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They hadn't told anyone what they were up to. No one needed to know.
The three girls put up candles around the whole room. They were the only light source in the dark old mansion. The wood creaked and cracked as if someone was walking around, but there was no one there except for the three girls. The dead witches from the past whispered in the air and chills ran down Caroline's arms and back. Elena mirrored her worried look that wandered around the room even though they knew that they wouldn't be able to see anyone.
Bonnie took her place inside the circle of candles which she ignited with a simple snap of her fingers. She took a deep breath. "Okay, ready?" She asked and glanced at her friends who nodded.
The young witch started to mumble foreign words. She had stretched out her hands and the flames shot up into the air. Her voice was dark and low as she recited the spell.
Bonnie, Elena and Caroline had decided to try to find out on their own about the pack's plans. They wanted to try a spell that should allow Bonnie to invade someone's mind. She would use the connection in order to read the plan there.
The candle flames danced wildly always matching Bonnie's voice. The air grew cold and Caroline hugged herself. There were more whispers that sounded quite menacing and nervously she looked around to see if there was really no one present. How much she wished to be in her warm comfortable bed right now instead of inside this creepy old witch house. Bonnie kept moving her lips even though a fine line of blood ran out of her nose.
Elena glanced uncomfortably at Caroline. This had never been good a good sign!
There were gushes of wind sweeping through the room and Bonnie raised her voice as if she wanted to drown something or someone out. There was a bad feeling in Caroline's stomach and she wanted nothing more than to escape this scary place.
Suddenly Bonnie stopped chanting and without a warning she dropped to her knees first before she fell onto the floor.
"Bonnie! Bonnie, what's wrong!?" Elena screamed and hurried over to her. Caroline looked shell shocked at the unconscious witch. Elena put her arms around her and pulled her up while Caroline knelled down next to them. "Oh my god! I knew this was a bad idea!"
A moan escaped Bonnie's throat and she slowly sat up holding her head. Blood trickled out of her nose. Headaches pained her. "I…"
She tried to breathe and stared at her hands turning them over and over while her face grew very pale. "Bonnie?" Caroline grew frightened as well as if Bonnie's feelings were contagious. "What's wrong!?" Elena bit her bottom lip.
Tears filled Bonnie's eyes as she stared at her two best friends. "She took my powers." She mumbled almost inaudibly. The girls' eyes widened. "What?" Elena whispered and swallowed.
Caroline had put her hands in front of her mouth. Tears ran down freely Bonnie's cheeks now. "My powers are gone!" She cried and sobbed. "The witch expected us to try something like this!" Elena hugged her immediately and let Bonnie hide in her shoulder.
"How could she expect this!?" Caroline asked and her feelings changed from fear to bewilderment.
"She must be smarter than we thought!" Elena mumbled while Bonnie kept sobbing against her shoulder. "They must have planned to take my powers." Bonnie's voice was muffled against Elena's shoulder. Oh no, Caroline thought. This was so bad!
"I don't believe it!" Damon yelled. "Klaus should have really locked you up! Both of you!"
"We just wanted to help, Damon!" Elena yelled back.
"How about talking to us before you plan to do things on your own!? Now, we have to find another witch! And I am certainly not the one who breaks the news to Klaus!" He went on, but Stefan said: "Damon, it was a good plan!"
"It would have been if they hadn't…"
"We couldn't have known, okay!?" Caroline shouted. She had failed again! Everything she did was a great big failure! She was close to tears, but she wouldn't cry in front of the others. She refused to let them see how worn out she felt.
"Where is Bonnie now?" Stefan asked and Elena answered: "She is at home."
Damon snorted: "I just don't believe it! You knew they had a powerful witch, how could you be so reckless!"
"No one could have foreseen it, Damon, not you and not Klaus!" Caroline screamed sounding a little bit desperate. How much else could she take?
Suddenly the door flew open and to everyone's surprise Tyler stalked into the room.
"What the hell did you do!?" He yelled and his eyes had the faintest glow of yellow in them.
"Oh, give me a break! What is the dog doing here!?" Damon moaned.
"You should have known that their witch would be prepared after you killed Gary!"
"Oh, well, what did I tell you?" Damon said drawing the word out as long as he could.
"You knew!?" Caroline screamed furiously at Tyler who looked suddenly a bit helpless.
"You knew they would take Bonnie's powers!?"
"I just knew that she had spelled us. Who could have known that you would do something so stupid!?" Damon wrinkled his nose while Elena's jaw dropped.
