"Are you okay?" Stefan asked Bonnie as he helped her feet.

Jeremy staggered to his feet, clutching his side. He probably had a few broken ribs considering the force with which Kol through him into the wall of the cave. Kol went wild when they entered the tomb, trying to feed Bonnie to the stone immortal. With Stefan's help, Elijah had subdued his brother by snapping Kol's neck.

Stefan saw the eldest Original carefully sliding a dagger into his brother's heart. Once the youngest brother was safely desiccated, Elijah straightened up and wiped his hands on his handkerchief.

"Thank you, Stefan," Elijah said, approaching the tomb of Silas, considering the situation carefully.

Stefan joined him and saw the problem. The box containing the cure was clutched in the sleeping immortal's stony grasp.

"What do we do now?" Stefan asked, "Chisel it out?"

"No," Elijah said, his words slow and ponderous, "No I believe it would be better to feed him enough blood to ease it from his grasp, but no so much as to wake him."

"Who do you suggest feeding him?" Bonnie asked, looking like she would take down anyone who tried to feed her to the immortal again.

"I'll do it," Jeremy said, "Whatever it takes to cure Elena."

"Very selfless," A voice said, coming from the way they'd entered the tomb, "But I have already planned for the necessary sustenance."

Stefan turned around, but he didn't care about the sudden appearance of Klaus and Rebekah, or the werewolf girl Caroline dumped Tyler over, the only person he saw was Caroline. Her closes were torn and a little bloody, but she appeared unharmed. She saw him and a half smile graced her lips.

How could he have ever imagined that it was impossible to love such a person?


"Come now, little wolf," Klaus said, dragging Haley toward the altar where the stone body lay still, "time to make yourself useful."

Haley struggled against him even though it was obviously futile. Caroline felt a twinge of sympathy for the girl. They weren't friends, but Caroline imagined under different circumstances they might have been. The werewolf was brave. She didn't beg for her life, she just fought with what strength she had. She reminded Caroline of herself, of all the times when she had to fight so hard for her life because no one else would.

She thought about how desperately she'd wished for a savior during those times, for someone to step in and save her. She couldn't stand by, seeing someone else in the same need, and do nothing.

"Klaus don't," She said.

The hybrid stopped and looked at her.

"What?"

"Don't do this, she doesn't deserve to die."

Klaus bit Haley's neck and pressing the bleeding wound to the statues lips, "She won't die."

At first, nothing happened. Then suddenly, the statue moved, releasing the cure and grabbing Haley. Caroline reacted without thinking. She grabbed the cure. Then she heard three things that made her go cold, chanting coming down the passage, a snap as Silas broke Haley's neck, and Klaus whispering to her.

"Give me the cure, Caroline," Klaus said.

Caroline looked around the room and found that in a matter of seconds, everything had turned to chaos. A league of witches were spilling into the tomb, blocking escape. Haley lay dead on the floor. Silas was gone, and there were two Klaus's.

"Give me the cure," one of the Klaus's said again.

The witches chanted with added vigor. Caroline saw the other vampires collapse under the mental attack. Caroline flinched expecting pain, but it didn't come. She looked around and saw that both she and Jeremy were still standing. Then she saw Bonnie, eyes squeezed shut and muttering something beneath her breath. She was holding off the witches attack, and the blood dripping from her nose made it clear that they didn't have long.

Caroline glanced at Jeremy.

"Do you know which one is Silas?" She asked.

He looked at her and nodded. She flipped open the case and found a single vial. One dose, enough to cure one vampire. Or maybe not.

"I've got a hunch," She said to Jeremy, "Just don't let him kill me, okay?"

"Okay," Jeremy agreed, casting a worried glance back at Bonnie who staggered under the weight of the coven of witches combined power.

"God, I hope I'm right," She whispered as she cracked the glass and downed the vial.

It burned like fire and the sensation spread across her entire body until she was sure she would burst into flame. Then it stopped, suddenly like someone turned off a faucet. At first, she wasn't sure that it had worked and then she realized that she couldn't hear the pounding cacophony of human hearts that had thrummed in the background moments before. She didn't have time to stop and think, she just charged toward the two Klaus's, she felt Jeremy behind her, and was relieved when she glanced back and saw that he had the hunter's blade.

"Which one?" She asked. Jeremy indicated the Klaus further from the altar "Are you sure?"

"I'm sure," Jeremy said.

Caroline said a silent prayer that Jeremy was right before holding her hand out to him and telling him to cut her. She winced as the blade dragged across her palm. She looked at the wound, marveling for a moment that it wasn't already half healed.

She pushed Silas onto his back and held her hand over his mouth. Despite agony from the mental attack, he instinctively swallowed at the taste of fresh blood in his mouth.

She ripped her hand free of his grasp and scrambled away, hoping that her hunch was right.

"Do it," She called to Jeremy. He swung the sword and it clanged loudly as it hit stone, sending Silas's head rolling away from his body.

Abruptly, the witches stopped chanting. They stared at the body, watching as it withered away to ash before their eyes.

"Now leave," Bonnie said, with a tone that Caroline doubted any of the witches would dare disobey. Slowly Stefan, Klaus, and Elijah started to get up, their vampire brains healing all the burst capillaries.

Caroline realized that her feet were moving before her brain decided to do so. She threw her arms around Klaus's neck. She clutched him like someone was going to try to take him from her. His arms wrapped around her, squeezing her tight. Then he stiffened, he pulled away and looked at her in confusion.

"You're human," He said.

"Only temporarily," she said, "once I've cured everyone who wants to be cured, I can turn back."

Caroline was surprised by the words that tumbled out of her mouth. She'd never really thought about taking the cure, now that she had she knew that she didn't want to be human again. She liked who being a vampire made her and she didn't want to go back to the person she'd been before. She wanted to live forever. And she wanted to spend that forever with Klaus.


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