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He pondered about how to proceed now. He had no idea what to do next or where to go, but there was one small voice inside his head that told him that there was only one person in the whole world who had never betrayed him and who would help him out yet again. You just have to ask.

Klaus bit his lip and hesitated as he stared at his mobile in his palm. There was only one person whose advice he would at least consider if not take without a doubt, even though he didn't show it often, but he admired his big brother.

Elijah had often been his voice of reason, so to speak, even though there relationship wasn't that easy. Lately they had gotten closer once again after years and somehow he thought that Caroline was responsible for that. She had developed to become their anchor.

He paced indecisively before he slowly lifted the phone to his ear and waited for Elijah to answer.

There was a clicking noise. "Hello Niklaus."

"Elijah, it's good to speak to you." Klaus' voice was low and somehow unspirited.

"Brother, where are you?" Elijah replied and there was some kind of edge in his voice.

"That's not important, but I…I need to talk to you." Klaus admitted.

Elijah raised his eyebrows but he didn't comment and his younger brother was very grateful for that. Klaus realized that his older brother had never truly judged him for anything although he had often voiced his dislike, he had never despised him. "Of course. What is it that you want to talk about?"

Klaus' tongue was heavy and he wasn't sure if it would obey him. Was he risking too much by telling him? By opening up? Would Elijah hold it against him?
Klaus had never felt like this before, he had never stood between things. He tried to move his tongue again but it was still tied up in some old feeling that he couldn't get rid of that easily.

Elijah didn't press him and waited patiently for an answer. He had a patience that Klaus would never have. That and the feelings of nobility were the great differences between them, but otherwise they were quite similar. Sometimes Klaus wondered if maybe Elijah was even more dangerous because when he lashed out it wasn't hot tempered, but cold and calculated.

Klaus clicked his tongue to finally loosen it. "It's about…Caroline." Elijah smiled to himself for he had guessed as much. No one had ever tongue tied his brother this much. "How is she?"

"She is holding it together I would say. I understand that she tried to reach you several times?"

Klaus' answer came mere seconds too late. "She did, but…I…Elijah…" He couldn't say it out loud, but Elijah wouldn't have been Elijah if he hadn't answered correctly anyway: "If you want my opinion, Niklaus, then it is definitely time for you to return. She will be mad at you, you have to be aware of that, but she cares deeply for you, brother, and she has gone through quite some quarrels with her friends because of it. And I don't know how much else she should have to handle."

Klaus swallowed and a deep longing swelled inside of his chest.

He thought about her lovely face; her eyes, her nose, her lips... She had fought with her friends over him?

When there was no answer Elijah went on. "I know you think you don't deserve it, but maybe it is time for you to forgive yourself. Anyone deserves at least one good thing in his life, don't you think?"

Klaus' throat was tight. He couldn't speak even though he wanted to tell his brother that he wasn't good and that it didn't make him deserve anything, but in that moment he felt gratitude for his older brother and Klaus knew that he would probably never be able to say as much.

His siblings had always been there, but he had never seen it. And he would probably never admit it to any of them! Not during the next decade anyway.

"Come home brother."

Klaus hung up without saying another word. His throat and eyes burned.

Caroline and Bonnie made their way over to the lake, because Caroline had insisted on driving over to the falls in the forest in order to spend a nice relaxing afternoon there. She needed this! She needed to get out of town and take her mind off things. She had managed to distract her mind pretty much over these last days and she was proud to be able to tell herself: You are doing great, Caroline, go on!

But something was still missing and there were these moments when she just sat there with nothing to do staring into the distance. There hadn't been anything to do today and when this feeling of suffocation started to creep up on her again she had quickly shaken it off called Bonnie and persuaded her to get some fresh air with her.

"I really don't think we should do this Caroline!" Bonnie wailed with a sick feeling in her stomach, but Caroline rolled her eyes.

