Here it is, the continuation of The Unexpected.
If you are new to the story, I would advise you to read the previous one first, since there are some things that might be hard to follow along with if you haven't read it.
Otherwise, I hope you guys will like this story as much as you seemed to like the first one.

The start of something new

The summer has gone by faster than she could ever have imagined. Even if it has been tough with a newborn, it definitely hasn't made the days slow. That it's already time for college is a bit of a chock, even if she has planned for it.

Everything is pact and she has made certain that she, Bonnie and Elena's move into the dorm is going to be as smooth as possible. It seems almost like a dream that all three of them has made it this far. Sure, Elena doesn't have any memories of them, and they have had to build up their friendship again, but they have made it out of high school alive.

While she is looking forward to college, she knows that she has a lot of things to try and balance. She doesn't want to be away from her son too much, so she is going to get back to Mystic Falls as often as possible, she just has to convince Klaus that it isn't the end of the world that she isn't always there.

The last couple of days he has let her know, more often than not, that he isn't a fan of her plans to go to college. She has tried to convince him that it's fine, she's only an hour away and there exists something called a phone which means that they can talk every day, not that he seems to listen, but what did she expect, it's Klaus.

Looking over all the boxes that are filling the Mikaelson mansions foyer, she thinks she has everything ready. It's getting close to the time she has to leave, and she doesn't want to forget anything.

Leaving the foyer, she joins Klaus in the living room where he is walking around with Kaiden in his arms. "It's almost time for me to leave." She lays a kiss on her son's head. "Be nice to your dad and aunt Bekah when she arrives." She gives Klaus a look that says that he should be nice to Rebekah too.

"You could still stay." He tries to convince her one last time.

Shaking her head, she leans against him. "I want to do this, if something happens, I won't be far away." She gives him a kiss. "Trust that we can do this apart." She trusts him more than anyone else.

"I wish we didn't have to." He says, leaning his forehead against hers. "But it's your decision and I will respect that." That's all she asks for and it feels amazing that they have gotten to this point.

Soon thereafter they hear Liz's car coming towards the house, if they are to get all their packing with them, they are going to need an extra car, and she wants to do this with her mom, it might be the last human millstone they can do together.

Following her out to meet her mother Klaus tries to prolong their time together. "I could come with, help you out."

She would love to have him close as long as possible, but she is quite certain that it would end in catastrophe, Klaus at a campus with her friends, no that doesn't sound good. "We will be fine, and it's not like we can bring Kaiden along." He opens his mouth to protest but she stops him. "No, we won't wait for Rebekah to get her, you will be fine." that causes him to roll his eyes.

The door opens and Liz enters. "Everything ready?" she asks and looks to her daughter. "Is he still trying to convince you to stay?"

Klaus shakes his head at the question and the laugh that leaves Caroline. "Since you don't need me, I will be leaving you two alone."

Before he can go, Caroline stops him. "That's not necessarily true." She moves to take Kaiden from him. "I have some heavy things and you are the only one with supernatural strength." Not that it's that heavy but she has some problem with them, sometimes she really misses being a vampire.

The fact that he doesn't complain and just does what she asks makes her smile, who would have thought that Klaus would ever do something so ordinary as helping her pack without even mentioning that they could compel someone to help.

Whitmore is filled with people that are moving in for the new school year. Most of them are carrying boxes with friends and family helping out. The three friends are looking around with a smile on their faces, it's amazing that they have made it here.

Taking a deep breath Caroline lets herself take in the surrounding. When she closes her eyes, she can feel the magic that comes from nature. It's so different here, compared to Mystic Falls, freer in a way, even if she can feel some supernatural energies around her.

When she opens her eyes again, her friends are staring at her. "I just wanted to get a feeling for the place." She explains to them.

"It is quite different." Bonnie notes, the time she spent with Kol and Cyrena to find her way back to her roots have really done her god.

Elena looks at her friends with a bit of a saddened face. "I don't feel anything." not having a connection to nature like her friends leaves her a bit out, not that she has much to compare to though since she only remembers calmer times in Mystic Falls after her memory loss.

It had taken some time, but the Salvatore brothers had stopped in their constant attempts to help her remember, now they are just getting to know each other again. Even if Caroline would have preferred that Elena found her way back to Stefan if she wants to be with one of the brothers, her friend seems to prefer Damon.

