A.N: Hello my lovely readers! I just wanted to let you know I looked over my chapters and found that I wanted to add some more detail to a few of the chapters. I encourage you to go back and check out the changes! Chapters 1-10 were edited and fixed for continuity errors. The rest of the chapters are as normal as of 5/25/20

Chapter 16

After that disaster's confrontation Caroline raced towards her home not even bothering to look behind her. Actively blocking out any extra sounds the youngest Forbes quickly made her way back to her childhood home. With her vampire speed started packing throwing as many clothes as possible into the girly pink suitcase she had bought a few years ago. The blonde shook her head at what her younger self was thinking. The vampire couldn't believe it, she had confronted Damon. It all felt surreal to her, even in the backdrop of things happening around Mystic Falls. Everything centering around the Salvatore's and their love of Elena.

Except Katherine would have found out about Elena even without Stefan returning to Mystic Falls. The woman kept very good tabs on the things she believed belonged to her, leading the vampire straight to Elena's existence. Yet she had known Isobel, the doppelganger's mother. Caroline never did find out exactly how Katherine knew about Elena's existence whether from Isobel or from her tabs on Stefan. Not that how she and her friends got dragged into the supernatural drama. Especially now that the brothers knew about Jeremy's invisible ink being an actual map, that led to this mystical cure for vampirism it was only a matter of time before the hunt would seriously begin.

She had hoped to prevent it, but she should have known. Professor Shane had conducted one massacre, if she remembers correctly Tyler almost has all the hybrids bond with Niklaus severed. She cursed herself for her foolishness, with the hybrids unsired she would have to stop her boyfriend from killing them all in an all-consuming rage.

She said it like it was so easy.

If she was going to stop him then Caroline shuddered she would have to tell him about Silas, in detail. Caroline dreaded that conversation so much that the blonde did not pay attention to her surroundings so lost in thought she did not hear him enter.

"Caroline."

Hearing her name, the blonde turned to see Niklaus, Rebekah and Sage in her room. The redhead vampire strolling into the room eyeing the suitcase with mirth.

"You really do like pink" Sage mused lifting up a pink bra only for Rebekah to laugh as Caroline snatched it away.

"Sage, Bekah why don't you pack up a few of Caroline's things. Bekah don't even think about it" Niklaus warned as he saw the playful light enter his sister's eyes. The woman pouted petulantly as her brother grabbed his favorite blonde-haired beauty pulling the girl out the door.

"Nik!" Caroline gasped looking back towards the two ancient vampires going through her underwear drawer. Not good, those girls will never let her hear the end of it.

"Clearly you were packing. We have much to discuss and you need to pack. I solved the problem" Klaus shrugged as she finally managed to pull her hand away from his grasp.

"By allowing your sister full access to my underwear?" Caroline hissed stomping her foot. Carefully tearing her eyes away from the man in front of her, the blonde finally noticed he managed to get them into the woods within seconds. Caroline mused that vampire speed did have some benefits, as she was sure neither wanted his siblings and any paramours to overhear this conversation.

"Afraid of what they will find, sweetheart?" Klaus chuckled leaning against a tree.

"Oh no I believe that is more your fear than mine" Caroline tossed back sticking her tongue out childishly. She had an appropriate number of sexy lingerie thank you very much, and a decent amount that actually covered. Her mom was a sheriff its hardly as if she currently had her own income stream.

"Caroline, sweetheart pray tell why that would be my fear?" His blue eyes were lit up in amusement, a playful grin on his face as he continued his intense stare.

"Rebekah has your credit card."

Klaus laughed so hard his head was thrown against the tree, shaking his head the hybrid admitted, "Rebekah has been known to place a dent in our financial coffers."

The reprieve of the conversation ended as Niklaus breath caught up, "Love, I came to check up on you. You performed beautifully well against the Salvatore."

Caroline took a step closer, Niklaus taking the rest cupping her cheek with his hand. The vampire leaned into his touch closing her eyes softly, "Damon does not bother me. Not anymore, I said what I should have told him ages ago. But there are some things I kept from you."

