FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT
Estimated a three parts/chapters Fan Fiction
Caroline & Klaus
Katherine & Elijah
With the participation of: Rebekah and Matt; Marcel, Camille, Hayley, Sophie.
From: Lovely Vero
Please note: this short fiction is set before 5x11; therefore Klaus and Caroline did not meet since his departure from Mystic Falls.
Summary…
After learning her tragic faith, and realizing that in a few months she would be aging and meet her fatality in death, Katherine Pierce digs information to counteract her destiny. Sophie Devereaux, a powerful witch from New-Orleans could be her salvation if she manages to get her hands on her. But, this would mean entering her enemy, Klaus Mikaelson's territory, and her ex-lover, his brother Elijah.
She leaves Mystic Falls, while dragging Caroline Forbes on her heels under false pretenses. After their arrival, they both managed to learn that Marcel Gerard, Klaus's right arm, is hosting a party, and there would be a good chance that Sophie would be present, but to pass security they'll have to be part of the night attraction, only to come face to face with two men they were trying to avoid so desperately.
"Game on!"
Chapter 1
I think I'm dying and I need you to save my life …
This previous sentence was still resonating in Katherine's ears and mind like the reminiscence of a lethal, bad omen … Again, and again, and once more like a poisoned dagger entering her flesh. Doctor Maxfield had confirmed her imminent death while granting her a few weeks, maybe months if she was lucky … But, Katerina Petrova had not say her last words … Yet!
The female vampire kept her sight locked in her own mirror reflection; a few tears invading her eyelids, and a veil of sadness her soul. She had fought for more than five hundred years, and now she was facing an imminent death as a human … Life was either pernicious or had a wicked sense of humor!
She shook her head when she heard the creaking of the door, her sight lurking through the mirror at the intruder.
"Oh, you're here?" Caroline Forbes rolled her eyes at Katherine.
"Love you too, roomy." Katherine turned on herself; a smirk raising both corners of her red lips. "So what is new in your boring college life that you seem so focused on at the moment?"
"None of your business actually, you must know that this arrangement is temporary, right? Don't get too comfy in my dorm, Katherine?" Caroline shook a finger in front of Katherine's nose.
"You're so melodramatic." Katherine sighed, loudly; while pushing Caroline's finger out of her way. "What would you say if…" She started suggesting.
"Not interested." Caroline replied, while dropping her school bag on her bed, before shrugging her shoulders.
"But you did not hear me out yet?" Katherine narrowed her fiery sight on the blonde vampire; while crossing her arms in front of her chest.
"Oh I know; that is the all point of closing my ears and not being interested by your say." Caroline smirked, while lying on her bedspread, before flipping the pages of her fashion magazine at hands.
Katherine winced, before letting herself fall into a sitting position beside Caroline lying one, while crossing her legs barely dressed of a black leather mini-skirt.
"You're invading my space." Caroline took a glimpse at Katherine; while letting a loud sigh of discontentment.
"So here what I thought we could do…" Katherine started; while glancing at her fresh new manicure. "It's Friday; and we could…"
"I'm still not interested." Caroline replied, stubbornly. "Don't you have a few enemies that you could go bother? I'm sure there must be a long list?"
"I thought that …" Katherine continued, while pulling the magazine from Caroline's hands. "I could thank you for your hospitality while bringing you to a shopping spree… My threat, what do you say?" She titled her head, with a spotless smile; while pulling a credit card from one of her skirt pocket.
"I say it's fishy and I am not interested." Caroline replied, dryly, while grabbing her magazine from Katherine's hands.
"You could buy anything you want at any price, my treat?" Katherine pouted adorably.
Caroline turned her narrowed fiery sight on the brunette; still not impressed.
"Ok, I get your unwillingness … It was my stupid and not rehearsed way of thanking you for your hospitality, Caroline; you weren't obligated to do it, and I thought that I could say thank you this way." Katherine shrugged. "But forget this shopping spree; I get it, you don't want to have anything to do with "me", it's not like we are the best of friends; after all I'm the one who killed you." Katherine rose on her feet, while turning her back at the young vampire, before adding sneezing sounds as theatrical effect.
"Geez Katherine, thank you for reminding me of your killer instinct." Caroline shook her head in disbelief.
