A/N: Warning, I'm not a huge fan of Damon and what he did to Caroline, so this fic isn't exactly friendly towards him if u didn't notice by now ;)
I feel bad because this chapter is mostly a canon scene…ok like 200 words a canon scene… hahahahha clearly im delusional...because that's 10% of the chapter… but still…you guys are the best readers ever! This story isn't even 30,000 words yet and it is 27 reviews away from 500! Holy shit!
"Silas is going to murder twelve witches," Caroline said as she looked up to meet Klaus's eyes.
"How? there aren't even twelve witches in the area," Stefan said crossing his arms and looking between the book and Caroline.
"He's freaking Silas," Caroline said throwing her hands up in the air. "He can probably do some magic on them and make twelve witches just appear in Mystic Falls suddenly." It was completely illogical but they really didn't know what Silas was capable at this point.
"I'll be right back," Stefan said not taking his eyes off the book, "I'm going to go make a call."
Caroline watched as Stefan left the room shutting the door behind him. She turned back around to face the book and saw Klaus staring at her. She raised her eyebrows at him and then shook her head as she went to go look for a map.
"Now what are you looking for sweetheart?" Klaus asked as Caroline walked away and started digging through more of the professor's things.
She didn't answer him, and just proceeded to look. She made a small victorious noise as she located a map of Virginia and walked back over to the desk.
Klaus was still standing there waiting for her to answer his question. His own eyebrows now raised at her. He watched as she located a map and then proceeded to lay it out across the desk.
"There's been two massacres," Caroline said as she grabbed both a ruler and a marker off the desk. "Pastor Young's farm is here," she said drawing an X on the map where the Pastor had lived. "And the old Lockwood cellar—" she said drawing an X, "Where you spitefully slaughtered twelve of your own hybrids is here," she said as she connected to two X's.
"According to the book," she said as she started drawing another line towards him. "The expression triangle is equilateral." She started to add the other side, "putting it here." She stood up to admire her handy work.
Klaus was impressed. She had looked at that book and very logically come to the conclusion that the third massacre would create a geometric triangle on a map. One of the things he liked about her was that she was more than just a pretty face. Stefan and him had been just been chatting away about Damon and Elena and the allure of darkness—while Caroline had found the book and the location where the third massacre would happen—well one of them.
"Somebody's been skipping their geometry classes," he said with a grin as he picked up the ruler and the marker. "There are actually two places that the third massacre could be," he said as he drew another triangle on the opposite side of the one she had drawn.
"Well you didn't let me finish," she said sarcastically raising her eyebrows at him and meeting his gaze. He looked—intrigued. He was intrigued by her?
She looked up at met his gaze. The moment her blue eyes met his, he couldn't break from their hold. He could get lost in that gaze, and he had many times before. They seemed to often hold each other's gaze for longer than appropriate. They weren't even friends, he was her enemy.
Stefan opened the door, walking back into the room.
Caroline jumped and turned around, breaking the trance she had been in as she looked into Klaus's beautiful sea blue eyes. Beautiful?
"Hey what's going on—did you find Bonnie?" Caroline asked. She cringed inwardly, she sounded guilty. She hadn't done anything, aside from having some intense eye sex with the big bad hybrid.
"No luck," Stefan said shooting Caroline a sympathetic look. "It may have something to do with her mom's witch friends though."
They needed to find Bonnie before anything happened to her. Caroline had already lost one best friend—they needed to make sure she didn't lose another. Bonnie was his friend to, and Stefan didn't want to lose her either.
"I'm going to go wait in the car," Caroline said quietly, glancing at Klaus quickly and then walking out the door of the office.
Why was she fleeing? It's not like anything happened between her and Klaus. Why did she feel guilty when Stefan had interrupted? She let out a frustrated huff as she was walking and stomped her foot a little harder with the step she took. This was infuriating. Why couldn't she just turn it all the way off? It's like her switch was slowly sliding back to on—without her permission.
She opened the passenger door and climbed up into the seat. She needed to grow. Oh wait she was never going to grow again, she thought sarcastically. Great now she was being sarcastic in her thoughts.
Well she had successfully fled the room, but now she was bored. She started drumming her hands on her thighs anxiously as she tried to pass the time. She sighed. Well, what better way to pass the time than to snoop through his truck while she waited. She smirked as she opened the glove compartment. She started to rifle through it but then slammed it shut when she realized there was only registration papers in there and the car manual. She leaned her head into her hand as she leaned on the center console. Ah, she opened that and started digging through there. Now she had found stuff. Inside was a water bottle, some snacks and—an iPod?
