Hello, and thank you for reading. Just to let you know this is the first time I have ever written fanfic so please be patient with me. I am very bad at writing but i decided to write this anyways. This story is strongly based on the show Against The Wall. So this story is set in an all human universe and will contain klaroline, delena, kalijah and many more. I apologize for any errors. And I hope you enjoy the first chapter. Thank you!
Against the Wall
"Wait, you didn't tell them!" Bonnie screeches as they walk down the sidewalk.
"The bears were playing. There didn't seem to be a good time!" Caroline replies as she carries a box with some of her belongings.
"There was a game on last night?" Bonnie questions.
The girls were walking down one busy street in the chilly Chicago weather.
"It's called Monday night football Bonnie, it's been around for like forty years. I'm going to tell them!" she said as she turned and looked at Bonnie.
"When? It's already been a week." Bonnie replied
"I know Sunday dinner."
"That's another five days."
"It will be fine" Caroline reassured Bonnie but also trying to reassure herself.
"No it won't , waiting is only going to make it worse." Bonnie said.
"What can possibly make this any worse?" Caroline asked as her and Bonnie reached the sidewalk across the street when Caroline trips over a rock causing her to drop her belongings in front of her.
"Very Nice" Bonnie replies as she takes a sip of her coffee.
"There was a rock, Bonnie, gees" she says.
Caroline then starts to pick up her belongings when a man starts to help her. "You really don't have to" she says as she looks up to see Matt. "Caroline?" he says. "Matt! Oh my god! What it's been like three years" she says as they come up and give each other a hug.
"I see your still tripping over things that don't exist." Matt says as he hands her the box.
"Seriously! There was a rock." She says.
"No there wasn't. Hi, I'm Bonnie Bennett."
"Matt Donovan. Nice to meet you Bonnie." He says as he shakes her hand.
"Matt used to work in the DA's office" Caroline says
"So Caroline, you still in patrol?" Matt questions her.
"No actually. Today is the day of my first job. I made detective."
"Congratulations. In which department?"
"Internal Affairs" she says with a fake grin.
"Wow" he says with a look of shock plastered on his face. "Bet your family liked that."
"Oh no she hasn't told them yet" Bonnie cuts in and Caroline gives her a death glare.
"Oh. Okay. Good luck with that" Matt replies putting his hands in his jackets pocket.
"Okay. We should get going" Caroline bluntly replies.
"It was really great seeing you, Care."
"You too, Matty." She says
"We should have lunch sometime and I can introduce you to my girlfriend Rebekah." Matt tells her.
"Sure sounds great. I can't believe Matty is all settled down now." Caroline says as giggles silently as Matt does too.
"Yeah who would of thought, huh? Well just call me anytime" he says. "Yeah, definitely." Matt nods and they go their separate ways. Bonnie then mentions "I have never seen eyes bluer than those. What is his story."
"Yup Matty Blue Eyes, I've known him since we were children." Caroline tells her.
"Okay, well I've got to go Care, so call me later so we can have a girls night." Bonnie says as she starts to walk away.
Caroline is now standing in front of the Internal Affairs building she takes a deep breath and walks in. Walking up to the front desk "I'm here to see Lieutenant Saltzman" she tells the brunette seated at the desk. "His office is down that way." She points at one of the doors at the far end. Caroline then heads down the hallway viewing all the cubicles with detectives busy at work. She reaches the door and knocks.
"Come in" he says looking up. "Have a seat."
Caroline takes a seat across Lieutenant Saltzman. "So, Detective Salvatore. You got your B.A. in Criminal Law, a Masters in Criminology, top of your class at the academy, excellent review by your captain, and you aced the detective exam? How'd I get so lucky?" he said while reading her file
"Sir?" Caroline asked as she gives him a questionable look.
"Why Internal Affairs? And don't blow smoke up my ass." He interrupts while holding up a finger.
"You were the only department with an opening." She says as she gives him a sweet smile.
He takes a sip of his coffee and grins. "I'm flattered" they were interrupted as someone knocks on the door. He looks up "Ah, Katherine Mikaelson, wanna meet your new partner, Caroline Salvatore? Show her the ropes." Caroline looks up and recognizes a very pregnant brunette with bouncy curls. Caroline stands up and gives Katherine a hug.
"Caroline! Who would of thought my new partner would be my brother in law little sister. Don't look so worried, I still have three more months." Katherine says as she catches Caroline staring at her stomach.
"Sorry. I haven't seen you since their wedding and your pregnant. Oh my god congrats. How is Elijah and Nadia" Caroline says.
