Oh mi GOD! This took me FOREVER! I'm so sorry! I hate myself! Please dont hate me too much...

"What was that?"

Caroline jumped in her place and turned to Kol, releasing her breath. "Kol," she addressed. "What do you want?"

"What was that?" he repeated, changing the way he said it.

Caroline frowned at him. "What was what?"

"In there, you and Nik shared a look," he explained.

Caroline looked away from him at the path in front of her. "Yeah, people tend to make eye contact a lot," she replied, avoiding the actual answer.

Kol shook his head and pointed back at the house. "No," he dragged. "That wasn't any old look. That look said you guys did something. Something you're not proud of," he accused, pointing to her instead.

Caroline narrowed her eyes at him. "Nothing happ –" her words died out in her throat. She groaned in annoyance as Kol started smiling at her.

"You guys did something!" he exclaimed, even though he had known before. "What? Come on, spill," he instructed, putting his hand away into his pocket.

Caroline shook her head. "I'm not telling y–" she tried, but again, the words stopped.

Kol raised his eyebrows. "Oh," he said in a realizing voice. "Looks like you will be telling me." He smirked at her and waited.

Caroline pursed her lips at him. She held his eye contact for a while, but then looked ahead of her and shook her head. "Nope," she concluded. "No," she said again, starting to walk down the sidewalk again.

"Oh come on," Kol pleaded, following her. "What happened? Did you kiss? Hmm?" Caroline shook her head, and he surprisingly believed her unspoken answer. "Did he…paint you a…closet?" he asked, having trouble coming up with words that made sense.

Caroline frowned and looked at Kol like he was an idiot. "A closet? 'Did he paint me a closet'?" she repeated. "You're cra– Dammit!" she growled, not being able to finish the insult. She turned and carried on walking.

"Did he confess something?" he tried.

Caroline bit the inside of her cheek. "Yes," she mumbled.

She could practically hear his smirk of pride for having gotten a clue. "What did he confess?"

"Nothing that concerns you," she retorted, feeling relieved when she saw her house at the end of the block. "I don't see why you care so much, it's not like what happened is going to affect yo– …What? How does that affect him?" she hissed at nothing. Well, at Bonnie, I guess.

"Hmm, that's a tough one. How about you tell me and we can problem solve together!" he said in a fake enthusiastic voice.

Caroline growled. He wasn't going to let up. "Fine, Kol. He said he loved me, happy?" she demanded.

Kol scoffed. "That's it? He just said he loved you?" he mumbled like that was the most boring gossip he'd ever heard.

"That was the gist of it all," she said, turning the sidewalk corner to walk up her driveway, Kol continuing to follow in her steps. "And what do you mean 'That's it'? That's a pretty big IT."

Kol ignored her last question. "So, how does that affect me?" he asked, even though he had said he would help answer it.

"I don't know! Ask Bonnie, she's the one that did this," Caroline retorted angrily.

Kol stepped in front of Caroline, reaching for the door handle. "Well, start talking. Whatever you say is the truth, so play with your words." He opened the door and waited for Caroline to step in before walking in himself and shutting the door.

Caroline took off her coat and turned to Kol, messing with the collar of her jacket. "What do you want?" she asked in a tired voice.

Kol put his hands in his pockets. "Whatever do you mean?"

"You're talking to me," she stated.

Kol chuckled. "Very good observation," he complimented.

"Why?" she finished. "A few days ago, I hated you."

Kol raised his eyebrows. "You don't anymore?"

Caroline thought about her answer for a few seconds. "No. I don't. I don't like you, but I no longer hate you…"

Kol held his hand out to the living room. "Shall we sit for this?"

Caroline frowned. "For what?" she asked.

Kol started unbuttoning his own coat, walking around her and towards the couch. "Well, I have explaining to do, do I not?"

Caroline breathed through her slight annoyance with him and followed him towards the living room. "Yes. Now start," she instructed, folding her jacket over the back of one of the chairs and sitting down on the arm rest of the couch, pulling her feet up to rest on the cushion. Kol sat at her feet, not caring about being too close.

