Caroline strongly entwined the long blonde hair on the side of her head into two small braids that she later hooked behind her head, the rest of the wavy hair fell freely like a golden cascade.
Caroline looked up through the big mirror in front of her when there was a small knock on the door. "Yes?"
Shyly Elena showed up with a small smile and waved, she didn't leave the threshold as she addressed the other vampire. "Hi…"
"Step inside Elena, don't stand there like you are my handmaiden." Caroline applied the red lipstick with a sly smile, she quickly got a hand of the new arsenal at her display.
Elena touched her beautiful straight hair still with a shy smile. "Once one…" she couldn't help the delicate lowering of her head when Caroline stood up.
The regal woman wore a fitted black lace dress that was cunningly covering her generous cleavage. "I like the change the modern days have brought with them..." she touched the dress that didn't reach her knees.
"About that Caroline…" Elena nervously touched her brown long hair again. "We wanted to rescue you but it was dangerous and…" Elena looked back at Sage that came inside the room with an awkward apologetic smile of her own.
Caroline stepped into the open toe black stilettos that were as well made of lace and smiled powerfully at the two women as she now held herself taller than them. "I understand completely."
"We would have come for you if it wasn't for the truce that we were offered, one doesn't throw away a chance for peace briskly and Finn had to make a decision." Sage said in a sweet voice.
Caroline released the smallest chuckle that openly challenged the ability of the older brother to make any sort of decision and Elena shared a complicity look with Sage that didn't go unnoticed by the blonde at all.
"Elijah and Finn have represented the family with honor." Elena said infinitely proud of her husband.
"I have no doubt of that." Caroline nodded at the two women. "Now ladies, you must excuse me, my husband is hosting a party in my behalf and it's not polite for the main guest to be absent of her own party."
Caroline left the two girls looking at each other and speaking volumes without opening their little cunning mouths.
Klaus took another glass of champagne thoroughly pleased with the taste of the beverage and smiled at his two older brothers. "That has unquestionably improved with time."
"Many things have Niklaus." Finn spoke in his usual serious attire.
Klaus chuckled. "I can tell by the severe look, so different from the one that you constantly display, that you are craving to tell me something." he blatantly mocked Finn.
"This peace that we have earned has brought balance to the kingdom… it would be a shame to throw it all to waste now."
"Don't hold back on the idle tongue brother, add the part you are dying to tell me, now that you came back to make everyone's life a special kind of hell." Klaus spiked him with a smile full of malice.
"He's merely stating that going out of your way to almost exterminate an entire species within the first hours of your freedom is already making unnecessary waves." Elijah quietly defended Finn.
With a small step Klaus was in Elijah's face with a defying stare. "I killed everyone on that congregation and I have every intention of going after the ones that were personally responsible for what happened that night."
"I'm used to your rude ways but I haven't missed the paranoia attacks Niklaus." Elijah remained quiet and had his drink looking away from Klaus that kept on breathing on his face.
"We are simply asking you to use prudence from now on, there is no use to cause a scene." Finn came to the rescue but without surprise that coward spine of his obliged him to lower his voice as soon as Klaus drifted his cold blue eyes to him.
"I'm still the king and I will cause a scene whenever I feel like." Klaus hissed.
"Even when Caroline is looking?" Elijah asked having another sip of his beverage eyeing the blonde that now came into sight.
Klaus slowly looked at the main staircase as the beautiful woman arrived to the Great Ballroom. "As always you are assertive Elijah, this is a conversation to end some other time because unlike you who married the maid and that one who turned the town's night jewel into a respectful woman, I am married to a queen and she deserves all my attention for now."
Klaus left them licking wounds and handed his glass to a servant, he waited for Caroline at the bottom of the stairs while the crowd turned to see the queen.
She took each step with a smoldering confidence and she wasn't listening to the crowd clapping and cheering for her or seeing the ones that gathered near Klaus eager to catch a glimpse of the legend, she only had eyes for the man wearing a smooth black satin button up shirt.
