Caroline was in one of those reminiscent moods today. Especially since tomorrow she would be leaving to get on a plane headed for New Orleans.

It would be the first time in a hundred and fifty years that she would be back in the states.

After graduation, Caroline had attempted college with Elena and then dead Bonnie but things didn't work out as they often didn't. Tyler was still hellbent on revenge over loving her and that relationship ended after just two days of being back together.

Silas remained a nuisance to the Mystic Falls gang, or more so the Elena fanclub ( . Damon and Elena). That's where she met Qetsiyah, or Tessa as she likes to be called.

She was with Katherine then and they were looking for the old witch who currently had Stefan under that memory loss spell. On arriving at the witch's door, Caroline would never forget walking in on Stefan and Tessa 'getting to know each other better' if you knew what she meant.

After many tests on how well-suited Tessa was for her best friend Stefan, Caroline gave her consent. They became friends soon after that, a factor probably being their mutual insecurity issues with doppelgangers and boyfriends. man, he was the reason it happened and when Nick transformed one evening, terrifying his family out of their wits, he was left behind. Caroline could understand the parents' fear of what was happening to their baby but there was no reason to ever, EVER abandon an infant in a situation like that.

Stefan got his memories back and although he tried to be with his brother and ex-girlfriend, it wasn't so easy. Not long after did Caroline suggest they take a road trip around the world.

They never came back.

They went to all the tropical islands, where Caroline enjoyed a few flings but never found love in any of them. It was sort of sickening for her to watch Stefan and Tessa in their constant honeymoon phase, though. She remembered being really bitchy to them for a while because of it.

And when they went to England for a nice retreat at a rural estate, they never made it to the next destination.

It had been twenty five years since the trio departed from Mystic Falls when they settled into the estate home. Caroline had fallen in love with the massive house upon first sight and swore that she would one day own it. Stefan and Tessa had laughed but they might as well have made themselves at home in the place because once Caroline set her mind to something it might as well have been written in stone.

The estate itself sat between two very large and old oak trees, its branches reaching just over the rooftop of the place. Behind the house was a massive cleared land with a small lake over the hill. In front was a long, cobblestone drive that curved around a large garden.

Caroline could go on and on about the structure and design of the place. It was simply put: beautiful and ancient. The estate dated back to being first built in the early 16th century and some if not all of the original structure remained standing still.

A month after they settled into their permanent home, Caroline discovered her future children.

On an abandoned, gravel road a couple of miles outside of the estate was a small square building. Caroline had been out on one of her hunts and came upon the loud wail of multiple children. Always the caretaker, she had immediately gone to the building to save the children.

Long story short there was a psychotic doctor that wanted to experiment with the effects of turning toddlers and infants into vampires. When Caroline had gone inside she found Michael who was only five and Eli, who was just 3. One of the main reasons the children had been crying was because they were hungry. Hungry for human blood. Apparently trying to give them animal blood only irritated them further. It was the equivalent of giving a human child vegetables.

She had quickly disposed of the psychopath and had taken the two young boys to the estate, knowing that turning them in would only create a higher death risk. So she took them back home to Stefan and Tessa. Scared to death, Michael and Eli had gripped onto Caroline like she was a lifeline, their eyes black and veins rippling. The poor things were scared and starving.

Both Caroline and Tessa had calmed them down while Stefan went out to collect blood bags. When Stefan came back the boys drank the blood and it seemed to sate their thirst for a while but they still thirsted for blood from the vein and it would prove to be a major challenge for Caroline to keep them from running off on killing sprees later on.

Michael and Eli were the first children. Nick came next. He was younger than Eli when she found him transforming in a cage deep in the woods. It was a sight Caroline would never forget. There was nothing Caroline could do to stop the transformation so, she sat down with the little two-year old Nick, taking every bite he gave with determination. It was then that Caroline was glad that Klaus had sent her a fridge full of his blood for her protection in college. She would need that for a long while now until Nick could control his urge to bite her.

