A/N: Here is chapter 9. So there should be only like five chapters left—I think. It might be a few weeks until I update again because I am moving in two weeks.

This is a short chapter.

By the way, I am sorry for what you are about to be read.

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Chapter 9: Somebody To Die For

I've got nothing left to live for

Got no reason yet to die

But when I'm standing in the gallows

I'll be staring at the sky

Because no matter where they take me

Death I will survive

And I will never be forgotten

With you by my side

"You have got to be kidding me?" Caroline snarled as she looked around the group in the Salvatore living room.

"Caro—" Elena started.

"No. You have to literally be kidding, because there is no way that after two months of planning, y'all have come up with them touching Bonnie and coming through." Caroline had stood by this point and began to pace.

Bonnie was her family—her sister—and they just wanted to throw her to the wolves. They weren't taking into account all of the terrible things that could happen. Bonnie could be stuck there, the magic could kill her.

"It is the only plan we have." Bonnie sighed. She knew this was going to happen. She tried to explain that Jo when she suggested it. There was no way Caroline and Enzo were going to agree with something that put her in danger.

"Well your plan sucks, Bonnie." Caroline spat at her faux sister like she had done so many times ever since Bonnie came to live with her when they were eight.

"How, Barbie?" Damon muttered not in the mood for Caroline. She didn't have anyone over there to save, so of course she would be the least accepting.

It wasn't that he didn't like Caroline—he did. Even Damon could see the difference in Stefan the last month. His drinking had all but diminished and he didn't sulk around the house anymore.

"Because didn't y'all say that Kai gets power from siphoning other witches and supernatural beings like Nora can?" Caroline's finger thrusted to the brunette who was leaning against the door frame.

Caroline and Nora had actually become friends in the month since Caroline and Stefan had officially gotten together. Nora was happy to have another female to talk about Mary Louise and Caroline being the matchmaker was hell-bent on getting them back together.

So she asked Enzo to find Mary Louise which was the only reason he was not present at this meeting. A meeting she knew he would be just as pissed with as she was. She might have only known Enzo for a decade, but they should already know that Caroline thought just like he did, and this decision would not be okay with him.

"So if Kol, Jeremy, and Lexi are going to get out from touching Bonnie—which will cause her immense amounts of pain—then Kai can touch her. But what if when he touches her instead of going through, he siphons her power away, gets himself through, and Bonnie is stuck on the other side?" Caroline breathed heavily—everything coming out in one frantic breath.

"You can't get to the other side, can you?" She glared at Jo.

"No." Jo sighed. Jo knew Caroline was right in her points, but it didn't change the hope in wanting to help.

She had hoped even Luke was over there, but Bonnie had explained that if his death was done at a time where he had nothing left to finish, he would have already be taken out of the other side. Jeremy had explained to Bonnie that Luke had been gone before he was even killed.

"Exactly. You tried to contact Kol and you couldn't. So if Bonnie is the only one then there will be no way to get her out. How are y'all okay with that? Because I am not and I know Enzo won't be."

"Because we could get our family back." Elena tried to reason.

"And in doing so, I could possibly lose mine." Caroline could feel tears began to burn her eyes.

She couldn't lose Bonnie. Bonnie was her constant. She had been for twenty years. The idea of not seeing her every day—that would be her last straw—no one would be able to bring her back after that—not even Stefan.

"Care," Bonnie sighed standing up to close the distance between her and her best friend.

Bonnie wrapped her arms around Caroline. "You aren't going to lose me."

"I could."

"I can make sure Kai goes through. Without me, he can't even pass even with my power. So if Kai shows up, he will go through, and they will kill him. After that the other side will no longer be accessed. I will be sure of it."

Caroline knew Bonnie was just saying what Caroline needed to hear. She had been by her side way too long to know the difference. Bonnie would skew the truth to help calm Caroline down—especially after her transition.

"I have to get Kol back."

Caroline took in a shaky breath knowing what Bonnie was trying to say. If it was Stefan, and Caroline had the power to get him back—she would. Instantly.

Caroline glance over Bonnie to see Stefan sitting quietly on the sofa. She knew the thoughts of Lexi had been plaguing his mind and though he knew it Bonnie at risk, he wanted the opportunity to have his best friend back.

It had been a lonely fifty years without her.

"I'm not asking you to accept it. I am just asking you to respect it."

