A/N: Hi guys, this is the second to last chapter of this story before i begin my other fanfiction.
When Kol pulled the door opened, he was quickly tackled by a huge white wolf. The impact threw them both on the ground, the canine's strong forelegs holding Kol down by force. The wolf's long fangs were merely an inch from the vampire's throat, as Kol could barely manage to keep Klaus at bay.
Caroline took advantage of the Originals' surprise and flashed a punch in Rebekah's face, throwing Klaus' sister a few feet away.
Suddenly the other room's door opened and out came Damon and Stefan, the two brothers joined force pushing Rebekah to the nearest wall. They both held out wooden stakes and stabbed the blonde Original in each of her shoulders, pushing the wooden stake so far, they engraved them into the walls nailing Rebekah in place.
Bonnie and Elijah quickly joined the others, the witch's hair went flying around her face as she chanted incantations meant to desiccate the two immortals, the same way her mother had done Mikael and she had herself dried Klaus of his life force not long ago.
Feeling his strengths starting to leave him and his skin starting to dry out Kol started to panic, "Wait!" he cried out.
"Save your breath" Damon snapped, keeping a hold on one of Rebekah's shoulder. The blonde Original was clawing at them, screaming for the Salvatores to let her go.
She even kicked Damon in the shin, where he could now feel the bone mending itself back to its original state. Stefan had not been spared in the fight as Damon could see a deep gash on his brother's forearm and blood spilling freely from the wound. Obviously whatever his baby brother had said about being strong enough for the job, he had been lying. What was he trying to do, get killed? Like hell he would!
Now was the time for Bonnie to hurry up with the spell and work fast or they would quickly lose the advantage, unless Elijah decided to actually help them. He had said he would provide his aid, but so far he had kept his distance, arms crossed, watching the show. Caroline on the other hand had moved closer to Klaus holding a wooden stake she had retrieved from the back of her jeans, the one Stefan had handed her when her friends had arrived a few minutes earlier.
Kol gave Damon an arrogant mile, even while fighting a giant wolf he managed to irritate them with his cockiness, "Well I'm sure Caroline would like to know about this" he said.
Caroline frowned giving Kol the evil eye. What did he mean by that?
"Have you talked to your mom recently, sugar?"
Caroline's face fell, the colour drained from it completely. "What did you do to my mom?" She looked in panic at Stefan who looked back at her with concern.
Bonnie stopped chanting sensing her friend's agitation. Something was wrong.
"You're bluffing" Damon said. We saw Liz a few hours ago she was fine" looking at Caroline meaningfully he added "she's fine Caroline, the punk's only trying to make you freak."
Wolf Klaus let out a low growl snapping his jaw at Kol.
"Bonnie do the spell, Stefan and I could use a hand here" Damon called out.
"Oh sure call my bluff, kill me or whatever, but just keep in mind that this town's dear old sheriff will feel every single blow you will throw my way. Hell maybe I should let my dear brother here tear my head off and we'll see if your dear mother survives, shall we Caroline?" Kol let go of his grip on the wolf's neck and Klaus got ready for the dive.
"Klaus stop!" Caroline cried out.
The wolf hesitated long enough for Kol to snap its head and Klaus fell to the ground with a thud.
"Smart move" Kol told her as he got back on his feet, brushing the dirt off his jeans. "You see when I died, I went to this Other Side Qetsiyah was not so fond of. In other words, I became a ghost and started haunting the place where I died... so I spied on you two love birds' reunion. I must say I understand now why my brother had his eyes on you from the moment he saw you, you are quite the looker" he said, winking at her. "I'm sure your friend Tyler would agree to me saying you are quite the loose woman, Caroline."
Caroline blushed heavily "Go to hell" she spat.
Kol had been spying on them, watching Klaus and her make love. He had probably laughed at them when they discussed the inevitability of their death. He had taken in their every move, listening to every word they exchanged.
"You knew" she breathed.
Too late she was realizing their mistake, Kol had known all along about their plan. How else could he have stopped klaus from tearing him to limbs. He had anticipated the attack, there was no other explanation. No vampire, Original or not, would have been able to stop the Original Hybrid. They weren't as fast as Klaus was. Then if he knew and came back to the house with Rebekah, that meant he had secured their backs some way. They had leverage, and now because of her, her mother was in danger.
"What did you do to my mom?"
"Not such a dumb blonde after all" he smiled before flashing to her. He was stopped midway by a wall of steal and he lifted his eyes to see his brother Elijah's brown ones looking back at him.
"I think our mother spoiled you the most when we were little, and she forgot to teach you some manners" Elijah said before punching Kol square in the face, sending his younger brother flying across the room. His head hit the floor with a sickening crack.
