G'Day mates! (Going all bogan today because us Aussies are the shit. I'm just in a weird mood. Deal with it, mate).

Anyway, the answer to your question is yes, I have begun a new fic! I wrote a zombie Klaroline drabble early last year called Radioactive and I got quite a few people asking me to make it into a multi-chapter fic, so I've finally gotten around to doing so! I've never really written much zombie-specific stories before, so bear with me if I get any facts wrong, but I'm going to be doing research and going by what I know from Black Ops (Yes, I'm a gamer girl. I waste my life on my XBOX 360 and I've got no regrets).

Anyway, I hope you enjoy my new story! Now while you read, I'm gonna go wrestle a croc!


"Caroline, I could use your help down here. There's a group of people waiting to be served!"

"I'm coming, Kol, just give me a second!" Caroline called back to her business partner before turning back to her friend who was sitting on the other side of the bar swirling a tumbler of scotch in one hand. "Katherine, you can't keep coming in here to distract me. I've got a bar to run."

Katherine slumped her shoulders forward and sighed dramatically. "But I bring good business to your bar."

"No you don't. You get cheap drinks because you're dating Kol's brother Elijah." Caroline reminded her.

"And your point is?"

"You can't constantly hang around here just so you can distract me." Caroline repeated again. "I need to work and actually try to earn a living here, Kat. I'll talk to you after my shift, okay?"

Once again, Katherine let out a dramatic sigh and held her glass out toward Caroline who hesitantly filled up her tumbler again. "Fine. Put that one on Elijah's tab. He won't mind. I'll go find Rebekah while you work with your future fiancé."

Caroline scoffed and shook her head at Katherine's remark about Kol. True, Caroline had been dating the gorgeous, playful moron that was Kol Mikaelson for some time, and lately they had become more serious about their relationship, but there had been no surprise suggestions or proposals yet. She didn't want anything to interfere with their work relationship since they both co-owned the bar Obscura together, but sometimes she just couldn't help the little flutter of butterflies in her stomach when she saw him, and Kol's constant joking around and flirting wasn't exactly helpful either.

Katherine just winked at her and smirked before hopping off her seat to go find their friend in the crowd. Once Katherine disappeared into the crowd, Caroline rushed over to the other end of the bar where Kol was trying to mix drinks and take orders at the same time.

"We should have gotten Matt to come in after all tonight." Kol said to Caroline as she starting pouring a round of tequila shots for a group of girls. "I didn't think it'd get this busy."

"Neither did I." Caroline sighed as she handed the girls their shots in exchange for the cash. "We might end up finishes later than I thought if it keeps going like this. Do you want me to give him a call to get him to come down for a couple of hours?"

"Must you? I prefer it when it's just the two of us here." Kol teased with a playful yet charming smile. If the place wasn't so packed with people watching from every corner of the building, Caroline would have gone along with his teasing, but since it was business hours and she was dead-set on doing her job properly to the best of her ability, she just glared at him.

"Stop joking around. We're working, and I'm serious, Kol. You know what? I'm just going to call him to come in. We could use the extra hands." She said and stopped herself from reaching for the phone the second she saw him about to reply to what she said. "Don't you dare turn that into a sexual joke."

"I wasn't going to."

"Yes you were. I can tell from the look in your eyes."

"I'm flattered that you know me so well, Darling."

"No flirting during work hours!" she said finally and grabbed the phone and dialled Matt's number, Kol taking it as a sign to get back to work. Caroline looked over at the bar and signalled to a few waiting customers that she would be with them in a second before Matt picked up.

"Hey Care, what's up?"

Caroline bit her lip. "I'm going to be that really annoying employer now for a few seconds and ask you if you could possibly come in and do a last minute shift. It's only myself and Kol on tonight behind the bar and April is on as Glassy tonight, but it's not enough. We're busy as hell."

"Yeah sure, Care. Whatever you need."

Caroline released a relieved sigh. "Good god, I could kiss you right now Matt. You're a life saver. If you could get here within the next half hour that would be great."

"No worries. I'll be there in half an hour." Matt said then hung up after they said their goodbyes. Caroline put the phone down then made her way over to Kol and put a hand on his shoulder to get his attention.

"Matt's coming in half an hour." She said as she leaned across the bar to hear what a couple of guys wanted to drink.

"Um, Caroline?"

"Matt will be here until closing, so we'll have some extra help washing up too."

"Caroline?"

"What? Can you not pay attention when I need you to?" Caroline said a bit irritated as she poured the drinks for the guys. Kol shook his head at her and gestured past the bar over to the other side of the room.

"No, I heard you, I just think that maybe someone should stop Katerina…"

"What?" Caroline said confused as she gave the guys their drinks and took the cash from them before looking over to where Kol was looking. Over in the distance, Caroline could see an enraged Katherine looking about ready to throw a punch at another brunette and her friends on the dance floor as a stressed Rebekah tried to keep her from doing so.

"Oh shit." Caroline muttered, her eyes wide. "You handle the bar for a minute. I'll go get Vaughn from out the front." She told Kol, shoved the money into the register and rushed out from behind the bar toward the door and almost collided with April.