"All in black my love? I somehow expected red." he teased her as soon as she took his hand.
"I wanted to make an entrance." she whispered while he left a kiss on her hand.
"Perfection is not enough to describe it."
She whimpered taking his arm. "Always so biased…"
He found that funny and laughed while they headed for to the center of the ballroom, they were expected to perform the opening dance, after all, 500 years were hardly enough to change tradition.
"Only facing a shortage of compliments so forgive me if beautiful is all I can think of at the moment." he said against her cheek as soon as she melted against him.
Caroline stroked the back of his neck and closed her eyes, for a second her hand was heavy against his shoulder because she wasn't sure if this was just a cruel hallucination.
But seconds turned to a minute and he was really here, he was really in her arms and she pulled a little away from him so she could run her finger outlining his face. "You are not forgiven, I expect better compliments before this night ends."
Klaus' smile was magnificent and he took her hand to give her a little spin before they started a Royal Dance that began with a bow between them. Then they sided each other without touching, when they stood in front of each other they flirted with one another openly, the looks they were sharing and the smiles made a few young girls blush.
Then when they were supposed to be dancing back to back he cheated shamelessly turning and melted his body against her back outlining the amazing curves her dress so defiantly teased him with.
Soon they were surrounded by others that danced around them and they were supposed to dance with them as well but when a girl came to partner Klaus, Caroline hissed in her face showing her fangs and scaring the girl away from the room.
Klaus gave her a judging look but she resumed to a wonderful giggle that melted him into a chuckle, the truth was that no man dared to even come close to Caroline while the dance continued, they were aware that he would remove their hearts and then carry on dancing with her.
So fair was fair, Caroline would always have her way anyway and no one came close to Klaus for the rest of the dance.
"He is going to ruin everything we worked so hard to achieve." Finn hastily walked around the empty room nervous.
Sage soothed him by taking his arms and turning him to her once he stopped pacing with a jittery. "We have an advantage that he doesn't have, he has been away for all this time and we have been careful and meticulous in all of our plans. This is our time Finn, this is your time my lord…" she powerfully cradled his face.
"My turn to be King." his eyes sparkled in excitement.
"It is your right as the older brother and you shall take that throne away from him." she said with a crazy gaze. "And I will have them all kneeling before me as their Red Queen."
Klaus laughed softly and mockingly when he saw the two men standing there with a disturbed face. "I need to start sorting out the ones that come to these parties."
"We are not here for the party, we are here to ask for a meeting. We have matters to discuss now that the King is back." one of them said.
"So you came to a party that I am hosting for my wife to ask for a meeting?"
They gulped down with his instant change into a serious voice.
"You have… dismissed the Council. We need to know what happens now." The one from earlier bravely spoke.
Klaus rested his hand on the man's shoulder, he could feel him quake in terror under his touch. "We will have another Council, of course. Every good democracy needs a ruthless ruler." he laughed almost in a sinister way before calming down. "My apologies, I couldn't help myself."
"We represent the humans." The other man said almost swallowing half the words in fear.
"I gathered that for the bold move." Klaus crossed his hands behind his back. "I'd like to have a name to go with the brave faces."
"I'm Matt Donovan and that's Alaric Saltzman." he pointed to the shaking man next to him, the one that hadn't said a word.
Klaus nodded at one of the servants to come closer and picked two glasses of champagne that he handed to the two men. "Tonight we celebrate my wife, tomorrow we talk about who deserves to live."
The two men quietly had their drinks while Klaus smiled watching them attentively.
The guard moved away from the door at once. "My Queen." he bowed taken by the visit.
"Jesse." she smiled sweetly at him. "I'm here to see the prisoner."
"But…"
She cut him off by raising her hand. "I wish to see him Jesse, are you denying me this?"
"I would never deny any of your requests but Stefan left instructions."
She sighed because she could hear the soldier approaching. "Are you seriously going to stop me?" she grimly faced him.
Stefan chuckled kissing her cheek with affection. "You are like a sister to me and I must take care of you."