"I'm sorry; Caroline, I won't bother you anymore." Katherine took a few additional steps in the dorm room, before pulling a Kleenex from the flowery box placed on a dresser; to dry the corners of her eyes.
"Oh for God sake stop this now!" Caroline threw her magazine on a bedside table, before jumping off the bed. "I have a few hours in front of me before going out "without you" by my side, so if you want to go shopping … Whatever, let's go." She shrugged, indifferent. "You can buy something as a thank you gesture, but no latex or leather; do you hear me?" She forbad the brunette; while grabbing her handbag and keychain.
"What a shame, your butt would be a killing weapon in a pair of skinny leather pants." Katherine shrugged, while pushing her sunglasses on her nose, before grabbing her handbag and passing the threshold.
"Why do I have the feeling that I'm going to regret this?" Caroline expressed out loud, while closing the door behind her back.
Katerine Pierce met her sexy glance and twisted smile in the interior mirror of the red convertible sport car, her brown curls flying freely through the strong wind. Caroline sighed with delight, while stretching her arms above her head, before slowly opening her eyelids, the strong rays of the sunrise dazzling her view.
"What is … What is going on?" She stammered, disoriented, while waking up and grabbing her head with both hands. "Oh my head, I have this horrible headache, what is happening?"
"Good morning sunshine!" Katherine exclaimed, a smirk plastered on her red lips. "Here, drink … You must be famished." She added, while throwing a blood bag on Caroline's lap.
"What … Where am I, where are we, where are you bringing me, Katherine?" Caroline enumerated a list of questions, while tearing the plastic of the blood blag with her teeth, before drinking it in large gulps. "Oh this is so damn good, I was famished."
"There, there …" Katherine patted Caroline's left knee. "Now that you have drunk the blood, you'll feel better." She added, while placing a pair of sunglasses on her nose.
Caroline closed her eyes, while trying to regain a sense of her surroundings and past events.
"The shopping spree… You wanted to bring me shopping, and I've accepted your offer out of pity and…" Caroline started remembering; gradually.
"Ouch!" Katherine winced. "Thank you for the pity part."
"And then … I blocked it out." Caroline realized, while turning her head and narrowing her sight on the brunette, before pointing a finger under her nose. "What did you do to me, Katherine?" She asked, angrily.
"Who little "moi"?" Katherine avoided Caroline stare, while biting her bottom lip.
"It seems to be the day after yesterday, therefore you … You've created a diversion to kidnap me and …" Caroline raised her head, before noticing the big road sign announcing the remaining miles to drive before reaching …. Reaching: New Orleans!
"Pull the car on the side of the route!" Caroline ordered Katherine.
"What?" Katherine played the innocent.
"Pull the damn car NOW!" Caroline yelled from the top of her lungs.
"Oh, you're so melodramatic." Katherine rolled her eyes, before pulling the car.
Caroline stepped out of the convertible, while pacing back and forth beside the length of the car, her sight fixated on the giant road sign announcing the nearest city.
"What is this?" She pointed her finger toward the sign, to Katherine.
"A road sign?" Katherine shrugged her shoulders, before crossing her arms in front of her chest, while looking falsely indifferent.
"The "road sign" announcing our approach to New Orleans!" Caroline exclaimed, in fury. "You care to explain, Katherine?"
"Oh yah, I kind of see it now." Katherine raised her sight, while nodding her head.
"I'll kill you, limb by limb!" Caroline warned the young woman; while taking a step toward Katherine's position, before letting her vampire face come to life.
"Now, now … Let me explain." Katherine tried to save her skin, while taking a few steps back from Caroline.
"I don't want to go to New Orleans, actually; it's the last place on earth that I want to be right now!" Caroline busted, closed fists placed on each side of her tensed body.
"Ok, granted I've heard that you have this "weird" back history with Klaus." Katherine tried to calm the young vampire. "But I thought it wouldn't be such a big deal."
"Don't even pronounce his name in my ears!" Caroline warned, while waving a finger underneath the brunette nose. "And I don't have a "history" with him; I have nothing, not a thing … NOTHING!" She exploded. "I don't even want to breathe the same air as he does, and now because of your prank, I'm breathing it!" She added, while stomping her feet on the pavement.
"Ouch! So you had a "fling" with Klaus then?" Katherine concluded, with wide opened eyes. "Oh well, to each their taste of psychopath I guess?" She shrugged. "Who am I to judge you, I'm no angel?"
