Hello everyone! I'm here with chapter 2!
So, I wanted to thank everyone who followed, favorited and reviewed, I had so much response for the first chapter, I was not waiting for this, I hope it will continue.
Thank you Mafalda for beta'ing this chapter, love you 3
Some people really searched who the killer could be and started to talk about dates and all and I was really impressed, I was like 'OMG, the police is here trying to find the killer.' I loved it. But please, don't take into count all the dates, this is AU and I won't respect them myself, people who should not be born will be born, people who should be dead because they would technically be too old will not be dead or too old.
Enjoy this chapter :)
Chapter 2:
Rebekah and Kol both went out of Caroline's new room to give the little girl some time alone. Kol looked at Rebekah and frowned.
"You smell like death and blood, it's horrible." Kol pointed out scrunching his nose up.
"Caroline's house smelt of death and blood, and I killed the man who killed her family so I have blood on my dress. Fortunately it's a dark one and we can't see the stains of blood on it. I'm going to change now." Rebekah explained looking down at her dress and sighing loudly, "This dress is utterly ruined. Thank God it was not one of my favorites."
"Who was it? The man who killed her family?" Kol wondered.
"I have no idea, some vampire, an unknown peasant." Rebekah answered nonchalantly.
"It really was not smart to bring a little girl here, Bekah." Kol said seriously as he stopped walking.
"Why? I can't think of a place where she would be safer than here." Rebekah exclaimed stopping as well and turning toward Kol to face him.
"With Nik? He doesn't seem pleased at all by her presence here." Kol stated.
"Nik won't touch her." Rebekah assured before starting to walk once more and Kol did the same.
"Are you sure about that?" Kol asked following her.
"Yes, Kol. I'm sure. Nik might be a heartless monster but he won't kill a little girl." Rebekah said before opening the door of her room and walking inside slamming the door before Kol could enter.
"I wouldn't be so sure about that." Kol whispered before walking away.
Later that evening Rebekah entered Caroline's room with a bright new dress on her back. Caroline's eyes lit up when she saw her, she looked like a princess with a beautiful pink gown and a pale, almost white, corset. Caroline on the other hand was still wearing the same dress as earlier and Rebekah could smell the lingering scent of blood and death on her.
"What do you think about putting a new dress on, Caroline?" Rebekah proposed as she approached the little girl with a dress of her height in her hands.
"Oh, yes, yes. I want to look like a princess, like you do." Caroline exclaimed as she stood up and ran toward Rebekah.
"No worries, you'll look just like a princess, you'll be the most beautiful princess walking on this earth." Rebekah assured with a smile adorning her lips at the little girl's enthusiasm.
"What's the color of my dress?" Caroline wondered.
"It's a blue one." Rebekah stated.
"But, blue is for boys, not for princesses." Caroline said disappointed.
"Let's show boys that a princess can wear every color that she pleases and that she will still be the prettiest girl." Rebekah whispered as if it was a secret and Caroline's smile came back on her lips.
"Yes. Let's show them." Caroline almost yelled before running in the bathroom and being followed by Rebekah to help her put the dress on.
They were both now in the bathroom and Rebekah was helping Caroline putting her gown on. Caroline brought her hands to Rebekah's curls and played with them.
"We both have blond curly hair." She pointed out.
"Yes, we do. But luckily for you yours is far better and you look perfect with it. Look, the dress is almost the same color as your eyes and it brings them out." Rebekah said finishing to put Caroline's dress, "Blue is Nik's favorite color." she added, she perfectly knew that she was doing it on purpose. It would be far more complicated for Nik to hurt Caroline if she looked cute and beautiful. And she definitely did.
"Yes, but Nik is a boy." Caroline stated calling him Nik naturally, Rebekah kept calling him like this, and she was just doing the same. Rebekah didn't say anything about it even though she noticed it.
"Obviously, Nik is a boy, but it doesn't change the fact that he'll like your dress." Rebekah said, "Here, you are all ready and ravishing. Let's go, boys are waiting for us to have dinner."