"I already have one man who takes good care of me."
Stefan gave her a judging look for the spicy words before eyeing Jesse. "Open the door."
Caroline beamed happy that her oldest friend always indulged her in everything but he made her smile fade by stepping inside the dungeon cell with her, she wanted to do this alone.
Stefan kicked the man in chains and he moaned lifting his head, his face was covered in blood and bruises.
"Hello Christian." Caroline greeted him.
The man spat on the ground and Caroline looked at her shoe almost smeared with the dark pool of blood.
"Always a charmer." she cocked an eyebrow.
"Filthy blood drinker… I should have staked you when I had the chance."
"But you didn't, instead you said that you would have ravished me every day if I wasn't a vampire and rotting grey. You said that all the things you wanted to do with my body before you killed me would be a good souvenir for my husband who was kept in a dark lonely place where his only company were his screams." she gritted her teeth.
Christian laughed taunting her. "Did you enjoy your time waiting for the vervain to leave your system? I had fun injecting you every day for the last 10 years. I was happy when your previous handler died and I was given the task of keeping the Ivory Queen paralyzed in her quiet agony, with no blood and only vervain in her veins… I'm also happy that you could hear every word I said because my repulse for you was outstanding."
Caroline quietly smiled. "It was nice to have the time to think of a fair revenge and listening to your eloquent words only provided me with the fairest punishment for you."
"Oh, I've heard of how compassionate and benevolent you are." he said sounding convinced that she would simply kill him which was good because Klaus would be sadist enough to bring him back every time he almost died.
"Christian… I am your Queen." she whispered taking the sword Jesse handed her. "It's only a question of time until you kneel before me willingly."
The prisoner frowned confused. "I'm human, a man of God, I worship no one but Him."
Caroline slit her wrist while Stefan took her dripping blood with a glass. "I have no interest in knowing who you pray to, that is between you and your God but I don't know if He will listen now that you will be sired to someone else."
"No…" he gasped and fought Jesse that held him down. "You can't do this, I beg you. There has to be some mercy left in you not to do this to me."
Caroline moved the sword skilfully resting it against Christian's neck. "Unless you decide to end your life, you will spend every day for the rest of your unfortunate eternity remembering who gave you life again and you will see my face every time you are forced to do what your new nature requires... drink human blood."
Christian screamed trying to find a way out of the strong hold but Stefan kindly punched him in the stomach making him cough, then it was easy to push the blood down his throat and make Christian swallow it.
Caroline handed the sword back to Jesse walking away as Stefan pierced the sword through the heart of one of The Immaculatus.
She found a beautiful girl sitting at the top of the staircase and it intrigued her to find a human here instead of the party.
The girl looked up and with a jolt stood, then she awkwardly bowed, remaining like that for a while.
Caroline held back laughter. "What are you doing?" she softly inquired.
The girl lifted her eyes to Caroline. "Isn't that what people do before a queen?"
Caroline took the girl's arms and made her stand straight but she was dizzy and staggered so Caroline had to hold her before she fell down the staircase that led to the dungeons.
"Who are you?" Caroline asked with a curious smile.
"Bonnie. Bennett." she said like she wasn't used to saying the two names together.
"And why are you sitting here in the dark alone when there is such a big party out there?"
"I'm not accustomed to that many people in the same space…" Bonnie said looking at the ground. "Besides I used to live in the dungeons so I prefer the darkness… I was attracted here."
Caroline's heart fell in sadness. "Are you the girl who helped freeing my husband?"
"Yep… I woke him up so he could go kill 100 people or so to rescue you." Bonnie pursed her lips.
Caroline's smile was one of pride now. "I would have killed 1000 if they stood in my path to rescue him instead."
Bonnie smiled which was an odd thing for her to do. "That's sort of romantic."
"Come, I will not have our heroine to stand in the shadows when she should be enjoying the music and the light." Caroline laced her arm around Bonnie.
"I'm really not sure…"
Caroline shook her head. "I am."
