"Oh, this is just all kinds of wrong..." Caroline said to herself as she turned the key inside of her car and narrowed her eyes, further clenching her teeth together as the entire scene unfolded slowly in front of her baby-blue eyes.

Klaus was dropping off his two siblings at her school.

Ever since that night in the woods when they were all forced to join forces to defeat Esther that things had shifted completely, now the gang was forced to share the same town with the remaining four Original siblings who decided to stay around waiting for the matriarch to return and finish what she started.

Which would be fine with Caroline if it wasn't for the small detail that her best friend Bonnie was also a target of the old wench after helping Klaus during the confrontation.

It was like suddenly everyone was under siege and that's exactly what brought Caroline back to the almost sweet image, the big brother was worried about Rebekah and Kol so he was dropping and picking them off as often as he could.

Caroline took a deep breath and got out of her car, she slammed the door a little too harshly as she tried to ignore the dirty-blond haired man at the wheel, she would not let him get to her, not today, she assured herself as she lifted her head high, shook her soft curls and strutted towards the front gate without giving him the satisfaction of crossing stares with him.

Klaus smiled and shook his head a little, did she really believe that he didn't catch every side-look that she so desperately tried not to cast his way?

"Thank you for another pleasant car journey Nik, don't forget that I have cheerleader practice today." Rebekah said with a smile.

It brought his attention closer to the car but Klaus merely motioned a hand at her knowing that Kol was about to shoot one of his remarks.

"Yes… thank you greatly for dropping us at school every morning like we were five." Kol scoffed.

"Try not to kill anyone today, baby brother." Klaus said and drove away immediately while leaving his characteristic smile behind.

Kol pushed the cool black shades closer to his eyes in a desperate attempt to shield from all these idiotic humans, the fact that they were all breathing so closely to him left him enervated, there should a safety distance of at least a country between him and the teenager population of Depressing Falls.

"You know Kol… you could try to be nice to Nik sometimes. He keeps making all of these grand sacrifices for us and all you do is scold him and lash out like the little brat that everyone assumes I am."

Kol stood before the stairs looking at his sister who was waving at some random girls that walked by them thankfully without stopping. "Are you serious?"

He asked her with a cocked eyebrow that she could see peeking from above the rim of his sunglasses and Rebekah's smile faded a bit. "Why are you always so negative? You either act like you are on drugs the entire time or bark on Nik's heels like you are expecting him to dagger you on purpose."

Kol closed his eyes and tried to organize some sort of speech inside of his mind. "I am stuck in bloody high-school in bloody Mystic Falls. I am not the slightestinterested in any of these pathetic little lives that you so desperately want to befriend. I am not you Rebekah, and I am most definitely not a bloody teenager! And I would really appreciate if the two of you would stop treating me like one." He hissed the last words as he pointed angrily at the ground.

Rebekah rolled her eyes. "You are such a drama queen Kol!" She started to walk away.

He pressed his lips upset. "And you're too old to wear a cheerleader skirt."

Rebekah paused with a narrow of her eyes.

Before she even turned he could see her building up to unleash a bunch of angry words on his face so he waited for her with a grin.

"You're a wanker." She faced him furious.

He simply shrugged. "And you're living out the wrong fantasy."

"We didn't get any of this!" She shouted in his face. "We were all forced to grow up from the second that we were turned…" she threw her hand in the air. "Elijah was right, we need to see this as an experiment, as a chance to taste a somehow normal life. We should enjoy being a teenager as you so bloody look down on because our time to be a bloody teenager was stolen from us." she finished annoyed.

"Elijah, Nik, you… all of you are acting as pathetic creatures and if Nik hadn't threatened to dagger me again unless I did this, you can bet your sweet behind that I would be long gone by now."

"Do you really want so desperately to leave us again? To leave me?" she calmed down with sorrow in her voice. "You spent so much time inside of that coffin that I barely got a chance to live with you and now on the very first occasion you want to abandon me."

Kol wavered. "It's… not that… precisely." he lowered his head and his attitude a bit.

Rebekah looked down on her beautiful black boots. "You are all so eager to move on and to get away from me. Nik is the only one who never truly left me, or any us for that matter. He is the only one who always wanted us to live as a family." She said with glistening eyes.

