Chapter 2
Bonnie is sitting on the island table of Caroline's apartment. She is dressed in a dark tank top with black skinny jeans and a pair of black heels. "I thought we were going out" Bonnie sighs as she turns the page of the newspaper she is currently reading.
"When I'm done." Caroline replies as she continues to mix the chocolate batter of the cake she is baking. Caroline is still dressed in an over sized flannel and a pair of black yoga pants much to Bonnies disapproval.
"Wouldn't cake mix be faster?" Caroline looks up at Bonnie and gives her an exasperated look.
"I want my dad to forgive me, not disown me."
"Oh, hey, Kelly's lot is performing in Millennium Park on Sunday at 1:00 p.m"
"I don't know who that is." Caroline replies as she continues to mix the different ingredients.
"Exactly! It'll be good for you."
"Sorry, cant. Bears are playing."
Bonnie looks up from the newspaper with questioning look "I thought you said they played last night?"
"Yeah. Its kinda like a weekly thing."
"Couldn't you TiVo the game?"
"I don't TiVo my bears." Caroline says while pointing her finger up. "I have to cheer in real time."
"You do know they can't hear you." Bonnie folds the newspaper and places it on the counter next to her. "I called Kol. We're going out tomorrow." She says as she takes a sip of her wine.
Caroline pauses her mixing and looks up at Bonnie "As in Kol Mikaelson?"
Bonnie nods and says "yeah. We sorta ran into each other the other day and we exchanged numbers."
Caroline smiles as she continues "that's great. We all know he's had a huge crush on you since you've known them."
"There are only so many times I can say no."
"And he's totally hot!"
Bonnie giggles. "Yeah, that too." She hops of the counter and opens the fridge. "So are we going to talk about this mystery guy who sent you flowers?" she says as she points the pretty bouquet of flowers that are in a vase near the door.
Caroline tenses up a bit and shrugs her shoulders "they're from no one I just thought they would of looked nice right there." Caroline lies as she continues to bake the cake.
"Sure. So what's wrong with this guy?"
"Nothing. I just don't want a relationship right now."
"Who said anything about a relationship? I'm talking dating."
"Yes but dating leads to a relationship. Which leads to marriage, which leads to kids, and suddenly my days are nothing more than driving from one soccer game to the next? And I just can't handle that right now."
"Care, it has been two years since you broke up with-"Caroline gives her a glare. "Okay, his name shall not be spoken." Bonnie says as she puts her hands up in surrender. "When are you gonna get over this?"
"I am over it! I'm just not looking for another one."
"Okay. But if you change your mind. I'm pretty sure you've got his number." Bonnie smirks as Caroline doesn't deny it.
Later on Caroline is drinking a beer in front of a small bonfire on her rooftop terrace. Contemplating her discussion with Bonnie. She takes out her phone and clicks on the number. "Hey. I need to see you."
Thirty minutes later she is at his door and he opens it to find a very familiar set of blue eyes and a smirking grin.
"Hello, love." He says but doesn't let her answer him as he presses his lips to hers. Caroline slightly pulls away from the heated kiss to close the door. He then lifts her legs around his waist and slams them against a nearby book shelf. Caroline moans and he leaves a trail of hot kisses on her neck. Seconds later both their clothes are discarded "Klaus" Caroline moans as she takes her against the book shelf.
Caroline and Klaus are lying on his bed exhausted of their activities. Caroline glances over her shoulder and realizes that Klaus drifted asleep. So she gets up and gets dressed as she finds her discarded clothes all over his apartment. "Good night, Klaus." She whispers as she sneaks out of his apartment.
The next day Caroline walks to her desk when she sees Katherine talking to a man " Thanks for coming in." she says and shakes the mans hand.
"Who was that?" Caroline says as she approaches Katherine.
"Galen Vaughn. Logan Fells friend." She replies.
"Galen!" Caroline calls out the man leaving, she reaches out her hand for a hand shake.
"Hi, I'm Detective Salvatore. Thanks so much for coming in." she glances down to his hands.
"Uh hm." Was all he said as he walks out towards the elevator?
