Since I am still on holliday this week I have time to post the next chapter already, and the sixth will be up at the weekend, but I unfortunatelly can't promise you to keep up this pace! I will do my best however=)

Then I want to thank KlarolineKolenaDaroline for the review because it gave me another idea, so I rewrote this chapter for another time and added an additional scene.=)

Thanks also to everyone who is following this story! You are amazing!

Happy reading!

Klaus had locked her up for a day until Caroline regained consciousness again. Every bone in her body ached as she tried to stand up. Her bones cracked and she groaned in pain. It was dark and there was just a faint streak of light falling through a tiny barred window high up on a wall.
The walls were bare and as damp as the air. Where the hell was she?

At first she couldn't remember what had happened. The air was so heavy and wet that it made her shiver. There was a faint scent of mould. As she tried to open the door to the last memory in her head it painted itself in front of her eyes. Klaus!

She became furious and tried to break out or her prison which was just a feeble attempt for the cellar of the mansion was vampire and werewolf proof. She tried the bars in front of the window even though she knew there was no use. There was no way out of here. She was trapped. The young vampire hit the door angrily.

"Klaus, you useless coward! Let me out!" Caroline knew that he would hear her anyway and she hoped that he cared for her enough to make it bother him. That it would bother him so much that he wouldn't have a chance but let her out of her prison.

So she started screaming. A loud screeching painful scream that set someone's teeth at edge.

Klaus heard the screams but he didn't let it bother him. He drowned them out and went about his business, but he hadn't considered that Caroline had so much power of endurance.

The screams and whines and sometimes cries of despair lasted through the whole night. None of the originals found a single moment of peace.

"Nik! Shut her up immediately or I will do it myself!" Rebekah yelled and practically ran into the living room where her brother sat as if he was carved out of stone. He didn't react at all and she snapped her fingers. "Niklaus!"

"What is your problem, Bekah?"

"What my problem is? Are you deaf!?" She yelled, but Klaus just sipped his blood. "Fine, if you are not doing anything against it then I will!" She had almost reached the door when Klaus flashed in front of her. "You will do none such thing!"

Rebekah stared daggers at her brother. "If Kol was here he had ripped her heart out after merely five minutes of screaming." She said and made her regret about it plain in her voice. She tried to stare her brother down but Klaus stared just back at her with cold eyes. "What is it with you? Kill her already and free yourself of her! Nik." Her tone was almost pleading. "You wouldn't have to bother about her ever again."

Klaus ground his teeth. He would be free and could finally let go of this whole town of amateurs as he had called them before. When her brother didn't react Rebekah made a decision: "I want her gone Nik! It is either me or her! If she is still here in the morning I'll be gone for good!" She stepped around Klaus and flashed upstairs. Klaus' face fell and he buried his head in his hands. He listened to his sister packing a bag before she left the house within merely five minutes.

He guessed that she would spend the night at the Salvatores.

Elijah had overheard the argument with attentive ears. He stood in the kitchen and stared into thin air while his ears struggled to hear everything. He knew that his brother wasn't as cold hearted as he pretended to be. Caroline's wailing tore at his nerves but he simply couldn't bring himself to kill her. There was a spark of hope inside him that told him to wait.

The reason why Elijah didn't complain about Caroline was because he really hoped Niklaus wouldn't act as impulsively as he had always done before. He hoped his brother could somehow draw up enough patience for Caroline to recover, but it didn't look too well. Now that Rebekah, his beloved sister, had stood up to him and threatened him to leave his side his patience might be crumbling.

Elijah sighed. Rebekah was smart and her arguments were unbeatable! Niklaus would be free if he ended her, but to what cost, Elijah asked himself.
Could he punish himself even more than he already did? If Niklaus turned his emotions off Elijah was almost certain that there was no way he would ever be able to turn them on again especially if the only thing that held him together at the moment would be gone for good.
Caroline was the only one who was reaching him, even though his family was the most important thing to him ever, Caroline had an as strong hold over him as did Rebekah.

