THE PORT OF LOVE

Fan Fiction – Alternate Universe

Caroline & Klaus

From: Lovely Vero


Chapter 4

"A hammer, a screwdriver and a blonde!"


"Care, slow down I can barely understand you, or catch a word of what you're screaming into my ears." Bonnie Bennett told her friend, while keeping her cell phone near her right ear and walking toward her medical office, located on the 12th floor of a high class building of the downtown New York.

"And then, he literally burped in my face, in front of the all crowd of fishermen that were sitting in the dinning room in the Rose Garden Pub. He's the biggest jerk around, I swear to you, Bonnie that man he's a selfish pig, and he's a peasant and a jerk!" She shouted in the phone.

"You already mentioned that." Bonnie told her, while pushing the revolving doors of her building.

"What?" Caroline screamed, while pacing back and forth in her brand new abandoned house.

"That he was a jerk." Bonnie said, while mocking Caroline openly.

"Well, let me tell you a third time: He's a fucking jerk!" She screamed more.

"Wow! I don't remember hearing you being so upset because of a man before." Bonnie told her, while entering the crowded elevator.

"I'm not upset!" Caroline yelled, before sitting on a chair and passing a nervous hand through her hair. "I just can't stand him. He's arrogant, and rude, and ... Can you believe that he brought me to an abandoned house the first night?" Caroline added, before sneezing into her phone.

"Bless you!" Bonnie said to her friend, before adding. "Did you catch a cold already? But, it's august there; the weather should be nice in this time of the year in England, no?"

"It is nice out here!" Caroline screamed more, while sniffing. "But not when a gorilla man left you standing under the pouring rain for almost an hour!"

"Oh, back to him again, as I can see." Bonnie replied, with a smile. "Is he handsome, sexy?" She asked while finding her way out of the crowded elevator, and taking her first walking steps into the corridor.

"What does it have to do with anything?" Caroline asked her friend, while gesturing with her hands.

"Am I talking to Caroline Forbes at the moment?" Bonnie asked, dumfounded. "Because, you always look at men's bodies, Care…Jerk or not, it makes no difference to you, it is your prerogative!"

"How should I know what he looks like? And, Bonnie, who do you think I am for God sake? You are making me feel like a shallow person, exactly like he makes me feel!" Caroline said to her friend, in anger.

"Oh, so he is sexy." Bonnie replied to her, while giggling, and pushing the glass entrance door of her dental office, before nodding head to her secretary.

"Good morning, Melissa." She saluted her receptionist.

"Good morning, Miss Bennett." The petite brunette responded, while opening her eyes widely at the loud sound of Caroline's voice coming out of her boss's cell phone.

"I never said that he was sexy!" Caroline was screaming her lungs out.

"Miss Bennett, is it Caroline, your friend who left for England? How exciting...Tell me, Is she ecstatic about her experience?" Melissa asked, while joining her hands in excitement.

Bonnie put her right hand on her cell phone, to silence the screams of Caroline.

"She is not exactly ecstatic!" Bonnie responded to Melissa, while blinking an eye at her receptionist.

"Oh, I'm so sorry to hear, what happened?" Melissa asked more.

"For what I could gather: man problem." Bonnie explained rapidly to her employee, before directing her walking steps toward her office. "Could you prepare me a double espresso; I think I will need it." She added, while rolling her eyes, and showing to Melissa her cell phone.

"Man problem?" Melissa exclaimed in shock, before adding to herself. "But, it's only her second day in England?"

Bonnie closed her office door, before throwing her handbag on the carpet floor, sitting on her leather chair and elevating her feet on the desktop, before putting her cell phone back to her ear.

"...And then he had the audacity to kiss me, while rubbing his dirty hands all over my body!" Caroline screamed even louder.

Bonnie straightened her body, while dropping her feet back on the carpet and opening her eyes and mouth widely.

"Wow! What did you just say, he kissed you?" Bonnie asked her friend, in shock.

"And you were not even listening to me the all time. I'm suffering here, because of this pig, and you are not even the least interested?" Caroline mumbled to her.

