Hey Guys!
Hope you are all have lovely weeks.
So I thought about Joseph Morgan's tattoos, and you will NOT BELIEVE how much they are meant for Klaus. Just read the chapter and find out, you will be amazed!
Enjoy the Chapter!
p.s. Just a warning, I begin school again tomorrow and it makes things a little more difficult. I will do everything I can to get them up in a week, but please be patient! I promise you will never have to wait too long!
"I have to call her." Caroline spoke quickly, pushing away from Klaus and running inside to her house.
Klaus followed swiftly behind, looking back at the street one last time to check for anybody, before closing the front door behind him.
"She's not picking up!" Caroline was flustered and running her hands through her hair. "I shouldn't have been gone for so long. This is my fault."
Klaus sighed and carefully took the phone away from Caroline.
"Sit. Down." Klaus said clearly, he looked serious and so Caroline dejectedly obeyed, sitting down on the kitchen chair.
Klaus walked around the house in hope of finding anything that might explain Liz's disappearance; but everywhere Caroline had been previously…he couldn't find a thing. Klaus then began walking to Caroline's room but he sensed Caroline following him.
"I told you to sit down." Klaus said plainly as he turned around to face her.
"Well, I don't want to." Caroline cried. "Why does it matter anyway?"
Because I don't want you to find anything. Klaus wanted to speak aloud.
Klaus tilted his head to the side and begrudgingly turned so Caroline could walk ahead of him into her room.
The door swung quickly forward and Caroline walked slowly in. Klaus ran up behind her and looked over her. Thankfully, the room was empty… empty except for a photo placed carefully on the middle of her bed. At first, Caroline didn't spot it, but Klaus went to pick it up.
It was a smiling photo of Carol Lockwood and scribbled over the photo was a handwritten message of "Revenge is sweet."
Klaus instantly tensed and tried to hide the photo in his pockets, but Caroline caught him.
"What's that?" Caroline said quietly, keeping her distance. Her mind was telling her it was something she didn't want to know about.
Klaus didn't reply; he only looked sadly back at Caroline, slightly shaking his head.
"It's why I wanted you to sit down out there." Klaus spoke rough and low, still staring at Caroline.
Caroline swallowed and tensed her jaw.
"Show me." Caroline ordered, approaching Klaus with her arm outstretched.
Klaus sighed.
"Nik!" Caroline suddenly burst out and further stretched out her arm.
Klaus closed his eyes and gave her the picture before turning around to quickly walk out of her home.
"Revenge is sweet?" Caroline whispered under her breath. "What does it me-"
A memory coming back to her interrupted her train of thought.
Caroline sat in her room at her desk, slowly working through her biology textbook. The winter wonderland party of Mystic Falls had drawn to a close and she sat quietly in her room. Earlier that night, Tyler was threatening Klaus with the hybrids, he had turned a few of them against him. It was then that Caroline realised her current situation hadn't only just began. Tyler had always been aiming to ruin Klaus.
As she sat reading, her phone buzzed and she looked at a new message from Klaus: "Come outside"
Caroline smiled and bit her lip, good thing her mother was asleep. She barely saw Klaus all day because they were keeping their relationship a secret, especially considering every single parent was with her today.
She skipped downstairs, still wearing her white cream dress and cardigan and opened the door with a huge smile plastered on her face.
But Klaus stood covered in spatters of blood and one of his suit sleeves was drenched with water. He stared darkly at Caroline and she slightly retreated, terrified at what he had done. Suddenly Klaus stepped forward and grabbed her arm below her shoulder, leaving a red handprint of blood on her cardigan. He slowly pulled her to him, despite her pulling back and lowered his forehead to hers, closing his eyes.
Caroline tried to push herself away from him, but he held her tight and she felt a warm tear drop onto her cheek, but it wasn't her own.
"Who?" She softly whispered, her breath shallow and her eyes tightly closed in fear.
Klaus turned his head so his lips were at her ear and she felt his warm breath breeze upon her skin.
"Carol. Lockwood." Klaus whispered threateningly at her ear.
Caroline then knew why her mother was gone. It was Tyler getting revenge... But he couldn't. No. No. He couldn't.
Caroline's legs then immediately started to run to Klaus who was standing still in the dark of night outside.
"It's bait." Caroline hyperventilated. "It has to be bait, Nik! Why else would they take her?! They want us, not my mother. They want us to come for her!"
Klaus strongly pulled Caroline's shaking body into his chest.
"Why aren't you saying anything?" Caroline began to angrily sob into Klaus. "She's not dead, Nik! She's not dead! Say something!"
Tyler walked through an abandoned warehouse, in the outskirts of New Orleans. It was all grey cement, and the building was freezing inside. Hayley followed closely behind Tyler, who was walking quickly to the far end of the huge warehouse floor.
