Never Let Me Go

'What's the matter, love?'.

He asks as he comes up behind her.

She doesn't turn to face him and just gazes ahead into the darkness.

'Caroline?'.

His voice questioning her silence he touches her arm and she jumps and he hears her sigh.

'This isn't real'.

She whispers finally turning to face him, he stands behind her dressed head to toe in black, a look of concern on his face.

'Your dead'.

She chokes out the word closing her eyes

He comes towards her, her eyes remained closed but she feels his hand lightly touch her cheek.

He watches as a single tear rolls down her cheek, the tremble in her lips as he moves closer to her bring his hand to her waist drawing her in.

She doesn't hesitate to move, when she closes her eyes he will be gone and she will be standing alone.

He pulls her body to him and the small gasp leaves her lips as she opens her eyes to find him so close, his eyes burning into hers a silent storm brewing within.

She can't break away.

'This isn't real, I know it's not'.

'What difference does it make if this is real or not, it's what you want'.

He replies and she shakes her head.

'This isn't what I want, I'd rather have you alive than having this, I should have begged you not to go after Alaric,I should have stopped you told you that I would leave with you in a instant if it meant we could be together and I would never have looked back'.

He chuckles.

'We both know that your not that selfish, care about your friends and would never have forgiven yourself if something happened to them'.

'You wouldn't really say that, you never understood why I cared for my friends'.

'That's true but I know you Caroline, you would have ran with me to keep me safe but in running with me, you would still be trying to protect them but it would have been a doomed effort. Alaric would have killed your friends hunting us down and it would have destroyed you.

You'd never be able to protect me and them it would never have worked'.

It's honest and it hurts.

'I don't even know if you got to read my letter, there was so much I wanted to say to you and I never got the chance, I never said goodbye to you, I never got the chance because I didn't expect'.

The sound of a passing truck, breaks her away from her dreams, from him and she opens her eyes.

'He's dead'.

After Tyler had told her to run, she ran and she didn't stop running until she couldn't run any more and found herself in the next town.

She checked into a motel, locked the door and curled up on the bed.

For the first few hours, she didn't sleep, she did nothing expect lay in the darkness, listening to the sounds that came from the other rooms.

After the silence came the tears, she cried uncontrollably letting herself feel the pain, letting her body accept that he was really gone forever.

Then somewhere between all the crying she fell asleep but when she slept, her minds replayed the nightmare that was the day before over and over.

He died, Tyler died and for some unknown reason she had survived.

She had tried so hard to sleep but every time she closed her eyes, she would see herself back in the woods falling apart as Stefan told her that he was dead and even when sleep did come she was haunted by him.

She doesn't understand why she is alive, she was so certain that he was the one who created her bloodline but it's been 12 hours since he died and she feels nothing.

Expect loneliness,heartbreak and pain.

She turns away from the light trying to break through the gap in the window as she lays back on her side and stares at her own reflection.

The girl staring back at her is a girl she has never seen before, she is a stranger to her as she never felt this way before.

Stefan had told her once that when you grieve as a vampire, it's one of the worst feelings as and she didn't understand until now what he meant, she was consumed by it, it crippled her to even think about the pain that spread through her body was torture.

She closes her eyes on the girl staring back at her.

'Amazing don't you think?'.

Bonnie stares at the body in front of her, she doesn't understand considering it's supposed to be nothing more than a charred corpse why it's in front of her in perfect condition.

'This wasn't part of the deal we made with Tyler, your supposed to have jumped into someone else body by now, not make yourself comfortable in his'.

She turns to Klaus, who glances at his real form and then back at her.

'Comfortable isn't exactly the word I'd go for and as for the why I haven't jumped into someone else, it appears that I don't have too, it appears that oxygen and fate intervened and here I am and I'm going to need you to put me back'.

'I can't do that right now'.

'You can't or you won't, I'm not planning to stay in this body and I have no desire to jump into anyone else, so you need to do the spell and put me back'.

'I told you I can't'.

He steps closer to her.

'You don't seem to be understanding me, Caroline is out there somewhere, she's wanted by the council and you and I both know they won't stop looking for her until they find her.