"Alright, Carolly," he sighed, getting comfortable and propping both of his elbows up on the back of the couch. "I'm talking to you because I want to be friends," he confessed.

Caroline laughed. "What?" she asked, stilling chuckling.

"Klaus plans on being with you, and if you're going to be part of the family then I–"

"Whoa!" Caroline stopped him. "What the hell are you on?" she asked, getting a blank look from Kol that said 'that hurt.' "I am not part of your family," she made sure he was aware.

"Yet," Kol corrected.

Caroline stared at him wide eyed. "No!" she yelled. "What the hell are you implying?" she demanded.

Kol turned himself around on the couch and rested his head on the armrest Caroline wasn't sitting on. He folded his feet over hers and his hands behind his back, all while saying, "I'm implying that you and Klaus are going to get together and live happily ever after. And because you're going to be together, you will become the first wife of the Vampire-Generation of Mikaelson's," he summed up.

Caroline continued to stare at him, not believing he could be crazy enough to say that. She slowly started shaking her head, looking like a stunned bobble-head.

Kol shrugged. "Tell me I'm wrong," he insisted.

Caroline leaned over her knees, getting a little more 'in his face.' "You're…" she stopped in her sentence. She didn't want to finish it. If he was right (which she knew he wasn't) she didn't want to know. So instead she pulled out her phone and opened up a new text. She typed the words 'You're wrong' into the blank page and tossed it to Kol, which he caught and stared at her as he turned the screen towards his face.

He took a single second to read it, then gave her a sarcastic 'really?' look. "You really think I don't know how a Truth spell works?"

Caroline was getting mad. "Kol, shut up!" she demanded. Her eyes closed as she took a deep breath.

Kol stared at her, fascinated by her actions. He crossed his arms and observed as she calmed herself.

Caroline took a deep breath. "Klaus and I, will not be toge–"

Kol raised his eyebrows as she couldn't finish the lie. Caroline kept her eyes closed, but her face clearly said she was heading for some kind of emotional rollercoaster. "Whoa," Kol said in hopes of calming her. "Do not start crying. We don't need another crying/bonding/silence thing," he reminisced, sitting up again.

Caroline shook her head and stood up from the couch. Her hands ran through her hair. "I can't take this right now. I want to know what's going to happen. Because it's most likely going to be bazar. Like, we'll fall in love within the year." She was pacing now, her emotions going haywire. She was chuckling one second, then biting her nails the next. "Within the year, fantastic. Within a wee– ok, more than a week. Good. But knowing the craziness of my life, it's gonna be eight da– " she laughed. "Ok, more than just eight days, good."

Kol lay back down as he watched her carefully. As she rambled on, he thought of something. He looked down at the phone she had tossed at him and raised an eyebrow.

"So, what then? Like, this month? Yes, the end of this month until we're in love," she discovered. "Klaus and I…a month. By the first of the next month, we'll be in love. And today would be…" she looked up at the clock on the mantle of their fireplace. "The twentieth," she laughed like a crazy woman. "Oh, God. Within the next eleven days, I'm going to fall for him." She was truly panicking now. She rubbed her forehead, bit her lips, ran her hands through her hair, and stared at nothing. "Tyler and I are basically over, anyway. It isn't official, but we're not recovering anytime soon…So what's going to happen? Klaus is going to woo me. Typical… But in ten damn days? Best of luck to him…but he doesn't exactly need it. The date is set, it's going to happen. How? I'm not easy persuaded. He's gonna have to do something fairly impressive. What? He'll find Ja– Ok, no, he won't. He'll fight J– He'll do something to Jade. So Jade is involved with this somehow. Klaus will…he'll, like, be the hero." Caroline was no longer facing Kol, she had her face in her hands with her back to him, thinking. "Klaus will defeat Jade. He'll kill him," Caroline revealed.

Kol raised his eyebrows in surprise and interest. He still relaxed on the sofa, but his hand held the cellphone.

"Well," a scratchy voice came out of the phone. "At least there won't be any surprises."