"I'm so hungry." Caroline exclaimed rubbing her belly.
Rebekah smiled and took Caroline's hand in hers dragging her out of the bathroom and the room. They walked through the corridors in silence and Rebekah couldn't help but notice how Caroline seemed mesmerized by all the paintings on the walls. Most of them were made by Klaus himself but the little girl didn't know that. Most of the paintings were dark but some were also lighter ones and those were Caroline's favorites.
They arrived at the dining room to find Kol and Klaus already seated at the table, Kol was in front of Klaus. When Kol saw Caroline and Rebekah enter the room he smiled, on the other hand Klaus simply turned around to look at them but no smile appeared on his lips and Caroline made a note to herself, he was grumpy that was for sure.
"Caroline, darling, do you want to sit next to the most handsome Mikaelson?" Kol asked spreading his arms in a welcoming way.
"Kol! I told you already not to put stupid ideas in her head." Rebekah snapped.
"I'm not a child anymore, don't worry Rebekah, he is not putting anything in my head." Caroline stated. They all heard a rough chuckle and turned their head to see that it was coming from Klaus. It was the first time Caroline saw him with another expression on his face other than anger or annoyance.
When he saw Rebekah enter the room with the child, Caroline, Klaus was annoyed to say the least, he didn't want to have dinner with a kid. With his luck she didn't even know how to hold a fork. But when she said she was not a child he couldn't help but relax and chuckle. She must be five or six and she was saying she was not a child anymore; she looked very much like a child to him.
"So Caroline, come and sit next to the most handsome man." Kol repeated which made Rebekah roll her eyes. Caroline let go of Rebekah's hand and happily ran toward the table and to everyone's surprise she sat on the chair next to Klaus. Rebekah didn't say anything and went to sit next to Kol but she kept watching Klaus warily.
"I thought you wanted to sit next to the most ravishing Mikaelson, darling." Kol wondered keeping his smile on.
"I am seated next to the most handsome Mikaelson." Caroline affirmed smiling. She laughed when Kol put a hand on his chest over his heart and acted as if he was offended.
"You are hurting my feelings young lady." Kol exclaimed.
"It doesn't mean you are ugly." Caroline told him trying to reassure him.
"Oh, thank you, I feel a lot better now. It's nice to know I'm not ugly." Kol chuckled. Caroline turned toward Klaus to see that he was smiling behind his hand and she smiled as well, "I see you put a new dress on, you look magnificent." Kol continued.
"Thank you, Kol." Caroline looked at Rebekah and smiled, "You were right, I look beautiful even though I'm wearing blue."
"Of course I was right." Rebekah agreed.
"I don't see why you wouldn't. Blue is a splendid color and this blue is divine, it's bringing your eyes out perfectly in an alluring way." Klaus spoke and his words surprised everyone including him. It was his artistic side talking, because he couldn't deny that this little girl looked beautiful, he wanted to take his sketchbook and capture all the beauty this child had. It would be wise to capture it now because, usually, good-looking kids became ugly adults and ugly kids, good-looking adults. Well, even if she did not become ugly it was clear she would not hold such beauty growing up, beauty was ephemeral.
"Thank you, Rebekah told me it was your favorite color." Caroline announced smiling. Rebekah and Kol were both watching the exchange not saying anything, taken aback by how nice Klaus was being with Caroline.
"Yes, it is. I'm an artist and I put a lot of intentions in colors, shadows..." Klaus trailed off.
"Are you the one who painted all the paintings in the corridors?" Caroline wondered opening her eyes widely.
"Some of them, yes." Klaus confirmed.
"They are all beautiful, my favorites are the lighter ones; your paintings are mostly dark though." Caroline turned totally toward Klaus to give him her full attention and she immediately noticed how talking about art was making him forget about everything else.
"You are smart for a five years old girl." Klaus noticed genuinely amazed.
"My dad always said I was too smart for my own good. And I'm six not five." Caroline corrected him.