"Oh believe me, Care. I just got very interested all of a sudden…Tell me for God sake! How was it? Was he like Clark Gable in Gone with the wind? You remember when he kissed Scarlett, forcefully and with passion?" Bonnie asked her, while holding her laughter.

"You find this funny, don't you? My misery is now your sunshine moment of the day!" Caroline exclaimed, while pouting.

Bonnie busted into laughter, before hearing a knock on the door, and seeing Melissa enter the office, while bringing her the double espresso.

"Here's your coffee, Miss Bennett." Melissa said, while handing a cup to her.

"Thank you!" Bonnie responded, while putting a hand on her cell phone, and nodding her head toward the desk to sign her receptionist to drop the cup on the desktop.

"So, how's the life in England for your friend?" Melissa asked again.

"I'll tell you all the crisp details later." Bonnie answered her, while blinking an eye and giggling with her.

"Bonnie Bennett, I can hear you!" Caroline screamed into her phone, before adding. "Stop bringing my personal life to everyone!"

"Since when don't you want to be the focus of everybody around you?" Bonnie asked Caroline.

"Since, my personal life should stay my personal life! And I don't want you to make fun of me with strangers." Caroline explained.

"But she is barely a stranger, Care… It's Melissa, my receptionist. You've talked to her many times before." Bonnie responded, while sipping her coffee.

"I'm sorry, Bonnie." Caroline said, while closing her eyes and passing a hand through her tangled hair. "I'm just tired and confused, and away from my home." She added, with a sigh.

"Hey!" Bonnie said, while loosing her smile. "I've never heard you this stressed before, Care…Are you ok? Is it that man who's putting you in that state of mind?"

"Yes! No! Oh, I don't know…I'm just…It's just that the two last days have been hard…I did not sleep a lot…And I've started to meet people here…And, they are all nice, with the exception of that jerk….And, I don't know how I will do my job." Caroline confessed to her friend.

"I understand." Bonnie replied, while leaning her head on the back of her seat. "Could you take a day off resting, and go sightseeing?"

"I can't, because I have to put the house in order?" Caroline replied, while lowering her head and sneezing one more time.

"What house? You told me that your company would arrange to have a bedroom facility in a hotel for you?" Bonnie replied, dumfounded.

"Yes, but that jerk implied that I could not be able to live the kind of life they are living in Clovelly. And I would never give him the satisfaction of being right…So…" She started explaining, before being cut by her friend.

"You are staying in the abandoned house! Oh my God, Care! What this man did to you?" Bonnie asked, with a twinkle in her eyes.

"Nothing…He has done nothing to me! I won't back down in front of that rude man that is all!" Caroline answered her friend.

A silence filled the air for a few seconds.

"Bonnie are you still there?" Caroline asked her.

"Yes." She replied to Caroline, while flipping the pages of her date's organizer. "In ten days I could be there."

"What?" Caroline asked in surprise.

"I'll come see you in ten days!" Bonnie answered her, while smirking.

"What? Already…Oh my God! I would hug you if you were standing in front of me." Caroline exclaimed in happiness, while clapping her hands in excitement.

"I will not stand here, and miss all the actions between you and the sexy fisherman!" Bonnie responded to her friend, while giggling.

"He's barely good looking, believe me!" Caroline replied, while rolling her eyes. "If you're making this trip only to see him, you'll be disappointed."

"I know you, Caroline, you're lying!" Bonnie replied to her friend, with a smirk on her face. "You've been asking for this kind of passion since ever!"

"I've never asked to meet a rude man in my entire life! I like my men sophisticated and elegant, not smelling like fish and while wearing ripped clothes on their back." Caroline replied to her friend.

"Then why aren't you with Elijah?" Bonnie asked her, while raising one of her eyebrows.

"Because, we're on a break, Bonnie, it is as simple as that." Caroline replied to her.

"Then you won't mind us having a dinner date on Thursday night? He asked me if I received some news of you, by the way." Bonnie informed her.

"Enjoy yourself you two, and give him a kiss from me, would you Bonnie?" Caroline replied, before hanging on her.

"What is going on with her?" Bonnie asked herself, while looking at her cell phone, completely dumfounded.