Caroline whirled around and saw Kol was smiling proudly at her with the phone outstretched in his hand, waiting for her to snatch it away. She took Kol's hand and turned it so she could look at the screen. Klaus was on the other end. He had heard the entire thing. Caroline stared at Kol in disbelief at first, then her senses got the best of her and she snatched the phone from him, bringing it up to her ear as she rushed out of the room and out of the glass door in the kitchen. She stopped when she was finally on the patio and took a deep breath. She was well aware that Kol could hear everything that she said, and she didn't care. She just needed to be alone…with Klaus. "Klaus," she began, pacing, "I don't know most of what the hell is going to happen," she said determinedly. She decided to stop, seeing as she was getting lightheaded from freaking out, pulling at her hair, walking in circles, and trying to understand everything. She looked out over the railing of the deck and took a deep breath, gazing out at the silent trees. "But you need to know that right now, this exact moment…I hate you," she sneered.

Klaus didn't respond at first. He knew a speech was coming behind those three words, and he didn't dare try to interrupt her. This wasn't news to him. He knew how she felt about him; he just needed to wait for her to realize she was wrong.

"I hate every fiber of your being. The thought of you disgusts me," she hissed, an incredible amount of emotion behind her words. "Yes, there are times that I have just a spark of feeling for you, but just six minutes ago, they were going nowhere!"

"Six minutes ago is gone now. Things have changed," he tried telling her, but she just shook her head.

"No. Nothing changed. Everything was set. It's been set my entire life. This was coming. And it is coming…" she trailed off into thought.

"So what's the problem, love?" he tried.

"The problem," she snarled, anger heating up inside of her, "is that you're the most disturbing man I have ever met. And right now, I should be with Tyl–" The lie cut off in her throat, yes, but Klaus spoke before her silence became noticeable.

"Tyler? The man that broke you down and tore your heart into bits. You'd rather be with him than a man that could give you the world?" he tested.

Caroline felt tears forming in her eyes out of anger, confusion, and realization. "Yes. I would. Because no matter what Tyler and I went through, I could always sleep well at night knowing he would never become a monster!" she hissed, a tear falling from her eye. "That is something I will never be certain of with you." She tore the phone from her ear and slammed her thumb on the end button before just dropping her phone onto the wood below her feet.

Despise the strength she was feeling, and the hatred she was radiating, and the lividness of her mind, she couldn't control the hot tears from falling down her burning cheeks. She didn't let into the tears, just accepted them. She was shaking with anger, digging her fingernails into her palms. It wasn't fair. She didn't want to be with Klaus. She felt as if he had set her entire future up without her knowing. She hated Bonnie so much, it was making her sick.

Caroline heard footsteps approach the door she had slammed shut moments ago. The click of the door told her Kol was opening the door, probably intending to come out and "talk about what had just happened," as if he could make it any better.

"You did this," Caroline accused, glaring at a still tree that had done nothing.

"Yes," a deep voice replied, not the voice of Kol. Caroline spun around in surprise and backed up into the railing of the porch as her eyes landed on Jay, standing tall and bold in the doorway. "I did."

"How the hell did you get in my house?" Caroline demanded.

"I had help," he said simply, shrugging.

Caroline hastily brought her hand up and rubbed the tears from her face. Normally she would be embarrassed, but considering he shouldn't even know where she lived, she was able to put her embarrassment behind her.

"Why are you here?" she questioned, her cheeks still burning.

"I'm here to help you. You're a special case, Caroline," he said. There was a slight new accent to his voice. Like Elijah's – where it sounded English, but clearly American. "I only possessed you once, and even then, you were saved by Nik," he explained. He sounded disgusted, like he had been really mad with Klaus keeping her quiet during her possession.

Caroline frowned for a moment, then came to realization in seconds. "You're Jade," she concluded.

He chuckled. "That took you way too long."

It had. Caroline mentally kicked herself for not realizing that right off the bat when Rebekah was describing him. And for not immediately catching the resemblance in names. Jay – Jade. God, that was a stretch!

"So what then?" Caroline snapped. "You came here to recruit me?"

"Uh…" Jade looked around like she had said something obvious. "Duh?" Caroline began to scoff at him, but he continued over her negative noises. "But you don't know what I have to offer yet," he persuaded.

"Nothing I want to be a part of," Caroline retorted.