"Oh…Grrr….." Caroline grunted loudly, while stomping her feet in rage.
"Let me out! Hey, hey … I'm here!" A stifled voice was suddenly heard from what seem to come from the trunk of the car.
"Who's in the trunk, Katherine?" Caroline asked, while pointing toward it.
"What…Mm?" Katherine played the innocent victim card.
Caroline grabbed the key from Katherine's hand before strolling toward the back of the car, while standing speechless in front of the opened trunk a few seconds later.
"Matt? Oh my God, what are you doing back there?" She loosened the ropes around his wrists and ankles, before helping him step out of the confined space.
"I'm going to kill her!" Matt stormed in rage toward Katherine's standing position, straight arms and opened hands forward; while trying to reach her throat.
"Matt, wait … No!" Caroline tried to retain his killing impulses, while pushing her right opened palm on his tensed chest.
"See, Matty … Listen to your friend Caroline, she seems to know what she is talking about." Katherine suggested, while slowly backing away from the duo.
"Fat chance, bitch … There's no way in hell that Matt will kill you before me." Caroline replied, while facing the brunette, before pushing Katherine on the passenger door, a hand firmly placed around her throat.
"Caroline… I can't breathe?" Katherine choked on the pressure. "I'm human now; you're going to chock me to death?"
"Good that is the all point!" Matt busted, while pointing a finger at her.
"Caroline; please?" Katherine begged the blonde vampire.
"Damn it; I can't do it." Caroline exclaimed, while releasing the throat of her victim.
Katherine stumbled a few feet away, while coughing and holding her throat with both hands.
"Why not… Aren't you fed up with her mean ways?" Matt exclaimed, dumbfounded. "She drugged me, and put me in the trunk of a car!"
"I know… She probably put a magic spell on me to knock me unconscious as well." Caroline shrugged her shoulders, while crossing her arms in front of her chest.
"What in the name of …" Matt exclaimed in shock while pointing at the road sign. "New-Orleans?"
"I know…" Caroline winced, uncomfortable.
"Ok, hear me out… Let me explain why you're here." Katherine proposed. "I need your help, ok?"
"You need our help? Are you fucking serious?" Matt busted. "And how in hell am I standing underneath the road sign to New-Orleans, did we fly here?" Matt asked, in shock.
"Well, yah … Duh, we took a plane … I'm human not the Wizard of Oz, Matty." Katherine replied, while leaning her body on the passenger door. "Though, if I may say myself I still have the "je ne sais quoi" to achieve my plan." She smirked through her sentence, while feeling proud of her achievement. "I've drugged you and put a spell on Caroline with the help of a witch, an old acquaintance of mine."
"I'm going to kill her!" Matt repeated, while taking a few steps to reach Katherine's standing position.
"Hold on, I want to hear what she has to say." Caroline held Matt immobile. "How and why; Katherine, what are you trying to pull now?"
"I'm dying Caroline… Do you know how horrific the idea is for me?" Katherine poured her emotions, while pointing a finger toward her chest.
"And how is this business of ours, again?" Matt asked, while passing a hand through his tangled hair. "You made my life and the life of my friends a living hell for years now, Katherine; how is this any of our concerns?"
"Because I'm dying, Matt; and I don't know what to do? I… I don't have any "friends" and I'm not a vampire anymore, I'm human, and …" Katherine stammered through her sentence. "I need help, and I think I could find it in New-Orleans." She shrugged, while swallowing a lump in her throat. "And for me it's quite difficult to ask for it."
Caroline glanced at Matt from the corners of her eyes, while sighing loudly.
"Ok, let say I'm stupid enough to listen to your plan, what is it about?" Caroline asked.
"There's a witch … Her name is Sophie Devereaux; she could be the key element to delay my death, or even preventing it." Katherine started explaining. "Unfortunately; she is kind of mixed up with Klaus at the moment; and as you know I'm not exactly "friend" with the guy; I'm more on his "needs to die" list at the moment." She winced.
"Geez, look at that, I've never thought that I would have something in common with Klaus; you're on my "needs to die" list too!" Matt exclaimed, in rage.
"Let her finish." Caroline proposed to her friend.
"You're too good to her, you know that?" Matt pointed out.
