Klaroline: Little Do You Know

Chapter 30: Gone

~ Caroline's Pov ~

My mother has officially taken possession of my daughter and disappeared somewhere deep within the house, leaving me the opportunity to speak to Elena. "Are you sure about this?"

"I have to do this." I take is cheek in my hand and stroke my thumb gently across his skin. "It's okay."

"If she, so much as lays a finger on you." He shakes his head.

"I'll break her hand myself." He smiles softly at me then kisses me quickly.

"That's my girl." We pull apart and he unlocks the door letting himself into the room, a tired groan and some shuffling come from the room and soon Klaus emerges the trace of his blood still on his lips. "I'm right behind the door." I nod and walk into the room, the door closes behind me. Elena's sitting crouched against the back wall clutching her chest and breathing quickly. She looks up at me wide eyed.

"Caroline?" She rasps, her voice like sandpaper.

"Hello Elena." She pushes herself up on shaky legs and stumbles towards me, I step back to keep her from reaching me.

"Care?" She wobbles where she stands, still weak from Klaus' venom.

"You tried to kill my baby Elena." I say keeping my voice as stable as possible, still struggling with that reality.

"Caroline, that thing wasn't a baby. Klaus had you under compulsion, I needed to make you see." She takes another shaky step towards me.

"No Elena." I have to fight every nerve, every instinct in my body that urges me to rip her head from her shoulders. "After everything Elena, you were my best friend. God I did everything for you, we all did everything for you and you actually tried to kill me, my baby..." I take a deep breath. "All I wanted Elena, was to be happy. So this is it, this is goodbye Elena."

"Goodbye? What do you mean?"

"We're making sure you can never hurt anyone ever again. We're taking you to the tomb." I ignore Elena's screams as I hurry out of the room, Klaus locks the door behind me. I bury my face in my hands, tears stream from my eyes through the cracks in my fingers and plummet to the concrete floor. Klaus wraps his arms around me, pulling me tight against him.

~ Damon's Pov ~

I'm standing by the basement door when Klaus and Caroline emerge, Caroline's eyes meet mine; they're bright red, she's been crying. "Is it okay if I go talk to her?" Klaus nods at me. I walk down the stairs to the dark basement, when I come to the door to Elena's cell I stop. I unlock the door and let myself in, closing it behind me. Elena looks up at me from her place on the floor. "Damon!" She rushes over to me and wraps her arms around me. I rest my hands on her hips and gently push her away from me. "Damon?"

"Elena." I run my hand through my hair. "God Elena...How could you? How could you do something like that to Caroline?"

"Klaus was-"

"Enough!" I shout and she flinches. "Klaus loves Caroline and she loves him no compulsion involved, that's it Elena. Why is that not good enough for you? God why isn't anything ever enough for you? Why wasn't I not good enough for you? I would have done anything for you, I did everything for you; I loved you Elena!" I turn to face the door, my eyes brimming with tears.

"You are good enough for me Damon, I love you."

"No, you don't Elena. You don't love me, you stopped loving me the second you found out Caroline was in love with Klaus." I turn back to look at her. "When you went off Wickery bridge, my world ended. If you didn't have my blood in your system I would have ended it all because I couldn't bear to live in a world without you in it." I brush her hair out of her face and she places her hands on my hips. "Then you were alive, really alive and you were in love with me; but then it was like you died all over again." The tears spill down my cheeks. "I lost you again, and this time you're not coming back...The woman I love is dead, I can't live without her." I kiss her forehead and step away from her, tears fall freely down her cheeks as I let myself out of the room. I lock the door behind me, I lean against the door and slide down to the floor hanging my head in my hands and letting everything escape, all the pain, all the anger.

~ Caroline's Pov ~

"I'll put her into a hibernation so we can take her without issues." Destiny finishes running us through how everything's going to work when we take Elena to Mystic Falls. I spot Damon in the hallway as Stefan and Elijah ask Destiny some more questions. I excuse myself and walk out to Damon, I wrap my arms around him and hug him tightly.

"I'm so sorry Damon." I feel his tears as they land on my shoulder and run down my back.

"She's gone." He whispers.

"I know." Tears fall slowly down my cheeks as we mourn the Elena that we knew. I feel a hand on my shoulder, Damon and I pull apart to see Stefan. Damon hugs him hard, Stefan hugs him back tightly; both of them silent. After a while they pull apart.

"Destiny's ready to put her into hibernation. So now would be a good time to get ready to leave for Mystic Falls." He nods and walks upstairs. Damon clears his throat and stands up straight.

"Did you uh, read that letter I wrote you yet?" He asks looking at his feet.

"No not yet, I'll read it now."

"No. Uh, just wait till we get back. After all this is over."

"Okay." Before I can question him Klaus calls us into the living room.

~ Stefan's Pov ~

I walk into the nursery to find Rebekah sitting in front of a large dollhouse playing some game with Mia. "Hi Stefan." Mia says stopping their game. Rebekah rolls her eyes at me and looks away. 

"Hey there, what are you two up to?" I ask as I walk into the room.

"Bekah and I are playing Princesses."

"Princesses? Wow that sounds like fun, can I play?"

"Yeah! You can be the Prince." I take a seat on the floor next to Rebekah as Mia hands me a doll dressed like a prince. 

"Well thank you very much, what have I missed so far?"

"Well, the Princess Rebekah is hiding in her room because the mean Prince Stefan left her all alone on a bloody rock in the middle of nowhere." Rebekah says as she places her doll on the bed in one of the rooms.

"That's a bad word." Mia says.

"That's right Mia, you tell her." She smiles and hides behind the dollhouse. "And Prince Stefan didn't mean for that to happen, there were really important things that Prince Stefan needed to do."

"Well Prince Stefan shouldn't have said all the things he said if he didn't mean it."

"Well maybe Prince Stefan meant everything he said to Princess Rebekah, but he's just scared to let himself feel that way."

"Well maybe Prince Stefan needs to stop-"

"Queen Mia has decided that Princess Rebekah and Prince Stefan need to stop fighting and be friends again." Mia interrupts with a stern look on her face. "Queen Mia has also decided that Princess Rebekah and Prince Stefan are to be married and will live happily ever after." She puts her doll down and skips out of the room leaving Rebekah and I alone on the floor. 

"I'm sorry, for everything. I seem to be doing a lot of apologising lately." I rub the back of my neck uncomfortably. 

"Well you should be, I told you things I hardly allow myself to think and you left me there." 

"I know. Listen Rebekah, you have no reason to forgive me or even consider giving me another chance to prove myself to you; but I just want you to know, I want to give you those things...a life, a family." I shake my head. "Just spending time with you away from the chaos, getting to see the real you; I want you to be happy Rebekah." I move to stand up but she presses her lips against mine stopping me dead in my tracks. She pulls away and looks into my eyes. 

"If I wake up with another bloody dagger in my heart, literal or metaphorical, there will be hell to pay." She laughs, I smile at her and kiss her again.