I Come Apart
'Caroline it's Stefan we need to talk?'.
He left the message and looked at Damon as he got back in the car, they where just outside Mystic Falls with Klaus body in the back of the car.
The plan was to dump his body in the Atlantic and the further away they got from Mystic Falls, he started to wonder if they where doing the right thing.
Was dumping Klaus's body in the Atlantic really the best idea.
Damon looked at his brother.
'Why are you brooding more than usual we should be celebrating, we are one evil vampire down?'.
Stefan looked at him and shrugged as he went to speak, his phone started to ring.
'Jeremy, what's wrong?'.
He asked as he put the phone on loud speaker in the background he could hear the sound of hospital intercom.
'It's Elena'.
She is at home when her house phone starts to ring over and over again, she plans to ignore it until she hears her mum's voice over the answer machine.
'Mum what's going on?'.
She asks trying to hide the fact that she has been crying from her voice.
'Alaric has outed you and Tyler to council, they are looking for Caroline you need to get out of Mystic Falls'.
'Mum'.
'No honey listen, I need you not to worry about me and just do as I say'.
She stood in the middle of the room, all the boxes remained in the exact same place she had seen them in earlier expect now Klaus wasn't there.
'Nik'.
She called out his name expecting him to respond when she heard footsteps behind her she spun around and found Ana staring at her.
'He's gone, Rebekah'.
'What do you mean gone?'.
'The Salvatore's have him, they've desiccated him'.
She feels Rebekah's hand around her throat as she starts to choke her.
'Your lying'.
'No I'm not, they wanted to desiccate the teacher but when Klaus took Elena it changed, I was helping Bonnie but I had no idea what was going to happen I wouldn't betray Klaus that way'.
'Where are they?'.
Rebekah loosened her grip on Ana's throat who coughed a few times.
'The plan was to drop his body in the Atlantic'.
Rebekah nodded and looked at Ana before turning away and calling someone.
'I need you, Elijah, it's Nikklaus'.
'Caroline'.
Tyler walks into the darkness that is her home, he knows about Alaric revealing there true nature to the council and is concerned when she doesn't answer her phone especially.
He walks towards her room, glass crunches underneath his feet as he walks into her room and turns on the light.
She is nowhere to be seen but there is broken glass covering the floor, he sees her phone broken in the corner, clothes are scattered across the bed and then he is overwhelmed by the strong scent of blood.
He pushes open the bathroom door to find a body on the ground, it's not Caroline but her victim.
He hears someone behind him and spins around to find Stefan standing there.
'Where is she?'.
She walks into the bar, dark sunglasses cover her eyes as she goes to the bar.
'What can I get you?'.
The bartender asks her and she points to the bottle of scotch behind him, it's not cheap it's the most expensive bottle in the place and it was his favourite.
'I'm going to need some I.D'.
She doesn't respond but lowers her sunglasses and stares at him for a moment before he hands her the bottle.
She places her sunglasses back over her eyes and pours the drink into the glass that has just appeared in front of her.
She knows that she should keep running, it's risky coming out at night with Alaric still out there but she has no idea where she running to.
She has know nobody to turn to he's been taken way from her and she's alone and they celebrated why she fell apart.
She never intended to hurt the kill the women that was walking her dog as she prepared to leave but she couldn't help it but something inside of her had snapped, happiness meant nothing to her not when she had to suffer for an eternity alone.
She hears laughing behind her and turns her head and stares at a young couple in the corner and is instantly filled with rage, why should they get to be happy while she suffers in her misery.
Tyler looks at the note and then back at Stefan.
'It was never compulsion, Tyler she really does love him'.
'She can't there has to be something else, something that we don't know, Stefan she killed someone, she would never do that'.
Stefan shakes his head.
'Tyler, she's not thinking right now, I don't think this has anything to do with Klaus having something over her, it has more to do with the fact that she is in pain, it's a cry for help, she's falling apart and there is nobody to pick up the pieces, her pain is intensified right now and I know how that feels'.
'How could she love him, I just don't understand?'.
Stefan nodded.
'I know how your feeling, I feel the same way about Elena and Damon, I don't get how she could have feelings for him, I think Caroline fell for Klaus at a time when she needed you the most and in the process she fell in love with him'.
'How?'.
'I don't know but I know that Caroline is hurt, she's been forced to leave the place she calls home and she has nobody to turn too'.
They both went silent as Tyler looked around her room and his eyes landed on a broken photo frame and the picture that it contained.
