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Chapter 6

"D'you not want her to die, brother?"

"No, you stupid ass! She is supposed to be killed in front of Tyler! You are taking my revenge away! Let me give her my blood." Klaus looked at Kol with rage.

"No, I'll just wait and see what will come out of this." Kol said with interest in his voice as he walked towards Caroline.

Caroline was trembeling. She knew what the bite meant, she'd gone through it before. Soon she wouldn't have any strength to do anything but lay down and give over to the darkness. She didn't want to move too much, because then the venom wouldn't spread as quick.

Kol walked up to her, with interest in his eyes. "Now, what is so special about this girl, brother?" He asked, his eyes staying put on her. He looked up and down her body and Caroline felt like meat on a meat-market. Kol shooed the Werewolf that had been holding her away. He walked past her, circling her. When he stood behind her, Caroline could see Klaus looking past her with rage. She could imaging Kol smiling because of the leverage he now held over his brother. She was another way to torture him.

Caroline felt Kol closing in, and softly touch the bitemark on her neck, that was already showing blackening veins around it, where the venom was spread. Caroline shivered in disgust. She hated his touch. Kol saw her reaction to his touch and looked up at his brother.

"Seems she want nothing to do with me, Nik. Does she react this way when you touch her?"

Caroline could feel Kol's face right next to her face. She looked at Klaus and saw his eyes widen in fury, just before she felt Kol's lips on her neck. Caroline jerked away.

"See, now that's just rude." Kol exclaimed laughing. He was having more fun than he had in decades. Kol pressed himself against Caroline's back and grabbed her face, holding it still, while his other hand rested on her stomach. She knew Kol was taunting Klaus, and it didn't matter to him that she was a person, with feelings of her own. All Kol cared about was that Klaus seemed infuriated by her being touched this way by his brother.

"Kol…" Klaus said with warning in his voice.

"Come on now Nik, you've always shared, why stop know, just when you have such a fine specimen within reach?" Caroline could feel his breath on her neck, as he talked to Klaus. Klaus jerked at his chains, trying to pull them loose. The walls that held the chains cracked a little.

Kol let go of Caroline. "Easy now. You'll break the chains mate!" Kol said in amusement. He led Caroline toward a wall on the opposite side of Klaus. Caroline was starting to feel ill already. She felt her senses lowering. Kol only put one chain on her hand. He knew she wouldn't be able to get very far. Caroline noticed he didn't even bother to check of the handcuff an the end of the chain was tight enough. It wasn't. They always underestimate me. As soon as he leaves this space, I'll run up to Klaus and have a sip. He has enough wounds and blood on him to heal me. Then I'll just run, and leave them here. Caroline felt anxious. She wanted Kol to leave. She looked at Klaus, who was staring at a point in the ground. What is he thinking? He looks so damn sad. At that moment Klaus looked up and right into her eyes. Caroline felt her body react at that same moment. How can someone give me such a reaction, just by looking at me? Caroline didn't look away. She had expected to find Tyler and having to save him, to talk Klaus out of hurting him by playing on his emotions. She knew she wouldn't be able to beat him in a fight. He was too strong. Seeing Klaus so defenceless made her feel uneasy. She wasn't used to seeing him as a victim. She had only admitted to herself she had feelings for him, and seeing him in pain was almost too much to take.

Kol walked toward Klaus, demanding his attention. "D'you know, if you would have just left me alone and let me live my life, instead of boxing me up in one of those coffins, I wouldn't be doing this." Kol sounded like a defiant child, telling his parents 'no' for the first time. "You took away hundreds of years! I've missed so much!"

"Ow, come now Kol." Caroline shook at the sound of Klaus' voice, sounding so much like his normal voice. As if the torturing had never occurred and they were just having a friendly conversation. "You know I did it to protect you from Mikael. As soon as he was dead, I undaggered you, didn't I? Now, just let me go brother, or I will make you regret it." Klaus gave a little ominous smile to Kol. His little speech had irritated Kol, and he stuck a vervained stake in Klaus' chest, right next to his heart. A scream filled the small space. Both men looked at Caroline. The scream hadn't come from Klaus, but from her. She had felt a surge of panic when she saw Klaus being stabbed. Not him! She thought. She looked at the surprise on Kol's face and the mixed emotions on Klaus'.