"You don't have to be a part of anything, love," he said, making her flinch because it reminded her of Klaus. "You just have to accept, and receive."

Caroline narrowed her eyes at him. "What are you talking about? Receive what?"

There was a giant smile upon Jade's face. "Anything you want," he answered vaguely. "Just ask, and I shall deliver."

"You can't give me anything I want," Caroline sneered, wishing there was a way he could.

Jade took a step out of the house and held his hand up, resting it against his torso, making it easier for him to make hand gestures. "Yes, darling, I can. Just believe me, and you could have the world." Caroline felt another pang. Klaus had told her only moments ago that he would give her the world, and here was his fifth brother, offering the same thing. "The world and more," Jade added.

"How could you possibly give me more?" Caroline sassed.

Jade watched her for a moment, giving her the look that let her know he was about to win the entire argument. "I bet you wish you could change your destiny. And your past." Caroline's attitude turned around at those simple sentences. "Change the way things happened. Rid the truth spell…stop Tyler from sleeping with your best friend…"

Caroline's mouth had opened very slightly. "You can do that?" she whispered.

Jade smirked. "Yes, yes I can."

Caroline stared at him for the longest time, thinking about what she could do with those kinds of options. But she shook her head, she couldn't do anything. Things happen for a reason. "No," she said, continuing to shake her head. She started walking towards him, heading for the house again. Jade stepped sideways, allowing her through. "No, I can't," she added as she passed him. She entered the kitchen and was met with the smell of fresh blood. She stopped in her tracks, just then realizing how hungry she was. "What did you do?" she asked, referring to the blood smell.

Jade came in right behind her. "Nothing much. Killed Kol, but that was about it."

Caroline spun around and stared up at Jade with wide eyes. "You killed him?" she demanded in a loud voice.

Jade frowned at her. "Relax," he dragged, stepping aside her and leading her into the living room. "I did it with plain wood. He's fine."

Caroline looked around Jade at the couch, which Kol was sitting on. He had his elbows up on the back of the couch and his head had fallen back, making him look like he had simply fallen asleep. "Why?" she whispered. If Jade had been able to kill Kol while sneaking up on him, he had to be both fast and silent.

"Couldn't afford him seeing me, now could I?" Jade questioned. No, no he couldn't. He walked around the couch and stared down at his former friend. "He'll probably be up in…four minutes?" he estimated. "Plenty of time."

Caroline looked at Jade in fear as he peered down at the dead Original. "Time for what?" she asked carefully.

Jade smiled and looked from Kol's corpse to her face. "To make you one of my own."

Caroline faintly shook her head. "You ca–" she tried to tell him.

Jade chuckled. "Yeah, I can. Because that's what they all say: They're too strong to be persuaded by me. But I always win," he informed her.

"Is that why you ended up at the bottom of the ocean?" she questioned. She raised an eyebrow, trying him. "Because you were winning?"

The laughter seemed to just remain on his face. He wasn't affected at all by what she'd said. "Oh!" he exclaimed. "You're a feisty one!"

Caroline was intimidated. If there was ever a vampire that truly didn't have feelings, this was him. The Originals were said to not care about anything but themselves, but this man acted as if there was nothing he even noticed. He didn't react the way most people would to regular things. He played everything like it was a joke. And right now, he was playing her.

"But really though, Caroline," he said, forcing himself to stop smiling. "I can give you anything you want." He waved his hand around to indicate 'anything.'

Caroline crossed her arms uncomfortably under his gaze. "There's nothing I wan–"

He raised his eyebrows. "Oh really?" he checked in a trying tone.

Suddenly he reached down and tilted Kol's head to the side, revealing two puncture holes in his neck. "You drank from him?" Caroline asked in disgust. Never had she heard of drinking form an Original. She'd only done it once, and that was when Klaus was letting her. Other than that…that was a huge risk to take their blood.

"How else do you expect me to contain my power?" he asked.

Caroline looked from the alluring holes in Kol's neck to Jade's smirking face. "You get power?"

"From their blood, yes." Jade took one finger and wiped some of the blood off of Kol's neck. It was still warm and the smell was about to make Caroline go insane. Jade knew what he was doing as he walked back to Caroline and held his finger out for her, teasing her with the newly found blood.

