Knock. Knock. Knock.

"Nik, can you get that?"

They had been lounging on the couch, having a lazy Sunday as they did so often. Caroline was donning one of Klaus' gray henleys, her feet resting upon his lap, reading Gone With the Wind for the nth time and regaling Klaus with lines from her favorite parts. Klaus sat in some lose fitting sweats, sketching her – not to her knowledge. It had become a common routine between the two: ordering food from the Thai restaurant down the block and just enjoying the other's company.

Klaus sighed as he removed Caroline's feet from his lap and walked towards the door. He went to grab his wallet from the counter, thinking it was the delivery boy, but as he opened the door he came face to face with three unknown faces.

Standing to the far left was a blonde woman, most likely in her 50s, standing with her right hand on her belt loop, and her head cocked to the side as if sizing him up. Next to her stood a man, around the same age, with brown hair, thick glasses, and a look of slight disdain. The man to the right of him was a bit younger than the other two, early-40s maybe, staring intently at Klaus' stomach. He looked down and realized that he was not wearing a shirt. He looked back up at the three, a curious expression blazoned upon his face.

After an awkward moment Klaus finally spoke. "Um, can I help you?"

The brunette with the glasses answered. "Yes. We're looking for Caroline Forbes." He paused. "She does still live here, right?"

Klaus blinked a few times. Well obviously they were here for Caroline. It was her apartment after all. Nevertheless, he turned back and called for her.

"Sweetheart, there are some people here at the door for you."

A few seconds later Caroline came bounding up behind Klaus, but froze as she noticed who was at the door.

"Mom? Dad? Stephen?" She stared wide-eyed at the three, her mouth opening and closing like a fish. After a moment she finally regained her bearings enough to speak. "Um... I... uh, what are you guys doing here?" Real eloquent, Caroline. Real eloquent. She mentally cringed.

Klaus stood awkwardly to the side, trying to hide behind his girlfriend as he remembered that her mother was a sheriff and her father was a lawyer. So they could commit the perfect murder, dispose of all the evidence, and no one would be the wiser. Wonderful, just wonderful.

"We wanted to surprise you and come and see your place, but instead we got a surprise when this one" he pointed to Klaus, "opened the door. Oh, and what a lovely surprise it was. I mean, if I wasn't so happily married to your father, I'd probably try to recruit him to our team." Stephen said eying Klaus up and down.

Liz chuckled; Klaus looked down and cleared his throat; Bill elbowed his partner; and Caroline face-palmed.

The blonde slowly peered through her fingers to see her parents staring back at her with questioning faces.

"Mom, Dad, Stephen, this is my, um, boyfriend Klaus."

Bill and Liz looked unimpressed and Stephen seemed happy, albeit a bit dejected.

She looked back at her feet, unable to meet the gazes of her parents, and she realized that she was not wearing pants. And Klaus was not wearing a shirt. Great start to the meet the parents, don't you think?

Klaus, who had been silent until now, cleared his throat once again and quietly said, "Love, don't you think you should invite your parents inside?"

Caroline swiftly looked up – all manners had been forgotten as soon as she had spotted her parents – and said "Oh, ya! Yes, come in." She began walking backwards into her apartment, only to crash into Klaus. His arms instantly went around her to steady her, and she took a deep breath. She motioned for her parents to follow her into the house, and as they walked with her towards the living room Klaus shut the door behind them.

He moved to the living room to see Caroline settling her parents on the couches. When he walked through the doorway, she looked up and smiled hesitantly at him, afraid he may not be ready to meet her parents after only a few months of dating. However, he gave her a reassuring smile and a weight seemed to lift from her shoulders. She then looked back at her parents, who had been watching the whole exchange curiously.

Remembering their half-dressed state, Caroline spoke up, "So, Nik and I are going to go put some more clothes on." A pregnant pause. "Uh, ya, so..." She rushed to grab Klaus' hand and pulled him into the hallway towards her bedroom.

