Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You

'I know that your leaving tonight but Klaus we can't leave things like this'.

Klaus listened to her message it was one of many messages she had left him since the night before and he refused to answer them.

He was still leaving as planned and nothing had changed that plan, he had told Rebekah that they where to leave before nightfall and she agreed not before heading to the school to help tidy up.

Tidy up for a dance she never got to attend because she was laying daggered in a box.

His phone started to bleep again and he looked at the screen, it was Caroline calling but ignored it, as Ana walked into the room, she looked at him and then started to pick up a pile of books that rested on his desk..

She didn't mention Caroline's name as she knew the mood that he was in, so she stayed quiet.

'It's me again, I don't know what I can say that I haven't already said in the 10 other messages that I've left for you, please talk to me'.

She sighed as rested her phone on the pillow beside her and went back to staring at the same spot on her ceiling that she had been staring at all night.

She was supposed to be at the school helping clean up but the school wasn't exactly the place she wanted to be considering what had happened last night.

She had called Matt and told him that she wasn't going to come and was surprised when he told her that Rebekah was there, considering she didn't get to attend the dance.

But then maybe Rebekah needed to take her mind of the fact that yet again her mother had tried to kill her and had again failed.

Elena stood in the middle of what used to be her parent's room, then Jenna's room and until recently was Alaric's room and she felt like falling apart but she couldn't.

She refused to her, she had to stay strong for the people that she still had in her life, like Jeremy who even though he seemed to be handling it, she knew he wasn't he had experienced to much pain and death in the last two years and she needed to stay strong for him.

She turned around as he walked out of his room and smiled at her.

'Hey, got any plans for today?'.

She asked him as she walked out of the room and closed the door behind her, they could redecorate later.

'Tyler, called asked if I wanted to play a game of football with him and Matt, was that your idea?'.

'Yeah, if you don't want to go I'll understand but I think being normal for a day would do us both the world of good'.

'Us normal, we haven't been normal for a while why start now?'.

'Why not, Jeremy we may have lost a lot of people but we still have our friends who love us and we need to be with them because they get the pain and heartache that we are going through, they've all gone through it too, our family maybe all gone but they our family too and there still here'.

'Fine, I'll go play football but what about you what are you doing?'.

'She has plans with me'.

Jeremy looked at Stefan as he stood on the staircase, Jeremy looked at Stefan and then at Elena and nodded.

'Okay'.

He nodded at Stefan as he went downstairs who looked at Elena.

'So what are you really doing today?'.

He asked her following her into her room as she shut the door.

'I was actually going to call you, I want to go Alaric's place and sort out his belongings'.

'Elena you don't have to do this today, you just told Jeremy that you should spend the day with friends'.

'I know but I need to do this Stefan, it's my fault that he's not here, I need to do something anything before I fall apart and I'm trying so hard to just keep it together and live but I can't'.

He put his arms around her and sighed.

'I know but give yourself a day before you start packing up his stuff just one day and then tomorrow I will help you but you need this day just as much as Jeremy'.

Matt watched Rebekah as she piled up the last of the black bags by the gym door for the janitor to throw away, she hadn't spoken much apart from snapping at almost everyone that gone in her way.

He felt sorry for her, her mother never loved her the way she wanted to and she had attempted to create something more powerful just to destroy her.

'Rebekah I'm sorry about your mum'.

Rebekah turned to look at him and nodded.

'Thank you but I don't need your sympathy, I'm sorry for what she did to Mr Saltzmen I know you and your friends looked up to him, so I'm sorry for what my mother planned but don't be sorry that she's dead, I was wrong to assume that my mother loved me enough but it doesn't matter'.

'She did love you Rebekah'.

'Enough to try and kill me twice'.

She was going crazy waiting for him to call and she wasn't going to do that any-more she wasn't the only one with problems.

Elena and Jeremy had lost Alaric and she was dealing with a very likely break up which wasn't as important as what Elena was going through.

After accepting that he wasn't going to call her especially after she tried to call him again to find that his phone wasn't on, she headed to her kitchen and started to bake.

After her dad died she had lost count of the amount of cookies or casseroles that people had brought over to the house for and Elena had been one and now it was time to return the favour.

Tyler hadn't been able to stop thinking about Caroline or the possibility that he had pushed her into his arms.

The night before when he slept all he could see in his dreams was Caroline staring after Klaus with a heartbreaking look of longing in her eyes.

'Tyler this doubts are what ended you and Caroline'.

He nodded at Stefan.

'I know but you didn't see it, it was different and I wouldn't be suspicious if it was anyone else but Stefan what if it was Elena looking at Damon another way, what if she gave him a look she had never given you, would that not make you curious'.