Oh, no, now I have his attention again… Stupid!

Klaus felt as if he was floating. The pain in his chest, where the stake rested, was almost numbed by the joy he felt when he saw Caroline's reaction to him being injured. She actually cares if you get hurt or not. Why would she care if she didn't have genuine feelings? Or… She needs me alive for my blood cure her… Doubt always clouded his mind, making him distrust everything and everyone around him.

Kol walked towards Caroline. "So… He doesn't want you to get hurt, and you don't want him to get hurt… That's interesting…" Kol felt an energy going through his body. They love each other! How is this even possible? "Do you love him, sweetheart?" Kol asked grinning.

"No!" Caroline scoffed, but Kol read her face and saw shame. She does love him, but doesn't want to love him, because he's a monster… Well, that's how we all feel, love. We all don't want to love him, but yet we all do…

"So you don't care if he gets hurt?" Kol asked. Caroline avoided his penetrating look and pursed her lips. "Then why scream like that?" Kol walked towards Klaus again. He pulled the stake out. Klaus grumped, but made no other sound. In a brief exchange of looks, Kol could see Klaus was just as interested in where this enquiry was going. Kol jabbed the stake in Klaus his shoulder and pulled it diagonally across his torso, causing a serious grunt of pain out of him, and a loud gasp of air from Caroline. "Don't!" She whispered.

"Bloody hell, Kol…" Klaus mumbled under his breath. He was too proud to scream or make a sound out of pain. He was used to much more, but still, it hurt like hell. Blood dripped down his stomach, staining his pants, leaving a puddle of blood surrounding his feet.

"See," Kol said triumphantly, "you don't want him to get hurt." Klaus looked at Caroline, and she looked at him. He could see she felt ashamed of her feelings for him, but they were there nonetheless. Kol looked at Klaus and wiggled his eyebrows. "She fancies you, mate!" Kol's eyes turned darker. Klaus knew he'd thought up some plan. He knew he wouldn't like it one bit. Kol walked up to Caroline. "Now, we know she fancies you… We already knew you fancied her, but is there something more, brother?" Kol directed his attention to Caroline.

"You see, love, our Nik here has never in his life put someone else over himself. He is the most selfish egocentric being on earth. Do you think he would even blink if I asked him who I should kill, you or him? Do you think for a second he would even consider letting you live?! That's the kind of man you fancy? You must be delirious." Kol's lips smiled, but his eyes were hard.

Caroline looked at Kol, and knew he was right. She looked up at Klaus. His eyes betrayed nothing, no feelings one way or the other.

"I tell you this, I'll give Klaus a choice. Let's see if he really fancies you, of puts himself first, as always." Kol smiled mischievously and turned towards Klaus again. "Either you take the pain I bestow upon you, let her watch it, and just in time I'll let you give her blood. After that I'll let her walk away from you, while I'll keep at it with you for a few more days, or… you let her take your pain instead, let me do whatever I wanted to do to you to her, and at the end you keep her as your prisoner to have your revenge with Tyler." Klaus looked at Kol. He knew Kol was expecting him to be selfish. He looked at Caroline. She looked genuinely afraid. Does she really think I'm going to let him hurt her? Klaus thought about her when she was attacked by those men the first night she tried to flee. He cringed at the idea of Kol doing much worse to her. He could take it, but she, as brave as he knew she could be, would be broken forever. Kol could pain her so much, her light would go out and she would lose her humanity along with her light. He could take it. He had been used to pain even before he was a vampire or after that a hybrid. As a boy he had endured more pain than a child or man for that matter should ever endure. Mikael was cruel beyond imagination. Klaus thought about her, watching him in pain, realising with every cut that she did have feelings for him. The only part of the plan he didn't much care for was her leaving after drinking his blood. He wouldn't have her or his his revenge the way he had intended. He would have to find another way. He could see that his silence was confirming to Kol and Caroline, that he intended to choose for himself. He looked Caroline in the eyes and then turned his look towards Kol. "Have at it, brother. Give me your best."

