Silas, upset that Klaus has still not brought him the cure, uses the full extent of his power on Caroline.
"Being the creator of expression brings one certain perks," Silas stated lazily.
Caroline ignored him. She struggled not to breathe, telling her mind to stop its normal movement. Her chest burned with the action, the body protesting the will of the mind. Silas looked back at her, from his strewn out position in the chair Klaus normally occupied.
"I told you to keep breathing, breathe for me my darling child." he chided.
Tears welled in Caroline's eyes as she fought, trying to force her body to stop. She felt her fingers start to shake and then her arms, Silas watching her in fiendish delight.
"AHHHHH!" she screamed, the breath bursting from her body. The stake moved another millimeter slicing through another layer of her skin.
Caroline met Silas' eyes, the black spots empty with no soul. The man laughed, "Aren't you a peach?"
Bile formed in her mouth at the caustic laughter that broke from his cracked lips. She was frozen in place whether it was compulsion or expression like he talked about she didn't know. Standing in front of the Mikaelson's fire place, a razor sharp stake was slowly boring itself into her body with each breath she took. She could feel the stake on the inside of her splintering. The slivers created pushing and tearing through her weak flesh sending paralyzing pain to every nerve in her body.
She was drenched in her own blood, the occasional drips sliding down the hem of her shirt and falling onto a puddle on the floor. Caroline didn't know how long she had been there but it had to have close to a whole day at that point. It was early morning when she arrived at the Mikaelson manor to talk to Klaus and the sun had gone down some time ago.
If Klaus didn't come home soon she was going to die from blood loss or the stake would pierce her heart. Tears refused to fall; she was not going to show Silas how she was in pain. She was the queen of pain, she could handle this. Not really, all she wanted to do was break down and beg for mercy but her pride refused to.
Why had she even come here? Klaus had told her he was going to New Orleans, except she hadn't remembered that until she had already arrived and by then it was too late. Silas was already there.
All she wanted was to thank Klaus for letting Tyler come back for prom. Now she was dying, again.
Caroline breathed again, whimpering as the barbs tore further. Blood trickled out of her in a small stream, her white shirt long stained crimson. She dared a look down at herself; her skin was starting too ashen. A flood of relief swept through her the end was near; soon the constant agony would stop. It was all she could think of, stopping the pain.
"Oh, look the man of the hour finally appears," Silas brought Caroline back to reality.
Caroline snapped her head up just in time to hear the front door open and a sudden rush of air blurring of colors came into the room. There before her stood Klaus, Elijah, and Rebekah. Rebekah's face paled instantly, her eyes softening at Caroline, her hand reaching up towards Caroline. Elijah roughly shoved Rebekah behind him, attempting to cover his little sister with his presence away from the animal Silas.
But Caroline's eyes were on Klaus. She had never seen him like this before the absolute still of his face terrified her. The promise of misery and death was written clearly across the clenched lines of his face. His eyes roamed her body, his mask not moving until his eyes locked with her dull and lifeless ones. When their eyes met a hot fire burned so brightly Caroline feared he'd burn her where she stood. It was total pain, a vein under his left eye madly twitching.
Caroline just wanted him to save her, to end the burning in her body. She was too weak to call out for him; all she could muster was a weak whimper. A tear finally escaped its prison in the process. It fell down her cheek and stained the perfect lines of her graying face.
Klaus broke in that second.
"Release her," he growled out instantly pulling Silas out of his chair and pinning him roughly against the wall.
Caroline screamed. The stake suddenly drove in further by itself. It stopped just above the muscle of her heart. Any movement and it would pop the thin membrane and end her. Klaus flew back from Silas, the room falling completely silent expect for the small whimpers from Caroline.
Silas pulled himself out the wall, dusting the rumble from his shirt and straightened his collar. Klaus was seething, his whole body shaking in rage. Silas smiled and gave him a quick pat on the shoulder.
"Don't worry I'm not going to kill her," he smiled brightly.
Lifting up his hand, he stretched out his fingers and the stake wrenched itself from Caroline's chest and flew into Silas' outstretched hand. Caroline flopped to the floor falling into the puddle of her own blood. Rebekah was already at her side; wrist sliced open holding it to Caroline's mouth.
Caroline could barely lift her head to accept the offering from the girl; she was too tired and too weak. Rebekah lifted Caroline up and cradled her head in her lap. They might have never been close but in that moment Caroline was grateful for Rebekah's kindness.
Klaus didn't dare look over at his sister and Caroline, his eyes were fixed on Silas. He didn't trust the witch at all.
Silas chuckled at Klaus holding the stake covered in Caroline's blood in front of him. Silas turned it over slowly, "Marvelous isn't it? The most fearsome beings in all eternity are easily taken down by a single weakness."
