Hey guys! Another chapter for you! The story is coming to its end. I think two more chapters? I hope you enjoy this one! More action, less thinking. No, not that kind of action (a dirty mind, is a joy forever, right )!

Chapter 8

Caroline had packed lightly. Only one suitcase and hand-luggage. Klaus had told her, he would buy her anything she needed during their traveling. She couldn't bring clothes for all the different climates anyway. At first she had scolded, and told him she was an independent woman. She didn't need to be given anything. Klaus had just grinned, and said she was being ridiculous.

I told you I could show you the world, let me give you the world too. Let me buy you anything you need, anything you want… he had whispered in her ear, while pulling her in his arms tightly. She wouldn't let him buy her much, but no woman ever said no to a little pampering and gifts. Klaus knocked on the open door, letting Caroline know he was standing there. She'd already heard him, but still, it was a sweet gesture.

"Are you ready, love?" he said, leaning against the doorpost, acting totally relaxed. Caroline could see is was a façade, and he was actually really excited about leaving. He had been in a better mood with each and every passing hour moving closer to the take-off.

Caroline had called her mother, and told her she was going to go travel with Klaus. Liz had expressed her worry, told Caroline she shouldn't go. Klaus is a murderer Caroline! He will break your heart, and rip it out at the same time. Literally! Don't go hon, I don't want to lose you too. Klaus just took my best friend from me, Tyler's mother! He is a murderer! Caroline had sighed. She had known her mother would react this way. She didn't understand, couldn't see that Klaus was a different man around her. I'm a murderer too, mom. Caroline had replied. And so are you, so is Elena, Damon, Stefan, even Jeremy, now that he's a hunter. Everybody killed someone in our lives, for their own different reasons. Taking a life… it seems it has no meaning when it comes to our own friends and family. Only when Klaus kills someone, everybody has a fit. I don't condone what he has done,really I don't, I just don't judge anymore either. Telling her mother off like this helped her understand Klaus more herself. She had stopped judging him. In the end, they all had done bad things.

Klaus had shown her, reluctantly, his trunk containing letters from most of his victims. At least dating up until people still wrote letters, before the digital age. He had read a few out loud, telling her about the persons behind the letters, and the reason he had to kill them. His reason. Caroline saw a clear pattern, after he had shown her a few of the letters. Mikael. Almost all of his killing were done out of fear of being caught by Mikael, or because people were working together with Mikael, ratting him or his family out. The fear of his father had fumed most of his wrongdoings, even creating his hybrids, in order to defend him and his family from Mikael. Creating an army to kill him once and for all, making Elena a meaning to an end, making Tyler one too. She understood him more, and her shame for caring about him, was slowly fading. After all, wasn't Stefan his friend once too? Sure, back in his murdering ripper days, but still. Stefan was never completely evil. Even just before Klaus had snapped her neck, that first night, Stefan had shown remorse for Tyler killing his old friend...

Caroline had called Elena and Bonnie too. They gave somewhat the same reaction her mother had given. She had given the same speech. She knew she'd hurt Elena by reminding her she herself had killed Connor, the hunter, and was in fact a murderer too. She called Stefan after that. He seemed to be less angry, less misunderstanding. Just be careful, Caroline, he'd said, Klaus is an impulsive man, and extremely erratic at times. He trusts no-one, he has been betrayed by too many people too many times. She felt Stefan had given her his blessing, so to say, and she had felt supported by at least one of her friends.

Caroline picked up her suitcase and hand-luggage and walked towards the beautiful man standing in the doorpost. He took over her luggage, and together they walked towards the car. Kol was driving them to the small airport, where Klaus had his private plane, not a big one, just big enough for the two of them, fuelled and ready to go.

They walked down the stairs and walked towards the car. Kol was leaning against it, arms folded across his chest.

"Well, well, well. The happy couple going on a honeymoon?" he asked teasingly. "Klaus, when you get to Spain, don't forget to say hello to Esmeralda for me, ok?"

Caroline raised her eyebrow quizzically, looking at Klaus.

"That's one of his Witch-friends. They spent most of the beginning of the 20th century together."

"Then how can she still be alive?" Caroline asked incredulously.

"Witches have their ways to prolong their live, Caroline." Kol looked at Klaus, pointing his thumb towards her. "She really doesn't know anything about the supernatural life does she?" He scoffed. "You better learn fast, babe, if you're going to run with Klaus. He attracts all sorts or trouble."

Kol pushed himself of the car, and opened the backseat door to Caroline. After she stepped inside, he pushed it closed, grinned to Klaus and sat down after the wheel, starting the car.

Klaus laughed amused. Any other day he would have felt annoyed, but today was not that kind of day. Kol pulled up, but Klaus used his vampire speed, to open the car door and sit down next to Caroline, while the car was driving off.

