She froze in her tracks as soon as he said those fateful words, all thought of anything else completely pushed to the side. She didn’t care about her own safety or Matt’s or anyone’s for that brief instant as she turned back to look at Klaus. “What are you talking about?” she asked, and shook her head at her own idiocy, reeling around on her heel to look at Matt. “Matty? What the hell is he talking about?”
Tyler couldn’t have lost his mother. He’d already endured the pain of losing one parent. Wasn’t that enough? Why did he have to lose another. She knew how much it hurt to suddenly not have them around anymore. Even if his father had been a bastard. His mother though...just like her own, the last year or so had really strengthened their bonds and to lose that. She could only imagine the pain he was dealing with. Except...
She whirled back around, eyes narrowing in anger as the rest of what he said hit her. On the run. And that meant only one thing and she was looking right at it.”Why can’t you just leave him alone? Just leave us all the hell alone. He--all of them--just want to live without having to be at your damn beck and call and can you blame them? Who would want to live that way? Would anyone?” Caroline stepped toward Klaus, her anger overtaking any rational sense. “After one thousand years did you just completely forget how it is that you even make connections with people? Did you ever know? Do you even know what it means to actually care for someone besides yourself?” Because she sincerely doubted that he did.
Caroline threw her hands up in frustration, unable to stop herself from letting out a strangled sigh, not giving one damn that she was probably causing a scene. “You’re pathetic.”