Now I don't know about you but I know how it will end for her if they find her and I know that you don't want her to get killed because of your hatred towards me, I need to find her and I can't do that in here, Tyler's body fat from safe'.

She looks at him as he mentions Caroline, even though the look she is seeing is through Tyler's eyes, it's not the same it's pure Klaus.

She has been worried about Caroline, she is still in shock that Caroline has been seeing Klaus but she knows Caroline's heart.

He is right, her friend is out there lost to the world, grieving for someone she thinks is dead when in reality they are alive and desperate to find her.

It was strange to see Klaus, truly concerned about Caroline's safety, in the short time that he had been in Mystic Falls he had hardly ever shown compassion for anyone but with Caroline it's different, he wanted her safe.

She wanted to help him or at least find Caroline but Stefan had called her after the accident informing her about Elena and he had practically begged her to find some way to save Elena for a life as a vampire.

'Well what's it going to be?'.

She looks at him and sighs.

'I will do what you need me to but first I need to help Elena'.

'Elena isn't my concern any more, I'm not particularly interested in what happens to her'.

'Not even if there was a way to save her from becoming a vampire, which would mean you could continue to make Hybrids'.

She countered and he looked at her considering this for a moment.

'No, I have no need for Elena Gilbert, I want back in my body, I'm not exactly enjoying the picture show Tyler has set up for in here and I need to make sure Caroline is safe'.

'I need to help Elena'.

Klaus scoffed at her.

'There is no saving Elena'.

'Well I at least have to try and then I will help you'.

Bonnie replies and goes to leave but he blocks her path.

'You better hurry and save Elena's soul, if she hasn't fed she doesn't exactly have long left'.

Stefan stands alone in the Gilbert Kitchen, Elena is upstairs trying to sleep, Damon has stormed out in anger and he is left thinking not just about the girl upstairs but about the lost girl out there, he has no idea where Caroline is and he knows that Tyler died.

He has no way of finding her Bonnie is trying to help find away out for Elena, he would go after Rebekah but he can't she was protecting herself and her family, she was right Alaric would never stop looking for them and she did what needed to be done and they had all done the same.

He listens for movement from Elena's room and there isn't any apart from the breathing as she lays in her bed and he pulls out his phone.

The phone rings a few times before there is a answer.

'Caroline?'.

'No, Sheriff, it's Stefan, I wanted to know if you've heard from Caroline'.

'No, they found her car in the woods, they thought she was here but they found nothing, they aren't going to stop until they find her, Stefan is there anything that I didn't know about my daughter'.

'No'.

'Well I found her letter, explaining everything about her relationship with Klaus, how she was planning to leave with him, is it true?'.

He goes silent before speaking again.

'Yes it's true, she was in a relationship with Klaus, she loves him'.

'How can see love the man responsible for so much death in this town'.

'Liz, I understand that your worried and upset but Caroline is hurting too more than you could possibly imagine but she is still your daughter no matter who she falls in love with'.

There is silence for a moment before Liz speaks again.

'I feel like I don't know who my daughter is any more'.

The line goes dead and he sighs as he puts his phone on the side.

'Where are you Caroline'.

'I love you'.

He tells her and she smiles and kisses him.

'I love you, too'.

'Enough'.

He tells the voice in and he hears Tyler chuckle.

'It's not nice is it being tortured, get used to it, your never going to love her the way I did and you know it'.

'She's never going to come back to you , Tyler you need to accept that you never deserved her, she was always too good for you'.

'She's too good and pure for you'.

'I know what she wants, her desires, her hopes, her dreams, you see Tyler unlike you , I listened to her, she's so much more than a pretty face'.

'Your only going to end up hurting her'.

It had been like this for the last 12 hours, Tyler had agreed to Klaus taking over his body but that didn't mean he was going to make it easy for the original.

He may not have control over his own body but he was still in there and he wasn't going to let Klaus think he had won, as soon as Klaus was out and back in his own body.

He was going to do everything in his power to make Caroline realise that Klaus wasn't the right person for her.

They lay side by side, staring up into the cloudless sky, hands being drawn together like magnets.

She turns her head and looks at him before looking away.

'I'm never going to see Rome,Paris,Tokyo'.

She tells him and he looks at her.

'There's a whole world out there Caroline'.

She looks at him and smiles.