"I need to enter Klaus's quarter and talk to Sophie to seek her help, but for me to do so, I kind of need some distractions; and that is where you're entering in the scene for both Rebekah and Klaus."
"Is she for real?" Matt pointed Katherine to Caroline.
"Oh come on, Matt; the all planet knows that you bang the blonde Original last summer." Katherine rolled her eyes.
"Let me get this straight…" Caroline started, while lowering her upper body on Katherine's, before narrowing her sight on her. "You want me to distract Klaus; and you want Matt to distract Rebekah; while you'll try to find Sophie Devereaux?"
"Something in those lines…" Katherine smirked, while shrugging her shoulders. "What do you say roomie?"
"Is she for real?" Matt repeated, in shock.
"Who will distract their brother Elijah, while we'll be occupying our time with the two others?" Caroline inquired with an arched eyebrow.
"I'll take care of him." Katherine replied, falsely indifferent; a sudden redness reaching her cheeks.
"Well, it's a big fat no from me!" Matt replied, impassible.
"Oh come on! We're here, at a few miles of distance from New-Orleans, aren't you a tiny bit curious about Klaus's quarter?" Katherine waved a big fat earthworm in front of her fishes. "Matty … Come on…" She reached Matt's standing position, while sliding her fingers on the length of his manly jaw. "You'll see Rebekah again… You know the luscious blonde that you're crazy about?"
"Do not touch me this way." He warned Katherine, while grabbing her hand, before twisting her wrist.
"Aye, you're hurting me!" Katherine complained in pain.
"We're going back to Mystic Falls." Caroline decided while opening the passenger door of the convertible.
"But it's kind of true; Care, that we are at a few miles of distance." Matt shrugged.
"Oh, I love you Matty." Katherine kissed his left cheek under his frowning facial expression.
"Matt are you serious, really?" Caroline opened her arms in defeat. "You're going to go along with her crazy plan?"
"No, not really … But, I've never visited New-Orleans." He added, repentant.
"Good morning brother, dearest sister." Klaus exclaimed, joyfully, while entering the parlor room.
"Oh, are we in luck?! "He" seems in a glorious mood today, Elijah." Rebekah noticed, while pouring a glass of orange juice for herself.
"Good morning Niklaus." Elijah replied, politely. "As for you sister, the day is still young, the wind could turn." Elijah sighed loudly, while turning the pages of his newspaper.
"True, with him: "Pleasantville" could turn into "A nightmare on Elm Street" in a time space of a few seconds." She agreed, while wincing and gulping her glass.
"Look at you two, my dear siblings; all cheerful in the early hours of the day." Klaus smirked.
"What is having you this "happy" all of a sudden? Should we call the authority, the press, both?" Rebekah rolled her eyes.
"I couldn't say actually. There's just something in the air about today, I could feel it." Klaus noticed hopeful; while pointing a finger in the air.
"Did you change the new air fragrance, Rebekah?" Elijah mocked, behind his newspaper.
"I'll need to check with the housekeeper." She winked at the oldest.
"Please let me know." Elijah added, teaser.
"You're planning to be present at Marcel's gentlemen party tonight?" Klaus inquired, while grabbing a croissant.
"Not really my style of gathering?" Elijah replied.
"What is this all about?" Rebekah asked, before dropping herself on the sofa. "Isn't it chauvinistic of your part to call that party "gentlemanly"?" She inquired.
"Rebekah it's not lady like to sit this way." Elijah noticed.
"Oh come on, Elijah let her live her youth." Klaus mocked.
"She's over a thousand years old, Niklaus; she's not in her youth anymore." Elijah commented.
"Well…" Klaus objected, perniciously. "If you count the amount of time I've locked her in a box, she is still what you could call a teenager."
"Go to hell; Klaus!" Rebekah narrowed her eyes on her brother.
"If you take in consideration the number of times you've daggered me through the centuries, I must be an infant then." Elijah rolled his eyes.
"Ha ha ha, that is a good one." Rebekah busted into laughter.
"Now, let me reply to your previous question, Rebekah." Elijah added, while folding the newspaper on his lap. "A "gentlemen" party usually entitle a few games of pokers, good cigars; premium brand of rum, and …"
"…And with the lovely addition of a few strippers." Klaus smirked, while cutting his brother sentence, before finishing it himself.
