Nine Months

Chapter Six: The Phone Call

Klaus Mickelson

Elijah and I had left the grounds of the house in my car and remained silent inside until I found us a place to talk. It was in the forest behind the house. It was a pathway to the middle of nowhere that no one ever came down. It was the only place I could think of at that time to go too. Elijah had heard the phone call between me and the person who had Caroline and now wanted answers. How was I going to explain to him why the kidnapper was calling me when I didn't even understand it myself?

"Nicklaus if this is sort of game to get back at the Salvatores then it is in very poor taste. Caroline Forbes is one of Elena's best friends. Playing this game with her isn't right"

"You think I wanted this?"

"Are you doing this to spite the Salvatores?"

"No"

"Then why did you of all people receive that phone call?"

I sighed "Because they believe I care for Caroline" I answered.

"And do you?"

I never responded. It was beneath me.

"I'll take that as a yes"

"So is the part where you run off and tell your dear Elena of her friend's new admirer?"

"No this is the part where you tell me how we save Caroline"

"And why would you want to help Caroline?"

"Consider this my own personal pay back for you killing our father"

I turned and met Elijah's eyes.

"You weren't the only one he took his angry out on Nicklaus"

I sighed "Well he had reason to hate me I wasn't his real son" I said.

"So that's what you tell yourself?"

"What else would I think?"

"I believe you took his beatings so he wouldn't hurt any of our other siblings. You and I both know our sister wouldn't have lived through a beatings like ours. Our father would have killed her if we hadn't been there"

"I suppose"

"Our family knows your heart. And we know you are reckless and selfish. But we also know you will always protect us. No matter what. Always and forever"

"Well at least I know I can protect some people"

"And do you want to protect Caroline?"

"I don't know" I said and ran my hand down my face.

"Not to sound harsh Nicklaus but why are you drawn to this girl in the first place? There is no question she is a beauty but she's also tried to kill you and our family"

I smirked and shook my head.

"Because she knows the worst thing about me and its ok" I told him.

I met Elijah's eyes "The girl is a beauty, she's stunning but I cant be the one to save her" I told him.

"Why not?"

"Because she would have to explain to her friends and the Salvatore boys how she got free. Well that and the fact I have no idea where she is or who has her"

"Caroline didn't have any enemies?"

"I don't know. Christ I don't even know her friends names let alone her enemies"

"There is our sister"

I shook my head "No if she had Caroline she would be bragging about it" I told him.

"So the person on the phone said they wanted your blood"

"Someone knows I'm a hybrid probably thinks my blood will turn them into one too"

"Or..."

"Or what?" I asked.

"They know the power of the blood and what it is capable of doing to humans"

"What are you saying? Someone wants my blood to heal someone?"

"Or heal many"

Elijah unbuckled his seat belt and faced me.

"Someone who until recently was a member of the founders council"

Caroline Forbes

I leaded my head on the back of the chair not being able to move my body what so ever now. I would still have some strength left inside of me if I had fresh blood coming into my system. But I had been completely drained. I couldn't even keep my eyes open for more than an hour at a time. They were closed now and I was trying to imagine being anywhere but here. My skin was smelly my hair was greasy and every inch of my body screamed with pain. I felt like I had been running and running and couldn't catch my breath.

"You brought this on yourself you know"

"Screw you" I whispered getting a slap across my face.

"You're just a stupid little girl, you don't deserve to live while other people lie in hospital beds and die"

"And you shouldn't be breathing after what you did to Elena"

"I helped her. She needed my help"

"That's right keep telling yourself that. Whatever makes you sleep at night"

"Shut up. I'm going to make another call to your boyfriend"

"Tyler wouldn't listen to you. He knows what a crazy bitch you are"

"I was talking about your other boyfriend. Your secret boyfriend"

I tried to laugh but all that came out were quick breaths.

"Klaus will think he's coming to the rescue but all he is doing is setting himself up for a painful death"

"Yeah you go little human, I've been trying to kill him for months. But you with your chubby arms and pit stains one shot one gun yeah you'll kill him your first try"

Klaus Mickelson

My phone began to ring on the desk in front of me. I looked across the room to Elijah who nodded. I picked up the phone in my hand and held it up to my ear.

"Good boy for answering"

"Be quiet, you worthless bitch"

"Be careful how you talk to me your disgusting creature"

"Oh I understand you hate me sweetheart. But if you want my blood then I want something in exchange"

"You get nothing"

"If I don't get prove that the girl is alive then I won't give you jack"

I casted my eyes back over to Elijah who was staring back at me.