'Yes it would but you and I both left the girls we love behind and we have no right to be angry at any choices they've made but Klaus is dangerous and he's also charming I'm sure a lot of women over the centuries have fallen to his charm and we've openly used Caroline as a tool of distraction when it comes to him, which means that if something has happened between her and Klaus, the blame would lie with all of us because we've used her to get to him'.

'So are you saying that it's possible?'.

'I'm saying it's possible that Caroline may have fallen to his charm yes but if something has happened between them I don't want to believe that it could'.

'But you could believe it'.

Stefan nodded and sighed.

'Tyler, if he has her compelled that's something we can handle but what if it's not compulsion'.

'Don't even go there, he's not capable of love'.

Stefan was right he had left her behind but not so that she would fall into his arms, she had told him that nothing was going on between her and Klaus.

He trusted her but he knew she was lying to him and he couldn't deny it or ignore what he saw.

He couldn't the way Caroline looked at Klaus would always be a painful reminder that she never looked at him that way.

He could smell melting chocolate as he approached the door, he saw her walk out of the kitchen and into her room, she had flour on her cheek.

He knocked the door once and waited.

She walked out of her room and smiled as she opened the door to him.

'Hey, sorry you caught me baking?'.

She said with a smile as she turned back to the kitchen and he followed behind her after closing the front door.

'I didn't know you baked?'.

He replied as he stood in the kitchen door way and watched as she broke up more chocolate and placed it in a bowl over a pot of boiling water.

'Yeah not well but I thought Elena and Jeremy could use some comfort food after last night, so I'm making them a variety of cookies and then I'm going to go check on them, so what are you doing here?'.

'I just wanted to check on you after last night'.

She turned to look at him.

'Well, I'm not the one who lost someone last night, I'm fine it's Elena and Jeremy that I'm worried about Alaric was there family and he died'.

'Of course but you looked upset too when I dropped you home'.

'Alaric was a good man who didn't deserve any of this, I guess it just reminded me of my dad'.

He nodded and looked down as she went to turn on the oven.

'Last night at the dance, why did you look hurt when Klaus walked away from you?'.

She heard his words clearly and turned back to look at him, he wasn't looking down but right at her his eyes watching her.

'Hurt, I wasn't hurt he was just being Klaus'.

He scoffed.

'What does that even mean because he's a different Klaus when he's around you'.

'Yes he's acts different but he's still the same Klaus at the end of the day, why are you getting so mad, I've told you nothing is going on between me and him'.

'I don't believe you Caroline, I wish that I could but I don't and you may say that nothing is going on between you and him but I know that your lying to me and last night you confirmed my thoughts'.

'How because I looked hurt, trust me if you had heard what he said you would have been hurt too'.

'That's the thing I couldn't hear and I couldn't figure it out until earlier his witch did a spell didn't she to let you two talk'.

'I don't know what your talking about Tyler'.

She didn't know what to say to him but she could feel the tears in her eyes and he could see them too, he saw her top lip quiver and he knew.

'How long?'.

'It's not what you think'.

'It's not what I think, he's manipulated you Caroline, made you believe his lies, his promises, none of it is real'.

'You think he's compelled me, he hasn't it's not manipulation, he cares about me'.

'He cares about you, he knows nothing about caring, he's made you fall for his crap and your not going to be free from him'.

'Maybe I don't want to be free from him, I want to be with him, I've fallen for him'.

'Caroline you haven't fallen for him, you've fallen for what he's made you believe'

'No it's not, he let me go Tyler he let me get back with you even though it was tearing us both apart, I hated being apart from him and being with you, letting you touch me or kiss me when I wanted him and only him'.

She couldn't take it back, the words had already left her mouth before she even had a chance to stop them and Tyler stared at her in shock but he stepped towards her and put his hands on her face, forcing her to look at him.

'What has he done to you?'.

'So your all packed and ready to leave?'.

Ana asked as she folded her arms across her chest while she sat on one of Klaus's crates.

'Nothing is keeping me here'.

'Your so stubborn, you risk everything for her and then you just leave her behind like she's nothing, when she is, why can't you just admit you love this girl'.

'Love is a weakness I can't afford'.

'You think love is a weakness, I think that it's illogical and powerful, love can only be a weakness if you allow it to be'.

She didn't chase after Tyler like she should have but she let him leave and returned to her baking the truth was out there now and it was up to Tyler what he would do with it not that it mattered Klaus was likely to be out of her life now and Tyler was the only one who knew how she felt even if he didn't believe it and whatever happened next belonged with him.

He could tell everyone and allow everyone to hate her or he would keep it to himself.

Neither mattered to her any more.

