Hey Guys!
Back again, sorry for the wait!
A few of you have been asking why Klaus can't just compel her to remember? - but that's actually impossible.
New compulsions are not able to reverse the effects of previous compulsions and that applies with my fanfic too, and hey, we wouldn't have much of a story then either would we? ;)
Enjoy the chapter,
Bec
"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.
"Mum? Mum?! MUM?!" Caroline screamed into the phone in vain.
Klaus looked over at the crouched over, sunken body of Caroline, convulsing from her crying which shook her whole body.
Suddenly, he let out a deep, furious growl and punched his fist into the glass mirror that hang on the wall beside him, shattering with a rain of shards.
Caroline stood up with a gasp and her eyes widened in fear, this was the angriest she could ever remember seeing him.
Klaus continued, turning crazed now, throwing furniture to the other side of the room and smashing random ornaments of Caroline's house, while she only stood back in shock, not knowing what to do.
"Nik?" Caroline whispered quietly, taking a few hesitant steps towards him and reaching out her hand in the hope to touch his shoulder.
Harshly, Klaus swatted away Caroline's hand and continued to break things, putting holes in the wall, he was indestructible.
"Nik, please!" Caroline begged, still crying, taking more steps towards him. She reached out again and touched his shoulder while he still shrugged away. "Please, Nik, stop!"
She turned his shoulder and he turned to look at her, angry tears dwelling in his eyes, before pulling her body into his and holding her tightly against his chest, as if he hadn't seen her for centuries.
Caroline was still in a state of shock, her eyes wide open while Klaus's head nuzzled into her shoulder and he breathed in her scent, running his hands up and down her back.
Caroline couldn't cope with her emotions, it was overwhelming, she was angry, sad, numb, hopeful, but most of all, a sharp undercurrent of fear froze her.
She was out of tears, her eyes stung and yet she couldn't cry anymore. She couldn't speak anymore, nothing she could say would sound right.
What was happening to her mother?
Katherine sat on the upstairs balcony, basking in the warmth of the summer night, a small smile across her lips.
Okay, so she didn't mind being held captive that much. She didn't even know if she was really allowed to leave yet, but she didn't need to ask. She wasn't going anywhere. She was wearing a beautiful long, white silk, summer dress that Elijah had bought her and after a time of sitting out in the night, she strolled back inside.
Her bare feet walked silently over the marble floors and a soft warm breeze brushed through the whole house. Curtains softly wavered across the walls and the whole house was basked in a golden glow from the candles which were lit around the house. It was paradise.
Then Elijah's hands were at her waist as he stood behind her, kissing her neck.
Katherine smiled and draped one of her own hands around his neck.
"I'm never letting you go." Elijah smiled into her, his lips brushing against her neck.
"Fine with me." Katherine smiled and bit her lip.
A sharp phone ringing interrupted their moment of intoxication and Elijah sighed.
"Hello?" Elijah answered the phone in his usual polite tone.
Katherine then noticed his face turn grave; his mouth dropping to an angry frown and one of his hands began to rub his temple.
"Yes, we can do that." Elijah sounded frustrated. "Honestly, Niklaus, can you just sort this boy out?"
Elijah hung up the phone and looked up back at Katherine.
"It seems that even we are not entitled to a few moments of happiness." Elijah frowned. "We must go and see if Caroline's mother is safe. It appears she has been kidnapped by the Lockwood boy and Niklaus and Caroline are too far away to do anything at the moment."
Katherine sighed and looked around the house, how she didn't want to leave!
Elijah smiled at her dress. "You may need to dress a little more threateningly."
"Right." Katherine sighed, running the silk through her hands, trying to hold on to the way it ran like water over her skin.
Elijah wasn't trying to change her back into Katerina… it just seemed to be happening effortlessly. Every day she spent with him, the innocence and the purity seemed to somehow yield to her like a child hesitantly appearing behind the safety of her hideaway. The way he looked at her was so kind, the way he touched her was so gentle and the way he kissed her was so blissful that the youth of her past life crept back so that when they were together, it was if they were back in 1492, running around the gardens carefree and lighthearted. She wasn't being untrue to herself or making herself any weaker, she was simply rediscovering a gentler side to herself, and one that would only ever be witnessed by Elijah; but it was still there.
"How femme fatale are we talking here, Elijah?" Katherine smirked, narrowing her eyes.
Elijah sauntered over to Katherine and ran his hand up her leg, putting his lips to her ear.
"Do your worst." He purred.
Hayley held her blood-covered phone in her hand and Liz lay unconscious on the floor, surrounded by two hybrids.
She shouldn't have let her make that phone call, who knows what would be coming for them now. Klaus knows where they are… that was enough of a threat.
