A man with dark blue eyes, messy dark brown hair, and a scruffy beard is walking up to a bar with his friends. Jake Parker is a cop fresh out of the academy, in celebration of his graduation his friend Lex, who has been a cop for two years now, takes him and a couple of the other guys out for drinks, he's also agreed to be the designated driver.
Jake is dressed up for the night, he's wearing a navy blue button up and a nice pair of jeans. He and his friends have been at the bar for about 30 minutes, and they are laughing at some of their stories about the academy when Jake sees a girl settle down at the end of the bar. She's beautiful, with sun kissed hair and sky blue eyes, but Jake thinks she's a little young. The bartender seems to agree, but she just whispers something and the bartender is soon mixing a drink.
"Well guys, it looks like work never stops for a man in blue." Jake says, his voice sarcastic.
The guys look over and zero in on the blonde, Lex sighs, "I'm sure the bartender checked, she probably just looks young."
"It never hurts to double check." Jake says, watching the blonde. Jake pushes off the bar he was leaning on and pushes his way past people until he reaches the open seat next to her.
The bartender hands her a drink she smiles appreciatively and takes a sip before saying, "Here to double check officer?"
Jake is surprised, he can't believe she heard them from across the bar, but he quickly recovers and a half smile finds it's way on his face, "I'm just doing my job, ma'am." he says.
She rolls her eyes, "I'm just grabbing a drink before heading home, officer, is there going to be a problem?"
Jake leans against the bar and motions to the bartender, "No ma'am, I'm just going to need to see ID." he says.
She rolls her eyes and places some money on the bar and gets up to leave, Jake reaches out to grab her arm as he says, "I'm sorry-" but he never finishes once he makes contact with her arm. He feels magic flow into him, but it's different from what he's felt in the past from his coven. She immediately pulls her arm away and glares at him, "What was that?" She asks.
He knows she supernatural, he just doesn't know what she is so he keeps his flirting up, "Maybe it means we're soulmates." He says with a smirk.
She scoffs, "Yeah right."
He shrugs, ""If witches and vampires are real, then why can't soulmate exist?"
She hesitates, but quickly composes herself, "Yeah, and how about the tooth fairy." Her eyebrow quirks signaling it's his turn.
He leans in to make sure no one else is listening, his lips brush her ear as he says, "I know what you are." he leans back and searches her face, he's bluffing but she believes him.
She smiles and twirls her hair, she leans in a little and whispers, "Meet me out back." She pulls back and bites her lip while grabbing her purse.
Jake hears the guys cheer, he grabs the shot the bartender brought him and drowns it before throwing the guys a smirk. He then moves to follow the girl, but he's not nearly as graceful as she is.
Once outback he looks around and sees her by the trashcan checking her makeup, he walks up to her and says, "You look amazing."
She snaps her mirror shut and puts in her purse before giving him her attention, "You don't have to keep the act up, no one can hear us out here."
Jake come closer to her, just encase someone stumbles out and sees them. "My acting career didn't cut it, so I became a cop instead."
She crosses her arms and says, "So what are you exactly?"
Jake quirks an eyebrow in confusion, "A witch, like you." He states like it's obvious.
She lets out a humorless laugh, "You must not get out much, I'm not a witch and neither are you."
Jake pushes his eyebrows together in confusion, "What?"
He blue eyes sparkle as she mocks him, "My best friend is a witch, and she can't do what you did." She waves to the bar.
Jake's dark blue eyes widen in realization, "Wait your a siphoner too? I didn't know there were any others beside my brother and I."
"A what? I'm a vampire." She says.
Jake hates to admit it, but he's a little scared, he's never dealt with vampires before and hasn't used magic in years not that he absorbed enough from her earlier for it to be useful.
She smiles, genuinely this time, "It's okay, I'm not going to hurt you."
She sees his expression and sighs, "Heightened senses, I heard your heartbeat quicken. Which makes you pulse quicken, so if you could calm down that would be much appreciated."
Jake takes a deep calming breath, "So your not going to kill me?" He asks.
She shakes her head 'no'. Jake sighs in relief, "Thank you."
"What did you do back there?" She asks, the sweet little girl gone and the predator is back.
"I can siphon magic from other supernatural beings, I don't have my own but I can use magic as long as I can take it from someone." Jake explains. He's not sure why he's talking to her, she could kill him in a blink of an eye, but he trusts her for some reason.