'It's not the same without you'.

He touches her face and she cries.

'He's dead because of you, your actions are the reason your alone?'.

She stares at her reflection, the stranger in the mirror is taunting her.

She turns away but can still here the voice.

'You killed the man you love and you killed the boy who loved you'.

A smash fills the room as the mirror shatters to pieces and she stands staring down at the fractured piece, the cut on her hand heals and she lays back in the bed.

'I dare you'.

She stares at the two people standing just across from her, she smiles as he sits down and looks at her, that ever so charming smile he wore so well on his face and she remembers it like it was yesterday.

She wants to warn the girl fight his every decision when it comes to them, when he tells her go back to someone she doesn't love to fight him not to give up until he understands that all the time they will have together isn't going to last as long as she thought.

That every moment she spends with him could be the last.

Rebekah stands in his study and stares at his art, she had unpacked his things during the night, trying to bring back some memory of her brother but as she stares down at his work.

She is filled with grief and sends his art flying across the room.

She looks at his black leather bounded sketch book and opens it.

So many drawings of Caroline and she wonders where she is.

She may not have been the biggest fan of their relationship in the start but she isn't the only one that loved him Caroline loved him and she made her brother more happy than she had ever seen him in all the time they spent together.

She doesn't clean the broken glass from the floor or acknowledge anyone that attempts to great her as she walks out into the daylight.

She knows that people are staring at her, the stranger from the mirror has replaced who she was before her pain is evident, from the dark circles under her eyes to the paleness in her skin.

Eyes that used to be so vibrant are stormy brewing with an emotional storm she herself isn't prepared to face so it slowly grow inside of her.

'Are you okay?'.

A voice asks and she ignores it only casting them a glance.

Nobody knows how she is suffering.

She is dressed head to toe in black and cuts a sombre figure as she walks into a store and picks up a bottle of whisky and returns to the counter putting the bottle down.

'That's strong stuff'.

The cashier tells her and she looks at them and then back down.

'Drinking ain't going to bring them back'.

Caroline looks up and stares at them.

'Well it helps me with the pain, you have no idea what I am feeling right now, the man I loved died not knowing that I loved him, he thought he was unlovable but he wasn't'.

Caroline replies as she hands the man some money.

'I'm sorry for you loss'.

He tells her and she scoffs.

'Your sorry isn't going to bring him back, don't tell me this is going to get better because I know it's lie nothing is ever going to be the same again, I will always carry the guilt with me, it's my fault he's dead'.

She stares at the broken glass and the blood stain by the door.

'Rebekah?'.

She calls out waiting for a response, she feels a sudden breeze and turns around.

'Well if it isn't Klaus favourite witch'.

She looks at Damon as she stands in the doorway.

'What happened?'.

She asks him as he steps closer to her and she gives him a warning look.

'Hey, I'm not going to hurt you, I actually like you even though you have terrible choice in the friends you keep'.

'Right, so this is the part where you tell me what the hell happened in here'.

'The council happened, I guess Alaric outed all of us to the council and they have Rebekah'.

'Where have they taken her?'.

He shrugs looking down for a moment and then back at her.

'I have no idea but I'm guessing it's the same place they've taken my brother and Elena and I'm guessing you can do a locator spell to help find them'.

Stefan sits up as hears the commotion coming from outside.

'Stefan'.

Elena calls his name weakly, her breathing laboured and he wishes that he could hold her hand and tell her it's going to be okay.

'Elena,I'm okay, I'm so sorry'.

'No, Stefan don't be sorry'.

He hears raised voices outside and leans forward hoping to get a better look at who is being brought in and is causing so much trouble.

'She's fighting us, we're going to need more vervain'.

A voice calls as the doors open and Stefan catches sight of blonde hair as a body is dragged into the barn and dumped on the floor opposite him.

'Caroline'.

Elena whispers weakly as the person coughs.

'Sorry to disappoint you'.

'Rebekah'.

Elena replies as Rebekah slowly pulls herself up and looks at Elena.

'Your supposed to be dead'.

She states coldly looking at Stefan and then back at Elena and she smirks.

'Well I'm sorry to disappoint you'.

Elena replies as she starts to cough.

'Elena, your going to be okay'.

