A/N: Ok guys, I'm still feeling disappointed about how the writers tried to once again get us to like Hayley…That disappointment turned into not having any inspiration to write a chapter…and then all the reviews I got on the last chapter were nice reviews (thank you so much!) but most of them were rants on 4x20, and I agree with u guys! Wholeheartedly…but reading them made me even more uninspired…get tumblrs! And we can rant on there! Or in PMs…try to keep the reviews…about suggestions on this story?! Love u guys…but im easily discouraged…and reviews are honestly what keep me writing more chapters
"I think I know how to take down Silas,"
"Wait what?" Caroline said suddenly turning away from the piercing stares she was getting from both Mikaelson brothers. She walked further away from them towards the doorway, the look she was getting from them was unsettling. "How?"
"Can you just come over?" Bonnie said, "It's easier if I just explain it in person."
"Sure I'll be over in a few," Caroline said and then ended the call. She turned back around to see that Elijah and Klaus were still silently staring at her, both of them holding their previous positions from their argument—Klaus looking just about ready to attack Elijah, who held a defensive position.
"Bonnie might know how to get rid of Silas" Caroline said with a smile, trying to break through the tension in the room.
"Well let's go visit your witchy friend then," Klaus said turning away from Elijah and their argument and walking towards Caroline. He could settle the matter of the cure later.
"I'm going alone," Caroline said holding up her hand to halt him from coming closer to her.
"Not happening sweetheart," Klaus said with a grin as he disregarded her hand and walked closer anyways.
"If Bonnie wants to help, it's on her terms," Caroline said shooting him an irritated and disapproving look. "—and I know that she damn well doesn't want you there," she added raising her eyebrows at him and crossing her arms across her chest defiantly.
She had put up her hands to stop him from invading her space and clouding her thoughts. She sure as hell didn't need him being charming when they were trying to take down Silas—she had enough on her plate.
"Sweetheart, she's not getting that choice—she locked me in the Gilbert's living room with Kol's dead body lying a few feet from me," Klaus said lowly, the witch wouldn't be receiving any mercy or understanding from him.
"She needs her friend," Caroline insisted stepping closer to him to try and calmly get him to let it go. She sure as hell didn't want him getting in her space to try and influence her—didn't mean she couldn't try to beat him at his own game. "Jeremy was just murdered by Katherine and I'm sure she doesn't want you there when we talk about it," she said quietly.
Klaus's face softened, while Silas was important and he didn't trust the witch—this was Caroline's remaining girlfriend. He could let her go alone now that the Bennett witch wasn't being possessed anymore, the witch was powerful. That and he didn't particularly want to be present for their girl talk either.
"Fine," Klaus grumbled, she was the only one who would ever be able to get him to compromise. He didn't like that Elijah was standing there watching it happen either.
Caroline's face split into a wide, infectious grin and Klaus smiled in response. How could he not? Especially since he caused that beautiful smile.
"Ok well I'm going to go over to her house, and then probably back to mine—because the Salvatore's are bringing Elena back and I do not want to be in their house with her," Caroline said, uncrossing her arms and then looking at her sock covered feet. Where were her shoes?
"They managed to track down the doppelganger?" Klaus asked bringing her from her thoughts as she looked up.
"Elena was in that small town where I found Katarina and the cure," Elijah said cutting in, "the Salvatore brothers showed up looking for her."
"Yeah and Stefan said they knocked her out with vervain because she was being a bitch and killing innocent people," Caroline said with a small grin. Stefan had texted her yesterday when she had been at her prom committee meeting and said he had talked some sense into Damon that Elena was out of control.
"Any-who, I'm going to go to Bonnies now," Caroline said as she spun easily in her socks on the hardwood floors and started to leave the room pointing towards the door. She then stopped and clapped her hands together in front of her, spinning back to face Klaus again. Wait—her shoes.
"Where are my shoes?" she asked with both eyebrows raised.