Once safely behind closed doors, Caroline began to slowly lose the calm facade – calm? Whatever you say Caroline – that she had had in her parents presence.

Her eyes were wide, her breathing ragged, as she paced around the room.

Klaus sat calmly on her bed, looking at her with a smirk playing on his red lips and amusement in his eyes.

"My parents just showed up unannounced to find their daughter and her boyfriend – whom they had no idea about – half naked in her apartment! This is soooo not how I imagined you meeting my parents would go –"

"You imagined me meeting your parents?" he interrupted.

"Well not now, but at some point, ya. But now that's completely ruined and they're going to think I'm a disappointing hussy and that you're like a bad influence on me or something. Which you aren't!" A breath. "And did you see the looks on their faces? Mom looked about ready to shoot you, Dad was getting ready to hide the evidence, and Stephen was planning ways to steal you from me! And now they're sitting in my living room thinking about how I failed them and –"

She didn't get to finish her rant though as Klaus' lips came crashing onto hers.

Her eyes widened in shock. She hadn't even noticed him moving from his spot perched on her bed. But now he was right in front of her, hands holding her face, and his lips pressed to hers.

Right as she began to kiss back, he pulled away, her face still held between his palms.

"Are you calmer now?" He asked with a playful smirk.

"Well, I think, but my –"

She was once again cut off by Klaus quickly pressing his lips against hers. When he pulled back he looked at her and asked, "will you listen to me now?"

She nodded silently.

He sighed. "Alright, sweetheart. We are both going to put some more clothes on, and go out and speak with your family."

"But –"

"And despite your protests, they will not be disappointed or upset with you. They love you. And how can they not? Your their daughter, and you're perfect. And while you may have had questionable choices for boyfriends in the past who didn't know a good thing when they had one –"

"I am not a thing!"

"– I am here to stay, and if enduring an interrogation from your parents is necessary for that to happen, then so be it. I've seen scarier. I am a lawyer, remember?"

"But, Nik –"

"No buts, Caroline, we are going to walk out there and do this together, and we might want to do that quickly if we don't want your parents to think that I was taking advantage of their daughter while they were in the next room over."

Caroline gasped. "Right! We can do this!" As she said this, she began marching determinedly towards the door, but paused when Klaus started to chuckle.

"Sweetheart, you may want to put some pants on first."

She blushed and rushed towards her closet, but turned her head over her shoulder and said, "Thank you, Nik. Really."

"Anything for you, love"

A few minutes later, the two blondes walked back into the living room – fully clothed this time – and paused at what they saw.

Liz was looking through Klaus' sketchbook – undoubtedly finding picture upon picture of her daughter, some less appropriate than others – and Bill and Stephan sitting on the couches indulging in – was that their Thai food?

Bill looked up a bit abashedly, as Stephen said, "Your food came while you guys were in the bedroom. You don't mind, right?" and shoved another bite of food into his mouth.

Caroline sighed and looked to her mother, who proceeded to glare at Klaus and say, "why do you have naked drawings of my daughter in here?"

Caroline's eyes widened. Bill chocked on a bite of food. And Stephen jumped up excitedly and said, "Ooh, I wanna see!"

Klaus sighed.

This was gonna be a long night.

A/N: So, how was it? This was my first attempt at fanfiction, ever, so please be kind and drop a review? Pretty please with sugar on top? (remember, first story, so please be gentle, but constructive criticism is always welcomed.)

If you guys liked this, I'd like to try and make this into a drabble series of just insane and funny ways that everyone discovers Klaus and Caroline's relationship. I have some ideas for other drabbles, and if other people want to leave a suggestion, I'll take them into consideration and maybe write your ideas...

Thank you all, and I even appreciate you just taking the time out of your day to read this. It means a lot :)

Maybe review? follow? make a girl's day? bake some cupcakes? build a lego house? listen to Ed Sheeran? Sorry, off topic. But the first two would be lovely and would lead to the third one...

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