"Alright, you are six then. And your dad was right." Klaus chuckled; of course she was too smart for her own good.
Kol and Rebekah both noticed the connection between Klaus and Caroline even though it was odd. They didn't dare to break the moment because they knew that, when it would be broken, Klaus would just go back to ignoring the little girl.
And that was when Elijah entered the room and broke the moment. But to everyone's surprise Klaus didn't go back to his cold self even though the moment was broken. Elijah entered further into the room and sat at the table quietly.
Klaus decided that it wouldn't hurt anyone to talk with the little girl, she was interesting. It was just talking; it was not like he was going to care about her or anything. It was not like he was going to get close to her or like she was going to see him as a father figure or brother figure, he didn't want that. Maybe the others accepted her but she was not family to him and would never be.
"Elijah, we were talking about art." Caroline announced happily and Elijah smiled and nodded acknowledging her.
"Nik's favorite color is blue." Caroline continued smiling but Klaus immediately lost his smile at the way she called him. 'Nik', only his siblings called him like this, not even all of them, and here she was calling him like his siblings did. Only his family called him Nik and just a minute ago he had been thinking that she would never be part of his family, and that talking with her wouldn't do any harm, he was obviously wrong. She was not family, she would never be, she had no right to call him that way, it was too personal.
"I never said you could call me like that, my siblings call me Nik but you, you are nothing to me, you are nothing at all actually, so you'll keep to Klaus." Klaus growled making it clear they would never have a conversation like they had minutes ago again.
"Niklaus!" Elijah chastised, always the wise one.
"What? Should I act as if I care for her? Because I don't." Klaus continued.
Caroline was not smiling anymore, but she was not crying either. Her mom said she was strong and it was true, she wouldn't cry. Klaus didn't care for her, then it was his loss, not hers.
"Nik, she is just a child, stop please." Rebekah exclaimed angrily.
"I don't care that she is a child, Bekah. She is just a puppy I accepted you to have, just a pet that I let you keep to make you happy." Klaus replied not even looking at Caroline and pointing at her with his fork. Caroline pushed his fork away defiantly but Klaus just ignored it. Rebekah was about to reply something but Caroline talked first.
"Blue is not for princesses." She stated randomly.
"What do you mean sweetheart?" Rebekah asked her with a nice tone this time.
"We don't treat princesses the way he is treating me, which means I don't look like a princess." Caroline explained hurt, she was trying not to show it but it was really difficult for a six years old girl.
"Of course you look like a princess, darling." Kol reassured her smiling nicely at her.
"I hate blue; I don't want to wear blue anymore, ever." Caroline said before standing up and walking away from the table.
"Caroline, you didn't even eat yet." Rebekah noticed.
"I'm not hungry anymore." Caroline continued to walk away.
"Caroline you come back here and now. You have to eat." Rebekah ordered the little girl.
Caroline stopped and turned her head only, she transfixed her gaze in Klaus' and said, "I'm not a puppy who will obey to all of your orders." and then she walked out of the room.
"I see you are not raising her well." Klaus remarked with a smirk in the corner of his lips.
"Don't you ever say she is a pet again. She is a human." Rebekah exclaimed standing up.
"Yes, and humans are pets, sweetheart." Klaus stated not smiling anymore.
"Not this one." Rebekah snapped with a tight jaw, "Caroline is not a pet, and you better understand this because if it doesn't get clear in your little head then I can assure you that I will leave with her. I will not force her to grow up in the company of a man who treats her like a vulgar animal." She threatened.
Klaus clenched his jaw, "You will not leave. You know what happens when someone decides to leave me, Rebekah."
"Oh yes I know, you'll dagger me like you daggered Finn. Are you that scared of ending up alone?" Rebekah asked yelling, "No wonder why you are so lonely anyway, you should ask yourself some questions sometimes. Why would your own family want to leave you?"
"I think it's time for you to go to your room." Klaus growled tightening his fist around his fork.
