"Go in"

Phil pushed Klaus in the cell without any softness.

"How is she? You didn't hurt her, right?"

"Ask her yourself!" the hunter viciously smiled.

He laughed. Klaus shivered. What did he mean? Will he let him see Caroline before he let her go?

He heard a cough and turn around, his eyes adapting to the surrounding darkness.

"Klaus?" a weak feminine voice asked.

"Caroline?" Klaus ran to her and noticed how she was tied to the wall by verveined ropes. He tried to cut them but it burned him more than any vervein had ever had. She had already gone back to uncounciousness.

He ran back to the door and yelled:

"You said you'd let her go!"

"I said I'd let one of them go and I did"

"Kol?"

"Yeah... I let you choose the one you wanted to save and you chose him" the blonde man answered.

"I chose her!" Klaus grumbled through the opening in the door.

"Oh... I thought you said you wanted to spent your last days with her... My bad!" Phil shrugged.

"Let her go!"

"No, I said I'd let you save one and Kol is already gone... It's too late! But think of yourselves as the new Romeo and Juliet, you'll die for her and she'll die because of you".

The hunter smiled one last time before pushing a button on the wall. He then left, not without a wink adressed to Klaus.

Suddenly the air became heavy and hard to breathe. The bastard had put vervein in the ventilation. He tried to fight it but the dose in the air was heavy. More and more he felt a heaviness to stay awake and stand up. He knew he was going to fall uncouncious as well but before he wanted to untie Caroline whose arms were covered of blisters and flushes.

He crawled to her but before he could even touch the rope, he fell on the floor, right beside her. Her face in his sight. He saw her tears that had wet her top. His heart broke. He felt like nothing ever had hurt so much before in his life. If he wanted anything in life, it was her happiness... And if he dispised anything, it was to see her hurt...

He was angry, mad, flipped. He wanted to kill the man that dragged her into that and paint the walls with his blood. He was down now, but that wouldn't last and that psycopath would regret he had ever laid an eye on her, let alone a hand.

[...] {...} [...]

Klaus opened his eyes. He was lost for a few seconds. Where was he? What had happened? Why was he tied with a rope, a really hurting rope?

"Finally, the princess had woken up!" declared a voice beside him.

He saw her, Caroline. In a state he had never seen her before. Even dying after Tyler had biten her, she looked better than she did now.

"Caroline..."

"What are you doing here?"

"To save you"

She smiled, a mi-ironic mi-tired smile. It costed her more effort than she wanted him to see.

"Let me guess... You failed?"

He sighed. He had been screwed. There was no other word. Phil had screwed him into choosing his brother, a vampire that couldn't die with a normal stake instead of her, a "mortal" vampire.

"I... I could only save one of you..."

"Oh... That explains Kol's dissapearing... Thought he had been killed!" she shrugged.

That hurt her, a shadow of pain passed on her face but she managed to stop the cry she had in her throat.

"How am I..."

"He came in 2 hours ago to tie you... He said you would be mad and that he'd better tie you before you tried to kill his protege" she explained as she saw him fighting with the ropes that were like cutting knife on his wrists.

"You saved him... Kol..." she stated.

Her face was inexpressive but he still could hear the hurt and pain in her voice.

"After all your big declarations... I thought you would have chosen me..." she said in a sad laugh "How stupid am I? I should have known, it's a thing to woo a girl, it's another thing to actually do anything for her"

"No... You don't..."

"Oh please! Don't tell me you tried everything but you could only save him..."

"But..."

"No... You know what? I get it. He is your brother, your family..."

How could he explain to her that she was the one he wanted to save? He couldn't. She was already bitter and having a scene with her wouldn't help him to get to the hunter. He'd have to wait for him to come in and see them and there he would attack him and get the both of them out of that cellar.

He chose to remain silent. She looked at him, hoping to hear him find some excuses. She sighed when she realized he wasn't going to say anything.

Perfect, she wouldn't say a word either. If that crazy-head thought he was going to make her talk and forgive him like that, he could wait… forever.

[…] {…} […]

Phil was bored. He thought he had a great idea when he decided to release Kol instead of Caroline. He had put Klaus in the same cellar with the hope to see him try his best to save her, because he was obviously interested by her.

