With Many Happy Returns [Klaroline]

Greetings

“Caroline?” Elena called into the empty room as she returned to her bed after her talk with Damon.

She hadn’t seen her friend since the blonde had gone looking for Liv and had expected her to just have gone back to their room afterwards, even though not cleaning up after their failed friendsgiving dinner didn’t seem like her. What was even more weird was that Tyler had texted her that he had found Liv, but Elena had heard nothing from Caroline for at least two hours.  

With a bad feeling in her stomach, she called Tyler to make sure Caroline hadn’t stopped by.

“Hey Tyler.” Elena greeted as the former hybrid picked up his phone. “You haven’t seen Caroline within the last couple of hours, have you? I don’t know where she is.”

“No.” Tyler replied with a hint of confusion in his voice. “Is something wrong?”

“I don’t know. I don’t think so, but with everything going on and the hunters knowing her name, I’m just worried. Maybe it’s nothing, but…”

“I get it. I’ll go out and look for her.”

“Thanks. Text me if you find her.”

“You too.” Tyler said before hanging up. Elena took a minute to think about where Caroline could possibly be, but her concern was starting to cloud her thoughts. She then found another name in her contacts and waited for his reply.

“Elena, hey.” Stefan said as he picked up his phone and Elena took a calming breath.

“Is Caroline with you?”

“No. I think she’d rather stab herself with the turkey carving knife than be around me.” Stefan responded with a bitter laugh, but then seemed to realise something was off about Elena’s voice. “Why?”

“It’s just that I don’t know where she is. She went out to find Liv a few hours ago, but no one has heard from her since. She didn’t even come back to clean up the table from our dinner.” Elena quickly explained and she hadn’t noticed that she was now pacing the floor nervously.

“That doesn’t sound like her. Have you tried calling her?” Stefan said with worry clear in his voice.

“I did an hour ago, but she didn’t answer.”

“Okay, try again and then get Damon. I’ll come over so we can look for her.” Stefan told her and Elena nodded absentmindedly. She wasn’t exactly thrilled about spending time with Stefan’s older brother (and her ex-boyfriend, apparently), but the possibility of Caroline being in danger by far outweighed her own discomfort.

“Okay, I’ll see you.”

“Bye.”

After hanging up, Elena quickly found Caroline’s name under her favourites and pressed the green icon on her touch screen. She tapped her foot impatiently as it connected to Caroline’s phone.

“This is Caroline Forbes and I can’t answer your call at the moment. But leave a message and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can. Or call me back some other time! Okay… Bye!” Caroline’s voice rang on the other end, but there was no one there to answer Elena.

With a small sigh Elena sped out of their room and found Damon at the bar where she had left him.

“Caroline’s missing.” she told as Damon’s head perked up to look at her.

“I’m so not in the mood for this.” Damon groaned as he emptied the rest of his drink and slowly got up from his chair.

“Damon.” Elena chastised the vampire, who then spun Elena around and walked them out of there with his hands on her shoulders.