She giggled as she pulled some chips out of the console along with the iPod, the original hybrid had an iPod? She was so going to go through his music she thought with a grin as she leaned back into the seat. She only got through a few songs when her eyes started to drift shut. She really was tired from all the running around she had done today.
Stefan and Klaus both watched as Caroline left the room in a hurry.
"Did I just interrupt something?" Stefan asked curiously as he turned to face Klaus.
"Just a geometry lesson," Klaus said with a grin indicating the map that now held two triangles. "Since you kids seem to be skipping a lot of classes—you know running off to deserted islands and such."
"Then why was Caroline acting all jumpy?" Stefan asked crossing his arms smugly.
"I think her humanity is slowly coming back" Klaus said seriously. "I know I said her humanity was dimmed, but I think that the longer she has it off, the more her emotions are trying to emerge." Klaus looked up at Stefan for a moment. "She seemed genuinely happy earlier when I found her at the bar," Klaus said, choosing to exclude the fact that that genuine smile had been when she had been pressed up against his body dancing. "That's a big change from earlier, well yesterday morning—" he said glancing at the watch on his wrist. It was 2:30 in the morning. "—when she was just curious about what drowning felt like."
"Well that's more progress than I made," Stefan conceded uncrossing his arms and approaching the desk. "So what did you guys come up with?" he asked looking at the map.
"Caroline rather brilliantly drew out the possible location of the next massacre, taking the expression triangle quite literally—and drawing it on a map," Klaus said proudly. He was proud of Caroline, but she always seemed to belittle herself and her intelligence around her friends. When she had known what a cryptex was and Tyler had shot her a look of confusion, she had found a reason to justify her intelligence. She even let Damon get by on calling her Barbie, which was entirely demeaning.
Damon. That was an entirely different problem he had yet to address.
"Have you spoken with your brother about his search for the cure?" Klaus asked looking up from the map.
"No, he texted me and said he'd call me tomorrow morning with any new information," Stefan said with a frown.
"Ah seducing Elena in the city that never sleeps," Klaus said smugly pulling his own phone from his pocket to check if Rebekah had texted him. He knew his sister desired to be human, and he hoped that she got to the cure before the doppelganger. But he didn't understand her desire to be human and weak again. He would never desire to return to such a weak and helpless form. No text. He put his phone back in his pocket.
Stefan shrugged off the comment, choosing to ignore it. He knew that Damon and Elena were together—that wasn't new information. As long as they got the cure, he didn't really care anymore if they were sleeping together. He knew that they had agreed to no feelings, but he couldn't help them from re-emerging when he was around Rebekah. She hadn't changed a bit from the twenties, and he had really liked her then—even with his humanity off.
"You want to gather up this stuff mate?" Klaus said pointing his finger at the stuff they had used that was now scattered around the desk and chair. "I'm going to go start the car."
Klaus left Stefan in the room. Sure gathering the stuff wasn't a challenging task—but he really wanted a moment alone with Caroline before they were back in the car with Stefan. She was such a bright baby vampire—such potential wasted on this small town and friends who didn't appreciate her.
Klaus slid back into the driver's seat and looked over at Caroline who was in the passenger seat. She was slumped into the seat, fast asleep—clutching his iPod in her hand. He smirked and shook his head, such a nosy baby vampire.
Her breathing was quiet and even as she slept. She was exhausted. He had forgotten how she had mentioned that earlier in the day that she was tired. Sure it had been part of her charade to escape, but there must've been some truth behind it.
He leaned over the center console towards her. A curl had fallen across her cheek and he reached out gently to brush it away. His fingers lingered on her cheek as he watched the sleeping beauty. If only she would just turn her humanity back on. Even with it off she was still better that any vampire he had come across. Even Elena who everyone claimed to be oh so compassionate had turned into a cruel vampire. She had tried to murder her own best friend.
Klaus was jolted out of his thoughts as the door behind him opened and Stefan slid in holding a pile of papers and books. Klaus cleared his throat and sat back in his seat acting as if Stefan hadn't just caught him gently caressing Caroline's cheek.
"Where to?" Stefan asked setting the papers on the seat beside him.
Klaus leaned over Caroline grabbing the seatbelt and pulling it across her body, buckling her in. She didn't really need it, but she was more fragile than him and he didn't want her to get injured—even if she would heal. He then sat up in his seat and started the car.
"This is expression—the massacres don't need to happen at the apex of a full moon like normal spirit guided witchcraft would require," Klaus said as he pulled out of the campus and onto the highway. "We should go check both spots where the third massacre could happen."
A/N: I was going to list a few songs on his ipod but idk what he would listen to….any suggestions?
No guarantee on a chapter this weekend though…I have an exam Friday, term paper due Monday and an exam on Tuesday….sounds fun doesn't it?
I'll try though ;)
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