Bonnie took a very deep inhale and started chewing on her lip nervously.
"Hey, I was looking for you." Henrik met the girls half way to the ballroom.
Caroline padded Bonnie's shoulders. "Henrik will keep you company now and feed you something because you look famine to me."
Henrik beamed at Bonnie who watched Caroline in a sort of awe.
"She's…"
"I know." Henrik replied.
"Yeah…" Bonnie said still looking at Caroline as the other stole attention with merely her presence.
"Beautiful gathering." The old aristocrat had her champagne quickly ending it and waved at the servant, who on his end ignored her.
She was not amused and excused herself from Klaus and Caroline bumping into a few people while chasing after the man.
"She's so drunk that the help is refusing to give her alcohol." Caroline whispered with a delightful giggle.
"We should charge for the booze." Klaus lifted an eyebrow.
Caroline laughed melting against his shoulder. "Some things never do change... the most beautiful girls are all fighting in the corner for attention, the old spinster Abby is still drinking herself to oblivion and half of these families are still giving us the cocked eyebrow."
"And I still can't remember any of their names, I've spent the entire night calling every fella Joseph and every girl Mary."
Caroline gave him a side look. "And how many girls have you been brushing your charm upon?"
"Every Mary in the land." he smugly teased her. "And where have you been, may I ask you milady?"
"Siring infidels..." she smiled almost innocently.
He lowered his head keeping his eyes on her. "Caroline… we are in the middle of a festivity, do not make me throw you over my shoulder and flash to our chambers…" he said visibly aroused.
"It has only been 500 years since your lips were on my skin and my hands were caressing your chest..." she whispered in a dangerous smolder.
She smiled when his chest began to rise and fall in faltering breath and she left his side moving her hips knowingly.
Before Caroline reached the hall upstairs he was already hurrying up the staircase and then with a blur she was pushed against the wall while his lips scorched her neck before they crushed her lips powerfully.
Caroline breathed harshly against his lips and matched his tongue strongly but broke the kiss when his hand warmed her leg and found its way inside her dress very pleased with the new lengths these new clothes had.
Klaus hauled her to him and kissed her all the way to the wing where their bedroom was, once inside the King's chambers the kisses became less hasty and full of tenderness.
Caroline's blue eyes sparkled with happiness that she was like this with him again. "I was scared all day that you might not want me again Niklaus."
"What an absurd thought my sweet Caroline."
She smiled as he cradled her face with nothing but love. "I know that it was irrational but we haven't been truly together for that long before that horrible night forced us to stay apart…"
"Nothing has changed." he fiercely stated.
Caroline left his strong touch decided to test him. "So there is still desire left in you master Mikaelson for your queen?" she daunted him taking her dress off and standing in front of him in a steamy see-through underwear.
Klaus' answer came after he took his shirt off, he knelt in front of her and kissed the ivory skin on her stomach. "There is only one creature on this Earth for whom I will kneel and she haunts every second I am awake." his hands caressed her legs until they reached her back. "She holds my heart and my soul and my craving for blood is nothing compared to the desire I have for my queen."
Caroline closed her eyes dropping her head back while he kissed her through the thin fabric between her legs.
It was already showing how much she craved for him as well and she entangled her fingers with his hair while his hands moved to her stomach, his lips went there as well and the tip of his tongue began to taste the ivory skin before him.
Klaus stood up while kissing his way up her torso until he parted from her skin to place a soft kiss on her lips. "But does my wife still feel anything for me in return?" he smiled brushing her breast with his hand.
The sweetest sound left her red lips and Caroline left a red mark on his back as her nails covered his shoulders. "There is only one name in my lips that urges to come out between shattering waves of pleasure and that name is yours my King…" she tilted her head and kissed his neck. "It will always be you Niklaus." she said against his warm skin.
Klaus growled before taking hold of her face and powerfully thrusting his tongue inside her mouth, he kissed her hungry for her and with a need that Caroline cunningly paused by breaking the kiss.
