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It was dusk and Caroline had been training all day with Klaus. She had improved dramatically, probably because a lot of her training and skills had come back to her – but as night grew nearer her mind drifted away from Klaus and to her mother. She had wasted most of a day already, despite Klaus telling her they couldn't just find her mother without preparation, but Caroline felt useless and guilty.
Caroline and Klaus were both walking silently through the dense forest back to the car they had parked further back, but Caroline began to fidget and her legs begged her to move faster.
"We have to figure out where she is, now." Caroline suddenly burst out.
"We have nothing to go on, Caroline." Klaus was surprised.
"We know that Tyler and the rest of the hybrids were in New Orleans." Caroline said, beginning to walk faster.
"Yes, but we can't just travel to New Orleans. If we get there and they're not there then we might not have enough time to figure out where they truly are." Klaus replied.
"Then what do I do?" Caroline huffed. "My mother is currently in the hands of someone who wants us dead – I'm not wasting any more time than I did today."
"We didn't waste time Caroline, when we face Tyler you have to protect yourself." Klaus was annoyed.
"We shouldn't have spent all day!" Caroline cried. "…We're leaving tonight."
"We don't know where we're going!" Klaus shouted back at her.
"Klaus we have to figure it out tonight! She's the only family I have left." Caroline screamed.
This hit home with Klaus. Family was the most important thing to him and he hadn't thought about how Caroline had barely any left. Her father was dead and he had hated her as a vampire anyway and she had no siblings. If Klaus had only Rebekah or Elijah or Kol left… he would do anything to make sure they were safe. Family is power.
"Somebody has to know – somebody we can get contact with." Caroline thought aloud.
"You can try getting straight on to Tyler?" Klaus asked.
"Surely he wouldn't tell us." Caroline said quietly, but she already began to pull her phone out of her back jeans pockets and dial Tyler's number.
Why didn't she think of this earlier!?
She immediately put the phone to her ear, she didn't know what to expect. Maybe Tyler would tell them… if Liz really was bait then Tyler would want them to come to him, right?
"I was wondering when I was going to hear from you." Tyler's rough voice came pounding through her mobile.
Caroline instantly lost her strong barrier as soon as she heard his voice.
"Please, Tyler, where is my mother?" She cried.
"You poor little girl. Mummy's not around to look after you anymore, is she?" Tyler laughed.
Klaus tensed his jaw when he heard Tyler's voice through the mobile and he urged Caroline to keep talking.
"Tyler, we'll come to you if it's what you want. Just tell us where you are." Caroline begged frantically.
"You know you never had to be a part of this, Carr." Tyler ignored her pleas. "I could have protected you, but you didn't choose me…"
Caroline wiped a tear form her eye. "Tyler, please, my mother has nothing to do with-"
"I want to teach you that by choosing the wrong side of this war, you're crossing everybody who loved you." Tyler cut her off.
Like you? Caroline thought to herself.
"I know the people that truly love me!" Caroline shouted back at him. "And I will stand by them!"
"Well you've put them all in danger since you became an originals' whore." Tyler yelled back at her.
Klaus suddenly grabbed the phone of Caroline, he had been listening to every word Tyler said.
"I will kill you in an instant." Klaus yelled down the phone.
Nobody. Nobody called Caroline a whore.
"Your threats are growing old, Klaus." Tyler spat back at him.
"Tell me where you are." Klaus ordered Tyler.
"Now that would be far too easy for you." Tyler laughed.
Tyler wasn't going to tell them where he was… there had to be another way.
"The day I find you is the day you perish. You're no longer safe by Caroline's care." Klaus spat down the phone and hung up, sighing and clenching his jaw.
"He didn't tell us…" Caroline said quietly, she was in her state of shock again.
"Caroline we'll find her." Klaus reassured her.
"How!?" Caroline yelled.
Klaus tried to answer but he was lost.
"We're leaving for New Orleans tonight." Caroline said darkly.
"What if she's not there?" Klaus grabbed Caroline by the shoulders and shook her.
