AN: thank you for the positive response to continue this that came out from randomness! Thanks to all those that read, reviewed, favorited this story and put it on alert. I shall continue. If you haven't noticed I changed it from T to M, for language. naughty potty mouth language. Firemen cuss like you wouldn't imagine, the stuff that comes out of their mouth would make a sailor blush. See you at the bottom
Caroline buried her face deeper into her pillow. It was warm and she pressed into it more. Her hands went to fluff the pillow a bit, when she realized the pillow wasn't soft, no where near soft. It was firm and breathing. Caroline opened her eyes slowly and saw a chest breathing. She lifted her head and looked up. Nik was sleeping in her bed naked. She looked down at herself and realized she was naked too. She quickly tried to think back to what happened last night. She looked around her room and saw their clothes thrown all over. She looked back at Nik who was still sleeping. His arm was still around her while his other arm fell off the bed. Caroline lifted the sheet slowly to see if Nik was totally naked. He was and she giggled to herself.
She heard the door to the apartment slam shut.
"Elena! Caroline! I know one of you is here!" Bonnie yelled out
Caroline quickly rushed out of bed and grabbed the sheet off the bed and wrapped it around herself. She looked back at Nik who was still sleeping. She tilted her head a bit, taking him all in.
"I know you're here!" Bonnie yelled out
Caroline quickly rushed out of her room and closed the door quietly. She ran into the living room where she saw an angry Bonnie.
"Bonnie!" Caroline whispered to her
"Why are we whispering? What the hell happened to you? I'd expect this from Elena"
"I have someone here"
Bonnie just looked at Caroline as if she had 8 heads. She saw the crazy sex hair and the smeared eyeliner under Caroline's eyes. She watched as she pulled the sheet closer to herself.
"I know, our nosy neighbor ambushed me the second I walked into the building. She was walking that thing she calls a dog. Complaining about how it sounded like a rodeo in here last night, with animal sounds! What the hell were you doing?"
"I kinda got drunk last night"
"Really? This isn't like you Care"
"Look, I didn't think it would happen. We met for drinks, went to eat hot dogs and ran into Tyler"
"Tell me that's not Tyler in there"
"It's not, it's the fireman I told you about"
"Then why were you riding him like the rodeo?"
Caroline covered her face with her hands and wanted to die of embarrassment.
"I didn't, I mean, ugh, there is no way I say this without sounding utterly stupid is there?"
"Not really. I thought it was Elena she was complaining about, not you. Are you ok?"
"Yeah, I have to get ready for work"
"I'm always here if you need to talk"
"Thanks" Caroline walked back to her room
She opened the door and saw that Nik had turned over onto his stomach and now his backside was staring at her. Caroline closed the door behind her and wondered what the proper way to address the situation was. She never really had to kick someone out of her bed before. She sat down onto the bed and wondered if she had screwed it up. She slept with him after a half date. Would he talk to her again? How would Rebekah react? She hated how she would always screw things up. She sighed and laid back down onto the bed. She looked over at him who was still sleeping. She noticed small white scars on his back, and turned onto her side. She looked at them, they were scattered randomly over his back. She wondered where they came from. Some of them looked old and faded. She saw a M in the middle of his back near his spine. She looked at it, realizing someone had carved it into his skin. She reached out and her fingers lightly traced the M on his back. Caroline leaned over and gently kissed the scar near his shoulder. Her lips made their way up to his neck. Nik's arm wrapped around her and pulled her closer. He lifted his head up, revealing the sexy bed hair he had.
"Morning love" Nik said as he turned onto his side
"Morning" Caroline replied
"I see you're a blanket stealer," Nik said as started to pull the sheet from her body
"I was cold" Caroline pouted
"I'll warm you up," Nik said as he pulled the sheet from her body and covered both of them, "It's like unwrapping a christmas present"
Nik's thumb ran across Caroline's chin, brushing past a faint a reminder of her fall. His hand slid down her neck and he pushed her back onto the bed. He looked into her eyes.
"You're so beautiful" Nik said
Caroline was surprised. she didn't expect him to say that. Her hand slid up his arm resting on his shoulder. She looked into his eyes and smiled.
"You're not so bad yourself" Caroline said as her finger traced along his jaw and stopped near his mouth.
"What happened here?" Caroline asked rubbing the spot near his mouth
"Debris from the ceiling fell on me, got me in the face" Nik answered
Caroline looked at the faded scar on his face. She leaned up and kissed it.
Elena opened the door to the apartment while Damon was following her.
"Where were you last night? I called you and texted you, and I hate texting!" Damon yelled
"I was out, and I didn't want to talk to you, not when you're like this"
"You were with him weren't you!"
