. A part of me wanted Klaus to have his werewolf side. I knew how important that was to him.
Our eyes locked with each others when we heard the door to Alaric's apartment open. We both stood up expecting a hybrid Niklaus to enter but instead Stefan Salvatore walked through.
"Stefan," I breathed running up to my old friend and wrapping my arms around him.
"Caroline, we were right Klaus has you," Stefan voiced before releasing me from his friendly embrace. "Hello Katherine."
"We've been waiting days, we should be free by now because he's supposed to be dead," Katherine complained. If Klaus was dead then our compulsion to be contained in the apartment would have ended. I tried to withhold the feeling inside of me that wished he was still alive.
"There were a few…complications," Stefan announced.
"Like what?" I asked, still standing next to him. Before he could answer the door reopened revealing Klaus, alive and well, with…Elijah. I gasped silently.
"Back again Stefan?" Klaus smirked as Elijah closed the entrance. "Brother, after your failed attempts centuries ago, I am reunited."
"Caroline I heard you were in the area," Elijah greeted me his eyes flickering to Kat but saying nothing to her.
"It's good to see you again," I nodded, receiving a confused look from Stefan.
"Whatever it is you want, it's going to have to wait a tick. You see, I have an obligation to my brother that requires my immediate attention," Klaus now directed his voice to Stefan before walking from the small crowd.
"From what I have seen of you and your brother, you understand family. My brother gave me his word that he would reunite me with my own," Elijah seemed to be excusing himself from some plan. From after Katherine's theory, I believe Elijah was a huge part of the scheme that would save Elena.
"And so I shall," Klaus added, now standing behind his older brother. Elijah turned around to find a dagger being plunged into his heart. I gasped flashing towards the brothers wanting to stop what was happening. Klaus' hand left the dagger to grip my wrist causing Elijah's body to drop to the ground. "Leave him sweetheart."
"No, last time I let you dagger Rebekah and I regret it. Now I'm not letting you do this," I defied him, my voice adamant.
"In that case love, why do you go and sit down Caroline," he ordered. Klaus' dilating pupils forced me to move from his side and return to the seat I was sat in before. "Now, what can I do for you?"
"I need your help, for my brother," Stefan announced, a slight plead in his voice. Out of the blue, Klaus flashes a wooden stake into Stefan's chest.
"No!" I gasped from my seated position, begging for Klaus to spare Stefan. He didn't deserve this. Katherine stood watching the scene with a vigilant expression upon her features.
"Shh sweetheart," Klaus directed at me before turning back to Stefan in a hushed tone. "Do you feel that? The splinters scraping against your heart. The slightest movement and you're dead." Painful groans left Stefan's lips. My eyes locked with Kat wanting her to do something.
"He's just trying to help his brother," Katherine interjected, trying to cease Klaus' torture.
"The witches said you have a cure," Stefan managed to speak between breaths. "Make me a deal, I'll do whatever you want." A few moments passed and finally Klaus removed the stake causing Stefan's weak body to collapse to the ground. I sighed in relief.
"Trouble is, I don't know if you'd be any good to me the way you are now," Klaus stated his eyes watching Stefan recover on the floor. Klaus crouched down to Stefan's level before continuing "I heard about this one vampire, always on and off the wagon. When he was off, he was…a true ripper. Sounding familiar?"
"I haven't been that way in a very long time," Stefan stated honestly as he stood up straight. After leaving Chicago, I tried to help him recover but it wasn't until we met Lexi that things improved for the better.
"Well, that's the vampire I can make a deal with," Klaus stood up tall and gestured towards Katherine. "Katarina come here." She complied letting Klaus take her arm. He pulled it to his lips, revealing his unlocked werewolf abilities in his golden eyes. Kat screamed in pain. I was in too much shock to voice my disapproval. I couldn't lose Katerina.
"No. No…No. No," Kat exclaimed horrified by the wound she now carried. In an instant Klaus bit his wrist and shoved it into Katherine's mouth, feeding her his blood. The wound healed immediately letting Kat's heavy breaths fade.
"Your blood is the cure," Stefan realised.
"Gotta love Mother Nature," Klaus smirked smugly and tapped Stefan on the back in a brotherly gesture. I watched them closely, thinking about their friendship in the twenties.
Katherine walked over and sat beside me with sympathetic features.
"Are you okay?" I whispered, trying not to divert Klaus' attention to us. She nodded, showing me her completely healed arm. My gaze returned to Klaus as he dripped his blood into a small vial.
"There is your cure, so what's it gonna be Stefan? Dead brother or…"
"I'm not like that anymore," Stefan shook his head.
"Well, that's too bad. You would have made a hell of a wingman," Klaus shrugged beginning to pour the cure down a nearby sink.
"Wait," Stefan called and the pouring ceased.
"I want you to join me for a drink," Klaus announced throwing him a blood bag.