As quietly as possible Elijah walked into the living room to watch his brother's struggle.

Klaus didn't know on whose side he was.

He didn't want to disappoint Rebekah but he simply couldn't kill Caroline just like that even though he pretended that he could. The fact that he hadn't done it already proofed that he was dependent on her. It was the reason why he had threatened to kill her in the first place.

He didn't want anyone to know that he had a weakness, that he was dependent on this young blond vampire. By killing her instantly no one would have ever doubted that he was the most powerful creature in the world and that nothing could stop him nor would he let anyone ever stop him. Caroline was a thread to his existence by acting so savagely and he was the one who always got every thread out of the way without blinking.

However this time he had blinked and he had never done it before.

It scared him and he was about to lose his way simply because he had never done it before.

This was new to him and he wanted to end it as soon as possible. He had to do something and Elijah hoped that he was the one who could get through to Caroline. She was too smart to be trifled with and if there wasn't the slightest attraction she felt for Niklaus she would have turned her back on him already. But she was still around and there had to be a reason for that.

However there was another reason why Klaus had wanted to end her immediately. Something only a few vampires knew.

"Do you think it is already too late, Elijah?" Klaus mumbled and stared into the darkness in front of the window. Caroline was still screaming down in the basement. "You know that someone as bright as her needs the light."

"I know." Elijah said. Bright shining vampires like Caroline could never last long without their emotions on. They were both aware of it. "You have to act fast Niklaus, whatever you decide to do."

Klaus sighed and nodded. A vampire like her would lose its light forever the longer it stayed without emotions.

"It might be already too late for her." Klaus mused and Elijah detected the faint note of fear in his voice. Caroline was strong, but only because of her light. If she had lost it forever then she wouldn't survive long with her emotions back on again. Live would be unbearable for her, simply too depressive.

"You will never know if you don't try it."

Niklaus was dependent on her light that could become his guidance through the darkness.

Two hours later that night he made his way down into the cellar. The door was heavy but he yanked it open without any strain.

Caroline smirked at him: "There he finally comes." She mocked.

"Yeah, well your ranting was most amusing."

"Let me out!" Caroline snarled. "Or I will continue what I started."

He stepped closer. "What if I just let you do it until you desiccate?"

She licked her lips and chuckled. "You won't kill me then, will you, Niklaus?" She stepped closer with an alluring look in her eyes.

"I am tempted to and believe me that Rebekah is too. I guess you angered her the most."

Caroline did another step and raised her hand to caress his cheek. "Then I have to be very quick I guess." There was a gush of wind and she was gone.

"Damn it!" Klaus cursed and raised upstairs after her . How did she always manage to distract him?

He reached her when she was in the hall. The original jumped at her and they tumbled into the living room.

He was on his feet before she was. "Caroline you need to stop this suicidal trip!"

When she was about to run again he pushed her into a wall and shielded her body with his.

"Come on, Niklaus, you have been to the dark side." She purred and the way she called him Niklaus in this dark and rough tone sounded more than disturbing to him.

"You have got to control yourself!" He hit the wall next to her head but she didn't even flinch.

"Oh come on!"

"You are going to get us all exposed!"

"Are you really afraid of that?"

Klaus growled. He simply couldn't reason with her in this state. He took her face in his hands to look for anything.
Fear. Repulsion. Hate. Love. Passion.
Whatever!
But there was nothing, no light, there was just darkness and for the first time in decades he wondered if he had ever looked like this.

"You aren't still mad because of the dead hybrid, are you?"

"Believe it or not, I did like him!"

Caroline pouted sarcastically. "Awwww."

"Caroline, stop it!" He yelled crashing her back against another wall.

She just smirked. "I might like where this is heading!"

"Turn it back on!" He yelled menacingly.

"And why would I want that?"

"You are not capable of this! You'll die if you go on like this!"

"And we wouldn't want that!"

"If you want to die I can oblige you with that right now right here!" He growled in his wolf voice.

"You wouldn't!"

Another growl. He flashed to tear a chair apart and buried a piece of wood in Caroline's stomach.

