Totally just realized that I never posted the reaction one-shot for 4x20 here on FF. Sorry for the lateness of it but here it is.
Anon request/reaction drabble for 4x20: Caroline finds out about Hayley's pregnancy.
Caroline hated the smug grin on Katherine's face and knew the minute she saw it, something awful had happened. Combine that with Stefan and Damon's blank stares and the sickening anticipation about made her lose it.
Her heart beat wildly in her chest as she asked what the hell was going on. No one answered her. Her hands started tremble when an overwhelming fear overtook her whole being.
"What is going on? Someone tell me right now! Is it Elena? Is it Tyler?" she rushed out, waiting for someone to help her.
Katherine's reply was not she was expecting. The words Klaus, father, baby, and Hayley all in the same sentence were not something she ever expected to hear. Or for that matter wanted to hear. She was so stunned that she stood there in absolute silence, stuck in the middle of the Salvatore living room completely unaware of her emotions, the absurdity of the situation silencing any thought.
The three of them watched Caroline. Stefan noticed she stopped breathing and that her eye started to twitch. In panic he turned to Damon, his brother giving him a knowing look and just as they stood up Caroline blurred from the house. She didn't bother to listen to their shouts to come back.
Her whole body was in shutdown, the shock letting in a barrage of emotions she didn't expect. She expected disgust and that was there but so were a lot of other things. She fled to the safety of the woods, looking for a quiet desolate place to be. She needed to be alone for a minute.
Caroline started to sob after a few minutes, her body crippled under the weight of emotions and she braced herself against a tree. She ignored the bark that chipped off and clung to her hair, sliding down the pine tree. Never in her whole life had she hated one person before and surprisingly it wasn't Klaus.
She hated Hayley and she was so angry that her body couldn't even process it.
Hayley pregnant, of all things her supernatural life threw at her.
Bile churned in her stomach and before Caroline could think anything else, she turned her head to the side and emptied everything she had onto the forest floor. But her stomach wasn't done, her body kept heaving as if trying to force the knowledge of the news out of her system.
Finally Caroline's stomach stopped, exhausted from its effort, her body aching unbearably. She wiped the remnants of bile on the back of her hand with a disgusted groan.
She hated Hayley.
Hayley, who turned her back on all of them, who helped in the killing of the hybrids. Hayley the girl who got off scotch free will Tyler had his mom killed and was now made to run for the rest of his life. Hayley who apparently somehow charmed her way into Klaus' bed, and who now had the one thing Caroline could never have-a baby.
She seriously never loathed a person's existence more before.
Her stomach started to heave again and Caroline cried as she felt her body clench in pain and attempt to empty itself of bile that wasn't there.
She didn't understand why Hayley who had walked into their lives and wrecked all kinds of havoc was able to walk away with the one thing Caroline wanted the chance to have. It was mother's nature cruel joke. Caroline pulled at her hair and groaned, banging the back of her head against the tree.
She hated Klaus too, but she didn't know why. There was just this surge of red fury aimed in his direction and she didn't bother to understand it because she hurt too much. She swore the next time she saw him she was going to punch him straight in the face and walk away with a smile on her face.
Caroline pulled herself up off the ground, girding her anger about her like a shield. She buried her other emotions behind the shield and wiped the dirt and bark from her. She was Caroline Forbes; she could handle this, because she could handle anything.
With a shake of her head and quick pull at her shirt to straighten herself out, she headed back to the Salvatore home. She had to focus on Elena that was her priority right now. Until she got her friend back, nothing else mattered.
When she walked back into the Salvatore mansion Stefan and Damon both gave her concerned looks and Katherine just smirked at her from her corner of the room. Caroline steadily ignored them, plastering on a fake grin.
"So what are we going to do about Elena?" she asked in a too bright of a voice.
Stefan opened his mouth to speak, his hand held out to Caroline but Damon cut him off, answering Caroline with their plan.
Caroline arched her brow at what they proposed to do, letting herself get caught up in the original purpose she was there. She had too, because if she let herself think about Katherine's news she would realize that the reason she was truly mad at Klaus was because he picked Hayley and not her.