"You could have warned us anyway!" Caroline retorted at Tyler. It was incredible to believe and Caroline had hardly ever felt this betrayed. "Caroline…"
"No don't Caroline me! Tyler, you knew and you didn't tell me! Bonnie lost her powers!" Caroline couldn't control her thoughts. There wasn't one clear thought on her mind for it was all blurred and tinted with red colours. Rage filled her.
"I didn't know she would take Bonnie's powers!" Tyler tried to defend himself, but Caroline wasn't listening: "You could have warned us!" She repeated and Damon just stared at Tyler disgustedly:"I never liked you!"
Stefan had nothing to say for he just shook his head. Elena was speechless as well. Tyler was their friend, wasn't he? He knew that they would plan another move.
"On whose side are you Tyler?" Elena asked, but Tyler didn't answer right away. He looked from one vampire to the other and that was enough for Caroline: "Get out of my sight! I can't stand you anymore!" She snarled. Tyler wanted to say something but before a sound could leave his mouth she interrupted him: "That bitch first and now Bonnie has lost her powers because of you!" She walked angrily up to Tyler and pointed a finger at him. "We are finished right here!"
"But listen to me!" Tyler tried to reason with.
"No, I don't want to listen to your crap anymore!" She grabbed her purse and left the house.
In all her fury Caroline didn't know what she did. She was blinded by anger and the feeling of huge and utter betrayal.
"And there goes the avenging angel. I suggest you better leave." Damon said gravely and Stefan nodded: "If Klaus finds out you are dead."
"So he is still after Caroline?"
"Tyler, just go!" Elena urged and shoved him towards the door.
It was already dark outside as Caroline stomped through Mystic Falls. She was still angry and it was all over her fierce pace. The anger filled her stomach but at the same time she just wanted to scream, because of the pain she felt. She had loved Tyler and even though she had ended things with him after she had heard about him and Hayley. Her heart hadn't fully let him go. How could he have betrayed her so much!? Not only her, but also Bonnie and Elena! Her heels made a loud clanking sound on the floor. It carried through the night like shots from a machine gun. Her blond curls danced up and down her shoulders.
Suddenly someone whistled behind her. "Well, 'ello there."
Caroline huffed and rolled her eyes. "Go away!" She neither turned around nor stopped walking.
"Uuh, feisty!" The man said and Caroline heard his footsteps following her. She rolled her eyes. Seriously!
"What a lovely backside! Come on honey, join me for a drink!" He had caught up with her and grabbed her arm now. Caroline twirled around in the blink of an eye and twisted the man's arm. He cried out in pain and looked shocked at Caroline's face. There were veins pulsing under her eyes and her teeth were sharp and edgy. "I said leave me alone!" She snarled menacingly and squeezed his throat while she compelled him. The fear was evident in the man's eyes. White hot fear.
On instinct Caroline drew her lips back and barred her teeth. The man's head grew red and he opened his mouth in a soundless scream. His heart pumped the blood through his veins frantically.
Her gaze suddenly dropped to his veins under her hands. His pulsing veins filled with red hot liquid.
Fresh. Red. Hot. Delicious.
Her fingertips felt the drumming rhythm. Her breathing hitched and her throat burned like fire.
Out of her mind she dove forwards and buried her fangs inside his artery. She moaned as the lovely blood filled her mouth and ran down her throat easing the burning sensations. She sucked and favoured the blood. It was so warm and comforting and everything inside her yearned for it. Every drop that ran down her throat made her stronger and the satisfaction grew and grew. There was no way to stop.
Then the body dropped lifelessly onto the floor and a wave of shock hovered in the air.
She covered her mouth with her hands and trembled as she slowly realised what had just happened.
What had she done?
When Caroline got home her guts felt like they were tearing themselves apart. It hurt!
It hurt so much and she cried out! What had she done? What the hell had she done?
Why had she been so stupid? A sobbed escaped her throat. An innocent man!
She had killed an innocent man! She hadn't meant to even tough he had been creepy. But she had never wanted to kill anyone ever again! Never the less she had lost control tonight. She had been too upset even to notice!
Caroline sat down on her bed and burried her face behind her knees. This was all her fault!
Then a voice suddenly whispered to her in her head.
Your intentions don't matter in this case…
She shook her head wildly.
You know what to do…
The voice almost sang to her, but Caroline shook her head wildly. The tears soaked her clothes.
Come on, Caroline, no more worries…
She wouldn't have to worry anymore?
It is so easy…
Was it really? She sniffed.
Of course it is! You just have to dare it…
Nothing would matter anymore, right?
