A/N: See if u can spot the reference to a Candice Accola interview ;)
Smirk frown…frown smirk….Stefan and Klaus need to not be so serious all the time….they are quite the brooding duo.
Also thank you for all the song suggestions, quite a few of you mentioned one of the ones I put in. ;)
Ok unlike the last chapter, this one is approximately half canon…sorry ;) but it is a chapter up before Tuesday lol….and well it needed to happen.
"We should go check both spots where the third massacre could happen."
Once again they were driving in silence—except this time there was no music because Caroline was fast asleep.
Stefan sat in the back quietly observing the two in the front. Every so often Klaus would glance over at Caroline who was sleeping soundly. It was interesting to see the dynamic between them firsthand. Normally when Caroline and Klaus interacted it was because they need her to distract him so they could do something. Stefan knew from staying at Caroline's house that she could sleep like the dead if she was tired enough. She also talked in her sleep.
As if on cue she mumbled something incoherent under her breath and Stefan let out a little chuckle.
Klaus smirked as Caroline mumbled something in her sleep—he couldn't understand what she had mumbled, but it was endearing anyway.
He glanced at her as she mumbled again, clearly this time. "No" she said and then flinched cringing in her sleep. He frowned, clearly it wasn't a pleasant dream. She gasped, her eyes flew open and she bolted upright suddenly with her hand flying the side of her neck, her breathing was fast. She looked like a wild animal for a moment as she glanced around trying to make sense of her surroundings.
Caroline had been having a dream that she was at the beach, some remote beach in Bora Bora. She had been laughing and playing with children and puppies. She had gone back to her little villa to get some snacks and water for the children only to be thrown down on the bed by Damon. It had been a memory mixing in with her dream. She had said no to get him off of her, he was pinning her body beneath his as she struggled—but he bit her anyways.
The next thing she knew she was bolting upright a scream getting stuck in her throat as she breathed heavily. Her hand flew to her neck where he had bit her but she quickly glanced around and remembered that she had fallen asleep in Klaus's SUV. As quickly as the terror was there it was gone—she composed herself and turned to face Klaus.
"Where are we going?" she asked normally, as if she hadn't just woken from a vivid nightmare.
He was frowning and he looked as if he wanted to say something.
"We're going to check the two spots where the triangle could be completed" Stefan said from the backseat.
She turned to face him and saw concern etched into his features.
"Why do you guys look like someone just killed Stefan's favorite species of bunny?" she asked with a smirk, looking back and forth between the two. "No need to be Debbie downers" she said, when neither of them replied. She opened the center console to pull out the iPod cord and plug it in.
She started scrolling through his music, now that she was awake enough to process what she was reading.
"Oh my god" she said, her jaw dropping. She turned to look at Klaus as she clicked play. "Why do you have this song?" she laughed out as Hungry like the Wolf started playing through the speakers.
Stefan even let out a laugh from the backseat at the song.
"Sweetheart, I've been alive for over a thousand years—I have a very eclectic mix of music on that iPod," he said shaking his head, a smirk replacing the frown.
"Do do—do—do do—do—do do—do do—do doooo," Caroline suddenly sang out along with the lyrics with the biggest grin on her face.
Klaus's eyebrows shot up at the sound of her voice. She had a beautiful voice—a voice that women would kill for. He knew that Rebekah had always envied women who could sing.
"In touch with the ground," she sang, dancing in her seat. "I'm on the hunt I'm after you," she pointed at Klaus who started shaking his head at her. "Smell like I sound, I'm lost in a crowd—and I'm hungry like the wolf," Caroline sang out and then burst into a fit of giggles.
"See," she said through her laughter, "It's so much better with the switch flipped." Caroline looked back at Stefan and then to Klaus. "The old Caroline never would've let you hear me sing," she said. She sounded convincing but who was she really trying to convince? The boys—or herself?
Luckily she didn't have to think about it any longer, because they were at the woods. She must've slept most of the trip back.
Klaus pulled the car into the edge of the woods and then cut the engine. He turned in his seat to face Caroline and look back at Stefan.
"We should split up—check both locations," he said as he reached into the backseat and pulled the map towards him. He laid it over the center console and then pulled his phone out of his inner jacket pocket. He took a picture of the two triangles and then looked at the other two.
"Stefan, you go to this location" he said pointing to the X that he had drawn. "And I'll check the other," he said tapping the map where Caroline had drawn the other location.
They all got out of the car and met in front of it. Caroline looked between the two of them, she really should go with Stefan but there was no guarantee that Klaus would actually save Bonnie. Okay that was just a good excuse—she kind of just wanted to go with Klaus. Why was she debating this in her head, it was clearly logical to go with Klaus and make sure that Bonnie was okay. Stefan would do that on his own—she didn't need to make sure that he was looking out for Bonnie's best interests.
She walked towards Klaus and stood beside him. Klaus furrowed his eyebrows as Caroline chose to go with him. Why would she choose him over her best friend Stefan? Oh well they could think about it later, right now they had a massacre to stop.
"Care?" Stefan said raising his eyebrows at her as she stood next to Klaus.
"What?" she asked throwing her arms out to the side. "Let's go, we have twelve lives to save—and Bonnie's too."
