A Journey to Love

Havoc and Gone

Chapter 3: Havoc and Gone

Caroline sat on the couch in her living room with a bucket of Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream. She looked down at her cup of ice cream and tears fogged up her eyes. She scooped a spoonful and put into her mouth. She never thought she would be sitting on her couch Saturday morning eating ice cream trying to watch the Big Bang Theory to cheer herself up. For all the parts she would have laughed at over and over again, she sat there numb as ever. She scooped up another spoonful and placed it in her mouth when she heard the front door open. Stefan walked in.

"Hey. Ice cream? So early in the morning?" Stefan said.

"What? Are there rules now that vampires can't eat ice cream early in the morning?" Caroline said with sarcasm.

"No, there is no such rule." Stefan laughed as he came around and sat down next to Caroline on the couch.

"What happened?" Stefan asked. He could see she was upset, it wasn't like Caroline to sit at home on a Saturday morning eating ice cream.

"Tyler and I broke up." She whispered. She hadn't grasped the fact that they weren't together anymore.

"What? Why?" Stefan asked as he put his arms around her shoulders.

"Yesterday night when I went to his house, he was talking to Hayley again. He had picked up one of her calls before but I thought he was just telling her to leave him alone. But when I heard him talking to her yesterday telling her to come over, I just burst. I was furious! He had been so down the past couple of days because Klaus killed his hybrid friends and then there was his mom's death. Well Hayley's the one who snapped my neck and set them up. Not just that, he got so mad at me when I bargained Klaus to let Jeremy kill one of the hybrids. So when I get his hybrid friend killed I'm bad, and Hayley gets twelve killed but she has her reasons?" Caroline said.

"Reasons?" Stefan was curious. The twelve hybrids were killed for a ritual so Bonnie can gain power but what other reason could there be?

"Yeah, he said that she did it to protect him and she had no choice. I told him that was a bunch of crap because of the ritualistic sacrifice. Tyler was like I didn't get it because I wasn't a werewolf or a hybrid. He's like I don't get what it's like to be a part of a pack. At that point I had had enough and I knew that this wasn't going anywhere. It was like that understanding and companionship we started off with wasn't there anymore. So I said I thought this wasn't working anymore and before I even finished he said that he felt the same and that we had different ways to go." Caroline said.

"I'm sorry Caroline. I know it's hard." Stefan said as he hugged her. The tears that were fogging her eyes now slid down her cheeks. They sat there for a while until Caroline calmed down.

"So what's going on with you and Rebekah?" Caroline asked.

"I don't know. I'm trying to move on." Stefan said.

"What about Elena? I mean you guys are like, epic." Caroline said.

"No Caroline, it's a clean break now." Stefan said.

"What do you mean?"

"Well Elena and I talked yesterday..." Stefan told her about his conversation with Elena how it's completely over.

"Wow. That was tough. I guess we're in the same boat." Caroline laughed.

"I guess so." Stefan said.

"So what about Rebekah?" Caroline asked again.

"I don't know. We were together in the twenties, but that was just fun. Right now, I'm not sure where we stand." Stefan said.