Two in a row! Holy hell! We're getting to one of my fave parts to think about, scene-wise.

Haunting

I'm hoping you could save me now, but you break and fold

You've got a fire inside, but your heart's so cold

'Cause I've done some things that I can't speak

And I tried to wash you away, but you just won't leave

So won't you take a breath and dive in deep?

'Cause I came here so you'd come for me

I'm begging you to keep on haunting

I'm begging you to keep on haunting me

-Halsey

The dark skinned girl huffed at the others in the room. No that's wrong, not at them, at the situation they were in. How the hell had this happened? What even was happening? Bonnie grimaced at nothing in particular. "If I still could use magic then I'd be able to do a location spell but..." she let the sentence hang there. "I don't know what to do. We could find another witch to do it. There's a small Coven in the Shenandoah area. The like to call it Mountain Magic but they're legit." This was a long shot, they were witches all right but they weren't anywhere near strong enough for the spells they needed. "Not to mention your other roommate is missing, there's something we're not getting. Pieces were not adding up." Her breath came in shaky as she continued, "It'll take us about an hour and a half to get there. And even then we'll still need-"

The door to the dorm room smacked with a loud wall shaking clap against the wall that still had a hole in it. Two of the four people in the room jumped in place. Elijah hurriedly walked in with a limp blonde vampire in his arms. Hope died in Bonnie's heart as quickly as it raised its head. Rebekah looked like hell. Covered in leaves, dirt, mud, and blood. She was also wearing matching shirt and shorts, they looked oddly medical in nature- like scrubs.

Klaus walked in right after her with what looked like a jock in tow. Before she or anyone could ask who it was, he walked over to where Rebekah had been placed carefully on Caroline's vacant bed. He hauled the boy over to her, bit into their wrist and held it to Rebekah's mouth. The blonde grasped to his arm like it was her saving grace. And maybe it was.

Suddenly Elena's voiced piped up, slightly subdued in tone, "That's my lab partner Ben."

"Well, Ben's going to be dead soon, so I guess you'll have to find another one." Klaus sneered at her. Bonnie had never seen him like this. Like he had nothing to lose. Like the wrong word would set him off.

There was a quiet in the room that settled over them like a blanket, they waited till Rebekah had finished the boy. Bonnie frowned, when had watching the killing of an innocent person become so second nature to me. Like death wasn't still a finality? She cleared her throat, breaking the spell that held everyone quiet, "We shouldn't kill anyone on campus, we have enough troubles without people nosing around too." The guilt was getting to her, she didn't think they would listen to her. But she felt like it was a valid point.

The Original Hybrid looked at her, no emotion in his face. He looked back at Rebekah. Elijah, however, listened to her, he pulled the boy free of his sister before he was gone for good, compelled him and let him leave. Bonnie hoped that the stranger would be okay.

Minutes ticked by as they waited. This was their only hope.

The blonde sat bolt upright and looked around wildly. She grasped at Elijah's shoulders, "Are you real?!" Her hands flew up to touch his face, grab his shoulders forcefully, and then pulled him into a hug as she started to sob. "You're real, thank God, you're real, you're real. I'm free..." She continued to sob.

As the Original blonde vampire cried into her older brother's shoulder the atmosphere became heavier.

Elijah's voice was soft as he soothed her, "Yes you are, sister, no one's going to take you away again. But we need to know where you were, could you tell us? Or take us there?"

Rebekah's eyes widened, Bonnie had never seen any of the Original's that scared before. The fear in her own chest heightened to a new level. What did they do to her?

"Please, brother, don't make me go back, I can't..." A fresh wave of sobs escaped her.

"Rebekah, we need to, they still have Miss Forbes." Elijah tried to soothe her.

She nodded to him, "I know, I know, they have that other girl too. I couldn't-"

"You couldn't what, sister?" Klaus' voice came through gritted teeth and held a warning as well as a bite.

"Nik, I couldn't get to them, I- I don't even know how I got out."

Klaus flexed his hands and walked to one of the windows, any minute it looked like he'd explode. Elijah, ignoring this, pushed his sister to tell them what she knew.

"Please don't make me relive it, please..." She held her head in her hands.

Elijah placed his hand on her head, "Sister, I can go into your memory if you want me to. But we need you to tell us what happened and where we can find them."

Slowly she nodded and removed her hands to look at her brother, "Okay, I can do this," she said as if to comfort herself and not him. "We were held in the mountains, there's a lab of some sorts deep underground." She breathed in while everyone else held their breath.

