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After the incident with me and the third mass murder, I decided to keep myself busy. Prom was around the corner and I had a lot to do. I couldn’t really focus on anything like I wanted to, I had too much going on. Unfortunately, I couldn’t completely focus on my tasks because Klaus had been calling me nonstop for the passed hour or so.
The first time I didn’t answer because I was nervous. What if he wanted to try and talk about what happened between us again? I definitely wasn’t ready for that conversation, although I knew it would take place at some point. Klaus was old school, very old school. I had a sneaking suspicion that he didn’t take what we did lightly. I mean, the guy was already in love with me and didn’t want to continue what we started unless it meant something to me.
I understand why he stopped me. I was heavily under the influence of magic and he probably thought it meant I didn’t want it. I did, I do… Hell, I want it right now, and that scares me.
I finally decided to go see what Klaus wants because he just kept blowing up my phone. Walking through the massive home, I saw him.
My heart seemed to constrict because of how sick he looked, but that didn’t stop the irritation from creeping into my voice at the timing of it all.
“I got your fifty bajillion messages, this better be life and death!”
“Go away,” he said quietly.
Seriously? After everything we’ve been through, don’t tell me we’re being mean to each other again.
“What happened to you?”
“I need more time,” he said. “Stop hounding me!”
“I’m hounding you?” I can’t believe this fool. “I’m supposed to be running three different prom committees right now and you keep phone stalking me!”
“Caroline… is it really you?” Well who else would I be? “Prove it to me.”
“Okay, I don’t know if this is some new way of flirting, but it sucks. I have more important things to do.”
“Wait, please.” Please? He must really be in bad shape to plead. “Silas stabbed me with the white oak stake. There’s a piece of it stuck inside me.”
Woahh, didn’t see that coming.
“Why would Silas attack you?” I asked.
“Well, I was in no position to ask questions. Suffice it to say, I’m hurt. So you can understand why I called you.”
Yeah, I can. Technically, I’m the only person he has.
“What do you want me to do?” I asked with a sigh.
“Well, its quite simple really.” He gestured to this massive pair of sharp pliers on the floor. “I need you to cut the stake out of me.”
Mannn, I’m not a doctor! How the hell am I supposed to do this?
I rolled my eyes.
“Sit on the piano bench,” I said as I grabbed the pliers.
I had been digging around inside Klaus’ back for the last fifteen minutes, but I couldn’t find anything.
“I swear there’s nothing in here,” I said. “Are you sure he stabbed you?”
“Noooo he just stuck a random piece of wood in me,” he said in pain.
“The sarcasm isn’t helping you here, but I’ll keep looking.” I jabbed him a little bit on accident.
“OWWW!”
“Sorry, sorry, sorry. You big baby.” I yanked the pliers out. “I’m sorry but I really can’t find anything.”
“Well, do something. Anything to take my mind off the pain! I can feel the splinters moving toward my heart. Help me, Caroline!”
I don’t know what to do! I don’t know what to say.
All of a sudden, an idea struck. When people have panic attacks, their breathing gets thrown off. If I get his back on track, maybe he’ll calm down enough to tell me what else to try. Because at this point, I’m at a loss. I walked around the piano bench to face him.
“Don’t make me regret this.”
“What—
I cut him off as I pressed my lips to his. I focused my hearing as I deepened the kiss. When his breathing pattern slowed to a normal one, I pulled back.
He looked at me with wonder in his eyes.
“It’s gone.”
“What?” I asked.
“The pain,” he said feeling his back. “The pain is gone. It was never there. He got in my head. Silas… got inside my head.”
“You took my mind off it.” He grabbed my hand and held it in both of his. “You brought me back, Caroline.”
Realization dawned on me. Silas must have some sort of psychic abilities.
“If Silas can make you, of all people, believe that you’re dying…” I trailed off. We’re worse off than we originally thought. “What can he do to the rest of us?”
This is really bad.
My thoughts were going a mile a minute and I really needed to talk to somebody.
Everyone knows that Tyler has been M.I.A. but I haven’t made the reason why public knowledge. I also still haven’t told anyone that Klaus and I almost had sex or the fact that I went and kissed him again. Although, that kiss was just supposed to help get him together. So technically, I shouldn’t be penalized for said kiss… right?