Stefan tells her but she can hear the stress in his voice and she knows.

'No, I'm not I should have feed'.

'I know, I should have listened to Damon'.

Ana is sitting in the Salvatore living room with Damon watching her when there is a loud knocking at the door and Ana looks at him as he gets up to answer the door.

He walks to the door still holding his glass as he opens the door and stares at the person in front of him.

'Hello Damon'.

'Grace, what are you doing here?'.

He asks as he embraces the young vampire and she smiles.

'I'm looking for my sister'.

She replies as he steps aside letting her inside.

'Sister, I don't know how I can help you there'.

Ana hears Damon speaking and stands up to go and see who he is talking to and comes to a stop when she sees who is standing there.

'Hello Ana, it's been a while'.

'Grace'.

Damon looks between them coming to a realisation.

'Well I didn't see that coming'.

He has been waiting for Bonnie to return, she must have realised by now that there is no possible way for her to save Elena.

She abused her powers saving him and there is no way that the spirits would forgive that kind of abuse and let her save Elena's soul.

She's intoxicated, the voice in her head blaming her isn't there.

She has no reason to call this number but she does it anyway.

He would have asked Ana to help but he hasn't seen her since the night before and this is Bonnie's mess to fix.

The sound of ringing cuts through his thoughts and he looks at the phone, it's not a number he knows.

'Don't be that incessant woman'.

Carol has called 10 times and he's getting tired of the ringing so he answers.

'Hello'.

There is a pause from the other line.

'Tyler?'.

It takes him a moment before he speaks.

'Caroline, where are you?'.

'Tyler, your dead'.

'Caroline'.

He hears Tyler's voice and ignores it, he has no time for the young hybrid to tell him wrong he is for her.

'Where are you?'.

He asks again but he hears silence again followed by a cry of pain.

'Why are you haunting me too, I'm sorry'.

She let's go of the phone and it hangs of the bed.

'Caroline'.

'Caroline'.

He calls her name while Tyler calls it from the corner of his mind.

Grace looks at Ana who still can't believe that her sister is standing in front of her and then she turns to Damon as he hands her a glass and she smiles.

'Thanks, so do you mind telling me why there are rumours that Klaus is dead floating around?'.

She asked turning back to Ana.

'How did you even hear about that, I thought you where in New York?'

Grace chuckles.

'I'm never too far away from my baby sister and as for the how did I hear about this, A friend told me and I had to come here to be sure, so is it true is he dead?'.

Ana nods as she sits back down.

'It's true, he's dead'.

'He turned me, his blood made me a vampire, how come I'm not dead, I know what happened when his brother died, I had friends who Sage turned and I watched them die in front of me, there is something you aren't telling me?'.

'She's telling the truth, Klaus is dead I watched him die with my own eyes'.

Grace shakes her head.

'No, something isn't right, you did something I should be dead and you know and I know that you'd do anything to keep me safe, so I'm asking you Ana what did you do?'.

'I can't'.

Grace charges at her sister pinning her to the wall, Damon goes to stop her but she glares at him.

'Don't'

She looks back at Ana who has tears in her eyes.

'I had to, I couldn't lose you not again'.

'Tell me what you've done, Ana'.

She shakes her head and looks at Damon for a moment.

'It wasn't me, I didn't do it'.

'You look beautiful'.

'No I don't, I'm a mess'.

She tells him with tears in her eyes and he turns his head studying her face before touching a tear as it rolls down her cheek.

'Your beautiful when you cry, you know you can't live your life like this seeing me in your dreams'.

'It's the only way'.

'Your going to wake up and I won't be here'.

'Maybe I don't want to wake up?'.

'Don't you ever say that'.

He turns away from her and she closes her eyes expecting him to disappear expect when she opens her eyes he is staring at her a look of concern in his eyes and he looks at her.

'There coming for you, you need to wake up'.

'No don't leave me please'.

He put his finger to her lip.

'Caroline, you need to run do you understand me?'.

'The last time I ran when you told me to, I never saw you again'.

'You will see me again'.

He smiles at her moving her hair from her face.

'I need you to open your eyes'.

She shakes her head.

'No'.

'Love you need to open your eyes'.