Caroline returns to Katherine and says "sharp finger nails. How did Gerard get the scratches?"
"We got other things to worry about. Galen just confirmed everything Logan said word for word."
"Looks like Logan and his buds got some sold rehearsal time."
"I hate it when they lie to my face." Katherine says through gritted teeth.
Stefan is handcuffing a man's hands behind his back as Klaus searches the purse he had robbed to make sure the items were still there.
"Is your sister dating anybody?" Klaus asks as casually as he can.
"Why" Stefan replies as he pushes the man into the backseat of the car.
"Just asking"
"I would kill you!" Stefan says as he looks at Klaus giving him a stern look.
"Mate…" Klaus replies and putting his hands up in surrender
"Without hesitation."
"I thought we were close."
"We are. As long as you stay away from my sister." Stefan walks to the driver's seat and doesn't wait for him to reply. Klaus just sighs and has a seat in the passenger side.
"You're not really her type." Stefan looks at Klaus.
"Well, what's her type?"
"No idea" Stefan says sternly. They both remain silent as they drive back to the station.
"Thank you." Caroline says to the person on the phone. Katherine comes up with two coffee cups and a cookie in her mouth. Caroline takes one of the cups from Katherine as she hangs up the phone.
"Gerard took his family on vacation."
"That's convenient." Katherine says as she bites into her cookie.
"Mhmm, Captain said he had a few days coming, so he took em, no biggie. His words not mine."
They are interrupted by the intern handing out the mail " You got a letter Detective" he says while holding out a letter to Caroline. She quickly opens it and starts reading.
"What?" Katherine questions while waiting for her to tell her what it says. Caroline turns the piece of paper towards her. All that is written "Watch your back"
"Warning or threat?" Caroline questions Katherine
"Either way get used to it"
Caroline crumples the paper and tosses it towards the bin; But Katherine catches it in mid air. "We always give these to Alaric." Katherine says and walks away towards his office.
Caroline takes a deep breath as she enters her parent's garage with the cake she had baked. She sees her dad is working on one of the car's engine.
"Hey" she calls out as she approaches him.
"Hey kiddo." He responds looking at her over his shoulder. "How's my favorite daughter." He gives her a hug and a kiss on the cheek.
"Good. Made you a cake." She says while handing him the container.
"mmm. A cake huh?" he says placing it on the table. "What's going on?"
"Cant a girl bake her dad a cake for no reason."
"And visit him in the middle of the day when she should be at work?" He questions while wiping the grease of his hands. "What did you do?"
"I didn't do anything…Okay I did do something but it's not bad it's just, I knew how you were gonna feel about it so I…." She takes in a breath "I made detective and I took an opening in I.A."
Giuseppe's smile drops as he hears the words come out of his daughter's mouth.
"Dad, Please." She says softly.
"Did your mother know about this?" He says sternly.
"This has nothing to do with mom. I made this decision on my own."
"Why didn't you ask me?"
"I already know how you feel about I.A. I know what you would have said." she says slightly more frustrated.
"But it didn't stop you."
"Because I don't agree."
"You got brothers on the force. Did you think about them?"
"All the time. But I want to be a detective. You know how hard I've worked for this."
"So you screw over your family for your ambition?" he says with a raise of voice.
"I didn't do this to hurt anyone. I am sorry that I.A had the only opening available."
Giuseppe gives her a disappointing look and walks out of the garage and towards the house. She quickly follows him and continues "but I'm not gonna let some biased opi—"
"BIASED?" He shouts while turning around to face her. "You have no idea what you're talking about! I've delt with I.A they're a bunch of assholes out to get good cops!"
"That is not true, I am doing my best right now to help a cop out—He's the one being the asshole." She replies.
"Did I teach you nothing? Five years on the streets teach you nothing? There's a code that we live by that every cop lives by, we protect our own." He doesn't wait for her reply and walks away into his office shutting the door. Caroline sighs, turns and leaves.
