Hello yall, I'm back.
Well let's get to the responses first:
AvalonTheLadyKiller: Yea a lot of shit is about to go down, if klaroline thinks they got their hands full with enemies, they're dead wrong.
MJTE: Silas is a smart man but he doesn't know everything yet. He doesn't know that Caroline is in New Orleans much less has klaus's children growing inside of her, but he will find out and he will be severely pissed.
klaroline4everlove: Well I guess you know that this isn't canon so Silas doesn't want to die anymore, he wants to rule as master of humans and supernaturals basically and you'll find out why he needs to link him-self to what he thought was Klaus's baby soon.
This is un-beta'd because Hana has RL and exams so those come first and I won't pressure her into anything.
Now on with the chapter!
Chapter 14: Freedom
Mystic Falls…
Damon leaned against the door frame and he stared at Stefan's backside. The older Salvatore watched as the younger Salvatore packed that one black duffel bag eagerly. It almost seemed as if he wanted to get out of that house quicker than his own spit would dry. Damon couldn't really blame him for that though, because he did the exact same thing when he was in his younger brother's position. The raven-haired Salvatore couldn't help but feel like his baby brother was leaving him for good.
His relationship with Stefan has somewhat grown since they got him back. In the months that passed, Stefan slowly regained control of his drinking habits, human and blood bag wise and after a long conversation with Elena one night, she had found out that he had PTSD from dying over and over again so after trying and trying and trying, Stefan just kept it together one day and proved to Elena that he was over it because it was pure torture to watch the girl he loved be with someone that happened to be his biological brother.
Stefan needed to accept this and move on but he knew that he couldn't move on while he was still in Mystic Falls with his brother and the woman that he loved.
He couldn't take it anymore which was while he had to leave as quickly as he could. He knew that if he would travel for a bit, he would be able to move past everything that was currently holding him back. Stefan realized that he had to call Caroline and explain to her that the Stefan that was around all summer was actually the two thousand year warlock that had an agenda in mind. He only hoped that she wouldn't go all neurotic control freak on him and fly back to Mystic Falls to fix the problem. Stefan didn't know where Caroline was, but what he did know was that wherever she was, she was safe from the crisis that was currently taking place in Mystic Falls. His blonde best friend deserved a break from everything that came with being in Mystic Falls and he was glad that she wasn't around to see all hell break loose.
He decided that he would go to Florida for a while, then maybe Texas, and then Denver, and maybe he would even go out of the country and go to Paris, maybe he would visit the Originals in New Orleans.
He missed that blonde; she was a piece of work herself, bratty, sassy, dangerous and she made him miss the twenties when he didn't have a care in the world.
Stefan turned around to grab another pile of t-shirts when he spotted Damon from the corner of his eyes.
"Where are you going?" Damon asked, knowing that Stefan had noticed him standing there.
"I'm going to do what I had planned to and travel."He simply replied while he packed the rest of his clothing.
Damon said nothing else as he watched Stefan pack the rest of his belongings and his life into that godforsaken duffel bag. The younger Salvatore turned around and walked towards him with the duffel bag over his shoulders.
"Getting sick of my face already? Here I'm thinking that we were making progress" Damon joked and Stefan smirked.
"I am getting sick of your face, just to clear that up but I just need some time to myself" Stefan replied as he moved past him and made his way towards the staircase.
They both knew better than to believe that lame excuse.
Stefan wanted to deal with his PTSD on his own even though he knew that he needed help, but he wasn't about to get help from his older brother and the ex-girlfriend that he happened to still be in love with.
He just simply didn't want to be around to see the woman he loved, love his brother. It's painful.
New Orleans…
Elijah sat down in the living area where everyone had gathered at his request to tell them the news. Hayley was told to keep quiet at all times and she obeyed. She sat on the couch, arms folded and a pout-like look on her face as if her mood had gone sour.
He waited until everyone in the room, including a reluctant Klaus who had already made it clear that he wanted nothing to do with the hybrid and the werewolf as well as the child he was tricked into believing was his but this very information he had to tell them all was bringing the alliance between the Lockwood and Klaus to a close.
