Fade Into Me

Finn

Caroline ran as fast as she could, her heart was about to burst and her breath was burning in her throat but she didn't care, she didn't care about her beautiful dress being covered in dirt as she sprinted down the path that led to his lodge.
She was crying with the words the village people had told her, how dared they? To bang on her door with such urgency to tell her such evil lies.

She finally saw his family's hut and rushed to the door. It was open; she felt her knees go weak as she saw the floor covered in blood stains and pools.
She covered her mouth and moved inside slowly now, the first body she saw was Tatia's.

Her friend has white as snow and her wrists and throat had been sliced open. Caroline felt sick but tamed her stomach desperately searching for him, she saw two more bodies and rushed there.
Esther and Henrik.

Caroline fell to her knees, stroking the youngest Mikaelson's face, the sweet innocent boy who teased Niklaus, saying that he would grow up to marry Caroline instead of him.
"Oh Henrik..." Caroline cried cradling the little boy in her lap. He was so young, too young and now he was dead.

She raised her eyes in panic, where were the rest of them?
The village people had been to her house speaking of a tragedy, a massive wolf attack on the Mikaelson family killing most of them.

Where was Niklaus?

Finn came inside the hut and she gasped, he seemed well and so did his father that followed him.
"Caroline? What are you doing here girl? There's nothing for you here. You shouldn't be here." Mikael spoke in that loathing way of his.

"Where's the rest of them?" she asked unconsciously holding Henrik closer.
"Dead." Finn quietly said and laid a sheet on the ground, wrapping Tatia's lifeless body in it.

Caroline clenched her teeth and looked at Mikael that picked Esther's body next to her.
"This was no wolf attack, what did you do?" she asked him mad.

Mikael stopped with his wife in his arms. "Niklaus is dead, they are all dead. We have sent them down the river already."
"You lie." she said trying to stop Finn that took Henrik away from her arms.

She quickly got up and followed the men outside; night was coming to the village.
"Where is his body?" she asked Mikael that placed the lifeless body of his wife across his horse.

He got on his horse and held the body laid in front of him making sure she didn't fall, he looked at Finn that was setting their hut on fire. "Take care of her." he simply told his son and then looked at Caroline. "Make sure he finds her dead body."

Caroline gulped down watching Mikael strut away and had to think fast, she didn't wait and started running, she rushed back to her hut but she was tired from before and her legs were shaking and wobbly, too heavy for a clean escape. But she ran, she ran as fast as she could with Mikael's words in her mind, Niklaus was alive and she had to go to him, find where he was and then everything would be all right.

She saw her lodge and smiled but Finn was already waiting for her, cutting her way, she looked back, how he got here so fast? How was it possible that he was now in front of her? She squinted at him confused.

He smiled and took a step towards her. "Caroline..." he said with that tone she hated.
Unlike sweet Henrik, Finn had desires of his own for her. She spent most of her days dodging his disgusting advances on her.

"Niklaus will come for me." she said fiercely.
"Niklaus is dead."

"He is not. You are lying, I don't know what happened in there but he is alive, I just know it and he will come for me."
"Well, he won't like what I'm leaving for him to see then." Finn said and she recognized that spiteful way in him that she hated.