Klaus and I mounted the Hotel steps and were met by a very dapper man dressed in what seemed to be a dated Butler's outfit.

"Ah, welcome to The Secret Garden; it is a pleasure to have your custom. May I please have your reservation name?" A huge smile decorated his face whilst he spoke.

"Our reservation is under the name of Mikaelson." Klaus spoke curtly, obviously desiring some alone time for us once again.

"Mr Mikaelson, I see this is not your first visit here; will you be requiring the same spot?"

He'd been here before! Rage bubbled up inside me! He'd brought a previous date to this very location before me, and there was me thinking that he'd chosen this place especially for me! Well, apparently not; I was annoyed to discover that he was one of those guys that reused previous date locations. Hell, he probably called many other girls 'love' in his lifetime too! I had to admit; even though I had no interest in the guy it hurt to think that he had addressed some other girl the same way as me. Rude, that's exactly what it was!

"No thank you, my date and I will be requiring a much more special location." He smirked and cocked an eyebrow at me.

Hm. If he thought he could win me over with his stupid smile then he was wrong. This had turned into the worst fake date I had ever been on.

The Butler led us to a table tucked behind the courtyard; - a secluded table like this must be costing Klaus a fortune. More fool him. He pulled out my chair for me; something that I would have considered as a lovely romantic gesture if I had been interested.

I sat down and responded curtly: "Thank you".

Klaus took his seat opposite me; we sat in silence for a while until he finally spoke.

"Carolyn love, what's the matter? Your mood seems to have rapidly declined in the past few minutes?" He looked at me with genuine concern in his eyes; whoa, an emotion I never expected the Original Hybrid to express.

I looked at him with an un-impressed expression and spoke only two words: "Re-used location." With that I then looked away, my face portraying nothing.

Klaus stared at me for a while, his face showing confusion; I could almost see the thought process occurring in his head. Eventually his eyes lit up and the twinkle returned to his smile.

"Aw, Caroline you think I've brought a date here before don't you?" He was smirking and it made me just want to hit him.

"Don't play with me Klaus, I can tell that you have; especially after what that man said about you having been here before. God, I don't know why I thought that you were something other than a murderous, British playboy!"

"Now, now love; those are some pretty harsh words for you to be throwing around when you don't even have the full story." Klaus raised an eyebrow at me, indicating that he was willing to fill me in on the whole story if I wanted.

"Urgh, go on then, you may as well tell me." I still wasn't happy with him, but I was interested by the tale that he was apparently going to tell. I tried not to show him that; I didn't want him to think that I had any interest in his previous conquests…

"Well, there's not much to tell to be honest!" Klaus, honest? Yeah right…

"Basically love, I always bring Rebecca here once she has had a particularly bad break up; we drink expensive wine, eat as many chocolate desserts as we can manage, then go and find some rich person's blood to drink. "He stared at me sincerely.

"Oh" I was taken aback by his explanation; speaking about how he comforted his sister made him sound almost… human? It really did seem that he was full of surprises.

"You know Caroline; I love the fact that you got all jealous thinking that I had brought previous girls here before. I want you to know that obviously I have had other girls; hell I am 1000 years old and a man has needs! But you love, are the most intriguing and exquisite being that I have ever met. You're so full of light, strength and hope. My darkness is drawn to your light so powerfully that I just cannot resist you. You're magic; this connection between us is magic." Klaus looked at me, I felt like his eyes were seeing right into my soul; I felt like every word he had just spoken was the truth, and I felt like I agreed with him. No, no… I shook myself from my line of thought and remembered: This was Klaus, a liar, a manipulator, and unforgiving killer; there was nothing between us, nothing at all.

Not knowing how to respond, I chose to say nothing…

"SO, now that I have just poured my heart out to you, how do you feel about ordering some food?" Klaus threw yet another wink in my direction.

"Um, okay?" I responded, acting like the shocked, flattered date that I was pretending to be.

We ordered and our starters arrived, then the main course and then the dessert. – It felt like time had passed so quickly; Klaus and I chattered away just like any other couple would. We learnt about each other's strengths and weaknesses, our favorite things, colors and foods. In one night I felt I knew so much more about Klaus than I had ever known about Tyler. Klaus yearned to be a human; something which no other knew, during his life as a human he always dreamt of having a family and children and going to work each day to provide for them. He told me that no matter how harsh he was and how much power he required as a vampire, that it was all for a reason; whether that be to protect his family or friends (not that I knew he had any friends?!) I began to understand that Klaus really wanted Elena's blood to create some Hybrid companions, not an army; some loyal companions who he knew would never leave him like others had before - Like his father who had turned on him and hunted down himself and his family with the intention of killing them.

I felt like I knew too much about Klaus Mikaelson. More than I should know…

We had finished our meal and he was mid-way through telling me another story.

I stood up abruptly.

"Klaus I can't do this; I'm so sorry, truly I'm sorry…" my voice broke as I saw his facial expression before me, it was one of a man who knew he had been defeated.

I couldn't look at him one second longer, I ran as fast as I could away from the table, away from him and found myself back at the car park. I breathed in and out steadily trying to calm myself. Tonight was just meant to be a fake date, I was just meant to be a distraction; yet I felt myself drawn in by Klaus, yearning to know more and more about him. Why, did I want this? Surely he was still the enemy? Conveniently my phone began to ring. The display read: 'Damon'.

I picked up:

"Hey, what's up?" I knew my voice sounded slightly shaky.

"Hey Blondie, just rang to say that I haven't been able to get into Klaus's tonight, the original freak show turned up so I couldn't snoop around. Man, it was painful I even had to talk to that crazy bitch Rebecca." He sounded so bored I was furious.

"SO you mean this stupid night was all for nothing! You mean I have to do it all over again just so you can get into the mansion and get something that you won't even tell me about! Oh and for the record Damon, you had sex with that 'crazy bitch' so don't be such an a-hole about her!" My words all came out in a jumble so I'm pretty sure he understood my current predicament.

"Whoa, Barbie, Klaus must really be laying it on thick tonight eh? Well, I apologize; but I really do need to get in there and you are my best chance." I could almost see the pleading expression that must have been on his face. Also, he did say please which only happened on rare occasions with Damon.

"Fine; I'm pretty sure that I can tempt him to go out with me again…" I sighed a sigh full of defeat and hung up.

Damn, he totally owed me.

I adjusted my dress and hair and got prepared for the whole lot of groveling I was going to have to do.

Okay, Mr. Evil Original Hybrid, it's time for me to seduce you into another date after totally ruining this one…

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