"They're good. Elijah is a very big man. Little Daniel takes after his daddy." Katherine tells her while rubbing her swollen stomach.
"You're having a boy. Great" Caroline tells her.
"Not really, I wanted a girl." Katherine replies.
"Ladies, less chat, more work, eh?" Lieutenant Saltzman interrupts while handing them a file. "Got you two off duty officers, possible involvement in an altercation with several bar patrons." He continued as the girls read the files.
"Hazy way for a good cop to lose everything." Katherine says
"For sure." Lt. Saltzman replies as he places his thumb under his chin.
"Is Lieutenant Saltzman from Toronto?" Caroline asks Katherine as they walk to their cubicles.
"Yeah. He transferred here a few years back. When he married my aunt Jenna Sommers. Word of advice don't mention the Stanley Cup." Katherine said as she arrived at her cubicle. "Park it there." She said while pointing to the desk across from her.
Caroline places her box with her belongings on her desk while Katherine reads the file that the Lieutenant had given them. Caroline looks around at the many workers around her and takes a deep breath. Katherine looks up to see her and asks "you looking for their horns and pitchforks."
Caroline turns to her and says " No. Yes sorry." Katherine just gives her a question look as Caroline starts to unpack her belongings into her desk.
"Okay. We are checking Marcel Gerard and Diego Darville. You know them?" Katherine says changing the subject.
"No" Caroline shakes her head.
"Good. Heads you take Gerard, tales you take Darville." Katherine says as she tosses a quarter into the air.
Caroline walks into the interrogation room and removed her leather jacket to see Marcel Gerard seated in a chair. He seemed tall and had a few bruises above his right eye.
"officer Gerard" she announced as she takes the seat across from him. " I'm detective Salvatore. So what happened last night?"
"Read my report." He answered
"I did and you spelt verbal wrong."
Marcel leans backs and crosses his arms over his chest as she continues " complaints stated that you slammed a bar stool over Mr. Fells head."
"That guy was a jackass."
"The guy was a jackass. Seriously what does that even mean."
Marcel didn't respond as he tilted his head to the side.
"You mean that's why you hit him or are you just commenting on his personality?" She said as she played with the pen in her hands and leaned in closer.
Marcel continued to not respond and he leaned further back into his chair and she gave a frustrated sigh.
"I'm trying to help you." She crosses her arms over her chest and continues "this isn't your first complaint you already have a prior for fighting. Do you really want this on your record?"
He looked at her with a stern face and didn't say anything.
"Look Gerard, I get it. I do. You and your partner were having a beer trying to unwind and this "jackass" Logan Fell comes over and starts mouthing off. Maybe it was about the Cubs, maybe it was about Chicago's new mayor, I don't know. But this Logan Fell crossed the line somehow and you felt you needed to step in and deal with it." She declared as he still remained silent.
"Or not" she paused "if I'm anywhere close. Just grunt."
Marcel then leans forward. His face close to her and says in a stern voice "Read my report"
Katherine and Caroline are walking down the hallway of the station.
"Darville says he and Gerard had been there about an hour, had a couple of beers, were about leave when this Logan Fell got into a fight with another patron. He and Gerard stepped in to break it up. How'd you do?" Katherine asked Caroline.
"Yeah that's pretty much what Gerard said." Caroline responded with a hint of sarcasm in her voice.
"Hey, sis" a raven hair male with blue eyes yelled from across the station. Caroline turned around to face her brother.
"Shit" she whispered to herself and turned to face an amused Katherine who had her hands behind her back. "I'll be just a minute" she said as she started walking towards him.
"Damon! Hey what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be out busting bad guys?"
Damon gives her a questioning look. "My shift doesn't start till 11:00"
"Yeah but this isn't your station." She said nervously.
"Why you acting weirder than usual, Blondie?"
"I'm not"
"Yes beyond your normal weird." He says as he nods
"Well. I'm just surprised to see you here that's all. So why are you here? "
"Enzo had paperwork to drop off. He's my new partner. We talked about this last night. Is any of this ringing a bell for you?"
"Right! Yes. Right. Well you should go meet up with him. I don't want to keep you." She said as she started to turn away from him.
"Blondie!"
"Yeah?"
"What are you doing here? And why aren't you in uniform?"
She walks up close to him and says quietly "look I really didn't want to talk about this here. I was gonna tell you all last night. But then I thought I should probably tell you at Sunday dinner"
"Blondie, your rambling." Damon interrupts
"No. I'm not"
Damon then realized who was standing a couple feet from them. " why are you with the bitch Katherine from I.A?"
Caroline turns around and looks at Katherine who simply waves at them.
