Title: Playing Tyler

Category: Vampire Diaries

Characters: Caroline, Tyler, Damon, Julian, Bonnie, Matt

Summary: All Tyler thought about while being held captive was Caroline. Now Julian, still in Tyler's body, decides he wants to have her too. To get information from Julian their friends decide not to tell Caroline that it's really Julian she's with now, not Tyler.

Status: In Progress

AN: I don't own anything if I did then a lot of things would be different. There is no Maria in this story idea. Maria was Julian's wife on the show, but here he's not married and she doesn't exist.

AN2: Thanks Forwood13 for steering me towards this idea. Hope you all enjoy it.

AN3: Thursday will be the last chapter and I wanted to end on my mom's b-day so posting this as my tuesday story. Enjoy the next to last chapter. It has been a great ride.

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Chapter 9

Damon walked in the basement finding Tyler standing in the middle of the room and Julian was against the wall, where he'd been chained up. He figured that Tyler should at least give the asshole a little hell. It couldn't really hurt, "Get it out of your system, just don't kill him," he said leaning against the doorway. He thought if Tyler got it all over with then maybe he would stop beating himself up and go find Caroline. He could stop running away from the one person that really knew him. Damon knew that the hybrid loved, vampire Barbie, as he called her. If he didn't still give a damn he wouldn't have done all he had done so far.

"You're going to let him torture me?" Julian asked wishing that he was far away from the place now. He should have run when he had the chance, but he had been weak after he got back in his own body. He hated that; he needed to get free before Tyler killed him like he swore he would. He had never planned on letting Tyler get free of his hold. If Caroline hadn't been beating him up, he wouldn't have.

"You did fuck his girl, tell her things that were not yours to tell her," Damon said, he kept thinking about what Katherine had done to him. He understood Tyler's pain concerning what had happened with Katherine. He hadn't deserved that torment or being messed with, he hadn't done anything to Katherine after all. She'd wanted to hurt Caroline and she had in the worst way possible.

Tyler unlocked the shackles not wanting to break them in case for some reason they were needed again. He backed away enough that Julian had a little room, but it was only for a second because he took a swing. Julian went to block the punch, which left his ribs open and Tyler got his left hand between punching him hard. Julian gasped out forgetting he had to actually breathe now. He had spent two weeks in Tyler's body with no need to breathe.

Julian was hoping maybe he wouldn't do it again, but this time Tyler brought his leg up getting him in the ribs with his knee before turning him around slamming him into the wall, face first. Julian was stunned by the blow to his head and knew he had no chance of winning this fight with his own means. He spit the blood that was going in his mouth from his nose on the floor. He started saying a few words so that he could maybe switch himself back into Tyler, but that was stopped fast.

"The hell you're getting back in," Tyler wasn't about to go through that hell again. He punched Julian in the back to get him to stop. He punched him over and over in that same spot as Julian let yells of pain out. Tyler lifted Julian up before throwing him against the wall, back first. He went to punch him in the side, but Julian grabbed hold of Tyler's wrist. He wasn't strong enough to break it like Tyler could though. He kicked his leg under Tyler's bringing them both to the floor.

Tyler quickly got the upper hand again pinning Julian to the floor grabbing the piece of stake that had been left there from when Matt had been stabbing him. He jammed it into Julian's side not once, but three times. He was thinking about what had happened with Caroline and all the memoires that he had gotten when Julian left his body. He growled down at the Traveler knowing that he would more than likely die. He bit into his neck causing Julian to scream out in pain doing his best to hit and kick Tyler away from him.

"Stop him," Julian yelled wondering if he was going to die right here and now, "He's going to kill me," he hoped maybe Damon would help since he hadn't killed him all week.

"Tyler, I said don't kill him," Damon hissed before moving to where they were jerking Tyler away from Julian. "If you drain him then Caroline won't get to kick his ass later," he had to reason with Tyler somehow he wanted to keep drinking even after he'd pulled him free. "Don't make me bite you again," he knew that Tyler hadn't liked that experience at all and Caroline had tried to help him then, he'd rejected the help though.