Except that I haven’t been able to get the original hybrid out of my mind lately. I want him to rawdog me until I can’t walk straight, but who the hell am I supposed to talk to about that? If anyone should be able to understand what I’m going through, it’s Elena. She’s got two serial killers wrapped around her baby finger. Come on, don’t tell me you forgot Stefan wasn’t innocent either. You would think that she’d be the one to cut me some slack.
Alas, I made my preferences about her love life known too many times for a conversation about Klaus to ever happen. Besides, the girl is still acting like an infuriating bitch at the moment. I don’t know where her emotionless ass is right now and I don’t care, I just couldn’t be bothered.
I have too much on my plate with my prom duties, one of them being currently trying on my dress with Bonnie.
I finally got ahold of her since she had been avoiding Silas. I’m so glad she’s okay and maybe now is the perfect time to tell her about everything.
However, it feels like she has something to tell me too. She’s been a little on edge since we got to the boutique.
“Bonnie, what’s up?” I asked getting her attention. “I can tell something is on your mind.”
“I’ve been having these dreams,” she said.
“What kind of dreams?”
“Usually, I’m at Jeremy’s grave and all of a sudden he appears to me.” Aww honey.
“Well, you never got to say goodbye, Bon. You’re grieving, that’s normal,” I said.
“When I woke up the couch was on fire.” She deadpanned.
“Oh.” That’s… not normal.
“I don’t know if it's because I was emotional in my dream or if Shane was right,” she said. “Without his help, I’ll lose control of my magic.”
“No, it’s because you need a night off from mourning. I’m gonna make sure you have that,” I said reassuring her.
She smiled before her expression turned sour.
“Bonnie, what’s wrong?”
I watched as she took a deep breath. “Is it bad that I’m relieved that Jeremy is gone?”
“Woah, Bon.”
“Okay, maybe relieved isn’t the right word.” She frowned. “It’s just that he wasn’t the best boyfriend when he was alive, what with him cheating on me with his ghost of an ex. Is that what I would have been in for had Katherine not killed him?”
I grimaced. “I don’t know, Bon. But, he doesn’t have the best track record….”
“Yeah…” she said trailing off before taking in my new dress. “Um, you look super hot by the way.”
“You think?” I asked.
“Oh, yeah.”
“Yeahhh,” I said with a satisfied nod.
“Matt and I are gonna have the sexiest date there.”
I laughed, making her laugh too.
“You know what? I love friend prom. It’s exactly what prom should be, friends and memories. Speaking of friends, I haven’t been a very good one. I need to tell you a few things.”
“Uh-ohh,” she said.
“Soooo, as you know Tyler hasn’t been around for awhile. That’s because we broke up and I told him to leave town before Klaus killed him for the whole hybrid thing.”
“Care! Why didn’t you say anything?” She smacked me lightly on my arm.
“Well, you guys were on the island when it happened! Then when you all got back, Elena had just turned her humanity off and there’s the whole fiasco with Silas… I just didn’t want to bother anyone with my regular high school problems.”
She gave me a look that reminded me our one of our previous talks. “What else happened?”
“Well, the other reason Tyler left town is because he’s with Hayley, she professed her love for him. Turns out they really did sleep together when he broke his sire bond.”
“Damn, seriously?” She asked. “What else did I miss? My memory has been fuzzy since the last… sacrifice.”
I took a deep breath.
“Mhmm, the third sacrifice being a success… that’s my fault, by the way, if you didn’t know already given your memory wipe. I had this encounter with Klaus and I’m going to Tulane next year for college. Yaaaaay.”
“Thank you, again, for saving my life.”
“Of, course!” I exclaimed. “You’re my sister. There’s no way I’d let death take you away from me.”
She smiled. “And Congratulations on Tulane, Care— Wait a second, an encounter?? With KLAUS?!” Ahh damn, I knew she was going to pick up on that. “And Tyler left you to be with Hayley?? What the hell?”
“Yep,” I said.
“Right, what an asshole… now about this encounter?”
“While was on the island, I was at Elena’s with Klaus. He helped get the information on the cure. Long story short, I was in the barrier with him and couldn’t get out, then some freaky deaky shit happened.”
“Oh no, you need to explain the entire thing.”
I grimaced.
“Okay okay.” I held up my hands up. “The Bennett witches on the other side forced Klaus to turn. I slowed the transformation by stabbing him with broken furniture but that didn’t stop him from attacking me. Get this, it wasn’t even Klaus anymore… Mikael had taken over his body and almost drained me.”
“Oh shit.”