"Oh Bonnie, come on we both need a holiday. A nice relaxing day and since the sun is shining this brightly we will spent this one day enjoying the last warm days of sunshine for this year."

"But what about the pack?" Bonnie interjected and looked around with worried eyes.

"Argh, those stupid wolves can screw themselves. We are not here to act against them, right? So they will leave us alone! You'll see!" Caroline argued. "Come on!"

Bonnie slowly followed Caroline who stalked briskly through the forest. Caroline really wasn't caring about the wolves. She didn't even feel uneasy about being in the forest like Bonnie did.

"I have a really bad feeling about this, Caroline!"

Caroline just ignored her.

"Please let's turn around!" Bonnie said but kept following her friend never the less.

The lake was smooth and the sunlight reflected nicely off its surface. It looked like a scene from a romcom movie. Caroline managed to smile spreading her blanket on the ground while Bonnie followed her example rather reluctantly. She still turned around and searched the area with her eyes permanently having the feeling that they were being watched.

"This is the best autumn we have had in years and it is just perfect for the dance. Rebekah and I thought about an open air welcome of the guests." Caroline started rattling after she had made herself comfortable. Besides her uneasy feeling Bonnie still wondered where this suddenly came all from. It was probably part of her trying to move on, but Bonnie wasn't sure if she was succeeding.

"You get along with Rebekah quite well, don't you?" Bonnie asked.

Caroline nodded wildly. "I know. It's crazy, but she is not half as bad as I thought."

Bonnie smiled slightly. She was happy that Caroline finally seemed to process Klaus' leaving but she wasn't sure if she liked that Caroline still spend a lot of time with the original family. Wouldn't a clear cut be better after everything?

There was silence for a short while before Caroline went on ranting about the decoration Rebekah and her intended to do. Silence didn't seem to suit her well today.

Then suddenly Bonnies' senses became alert. "Did you hear that?"

"Hear what?" Caroline strained her vampire hearing and wondered how it was possible for Bonnie to pick up any sound before her, but then again she had been focusing on her visions for the upcoming dance which she hoped would be a huge, successful event. Even though it kept reminding her that she still needed a date.

She jumped as a werewolf stepped out of the forest. With a pang of guilt she realised that she really had not been paying attention at all!

"Look who's here!" Others followed the man and the girls backed away slowly. Caroline shielded Bonnie with her body, but they soon figured out that the pack had surrounded them.

"What do you want?" Caroline hissed. "We are not here to harm you!"

"You do realise that this is our territory!?" The biggest one of them stepped menacingly closer and blacked his teeth.

"We are not here for you!" Caroline tried again, but the men only grinned stupidly as if they were caring! One of them chuckled and the big man in front of Caroline smirked at him and cocked his eyebrows at the girls.

"Well, maybe we are here for you." His voice was menacingly low.

All of a sudden the men jumped forward. One grabbed Bonnie who was still defenceless without her magic. Caroline tried to claw at him and kick him away but two others were going for her. One of them flew a few metres high in the air and almost dropped into the water. Caroline hissed and showed her fangs but the wolves merely laughed while they kept coming at her.

"Caroline!" Bonnie screamed frightful and struggled to break the hold of the man who was holding her tight against his chest.

With a grunt Caroline landed another blow in a wolves chest. She grinned smugly but didn't watch her back when two others came from the right and left side.

"Watch out!" But Bonnie's warning was too late. One of the pack pulled out a syringe with a golden liquid in it which he managed to drive into the side of her neck. Caroline screamed surprised and pushed him away. He landed with a loud thud onto the ground and when Caroline pulled the empty syringe out of her neck her eyes widened in shock. The wolves smirked and deliberately stepped backwards because they knew there was no way that she was going to escape them now.

Caroline felt the burning of the vervain immediately treavelling through her veins. She looked at Bonnie who had opened her mouth in a scream but Caroline couldn't hear her anymore.

Bonnie Bennett could only watch how her friend dropped unconsciously onto the ground.