She was supposed to be on her way to Elena's but she needed to give something to Rebekah that was if she was still at the school.

It felt strange walking through the school, after what happened the night before.

It felt strange walking the halls knowing that Alaric would never be teaching history to anybody.

She walks past his classroom and stares into the room for a moment that is until a noise distracts her and she turns around.

But nobody is there, she looks into the classroom one final time before heading to the gym.

Rebekah has finished collecting all the rubbish from the dance and turns her head as Caroline walks into the door.

'Well I didn't think it was possible but you look worse than Nik, he told me what happened'.

Caroline nodded as she looked around the now 20's free gym.

'He won't return my calls or texts, I don't want him to leave angry at me'.

'No, you don't want him to leave at all'.

Rebekah replied and Caroline nodded.

'No I don't'.

'You know that you can't have it that way Caroline, him staying here and still seeing you in secret it won't work and you know that, my brother wants all of you not just parts of you and if you can't give him that maybe it's for the best that he leaves'.

'I know which is why I'm hoping you'll give him this'.

She took out a envelope from her pocket and handed it to Rebekah who looked at it.

'A letter?'.

'Yeah, I'm not usually the type to spill my emotions on paper but I thought he'd appreciate it'.

'He will, I better get this rubbish out of here and head home and pack, I'll give him your letter Caroline I promise'.

'Thanks will you just tell him that I'm sorry'.

'Are you sure there isn't another three words you want me to add to that I'm sorry'.

'No, I'd rather be able to tell him that myself, do you need help with these I mean I did help contribute to this mess'.

Rebekah nodded at Caroline as she picked up a couple of bags and headed out of the gym.

As she walks out of the gym she looks back at Caroline as she wipes a tear away.

As heads towards the exit, she hears the sound of footsteps running towards her but like Caroline, she turns around to find herself alone.

She ignores it and continues towards the exit but is stopped when Alaric comes out from a classroom and stands in front of her.

'Rebekah'.

She stares at Alaric.

'Your supposed to be dead'.

He turns his head slightly.

'I am'.

Caroline sees Alaric pinning Rebekah against the lockers with the stake in his arm.

She pushes Alaric away shoving him against the locker while Rebekah shoves the stake into his hand but he still moves unaffected by the stake.

She and Rebekah exchange a glance for a moment before they before run out of the school.

Elena looked at Stefan as he sat on her bed and smiled.

'I can't remember the last time we just hung out in my room'.

He nodded.

'It's been a while so have you decided what movie you want to watch yet?'.

'No, it's been so long since I've even gone to the movies I had no idea there where so many options'

'Well, we can watch as many as you want remember it's a day to be normal, your day'.

'Thanks again Stefan I don't know what I'd do without you'.

He smiled and then turned his head as the doorbell rang.

'I'll get that while you pick the three movies we will be watching'.

'Okay'.

Stefan opens the door and looks at Damon but his eyes are on Bonnie and the two very precise bite marks in her neck and then his eyes are back on his brother.

'I didn't do this'.

Rebekah startles Ana as she bursts into the study and Klaus turns to his sister as he looks through his sketch book at his sketches of Caroline, not sure whether to bring them or leave them behind.

'Alaric Saltzmen just tried to kill'.

She exclaims and Ana looks at her.

'He's supposed to be dead'.

'Well he's very much alive as a vampire thanks to mother spell with a white oak stake that can't kill him, he's strong too strong'.

'Where is he now?'.

'At the school, without a daylight ring he can't leave but once the sunsets he'll come after us, we need to leave now'.

He looks at her and nods dropping the sketch book into a box and looking at Ana.

'Fine, we'll leave but first I need to go and collect Elena'.

'Elena are you serious forget about you damn hybrids they aren't important'.

'That's where your wrong I need protection against our mothers forever ongoing assaults against us'.

'We can protect ourselves we always have'.

'No, I'm not leaving without Elena'.

Rebekah scoffed and threw Caroline's letter at him.

'You can't leave without Elena but you can leave without Caroline do what the hell you want I'm leaving now, let your spite be the death of you'.

She stormed out as Klaus picked up the letter and shoved his it into pocket and then looked at Ana.

'I don't understand how did he turn if you where keeping watch'.

Stefan demanded in a hushed tone as he handed Bonnie a cloth for her neck.

'Your blaming the wrong person here, ask Bonnie the walking talking blood bag'.

Bonnie glared at Damon.

'Look I had no idea what was happening, the witches led me there they wanted him to feed so that he would turn'.

'Okay it's not your fault, do you know where the stake is at least'.

'You mean the white oak stake that can kill an original and their entire bloodline, we have no idea'.

