Another Light

Prologue

 At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don’t keep other people out, they fence you in. Life is messy. That’s how we’re made. So you can waste your life drawing lines … or you can live your life crossing them.

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It was a Friday and it shouldn't matter because technically it could have been any Friday, except it wasn’t so that was the difference.

Caroline couldn’t see anything trough the tears which were running down her face, but she knew the way to the old Lockwood well inside out, so she didn’t need her eyesight to find her lover. After hearing that Klaus died she was shocked … and disturbed as well. Everything that went trough her mind was the question ‘Is Tyler still alive?’

The blonde rushed through the woods in panic and when she went into the old chamber the first thing she called out was Tyler’s name.

“Tyler?” She heard no answer, which let her to waste more of her tears. She was afraid, really scared to be exact. “Tyler?”

When she heard his voice from behind Caroline turned around, relieved. "Caroline, sorry, I was just with Bonnie. What happened?”

The tears wouldn’t stop falling. “Klaus died. He's dead.”

Caroline couldn’t quite place his expression, but she didn’t care, all that mattered was Tyler.

He embraced her, and she clutched his shirt with all her might, afraid of losing him. “You're going to be fine, Caroline.”

The blonde shook her head. “No, it's not me that I'm worried about.”

"There's no point. I'm a lost cause. But you're strong, and you have a beautiful future ahead of you.” The tears were still streaming down her face while she played with the collar of his jacket, their noses just centimetres apart, enjoying their probably last moment. A dazed look appeared in his eyes, “When you make it through this ... Just tell my mother I left town like I was supposed to, ok?”

He pulled her closer and kissed she soundly, right there in the middle of the chamber, as the last moment that would remain. Their kiss deepened and when Caroline broke the interaction, she gave him a kiss on the cheek, hugging him to death.

“Do you feel anything?” Tyler asked, and she knew the moment he pulled away from her and asked this question that this would be the last time that she’d see him. “No, I feel fine.”

Suddenly he clutched his heart and a painful expression appeared on his masculine face. He looked from the corner of his eyes towards her. “I need you to get out of here. I don’t want you to watch me die.”

“No, I'm not leaving. I'm staying.” Even though she was afraid of losing him, Caroline was determined to be here till the end.

Another painful gasp could be heard and he fell to the ground, digging his fingers into the ground. “No."

“Yes.”

He began to transform and Caroline didn’t know what to do. It was breaking her heart to see him that much in pain. “You run or I'll make you run.”

“I'm not leaving!” Why couldn’t he understand what she felt? She didn’t want to run away and let him die all by himself.

He angrily shouted, “Go!’ and when she heard his bones break, she did what he wanted. He didn’t want her to see him die, and even if she wanted to be with him in his last minutes of life, she knew that she couldn’t bear seeing him vanish from her life too.

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