Hi! I'm so excited for my first sequel, if you are coming over from Let's be Honest, welcome back! If you're starting new, that's okay too! This first chapter is kind of a recap of Let's be Honest, it's pretty much Caroline's view on some of the things that are happening and how she feels going forward. It's just a short intro, and I promise next chapter we'll dive right into the action!

Anyone who's ever known a witch knows that they are forever talking about balance and how everything has to be weighted perfectly or the world cannot function properly. Vampires are immortal, but they can be killed by a stake or the sun. Werewolves can turn into animals, but they are slaves to the moon and must trigger the curse. Klaus is both vampire and werewolf, but he had to perform a sacrifice to turn hybrid. Hybrids can only be turned by doppleganger blood. The world that we live in is constantly changing in order to appease nature's servants. Witches are powerful, and as much as any vampire, werewolf, or hybrid might think they can do, witches make the rules and the rest of us are forced to follow them. They are our creators and they ensure that someone can be our destroyer. Even in a world of vampires no one is truly immortal, and no one is ever truly dead.

My name is Caroline Forbes and I am a vampire, but I wasn't always. I used to be just your average seventeen-year-old girl: shallow, neurotic, self-conscience, self-obsessed, and jealous of my best friend. All of that changed when I was murdered in my hospital bed by a girl who wore said best friend's face. Truth be told, dying was the best thing that ever happened to me, sure once my heart stopped beating my life became much more complicated… but at least it was actually my life for once. I finally started feeling comfortable and safe.

Of course all of that changed when one Klaus Mikaelson strolled into town. He was handsome, charming, cultured, intelligent, persuasive, enticing, and completely in love with me (I spent forever saying it was only obsession… but eventually I accepted the truth, that he was capable of real feelings). Sounds like a dream right? Except did I forget to mention that he was also basically the square root of all evil? Killed my friend's aunt, my boyfriend's mother, and half of my hometown. I hated him, I hated him more than anyone. But here's the thing about hate: It starts to consume you, all you can think about is that person, what they've done, what they will do, why they seem to only care about you… and you realize just how thin the line really is between love and hate. It's like all of these feelings are kept in the same place and you can think that you only feel one, but it's all interconnected, balanced. Sometimes you don't even realize when the balance starts to shift, when the love starts to overlap the hate, then one day it just catches you by surprise.

Klaus Mikaelson opened my eyes to things I could have never even imagined, for me he was never the evil person that he had been the last thousand years. I pushed him… a lot, and he let me. I used him… a lot, and he let me. He let me because as long as I was talking to him, he didn't care why. He cared enough that he allowed my boyfriend back into town… but Tyler decided that I wasn't important enough to come back for, so I decided he wasn't important enough to wait for. Klaus cared, and for once someone was putting me first, for once it was about me instead of Elena, for once I actually felt like there was a person in the world who cared.

So like every other girl, I began to fall for a man with the belief that I could change him. I told my friends that I was going with him and they all turned their back on me. Except for Stefan, he told me that he would be there for me if I needed him, but we both know the words he didn't speak- He was there for me so long as it was okay with Damon and Elena. After that I really didn't have much left to stay for, so I packed up my bags and I left with the bad guy. We ran away to New Orleans and I learned that there was a werewolf pregnant with his child. I learned that his ex-friend was running the city, and I learned about his plan to take it back. At this point most girls would have run for the hills, human me certainly would have… but I still wanted to believe the man who said it as all for me was in there. I wanted to believe that I could change him. It didn't take long to realize how wrong I was, you can't change a person… they have to do that themselves, and Klaus did. We began to grow closer, I started putting my walls down, started letting him in, and he started showing me these sweet, thoughtful, beautiful sides of him that I didn't know existed. I was falling in love with him, and I knew it… I just wasn't ready to admit that yet.

Then there were his siblings. Elijah was always kind to me, he was the family guy- wanted his brother to be happy, wanted the baby to be born, wanted his family to be whole again (Which isn't entirely possible considering my friends killed 2 of his brothers. We decided to get past that, but I can still see the hurt in his eyes. He misses them, so does Klaus. I wish there was something I could do about it). My relationship with his sister Rebekah wasn't always so great, in fact… she hated me. After talking to her though, I realized that we aren't so different. She's shallow, volatile, self-conscience, jealous, and above all- lonely. I decided that if Klaus can change, so can she… she simply needs someone she wants to change for, which brings us here. Mystic falls, here it all started. She's in love with Stefan, and I've made it my mission to ensure her redemption… even if I have to bully Stefan into giving her a chance, she deserves it. Everyone deserves a second chance at happiness.

You'd think that all of that was enough complicated for one girl, but not in my world. Hayley gave birth to the most perfect child in the world. Klara Audrey Mikaelson. She is a ray of light and innocence in this dark, twisted supernatural world that we all live in, and I will protect her with everything I have and so will Klaus. Hayley took off, told me she couldn't handle being a mother when I know she really meant she couldn't handle being a mother to a baby who drinks blood. She doesn't know what she gave up, but this child deserves better anyway. She has the best, Elijah adores her, Rebekah spoils her like nothing else, Klaus looks at her like she hung the moon and stars (I know because it's the same way he looks at me), and we would all die to protect her.

I don't know how it happened, but I seem to have grown up a thousand years overnight. I can no longer even remember the girl who scrutinized dance decorations or sang to Matt in the Grille. Life was certainly much more simple back then, but as the plane lands outside of Mystic Falls, I look down to the sleeping bundle on my lap, feel the strong hand squeeze mine reassuringly and I know that I wouldn't give up my new life for anything.

My name is Caroline Forbes, and I am trying to find the place where I fit in this crazy cosmic balance while juggling a still undefined relationship with a thousand year-old hybrid, taking care of a baby, mending relationships with former friends who hate me, trying to redeem yet another thousand year-old vampire and fighting lingering guilt for what I did the last time I was in my hometown. You're welcome to join me on this crazy and possibly suicidal mission, but if you do, I can guarantee… it will be anything but smooth sailing.

Okay, the first chapter! Let me know what you think, I know not much new information came up, but I wanted to kind of lead in slowly, so I hope you liked it, and I hope you're ready for some dramatic, sad, and at times hilarious antics by our favorite characters! It's going to be one heck of a roller coaster ride!

Alright, big question time. I've gotten a very mixed response on this issue: DO YOU WANT KOL! I need to know, because I love him and know a great way to get him into the story (via a certain witch) but the story will not be hurt if he doesn't. I need to know though, for planning purposes, what's the opinion, let me know!

Thanx guys! I'm super excited for this and I'll see you guys in a bit