She screamed out in pain.

"Don't bet on it!" He threatened and turned the piece of wood around.

She whined and yelped and Klaus let go of her. Powerless she slid down the wall. His heart clenched and he averted his eyes.

There was something inside of him that he couldn't control. He was so full of rage, although he never wanted to hurt her he was afraid what would happen if she went on like this. He needed his Caroline back, she was the only one he could turn to. Without her he was a mess. If she was to die…it hurt…the war inside of him tore at any organ. He growled in pain. He had to keep control, he couldn't kill her even though he had to. But he would have to kill himself afterwards. There would be no way around it!

While Caroline sank further down to the ground he pulled his hair in frustration.

"Why would you want me to turn it back on?" Her voice was barely audible because of the pain that seized her body when she managed to pull the stick out of her.

He had his eyes closed but didn't answer. He tried to breathe. In and out.

As if he had infected her, Caroline suddenly felt the rage too.
"Why do you want me to turn it back on!?" She yelled at the top of her lungs.

"Because you're the only thing human about me!" He yelled back just as loudly.

Caroline gasped.

His breathing was loud and rough. Klaus panted as if he had just run a marathon and his nostrils flared.

Then his dead heart skipped a beat as he suddenly detected that there was a hint of fear, loss and sadness in her eyes.

"I might not know how to do it." She whispered. Tears of rage and anger burnt in his eyes. Just rage and anger? He felt like biting his lip to drown everything out. He couldn't take any of this anymore.

Klaus knelled down. "Yes, sweetheart, you know." He cupped her cheek. She had to. He had never ever felt like he needed anything…anything but her. "You were the only good thing in my life." He whispered.

Her eyes became bigger.

"Were?" He imagined her bottom lip to quiver.

"Yes, were. This is the end of the road, Caroline."

"Are you going to kill me?" She had asked this question before in the same desperate tone, in another life though.

"I should." He answered honestly. "But I could also just leave it up to someone else."

"Are you leaving?" She asked and Klaus nodded.

"There's nothing keeping me here." He said gruffly.

He looked into her eyes and suddenly as she blinked, he thought there was some moistness in them.

He stood up.

"You can't just leave me like that!" Her voice rose.

Klaus chuckled. "Love, you left first. Besides you seem to be very contented with who you are now."

"You can't hold any of it against me!" Her voice became louder once more and the desperate undertone pushed it to a high-pitched note.

"I don't want you like this!" He snapped.

"You have been like this before and even worse!"

They screamed and shouted at each other.

"But I could control it!"

"And I can't?"

"No!"

Her eyes flickered and she bit her lip. Suddenly he knew what he had to do. He knew where this was heading.

"You don't have it in you, Caroline. Just admit it!" He said sternly and Caroline's voice began to quiver: "I…you can't know that!"

"I do! I have seen lots of people, love, believe me. Second choices will always be just that, second choices!"

She hissed.

"You are too weak, sweetheart." He kept going.

Tears burnt in her eyes now and between her teeth she pressed: "I am not!"

Klaus shrugged pouring himself a glass of Bourbon. "Then what's bothering you, love? You can't decide what you want, can you? A liability, Caroline, aren't you?"

He saw a tear rolling down her cheek. There was a jerk going through his body and he suddenly wished he could catch that tear. It dropped and shattered into a million of water crystals on the floor.

"You might want to end your life yourself, before someone else does it for you, just an advice." He said calmly. She sniffed and then suddenly she flashed.

Klaus smiled. He downed the drink and grabbed his desk until his hands hurt and the wood cracked, just to keep him from going straight after her. She would be devastated, but she had to go through this on her own, right?

A deep growl escaped his throat. Indecisive! Since when was he indecisive?

He heard her start the engine of a car and with screeching tires she drove off.

There were footsteps in the hallway.

He poured himself another drink as Elijah entered.

"Was that Caroline?"

Klaus just made a sound while he swallowed.

"Was she crying?" Elijah frowned. Klaus cocked his eyebrows and Elijah went on: "Do you think it is wise to let her drive off like a maniac? Especially since she couldn't care less, about anything?"

