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Caroline watched as Silas ripped her heart out of her chest while Klaus ran towards her at inhuman speed. She saw him force the cure down his throat and rip his head off then he was at her side tears falling from his rough cheek.
"No Caroline, love please, I can't lose you." he pleaded kissing her for the first time, she could taste the blood from his split lip, but already she was desiccating, Bonnie saw it too.
"No!" She screamed and a bright light flashed around her and Bonnie and she sat up in a cold sweat in her bed. She wiped her forehead with the back of her night shirt.
"Klara dear are you alright?" She heard a voice ask from outside her door, she sat up lighting her bedside candle her daylight ring clutched in her hand, she remembered her life as Caroline but this obviously wasn't it, what the hell had just happened, would happen.
She was in the past, or some really horrible Amish place, she was still a vampire she could feel that much but what the hell had happened? She got out of her straw bed to see if whoever knew her as Klara could tell her more.
"Are you alright dear?" The woman she came face to face with when she opened the door asked. Caroline looked at her in her simple tan night clothes and long brown hair.
"What happened?" She asked aloud, the woman smiled obviously pleased to hear her say something.
"You had been bitten by one of the dreadful wolf men that are plaguing our village, you had told us to leave you to die, but then you cried out, Klaus you said, I wonder dear did yo mean Nicklaus, the man who with the aid of his brothers is trying to rid us of these wolf men?" She asked, Caroline touched her hand to her lips suddenly remembering Klaus' kiss, she had finally been falling for him and then the kiss and now he was here and he didn't even know her.
"Um, ya." She whispered wishing she could see him again the way he was, she'd heard some about Klaus when he was young, he'd been even more of a monster then he had been when she first met him.
"You are cured, we must bring this to Nicklaus, we could save so many lives." The woman said looking at the scar on her neck. She knew how to save the victim of a wolf bite and she could still taste his blood on her tongue.
"Ya, take me there." She told her, she needed to see him, he would know witches and maybe they could get her back to her own time, her own Klaus, the Klaus that loved her, that she might be falling in love with.
"Of coarse, do you need to feed first?" She asked holding her wrist out, Caroline could see the bite mark on her from numerous feedings. Caroline would have declined the offer but she felt like she was starving.
After she fed she compelled the woman to tell her everything about herself that she knew. It turned out Klara had been turned by Nicklaus. He had thought she was beautiful, which she turned out to look almost exactly like herself.
He had blown into town looking for his moon stone and killing werewolves which to most of the town made him a hero since they had been plagued by them. Klara had just been a passing fancy though, too tame to catch his eye for long.
Elizabeth took her to meet there Nicklaus for the first time, she took him to the largest house in there village, it was kind of Norse looking, she could tell they weren't speaking English, but whatever it was she understood it like it was.
"Nicklaus, I have brought Klara to see you my lord, she seems to have miraculously recovered from her bite." Elizabeth told him as they walked in, the whole group of men tuned to her, Klaus had longer hair brushed back, and old looking clothes, but other then that not much had changed in the looks department, the same went for Elijah, Kol, though Rebekah and Fin seemed to be missing.
"Ah, Klara sweetheart, to what do we owe this miraculous recovery?" He asked flashing in front of her, he was only inches from her now and he didn't even know her.
"Your blood Kluas, hybrid blood is the only cure." She told him not intimidated in the least which seemed to shock him almost as much as her words. He snapped Elizabeth's neck before she could even move.
"How do you know that, where did you get my blood?" He growled, she didn't even blink she was more then used to him doing this when he got mad by now.
"You told me and you gave it to me, I'm not Klara, I'm Caroline and something happened that sent me back here and now you're gonna go get your witches and fix it. Because I am so not staying here where you don't even know me!" She told him poking him in the chest, he blinked his anger totally gone replaced by shock.
He had never been spoken to like that by a woman, who did she think she was. His brothers were all looking at her in shock too. Not one of them had met a woman as forward as her, not even Rebekah.
"And what makes you think that I would help you, and for that matter why would I believe you?" He asked still snarling at her she rolled her eyes, oh God this Klaus was so going to be a huge pain. He was enough of a pain when he did love her.
"I don't know maybe because I know you, and I know where the moon stone will be, and I know where a doppelganger will be, and a way for you to do the ritual with out killing my friend, and I know you're not really as evil as you pretend to be. So are you gonna help me or what?" She asked, leaning closer to him. He glared at her for a long moment unable to make himself step away from her, he was never one to back down from a challenge and something about her drew him to her.
"And where is the moon stone and my doppelganger?" He asked practically touching her at this point though his hands were still clasped behind his back.