"Bekah…" Kol stroked her arm gently. "I'm sorry love… I guess I'm just more insufferable than usual. I'm not going anywhere today." he smiled at her in that carefree way of his.

Rebekah's smile returned to her beautiful face, she knew that it was probably a lie but sometimes she needed those lies, she needed to feel the warmth of them so that she could forget that her parents wanted her dead.

"Come on, we will be late to some overwhelming nothingness." Kol motioned his head towards the building.

Caroline dragged herself across the hallways feeling like this was going to be just one of those endless days, she could just feel it in her bones, she felt tired and unenthusiastic, something that had been a constant for the last week.

"Morning Care."

She heard Matt's voice and she immediately brightened up, maybe today would be a little better after all, when she turned to face him he was smiling and that was definitely a cheer up device. "Good morning Donovan, how are you this morning?"

Her extremely polite tone made Matt laugh. "I'm ok I guess..."

Caroline smiled and bumped into his shoulder playfully. "So how was your date?"

Matt was a little uncomfortable at first, Caroline was after all his former girlfriend and she was asking him about another girl but then again, she was one of his closest friends as well. "It was ok, I'm still getting to know her."

"When will I know her name?" she asked excited.

Matt rubbed the back of his neck. "Care… I don't think that you know her."

Caroline raised her eyebrow. "I know everyone in this town Matt."

Matt smiled and lifted a finger to the sound of his saving bell, Caroline frowned but followed him into the classroom, only to fight the urge to gag as she saw Kol and Rebekah just two seats before the table that she usually shared with Matt in Biology.

Their class was monotonous as always, lately it was hard to find school interesting and motivating, sure she still loved the human side of her life but she also had too much going on inside of her head, there were too many doubts and questions about her new vampire aspect and no one available to answer them.

She shook her head from the turmoil that consumed her and tried to focus on the open frog that Matt so happily explored on their table, the image of Matt giggling as a little boy when another guy left the classroom noxious made her smile.

Then something else caught her attention, the two siblings from hell were talking, whispering actually and she would be happy to ignore them if it wasn't for the intriguing topic.

"How was your date Bekah?"

"It's none of your business Kol."

"You arrived home rather early, I expected no less than a smooth return by dawn."

"Leave me alone Kol."

"Does Nik know?"

"Know what?"

"That you are dating the Quarterback."

Caroline froze in her seat, the conversation had finally answered all of her suspicions for the last week, she squeezed the pen in her hand and felt the ink pop out as the stupid thing broke in her hands, she eyed Matt with a glare.

He looked at her completely confused. "What?"

"Seriously?" she asked still clutching the pen.

"What? What is it Care?" He looked as perplexed as he felt.

"R-e-b-e-k-a-h." she spelled each letter with absolute hatred.

Matt's mouth fell open and without thinking he looked behind his shoulder meeting Rebekah's questioning eyes, when he returned his eyes to Caroline she was cleaning her hand with determination.

"When were you going to tell me?" she asked him unwilling to take her eyes away from her painted palm.

"Rebekah and I just started talking one day at The Grill and then things just sort of happened after that. I guess that I was waiting for the right time to tell you but… since that thing with your father that you've had some really bad weeks Care." he tried to explain.

Caroline nodded without saying a word, she needed time to process the information, Rebekah Mikaelson was dating Matt Donovan, it was hard to think of a crappier round of news.

Matt looked at Rebekah again. "I really like her Care…"

Caroline decided to spend the rest of the hour staring at the watch hopping that her day would rush to an end.

"Awww… he is in love! And by the looks of it, so are you little sister."

"Shut up you prick! And yes, Nik already knows about Matt so don't bother rushing home to tell him."

"Whatever you say darling."

The hours slowly went by for Caroline and not even lunch with Elena and Bonnie seemed to ease her mind today, it was such a turmoil within that she was going slowly insane, minute by excruciating minute.

Around the middle of her afternoon she had enough, she turned on her heels and headed outside instead of going to History, facing the recently turned vampire Alaric was too much to handle today, she was fed up with all the changes in her life, everything was changing and she hated it.

She tried not to flash over to her car but as soon as she reached it she dropped her bag inside without getting in, she didn't feel like being constricted into a small space and her eyes desperately looked for a way out.

