CHAPTER 5: The TroubleMaker

"So Caroline texted me, Katherine showed up for a little visit." Stefan told Damon, they were sitting in Damon's car, after the whole Team Rebekah joins Team Elena situation, Damon had thought they both needed a drink; Stefan of course, had to agree, he still had to punch his idiotic brother in the face for doing what he did. "No way, isn't Klaus with Caroline? Katherine wouldn't be stupid enough to go in front of him."
"True, but she has the cure now, she has leverage plus, she went there impersonating Elena, like she always does." "You're telling me that Katherine is with Klaus with the only weapon in the world that can kill him with only Blondie as his bodyguard?" Damon asked, Stefan nodded,
"You do know that we could get killed if something happens to him right?"
Stefan nodded, "I'm aware."
"So why are we wasting our time here, again?" He hit the exhilarator and they sped off. "Damon, Katherine will be gone by the time we reach there!"
"Don't be too sure, baby bro. We might just make it in time!"
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"We've been looking all over for you, you sneaky, conniving —"
"Uh, uh...You want to be nice to me right now, Caroline. After all, if I kill Klaus, Tyler dies...At least we can be sure about that."
Klaus looked like he was going to burst, he shoved her, "Give me the cure!"
"Not a chance in hell." Katherine responded cheekily,
Caroline closed her eyes, she really didn't know what she should do. "Look, I'm not here to make a mess, not right now, not in these shoes." Katherine told them, twirling her right foot in the air, flaunting her shiny leather boots. "Then what are you here for?" Klaus was obviously getting seriously pissed off, after all she had the only weapon in the world that could kill him. "I'm here to talk."
Caroline squinted her eyes, "So talk"
"With pleasure, tell him, to get his bony hands off of me."
"Not scared of me anymore, Katherine? You should be...did you forget? Let's jog your memory then, shall we? You spent more than a 100 years running from me, after I killed your family, ah, I still remember them screaming and begging for their lives—" "Shut up!" Katherine cried,
"Very well, then." He said, he let go of her. She dusted off her jeans and stepped forward, "It was interesting to hear that the Princess of Purity tried to kill her best friend" Katherine told Caroline, she knew she was hinting at Elena. Caroline's jaw dropped, "So you haven't heard, then?"
"Heard what?"
"After you ruthlessly killed off poor Jeremy she couldn't bare it, she switched off her humanity! And this, the state she's in now—it's all your fault! Just because Klaus killed all your family you wanna stoop to his level and kill the last of her's? Gotta say, that's low, even for you."
Katherine smirked, but she seemed more interested in knowing that Elena had switched off her humanity, "Oh, wow, so not so pure anymore huh, good to know." She marched to the other end of the room, Klaus looked ready to shoot Caroline herself for saying those things, but Caroline had to get it all out of her system, in front of her, stood the guy who'd killed her boyfriend's mom and then driven him off the face of the earth and the girl who was the root of all their problems, who's responsible for the position Elena was in now.
"Urgh! I'm so mad right now!" Caroline cried,
"Shh, relax I'm just here to warn you then I'm gone. So listen to me clearly. Don't try and find the cure, my bet is Damon and Stefan can't wait to get their hands on it now that their precious Elena needs it more than ever. But if any of you mess with it, or try and find me again. There will be blood."
"Are you trying to blackmail us?" Caroline asked, surprised at Klaus's silence, "There's a difference between blackmail and warning. This is me warning you, all of you." "You gotta be kidding me." Caroline said, she turned to Klaus, who was deep in thought, finally, he spoke up,
"I see what's going on here. You look different Katerina that look on your face...what are you hiding?"
She gave him a stone cold smile, "Why would you think that?"
"I don't think anything, I know it. You are really making sure we don't make any moves against you, which, surprises me, because usually, at least, the Salvatores are not much of a threat to you, nor am I now that you have the cure. So why would it matter so much if we tried to take the cure from you or meddle? You're trying to be sure...you seem almost...afraid, of what might happen, if we don't listen to you. You're being controlled by something...what is it?" Klaus asked,
"I don't like to be controlled, I'm nobody's little bitch, Klaus." Katherine said,
"Oh on the contrary, it seems like you certainly are, in fact, you might not even have the cure with you anymore—"
Katherine got super angry, "Maybe I really should kill you? Or better..." Katherine took out a stake and was about to hit it at Caroline but Klaus came in front of her and before Caroline knew what was going on she stuck the stake into Klaus's chest instead and vanished.
Klaus fell to the ground.
Caroline stared at the spot where Katherine stood a millisecond ago,
"Maybe I should go after her?"
"If you didn't...notice...I...need...help..." he struggled to speak, she turned to glare at him, "Who even asked you to do that? And it's just a stake, pull it out, that's what you usually do, isn't it?"
He pointed at the stake sticking out of his chest, "She knew I would s-swoop in to...save you...l-look...look at the stake close...closely"
Caroline realized it was the White Oak Stake, "Oh my god. Where did she get that?" then she realized in how much pain he must've been in. He was lucky she'd missed his heart, the stake was right under it. "Okay, I'm going to...pull it out now" Caroline said, "Or wait...maybe I shouldn't, its good to see you suffer, you deserve it after everything you've done."
He was sweating and in so much pain he could barely speak, he gritted his teeth, sounding almost desperate, "Don't...do this to me, C-Caroline..."
She sighed, why was she such a nice person?
She pulled the stake out, he screamed.
"Is it better now?" She asked, "No...a little piece, of the stake...it's still inside of me...get it out, please!"
Caroline rolled her eyes, "You can deal with that much pain. Unless you apologize for killing Aunt Jenna, for using my best friend as a blood bag, for making Stefan go dark side, for chasing Tyler away, and everything else that you've done."
"No!" He choked, "Okay then." She shrugged, getting up,
"No...don't do this...Caroline!" He tugged at her jeans,
she kneeled back down to look him in the eyes, "I want a proper apology Klaus. You know I deserve it. Or I can leave you here, crying in pain. I really can."
"I've saved your...life, more than once."
"That's because you put it in danger, more than once. Let's not forget that, shall we?" Caroline snapped, she wanted some justice for everything that had happened, she finally felt herself in control in front of him. "Fine. S-so-sorry, okay? Now HELP ME!" He cried, Caroline sighed, "Take off your shirt."
And he did, she came a little closer to him and noticed the marks of the stake, he was bleeding a little bit. She also couldn't help but notice his body; she'd never seen him shirtless before, he was good looking no doubt, ugh shut up Caroline! Do what you gotta do and move away from him! A voice reminded her, she could feel his eyes on her but she didn't look back at him, she took a napkin from one of the drawers and started to dab at his chest, his chest moved slowly as he breathed, she kept dabbing, trying to avoid the fact that he was attractive and that he was STILL staring at her, "Ready? I'm going to pull this out, it might hurt."
He didn't reply, he just kept staring at her, and she was feeling more uncomfortable than ever, "You're stupid." She told him, he smiled just a little bit, "You're beautiful." He replied, she rolled her eyes, "When will you give up?"
"I never will. You don't become the biggest and the baddest if you are the giving up type you know." She nodded her head in bewilderment; she couldn't believe he actually thought he had some chance with her, "Not so big and bad, now are you?" She asked, she gently put one hand on his flat stomach, and the other on his stone chest, she could see a little piece of the white oak stake sticking out, his chest heaved, but she manage to pull it out as quick as possible. "Ouch!"
"You deserved that." She said, standing up and brushing her hands off.