"No!" Caroline cried. She couldn't take the risk of endangering her mother's life, even if she herself wanted to kick Kol's ass more then ever.
Kol got back up lifting a hand to the back of his head and drawing it back with blood all over it.
"Poor mom would have felt that by now" he said giving Caroline a wicked smile.
Bonnie who hadn't resumed her incantations in fear of hurting Caroline's mom, looked at Stefan and Damon who were now struggling at keeping Rebekah against the wall. The blonde Original was starting get the upper hand on the two Salvatores and, with Klaus out for at least a few more minutes they would be outnumbered one Original against two.
"Elijah, a hand here would be much appreciated" Damon called out.
"What makes you think I'm not linked to her mother as well?" Rebekah cried out.
"'Cause you're a desperate neurotic bitch" Damon replied.
"More like because you can only link two souls and bodies together, not more. So if what Kol says is true, it's either him or Rebekah that is linked to Mrs Forbes" Bonnie intervened "not the two of them."
Caroline had taken her phone out and had been trying to call her mother's cellphone, office telephone number and their house's but had gotten no response from either ones. She was starting to panic. Her mother was either bleeding to death, two huge gaps in both her shoulders or she had a cracked skull and possibly a concussion. Either way they needed to help her or she would die from those injuries.
She tried another phone call and this time there was an answer.
"Matt! I need you to do me a favour and check up on my mom" she said, unable to help herself from crying, she didn't care if she sounded hysterical she absolutely needed to know what was going on with her mother. Matt hastily agreed, eager to redeem himself after his last actions, and they hung up after she told him where to look at this time to find her mom.
"Great now what do we do?" Damon said feeling his strengths leave him. Why was it that every time they planned something, it NEVER went as it was meant to, and they always ended up being the ones pushed against the wall.
"Now you two let go of Rebekah and let's gather over here" Bonnie said walking to stand by Klaus' body, she bent down to take the wolf's vital signs. Bonnie gave Caroline a reassuring smile and the blonde vampire flashed next to her friend and she instantly felt a warm veil surround her.
Damon and Stefan looked at each other before nodding and vampire speed up to the girls. Elijah held his ground and pushed both Kol and Rebekah away as soon as they tried to attack the others, before he too joined the others. Bonnie quickly expanded her powers, going from a protective veil around her friends and allies, to a magical cage imprisoning Kol and Rebekah in two separate invisible bubbles.
"Let me out!" Rebekah shouted, pounding on the invisible walls around her.
"I have your friend Qetsiyah to thank for this new trick" Bonnie said smiling brightly at the two Originals. "We wouldn't want you two to run off and kill people we love, now would we."
Klaus regained consciousness and swiftly got back on his four legs. He moved to nudge Caroline's free hand and gave her an apologetic look.
Without looking down at him she murmured to herself "she'll be okay, she'll be fine" over and over again.
Klaus ran for the room he had came out of earlier, and came out a minute later in human form barefoot only wearing his jeans. He took Caroline's hand and this time forced her to look at him, holding her chin.
Her blues eyes were filled with tears and she let herself fall against Klaus' chest holding on to him tightly. Klaus said nothing and only held her back with equal force, stroking at her hair. His instincts were telling him to jump on his brother and sister and rip their bodies limb by limb, but he could not do that, at least not until he knew it was safe for him to kill them without killing Caroline's mother. Even if he hadn't gotten along with Elizabeth Forbes, she was Caroline's mom, and she loved her. She was the most important human being in Caroline's life and he would do anything to keep her alive if it meant Caroline's happiness.
He gently pushed Caroline aside and walked to the limit of Kol's bubble, this time he was the one smiling.
"So why don't you two start talking about this plan of yours? You wanted to give me the Cure is it? Trying to make me a defenceless human so you could finally have a chance at killing me?"
"More like getting a chance at seeing you without that arrogant smile on your face" Rebekah spat.
Klaus walked up to her and smiled at her, knowing full well it would infuriate his baby sister.
"Well I guess you will never see that happening in this lifetime" he replied.
"Don't get too confident brother, we still have a few tricks up our sleeves" Kol said. Grabbing his left arm with his right hand he roughly pulled it down, dislocating his arm from its socket. He cried out from the pain and fell on his knees.
"Stop it please!" Caroline screamed.
Looking up, Kol gave Caroline an evil smile. He then turned his gaze to Klaus "We might not be able to attack you but I can make your girlfriend suffer. Or should I say, make her mother suffer."