But Hayley couldn't have let Liz burn; Liz is the only advantage they have and if she was dead then they couldn't have any hope of getting to Klaus.
At least Hayley had punished Liz for the call, that was at least something.
"None of you bit her, did you?" Hayley sighed, biting her lip as she stared at the limp body.
"No." The hybrids shook their heads.
"Good, she's got to stay alive." Hayley growled. "Has she fed?
"Yes." The hybrids nodded.
Hayley began to walk out of the warehouse, but she stopped in her tracks and turned back to the three people.
"Clean the blood up." Hayley frowned. "Tyler can't have any idea-"
"Tyler can't have any idea about what?" Tyler came booming through the warehouse doors, he was angry… again.
Hayley was going to pay for this.
"Tyler can't have any idea about what?!" He laughed, but it was sinister.
Hayley bit her lip and turned to see the severe face of Tyler.
"Liz told her daughter what you've done to her." Hayley stared at the ground.
"How did she do that?" Tyler smiled sarcastically, like he was trying to communicate with a child.
"She used my phone because she threatened to kill herself if I didn't give-" Hayley tried to quickly explain but was cut off by Tyler grabbing her neck.
"I'm sick of putting up with your idiocy." Tyler spat in Hayley's face. "I'm gathering news of vampirism isn't all Liz told Caroline?!"
Hayley shook her head under Tyler's crushing grip.
"Didn't think so!" Tyler gripped harder now, nearly crushing her jaw. "The originals will be here soon then!"
Tyler then threw Hayley's weak body to the ground.
"Do not ever try to go behind my back again." Tyler whispered hostilely.
But Hayley wasn't going to be thrown around that easily, no way in hell, Tyler was only as powerful as he was now because of her.
"You lay your hands on me and you'll have hell to pay!" Hayley growled, effortlessly lifting herself off the ground and standing up straight in dominance.
A flash of shock and fear appeared on Tyler's face, but it was quickly diminished.
"What did you say to me?" Tyler cocked his head to the side.
"You heard me." Hayley narrowed her eyes. "I'm the one holding this whole show together, Ty. Don't forget that! I've supplied half of your army from my own werewolf pack and if I go, they go with me."
Hayley then walked to Tyler, a severe smile spreading across her mouth.
"So if I were you…" Hayley put her lips to Tyler's ear as Tyler stood in shock. "I'd do everything in my power to keep me here."
"Ugh, Get a room." The exasperated voice of Katherine sounded at the door of the warehouse.
Tyler immediately turned and pushed Hayley back.
"Katherine." Tyler smiled at her and welcomed her back into the warehouse.
Katherine strutted down the length of the hall, her black stiletto boots tapping on the cement floor. She was wearing tight, leather pants, a black v-neck top and a black, tight blazer. She definitely looked like she wasn't to be messed with.
"Don't Katherine me, dog. I heard you two might have been here from one of the werewolves." Katherine spat. "I was nearly killed by one of the originals because of your brilliant plan. I'm lucky I even got out of there alive."
"You agreed to it, might I remind you." Hayley spoke up again.
"Only because I was pissed off and willing to do anything to kill one of them. Send me into a room of originals with a white oak stake? What was I thinking?" Katherine huffed.
"Well, your job isn't done here yet, of course if you are still willing." Hayley announced. "Klaus has found out where we're hiding Liz Forbes-"
"You kidnapped Caroline's mum!?" Katherine feigned surprised. "You're being very sneaky about this aren't you?"
"That's none of your concern. Are you willing to help or not?" Tyler said.
"No." Katherine's face dropped and almost instantaneously Elijah appeared behind the trio, pulling the hearts out of the two hybrids that had been guarding Liz, their limp bodies falling to the ground. "I changed sides."
Tyler didn't have any time to react before Elijah snapped his neck and his body fell too.
Hayley began to back up in shock, her head glancing around for Elijah while Katherine silkily approached her. Hayley was defenseless and vulnerable like a deer being hunted by a cheetah, her eyes were wide and it was as if she was trying to say something, but nothing was coming out.
Katherine then hissed at Hayley and her sharp fangs appeared, while her eyes grew black and the veins under her eyes jutted out.
"See you, not going to miss you." Katherine laughed menacingly and reached into Hayley's chest and pulled out her heart, spilling the werewolf's blood on the cement floor as her body collapsed on itself and crashed to the floor.
Then Elijah was at Katherine's side, staring down at Hayley.
"That wasn't part of the plan." Elijah chuckled.
"No. But she always pissed me off." Katherine sighed. "Why can't we just kill the dog now?"
Katherine looked over at Tyler.
"I think Klaus will want to do it on his own terms." Elijah smiled. He looked up to the high shutters of the warehouse, a tiny streams of light started to appear. It was sunrise. "Let's get Liz and Tyler and get them out of here. Quickly."