She opens her eyes, she isn't alert but she knows something is coming for her.

Her head is thumping, trying to figure out everything.

'Tyler?'.

She heard his voice so clearly and she looks over at the phone it still hangs disconnected on the bed and she puts it to her ear but is greeted by silence.

'You need to run'.

The voice screams and she remembers what he said or at least her dream version of him.

But she doesn't move from the bed, let the come for her.

She gets of the bed staggering a little, as she goes to the door and sees the danger that is coming for her.

'Where is Caroline?'.

Stefan asks not looking at Rebekah.

'I have no idea, but if she's smart she'd be as far away from here as possible'.

Elena coughs weakly as she rest her head against the wall separating her and Stefan and looks over to Rebekah.

'Why do you care about Caroline, your not friends'.

Rebekah rolls her eyes at Elena.

'Well someone has to be, I mean I'm surprised you even noticed she's gone I mean everyone's so

concerned about your welfare, it wasn't exactly hard for her to disappear without anyone noticing.

My brother was the only person who really cared about and now he's gone and she's lost'.

'Klaus didn't care about anything but his hybrids'.

'You know nothing about my brother, he didn't care about his hybrids, they are nothing more than protection, you know I hated Caroline I didn't understand how he could be drawn to someone like her but she made him happy, he actually smiled and laughed like the Nik, I grew up with and he's dead because of you'.

'Rebekah'.

She looks at Stefan ignoring his warning tone.

'What haven't you told her yet, what are you waiting for it's not like it makes a difference now, Caroline's gone Stefan and she isn't going to come back'.

'What is she talking about?'.

Elena asks Stefan, annoyed that a wall separates them.

'Oh come on Elena, it's pretty bloody obvious, Caroline and Klaus where together'.

'Your lying, Caroline wouldn't do that?'.

'Why not, it's not she had much going for her here, Nik showered with affection and your in no position to judge her, Elena it's not like your not drawn to the bad guy'.

'Elena you need to understand, she isn't to blame for this'.

Stefan tells her and glares at Rebekah who doesn't bat an eye lash at him.

'Of course she isn't, your to blame Elena, your the reason she feel love with my brother because you used her to distract him and he swept her of her feet'.

Stefan hears Elena's shaky breath.

'Your lying, Caroline wouldn't betray us that way?'.

'Wouldn't she, she's never going to be you Elena, it's never going to be about her, it's always going to be about you.

She even knew it was always about you but yet she did everything to help protect you and you've done nothing for her in return have you, Caroline deserves a better friend than you'.

'She's my best friend'.

'When was the last time you and your best friend spoke and out something that wasn't concerning you but you deny that you had any part to play in what's happened, whatever helps you sleep at night, not that it matters considering you haven't feed and only have a few hours left'.

'Bonnie Bennett, put Klaus's essences inside Tyler Lockwood'

Damon yells and Ana nods.

'Yes when you left Bonnie alone with Klaus, they made a deal and she asked Tyler and of course he agreed he didn't want to die any more than rest of you, it was the only way to keep you all alive, I was willing to do the spell myself but Bonnie refused, she made it her responsibility'.

'Why would you let her do that you know better than anyone the consequences of a spell that dark'.

Grace snapped and Ana looked down ashamed

'Don't you think I know that, I know the consequences of the spell but I can't change what has been done, I can only help Bonnie with what's going to come next'.

Damon looks at Ana.

'Tell me something, is there any possible way for Bonnie to stop Elena becoming a vampire'.

Grace looks at him and then at Ana.

'No, there isn't Ana knows how this is going to end, the spirits would allow it, if Elena is in transition there is no saving her, she would need to feed and complete the process or die'.

'There has to be something you never tried'.

Ana shakes her head.

'Damon, there is nothing else, I'm sorry'.

She hands him a piece of paper and he looks at it.

'Where is this?'.

'It's where Elena and Stefan are, I'd come with you but I need to help Bonnie fix this'.

'Go help your friend, I'll help Damon, it will be just like old times'.

Damon looks at Grace

'You sure you want to do this?'.

'Yes'.

She looks back at Ana.

'When this is all over and Klaus is back, we need to talk'

He had to give it to the council they where a lot smarter than he had given them credit for within minutes of Caroline phoning him.