No fear young vampire…
But she thought of Elena, of what she had become…Did she want that?
You will be better than Elena…
Caroline tried to weigh out her options…flip the switch?
Her eyes burned and her heart felt like it was about to explode. There was pain and despair everywhere. She didn't want to live like this!
Then do it…
She wouldn't have to trouble herself over Tyler or Klaus ever again for she wouldn't have feelings for either of them. She could be indifferent to them!
Turn it off…
Caroline closed her eyes and opened them again after a deep breath.
Her eyes were dark and menacingly. There was an eerie smile on her lips and a chuckle escaped her lips. A low chuckle that became louder and louder until it was a powerful roaring fit of laughter.
Show time…
Klaus's mobile rang. The display told him that it was Stefan Salvatore.
He rolled his eyes.
"Stefan, I am in no mood for any more drama, so don't even ask!"
Stefan had told him about two days ago that Elena, Caroline and Bonnie had been stupid enough to go for the witch themselves and that Bonnie had lost her powers in the course of it. Klaus had been furious! In order to find another witch he had left town immediately even though he had seriously wanted to snap the three girls' necks for it. They had no more element of surprise on their side and the fact that they had fought with Tyler Lockwood over it had even robbed them of a potential spy.
"Klaus, you probably might want to come back, there's something you should know."
Klaus groaned. "What is it? Now don't tell me someone else provoked the pack again or got kidnapped or whatever!"
Stefan hesitated: "I don't want to tell you over the phone. It is better if you come here."
Klaus set his jaw and threatened: "Stefan I am warning you not to waste my time!"
"I am not wasting your time here! I'll see you soon!" He hang up and Klaus felt like throwing his phone away. Heads would roll if someone had overstepped another line! Angrily he turned around to go for his car. He hadn't found the witch he was looking for yet, but as frustrating as it was he had to go back to Mystic Falls first.
Hours later as he arrived at the boarding house and he really wondered by now what was going on.
"I really hope that this is important!" He growled.
The Salvatores were gathered in the living room, along with the doppelganger and even Elijah. "Brother…?" Klaus asked as Elijah stepped out of the shadows. The older one nodded. "Hello Niklaus."
"What is going on?" He asked suspiciously, but before anyone could give him an answer the door opened again and Tyler entered. Klaus's features hardened and a low growl escaped his throat. Why the hell had he ever allowed that mutt to return?
He breathed. "What the hell is going on!?"
"Niklaus…" Elijah said warningly.
"Caroline…" Stefan started but was interrupted by Tyler: "What about her? Where is she? I haven't seen her for days!"
Damon answered cockily: "Looks like Blondie hit it off." Klaus and Tyler frowned at him, for they were the only ones who didn't know what was going on.
"She turned her humanity off." Stefan explained.
"She did what?" Tyler asked.
Klaus laughed out loud. "Did she finally?"
"This is not funny, Klaus!" Elena barked at him and Tyler and Stefan stared angrily at him as well.
He was just thrilled and couldn't wait to see Caroline react on her pure instincts. How would this new version of her react when she saw him?
"Oh, I beg to disagree because this is almost sarcastic!" He was gleeful, because no one had ever thought her capable of this. No one had ever believed sweet Caroline to become a monster, since she had always managed so well from the beginning on.
"This is all your fault!" Tyler yelled at Klaus.
"I'd be quiet if I were you." Klaus growled.
"It's both of your faults." Elijah said.
"Mine too." Stefan said quietly. Damon rolled his eyes: "Seriously?"
"She could have needed a friend. Why the hell would she want to turn her feeling off? Her of all people?"
"Then it's my fault too." Elena said quietly. "I was too busy with Bonnie to care about her."
"I really don't want to stop you from blaming yourselves, but there is a wild vampire on the loose, causing trouble." Damon said.
Klaus had his arms crossed in front of his chest and was grinning smugly.
"Would you stop grinning!?" Tyler snapped.
"Niklaus, I think you haven't yet understood the impact of this."
"Elijah, would you kindly enlighten me?"
But instead of answering Elijah smiled at him wisely which made Klaus frown.
They looked everywhere but Caroline was nowhere to be found, although she left trails of dead campers everywhere. No human dared to leave town unarmed. Sheriff Forbes was at her wits end and luckily no one had dared to tell her that her daughter was responsible for all the killing going on. Stefan and Elena had convinced her that Caroline had gone to visit Bonnie at one of her cousins.