"No!" She yelled and tried to gather any kind of magic she had within her but it only made the wind pick up.

The alpha was in her face now and told her: "Tell your friends not to trespass our boundaries!"

Bonnie stormed through the front door of the boarding house without bothering to knock and Stefan and Rebekah who were sitting in the living room flashed her looks of total surprise.

"Bonnie?" Stefan asked when he noticed that she was crying and gasping for air. He stood up immediately and walked up to her. Rebekah stood as well and watched the scene with a fretful feeling that something bad had happened. Stefan put a hand onto Bonnie's shoulder and let her over to the couch. "Calm down what's going on?" Stefan pushed down onto the sitting furniture.

She couldn't get enough air into her lungs to speak. The words were stuck in her throat and only suffocating noises came out of it. Stefan and Rebekah shared a glance before they focused on Bonnie again. It needed quite a while until the witch could croak one name: "Caroline!"

"Caroline?" Stefan and Rebekah answered in unison suddenly every nerve ending was alert. The original had grown to like the young vampire girl. Caroline was fun if she wanted to be.

"What about her, Bonnie?" Stefan asked quietly and seriously at the same time. His hand was still on Bonnie's shoulder. He stared into her eyes and tried to get her to focus and control over her body again.

"The pack…" Bonnie breathed. "We were down at the lake and…"

"You were what?" Rebekah screamed. "Didn't we agree to stay out of the woods till we figured out what they were after?"

"Bekah!" Stefan said soothingly. "Go on, Bon. What happened?"

She whined loudly and sniffed. Stefan threw a worried look at Rebekah who looked rather annoyed with her arms crossed and her lips pulled into a thin line. Then Bonnie finally pressed the words out of her lungs: "They took Caroline!" She buried her face in her hands and cried.

Stefan's mouth fell open and he stared at Rebekah who looked just as shocked.

A voice full of rage suddenly boomed behind them and it seemed to fill every single corner in the house.

"THEY DID WHAT?!"

The three of them turned around as quickly as possible and someone gasped.

"Nik!" Rebekah said astonished looking at the furious face of the hybrid.

The original looked lethal in the way he blocked the doorway as if he wanted to prevent anyone from escaping. He looked like he was ready to kill someone as his fist loosened and tightened again.

Klaus had just arrived in town and since he hadn't found Elijah he had searched for Rebekah and apparently arrived just in the right moment.

Bonnie tried to hide her sobs behind her hand and stood up stepping half behind Stefan who put his arm around her shoulders.

"What happened?" He demanded in a grave dark voice coming slowly closer. His eyes were fixed on Bonnie. Now Rebekah stepped in front of Stefan and Bonnie because she was certainly sensing the tension in the air that grew tighter and tighter around them. Klaus' chest heaved heavily with every breath. "Nik, calm down!"

He shot her a killing glance. "Rebekah. What happened?" He asked again.

"Caroline." Bonnie whispered.

Klaus was in her face immediately. "Where is she?"

Bonnie shrunk under his stare and winced at his ice cold voice. She tried to speak but felt too intimidated. Klaus lost his patience and grabbed her throat.

"Just in case I haven't been clear. Where. Is. Caroline?" Bonnie's throat escaped a gurgling sound.

"Klaus!"

"Nik!"

Rebekah and Stefan called in unison and Klaus loosened his tight grip but didn't let go. "We don't know!" Stefan answered for Bonnie. "The pack got her!"

Bonnie fell to the floor as Klaus let go of her. He ruffled through his hair and took some steps through the room obviously being deeply disturbed.

"How did that happen?" He bellowed. His eyes fell on Bonnie again. He pointed a finger at her: "Bennett, tell me what happened!"

"We were at the lake." She choked. "Caroline wanted to get out of town for the afternoon and…and…I told her it was a bad idea but she didn't listen!" The tears streamed down her face and left wet trails. "She said they would leave us alone! But then they were everywhere and…and…" She cradled her face in her hands letting Stefan draw her into a hug.