"What do you mean lab?" Stefan's voice was soft, almost a whisper.

Fresh tears cascaded down her cheeks, "They were putting us through tests, I don't know what they were doing to the others, but they," she paused breathed in an unnecessary breath, "they would take parts of me, I can't die so I think that's why they did it. They took my eye," she sobbed, "they poked around my insides like I was a specimen." Shaking her head she tried to continue, Bonnie could see that both of Rebekah's brothers were tensed and watching her closely. "They would inject me with, God, I don't even know- but it made me hallucinate things. I saw you brother, and Nik and even Kol." Rebekah wrapped her arms around her legs. "And I was very weak. They knew how to weaken a vampire, I was never given more blood than was deemed necessary." She shook her head, letting out a shaky breath. "I don't know how they did it. They're unlike anything I've ever encountered. And that Doctor," she laughed cynically, "she's a bitch."

Elena's small voice floated through the air, "Did you ever see Caroline?"

Rebekah looked at her, a sadness crossed her face that no one missed, "Every day." She looked cautiously at her brother.

He grimaced at her, arms crossed, like a barrier for what was to come. "Continue," he growled out.

With eyes cast down, she continued, "They took her somewhere more often than me. I don't know what they're doing but they'd talk sometimes when they transported us to the rooms with tables." Her eyes grew wide at some memory. Bonnie shuddered at the thought of just what the woman had gone through, what Caroline was still going through.

Rebekah continued, "They would say something about weapons for war like we were creating soldiers for them. Like what we were going through would be for the greater good." She laughed again, "Like torture is ever for the greater good."

The sound of wood splitting and breaking drew everyone's attention to Klaus. Part of the frame to the window was cracked and broken, pieces of it on the floor. Klaus released the remains of the window frame he had been holding. He calmly walked out of the room, "We're leaving. Now."


"Give up, love?" His voiced ghosted through her daydream. She had been trying to go somewhere else. Like a Virginia Beach where the tourists crowded the sidewalks and the odd shops held colorful umbrellas and the odd piercings. She had been on the sandy beach in her mind and she could practically smell the sea air. That was one pleasantry of being in Virginia, you could be roughly two hours away from the beach and the mountains, or an amusement park. But the reality of where she was had its's toll on her. She could feel her mind start to slip like her humanity was slipping away from her.

"That's right, love, let it go. Let your humanity die."

Her eyes darted over to the Phantom next to her. This was the real torture, to know that her mind was losing it. That these people were winning. She wasn't a quitter by any means than her own but her mind was her own enemy now, what did that mean for her?

"It's easy like I told you, you're holding back on me. You know what I want."

She blinked, she was so weak. Just give in? But I can't.

"You can, Caroline," he was a whisper in her ear, "Give in."

"No."

But he was gone now. She let out a breath she was holding. Her eyes scanned the room but stopped at the glass wall. There, just on the other side of it, was Klaus. She moved toward him but stopped short as she was still attached to the wall.

"Caroline," the sound was slightly muffled. She gasped, is this real?

"Klaus?"

"I'm going to get you out of there." He looked around, trying to find a way in. "How the hell did you get yourself in this mess, love?" He gave her one of those smiles she loved. She caught her breath. Did she mean that? She shook her head.

"I don't know," her eyes were flooding with tears, he had come for. She was going to be free. "I guess they thought to use me as leverage."

He shook his head, still looking for a way in, "Why didn't you just tell them where I was?"

"I couldn't do that to you."

"For your safety, love, I wished you had. Why risk it?"

"Why are we even having this conversation? Can't it wait?"

"I have to wait for the others to unlock the door, I can't touch it."

This gave her pause. It was glass. There wasn't anything special about it if she wasn't shackled to the wall and weaker than an infant she'd be able to shatter it. She looked at him, wary of what was going on, "Why? It's just glass."

He shook his head again, "Smart girl." His grin became malicious again. Her heart dropped. This was a new low. He wasn't really there. It was another trick her mind was playing on her. And just like that, the illusion of him walked through the wall as if it wasn't even there.

"It's only a matter of time, love." He moved like he would touch her, brush a hair back, or caress her cheek. But he didn't. In fact, he never touched her. Of the countless times and hours she had seen him, he never had.

"You can't touch me can you?"

The vision grimaced at her, "I'll still break you."

She shook her head, the tears coming freely, "You might, but I won't be here forever."

"You think your friends will help you?" He paused to look at her, eye to eye. "You'll probably die here before they do." He smirked at her then disappeared, leaving her to cry alone.