Nick's parents had apparently abandoned him after he triggered the werewolf gene by accidently stumbling out into the road one day, causing a car to swerve right off the road into a telephone pole. Although he didn't directly kill the man, he was the reason it happened and when Nick transformed one evening, terrifying his family out of their wits, he was left behind. Caroline could understand the parents' fear of what was happening to their baby but there was no reason to ever, EVER abandon an infant in a situation like that.

Although Nick was a werewolf, he was also human, so he would age much more quickly than his older brothers Michael and Eli. Michael and Eli would age, but it would take five years for them to age one year as a human would. So when Nick had turned five and Michael had aged only one year, Tessa put a spell on Nick that would age him the same as his siblings.

Kolby and Kory were found in the alleyways of a small town twenty miles away from home. Caroline by then was beginning to worry why she was finding so many abandoned supernatural children but nonetheless she had decided to care for as many children she found, even if it was fifty or a hundred of them. The twins were both four when they were found, by Caroline, and Stefan only shook his head sadly when the worried mother of three brought home two more sons.

Richard and Joanna were found last. They were biological siblings just like Michael and Eli except this time the parents were the ones to do this to their children. The parents had just been turned into vampires and not wanting to outlive their children, they turned seven year old, Richard, and six month old Joanna into vampires. However, not soon after, the parents were killed for turning children into vampires by a local vampire-hunting group of humans. They didn't do anything with the children though, and had them locked up in cages until Caroline came in and saved the day. They were going to kill them anyway.

It was hard at first...taking care of so many hungry, vampire children, not including getting bitten countlessly once a month by Nick but she managed to make it through. After forty years of gathering blood bags from local clinics and that not being enough to calm them down, Tessa suggested they drink from the vein.

"What are you crazy? They'll kill them!" Caroline had shouted at her sister. Tessa just smiled weakly.

"Do you want to live in constant worry that they're going to snap one day and run off? I don't think so, Care. We could take in people desperate for money or homeless. We could give them a place to live here and they would liven normally and in an estate like this."

Caroline knew it was bound to happen but she hesitated. Knowing full well what it was like to be a human blood bag, she had no desire to put any one else in the same position. Stefan had assured that if anyone could teach the children control it would be her and that the humans would never live in fear. With Stefan and Tessa's encouragement, Caroline gradually let the children have human blood from the vein. In fact, she assigned a special human to each one of her children. These were usually people who were homeless and really sick with disease. Her children, in order to acquire their blood source, would offer their blood as a cure in exchange for their servitude to them. Most readily agreed, having no home or family to go home to, the humans soon found their home in Caroline's.

Things had run smoothly from then on. Stefan and Tessa had their formal wedding a couple years after Caroline started bringing humans in. Liz Forbes, Caroline's mother spent her last days here and died of old age at 98. Matt came to live with them for a while with his human wife, Natalie. They liked for the children to call them grandma and grandpa when they visited and enjoyed the way the boys would put the young Mother on edge every day with worry.

Katherine made an appearance as well, when they had just brought in Joanna and Richard. She stayed with them for a month and when she left, she left a pint of her blood in her guest room. Next to it, a note stated: Caroline, you and I both know that Nick is like his incarnation, Klaus and will only strive for more power. So here is my blood. I offer this to you as a gift because I know how much of a menace the boy will turn into if he won't get his way. You can say thank you. Katherine Pierce x.

Caroline had scoffed, Stefan just shrugged, and Tessa had it stored away in a special preservation box for when the time inevitably came that they would need it.

Damon and Elena split after fifty years together. Apparently, the couple got tired of the constant drama and suspense of being together and called it quits. Caroline knew, because Damon showed up with a beaming Bonnie by his side, a ring on her finger. She was shocked, to say the least, but kept her mouth shut on judging her best friend because she knew she might get zapped if she did so. Bonnie then told Caroline about Jeremy's horrible accident in college. He was on his way home from a student trip to Europe when the plane got struck by lightning.

Caroline gave her sympathies but she was also mad at her friend for a while. How could they not tell her about something like that?! She wasn't dead! You could still tell her if someone had DIED.

Elena's whereabouts were unknown. Apparently she had gone to Bulgaria and never came back after Jeremy's funeral. The last Bonnie heard, she was dating some greek male model. Well as long as she was happy.