Bonnie doesn't ignore the look Damon throws at her as he speaks.

'You know what Damon if your so pissed at me why feed me your blood and save my life'.

'I do stupid things Bonnie, I do things like let my friend die with dignity instead of killing him myself'.

Stefan sighs as he hears Elena moving around in her room and looks at them.

'So how do we kill Alaric now?'.

'I've been thinking about that, no witch can truly make an immortal creature there is always a way to undo a spell'.

'Great so what is the witchy work around?'.

'That's the problem I have no idea'.

Elena is still looking at her laptop when her phone rings and she reaches over to answer looking at the caller I.D

'Hey Caroline, how do you feel about a movie day?'.

There is silence from the other end and then a chuckle

'She'd feel good about it if she wasn't been held up'.

She hears the voice and her blood runs cold.

'Alaric'.

'Who else would it be'.

'What are you doing with Caroline?'.

'Listen closely, I'm at the school with Caroline and if you want to keep her alive, I'm going to need to get into your car and come here right away and before you think about telling anyone what is going on here is a picture to change your mind'.

She looks at her phone and opens the message as a picture appears of Caroline with her hands staked down into a desk with pencils and a cloth in her mouth.

'Okay'.

'Good now remember if you tell anyone that will be the last image of her before I kill her'.

Elena hangs up and grabs her car keys from her desk before opening her bedroom window, thankful that she had never cut down the large tree that had offered her escape when her parents used to grounded her.

The doorbell rings and Damon and Stefan exchange glances.

'Who is that?'.

Bonnie asks as she looks up and Damon shrugs.

'Maybe it's Alaric handing over the stake'.

His voice dripping with sarcasm as Stefan goes to answer the door regretting it as he opens the door to find Klaus standing there.

'What are you doing here?'.

Klaus smirked as he looked at Stefan and then at Damon who appeared.

'Well my sister had a run in with my mother's latest creation something I'm sure you already know about and well I'm leaving town but I needed to pick up a few last minute essentials spare tyre, flash-light, doppelgänger'.

Damon glances at Stefan and then back at Klaus.

'Well we can't help you there'.

Stefan looks at Klaus as Damon shuts the door in his face.

'Elena'.

Stefan burst into her room to find it empty, he checked the bathroom and Jeremy's room before realising that her window was open.

'Elena'.

Damon looks at Stefan as he runs downstairs and looks at Damon.

'Where is she?'.

'She's not here'.

'If she's not here then where is she?'.

Damon asks and Stefan shrugs and looks at Bonnie as she walks out of the kitchen.

'What's going on?'.

She asks looking between the two of them.

'Elena's gone'.

Stefan tells her as Damon watches Klaus who is walking back and forth in front of the house with a newspaper in his hands.

'Klaus wants in and we have to keep him out'.

Just as he speaks Klaus pulls back his arm and throws the newspaper towards the window.

It smashes through the window and flies into the house.

Stefan grabs Bonnie as Damon ducks what used to be the window.

She can feel the pain shooting through her body as she opens her eyes and looks at her hands and her first thought is to attempt to escape but as she can't and the taste of the vervain is burning her mouth and then she notices Alaric sitting in front of her.

With the stake in his hands and when he notices that she's awake he puts it down and stands up.

'Your awake and just in time too'.

As he goes to sit back down at his desk, she looks at him as the tears roll down her cheek.

Elena runs into the school and towards Alaric's classroom, she can hear Caroline crying as she enters the classroom.

'Caroline'.

Caroline looks at Elena as she comes into the room and closes her eyes.

'Alaric I'm here let her go'.

Elena snaps as she turns to look at him and he shrugs as he points towards Caroline with the stake.

'Free her yourself'.

Elena looks at him and then moves cautiously over to Caroline.

'Your going to be okay'.

She tells Caroline as she strokes her arm soothingly, she hears Caroline wince as she starts to slowly remove one of the pencils from her hand.

'I'm sorry'.

She mouths as she continues but Alaric comes up behind her and slams the pencil back down into Caroline's hand who screams out in pain.

Elena turns to look at Alaric.

'You said that you would let her go.

Alaric rolls his eyes as he stares at her.

'When are you going to learn Elena?, stop trusting vampires'.

Klaus stares at what once used to be a living room window.

'I think you probably going to want to invite me in'.

'She snuck out without us knowing, why?'.

Stefan asks and Bonnie shrugs.

'Why wouldn't she tell us where she was going?'.

Suddenly there is a loud crash as the front door bursts open and a football comes flying in.

Klaus storms up the front steps holding two pickets of a fence in his hands.

He hurls one of them into the house and it narrowly misses Damon's head and gets jammed into the wall behind him.