Dressed with a jeans short, a pair of cowboy boots and a white t-shirt, with her hair in a pony tail and a blue scarf on her head to protect her from the dust, Caroline Forbes was coughing the several inches of dust, find all over the furniture, in the small Wilson's fisherman house. But, more stubborn than ever she had decided that she would show to Mister Klaus, who was the more stubborn of them both.

She passed the back of her hand on her forehead while feeling drops of sweat running down on her face. It was a hot summer day in Clovelly, and that fact was not helping the numerous cleaning tasks of her day.

She lowered her head while closing her eyes and sighing several times, before feeling tears filling her eyes. Caroline shook her entire body, while raising her shoulders high to get a grip on herself. Caroline Forbes was a fighter not a looser.

A knock on the entrance door made her turn her head in surprise. She reached the door, before turning the handle, and standing in front of Katherine, the young woman that she had met at the Rose Garden Pub, while noticing behind her, ten curious and smiling women.

"Good day, Miss Forbes." Katherine said, while nodding her head to Caroline, before adding. "We all came as the welcoming party. We thought you could need a hand in cleaning this house." Katherine added, while showing her the bucket and cleaning products that she was holding in her hands, before pushing her out of the way, and entering the house, with the women on her heels, under the speechless expression of Caroline.

"Good day, Miss Forbes"

"What a beautiful day, Miss Forbes."

"Well, it's certainly a lovely afternoon, my lady."

Caroline stood immobile in the entrance of the house, while watching all the ladies passing in front of her eyes, carrying their buckets and cleaning products. The last of them, more fragile than the others, handed her right hand to her.

"How do you do, my dear? I'm Rosa, Charles's wife." Rosa presented herself to Caroline.

"Hi." Caroline replied, before wiping her hands on her T-shirt and handing her right hand to her. "I'm Caroline, nice to meet you, Rosa."

"The pleasure is all mine, young lady." Rosa replied to her, while turning her head to Katherine. "Where do you need me, Katherine?"

Katherine reached Rosa's and Caroline's standing position, before sliding her right arm around her shoulders.

"What about an easy task, like the one of cleaning the wooden wardrobe, Rosa?" Katherine asked the oldest woman.

"That will be my pleasure." The lady answered Katherine, before nodding her head to Caroline and directing her unsteady walking steps toward the opening alcove of the bedroom.

Katherine turned her sight toward Caroline before murmuring:

"She is battling cancer."

"What?" Caroline said, speechless, before adding while shaking her head. "She shouldn't be here."

"She wanted to be here. The women in Clovelly are strong and combative, there is no way that Rosa could accept to be put aside of the female community." Katherine explained to Caroline. "I'm not implying in any way that you are not strong." She added, while blushing, and grabbing Caroline's left forearm.

"It's ok, I understood what you meant." Caroline said to her, with a timid smile on her face.

"Well, you certainly look different." Katherine said while crossing her arms in front of her chest and smirking.

"Oh…" Caroline said, while blushing and lowering her sight on her shorts and t-shirt. "I realized that I did not bring the right wardrobe for my three months in Clovelly, this was the only thing that I could find in my suitcases that would fit the cleaning day requirement."

"Easily fix! I'll bring you to the village store this week. A couple of jeans, t-shirts and sweaters and you'll be all set." Katherine suggested to her. "I think that you need to fit the image in the middle of the fishermen, if you want their respect."

"I don't know why you're helping me?" Caroline asked her, while shrugging her shoulders.

"Well…" Katherine started, while shrugging her shoulders herself. "It's not because we are living in a small England village, in the middle of nowhere, that we, as women, are not fighting for our feminist rights, like you are. I think you must have worked you pretty ass off to be where you are, now in your career, Caroline." Katherine explained, before adding in a murmur near Caroline's left ear, while blinking an eye at her. "Plus, we want you to win against the war you're having with Klaus."

"I don't have any war with that man!" Caroline answered her, with her cheeks turning the one hundred shades of red.

"Tell that to someone else than me. Come, we'll get going." Katherine responded to her, while smirking and elbowing Caroline on her right side. "With all of us here, the house will be liveable in no time."