"Wow! I'm impressed … How very last century of the weak specie called: men." She replied, smiling. "Well, I must decline the invitation then, I can't combat such glory form of intelligence."
"Oh come on Rebekah, there's been some improvements over the past century." Klaus objected, vehemently; while retaining his need to burst into laughter. "Marcel informed me that tonight we'll have a few lovely ladies performing as "poll dancers"."
"I'm overjoyed, one more reason to stay at home." Elijah shook his head, astonished.
"Of course you need to stay at home." Klaus replied, dryly. "You're the guardian of the mother of my child now, aren't you, Elijah?"
"Don't start; Niklaus." Elijah warned; while narrowing his sight on him.
"What? I don't see why we can't put the subject on the table, and discuss it like civilized members of a united family." Klaus shrugged.
"You must be kidding, right?" Rebekah raised her eyebrows, before bursting into laughter. "Us three considered a united family, yah right!"
"Well, obviously I'm not kidding, sister; my brother seems to have developed a fixation on Hayley and "my" future child." Klaus mumbled, angrily, between his teeth. "If this is not "sharing" our assets I don't know what it is?" He added, perniciously.
"How dare you calling her an asset and threating her as such? She is the woman who's carrying your child for God sake, Niklaus, she is not an incubator!" Elijah exploded; while rising on his two legs, a finger pointed toward his brother.
"I don't know Elijah; is she supposed to be more for me, or perhaps it's for you that she has become more?" Klaus busted to his brother's face, while rejoining Elijah's standing position.
"Ok, you two it's enough and pointless!" Rebekah yelled, while reaching their positions, before pointing at them both.
"I simply want to reassure myself that you'll keep Hayley and the baby safe; after the birth of your child; and that you won't track her for five hundred years just for the sick pleasure of your huge ego and sadistic game." Elijah added, spiteful.
"Are we on the subject of Katerina Petrova, brother?" Klaus replied, perniciously, while raising his chin. "She's still on your mind as I can see?"
"You tracked her for half of a millennium, Niklaus; I just don't want this to repeat itself once more with Hayley." Elijah mumbled, angrily, between his teeth.
"Then mind your own business, Elijah." Klaus replied, dryly. "And butt out of my future child's life."
"Maybe if you had known what love is you could have had a chance at a decent life?" Elijah replied, while passing a hand through his tangled hair.
"It's not that he doesn't recognized the sentiment, Elijah; it's just that he prefers to laugh at the faces of those who gave love a chance." Rebekah added her grain of salt. "He was infatuated once; or twice … More recently in Mystic Falls actually."
"Just shut up Rebekah, and mind your own business!" Klaus shouted, while pointing a finger at her.
"Make me!" She drowned her sight in her brother. "What? You'll dagger me once more?"
"Whom are you talking about, sister?" Elijah raised an eyebrow, in surprise.
"Nobody; she doesn't even know what she is talking about most of the time." Klaus replied, furiously; while pacing back and forth in the room.
"I'm talking about a certain blonde vampire who caught his eyes more than once in the near past." She replied to Elijah; while crossing her arms in front of her chest.
"She has a name?" Elijah inquired.
"Oh, she has a name alright." Rebekah responded, perniciously.
"Shut your big mouth, sister!" Klaus warned her, sparks of fire coming out of his eyes.
"Am I disturbing the obvious peace of this house?" Marcel questioned while entering the parlor room.
"No!" They all answered, in synchronisation.
"Well, that is good to know!" Marcel replied, while rubbing his hands together.
"Please, come … He's all yours." Elijah invited Marcel to enter, before leading his walking path toward the exit of the room with Rebekah on his heels.
"Ok, here's the plan… Me and Caroline, we'll snoop around to learn what is going on in the quarter; as where we could find Sophie; while you'll find Rebekah and keep her busy." Katherine informed Matt; while standing on the sidewalks with the two accomplices by her side.
"How am I supposed to find her?" Matt exclaimed, in shock, while pointing both hands toward his chest.
"Oh honey, dear Matty; you just need to walk around and words that you are in town will come to her ears; trust me." Katherine patted his right shoulder. "Especially, if you walk around town dressed in these clothes." She winced.
"What is wrong with my clothes?" Matt lowered his sight on his plaid shirt.
"Well the shirt is very peasant "Mystic Falls" style, no disrespect intended, and we have obviously reached the gothic part of America." Katherine shrugged.