"Kol, you're such an asshole!" Caroline shouted, hitting him on the back his shoulder.

Kol laughed aloud, together with Klaus. "Stop it, Caroline, that tickles."

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Tyler rang the doorbell. Elena opened the door immediately.

"What the hell took you so long, Tyler?! Where have you been?" Elena asked franticly.

"Nice to see you too, Elena…" Tyler walked passed her, towards the kitchen. Bonnie was already there, and walked towards Tyler. She gave him a tight hug.

"I'm so sorry about your mom, Tyler. I'm sorry about your friends." She pulled away, holding him by his arms and looking him in the eyes. Tyler felt a pain surge he had pushed away for the last couple of weeks. His jaws tightened. He didn't want to talk about it, let alone feel it. Still, he appreciated Bonnie for expressing her sympathy.

"Thanks Bon, but I'm here for Caroline. Now, where is she? Why did I have to come to you first?" He turned towards Elena, directing his question to her. She still had a guilt-filled look on her face, for not thinking about his loss and yelling at him as he had walked through the door. "Sorry, Tyler… about your mom…" The timing of the words was off now, and saying it, made her feel awkward.

"Where is Care?" Tyler's patience was running low.

"She's going away. There driving to the airport now, she just texted me fifteen minutes ago."

"Then why the hell did you let me come here first?!" Tyler exclaimed. He took off, ran to his car and drove off, towards the airport. Elena and Bonnie were quick to follow him.

"Jesus! He's breaking every traffic-law there is! He's going to get someone killed before he gets to the airport." Bonnie looked at Elena with concern in her eyes.

After speeding through Mystic Falls, driving towards the open meadows and farmlands near the edge of the little town, Tyler drove through the fences, right onto the airport-grounds. It was a small little airport, usually used for flyinglessons and parachutejumps, mainly containing charterplanes. It was a simple gate, deviding the airport from the road, nobody was guarding it.

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Tyler spotted the little plane in the middle of the taxi-lane, stairs down. A car was standing next to it. There his Caroline, his Caroline, was holding her hand-luggage, ready to board. She looked back at Klaus, with a smile on her face. Tyler was infuriated by the mere sight of this and pumped the gas. At the sound of the roaring engine, Caroline, Klaus and Kol directed their eyes towards the sound. Klaus and Kol tensed up and stepped a few steps towards the closing car, standing between it and Caroline. Tyler screeched to a halt and jumped out of the car, leaving the door open, walking directly towards Caroline.

"Caroline!" Tyler felt his body tremble with adrenaline. He hadn't seen her in a month, he wanted to hold her, kiss her. He wanted to shake her, to wake her up, yell at her to go with him. He could see the emotions of seeing him going over her face, as he closed the distance between them.

"Hold it, mate." Klaus said in a low voice, holding his arm out, to stop Tyler in his tracks. "What d'you think you're doing?"

Tyler pushed Klaus' arm away, never taking his eyes of Caroline. "Where are you going Care? With whom? Are you seriously going away with the man that killed my mom?! Care? What kind of person are you?! Don't you love me anymore?" Tyler's face was filled with pain. Caroline couldn't speak. She felt the shame hit her like a ton of rocks. The feeling of it crushed her, leaving her breathless. "Tyler…" she whispered. Klaus grabbed the back of Tyler's shirt and threw him against the car. Tyler turned into a wolf immediately, his anger gushing of off him in waves.

"Kol, take her away, take the plane, NOW!" Kol ran towards Caroline, picked her up and carried her into the plane, closing the door in the same movement. He started the plane and began taxiing towards the take-off lane.

Klaus was watching Tyler closely as they circled each other. Tyler was looking for a weak spot to attack. Tyler jumped towards Klaus, lunging towards his throat. All of his bottled up hate for Klaus came out in that one attack. Klaus was thrown aback by the force of the attack. Tyler was able to bite him in the neck, causing a serious bleeding. Klaus gave Tyler an uppercut that flew him a small 10 feet away. Tyler was right back on his paws, and lunged for him again.

At that moment Elena and Bonnie came driving through the already broken fence. Klaus was distracted for a split-second, and Tyler managed to jump on top of him, biting, and ripping at his flesh where-ever he could. Klaus was on the ground, beating Tyler in his side, trying to push him off, but he had lost a lot of blood with that first bite, and he could feel Tyler really getting the upper hand now. In one last push, he sent Tyler flying of off him again. Back to his feet, he now jumped on Tyler and started fighting back. Both of them became blurs in the speed of their fight, until Klaus suddenly fell to his knees, gripping his head in excruciating pain. At that point Tyler, back in his human form, walked up to Klaus and snapped his neck.

