Draw Your Swords.
She heard the words come from Elena's mouth and she laughed at first, it had to be a joke why would Alaric kill her dad.
She couldn't believe that Alaric of all people would have killed her dad but it was the truth and now she was looking at Elena with tears in her eyes.
'Alaric killed my dad'
Yes, Bill wasn't exactly up for father of the year especially after everything he put her through, he had tortured her because he hoped that he could cure from what she had become but there was no cure for her and she should have hated him for what he put her through and she did for a while but he was her father and she still loved him because she knew that after everything he did, he did still love her.
'Are you sure your okay?'.
Elena asked as she looked at Caroline as she wiped away her tears.
'No, none of this is okay, none of this is fair, my dad shouldn't be dead, Alaric shouldn't be Mr Jekyll one minute and Mr Hyde the next and I know that's not his fault either, he's a victim like me a victim of something completely out of his own control'.
Elena nodded at her as she embraced her.
'I'm sorry Caroline'.
She whispered and Caroline nodded.
'I know, is it okay that I'm sad'.
'Of course, he was your dad and you loved him regardless'.
'Sorry'.
Elena looked at Matt as he approached them with Tyler behind him and she smiled.
'Caroline'.
Tyler looked at her as she turned around to face them.
They hadn't spoken since their fight and he had tried to talk to her but she wasn't willing to listen to a word he had to say as far as he was concerned she had nothing left to say to him.
Matt looked between Elena and Caroline and then gave her a soft smile, he knew that Elena had told her the truth about the circumstances surrounding her dad's death.
She smiled back and sighed.
'So does anyone know why we are here Stefan's messages was all kinds of cryptic'.
Matt asked and Elena shrugged.
'All he said was to meet him here, no explanation as to why?'.
'Where's Bonnie I sent her a message too?'.
They all turned and looked at Stefan as he approached followed by Damon.
'She's at home trying to find away to find Abbey she left again, so is it possible we can leave her out of this one'.
Stefan nodded and then looked back at Damon.
'So your all probably wondering why we called you out here?'.
'Yes'.
Elena replied things between her and Damon had been frosty since she caught him trying to teach Stefan about self control.
'I got my hands on some white oak, don't ask me how but I have'.
'White Oak, as in the only wood on the planet that can kill an original, that can kill Klaus'.
Caroline heard the words leave her mouth and she saw Tyler watching her from the corner of the eye but she kept her composure.
'Are you telling us that you have a weapon that can kill Klaus?'.
Elena asked in question to Caroline's own and Stefan nodded.
'No we all have a weapon that can kill Klaus'.
Damon dropped the duffel to the ground and they all looked down expect for Caroline who felt her whole body go cold as there in front of her was the one thing that could take him out of her life forever.
She heard his steps on her front porch and opened the door, her mum had left for work early that morning, so there was no chance that she would be caught in his arms.
He smiled at her as she opened the door.
'Morning,Love'.
His words where cut of her but her lips as she pulled him into the house not before quickly scanning the street outside and then closing the door behind them.
'I missed you'.
The words slipped out of her mouth before she even had a chance to stop them but he ignored them as he ran his hand up her arm.
'Where's your mum?'.
He whispered as he slowly pulled down the strap of the vest top she had slept in.
'She's gone to work, so there is no chance of us getting caught'.
'So you don't enjoy the thrill of almost getting caught by your mother?'.
He asked with a light chuckle and she smirked at the thought.
'Maybe I do get a rush knowing that at any moment she could walk in and find out but then the rush I feel turns into fear knowing that if anyone was to find out the truth it'd be over for both of us, my friends wouldn't hesitate taking you out'.
'Caroline you worry too much and not that I don't appreciate your worry, after tonight you will never have to worry about my safety again'.
'What do you mean?.
She asked looking into his eyes trying to figure out what was going on his mind.
She had no idea what he had been talking about as he never explained but whatever plan he had in motion she only hoped that it worked because the alternative of not having him in her life any more was unbearable and she hated to think about it.
She listened as her friends made there plan on how to kill him and then she heard her name being said.
'Caroline will be used as Klaus bait'.
