Here's a second chapter, I love you all, you guys are so nice to me.

Chapter Two.


"A pleasure" Caroline smiled.

"Now that we're all acquainted, would you mind telling us how you managed to end up in our garden at suck a late hour?" Elijah asked as he stepped back from them and folded his arms.

Klaus reluctantly stepped back and stood next to Elijah as he was a little curious as to how the blonde beauty came into his home, not that he mind.

Caroline and Katherine looked at each other, exchanging silent words between one another. Caroline was thinking that they should not mention that they are princesses; they might send them back to their parents while Katherine thought the same thing. Katherine was always the better liar so she smiled at Katherine who nodded and turned to the men standing before.

"We ran away from home and escaped to London, we entered a building with bright amber lights shining from it and filled with women dancing and drinking where two guys approached us…"

"Kat" Caroline warned.

"Katherine turned to meet Caroline's cold stare and huffed in surrender before she turn her attention back to the men in the room.

"I…" she hesitated "I invited them to our table for polite chit chat and one of the guys started touching Caroline…"

Klaus immediately got furious "Are you alright Caroline, did he hurt you?" Klaus asked as he quickly made his way to her side and inspected her for any signs of injury.

Caroline's hands tingled everywhere he touched, then he gently grabbed her cheek, checking her face for any sign of injuries, her cheeks felt hot red at his touch, she felt like she had to tell him that she was fine but she didn't want him to stop touching her.

"Katherine slapped him and pulled me out of the building before he had the chance to do anything, so I'm fine" Caroline beamed at him.

Klaus slowly pulled his hands away from her delicate face and got off the bed and stood in the same spot he stood before.

"Then the men came out of the bar for us and we ran into the forest and saw your mansion" Katherine added.

Elijah thought about what they said for a while, he remembers going through those woods thousands of times, but never coming across a building with amber lights that shined from it. He thought back to every house he would pass until he finally realized where they stumbled upon. A smirk crept up on his face suddenly.

"Brother, it seems the lovely ladies have managed to stumble across a brothel" Elijah smiled at their now shock and horrified looks.

"Oh goodness, Katherine what have we done?" Caroline gasped, as she covered her mouth to hide her wide smile.

"It's a common mistake ladies' Elijah chuckled while Klaus merely smirked.

"I feel like a fool" Katherine groaned, as she hid her face with her pillow from the shame she felt for leading her sister into potential harm.

"Kat although it may be your fault that we were there in the first place, no one blames you, your curiosity has gotten us into trouble worst than this" Caroline consoled her sister, truth be told, Katherine's curiosity has gotten them into worst trouble than this.

Katherine removed the pillow from her face to reveal the look of realization on her face. Then she turned to her sister and said "Very true".

Caroline and Katherine then burst into laughter at their horrid night; it was one they would definitely never forget.

Elijah and Klaus didn't know what to do, whether to leave them to laugh about their actions or not but Elijah wanted to leave them be until tomorrow but he didn't want to look rude.

"My goodness sister looks at what we've done, they are completely speechless, and they don't know what to do or say, she should get some sleep, we can leave tomorrow and find somewhere else to go" Katherine said as she contained her giggles.

"Where will you go if you ran away from your home?" Klaus asked.

"Anywhere expect back home" Caroline quickly replied.

"Then you can stay here, wouldn't you agree Elijah?" Klaus beamed and looked at Elijah who also looked like he liked the idea as well.

"Of course, we have more than enough spare rooms if you each would like a separate room…"

Caroline and Katherine quickly grabbed each other into a hug and shook their heads.

"We remain together" Caroline said firmly, leaving no room for discussion.

Klaus chuckled lightly at them before nodding in agreement "Very well then, plus we have a dressmaker here and thousands of dresses here for you to choose, I don't see any reasons to object" Klaus reasoned, looking at them both, hoping that they would accept his proposal.

Katherine and Caroline looked at each other before turning their attention to the gentlemen in front of her.

"You are allowing us to hide here?" Katherine drawled, taking a quick look around the room.

"If you wish it, we will not force you both to do anything you do not want to do" Elijah replied with a smile, even though his heart was screaming at him to beg them to stay, or more importantly, beg the beautiful brunette to stay.

"I'm much too comfortable to make any decision right now; I fear I might make the wrong one" Katherine groaned playfully, purposely batting her eyelashes at Elijah. "Let's sleep on it, shall we?" She chimed with sudden perkiness.

Caroline rolled her eyes at her sister; she was always a flirt that obviously was not going to change.

Caroline then glanced back at Klaus, taking in all his features, all his manliness, all of him and she didn't like what she saw, she loved what she saw, she decided, she liked him, but a pretty face isn't any good without a heart to match. That will take time to figure out, but she ran away from home, no longer bound by time, so she was in no rush.

"Fantastic, we'll have some maids send you a variety of dresses to choose from by tomorrow morning and we can discuss this further during breakfast" Elijah smirked at his brother's sudden interest in Caroline.

"Perfect, goodnight gentlemen" Caroline sang and gave them an innocent smile.