She felt him become still, the instinctive anger of his flaring between his nostrils. His ability to hold in such instinct astounded her, it made so many of his rasher tendencies shocking. Niklaus was capable of plotting to undo a curse for a thousand years, yet he was also the man that slaughtered an entire family because Katherine got away. She held onto the hand cupping her cheek, "It was not meant to hurt you. I told you that I was done fighting what is between the two of us. I kept it because I had hoped it would become irreverent."

"It's no longer irrelevant then" Niklaus breathed out tersely. She could see his mind working at lightning speed in his eyes. Caroline watched as multiple plans sprang up in his eyes, before he turned his attention back to the blonde.

He was waiting for her answer, she realized. God she loved this man Caroline thought to herself. She deeply loved a man who would dagger his siblings to keep them safe, just because they angered him. A man capable of doing great harm to everybody, even his own blood. Except for her. Niklaus seemed unable to truly hurt her, become enraged and act out rashly most defiantly.

But hurt her in any most definite way? No. He's come close, particularly the times she was bitten by him came to mind. Never could he allow her to die. Caroline felt like suffocating and finally being able to breathe all at once.

"I love you" She breathed out before she could even think about what she was saying.

His lips were attached to hers in a bruising kiss with her back pressed against the bark of a tree before her mind processed what she had done. Kissing him back fiercely, Caroline was able to feel all of him being pressed against her. It didn't even bother her that she had said it first or that he could not say it back. Caroline brought his face into her hands holding him as close as she was able to with all their clothes on.

The moment his lips touched her neck the blonde was brought back to reality. She needed to focus! She groaned softly as his kisses turned into soft pressure as he peppered her neck.

"Nik" She groaned, "That was not what I meant to talk to you about." The man stilled against her his attack on her senses finally being put on pause. Allowing the blonde to refocus her mind on what Niklaus needed to know. She waited until Niklaus was safely a couple steps away from her. His gaze raking over her body, leaving a wave of intense heat in its wake.

"Love" He growled, "I'd hurry if I were you." Caroline felt the heat of his gaze, gulped knowing just how much he was holding back.

"You know about Silas…." Caroline began. Niklaus nodded, "The traveler witch who managed to create the immortality spell, the damned cure is in his grave and you wish that he not be released."

Caroline smiled Klaus did listen to her at least. "What I failed to mention was that while he did obtain immortality, it came at a cost. He was in a love triangle between Bonnie's ancestor and Elena's" Caroline shot a pointed look at Klaus who had opened his mouth no doubt to say something sarcastic. "Don't Nik. I know."

"As I was saying" Caroline continued shooting a don't-you-dare- look towards Klaus who was grinning at the blonde. He adored the fiery way she tried to manage him; it was very amusing so amusing that he allowed it frequently.

"Bonnie's ancestor, Qetsiyah was pissed when she realized Silas was going to betray her for Elena's ancestor, Amara if I remember her name correctly." Caroline paused waiting to see how Niklaus was reacting so far, she could not tell what he was thinking his face was impassive. Caroline kept an eye on his facial expressions trying to gleam some access to his thoughts. Understanding a Mikaelson's thought process was dangerous, Caroline knew because then one would have to stop them from enacting their worst impulses.

Just look at the relationship between Elijah and Niklaus. Caroline wasn't stupid. There was no way she could control Klaus, but she hoped she could offer him something more alluring than his siblings. At least enough to head her caution.

"When she found out the witch cursed the two. Turning Amara immortal but locking her away before tricking Silas into believing that Amara was dead. Qetsiyah created the other side knowing that if Silas ever managed to actually die that he would be trapped on the other side. Originally when he is released Silas tortures all of us, most especially you."

"Does Silas hurt you?" Klaus asked.

"He tortured me once after taking the form of you, my mom and Matt. Then again to make me cut myself repeatedly" Caroline admits, knowing that if he wanted the hybrid could easily rip the information out of her in multiple ways.

Niklaus cut off their separation pushing her back into the tree, cupping her cheek forcing the girl to look up at him. His other arm wrapped around her waist bending so that his mouth was by her ear, "You thought this witch was me?"

Caroline smiled looking him in the eye, "For a moment, but you would never stab me in the chest. You prefer to bite me in rage. Admittedly he tormented you with my image as well."