She looked at Damon and nodded she knew her place in the plan, it would always be her role to keep him distracted.
'Why does it have to be her?'.
Tyler asked looking at Damon who ignored him as he went to stand beside Caroline before continuing to speak.
'Why, I know you haven't been around for a while so let me fill in the blanks for you, he wants Elena's blood, he wants me dead, Stefan back as his ripper bestie and well blondie he wants all to himself so if anyone has a decent shot at keeping him otherwise occupied while we take out his beloved his sister, it's Caroline'.
'No, there has to be someone else that can keep him distracted'.
Tyler snapped and Caroline rolled her eyes as she looked at him.
'There is nobody that can get as close to Klaus as I can and I don't need you to talk for me and I don't need you telling anyone what I can and can't do, Tyler'.
'Your my girlfriend, I don't want you going anywhere near him, it's not safe'.
'Really I'm your girlfriend that's touching so thank you for your concern towards my safety but you didn't seem all that concerned when you disappeared and I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself and I can handle Klaus, he won't hurt me'.
Tyler scoffed at her comment.
'You seem pretty sure about that, you don't know him'.
'I do and unlike you he actually listens to me and it doesn't matter I'm doing this whether you want me to or not'.
'I don't want you to be a part of this'.
'You should have thought about that before and I really don't want to be having this argument right now'.
She snapped back at him.
'I'm with blondie on this settle the personal crap in your own time, we bigger problems to deal with right now than your jealousy over Klaus having a thing for your girl'.
Damon looked at Tyler and then at Caroline who nodded at him while Tyler sighed in frustration.
After a couple of hours of going through different scenarios on how to keep Rebekah and Klaus separated long enough for one of them to deliver the vital blow to the other, Caroline went to check on Bonnie to find that Jamie had beaten her to it and had decided that a day away from Mystic Falls and anything vampire related was just what she needed and had taken her to Virginia beach for the day.
'Do you know what's going on with Tyler and Caroline, I've never seen them go at each other like that before'.
Matt asked as he and Elena sat in the town square waiting for Caroline.
'It's complicated, this isn't the first fight of there's I've witnessed, I walked in on them fighting a few days ago, I only heard half of it but Tyler accused Caroline of cheating on him with Klaus'.
'She would never do that she loves him and how can he ask her that considering none of us know what he was doing when he disappeared'.
'I know but I don't think it matters any more, she was really upset, he really hurt her and I'm not just talking about that fight, when he left her, she was broken but she still cared and then time went by and even though she won't admit it, she fell out of love with him and I know she took him back but she admitted it herself she's not happy and I think that fight may have been the end for them'.
'I can't believe that he would think she would go there with Klaus, this is the same guy that turned him into a hybrid and has tried to kill you her best friend, why does he think she would do that'.
'She kept this drawing that Klaus gave her and I guess it made Tyler jealous knowing that she caught his attention while he was away'.
Matt nodded and then looked as Caroline walked across the street to join them.
'Hey sorry I took so long, Bonnie is fine , she's with Jamie'.
Elena smiled as Caroline handed her a coffee and one to Matt.
'Don't worry we haven't been'.
Elena stopped mid sentence and Caroline and Matt looked at her before looking in the direction that Elena was.
'Isn't the Klaus's brother'.
He asked and Elena nodded.
'Yeah Finn, I thought he left town, who is that with him?'.
Elena turned to look at Caroline who felt more fear than before, Finn was an easy target he had no idea that they had found white oak and that at any moment his life and his siblings could be taken away so quickly, had she really seen Klaus for the last time.
'Caroline'.
Elena's voice brought her out of her thoughts and she looked at her.
'Can you hear what they are saying?'.
Caroline nodded as she tucked her hair behind her ear and focused.
'I took care of myself but I never stopped loving you, Finn and I don't want you to die'.
'Is that why your here to take me down memory lane?'.
'No, I've spent 900 years alone, while your dear brother kept you daggered, I never loved all I did was live but I always hoped that one day, we'd be reunited and now that day is here, I'm not ready to lose you'.