When the last stepped in the room, Klaus of all people, he stood, ready to give his speech.
"I have gathered you all here on this late evening after a visit from the witches to bring you relieving news" he paused and watched all of their faces contort in confusion "The witch Sophie Deveraux believes that Niklaus would take down Marcel with or without the leverage they hold against us so they have relieved Hayley of the link bond between said witch and herself…she is no longer linked to Sophie and by extension this household"
Tyler was in a mix of shock and happiness and worry. He was glad to finally be free of these Mikaelson's and their craziness but he was still in shock because it seems so hard to believe that after wasting the freedom Klaus supposedly gave him to help a werewolf pack instead of spending it with Caroline, he would again give him his freedom. Maybe he did really love Caroline enough to look past his hatred and need for revenge, unlike him.
He did not want to go into the thought of actually saying even to his mind that Klaus was being the better of them both because that would stir unwanted anger towards said Original Hybrid.
Then he was worried for Caroline. He was here so he saw how Klaus acted around her, true he hid himself but everyone was going around, saying that he was really in love with Caroline, kill him if he wanted to see it for himself and he did. It's the look in his eyes, as if every single step she took was to be worshiped and every single smile she flashed was to hold on to for as long as possible. He didn't think Klaus was even capable of feelings but it seemed like he was wrong. This didn't mean he wasn't worried, in fact, he was more worried. If Caroline stayed with him, who knows what will happen to her and the children she carries inside of her? He doesn't want Caroline to become dark like Klaus, the Original had a way of rubbing his darkness on you without even realizing it and it can be addictive. He didn't want Caroline around that kind of darkness.
Hayley was happy, no doubt about it, she was grinning ear to ear. She didn't have to kiss or sleep with Elijah, all she had to do was keep her mouth shut and allow Klaus to do what needs to be done and she was free. Who knew? She can take Ty from Caroline's infectious presence and the Originals annoying dynamic and go somewhere as far as she can from New Orleans as remotely possible so that she can create a family of her own.
To make a very long story short, they tried and tried like hell to hold their glee.
Caroline on the other hand, didn't.
Why should she? She was happy, so happy, and finally able to be rid of that constant reminder of a mistake that might have cost both Klaus and herself a potential relationship because even though he was free to do as he will at the time, it still hurt her to know what he had done. It made her realize, truly realize the strength of her feelings of him and she's more scared of those feelings than the image of Klaus and Hayley in her head.
She loved Tyler, she loved him enough to not want him to suffer through having to be under the same roof of the man that killed his mother.
Everyone was very glad that Tyler and Hayley or what Kol had referred to them to them as 'dead weight' was going about their way.
All but Klaus who smiled maniacally at them
"Now that they are of no use to me..." Klaus trailed off and the entire room grew silent then, watching Klaus as he locked gazes with Tyler and a frightened Hayley.
Caroline is ready to fight Klaus but before she could say anything he continued "You are of no use to me anymore, now about that punishment..." they all looked at him in confusion "You think I would forget the fact that you" he said pointing at Hayley "Suggested to un-sire all of my hybrids for a sacrifice to find your so called family, which has yet to show and you" he said pointing at Tyler "For helping her to un-sire said hybrid and plan my demise...what to do, what to do?"
Caroline was ready to warn Klaus to not do something he would regret but he kept going on.
"Now I have this idea about just ripping both your hearts out here and then and save that poor child the horrors of having the lot of you as parents if you cannot even keep loyalty between the two of you..." He heard Caroline gasp and when he turned he saw the beginnings of hot tears welling up in her eyes and the beginnings of guilt wells up inside of him like hot lava and he watches as one lone tear falls and she marches out of the room. He can feel the anger on her as she leaves and he saw the pain very clear in her eyes.
Klaus glares at Tyler and Hayley before following behind Caroline, while everyone stays silent.
Through a corridor, Klaus didn't want to spook her with his vampire reflexes so he managed to catch up to her from there and he made his way to stand in front of her. He's ready to make his statement on why they should dead but he could tell from her actions that she wouldn't hear him out.