Stefan pushes Bonnie down to the ground as Damon stands up and pulls the picket from the wall and glares at Klaus.

'Missed me'.

He throws it back at Klaus, it grazes over his shoulder and he looks at Damon as he breaks the other picket into two and throws half of it at Damon.

Missing again as it hits a picture which falls to the floor and breaks.

'Missed me again'.

Stefan feels his phone vibrating and pulls it out to answer it as Damon continues to taunt Klaus.

'Alaric'.

Klaus storms up the steps with a propane tank and a newspaper which he is using as a torch.

When Stefan comes to the front door.

'Put it out'.

Klaus looks at him.

'Come outside and make me'.

Stefan steps outside and comes towards him.

'Elena isn't here. Alaric has her and Caroline and he's going to kill them both unless you turn yourself over to him'.

Klaus throws the propane tank and the newspaper to the ground and looks at Stefan.

'Now I know that your not asking me to walk into a certain death'

'I wish we could but if unfortunately, if Alaric kills you there's a one in four chance that we die too'.

Klaus looks as Damon walks out with a picket in his hands.

'I'll take those odds'.

Stefan looks at Damon.

'And 100% that Tyler dies'.

'I'm good with that too'.

Stefan ignores Damon and looks back at Klaus.

'This isn't helping we need to figure out a way to put Alaric down'.

Klaus looks at them and nods.

'How about this Damon sneaks in and distracts Alaric while Stefan grabs Elena and carries her to safety'.

Damon looks at Klaus.

'What's to stop me not getting killed instantly'.

'Nothing'.

'What about Caroline, she's in there I mean don't you have a thing for her or has she rejected you too many times'.

This is when Stefan noticed the look that Klaus got in his eyes.

'This isn't helping the situation'.

They turn and look at Bonnie as she walks out of the house.

'I have an idea, my mum used a desiccation spell on Mikael that immobilized him for over 15 years, If I can figure out how it worked then I might be able to use it on Alaric'.

Klaus looks at her.

'If and might?, your words inspire such confidence'.

'That's why she called me'.

He turns and looks at Ana who looks down at the propane tank on the floor and then back at him.

'Really you thought destruction would get you what you wanted'.

Stefan and Damon look at her and then at Bonnie.

'I can do it but even with the spell, we'll need a lot of vampire muscle to take him down and that includes yours'.

Klaus turns to look at Ana.

'You have no choice'.

'Fine but just so we're clear, the sunsets in around 6 hour, if we don't succeed before then, Elena and Caroline will be dead, I'll be gone and the rest of you will be left to fend for yourselves'.

Elena sits beside Caroline and looks at her friend.

This shouldn't be happening to her and not to Alaric expect this isn't the Alaric she knew he died the moment he fed.

This was something else darker who didn't care about who he hurt.

Alaric looks at two of them as he dips the cloth that was in Caroline's mouth into vervain.

He looks up at Caroline as he walks back over to her with the cloth and she shakes her head at him.

'No, no more please, no more'.

Elena can't help but cry as Caroline glances over at her, the skin around her mouth is red raw and is peeling away in places.

She gets up to stop Alaric.

'Alaric please stop'.

He pushes her back down into her chair.

'Sit, this keeps the vervain in her system. It's like inhaling razorblades with every breath'.

He forces the cloth back into Caroline's mouth, the smell of her burning flesh is all Elena can smell as Caroline screams out in pain.

It's all she can do but Elena touches her arm.

'Why are you doing this to her, you know Caroline'.

He nods.

'I do know Caroline but not as well as you do, I'm doing this to make it easier for you when you have to put her out of her misery'.

He picks up the white oak stake and walks over to Elena.

'What I'd never kill her, she's my friend'.

'No Elena she is a vampire, I mean you wanted me to teach how to kill a vampire, well all I see is a vampire when I look at her so kill her'.

'No this isn't what I wanted, I wanted to protect myself not kill innocent'.

'Innocent what because she is far from innocent, you don't know anything about your friend, the lies she tells or the secrets she keeps'.

Damon and Ana are standing together while Bonnie paces back and forth, he glances at the clock.

'Well this is promising'.

'Her mum will be here'.

Damon looks at her.

'I don't get it why are you helping us, why do you care if Klaus lives or dies'.

'I care because my sister is vampire, Klaus turned her because I begged him too'.

'Why would you ask him to do that?'.

'Your know what it's like being the big brother you'd do anything to protect Stefan even if you two are at odds over Elena, well I'm the little sister who wouldn't have coped if I couldn't save my big sister, she was attacked because of me and she was left for dead and I tried every type of magic to save her but she just got closer and closer to death and Klaus was the only one who would help me and he did'.

