A/N: And this is why I love, love, love TVD Klaroline fans the best! You guys are amazing, I put this up at like 2am last night and already have over 45 reviews! Wtf?! And u guys are all so encouraging….Now I'm gonna try another stab at a chapter but don't hate me if it sucks! Gah! lol
"Caroline" Klaus whispered, horrified as he realized what had happened.
He took a step towards her but stopped when she shot him a blank stare, bringing the bottle to her lips, taking another gulp.
"What?" she asked "now someone cares?" she scoffed and flopped down on the couch.
"Wait" Stefan said, realization spreading across his face. "Did you—" he trailed off not wanting to say it
"She turned off her humanity" Klaus said quietly turning to look at his old friend. Stefan had his brows furrowed and his hands crossed across his chest.
"What do you care?" Caroline snapped at him, "Go back to sleeping with that slut who took everything from me."
Klaus had the grace to look taken aback.
"Caroline, turn it back on" Stefan said walking towards her. He brushed the trash that littered the couch off, and sat down next to her. "You're bright and bubbly Caroline, why would you turn it off?" he asked placing his hand on her knee. "You've always been the optimistic one, through everything."
"Maybe I got tired of covering up my pain so no one would have to deal with it" she said blankly, taking another swig. "Now I don't have to deal with it either," she said simply. She brushed his hand off her knee and stood up. "Elena was right, this is so much better" she said twirling around with her bottle of vodka, throwing her head back.
"Elena was right" Stefan repeated quietly, "as in the same Elena who tried to drive a stake through your heart yesterday? That Elena?" Stefan asked trying to get through to her.
Klaus's head snapped to the side to look at Stefan. He had been quietly observing until that, which made him snap. The doppelganger had gone too far this time.
"What?" Klaus snarled turning to Stefan, "she did what?"
"Once again, why do you care?" Caroline said walking over to the stereo and turning it on "you were too busy sleeping with the were-slut last night." She turned the channel to some loud rock music and jumped up on the table.
Stefan looked at Klaus. Klaus's hands were curled into tight fists and his shoulders shook slightly in his rage. He turned to look at Stefan, as if to ask what to do. Stefan shrugged, he should've asked Caroline what was wrong, and she had always been there for him. And she was right, all her pain and suffering, got pushed to the side because they always had some Elena drama to deal with. He shook his head at himself. Caroline had been there for him when he was spiraling and need of a friend, and he couldn't return the favor?
They both turned to look at Caroline who was dancing on the table to the music. She froze and turned to look at them.
"You know what I want?" she asked jumping down and walking over towards Klaus.
"What do you want sweetheart?" Klaus asked sincerely, he desperately wanted her to turn her humanity back on. That's all he wanted. She was Caroline, and one of the reasons he was so drawn to her was because no matter what happened to her or knocked her down, she always got back up and was optimistic about life at the end of the day. She had a light about her that drew him in. The light to his darkness. But now, that light was dulled, because she had flipped the switch to her humanity, to her light.
She got really close, her face inches from his. He could smell the booze on her breath. In any other circumstance he would've prayed that she lean forward so he could finally capture her lips with his own. But not like this, he didn't want their first kiss to be when her humanity was off. He wanted her to really want to kiss him.
"A bath," she whispered. She leaned back and laughed at the shocked look on his face. "Stefan" she said turning to look at him "I'm using your tub, because knowing Damon, his is probably full of STDs and all sorts of germs that I don't want." She smirked at the two of them and then walked off towards the stairs, swaying slightly from the alcohol as she walked.
"What happened last night?" Klaus asked turning towards Stefan.
Stefan let out a long sigh and ran his hand over his face.
"Last night?" he scoffed, "try all yesterday." He shook his head at his own stupidity. Surely yesterday had been bad, but he didn't realize how bad her spiraling had gotten. Once again everyone was too concerned about Elena to ask Caroline how she was.
"During their cheerleading competition, Elena purposefully stepped back and didn't catch Caroline, after she was thrown. She probably broke something when she hit the ground" Stefan frowned and looked down, "god I'm an idiot," he murmured.
"And no one cared to check?" Klaus asked appalled that no one had come to Caroline's aid when she was hurt. He leaned against the table and crossed his arms across his chest. He listened in upstairs as he heard the water start running. He looked back at Stefan who looked like he was beating himself up about this. Good, someone should've been there for Caroline. He really should've been beating himself up though. He was the one who was too busy trying to get answers out of Hayley yesterday to check in on Caroline. But she couldn't really blame him for that, she had time and time again turned him down. Laughed or scoffed off his advances or attempts at romancing her.
"Elena was out of control, feeding on the competition and trying to prove she was still the better than Caroline at everything" Stefan said grabbing the bottle of bourbon off the table, and pouring a generous amount into a glass. He raised the bottle to Klaus in offering.
Klaus shook his head no.
"Elena ran out of there and I ran after her, leaving Caroline to pick herself up again" Stefan stated, continuing to shake his head at his own stupidity.
"Why she remains loyal to you lot is beyond me, she seems to always be collateral damage," Klaus scoffed and then did grab the bottle Stefan had offered him. He ignored the glasses and drank straight from the bottle.
"Elena also attacked her mother yesterday" Stefan said twirling his glass in his hand and watching the amber liquid in the bottom swirl.
"Elena attacked the sheriff?" Klaus asked frowning at the thought of the doppelganger so out of control and attacking Caroline's mother.
"Yes, and we ran after her in the woods. But Caroline found her first, and they fought. Damon and I got there just in time to pull Elena off of Caroline a second before she drove a stake through her back."
"And the doppelganger would kill her best friend, just like that." Klaus said shaking his head. "Once her humanity is back on, I'm going to ensure that she leaves this retched town behind. Whether it is with me or on her own, she is not staying here anymore." He said slamming the bottle down on the table.
He looked towards the ceiling and listened in again, upstairs. His ears were met with silence. He frowned and looked at Stefan who looked to be doing the same thing.
"It's too quiet" Klaus said quietly as Stefan turned to meet his gaze, looking worried.
Both of them flashed up the stairs to Stefan's room and approached the bathroom door which was cracked. Stefan slowly pushed it open, neither of them wanting to invade her privacy.
"Shit," Klaus said under his breath as they saw no head above the water, he flashed over to the tub and thrust his hands under the water grabbing Caroline by the tops of her arms and pulling her head above the water. Her head lolled to the side limply. Dead.
A/N: Shes not really dead, shes just temporarily dead…u know cuz shes a vampire…oh and I was torn between who actually pulled her from the water…Klaus the man in love with her or Stefan her best friend and basically brother….either one was gonna see her naked! Haha but at this point it's not a matter of her being naked, its more that she needs to turn her humanity back on.
Was thinking about the song Under the Water by the Pretty Reckless, as well as the scene in Grey's Anatomy where Meredith seemed to be trying to drown herself in the bathtub and Derek pulled her out….
yea I know kinda depressing…but hey! Idk where the heck to go with this story! Lol leave me suggestions, I may rewrite a second chapter or put this bathtub scene to a part when Caroline has her humanity on and she is trying to literally drown away her pain….gah I'm making this really depressing…I need to go watch some videos about kittens and rainbows…or something…
Song lyrics:
And all my friends, are enemies
And though I screamed and I screamed, well no one came running
Lay my head, under the water
Lord I pray, for calmer seas
And when I wake from this dream, with chains all around me
No, I've never been, I've never been free