"I don't want to hear it Klaus" she choked, not even to dare look into her eyes. She'll blame her hormones at the moment for her tears but she doesn't want to be in his presence at the moment, she refuses to hear his so call reasons to kill a pregnant woman no matter what she has done, that child did nothing wrong.
"I can't believe you will kill Tyler, he's not my boyfriend but he's still my friend Klaus and I don't care about Hayley one bit but you'll punish an unborn child that did nothing wrong all because of your hatred for Hayley" he said softly, narrowing her eyes at Klaus in disappointment.
"That pregnant woman..." Caroline cut him off
"She committed the crime Klaus, she did not that child. Just because of her mistakes, doesn't mean the child should be punished for it, you of all people should understand that better than all of us"
She could hear him growled lowly at her words, hating how she used his past against him like that but hated how right she was. He of all people knew that better than anyone. Soon he calms down and it was quite sudden.
"What about Tyler? I gave him his freedom only for him to squander it"
"Technically" she started, no longer feeling upset "He didn't squander it, he just choose to spend it with someone else" she could see him making ready to say more but she interrupted him "I have gotten over that. Whether he cheated on me or not, I still cheated on him, with you, his mother's murderer and I don't regret it, Tyler and I did each other wrong, he's been punished enough Klaus"
Klaus still stares at her as if he heard absolutely nothing that makes him re-think on killing Hayley and Tyler so she tries a different approach because she cannot allow Klaus to kill an unborn child. She could care less about Hayley but that child did nothing wrong and she couldn't live with the fact that she had allowed Klaus to kill an innocent child.
"Say you kill Tyler now, Hayley will tell that kid when it grows up who killed his or her father and he or she'll either come come after you years later or her children and do god knows what" she explains but the smirk on his face told her that he had managed to find a way around that.
"Well then I can save that child a lot of pain and torment and end his life by ending the mother"
Caroline was stunned, especially at how quickly and how easily it sounded to him to just kill a woman and an unborn child. She refuses to stand by and allow that to happen, if she cannot stop him from doing what he wants then she cannot stand here, in this house and allow that to happen without any way to stop it so she knew what she had to do.
She was not angry at the point of crying yet tears fell from her eyes, but they were not out of sadness, they were out of anger and disappointment. Anger because Klaus had the balls to stand in front of her and tell her that he would gladly kill a pregnant woman and kill an innocent child for the mother's mistakes, when he had been in the very same position for most of his human life.
She disappointed because she had this crazy idea that Klaus was act in love with her like she had only guessed he was so long ago and he would part heaven and hell for her. If he cannot leave her friend and mother of his unborn child be for her at least if not for himself then maybe she was delusional this whole time and finally sees the light shining brighter than it ever did before. It hurt to realize this but she had to face reality, what she thought was just a fragment of her imagination and none of it was real.
She fixes him a glare as the tears kept flowing and she shook her head at him in pure anger and disappointment, mostly angry and disappointed in herself for believing what she believed so blindly.
"Fine" she then sighs and Klaus can tell, she sounds tired, angry and disappointed. He can also feel the defeat in her, as if she's done fighting, for what, he didn't know but he can sense the defeat like he can breathe.
"You want to kill them Klaus, fine" she then steps closer to him and he noticed that her glare grew more vicious with her moves "When you're done you will help me with my things and Rebekah can bring me back to Mystic Falls because if you wish to kill my friend and a pregnant woman who also happens to be carrying my friend's unborn child then fine, because I don't—no I know I might never be able to forgive you for it"
She took another step closer and he felt himself wanting to step back in fear, he almost did.
"I will forever look at you and all I will see is Tyler lying on the floor without his heart and Hayley dead as well as my friend's unborn child and I will be heartbroken by it and disgusted by what you did and Klaus…" she took one more tiny step and she stood so close to him that when she tilted her head up more in defiance, their nose touched "Forever is a long time Niklaus" she then whispered "Especially for vampires"
She then moves past him, pressing her hand to her mouth tightly to prevent any kind of sound to part from her lips and more tears fall from her eyes.
