Chapter 10

Oh….

I was staring at the crow on the page I couldn't tear my eyes away from it, the thing was sinister yet it was just a drawing. I passed the book to Klaus because what I had just read made me feel sick to the stomach

The Calvin family have lived for thousands of years each new generation more powerful than the one before it, the Calvin family live to rid the world of evil and everything that would upset the balance of the world, the crow symbolises the power of the night and the blood represents that nobody can live forever. The Calvin family have a special interest in the theory of the living dead.

"I had the fortunate event of meeting a Calvin a couple of hundred years ago" Klaus looked up from the book and smiled at me "I think we have found a lead love"

"Why would this Calvin family want to kill my mum?"

"I have no idea I think we should start to look into your family history"

"Really?"

"Yes come on"

We headed to the back of Klaus's family library and he pulled an old book from the shelf and dropped it on the table with a loud thud he flicked through the pages until he found a page the was headed with the word Forbes he read it and passed it to me

"Well I think we found the connection"

I looked down and read the passage

The Forbes family were a powerful family that were linked in the with famous Calvinfamily they believed in ridding the world of evil and nobody could stop them, they were deeply connected with the Calvin family until 600 years ago when they both went different ways there was a fight in which a rare stone was taken and hidden so neither of the families could use it. Modern stories would call them vampire hunters if such things existed.

"Well your family is more interesting than I first thought"

"So what is this saying, that I come from a line of vampire slayers and that there is a family out there who we have a 600 year old grudge with"

"So it would seem"

"There's a small problem"

"What's that?"

"I'm the only Forbes left me and my mum were the only living Forbes and now that mum is dead there is only me left"

Klaus looked at me and I could tell that he was working things out, all I could think was that I was the only one left and that would mean that they are going to be coming after me and what about Mr Calvin the history teacher does he just happen to be called Calvin and moved to town just after my mum died. What was this stone that the book was going on about mum had never mentioned any of this, she hadn't mentioned a lot lately.

"At least no one knows where you are, all your friends believe that you are living with your aunt just out of town"

"What about my history teacher?"

"I'm sorry?"

"My new history teacher is called Mr Calvin"

"Well we're going to pay a visit to Mr Calvin"

We arrived at the school when all the teachers were getting ready to go home, Klaus led the way into the history class room and we found Mr Calvin sitting at his desk marking papers, he looked up and he wasn't surprised to see me on the other hand he looked shocked to see Klaus.

"Mr Calvin I believe"

"I'm guessing you are here because of our history"

He spoke to me and ignored Klaus I nodded and he put down his pen and put his hands together in a motion that almost looked like preying

"I heard about your mother's death and I thought that she was the last one in the Forbes bloodline, it seems that you mother was able to keep your birth hidden. I thought maybe with her death we would be able to find the stone"

"What stone?"

"It seems that your mother has not only kept you hidden but also clueless"

Klaus leaned on the desk and said in a soothing voice "Tell us about the stone" Mr Calvin nodded and spoke in a faraway voice

"The stone that will give power to the family that finds it, the stone will rid the world of those who walk in the night"

I could see Klaus's back stiffen and the last part and I knew that this stone would be bad news, but why would he think that I had it

"Why do you think that I have it?"

"The legends say that the Forbes deceived the Calvin's and hid the stone because they didn't believe that any good would come of using the stone"

"And because I'm the last in the line, I'm the only one who would know where it is hidden"

"There is also something else you will need to know"

"What's that then" I could tell Klaus was becoming impatient with all of this and I could tell he would rather rip Mr Calvin's head off than get more information from him

"Your friends preformed a spell that was meant to tell them where the stone is and it backfired on them, at this very moment there are twelve of my ancestors in Mystic Falls looking for the stone"

"One last question did you kill Caroline's mother?"

"I didn't but I can't say it wasn't one of those ghosts looking for the stone"

"Thank you Mr Calvin" I turned and left the room all this information was making my head spin and I needed some fresh air. I stood in front of the car while I waited for Klaus

"Caroline" I turned to find Elena walking towards me

"Hey Elena, we missed you at the ball"

"Yeah I was sick I was really looking forward to it as well"

"At least you had Stefan to look after you"

"Yeah I am"

"So what are you doing at school so late?" I hoped Klaus wouldn't make and appearance cause that would need a lot a explaining to do

"Oh I needed to do some research for one of my essays and I couldn't concentrate at home so I decided to do it at the school library, what about you"

"I just wanted to get the work that I had missed today"

"Tyler said that you were sick I hope you're feeling better"

"Did Tyler tell you we broke up?"

Elena's faced dropped and I could tell the Tyler had already told them they we had broken up but I wonder what version of the story he told them

"What did he tell you?"

"Just that it wasn't working out so you decided to go your separate ways"

So he decided not to tell anyone about what happened he just made it seem that we just parted on good terms

"Yeah, we both felt like it wasn't right"

"Well I have to go me and Stefan are having a date night"

"Have fun"

"Bye Care"

"Bye Elena"

I waited by the car for another 10 minutes until Klaus decided to grace me with his presents

"What took you so long" I placed my hands on my hips and gave him the meanest look I could

He just chuckled and called me cute as we slid into the car, something was bothering him though his face was to straight not even pretending that he was ok

"What the matter"

"Nothing" He grabbed my hand and kissed it, he should off known by now that I wasn't going to give up that easily. When we got back he walking me into the kitchen with my eyes closed. When he removed his hands from my eyes I looked around and found that candles had been lit and a dinner was waiting for us with rose petals all over the table he smiled and turned to him

"You've had a tough time I just wanted to show you that you're not alone"

"I love it" I kissed him and walked over to the table he pulled out my seat and I sat down I smiled over at him as we began to eat, the food was wonderful and I truly felt at home once we had finished desert Klaus looked at me

"Caroline I have something I want to ask you"

"Go ahead"

He pulled out a small box and I caught my breath

"Caroline Forbes will you marry me?"