Heyyyy guys,,

Before tou guys go on reading there are a few things I have to tell and explain.

1) This is my first fanfic in 4 years and this is my first fanfic in english (so please forgive me any mistakes)

2)It takes place after season 6, the only difference is that Stefan declared his love to our babie vampire but she does NOT fell the same way. The originials has Freya but none of the baby plot, don't worry I pretend to explain everything that happened in NOLA later.

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I was as pure as a river
But now I think I'm possessed
You put a fever inside me
And I've been cold since you left

- Haunting, Halsey

That was definitely not what Caroline expected when she decided to come and check on the original hybrid. Of course she never thought he would spend eternity waiting for her without companion of any other woman, but she never imagined he would find fun somewhere else so soon, especially with a girl who looked exactly like her. The girl did not only looked exactly like her, but it seemed it was an improved version of Caroline, she was strong, determined and without insecurities, as it seemed. And she was loved by all the Mikaelsons…

Caroline did not come to New Orleans because she was willing to admit that she might have missed the original ass, or that she was pretty sure she was in love with him – the with part she wasn't so sure anymore, she could say that she had fallen in love for him, or that she had only fallen, say that Klaus loved her wasn't right anymore – Caroline came to this freaking amazing city to warn the original family about the heretics and gather any information they had. She was in a mission and could not lose focus.

When she was wondering around the city looking for any clue where the originals could be she saw him with Cami, the better her version. They were not kissing or doing anything related but she could see the tension between them, and she saw in Klaus the same expression he had when he was around her back in Mystic Falls. Of course his attention was only in the blonde he was speaking, as you would imagine. Caroline did not stick to hear the conversation or watch them like a creepy stalker – which she was not! Klaus was the stalker! – She instead ran before the hybrid noticed her and entered the first bar she saw.

Here she was, drinking a cheap bottle of bourbon -which she found out; it was the best drink for heartbreak by watching the Salvatore's and their Elena drama-. Caroline was in the bar for almost 3 hours, and yet she could not forget the scene she had seen. Her head was still working on a million of scenarios and screaming how stupid she was, it was like that damn bourbon was not having the effect she expected.

The blonde had come to the conclusion that she would only see the originals the next day; she was in no condition to face Klaus. Caroline was really pissed with herself, hadn't she said that she was too smart to be seduced by him? When had she allowed him to get so much under her skin? She had never felt what she was feeling at that moment for any of her exboyfriends - not even Tyler, which only made her even more pathetic because she was only a thing for him. A shallow girl from a small town, she was easy to forget, easy to move on. This if he even had something to move on from, he probably had never felt a thing more than lust for Caroline. Or wort he was only trying to manipulate her to get to her friends.

He never loved her. Klaus never loved her. He was only using her, and that made her furious and sad at the same time, really sad, miserable sad. And before she could notice she was crying.

"Is there anything I can do to help?" asked a different voice then when she came in. The bartender had changed and she hadn't noticed. Caroline knew it was a woman because of the voice, but she hadn't the force to lift her face. "Whoever he is, he is not worth it" the woman continued. The girl was being kind and the vampire could not be rude, so she looked up to her. Caroline froze when she recognized the face. It was Cami, the girl she saw with Klaus.

After a little fight inside she came to the conclusion it was not the girls fault that the hybrid was a womanizer/psychopath who liked to manipulate people. "He is definitely not worth it! But can make me think he is more than worth it!" Caroline stated.

"I know the type" - of course she knew, it was the same type – " He come with nice words, opens up to you, makes you think he can actually feel something-"

"And then he goes all homicidal against your friends" the vampire said matter of factly. "Oh and last not forget all the promises, all the trouble he goes to make you think he actually means it! But you are nothing more than a nice fuck. And then you are back on your old self, the one you tried so hard to run from. But of course that also can be blamed on your best friend – who now decided has feelings for you, after crying about your friend/sister for years! – And last not forget how his brother is your abuser! Oh and there is the other thing: how you are always fucking collateral damage, and you are ALWAYS the second choice" she blurred out of nowhere.