They had to find her fast, before the local police couldn't put a lid on it anymore. The case would be removed from them and Special Forces would come to town, snoop around and sooner or later vampires would be on the run.
Ironically the pack's area wasn't ravished, so at least that bit of sense had remained in Caroline.
Tyler had seen her in the woods only three days after she had changed, but she had escaped him. Her cold eyes haunted his dreams. Nothing from his Caroline was left and Tyler felt somehow responsible for it.
The situation had become very serious and was about to get out of hands, so Klaus decided to put more effort into the search since no one had managed to get a hold on her.
He sent one of his best hybrids on the search along with him.
After one day they finally discovered her in the neighbouring town in a night club, dancing and drinking. Her drinking habits however included not only alcohol.
He walked straight up to her to the bar: "Well, well, if it isn't former Miss Mystic Falls."
She turned to him and he held his breath. She looked ravishing.
Her black tight clothes didn't leave anything to imagination, her curls were perfectly in place and her makeup was dark and daring. Her whole attitude screamed danger.
"Look what the cat dragged in." She answered coldly.
Klaus had been looking forward to seeing Caroline run on instinct, to act like her true nature's self, but suddenly he felt repulsed, however he couldn't yet say why exactly.
She leaned over the bar and compelled the bartender: "Why don't you get my friend here a drink? And I wouldn't mind a sip myself." The man stretched out his hand and Caroline bit his wrist without any second thoughts.
Klaus scoffed. "Seriously?"
She licked the blood of her lips.
"Didn't someone tell you the first vampire rule? Not to get oneself exposed!?"
She grinned and shrugged. "Why should I care?"
"Because love…" He came closer and pointed a finger at her heart. "Someone might put a stake into your heart."
She also moved closer. Their bodies met and suddenly there was a lot of tension in the air. It became increasingly hot and Klaus fought down the desire to flirt with her.
"And?" Her sweet breath on his face didn't make it easy for him. But it was far from clouding his mind, not tonight.
He grew angry at her indifferent answer. "You are coming home with me!"
He grabbed her wrist but she yanked it away. "Too bad, because I don't want to!"
"Caroline! Be sensible!" His hybrid stepped up behind Caroline, surrounding her.
Her eyes flashed at him.
"Oh I am! I am a vampire and I am finally not afraid to act on it anymore and even if I get killed, I am already dead and if you think I will hold myself back because none of you lot wants to be exposed than I suggest you better leave."
"Are you threatening me?" He asked incredulously.
"I guess I am." She smiled sweetly and wheeled around. The human blood gave her so much strength and along with the moment of surprise she somehow managed to bury her hand in the hybrid's chest. She swiftly pulled his heart out and dropped it to the floor. "Opps!" She said.
The body dropped dead to the floor but strangely no one seemed to notice. Klaus was too surprised to act. He looked at her. Into her face and all he saw was darkness.
A handsome man with his girlfriend on his arm walked passed, but Caroline stopped him. "Uuuuhhh." She looked him in the eyes and her pupils dilated: "Dance with me!" As his girlfriend wanted to protest she simply snapped: "Shut up and piss off!"
Klaus couldn't say a word. For once he was speechless and his throat tightened.
The Caroline he knew was gone.
Back at the mansion Klaus paced in his room.
Her face. He couldn't forget her indifferent face! Her dark eyes that usually held so much light in them! It had been as if someone had just blown out a candle.
He felt torn apart, as if he was spiralling downward and he didn't know why.
He breathed loudly and groaned. His glass hit the wall and scattered into a thousand pieces. "Argh!"
The air left his lungs through his teeth angrily.
Elijah suddenly walked into the room silently. "I take it your search was successful." His voice was soothingly. Klaus' muscles were tensed and he balled his fists. His nails dug painfully into his palms.
"She's gone Elijah." He whispered. Elijah bit his lip, because he had seen this coming: "What do you intend to do now, Niklaus?"
Klaus walked over to the fireplace and put a hand onto the mantelpiece starring into the flames.
"We have to stop her…at any cost."
Elijah frowned. "Brother…"
"We have no choice Elijah!" He looked at him and there it was again. The look of human pain in his eyes Elijah had detected earlier. The pain of the man who he once was. Elijah stared at him and he felt almost shocked to see his brother like this for this was a very unfamiliar sight. With all his being Elijah hoped, that despite Klaus' anger he was still sane enough not to hurt Caroline at any cost. He hoped that he would try to reason with her anew. There was a slight possibility that she was what he had been looking for for a thousand years and Elijah loved him too dearly to just give up on him. He would stop Niklaus himself if he had to.