"Yes, it is clearly time for me to leave this table." Rebekah agreed harshly before walking out of the room to join a hurt Caroline. This night Rebekah stayed with Caroline and slept next to her while Klaus was arguing with Kol and Elijah about what he had said.
Caroline stood up in front of her full length mirror looking at herself, she was wearing a beautiful pink gown. Seven years had passed by since Rebekah had brought her here. She was now a thirteen years old teenager and her body was starting to change. But her body was not the only thing changing, her character was changing too. She was still the same as when she had been a little girl but being a teenager, she was acting more impulsively which was provoking her to make huge mistakes.
She was also starting to see boys, men, in a different way. She was starting to notice and appreciate how muscular some were. She was starting to understand how they were looking at women and why they were looking at them like this.
And the reason why she was looking at herself in the mirror right now was that she had also noticed that men were starting to look at her differently than they used to. Not all of them though, she still looked like a child, her breasts were only starting to grow and they were barely noticeable, she doubted a lot of people had noticed to be honest. She hadn't bled yet but Rebekah said that it shouldn't be long now.
She had noticed long ago that the Mikaelson's were not growing old and she knew what they were, but it didn't bother her. The hardest was to keep it a secret, sometimes it was difficult to remember that it was a secret since it was so natural for her. What was not normal in Caroline's point of view was to think that vampires didn't exist, guess it's what happens when you grow up with vampires, Caroline thought.
Being a teenager she was also starting to feel things she couldn't understand. And toward a person she could never imagine. Why was she feeling those weird things when she was with Klaus? And why did he have to look so good? Why did she even feel something else than hate for him with the way he was treating her since she was a little girl?
She turned her head toward the door of her room when she heard shouts in the corridors and she bit her lower lips nervously. Talking about huge mistakes and unknown feelings.
A few minutes earlier, Caroline was walking through the corridors searching for Rebekah. She just couldn't find her and she needed her. She just wanted to talk to her about boys, she wanted to ask questions, know if it was normal that she was starting to see them differently than she used too. The questions were in her mind for quite some time now and she wanted answers. Of course she was not going to tell Rebekah about her weird feelings toward Klaus, there was no way in hell she would.
She heard a noise and stopped in her tracks too curious to see what it was. She looked around to be sure no one was there and then she turned toward the door that led to Klaus' office. The door was cracked open and Caroline quietly approached it. She really was hoping Klaus was not inside, he would surely kill her for even touching the door that led to his office without him saying she could.
But Caroline was curious and stubborn, so she stopped in front of the door and slightly pushed it so it was a little more open and she could see inside. At first she didn't see anything but then she heard another sound and Klaus appeared in her view. But he was not alone. Caroline frowned when she saw how he was holding the woman he was with, and then he kissed her and pushed her forcefully against the wall, the woman gasped wrapping her legs around Klaus' waist. Caroline turned away not wanting to see more.
She didn't care anyway, why would she care? And she surely wasn't jealous. She was just a thirteen years old girl, she couldn't be jealous of a woman because Klaus, who was a man and not a boy, was kissing her, and surely, he would do more than just kiss her, but it was none of her business.
And yet again Caroline was seeing red. She was walking furiously through the corridors and after a minute she found herself in Klaus' art room. She was not supposed to be here, she should go, he would know she entered, he would smell it the second he would enter it. But she was not thinking straight and she was angry.
She approached the drawings and smiled when she noticed that there were some of her through the years, more when she was younger but she also found one of her that was only a month old. Nothing was written on it, she picked up a few of her when she was younger and noticed that sometimes something was written on them. 'Genuine Beauty', 'Beautiful little princess', but what caught her attention was what he wrote on the last one she was holding, 'Beauty is ephemeral', Oh so he was kissing another woman and he thought she was not beautiful anymore. What Caroline didn't see was what he wrote on the other side of the paper, 'Maybe not in her case'.