"Was it necessary for me to dress in these ripped jeans, high heels and leather jacket?" Caroline pointed to her own present outfit.
"Yes, it was … Now shush … We're fitting perfectly into the "dark" décor." Katherine waved her right hand with annoyance.
"The sky is blue and it's sunny, I don't see a "darker" décor." Matt pointed the obvious.
"Go … Whoosh, find Rebekah and keep her at bay!" Katherine pushed Matt on the sidewalks.
"I hate you, you know?" Matt replied, while turning his mad glance one last time at Katherine.
"Love you too; Matty." Katherine waved at him; a smirk plastered on her lips.
"Not a single one of your damn plans has ever worked, Katherine; why would you think this one will?" Caroline mumbled, angrily, between her teeth, while walking by Katherine's side on the sidewalk of the old quarter.
"I beg your pardon!" Katherine replied, outraged. "How do you think I've managed to stay alive with a psycho on my heels for more than five hundred years?"
"I hate it, I hate to be here; I hate everything about this plan!" Caroline replied, while grabbing both side of her head.
"He really did a number on you, did he, Blondie?" Katherine smirked, while pulling the entrance door of the bar.
"I have no idea who you are talking about?" Caroline replied, while playing the innocent type.
"Like you don't know?" Katherine responded, while tilting her head.
Caroline shrugged her shoulders, while passing the threshold, before being retained in her path by a firm grip of Katherine's hand on her right upper arm.
"Caroline; If you have some kind of twisted feeling for the man, there's much more that you don't know and …" Katherine admitted to the blonde vampire, in all sincerity. "And it could hurt you to learn it."
"Are you kidding, Katherine?" Caroline rolled her eyes. "Nothing about Klaus Mikaelson is of interest to me, believe me." She added, before entering inside the bar.
"What can I serve you ladies?" The blonde and cordial barmaid asked both Katherine and Caroline, who took their sitting positions on two bar stools placed in front of the counter, in the middle of the afternoon - deserted bar.
"Scotch on the rock." Katherine replied, smiling.
"And what will I serve your friend?" The barmaid inquired; politely, while glancing at Caroline.
"I have a craving for Tequila?" Caroline replied, a smile twisting the corners of her lips.
"Mm, wise choice…Though a bit early in the day for my taste." Camille replied, smiling; while serving both of their orders.
"Somewhere it must be five o'clock." Katherine replied, shrugging; while gulping her glass. "And who do we have the pleasure to exchange with?" She added, with a raised eyebrow.
"Camille … Camille O'Connell." She replied, while nodding her head.
"Well here's to you then, Camille O'Connell, barmaid from New-Orleans!" Caroline raised her glass in the air, before biting all teeth into the piece of lime, licking the salt on her left hand, and finally gulping her glass. "Woo that is what I needed!"
"Now why aren't you telling me why two strangers, both women, one human and the other vampire, are doing in my bar?" Camille pointed a gun at Katherine's head. "What do you want?"
"Is she pointing a gun at my head?" Katherine asked Caroline, while turning her sight toward the blonde vampire. "Oh this is going to give me a huge headache, I can feel it already." She added, while rubbing both of her temples.
Matt steeped outside of the little boutique of souvenirs where he had purchased a New-Orleans t-shirt, before strolling like a tourist on the sidewalks of the old city.
"Matt?" He heard his name being called, before suddenly holding his pace, and remaining immobile for a few seconds, a range of shivers hitting his spine all at once. He finally turned his body around to face her interlocutor.
"Oh my God it's you? What are you doing here?" Rebekah asked, in shock.
"Hi Rebekah, you're looking good." Matt replied; while swallowing a lump in his throat.
Thank you guys for reading the first chapter of this three chapters fan fiction. I hope you liked it? Be patient for the two remaining updates; I'll write them between the usual updates of my three main stories.
Side note: This is one of my very few, related to both series, fan fiction. For those who usually read my stories, you know that I grandly prefer Alternate Universe. BUT, if I wanted to be coherent with the present story told in both series, I needed to include Hayley in it. I know that many of you have a dislike toward the character; but give the chance for the story to be told, please? I wrote this present story to convince myself that it was possible to make crossovers with a few characters, without changing the plot, and while bringing a touch of humor to the tensed aura of TO.
Much love;
Lovely Vero