"I trust you had a nice travel here, Mrs Forbes." Tyler laughed at the curled up body, chained to the back wall of the warehouse. "I'm so glad I got a few of my men to come get you."
Liz didn't answer, but only lifted her heavy head to look at Tyler.
"I'm so sorry you had to get involved." Tyler spoke loudly again. "Funny this is. I would never have needed you if Klaus's mother was still here, and even so, Klaus couldn't care less about his mother anyway. So I had to choose the next best thing, and unfortunately that had to be you!" Tyler smirked at her. "So this is how things are going to work here, Liz. I'm just going to leave you here until Caroline and her precious Klaus come for you. I cant tell you how long that will be, but I know for sure that they will come. To make this urgent, I won't be feeding you or giving you anywhere to sleep, you'll just spend the days exactly as you are now…. In fact, how about we make things a little more interesting?"
Tyler walked closer to Liz and snarled at her, his eyes growing yellow and his fangs appearing.
"I am a vampire and a werewolf, but I trust you already know that. Here's what I'm thinking, if Caroline and Klaus don't contact me or come here in the next twenty-four hours. I will turn you into a vampire and then I will bite you. Obviously I could just kill you the old-fashioned way but I like how that plan has a certain… ring to it. And I'm sure that will encourage the lovers to join us more swiftly. You know, I'm getting tired of using other people to get to Klaus… if only he would face me himself."
Tyler then condescendingly patted Liz's head and walked away.
"Hayley?" Tyler ordered an unspoken demand of Hayley and she nodded her head, standing next to Liz and watching him walk away.
Hayley then turned to Liz and saw her scared eyes looking up at her, before Hayley hit Liz hard over the head so she fell back into unconsciousness.
Elijah sat quietly in front of one of the many fireplaces in his home and drank from a scotch glass of blood, thinking over what he had done.
Perhaps I should go talk to her? She's lying in the bedroom I gave her right now, surely she would want somebody to talk to. She doesn't want to talk to me though. I hurt her a lot today… but she deserved it! I shouldn't be keeping her here… what if she tried to kill me again? That's impossible, I'm Elijah, nobody can 'kill' me. I'm going to talk to her… what will I say? I'll think of it as I walk, don't screw this up! I'll invite her to dinner. I can't be bothered going out. I'll cook dinner? Yes. Yes, I'll cook dinner.
Elijah walked to the staircase and to her room; it was one of the nicest in the house. The walls were white and the furniture was all a light cream, with a wooden dresser featured in the center of the far wall in the room. The bed was all white and it was huge, placed in the very center of the room, facing a large window on looking the skyline of New Orleans.
Elijah softly knocked on the door of the bedroom.
The door opened and Katherine looked begrudgingly up at Elijah.
"This is very bluebeard-esque isn't it? You lock me up in your castle and never let me go…" Katherine scowled at Elijah.
"Of course not!" Elijah laughed. "This is hardly a castle!"
Katherine pursed her lips at him and he could see her slightly smiling.
"I'd like to cook you dinner." Elijah said nervously.
"No thanks." Katherine smiled at him and then slammed the door in his face.
Elijah wasn't giving up that easily, so he knocked on the door once more, and once again Katherine opened it, except now she looked angrier.
It was only then that Elijah realized how much he wanted her. She was right, Katerina was long gone… but Katherine was powerful and mysterious. Elijah was taken aback at his realization, he was absolutely overwhelmed with attraction for Katherine.
"Katherine." Elijah played with the word upon his lips.
Katherine ruffled her brows back at him and became totally confused with what Elijah had said.
"Huh?" She said, tilting her head.
"Katherine, I would like you to come to dinner." Elijah tried again.
Despite him calling her Katherine for the first time in his whole life, Katherine still wasn't very stunned.
"No thanks." She repeated herself from last time and once again slammed the door in his face.
Elijah smiled and dropped his head to the ground.
Katherine. He thought once more to himself.
Caroline sat in the cold outside in front of her house, she had frozen tears upon her cheeks and her breath made steam in the air. Klaus had gone back inside to search for anything that might tell where Tyler was with her mother and after a few moments he returned.
"Well?" Caroline spoke quietly.
Klaus sat down next to her on the ground and clasped his hands together.
"I couldn't find anything. I swear to you Caroline next time I see him, I'll kill him." Klaus growled.
Caroline didn't try to defend Tyler, she couldn't deny that she didn't want to see Tyler punished… although they had been together and he was her first love… she couldn't bear him any longer.
"I found this." Klaus said quietly. He took Caroline's hand in his own and placed a necklace in it.
It was her prom necklace, the silver ball.
Klaus took the necklace back and hung it around her neck, carefully clasping it as Caroline moved her hair away.
Caroline's lips quivered as she looked at the necklace, slightly turning it so the moonlight reflected the "C" upon her chest.
"So this necklace really exists?" Caroline quietly cried.
"Yes, why?" Klaus brushed a strand of hair behind Caroline's ear.