She walked toward the painting he was working on and before she knew what she was doing she had paint in her hands and randomly threw some on the painting. There was white and red paint dropping down the canvas. Then she approached a finished painting and took it in her hands before throwing it on the floor, she kicked it angrily and did the same with a few other pictures. She knew she was making a huge mistake; touching Klaus' art was a terrible error.
After that she had run to her room and that was where she was now, looking at her reflection in the mirror, hearing Klaus' shout as he had surely discovered the mess she had done in his art room. She closed her eyes and a few seconds later she heard her door being slammed open. Next thing she knew she was thrown through the room and hit the wall forcefully before landing on the floor.
When Klaus discovered what Caroline had done to his art he became crazy, he couldn't control himself anymore and shouted some harsh words before going to Caroline's room, when he entered she had her eyes closed and it angered him even more that she refused to look at him, so he pushed her. He hadn't intended to push her so forcefully, he hadn't controlled his strength, for a second he regretted it but when she landed on the floor and then looked up at him from her lying position the anger came back crashing on him.
But he perfectly knew he wouldn't kill her, he wouldn't be able to anyway. He wanted to make her stand up, he didn't like seeing her on the floor like this because of him. She was just a child, since when was he one to hurt children? But he didn't want her to think she was forgiven, he didn't want to lift her off the floor kindly, so he would just act as if he was going to hurt her again, he would lift her from the floor harshly, not hurting her of course.
"I'm going to kill you. I've killed for far less than that." Klaus yelled before walking toward her menacingly. All his attention was on her as he approached her and he didn't notice his siblings coming up behind him. That was his mistake, and that was also the first time in his whole existence that someone managed to snap his neck.
Caroline looked up at Klaus terrified as he walked toward her and then a second later he dropped dead to the floor and Kol was standing behind him. Rebekah ran into the room and grabbed Caroline lifting her up from the floor. All the while they were in the room Caroline didn't leave Klaus from her sight, she knew he wasn't dead but it still felt weird to see him like this.
"Rebekah we have to hurry. We have to be far gone when he wakes up or he'll dagger us for trying to run or snapping his neck." Kol shouted taking Caroline from Rebekah, "Take her stuff." he said before running out of the room with Caroline.
As soon as they left the room Caroline noticed Elijah in the corridor looking at Kol and her cautiously. Caroline was crying from the pain that had been caused by Klaus and also the shock. Elijah's face softened and he nodded looking at Kol, Caroline didn't know what it meant but she didn't try to understand anyway.
A second later they were outside and Kol was putting Caroline in a carriage, he climbed in after her and said reassuring words to her while drying her tears. Rebekah arrived a minute later with bags and Elijah joined them as well. Caroline was taken aback, she wouldn't have guessed Elijah would leave Klaus one day and yet he was doing it. By the time Klaus would wake up they would be long gone and hopefully he would never find them.
They had been traveling for seven hours now, Klaus must be awake by now, they had no doubts, he surely was on a killing spree. They knew their brother by heart. He would be angry and kill everyone who would cross paths with him for a few hours, but then he would calm down and think. Afterwards he would start to hunt them down; he would search for them and not stop until he would find them. And they all knew what would happen then, he would dagger them to be sure they wouldn't leave him again.
But they had no other choice. The day Rebekah brought Caroline in their lives, she warned Klaus that if needed she would leave with her. And even though he had ignored Caroline most of the time, he had behaved, until today. But seven years had passed and instead of only Rebekah leaving with Caroline they had all decided to leave with her. Through the years Caroline had become a sister for Rebekah and Kol, her relationship with Elijah was not as close as the one she had with Kol and Rebekah, but he was like an uncle to her.
Rebekah looked at Caroline who was fast asleep with her head resting on Kol's lap.
"He will find us and he will dagger us all." She said sadly.
"No, Rebekah. I know a place where there is a powerful witch, a Bennett witch. We will go there and we'll ask her to put a spell on the town so Nik can't locate us. Everything is going to be alright." Kol reassured her, he had always been fascinated with witches.
"Where is it Kol?" Elijah wondered.
