A/N: Ok guys I sincerely apologize for the wait…But the logic of Julie Plec is actually incredibly hard to incorporate into my story….I know where I want to go with this story but I need 4x17 to happen…so please do bear with me….This chapter is a little longer than the rest, but the section that is longer is the part of 4x17 ;)
"Bonnies missing," she said.
"What?" Stefan exclaimed glancing at Caroline.
First Elena trying to kill her— and now Bonnie was missing? Caroline was losing friends left and right.
"Her dad just came by the station," she said. "He said that she has been gone all day. She started her day meeting with Professor Shane about controlling her expression at around 10:00 am and hasn't been seen since— Shane's missing too."
"Well we were just about to head down to Whitmore College to go through his office—we can check there first" Stefan said, he really had no idea where Shane would've taken Bonnie. The college was as good a place as any to start looking though.
"Let me know if you guys find her, her dad is here waiting," Sheriff Forbes replied with a sigh.
"Will do," Stefan said and then hung up his phone.
"Great now Bonnie's missing on top of all this Silas stuff" Caroline grumbled getting up and snagging her bag off the chair.
Both Stefan and Klaus were looking at her like she had grown a second head.
"What?" she demanded throwing her arms out. "I thought we had an evil psycho immortal guy's office to ransack"
Klaus grinned, at least she was as eager to be done with Silas as the rest of them. The same couldn't be said about the doppelganger, she could care less. Klaus drained the rest of his drink and then put his hands in his pockets as he stood up and walked towards her.
Stefan took another swig of his drink before standing as well and walking towards the door.
"Wait," Caroline said suddenly halting in her tracks. Klaus and Stefan paused as well.
She flashed into the kitchen and grabbed the remaining blood bag. She then flashed back to the foyer where they both stood waiting in confusion.
"Well you did interrupt my snack earlier" Caroline said with a shrug and then a grin.
"Sweetheart that worthless human was not worth even drinking from," Klaus said raising his eyebrows at her.
She frowned at him. Leave it to him to think he could choose who she could drink from. Little did he know that probably was one of the only people she would've drank from. Any other person and she would get that nagging guilt and hesitation. All she could ever see in their eyes when she drank from a human was the same fear she knew had been in hers when Damon had preyed on her countless times.
"Well let's go then" Stefan said breaking her out of her thoughts and heading for the door.
"We should go get my car," Klaus said. He had flashed over to the Salvatore boarding house earlier in the day to speak to Stefan about Silas. He hadn't anticipated needing his car. "I don't particularly fancy the three of us riding in your small car all the way to Whitmore College," Klaus said plainly looking at Stefan.
Stefan sighed and held his hand out ahead of him indicating Klaus should lead the way.
Klaus flashed off into the night. Caroline shared a look of annoyance with Stefan before both of them followed.
They arrived at the Mikaelson mansion moments after Klaus. Klaus was already in his black SUV with is started and ready to go.
Stefan reached for the handle on the passenger door but Caroline just leaned against it with her arms crossed and a grin.
"Really Care?" he asked rolling his eyes at her antics.
"What? I want shotgun," she said as she opened the door and climbed up into the seat. She almost forgot how short she was sometimes. Sure wearing heels made her appear taller, but it didn't make her a giant. Stefan slid in behind her with a quiet grumble.
"Plus I do not want to listen to any of the mellow or brooding music that you would choose," Caroline said as she reached forward and turned on the radio.
Klaus let out a chuckle as he pulled away from his house at top speed. No need to worry about car accidents, he had quick reflexes and only wood to the heart would hurt Caroline or Stefan. The two of them were amusing, bickering like siblings—like how he bickered with his own sister. Had he not known how much Stefan loved Elena he may have actually worried about how close they were. Klaus cringed as loud pop music blared through the radio as Caroline finally settled on a station.
"Sweetheart I do intend to keep my hearing for the many years I have yet to live," Klaus said as he turned down the volume to an appropriate level.
"You two are no fun— such old farts," Caroline said crossing her arms across her chest and pouting in a childish manner.
Klaus held back his grin. Old farts? Well yes they were old compared to her, but by no means were they boring.
"Please," she pleaded looking at him with a little puppy dog look.
He didn't dare turn his head. He knew what she was playing at and if he did turn, he would cave.
Stefan watched them from the backseat with an amused grin. He could tell that Klaus was restraining himself from looking at Caroline's pleading face. It was a lot different from her Caroline in charge face, but it still had the same effect of getting what she wanted.
Klaus was keeping his eyes on the highway in front of him. But when Caroline let out a little moan of protest he couldn't control himself from looking at her for a moment. Great—he groaned. She was sitting there—maybe a foot from him, leaning over the center console. Her bottom lip was stuck out in an exaggerated pout and his eyes zeroed in on it. Oh how he wished to take that lip between his. Then he met her eyes. Her beautiful blue eyes were wide and begging.
"Fine" he grumbled.
"Yay," she exclaimed bouncing in her seat and clapping her hands together briefly. She reached forward and turned the music back up, louder—but a more reasonable level.
He shook his head, how easily he had caved.
The rest of the ride went by in silence—aside from the loud music.
As they neared the college Klaus looked over at Caroline. She had reclined her seat back some and was lounging back in it. Her feet were on his dash—not that he minded. He would take her feet on his dash any day, especially with the nice view of her legs that resulted from her position. She was drumming her hand on her thigh to the beat of the music. In her other hand she held the blood bag she had grabbed on their way out the door. She was sipping it through the tubing at the top of the bag. He swallowed thickly as he watched her lips pull at the tubing between them. This was like that bar all over again—but worse because she was drinking blood. Her vampire features were out on display for him. He took a deep breath glancing up at the road and then back at her again. He didn't know if she even realized that she was humming under her breath.
