The Wolf - Klaroline

03. Tangled Up in Blue

Season 1 Episode 3

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I have noticed a difference in my siblings.

Our bond strains beneath the pressure of our life as vampires. Each day removes them further from the humanity they once possessed. My sweet sister Rebekah has grown quite indifferent to brutality. However the true problem remains Niklaus. He continues to hide his loneliness with cruelty.

Still, I cling to the hope that I, as their eldest brother, can lead them down the correct path, a path charged with the power of a family united. For if I fail, our family's legacy will end in darkness.

Elijah sure is as good with the written words as he is with the spoken ones.

After going through all the interesting books in the library, and even some of the old grimoires — the nondescript ones Klaus leaves unprotected, while the really important ones, like the one that belonged to his mother, are safely kept elsewhere — Caroline decides to investigate what other treasures she could find stashed around the house.

When they moved in, Elijah told her she could go through everything, open every box, every closet, every chest. He never mentioned anything about his personal journals, of course, but Caroline did find them by accident while she searched through one of the old trunks he brought with him. He must've known she end up finding them at some point, if he gave her permission to check out everything, and with the sheer amount of free time at her hands... Well, there's only so much for her to do at that house, so it was really only a matter of time.

Besides, the trunk wasn't even in his room. She's not that nosy, has respectfully kept out of everyone's private rooms, even though she found some people going through her stuff just the other day. Caroline wouldn't let her level of morals to stoop down to Klaus' low. If the journals were out of bounds, Elijah should've either moved them or told her not to read it. As he did neither, she took it as an unspoken permission.

And anyway, these are diaries from the 1600s. He probably doesn't even remember the things he wrote here. It's more like perusing a history book than someone's personal memories.

Caroline finds it both fascinating and mind-blowing.

There are so many interesting facts about the family's history. Things Caroline had no idea. They'd been running from Mikael when they decided to return to America, trying to stay off his radar after Kol attracted unwanted attention by slaughtering entire villages in Italy and Spain — good riddance to that one, by the way. Crossing the Atlantic back in the day was quite an adventure, and one that would take ages for their father to find out about. It gave them the chance for a new start, in a world that was new to most people but far too old for them.