"I need to get ready for work"
"So you have office sex with my brother on his desk? What you didn't get enough last night?"
"Damon stop it"
"No, you can't keep doing this. I can't keep doing this! You can't do this to both of us! It's not fair!"
"I can't ok? I told you both that I can't decide! I don't know how to! I mean, I love you both"
"But you can't have us both!"
"I know, I'm sorry, I just can't right now ok?"
"Elena!"
"Leave me alone Damon, please!" Elena runs towards Caroline's room
"Elena!" Damon chases after her
"Caroline! I need to talk-" Elena said as she opened the door to Caroline's room
"Oh God Nik" Caroline moaned out
"Oh God! Sorry!" Elena said as she turned around and tried to leave but Damon was standing right behind her
"Get out! Get out now!" Caroline screamed at them
Nik stopped and looked up at her and then turned his head to see Elena and Damon standing there.
"Get out! GET OUT!" Caroline yelled
"Us or him?" Damon asked
"Both of you! Get out! NOW!" Caroline yelled and threw a pillow at them
"I'm sorry Care," Elena pushed Damon out the door and closed it
"Good job blondie!" Damon yelled
Caroline covered her face with her hands. She wanted to die or crawl under a rock and die there instead.
"Why is this happening to me?" Caroline said
"Cheer up sweetheart"
"How are you ok with this?"
"What? That I woke up with a beautiful woman next to me this morning? That I got to have, or still having morning sex with you? It's a great morning for me"
"At least it's good for you"
"Not happy love? I can change that"
Nik disappeared under the sheets. Caroline felt him kiss her ribcage, her stomach and then resting between her thighs. She gasped as she realized what he was doing.
Elena was getting out of the shower. She put a bathrobe on and walked into the kitchen where Damon was sitting. He was drinking coffee out of her mug.
"What are you still doing here?" Elena asked
"Waiting for you, thought we'd carpool"
"You should leave, I think we embarassed Caroline enough for one day"
"You did that, I was just a spectator."
"Damon cmon"
"You know they haven't left that room yet. I think they picked up when we left the room. Never knew Blondie had it in her, well right now she probably does"
"Damon!"
"Oh cmon! Lighten up. You're the one who walked in on them, without knocking. This whole thing could have been avoided if you stopped running and just talk to me"
"This is not my fault!"
"I never took her for those quiet types"
"Damon! You need to leave"
"I thought we were carpooling"
"I'll take the train! Now go!"
"But I'm not done with my coffee yet"
Elena grabbed the coffee mug out of his hands.
"You're done, now go. I don' t need anymore drama in the morning right now"
"Don't be late to work, you know how your boss gets"
The door to Caroline's room opened. Elena and Damon turned to see Nik walk out dressed and Caroline in a bathrobe. Caroline glared at Elena and Damon as they walked past them towards the door. Damon looked at Nik, tilted his head and gave Caroline the thumbs up.
"Not bad Barbie, better than the last one" Damon said as he took the coffee mug back from Elena and taking a sip
"So, um, call me?" Caroline said as she leaned on the door
"When are you free?"
"Friday, Saturday"
"I have to check my schedule, I think I'm working the weekend shift."
"Oh"
"You free tomorrow?"
"Yeah"
"I'll call you" Nik leaned in and kissed her on her forehead
"Ok"
Nik opened the door and headed out. Caroline closed the door and locked it. she spun around and looked at Damon and Elena.
"The next time either one of you walks into my room without knocking I will hang you by your toenails!" Caroline said as she walked to the bathroom
"I thought we were gonna do girl talk" Damon yelled out
Caroline let the hot water run down her body in the shower. It felt good as her muscles relaxed. She poured the shampoo into her hand and rubbed it into her hair. She smiled as she thought about Nik. She rinsed her hair and imagined his lips on hers, kissing her. She reached for the her body wash and rubbed it onto her skin. She noticed small finger like bruises on her hips. So now she had sex bruises. A reminder of last night. She bent down to reach her legs when she felt how sore she was. She hadn't felt like this, ever. She smiled.
"Caroline, I"m sorry that I walked in on you this morning" Elena said as she walked into the bathroom
"Elena! What are you doing in here?"
"I needed to talk to you, and I knew you'd have to listen to me here"
"Fine"
"I'm sorry ok? I didn't mean to walk in on you. I didn't know you were dating anyone"
Caroline sighed. Elena was too busy wrapped up in her own love triangle to notice anything else happening.
"I'm not, we met last night for drinks"
"You just met him?"
"He's the brother of one of the models. He's a fireman"
"And you just slept with him?"
"I didn't plan on it ok? Besides it's been forever since Tyler"
"But this is so unlike you. I mean, good for you, getting over Tyler"
"I am so over him"
"So are you going to see him again?"
