Caroline was extremely pissed off as she made her into the Salvatore house. She couldn't believe the idiocy of the two of them. Well, she could from Damon, but not Stefan. What the hell had they been thinking? First, they let Elena starve herself for weeks, and then when she was finally getting the help she needed, they used Caroline to try to 'rescue' her. And they tried to keep Caroline in the dark about it all. She was ready to throttle them both.

Caroline found Stefan, Damon, and Bonnie sitting around the living room and talking when she walked in.

"If Caroline can't work her magic, I will go down there myself and get Elena out of there by force if I have to," Bonnie said.

"The hell you!" Caroline said in a cool tone before walking up behind both Salvatore's and promptly smacking them both upside their heads. "Idiots!"

"Ow!" Damon exclaimed.

"What was that for?" Stefan asked as he rubbed the back of his head.

"I thought I'd covered that. It's for being monumentally stupid! I mean, Damon being this stupid doesn't surprise me," Caroline said.

"Hey!" Damon protested in offense.

"But I would expect you to at least have half a brain, Stefan," Caroline continued as though Damon had never interrupted her.

"Caroline, what's going on?" Bonnie asked.

"How much have they told you, Bonnie? I'm guessing about as little as me," Caroline said.

"They just said that Elijah kidnapped Elena and took her to the mansion," Bonnie said.

"They didn't tell you why. Of course, they didn't. They didn't tell me either," Caroline said as she glared at them both again.

"What does it matter why? All that matters is getting Elena back," Damon said.

Caroline reached over and smacked him again.

"Hey! Stop doing that!" Damon yelled.

Caroline turned back to Bonnie. "Elijah took Elena because dumb and dumber over here were letting her starve for the past two weeks!"

"Okay, it's not that simple, Caroline. She couldn't keep anything down. The animal blood didn't work, neither did the blood bags. We didn't know what to do," Stefan said.

"She needed to drink from the vein, but she wouldn't. Short of force feeding her, there was nothing we could've done," Damon continued.

"Then that's what you should've done," Caroline said bluntly. She wasn't one for forcing people to do things, or for putting humans at risk, but it was better than Elena desiccating from lack of substance.

"Hold on, Caroline. I don't think hurting humans is the answer," Bonnie said.

"Then what is the answer, Bonnie? Letting her starve until she desiccates? Elena can't feed any other way," Caroline said.

"I'm sure that's not true. Maybe she just needs a little more time. Maybe she has to get used to it," Bonnie said.

"Ah, yes, another thing these two idiots didn't tell us. This isn't something that's going to be fixed with practice. Elena can't feed any other way than from the vein because she's an original," Caroline told her friend.

Bonnie stared at her friend in disbelief. "No, that's not true. That's not even possible. She would've had to have been turned by the immortality spell for that to be true."

"The originals were turned by a spell and doppelganger blood. Elena is a doppelganger, and she was turned by original blood, Elijah's blood," Caroline explained.

Bonnie looked to Stefan and Damon for them to refute this theory.

"We didn't find out until Elijah came. We knew that it was Elijah's blood that turned Elena, but not that she was an original. I guess originals can't feed the way the rest of us can. They need a stronger blood source," Stefan explained.

"Why the hell did you not tell me any of this before you sent me over there?" Caroline asked.

"It didn't matter. You were just supposed to get her out of there," Damon said.

"Well, that's not going to happen. Elena's getting the help she needs. I'm not putting a stop to that," Caroline said firmly.

"That's why we didn't tell you. We didn't want you agreeing with those people. Elena doesn't belong with them," Stefan said.

"You think she belongs here, where you and your brother will let her starve?" Caroline asked.

Stefan stood up and glared at her. "Elijah's going to force human blood down her throat. He's going to make her kill someone!"

"Yeah, he is," Caroline said matter-of-factly. Honestly, she didn't care about that. Well, she did, but she accepted it as a necessary evil.

"Caroline, you can't be okay with that," Bonnie said in disbelief.

"I don't love it, Bonnie, but if it's what Elena needs to survive, so be it. She's a vampire, an original. There's nothing anyone can do about that. She needs human blood from the vein to survive. That's a simple fact," Caroline said. Honestly, she understood Klaus and his siblings a little better now. Before, she thought they chose to hurt humans. It wasn't like that. They had no choice. It was the only way for them to feed. That certainly didn't make other things they'd done right, like Klaus sacrificing Elena, but Caroline could understand them a little better.