"Alright fine"

I turned my back to Elijah and waited as I heard noise in the background.

"Hello" said a very weak Caroline on the other side.

"How are you?" I asked.

"I'm tired. I don't think I'm going anywhere anytime soon."

"I know, I'm trying to fix that, even as we speak" I assured her.

"You don't have too"

"I'll find you"

I looked over my shoulder to Elijah who looked away.

I turned back around "I promise" I whispered.

"Alright hybrid that's enough chatting"

I rolled my eyes "Where do you want to do this little blood exchange then?" I asked.

"Alaric Saltzman's old apartment. You come alone. If I see your brothers or sister there I will kill her"

"You bring her to the exchange or I swear I'll make you beg for death"

"Be there tonight. Midnight"

The line went dead.

I turned back to Elijah "Well?" I asked.

"We're on" Elijah replied.

Tears dropped from my eyes and ran down to my cheeks. I was finally coming to the reality that I was going to die. Meredith had been draining me of my blood so she could take vampire blood with her when she skipped down. Doctors were suppose to save people not give them something that could turn them into vampires if they had an accident after leaving the hospital. Meredith might save lives but she created vampires too. She didn't realize that she was probably taking more lives than she saved. I wondered one day if she would have a patient with blood loss and bites to the neck and ask herself if it was one of her patients that caused this person to be here.

I had now been in this dark room for three days and I smelt so awful I was making myself sick. Everyone watches movies about kidnappings and thinks they could survive anything. What the movies don't show you is the hostage being stuck on the same chair for days sitting and stinking from not bathing. I guess the only thing I could find comfort in was knowing it would all be over soon enough.

When Meredith took the last of my blood I would pass out and because there was no new blood coming into my system. My body would shut down and I would just be sitting here for the rest of my life. Completely still unable to move or to even speak. I would be like the tomb vampires only my fashion sense would be better.

I closed my eyes and remembered the sound of Klaus's voice when Meredith put the phone to my ear. She must have thought hybrid blood would get her patients off their hospital beds even quicker. And must have chosen Klaus because he was also the oldest vampire. Klaus had sounded so confident on the phone but there was a weakness in his voice. I might be losing my mind but he sounded concerned for me. Was Klaus worried about me? I mean really worried? The big bad Klaus who killed Jenna and turned Tyler was now worried about me?

Klaus had made a promise that he was coming to get me. No one could find me here, Meredith told me herself, she shot me in the head and covered me in so much vervain my scent completely disappeared. Klaus couldn't track me and neither could my friends. I had given up hope that I would see daylight again. I was feeling sorry for myself I was just facing reality. And reality sucked. Klaus wasn't about to risk his life to save mine. Klaus only came to the school that day to rescue Elena.

The sad reality was Meredith was never going to let me go. My friends and family would mourn me and Klaus would go on to find some other baby vampire to chase after. The council would probably come across my body someday and when they realized who I was they would kill me. A quick death but a painful one none the less.

Although everything was going to hell around me a few things were starting to make sense. The evil would be punished, I was evil, I had killed a man and liked it and now I was being punished. And the second, Klaus might have been a monster but he gave me hope that life was going to get better, even when I had lost complete faith, Klaus had enough for the both of us.

Meredith entered the room and I closed my eyes.

I opened my eyes slowly and gasped finding my dad standing in the corner of the room. He smiled at me. Meredith was no longer in the room and the door was closed over. My dad walked over to me and kneeled down in front of me.

"I know this is bad" he whispered to me.

"I don't know what's going to happen to me daddy"

"Yes you do, that's why you're so scared"

Tears formed in my eyes "What am I suppose to do?" I asked.

My dad smiled and brushed my hair out of my face.

"I know this is bad, and nothing right now is in your control, so I want you to close your eyes and be somewhere you want to be. With someone who is waiting for you to come back to them."

I sobbed and nodded my head before closing my eyes.

In my mind there was a bright flash of white and all I could hear was wind brushing by me. I opened my eyes back up to find my father gone but someone new standing across the room with their back against the wall.

"I've never been so scared. So alone. I don't know what to do" I told him.

"I know" Klaus whispered.

"Tell me what to do."

"You know what to do. What you've always done."

I pressed my lips together hard before I nodded "I survive."

I opened my eyes and came back to my reality. Meredith stood over me clutching a wooden stake in her hand.

"Any last words?"

"Yeah" I whispered and met her eyes.

Meredith smirked.

"I am so much prettier than you"

Meredith shot the stake down towards my chest. I closed my eyes and in that moment thought of nothing but the life I was leaving behind. And everything I could have seen had I not be so scared to accept an invitation.