"Sorry April, I just – "

"Don't worry about it. I already got Vaughn." April told her and sure enough, Caroline turned around toward the cat fight and saw Vaughn cutting in and breaking it up. Caroline let out a tired sigh and went over to Katherine.

"Kat, how many times do I have to tell you, don't start fights." She said and grabbed her friend's wrist to drag her away from the other girls.

"She knocked my drink and spilt it all over me!" Katherine interjected but Caroline wasn't having it. She led Katherine over to a table with a couple chairs and sat her down.

"That's partly your own fault for being too drunk to hold your drink upright." Caroline told her and gestured to the tumbler in Katherine's hand which she was holding at a ridiculous angle that half of it was spilling out.

"Oh, whoops." Katherine said after a few moments delay then laughed coldly. "Where's Elijah?" she pouted. "I want my man."

"Elijah is coming soon. Don't worry." Caroline looked over at the bar where she saw Kol keeping an eye on the two of them and she made a phone gesture with her hand near her ear and mouthed 'call Elijah' to him. Kol nodded, getting the message like every other time they had a situation with Katherine and he went to make the call.

Caroline reached over and put a hand on her friends arm. "Stay here and don't go anywhere, okay? Elijah will be here soon. I just need to quickly go serve a few people, then I'll be back."

"Okay, bitch. You do that." Katherine said and gave Caroline a thumbs up.

Caroline was hesitant to leave Katherine alone in the drunken state that she was in, but she had a job to do. At least she could still keep an eye on her for a couple minutes from the bar. She made her way back to the bar with Kol and went about serving everyone, pouring drinks, exchanging money, stocking up the shelves when they ran low, and fifteen minutes later, she saw Elijah walk through the entrance and make a beeline towards Katherine who was clearly still out of it. He brushed her hair out of her face and kissed her forehead before helping her up. As he tried to keep her standing upright, he gave Caroline a grateful look before giving a small wave goodbye then leading Katherine outside. Caroline couldn't help but feel sorry for poor Elijah sometimes. Yes, Caroline loved her friend, but she could be quite the handful, especially when under the influence of alcohol.


By closing time, Caroline was exhausted. When the last person exited the bar, she propped herself up on the bar bench and let out a tired sigh. She had worked eight nights in a row and she was starting to feel the exhaustion creeping up on her. Matt and April were out the back washing up the glasses that had been used that night that couldn't fit into the dishwasher with all the others, and Caroline was supposed to be doing inventory while Kol cleaned up out front, but she didn't have the energy to. Kol made his way over to her and stood in front of her where she sat, soothingly running his hands up and down her arms.

"If you're tired, just go home. I can finish up here with Matthew and April."

Caroline let out an exhausted laugh. "No one calls Matt 'Matthew.'"

"I call him Matthew."

"That's beside the point. I can't go home. I've got inventory to do." She said firmly then jumped down from the bar bench. When she went to go out the back, Kol took hold of her arm to stop her and spun her around to face him.

"Darling, really, if you're exhausted, go home and rest. The rest of us can do inventory and close up."

Caroline eyed her boyfriend carefully. "You're not going to give me a choice anyway, are you?"

"Not even when Hell freezes over. Now go home and rest. I'll come by tomorrow." He pulled her in for a kiss and Caroline responded with a gentle kiss in return before resting a hand on his cheek.

"Okay, fine, I will. But no flirting with 'Matthew.'" She joked and Kol laughed.

"Oh please, it's not flirting. It's having a broment."

"More like a bromance. Don't think I don't see you two whipping each other's asses with the tea towels whenever you walk past each other during work." She said with an amused smile. Kol held his hands up in surrender.

"Okay, you caught us. Now go home, love."

"Okay, okay, I'm going." She replied. She grabbed her bag from under the counter and hung it over her shoulder before reaching up on her tiptoes to give Kol and quick kiss goodbye. She called out a goodbye to Matt and April in the back room who replied back, then she headed for the exit, giving her boyfriend a sweet smile and a small wave of her fingers before walking out the door on what would be the last normal day they would ever have in New York before everything changed for worse…


First chapter isn't that long, I know, but I had to leave it sounding a little confusing so you can all be like "What does she mean? What's gonna happen?"

I'm not gonna lie, when I first starting watching TVD and Kol came along, I instantly fell in love with his warped sense of humour and snarky comments (I will add more of that into future chapters. It was just kinda hard to make his humour show through in the first chapter like I would have liked), and I actually kinda always side-shipped Koroline for some reason. Klaroline is always endgame for me, but I loved both crackships when I first started watching and I haven't written any Koroline yet, so why not now?!

Anyway, for anyone who''s thinking 'Ewwww! Koroline, eww!' Don't worry, Klaroline is ALWAYS endgame in my world of fairytales. I just like drama! And yes, I'm gonna make Matt and Kol have a beautiful bromance because I'm a sucker for bromances.

Anyway, I hope you shielas and blokes enjoyed the first little sneak peak at my fic. It's gonna be a big adventure!

Reviews make my day and follows and favourites are a lovely thing.

Later mates!

Celeste xoxo