"It's a risk I'm going to take." Caroline gravely looked at Klaus and pushed him off her, storming towards the car.
Suddenly Klaus was in front of her, grabbing her by the waist to stop her from walking.
"You're being irrational." Klaus growled.
"I'm being irrational?!" Caroline tilted her head at Klaus. "I'M BEING IRRATIONAL?!" She now screamed.
Klaus was taken aback… what was she talking about?
"I'm not the one who wiped his girlfriends memory because he was worried about her!" Caroline screamed, pushing Klaus back.
"You said you were okay with it." Klaus said, startled.
"OKAY WITH IT?!" Caroline laughed in frustration. "I thought I was too, you know! But if it weren't for you, my mother would be here with us! I could have protected her!"
Klaus stepped back and dropped his head; and Caroline instantly realized how cruel she had been.
"It's not your fault." Caroline tried to backtrack… to take back what she had said; but it was too late, the damage had been done.
"You've said what you needed to say, Caroline." Klaus said, reaching the car and getting in.
Shit. You've done it now Caroline. Caroline scolded herself. She had been way to harsh… she was angry about Tyler and her mother and she let it out on the one person who had been here for her the whole time.
Caroline quietly got into the car and she could have sworn she saw glistening on the water line of Klaus's eyes.
Liz awoke with a start and everything was different. The sun beaming into the warehouse windows was more golden and bright, though she sat away from it in the corner, her own skin was magnified and she could see every wrinkle, every crack in her hands. She heard the brush of her foot on the ground as she sat, and she could hear the bustling of the city outside. Her senses were on overload, she saw everything, heard everything, felt everything, smelt everything… and it was overwhelming.
She sat quietly, trying to understand what was happening, but her mind drew her attention to her cuffed hands. She moved her hands slightly and suddenly a searing pain was burning her wrists.
Why was this happening? The cuffs didn't hurt her before she woke up…
It must some acid or something. Liz tried to figure it out but all she knew was that she had to get them off.
With strength she didn't know she had, she pulled the cuffs off her and stood up.
Her police instincts instantly kicked in and she walked to the window to see the world outside, she needed to know where she was.
But just as she reached the beam of light her body began to burn under the rays.
"Ah!" She jumped back and looked at her hand, which was already repairing itself.
"Oh god." Liz breathed.
She knew now… she knew what had happened to her. She was a vampire… through and through.
What she had feared her whole life had happened to her… and her daughter wasn't even with her to help her.
Liz dropped to the ground and held her head in her hands. She wiped silent tears from her eyes and she tried to figure out what she was going to do before she heard the warehouse door heavily open.
In walked the girl who was always following behind Tyler and Liz immediately stood up.
"Impressive." Hayley pursed her lips. "I'm surprised you got out of those cuffs so quickly. I didn't even think you were going to be awake by now."
Liz didn't say anything and only watched Hayley approach.
If being a police officer has taught me anything, it's that I have to be stealthy. Liz told herself.
"Fine then, you don't have to say a word to me." Hayley said. "It doesn't affect what I'm going to do anyway."
As Hayley approached Liz tensed up so that she could pounce, but Hayley noticed and stopped.
"Don't you dare." Hayley threatened Liz.
Liz one again refused to say anything.
"I am a werewolf, lady." Hayley continued. "And you're only a baby vampire, I could kill you like snapping a twig."
"Why don't you?" Liz suddenly said strongly.
"Because you're needed alive." Hayley scowled at Liz.
"I need to make a phone call." Liz said.
Hayley scoffed and shook her head. "No way in hell, lady."
"You said that I need to be alive, yes?" Liz asked.
"…Yeah?" Hayley said.
"Give me your phone or I'll walk into the sun." Liz bluffed, staring back at Hayley with unwaveringly intense eyes.
"That's a bit extreme don't you think?" Hayley laughed.
Liz tensed her jaw and stared back at Hayley.