"Oh no, I'm not stupid, you get your information when I get what I need. I know you, and I'm too smart to fall for your charms or your threats." She told him, Elijah came up behind him putting his hand on Nicklaus' shoulder.
"Come now brother, let's help this, Caroline was it? What could be the harm?" He asked looking at her with curiosity.
"Fine, Kol bring us your witch friend, but mark my words love if you betray me I will your heart out." He growled, Caroline leaned in closer the tip of her nose touching his and she looked him in the eye.
"Klaus I've done a lot of mean things to you, but I've never betrayed my word to you and I never will." She told him, he narrowed his eyes at her trying to catch her in a lie, but she was being honest.
"Good lord brother, are you going to kill her or kiss her?" Kol asked as he came back with a small tan woman in a plain dress.
"Quiet Kol!" He snarled stepping back from Caroline, the witch walked over to her quietly with a small smile.
"I'm Lilandra, and you I see are no longer Klara, a sad fact, Klara was a kind woman, but I see you are much more important, give me your hand." She told her, Caroline held her hand out for Lilandra. The small brunette took her hand with her tiny rough calloused hands, her head fell back her eyes rolling up.
"No!" She screamed dropping Caroline's hand Lilandra's hands going to her heart looking at Caroline with pity and shock.
"Oh my child, I am so sorry. Bonnie saved you sent you back to a incarnation of yourself so you could both live. I can't send you back, child your body is dead, he held you in his arms spilled his precious tears and watched you die, but you can change that now." She told Caroline looking back at Klaus who furrowed his brow at Lilandra.
"What do you mean I held her, why would I be so weak as to care for her, love is our greatest weakness!" He snarled at her as if it ere somehow Lilandra's fault that she tempted him.
"I mean what I say Nicklaus, she is your weakness, and your strength, your soul mate, But more then that, she will change things for you, she will make your life so much better, or infinitely worse. I'm sorry child, but trust that your life will be full of opportunity, there's a whole world out there waiting for you as they say." She told her with a knowing smile, Caroline smiled pulling Lilandra into a hug grateful to know in some small way that her Klaus was still there.
"Rubbish!" Klaus growled, Kol laughed putting his arm around Lilandra with a wicked smile.
"Oh Come now brother we all fall to such weakness once or twice, don't be such a spoil sport, I like her. In fact if you don't want her, I'll take her off your hands." Kol joked, Klaus snarled the idea of Kol touching her made his blood boil and he had no idea why. He refused to believe that this woman was important to him.
"Hey, don't even think about it buster I don't belong to any of you, and in all honesty you've always been kind of a dick to me." She told him, they were all shocked by her language. Klaus flashed in front of her.
"I gave you what you asked for now tell me what you know, you insufferable woman!" He ordered she narrowed her eyes at him.
"You gave me part of what I wanted, so I'll give you part of what you want. It's gone be a bit of a wait so don't worry, you won't miss it." She told him with a smirk turning to walk away, he flashed in front of her just like she knew he would.
"Don't turn your back on me!" He snarled, she looked at him with nothing but false confidence in her expression.
"Or what, hu Klaus your gonna kill me, big deal apparently I'm already dead, not to mention I know more then a few things you need. So stop with this puffed up crap and show me to my room, because I'm so not sleeping in the pile of hay I woke up in!" She told him, he growled again for good measure.
"Fine, follow me!" He snarled tuning to the stairs, she did, he lead her up to a room at the end of the hall, it was a big room with a huge bed that almost looked comfy.
"There, does this suite your taste sweetheart or do you have more demands before you tell me what I want to know?" He asked his calm exterior returning his hands still clasped behind his back tightly.
"Klaus, you precious doppelganger doesn't show up until 2009 there really is no rush, and I'm in no hurry to exhaust my leverage, like I said I do know you." She told him putting her hand on his chest and giving him a look that said she had him wrapped around her finger. He growled slamming both hands against the wall on either side of her.
"That's over three hundred years from now!" He growled once again only inches from her, she smiled patting his chest without a care in the world.
"Then you better get used to having me around." She told him just daring him to challenge her, he dropped his hands in frustration turning away from her.
"Why do you want to stay here, I'm certainly not in love with you, and I never will be, why not just give me the information and leave?" He asked her she smiled looking him up and down remembering what he'd said the first time she asked why he'd invited her to that dance.
"Perhaps I just enjoy you Klaus, or perhaps I just enjoy ruffling your feathers." She told him closing the door to the room he'd given her letting out a deep sigh as she leaned against the door. She was flushed and nervous, how was she going to wait three hundred years to see her friends again. Not to mention what was going to change because of her.
Klaus stood outside her door for a long moment just seething, who was this woman, she was beautiful, but Klara had been too and she had not enthralled him so. He was furious that she was holding his information hostage, though he knew she was smart to do it.