Klaus stared at his brother seriously before he grabbed his keys and left. He couldn't think straight. If something happened now it would have been his fault and he would have killed her after all.

He quickly followed her in his own car.

This was nerve wracking!

Klaus drove up the road through the forest.

She would calm down and then get fully back to her senses. He had to believe in that. After all it was the usual procedure, but then again how normal was Caroline?

After the next turn he hit the brakes hard as he noticed a hole in the crash barriers. Oh no!

He got out of the car and stepped up to the side of the road to have a look further down the hill. He noticed Caroline's car lying on its side further down in the woods.

Klaus flashed immediately down the hill.

The car was lying on the driver's side. "Caroline?" His heart thumped.

He could hear her breathing stertorously. "Caroline."

The car lay awkwardly against a broken tree. Caroline had her eyes closed and didn't react. The tree partially pierced the car and was stuck inside it. Klaus struggled to put the vehicle back on its wheels. He yanked her door open single handedly.

"Caroline." He gently pulled her out.

Then he saw the huge red stain on the front of her shirt. A broken branch was still stuck inside of her.

He grabbed it with both hands and carefully pulled it out, trying not to scratch her heart. She winced.

And anxiety filled him.

Caroline moaned and Klaus bit into his wrist. "Come on sweetheart, one bite."

He put it to her lips, but she didn't stir. Instead a teardrop ran down her cheek. Her eyelids fluttered.

Her voice was just a hoarse faint whisper. "I am not worth saving." Her side hurt and she felt the blood leaving her body quickly. She tried to breath.

Caroline's insecurities had been a big part of her human life. That's where Klaus had been driving at.

"Don't even think about it!" He snarled and held the wrist closer to her mouth. "Come on, love don't make me regret anything." Her breathing rustled.

She looked at him, right into his determined blue eyes. She knew he would make her drink so she swallowed and then took a small sip.

"I am so horrible." She whined.

"Sh." Klaus stroked her hair. "It's okay."

"Please get me home."

"Of course, love." And without any effort he scooped her up into his arms.

The whole way over to her house she hadn't said a word. Klaus had constantly thrown side glances at her though.

Caroline was in shock. Her feelings crushed her heart, but she was too shocked to respond. When the numbness would leave her in the morning she would have to have a lot to deal with.

She didn't seem to notice their arrival at her house. Just as Klaus touched her hand lightly after opening her door she looked at him with red rimmed eyes.

"Can you walk?"

She nodded.

Klaus chewed on the inside of his cheek.

Caroline walked straight into her room and sat down on her bed.

The original silently helped her out of her shoes before he helplessly stood in front of her.

Caroline's voice was raw with many emotions. Sadness. Tiredness. Remorse. Pain.

She just stared. "You can go." She didn't want him to think that he'd have to feel obligated to stay.

Klaus squinted at her before he disappeared.

The young vampire lay down exhausted and tears started falling out of her eyes.

Always the second one and to top it all of a real killer now. Why couldn't he have just let her die? Her body shook with her sobs. The tears falling uncontrollably. Her chest was clenching in pain and when she concentrated she heard the cries of all those she had killed. So many innocent lives taken because of her personal issues. Caroline wanted to cover her ears, maybe then she wouldn't have to hear them anymore.

She startled as she felt a hand on her shoulder.

Klaus handed her a wet towel and a clean shirt.

Her eyes were asking, wondering. She sniffed.

"You didn't really expect me to leave, did you?" Klaus asked.

"Thank you." Caroline whispered into the darkness.

She woke up several times only to cry herself to sleep again.

Consciousness pulled her back out of the black abyss that had kept her in her sleep.

Her lungs filled deep with air, a habit, a human trait that has not been abandoned. She blinked into the light. She turned and stretched, snuggling deeper into the cushions. Her mind was a blank page.

She stared at the ceiling and waited, but for what she didn't know...

Her mum stepped into the doorway.

"Honey, are you up?" Liz stepped into the room and sat down next to her on the bed. "How do you feel?"