"Well it seems someone has quite a story" the blonde said pouring more drink on Caroline's cup. "Lucky you the bar is empty and I like hearing stories, that's my job"

Caroline wasn't drunk enough to talk to the woman about her mixed feelings for the same human being as Cami, especially now that she seen that the girl had those same feelings. "Okay well it all started because of Katherine fucking Pierce, the bitch ran and ruined all over lives basically." Damn she didn't know if the girl knew about vampires, how was she going to tell the story now?

So Caroline continued her story without the supernatural stuff on – not an easy job- "That woman ran and brought some bad people to my town after her, and after my friend – who by the way was innocent in all this – and then our lives became a living hell. People got hurt, people ran, people changed, and people died."

"What happened to the woman? Her name was Katherine, right?" Cami asked truly interested.

"She died in the most pathetic way. You know after the legend that it was Katherine Pierce you would expect that it would take more than age and a blaze to take her down. She made so many miserable, her daughter, the people she loved, and the people she hated. But the person she made suffer the most was herself." Katherine was a horrible person but her life made she became that way. Caroline liked to think how the young Katerina might had been, was she like Elena kind and loyal? Or she was always this cruel bitch who tried not to care? Of course Caroline came to realize that Katherine Pierce did not cared so she could survive, it was easier that way. How could she live with herself knowing how badly injured the people near her got? Just like Elena. Everyone near her dear friend used to get pretty bad hurt, take Caroline as a great example, and she knew that it killed her friend inside and how much she hated that and wanted to end it.

"But how is that related to the guy from earlier?" Cami asked bringing Caroline back from her thoughts. "The guy followed her to your town?" Okay Caroline had come to the conclusion that although the girl seemed nice, she was definitely snoopy and she did not like that.

"Kind of… " she should I must go, I have things to do in the morning and I need time to recover from a hangover" she fake laughed and moved to pick her walled.

"It's on the house. Don't even ask or try to say thing! You seem like a nice girl who likes a nice drink and I really look forward to hear the rest of that story! So now you have to come back here as long as you are in town!" Cami stated with a truthful smile.

"Fine! But only this once, okay?" Caroline said reluctantly. "There is one thing I think you can help me. Do you have any idea where the Mikaelsons live?" If the girl knew the truth about the original family, than she would realize that Caroline was a vampire also.

"Do not worry; people will take you to them in the morning. The so called king likes to know the newbies in his kingdom" Cami said annoyed.

"Of course he would do this!" the young vampire said pissed, annoyed and with a bit a sadness – ugh she truly did miss him –"I thought he didn't had to prove he was the alpha male!" she thought out loud remembering their conversation at the twenties dance. She gave a sympathetic smile for her newest friend and left the bar.

Caroline made her way back to the hotel a little dizzy – okay a lot dizzy – and she didn't notice that someone was following her. Well even if she did she could not care. Caroline was trying to not think about her day, it had been surreal. She couldn't even remember the reason she came to New Orleans on the first place – oh righ the heretics.

So tomorrow she had no choice, she would have to face him. She would have to face the man she turned down so many times, in the city he invited her to join him so many times. It was really pathetic to think that now that he had moved on from his feelings for her, she had feelings for him. Strong ones- "WAIT HE DID NOT CARE!" Her brain screamed.

What made her more angry was that Klaus tricked her into believe that someone would truly put her first. Well she would had to contempt herself with Stefan, the guy who had made quite clear that she would be the last person he could ever have romantic feelings, and now out of nowhere said he truly liked her. WAIT- WHEN DID CAROLINE FORBES LIVE CAME BACK BEING ALL ABOUT BOYS? NO! She was not that silly, shallow girl! No boy, no werewolf, no vampire and NO FUCKING HYBRID would make her go back to that girl! Caroline was strong and no one could make her feel not enough. She was damn enough! She was Caroline Forbes, the girl full of light and excitement. She was Caroline Forbes, Miss Mystic Falls. She was Caroline Forbes, the girl who always survives being collateral damage. She was Caroline Forbes, the insecure, neurotic, freak on crack.