'His blood would have saved her, why turn her, I mean was it worth it'.

'She isn't a witch she can't protect herself not the way I can and I knew the people that attacked her would only do it again and I know it was wrong for me to ask Klaus to kill my sister but I had too and I know it was selfish but I'd rather a sister who is a vampire than a sister who is buried and it wasn't worth it after she turned and I made her a daylight ring, she left me behind and I was alone, that was three years ago'.

'You know I hated Stefan after he made me turn, she'll forgive you'.

'Did you forgive Stefan?'.

He shrugged.

'I'm working on it, you don't seem all the bad I mean you seem to be the only person to be able to keep Klaus in check but I still don't get why you help him, you know the pain he's caused here'.

She nods.

'I do but I don't see good or bad, he earned my trust, just like I'm earning yours by helping save Elena, I work on trust Damon that's why I help him and that's why I'm helping you but I'm also helping for Bonnie, she has nobody to help through and I know what that's like'.

The doorbell rings and they watch as Bonnie answers the door and Abby looks at her daughter and then at Damon and Ana.

'Hello Bonnie'.

'Thanks for coming'.

Abby nods.

'Jamie called me said it was urgent, I wasn't sure you'd want to see me again'.

'Like Jamie said it's urgent, come in'.

She turns around and Abby follows her into the house closing the door.

'This Ana, she's a witch too'.

Ana smiles at Abby as they are introduced and Abby smiles.

'Why didn't I have to be invited in'.

Bonnie looks uneasy.

'Only vampires live here'.

As if on cue Damon walks in with a glass of blood.

'Well it was once Elena's but she died and the seal broke long story, would you like a glass'.

He asks her as he eyes go to the glass and she shakes her head.

'Okay more for me'.

He sits down as Ana sits on the arm of the chair beside him giving him a look which he ignores.

'I called you here because I need your help with a spell, Esther created another vampire a very powerful and dangerous vampire and he's going to hurt the people I care about.

I want to desiccate him like you did with Mikael'.

Abby looks at Bonnie.

'It's too dangerous, your magic comes from the Earth, it's pure. This spell requires you tap into dark places a place of temptation, places you can't handle'.

'You turned you back on me for 16 years, you have no idea what I can handle'.

Ana looks between them both.

'Maybe you should have a little more faith in your daughter'.

'I'm sorry but your not from around here I know things are different where you come from there is no balance between good and dark magic but my daughter has no idea the temptation she will feel if she does this'.

'Maybe I don't but I know what the temptation feels like I'll help her through it'.

Bonnie looks at Ana and smiles.

'The spell allows you to stop a vampire's heart. The blood will stop flowing and his body will desiccate'.

'That's what we want to do'.

'To stop a vampire's heart, you need to find a balance among the living. Can you handle that?'.

Bonnie looks at her.

'What does that mean I don't speak witch'.

Ana looks at Damon.

'She has to stop a human heart'.

Stefan and Klaus are standing in the parking lot of Mystic Falls High.

'Abby told them what they needed to do'.

'Well looks like this won't be a failure after all, you know if this does go the way you planned and we drop the history teacher in the Atlantic, I'm still leaving with Elena.

'What about Caroline'.

Klaus ignores Stefan.

'It's true isn't it you and her'.

'There is no me and Caroline'.

'I'd believe you but I don't, what have you done to her Klaus'.

Klaus scoffs and looks at him.

'I didn't do anything to her, she doesn't want to leave with me end of story but Elena will be leaving with me regardless'.

'Then I'll go with you'.

Klaus looks at him.

'What's the catch'.

'No catch, I'll turn my back on everything here to make sure Elena's safe'.

Klaus nods.

'That right there is why you will always be her better option'.

She sits in the classroom, his eyes on her face and her best friend sitting beside her.

If she had only gone straight to Elena's instead of coming to the school none of this would be happening.

Then she thought if she had agreed to leave with him, she wouldn't even be anywhere near Mystic Falls at all but then her friends would be and Alaric would have killed them all in his hunt for Klaus.

She couldn't think about that, she couldn't think about him without feeling guilty.

If she didn't make it to the end of the day, it wouldn't matter about the guilt she felt, she'd be dead and Tyler could tell them the truth.

Jeremy was sitting outside the school, he could see Klaus and Stefan but turned his head when he saw Bonnie walking towards him with Ana and Damon.

'Hand it over, Little Gilbert'.

Jeremy shakes his head.

'No way, I'm not giving you my ring'.

'Hmm, well considering that Alaric used to wear a ring just like yours and he died more than you have and he was wearing this thing and he he developed some psycho alter ego and then let's say Bonnie does the spell and for some reason can't restart your heart, we'll have another alter ego on our hands which I don't want so give me the ring'.