Klaus tried to keep himself in control but it wasn't easy as there was a sudden storm raging inside him. The pack had her! His Caroline! The anger fuelled in his chest and he wanted to scream. The thought of her being in danger was sickening.

The sudden feeling of failing her as he had failed Henrick before grabbed him with its ice cold fingers and the cold he hadn't felt in decades spread over him.
You should have kept her safe!

There were steps on the stairs and Damon entered the room: "Uh oh the big bad wolf is back. Couldn't you have made a louder entrance? I am pretty sure there are still some who didn't hear!"

Within merely a second Klaus raced towards him and snapped his neck. Breathing heavily he stood and watched.

"Was that really necessary?" His sister asked but her eyes were smooth. She had never seen her brother lose control like this over someone else. Maybe Elena when she was still his living blood bag, but the hurt and anxiety in his eyes were new. So, Elijah was right after all. He did care very deeply. More than anyone could suspect and more than he knew it himself.

He squinted at her. "Want to argue about it, sister?"

"Get a grip, this will not make her return any sooner, so calm down!" She spat and Klaus hated to admit it, but she was right. He had to control his temper and he needed their help.

He closed his eyes for a brief second and inhaled deeply.

Stefan cocked his eyebrows at Rebekah who had the hint of a smile on her lips. As serious as this was, her brother was showing genuine concern for someone outside the family and she liked that.

Maybe after all this time Klaus could find happiness. She loved her brother dearly and would wish that he finally found some after one thousand years of pain, loss and war. All of them had somehow developed and moved one. One more and one less but in the end Klaus had never found what he was looking for and Rebekah could only suspect what that actually was.

Stefan helped Bonnie onto a couch and poured her a glass of Bourbon. Bonnie put a wary smile onto her face and took the glass with a shaking hand. Stefan smiled and caressed her back. "Now, tell us exactly how it happened and how many of them were there?"

"It was Caroline's idea. She wanted to go down to the lake to have a day off. She needed a break from everything and wanted to spend a relaxing day down at the falls. I told her it was a bad idea, but she wouldn't listen and I certainly wouldn't let her go alone there. Everything was fine but then they came out of the woods surrounding us. They said we were in their territory and we tried to tell them that we weren't there to harm them but they attacked us anyway. We tried to escape but one of them vervained Caroline. They dragged her away. I am to tell you not to trespass the boundaries."

Klaus stared outside and had his arms crossed over his chest. Gravely, he stared into the distance while his thoughts raced through his mind trying to grasp the whole story.

Silence lay its cover down over the room.

Caroline! He called out silently in his mind. The sickness came back when he thought about what they would do to her. If they bit her…or tortured her…

"Nik?" Rebekah asked quietly and stepped cautiously closer. All eyes were on his back now waiting for a statement.

Damon stirred and groaned while Klaus slowly turned around. His voice was very calm now and there was no evidence that he had ever flipped out like he had before. "We have to find her! I reckon they will either try to find out from her what she knows or try to trade her for something." He sighed. "We need to be quick." He was determined to get her out of there as soon as possible.

What if he hadn't come back today?

Damon moaned and cracked his bones. "Man, that was harsh!"

"What if we ask Tyler if he helps us try to figure something out?" Stefan asks.

Klaus nostrils flared and everyone saw that he was more than annoyed by that idea. "I wouldn't count on him." He said.

Stefan frowned. "Why?"

"Let's just say that he is spending his days lately with travelling the country with his little bitch."

Damon sniggered and stood up: "Then I guess you don't have to bother about him anymore."

"Damon!" Stefan said warningly because he didn't want him to provoke Klaus and get his neck snapped again, but Klaus just interjected.

"Oh we will meet again eventually."

Damon raised his eyebrows at his brother: "See, that's what I meant, but please hold your enthusiastically welcome back next time."

Klaus smirked. "You don't want to know my farewell gesture then."

"Oh, I can lively imagine that!" Damon replied cockily.

