True Mates
This is my first ever fanfic so please be kind! This is Klaroline all the way; the story will revolve around them, with everyone else as minor characters. The story is Canon until Klaus and Caroline's sex scene in the forest. Everything after that I'm changing. Katherine never went into Elena's body, Bonnie never died, Hayley never had a baby, none of that. And I like Kol so I might have him still be alive, I haven't decided yet. But everything should hopefully make sense when you're reading. Also, I'm not a huge Elena fan, so I kind of hate on her a bit. Sorry if you're a fan. Rated very M for future language and smut; you have been warned. I hope you like it! Enjoy!
Caroline felt like she was losing her mind.
It had been three weeks since her "confession" to Klaus in the forest. Three weeks since she had made him promise to leave Mystic Falls and never return. Three weeks since she had had the best sex of her life.
And that was all she could think about.
How much she missed the feel of his lips on her skin. How much she missed his voice in her ear, whispering the most delicious things to her. How much she missed the feel of him inside of her.
NO! She should not be thinking like this. Klaus was bad. Worse than bad. Klaus was evil. Klaus was a monster. An incredibly sexy monster. NO! She seriously needed to stop!
Caroline was back at Whitmore, back where she belonged. She had her friends, Elena and Bonnie, her classes, and a number of extra-curricular activities to keep her occupied. So why couldn't she get a certain original hybrid out of her head?
She had to admit that she had been feeling sort of strange the last few weeks, experiencing some unexplained mood swings, but she convinced herself that it was just a side effect from going temporarily insane and sleeping with Klaus. She was sure that it was nothing to worry about, just her body trying purge itself of all things hybrid. She was Caroline Forbes. She was going to be just fine.
"Hey Care! Whatcha doing?" Elena asked as she walked into the dorm room they shared, shrugging off her backpack and flopping down on her bed.
"Nothing. Just trying to keep up with my class readings." Caroline answered, nodding to the book she was holding in her lap. Which was only half true, as she hadn't been able to concentrate on the words on the page at all. Her mind kept wandering to a certain someone who was currently in New Orleans…
"Oh come on, Caroline, it's Friday night! You shouldn't be studying. You should be out having fun, drinking, meeting new people, maybe hooking up with some hot guys," she said, winking at Caroline. "You and Tyler are over. It's time to move on. We came to college to have new experiences and try new things. Maybe you should try some cute frat guy."
Caroline mentally rolled her eyes at her friend. Sure, Elena was right; she definitely needed to move on. But Caroline didn't especially enjoy how invested Elena could be in her love life. She was just too judgy for her own good, and if she ever found out what happened between her and Klaus in the forest, Caroline would never hear the end of it.
So she decided to just smile and agree, which was usually the course of action she took when dealing with Elena.
"Yah, I guess you're right. I need to get out and have some fun," Caroline stated, shutting her book and tossing it on the ground. "When does Bonnie's last class of the day end? We should all meet up and hit a bar or a party or something."
Right on cue, their third roommate walked into the dorm. "Hey guys! What are we doing tonight? I just finished an incredibly awful midterm and I NEED to de-stress with my girls tonight," Bonnie said, walking over to her bed and flopping down onto it. "I heard about this party over at the frat house that's supposed to be good. We could check it out," she added.
"Sounds perfect! Caroline and I were just talking about frat guys," Elena smirked. "Let's get ready ladies. Tonight is gonna be awesome!" she stated, getting up from her bed and throwing open the closet doors, presumably searching for whatever outfit she was going to wear that night.
Caroline took a deep breath and smiled. This was a good thing. She was going to go out, have some fun with her friends, and try to go more than thirty seconds without her mind straying to thoughts of a very naked original hybrid. "Okay Care, you can do this!" she thought. She just needed a little distraction…
Caroline stood there patiently, trying to look interested and attempting to focus on the incredibly boring words coming out of Mike's mouth. Or was it Mark?
All she knew was her plan of being distracted by a cute frat guy was failing miserably.
Caroline, Elena, and Bonnie had arrived at the frat party about forty-five minutes ago. The girls immediately walked over to the bar to grab a drink, and after two shots Elena announced that she was going to dance and abruptly left Caroline and Bonnie, heading over to the large dance floor located near the front of the house.
A few minutes later two frat guys wandered up to Bonnie and Caroline and started talking to them, even though it was pretty obvious that both guys had had quite a bit to drink already that night. But Caroline was there to meet new people, so the girls decided to give them a chance.
Bonnie and her guy eventually went off to the kitchen to see if there was any good food left, so Caroline was left alone with Mike/Mark, who was currently five minutes into his rant about why Firefly was the best tv show ever made.
"You see, some people don't like it because the main character is a 'space cowboy,' but they think that that doesn't make sense because there are no cows in space," Mike/Mark continued. "But what they don't understand is that there are cows on the different planets, and when the main character transports the cows from one planet to another in his spaceship, there ARE technically cows in space! They just don't get it! Crazy, right?" Mike/Mark slightly slurred, touching Caroline's arm to get her attention.
"Yah, totally. It's insane," Caroline replied distractedly, looking over Mike/Mark's shoulder, trying to find Elena or Bonnie or anyone else to save her from this guy.