"Go for it girl!" said a brunette passing her. WAIT she was talking out loud? And she could swear she heard a laugh she knew pretty well but couldn't recognize its owner. It was probably the alcohol talking.

When she finally made to the hotel she was basically sleep walking, everything was blurred. Caroline entered in the elevator and pressed her number and leaned on the wall, before she could think her eyes were closed. She didn't notice the other person who entered with her on the elevator. Caroline fell asleep right there and the last thing she remembered was strong arms holding her.

In the morning Caroline woke up in her bed but she had no idea she had made to her room. She came to the conclusion that she probably sleepwalked or something like that. Wait did someone carried her? No way in hell, right? That was her imagination playing tricks with her after that dreadful day thinking about Klaus.

Klaus.

That brought her back to the reason she was here. She would need to meet the bastard today. Just the thought of him acting as a king repulsed and turned Caroline on. How could she have such different feelings towards the same person?

She needed to make her walls even higher; she could not allow him to see her feelings. If he saw any kind of that he could use it against the blond, - or worst: act on them. So to do so, Caroline picked her best clothes, did her make up perfectly as always and looked at herself in the mirror until she was feeling like she was looking. That was a little trick she created back when she was young, that way she always had a reason to create her own dress code and it always worked – well most of the times.

Caroline remembered what Cami told her: "The so called king likes to know the newbies in his kingdom", so Klaus would come to her – or something like that. So she made her way to a café on the French quarter and picked a table outside, she had to make sure she was seen. Caroline could not help but enjoy the city, the streets were full of life, the people were exotic and interesting, and no one looked the same. Near her table there was a small jazz band playing like it was the biggest concert ever. Now she could see what the hybrid liked so much about this city, it was almost impossible not to love it.

"Excuse me" said a guy in front of Caroline – wow when did he appear that? She really needed to focus work on her senses out of Mystic Falls – "Would you mind if I join you?" He asked only for ask, he had already picked the chair and was now sitting in front the blonde vampire.

Caroline didn't need much time to realize he was a vampire also, he was probably the minion. "So tell me when are you going to take to your leader?" she was in no mood for small talk and ambiguous talk, she already had too much of it back home.

"Straight to point; I like that. Well my leader is waiting for you on the house just across the corner. This is your first warning, if you do not go in there until noon-" he leaned closed and showed his fangs "let's just say that the next guy won't be so gentle" and he was gone before she could had noticed.

"Ugh please! Like the fangs of a newbie could scare me!" she thought out loud. So she paid her bill and made her way to the Mikaelson house.

The house was nothing less than she imagined it would be. It was freaking amazing. There was a gate opened and in there were a bunch of people just hanging out. She could not help but think that he had truly made his little kingdom.

Caroline looked for anyone she knew, like Rebekah, or Elijah or even Cami. She never imagined that she would see Hayley. What was she bitchwolf doing here? How could Klaus even receive her on his house after her big part on the whole free hybrids thing?

Before she could get to the girl, a man approached the blonde "So you are the new vampire right? Well my name is Marcel. I will take you to the king" and made a gesture for her to follow him. "I hope you enjoy our city, some say it is the best city that ever existed, you know wonderful things-"

"Yeah like great art and music. Some might even dare to say genuine beauty, right?" Caroline couldn't help but roll her eyes to what she had just said. That guy Marcel talked exactly like Klaus. He probably was his favorite minion. "My name is Caroline, btw" she added trying to look nice.

"It was nice to meet you, Caroline" he said as he entered a different room that had chair in the center – wait that wasn't a throne was it? Like, seriously?- "Wait here, they will come in a minute to talk to you" and with that Marcel left Caroline alone in the room.

After a few seconds entered a blonde woman she had never seen before. "Who are you and what do you want?" she said with a fierce glare.