Elijah sighed as Klaus had filled him in on what had happened.

"You might not like it, but we should involve Kol in this, don't you think?" Kol had called him earlier and told him about the fight Nik and he had had. Even though Elijah had hoped that his brothers would for once stop fighting, he doubted it would ever happen.

Klaus gnawed his teeth. "There will be no need for that!"

"Niklaus, please think about it. We don't know what this is about and Kol is a decent fighter, you know that. Plus he can't be killed."

Even though he had quarrelled with his younger brother he was not foolish enough not to admit, that one more original and decent fighter would be better, but he didn't say anything. He kept staring at Elijah with his arms crossed over his chest.

"Do what you must!" Klaus just growled finally.

Elijah patted his shoulder. "It's good to have you back."

Klaus hung his head and chuckled. "Ironic isn't it? That they took her?"

"You couldn't have known."

Klaus snorted. "That doesn't change anything!"

"You didn't fail!"

"I did! Elijah. I did."

"But it's not too late!"

Caroline came to hours later. She was bound to a tree trunk unable to move so much as a finger. She moaned and her head hurt from the vervain injection they had given her. Something drummed inside of her head in a rhythmic pattern. Where was Bonnie?

She tried to raise her heavy head and blinked for a few times until her vision cleared. Just then she noticed the prying eyes of the wolves around her. A tremble went through her body and a gasp escaped her mouth.

"Bonnie?" She felt still a bit dizzy.

A tall man stepped forward and smirked at her. He was probably the alpha according to the way he moved and everyone eyed him.

"We don't need your witchy friend. She is of no use for us, but you however are far more important. Your friend is just the messenger." He came pretty close to her; too close and if Caroline weren't tied to the tree she would have run, crawled if necessary. She averted her head as she felt his sour breath on her face.

Caroline's features contorted into a disgusted mask and she tried to rip the ropes apart but yelped when they cut into her wrists inserting more vervain into her system.

The wolf laughed throatily and stepped even closer. "You know, that is the problem with you vampires! You are too arrogant!" Behind him other wolves stepped closer, who had kept their distance at first, because they didn't trust enough in the vervained ropes. Right now it was evident that Caroline couldn't escape.

"What do you want with me!?" She yelled frustrated, but she blinked when the vervain burned her skin again. She was very aware of it travelling through her body and weakening her. If the tree hadn't held her in place she would have dropped to the floor.

The wolf smiled. "It is always good to know your enemies weakness, isn't it?" He slowly circled the tree she was bound to. "It is nothing against you personally, but you happen to be the one thing Klaus holds dear."

Caroline snorted: "Yeah, sure! That's why he had been around so much lately, right? I get it!" Her speech was a bit slurred.

The alpha laughed and it sounded almost like a threat. "You really are naive! Tyler was absolutely right!"

Caroline growled. "Leave him out of this!"

"Oh but we did! He was free to go after Hayley showed up and dragged him away."

The name made Caroline want to gag. That stupid little slut! She hated her for ruining her relationship with Tyler when they had still been happily together and she hated her for flirting with Klaus, even though she had still been with Tyler then, but she couldn't forget the look she had given him. Maybe because she had liked Klaus already back then, but hadn't realised. She had always felt drawn towards him that was true. Or maybe it was just because she really did like him now?

"Tyler happily left with her to travel the country. He needed a holiday, oh and guess who he met?" He chuckled and tilted his head. "A certain original hybrid who didn't look so good. You sure he doesn't give a damn about you?"

Caroline wrinkled her nose and blacked her fangs at him. "None of your business!"

"Let me tell you: it would be a downright shame, but well there is always a bit collateral damage, right?"

A loud female voice emerged from behind and every head turned around into the direction of the sound. "What is going on here?"

The smug look vanished from the eyes of the alpha and was replaced by something else. Caroline squinted at him and observed that he seemed to shrink slightly when a beautiful dark haired woman made her way through the crowd and over to him. The crowd of the wolves also withdrew further into the background.