Before she knew what she was doing she was running through the woods then flashing in her supernatural speed, when she was far enough from her school she stopped and dropped to her knees, she couldn't breathe because there was something suffocating her, gripping at her throat viciously.

Her mind was racing with a bundle of loud thoughts, there were so many doubts and questions brewing, she was forced very early on by Damon to accept her change into a vampire and she wasn't given any margin of error and everyone just kept on demanding more and more of her.

She was expected to be a good vampire out of nowhere and she was expected to be friendly to the man who killed her father, just like she was now expected to accept Rebekah into her strict circle of friends.

She grabbed the side of her head moaning, if she was still human she would be throwing up by now yet she felt nauseated, dizzy and felt tears come to her eyes and for a moment she thought that she was actually going to pass out.

This was too much, she could put on a show for the rest of them but in reality she couldn't handle all of this alone, the very weight of the world was covering her like a dark sinister and heavy blanket.

No one understood her or cared enough to understand, that was the truth that she had to deal with every single day, talking about these insecurities of hers would just come across as her own desperate attempt to demand attention and she wasn't that Caroline anymore, she was not girly little Caroline anymore, no, she was strong and… full of light.

His words echoed inside of her mind, why was she going back to that damn night? Because it haunted her.

The way he said it, the honesty behind his words had hit her stronger than she would ever admit and as the tears streamed down her face she brought her knees closer to her chest, lacing her arms around them she lowered her head and finally allowed all the thoughts that had been shy before to come forward.

She cried feeling as alone and lost as she had ever felt.

Her head started spinning again, there was a wave of cold covering her from head to toe. "Oh God…" She moaned loudly. "Please make it stop…" she just wanted it to be over.

And just like that it happened, she felt warmth and it took her a second to realize that two very strong arms were being wrapped around her and she opened her eyes slowly to face a white cotton Henley.

She didn't have to look up to see who it was, she just knew, she could feel his steady breath against her hair and instead of shrieking away from his embrace she gave in, she shifted her weight and sat on the muddy ground leaning against his chest and holding on to his arm as if her very own existence depended on it.

She expected him to flinch somehow but he was Klaus and nothing surprised Klaus unless he wanted to be surprised.

She couldn't tell for how long they sat like this in the middle of the woods, only that her head finally stopped spinning and she didn't feel nauseated anymore, instead she felt safe.

Everything was quiet in her mind but she could hear the animals moving around them and she could hear the waterfalls and her head started pounding again. "Seriously…" she moaned. "Here we go again..."

"You must breathe." He finally spoke, he stroked her back gently with his hand while she tightened her grip around the one that was laced around her waist. "Breathe Caroline…" he whispered.

She smiled, she liked how he was one of the few who used her full name but she hated the way that he did it, she hated it a lot. "What's wrong with me?" She finally gained the courage to ask, shivering when she heard his soft chuckle.

"When was the last time you fed Caroline?"

There it was, her full name on his lips again. "I had a blood bag before school, like always." She answered.

"When was the last time you fed from something with a pumping vein attached to it?" he playfully asked.

Caroline reeled. "I… can't remember… I haven't hunted in a while."

"You are weak therefore you need to feed. You are far too young to start the idiotic Salvatore diet."

Caroline bit her lip, not sure if she was upset that he had mention how young she was or the way he had spat out the word Salvatore.

"That's why I feel sick?" It was a dumb question but honestly she hadn't felt that much at peace like she did in this moment and she wanted to be selfish and just stay like this for a little longer, even if it meant being held by the big bad Hybrid himself.

Klaus smiled and went along with her game, having Caroline in his arms was a burden he could bloody well endure for the rest of eternity. "Your body is just beginning to deal with your new abilities although you have been a vampire for a bit now, however since you most likely haven't fed from a human in what I'm assuming ever, everything is overwhelming right now. It will only get increasingly worst as you deprive your body from what he needs the most."

For a moment she expected him to use the word young again but instead he rested his chin on the top of her head and whispered in that sweet velvet voice of his.

"Close your eyes Caroline and focus on my breathing, shut everything out. All the sounds, the thoughts, everything occupying your mind and focus only on my breathing sweetheart."

And as soon as she did so, it was like magic, everything disappeared, her disquiet and her insecurities all vanished and she was in control again.

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Breathe in and breathe out - Matt Kearney