"On the floor next to my bed," Klaus said, a smile tugging at the corner of his mouth. Oh how he longed for the day that she would wander his house barefoot—because she was comfortable here, because she was with him, and lived here.
Caroline shot him a puzzled look and then flashed upstairs. Why had he been grinning at her like that? That grin looked like he knew something she didn't or there was some secret she wasn't in on. She shook her head and spotted her shoes.
They were in fact on the floor next to his bed—his comfortable and really good smelling bed. Stop it Caroline, focus. Bonnie has a plan to stop Silas.
She pulled on her shoes quickly and flashed back down the stairs.
After a quick and awkward goodbye—Elijah was staring at her weirdly, it was making her uncomfortable—she flashed off to Bonnie's house.
She stood on the porch after ringing the doorbell and waited. Normally she would walk right in—but Bonnie's dad was back in town, and Bonnie had been a little off lately. It just didn't feel right to walk in like she would've weeks ago, things were different—strained.
The door swung open to reveal Bonnie, clad in pajamas with red rimmed eyes and no makeup.
"Oh Bon," Caroline whispered stepping inside and pulling Bonnie into a crushing hug.
"Hey Care," Bonnie whispered in a quiet, lifeless voice as she let the door close behind Caroline.
Caroline pulled back and held Bonnie at arm's length to examine her. She looked tired, and depressed. She grabbed one of her arms and pulled her to the couch in the living room, before plopping down and pulling Bonnie down next to her. Caroline crossed her legs under her and turned to face Bonnie.
Bonnie slowly mimicked Caroline's actions, facing her cross-legged on the couch.
"How are you?" Caroline asked as she searched Bonnie's face.
"Confused," she replied looking down at her hands as she picked at the fabric of the couch. "I mean the last thing I remember was being with Jeremy in the caves—and then suddenly I was waking up in the woods with you hovering over me."
Caroline opened her mouth to speak but Bonnie apparently had been holding it in too long and wanted to spill.
"I can't believe he's dead," Bonnie said as tears started to fall from her eyes. "I mean I know we had our own sets of issues but I still loved him Care," she said looking up at Caroline.
Caroline scooted closer to Bonnie and pulled her into another hug, letting Bonnie cry into her shoulder.
"It's okay to cry—when I thought Tyler was dead I cried for a day straight," Caroline said as she rubbed Bonnie's back soothingly. She knew that was nothing in comparison because Klaus had saved her later that next day, in Tyler's body. Jeremy was gone, for good.
"Yeah but Tyler didn't die, and Jeremy isn't coming back," Bonnie sobbed into her shoulder.
Caroline once again pulled out of the hug to hold her at arm's length.
"You are going to get through this," Caroline said fiercely, "You are beautiful and strong and an amazing friend—Jeremy wouldn't want you to sit here crying over him. He would want you to go out there and kick Silas's ass and maybe Katherine's too—and avenge his death. And then he would want you to live your life to the fullest."
Bonnie allowed a small sad smile to grace her face as Caroline tried to pull her out of her funk. Caroline was right, she would avenge Jeremy's death.
"You are truly an amazing friend," Bonnie said through her tears and with a smile. "I love you Care," she said and then pulled Caroline into another brief hug.
"I love you too Bon," Caroline said with a smile as well. Elena may be lost to them for the foreseeable future, but she always had Bonnie—and Bonnie would never stab her in the back like Elena.
"So this plan?" Caroline asked pulling back and sitting upright on the couch.
"It's just an idea, but it might work—and what else do we have to go on right now?" Bonnie said as she got off the couch and grabbed the grimoires that were stacked on the table. She sat back down and put the books between them. "I was looking through some of the expression grimoires that Shane was teaching me from—and I think that we have to get the cure and get Silas to take it."
"Bonnie he wants to drop the veil," Caroline said with a frown, giving him the cure didn't seem like the best idea since that is what Silas wanted so badly from Klaus. So badly that he was willing to get into Klaus's mind and trick him into thinking he was dying.