Klaus looked at Kol with condescension. Kol clapped his hand and laughed in surprise. "Well, well, well" He turned on his heels and walked towards Caroline, who was still baffled in confusion. "What witchery is this?" Kol asked as he grabbed Caroline by her hair, making her look up to him. "Have you bewitched him, or has the death of Mikael really changed him? Made him soft, weak?" Caroline looked at Kol with hatred in her eyes. She could feel herself getting weaker by the passing minute, the wound throbbing. I can't believe he would just let me leave, at the expense of himself getting hurt. This must be the Niklaus talking I saw when we kissed. This is the man I feel so strongly about. He is not selfish, he is good.

"Do you think I should keep my word, Caroline? Or do you think it would torture him more to see you in pain, after all?" Kol's look hardened as he drove a stake in her upper arm, causing her to scream in pain. Her scream was mixed with a lower growl from Klaus. "You'll regret this, Kol!" He exclaimed.

Caroline could hear him pulling at his chain and crumbles of wall fell on the ground. Caroline started crying. She'd been acting tough and now she just felt ill because of the wound, hurt because of the stake, and drained because of the emotional rollercoaster she was is. Kol wasn't just hurting them physically, he was toying with them mentally.

"Aw… You see what you did there Nik? If you'd just left her alone, she would have been fine in Mystic Falls, but no, you had to kidnap her didn't you?" Kol smiled.

"You're just as bad as your father!" yelled Caroline at Kol. "Toying with people's minds like this! Putting them against each other." Caroline felt exasperated. "Well, he's won now, hasn't he? Mikael got what he wanted. You're all fighting and hating each other. Loathing yourselves as he loathed you. His hate still fills your minds, doesn't it? Doesn't it?!"

Kol stood there frozen, looking at her. Did Nik tell her this? Tell her what Mikael did and said to them? Klaus had the same questioning look on his face. Caroline looked at their faces. They always underestimate me…

Kol felt the walls closing in on him, as he realised he was being his father, and he stepped out of the cave, for air.

Caroline immediately sprung to her feet and pulled her hand out of the handcuff after a minute of wiggling. She ran to Klaus and started to jerk at his chains. Klaus looked at her with an intense look.

"You can't get me out, love." He whispered. "Just take some of my blood and get away. He won't kill me, but he will definitely kill you after what you just said." Klaus looked at her with admiration.

Caroline caressed his cheek and gently kissed him. "I will come back for you."

"No, you won't. But that alright, love, off you go." Caroline felt him tense up as his eyes looked down on her with sadness. Caroline stood on her toes, and felt her face change. Klaus never took his eyes of her. She bit him in his neck, taking a few long sips. She hadn't realised how hungry she had been. The taste of his blood reminded her of the safety she had felt after he had saved her from those awful men. She could feel her body react to his blood, feel her senses being heightened again, even more so because she could feel him so near her.

"Caroline…" Klaus whispered. His pupils where dilated as he looked at her. She felt his arousal against her stomach. Even in a situation like this, they couldn't help the reaction their bodies had on each other. Caroline pulled her lips of her neck, but her arms held Klaus in and embrace.

"Look at me, Caroline." Klaus said. Caroline watched as his look intensified. A little to late she realised he was compelling her. "Leave this place, take the car keys and your daylight-ring out of my pocket and drive home. You will forget that I am here and forget our last few days together. Go." Klaus whispered.

Caroline ran out of the cave, not looking back for one moment. After she'd reached the car, she drove all the way back to Mystic Falls. She had felt a sense of anger and fear as she passed a motel, but she couldn't figure out why. She didn't even know how she got in the car in the first place. The moment she stepped into her house, her mother came running down the hallway and held her in a tight embrace, crying.

"I was so worried, honey." She cried, not letting go of her daughter for a moment. "Did he hurt you? Where is Tyler?" Liz examined her daughter's body and then saw the look on her face. She looked lost, as if she didn't know who or where she was. "Honey, did he hurt you?" Liz voice sounded strained. Caroline's eyes filled with tears. She knew she was supposed to know the answer, she felt as if someone had left a giant hole in her memory and her heart at the same time.