She ran into her room and closed the door behind her, then leaned against it as if she was preventing anyone from entering. She knew she wasn't crying for Tyler or Hayley, it was the fact that he didn't care about her enough to see past his hate for Tyler. She was wrong and she hated the fact that she was wrong.
Klaus is angry, he knew when he was. He could feel that boiling feeling in his stomach, he could feel his hands heat up in anticipation of hurting someone, and he can feel his mind jumbling everything Caroline just said into completely different orders to a point where his mind picked that one scene.
"I might never be able to forgive you"
He stomps back down the staircase, he knows everyone can hear but he doesn't care, he's angry and when he's angry, everyone needs to crawl into a hole because he is apocalypse, he is the hurricane and the volcanic eruption right now. If anyone says anything to him, he'll rip something from them, maybe a heart, maybe a liver, who knows…?
He enters his study and just out of pure spite for everyone who was hearing him, he slammed the door shut. Allowing the sound to echo throughout the entire mansion. He turned and his eyes frantically looked around as he attempted to try to breathe through the anger, through the boiling rage inside of him.
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It wasn't working; in fact he was angrier than before. He saw everything in this room and suddenly, he needed a drink. It was not something he just felt like drinking, he needed this.
He made his way to the fireplace on the left side of the room. Above it, there stood two glasses and a tumbler filled with Bourbon. He took it up and opened the bottle before pouring some into the glass. He rests the bottle down and picked his glass up. He then took a sip, two more and sighed when he realized that this was not calming him down.
So he turned around and threw the glass at the opposite wall, watching as it broke into tiny little pieces, he heard as clear as day as it shattered against the wall, the sound rang in his ears and he smelt the air, filled with anger and bourbon.
He didn't like that scent, it was missing its vanilla, and it was missing Caroline.
He grabbed the bottle behind him and threw it at the same wall that met the glass; the tumbler shared the same fate. The crash was louder, the splinters tinier, but it did not tame is anger.
He saw how well decorated the room looked, so regal, timeless essence from this room. He hated it, it reminded him of a time where Caroline didn't exist and he was wallowing in misery while his siblings sneak off to their own little bubble of happiness.
He marched towards the couch and using as much strength he had in him, he flipped it, watching as it flung against the wall and bounced to the ground with a loud noise. It didn't shatter like the glass, it couldn't. It just stood there, defying him, like Caroline did.
He smirked; his brother was the most predictable man on the planet, well to him. Elijah would always try to save him, until there is nothing left to be saved. Sometimes, he feared what would happen to the noble Elijah if there was nothing left to be saved in him. Elijah made it his life mission to make him feel and to care and if there is nothing left for him to love and care, he wonders, what would Elijah do? Would he go away and finally leave Klaus in peace? Would he abandon his emotions? There's a thought.
"Say what you want to say and leave Elijah" he said, turning to meet his brother's sad eyes, which stares at him in either disappointment or with the thought that he was stupid.
Elijah took a step forward, placed his hands in his pants pocket and had the gut to dare smirk in amusement at Klaus "If you feel for this girl in the way that I have not only been lead to believe but also from what I have seen, then nothing is worth Caroline's eternal resentment towards you or the stress you placed on her that could harm her or the children or possibly both" and he turned, ready to make his exit with just those words of advice when Klaus stops him. He stops.
He had to stop him, as much as Klaus hated it, Elijah was right. Tyler and Hayley is nothing to him, they are not worth her eternal hatred. He's felt her hate and it would be less painful if she ripped his heart from his chest. Not only that but stress has been proven to be the reason some mothers lose their children before it is born. He had placed unwanted stress and pain on her because of his hatred, he could not harm her, he could not harm his own children.
"Allow them to leave but make sure Kol and Bonnie have means to locate them"
Elijah nods and exits the room.
Elijah returned to the living area to find utter chaos. He then reminded himself that out of his siblings, Kol and Rebekah, being so young were most fickle.
He firstly spotted Hayley against the wall near the entrance of the door with Katherine's hands around her throat, preventing passage to the air she needs in order to breathe.
Rebekah is lying on the sofa, she seemed to be in pain and that's when he saw the wolf bite on her arm, she's glaring down at Tyler.