'Have you told anyone?'.
'No, Damon would kill her, Elena and Bonnie would hate her'.
'Don't you hate her?'.
'No, I can't because I failed her, I made her a promise that I would always be there for her if she needed me and I let her down and I helped push her into Klaus's arms, we all did and I'm not going to blame her for something, I could have stopped'.
She stares at the two drained bodies at her feet as she wipes the last drop of blood from her lips and then casually steps over their bodies as if they are not there.
No amount of blood and expensive scotch can fill the hole in her heart.
She can't think about him because it causes her too much pain.
She heads back to her car, ready to put as much distance as she can between her and Mystic Falls.
Ana stands in the Gilbert living room, while Elijah makes the deal with Elena.
She was surprised that Elena would agree to Elijah's terms but then he has always been the most fair out of the originals.
She sees Stefan standing behind her and turns to look at him.
'Ana, why are you helping us again?'.
'Why not'.
She replied looking back at photo's of Elena and Jeremy.
'I'm not a bad person Stefan even if you seem to think that I am'.
He stepped closer to her.
'I need you to be honest with me'.
She turned to look at him and nodded.
'Okay, I'm guessing this is about Klaus and Caroline and whether or not she was compelled'.
'Yes'.
Ana sighed.
'Yes she was compelled but only once and that was to protect you, he never compelled her before that and he didn't want to compel her then but she begged him, she was keeping you safe, I know that it's hard to believe and I barely know Caroline but she loves you all and she felt guilty for betraying you but she couldn't live if he was dead and now tell me Stefan if you where in her shoes wouldn't you risk everything to keep everyone you care about safe even if means betraying them'.
Stefan looked at her.
'Caroline's my friend and I will be there for but I can't speak for everyone else'.
Ana nodded and then turned as Elijah walked into the room with Elena and Matt who still wasn't best pleased with the arrangement.
'So what do we do now?'.
Ana asked and Elijah looked at her.
'Damon is meeting up with Bonnie as we speak'.
'Okay, do you need me to do anything?'.
Elijah looked at her and then Stefan.
'I will need your help finding Caroline, we will need a lot of vampire strength to bring down Alaric and I've been informed that she's missing'.
Elena looked at Stefan.
'What do you mean Caroline's missing?'.
Her voice panicked, she had thought it was strange that she hadn't seen her friend but after her ordeal earlier she thought she maybe resting and now she was finding out that nobody knew where Caroline was.
'Alaric outed her and Tyler to the council, I went to her house to find her but she was gone'.
'Oh my god'.
Elena sat on the side of the chair and looked at Stefan.
'How do we get her back?
She asked Stefan concerned about her friend.
The plan was to put distance between herself and Mystic Falls but she can't do it, even though she wanted to.
There was something calling her back and she had tried to ignore it but she couldn't she had pulled up on the side of the road screaming for the voice to go but it refused it was on a constant loop calling her back.
She didn't know what it was but the further she got away from Mystic Falls the more she yearned to go back.
He had promised to be the one to take her away from Mystic Falls, show her the beauty of the world that was around.
She arrives back in Mystic Falls the voice isn't as constant as it once was but it's still calling her and she heads to the place that she is being drawn too.
It's not the same without him, the house doesn't feel welcoming any more, it just feels cold and she is engulfed by her pain as she walks through the darkness.
She wraps her arms around herself as if to protect herself from the pain as she walks through the house.
She stares at the ground, he stood there a few short hours ago staring at her as they took her from him and the tears sting her eyes, she needs to get out of the room.
She finds comfort in his room, everything is still boxed up ready for his departure that never came.
She climbs into his bed and curls up holding herself as she touches the empty space beside her, his space.
She has only spent one night in this bed the night, she came to him ready to give herself to him completely.
She cries more as she remembers back to that night and turns away from the empty space behind her.
Rebekah isn't exactly impressed when Damon calls her to come and retrieve her brother's body, her mind races of the things she should do to Damon but she doesn't care for revenge right now, she wants her brother back where he belongs, she can save revenge for another day.
She hides in the darkness as the door opens and someone walks in.
She is ready to attack if she has too.
'You have no need to fear me, I'm not here to hurt you'.
She walks out from the darkness and faces the person and is greeted by a soft smile.
'Elijah'.
She isn't sure how to greet him, they have never been officially introduced.
'Hello Caroline'.
'Hello'.
She responds as he walks towards her.