"Who?" Caroline asked her mother, tears dropping on her cheek. "Who do you think hurt me?"

Liz felt a shock. He compelled her to forget. "Honey, you were kidnapped, don't you remember?" She grabbed her daughter at the shoulders. "You've been gone for three days now."

Caroline felt as if her mind was holding on to something very important. She closed her eyes and focussed on this one image she felt lingering in the back of her mind. She could almost see it. Then, a pair of blue-green eyes appeared, with the most intense look penetrating her soul.

Go.

She could hear the little word as a whisper echoing through her memory. "Klaus." She whispered.

Klaus had to endure the fury his kid brother unleashed on him after he had realised Caroline had escaped for hours, who knows, maybe days. He had been mumbling in anger that he was nothing like their father. Caroline really got the best of him. Klaus thought. She seems to be able to exactly put her finger on the most sensitive parts of our minds. Klaus felt himself getting weaker, as his wounds didn't heal as quick any more. Kol had opened them up every time, and his body was straining to heal itself. His energy was drained.

"Come on now Kol, you've had your fun. I'm sorry I put you in the coffin. It was for your own good. But I am really starting to get pissed, and if you don't release me, I will get back at you and make your life a living hell."

Kol looked at his brother. His anger had almost passes and he had enough of punishing him. Kol loosened the chains and saw his brother fall to the ground. It took him a minute, to sit up straight. "Just give me a minute, Kol, and then I will kick your arse." Klaus grunted. Kol started laughing and soon Klaus joined in.

"You know, Nik, if you want your ultimate revenge on Tyler, then why not, instead of killing Caroline in front of his eyes, make her love you so much she would choose you over him? Wouldn't that be more evil, to make his love, love another man? And not just any other man, but the man who killed his mother?"

Klaus sat there in silence, pondering what Kol had just said. It would mean I wouldn't have to kill her. I still would have my revenge, and Caroline to go with it. As if she would ever choose me… She doesn't remember the last few days. She just remembers me as the monster I am. Klaus felt torn. If I want her to love me, instead of the mongrel, I mustn't kill him. I can go back to Mystic Falls. With him out of the picture for now, I'll be able to win her over much more easily. She already does have feelings for me. She just doesn't remember them. I could just take away the compulsion, and she'll know again. Klaus just couldn't imagine himself being with her in Mystic Falls, as if he was just one of the gang. And he couldn't bear the thought of not killing Tyler. Caroline would never choose him. He should just go after Tyler instead. She'll hate me just the same and I can go on living my life without having to think about her. She makes me weaker.

At that thought he jumped up and snapped Kol's neck. "Bastard." He said, and he walked out of the cave, determined to find Tyler.

Back in Mystic Falls Caroline's dreams were filled with flashes of memories of Klaus, of her feeling safe in his arms, drinking his blood, even flashed of her kissing him. Now and again she saw him being hurt by someone. The pain that caused her, made her feel nauseous and she woke up feeling even more tired than she had been before she had gone to bed. Stefan had told her what happened while she was gone, told her that Rebekah had compelled them to tell everything that had been going on since she had been daggered. They didn't know where Tyler was, he still hadn't picked up his phone, but everyone had left him messages telling him she was in danger. Tyler hadn't responded and they were just about to go and search for her themselves, when she had just popped up out of nowhere. Caroline had remembered her drive home and knew where she had been. She could drive back to find him. Him… Klaus or Tyler? She thought. Even though she didn't know what had happened, she could sense that she didn't feel the hatred she had felt a few days before. Something must have happened between her and Klaus. But what? Caroline decided to call Bonnie, even though it was in the middle of the night. She just needed to know. Maybe Bonnie could relieve the compulsion.

"Hmmm?" Bonnie groaned as she picked up her phone, still half asleep.

"Bonnie? Wake up! I need your help." Caroline said resolutely.