He hadn't heard Rebekah return but he wasn't surprised when he found her running a knife across Damon's bare chest.
He knew all about her night with Damon and wasn't surprised that she had decided to take out her own plan of revenge on Damon, many men had learned never to cross his sister and many of them never lived to tell the tale and those that did lived in fear of her and never crossed her again.
'Ana, thanks for coming'.
Ana smiled at Klaus as she walked into his house, they had met a few years ago when Klaus found himself in Chile, he had been told to go there by another witch on his hunt for Katherine but instead stumbled across a group of very powerful witches but it was Ana who at the time was only 16 years old that caught his attention, she had more power than most of the witches in her village and she was very taken with him and wasn't afraid of him even though she had been warned about his arrival before hand.
But she was seduced by the darkness and by Klaus, although he seemed to collect witches, he had a soft spot for her.
'Nice house, so it's not every day my favourite hybrid calls me congratulations on that by the way'.
She said with a smirk as she took of her sunglasses revealing striking amber eyes.
'You know I wouldn't have called you out unless I needed the most powerful witch I knew'.
'Thank you, so what do you need?'.
'A binding spell'..
'Binding spell, who's the unlucky person that's been bound?'.
'That unfortunate person would be me and my siblings'.
She laughed lightly before looking at him.
'Your siblings, the people you cart around in coffins, you freed them that I wasn't expecting'.
'It was time for us to be a family again'.
'Okay, so I need to know who cast the spell you know I hate to undo a fellow sister's work'.
'That would be the original witch'
'So what did Stefan say we should do about Finn?'.
Caroline asked as she sat in Elena's room.
'Nothing he said do nothing until he calls me but shouldn't we worrying about Damon'.
'Damon?'.
'Rebekah attacked him, I guess she's mad at him for using her'.
'I don't blame her I'd be pretty mad too, if a guy just used me like that'.
Elena sighed as she sat down on her bed and looked at Caroline who had her phone in her hands.
'Waiting for someone to call or planning on calling someone'.
'Sorry, I'm just processing everything I mean by the end of tonight, we could be living Klaus free lives'.
'I haven't even thought about that, I'm trying to remember life before Klaus and all the original madness, it seems so long ago'.
'That's because it was so long ago and look how much things have changed since then'.
'Yeah, me and Stefan are complicated, me and Damon even more complicated, you and Tyler'.
'Complicated, why is everything so complicated?'.
The sound of a scream filled the air and she turned to look at Klaus.
'What the hell was that?'.
'I wouldn't let it bother you, sweetheart'.
'Well it does bother me, especially when dealing with such old magic'.
He nodded at Ana and went to close the door before facing her again and she sighed.
'Thank you but seriously what was that?'.
'Just my sister inflicting pain on a man that done her wrong'.
'Hmm, I think me and your sister would get along'.
'Well after you work your magic, I'll introduce, here the blood of my siblings as requested'.
He handed her a small box which she opened and inside where four small viles of blood.
'There's one missing'.
He nods as he raises hand to his mouth and bites down before holding out his clenched hand to her and she rolls her eyes as she holds out a glass to catch his blood.
'Thank you now I can start'.
'Where's Caroline?'.
Matt whispered as Elena sat down in a booth, she could see Finn and Sage from where she sat.
'She went home, so what's the plan here?'.
'The plan is to be ready'.
She looked at Stefan as he sat opposite her, keeping a watchful eye on Finn and Sage.
It all happened so quickly, she watched as Stefan left the grill shortly followed by Finn and Sage before he could deliver the deadly blow to Finn but Sage knocked Stefan to the ground the stake falling from his hands and rolling away.
She didn't see it happen but she heard Sage's heartbroken sob and she knew that Finn was dead and that only meant one thing to her.
If Finn dies, they all die, he would die and she would be alone.
He stared at the five separate pools of blood and turns to smile at Ana as the door to his study flies open.
'Caroline'.
She can't believe that he is standing there in front of her alive, She drove to his house not being able to listen to Sage's sobs of desperation any more.
Her tears burned her eyes as she stood in the open doorway staring at him.
'What's the matter, love?'.