"We brought you nice lace curtains to put in the window, Miss Forbes." An Irish woman, named Emma, told her, while showing Caroline the beautiful curtains in her hands.

"I brought you something also." Katherine said to Caroline, while handing a bag to her.

Caroline took the bag in her hands, before pulling from the inside an off-white, very delicate and feminine, lace blouse.

"I made it myself." Katherine said to her. "I thought that you could wear it to your welcoming party tomorrow night at the Rose Garden Pub, so I decided to offer you one of my humble creations." Katherine explained more to her, while blushing and adding. "If you have a skirt or a pair of jeans, it will look lovely with it…Take it as a housewarming gift."

"You did this?" Caroline asked, while standing amazed in front of Katherine's handmade creation.

"I know it's not what you are used to wear in New York." Katherine replied, while blushing more.

"Are you kidding? It's so beautiful, vintage, delicate, perfect…You would make a fortune if you would open a boutique in New York." Caroline replied to her.

"You really think so?" Katherine asked, in shock.

"Yes, I do, Katherine." Caroline honestly replied, before adding. "Thank you so much, for this and everything." Caroline said to her, while turning her head and looking at all the women at work in her new house. "I'll wear it proudly, but I wasn't aware of a welcoming party?"

"Well, now you are!" Katherine replied while sliding her arms around Caroline's waist and adding. "Come, sooner we start, sooner this house will be liveable!"


The unbearable sound of a fist striking repeatedly the wooden door made Caroline close her eyes and fists in anger. No need for her to wonder for a very long time who this could be. She sighed several times, while walking toward the entrance door and passing her right hand on her forehead, even with the evening breeze coming from the open windows; this day was probably one of the hottest of the all summer. She turned the handle, before closing her eyes one more time and opening the door.

"Good evening, Mister Klaus." She said, while raising her chin in the air and inviting him to enter with a hand gesture.

Klaus raised his right hand to the right corner of his mouth, before taking his cigarette and taking another puff, sliding with rude manner, his sight on her bare legs, while raising it on her shorts, upward on her t-shirt that was now glued to her body like a second skin, due to the sweating, with her breasts offered at his view.

Oh damn! She though with anger directed entirely at herself, she had totally forgotten to put a bra this morning, before noticing the unbearable smirk appearing on his face. Caroline crossed her arms in front of her chest, while keeping her sight in his before seeing him passed beside her, with his toolbox in his hands, and his left arm touching inadvertently her upper right arm and shoulder. Caroline took a few steps backward to avoid his touch, while forbidding herself to notice the hundred of shivers that had hit her all at once, at the simple contact of his skin, with the addition of the nice glow of spicy after shave smell that had made her head spin for a few seconds.

She narrowed her eyes in anger at him: not even a hello or a nod of his head to salute her. That man was a pig…But a damn sexy pig; she had no choice to admit to herself while sliding her sight on his bottom, looking at its roundness in a clean, black and tight pair of jeans, with a white, clean t-shirt, to dress his chest.

She took a few walking steps to reach his standing position in front of the sink, in the small kitchen, before taking the cigarette out from his mouth, and crashing it in an ashtray.

"If you don't mind, I would like for you to not smoke in my house!" She ordered him, while crossing her arms in front of her chest, and tilting her head, with a smirk of contentment on her lips.

He raised one of his eyebrows, before smirking himself, sliding his right hand in his jeans back pocket, reaching for his pack of cigarettes and his lighter, before lighting a new one, and taking a puff, while blinking an eye at her.

"So, Princess I gathered that you've never smoke before, am I right?" He asked her, while enjoying taking several puffs, to make her blood pressure rise even higher than what it already is.

"You're really a nuisance, Mister Klaus, you're waiting for the respect of others, but you are not willing to give yours, and for your information, I do smoke socially, sometimes." She replied, angrily, to him.

"Socially, you don't say, whatever that means, in your snobby world." He replied to her, before making round signs of smoke with his mouth, while leaning his back on the kitchen counter. "So, Princess, this is technically one of my day off, and if it was not for my boss ordering me to look at your water pipes, I would not be standing in front of you, and your wet t-shirt, while being forced to watch your lame attempt of seduction to lure me into your bed. I've told you before, I'm not interested!" He said to Caroline, while raising his toolbox on the kitchen counter, opening its cover, and searching for a hammer.