"I dreamt that you gave this to me but I didn't know if it was real of not. I always have dreams about us… but I wake up thinking they're only that… dreams. But they're not. They're all memories." Caroline began to sob and tears ran down her cheeks.
"Why are you crying?" Klaus wiped away her tears and tried to comfort her.
"Because I wish I didn't forget everything. I wish I could remember all the moments we spent together and I wish that things didn't have to be this way. Maybe if I hadn't forgotten and I had been with you this whole time we could have stopped Tyler together …and maybe my mother wouldn't be gone. And maybe in an alternate reality where you didn't make me forget, we would be sitting together in my room, with my mum downstairs and we'd be in peace. But that's not the reality…" Caroline spoke, her breath loudly heaving. "…The reality is that I have forgotten mostly everything, and most of it won't ever come back. I mean, I've lost part of my life… and I'm not angry with you Klaus, I'm just sad that it has to be this way. And the reality is that my mum is currently gone and I'm not even sure I'll get her back."
The two of them sat in silence for a while after what Caroline had said. Klaus was at a loss for words… she had said nothing but the truth and yet she still wasn't angry with him… how in any single way did he deserve her?!
"Caroline, I promise you I'll get your mother back." Klaus spoke in a low, sad voice. He tried to catch Caroline's eyes with his own, but she only looked down at her wringing hands.
"Thank you." Caroline said down to the ground.
Klaus stood up and walked backwards to her house door, leaning against it. Caroline followed and when she was with him, she stood to lean her body into his. She placed her right hand against his chest and she turned her head to look at her hand.
"I remember you have a tattoo here." Caroline whispered.
Her hand moved above his left shoulder and down to his bicep, tracing the shapes of his tattoos carefully with her finger.
"You haven't seen it since I compelled you." Klaus whispered.
"I know… but I remember." Caroline smiled. "It's a feather that breaks out into a flock of birds… which grow to be eagles."
"I told you what it represents once. Do you remember?" Klaus said, brushing her hair with his hands.
Caroline continued to trace it with her finger, but her forehead crumpled as she tried to remember. Her hand moved to the middle of his chest and slowly slid under his shirt, feeling the warmth of his skin under her hand and as she did so, Klaus's breath hitched and he stared down at Caroline.
"It represents how the strength of an eagle can come from the fragility of a feather." Caroline began to remember. "It represents you… In the way that you grew up as the outcast, but you learnt to be strong and powerful, even though you were broken so many times before."
Caroline then slowly unbuttoned his shirt and slid it off over his head, while he couldn't stop staring at her. Her hand then traced the tattoo on his bare skin and she glanced up quickly at Klaus, her eyes glistening, a soft smile in them. She then moved her hand away from the feather across his chest and down his right arm, to a tattoo of a growling black panther.
"...The Black Panther is secretive and silent. He is a loner by choice and is most comfortable with himself…He never gives away anything, only enough to ease curious minds. The Black Panther is the symbolic animal for the moon and for the night… and for death. The Black Panther helps to understand the dark and death and the inherent powers of them; and by acknowledging them, eliminates the fears and learns to use the powers." Caroline wiped away a tear as she traced the panther under her soft fingers.
"And the upright triangle." Caroline said, walking behind Klaus and moving her hand to his back right shoulder. "Spirit. Divinity. Masculinity. Fire. Life. Prosperity. Harmony. It's what keeps you living."
Caroline kissed the triangle and further moved her hands across his bare back.
"How do you remember?" Klaus asked, turning around to face Caroline and once again wipe her tears form her cheeks.
"I think it's because it was so important to me." Caroline said. "I remember you telling me and I couldn't believe how much these symbols were like you. I felt as though I was looking into you just looking at these tattoos."
Klaus's eyes searched between her own and he held Caroline's head in one of his hands.
"Caroline I-" Klaus stopped himself and tensed his jaw. "…I love you."
Caroline slightly gasped and stared back at Klaus in complete shock.
"…I love you too." Caroline said, breathing in, holding her hands against his bare chest.
She couldn't believe it… she couldn't even remember a moment before she was compelled that he said that… she would have remembered it if he did.
Klaus carefully leaned down to her and kissed her softly, pulling her body up against his bare top and running his hands up and down her back.
"Tomorrow, I'll teach you how to fight and we'll get your mum back. I will do everything it takes Caroline… you…you mean… everything to me." Klaus said as he momentarily pulled out of the kiss.
Caroline pulled back again and sneakily hid his shirt behind her back, smirking up at him.
"I need that." Klaus smirked down at her.
"Nope." Caroline laughed and tried to run inside away from Klaus, but he caught her in his arms and pulled the shirt from her.
However, Caroline's playful mood diminished when she saw the interior of the house and remembered what had happened to her mother. She picked up her mothers gun from the ground and held it between her hands as Klaus sadly watched her.
They had to find her.