He didn't understand her tears and Ana looked between them before exiting the room closing the door behind Caroline as she walked into the room.
'Your alive, how are you alive, you should be dead, Finn's dead'.
'What?'.
'They killed him, I was so worried that I was going to find nothing here expect your body, I was so scared'.
He pulled her into his embrace and she sobbed against his chest as he stroked her hair.
'Calm down and tell me exactly what happened?'.
'I can't believe this is all over'.
Elena said with a sigh as she looked at Stefan.
'I won't believe anything until I see Klaus's dead body with my own eyes'.
Stefan replied as he walked into the room and she nodded understanding, the sound of her phone ringing distracted her and she looked at the screen.
'It's Caroline, hey where are you?'.
'With Klaus?'.
Elena looked at Stefan before speaking and he looked at her as he listened to every word Caroline said.
'Caroline why are you with Klaus, we killed Finn, he's supposed to be dead?'.
'No he has a witch here, she unlinked them all, Elena he's threatening my mum and he has Damon'.
'Damon, Caroline can you get away from him?'.
'No, Elena I can't I'm scared'.
The phone cut out and Elena looked at Stefan as he stormed out of the room.
'Stefan wait, you don't want to do anything stupid he has Caroline and Damon'.
'If we wait around, they'll both be dead'.
He tells her and she grabs his arm and he looks at her.
'I know that but if you go rushing in there without a plan you'll be dead too, Klaus is stronger than you and right now your acting on anger'.
'Anger gets things done and right now all I want is Klaus dead'.
'You did brilliantly, love?'.
Caroline looks at him and nods.
'What happens next?'.
'Next, your friends come to yours and Damon's rescue and I end this once and for all'.
'No Klaus, you can't?'.
He shakes his head at her plea.
'I can't let them get away with this, they've killed my brother and now they have white oak in there possession they will never stop, it has to end now'.
'Please, there my friends, I can't lose them'.
He looks at her and sighs as he leans in front of her touching her hand.
'What do you propose I do to get myself out of this situation?'.
'I have an idea but I need to know that you won't me?'.
'I promise you, that I won't hurt you?'.
He arrives at the house, it's bathed in darkness but light shines through the windows as he walks up to the doorway pushing the door open as he steps inside.
He can smell the blood and follows the scent until he is face to face with Damon who is strung up by chains, his body covered in dried blood.
'Stefan, what are you doing?'.
He asks weakly but Stefan just nods at him.
'Klaus, I'm here?'.
He hears footsteps and turns around as Klaus walks into the room with Rebekah by his side while Ana stands in the doorway.
'Finally, what took you so long?'.
Stefan throws the duffel bag to the ground and Klaus looks at it.
'I want to make a deal, 8 stakes made of white oak in exchange for my brother and Caroline'.
'That's impossible I burnt the last white oak'.
Rebekah stated looking at Stefan.
'It's not, Finn is dead'.
'You killed our brother'.
She snapped but Stefan doesn't look at her but at Klaus.
'Caroline and Damon for the last 8 weapons on this planet that can kill you'.
Klaus scoffs as he looks at the bag.
'How do I know your not lying to me?'.
'I'm not lying these are the only ones'.
'Well you'll understand if I don't believe you'.
He looked at Stefan as he walked past him and towards Damon.
'Leave'.
Damon scoffs weakly as he stares at Klaus.
'No'.
'Your free to go, go on leave'.
'What are you doing?'.
Stefan asked and Klaus looked at him a smirk on his face as he grabs Damon by the throat.
'You killed my brother, maybe I want to kill yours'.
He looks back at Damon turning his head to face him as he compels him.
'I said go home'.
She can hear the cries of agony that escape from Damon as he tries to pull himself free of his restrains, the smell of his blood is strong and she covers her ears to block it out.
Klaus is smirking as Damon still tries to pull himself free, the restrains cutting deep, tearing at his flesh.
'Enough, stop before you really hurt yourself, well it's good to see that he can't be compelled, now I think it's time I find out if your telling the truth, Ana be a sweetheart and bring Caroline in here for me?'.
Stefan watches her leave, only to return a few moments later with Caroline who is glaring at Klaus.