'No, Elena is my family, none of you are going to fight harder for her than me'.

Damon rolls his eyes he has no energy to argue with Jeremy and instead looks at Ana.

'Make sure she doesn't kill him'.

'Well aren't we just one happy family'.

Bonnie looks at Klaus as she pulls out a small vial of her blood.

'Drink this, it's my blood it bridge us all together so when I stop Jeremy's heart you'll have enough power to stop Alaric's.

Your going to need to make a physical connection to his bloodstream'.

She hands the vial to Damon who takes some and then hands it to Stefan.

'If one of us gets a clean shot, take it and the other two hold him down'.

He drinks from the vial and hands it to Klaus who pauses before drinking it.

'Before we do this let me just clear up a few things for you, I am the creator of your vampire bloodline, which means I am responsible for your lives, Tyler's life,Caroline's life and of course your dear mother, I just thought you should know in case something goes wrong'.

'Or your just lying to save yourself'.

'Call my bluff let Alaric kill me, you'll all die shortly after'.

He drinks the last of the blood.

'Let's get this over with'.

Stefan tells them as he turns to walk away with Damon and Klaus following after him.

Jeremy looks at Ana.

'Who are you?'.

'She's a friend who is going to help make sure nothing goes wrong'.

'I don't get why you want me to kill her, your the hunter you kill her'.

Alaric chuckles.

'That would be to easy beside I was training you to kill vampires, I've killed enough, you need me Elena you have no sense of what is right or wrong'.

'I know that this is wrong and that the real you would do the right thing and let Caroline go'.

'She's a murderer Elena, she's killed before and she even admitted to me that she liked it, she took a innocent life how is that right.

Your parents would be so disappointed in you Elena, they worked to protect this town from vampires they where dead all of 6 months before you undid all their hard work'.

'You know nothing about my parents'.

'I know how ashamed they would be of their daughter the vampire sympathiser, you don't think they'd be proud of you do you?, falling in love with vampires, caring for them.

He gets out of his seat and knells in front of her.

'Your just as bad as them but you don't have to be all you have to do is drive this stake through her heart and kill her if you don't I will and you know I'll make it hurt'.

'I'm not killing her'.

He glares at her darkly.

'Yes you are, get up'.

He grabs her hand pulling her out of her seat and forces her to stand in front of Caroline as he shoves the stake into her hand

She holds the stake in her hand for a moment as Caroline looks at her with pleading eyes and then she turns to stab Alaric but he has her wrist before she can even make the move.

'I'm disappointed I thought I taught you better than that'.

'You did'.

She grabs the beaker of vervain and slams into his face causing to break as the glass cuts his skin and the vervain starts to burn his flesh.

He screams out in pain as Elena works at freeing Caroline, who winches in pain as Elena removes the pencils from her hands and the cloth from her mouth.

'Go get help'.

Caroline runs out of the room before Alaric has a chance to block her path.

She runs but stops when she realises that Elena isn't behind her.

She walks backwards in the hope that Elena will round the corner after her but she doesn't and instead someone grabs Caroline and pulls her backwards.

He sees her as she moves backwards cautiously and grabs her protectively, he hears the scream that is building in her throat and covers her mouth before it can leave.

'It's okay, it's okay it's me'.

He whispers comfortingly into her ear as he holds her close to him as other arm around her waist, he can feel her body shaking with fear.

He is hear saving her life, she never expected to see him again let alone there.

Alaric would kill him.

She watches him as he takes his hand from her mouth and looks back to see if anyone is coming, she copies him but nobody is coming towards them.

'Your safe, we'll save Elena, you go straight home, stay inside do you understand me?'.

She can hear the demand and the concern in his voice but it's the edge of danger but she can't respond, she doesn't want him to go after Alaric, she wants him to take her away.

He spins her around forcing her not only to look at him but also so that he can look at her and he in filled with the needed to rip Alaric apart as she stands frozen in front of him.

'Do you understand me?'.

He asks again and she nods but he can't help but stare at her face, he reaches out to touch her skin his fingers touch it her face lightly and she whimpers in pain as he touches his hand with her own and he stares at the puncture wounds from the pencil on her hand.

'What has he done to you?'.

He whispers to her as his lips touch hers and there is a sting of vervain as he kisses her but he doesn't care, she lets him hold her tighter than he has ever had before and then he pulls back and looks at her.

'Go'.

'Thank you'.

He stares at her and then disappears leaving her standing there before she runs.

He hears the Damon voice followed by the snapping of bones and finds Stefan and Damon laying on the ground beside Alaric.