"Okay, are there any others like you here?" She asks.
Jake shakes his head, "Not that I know of, your the first super natural being I've run into since living here. And I've been here for five years."
She's about to reply when her phone goes off, "I'm sorry," she sounds genuinely embarrassed for picking up her phone in the middle of a conversation.
"Hello?" She asks.
Jake just watches her as she talks, intrigued by her. She's so human for someone he grew up think of as a emotionless monster.
"Yes, I know and I'm sorry. I'm on my way now. I'll pay you extra." She says.
She nods even though the other person can't see her, "Thank you so much." She says before hanging up.
"I'm sorry I had to take that, and I'm sorry for leaving so suddenly." She says.
Jake smiles, "It's all good, do you need a ride?" He offers.
"No thank you, I'll hail a cab." She says before walking to the street.
Jake doesn't know why, but he wants to get to know her better, "I'm Jake by the way, Jake Parker." He holds his hand out for her to shake.
She looks at the hand and he reassures her, "I can control it."
She looks up at him before hesitantly placing her hand in his, he notices it's surprisingly warm, "Caroline Forbes."
"Nice to meet you miss Forbes." He says, and then lets her go. She smiles at him one last time before disappearing into the night.
Jake heads back to his friends, once there one of the guys ask, "So how was it?"
"Dude!" Someone else says.
Jake smiles and leans on the bar, "No it's okay, we didn't do anything."
Lex looks shocked. And one of the guys says, "Jake Parker, man whore extraordinaire, didn't get laid?"
Jake smirks, "The nights still young." He says, he waves the bartender over.
The other guys buy it, but Lex senses somethings off.
Jake doesn't have a problem finding another girl, but he doesn't go any further then flirting, his mind just isn't into it tonight. Caroline Forbes occupies is to busy filling his thoughts, she's nothing like how he was raised to view vampires.
Jake and Lex are the only ones left, some of the guys had families to go home to and some of the guys took cabs with girls they met.
As Lex and Jake make there way to Lex's car Lex brings up Caroline, "So that girl from earlier."
Jake shakes his head at his friends not so subtle prying, "Caroline. It's nothing really, we didn't even exchange numbers, it's just that she has me questioning a few things from my past."
Lex raises his eyebrows and nods, but doesn't comment. The rest of the ride is spent with the guys talking about work and life, Lex drops Jake off in front of his apartment.
"Thanks for the ride." Jake says.
Lex smiles, "You're welcome, see you Monday."
Jake walks up to his apartment as Lex pulls away. It takes Jake a few tries to unlock his door, he's slightly drunk, and once in he places ibuprofen and water near his bed. He strips to his boxers and lays down thinking about a certain blonde vampire he met earlier.
A few blocks northwest a certain blonde vampire is thinking about a certain tall blue eyed witch she met earlier that night, someone she's going to call Bonnie about the next morning, and she may mention that he's cute in that conversation. Caroline hears sniffles in the next room and sits up, she waits a moment and her vampire hearing can pick up soft sobs and she smells salt, she gets out of bed and walks down the hall to a bedroom.
A small boy is laying curled in a ball crying softly, he has curly black hair and crystal clear blue eyes."Mom?" the boy whispers.
Caroline turns the light on and sits down gently next to the boy, she rubs his back softly, "What's wrong baby?" she asks.
The boy sits up and wraps his arms around her neck, squeezing tightly, if she didn't have vampire strength he would be strangling her, she rubs his back and coos softly.
The boy says, "I had a bad dream."
"It's okay baby, do you want to sleep with me tonight?" Caroline asks. The boy nods in her shoulder, she picks him up effortlessly and grabs his stuffed raven his godmother gave him, and turns the light off. Caroline lays the boy down in the middle of the bed, she gets in on her side and he shuffles closer to her, she wraps her arms around him and sings softly until her falls asleep. Caroline kisses the top of his before she settles down.
A/N I wanted to write a scene where Caroline was a mother to a small child, and I couldn't do that in Kai Salvatore? because Kai didn't become part of their family until he was 6. I also wanted to write a Containment/The Vampire Diaries crossover since I love both of these shows, and thus this was born.
Please review and let me know if I should continue or if this sucks and should be erased from existence.