Caroline nodded at Bonnie's words.

"And Klaus?"

"What about Klaus?" Matt piped up feeling Rebekah tense beside him.

"Rebekah, you know he doesn't want Kol back out of the goodness of his heart. There has to be a reason." Other than Rebekah, Caroline was the only one in the room to know Klaus on a personal level. She knew exactly what made him tick—sometimes before he knew.

"I think I have an idea to that." Hope raised her hand as she said it—everyone's attention turning to lilac haired hybrid.

"So, like a month before Uncle Kol died, we accidently ran into each other." She started and even Tyler looked surprised.

"What?"

"He told me that he had been looking for me because he had been told that one of Klaus' associates figured out I was in fact a Mikaelson."

There was slight commotion around the room. Of course, other than Tyler, not many made the connection of who Hope was. Rebekah was already gone by the time the Salvatores had moved back to town and the Saltzmans weren't well versed in the Originals recent history. Since Rebekah returned and it came out that Matt wasn't old, everything was explained.

"How?" Rebekah stuttered feeling her heart seize and she reached over to grip Matt's hand tightly.

"A vampire attacked me and I used magic on them."

"Why would that tip them off?" Nora asked. She was still trying to acclimate to the century she woke up in as well as the surrounding people.

"Because my eyes had turned gold. How many hybrids do you know that can do magic?"

"Fuck." Matt muttered.

"What?"

"Klaus wants more hybrids and now he knows Hope is his—he wants her to give him the blood to do it." Rebekah explained.

"Where does Kol come into this?" Bonnie asked confused not even realizing Kol had known about Hope—she didn't even know.

"He thinks if he helps stop Kai and gets Kol out, then we will be indebted to him." Rebekah said slowly.

"He's fucking insane if her honestly thinks I am going to allow him anywhere near her." Tyler exploded—still the hot head he had been in his early years.

Klaus had turned him into a hybrid fifty years ago—ten years after triggering his werewolf curse—and ten more years before Rebekah met Matt. It is some form of twisted, ironic fate that he ended up falling with the hateful man who made him this way's daughter.

"Calm down, Lockwood." Hope muttered at her husband. Hope and Tyler had been rather antagonistic towards each other when they first met—Hope was her mother's daughter—and she rarely called him by Tyler. It had become such a habit to call him Lockwood, it had become her own sort of pet name for him.

"So not only are we having to worry about Kai, but also Klaus." Jo said slowly.

"Seems like it. It is only a matter of time before Klaus shows up and isn't like we can kill him." Bonnie sighed.

Rebekah and Caroline simultaneously tensed at the topic of Klaus being killed. They both had been burned by him so many times, and Rebekah had every reason to want him dead.

But he was still her brother. Even if she wanted him dead, she could never have a hand in doing the deed.

Same for Caroline. She had once loved him, and that love had fizzled so quickly after meeting Stefan that she can't even remember what it felt like. But she did love him once, and the piece of her that knows she did could never fathom the idea of being the one to end his life.

She just hoped Stefan understood that, but from his spot on the couch and his confused glance at her tense posture, it told her he wasn't going to.

"Do you still love him?" Caroline had barely closed the door to Stefan's room before the words were spewing out of his mouth.

"You are not seriously asking me that?"

"I saw you down there. I watched you react when they talked about killing him."

"Stefan, I do not love him. Yes, I did at one point, but god, what I felt for him doesn't even come close to what I feel for you." Caroline reached for his hands, wanting to feel the warmth of his rough hands. All day, everyone was going back and forth and she just wanted to relax.

"Then why are you so hesitant for him to be stopped?"

"Look, I know we can't kill him. It would kill most of us here, but I know we can put a stop to him and I know it is needed. I don't love him, but I once did. I knew a piece of him no one else knew and though that part of him hasn't been seen in some time, I just can't be the person that does it. Does that make sense?"

"No."

She huffed. "What about Katherine? You loved her once, right?" Caroline knew she had him because she knew all about the terrible things Katherine had done. "And when she died, you no longer were in love, and she deserved to die, but you couldn't be the one to do it."

Stefan sighed and held her face between his hands. "I get it."

Caroline gave a small smile. "I love you."

For something that took her so long to admit, she was so quick to tell him now. It seemed so effortless and made her insides squirm with excitement when he smiled back at her.

