So, I'm Caroline?

Chapter 32 - Hospitals and Houses

3rd POV

It wasn't until after 4am that Damon arrived back at the hospital, he had needed a change of clothes and then he had to get the desire to murder everyone around him for breathing too loudly out of his system. Her shield had stretched up to ten miles out of the town limits.

One of the biggest issues with that is that once the shield goes down every supernatural creature within about 200 miles will be trying to find the witch that was strong enough to cause such a powerful shield. Not even the humans can get past the towns newest barrier and that means a lot of compelling and questions that might very well bring a new set of problems for the supernatural community as a whole.

Three days later she woke and the shield type barrier around the town went crashing down, the blueish shimmer of the magic igniting and then flickered out.

Matt was standing by the barrier at the time with Katherine trying to gather intel and see if there were any weaknesses, afterwords they rushed to the boarding house. The others will have to know about this.

In the hospital as she wakes up she absentmindedly tries to sit up, Niklaus and Damon rush to help her as she almost tumbles out of the bed. Alaric rushes out of the room to find her doctor.

"I got you love." Niklaus says as he wraps his arm around her shoulders and moves her back up onto the bed.

Damon's hands are lightly holding her waist as he keeps her steady as he speaks soothingly to her. "We got you Care, you're alright."

"Where am I?" Came her groggy reply as she tried to keep herself from feeling panicked as the feeling of hands around her shoulders and her hips begins to register in her mind.

"You're at the hospital." Came Alaric's deep voice as he watches her face scrunch up in confusion, her eyes however remain closed, almost as if she's afraid to open them. "Magic kind of exploded out of you."

Caroline slowly tried to open her eyes only to feel like there were added weights on them before she just sighs and rubs her eyes. She feels the body holding her and the other hands resting on her hips, but the uncomfortable feeling is no longer there. The feeling is more content and she can't help but feel confused.

"Who's holding me?" She whispers as she leans against Niklaus, much to his (pleasant) surprise.

"I am love." He whispers quietly as his hold tightens for a moment, why doesn't he enjoy how weak she's feeling now?

"Nik?" Caroline asks in a barely audible whisper as she subconsciously rests her head against. Then, as if she feels his hand in hers she questions. "Damon?"

"Right here Care. You scared me and Alaric you know?" He says, after a short pause he adds. "Your mom was beside herself too, she was frightened for you."

She hums in response before snuggling deeper into the hybrids warmth and squeezes Damon's hand gently.

The hybrid can't help but wonder if it's her magic drawing him in? No, her magic is calling every magical being within a two or three hundred mile radius as it is. His little brother would be nearly salivating from the feeling of her magic alone if he were awake. He couldn't possibly care about her well-being could he? But he met her before this, how is he to continue being the monster whom everyone fears when he wants to care for her?

She will betray him, everyone always betrays him. He must remember that, caring and feelings of love are pointless.

Damon watches the way Klaus holds her against him with pressed lips. He doesn't like this, the old vampire had no issue trying to hurt her. Then again, he hadn't either. But his anger and fear overpowered him, he will not allow that to happen again. Klaus on the other hand is an original, which makes him all the more dangerous to her then himself, he can not be trusted with her. Not with the woman that he has discovered that he's fallen in love with.