His hand sinks into Alaric's chest as he glares at him, Alaric gasps as Klaus grips at his heart.

He feels the bones in his hand snap as Alaric fights back and throws him aside as if he is nothing.

His body slamming against the lockers behind him, he tries to get to his feet back Alaric is there stake at the ready as he flips him onto his back ready to deliver that final blow.

He fights him but Alaric is strong but Klaus refuses to die this way at the hands of Alaric.

'Stop'.

They both look at Elena, he can't help but think how pathetic it is that she assumes that she can stop Alaric.

But it makes sense everything she is saying his mother wouldn't have used her if she wasn't needed and that was what he needed to hear and the weakness that Alaric needed as he let his guard down giving him the upper hand as he shoves Alaric away and grabs Elena.

She stands in her bedroom alone, nobody is answering there phones, she doesn't know if anything has happened to him.

He had never looked more beautiful her to than in that moment before he disappeared, he looked tortured and full of rage but his eyes where soft, caring and she would be haunted by his face forever if that was going to the be the last image of him she would have.

He stood over Elena as she was drained of her blood.

Caroline would never forgive him for this move but Alaric seemed to be unstoppable and the only way for him to cease to exist was if Elena was dead and her death was the only thing that stood between him and death.

His mother wasn't going to win not this time, she had tried to many times to kill him and this was just another failed attempt.

He looked at Elena and then towards the clock, only a hour before sunset.

She knows what he told her to do stay inside but hopes that there is a chance he is at home, she throws her bag into the back of the car.

Three envelopes one for her mum, one for Tyler and the other for Elena.

She calls his phone as she drives and it rings which is a good sign.

It's impossible that Tyler has broken the sire bond but he doesn't care he's had enough of Tyler Lockwood and doesn't care either way about the sire bond he just wants this boy dead.

He locks eyes with Stefan as his once friend hand clutches at his heart while Damon and Tyler his arms.

She hears the sound of his scream and runs into the house but hides in the shadows as she watches, it's all she can do she can't do anything to stop what is happening right in front of her eyes.

He senses that she's there even though they don't and for a moment his eyes on her face as a tear rolls down her cheek and her hand is at her mouth to stop the sob that is developing in the back of her throat.

His heartbeat speeds up and she can't block out the sound and then it's done and she watches Tyler lay his body on the ground and then she runs out of the house.

Stefan stares at his body and notices the envelope that is in his pocket and picks it up as Tyler comes up behind him and shoves it in his pocket.

'She's free now'.

Stefan looks at him and then back at Klaus's body and nods.

'We're all free'.

Her phone lays broken in pieces in the corner of her room, she had thrown it against the wall after Elena had called her to tell her that Klaus was finally out their lives and that she should come over to the house for a victory party.

A victory party, the victory was there's not hers, she had nothing to celebrate.

They had taken him from her, she stares at her reflection in the cracked mirror, her eyes are red and her tears burn her skin almost like they are vervain.

Her room is a disaster zone, she has broken everything, her head is screaming at her.

She sees the drawing of her he gave her and screams as she slams her fists into her dresser causing the wood to break.

She cries his name but knows he's not coming back.

Stefan told Damon to take Elena home leaving him with Klaus's body, he opens the letter and stares at Caroline's handwriting.

Klaus.

I'm sorry but I can't leave my friends and I know that you don't understand that

but they are my family and I love them, they have always stuck by my side when I've needed them the most and they need me right now.

I know that you think they will turn there backs on me, if they knew the truth and your right but even though I've been lying to them to protect you.

I've been protecting them too.

I've risked everything by being with you and I never thought that I would be that girl who lies to her friends but I lie to them because I love you and they wouldn't believe that is possible.

Why could I love a monster, a person who has brought nothing but pain and misery to their lives.

Are you worth it?.

Yes.

After being second choice for so long, I was your first choice and I will never really understand that but you saw

I would have left with you and let you show me the world but I'm not ready to say goodbye to Mystic Falls yet, it's my home.

I wish you answer your phone, I'd hate you to leave not knowing how I really felt and I'd hate to know that you left angry at me.

If things where different, who knows what would have happened.

I'm not sorry for how things started, I'm really not.

I'm glad I took a chance on you and let you in.

Maybe one day in the future.

We'll cross paths.

Who knows.

I love you.

Caroline.

Sorry for the long wait with this chapter but it's finally here, So it looks like Stefan knows the truth what do you think he is going to do now that he knows.

Ana will be a big part of this story and her sister will be making an appearance in the future.

The next chapter will include Stefan going to Caroline, Rebekah finding out about what has happened and will include another character finding out about Caroline and Klaus.