Even her humming was beautiful. He had always been disgusted with people who were in love and acted like fools to please their significant other. But he was already acting like a fool for her, and she didn't even reciprocate his feelings. He didn't even know what his feelings were.
He turned back to the road as he pulled into the campus and drove towards the building where Shane's office was.
"Take a left," Stefan said suddenly from the backseat.
Klaus had nearly forgotten that the Ripper was back there. He turned left and pulled up to a dimly lit building. He parked right in front of the door seeing as the parking lot was deserted. Well it was nearing 2:00 am— too late for any humans to be wandering about in academic buildings.
Putting the car in park he turned off the car and pulled the keys out of the ignition.
Caroline and Stefan hopped out of the car and he walked around the front of it to meet them. He nodded his towards the entrance before he walked up to it. The door was locked. He gripped the handle and twisted hard, snapping the knob clean off.
Caroline rolled her eyes. He always had to show that he was the alpha male—the strongest and best supernatural there was in existence. He pulled the door open and she walked right past him, annoyed with his constant displays of dominance. Wasn't it enough that he sent Tyler running for the hills? Now he had to rub it in that he was alpha. Well he wasn't alpha of her. Nope. She was her own alpha. Alpha female. She smirked as she reached the end of the hallway, and then frowned as she turned back and forth because she had no clue where she was supposed to be going. Not that it was her fault considering she had been left out of most of the Silas and cure plans lately.
"Lost sweetheart?" Klaus suddenly whispered in her ear. She jumped in surprise and then spun around and smacked his arm.
"Cut it out—that wasn't funny" she said with a glare.
"This way" Stefan said rolling his eyes at them and then opening the door to the stairwell and walking up them.
Caroline proceeded to glare at Klaus for a moment before she stormed off after Stefan.
Klaus watched her walk away. He found himself repeating his actions from earlier as his eyes traced down her backside to her swaying hips and round behind as she stomped away from him. He let out a chuckle as she disappeared up the steps and then he flashed up the steps and met them outside the door of an office.
Stefan opened it leading the way into the room and they followed.
"Ok so what are we looking for exactly?" Caroline said as she walked towards the far right of the office to where the bookshelves were.
"Well if Shane really was working with Silas—chances are he was helping him plan his next move," Stefan said holding both arms out and indicating to all the cluttered mess that was Shane's office.
"Where on his evil villain to do list?" Caroline asked mockingly as she rifled through a bookshelf and looked at the boys who stood at the other end of the office looking through things. "Steal blood—perform three massacres—pick up dry cleaning?" she asked with a grin.
"Actually, not to nitpick, but we evil villains usually use minions to pick up our dry cleaning, that sort of thing." Klaus said glancing at her with amusement dancing in his eyes.
"Why is he necessary again?" Caroline asked turning to face Stefan.
"Well we don't know what Silas can do, so if we do have to go head to head with him—an original hybrid who can't die might come in handy," Stefan said with a shrug and proceeded to dig through a box on the ground.
"Besides Stefan and I work well together—or at least we did in the twenties," Klaus said as he sauntered over to the desk and sat down in the chair behind it.
"Well granted my emotions were off," Stefan conceded and started looking through another pile of junk.
"And that's why you were more fun" Klaus said with a grin as he leaned back in the chair. "Just as Damon is probably relishing in Elena's emotionless company in New York."
"My brother knows what he's doing," Stefan said as he turned to look at Klaus.
Caroline scoffed, Damon never knew what he was doing.
"Does he?" Klaus asked simply. "Don't underestimate the allure of darkness Stefan—even the purest hearts are drawn to it."
Klaus glanced at Caroline as he said the purest hearts— she glanced up at him out of the corner of her eye.
What was he getting at? The fact that she had turned off her humanity—or the fact that she was beginning to realize that she was in fact attracted to him.
"Still, I'm sure it will all be fine," Klaus grinned and folded his fingers together in front of him.
"I think I found something," Caroline said as she walked over to the desk and lay the heavy old book down on it. "Symbolic figures in the dark arts," she read off the front and then opened the book to the page she had found.
"Didn't Bonnie talk about expression triangles?" Caroline asked pointing to the triangle depicted on the page. She looked up at Stefan, avoiding Klaus's gaze.
"In some schools of magic such as expression, human sacrifice can be used as a focus for power," Stefan read off the page. "It's rumored that the addition of two supernatural sacrifices compounds the mystical energy creating an expression triangle."
"Humans," Caroline said pointing to the symbol at the top of the triangle. "That was the council fire."
"Demons," she said pointing to the lower left symbol. "Klaus's hybrid failure," she said plainly looking up at Klaus briefly.
"Well I wouldn't exactly call it a failure," he said in response. "What's the third?"
"Oh no," Caroline murmured.
Klaus frowned at the look on Caroline's face. She looked worried. Vampires with their switch flipped didn't look or feel worried. But then again clearly Caroline's switch didn't flip as far as other vampires.
"Silas is going to murder twelve witches," Caroline said as she looked up to meet Klaus's eyes.
A/N: BTW go check out the video Caroline Forbes || Pain & Memory by LauraxEliz ….It's just perfect for this story lol…even has the song I used as inspiration. I think you guys know the drill by now… Reviews and suggestions are very welcome!...in like 60 reviews ill be at 500….I'm STILL in denial that this story is this liked…oh well…lol numbers don't lie…and with 440 reviews by ch 12…that cant be lies