Stocking gift for the wonderful @rubickk7
It all started with an exam, her mysterious guide taking her to an exam to see if she could get into magical grad school. Maybe it started earlier than that — with the interview gone wrong. When she and Bonnie had stumbled on a dead body in what was supposed to be Caroline’s Yale interview.
That was the moment right? When everything changed.
If she hadn’t followed the page for Fillory book 6 would any of this have happened?
The craziest part is that Caroline isn’t sure she’d change it? She’d change some of the circumstances and the consequences but she loves her weird coven.
Yes maybe they were brought together by blood and a maniacal bastard but she loves them. They're her people.
Bonnie, her lifelong best friend, they drifted apart for a bit when they got into Brakebills, when Bonnie was a knowledge and Caroline was undeclared (but assigned to the cottage). They had some of their worst fights but Caroline knows they’re closer now than ever before.
Her roommate Kat, a psychic traveler who didn’t know how not to run away. Who pretended like she didn’t care about anyone.
(Who saved her life multiple times despite claiming not to care about Caroline).
Caroline is still going to bother her with Taylor Swift though
There’s Enzo St John who became her best friend outside of Bonnie. Who is one of the most brilliant magicians Caroline has ever met and literally sneaked into Brakebills because he wasn’t invited… all to find out what happened to his sister.
And of course the Mikaelsons.
Kol with his hedge stars, knowledge of battle magic and heart eyes for her best friend.
Rebekah who ruled the Cottage, was obsessed with Welters and yet was as much of a Fillory nerd as Caroline was. Who put up an Ice Queen front but was one of the softest people
Her mysterious exam guide, who comforted her with one of his darkest secrets when she was worried about being expelled and ending back in the hospital. The same person who brought her into his inner circle that had previously just been him and his sister.
(The one she’d slept with when feeling the effects of emotion magic) (They don’t talk about that night)
She remembers the cliffside where she crowned him High King, then he’d crowned Rebekah as High Queen, then had crowned Enzo and herself.
(Neither Kol or Bonnie hadn’t wanted it but they had technically been ambassadors.. Caroline had joked that the alone time brought them closer.. and it did).
They had almost lost Enzo in the fight against Silas but he’d they’d managed to defeat him and then had to save a fairytale land where magic was failing. They’d had to fight a political game that had ended with magic being shut off and they had been overrun by fairies.
And then the quest for the seven keys. Which had brought new challenges. Kat had almost died and been taken by the Library. Thankfully Bonnie had found a loophole. Enzo had lost his father and then he and Rebekah had finally gotten their shit together.
Caroline had known joy and grief like no other. She’d grown old and had children and grandchildren.
(Their daughter Lizzie was never far from her thoughts)
She and Klaus had come back and things had been weird. They hadn’t really talked since then. Caroline had come face to face with the worst version of herself and came out victorious. She and Klaus were still avoiding each other, Caroline’s focus was on the quest and his on the election.
It all leads to right now.
They were en route to Castle Blackspire to bring back magic. They’re so close she can almost taste it — maybe afterward they can talk right?
