Caroline made her way to the Salvatore's house. As much as she dreaded asking them for help, she really had no other choice. She had to find Katherine. Katherine was the only one who could give her information about Klaus, and she was not about to let go of that.

Caroline had accepted the fact that she would need Katherine. At first just the thought of it made her sick but Katherine was all Caroline had. And Caroline had to take all the help she could have.

She knocked on the front door of the Salvatore Inn and who should open it? None other than Damon. And to make matters worse he was shirtless. Not something she wanted to see in the moment. She saw his chest and perfect abs and then found his face. And he was wearing the biggest smirk ever. She wanted to slap him.

"Taken up this new thing called knocking. I bet you were dying to see little a little more of me," Damon said.

"I've seen better" Caroline said with something between disgust and obvious disinterest in her face. Without asking she just walked right by him and huffed. "I'm here to see both of you. Will you please go put a shirt on and call Stefan?" she ordered. She really wasn't in the mood for Damon and stupid comments.

"Come on, Blondie. Don't you like what you see?" Damon said with his award winning smirk, "or do you wanna be the ham in a Salvatore sandwich?"

Caroline was appalled. Didn't this man have a single clean thought in his mind? "Please. You're not that good to look and at that's just disgusting. Now please call your brother down here this is quite urgent."

"Fine," Damon said, pouting.

He called Stefan down and Caroline ushered them into their parlor but Damon still refused to put his shirt on. It was his house right?

Katherine couldn't believe it. Klaus was here. She knew he was coming, but not like this fast and certainly not this way. She wanted to skip town once he was close. It wasn't a secret she was still very afraid of him, and then there was the matter of her stealing the moonstone.

She knew he would torture her while she was being held captive by him. Being held against my will by two Originals in less than a week. Wonderful. Even in her mind, the sarcasm was strong and clear.

She heard him walk in the room she was in. A chill ran down her spine. She hated him. Hatedhim. In mental bold letters. He didn't even need his true face to annoy and scare her, all at the same time. She hated him so much for that. More than she hated Caroline, which was a lot.

"Ah Katerina" Klaus said with delight. "Still as lovely as the last time I saw you," he said. He had compelled her into a chair and she was stiff from sitting there for hours. Of course she looked the same as the last time he saw her.

"What do you want Klaus?" Katherine asked. She knew what he wanted, but maybe she could persuade him into letting her out of this chair. Why aren't I dead already?

"Oh you know exactly why I am here Katerina", he said her name with a funny intonation mocking at her. "I'm here to get rid of this silly curse, to be the most powerful being alive. But I can't do that because you hold a certain piece to the puzzle." At least he didn't have his creepy accent, provably he wanted to stay 'in character' to pretend he was Alaric.

But, the moonstone… She didn't have it. She traded it with the Lockwood man years ago. He may have sold it or something. How was she supposed to get that back?

"I don't have it," Katherine said.

"Oh I know that you don't have it, but I just need to know who you passed it on over the years to start tracking the stone" Klaus said.

"I can't remember," Katherine lied.

Maybe he would buy it. It was a small provability but she had to try "Oh, how lovely. You don't know. But I think you do. Now tell me. Where is my moonstone?" She knew Klaus was compelling her before he even started. Even though he was inside of this body, he still had the power of compulsion.

"I gave it to a man named Lockwood. 146 years ago," Katherine replied, compelled.

Klaus growled. He had hoped it would have been more recent. Oh well, no matter. He'd find out more.

"And just where are these 'Lockwoods'?"

"Here in Mystic Falls."

"Thank you darling. Now, you just stay here for the night. I'm going to scope this little town."

And with that, Klaus left Katherine.

Still sitting in the chair.

"What?!"

"Damon, sit down," Stefan said trying to calm his brother.

"Are you really expecting me to calm down?She wants us to help her look for Katherine because some psycho is coming to town?" To say Damon was upset was an understatement, he was angry, really angry. He didn't want to help Caroline. He wanted to let her fight her own battles, he'd fight off this psycho-pathetic, whatever he was, in his own way.

"Damon, if we don't find her, there could be doom on all of us. Catastrophic consequences because of your pride," Caroline said hoping she could get through to him.

"And what exactly are those consequences you speak of?" Damon asked.

"People will die. Elena will die." Caroline didn't want to beat around the bush. She could see, in the little time she had been there, how both the Salvatore brothers cared for Elena. Stefan had her and Damon wanted her.

They both loved her.

"What do you mean?" Stefan asked. His head shot up when Elena's name was mentioned. They had just saved her from another one of Caroline's 'family members' now they had to do it again?

"She is a doppelganger. Her blood is what stands between Klaus and his curse."

"What curse?" both the Salvatore's asked.

"A curse that has stood in his way for 1000 years. A curse that stops him from being a different kind of monster. Half werewolf, half vampire. A hybrid."

They both just stared at her. Then they stood up and said "what do you need us to do?"

As far as Elena's safety was concerned, they both agreed to help her. And if that meant saving Katherine, then that's what they had to do.

"Thank you. We'll go tomorrow after school. For now, let's just be perfectly normal we don't want the person who too Katherine to be suspicious of our plan. When we leave, we'll just have to make one quick stop," Caroline said.

Katherine had been sitting in that stupid chair all night long. Her muscles ached, she was a vampire she was not suppose to hurt. She needed to feed. Hopefully Klaus will be generous and let her drink something. She hoped it was worm, but Katherine didn't have all the points to be right.

Please, let it not be a rat. Not a rat please.

While she thought of a nice meal the Devil incarnate Klaus came in the room wearing all black. How fitting.

"Where are you going?" Katherine asked.