They had attempted to track him down but he was to fast for them and was out of the Lockwood Cellar before they even had a chance to capture him.

He had heard them mention Caroline's possible location, he just hoped that she was there and that they hadn't already found her.

'Caroline'.

The alcohol in her system affects her senses.

'Caroline'.

She feels someone touch her face as they gently shake her and she rolls away from them.

A frustrated sigh reaches her ears as the she feels herself being shaken again.

'Caroline, come on love, you need to get up'.

She's dreaming again, Tyler's dead but she can hear his voice so clearly.

'No your dead, first him and now you stop haunting me'.

She pleads with the voice.

'I'm real Caroline and I need you to get up'.

The voice sounds panicked and she looks up to find his warm brown eyes staring at her.

'Caroline'.

'Tyler?'.

He helps her sit up and she stares at him before hesitantly reaching out to touch his face.

'Is it really you?'.

He nods.

'Guess I'm harder to kill than you think, come on we need to get out of here'.

He helps her to her feet and she staggers a little bit and he notices the empty bottle that she was holding.

He holds her steady as he leads her out of the room, he can hear the sound of raised voices coming in their direction.

He has no time to fight of the council members and get her to safety and she is in no fit state to take care of herself.

He sweeps her up into his arms and runs out of the fire exit just as the voices get closer.

He looks over at her, she passed out once they got in the car, he couldn't make out half of thing that she was mumbling.

He moves a strand of hair from her face and sighs.

Both he and Tyler are haunted by the girl that he found, Tyler had never seen Caroline look so withdrawn, broken and tormented before.

'Looks like my death tormented her more than you thought'.

'I didn't think'.

'That she could love that much'.

'No, that I believed, I couldn't believe that she could love you this much'.

Caroline starts to stir in the seat beside him and he looks at her.

'Tyler'.

She goes to sit up and he stops her.

'Relax, your okay'.

She looks at him and nods making herself comfortable.

'How did you know where I was?'.

She asks turning her head to look at him and he glances over at her.

'That doesn't matter, I was worried about you'.

'Where are we going?'.

She asks him and he looks at her.

'Mystic Falls'.

He replies looking back at the road and she sits up suddenly shaking.

'No, Tyler you can't take me back there please don't take me back there'

She starts to sob uncontrollably and he is forced to pull the car over.

'Don't make me go back there'.

She pleads with him as he opens the passenger door and she throws herself into her, his arms.

He strokes her back soothingly until her sobs are mere whimpers and he looks at her placing his hands on her face.

'Look at me'.

'No, I can't go back Tyler, he's dead, don't you get it'.

'Tell her'.

He hears Tyler voice in the back of his head.

'She won't believe it, she'll think your telling her what she wants to hear'.

'Then make her believe or are you proving me right and you really don't care about her'.

Klaus looks at the beauty falling apart in front of him, he can't let her torture herself by believing that he's dead.

She is barely standing straight, he is supporting most of her weight.

'Easy, love'.

He whispers as he finds her unsteady on her feet and helps her sit back down and she brings her hands to her head.

'Caroline, we have to go back'.

'No, I can't why aren't you listening to me?'.

She snaps at him and he looks at her waiting for realisation to hit her and as she stares at her, she notices something in his eyes a familiar glint that doesn't belong in Tyler's eyes but belongs in his true eyes,

'Did you call me love?'.

She asks and he unsure if she asking him or whether she's question herself.

'Yes'.

He replies answering her question and he finds her staring into his eyes searching for something that tells her this isn't a lie and that he is really there in front of her somehow.

'How is this possible?'.

She asks him starting to cry again and he wipes away her tears.

'I can't explain but I know someone who can put this right'.

The commotion from outside captures there attention, he knows that Damon is out there he can hear his brother's voice clearly but the girl that storms is taken by surprise by the council member that stands watch over them.

He doesn't know why this girl is even helping them, he doesn't know her face.

She knocks the member out, his head slams against his cell and the smell of blood is overwhelming.

He stares at her, dark eyes stare at him as if she's reading him, trying to figure him out and then she turns her head to the shallow, failing breaths of Elena, her face changing showing sympathy and then she looks at him again.