"I wish I could kill this dude, without killing my goddamn-self!" Tyler yelled in frustration.

"Well, at least you've freed Caroline from any compulsion he held over her, by killing him temporarily." Elena sighed.

At that point the plane, which hadn't taken off but had been standing there, a few yards away from the scene, opened. Caroline came running towards them in vampire speed. The door of the plane closed and Kol took off. He knew getting out would mean endangering his life, all with Bonnie being there to give him a brain-aneurism. By taking off, he could make a plan to save his brother.

Tyler opened his arms, ready to hug Caroline after so long. Elena and he were smiling, but Bonnie could see the agony on Caroline's face as she ran not towards Tyler, but towards Klaus. She kneeled down and shook him softly. He had blood and lacerations all over his body. She felt sick, as she was reminded by the scars on his back. Luckily these wounds would heal.

"What the hell did you do?!" Caroline yelled looking up at Tyler. Tyler stood there stupefied. "Caroline? The compulsion should have worn out by now!"

"I wasn't compelled… I… I surrendered myself to him, in order to save you Tyler… So he wouldn't come after you… But…" Caroline started crying. "He became my friend, Ty. He's not this all evil guy we all made him out to be. It's not that black and white."

"He killed my mom!"

"And Jenna!" Elena yelled.

"Yes, and we killed his brother Finn, tried to kill Rebekah, kill him… Kill them all… WE ARE NOT ANY DIFFERENT!" Caroline cried out.

Elena and Tyler looked at her in utter shock. They couldn't believe what she had just said. They were nothing like that man, nothing!

"And you!" She looked at Elena with fury, "dating Damon! Who killed Bonnies mom, turned her into a vampire. He has killed too! Stefan was a ripper for crying out loud! So don't look at me like that, Elena. Don't you dare judge me…"

Caroline had never spoken like this to her friends before. The animosity that had filled Elena's eyes slowly faded. She knew Caroline was right.

"Don't you dare compare me to this killer, Care…" Tyler mumbled. He felt sick, seeing her crying over the man that killed his mother. He pushed her of off Klaus, and took him with him, in his car. "I'm taking him, I'm gonna make him hurt, over and over again…" Caroline felt a shiver when she saw the coldness reflected in his eyes.

"Tyler, that's not who you are..." Caroline pleaded.

"You don't know who I am anymore, Care. And I sure as hell don't know you." He took off, leaving Caroline, Elena and Bonnie alone. Caroline felt herself collapse. There the two men she loved drove off, neither one of them willing to let the other tray alive, from now on. Klaus would never let this go and neither would Tyler. She destroyed them both… My fault… All my fault.

Klaus woke up, chained up again, in the old ruins at the Lockwood mansion. Déjà vu… Klaus thought. He could feel the Vervain in his body, weakening him, making him feel foggy. At least Caroline is long gone, if Kol did what he was told. Tyler walked in with a knife, playing with it casually, as if to keep his hand busy. He strolled towards Klaus, stood still before him, looking him in his eyes with nothing but hate. Tyler pushed the knife in Klaus' cheek and ripped it across his face, cutting his face open. He then took two steps back and raised his arm. He aimed the gun at his chest and fired an entire gun in it. Klaus gasped for air and his body jerked at the power off the bullets. In all of his existence he hadn't been shot that often, and the force of bullets always surprised him. How human-beings could make such atrocities was beyond his grasp. Hand to hand battle was much cleaner, and more honest.

The last couple of hours Tyler had just cut him without saying anything, and kept shooting him. Cutting and shooting, cutting and shooting, over and over, Vervain lingering in his body. He felt weaker than he had ever felt before. At least he knew Tyler wouldn't kill him, because that would mean he himself would die too. Tyler threw the gun on the ground and closed in on Klaus again, started pounding on him like a punching bag. Why do I always get myself in these kinds of ordeals? I keep saying I'm the most powerful being, but somehow, I keep getting chained up and tortured… She

ís my weakness. But what a marvellous weakness to have. Klaus smiled at the thought of Caroline, her kisses, moaning, squirming under his touch, her coming. Yes, with her in mind, I can last a few years of this torture. He closed his eyes as Tyler kept beating him. There was a small pause, he heard the gun being reloaded. The next second he felt it against his forehead. He knew what was coming. A shot was fired and all went black.

Klaus woke up. His arms were no longer chained to the walls. He was lying on the floor. He looked up to see his sister, standing over Tylers body, holding his heart. "Hey there brother," she said smirking, dropping the heart next to her, "I got a call from the Mikaelson family hotline, telling me you were in some dire need of my super-hero assistance." Klaus looked up at her dimpled face, smiling down on him.

No… She will think it was me who killed him… She will never forgive me… I lost her, forever…

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