"Maybe"
"What, he wasn't good enough for a second date?"
"Oh he was, he says he'll call me"
"Just call him, guys like it when the girl takes charge. what have you got to lose?"
"I'll call him later today, I have to get to work"
Caroline ran into her room, frantically trying to find something to wear to work. She threw on a blue dress and searched for her shoes. She found one but searched for the other. She looked under her bed and saw one of Nik's necklaces lying on the floor. She reached out and picked it up. She looked at the strange silver metal piece hanging on the black cord. She didn't know what it was. She found her other shoe and grabbed it. She grabbed her purse and headed out. She put on one shoe and was struggling to put on the other shoe and hold her bag and pour herself some coffee. She dropped his necklace and groaned. She picked it up and put it on. She slipped the handle of her bag onto her arm and drank half the cup of coffee she poured. She adjusted the buckle of her shoe and then headed out.
She walked into the fashion house and walked past Blair's office. Blair was talking to Rebekah and in a good mood.
"Caroline! Caroline come here!" Blair yelled
"Morning Blair, morning Rebekah" Caroline smiled
"Did the fabric come in from Japan yet?" Blair asked
"Not yet, the delivery guy doesn't come till 11" Caroline said
"Did the pattern makers get my pattern?"
"Yes, they're making it now, you should get it by tomorrow. Anything else?"
"Rebekah seem needs a new pair of shoes and a new bag. Show her some and send out the approved designs to the factory"
"Yes Blair, come on Rebekah" Caroline said
Rebekah followed Caroline down the hallway.
"Thanks for covering for me, Blair would have freaked if she found out I broke the shoes" Caroline said
"No problem. Least I could do after you fell onto the ground trying to find my brother"
Caroline smiled and tried not to think about Nik's hands touching her body. She shook her head. Caroline looked at the shoes on the shelves.
"So what color shoes do you want?" Caroline asked holding up a pair of shoes
"Why are you wearing that?"
"What?" Caroline looked down at her dress
"Why are you wearing Nik's necklace? Did you steal it from him?" Rebekah yelled angrily
"No!" Caroline said putting the shoes down
"He wouldn't have given it to you! Why did you take it?"
Caroline didn't know what to say. She didn't want to tell her that she had slept with her brother, and that it probably got kicked under the bed while they were taking each other's clothes off.
"I didn't take it, I just found it"
"You're lying! Give it back!"
Caroline quickly took the necklace off and Rebekah snatched it out of her hands. She held the metal piece in her hand, her fingers brushing on it. She saw Caroline looking at her and turned around. She took her phone out of her pocket and called Nik.
"What?" Nik groaned into the phone
"What the hell is Caroline doing with your necklace?" Rebekah yelled into the phone
Nik was sleeping in his bed, rolls over onto his back.
"Did you just call me about a necklace?"
"Why does she have it?"
"What are you talking about? I'm tired, and you're not making a lot of sense right now"
"The necklace I gave you Nik, the one from when we were kids, before they sent you away. Remember? You promised me you wouldn't take it off!"
Nik sat up on the bed and looked over to the hook on the wall where he hung all his necklaces. He saw that it was missing.
"I must have lost it"
"Really Nik? That's the best you can come up with?"
"what?"
"Why does Caroline have it? Did you give it to her?"
"No! I told you I lost it, it must have come off when I was..."
"When you were what?"
Caroline watched Rebekah yell at Nik on the phone. She got angrier and angrier and she was trying to think of a way to leave without her noticing. She could hear Nik yelling back at her through the phone.
"You did what? Are you serious? You're fucking her? Really? You've known her a day and you sleep with her? What the hell? Do you have to fuck all of my friends is that it? Oh shut up! She's my only friend here, stop screwing it up for me! I mean it Nik! I don't care!" Rebekah hung up on him and glared at Caroline.
Caroline didn't say anything. Rebekah held the necklace in her hand and stormed out. Caroline was relieved that she left and was able to breathe. She wondered what Nik was doing. Probably mad at her. Her day was not getting any better.
Caroline checked her phone again, and there was no missed calls. She sighed. She leaned on the kitchen counter. He said he'd call but he didn't. She didn't want to seem desperate so she called him, twice, throughout the day. They were suppose to meet up today but he never called. She went to her room and changed out of her work clothes and into something more comfy. She always did this. She always managed to screw up. She hated this feeling. She hated that she felt used. Single life was starting to suck for her. She glanced up and saw the mixer on the counter and smiled.
