hey so I am trying to post like twice a week BUT I'm super lazy so... I won't guarantee that any way have fun and if I could I would send jomo to your house with a kiss.

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Chapter 3 - Palace memories

The warehouse.

Klaus and Damon were sitting at a desk with all possible Caroline candidates; they were both a mass of exhaustion. Not a single woman came close to the little girl that Klaus remembered. Sweet, strong, brave little girl.

"Can't we just pick one already?" Damon pleaded.

"It's been ten years I don't think Esther will remember" he continued.

Klaus glanced up angrily at his friend, what a silly man. Of course Esther would remember! she wouldn't be looking for her granddaughter for ten years if she wasn't sure that Caroline Romanoff was alive. She's probably not even alive, he thought.

"She'll know, Trust me. It's awfully spontaneous enough that I'm the one giving her the girl, we have to find the perfect decoy otherwise it won't work" he clarified.

"I get it, let's just go home and start again tomorrow; if I see another Blonde woman today I might drain her dry" Damon replied.

"Fine by me mate" he agreed.

The men excused the rest of the ladies that were waiting for the announcement as to who got 'the part' they told them. Unfortunately, not a single girl stood out to them; sure they were blonde and beautiful but just not Caroline Romanoff.

Klaus wondered if he would ever find a girl who matched up to the sophistication that was sweet little Caroline.

, two long days later.

"Stefan, seriously why are we trying to break into an old castle in the middle of the night?" Caroline asked tiredly.

They had been traveling for two extraordinary long days and all she wanted to do was curl up in a warm bed and slip into a cozy deep sleep. If only.

"First of all Amelia we are not trying to break in, we are breaking in" Stefan stated whilst inspecting the boarded up door.

"Second of all this isn't a castle… it's the old Romanoff palace and this my darling ditzy friend is where my brother and his friend live." He continued to explain.

Crack.

Stefan struck the wood, effectively opening a way for him and Caroline to enter the building. A normal human would find it a tough job to crack open a door but to Stefan being a blood sucking vampire had its perks and being loaded with strength was one of them.

Stefan stood by the now broken door and opened up his arms in encouragement "After you" he insisted.

"Why thank you, kind blood sucking sir!" she mocked.

Across the palace

At the sudden noises being heard throughout castle, both Klaus and Damon's heads snapped up and met each other in the eye. Somebody was here, in the castle. Nobody should have a reason to be here.

"Did you hear that?" Damon questioned, just to make sure that he wasn't wrong.

"Let's go" Klaus whispered quietly walking out towards the sound of the intruders who had the audacity to enter his castle.

The Castle, Ballroom.

"And this is where all the chaos happened" Stefan said somberly, remembering the night all too clearly.

Caroline walked to the front of the ballroom and ran her hand over one of the vintage chairs set up for the royal family "I feel like I know this place... like I was here, but why would I be?" she whispered bewilderingly to herself.

"Trust me if I could forget I would" He replied.

Caroline glared at him, that wasn't a nice thing to say. The sandy-haired vampire looked down incredibly mortified by his choice of words.

"Sorry, I shouldn't have said that.'' He said, expressing regret.

"It's okay, I know that night was hard for you.'' She said sympathetically.

"Care to dance?" Stefan asked, trying to break the intense moment.

She began to laugh. Her tingling giggle lit up the room almost immediately. "Why Mister Salvatore I'd love to"

Stefan led Caroline to the middle of the ballroom and bowed playfully, the blonde girl returned it with a curtsey. They both began to dance with improper body language because to them it was nothing but messing around. As soon as the dance began Caroline seemed to lose herself within her mind, she couldn't help but feel as if there was something familiar, and equally terrifying within her mind. And just as it appeared in her mind, it quickly went away again. Weird.

"Amelia!" Caroline snapped out of her thoughts, she noticed they had stopped dancing and Stefan was looking at her nervously. Stefan never gets that look on his face unless there's something bad, something really wrong.

"Are you ok?" he asked.

"Yeah I..."