The witch raised one corner of her mouth as she saw that Caroline was conscious. She scrutinized Caroline from head to toe before she glared at the werewolf. "What did you tell her you idiot?"

"Nothing! I swear!"

"She isn't supposed to know anything!" The witch said in a low voice and her eyes wandered back to Caroline with a condescending look in them. "Knock her out!" She ordered and Caroline tried to move when she watched him come towards her with a syringe in his hand.

"No!" She wailed and fear crept into her eyes. She was afraid of what would happen to her while she was unconscious. What would they do to her?

She struggled but there was no use, because the ropes were just too tight. "No, please don't!"

No! She repeated over and over in her head and her last thought was a plea to the sky. The syringe penetrated her skin and the liquid send a burning all over her body.

Please, someone, find me! Please!

But she didn't dare to think of the one whose picture was burned forever into her mind.

Kol stared daggers at Elijah. "I am just here because the wolves might want to extinct vampires!" He snarled.

Klaus hadn't exchanged a word with him and Elijah had taken it into his hands to talk to Kol who reciprocally wouldn't talk to Klaus either. The hybrid just stared from one brother to the other. When his glance wandered to Rebekah she just shrugged and rolled her eyes. Her brothers had always fought with one another as long as she remembered.

"You could have ruined everything!" The witch retorted.

"I didn't okay? She doesn't know anything!" The alpha replied annoyed. "So, where do you want her?"

"Inside the triangle." The man held the unconscious vampire in his arms and put her down onto the floor right in the middle of the pentagram the witch had drawn into the forest's soil. On each edge of it stood a burning candle, but Caroline didn't notice any of it. She was far away, buried under the cover of unconsciousness.

The witch went to stand over her and motioned the wolf to step out of the pentagram. As soon as he did the woman stretched out her hands and held them over Caroline's body.

She started to chant a spell that let the candle flames rise and dance wildly.

The wolves watched in awe. Most of them were still afraid of the witch and didn't trust her plan.

Her chanting was monotone and the air became cold, so very cold that everyone started to shiver slightly.

There were strange voices that filled in the air. They whispered and hissed, and then when the witch ended her chanting there was a whooshing sound and all of a sudden everything went dead quiet again.

The witch opened her eyes slowly. "It's done." There was a strange glow inside of her eyes.

The alpha had his arms crossed over his chest: "You have to admit that the plan is really messed up!"

She tilted her head. "And that is why nobody will suspect anything!"

"I am positive about that! No one will figure out how we are going to use her."

The witch smirked. "Right."

"Are you sure she will come freely?"

"Oh, yes!" She nudged the blond vampire on the ground in front of her with her foot. "Now we need to drain her."

The alpha nodded and jerked his head at his pack.

Two of them stepped forward, carrying heavy iron chains with them.

When Caroline regained consciousness again she could barely open her eyes.

A low sound escaped her but she simply couldn't raise her head. It was dark around her and very cold. Caroline tried to draw a breath but she felt so weak. Why was she so weak?

Her limbs were so heavy that she couldn't move any of them. Slowly she realised that she couldn't even feel her limbs anymore. Were they still there? Oh no, had they cut her limbs off?

A chill went through her and she figured that it was fear that crept into her cells. Her stomach churned and she wished this would really be just a bad dream.

She tried desperately to raise her head or to move a finger or a tow but she simply couldn't. She had never felt so heavy and weak before. There was the smell of wet stones around her mingled with something else. Something her brain was very familiar with. Once again she tried to blink but the darkness didn't go away. It engulfed her whole with neck and crop.

There was a dripping sound beneath her. No, it was next to her. Was it?

Drip. Drip. Drip.

She sniffed the air again and there was a dominant smell that settled inside of her nose. Caroline swallowed and tasted the smell that made her realise the ferrous hint in it. Blood!

Everything inside her suddenly screamed.