Klaus smirked at her before he left the room then Elijah turned to leave.

"Wait!" Katherine said rather louder than she had intended to.

Elijah turned around with a 'can I help you with anything else?' look.

"What do you call yourself?" Katherine said softly.

He smirked at her "Elijah" and turned around quickly and left the room.

Katherine smiled sunk her head into the pillow in front of her.

"Elijah" she whispers softly, lingering a little longer on the L.

The next morning caught Caroline bending slightly against a mirror with her hands placed on either sides of the mirror as she sucked in a deep breath to will her corset to be tight enough; but it was Katherine pulling the strings, the word enough was rarely used in her vocabulary, especially when speaking of corsets and dresses.

"Kat, the maids brought tunics for us to wear, they are so comfortable, why force me into this goddamn corset?" Caroline muttered.

"Because" she started as she pulled the strings of Caroline's corset, pulling a loud gasp from Caroline "I am wearing one as well and so are you, end of discussion" Katherine said firmly, she didn't want to tell Caroline that she was wearing a corset to impress Elijah and she didn't want to feel like she was trying, Caroline would forever tease her for it.

"Ugh, I hate your infatuation with corsets and hairstyles" Caroline groaned, although she did get to keep her natural curls. She was content with that.

"What do you think of their proposal?" Caroline asked; she already knows that she was going to say yes because of Elijah, but she just wanted to make sure.

"My body aches for me to stay, but my mind is telling me that we should not linger in one place for too long, especially in this mansion, something tells me that they are more than what they seem Caroline" Katherine confessed.

"I will go wherever you go Kat, we're family and we stick together" Caroline smiled sadly at her reflection in the mirror.

Katherine smiled at her "I know you want to stay Caroline, so how about this, we stay for a while and if anyone draws suspicion to us or if we are found, we must run immediately, does that sound reasonable?" Katherine asked with amusement practically dripping from her face.

Caroline lit up at Katherine and grinned at her "That sounds perfect!"

"Now" she huffed and tied Caroline's corset strings neatly and stepped away from her "White, Pink or yellow…but no black" she said firmly, making sure to grab the black and throw it in the corner of the room.

Caroline looked at all the dresses that lay in front of her and an odd thought came into mind; which one of these dresses would he like? Caroline shook the thought from her head; she should be asking herself what dress would SHE like, not him; she just met him yesterday.

The yellow had sleeves that dropped slightly down the shoulders and it showed a little piece of her plumped breast, the white dress had short sleeves and it looked like it would bring out her curves well, the pink dress had short puffy sleeves and a heavy amount of ribbons to tie and Caroline wanted to see him again and soon.

"The yellow" she decided.

They came back down the tiring flight of stairs, but they knew nothing of the house or where anything was located for that matter. A maid was heading in their direction and Katherine stopped her.

"Do you know where Klaus and Elijah are?" she asked.

"The Lords are in the dining area, they are awaiting your arrival" the maid said coolly.

Caroline and Katherine were a little confused by the title.

"Lords" Katherine whispered.

"The Dukes of London" the maid beamed.

Caroline and Katherine shot their heads at each other in shock. They couldn't believe that they were in the home of the Dukes of London

"Where is the dining area?" Caroline asked the woman.

The woman smiled at them and turned around "Follow me" she said.

Caroline and Katherine slowly followed her into the dining area where Klaus and Elijah sat at the end of the table where Elijah sat opposite Klaus as they engage in light conversation.

"Milord's" the maid said calmly before leaving the room.

Klaus and Elijah shot their heads forward and saw the beautiful ladies at the archway and quickly got up from their chairs and made their ways towards the girls.

Klaus smirked at her because she was wearing the exact same dress he wanted her to wear, and it fitted on her just like he hoped, beautifully and elegantly. Elijah just wanted to admire Katherine, just watch her; she looked absolutely stunning this morning.

Caroline and Katherine quickly curtsied at them before they got any close and Klaus and Elijah froze in place. They looked at each other with confusion then in realization before they turned to the lovely ladies in front of them.

"The maids told them" Elijah stated as a fact.

"Did you not want us to know?" Katherine blurted out and bit her tongue after realizing what she had said and the way she said it.

"It's not a matter of you knowing who we are; we wanted to avoid the titles and curtsies" Elijah quickly replied with a small smile.

"Our apologies, it's a habit that's grown hard to break" Caroline smile apologetically.

"No apologies necessary, come, eat, you must be famished" Klaus implored as he held his hand out for Caroline to take. Caroline smiled at him before accepting his hand as he led her down to the table where he sat and pulled a chair for her to sit next to him while Katherine is escorted to the other side of the table with Elijah and he pulls out a chair for her and she gladly sits next to him on the chair.

They engage in polite chit chat about the Duke's lives before the hard questions arrived.

"Have you made a decision?" Klaus asks.

Caroline looked at Katherine and Katherine looked at Caroline. Katherine nodded at her and Caroline smiled.

"We have decided to stay" Caroline beamed, she was more happy than she let on.


I hope you enjoy it, and I hope you guys like this story.

XoXo Cindy