"Caroline? What's the matter?" Bonnie had just left the Forbes house a few hours ago. Caroline had looked distraught, not herself. She had sensed something was up, but Caroline had said nothing about what was going on inside her mind.

"I need you to lift the compulsion. Can you do that?" Caroline sounded almost angry as she demanded her help.

"Well, I can try. Let me come over… Give me an hour, ok?" Bonnie knew this was important to her friend, so she decided to not make her wait too long and hurry out of bed.

"Ok, thanks Bon…" Caroline said relieved, and hang up.

Bonnie had searched for ways to lift compulsion after Stefan had killed their classmates in the gym under the compulsion of Klaus. Now, with her powers renewed, she was sure it was going to work. She had a spell prepared.

Caroline opened the door even before she could knock on it. They walked up to her bedroom.

"I just know he made me forget something important. I can feel it in every bone of my body. I need to know what happened. Something is telling me, I need to do something, as if someone I love is in danger. Maybe Tyler?" Caroline felt desperate.

"Ok, just calm down." Bonnie gave Caroline some dried flowers. "Forget-me-not's, can you believe it?" She said smiling at her. "Sometimes the answers are right in front of you, like these flowers actually helping to restore memory." She could see Caroline move impatiently. "Ok, just rub the flowers over your hands and then give them to me. Caroline did as she was told, and gave Bonnie her hands. Bonnie felt warm. She started chanting, holding her eyes closed. Then, Bonnie looked Caroline in the eyes. Her pupils where dilated. She penetrated her look, and Caroline realised she was compelling her. "Your last compulsion shall be relieved. You can remember again." Caroline felt like a haze inside her mind was lifted, and in a few moments remembered what had happened to her, to Klaus in those few days. She remembered his look as he compelled her, knowing he would lose her, his look so forlorn. She felt the love that had been supressed emerge with such force, she was breathless for a moment. The shame that came with it filling her mind. How is it possible to feel so much for such a man? Bonnie looked at her with worry. "Care, are you alright? Did it work?"

Caroline stood up. "No, it didn't." Caroline knew bonnie knew she was lying, but she didn't care. She couldn't tell what she was felling, what had happened. She wouldn't understand.

"Care…" Bonnie started, but Caroline held up her hand to shut her up.

"I… I just need some sleep, ok?" Caroline lied. Bonnie picked up her things. "If you are ready to talk, just know, I'm here ok?" Bonnie walked out of the bedroom and Caroline could hear her walk out of the house and drive of.

As soon as Bonnie was gone, Caroline wrote a letter to her mom, telling her she needed to go back and find Tyler. Yeah right… Find Klaus you mean. The image of Kol ripping open Klaus' torso made her shiver. Him compelling her to leave, was probably the most selfless act he had done in centuries. It meant something. She needed to find him.

Caroline filled up the car and drove back the way she had come home, only stopping for gas. When she found the cave, she carefully walked towards the entrance. She heard nobody. She walked in, and could see the blood on the ground had dried up. She stopped in her tracks scared, as she saw the body of Kol lying there, motionless. Klaus probably snapped his neck. That means he's not far away. She took off before Kol would wake up. She looked around her for tracks, and saw some footsteps leading down the hill. She followed them, trying to take in her surroundings. She heard water streaming, and followed the sound. There, she saw him, washing the blood of his skin. She could see he sensed someone was there, as he stopped mid movement and slowly turned towards her. As their eyes met, she could see confusion in his eyes. Caroline put her hand up as a way of greeting him. His look became determined and he walked up to her in vampire speed.

His face was only inches away from hers.

"Why are you here?" He asked.

"I don't know…" Caroline whispered.

Klaus slid his hand up her head, held her hair and kissed her more vigorously than he had before. Caroline clasped onto his still wet body and embraced the peacefulness of mind she again felt as he was taking her body places she had never been before, only with his kiss.

I'm building up to the actual Klaroline smut, I hope you enjoy the bonding that is equally important. They seem to be in a dilemma. He can't be good and she can't love an evil man. Can she forgive or at least forget? And what about Tyler? Will she choose Klaus over him when push comes to shove? Please review!