Caroline allowed her children to "date" but warned them that relationships with humans could only last so long until they started to know you weren't aging along with them. So, suffice it to say, not many of her children had long term relationships, only quick dates to movies.

Unwillingly, Klaus came up in her thoughts.

The only time Caroline and Klaus 'spoke' was through a letter he had sent her after she sent him two photographs of herself with a letter of her own.

Dear Klaus,

I can't believe I'm over a century old. Does time really go by that fast as a vampire? I feel as if my mother and Matt died too soon, even though they both died in their late nineties.
Anyways, I'm doing honestly amazing. I travelled the world as much as I could with Stefan and his wife, Qetsiyah (SHE IS MY SISTER KLAUS, DO NOT TRY TO HURT HER), until I found my home in the most beautiful estate I've ever seen in England. It is so gorgeous, Klaus, I swear I can live here the rest of my life. Oh my God, I'm admiring nature, am I that old already?
In more important news, I'm a proud mother of seven rowdy, beautiful children. Six sons and one beautiful little girl. Oh, and by the way, they are all vampires besides Nick, who is a werewolf. He reminds me of you a lot. Don't ask why. Anywho, they age but not as quickly as a human child would. The point where they stop aging is twenty five, because Michael has not aged one bit for twenty years. He's my oldest son by the way. He's very wise and serious. He looks greek but talks and acts like he's british.
Eli is the same way. Him and Michael are biological brothers actually. He gets along really well with Nick. All I have to say about Nick is that I'm glad you gave me that mini fridge with your blood all those years ago because it has been hell getting bitten by your werewolf son so many times in the year. He's learned to control the urge though and for that I am both proud and thankful. So thank you SO much for the blood.
I have twins! Kolby and Kory, both little shitheads sometimes but I love them. They always want to play mind games with everyone and get themselves hurt. I never met Kol, your brother, but from Elena's description of him, he could be my boys' ancestor for all I know. At least in their personality traits.
My youngest son is Richard. He's the sweetest boy and loves his little sister Joanna so much. It's adorable. Joanna is still really young, she just turned a year old two months ago, but she reminds me of Rebekah in some moments. She can be really greedy and stubborn, but she loves being protected by her siblings. Because that is what siblings do, Klaus, THEY PROTECT EACH OTHER. I won't go any further because it'll only make me want to rant.
I'm sure you might be wondering how they are all vampires but I don't want to talk about it in a letter. Maybe if we ever meet again, I'll let them tell you themselves. It's quite heartbreaking.
I assume you're wondering why the hell I wrote this letter, aren't you? I DID spend five months just writing and deleting, off and on because sometimes I just don't know what to say to you and it took a while for me to actually figure out the real reason why I was doing this to begin with.
I'm lonely for one. I know I am surrounded by family and all but seeing Stefan and Tessa share love like that makes me want companionship so bad sometimes. And upon never really dating anyone seriously over the years and after many excuses involving children, I have forced myself to realize something.
I miss you. YOU. You and your stupid, idiotic, annoying hybrid self.
Stop smirking, I'm imagining stabbing you right now if you are. WITH A WHITE OAK STAKE.
After time, and after a lot of failed attempts at liking a guy for more than the pleasure his dick brings, I concluded that I hated you for ruining me. You and your stupid dimples when you grinned, and your stupid drawing that I unfortunately STILL have and…
I think you understand.
I'm not sorry for acting the way I did in high school. You deserved most of it after all and you WERE chasing a taken woman.
Sigh.
You'll find two pictures in here. The one in color is of myself at Stefan and Tessa's wedding. This one you can show off to Elijah and Rebekah and to the world. The other one, however, is for YOUR eyes only mister. It's not a naked picture. I'm not that nice. I just thought I might tease you while you engage in that stupid war of yours. Seriously, Klaus? Grow up already. I don't care if he took what's yours, just kill HIM and end it. Why do you have to make everything such a big deal? 'Oh, how dare you steal my car, I will kill you and every single person you've ever met!'
Sorry, I had to say that.
I hope you enjoy this letter and the photographs more than I enjoyed writing it.

Oh yeah. Please don't die.

Caroline xx.

Two months later Caroline received a letter from the man himself.