"Oh!" Caroline exclaimed, while putting her hands on each side of her waist, with anger smoke coming out of her ears. "You… You're …. You… I …. Oh!" She mumbled, almost incoherently, while pointing a finger at him.

"Ok, sweetheart, I'll lay myself on the floor, under the sink, in the kitchen cabinet, and if your pretty manicured hands would not mind holding the flashlight above my head and directing the light into the open sink, I would grandly appreciate it. Sooner I'm finish with this job, sooner I'll be out of here." He told Caroline, while handing the flashlight to her.

Caroline pulled angrily the flashlight out of his hands, before sneezing loudly.

"Oh bless you, doll, you're still have this awful cold?" He mocked her openly, before lying on the kitchen floor, and entering his head under the sink. "Light, Princess?"

Unfortunately for Caroline, there was not enough room for her to manoeuvre on neither side of the kitchen counter, she needed to straddle his lying body, and lean herself above him and the open hole of the sink, which she did reluctantly.

"Do you see where the problem is?" She yelled at him, while directing the ray of light in the hole, when suddenly feeling his hands grab both of her bare calves, slowly raising his fingers on the back of her knees, before grabbing her thighs and pulling her forcefully toward the kitchen counter, making her moan in a mix of surprise and intense physical reaction while feeling the effect of his hands on her naked skin. So this is what I would feel with his hands on my body? Caroline thought to herself, while closing her eyes for a split second, while enjoying the effect of his skin on hers.

So this is what her skin would feel under my fingers? Klaus thought to himself, before slowly raising them on her legs, while feeling the silkiness of her skin, all her nerves contracting under the ascension of his expert hands. But, what would it feel to have her naked body lying under his? He thought some more, for a split second, before shaking his head and this crazy idea away from his wild imagination. This woman was no interest to him, and it was her fault if he was sexually fantasying about her. Her damn fault and the fault of her white t-shirt!

"Stop dreaming, doll, and direct the light into my face and the pipes." He yelled, while making Caroline open her eyes and blush under his directives, before obeying his order.

"Do you see something now?" She asked him.

"Mm…Yap…I could do a repair for the time being and it would help for the few days that you will be in this house, but the pipes will need to be replaced in a near future." He yelled at her, with a mocking tone of voice.

"It is a few months!" She screamed back at him.

"I can hardly hear you, Love, what are you saying?" He replied, while holding his laughter.

"I said it will be a few months that I will need to stay in this house, not a few days, and you perfectly know it. So, stop playing me for a fool, if it needs to be replaced, I'll pay for it." She informed him.

"Well, a man can dream, can he?" He replied to her, before adding. "Could you grab a screwdriver for me, doll?"

"Ok." She answered him, while reaching for one in the toolbox, before handing it to him, and holding the light above his head, to help him work under the sink for an extra ten minutes.

"Could you open the cold faucets now, please?" He asked of her.

"Wow!" She replied to him.

"What is it now, Princess?" He asked her, while drowning his sight in Caroline's, who was bending his head in the kitchen counter hole.

"You said please, I had no idea that this word was in your vocabulary, Mister Klaus?" She replied to him, while smirking and openly mocking him.

"You know, doll, when you let go of your snobby ways, and you dress with casual clothes like today, and act with less pretentious, you can almost be tolerable." He answered her, before adding. "Now, can you open the water, for me to check if it is working?"

Caroline frowned while closing her fists in anger, what an asshole that man! She turned several times the cold faucet, while hearing the strangest shrill noise coming from the pipes.

"Is this noise normal?" She asked him, before opening her mouth in shock, while seeing a waterfall coming from the pipes, directly into Klaus's face.

"Fuck! Close the damn faucet, lady!" He screamed at her, while trying to get out of under the sink, before realizing that he was stuck with Caroline's body bending over his.

"I'm trying but the faucet seems to be stuck!" She screamed back at him, while turning the faucet in both directions of right and left, before finally being able to close it. "Ok, I got it!"

