Klaroline Fic Rec Event 2020 - Day 6: Free-For-All
Title: Leave A Light On / You Hold Me in the Dark
Author: @lilbreck / lilbreck
Summary: Bonnie needs Caroline's help to change what has gone wrong and sends her back to shortly after the Salvatore brothers came to Mystic Falls. Heavily Caroline-centric, though it also features Bonnie and Sheila POV's.
Warnings: violence, dark themes, mentions of sexual abuse,, there's a little nongraphic bit of Klaus having sex with other people, one tiny bit of siblingcest
Status: First fic is complete, the sequel is currently incomplete
Why you should read it: More time travel fic! look im a fan. And okay while this isn't like, technically Klaroline fic (yet), the foundations are there!
So Bonnie is dead at the end of S4 and everything seems lost until Caroline is visited by her and Kol's spirits. They propose sending her back in time to change the outcome. Grief-stricken, Caroline agrees and wakes up back on the night of the idk Founder's Ball in S1 right after Stefan drugged Damon and took him away. (spoiler alert: Damon stays in desiccated rapist jail forever) From there, Caroline decides the best way to proceed is to write down everything she knows and take it to probably the only functional adult in Mystic Falls, Sheila Bennett. After some heavy persuasion, groveling, and mutual tears, Sheila agrees to help rewrite history to save her granddaughter. Thus kicks off Caroline getting herself turned, her history upended, and working towards the ultimate goal of getting Klaus on her side to help defeat Silas. How to do that? By helping him break his curse, ofc!
Watching the early seasons through a time travel lense is a trip and i cannot even imagine the time line charts Tanya used to organize this thing. Caroline working her bubblegum machinations on the whole town is a delight. By the time hints of Klaus start showing up, Caroline has her fingers in every supernatural pie in town.
The Klaus that comes to town eventually is every bit the ruthless nutjob that S2 promised us he'd be. First he antagonizes Caroline, and then he tests her. By the time the fic is over, you can see those Klaroline seeds planted absolutely everywhere.
Everything picks back up again in "You Hold Me in the Dark". Klaus is now on his hybrid making crusade with Caroline at his side. Kol is her new bff, and Bekah is pissed no one is paying enough attention to her. Elijah appears to be courting Liz Forbes, and Finn keeps on stopping by for tea. Honestly it is a tragedy that the fic is unfinished and I am still desperately hoping for more, but it's finished up to about the "Our Town" equivalent. Anyways please join me in begging Tonya for more so that she knows she is still remembered and loved and please come baaaaaack.
@klaroline-events okay I am DONE with day 6 now I promise!