"You're bluffing." Hayley could tell when people were lying… but she wasn't sure with Liz. She must have been bluffing… but something in Liz's eyes told her otherwise. "What about your daughter?"
"I'd rather I die, than make her risk her life for me." Liz announced.
"You won't do it." Hayley smirked.
Hayley was calling Liz's bluff. That wasn't part of the plan.
Liz only had one option left.
Suddenly Liz threw herself into the sun and flames started to envelop her whole body. She stood and screamed as her whole body burned before Hayley was at her, pulling her into the shade.
"Damn it!" Hayley screamed, patting the flames from Liz's body.
Liz lay panting on the ground. Thankfully her bluff had worked… sort of.
Her burns healed again and Liz looked up at Hayley.
"One. Phone. Call." Hayley spat at Liz and threw her phone down at her before stalking back to the other end of the warehouse and out the doors.
Caroline and Klaus drove back to the house in silence. Caroline had planned to get home, pack a few things and leave immediately for New Orleans. She felt culpable for what she did to Klaus but that just wasn't on the top of her priority list of things to deal with.
Caroline couldn't be condemned for what she had said… Klaus had done plenty of bad things to her in the past – and she always had forgiven him. It was time Klaus learnt to forgive too.
As Caroline sat sulking, she couldn't help but search her patched memory in hope of finding something new. She thought about more recent memories with Klaus, but there was nothing there, nothing she didn't already know… so she went further back. So she went even further back and she stumbled across a memory… a new memory. As soon as she began to replay it, her breath caught. She had been wondering about this one. When you're forced to forget a whole relationship… you forget every stage. But this memory brought back to her the most romantic stage… the most, ironically, memorable stage… the very first kiss.
Caroline instantly bit her lip and smiled, a small giggle escaping her lips.
"What?" Klaus looked over to her.
"I remembered something." Caroline smiled at him, hoping he would forgive her.
"And?" His face remained grave.
"Our first kiss." Caroline tried to stop herself from smiling but she couldn't.
"Ah." Klaus then started to smirk.
He could remember it like yesterday.
Caroline and Klaus had been spending a lot more time together. Caroline knew it was wrong but she couldn't help it; there was something about him; something about they he looked at her that made her unable to stay away. She kept pretending that she didn't want to be around him and tease him while she was with him… but he saw through it. Klaus knew exactly what Caroline felt, he could see it in the way she smiled at him. That stupid little smile that he was transfixed with. He could see it in the way she bit her perfect red lips when she didn't even realize she was doing it. He could see it in the way her chest rose whenever he got near her and he could see it in the way she became just that little more flustered whenever he was around.
It was early afternoon and a soft breeze perturbed the forest of Mystic Falls while the warm sun basked a warm glow over the neighborhood, it was a beautiful day. Klaus sat alone in the Mikaelson manor, all his siblings were out and he was wasting the day away scribbling drawings in his notebook. He was sketching an old man, his idea of what Elijah would look like if he hadn't had stopped ageing. He liked drawing the elderly; it amused him.
Humans are so inferior. Klaus laughed to himself as he made Elijah look slowly weaker – but a soft knock on the front door interrupted him and he strolled over to the grand double doors.
He opened the door to Caroline, his Caroline. She was wearing a black leather jacket and jeans, she must have just come from school. Klaus's face instantly brightened, Caroline was coming to Klaus's house to see him.
"Hi Love." Klaus smirked at Caroline.
"Hi. Is Rebekah here?" Caroline instantly flushed. She couldn't help it when he called her that.
Rebekah!? Klaus was embarrassed. She didn't come to see you, you absolute idiot.
"She's out. Is there something you need from her?" Klaus straightened himself up.
Bloody Rebekah, why does she get Caroline's attention? Klaus huffed to himself.
"She has the plans for the school dance. I said today at school I was going to come over and pick them up-" Caroline vomited words, she was obviously flustered, as she always was in the company of Klaus.
"I'll see if I can find them." Klaus interjected. "Come in."