"Klaus stop," I pleaded as Stefan began to sip. "You don't need to do this." My husband made his made way towards me while his eyes were focused on Stefan. "Come with me Caroline," he whispered, removing the compulsion and pulling me to his prior position. Klaus did not show Katherine any attention. "Have a front row seat." Klaus lifted me onto a bar stool before wrapping his arms around my waist holding me in place. "Finish it. You do everything I say, and I save your brother. That's the deal." Klaus directed his words to Stefan. My eyes widened as I watched Stefan drain the life out of the bag. While keeping one arm around me, he reached for a second bag, followed by another, and another. Stefan drank them all.
My body relaxed when Klaus moved away from me. Stefan watched him as he threw the last empty bag with the others. I hated seeing him like this.
"Katerina," Klaus called her forward. "I want you to take this to Damon," he spoke before dilating his pupils. "You are free to leave and if I were you..." Kat glanced at me before flashing from the room. "…I'd better hurry." Klaus finished for her.
"Kat," I yelled flashing from the seat and into the invisible barrier in the door. "Kat please don't leave me with him." I begged with my fists banging against the transparent wall.
"Caroline," Klaus' voice was stern. I reluctantly turned around to find that Klaus had flashed behind me. I sighed as his palms lifted me into his arms. He closed the door and placed me back on the stool like a doll.
"Katherine won't take it to Damon," Stefan repeatedly spoke to Klaus while he tended to me.
"Not my problem mate," he muttered while his fingers stroked my hair.
Hours had passed, and eventually Klaus took Stefan and I to the outskirts of Mystic Falls where vehicles were waiting to depart. Still under Klaus' watchful gaze I glanced over the coffins, wanting to awaken my sister-in-law and my youngest brother-in-law. I wanted them all back, hoping that being a family again would return Klaus to the man I married.
"Caroline love, step aside," Klaus called to me. I followed the order moving back to stand beside Stefan. "Elijah is being reunited." I watched the coffin be moved in with the others. "We're leaving town tonight." He announced to everyone, including the compelled humans he'd hired.
"What is it that you want from us?" Stefan inquired, glancing to me.
"Caroline and I have a past that I'm sure will become clear eventually," he smirked. Stefan knew something was going on but I hated to know his thoughts on the situation. "As for you, all will be explained in time."
"Then are we done here?"
"Not quite. You see, I have a gift for you," Klaus' lips curled as he stepped towards me. I got worried thinking I was the gift but then a human walked into the area. "Come here, sweetheart. Don't be afraid." He directed at the girl while he held my figure against his own in a clamping grasp. "I want to know that you'll be of use to me, my friend," Klaus announced letting Stefan figure out what he wanted.
"No, Klaus stop this," I begged, hating this reunion already.
"Shh my love, the fun is just beginning," he whispered in my ear just as Stefan attacked the girl. A scream was ripped from her throat as her blood flowed passed Stefan's lips. "I could have compelled her to behave, but a real ripper enjoys the hunt." Stefan continued to drain the girl while I was restrained from stopping him.
When the girl's body dropped to the floor, Klaus kissed my hair before directing us both to the nearest car. I felt like my life was over.
England 1374
"Oh gosh, look at the weather," Rebekah exclaimed to me as we made our way back on foot from the centre of the village. Rain was beginning to plummet down from the sky, drowning our gowns and ruining our hair. "You must come to my home Caroline, I forbid you to travel home in this."
"No, Rebekah I am perfectly capable of getting home. I do not wish to be a burden on your family," I insisted.
"Come, my home is closer."
We eventually reached her large estate to be greeted by a gentleman with shoulder length brown hair. His mocha orbs glanced between us both as we entered.
"Sister, we were worried about where you were," the man exclaimed shutting the door. "I knew we should have kept you inside with that grey sky this morning."
"No, we are fine. I hope you do not mind but Caroline will be staying for the night, at least until the weather calms down," Rebekah announced her blonde hair dripping like my own.
"Of course, a pleasure to meet you Caroline. I am Elijah Mikaelson, Rebekah's brother." I shook the hand he offered before following Rebekah further into the house.
"Do I hear a new voice?" A younger tone exclaimed entering the hallway. "Sister what have you been doing out there? I do believe swimming is an activity for the peasants," he chuckled. "Is this your new friend?"
"Behave yourself Kol," my friend spoke sternly. "Please forgive my brother, well all of my brothers. Only Elijah knows how to behave." I nodded accepting the advice.
"Don't I always little sister," he smirked before bowing before my wet state. "A pleasure to meet you Caroline, I'm sure you're just as beautiful when you're not so soaked."
"Kol," two combined voices joined chorus. One was from Elijah who watched his brother with disapproving features. The other however came from a new comer. I glanced up to notice a man with blonde curls to his shoulders with handsome masculine features. My ocean orbs were glued to his well-built figure that came closer to us.
"Caroline, this is my other brother," Rebekah began to introduce me but he intercepted.
"Niklaus Mikaelson," he stated clearly in a deep accent. "But please, call me Klaus." I nodded gratefully.
"Thank you to all of you," I smiled softly. "I promise to be away as soon as the storm ends."
"There is no rush," Klaus added as his light eyes watched me closely. I felt like my life was just beginning.
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