"Interesting how we can be used to torture each other, sweetheart" Niklaus murmured against her lips. This immortal, Silas, Niklaus could see the raw concern in Caroline's eyes.

"Stefan's his doppelganger. Silas scared me Klaus he was hard to kill. And he is only the beginning… I wanted to stay for graduation but I'm not sure I can stay" Caroline admitted to him.

"Then we will talk with your mother, and I'll take you anywhere you want to go" Niklaus kissed her lips hungrily causing the girl to moan.

He reluctantly broke the kiss with a small hiss, "Anything else we need to discuss love?"

Caroline's brain was fogging up with the pressure of his lips on hers, her brain tingled that she needed to say something. Klaus's kisses became more insistent as the fog rolled on, fuck it she wanted him now. Her arms wrapped around his neck pulling the vampire closure as his whispered thank bloody god before her lips were bruised by the strength of his kiss.

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Caroline was pressed against Niklaus's chest nuzzling into his neck his hand brushing through her hair. Her ear could hear the beat of his heart perfectly, the entire forest around them was quiet. She rather wished they could stay that way, even if it meant she would forever be having forest sex hair. Caroline looked up at the man she was with, the blonde thought he was worth it.

In her post coitus haze, the blonde mentally groaned realizing rather belated her she forgot to mention the key piece of information she needed to give him outside of Silas's torturing tendencies as a reason not to release him.

"Niklaus, on a scale of one to ten. Ten being you would dagger me and place me in a coffin if I was Rebekah. How would you react right now if I said I did have one more thing you needed to know" She looked over at the dark-blonde as he lazily continued to brush her hair with his fingers. "You have this habit of being distracted easily" He kissed her head, giving her a rather wolfish predatory grin. Caroline rolled her eyes the bastard was too pleased with himself than at the lack of pertinent information.

"Tyler is unsiring your hybrids" Best to get it out before he managed to distract her…again.

The hand in her hair stilled, she felt his grip tighten as she was forced up to meet his gaze. The pressure against her head felt more like a love tap, Caroline momentarily distracted by the amount of restraint this man had. She vaguely recalled in another lifetime the bruising Tyler would leave on her body, while she had enjoyed it at the time especially as the bruises left easily. Niklaus's clear display of restraint was incredibly desirable.

"Repeat that for me, Sweetheart" Klaus purred, his second hand coming to cup her cheek his thumb rubbing against her cheek.

"Look" She invited him in. Niklaus toughed his forehead to hers as he quickly entered her mindscape. Caroline greeted him in with warmth and affection, her mind taking the shape of a library with multiple dark golden doors. The blonde unlocked all of them, deciding that if she was going to be brave enough to openly love the beast. The only secrets she would want to keep were plans that involved surprising him later.

She brought him to the door where she felt the memories he needed lay. Niklaus surprised her by taking her hand in his, "Come with me?"

Caroline's smile was blinding, "Always."

Together the vampires pushed open the door enveloping themselves into a light as a memory was brought forth. They stood together as a memory Caroline recognized from her life before, as Tyler was explaining to her how her father was going to help her break the sire bond. Niklaus watched as the wolf tortured himself to be rid of the bond. He watched as the stupid boy left Caroline to go off to the mountains. Niklaus watched as the other version of him flirted with Caroline. Then he watched as the blasted Tyler came back spouting the importance of unsiring the hybrids. Out of the corner of her eye Caroline saw Niklaus clenching and unclenching his fists.

They watched as memory version of Caroline met Hayley with uncertain look in her eye. How Tyler used Hayley to distract Niklaus. Even watched as one of his hybrids attack the blonde. Niklaus growled as Elena put herself in between Caroline and the hybrids. Watched as Tyler got them to bend to his will, every single one of them unsired.

"I…" Caroline started only to be stopped by Niklaus.

"You were different, I'm glad I seemed to have won you over despite the flaws you found so frightening."

"I think I was more frightened by how much I was drawn to you. You were a proper terrifying villain to Elena and the rest, but I always saw the good in you. How you could be so bad when I saw so much good" Caroline stopped when she noticed that he was smiling.