"Well a good morning, or something polite wouldn't hurt you know? The freaking hybrid knows who I am. Call for him, or Elijah or Rebekah, they know who I am – although I doubt Elijah remembers me. Call for Rebekah! There is some gossip she would like to know" Caroline said trying to sound as confident as she looked.

"I will ask one more time: who are you what do you want?" Now the blond was angry, she wasn't a vampire that Caroline could tell. She was a witch maybe? Caroline did not answer to her question, and gave Caroline a terrible headache. Yeah, she was witch.

"Caroline Forbes from Mystic Falls. Ugh! I don't have time to fucking torture or little witchy headache! I just wanted you to polite! Gosh! You people can't stop being paranoid, can you?" the vampire snapped.

"I was really enjoying you little fierce act, love" said no one less than the original hybrid as he entered the room. "I'm a little hurt you asked for my dear sister, I thought we were getting along so well!" and helped Caroline get up from where the witch had taken her down.

"You thought wrong!" Caroline blurred snapping his hands away. "I'm here because we there is something happening in Mystic Falls that might be of your interest. And don't even ask why we did not try to call you, because –newsflash- we tried! But you forgot to leave the memo that you had changed numbers!"

"I'm sorry but I made a promised I would never come back, so I saw no point on keeping that old thing" he said invading Caroline's personal space.

"Yeah but your voice or text was allowed in case we needed you for something! Well but that doesn't matter anymore, we are all fucked up and this might affect you since you like to be the most powerful creature on earth. So please, be nice and fetch your brother and sister." She said turning away from him in moving towards the door.

"Now why would I do that, love?" He asked walking towards the chair, where he made himself comfortable. He was doing the stare thing he used to do back in Mystic Falls, but this time it would not have the same effect, Caroline promised herself.

"What do you know about heretics?" his posture slightly changed after her words.

"Freya, could you please fetch Elijah and Rebekah?" He asked to the witch, who was still in the room, although Caroline had completely forgotten she was there. The girl, Freya, left without a word, only an annoyed face.

"This is seriously a throne? Like for real" Caroline asked after a long awkward pause.

"A king couldn't ask for nothing less, could he?" was his reply followed by an adorable smile.

"You really like to prove that you are the alpha male, right? Oh and please don't 'I don't have to prove anything, love. I am the alpha male' me" she was really annoyed. At least she was trying to be annoyed. She was trying really hard.

"If I knew that my words were so important to you, I would have been more careful to what I said. Or chosen better words," his gaze on Caroline intensified and his smirk know was bigger "or topics far more pleasants"

Before Caroline could come up with snark remark Elijah and Rebekah entered the room followed by the Freya girl. "Miss Forbes, a pleasure to finally properly meet you" Elijah greeted.

"This better be good, Caroline!" Rebekah cut her brother. It was a bad thing that the baby vampire actually missed the Barbie Klaus and her unforgettable curtesy? "Come on spit it out! We don't have all day!"

"Well the long story short: the heretics took over Mystic Falls" the original story was so complicated full of new people they did not know, it would take ages if she told them everything.

"The complete story please, Caroline" Rebekah couldn't contain how annoyed she was.

"Well I don't think you guys remember that when the other side collapsed Bonnie and Damon kind of died. Well, they were not dead – not really – they were trapped in a prison world in 1994. Well they weren't alone, there was this guy named Kai with them. That whole place was made for him. If you guys think that the hybrid on the chair over there is a psychopath that's because you didn't met Kai. Near him Klaus is a poppy, believe me! Well Kai came back with them from the dead and went after everyone basically, well especially his siblings Luke – super gay -, Liv – bitchy witch – and the lovely Joe. They were from a coven were they have twins and then the twins merge and one of them survives and get the whole power. Kai was Joe's twin, but as I told you he as psychopath, so his family kept trying have twins and they had, Liv and Luke. Kai went all homicidal and tried to kill his entirely family, so they locked him up in the prison world. "

