Title: Daily Letters

Category: Vampire Diaries

Characters: Caroline and Tyler

Summary: Caroline wrote Tyler a letter for every day he was gone when he left with Jules. These are the letters, but he comes back before the next full moon.

Status: In Progress

AN: I do not own anything if I did he would never have left anytime. This doesn't follow the actual TV time frame from February till April, it follows that of what would been gone almost a month.

AN2: One more chapter to go.

Day 22

Part 1

Tyler knew where Caroline would be. Most of the letters she had been in the cellar and tonight wouldn't be any different. It was two in the morning, but for them it was like day time. He'd gotten tired of being gone and after reading every one of her letters he knew that he had made a mistake of leaving.

He should have known that leaving wouldn't be the right choice. He had felt alone after everything had happened. He didn't know who to trust, but he should have known he could trust her.

She had stayed with him even though he could have killed her. Some of the letters she had been so upset with him, but he got it. He'd betrayed her when she needed him the most.

He walked down the steps to the cellar going inside it. He dropped his bag on the floor looking around. Caroline had left out what all she had done to the place. She said she fixed it up, but not how much she fixed it up.

There were torches hanging on the wall giving it light. She had put a mattress on the floor, where she got it he had no clue. He looked around before finding her lying on the dirt not far from where he was standing. He didn't know why she wasn't on the mattress; it had to be more comfortable than the ground.

He picked her up gently going over to the mattress putting her down before he lay with her. He brushed her hair off of her face looking down at her. He could tell she'd been crying from the tried tears on her face. "What did I do to you?" he swore he was going to make it up to her. He closed his eyes going to sleep beside her.

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Caroline stirred feeling warmth going through her body. She opened her eyes looking at black leather and she could feel arms around her. She pulled away fast not sure who on earth would be holding her. She didn't know who would know she was down here.

She hadn't even told Elena where she had been sleeping. She'd told Stefan sure, but that was a different story. He had gotten worried about her not sleeping at home and followed her the other night. She knew that Stefan would never tell Damon she was staying here.

She let her eyes adjust, which didn't take more than couple seconds and she didn't move. There was no way it could be real though, Tyler wasn't here with her. He was with that bitch. It had to be some horrible dream. She didn't get to be happy or with him. He'd left her alone and hadn't even called her in two days. She was ready to wake up. She pinched herself letting out a gasp because it hurt.

"Why are you pinching yourself?" Tyler asked, he hadn't been asleep long when she had moved so it woke him up. He just didn't know why she had moved away.

"You're not here, it a bad dream, Damon's doing this to me again," he'd done it once before. The first week Tyler had been gone. He'd given her the dream he was there then she woke up alone. She went to leave, but Tyler stopped her before she got to the door. "It's not real, you're not here,"

Tyler wrapped his arms around her, "Yes I am, I'm here, Caroline," he held onto her trying to stop her, but she was stronger than he was. "Care stop, I am here, I'm not part of his sick joke," he remembered the letter she'd written. Damon was an asshole torturing her like that. He didn't get why he'd do it, Caroline didn't deserve it. He wasn't sure what he could do to stop her from fighting him. "I love you, would he tell you that?"

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Caroline stopped trying to get away. Damon didn't know that she loved Tyler. She had never once let out that she felt that way about him near Damon. Stefan knew because she'd accidently let it slip out.

She looked up into his eyes for the first time before she started crying. He was actually here and she couldn't sense anybody else. It wasn't some kind of trap so she let her guard down hoping it wasn't a mistake. "Tyler?"

"It's me, I promise," he hadn't even told Jules he was leaving. He'd waited till she went to the nearby town and he took off. He didn't care about being taught anything else. The only thing he wanted was to be with Caroline. The only thing he'd left to give her a clue where he'd gone was Caroline's name on piece paper.

He had jotted down he didn't want anything do with their world either. He didn't need anybody besides Caroline to help him and he had another week before the next full moon. The way she had fixed up the cellar he wasn't going to want to leave it. Nobody had to know he was back until he wanted them to know it.

Caroline moved back slightly before she did what she swore she would do when she saw him. "That's for leaving me," she hissed slapping him in the back the head before she hugged him again. "I'm sorry," she didn't want to let him go even though she knew he was really here. "I love you too,"

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Tyler tilted her head up, "I deserved that and more for what I did," he wouldn't have cared if she punched him, "I'm sorry I left you too," he hadn't told her that when he'd called. He had only left it on his voicemail for her to hear. He should have, but he couldn't do it over the phone. He had to tell her in person because she'd been so good to him and he'd been an ass.

Caroline wanted to forget the last twenty-two days, but she didn't know if she could. He was right here, but he'd still broken her heart. "I'll do anything if you tell me you don't hate me," Tyler said looking into her eyes.

"I could never hate you," She let a breath out she didn't need and decided to let it go. She wanted him home and he had come home to her, he'd left the bitch and was right here. "You broke my heart, but I don't hate you, you're my best friend," she wanted to tell him more, but the letters told everything she wanted to tell him.

He just hadn't read the last one she had written. She looked over where she had been sitting earlier and found it. She hadn't finished it with her name, but she had finished the main part. "Read this," she said giving it to him.

"I don't have to read it to know what I want," Tyler said, but he still took the paper opening it up. He stood there for a few minutes reading it before he looked up at her. "I would rather stay here with you then runaway again," he was tired of running and it didn't solve anything really. It just put off the inevitable of going back and dealing with what was left behind.

"Okay," Caroline said back before she kissed him. She wrapped her arms around his neck holding him to her.

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He hadn't been able to call her back because he'd been nowhere near cell service and he told her that. "I got my stuff and walked out," Tyler said pulling away for air. Twenty-two days he had been gone and it was too many. He'd wanted to come back sooner, but he always went back to what he'd done to her.

"Did you not understand the letters, I wanted you back," Caroline said.

"I destroyed your trust in me and I couldn't get the way you looked at me out of my mind," He said before she lifted his chin up so that he was looking at her again.

"I love you, I would die for you, and I would give my life so that you didn't have to feel pain again." Caroline said before kissing him again. She had waited more than twenty-one days to do this again.

Tyler held her close backing them up until they were against one of the walls. He wanted to show her just how much he loved her. He just wasn't sure if she was ready to go that far. She might have forgiven him, but he had to earn her trust back.

TBC