Watching the last days of a young love, that sounded promising. But no, those two had chosen to ignore one another since they had been put together after a conversation full of hatred and hurt. Since that nothing. She had fallen asleep and he was staring at the wall beside her as if he had never been more captivated by anything in his life.

Maybe he should go to the Mystic Grill, have a drink and come back since nothing was happening.

"Caroline"

Phil, who was putting on his jacket, looked back at the screen which was showing the inside of the cellar.

"Finally" he thought with a smile.

"Caroline" Klaus repeated, his gaze still locked on the wall.

The young girl opened her eyes and shook her head.

"What?"

"Maybe we should talk… I know you're still mad at me for…"

"For what? Killing my friend's aunt? Trying to kill every person that I care about? Changing my boyfriend into some kind of monster like you?" she snapped with all the energy she had left.

"For compelling you… I'm deeply sorry!"

She produced a sound that could mean anything but her look told him, it was disdain. She hadn't forgive him and she was not ready to. Specially not now that she thought he could have saved her and chose not to.

For the first time, he wished he had not compelled her. The joy he had felt when he heard her say she had feelings for him was a pale consolation now. She hated him probably more than ever.

He had killed all hopes with her…

Phil smiled. He could see the pain on the face of the most famous vampire and it wasn't caused by the ropes, the air… It was caused by his feelings and it was enjoyable.

Though it was already over. This time he chose to really go out, maybe find Jeremy and talk about the modification of their plans. Klaus was probably more difficult to kill than this other vampire, Kol.

[…] {…} […]

Jeremy was at the Mystic Grill. He was waiting for Klaus. The original had told him he would take care of the Phil case and then go to the Mystic Falls to reassure the young Gilbert on Caroline's state.

The original had been a little bit overconfident when he had said it would be done in the hour. It had been 3 hours and there was still no Klaus. He was starting to worry.

He had thought the Original was the better option, he was older, stronger and wiser than his sister and all her friends combined. But if he had been captured or killed, what could he, Jeremy Gilbert, do?

He looked at his watch, only 3 minutes since the last time he looked. He sighed.

Suddenly he heard the door opened and turned his head in hope. When he saw Phil, he hid with difficulty his surprise and worse his fright. If Klaus had succeeded, there was no way he had let the hunter go. That could mean only one thing: Klaus had failed.

The hunter saw his apprentice and waved at him. He joined him after asking for a beer at the bar.

"You would never guess what I found tonight!" he laughed

"No… What?" the young boy was trying to sound as natural as he could.

"Klaus… Maybe that don't ring your bell since you're still a new vampire hunter but in our world, he's like a superstar. The top of the list of the wanted people. The man who will kill him will be…"

Phil hushed. He saw the young boy who faced him shiver at the name of Klaus.

"What?"

"No… Nothing. I know Klaus, he killed my aunt…" he tried to explain his weird attitude.

"Sorry, mate!"

"It's okay… What happened with him?"

"He was at the warehouse. He wanted to save his little friends. I think he wanted to kill me but the dude didn't expect someone like me. It was ridiculous how easily I captured him."

"You mean he's in the cellar with the other two"

"No… I made a deal with him, I had to let one of the other go" the blond man shrugged.

Jeremy's heart started to beat faster. If he had let Caroline go, many of their problems would be solved: Caroline would be safe and two Originals would be put away. Not killed because no one else knew about the white oak, so no one of their bloodline would die too.

"He wanted to save the girl… The poor fool, I got him! I let the guy go and… Oh you should have seen his face" the hunter laughed at the memory.

Jeremy felt like someone had put all the weight of the world on his shoulders…

"You can't kill him" he said expressionless.

"What?"

"You can't kill him… He's an original and…"

"An original? What does it mean?" Phil interrupted.

"It means he is the oldest vampire on earth, he can't be killed with a basic stake. But he is also an hybrid: semi-vampire, semi-werewolf. Nothing can kill him"

"How do you know?" the hunter was shocked

"I told you he killed my aunt, he changed her into a vampire to break his curse. He also tried to kill my sister… He became an hybrid and now, there is nothing that can kill him."

Phil's expression was blank. He stood up and made his way to the door.

"Phil?" Jeremy tried to held him back.

But Phil acted like he hadn't heard him he kept going. At first he tried to find his mind, which was paralyzed and then he realized he had been screwed. Klaus would pay. He would prove to him than death isn't the worst thing that can happen. He would make him suffer…

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