"…mum…" Her voice was hoarse. "What happened?" She frowned trying to remember what she was supposed to know.

"You…" Her mum's voice broke and her eyes filled with tears. "Klaus brought you here last night, honey. Do you remember?"

For a second there was a question mark in her eyes.

But then she remembered.

Pictures and smells flashed through her mind.

There was suddenly a huge lump in her throat and panic rose inside her. Her stomach contracted and her chest became heavy like lead. She felt sick.

"Are you all right, honey?"

Caroline tried to swallow the lump, tried to suppress her feelings. She tried not to break and nodded bravely. Liz squeezed her daughter's hand. "Do you need anything?"

Caroline's breathing hitched, but she couldn't get any air into her lungs.

"I'm so sorry." She choked. Her breathing accelerated in a panic attack. Caroline started to hyperventilate. No air. There was no air. She tried desperately to draw air through her nose.

What have I done?

"Caroline?" She shook her head violently. Liz became worried seeing her daughter gasp for air. Like a fish without water. She tried to get as much air into her lungs as possible.

I am going to suffocate!

Her dead heart beat frantically. Caroline closed her eyes and covered her ears in order to stop the hallucinations.

"Caroline, calm down! It's all right! You are all right!"

"No!" She rasped. Tears filled her eyes. "I am not!" There was pain everywhere and it felt like a thousand stakes pinching her heart.

Liz has never been a woman of many emotions. She felt overwhelmed unable to do anything, besides she didn't know what.

"Caroline, look at me." She placed her hand onto her daughter's shoulder. "You are going to be fine."

She shook her head frantically. "No no no no…"

Tears streamed down her face and she tried to draw a deep breath. Feeling the air travel through her nose, down her throat and into her lungs. She tried to keep it there, but it left her again, ragged with every sob that escaped her.

There was a knock at the door in that moment.

Liz stroked her hair. "I'll be right back. Don't worry you'll be fine."

Caroline still struggled to breathe.

It hurt Liz to see her daughter like this. But she couldn't find herself able to say anything that didn't sound wrong. It had been a real shock for her to discover that Caroline had been behind all this. It hurt. She swallowed her own tears and walked over to the front door expecting Elena or Bonnie, but instead she found herself opposite of…

"Klaus."

"Good morning Sheriff. I wanted to inquire…" He stopped midsentence and his eyes darted to the right wall from where the sound emerged. He tensed as he hurt her wailing. The sound was too low for human ears to pick up.

He looked at Liz who wordlessly stepped aside and nodded.

There was a gush of wind and Klaus was gone in a flash.

Liz closed her eyes. She thought very low of Klaus, but this was vampire business. What did you say to someone who had turned her humanity off? How was that possible anyway?

She couldn't understand it, but she was sure that Klaus could and right now she believed that he was not here to harm her daughter.

He stopped in front of her door and entered slowly at human speed. The scene was miserable.

Her shoulders were slumped forward and her face was cradled in her hands. She shuddered and sobbed loudly. She felt pain in every inch of her body. As she looked up at him, he saw her red rimmed eyes and her face was wet from her tears.

"Klaus." She mouthed for her voice was not strong enough as her breathing was still ragged.

"Sweetheart." He purred in his dark velvety voice.

He sat down in front of her and everything about him conveyed calmness. His whole appearance, his movements, his features, his voice.

"Sweetheart, look at me." He cupped her cheek. "Now I want you to take a deep breath. You can't suffocate, not at all. All is well… That's it. And again." His voice was almost hypnotizing.

"Very good. I know there's pain everywhere, as if your whole body was on fire. Now, you need to channel it." He watched her close her eyes drawing one breath after another. "Concentrate it in one area and then let it in." Her eyes shot open and there was fear in them. "You will feel pain and guilt. It's not gonna be easy, but it has to run its course. The longer you deny it the harder it will become. You have to feel it in order to be able to let it fully go and thus eternally. You have to process it, Caroline, or it will haunt you forever." Her lips started to tremble and some more sobs escaped her. "That's it, sweetheart and now let it flow."