He was not that happy so she smiled stroking his beautiful face, he knew by now that she always made him work hard for what he took with no resistance once she was satisfied with the chase.
Caroline removed her underwear under the piercing stare of Klaus, she stood before him powerful and naked in all of her majestic beauty and his very heart that once had a beating quality to it ached before such a sight.
He took the rest of his clothes and followed Caroline to her chosen cradle tonight, it made him smile that she wanted to be with him in the same place where he first made her bleed, next to the fireplace and on top of soft wolf skins.
Her smile lit up a face that was now glowing from the fire next to them, before he chose her to be his wife Caroline had given herself to him right where she was lying now waiting for him.
He kissed her softly on the lips and stroked her cheek but he didn't linger there, he moved his lips down her collarbone and instantly all that fire burning next to her was no match to the one stoking inside of her.
Klaus kissed down her cleavage and then pulled the first dragged moan as he enclosed a nipple between his lips; she closed her eyes and reached up to grab the skins under them, there was a hiss when his tongue began to play with the nipple sweetly at his mercy.
His big hand gave attention to the other neglected breast and he smirked with the first sounds leaving Caroline but nothing matched the one she shuddered out when he playfully bit her nipple only to sooth that throbbing sensation with his tongue next.
Caroline's breath picked up but she knew he was merely teasing her and that this was nothing but a slow prelude.
He kissed lovingly her hard nipple ready to leave that sensitive spot and his lips and tongue left her breasts, after licking his lips Klaus left small humid kisses down her body, he toyed with her navel briefly but then he enforced a small pause that caused her to open her eyes and search for him.
Klaus looked up at her situating himself between her legs, if there was a beating heart it would be faltering in anticipation and he evilly prolonged the moment for her before he lowered his head welcoming her core with his mouth.
The waves of pleasure that now left her were only increased when a skillful tongue tasted her folds, Caroline's small whimper outlets raised to little snivels of delight when Klaus added a finger to the slow torture, he parted her folds with a strong tongue and rubbed a precise spot with his thumb, instantly she tightened up exhibiting how much she liked that.
Klaus had one free hand and he searched for her breast, he closed his hand around it while his tongue invaded that tight warmth of hers with a series of thrusts, when Caroline came she was pulling his hair and biting her lip hard.
His hand lazily came down stroking her leg and he kissed her core to ease what he had planned for next, he gripped her leg while he kissed her inner thigh just before he glided his index inside of her, he didn't stop until it was completely inside of her but then he didn't move at all, he licked his lips relishing in her taste and moved so he could lay on top of Caroline.
Her fingers clutched the wolf skins and she arched her back a little bringing herself closer to the hand still between them, he rested his weight on his forearm and then watched every single line of raw pleasure that crossed her face when he plunged that finger in and out of her.
She had her eyes closed and her head was tilted to the side, her amazing long hair was scattered over the white wolf skins, her red lips marvelously parted so they could release these small idyllic sounds.
"Beautiful..." he whispered against her ear before burying two fingers inside of her.
"Niklaus…" she gasped with a small quaver.
One of her hands looked for his shoulder that she scratched deeply because he was being so evil to her, he knew how close she was again.
And slowly she would have given in but he pulled his fingers out at the last second, her nails scraped the back of his neck frustrated and she moaned his name unhappy.
Klaus searched her lips for a deep kiss that was slow and heavy on all that love between them. "I love you." he said against her lips before taking them again.
Caroline wrapped herself around him kissing him back and knotted her fingers with his hair, she was far from being satisfied and she knew the same was with him. "I love you Niklaus." she whispered lowering her hand down his long back to rest it on that small crook but she didn't linger there.
His eyes changed into this fiery yellow and hers were of a scorching blue as her fangs came out, Caroline gripped his neck with a firm hand and then her pointy fangs immersed inside his flesh feeding but also nesting an unfinished raw hunger between them.
She sank her fingers into his arm and he felt the nails pierce through the skin making him bleed but it all simply added to the urge to have her completely.