Before she could register what was going on she was suddenly pulled with force, laid directly on the ground with a hand gripping her neck tightly.

"Who are you?" The man above her asked in rage.

"Stefan!" She cried for her friend.

"Damon get off me!" Stefan yelled "Klaus let her go she's with me, I promise." He exclaimed.

Klaus loosened his grip but didn't let go, he wasn't going to risk anything. "Who are you?" he asked again only this time it was softer, his voice rid of any anger. However, the awkward positioning wasn't sitting well with Amelia. So she kicked him where a man would hurt the most, vampire or not.

"Amelia!" Stefan warned "don't do that again, I won't be able to stop him."

Caroline was able to stand up as Klaus had let her get out of his grip. She held out her hand to Klaus in order to help him stand up.

"It's nice to meet you Klaus" she said brightly as if taking down a freaking vampire was nothing.

Klaus couldn't believe that this girl had the tactics to overpower him. It infuriated him, she was a mere human. A pretty little blonde one of that. He never appreciated being made a fool of and so he felt the need to frighten her, to put her back in place. Klaus quickly took her hand and roughly pulled himself up all the while pulling her closer, much closer than intended. Before he could vamp out and frighten the blonde he suddenly noticed the beautiful blue eyes of the girl. What fascinated him more was the ferocity in her eyes looking back, challenging him.

An uncomfortable cough interrupted them and as if force had forced them apart, they both jumped back into a less intense space. "Well now that you two have gotten quite acquainted, my name is Damon" the vampire said as he reached to kiss her hand.

"Amelia" She said rolling her eyes "Don't try using your charm on me, Stefan told me all about your gigolo tricks!"

At this statement Damon glared directly at Stefan whilst Klaus chuckled loudly at the word gigolo. What a funny young woman.

"Well what can we do for you two? Stefan I have to say it's been awhile since I last saw you..."

"Five years... but Amelia and I want to go to Paris to find her family" Stefan explained.

"Yeah" Caroline agreed quietly still trying to gain composure after her meeting with Klaus

"I was found when I was eight, no family and no memory. I need any help you can get, please?" She begged.

Damon's eyes widened in realization, he took one good look at her face and leaned over to Klaus "I think we found our Carline" he whispered into his ear.

Klaus smirked and began to circle Caroline with a calculating grin as to whether or not she would work. As he circled her Caroline started to become increasingly agitated waiting for his answer, what and why the hell was he walking around her like he was about to suck her dry?

"Why are you circling me? What were you a vulture in another life?" she said teasingly.

Klaus chuckled humorlessly "Tell me Amelia have you ever heard of Caroline Romanoff?"

"Nope but the name is nice." She truthfully replied.

After ten minutes of Klaus explaining the disappearance of Caroline Romanoff, she finally got the idea.

"So you're saying that this girl that may or may not be me and may or may not be alive has family looking for her?"

"Royal family" Damon corrects.

"Royal…" she repeats, this can't be real.

''Amelia if it's not you then we can look somewhere else." Stefan guiltily added.

"Ok" Caroline agreed "I'll do it"

"Fantastic!" Klaus smirked.

A short while later Klaus decided it was time to get rid of his company. His brothers would be back soon and he didn't want them coming on this trip or even know about the plan, it was far too important to Klaus for Caroline Romanoff's decoy to get there and for Esther to believe the story.

Soon after they began to head to the train station, another vampire Klaus hadn't expected to be there soon sped away in the opposite direction. He came to a cemetery and compelled an old man to open the door to the huge tomb he was standing in front of. The vampire strode to the only coffin in the room ripping the lid open with one hand and dragging the human forward with the other. He bit into the human's neck and leaned him over the coffin, soon a grey hand took the soon to be humans neck closer to his mouth and sucked him dry. Mikael now hesitantly looked into the eyes of his son...

"Well I assume since that I'm awake Caroline is still alive then my boy? Tell me how many years has it been?" he asked.

"Ten years Father and Klaus found a girl that is possibly the one. The Caroline Romanoff who is set on her return to Esther" Finn grinned.

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