She hears the sounds of a fight but she is to weak to open her eyes, she is dying.

She didn't ever want to become a vampire, this is the right choice but Jeremy will be alone, all the people that she loves.

She was heading back home to start her life again with Stefan and now she was leaving him.

The smell that awakens her weakened sense is nothing she has ever smelled before, it's rich, warm but there is another smell faintly metallic that she repulse her but she wants it.

Something inside her calls for it.

Her eyes open to find a wrist being passed through the bars to her, she doesn't look at the person that offers her the wrist but finds herself fixated on the crimson liquid that trickles down the length of the arm.

She lowers her mouth hesitating as her fingers brush against the liquid and she raises them to her lips and tastes and everything changes as she finds herself lost in the rich, intoxicating taste of blood.

'Do the damn spell,Bonnie'.

She heard the anger in his voice as she came into the house, followed by the sound of a low growl.

'Do it Bonnie or I kill him'.

'You wouldn't, you know Caroline would never forgive you'.

He scoffs at her and turns his head to look at Ana who stands in the doorway.

'Ana, talk some sense into your friend, sweetheart'.

She is really not used to this having Klaus speak with Tyler's voice.

'Bonnie what have you done?'.

'I tried to bring Elena back from the other side but it didn't work, she's going to become a vampire and I can't stop it'.

Ana looks at Bonnie.

'Bonnie, it's too late for Elena, she fed, there is never going to be a magical solution and I wish there was but there isn't and if Elena didn't feed she would have died, I know this isn't what you wanted but Elena gets to live even if it's not the way that she wanted'.

'Enough about Elena, do the spell Bonnie'.

'I can't do that kind of magic again, the spirits won't allow it'.

A low growl passes his lips as his hand puncture's his chest gripping at Tyler's heart.

'Have you lost your damn mind'.

Ana demands looking at him and he glares at her.

'She doesn't do the damn spell I will rip Tyler's heart out and jump into someone else'.

Bonnie looks at Ana panicked and she looks at Klaus.

'Bonnie, do the spell'.

'What?'.

Bonnie looks at her as if she has lost her mind.

'He's not going to kill Tyler, he knows that Caroline will never forgive him if he kills Tyler, even if he thinks that she will get over it, she will never forgive you or even love you in the same way that she does now, all of this that he's doing is for Caroline because he found her and I've seen her, she

needs him even if you hate him, you love her because she is your best friend and you don't want to lose her'.

He finds her sitting on his bed just staring out of the window, her eyes go to him for a moment and he sighs.

'Elena'.

'Caroline and Klaus, tell me everything'.

He shakes his head as he sits on the bed with her.

'Elena, I can't tell you everything because I don't know everything'.

'How could she do this to us, I can't trust her Stefan'.

He takes her hand and looks at her.

'You say that now but your angry, upset that your friend has done this but she never planned on hurting you or falling for him, it just happened'.

She looks at him.

'You not mad at her, are you?'.

'No, I'm not because Elena, Rebekah is right we used Caroline made her get close to him, distract him and it was risky of us because he could killed her but instead we used his feelings for her to get her close and she fell for him and we didn't even notice. look I know your mad at her right now but'.

'There is no but, she betrayed us'.

'Caroline, open your eyes'.

He lay beside her on his bed, she turns subconsciously to face him and he feels the guilt for the pain he has truly put her through.

Rebekah's words from their reunion still in his ears, he wasn't really surprised by the temper that greeted him.

'Nik?'.

He turns and looks at Rebekah as she stands in front of him, she wants to launch herself into her brothers arms but part of her also wants to tear him apart for what he has put her through the last few hours, she had no idea that he had truly survived but when Grace had revealed to her that he was alive.

She was angry that he never came to her rescue and instead had gone after Caroline, who she had found asleep in his bed, she wasn't even sure at first if it was even Caroline, the girl she found looked like Caroline expect this version of her was wrapped in sadness.

'Hello little sister'.

'You let me believe that your where dead and all along your where alive, do you understand how my heart broke, how I cried because I believed that I had truly lost you, why did you not come to me and tell me the truth?'.

'It was complicated Rebekah'.