She stopped feeding as soon as he entered her with a deep hard thrust, she pressed him to her urging him to do that again and he slowly left her core only to return with a deeper thrust that made her groan.
Her body embraced him wanting nothing but to feel all of him inside of her and her leg tucked his side when he started moving steadily, going deeper with every sturdy push.
He rested his forehead against hers, his breath was unsteady and he growled with the way her body reacted to him, inviting him to go faster and deeper until he was lost in everything that Caroline was to him.
His name parted her lips louder and more often as he picked up a continuous rhythm, he left the sanctity of her warm damp chest, hauling a bit away from her for a better angle and he pounded into her again and again, and Caroline reacted beautifully.
He wasn't ruthless and seeking only his pleasure, he knew how much Caroline loved the strength in him but Klaus would never take it too far, he would never hurt her and his hard ways were only because she instigated that raw outlet of power.
They were both vampires and she adored that, as much as she was enamored with him and she smiled at Klaus easing that painful expression in his face.
"My love…" she whispered when he searched for another kiss.
Klaus rested his head in the curve of her neck pushing slower now, prolonging what he didn't want to end so soon.
Caroline held him in her arms with a smile, what a forbidden passionate dance they always fell into.
Their love was not easily accepted by others but that was the irrefutable truth between them as well, they loved each other and they would fight unnumbered armies so they could be together.
And they would always fight side by side.
Caroline's body burned in a fire she couldn't stop now and her cries for his name began to leave her lips between heavy pants, he narrowed his forehead fighting the inevitable just for that tiny little bit more.
Caroline trailed his changing face, the wrinkled eyes of the hybrid that stole her heart but she knew what belonged to her as well so she rested her hand over what was her property.
Klaus clasped her hand over his heart and while sharing that silent promise between them she reached that high that left her weak and trembling under him.
He closed his eyes quavering as well with a final groan of bliss and pleasure partnering each other, he was shivering when he rested his sweaty body against hers.
While Klaus caressed her soft skin she melted further against him caressing his chest in return, her body seemed so fragile now under his big hand that warmed her naked shoulder and he made her smile when he pulled her even closer to him.
"It's funny…" she said against his chest. "It's like every time we make love I blend into your skin even more…"
He liked that, it brought a big smile to his lips. "I am certain that I cannot exist without you."
"If only others were so easily convinced of that as I am." she faced him with a small unwanted shadow.
Klaus kissed her and softly stroked her chin. "You know me Caroline, I take the opinion of others very little into consideration."
She rested her weight on her arm facing him completely. "Elena and Sage came to see me earlier, they are keeping something from me."
Klaus nodded hating that the warm pattern she was leaving on his chest wasn't enough to take his mind off the serious tone the conversation just took. "I suspect Elijah and Finn are up to something equally, which is not even a surprise."
There was a knock on the door of their room and they both squinted waiting for the voice of the courageous soul interrupting their night.
"Nik? I must talk to you."
Kol surprised them both and Klaus reluctantly let Caroline go, although she was already leaving his side, always so accepting of his role as a ruler and a brother.
Klaus closed his denim jeans and was buttoning up his shirt when he opened the heavy door to meet Kol. "What do you want?"
Kol ignored the slightly ticked off tone and nodded to the hallway. "We need to speak to you."
Klaus moved so he could see the other waiting for them, Henrik smiled at him but looked behind making sure no one was seeing them.
Klaus stepped outside into the hallway glancing to Caroline that now closed a satin robe around her perfect body. "What is it?" he asked in a grumpy mood.
Kol and Henrik walked down the hallway silently asking him to follow them.
The night was quietly coming to an end and dawn greeted them as they all reached the bailey, the courtyard was empty as expected at this hour.
"The secrecy is making me urge for a drink." Klaus joked because his siblings looked so grave.
"A lot has happened during the centuries that you were locked away." Henrik said after making sure again that no one was seeing them.
Even before Kol spoke a word Klaus already knew this was bad.
