Who: Tyler and Caroline What: Caroline is over the sire bond When: August 2nd Where: Caroline's place Ratings/Warnings: Low Status: Complete
Caroline wasn’t the type fo girl who needed her boyfriend’s attention constantly. She had a life of her own. Her own things going on. The blonde had always been good at keeping herself busy. However it would be nice if she could actually see her boyfriend/ If he wasn’t constantly cancelling plans. What was the point of being together if they couldn’t actually be together? Even though Caroline knew why Tyler had to keep leaving, she couldn’t help but be frustrated.
Caroline had held her tongue long enough. She knew she needed to say something the next time she actually saw Tyler. Which is exactly what she did when he arrived at her house pretty late after another ‘outing’ with Klaus. “About time,” Caroline said coolly when she opened the door.
Tyler had the feeling that he probably would have wanted nothing more than to break the sire bond, but the feeling hadn’t come back since Klaus had told him that he couldn’t. Still, there was nothing more frustrating than being called away from his plans with Caroline. He loved her, though he knew he couldn’t say as much when Klaus was always coming in first.
But she had been cool about it, which was nice. She knew that he couldn’t help it, and she didn’t hold that against him. At least, that’s what he thought until her chilly reception.
“Sorry,” Tyler said, feeling a familiar stab of guilt. “Klaus wanted to go out tonight.” As if Caroline didn’t already know that.
Of course Caroline already knew that. At least she sure hoped it was Klaus and that Tyler didn’t have another girl on the side. But that was just her insecurity. She knew Tyler would never cheat on her. Besides it was always Klaus. And Caroline had seen first hand just how demanding he could be.
“I figured,” Caroline said leading Tyler into the house. She poured them both a drink - she was going to need one for this conversation. Placing the drinks on the coffee table she took a seat on the couch waiting for Tyler to do the same.
“Look,” Caroline began taking a sip of her drink for courage. “I know you can’t help but do what Klaus wants. I know none of this is your fault…” a pause while she took another sip of her drink. “But it would just be nice to have a boyfriend who was around once in awhile.”
Tyler lifted the glass from the coffee table as he sat beside her and lifted it to his lips to take a sip, but when she started talking, he lowered it again. He had hoped this conversation wasn’t going to ever come up, and yet, here they were. “I know,” he said, placing his glass back onto the coffee table. “I do, Care. And I hate it. I hate it as much as you do. I’m trying to spend as much time with you as I can.” Which, admittedly, wasn’t much, between Klaus and his jobs.
Caroline was silent for a moment, letting Tyler’s words sink in. She hadn’t had any dreams since she dreamt of her birthday. Which was probably for the best. Because if she had, if she knew there was a way to break the bond she’d probably be both offended and hurt that he hadn’t tried yet.
“So that’s it?” Caroline finally asked her voice soft. “You’re sired to Klaus and that’s that. I just have to settle for having a boyfriend that’s barely a boyfriend?”
“I’m sorry,” he said, brushing her cheek with his knuckles. “I could try talking to him…” He didn’t sound convinced. He’d stood up to Klaus once while he’d been sired, and it had resulted in him biting Caroline even when he was sure that he would never do it. He’d seen how little Klaus cared for Caroline’s life here. If he stood up to Klaus, and Klaus didn’t like it, he didn’t want to imagine what his sire would make him do to his girlfriend.
“But it’s a bad idea,” Caroline finished for him. She could tell by his voice that it was. Plus she had seen Klaus in action. She knew perfectly well what he was capable of. “It’s fine,” Caroline said with a sigh followed by her downing the rest of her drink. “If you can live with it I can too.”
And there she was, supportive, sympathetic Caroline. Once again, he was struck by the thought that she was way too good for him. How the hell had he ended up with someone so great. “That’s the thing, Caroline. I don’t know if I can,” he said. “But there’s nothing I can do. We’ve tried avoiding him, and I’m pretty sure that just made him worse. I don’t know how I’m supposed to live with this.”
It was a bit of a relief to hear Tyler was struggling with it as well. Sometimes it was hard to tell with how eager he was to plead Klaus all the time. More so in the dreams. Although she sure hoped that after he bit her the eagerness faded. “How do you deal with it in the dreams?” she asked. “I mean you can’t still be willing to please him after what he made you do to me,” a pause as her big blue eyes looked hopefully into his. “Right?”
“Right,” Tyler agreed, and then took a deep breath. “I was able to break the sire bond in the dreams,” he said. It was a conversation that needed to happen, probably before Caroline dreamed of him breaking the sire bond and thinking that he hadn’t here because he didn’t want to. “Once I realized I was sired to Klaus, I tried to break it here too. But he found me, and forbade it.”
Caroline began to frown. He broke the sire bond in the dreams, but hadn’t tried here? But then she heard the rest of what Tyler said and understood. “And you can’t go against his wishes,” Caroline concluded. “But I can. How do you break it?”
“You can’t in this case,” Tyler said, frowning. “The only way to break the sire bond is to stop feeling grateful to Klaus for taking away the werewolf transformations every month. I had to go through the transformation hundreds of times before I was able to break it.”
Well that was not the news she wanted to hear. She hated there was nothing she could do to help Tyler. But that was pushed aside at the moment. “You did that?” Caroline asked. She had seen Tyler transform first hand in the dreams. She saw how much pain he caused him. “You put yourself through that… hundreds of times?” A pause as the information really sunk in. “Ohmygod, Tyler,” Caroline said placing her hands over his. “I’m sorry.” Not that it was her fault. She was just sorry he had to go through that. Even if it was only in the dreams.
“I did that for you,” Tyler said gently, twisting his hands so he could take Caroline’s in his, and he pulled them to his lips. “I wouldn’t have had the strength to do it if it wasn’t for you.” That, he knew. Not the first time. In this life, knowing he could do it was enough, but that first time, with no guarantee that it would even work...
Even if he was just talking about their dreamselves, hearing that he did that for her, it made her heart melt. But now wasn’t the time for that. “We will find another way,” Caroline told Tyler. “Breaking every bone in your body can’t be the only way. There has to be a spell or something. Something that I can do to break it.” Since Tyler couldn’t go against what Klaus wanted. It was up to her.
“There isn’t,” Tyler said. “You shouldn’t bother; it would just be a waste of time,” he told her. Whether or not those were his true thoughts or Klaus’s sirebond keeping him from looking for help, he didn’t know or think about. All he knew was what was in the dreams, and in the dreams there had been no spell to help.
“Not to me.” Caroline didn’t care what Tyler believed. She would do anything she could to help him break this bond. Not just to get her boyfriend back. But so Tyler could have control of his own life. He could go on thinking there was no other way, that Caroline would just be wasting her time. She didn’t care. She would find a way.