Caroline awkwardly stepped through the doors into the empty hall of the mansion as Klaus walked up the stairs to Rebekah's room.
Klaus searched his little sister's room.
So this is what you've come to. Klaus thought to himself. The most powerful creature on earth searching his stupid little sister's room in hope of finding bloody plans for a bloody school dance because he just want a few moments with the bloody girl he's obsessed with.
After a few moments of pointless searching through senseless girly posters and mountains of books, Klaus gave up.
Honestly, you'd think a thousand years of being a young woman, Rebekah would get over the teenage behavior; apparently not. Klaus knocked a pile of books over in frustration.
"No luck." Klaus said as he returned to Caroline.
"Damn it." Caroline whispered under her breath. Of course Caroline would be stressed about some petty human thing. Caroline stood in silence as she tried to come up with a reason to stay with Klaus, but she didn't have one. "Well… I'll just ask her tomorrow at school."
Caroline began to leave but Klaus wasn't going to let her.
"What is it about school that you two are so gripped with?" Klaus called after her.
Caroline smiled with her back turned to Klaus standing on the staircase, before composing herself and turning around.
"I'm not gripped with it! I'm just going through the motions I guess… I had always planned to finish school with senior year and organize the dances and become homecoming queen-" Caroline realized she was ranting and Klaus was smiling at her in a mocking way, so she stopped herself from going any further.
"No, no continue please." Klaus smirked at her.
"No!" Caroline rolled her eyes at him and pouted her lips at him before laughing.
"Fine then, I'll continue for you." Klaus mocked. "You would have married your childhood sweetheart…" Klaus stepped down closer to Caroline as he talked. "Even though you never really loved him, you would marry him because that's what you expected to do. You would have lived together in a quiet little house on a quiet little street and you would have had two pretty little children named… Benji and Myrtle-"
"What?!" Caroline interjected by bursting out laughing. "Benji and Myrtle!? Last time I checked we don't live in the 40's!"
"I'm not finished" Klaus was closer to Caroline now. "You would have spent a long period of your life watching them grow up, watching them slowly drift away from you while each moment that passed you became closer and closer to the day where you'll die peacefully in your bed as an old woman, having lived a full life of absolutely nothing."
As awful as it sounded to Caroline, it was pretty much the plan she had had in her head.
"I'll have you know I'm actually going to miss growing old." Caroline said to Klaus, unconsciously taking a few steps forward to him. "And senior year was a part of that!"
"I tried senior year once… I refuse to ever go back to that putrid den of teenage angst." Klaus said seriously.
Caroline tried to stop herself from laughing but Klaus's choice of words got her.
"I'm sorry." Caroline said as she tried to stop her hysterical laughter.
Klaus clenched his jaw but a smirk was playing on his lips.
"But seriously, I'm going to miss being human!" Caroline smiled.
Klaus glanced up at Caroline and made the few final steps towards Caroline so that they were only a small width apart.
"I know you prefer who you are now, to the girl you once were." Klaus said it in a low voice.
Caroline dropped her comic mood as soon as he spoke and she became totally hypnotized with the way he spoke to her. Her eyes glanced down to the ground, but she couldn't keep them away from his piercing eyes- that were staring so intensely at her.
"You like being strong," Klaus began to smile and a flash of hope came through his eyes. "Ageless, fearless." Klaus turned intense and dark when he said fearless. Caroline's breath hitched and her heart began to flutter. She couldn't control herself when he looked at her like that.
Like she was under a spell, Caroline unintentionally took another step into Klaus so they were only inches apart, still staring back into his eyes.
"We're the same, Caroline." Klaus whispered into her, his voice practically purring her name.
Caroline melted when he said that. She was absolutely in awe of him and to think that he thought… he knew… that she was as dark as him drove her absolutely wild.
"Then show me." Caroline's breath hitched as he whispered up to him, her eyes searching his.
Klaus instinctively reached forward and brushed a stray hair behind Caroline's ear and she subtly closed her eyes at the touch of his hands against her skin. His hands were so soft and their faces were only inches apart now and Klaus could feel Caroline's soft shallow breathing.