Speaking of…Bonnie and Kol are concentrating deeply down at Tyler who's looks to be in agony on the floor from their magic.
He takes one deep and heavy breath before shouting "What is going on here?"
Everyone immediately turned towards him and he watches as Hayley's eyes widened before she attempted to choke out his name but her attempts fail when Katherine squeezes harder on her neck.
Without looking at Elijah, staring sadistically at Hayley, Katherine speaks "We have traded bodily fluids Elijah, touches, caresses, kisses but we have traded more words than anything else" she then turns her head to meet Elijah's eyes "Yet you've managed to leave out the words which include this werewolf slut and her filthy womb has been making advances on you"
Elijah looked around, wanting to know who had told Katherine because he knew that Hayley was not stupid to risk her life or the life of her unborn child just to spite Katerina.
Bonnie spoke "Kol opened his big mouth about Hayley's latest mission on seducing you and it went straight to hell"
Elijah glared at Kol who merely shrugged in response and Elijah sighed in annoyance and frustration. Sometimes, just sometimes, he felt like he was surrounded by a bunch of teenagers, and then he would be reminded that they were in fact technically teenagers. He didn't want to interfere with the matter that included Katerina and Hayley, he went as far as to give Hayley his word that he wouldn't and to this moment he stood by that, but Klaus had agreed to let them go and if Niklaus only hears anything about the ruckus going on in here, he has absolutely no idea what might happen.
In a flash, he was behind Katherine, he removed her hand from Hayley's throat and watched as she grabbed her own neck, massaging the pain and coughing in an attempt to get air into her lungs. He turned Katherine around and lifted her before throwing her over his shoulders. He could tell she was shocked, the gasp told him so but she felt flush, he could smell that faintest scent of arousal as well. He would have smirked at this but he needed to calm the situation.
When he turned, Katerina being Katerina started kicking and screaming at him to put her down. She gave up on that for a moment when he began to move to spit threats at Hayley.
"I will rip each and every grain of hair of your tiny little head and I will shove it all down your small throat and make you swallow it whole you piece of trash. The next time I see your pouty lips and fake doe eyes ever again, it will be far too damn soon. I will shove you down a hole and revel in your screams as I bury you alive you dirty filthy womb" Katherine shouted to the top of her lungs, breathing deeply against his back through his clothing as she was done.
He reached Kol's standing position "Allow them to leave, have them take Katerina's car but make sure you have means to find them should we need their presence"
Kol nodded and Elijah moved. Katherine then heard about her car and started kicking and screaming about not only for Elijah to put her down but to go back and take back his words because she doesn't want that thing in her car.
Kol flashed out of the room and back and threw the keys down at Tyler "Leave New Orleans, be discreet and don't attract attention. Take the car and leave"
Bonnie released him from her torment and Tyler grabbed the keys at once and flashed over to Hayley and headed to the door but he turned around at the exit.
"Bonnie, can you assure me that Caroline will really be okay here? I'm just asking as a friend" Tyler pleaded, almost begging with his eyes.
Bonnie smiled "She's very well protected here Ty and she will be safe, I'll see to it and so will the rest of the Mikaelson's, go create a new family for your-self"
Tyler nodded and flashed out of the house with Hayley with him and they were out of the Mikaelson's hair.
Elijah opens the door to his room with very much difficulty considering the kicking and screaming Katherine on his shoulders. He pushed the door open and stepped inside before kicking it shut. When he was finally in his room, he sighed and moved to the bed before he threw Katherine on it, watching as she bounced on her ass with a shocked look on her face.
He then moves to the front of the bed, watching Katherine he removed his dress jacket and proceeded to loosen his cuffs.
She gapes at him as if she's seeing him for the first time because Elijah has never been like this with her. She can't sense any anger or disappointment but this is something new and she hasn't figured it out yet.
"Did you ever plan on telling me anything about this thing between you and Hayley?" she asked, still confused but still very angry.
"No"
She gapes at him, did he really just say no?