Katherine ran to Liz and slung the unconscious body over her shoulder while Elijah did the same with Tyler, but as they ran they noticed people, lots of people spill through the doors. It was like they knew they were there, how? Katherine and Elijah didn't know. But now they had a bigger problem on their hands.
Without speaking the wolves began to approach and Elijah and Katherine put down the bodies, preparing to fight.
"Don't get bitten." Elijah warned Katherine. "Have you fought werewolves before?"
"I'm usually on their side." Katherine said, walking to stand with Elijah, her eyes following the approaching attackers.
"I'll watch your back, if you watch mine." Elijah said, readying himself.
Suddenly, the wolves lunged forward, their eyes glowing yellow and immediately Elijah and Katherine were surrounded.
Katherine was aiming to pull out their hearts before they could get close to her, and she was moving at the speed of light. The blur of bodies upon bodies ran at her, it seemed like there were hundreds. Was there?
Elijah's top priority was Katherine, he kept his focus on her movements, killing the werewolves was easy and he could do it without a struggle. He often found himself hitting away attackers of Katherine, but he was too fast and too strong to ever be overpowered by any of them.
It felt as though they had been fighting for a long time, more and more werewolves appeared and the army was endless. Katherine and Elijah had only successfully killed a minority of them; the others were simply knocked out and as more time passed, the weaker they began to felt.
Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, Elijah saw a burst of orange flames and he was momentarily able to pull away his focus of the fight to see that Liz Forbes had caught fire because the sun had risen and filled the warehouse.
"Keep fighting." Elijah yelled to Katherine, who replied with a grunt as her blood stained arms drove through bodies of werewolves.
Elijah ran to Liz and pulled her into the shade of the dark corner of the warehouse and the flames instantly subsided. He would have taken her away then, but they didn't come in a car and the warehouse was surrounded by open air, Liz would burn.
Elijah looked back at the fight and had to make the decision, it was life or death.
Elijah sped to Katherine, grabbed her hand and pulled her out of the warehouse and away from it as fast as possible.
"But Liz-" Katherine looked back to the warehouse as they ran.
"Nothing will happen to her." Elijah tried to comfort her. "There were hundreds, Katherine, I don't know how Tyler has assembled this army but it's too many to take on as us two."
After a few moments of running, they reached a forest and then ran into it; shielded by the covers of the trees.
"Stop. Stop." Elijah said and pulled Katherine back so they were standing opposite each other. "Are you injured?"
"I don't think so." Katherine croaked, looking over her body. Her arms were covered in blood but she felt fine.
Elijah reached up his hands and began to inspect her body, her neck and chest was fine and he ran his hands down her arms, but as he did, Katherine suddenly jolted back and seethed.
Katherine looked down at her arms that's when she noticed, camouflaged from the blood, a werewolf bite oh her right forearm.
"Oh god." Katherine breathed.
Elijah's eyes widened when he realised what it was.
"You were bitten." Elijah said warily. "But I was looking after you, I never saw you have any of them close to you!"
Oh. Elijah realised. When you went to save Liz, you left her.
"Klaus is coming, he can save you." Elijah walked up to her and lifted her chin with one of his hands so she would look into his eyes.
"Will he?" Katherine asked as though she already knew the answer.
As the road sped under the wheels of Klaus's car, the morning sun began to rise of the horizon and Caroline saw the skyline of New Orleans appearing faintly ahead of them. Another day. Another day. She repeated to herself.
She sat praying with every ounce of her body that Elijah had saved her mother. She couldn't bear another day not knowing if her mother was living or not.
She looked down at the car central and was surprised to find out the date. Everything that had happened in the past few weeks was so surreal that she had lost track of time.
September 6th, 2012
"It's my birthday in four days." Caroline smiled and looked over to Klaus.
"I know." Klaus chuckled.
"I don't even remember last birthday, and that was my eighteenth!" Caroline pursed her lips.
"No, I can't imagine you would." Klaus smirked.
"Oh?" Caroline laughed. "Well that's just great! I can't even remember my eighteenth birthday."
"We can make up for it." Klaus smiled.
"I thought you didn't like birthdays." Caroline looked over to him, admiring his eyes as he drove.
"Well it's not that I don't like them, I just don't have one." Klaus laughed.
"That's just sad." Caroline said pouting. "You can have mine too. We'll share it."
Klaus smiled and looked over to Caroline, she was sitting in the chair, her smile beaming up to him.
"This enthrallment with birthdays will wear off, Caroline." Klaus chuckled.
"Well, until it does I would like to celebrate it with you." Caroline said sincerely.
"If you insist. We'll do something September tenth, I promise." Klaus swore.