The water had started to fill the kitchen floor. She backed away from the kitchen counter, while wading in a small lake.

"Are you Ok?" She asked him, while bending her head and watching him rolling away from underneath the kitchen counter, before rising on his feet, with his clothes entirely soaked. Caroline put a hand over her mouth to hide her growing need to burst into laughter.

"Oh! You find this funny, aren't you?" He yelled at her, while getting rid of his soaked t-shirt, before standing chest naked in front of her.

"Well, Mister Klaus, there's a certain appeal in the karma effect, don't you think?" She answered him, while tilting her head to the left, and crossing her arms in front of her chest, with the biggest smirk on her face. "I can only hope that you won't catch a cold, it would be so unfortunate."

"You'll need new pipes." He mumbled angrily in his teeth, while closing his fists in anger, before gesturing a hand toward the sink.

"I've told you that I would pay for it." She answered him, while blushing and trying to not take a look at his naked tattooed chest. "I'll get you a towel to dry your…yourself." She mumbled, while blushing and taking an unsteady step into the watery floor, before loosing her balance, and falling head first, before being rescued by two strong arms that pulled her toward a muscular chest.

She closed her eyes for a split second, while grabbing Klaus's forearms, and sighing to lower the palpitations of her heart.

"I got you, shh…." He murmured to calm her down, while sliding a hand around her waist, bringing her in full contact with his bare chest, with his fingers reaching for her back skin, under her t-shirt, while gently stroking in circles her softness offered to him, his chin resting on top of her head.

Ok, breathing was not helping the accelerated beats of her heart! Caroline thought, while reopening her eyes, and staring at his chest, while slowly raising her sight to stare into his eyes. Wrong move, she instinctively thought, before swallowing a nervous lump in her throat and drowning her eyes in his, feeling both of his hands slide on her bottom, while caressing her curves before sliding his hands in her jeans shorts pockets, making her close her eyes again and moan under the closeness of this moment between them.

"You should be more careful, while swimming in murky water, Love. You never know who could catch you in his arms the next time." He murmured, his mouth touching her left ear, while slowly sliding his lips on her left cheek, without fully touching her, but with his soft breath caressing her skin, before reaching her mouth and murmuring in top of Caroline's lips. "Good night, Miss Forbes. I will order your pipes tomorrow."

A few seconds later, Caroline reopened her eyes, while hearing the sound of the front door being closed, before standing alone in the middle of her watery kitchen floor.

Once again that man had taken a pleasure at playing her for a fool! But now, she could taste a sour taste in her mouth, and it was called: REVENGE!


Thanks for reading this chapter my dear readers. This story is my feel good moment of the week, when I start writing it; I have the biggest smile on my face. I hope I am able to give you a moment of pure fun and pleasure, while reading it also.
Lovely Vero.

Answer to guests reviews: I always respond by PM's to the reviews to all the members of this site, but with this story I've started to answer to guests this way, because you are EQUALLY important to me.

Ilovetvd: OMG you made me laugh! I swear the: Barbaric piggy Klaus put the biggest smile on my face. As for your other requests….Patience my dear, patience…It is coming soon. Thanks so much!

KxC: She will fight back!But it will always be one score for me, one score for you … lol …Because they are both stubborn and they are both fighters. Thanks so much for your nice review!

Justine: The passionate and erotic kiss….Blushing…Cough-cough…Thanks so much … lol … I try as much as possible to put by writing he intensity of the scene that I see in my head…Not always easy, but I managed. Merci ma chère Justine!

KC: I know that no one would predict that kiss so soon…I wanted to go into a completely different direction that I usually take. And after all it was more a kiss of power: Let me prove this to you, than anything else for now. Ha ha ha … Poor your brother, he must had been wondering what was happening to you. And I love you too sweetie.

Brazilian girl: I love Klaus this way too … Though he is not mean, far from it! He just wants to protect the village and the people who are living there, he just doing it in a rude way … lol …. Thanks sweetie!

Nicole: I told you that you would… lol …. Thanks a lot!

El: Thanks for the review sweetie, and of course I brought Katherine, she is one of my favourite characters in TVD…And now you need to guess who's coming in a short while? LOL