'Let go of me'.
She snaps at Ana who rolls her eyes as she hands her over to Klaus who reaches to touch her face.
'Klaus what are you doing with her, she has nothing to do with this?'.
He nods at Stefan's comment as he looks at Caroline.
'Your right, she doesn't but you see, I don't like being threatened by anyone and well Tyler he needs to learn some respect, I took away his misery and his pain but is thankful, no he's unappreciative, he even thought that he could threaten me to stay away from her and I don't take to being threatened so I thought I'd teach him a lesson and see if your lying all at the same time'.
He looks at Caroline touching her hair and she tries to shake herself free of his grip, she makes a sound of disgust as he touches her face.
'Caroline, love how many stakes are there not including the one in my brother that kill me and my family'.
'Klaus don't do this to her?'.
'Thank Tyler when you next see him, now Caroline if you please tell me?'.
He tells Stefan as he compels her.
'11'.
'Did you hear that Rebekah, 11 not 8, thank you Caroline you have been very helpful now I have one more thing to tell you'.
She holds his gaze unable to look anywhere else as he compels her again.
'You will do exactly what I want when I tell you to, do you understand?'.
'I understand'.
Stefan wasn't sure at what point he held the white oak stake in his hand but he held it raised in his hand ready to take out Klaus, who caught his wrist and shook his head as he took the stake out of Stefan's hand and threw it across the room.
'Step down or I kill you all, now you will get me the rest of the stakes before I'm forced to start killing your loved ones, your free to go'.
Stefan looked into Caroline's room as she lay on her bed with Elena, who looked at him and smiled as he walked past returning to the living room.
As he walked towards the living room, he saw Tyler approaching the front door.
'Stefan, hey I wanted to see how Caroline was doing?'.
Stefan glared at him as he put his hand out to stop him.
'What the hell where you thinking threatening Klaus do you have any idea what you've done'.
'What are you talking about?'.
'You threatened Klaus told him to stay away from her and now thanks to your stupid move he has her and all he has to do ask and she will do anything he wants thanks to you, your girlfriend was compelled because you couldn't control you jealousy'.
'I didn't know'.
'Yeah you didn't now he knows about the stakes and can have Caroline whenever he wants so congratulations you just messed up everything for all of us and you've lost her to him'.
Her room was in darkness, she was alone after much convincing she told Elena and Stefan that she would be fine on her own.
'Caroline'.
She looked at him as he stood in her doorway, he walked in closing the door gently behind him, so not to wake her mum as he came to sit beside her on her bed and she turned to face him.
He touched her cheek and she didn't act like she was repulsed by him this time she sighed as she felt his thumb stroking her cheek.
He looked into her eyes and smiled.
'You never have to do anything that I tell you, your free'.
She sighed as she felt the weight of his earlier words lift.
'Thank you'.
He nodded and took her hand.
'Never ask me to compel you again'.
'It was the only way, otherwise you would have killed them and I can't let you do that, it was the only way I could keep them safe and you'.
'Caroline, this isn't over your friends won't rest until they see me dead, you know that now, they will never stop, you've seen it yourself they killed my brother in hopes I would die along with him'.
'I know what your saying but I can't choose between you and them and I know I have to but I can't and maybe I never will but you need to know that I can't stop caring about them and I can't stop the way I feel about you but today I came to close to losing you so for today I chose you but tomorrow'.
'Tomorrow is tomorrow'.
There are dark days ahead for our couple and they are going to get darker.
The next chapter will include a lot of Rebekah and Caroline, Tyler will be trying to get through to Caroline and the decade dance.
So I was planning on ending this story soon but I've decided too scrap that idea as I've decided to continue, so here are a few spoilers of what's to come:
Everyone will find out about Klaus and Caroline and some will get angry at Caroline and other's reaction to the pair may surprise you as they aren't as angry as others and more sympathetic.
Caroline will be forced to prove herself as a friend and try to gain back trust from those that have shut her out.
Klaus will have to make choices that he wouldn't usually be willing to make.
Three words will be exchanged
They will both have to learn to compromises for the other.