Normally she would have loudly let her friend know what she thought about it, but Elena has been in a good place the last couple of months and she would start feeling like a hypocrite considering that she is in a relationship with Klaus.

With a box each, they start moving up to their dorm that they had convinced Elena to compel them so that they could get one with three beds. One more vampire perk that she really misses.

True to her nature, Caroline has planned everything in to the smallest detail, which means that their unpacking has gone fast and smooth, the only time her friends questioned anything was when Elena picked up the panini press Caroline had packed, something they found unnecessary considering that Bonnie is the only one that needs to eat.

Her mom soon joins them with the last box. Once it's placed in the room, she takes Caroline to her for a goodbye hug. "I should go before I change my mind and drag you home with me." She says while hugging her daughter. "You can call as much as you want, you know?"

"Mom, we'll be fine, and I only need one that tries to convince me to come home." They both laugh as they separate.

Liz then turns to Elena to give her a hug too. "This is where your dad fell in love with medicine, you know? He would be really proud to see you here." She tells her.

Elena gives her a smile. "Thank you, I knew he was a doctor, just not that it was here he went to school."

Lastly, she turns to Bonnie. "And I don't have to remind you how proud your grandmother would be of you."

"How proud she is." Bonnie corrects her. "She was a witch, which means that she's on the other side, watching over me." She explains as they hug.

When Liz then leaves them with a "good luck" the friends look to each other for a short while before they squeal of excitement, they have really made it to the next part of their life.

There is something special about coming home after you have travelled for so long, a feeling that she isn't completely certain she has felt very often before. She and her brothers have rarely had a real home before, and it's even rarer that she has travelled without them.

She and Matt had a good time in Europe, she just wishes that he didn't need to start working as soon as they made it home, but apparently, there's some end of the summer event in town. At some point she will most likely join in, she just has to make sure how Klaus has survived Caroline leaving for college.

First, she was thinking to press the car horn to announce her presence, but then remembers that her nephew might not like the sound and that could annoy her brother. Leaving her bags in the car, planning to compel someone to carry them inside for her later, she walks in to find Klaus.

The mansion is unusually quiet, with both Kol and Cyrena having left now to, it feels a bit empty. Looking through the house, she finds Klaus in his studio. "You know, there are things happening in town, you don't have to stay inside all day." She says as she joins him.

He hums and answers without taking his eyes of his panting. "My son is finally calm after Caroline left, and I don't plan to risk upsetting him with a lot of people."

"Whoever said that he's like you?" she jokes while studying the landscape he is drawing. "Maybe he likes people, just like his mother."

Klaus sighs and she can see that it might not be impossible to convince him to leave the house for a bit. That had been one thing Caroline had told her when they had discussed what she was going to help out with, it's important to her that Kaiden gets to be a part of society.

He sighs as he follows his sister through town square where a majority of Mystic Falls population has gathered. Most of them are more or less strangers to him, even if it's a small town, he and his sibling have had no reason to learn who people are unless they were a part of the council.

Why Rebekah thought that they should attend he has still not figured out, the only thing of interest she should find here is the old high school quarterback that are working today. "I didn't think to see you here?" he suddenly hears Liz voice next to him. "Is Kaiden with you?"

He points her to Rebekah who has the stroller. "She insisted that we both needed to get out." He explains and sits down opposite Liz. "I assume Caroline made it safe to Whitmore?"

She nods. "I know that she can take care of herself, but it's never easy when your children grow up, a part of me wishes that I could have dragged her home, that she could have stayed my little girl."

"I wouldn't complain, at least not too the drag her home part." He says which makes Liz laugh at his comment.

He can still not understand why she wants to do this, why she feels the need to involve herself with boring human ideas when she doesn't need to any longer.

According to him, it would be both easier and better if she just let go, not that she should give up on her humanity, because that is a part of her that he loves, but she could at least start to prioritize differently.

He feels something on his arm and looks down to see Liz's hand. "She will be alright." She gives him a smile. "You know that, right?"

"That doesn't make it any easier." He looks to his sister and son. "I just have this bad feeling, nothing ever stays calm around Caroline and her friends." And who knows what could come after her now when she is something very special.