"She's your sister in law and she's not a bitch and she's my partner. Well she is a bitch but don't call her that." Caroline responded
"Partner? What are you talking about!?" He said with a confused look on his face.
" I made detective and took an opening in Internal Affairs."
"YOU WHAT!" Damon exclaimed "does dad know about this?"
"No! And please don't say anything!"
"This is so typical of you,Caroline"
"What is that suppose to mean?" She asked him
"Figure it out!" He said as he walked away from her.
Caroline was left standing alone. She knew this would be bad and the worst was still to come.
"You coming?!" Katherine yelled out to her
"Yeah." Caroline says as she walked up to her.
"Your brother is a dick. But your family are all cops and your in I.A."
"Mm-hmm."
"Are you crazy?" Katherine tells her with a questionable look.
"Apparently." She says as they both walk out the building.
As the girls arrive to a news van parked outside the news station.
"Let me take the lead"Katherine told Caroline as she turned to the man loading the truck. "Logan Fell?" She said as she flashed him her badge.
"Yeah" the man with the bruised eyed and cut lip turned around to face them
"We need to talk to you about the complaint you filed."
"I already told you guys everything last night." He said
"We're with Internal Affairs. We conduct our own investigation."
"I'm kinda busy."
"you wanna retract your statement?" She asked with a bitchy tone.
Logan stayed quiet and Katherine continued "then tell us what happened."
He puts down the camera and cords he was holding and turns to them and says "I'm drinking a beer, talking to my buds out of nowhere this dick flies"
"Which dick would this be?" Katherine cuts in.
"The big ugly one. Gerard! He starts going off on Cami."
"Whose Cami?" Caroline asks
"The Bartender. Gerard was drunk."
"How do you know" Caroline questions him
"You could tell"
" but how? Where you sitting next to him? Did you buy his drinks count how many he had?" As Caroline asked him Katherine gave her an odd look.
"Why would you assume officer Gerard was drunk?" Katherine cuts Caroline off and Caroline just rolls her eyes.
"Cause Cami was trying to cut him off and he goes nuts and shoved her up against the wall and my buds stepped in to try to help." He said as he was picking at his nails and Caroline notices. "Next thing I know. I'm in the E.R getting stitches."
Katherine nods as they hear his statement and says " we are going to need the names of all your buds"
Caroline's phone begins to ring and she steps aside to answer. While Katherine takes notes of the guys statement.
"Hey, Stef." She answered
"Batten down the hatches. Brother big mouth strikes again." He says
"Damn it. Did Damon call you?"
"Uh-huh"
"I told him not to tell anyone."
Stefan chuckles. "Does dad know?" She asks a little scared to know his answer.
"Well I haven't heard any yelling, so I'd say no. You want to meet for lunch?"
"Yeah. Usual?" She asks as Katherine comes to join her and they began to walk down the street.
"Stef?. Stefan!" She yells into her phone
"Yeah. I'm still here. I'll see you there. Alright." He said
Caroline hangs up her phone and Katherine turns to her and says "How's Stefan and his hero hair?"
"He's good I'm meeting up with him for lunch."
"So Caroline. Two brothers who are patrol cops."
"And my dad" she cuts in. And Katherine nods
"Wow"
They girls walk up to a food truck. "You had to know they'd be upset" Katherine tells her as she eyes the food.
"Well yeah that's why I didn't tell them. Growing up I.A was worse than the bogeyman in my house."
"Then why take the job?" Katherine asks
" because I want to be detective. When I passed the exam they gave me a choice, I.A or back to patrol. I took I.A."
"Double chili cheeseburger." She tells the man standing in the truck. "You want something." She turns to Caroline.
"No thanks I'm good."
"You hate the streets that much?" Katherine continued as the man begun making her order.
"No, it's just not my goal. I did patrol because it was required." She said while placing her hands in her jacket pockets. It was a chilly morning in Chicago.
"Then just wait for another department to open up."
"For how long I've already spent five years of my life on patrol. Now I'm required to put in two more years on the job before I can even think about moving up to homicide." She says as she leans against the food truck.
"Homicide?" Katherine questions with a bitchy tone. "That's your goal?" She rolls her eyes and pays the man who hands her the food. "So that's how it is I.A is just another requirement. The minute your times up with us. You're history?" She continued as she started to get mad.
"And, I.A was always your goal?"
" No but that's completely different. I was pregnant with my first child, Nadia. I had to get off the streets."
"I understand but why are you upset?" Caroline said as she followed Katherine who was walking away.
"Because I love this job. I may have joined I.A. because of the great hours, but I stay because I believe in what we do. Unlike you, I'm not just biding my time" she said and took a bite out of her burger.