"Okay," Stefan conceded and then glanced at the map before flashing off.
"Where to?" Caroline asked turning to look at Klaus. Once again he looked as if he wanted to say something.
He wanted to ask her why she chose to go with him but they didn't have time for that—Silas could be completing the third massacre as they stood there. He just shook his head and glanced at his phone.
"Follow me," he said and then flashed off in the opposite direction of Stefan. He could hear her running right behind him and he slowed to a human pace as they neared the spot.
She slowed down as Klaus did, where were they going?
"Can I see the map?" she asked as he pulled out his phone to check it.
"No worries love, I can navigate a map," he said with a smug grin has he zoomed in on the image on his phone.
"I just want to see where we are," she insisted walking closer to him to see if she could catch a glimpse of the phone over his shoulder.
"You know when we split up—you did have the option of going with Stefan," Klaus said with a hint of irritation.
"Yeah and leave Bonnie's life in your hands?" Caroline scoffed, "fat chance."
"Do you even know how to read a map?" she asked after she got no response out of him.
"Yes—and do you know who taught me?" Klaus said as he tucked his phone away in his inner jacket pocket again. "My friend Magellan."
"Wow—you had a friend?" Caroline said sarcastically, she didn't know why he was putting her in such a bad mood. What was his problem—not even an hour ago they had been practically bonding over the map, and now he was giving her the cold shoulder? And he wouldn't even let her look at the map that they had drawn together. "Was he drawn to your darkness too?" she asked in a condescending and sarcastic way.
"Actually I was referring to Damon and Elena when I said that," Klaus said raising his eyebrows and continuing to walk ahead of her. "But clearly it struck a chord with you."
"It's because it's not true" Caroline insisted. "There is no allure to darkness."
"Really?" Klaus asked as he stopped walking and turned to face her. "So you've never felt the attraction that comes when someone who's capable of doing terrible things—for some reason cares only about you." Klaus was losing his patience, she was lying to herself and she didn't even know it. He knew that this thing between them wasn't one-sided—but she refused to acknowledge it.
"I did once," she said quietly. "When I thought he was worth it." Her patience was gone, she didn't know why she was so annoyed with him right now—so she lashed out. "But it turns out some people can't be fixed—people who do terrible things—are just—terrible—people."
She couldn't stop the words from tumbling out of her mouth. She didn't know why she was saying it and where it was coming from because deep down she knew that maybe taking a chance on him could turn out to be worth it. But she was Caroline and denial was practically her middle name when it came to guys. Then you add the fact that she didn't exactly care as much as she should have at the moment—but she almost wanted to take it all back when she saw the look of hurt cross his face.
"Were here," he said simply, his expression was blank but there was anger trying to break free. Time and time again he put himself out there for her and all she did was hurt him, spitefully too. "Although judging by the lack of witches—here is not the correct location."
He pulled out his phone and looked at the location Stefan had gone to.
"Come on" he said callously, and then flashed off—Caroline right behind him.
It took them a few minutes for them to get all the way to the other location—considering they had to back track the whole way they had come and then go that same distance in the opposite direction.
Caroline was out of breath by the time they got there, as she tried to catch it she noticed two things at once. One was that there was a circle of witches chanting around Bonnie and the other was that Klaus slammed Stefan into a tree—pinning him there.
"They're linked Bonnie's going to kill them," Stefan insisted, struggling against Klaus's hold.
"Not if the witches kill her first," Klaus said simply. It was better if the Bennett witch died—one witchy death wouldn't complete the circle.
"Klaus we need to save her," Caroline insisted, trying to get him to let go of Stefan. She glanced at Bonnie who was pinned to the ground with a witch hovering over her.
"How?" Klaus asked not even bothering to turn and face her. "The only way to stop the witches is to kill them—and then Silas gets what he wants."
"Spirits take her soul—free her from darkness," the witch over Bonnie shouted.
Caroline watched with wide eyes as the witch held up a knife over her best friend. Her best friend. Losing Bonnie would hurt her, whether it was now or when she did turn her emotions back on.
"Ah-huh-ahhhhhhhhhhhhh," Bonnie screamed in pain as she writhed beneath the witch.
Caroline looked on in horror—Klaus and Stefan turned to face the witches at Bonnie's scream. She didn't think, she just flashed over to the witch and took the knife that was aimed at Bonnie. She plunged it into the witch's body, stopping the witch from killing her friend.
"No!" she heard Klaus roar as she stabled the witch.
Klaus watched with horror as Caroline killed the witch, completing the final massacre. His outburst was half for the massacre and completion of the expression triangle—and half for the fact that bright and innocent Caroline had been the one to do it. He watched solemnly as she turned to watch all twelve witches drop dead, horror filling her own face at what she had done.
Caroline spun slowly watching as the witches dropped dead around her one by one. What had she done?
A/N: ok so that terrible people thing….i wanted to take it out, but then I want to keep that next klaroline scene as it was in the episode….so ;) it stays even if it is a little out of place coming from a Caroline with her switch flipped.
I apologize that a good portion of this chapter was a canon scene, well two…but I really need the massacre to happen ;) some of u readers know why ;)
Now I can say that the next chapter probably wont go up until tueday evening or Wednesday…Because no I am going to write my paper and study for my exam
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