Klaus's hand stayed at the nape of her neck and Caroline noticed his hesitation. She didn't think about what she was doing, it was like it was this deep yearning that completely took over and she couldn't help but succumb to it.
Caroline stared down at Klaus's lips and lifted one of her hands to Klaus's arm that was on Caroline's neck.
She was practically begging him to kiss her, and yet he only stared down at her, slowly rubbing his hand against her neck.
"Kiss. Me." Caroline whispered, barely audibly.
Suddenly Klaus's lips crashed into hers and began to kiss her with a desperation and passion she could only have dreamed of… and Caroline kissed back… hard. He had finally gotten permission to do what he had wanted to do to her since the moment he saw her. His soft lips pressed into hers and she reflexively grabbed onto his shirt in the heat of the kiss. It got out of control very quickly, a kiss that not only reflected on Klaus but also reflected upon Caroline.
Before Caroline got too carried away, she pulled back and took in a huge gasp of air, in the most un-subtle way possible. As Klaus only smirked smugly back at her, Caroline brought a hand up to her mouth and a wave of shock enveloped her face.
"Sorry- I, I don't… I'm not sure.." Caroline started to rack her mind for the right words to say but nothing good came of it.
"Don't apologize love." Klaus smirked, he was absolutely beaming.
"I have to, I came to… I should probably go." Caroline was bright red and she couldn't stop staring at Klaus's lips. Nobody, not even Tyler, had ever kissed her like that.
Caroline quickly scurried out of the mansion and ran home, still high from what she had just done, while Klaus stood alone in his house once more, smiling and laughing that he had finally gotten the girl.
Caroline and Klaus both couldn't stop smirking while they replayed the memory in their heads.
"You surprised me." Klaus had the same smug expression in his face again.
"I surprised you!?" Caroline scoffed.
Once they returned home, Caroline started to quickly pack the bare necessities while Klaus sat amused in the kitchen.
Caroline's fervent packing was interrupted by the quiet ringing of her phone.
As soon as she saw the caller she dropped everything and picked up.
"Mum!? Mum?! Are you okay!?" She cried into the phone.
"I'll be fine, honey." Liz reassured her panicked daughter. "I'm in New Orleans in a big warehouse on the east of the city. I can't give you anymore information but Tyler has got me here and they're using me as a bait to get to you." Liz spoke like a police officer.
"Mum! You have to get out of there!" Caroline spoke quickly and Klaus was not at her side, listening to the conversation.
"I can't, Carr." Liz sighed.
"Why not!?" Caroline panicked. "You're a police officer, Mum, you can get passed whatever people they have watching you."
"That's not the problem." Liz didn't want to tell her daughter what she had become.
"Then what!?" Caroline cried.
"It's the sun, honey. I can't go out into the sun." Liz spoke quietly.
At first it didn't compute… Caroline just couldn't accept what she had heard.
"No." She whispered in shock.
"Caroline, I'll be okay." Liz knew her daughter and how she would react.
"Anything but that, Mum." Caroline began to cry… really cry.
"I don't know why he did it to me, Carr, but he did." Liz sounded chocked up on the other end too. "You'll have to teach me how to be just as good a vampire as you, honey."
Caroline had tears flowing down her face. Her mother never wanted to be a vampire, she had done enough as a mother already… but this, this, was a step too far.
"Mum, I'll come find you, I promise." Caroline started to blurt words out again.
Ruffling came from the other side of the line and an unfamiliar voice was heard.
"Get off the phone now." The strangers voice said.
"Please, just a minute more." Liz sounded scared and panicked.
"Mum?! Mum!? Please-" Caroline was nonsensical now.
"Honey, you have a big future ahead of you. You've been the best daughter anybody could hope for." Liz was crying too now.
"Get off the phone NOW." The voice was angry.
"Mum, I'm coming, I promise." Caroline tried to stop her tears.
"I love-" Liz's side of the phone went dead.