Fade Into Me

Another one bites the dust

Caroline and Klaus rushed inside the living room, Elena was sitting with Elijah and they both stood up in a jolt.
"Are you all right?" Elijah asked worried about his brother.

"Yes, things didn't quite go as planned... did you feel anything?" Klaus asked noticing the stain in Elijah's shirt.
"Katerina said that we are all connected." he simply said.

"How did she know that?" Caroline asked next to Klaus.
Elijah's sigh was loud. "She has been hiding a lot from us... she got away when I collapsed and I wasn't able to ask her any more piercing questions."

"I need to kill that doppelganger." Klaus said annoyed and looked at Caroline.
She smiled at him and fought the urge to sneak back into his amazing protective embrace, Elena was here and she needed to talk to her before any public displays of affection between her and the hybrid.

"Have you talked to Rebekah?" Klaus asked quickly.
"She's safe at Matt Donovan's home, gave him a huge scare but now she's recovering." Elijah informed in his usual calm ways.

"Where's Kol?" Caroline asked, they were still short of one Original.
"Him, I couldn't reach because he didn't answer my calls or returned them." Elijah frowned.

"You think something happened to him?" Elena quietly asked not really sure if she should join the conversation.
"Maybe we should check on him... wait... Bonnie hasn't arrived either? I talked to her a few hours ago." Caroline said and then smiled; she shared a look with Klaus.

It didn't go unnoticed the complicity between them and Elena watched it all silently.
The front door opened and Kol rushed in with Bonnie closely behind him.

Caroline and Klaus gave them a perfect synchronized look.
"Are you guys ok?" Bonnie asked worried.

Caroline gave her a teasing smile. "Sure... and you two?"
"We're fine, everything is fine and you know... just fine." Bonnie quickly said while Kol went for a drink.

Klaus looked at his brother. "So you both had time to go to mass then?"
Kol gave his brother a stabbing look, Klaus simply shrugged it off with a smile.

Bonnie joined Elena looking down on the ground avoiding any kind of judging looks.
Caroline was amused and giggled at Kol that had a generous drink.

"Why did you call us Caroline? Did you know that this would happen?" Elena asked confused.
"No and... yes... we need to talk." Caroline said pulling her seriousness back together, this would be a very long talk.

Kol and Elijah sat on the library couch while Klaus stood there watching them both with his arms folded.
Kol was the first to break the heavy silence. "Are you going to dagger us or just stand there and judge us for all eternity?"

They could hear Klaus breathing hard from where they sat and Kol looked at Elijah, encouraging him to smooth their incoming destiny.
"We did it to help you brother." Elijah calmly said.

"Not we... you. I just helped search for Caroline." Kol swiftly tried to shift blame to Elijah.
His older brother gave him a disapproval look.

"You both..." Klaus said making sure they knew how he considered both guilty. "... cast a spell on me, to make me forget about Caroline, made up a part in this prophecy so that you could clear your mistakes and convinced Rebekah to drag me back into this town where I almost killed the woman you spent 1000 years looking for." he said upset.

"Accurate..." Kol displayed a smile.
Klaus looked away annoyed, clutching his jaw in anger. "I asked her to kill me in Chicago, had she succeeded and carried on remembering about our past, it would have destroyed her."

"Well, we could have always tried to cast a spell on her to forget about you." Kol easily said.
Both his brothers looked at him and he leaned back on the couch. "Too soon for that one..."
Elijah shook his head appalled at Kol. "I know I wasn't right, that I should have let you mourn Caroline's death properly and in your own way and time but I can't truly regret what I did because I did it out of love for my brother." he said facing Klaus now.