Damon stopped the car and they barged into the house on the address Caroline had texted them. Instead of finding Katherine there, they found Klaus and Caroline staring at each other. "Is this some kind of joke? Was Katherine really here? Or am I stuck in some cheesy romantic chick flick?" Damon asked,
Caroline moved steps away from Klaus, "What happened?" Stefan said, trying to sound more civil than his brother, "He tried to save my life for the second time today that's what." Caroline replied, Damon gave Klaus a sceptical look, "Katherine happened."

"Ugh, this house smells like old people" Rebekah said as she and Elena walked around the house where Katherine supposedly lived. "Stop complaining so much, I'm starting to get allergic of your voice." Rebekah sighed, she never could stand Elena as it is, she was not much of a charm with her humanity off either. "Remember what we're here for." Elena said, "We looked all around the house, thrice, there's nothing to be found. You obviously made a mistake." She sighed, "This is where Katherine was residing, I am sure of it. Katherine is smart, Elena. This is the last place we would expect her to be, especially this house. It's why it's important if we dig a little more, maybe, we'll find the cure or some other clue. I won't give up hope." Elena rolled her eyes and flipped her hair before she started to look again, "You're pathetic, you know that?" "Wait a second, I think I found something!" She opened a drawer and found an ancient cup, she dusted it off and held it up for Elena to see. "Wow, it's a dusty, old, cup. Does it contain the cure?" Elena asked, taking a glance. "No, but...this isn't just any cup. These kind of cups are ancient, not easily found, I've heard...legends that they are used to talk to the supernatural, like, spirits. I forgot what it's called, but these markings...the symbols on the cup, their ancient Greek. Where the bloody hell did Katherine score this?" Elena rolled her eyes, "What do you mean?" "This is practically like a telephone you could use to talk to any supernatural creature in existence, usually spirits." Rebekah explained. Elena knelt down and took the cup from her hands, "Why would Katherine have it is the bigger question..."