'Your wondering how I found you?'.
She nods and he smiles.
'Ana helped me, she drew you back home through this'.
He hands her the bracelet that Klaus gave her and that she threw back at him after the ball and he sees the tears in her eyes.
'I've heard lot about you from Ana and Rebekah'.
'So you know'.
He nods.
'Yes, I was surprised that Nikklaus had fallen for a women, he swore never to love again not after Tatia but yet here you stand'.
'I don't know if he loved me, he never told me'.
'You love him, that I can see otherwise you wouldn't be here'.
'I still don't know why I'm here'.
Elijah looked at her and motioned to the bed for her to sit down which she did.
'I've made a deal with Elena, that she will return my brother's body to me in return and I will leave Mystic Falls along with my siblings, I promised her that I will not revive Nikklaus during her or her children's lifetime'.
'Why are you telling me this, I want him back'.
He nods and leans down in front of her.
'I'm willing to make a deal with you and reunite you with my brother but I need to be convinced that he's truly worthy'.
She shakes her head.
'I can't betray them again, they would never forgive me for this but I don't know if I can carry on without him and I know all the pain and suffering he has caused not just to them but to you his family and it would be selfish of me to even consider putting my needs above everyone else, I would rather be alone and wait for you to revive him than be selfish and make a deal with you and revive him myself, just so I can be with him again, I can't do it even if I live with this ache in my heart for the next 100 years, I will just because I know one day, he'll be back with me'.
Elijah sighs thoughtfully.
'My brother is very lucky to have a women, so honest, I never thought it would happen that a women would truly accept him for the evil he has done'.
'I can't change the past what's he done and I can't change him but I know he cares about me, he would be here with me if I just left with him, if I didn't care so much'.
'Caring doesn't make you weak, Caroline and nobody can change Nikklaus, 1000 years has taught me that, if you won't consider my offer I wish to make you another but first your friends need your help'.
She agreed to help them take out Alaric of course she would, he was the only thing standing between her and being reunited with Klaus.
She stands alone in the woods, Elijah is with Ana who was waiting for them when she arrived.
She knows that he is behind her and turns to face him.
'Caroline'.
'Stefan'.
She replies, she knows that he knows and is ready for the full blown force of whatever he has to say but he doesn't say anything as he steps towards her and looks at her.
'I want to be mad at you, you have no idea but I can't Caroline, I may not understand how this happened you and Klaus but I don't want to see you hurt again'.
'I never meant to fall in love with him, it just happened I guess I don't know and I can't stop loving him and I know that your going to hate me and I guess I deserve it, I haven't been a good friend to any of you'.
'Caroline, you are a good friend, believe me and how it happened is our fault, you never wanted to be used to distract him but we made you do it'.
'I had a choice I could have said no and I'm sorry, I don't know what else to say, I'm going to lose everyone once the truth is out'.
'What do you mean once the truth is out?'.
She rans a hand through her hair and looks at him.
'I made a deal with Elijah, I'm leaving with them too, I can't stay here Stefan not without him and I know the terms of the deal Elijah made with Elena and those still stand Klaus won't be revived, I swear and even when he is I promise I will make sure he never comes back to Mystic Falls'.
'Caroline you don't have to do this, you haven't lost everyone I will be here for you no matter what happens'.
'Thank you Stefan but I can't ask you to do that Stefan, I've made my choice I can't stay here for the rest of my life being miserable, I'd rather leave with Elijah and wait for the day that I'm reunited with him, I know that I'm going to be waiting forever till he's awakened but I can cope more with that than not ever being with him again and I know what your thinking is he worth it and he is Stefan, I've never had someone want me for me until now and I'm not ready to let go of that, I can't walk away from what we had it's real'.
Stefan nods, he understands he could never live without Elena but deep down he knows there is going to come a day when he will and unlike Caroline he knows that a day won't come when they will be reunited.
'Caroline I understand more than you know but you will always have a friend here'.
She hugs him and he holds her tighter.
'Thank you'.
She tried and failed, she may have been angry with him but he wasn't supposed to die this way.
She screams in pain and in anger as rushes to get to her feet save her brother but it's too late.
She can only sit back and watch as Alaric opens the casket.
He's cold and uncaring as he ignores the pleas of both Rebekah and Damon, he merely glances over at them for a second as he pulls the stake from his pocket and looks back over Klaus's body.
