Thinking it over.
The decade dance, a main point of the every Mystic Falls high school student and this year was no exception expect for somewhere between the losing her father and Tyler and figuring out her feelings for Klaus.
She hadn't put much thought into the dance, the last committee meeting she attended they had decided that the theme of the dance was the 70's running in theme with the previous decades it made perfect sense but it had turned out that Rebekah had different ideas for the dance and had gone to the dance committee with a completely different idea and she had no idea what Rebekah said but the group agreed and so the 70's dance was cancelled and replaced with a classy 20's affair.
She had confronted Rebekah and asked what she was playing at but Rebekah claimed that she wasn't doing this for herself even though part of her was after all she was daggered by Elena before homecoming but that she was actually doing this as a favour to Caroline and Klaus.
'I know you don't believe me but I know my brother and Niklaus loved the 20's, the style,the music and the women'.
Caroline glared at her.
'I don't really care about Klaus and his women from 20's'.
'Of course you don't I can see the jealousy in your eyes but seriously Caroline, I know you want my brother to come and what would you rather him turn up in bell bottoms or in a sophisticated tux'.
Rebekah smiled as Caroline went silent as she thought about that moment when Klaus would walk into the dance.
'Your silence, proves to me that I'm right'.
'It doesn't matter if you are right or wrong, I can't ask him to come it's too risky'.
'You really underestimate my brothers feelings for you'.
The dance was so close and she would love him to turn up and dance with him but it wasn't going to happen that way no matter what Rebekah thought, she had to be realistic about the situation she had found herself in.
She couldn't walk into the dance on his arm, it just wasn't going to happen and she had accepted that.
She had planned to go dressing shop with Bonnie and Elena but as usual something had come up, Bonnie was with Jamie and Elena had gone on a road trip with Damon to find out which original created their bloodline.
'So when are you and Damon going on this road trip?'.
Caroline asked Elena as they sat in the grill, a few days had passed since everything had gone down at Klaus's house.
'Tomorrow night and before you ask it was Stefan's idea, he thinks that I have feelings for Damon'.
'I wonder why he would think that'.
Elena looked at her and she sighed.
'Sorry, so why the road trip can't you figure out your feelings here'.
'The trip isn't just about me and Damon, I've been waiting for the right time to tell you about this considering what's been going on, waiting isn't an option any more.
The night that we killed Finn, Sage turned up at the boarding house and something happened something that we never thought was possible'.
'What?'.
'Sage died and so did Troy'.
'Who?'.
'It's not important, what's important is that they both died within an hour of Finn dying and I thought that they may have been bitten by a hybrid but it wasn't a bite, they died because we killed Finn,Sage was turned by Finn and she turned Troy, they where linked by a bloodline that originated from Finn'.
'What are you saying?'
Caroline asked her not understanding.
'Finn created Sage and she turned Troy, if an original dies every vampire was ever turned from their bloodline will die and we have no idea which original is responsible for your bloodline'.
'Who turned Katherine?'.
'Rose even though that was never her intention she just fed Katherine her blood to heal her, Katherine was the one that took her own life but we don't know who turned rose, so me and Damon are going to get Jeremy and hopefully he can contact Rose and she can tell us who turned her'.
'So whatever happens is your hoping that Klaus isn't the creator of our bloodline'.
'Yeah'.
Caroline nodded realising that Elena wasn't seeing where she was going with this.
'Elena, even if he didn't create our bloodline, we know for certain that he turned Tyler, so if it turns out Klaus didn't create our bloodline, they'll kill him which means Tyler will die too'.
She had gone to tell him of this development but he was already aware considering since what happened he had decided to stay one step ahead of everyone and had already set in motion the necessary requirements to stop them finding out who exactly which original created their bloodline.
She didn't want to get in the way of that so she had put some space between them, they weren't giving up on the chance of being together but he his main priority was getting and destroying the white oaks stakes, something had proved difficult considering Alaric's dark alter ego hid the last stake and Alaric had no idea where it could possibly be which meant while Damon and Elena where off on a wild goose chase, Stefan was on dark Alaric duty and well Klaus wasn't exactly going to sit patiently at home and wait it wasn't in his nature.
She was sitting in her room going through old photo's of her and her friends, she had been thinking about the inevitable choice was going to have to make between her friends and him.
She knew that she would end up being the most hated person in Mystic Falls if she picked him and if she picked her friends, she didn't know what Klaus would do if he would give up on her or resort to revealing the truth to her friends leaving her out in the cold with only him to turn too.
She honestly had no idea what Klaus really felt every time they where together it was always about her never about him.
She had fallen hard for him, harder than she thought she ever would fall for him, she knew she was falling in love with him and that terrified her.
Loving him, she knew that her love would never change him but she worried that what if loving him changed her, she was already changing.
She was lying to everyone, she looked into their eyes and lied.
Tyler had been alienated from the group as they put all the blame on him for her being compelled when she had to beg Klaus to even do it.
'I won't do that'.
He told her as he stood up and turned away from her.
'You have too, if you don't make it believable it won't work, you have to compel me'.
She replied as she stood up and walked over to him placing her hand on his back and he turned to look at her, his eyes where conflicted he knew she was right but compelling her taking away her free will he would never forgive himself for that even if she asked him too.
'Caroline'.
'If you don't do this I know what will happen my friends will end up dead and I can't live with myself if that happens, knowing that I betrayed them at least this way I keep them safe at least for now, please I'm begging you compel just this once, for tonight, they have to believe that you don't care about me'.
Being compelled as a vampire felt different, back when she was human and Damon compelled her she didn't have her brain screaming at her to fight back but when Klaus compelled her even though it was just for show the voice in the back of her head was shouting at her to fight it, it felt wrong because she knew what has happening and in that moment even though she asked him to do it, she was scared of losing her free will even for a small amount of time.
Nobody ever talked about Klaus in front of her in fear that if he asked her to tell him the truth all their plans would be revealed so she was kept in the dark for the most part expect for when it came to where their bloodline originated from this was information she needed to know and she hoped that Klaus was creator of her bloodline and nobody else because that would mean not only would she lose him, she would lose Tyler too and even though she was mad at him.
They had been through a lot together and she still cared about what happened to him, she had been the only person to really be there for him when he became a werewolf she would never truly turn her back on him even if they where together or not.
But Klaus didn't understand which was partly down to his jealousy of Caroline being with Tyler and the other part not caring he didn't try to understand how Caroline felt as far as he saw it Tyler was a waste of space and not worth her concern.
It was hard to explain to him why her friends where important to her, he would never understand how much trust she had placed in them and that was because he didn't trust anyone.
She wasn't even sure if he truly trusted her when he said that did but she had to hope that he did because when she lost everything and she eventually would she need to know that he was still going to be around.
She was almost relived for a day like today with Elena away, Bonnie busy with Jamie and Klaus doing something that she ultimately wouldn't agree.
It allowed her time to put everything in perspective because soon it would be back to reality back to betraying the people that trusted her the most.
So I know that at the end of the last chapter I said that it would include Rebekah & Caroline scenes but I went against that and went with a chapter just focused on Caroline and her own thoughts about everything but the next chapter will be about the decade dance so expect Klaus & Caroline sweetness & angst, the return of Ana who will be sticking around in my story, the return of Esther and the turning of Alaric.