Caroline was covered in flour and frosting as she finished piping the frosting onto the cupcake. Baking made her feel better, that she had some form of control over something. She decided she wasn't going to mope around any longer. She got dressed, wearing a white Calvin Klein dress with black polka dots on it. It was a bit Doris Day with the flared out skirt and bow on the back. She fixed her hair and put on some make up. She put on some kitten heels and put the cupcakes in a box and headed out. If Nik was going to be the kind of guy that would sleep with a girl and say he was going to call but could tell her truth, she was going to make him eat it. Literally.
Caroline showed up at his firehouse. She paid the cabbie and walked to the door and rang the bell. She waited and waited. Finally the door opened.
"You lost honey?" the older captain asked her
"I'm looking for Nik" Caroline answered
"Pretty boy?"
"Yeah him"
"They just got back, he's in the shower. Come in"
Caroline smiled as she walked inside. She saw a long row of firemen jackets hanging, along with their helmets and pants. The smell of burnt plastic filled the room.
"If you have food, you better not announce it. Sometimes they act like they've never seen food before" the captain said
Caroline looked around and saw some of the firemen talking to each other.
"Pretty boy! Get over here! You got a special delivery!" the captain yelled out
Nik had changed into his normal clothes. His hair was still wet and he looked tired. He walked over to where the captain was. His eyes lit up when he saw Caroline.
"Hello sweetheart" Nik smiled
"You're off the clock, so get out of here pretty boy" the captain said as he walked off
"Thanks captain. Nite" Nik said before turning his attention back to Caroline, "What brings you here?"
"Don't act cute with all your firemany stuff. If you're going to be one of those jerk guys that never calls a girl after you sleep with them, then you can just eat it!" Caroline shoved the box of cupcakes into his hands
"You made cupcakes?" Nik asked
"Yes! I can bake! I can do lots of things if you bothered to ask! And I don't need your sister being all psycho on me either!" Caroline yelled
"Cupcakes? I heard cupcakes" a nearby fireman said
"Where?" another fireman asked
Suddenly the firemen swarmed around the both of them. Caroline looked around, and the box was ripped open, hands snatched up the cupcakes and suddenly they were gone. Caroline blinked and Nik was standing there with his hands holding nothing. A second later the empty box was placed back into his hands. Nik looked at the empty box and then back up at Caroline who looked horrified.
"Yeah, you shouldn't announce that you have food here. They are savages here"
"Is everyone crazy here?"
"Well yeah, normal people run out of a burning building, while we run right into it"
"Don't be all firemany right now! I called you twice today! You said you wanted to see me! If you didn't, then you shouldn't have said that! I'm not that kind of girl! I don't usually do this kind of thing"
"Make cupcakes?"
"NO! I've never slept with a guy after the first date"
"Didn't we decide that wasn't a date?"
"There was food after, it was a date!"
"Alright, alright"
"Forget this! You and your sister are both crazy! I don't need this!" Caroline turned to leave
"Wait sweetheart" Nik reached out and grabbed onto her arm
"What?"
"I wasn't ignoring you, I was going to call you, but we got a call for a fire at a strip mall. It spread too fast when we got there, so it ended up being a 3 alarm. It took us a while to put it out. I didn't have my phone on me because I didn't want it to melt in the fire. I literally just got back 20 minutes ago. Oh and I had the ceiling of a laundromat fall on me"
"Are you ok?"
"Yeah, I didn't break anything. I'm sorry I didn't call you earlier"
Caroline felt horrible. She yelled at him for something he didn't have control over. And now she seemed like the crazy one.
"No, I'm sorry. I didn't realize you were busy all day. I just get a little wound up. Plus your sister is not helping at all"
"I told you, and you didn't believe me"
"This day totally sucked"
"Well it's over now. Come on, let' s get out of here"
Nik put his arm around her and they started walking out. He threw the ripped box into the garbage as they walked towards his car.
"I was going to ask you to come over so I could make you dinner" Nik said
"A hungry man tv dinner?"
"I can cook, you can't survive in a firehouse without knowing how to put food on the table"
"Chef Boyardee?"
"Come over"
"I have to work tomorrow"
"I'll drive you back after. take a chance love"
Caroline looked at him and smiled.
"Alright, but I'm not sleeping with you tonight"
"Course not, you're more of a morning person"
"I've never done that before ok?"
"You're a virgin?"
"NO! I mean, I don't sleep with guys I've just met ok?"
"Well, we're better acquainted now"
"You have to tell me what's the deal with your sister"
"I only have you for the night, explaining Rebekah would take a lifetime"
"So what are you making?"
Nik pulled her closer and kissed her softly on the lips.
"How about we start with dessert?" Nik asked
"Ok" Caroline nodded
AN: I hope you were amused. The language wasn't that bad here, but it will get bad. you have been warned. Questions? Comments? Reviews are welcome. The name of this came from Rhianna's song. And anyone have any idea's about the necklace Rebekah was yelling about?