Caroline had gone in with the best of intentions, trying to find some hot guy to distract her from her unwanted sexy hybrid thoughts, but this particular guy was soooo not her type. He kept blabbering on about some sci-fi nonsense, and all she could think about was how to get away from him without having to rip his head off. He was getting super annoying, and Caroline was getting pissed.
"Hey, are you okay?" Mike/Mark asked, touching her arm again.
"Yah, I'm fine. It's just a bit hot in here. I'm gonna go get some air," Caroline muttered through clenched teeth, plastering a fake smile on her face. She felt like she was literally about to murder this guy. She grabbed his hand that was currently touching her arm and wrenched it off with a bit more force than was actually necessary, and quickly sped away towards the front door.
"Do you want me to come with…" Mike/Mark started, but she was gone before he could finish his sentence.
Caroline exited the frat house quickly and stood across the street, trying to figure out what had just happened. One minute she was fine; bored to death, but fine. And the next minute she was filled with an uncontrollable rage she couldn't explain.
She couldn't figure out why she got so angry. It wasn't like Mike/Mark said something that offended her. If she was being honest, she really wasn't even paying attention to what he was saying. So why did she suddenly feel like ripping his head off?
The random mood swings that she had been having the last few weeks were happening more and more often. Caroline couldn't keep ignoring them anymore, as much as she'd like to. It was totally weird that she kept getting unusual bursts of random emotions.
Like last week she was sitting in class listening to her professor's lecture about the fall of the Soviet Union, and she had this overwhelming feeling of smug satisfaction wash over her for no reason all at. And three days ago, while she was drinking a blood bag in her dorm room for breakfast, she felt sad all of a sudden, like someone she loved left her and she missed them terribly. But that didn't make any sense; all she was doing was literally having breakfast.
"What's going on with me?" Caroline thought. "This is definitely not normal. I need some answers."
So Caroline did the only thing she could think of, and she went to the college's massive library to see if she could find any books about weird vampire diseases or anything that could explain what's been happening to her recently.
"Thank god this library has a supernatural section," Caroline thought, grateful that Whitmore was one of the few colleges in the country where you could take classes about the supernatural. Bonnie was taking a class called 'The history of witchcraft' this semester, not that Caroline thought she needed to. Bonnie knew A LOT about witches already.
Caroline was also glad that one of the perks of being a vampire was the ability to break into a closed library and be able to ransack the bookshelves without anyone else bothering her.
"Oh, this looks promising!" Caroline thought, skimming through the seventh book she pulled off the shelf.
"…and will include feeling an extreme, ever-present physical attraction towards one another, being able to feel each other's emotions, and…" Caroline read.
"Wait, what?" Caroline thought. "What the hell am I reading?"
She turned back a few pages to read the title of the chapter she was currently on, and she couldn't believe her eyes. The page said "Werewolf Mating Habits," but that just confused her more. "I'm not a werewolf," she thought. She went back to the beginning of the section she was looking at previously and continued reading.
"In the wild, wolves are one of the few mammals known to form lifelong pair bonds. Similarly, werewolves often search for their life partners, or 'mates,' and tend to remain with their 'mates' their entire lives once they have found them. In extremely rare cases, werewolves may find what is known as their 'True Mates,' which is commonly likened to the phenomenon humans call 'Soul Mates.'"
"If a werewolf finds his 'True Mate,' it is believed that that means that those two individuals were destined to be together, and a 'Mate Bond' will form between the pair once the male has claimed the female.In most cases, werewolves find their 'True Mates' in other werewolves, although there have been a few cases where a werewolf has formed a 'Mate Bond' with a non-werewolf."
"The characteristics of the 'Mate Bond' will take several weeks to solidify, and will include feeling an extreme, ever-present physical attraction towards one another, being able to feel each other's emotions, and being able to communicate non-verbally by reading each other's thoughts. Once a werewolf has claimed his 'True Mate,' both of them will be unable to be physically or romantically attracted to anyone else, and will be unable to produce offspring with anyone else as well."
"Once the 'Mate Bond' is complete, it cannot be broken. The characteristics of the bond will remain present until one 'True Mate' dies, at which time the remaining mate will be in a constant state of incredible pain, both physically and emotionally. It is often the case that the remaining mate takes their own life soon after, as this pain is simply too much to bear."
Caroline's stomach dropped. This couldn't be right. There was no way this could be what was wrong with her. Even if it did all fit.
Caroline decided to think rationally for a minute. Klaus was a hybrid, which meant that he was technically a werewolf too. And she was definitely in a constant state of physical attraction with Klaus. She couldn't stop thinking about him naked, doing sinfully hot things to her, since he had "claimed" her in the forest, to use the term in the book. It also would explain why she was feeling strange emotions at strange times. They were not her emotions, they were Klaus'. And the book did say that the Mate Bond could take place between a werewolf and a non-werewolf. It did all make sense.
But still, there was simply no way. Caroline was certain that there had to be another explanation. She just had to keep reading. She WOULD find another explanation.
Caroline scanned what felt like every book in the supernatural section, looking for another mention of 'unexplained emotions' or 'extreme attraction,' but she came up empty. She checked her phone; it was 3 a.m., and she had officially gone through every relevant book in the library. She had to begin to face facts.
She and Klaus were True Mates.