'Yes I saw a certain complication laying in your bed. it wasn't complicated enough for you to track down Caroline but it was complicated for you to come to the aid of your own sister, how your priorities have changed, it's always been me and you and now it's you and Caroline'.

She snaps and he steps toward her.

'You can't be killed,I'm aware that you have always been there for me Rebekah, your my sister, my family, always and forever but Caroline'.

'What is Caroline, Nik because she has risked everything to be with you, her heart has broken for you, she has mourned you'.

He looks at Caroline as she lays beside him, he knows what is she is to him and he has known it for a while but he was more certain of it now.

'Klaus'.

He looks down at her to find her staring at him with wide eyes, a look of uncertainty and fear in her eyes.

Her eyes scan every detail of his face before closing her eyes and then she opens them again to find him staring at her more intently.

He cautiously reaches out to touch her face and she flinches from his touch.

'Don't be afraid'.

He tells her softly and she wants to believe that she has nothing to be afraid of but she can't help it after being tormented by his face in her dreams, she is waiting for the part where she wakes up and her world starts to crumble.

'Your going to leave me'.

She tells him.

'I will never leave you, Caroline'.

'Don't make promises you can't keep, I've lost you twice in one day, I don't want to go through that again, I can't'.

'You won't'.

He wants to make her believe what he is telling her, believe that he speaks the truth and he does.

He moves closer to her and she goes to move but he captures her hand, holding her gaze searching for the light in her eyes.

Her body is frozen as he touches her cheek and she watches his hand for a moment and her eyes land back on his lips that have inched closer to her own.

'Believe me?'.

She shakes her head but can't stop staring at his lips.

'Believe me'.

He repeats his words and she shakes her head again, she wants to believe him so bad but she can't.

His kiss takes her by surprise, he knows it too because she doesn't kiss him back.

He won't give up on her.

She can feel his lips brushing against her skin, then his lips are back on hers, so tender, coaxing her, telling her that he is really there and he has no intention of leaving her.

It only takes a moment for her to kiss him back, her lips brushing against his own.

Their clothes lay around the bed as he holds her so tightly in his arms.

This makes sense, she is his missing piece.

Holding him tighter than she has ever before, her head in the crook of his neck, her hands in his hair.

Unfamiliar dampness touches his skin, followed by a soft sob.

'Caroline'.

He whispers and she looks at him.

'Don't cry'.

He wipes away her tears.

He looks down at her beautiful face as she stares back up at him, his hand seeks out her own and he holds it to the bed beside them.

He holds himself against her, her body trembles at his closeness but she doesn't respond to him.

He moved against her again when she gasps,he steals her breath away with a kiss.

They lay facing each other.

'What's the matter?'.

He asks her and she doesn't respond afraid to say the words that sit dangerously on the tip of her tongue but wants to say them, wants him to hear them.

'I love you'.

It was a silent whisper but he hears her.

He wondered why she could ever love him, he wasn't truly worthy of her affections, her goodness but yet she didn't care she loved him every part of him.

He pauses for a moment and then a smile appears on his face, it's his personal smile for her.

He wants to tell her that he loves her because he does, even if it makes him weak, he does.

He opens his mouth to say the words.

'I know'.

He didn't have to say the words to her, she knew from the moment he kissed her before making love to her that he loved her.

She felt it in her core but she felt it in his touch, in his kisses, in his tenderness she knew.

'Don't ever leave me'.

'We have an eternity together my love'.

Bold Italics are Tyler.

Italics are Caroline's dreams & Flashbacks

Finally they are back together, I know it's a really long chapter but I hope it was worth it.

I went against the Klaus/Rebekah fall out because I hated watching it and I was going to hate writing my own version.

So there is no Klaus/Rebekah fall out at all but Rebekah and Caroline will Clash when Caroline finds out about Elena's new vampirism in the next chapter.

Bonnie will be getting a storyline along with this story which means Shane will appear.

There will be another romance or two possibly Stebekah & others.

As it currently stands Stefan is going to be the only real friend Caroline has.

Bonnie will find herself caught between Elena and Caroline.

As for Elena and Caroline that's another story but there is going to be a lot of scenes with this two

Klaus will eventually say those three words to Caroline but not for a while but they are going to have a pretty interesting story for the next three chapters.

The cure will be mentioned but not for a while either.