Hot tears streamed down her face. She screamed and sobbed and strangled sounds escaped her throat. Klaus caressed her cheek. "You are going to be fine, love. Don't forget to breath. In and out."

Her head fell forward and hit his shoulder. Klaus drew a sharp breath himself as her hot tears hit his skin at the drape of his neck, soaking his collar. There were goose bumps running down his spine.

Violent shocks seized her body.

The original froze at first, but then he slowly wrapped his arms around the weeping baby vampire. Fighting down the creepy tingling anxiety in his stomach he slowly caressed her back.

They stayed like this for a long time until her sobs died down a bit, but the tears were still running freely. She couldn't stop crying, because she was still in shock.

"I am horrible!" She whined but Klaus just chuckled. "I can never face them again!"

"Don't worry, everyone of them has done just as horrible things." His scent tickled her nostrils and soothed her somehow. Her breathing started to come slowly and regulated.

"I…can…hear their screams!" His hand caressed her back and her hair:

"Don't worry. It'll stop some time."

"I don't want to go through this." She looked up and saw that he had his jaw clenched before his hands reached out to cup her face: "But you will and you can. I know it's hard, but a whole bunch of sillier vampires has made it through and so will you!"

She sniffed and another trembled breath escaped her, but the pain was durable now.

His blue eyes searched hers. "Are you all right?"

She nodded slowly, closing her eyes for a brief moment. "I can't believe what I did! All these people!"

Her body shuddered.

"Don't. You will only hurt yourself. What happened has happened. I am going to get you a tea, okay?"

She nodded.

"Okay, be right back."

Liz was in the kitchen and as Klaus entered she quickly wiped her tears away.

"How is she?"

"Do you have tea anywhere?" She showed him while Klaus went on. "She will be fine, although it is weighing down on her conscience."

"Thank you."

Klaus looked at her, but didn't respond.

He returned to Caroline with a steaming mug in his hand which she took gratefully. "Thank you."

The hot beverage was comforting and he let it flow through her whole system after she had taken a sip. She closed her eyes, trying to drown the pain and the screams out while she tried to let the silence in.

Her phone buzzed but they just ignored it. She couldn't speak to anyone, not yet.

Klaus noticed how pale she looked. Suddenly his gut clenched as he wondered if this step into darkness had affected her light. He had learned that her light was the one thing that he liked about her most. Right now something inside him was afraid that that light might be damaged.

His phone rang then and pulled him out of his pondering.

Lockwood.

The original snorted before he picked up without answering. Caroline just stared into the air in front of her, not really interested until she recognized Tyler's voice.

"Where is she?" He snarled.

"Safe."

"Where? Let me speak to her!"

"Why?"

"I don't trust you!"

Caroline's eyes widened and her breathing quickened again, however Klaus just put a hand against her cheek looking into her eyes and she immediately mimicked his breathing.

He sighed. "Hold on.-Tyler doesn't trust me with your well being." He offered her his phone, but instead of grabbing it she retreated. She couldn't talk to him.

What should she tell him?

"Too bad. She doesn't want to talk to you!"

"What did you do to her!?" Caroline heard Tyler yell.

"Brought her back!" The vampire ended the call. "I thought he was so important to you?"

She sighed. "What should I say to him?" She croaked. "I can't talk to him on the phone." Her voice quivered. Klaus tried to read her eyes, but all he saw was sadness and anxiety. No reminder of the old Caroline. He bit his lip.

All of a sudden an idea formed in his mind. She needed her light back and he would help her.

He probably needed to do this for himself as well.

"Caroline, maybe you should get out of town for a day or two." She frowned at him while she wiped her eyes. "It would certainly give you some rest and distance."

"But where should I go? I…I really don't know."

"Well, I admittedly own a residence in the forest on top of Mount Wickham, merely two hours from here." She watched him licking her salty lips. "Caroline let me take you away for two days. If you want to return sooner, then say the word and I'll take you home."

Have a great evening!=)