"What?" She laughed.

"You're a fascinating creature Caroline."

They shared a smile, "Do you want to see anything else?" Caroline offered. The blonde knew she made the right choice as the whites in his eyes expanded in shock. Niklaus could not believe that this blonde creature, who so fascinated him, who had stopped fighting the striking connection between them was offering him free access to her mind. Not that he had truly needed it but for it to be offered freely and up front.

"Tyler has taken my hybrids from me" Niklaus hissed as what he learned finally synced in as they left her mindscape. Caroline placed a comforting hand on his arm.

"You still have your family, all of them. Nik, your parents are both finally dead. If you kill the hybrids it will only bring Silas one step closure to being set free."

"The hybrids were meant as protection Caroline" Klaus roared pacing along the forest floor. Caroline flashed before him stopping in front of him so that she was once again pressed against a tree. Niklaus towered over her, his breathing heavy in anger but it was his eyes at spoke volumes to the blonde. His blue eyes spoke of fear, not for himself but rather for his family, for her.

"If you don't murder your hybrids for this betrayal. Especially all together in one spot then they cannot use the power of the massacre to help release Silas" Caroline begged.

"Expression" Niklaus growled.

"You know of it?"

Niklaus rolled his eyes, "Kol spoke of a cult of witches he knew once. Devout cult that worshiped Silas. Despite being locked away it seems his reach is far."

"We need to get Kol to Bonnie" Caroline insisted.

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Bonnie answered with the first ring, "Caroline?"

"Bonnie! I know I left in a hurry but where are you right now?"

"Care, I'm at home. I just couldn't be around the Salvatore's at the moment. Elena appeared to be going to explode at Damon. Where do you want me to meet you?" Bonnie answered lifting herself off her bed searching for her shoes. The Bennett witch quickly found the pair she had tossed aside the moment she got home in a hurry. Her brain all a flutter from seeing Caroline putting Damon into his place.

"Mikaelson mansion."

She had seen Caroline be snippy towards the man, passive aggressive but never so forthright. Bonnie was happy that her friend was able to say all the things that she had kept hidden the past year first from compulsion then because she put Elena's needs before her own. Bonnie had done much the same. Elena needs before her own, hell even before Caroline. Bonnie winced at that particular thought the bubble blonde had been consumed with shallow things for so long, Bonnie had thought they lost the Caroline they had befriended to the drama of boys and teenage hormones.

Then she had 'dated' Damon and Elena was with Stefan. Bonnie was overcome with her growing powers. A Bennett witch, everyone talked as if it truly meant something. As far as Bonnie saw it meant pain, with a mix of pleasure. There was pleasure in feeling so connected to the earth, the innocent way she used to make feathers float in the air. Mostly it seemed to cause pain. The one thing she could count of was being able to help her friends.

Elena, mostly.

All she managed to do for Caroline was force a ring on her that the girl hated. For Damon she had been forced to help the tomb, had to fight off Katherine and her own cousin. Now her ancestors have found the use of her magic, the way she had been using it far to dangerous. First she had mixed with death in an effort to help her friends, then again at the farm. She had not managed to have to do much, but the spell to stop Alaric's heart…. She went a touch to far according to the ancestors.

They refused to let the past repeat itself.

Bonnie groaned wishing that they would be more forthcoming with the information. Really what was the point of sending Caroline to the past and giving Bonnie warning if they refused to give them all the information? A tingle went through her body, the witch let out of a sigh as the feeling soon disappeared.

Balance.

It was the exact opposite of what Professor Shane was teaching her. The lessons had been fun, the allure to that type of magic was strong. Her ancestors warned caution, they had yet to allow her Grams to speak with her even when she begged them for answers. Bonnie decided to leave the dark thoughts alone for now. They had sent Caroline for a reason, they even allowed Bonnie to respell the Forbes house.

A thought had struck her before she had a chance to rethink her decision she rang a number she didn't even realize she had.

"Rebekah? Does your family happen to have any spare rings that can be spelled for a daylight ring? Caroline, Rebekah! It's for Caroline."

This time the tingling lasted longer; Bonnie prayed that they would allow her the use of her magic for this at least.