“Yeah oh shit.” I nodded in agreement. “While Mikael was exacting his plans for revenge against his son using me, the witches, Bennett witches, pulled Klaus to the other side. They tortured him before passing along a message that needed to be delivered… to you.”
“To me?” She asked incredulously. “Well, what is it?”
“The witches said ‘if you continue down the road you’re on, there will be grave consequences’.”
“Hmm,” she said deep in thought.“Is that all they said?”
“Yes and no matter what, you can’t do that spell for Silas.”
“I know that but I might not have a choice.” She looked down at her hands. “And besides, I’m strong now. The spirits can’t control me anymore.”
“Of course you have a choice, Bon, and I know you’re strong. Stronger than me probably. As long as Silas doesn’t get his hands on the cure, you won’t have to worry about him hounding you about the spell anyway.” I was trying to convince her but I had a feeling she already made up her mind.
“Hold on… what does this have to do with you having an encounter with Klaus?” She crossed her arms and gave me a look. “I’m assuming it’s sexual in nature since you said ‘freaky leaky shit’.”
I sighed and looked at the floor.
“After Klaus came back to his body, he healed me and I went into a kind of frenzy. In this case, instead of craving blood I craved sex… well I was craving both but that’s besides the point.”
“He didn’t take advantage of that did he?” She asked, worry crossing her features. I could tell she was thinking about what I told Elena at the slumber party.
“Not at all,” I said. “He actually stopped me before it could get further than it did. He was the one who realized I was under the influence of some kind of magic.”
“Two questions. How far did it go and what kind of magic?”
“Ummm—
“Don’t get shy on me now!” She exclaimed, lightly punching me. “I haven’t had any in a while so this is the closest I’ll get.”
“Ohh my gawd, Bon fine.” I covered my eyes as I spoke. “Heavy petting on his part.”
“Caroline!”
“I knowwww, but it was so good.” I whined. “I came harder than I ever have in my life. I totally wanted to fuck the shit out of him and all he did was use his hands on me. I can’t even begin to imagine what head or the dick would be like. He didn’t even let me return the favor…”
“Well shit, maybe after some time I’ll need to find myself a man with a British accent…”
We both laughed.
“Is it always like that?” She asked. “Craving blood and sex?”
“When drinking human blood, the urge is definitely there. But blood-sharing with another vampire is a powerful thing, it’s on an entirely different level. It’s intimate and something not to be taken lightly. At least, that’s what it means for me.”
“But you’ve drank from him before…” she said trailing off.
“This is true, but that was only to heal me. This was different as it was the first time we ever actively shared blood.”
“Interesting,” she said. I wonder what she could be thinking about.
“Anyway, as far as the magical influence goes,” I said. “I honestly don’t know, it was like I was stuck with my vampire face. It didn’t go away until I came down from my… orgasmic high.”
“Too bad Klaus isn’t a good guy. I’d tell you to throw yourself at him willingly, haha. If you end up doing that though, like you told Elena you wouldn’t judge her, I am telling you the same.”
“Bonnie—
“You don’t have to say anything. We’ve all done terrible things for those we love. We’re technically all murderers, we just haven’t been alive as long as some others.”
I never knew Bonnie felt that way. Some crazy shit has happened to us over these last two years, I guess we were bound to evolve into different people at some point.
“Now, about the issue with the barrier spell.”
“Right, that. Well, when I first tried to leave Elena’s, I couldn’t leave. Then after the whole Klaus thing, I tried again. It was like the spell was never there and I could leave, but Klaus couldn’t.”
“Hmmm, that’s interesting. I’ve never heard anything like that before. However because I use expression now, I see how the spirits would need a way to make me heed their words. By using you and the resulting pain from it, it’s clear they’re not fucking around.” She grabbed my hands. “Care, I’m so sorry this keeps happening to you. I’ve never meant for you to be used in this way.”
“Don’t worry about it, Bon.”
“On the bright side of everything that’s been going on, you got into a really great university! I still can’t believe I missed all that,” she said. “Fucking Silas.”
“Yeah,” I said with a laugh. “Are you going to come visit me in New Orleans?”
“Of course, I am!” Bonnie exclaimed. “Since it’s a supernatural playground, I’d be crazy not to come and I haven’t seen Angelique in forever.”
“I really need to call her, actually.” I said.
Just then the emotionless bitch that is Elena and Rebekah came into the dress shop. There’s absolutely no way I can deal with the two of them right now.
Pulling Bonnie away, we left the dynamic duo to their devices.
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