She's about to say more, even scold him with that lame response when she sees him tossing his tie aside and in one swift move because he's still faster than her, she squeals when he grabs her foot and drags her forward to the edge of the bed and he's…removing her heels, expertly as if he had put them on to begin with and she's far too mesmerized by the sight of his fingers working effortlessly against her heels while his eyes stare right into hers and this is a look she has never seen before.
She wants to say something but when her heels are removed, he suddenly jumps on her and instead of at least kissing her, he attacks her neck ferociously and hungrily, sucking with all of his might but not enough to break her skin. Her eyes flutter close in delight and her entire body heats up and that heat shoots to her very core, awaiting a hunger in her.
Still she slightly protests; even go as close to pull his lips off her to get him to explain what happened between him and that wolf-slut and Elijah felt her resistance. He allowed his eyes to tingle as the purple veins appeared and his fangs shine at the lighting of the room as it softly presses into Katherine's neck, making her gasp in delight.
Her hands found his hair, encouraging him as her arousal intensifies and her other hand goes to his waist as a smile of pure delight appears on her face "Oh, Elijah…"
Caroline sniffles as she wipes her eyes with the back of her hand yet again, feeling the moisture only spread against her face rather than dry it off. She had pulled out her suitcases, ready to pack everything and be on her way, she was just waiting for Klaus to enter the room and give her some bull shit excuse about needing to kill them so that she would make him pack her clothes. She knew it was torture but he deserved it for playing her like he did. She feels like that human Caroline, the shallow one that seeks comfort from anyone that shows her so little interest as long as they do show interest. The same with Klaus only he played the right cards, he did everything right. He fooled her perfectly and she fell for it. It took her months but she did and now she's second choice to revenge, again.
She refuses to deal with it any longer, she knew that it wasn't right for her to leave with his children growing inside of her, they're hers too but it's still wrong. She just needs some time to herself to grieve, accept what Klaus has done and move on with it.
She can hear someone enter the room and her spine tingles, she knows its Klaus. That's what he does to her but she can't bring herself to turn around and look at him, would he be smothered with their blood? Will his hands smell of Tyler's blood? Will Klaus's hand reek of a fetus?
Suddenly a pair of arms wraps around her and she shut her eyes close, her body tingles in delight and she hates her body for reacting to him that way. She tries to fight his hold, his touch but his arms only close in tighter in response, she can feel the hot breath at her ear, tingling her skin and god he gives her chills even when she's mad, no furious at him.
"They're gone" he whispers and her entire body just tenses up at what exactly those words mean "I haven't killed them" he adds and she almost lets out a sigh in response but her body relaxes then and she feels like a giant huge weight has been lifted off her shoulders but then her eyes are flooded with water and she feels the need to cry again "They're leaving" he says again.
Just please don't leave me…
Please don't leave me…
Please don't leave me…
Please don't leave me…
Please don't leave me…
His mind prayed to any and all gods still in existence, pleaded and begged to them, urging them.
She doesn't calm down though, she did but it was for a little while, now she's crying again and he doesn't know why. He doesn't know how to comfort her, he doesn't know how to consol. The need is there but the ability to do so isn't. He's never comforted nor consoled anyone before.
Instead he decides to use the facts to her actions to her. He moves one of his hands from around her to brush some of her hair, which has gotten longer to her back and he rests his chin on her shoulders and returned his hand around her.
"Please calm down" he whispers but she just continues to sob almost helplessly in his arms, almost because she's standing on her own so this alone shows just how strong she is, emotionally and physically.
"If you won't do it for me then do it for the safety of our children, you and I know that stress is one of those things on that list that is not good for unborn children"
That calms her down then, she stops crying, and she's just sniffling and standing there as if she doesn't know where to go next.
"You can let me go now" he heard her say and he snapped out of his moment to slowly remove his head from her shoulder and slid his arms from her comfort. His chest clenched in rejection as he turned around and removes the empty suitcases aside to make sure she doesn't trip over any of them and moves towards the door without so much as a hum. He made sure she was in bed and he flicked the lights off before opening the door.
"Please don't leave"
His heart never pounded so fast before.
You guys asked for more Klaroline, I hope this is what you were looking for and there's more coming up too.
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