AN: This is coming to an end. Like only 2 or 3 chapters left. Steroline love in this chapter and I promise next chapter is all Klaroline.
Caroline sat in shock much like everyone else around her. It seemed like the Mikaelson family was one for the dramatics. She didn't dare say a word not that she could really utter one up.
She just watched as Elijah broke down, silently in tears, as Katherine and Rebekah came to comfort him. "You're a good father." Both women repeated several times as he finally let Katherine hug him as she kissed his head.
Elena silently tugged Jeremy out of the room, Damon and Hayley following behind, to deal with their own family drama in somewhat secluded privacy. Caroline hoped that Jeremy wouldn't be heading to jail as she did not know how old Hayley was. And the red and blue lights of a police car would only add to tonight's dramatic events.
Matt seemed to be just watching like Caroline, he wasn't a part of this family yet either, as he caught her eye, almost like a deer in headlights look afraid to move even a muscle, he mouthed that he was going to check on the kids and left the room.
Kol seemed not to be effected by his best friend or brothers' escapades, sat in his chair with his feet propped on the table, looking as if he was ready for another show. Caroline would have been disgusted by his actions but she was not sure if this was an all-time thing that happened at family get togethers.
Caroline got up from her chair, hoping no one would judge her, and left the room without looking back.
When Stefan finally found Klaus he saw his best friend was drinking a bottle of bourbon from Elijah's private stash overlooking the family's pond.
"That was a nice outrage you threw." Stefan stated as Klaus only rolled his eyes and took another swig. He sighed; getting Klaus to open up was going to be a lot harder than anything he had done before. "It's not your place to get into the Gilberts family business."
With that statement Klaus chuckled. "Mate we are both fully aware that the Gilberts make it our business. And I'm not apologizing to anyone."
"Not even to Caroline?"
With Stefan's question Klaus looked to him. "I suppose I will have to eventually. My family does bring out the worst in me."
Stefan's eyes bulged. "Klaus you just basically called Elijah out as being like your father. You know he has never done anything like Mikael. You owe everyone an apology."
"Well no one is getting one." Klaus drastically stated as he lunged backwards to get another sip as he almost fell off the balcony heading for the pond.
"Not even me?" Caroline questioned as she appeared out of nowhere. It had been easy for her to find Klaus with the Find My Phone app she had installed on his phone and knowing all his passwords.
Klaus straighten himself up, shoving the bottle of booze to Stefan, as he looked at Caroline. "I'm not ready to talk about this Caroline."
"When are you ever ready to talk about anything?"
"What does that mean?"
"Seriously? It means…" Caroline ran a hand threw her hair. "That you haven't opened up at all to me. Who's Mikael? What happened to you in the past to make you hate your family?"
"I don't open up. That's what you are in for."
"Talk to her Klaus. Tell Caroline everything."
Klaus glared at Stefan, like his best friend had just hit him. "Don't try to give me advice Mate. This coming from the guy in love with his brother's girl and too ashamed to admit it." He gave Caroline a look. "I'm sorry love." And with that Klaus Mikaelson walked away.
Caroline stood leaning on the balcony overlooking the pond in tears. This was not the man she thought she was marrying. She thinks she would find her way to the hotel then to the airport, she's a modern woman after all, but she wants to make things with Klaus work. She's lost in her thoughts until an arm is around her shoulder.
Stefan gives her a sincere look his puppy dog eyes state that he is sorry that she has seen so much all at once.
Before he can speak she gave a fake smile and bursted into another fit of tears. She thinks that the man before her, the nice kind man, would have told her what she was getting herself into. But Stefan was Klaus's best friend not hers.
"I promise you Caroline he will tell you everything." Caroline wrapped herself around Stefan. "I know he loves you."
"It's only been six months." She whispered scared that she has deep down known something was not right all along.
"And in that six months my best friend has been the happiest I have ever seen him."
"Because of his past which no one will tell me about."
Caroline was pretty sure in the last six months she had more information about Stefan Salvatore's past then she had about her own fiancées. In the short time she had been dating Klaus, Caroline had met Stefan a mere six times.
But she knew that Stefan lost his mother at a young age, his father was a cryptic old man who wasted away in solitude, that he didn't get along with his brother; Caroline could now see why, and that he had dated Rebekah on and off which never ended well, and at the moment was dating the spunky Sophie Deveraux who worked at their friend Marcel's bar. Which was why Stefan "visited" New Orleans so often.
Caroline had been secretly plotting with Sophie on a way to force Stefan into moving to NOLA. With all the events from tonight, like the fact Stefan was into his sister-in-law, made Caroline question why the hell the man even stayed here.
All that information was after one night where Klaus left to pick their take out and Caroline opted to finish her game of scrabble and bottle of wine with his best friend. She was thinking she would get out more information about her boyfriend but ended up making a new friend of her own.
It started when Stefan used the word neurotic and Caroline thinking he was hinting about her went on a long rant about how Klaus was his best friend and she should be treated kindly. He stated that he only used the word to get a triple word score making her feel like an idiot.
"Why do you call him Klaus? You are like his brother." Caroline questioned remembering a couple times Klaus had stated Stefan was his brother from another mother, though he clearly stated it in a more eloquent way.
Stefan looked at her as he wiped a tear off Caroline's cheek. "Klaus associates the name Nik with all the horrible things his family has done. Yes he loves his family but each time they say his name, Nik, it cuts him deep inside. He loves you Caroline. His past is dark yes but it's not something that destroyed his family. After all he was the one who called them to set up this weekend. He wants his family back. He wants to make a family with you."
Caroline let out a sigh as she kissed Stefan's cheek. "I don't know how Klaus managed to get a best friend like you Stefan Salvatore."
Stefan gave her a smug smirk. "It's the hair. Magical best friend properties."
Caroline giggled as she got up smoothing out her dress and wiping her mascara ran face. "Where would my impulsive paranoid short tempered fiancée run off to?"
"Try the art gallery."
Caroline Forbes was going to get Stefan the best Christmas present ever, a new apartment in New Orleans.
She headed back inside the Mikaelson home to find her future husband. Klaus may be paranoid but she, Caroline Forbes, was neurotic as they come and was going to get the answers she wanted even if that meant tying him to a chair until he pleaded her to stop reading the gossip girl series.