Tyler jerked free of Damon's hold snarling the blood he'd been drinking from Julian was covering his mouth. "Fuck off," he was ready to fight Damon too, but after a moment his fangs and claws disappeared. "Your brother messes with Caroline, I'll do the same thing," he sped off out of the house needing to get far away from Julian before he did kill him.

He didn't know what was happening to him. He felt like he needed to attack at all cost and to defend Caroline too. He always needed to defend Caroline because everybody wanted to fuck with her. He just regretted the two times he hadn't. There was the most recent one, where he had believed Elena, no Katherine over Caroline, and then, the one when she'd been locked in the cage by Jules.

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Bonnie had finally found Caroline, it hadn't taken much though, just two stops, the first being Caroline's house, the second Tyler's. She had planned on going to the Lockwood Cellar, but Matt had been at the house. He'd said she was upstairs in Tyler's room so Bonnie had went upstairs finding her best friend lying in the bed curled up in a ball. She looked so small lying there on the bed, just like when Tyler had first left months ago. She couldn't let her keep wallowing when she wasn't sure how much time they all had. The travelers were working on plans to kill them all and strip the witches' powers away. Caroline and the other vampires would be dead, Tyler would be too, and everything would be lost.

"Caroline, get up," she took the pillow from under Caroline's head and smacked her back with it; she was going to fix what was happening with her friends. If everything ended the way that Julian said then she had to at least give Caroline and Tyler somebody to lean on. It was going to be hell on them if she vanished.

She hadn't been out of ear shot when Matt and Jeremy had started torturing Tyler. It had made her heart hurt hearing her friend in pain. Tyler hadn't thought about the pain, all he had thought about was getting the information they needed. She didn't know if she could ever be as strong as he was, it wasn't even a physical kind of strong either. He was part vampire, he could have turned his emotions off long ago if he had wanted to, but he kept fighting.

Tyler had never once given up after everything he'd been put through. It hadn't just been Klaus' doing it was everything that was going on now too. Julian had tried to be him and take Caroline, she was sure that Julian would have run with Caroline if he had found his body. It was one of the reasons she had told Damon to take Liz up on the offer of hiding Julian's body for them. She hadn't told him, but she tried to find his mom, but Carol wasn't there. She wondered if she had found peace or the fact she wasn't supernatural was why she wasn't there.

Caroline groaned before she grabbed the pillow when Bonnie brought it down the second time, "I will kick your ass if you do that again," Caroline said before she opened her eyes realizing it was Bonnie. She apologized because she'd been dreaming of the summer before when Tyler would do that to wake her up. She still remembered him putting her in the shower and turning the water on that one morning. She had chased him around the house later that day with the water balloons trying to nail him with one.

She had finally gotten him good when he had gone to hide near the garage. She had jumped on top of it and when he'd gotten in place she'd dropped the rest of the balloons down on him. Tyler had chased her all the way to the house and down to the watering hole. She had dove into the water swimming as fast as she could to get away from him. He hadn't been a hybrid yet, but he could swim faster than she could still.

"I'm not Tyler, but speaking of him, he about just ripped Stefan's head off for you," Bonnie said giving her a look. "I think he was also heading to do a little damage to Julian on your behalf as well," she added that Damon was making sure he didn't hurt anybody, too bad.

Caroline sat up, "What, why the hell would he do that?" she was trying to think what would even give Tyler that thought. She had never once thought of Stefan that way, okay maybe when he first got there, but that was three years ago. The only reason she had thought of Julian in anyway had been because she thought he was Tyler. "I get Julian, but Stefan, he's innocent,"

"Afraid not," Bonnie sat down filling Caroline in on what had happened and that Julian was in his own body now. "Tyler started with what happened while Julian was in his body and then Stefan made comment and I thought he was going to do something crazy," she let her know he'd done went all alpha on them yelling about stuff and he was growling before he stormed out. "And we all know that Stefan's not innocent, Caroline," she gave her a look.