"He was a warlock, that made himself immortal—the cure is for immortality, not witchcraft—I think he is going to drop the veil after he takes the cure. That is when we have to kill him. When he can die and actually still go to the other side," Bonnie said simply, "I mean I'm not positive that it will work but we have to do something, Jeremy is dead."
"We have to do something not just for Jeremy but for all of us," Caroline said. "If the veil drops, then Mikael will come back and finish what he started—ending Klaus and his siblings, and by extension all of us and the entire vampire race."
"Then we have to get this right," Bonnie said with a hard look in her eyes, covering her pain with determination to end this immortal being that had caused so much destruction and death—even before he had been woken.
"Tomorrow let's meet at the Mikaelson mansion—Elijah has the cure," Caroline said as she got off the couch. Bonnie probably wanted some more time to herself to eat her feelings in chocolate and watch movies.
"Wait Stefan said that Katherine had the cure," Bonnie said confusedly as she stood as well and started towards the door.
"Well Elijah has it now," Caroline said with a shrug, she was curious how he had gotten it from Katherine though. Klaus had been threatening Elijah with Katherine's life, maybe there was more to that story.
"Well good, then we don't have to worry about finding it," Bonnie said as she opened the front door.
"I don't know about that," Caroline said frowning. "He didn't seem to want to hand it over an hour ago—we'll have to convince him of this plan."
"What about Klaus? I locked him in a room and he wants the cure for himself," Bonnie said as worry crossed her features, she had nearly forgotten about that through all of this.
"Ok well tomorrow morning I'll go over first and talk to him, then call you over when it's safe," Caroline said as she hugged Bonnie goodbye.
"Ok, only if he isn't going to kill me when I get there," Bonnie laughed, trying to cover up her worry.
"Bye Bon, don't eat too much chocolate tonight," Caroline said as she smiled at her and shook her head.
"Bye Care," Bonnie said with a small smile as well, she watched as Caroline looked around checking for people and then flashed off down the street.
Caroline opened the door to her house and took a deep breath. Home sweet home. And she had sure missed it.
Of course her mom wasn't home, but it was nice that she was going to be able to relax without anyone bothering her. Not Stefan, not Klaus, not her mom—she actually was going to have a moment of peace. Which she sure as hell needed. She needed to finally sit down and think through all that had happened in the past few days while her humanity had been off.
She walked into her room and flopped down on her bed letting out a long sigh
She was going to skip over the witches for now—it was one of those things she was going to have to push to deep corners of her mind with the other horrible things she had been through. The things she had to deal with on her own and put on her big girl pants and just get over.
She rolled onto her side and caught a glimpse of the paper on her night stand. She reached out and ran her fingers over the sketch Klaus had drawn of her.
Klaus.
She finally was going to have to confront that. For so long she had told herself that she hated him—that he was nothing more than the evil original that came to town and killed aunt Jenna and that terrorized her and her friends. But she was starting to realize that she was really just in denial, seriously bad denial. Because when had Klaus ever been like that to her?
Once. One time he had lashed out and hurt her because she had been insulting him and calling him worthless over his brother's dead body. It was wrong, but she understood why he did it. He was hurt.
Klaus was nothing but sweet to her, he was—perfect. She clenched her fists in frustration. She had said it at the Miss Mystic Party, but she hadn't actually meant it like that. He honestly was the only guy that ever put her first. He—
She froze as she heard footsteps in the hallway.
She sat up in her bed, and her eyes flew around her room desperately searching for a makeshift stake.
Her door was pushed open and her eyes flew to the door.
"Damon?"
A/N: Sorry if that chapter seemed all over the place, I had the hardest time writing another chapter after 4x20…and well I tried to make it how I wanted it, but my heart and passion wasn't in this chapter as much as it has been in the past few…
Ok guys, It is almost may, and may for me = 6 exams, 1 paper and a whole lot of other crap in between…so my updates wont be every day, 1-3 updates a week…oh and on top of that…im sick…so on top of being uninspired as a result of being Plec'd…im also run down and feeling like crap…go me!
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