He would have killed her if she'd told him already, perhaps she really did know more about him then he thought. She obviously wasn't afraid of him so he would need to change his tactics, tomorrow he would charm the information out of her. He returned to his brothers after he had composed himself sufficiently.
"I like her brother." Kol joked sitting in his chair casually sipping his wine, Klaus growled taking up his own cup.
"As do I brother, she has no fear for you, I think she'll be good for you, keep you in your place." Elijah chuckled from his own hair, how had she turned his brothers against him with only a few words to them.
"She's going to be an issue, but she'll break, then I can dispose of her." Klaus told them, Kol shook his head.
"Tell me you aren't so foolish brother, Lilandra has never been wrong, she told you how much worse you could make your life if you don't accept this." Kol offered, Kluas laughed shaking his head at Kol's naivety.
"Don't be absurd brother, I don't think even your witch could know such things." Klaus told them sounding full of himself.
"Are you willing to risk your happiness on that chance?" Elijah asked, Kulas rolled his eyes downing his drink.
"Not you too Elijah, she's nothing to me, and a witch's word won't magically change that for me." He growled going back towards his own room which shared a wall with the one he'd given to Caroline. He could hear her on the other side of the wall turning in her bed, he would never sleep like this, she would drive him mad.
The next morning Caroline woke up very late after very little sleep putting on a dress she found in the wardrobe, the stupid thing was a pain to get on, but Caroline was not on to be bested by fashion. Klaus waited for her at the table down stairs with a slight black haired woman.
"Sleep well love?" He asked, she glared at him.
"No because someone..." She said pointedly. "Kept mumbling about me tossing and turning, which by the way would have stopped if that someone could have managed to stop freaking out for like a second." She told him going over to one of the chairs, before she could even touch it he flashed over to it pulling it out for her.
"Allow me, I am dreadfully sorry if kept you up. As it was pointed out to me I was far from amiable last night. I don't take kindly to having my hand forced." He told her she sat down letting him push her chair into the table.
"I know, I know a lot more about you then you think." She told him matter-of-factly, he gave her that tight lipped smile he had that she'd come to recognize as a sign that he was about to try and manipulate her by being way nicer then he wanted to be.
"Breakfast?" He asked gesturing to the woman who held her wrist out to her, Caroline wasn't fond of the direct meal, it made her feel creepy but she was hungry and there wound be blood bags for decades. She bit her wrist holding it over a cup until it stopped bleeding then took the cup.
"Thank you, what's your name?" She asked the woman, she looked to Klaus who just nodded as if giving her permission to speak.
"Charlotte miss, thank you for asking." She said softly, Caroline smiled sweetly at the shy woman.
"Well Charlotte thank you for breakfast, I'm Caroline. Don't let Klaus scare you, he's a big softy if you get to know him." She told Charlotte, who tried hard to suppress a smile, Klaus shot her a look of irritation before he composed himself.
"You can go." He told Charlotte, as Caroline sipped at her cup, Charlotte nodded hurrying towards the door.
"Well that was rude, I want to see our little village here, are you gonna at least show me around or should I ask Kol?" She asked drinking down the last of her breakfast, Klaus narrowed his eyes at her.
"I would be honored to escort you sweetheart but you'll have to wait until the sun goes down." He told her, she smirked getting up and going to the open door.
"According to whom?" She asked looking back at him with the light casting a halo in her golden tresses, and he caught himself staring and had to blink to un-stick his eyes and compose himself.
"And where did you get a daylight ring sweetheart?" He asked flashing over to her with a look of curiosity on his handsome features.
"Bonnie made it for me, ya know I think I like your hair better short, you had that rugged thing going for you, this just isn't you." She told him flicking his hair off his shoulder, Klaus scowled at her there was nothing wrong with his hair. He had kept his hair this way his whole life, he certainly wouldn't change for this insufferable woman.
"Well are you coming or what?" She asked snapping him out of his thoughts, she had walked away from him and was quite a few paces away at this point. He took long hurried strides to catch up with her.
They walked through the village out towards the forest, wherever she was it was beautiful here, there were the prettiest wild flowers growing everywhere and after a while they came to a picturesque little river.
"You had a painting of this place in your house, have you painted it already?" She asked kneeling down to unlace her boots.
"No, and my art is not something I share lightly." He told her a little unsettled that he'd supposedly shown her his work. It was one of the few vulnerabilities he had and he didn't share it with just any one.
"I always liked that painting, it always made me wish I was here with my feet in the cool water." She told him taking off her other boot and hopping onto the large rock near the middle of the river. She tucked her dress under her in the warm summer sun dangling her feet in the water and leaning back to soak up it's warmth.