" Okay, I am kinda, but that doesn't change anything. I still plan on doing the best job i can do while I'm here." Caroline told Katherine as they got into the car.
"How lucky for us"
" I would never have taken this job if I didn't respect what I.A. does."
"we investigate our own."
"When they've done something wrong." Caroline quickly added." But I.A. also defends and clears the innocent when wrongly accused."
"Nice. You been practicing that?" Katherine asked as she buckles her seat belt.
"How'd it sound?"
"Good. but I'm not the one you need to convince." Katherine tells her as she takes another bite of her burger and Caroline starts the car.
The girls soon arrive to the Chicago hospital to interview the doctor who was there the night of the fight.
"Logan Fell is a whiner. He wanted morphing for four stitches. I handed him off to one of the interns." the doctor said who was standing outside of the building taking a cigarette break while giving her statement.
" What about Camille O'Connell?" Caroline asked while taking notes on a little black notebook. "Camille was brought in about 1 a.m. she was involved in the same bar fight as Logan Fell." Caroline continued as Katherine held up a picture of Cami.
"The bartender. she was pretty messed up. two broken ribs and a busted lip. I wrapped the ribs, glued the lips, and gave her some pain meds and told her to take it easy."
"Is Camille still here?" Caroline asked.
"No her boyfriend came and picked her up around 3a.m"
"Boyfriend?" Katherine says.
"Yeah, some big ugly looking cop."
"How'd you know he was a cop?" Katherine said
"Flashed his badge."
"How'd you know he was her boyfriend?" Caroline cuts in.
" I saw them kissing. anything else?" the doctor said in a more frustrated tone.
"No. thanks for your help." Katherine told her while giving her attitude.
"Right" the doctor said as she turned and went back into the hospital.
"Big and ugly." Caroline said as she closed her notepad and both girls started to walk away. " Man this case is getting better and better."
" If Gerard picked her up. she's probably at his place." Katherine tells Caroline.
"Doubtful. He's married." Caroline said as she remembered seeing a wedding band on his finger in the interrogation room.
"Ugh. Some men are such pigs." Katherine said.
"I know right." Caroline said with a giggle.
Their next stop was Camille's place. The girls entered a very run down apartment building. "Why don't you take the lead this time." Katherine said as she pushed the elevators button waiting for it to open.
"Really?" Caroline said surprised that Katherine was letting her.
"Sure."
Caroline then suddenly turns around and walks towards the stairs. As Katherine gives her a questioning look while pointing at the elevator that now had opened. "What are you doing?" she asked
"Uh exercise. I'll Meet you upstairs." Caroline said while starting to walk up the stairs.
Camille led them to have a seat in her leaving room. Her hair and makeup were a mess and she was still dressed in her pink pajamas with a light blue robe on top. She also looked heavily medicated.
"We just came to ask you a few questions about last night." Caroline started.
"I'm a little drugged on painkillers." Cami said as she sat down on one of the sofas.
"Right. Well this one take long." She said as she took out her notepad and pen.
"How well do you know off-" Caroline stopped talking as she looked up to see Cami had dozed off.
Katherine then kicks the sofa leg in which Cami is sitting on while waking her up. " HOW WELL do you know officer Gerard?" Katherine restates what Caroline was trying to ask.
"Who?"
"Officer Gerard. He your Boyfriend?"
"No, No."
"Then why did he pick you up last night from the hospital?"
"That's right we know about that." Caroline added.
"He just- He felt bad that I got hurt." Cami said while dozing off again.
"Camille, hey, whoa! Focus. Okay?" Caroline said while trying to wake her up.
"MM-HMM."
"Tell us what happened." Katherine said in a more demanding tone.
"Logan was coming on to me and I told him no and officer Gerard told him to get lost and all hell broke loose." Camille told them.
"So who started the fight?" Caroline asked.
"Logan...I think. Maybe it was Marcel. I don't know it all happened so fast."
"Did officer Gerard hit you or shove you at any time, even by accident?"
"No. No way. It wasn't him" Cami said as she leaned back further into the couch.
"How could you be so sure if it all happened so fast?" Katherine asked.
"Cause Marcel would never, never…" Cami didn't finish telling them as she fell asleep again.
"Camille? Okay, Camille? Camille." Caroline tried but she was sound asleep.
Caroline was waiting for Katherine by the door. Katherine stepped out of the elevator.
"Going down is much faster." Caroline said while checking her phone.
"You claustrophobic?"
"Just a tad."
"I'm scared of heights. We make a call on Sears Tower, Its all you."
"You do realize they have an elevator?" Caroline said as she put her phone in her pocket.