"Oh I'm going to school. This man is a teacher; we don't want to destroy his career right? I'm being a good boy helping him with his work as a reward for letting me use his body" Klaus said.

"Yes, he is a teacher. History," whispered Katherine.

"Alright, well I best be off. Oh and don't even think about leaving or trying to escape. You already know how I get when I'm angry," Klaus said walking towards the door laughing. It was almost like the evil laughs of the films.

Katherine just nodded with sadness.

She really was hoping he would—

"Oh Katerina, you can get out of that chair now. But don't do anything stupid."

And then Klaus left.

She felt like dancing.

Over his tomb.

Naked.

Klaus walked through the hallways of the school. He took in his surroundings. He kept a close eye out for anyone who looked familiar. Especially for Caroline. He had not planned on seeing her yesterday. In fact, he really hadn't planned on seeing her ever again. But there she was. Pretty was always.

When he ran right into her he was too entranced by the sight of the doppelganger talking to her. He couldn't even catch his name before colliding with Caroline.

Caroline.

He was shocked to see her. He hadn't expected to find her here. Looking at her made him think of the past. Her leaving. And that pang of guilt and regret hit his dead heart all over again. Ever since he had seen her again, he remembered the night she left. How much he wished he would've stopped her.

She had left him. For the first time in a long while, Klaus felt truly empty. He lost his doppelganger, the moonstone, and Caroline all in one night. He noticed she had called him "Klaus" before she left. She never called him that. It was always "Niklaus." She called him that even when she was angry with him. But not tonight. She called him Klaus. Whether out of fear or hatred, he didn't know. But he knew she would never look at him the same way again.

He chose his hybrids over her. But he had lost everything to break the curse. All he had left was Caroline, and now he was left with nothing. He should've ran after her, he should've told her to stay, he shouldn't have threatened her. But that was his nature. He didn't let his emotions show through with her. That's what Elijah did. Not him.

He knew he was hurting her with what he was doing with Katerina. He saw the hurt in her eyes whenever she saw them together, but sometimes the end justified the means. So he thought, until tonight when everything was gone. And the thing that bothered him the most was Caroline leaving.

He had told Elijah earlier that 'love was a weakness.' That Vampires didn't feel or care, but that was all a lie. Simply a wall that Klaus had built up because he knew if he let his emotions show, he would hear his fathers voice ringing in his ear saying, "Nobody cares about you, boy!" Klaus knew that he cared for Caroline. He loved to see her smile, and hear her laugh echo through the halls. Her sense of right or wrong intrigued him. He was drawn to the light that shined from her. And he never told her

A voice inside his head was screaming "Go after her! Don't be afraid! Go after her!" But Klaus couldn't move. He was afraid. His father always called him a coward and maybe he was right. Klaus could be ruthless and violent, but when it came to matters of the heart, he was afraid. Caroline was what made his dead heart beat everyday and now, without her, he was simply empty, heartless, and alone.

"Niklaus!" His thoughts were broken by his brother calling him. Elijah had been looking for Katerina along with the soldiers. "We've been unsuccessful in retrieving her. What should we do?"

At this point, Klaus really didn't care. All he could think about what Caroline. But, he had to find some way to get back at Katerina. Klaus always got even, one way or another.

"Find her village. We're having a late dinner tonight, brother."

Klaus' brief memory was interrupted by someone's voice. Someone calling him by this body's name. And who would it be, but the beautiful, blonde Angel of grace.

Klaus turned around and beheld her face. Still as lovely as ever.

"Alaric, how are you feeling today?" Caroline asked. She had been worried about him since he left yesterday.

"Oh I'm doing better, thank you," Klaus responded. She seemed awfully concerned for this 'Alaric' fellow. Were they together? That was impossible. Alaric's apartment didn't have a bit of evidence that a woman stayed there.

"Good. A good night's sleep was all you needed?" Caroline was a little uncomfortable by the way Alaric was staring at her. Was he still a little off, Alaric was provably faking his well being state.

You can't lie to me, friend.

"Yes, that's it," Klaus responded. He really needed to get away from her. Her scent was driving him mad. She still smelt the same. Vanilla with a hint of honey. And made him forget why exactly he was there. The doppelganger, the doppelganger. The ugly doppelganger with brown everything.

"Okay, well I'm happy to hear that. Well I best be off to class. See you later," Caroline started walking away a little confused by Alaric's stare… his eyes. His eyes. That's what stuck out the most.

Was he high?

"Caroline!" Klaus, not being him of course even dare to forget that, called after her. He really had no idea why he did it.

Caroline turned around to face him. "Yes?" but Klaus just stared at her. She was the picture of perfection. Genuine beauty. While Caroline was looking her head flew to the past, remembering old times, men courting her. He courting her.

Caroline smiled awkwardly and walked into her class.

Klaus watched her enter class and remembered, That's right! You're a teacher! Where is this bloody room with immature humans craving to lose time? And Klaus started looking for anything that looked like a History class, processing what just happened. He really had missed Caroline.

Here is chapter 16 you guys have been waiting for!

Okay, so here I know we didn't really move far in the story, but I wanted to show Caroline telling the Salvatores why Katherine is important to them, why they should save her.

Also decided to show Klaus and Katherine interaction.

And some KLAROLINE for you guys! I know it's not much, but it's there. I wanted to show how MY Klaus is the same as the REAL Klaus. He finds Caroline absolutely beautiful and he wishes things were different.

Also a bit of flashback for Klaus. Showing he reactions when Caroline left. Where his mind was and his regrets.

And Caroline seems a glimpse of Klaus. A reminder of him in Alaric. We shall see what happens there.

Coming up next...Klaus finds his Doppelganger, a rescue attempt, somebody wakes up!

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