A dribble of blood rolled down the stake which Silas caught on his thumb and popped it into his mouth, sucking it off with an audible pop. Klaus and Elijah both inched closer to Silas.
"Rebekah, be a dear and get Caroline out of here." Klaus ordered in a dead tone.
Rebekah nodded and hastily helped Caroline stand to her feet, speeding to the door. As they stepped to the door Rebekah and Caroline bounced back, both landing in a heap on the ground-they could not get out. Klaus growled at Silas.
Silas just cocked a brow, "Where's my cure?"
Klaus felt the blood vessels behind his eye start to burst, finally glancing down towards Caroline her body still soaked in blood but the pallor of her face staring to color again. Klaus rolled his neck trying hard to stop the urge to rip the head clean from Silas' body. Elijah stopped him, a firm hand placed on Klaus' shoulder.
"It isn't here. It is with those that it belongs too."
Elijah's voice was just a toneless as Klaus' with icy rage filling his eyes. He stood to his full height, all his power and authority filling the room. Silas just frowned like a child denied candy and shrugged his shoulders.
"That's too bad really," Silas sighed, "I was going to let her go."
With a wave of his hand Elijah and Rebekah disappeared from the room. Silas then was at Caroline's side, his fist pulling her hair, forcing her to arch her neck back and her hands clawing at his grip leaving bloody trails on Silas hands. Klaus rushed towards them but was stopped by an invisible barrier.
"I will end you!" he screamed once he realized he could not move in any direction, "I will hunt you to the ends of time. You cannot defeat me."
Silas laughed, "Haven't you listened to a word I've said? I want to make your life miserable. Why would I kill you when I can inflict something much worse?"
Klaus felt himself falter for a second, Caroline snapping her head towards him, fear flashing across her face. The pit in his stomach tightened whatever was about to happen was going to haunt him for the rest of his long life. He banged harder on his enchanted prison.
Silas used his other hand to grab Caroline's chin, roughly turning her head towards him. Caroline started kicking wildly; she wasn't going to go without a fight. It was then that she saw it the pupils of Silas' eye contract, she kicked harder thrashing her body any way she could to stop whatever was about to happen. Silas just pulled on her hair making Caroline see stars, knowing her scalp was bleeding as gold strands were ripped from her head.
"Caroline, look at me." Silas ordered.
Her body obeyed. Caroline's mind fought it but it was too late. She had no control against compulsion like this. She didn't even know Silas had that power but then again no one knew how powerful he was.
"Good girl. Now listen to me. You are to be a ghost. You from here on out you are not allowed to touch anyone expect to feed. No one is to remember who you are; all traces of you are to be erased from everyone's lives."
Caroline widened her eyes, tears automatically welling up. This time she had no power to stop them. She didn't understand why Silas was doing this to her. The thought that no one was going to touch her every again scared her. She wished now that the stake had pierced her heart. Death seemed the better option when compared to this.
Silas smiled down at her, curling her hair around his hand tighter. Caroline growled at him, to hide the pain.
"There will be one silver lining," Silas nodded to Klaus, "He won't forget you. He will be the only person in all eternity who will remember who you are. Now you will follow him, ever where he goes. You will not kill yourself."
With that finality of that sentence Silas dropped Caroline from his grasp. She looked to Klaus who mask of death was back in face and focused solely on Silas. The witch tilted his head at Klaus and then with a wave of his hand, Klaus found himself frozen in place unable to move a muscle. He hated it; no one had done that before.
Klaus tried to will his body to move but found himself unable to do so. He couldn't even move his eyes to look at Caroline. He had never felt so powerless in his life and the bile that formed in his mouth that the thought consumed him. He was going to kill Silas if it was the last thing he did.
Silas smirked gleefully, rubbing his hands together. Klaus watched helplessly as Silas moved to stand in front of him and watched the witch's eyes dilate.
"You are going to share in this fate. You will never again see Caroline, even if she were to be standing inches from your face. You will be able to hear and feel her but the image of her will robbed from your mind for all eternity."
Silas contracted eyes and stepped back from Klaus. Klaus was instantly released from his frozen state but still confined within the walls of his invisible prison. Silas gave him one last wicked grin.
"I warned you that if you didn't bring me that cure I would make your life miserable. Don't make me ask you again."
With that Silas disappeared into thin air, the walls around Klaus going with him. Klaus collapsed to the ground consumed in agony. The reality of the situation thrust on him, completely rendered him void of emotion.
Wracking sobs filled the room, the feminine cries of Caroline shattering the remnants of his broken soul. Klaus looked up hoping against hope that he would see her face one more time.
He could see nothing.