"Where did he go?" Caroline asked reaching over and grabbing her shorts, she'd pulled them off feeling hot for some reason. It might have been because she'd been so close to Tyler earlier. He had been kissing her and touching her; he had turned her body on and hadn't turned it back off. She had never felt that near Julian though, she was thinking about how they were so different now that she could see clearly. "I need to find him, he has to know that I want him, I would never have been with Julian if I thought different," she was waiting for Bonnie to tell her where Tyler was while she found a different shirt to put on. The one she'd had on had been something that Julian had picked out. She didn't want to go find Tyler in it.

"I don't know, he ran out of there, I think he went to the basement, but that was before I left, for all I know he could have shifted," Bonnie thought about it though and wondered if she could be right, "Try the cellar," she offered up since Damon hadn't text her if Tyler was still there or not. Caroline took off after grabbing the first thing she found to put on, shirt wise. She yelled out thanks and a quick hi and bye to Matt when she blurred past him.

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Tyler was standing with his back to the door looking around the cellar; he hadn't been back here since the night he got so drunk he couldn't walk after his mom's death. It brought back too many memories, but he was thinking about all of the ones Caroline and him had shared in it. The first full moon, the full moons all summer when she'd been with him, and the night she'd been with him here getting him to turn.

It was where they had planned to meet to run away together when Alaric caused so many problems. It was where she had brought him to get drunk as hell after he'd finally broken down in the school gym after his mom's death. It was where he had meet her and made love to her after he broke the sire bond. It was the place that Mason had helped Damon find more about the Original vampires.

It was the place that he'd had sex with Caroline for the first time, during his first full moon. He hadn't planned on taking it that far, but they'd kissed and it was like the wolf took over. Somehow he kept from ripping her clothes off, he still didn't know how though. He could still remember her kissing him all over, causing pleasure before all the pain started. She had stayed until the last possible second after they'd fucked, that had been exactly what it had been too. It had been wild and out of control, like a need for water or blood now.

He could still remember being behind her as she cried out in pleasure, her being above him, she'd been using him to balance herself. He had fought the urge to bit her so badly that night, but he hadn't, not once thought about it again until Klaus came along. He hated the bastard for ruining his life. He knew that he had been compelled because until Julian had taken his body over he hadn't even realized that Caroline hadn't smelled like Klaus that day. If he had just been paying attention, he might have noticed.

Good and bad memories were held here, but he preferred the ones with Caroline and him the most. He had been so close to turning that he'd felt the wolf about to break free so he ran from the boarding house. He had taken a short cut that Caroline had once shown him and made it here in no time. He hadn't even bothered going to the house, he lived there now with Matt and Jeremy, but it didn't feel like his home anymore.

He gave it to Matt to keep Caroline safe and it had almost failed when Nadia tried to attack her. It had scared the shit out of him to see that happening so he had bitten her. It wasn't his first instinct to bite, but he saw Caroline in trouble so he acted. No matter how much he had been upset with her, he always saved her. It always went back to the one time he didn't and he almost lost her forever. The bad thing was now it was two times that he didn't save her or rather believe in her.

"I love you, Care, I haven't stopped," he was talking to himself, but unknown to him Caroline had shown up. "I'd give anything for you to know what I feel for you,"

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THURSDAY ON PLAYING TYLER

"Bonnie said you were going to kill somebody, I figured it should be me," Caroline said trying to make a joke, but she couldn't force a smile. She just wanted to cry again, "I'm the one that hurt you," She was standing there in his shirt and a pair of her shorts. She looked like hell, but all he could see was the girl he loved so damn much. He wanted to yell at her until she got it out of her mind that she deserved to die.

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Caroline touched his face with her hand, rubbing his jaw, it was always so smooth, she loved touching his face, but she pulled it back slapping him, "HOW DARE YOU TRY AND DO THAT," she yelled, "YOU THINK I WANT A FUCKING ARMY OF HYBRIDS?" she was furious, "I ONLY WANT ONE, YOU, you dumbass," she groaned turning away giving him her back because she couldn't even think she was so upset. She didn't need hybrids, she needed one, the one in front of her, well he was behind her now. "Did you want to get yourself killed? You did a good job at it, you keep doing that, trying to die, and I'm sick of it," she was going down a list of every time he had almost died as she paced the cellar.