"Brother, I beg you to give her another chance."
Klaus set his jaw and just stared at his brother for a while before he left the house. Elijah sighed and walked over to the window to stare into the garden. His senses detected Rebekah as soon as she walked down the landing outside of the room. She came to stand in the door frame. "I heard about Caroline." She said, but Elijah didn't answer. "Is Nik going to end her miserable life then?"
At this he spun around and tilted his head. "I wish you wouldn't mean that. Where is Kol?"
Rebekah shrugged. "Out of town. I don't know."
Niklaus had always tried to keep his family together because he feared that he might lose them. With Rebekah hardly caring and Kol not at all, it was difficult to convince his brother of the opposite. He had to change first in order to let others be changed and if Elijah's feeling was right then Caroline would play a very important role in this.
So Klaus sought her out again in another town an hour away from Mystic Falls.
He needed to stop her, even if it meant ending her. He had told himself this over and over again as if he needed persuasion himself.
The scene he was about to witness told him as well that there was no other way.
Caroline was fighting in a dark alley with a stranger. Klaus heard them as if he was standing next to them.
It was a vampire whose hunting ground she had invaded.
She had learned a lot during the last weeks. Caroline might still be a baby vampire but she didn't fight like one anymore. Her skills weren't brilliant but rather sloppy, but she was quick and that was her greatest advantage. She threw the other vampire into a wall and ripped his heart out in merely five seconds. By anyone else Klaus would have felt impressed, but with Caroline he felt differently.
"Caroline!" Klaus stared at her bewildered as he stepped out of hiding, but Caroline just shrugged. She couldn't care less about another dead vampire. "There are enough others out there."
He flashed in front of her and cupped her cheek starring intently into her eyes. "Sweetheart." And he saw nothing. No light. Just emptiness.
No reaction at all to his touch or his words and as much as he hated to admit it, he loathed it.
This wasn't his Caroline.
And suddenly he figured that Elijah had known it all along, Nik had known it deep down inside of him as well, but again not admitted.
Caroline was his link to humanity and without her…what would become of him?
She hit his hand away and something broke inside of him. He knew he had to kill her.
"The hybrid was my friend." Klaus snarled out of coherency.
"Friend? You have friends?" She scoffed.
"Caroline, you don't want to stay like this." He tried and his voice sounded almost pleadingly.
"Actually I do!" Her eyes were dark and her veins pulsed under her eyes. "What do you want to do against it?"
"I am going to kill you!" He growled and flashed forward to grab her throat. But his gut clenched and scolded him a liar. He stared at her and imagined how he would rip her heart out of her chest. It wouldn't take much to do it. Not at all.
But his arms wouldn't obey him. His hands started to tremble and the next thing he knew was the sound of her snapping neck.
It snapped and Klaus watched with a gut wrenching feeling how her unconscious body hit the ground.
Her eyes were closed and she looked almost peaceful. Her blond curls were spread out around her head like a halo.
He closed his eyes and tried to grab a clear thought.
He had to do something!
He had to try again!
One more try, Niklaus!
One more try! It was as if he heard Elijah's voice told him to do so.
He couldn't remember to ever have felt quite this desperate and he wondered on what kind of road he actually was. How could Caroline have such a strong hold over him?
He kicked the dirt on the street and scolded himself for not having left town when he had still had the chance to do it!
"The witch left town and she doesn't seem to be coming back soon." A wolf reported to his alpha and the witch. The two smiled at each other satisfied.
"Everything according to plan." The witch said.
The alpha crossed his arms and squinted at her. "You do have an awefully lot of luck." He said.
Her eyes bore into his and a chill ran down his spine. Witches were something he didn't understand and he felt insecure about it. He had no evidence that she was truely on their side and it made him nervous. "You don't trust me!" She said amused and went back to her herbs.
"I don't trust anyone. How did you know the Bennett witch would try to invade someone's mind?"
The witch smiled to herself. "Because I know the young Bennett witch. I know how she works." She said mysteriously.
"What about the other vampire? How did you know about her?"
"Oh, that was just sheer luck!" She just shrugged. "I didn't plan it, but it is a perfect development! Klaus will be so much distracted that we can use it against him. We can use her against him!" Her eyes gleamed and she chuckled at her own thoughts. "But we have to be careful about Tyler. He still cares about her."
"Don't worry, he also has a thing for Hayley which we can use against him."
"We have to keep him distracted until we can use him." The witch agreed.
"So, how do we procede now?"
"All good things to those who wait!" The witch smirked at the wolf.
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