"Well, he did some mean things to Bonnie, so when we found out that there was another prison world you guys can't blame us that we wanted to lock him there, okay? But what we did not know was that momma Salvatore was stuck in there. Yes, you guys heard right. Stefan's and Damon's' mom is a vampire – a ripper to be more precisely – and she is also a fucking bitch. And it seems that there were other people there with her. Heretics: a hybrid of witches and vampires. Damon, Elena and Bonnie rescued Lily Salvatore so she could bring Stefan's emotions back – the emotionless me made him turn them off, but that is a story for another time – and when they saved her, they locked Kai in there. When there were another thing we did not know: Lily had a family of heretics inside there. Kai found a way and they escaped. Kai killed the entirely coven by killing himself and coming back as a vampire – oh and it was the day of Alaric's and Joe's wedding, and she was pregnant – Kai did a spell that linked Elena and Bonnie's life, Elena is kind in a coma as long Bonnie is alive. He thought Damon would kill Bonnie, well we all kind of thought, but he did not. So Elena will be sleeping for more 90 years. And now the heretics took over Mystic Falls and are going mass murder against everyone"

"That is quite a story" Elijah said after the long silence that followed Caroline's explanation. "What happened to the twins? Liv and Luke, right?"

"Luke merged with Kai so he could save his siblings; he thought he could win, well… he as wrong. Liv dated Tyler – even killed a girl so he would not trigger his curse -, and then ran away after Luke's death. She came back to Joe's wedding only to die only to die because of Kai. Actually she made Tyler kill her, so he would trigger his course and heal, but that was all Kai's fault." How crazy had her life became? Seriously look at the story she just told.

"And Matt, Caroline?" Rebekah asked anxious

"He is fine, do not worry. If he is Happy? None of us are. We are simply surviving but he is the one better at it." Matt wasn't out of danger but he indeed was fine the last time she spoke to him before leaving Mystic Falls.

"That was an interesting story, Caroline, but how we got in there?" Elijah asked.

"Well, they want to rule the world, and they are strong enough to undo Esther's spell. And they are trying to bring the dead back." Now she had their interest , the originals had people they wanted to keep dead like Mikael, but there also were people they wanted back, like Kol. "And I thought you guys could know something that we don't. Something that could help us take them down".

"I will see if I find something but it might take a little while" Elijah informed. "Would you join me, Freya?" he asked the girl, who noded and followed him, leaving Caroline with Rebekah and Klaus. The blond vampire could not help but think how different Elijah was from his siblings. The older original was everything Elena told her he was, respectful, gentle and honorable.

"So what else happened after Katherine died?" Rebekah asked.

So Caroline told Rebekah everything the girl wanted to know. She told how Katherine fooled everyone, she told all the Elena drama, she told Bonnie and Damon's adventure in the prison world. She told about Alaric and Joe, told her that Matt was still single e pretty much human. Caroline basically told everything. Well, not everything.

She did not tell a thing about her mother's death or how she terribly handled it. Or how Stefan claimed to love her in a non-sister way. Caroline was definitely not talking about any of those subjects with the vampires standing in front of her.

"And you guys thought your lives were getting better when I left town, huh?" was the only thing Klaus said. He did not ask a thing, or interrupted Caroline. No he only watched her with his intense gaze. The way he looked at her now was a little different than when he looked at her in Mystic Falls. If she couldn't read his eyes before, now it was completely worthless try.

Rebekah's phone beeped and she left without saying a word after her questions ended.

"Bye to you too" Ugh! Was it so hard being polite? Like, seriously?

"I must apologize for my sister, love. You know how easily she gets bored, right?" He started making his way in Caroline's direction. "Elijah might take a little while searching for answers and there is a wonderful city out there. As I recall you hadn't been nowhere, right?" he was dangerously close now, with that silly not innocent smirk – ugh that adorable smirk never leaved his face? - "You wouldn't blow such opportunity, would you?"

"Okay but only because you seems to know the city pretty well. And don't get all excited because there is rules!" she blurred " First: stay away from my personal space" she said as she pushed him away. "Second: no touching and no drawings!"

"As you wish" he said taking her and flashing them away from the house. Yeah, he really wasn't going to follow the rules Caroline thought.