"Stop it Kol please" Caroline cried. Stefan was holding her shoulders so she wouldn't run to the Original and endanger herself.
"Caroline, calm down. Matt is on his way to your mother right now he'll give you a call as soon as he finds her."
"Ah yes" Kol intervened "but will good old Liz still be alive when he does?"
He reached for his heart, inserting his hand into his chest pushing through his flesh to reach the organ.
Time froze in Caroline's head surely Kol was not serious. Was he actually ready to kill himself just to get at her? Of course with the veil opened there was nothing preventing him from coming back from the dead again.
Panicked she looked at Rebekah who also seemed to be taken back by her brother's actions. And that is when Caroline realized that it had really been Kol who had made the deal with Qetsiyah. He was the one who's life was bonded to her mother's. Rebekah would never kill herself just for the satisfaction of getting back at her brother, even if in the end she'd be resuscitated.
Caroline managed to get away from Stefan and ran for Kol but was intercepted by Klaus' strong arms keeping her in place.
"Caroline."
"Klaus it's him, he's bonded his life to my mother's, it's not Rebekah. We can't let him do this!"
Klaus looked at her blue eyes filled with tears. He wanted to tell her to calm down. To get Damon or Elijah to get her away from this place.
He wanted to kill his brother and sister for what they had made them endure over the past few months. There was nothing more he wanted right now then to drag the White Oak stake through Kol's chest to wipe off that cocky smile from his face.
But the moment his eyes met Caroline's, all his resolutions were drowned. She would never forgive him for letting her mother get tortured and killed because of his sick needs for revenge.
And right then, he knew what he needed to do.
If Kol and Rebekah finally got what they had worked so hard for, they would need to let her go. They would leave Caroline alone and let her live her life as she was meant to. She would go to her graduation and then leave town to go to college. She would have a beautiful and full life, and he would be by her side.
Klaus knew what he was about to do was against every single action towards self preservation he had taken through the thousands of years of his life. For some reason Caroline always made him take a different road that he would of had before. Maybe her light was piercing through his own darkness. Maybe she was right and he was displaying parts of his humanity when he was with her. Then this time he would be doing more than showing parts of it.
This time he would become human for her.
Klaus nodded for Elijah to grab ahold of Caroline and then turned to look at Kol.
"There is no need for you to do this Kol" he started.
"Trying to sweet talk me out of it now are you?" Kol asked. "She is smart you know she understood quickly I was the one with her mother's life in my hands."
He started pulling at his heart but Klaus moved quickly grabbing his arm, maintaining it in place.
"Give me the Cure" he said.
Everyone held their breath.
"What?" Rebekah couldn't believe her ears.
"Klaus..."
"Niklaus, you can't..." Elijah started.
"Klaus if you do this there will be no coming back" Bonnie warned him.
Of all the voices Caroline's small voice was the only one he heard. The plea in it made his dead heart swoon. Yet for once in his life he would do the unselfish thing. With his free hand Klaus held his palm up waiting for Kol to give him the vial. He knew his brother had it because Kol would never had trusted their sister with it.
"Why should I trust you to take it willingly? What tells me you won't just take it and run to your friends with it."
"You have my word Kol" Klaus simply replied. "But in return I will ask a favour of you. You will give me your word that you will let Caroline out of our family quarrels. And you and Rebekah will help protect her should she come across any future harm as I will no longer be able to do it myself."
Kol looked like he weighted his options before he finally let go of the grip he had on his heart and held out his bloody hand for Klaus to shake the deal off.
Caroline's head was in a haze and she couldn't quite understand what Klaus was agreeing to and she absentmindedly looked up at Klaus as he took his youngest brother's hand without blinking.
Kol withdrew his hand and wiped it clean before reaching for his back pocket to retrieve a small vial that he held out with ceremony between his thumb and pointing finger.
"Shall I feed it to you or will you do it yourself?" he asked Klaus with a crooked smile.
Klaus ripped it off his hand and looked up at Caroline, hoping she would understand how big of a sacrifice he was willing to take in order to certify her safety.
Klaus took a deep breath. He had been right to say love was a man's greatest weakness. Out of love, he was willing to sacrifice everything he had worked for for a thousand years. He would willingly give his immortality away to guarantee Caroline's protection when he wouldn't be able to do it himself.
He looked intensively at the vial in his hand. Would it make him a human again? Would his werewolf genes be preserved in the transformation?
He still had the possibility to just crush the vial and go against his word. That on the other hand would lead to Caroline mother's death and the eternal vengeance of his siblings against Caroline and him.
Defeated, Klaus put the vial in his mouth and closed his eyes on the world as he had known for centuries.