It happens in the blink of an eye but Rebekah hears his final breath and she fights against Damon to get to her brother but Damon refuses to let her go and she continues to scream as she overwhelmed by the smell of fire and burning flesh.
Alaric coldly slams down the lid of the casket and turns to them.
'Run Rebekah now'.
She hears Damon's words but she can't leave but Damon pushes her to run and she does.
'No it's not true your lying?'.
Stefan and Elijah have no idea how to help Caroline as she falls to her knees in front of them
She is hysterical the ache in her heart has been replaced with a fire, it's painful and engulfing her in flames.
'Caroline, they tried but Alaric'.
'No, he can't be dead, he can't be dead'.
Stefan leans to the ground and looks at his friend, her eyes are darker than he's ever seen them the pain of all the events of the day have beaten her, there is no hope left in her, she knows that he is dead and he can see that in her eyes but to accept his death would break her.
He takes her hands and looks at Elijah.
'I need to get her out of here'.
Elijah nods, he still in shock, him and Klaus may have had their differences but they where brothers, family that loved each other and he had now lost a second brother in the space of a few weeks.
He helps Caroline to her feet, her cries are heartbreaking and there is nothing he can do to stop her pain, not that it matters if Klaus truly was the creator of their bloodline they would both die and in that moment as she walks slowly beside him she stops and look at him.
'Tyler'.
Before he can say anything she's gone from his side.
She has no idea where he could possibly be, she hasn't seen him at all but has a idea where he could be and heads there.
Tyler hears her crying before he sees her and turns to look at her.
'Caroline, what's happened?'.
He asks as she rushes to embrace him still crying.
'Klaus is dead'.
She barely gets the words out before she feels like everything is falling on top of her.
He looks at her and turns away so not to face her.
'Your going to be fine, Caroline'.
'I don't care about me Tyler, I can't lose you too'.
He catches her just in time before she collapses to the ground and forces her to look at him.
'I'm already lost Caroline, but it doesn't have to be that way for you.
You're strong and you have a beautiful future ahead of you'.
She shakes her head at his statement.
'I have no future not without him, not without my friends I can't do it, I'm better of dead'.
'Don't you ever say that Caroline, the world needs your lightness in it, promise me that when this is over you will live the life your destined to live and you won't think about the tragedy of this day'.
'I never told him that I loved him, he died not knowing'.
Tyler touches her face and she looks at him.
'I'm sure he knew'.
He smiles at her but it falters as he grips his chest and gasps in pain.
'TYLER'.
She looks at him as he collapses to his knees, holding his chest as he looks at her.
'Don't you feel anything?'.
He asks and she shakes her head, she feels nothing, she goes to him but his eyes have changed.
'Tyler'.
'Go Caroline and don't look back'.
'I can't leave you not alone, not like this'.
'Yes you will get out of here, you don't have to watch me die'.
She is torn between staying and leaving but she can't listen to his screams as she hears his bones start to crack and she runs.
Caroline had lost him twice and was running from Alaric and the council, Tyler was dead, Klaus was dead everything had fallen apart nothing would ever be the same again.
Ana outside in the darkness waiting, she turns around when she hears someone approaching her and looks at Bonnie.
'Thank you Bonnie'.
'I don't understand it but I couldn't do that let him die, not just for Caroline but for my mum, Stefan,Tyler and even Damon, they don't deserve to die just because he created them and she doesn't deserve to die because she loves him'.
'I understand'.
'Have you found Caroline, I can't get a read on her?'.
'No, Bonnie you know that I could have done this it wasn't your responsibility'.
Bonnie nods as they both look towards the Lockwood Cellar.
'I had to do this, for my friends for my mum, it had to be me.'
'I must say I was impressed'.
They both look towards the cellar and at Tyler.
'I didn't think you had it in you to perform such spell'.
'I did it to save my mum, my friends, her sister and for Caroline I may not understand how she cares for you but she does and I did this to save the people I love not for you'.
Klaus smirks and looks at Ana.
'You know the spirits won't be happy with you for what has happened here'.
Bonnie nods.
'They don't get to tell me what to do any-more, I'm done getting pushed around by all of you, I did this because I wanted too'.
Poor Caroline, she's lost everything or so it seems.
The next Chapter is coming soon, Elena storyline of becoming a vampire will be mentioned but not explored the next chapter is very Caroline centric.
Elena will find out about Klaus & Caroline through Rebekah.
Ana's sister is going to make a surprise appearance.
Caroline and Klaus will be reunited in the very best way possible.