"Mystic Falls." Kol simply answered knowing what his siblings would think.
"You do realize this is the town we grew up in, Kol? Niklaus will find us there." Elijah pointed out.
"Nik will use witches to find us, and we'll use witches to hide us as well." Kol explained.
"Do you think Nik would have killed her?" Rebekah asked not leaving Caroline from her sight.
Elijah turned toward Rebekah and appeared to be thinking for a moment before answering.
"I don't think he would have ended her life, no." He affirmed turning toward Caroline, "I've seen the way he looks at her, he doesn't see her like family, but he cares for her and he can see that we see her as family."
"But he threw her against the wall, Elijah." Rebekah exclaimed.
"He didn't mean to." Caroline's voice made them all turn toward her.
"I thought you were asleep." Rebekah announced trying to change the subject.
"He didn't mean to hurt me." Caroline repeated.
"Since you are little he's always treated you terribly and yet you've always defended him." Rebekah stated not understanding.
Caroline looked down, they couldn't understand. It was like they couldn't see past his actions, but she could. And she also knew that earlier when he was walking toward her he was not going to kill her. The way he had said he was going to kill her, and then that he had killed for far less. The way he had said it, it was a way to convince himself that was what he should do, but she saw in his eyes that he had just been going to help her stand up, harshly, she didn't doubt that for a second. He wouldn't have done it in a kind way. He would have lifted her up from the ground in a menacing way, thinking she wouldn't notice it was just an act to make her stand up because he felt guilty for pushing her. Since she was a little girl she had always been able to read him like an open book.
She hadn't noticed it earlier, at the moment, because she had truly been scared and shocked. He had thrown her against a wall after all, it was not nothing, and she knew she should be mad about it but she wasn't, it was who Klaus was and who he would always be, he was impulsive.
And Rebekah, Kol and Elijah didn't know everything; they knew only what they saw. They never saw how Klaus was acting when he was alone with her sometimes. Not all the time, it was quite rare, but sometimes he would not ignore her. She knew his weak spot, she knew that if she started talking about art, saying stupid things about it, he wouldn't be able to resist and would correct her and then without even noticing it he would talk with her.
"I think we should go back home." Caroline said after a few minutes of silence.
"Are you crazy?" Rebekah yelled, "Are you out of your bloody mind?"
"He will calm down eventually." Caroline argued.
"Yes! Once we are all in our coffin with a dagger in our heart. And you, your heart out of your chest for that matter." Rebekah continued to yell.
"Rebekah please stop yelling." Elijah asked massaging his temples.
"I just think leaving him alone is not a good idea." Caroline said keeping her voice low.
"You always talk like an adult, I don't know how you do this, I don't know how you can be that smart at your age, but you have to leave adult matters for the adults, Caroline." Rebekah explained with a gentler voice.
"You say that but you will always treat me like a child, when I become an adult you'll still see me as a little girl." Caroline slightly raised her voice.
"Girls, girls, girls, I don't believe it is time to fight about that." Kol intervened.
Caroline and Rebekah both looked away from each other with their arms crossed over their chest.
Klaus woke up with a terrible headache; he stood up and looked around to find an empty room. Something was wrong, it was too empty, and the house was too quiet. He remembered what happened, him hurting Caroline and someone snapping his neck. His heart started to beat faster, what had he done? He hurried out of the room and searched in every room he was passing by.
"Rebekah!" He yelled in despair, "Kol, Elijah!" He continued to search the house, he made a mess of everything as the truth was crashing on him, they had left him, he was all alone.
"Caroline?" To his own surprise he also called her name, hoping she wasn't gone too.
No one answered and he felt his blood boiling in his veins, they had left him. Next thing he knew his anger was so powerful that he had no control and he was in his wolf form running through the woods and killing everyone and everything that crossed his path.
So, I guess it was not what yo were expecting? Tell me what you think please leave a review :)
Next chapter I will start to write Caroline as an adult but we will still see some parts of her childhood and teenage years with the Originals through flashbacks don't worry :)