"But that's not necessarily true. I had a hard time adjusting to feeding on animals at first, but I learned to be better at it. Elena could…"

"Stop, Stefan! Elena is not you! She can't do what you do. Stop trying to force your diet on her. It failed. Everything you've tried has. Let someone who actually knows what he's doing give it a shot," Caroline said.

"No way," Damon said before standing up. "We're getting Elena out of that house."

"Good luck with that. I won't help you," Caroline said.

"Yeah, well, I figured you might be useless, so I came up with a plan B," he said.

"And what's that?" Bonnie asked.

"I called Jeremy. He's going to head over there," Damon said. Sure, Jeremy probably couldn't get Elena out of there, but he could at least talk to her and get her to fight those psychos. He could also be their eyes and ears on what was going on. Maybe he could help them find a way to get her out of there.

"You what?!" Caroline exclaimed.

"Are you crazy? Elena has no control, and you sent her human brother over to see her?!" Bonnie asked in disbelief.

"Elena wouldn't hurt Jeremy," Stefan said.

"Not in her right mind, but a hungry vampire isn't in their right mind. You're going to get him killed, and Elena will never forgive herself for it," Caroline said before grabbing her phone from her purse and heading out of the room. "Pick up the phone, Klaus."

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Elijah walked into the living room and found Elena sitting on the couch with a book in her hands. "I see you found the library."

Elena lowered her book and looked at him. "Yeah, well, you said to make myself at home. I didn't think you'd mind. Besides, it's the least you can do while holding me prisoner here."

Elijah decided to ignore her last comment. "No, It's fine. You're welcome to anything here. Although, I do recommend staying away from Niklaus' studio. He won't thank you for invading it."

"Yeah, like I'd want to be anywhere he is," Elena grumbled.

"I came to see if you'd like some blood. Its been a few hours," Elijah said.

"I'm okay for now," Elena said. She meant that. She felt the hunger slightly, but she was mostly okay. She was nowhere near how she'd been yesterday.

"Very well, but within the next hour or two, I will have to insist you feed," Elijah said firmly.

"God for bid I be allowed to decide that for myself," Elena said bitterly.

"If I allowed you to decided that for yourself, you'd desiccate. I know you're not happy with the way things are, but I am doing this for your own good," Elijah said.

Elena laughed bitterly. "Yeah, because I haven't heard that one before. Damon uses it all the time."

Elijah sighed. He was not thrilled to be compared to Damon Salvatore, but he understood the correlation for Elena. To her, he probably did seem very similar to the older Salvatore. "The difference is that once I'm sure you have a handle on your hunger and your abilities, I will stop. I don't enjoy controlling you. It's a necessary evil for the moment. Damon does enjoy it."

Just then, Klaus came into the room with a dumbfounded look on his face.

"What's wrong with you?" Elena asked, being the first person to notice him.

Elijah turned to look at his brother. "Niklaus?"

"How does one survive for over a hundred years with such sheer idiocy! They're too stupid to breathe!" Klaus exclaimed in disbelief. He'd just gotten off the phone with Caroline, who had just told him the most recent imbecilic actions of the Salvatores'.

"What are you talking about?" Elijah asked.

"I was just speaking with Caroline. Apparently, Elena's idiotic stalkers decided it would be a perfect idea to send her brother here. I'm not exactly sure what they were trying to accomplish, other than possibly getting him killed," Klaus said.

"What?!" Elena exclaimed in horror. That couldn't happen. There was a reason she'd been staying at the boarding house before Elijah took her. She was afraid of hurting Jeremy, like she'd almost killed April. She couldn't let that happen. Jeremy couldn't come here.

Just then, they all heard a knock at the door.

"No," Elena said before standing up and backing up. She could already feel the human blood.

"Stay with her. Do not let her leave this room," Elijah told his brother before rushing out of the room.

Klaus went to Elena's side and secured her tightly in his arms. "It's going to be alright, love."

Elena brought her hand to the arm holding her and gripped it tightly, almost like a lifeline. In any other circumstances, she would be disgusted to be this close to Klaus, but right now, she needed him. His grip on her was the only thing keeping her from killing her own brother.