The Wolf - Klaroline

11. Après Moi, Le Déluge

Season 1 Episode 11

Notes:

Remember how I told you guys to prepare for the bumpy road ahead? This is where it all begins. Don't say you haven't been warned.

Big shout out to coveredinthecolors for her support, awesome beta services and for not hating Elijah so much, surprisingly! Hopefully you guys will agree with her after this chapter (I doubt it lol).

Any mistakes you might find are my own, and I apologize beforehand. As always, I'd like to thank you guys for your support and lovely messages and feedback. :) You're awesome! Please, keep them coming! Your reviews and messages really make my day, not to mention push me through hours of editing this goddamn monster story. So thank you very much!

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Celeste entrances me. She is perfection.

She is dead. Even as the sun rises, I see only night.

But for the promise I made to her that in death I would bury her far from the mayhem of witches, vampires and men...

Elijah has been talking nonstop for a while, offering what Caroline truly believes are some interesting bits of information about the witches of New Orleans and their history. It's the kind of thing that is really worth paying attention to. Caroline didn't have anybody to teach her about these things growing up, to tell her about covens and different sources of magic and how witch communities from different places live, and she's always been especially curious about New Orleans because of the city's long lasting traditions and folklore. People have been coming here for centuries to bask in this place's supernatural energy. The Quarter covens are amongst the strongest in the country, if not the world. So when an Original vampire starts sharing first-hand insights, you stop and listen.

But Caroline has tuned him out ages ago.

As soon as he came into the room with Celeste's picture all taped up in his hand to share his findings and suspicions with her and Klaus, Caroline's mind immediately wandered back to the plantation house, reminiscing over the few words she allowed herself to read on his diaries as she stabbed him in the back and ripped off his heart. Because that's pretty much what she did there. She broke Elijah's trust and he'll never forgive her when he finds out what she did. If they live to get to that part, anyway.

If Davina's premonitions are anything to go by, then something really, really bad is about to happen, and it'll be all Caroline's fault.

She's such a hypocrite. Yelling at Elijah for not respecting her agency and not trusting her to make the right choices for herself; calling Klaus out on his screw-ups left and right and then lecturing him on the importance of right vs wrong while she had just gone behind their backs and possibly brought the apocalypse to their door. And all that because she decided to listen to Sophie Deveraux of all people. Why the hell would she believe a word that witch has to say when she's done nothing but make Caroline's life miserable since the day she kidnapped her from Mystic Falls?

She called Sophie a million times already, barely shut her eyes all night. But of course she's gone completely off-radar now. She was quick to answer her phone when she wanted something, but now that Caroline needs something in return, she just disappears. Convenient. Does she know about the drawings? Has Sabine been having visions about Celeste too? Do they have any idea what this is about? Is that why they're trying to consecrate Celeste? If Caroline doesn't get some answers fast, she'll lose it.