She tried her arms again and something clanked. The young vampire collected all the rest of her strength to raise her head. She was really surrounded by darkness and. It wasn't just her vision that was clouded. The black darkness of some sort of cave surrounded her.

Her wrists were shackled and as she followed the chains with her eyes she saw that they were secured at the walls. Caroline was tied up to the walls and her eyes stopped at her wrists.

They were cut open and something was stuck inside of them, probably to keep the gash open. Her essence, the red blood trickled slowly out of it. Panic rose inside of her and it made her open her eyes wide. Her chest tried to get some air.

Oh no, they were desiccating her!

The panic gave her strength but it also made her feel the pain again.

"Somebody help me!" She screamed as loud as she could, but the sound didn't carry far. It simply echoed back from the stone walls. "Please!" She sobbed. "Help me!"

There was no answer besides the echo of the walls around her and Caroline's head dropped back to her chest. She felt the blood rushing out of her body and she wondered if she was going to die in this black pitch. She didn't want to die!

Because of the darkness she couldn't tell if her vision was blurred or clear. But her head started swimming and the thoughts came slower to her mind now. She felt weaker and weaker with every drop of blood that left her body.

If she was to die now then she would allow herself to die with a happy thought.

Her lips escaped one last faint murmur before she was pulled back into unconsciousness: "Klaus!"

"She could be anywhere!"

"They would want to keep her close for whatever reason. Besides there wasn't enough time to take her away."

"So it is the forest then?"

"We will divide the area between us and look for her!" Klaus decided and no one disagreed.

He started running through the forest without a true aim. Everything was blurred around him when he ran, but at the same time his surroundings were strangely clear to him. Klaus stopped and listened to the sounds of the forest.

Nothing.

No animal.

Not even a breeze.

He hung his head and if he listened to his feelings they would tell him to be tired. However the original ignored their nagging. He pulled his mobile out of his pocket to call his siblings.

"Bekah! Any news, sister?"

"Sorry, Nik, there is nothig around here." Rebekah denied. She was looking in the opposite direction of him.

So Klaus quickly dialled the next number on his list.

"Elijah."

"Nothing brother." Elijah answered.

Klaus' features twitched angrily. "We should just torture it out of them!" He growled and hit a tree.

"The Salvatores are still at the camp and try to negotiate, but the witch has drawn a protection circle. We couldn't get to them even if we wanted to."

Klaus snorted. "Negotiate! I shall tear them apart limb by limb!"

"Let's find Caroline first, shall we?" Elijah tried to calm his brother down. This was not the right time to go head over heels.

Klaus angrily hung up on Elijah. He gnawed his teeth and considered running back to the camp to kill them all, when something caught his eye.

In the far distance on the ground, there was something sparkling in a single ray of sunlight.

He flashed over to it to pick it up.

The bracelet was a bit muddy but never the less perfect. He remembered the day he had given it to her on her birthday. The night she had almost died from a werewolf bite. It had been the first time that they had talked. The first time when he had noticed her alluring light that chased the shadows away. He wondered if he had felt something for her right then, her silent accusations had certainly stung.

"Are you going to kill me?"

"On your birthday? Do you really think that low of me?"

"Yes!"

His heart ached and his throat burned when he recalled the memories. No one besides his sisblings had ever dared to be honest with him.

He remembered the day she had thrown the bracelet back at him, telling him he couldn't buy her off. And then he remembered how he had secretly snuck it back into her drawer.

He had never thought that she would not be safer with him near her. He tried to swallow the lump in his throat.

The hybrid closed his hand securely around the precious jewellery and looked ahead of him.

Caroline, I will find you! Whatever it takes! He send the promise silently to the sky that was a hypocritical bright blue today.

Thank you for reading!

I hope you enjoyed it and that everything was kind of clear. I am not going to reveal yet what the pack is up to, but you will find out pretty soon!

Poor Caroline, I know, I hate that she has to suffer so much, but Klaus is already this close.=)