"As soon as you were taken by The Immaculatus, this family was severed in two. In one side you have Finn and Elijah politely trying to overthrow you and on the other side you have Henrik and I trying to survive the anarchy that your absence brought to this family and land."
"So I have two brothers on my side?"
"I like being a Royal vampire and I don't particularly enjoy when peasants look at me like I'm one of them." Kol sneered.
"You are my brother and I have nothing against you, if anything you have always provided us with the best and I understand that someone had to make the hard decisions and I admire you for always taking them unwaveringly." Henrik assured Klaus.
"Also he is in love with a witch so he secretly hopes that you will kill all The Immaculatus before they come for her."
"Shut up Kol." Henrik hissed.
Kol smirked proving his point.
"I think there are too many after that empty chair but I am back now and I will be taking my place, it really doesn't matter how many I have on my side because that throne is my destiny. It has always been."
"The vampires are ready to walk in the sun without a ring for you, they have wept for their lost queen and will always blindly support you because Caroline is by your side… the werewolves are a very different story." Henrik explained his brother.
"They became very powerful while you were away." Kol added.
Klaus narrowed his eyes looking at Kol for a better explanation.
"Qetsiyah sacrificed herself on a full moon granting them the possibility to turn when they please."
"I see…" Klaus paced a little around thoughtful.
"And The Immaculatus took full credit for it, therefore all the werewolves now support them."
"And the witches?" Klaus looked at Henrik.
"Practically forbidden to practice now because the Church gained the control over the Bennett line, Qetsiyah cursed her bloodline to serve them forever but they aren't exactly nice. A lot of despicable things happen inside the Monastery and the Bennett witches started to rebel over the last century, the rest of the witches are just waiting for someone to lead them into an insurgence."
"I love a good mutiny." Klaus smiled already forging a plan or two.
"We have to be careful though, it's all turned very political now and we have to be cautious of whose heads we are collecting because there hasn't been a war since you were locked away, and apparently people like that… go figure." Kol scoffed before leaving the bailey.
"What happened to him? He used to be so cheerful." Klaus asked Henrik.
"He fell in love and The Immaculatus burned her in the town square. It was a very loud warning that we no longer had the power we once had, when he went to Elijah and Finn seeking for help to avenge her, they hid behind Elena and Sage."
"Exactly what they did with me… this family has turned into a joke, pushed into a corner by commons…" Klaus spat out in fury. "Shamefully recoiling to a corner? We are the Royal Vampires and I will not accept the dishonor that now rests upon my family's name."
Henrik ran a hand through his hair. "I missed seeing someone with spunk around here. Elijah is a shadow of the man he once was and Finn is a puppet mastered by Sage who would have tried everyone's bed had we allowed her."
Klaus nodded deeply thoughtful. "Do you think they had something to do with what happened that night?"
"I waited for Caroline by the horses with Rebekah but Finn and Sage took their time getting there…"
"Of course… and Rebekah, what is her position in all of this?"
"Rebekah is a sweetheart but she lives her life quietly and in a very dull way."
"Let's keep it that way, I want my baby sister to stay untainted." Klaus smiled wishing to see her now.
"Not to worry there." Henrik tapped Klaus' shoulder before leaving.
She ran faster now, she had to get to him before she crossed paths with someone on a morning horse ride.
The bowling green area was too big to have such a misfortune but still she was cautious and she stopped as soon as the smallest sound woke her senses, someone was here with her and she spun around worried.
Flashing she pinned someone against a tree.
After blinking he found the brightest blue eyes staring at him, a perfect match to his and he melted into a big smile before taking her lips.
He kissed her with passion and a longing that was building over the two weeks they hadn't seen each other.
"I missed you…" she whispered as soon as he trailed her neck with hot lips.
"I missed you more Princess." his husky voice made her skin wrinkle.
Rebekah gasped happy when he picked her up and carried her to his car, she could barely wait to make love to him again.
Soundtrack:
Royals - Lorde
All the right moves - One Republic
Untouched - The Veronicas
Kiss from a rose – Straight no chaser feat. Seal