"They also have stairs."
"It's 108 floors."
"That's not my problem." Katherine said as she turned on her heels and started to walk out.
It was Carolines lunch time as she arrived at her and Stefan's usual spot which was a hot dog stand located a few blocks from the station.
"A polish, uh, mustard, and a jumbo." Stefan told the man at the stand. He turned around to see Caroline walking up to him. "Ah, There she is." he hugged her and said " How are you?"
"Good. Ow! Stef!" she said as one of her blond curls got tangled onto his uniform.
"It was cute when you were five." Stefan said trying to untangle it.
"Shut up and help me, Ah!" She said as she slapped him on the chest.
"Freed." Stefan said as they finally got it.
"Hello sweetheart." another voice came from behind them. They turned around to see Klaus bringing them drinks.
"What's he doing here?" Caroline said as her and Stefan took a seat at a table as Klaus remained standing.
"You know Klaus is my partner. He comes with the car." Stefan said.
"And don't forget best mates forever." Klaus said with a grin as he took a bite of his hot dog.
Stefan nods his head for Klaus to leave. "Oh. Right. I'll catch you later." Klaus says and gives Caroline a wink before he walks away. Caroline sends him a displeased look then turns to Stefan.
"Could he be anymore disgusting?" Caroline asks.
"Ha ha. You don't want to know." He replies while adding ketchup to his hot dog.
"Did you tell Damon you knew?"
"Hell no. This is your mess. I'm just a shoulder to cry on."
"I appreciate it." Caroline says.
"Mom knows." Stefan says very quickly while taking a bite of his hot dog.
Caroline gives him a death glare. "Is she mad?"
"You know, more hurt than mad. I told you to tell em last night."
"I couldn't the bears were winning. Everybody was really happy."
"Exactly! Always take advantage of a good mood." There was a long pause.
"Well you could always quit." Stefan said breaking the silence. He chuckles and she raises her eyebrows with a bit of shock to what he had just said. " Just a thought." he quickly adds. "I think its time you take this to a higher power." he said and takes another bite.
Caroline walks up to her mother who is sitting in one of the pews of their local church and sits next to her. Liz quietly turns to Caroline and says " You got nothing to say?"
"Nope, all good."
"Pastor Young says he hasn't seen you in months."
" So much for the seal of confession."
" That's only inside the box."
"Good to know. I'm sorry I didn't tell you."
"You had your reasons."
"I didn't want you in the middle."
"oh, honey, when it comes to you kids and your father, I'm always in the middle."
Caroline sighs and whispers " How bad is it gonna be?"
Liz pauses and looks at her. "Remember the time you and Damon painted Stefan purple?"
" OH Damn it!" Caroline says a little to loud for her mothers liking.
"You didn't ask his advice. You joined Internal Affairs. And don't swear in the Lords House."
"I didn't think I had to ask his permission."
" How long have you known your Father?" Liz replies while she faintly smiles.
" It was my decision!"
"Do you want him to forgive you or not?"
"For becoming a detective? For living my life?" Caroline defends
"AHEM!" A man seated a couple pews away interrupts. Caroline turns and glares at him. "Sorry." she says turning back to her mother " So what do I do?"
"Bake him a cake. Chocolate."
"A cake? Seriously?"
"It'll soften the blow."
Caroline scoffs "It doesn't matter what i do, he is never going to forgive me."
"Of course he will. You're his only daughter. He has to." Liz says as she bends down to pick up her purse. "Congratulations, by the way." she says giving her a smile.
"Thank you." Caroline replies with a proud grin.
"Hows it going?"
"Good." Caroline says a little less sure of herself.
"Good. Okay, talk to your father soon, Please. Because I need your help on Saturday with the Novack wedding. They want five additional cakes." Liz says as she pats Caroline on the shoulder and starts to walk out."
"Cakes. MOM!" She gets up quickly after her "Mom!"
"What?"
" You don't even ask anymore, you just assume? What if i have plans?"
"Do you?" Liz questions.
"That's not the point."
"Whats the point?"
"That I could have."
Liz just stares at Caroline while trying to hold back her laugh. After a long pause " What time Saturday?" Caroline says in an aggravated tone.
"8:00 a.m." She turns to Caroline and places a hand on her shoulder " I love you." and turns to leave.
" I don't know how to tell him."
Liz stops and turns around. " Honey ever since you could crawl you've been out to prove a point. That you could do whatever your brothers could do only you could do it better. You've always been way too smart. except when it comes to your father. You re 25 years old. When are you gonna stop looking for his approval?" And with that being said she smiles sweetly and makes her way out the church.