4x12 Caroline discovers Kol's body and Klaus at the Gilbert home

Caroline stood unsteadily at the front door of the Gilbert home. Elena called her in a panic telling her to get to her house because Klaus was inside. Caroline hung up immediately and ran over, determined to give Klaus a piece of her mind for weaseling his way into the house. As she turned the door knob, the sound of silence greeted her.

"Klaus?" she called out cautiously as she stepped over the threshold.

No answer came, but that wasn't what caught made her stop in her tracks. Lying on the ground in the kitchen was a charred body, the smoke still coming off it and the smell of burnt flesh filling the whole house.

"Klaus!" Caroline squeaked out in a panic.

She flashed to the body, crumpling beside it, the charred flesh rendering identification impossible. Covering her mouth, a strangled sound escaped her throat as tears began to prick at the corners of her eyes. Klaus wasn't supposed to die, he couldn't be dead. Her hands started to shake as she reached out to touch the smoking body.

"Caroline, love," Klaus' voice called out to her.

Caroline straightened up at the sound, her memories were playing tricks on her with his soft accented voice full of kindness he only held for her. Anger flared through Caroline, what the hell was Elena thinking? Elena said Klaus was at the house not that she killed him. Elena had just signed their death warrants and didn't even give a damn.

"Sweetheart," Klaus' voice said again haunting Caroline's mind.

Caroline shook her head, sending her hair flying. Curling her knees to her chest she rocked back and forth, his voice wasn't going away. Not that it mattered anymore; she was going to die soon anyway.

Again the Klaus' voice spoke again, "Caroline turn around."

Whipping her head around she saw Klaus crumpled on the floor of the living room in the doorway leading to the kitchen. Caroline gasped at the sight of him; he had tear tracks on his face and a deeply pained expression. Not thinking about anything else she ran to his side, utterly relieved to see him alive. Her arms were wrapped around his hunched shoulders, pulling him into her. Something wasn't right because the man before her was broken not the alpha she knew how to handle.

All she could think to herself was; what the hell had Elena done? If Klaus was alive, then who was the person on the ground? Caroline stiffened, Klaus would only have a reaction like this if it was his family, that meant-

"Oh no, " she whispered.

Whether she was trembling in sadness for seeing Klaus hurt over his brother's death or if it was because she knew that he was going to rain hell on all of them now she wasn't sure, but her whole body couldn't stop shaking. Klaus pulled out of her arms, letting an iron mask of blankness assume control. She let him because there wasn't much else she could do to the contrary.

"Please Caroline," he uttered softly. It seemed as if he was too afraid to speak above a whisper.

Caroline looked up into his face, seeing his eyes focused only on the body a few feet away. He had never said please to her in all the time she had spent with him and that scared her. Klaus didn't say anything else and Caroline didn't think that he could lest he slip out of his mask of nothingness. Sensing his unspoken request, Caroline walked back to the body and gingerly lifted Kol up and carried him into the living room.

She set him down in Klaus' lap and watched Klaus hold his brother close to his chest, muttering something she couldn't hear. The sight broke her heart, tears falling of their own accord. The moment was too private even for her so she quietly backed out of the room, letting Klaus mourn for the loss of his little brother.