Later on that day, Caroline is at the supermarket when she turns hitting a stacked displayed of cans with her basket knocking most of it to the floor. " ohh shoot oh shoot." She kneels on the floor and begins picking them up when Klaus approaches her.
"Should have known it was you, sweetheart."
She looks up and says "Are you following me?"
"No, but I would say calamity does." As he bends down to help her
"You're funny."
"Thank you. Hey How do you do your job without shooting yourself?"
"Oh, I just have to focus really hard but it makes me extremely tired so by the end of the day I just say to hell with it. And return to my usual state of klutziness."
"So any plans for this weekend" she continued.
"Oh nothing really, just going to the game this Sunday."
"Game?"
"The Bears"
"I thought you didn't like American football?"
"Well I do now. I have season tickets."
"You have season tickets?" she said slightly surprised
"Yeah, but I won a bet off a mate got sideline passes. Be the first time on the field. Should be fun. "
" ." She said very jealous of the fact that Klaus had amazing tickets to the bears.
They remained silent while picking up the last couple cans.
"Thank you" She said to Klaus as he placed the last can on the shelf.
"Always happy to help, Love."
"I should probably check out before I do any more damage."
"That's probably a good idea."
"Okay." She said as she started walking away.
"You doing anything now?" he asked before she got further.
"Buying my groceries."
"I ment after. I thought we could grab a pizza."
"Sure, why not." She said after a long pause.
As they sit eating pizza and drinking a couple of Beers.
"So what do you want to talk about?" Caroline asks. She and Klaus hadn't really talked before it was always just about sex. Sure they knew each other cause of their friends and family but they never talked on their own. And when they started their "Friends with Benefits" more like just Benefits they never really had the time to get to know each other.
"I want to talk about you." He said while giving her his iconic smirk. "I want to know your hopes, your dreams."
"Wow. Seriously?"
"I fancy you, Caroline. I always have."
"Look I… You're great. And I just—but Damon and Stefan—"
"Why do you care so much about what they say? Why not give us a shot?"
"They're my brothers and one of them is your best friend and I'm pretty sure they would kill us both if they found out what was going on between us. And half my family hates me right now so I'm dealing with a lot so I—I can't… I gotta go. I'm sorry. Thanks for the dinner."
Klaus didn't respond but gave her a simple nod.
It was a chilly Chicago night and Caroline sat in front of the small bonfire.
"Hey"
"Hey Stefan." She said as he sat on the chair across from her.
"What you thinking about?"
"Nothing."
"Must be something. You burnt the hell out of your marshmallow."
"Oh damn!... So why aren't you at home?"
"Because I was bored and Dad sent me to return this." He said while handing her the container that no longer had cake.
"He ate the cake. Does that mean he's not as mad anymore?"
"Nope. I ate the cake. It was great by the way, but I've never seen him this mad." He looked at her waiting for her to reply. "You aright?" he asked when she didn't.
Caroline sighed loudly and Stefan handed her a beer. As they both sat there quietly.
After a few minutes Caroline said "did you ever ride with Marcel Gerard?"
"Mm-mm no. heard he's in some king of trouble."
"Yeah bar fight. You think he's a good cop?"
Stefan looked at her with a disappointed face "oh man."
"What?" Caroline questioned.
"You want me to be your snitch. I love you. You know I've always got your back but come on Care, I.A? Don't ask me to be a part of that." Stefan got up and left.
Shortly after Stefan left, Caroline went back inside and snuggled up on her couch watching TV trying to keep her mind of all the negative comments her father, Damon and now Stefan had told her. But after five minutes she gave up and pulled out her phone and dialed Klaus number.
"Hey, I need to see you." Caroline said
An hour later Klaus had Caroline in his bed and was thrusting into her. When they both came Klaus fell onto the bed besides her. Caroline quickly gets up and looks for her scattered clothes and begins getting dressed.
"Hey, you don't have to go. I thought id order pizza or something."
"Klaus, that not a good idea." She said while slipping her hoodie over her head. "We talked about—"
"Yes I know because of Stefan. It's cool, I get it." Klaus said in a colder tone.
"Okay…bye." Caroline said and made her way home.