Dear Caroline,

Sweetheart, you should know not to surprise me in times like these. I was strategizing battle tactics with my men when I received your letter. You see, for one I don't get mail that much these days, if ever, and when I received a letter, let alone FROM YOU, I almost had a heart attack.
I kind of spoiled the surprise by looking at the photographs you sent first instead of reading the letter. I don't know if I have said this before, love, but you are the most beautiful creature I have ever had the misfortune of wanting. I have a bad luck in wanting things that don't want me.
I want to know who took the second photograph, because if it is a male, I'm sorry, but I am afraid I will have to kill him. I promise I'll make it quick, just for you.
Stefan is married, is he? To Qetsiyah, the witch who created the immortality spell and and the Vampire Hunter race who I spent half a century being tormented by? That Qetsiyah? I suppose you will believe that I deserved that torture but pain is pain, love. I guess I can make an exception with her. After all, she is quite powerful and if she is your sister like you say then she will protect you. If she doesn't...well, you know.
It's no surprise you took care and became the mother of those supernatural children. You have always had that need to protect and care about people. It's one of the traits I admire about you, love. They all sound lovely, sweetheart, except I worry about Kolby and Kory. If they are as rambunctious as Kol then you have a lot on your plate there, love. One Kol is a handful, but two is insanity. Good luck with that.
Your son Nick worries me. Why did you stay in the same room as him on the night of the full moon? It scares me to think of the many many years that you had to be bitten over and over again. Like you, I am thankful that I gave you so much of my blood. I mean, I worried, but I didn't think you would need it this much, to be honest.
I don't appreciate the stab at the way our family works, but I will take it only because it's you. And my war involvement is childish? Well, I guess you would see it like that, you are after all a mother and a wo-. I'll stop there. I would not wish for you to resent me.
I miss you too, sweetheart.
I miss the way you can just light up a dark room with your presence. I need that right now, after losing a lot of men recently. I miss you for the way you always went against everything I did. It was refreshing and also amusing to have such a baby vampire mouth off to me.
I didn't really enjoy hearing about the way in which you salvaged your loneliness, love. But I assume since it was said so graphically, it is a sore spot with you? Well, we have a mutual feeling of aloneness then. If I could have, I would have been telling you all this in person but I have a war on my hands that is not yet over. I believe the saying is: 'I would if I could'.
I guess this is as good a time as any to inform you on what has been going on in the past century or so in New Orleans.
Hayley, you might remember her as the wolf that tried to turn my hybrids against me, had gotten pregnant with what I then assumed was my child. Don't be angry, love, I later found out that it was actually Tyler's. That I am sorry about, because he had gotten her pregnant while being with you. I'm not sorry for bedding the little wolf while still in Mystic Falls. You were still quite anti-Klaus at the time and I was feeling rather threatened by the cure and Silas.
Actually Hayley and Elijah shared a little infatuation with each other before things abruptly ended when Hayley was killed by one of Marcel's lackeys. Tyler and their son, Trevor, left and lived in Michigan. That was the last I heard of them.
Rebekah is still annoying little sister, but I still grudgingly love her, even though she continues to go back in forth between loving and hating Marcel. Ridiculous.
That is what has been happening in the family lately. I need to make something clear, though. Caroline, as much as I desire you to be here with me I have to politely, and unwillingly, beg you to stay in your home in England. Things are getting more intense down here and I have no idea if it will ever end. I would hate myself if you ever got hurt in this war. So, I respectfully ask that any visit from you for whatever reason be postponed to a later date.
I've never said it out loud, but…
I love you, sweetheart. You already knew that, though, didn't you?
I miss you so much and I wait impatiently for the day where we will meet again.

Yours always,
Klaus.

Caroline sighed, as she brought herself out of her reverie. That letter was sent to her eight years ago and was tucked safely in a special drawer along with his drawing.

"Well, Klaus," Caroline muttered, standing up, "I hope you're ready for me because I'm coming if you like it or not."

A/N: I tried to put in pictures of Candice in here but it wouldn't upload. The second photograph is the one of Candice in just a long sweater with her hair curled and down. It's in black and white and I'm sure most of you have seen it.