The Only Hope For Me Is You: A Klaroline Fanfiction

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Caroline's body was consumed by an all-out terror and she found it difficult for her to breathe. She had taken them, Tatia had her kids and they had no idea where she had gone with them. Twenty minutes wasn't long but in many ways it was an eternity. What was she doing? Was she planning to leave Boston? Was she doing this because Klaus had told her that he wouldn't let her see them? Was that all or was it something else? Maybe to hurt Klaus and if that was her motivation, would she hurt them? She didn't know and she felt her heart speed up, beating so fast that she wouldn't be surprised if it came out of her chest.

"Caroline? Are you okay?" Ms. Agnes asked, noticing the paleness in the woman's face and the way her hand seemed to tremble. "Caroline?"

Caroline heard her name called and it snapped her out of her thoughts. Her eyes focused on Ms. Agnes' concerned ones and she suddenly realized that panicking wasn't going to help or get the twins back. "Ms. Agnes, call the police, immediately. Tell them that two kids have been abducted."

"Abducted?" Ms. Agnes repeated, clearly confused. "But their aunt…"

"That wasn't their aunt; it was their mother, her twin. I'll explain more but after you call the police." Caroline ordered before she pulled her own phone out of her pocket. She needed to call Klaus; he needed to know what was going on. It rang twice before she heard Mindy's voice on the other line. "Mindy, where's Klaus? I need him."

"Sorry Caroline, he's in a meeting but I can have him…"

"No." Caroline snapped. "I don't care what the hell he is doing right now or what priceless piece of art he is restoring to its former glory, pull him out of the meeting right now, it's the twins."

No further argument came from the other line as Mindy went to do as ordered. From the first days of taking care of the twins, Caroline had been told that Mindy was under strict orders to get Klaus immediately, no matter the circumstances, if any crisis with the twins came up and this was definitely a crisis.

Caroline could hear Ms. Agnes relaying information to someone on the other end of the line as she spoke to the police before Klaus' familiar voice filled her ear. "Caroline? What's wrong?"

"She took them Klaus." Caroline declared. "The twins."

"What? What do you mean she took them?" Klaus asked, the disbelief and fear clear in his voice.

"I came to pick them up from school and they're gone. Tatia has Henry and Lexi." Caroline explained.

"I'm on my way." Klaus replied before she heard the line disconnect.

She found herself somewhat surprised that he had cut short their conversation, thinking that he would want to know everything but also worried that he might get in an accident or something on the way. He would be worried about the twins and his mind wouldn't be on his own safety. He was no use to the twins if he ended up in the hospital. Before she had more time to think about Klaus, Ms. Agnes was done with her phone call and and relayed her conversation with the police.

To the outside observer, Klaus looked as if he was just any other crazy Boston driver, weaving in and out of traffic carelessly but nothing could be farther from the truth. He was a man on a mission and that mission was to get to his destination as quickly as possible and damn anyone who got in his way.

As soon as Mindy had barged into his office, Klaus had known something was wrong, which she confirmed when she told him that Caroline needed him urgently on the phone. But that warning had done nothing to prepare him for the horror that went through him when Caroline had told him that Tatia had taken the twins. He had been catapulted back eight years to the day she had left and he had thought she had stolen them away before. He quickly shouted out an explanation to Mindy before rushing out of his office.