"I love you too."

His lips captured hers and she couldn't help the sigh that emitted her lips. She had missed him. A day or arguing with everyone was so tiring and all she wanted was a few hours with just him.

"Let's go out." Stefan suggested once they pulled away from each other.

Caroline raised a blond eyebrow. "Out?"

"I have never taken you on a date and the world could end tomorrow."

Caroline grinned. "I would love a date."

"Good. Be ready in an hour." He gave her a quick kiss before stepping out of the room.

Caroline stood on the curb waiting for Stefan to close up Mystic Grill with the biggest grin on her face. Their date had been perfect between the walk around town and the fancy dinner Stefan splurged on. He had Matt close the grill hours early and paid for the place to be just them and cooked them an extravagant meal. He had even given her flowers he plucked from Elena's garden.

She felt like she was walking on a cloud, but it instantly evaporated and she was thrown back down to Earth when she saw him. She felt her veins freeze and fear ignited in her belly at the sight of her ex-boyfriend crossing the street to her.

She looked around, thankful it was one in the morning and no one was around—all the shops closed up.

"Caroline," he grinned when he stopped in front of her.

Something about his smile scared her and she prayed with everything in her that Stefan stayed in the restaurant.

"What do you want?"

"To help you get my brother, of course." He shrugged and his words came across more as a threat.

"And that has nothing to do with your hybrids?" She shouldn't have said that. She knew it the second the words left her mouth.

His eyes narrowed in on her. "I am just getting what is rightfully mine."

It was a threat to Hope, to Rebekah. She lost it. Everything angry thought she had ever had towards the hybrid in front of came out of her mouth so fast, she didn't even have time to regret it.

"And you honestly think any of us are going to give it to you? You think Kol would ever be okay with it? God, you are still the same psychopath you have always been. You will never change. All you do is hurt people. You ever think that maybe if you actually got to know the world around you and the people in it, you might have the family and army you always wanted? You wouldn't have to sire them to like you."

His silence was deafening and she felt the urge to apologize come to the front of her mind.

Calm him down or he is going to hurt someone.

Caroline felt her heart race as fast as it could and it happened before she knew it.

Stefan walked through the door, halfway through explaining what his plan was for tomorrow and the key in the door, when Klaus was on him—his hand in chest.

Caroline's world became the size as a pin hole as she watched the love her life began to cease to exist. Her strangled cry as Klaus' hand released Stefan's kind heart to the ground pierced her fog.

Her purse clattered to the ground and the left-over food splattered on to her heels.

"There, now you have someone on the other side." Klaus muttered before he sped away.

It was no use to yell for help. She knew that. But as she fell to her knees and pulled his head into her lap, she continued to cry for someone to help her.

"Baby, you can't be gone." She cried rocking him as his face began to turn gray.

She didn't even get to say goodbye. They were supposed to have forever together. That's what being a vampire meant. You didn't have to age.

"I can't do this without you." She leaned over his body, blood darkening her golden hair.

You don't have to. All she had to do was turn it off and this pain she felt again, would cease to exist. Could she handle another death? Or the grieving of losing the love of her life?

Or what if she lost Bonnie? Could she handle that on top of this?

Enzo?

She wasn't strong enough for this.

So without thinking of the repercussions—she turned it off.

And the tears stopped instantly.

And she felt lighter than air.

I could drag you from the ocean,
I could pull you from the fire
And when you're standing in the shadows
I could open up the sky
And I could give you my devotion
Until the end of time
And you will never be forgotten
With me by your side

And I don't need this life
I just need…

I've got nothing left to live for
Got no reason yet to die
But when I'm standing in the gallows
I'll be staring at the sky
Because no matter where they take me
Death I will survive
And I will never be forgotten
With you by my side

Cause I don't need this life
I just need…

Somebody to die for
Somebody to cry for
When I'm lonely

When I'm standing in the fire
I will look him in the eye
And I will let the devil know that
I was brave enough to die
And there's no hell that he can show me
That's deeper than my pride
Cause I will never be forgotten
Forever I'll fight

And I don't need this life
I just need…

Somebody to die for
Somebody to cry for
When I'm lonely

And I don't need this life
I just need…

Somebody to die for
Somebody to cry for
When I'm lonely

Don't go gentle into that good night
Rage on against the dying light

By: Hurts

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