Caroline shook her head. "No," she exhaled, getting excited as the incredibly hot man was within six inches of her with blood dripping from his finger.

"I dare you," he mumbled, reminding her of Klaus once more. He was definitively like all of the brothers. Elijah's originality, Kol's whit, Klaus' words, Finn's composure. But he was his own person in that he was taunting Caroline to give into him.

Caroline stared at the red liquid just waiting for her to take. Her heart raced, her teeth extended, and she could feel the tingling under her eyes of the now visible veins. "Take it," he urged her in a deep, taunting voice. Caroline didn't reply to him, she just watched the blood. She wanted it, but she hated it. She hated wanting it. And somehow, it was like Jade knew. "You don't want to," he concluded. "Because you hate yourself for needing it." He dropped his hand to his side and Caroline snapped out of the trance it had put on her.

"Yeah, so?" she asked in a faint voice. "I suppose you're going to tell me you can something about that, too."

Jade stared into her eyes, giving her the answer. At that look, Caroline's hopes about flew through the roof. "Oh mi God. You can," she whispered desperately.

Jade smirked. "Join me, Caroline. I can give you everything you want. All you would have to do is live in my headquarters, and help me."

"Live with you?" she checked.

"All my soldiers live there," he said, indicating there were more. "I own a mansion, Caroline. And I'm quite good at magic, so I can alter the house to anyone's liking without lifting a finger."

Caroline stared up at him, her mind racing with thoughts, truly considering. "What would I have to do?"

Jade inhaled, thinking. "I suppose they could be considered chores. I'll ask you to do something and you must do it. Simple as that." He took a step towards her. "Everything you want…and more, for a small price to pay." He could tell just by looking at her that she was having second thoughts about everything. He almost had her around his finger. One more step and she would be his. "Well, Caroline Forbes?" he asked, having to use her entire name. Caroline had so many ideas in her mind, and she couldn't focus on an answer. "What do you say?"

Caroline's mind suddenly stopped, and she knew the answer.

Klaus halted in his steps as he came to the porch of Caroline's house. Something wasn't right. He had come there to speak with her after she'd ranted on him over the phone. He couldn't let her stay so upset at him. He was there to fix things between them. But the smell of blood stopped him. It was fresh. But that wasn't the only smell. There was another. It was so familiar Klaus knew exactly what it was. Jade was there. But Klaus couldn't just burst inside of the house, just in case he needed to sneak up without Jade knowing. So, instead, he walked around the house to the kitchen door. Looking through the glass, he saw Jade standing before Caroline, his hand over her eyes. Never had Klaus watched what Jade did exactly, but it wasn't hard to guess.

Klaus quickly scrambled to find the door handle and threw himself into the house, intending to rush to the couple, intending to tear Jade's neck out. But the second he was in the house, Jade casually looked up with the deadliest smile on his face Klaus had ever seen. He looked like the devil himself. Looking back to Caroline, Jade pulled his hand away from her eyes in a fist, like he was catching something. And he had. The second his hand had left her eyes, a pale, green light had followed, streaming from his fingers to her eyes. When his hand closed into the fist, the light ended, and Caroline began crumbling to the floor, Jade stepping back to leave. Save Caroline, or catch Jade. There wasn't even a decision to be made.

Klaus rushed to the ground, catching Caroline in his arms as Jade's eyes flashed gray and he turned. He was gone in a split second, leaving Klaus to hope and pray that Caroline was still with him. Her back was to him, her face facing the ground. She was completely motionless. He rolled her over in his arms and held her head up so he could examine her face. Looking at her slightly agape mouth and new eyes, he was flooded with hundreds of memories he had long forgotten about. Caroline's eyes were gray. She looked like a blind woman. Klaus remembered that was one of the things Jade did, take the color of their eyes. But it wasn't just the color, it was her mind. Right now, he wasn't holding Caroline – just her body. Jade had caught her mind and soul in his hand and had simply carried it out the door. Sooner or later, Caroline's body would be possessed by Jade and he would have her up and on her feet, controlling her every move while her mind was stored somewhere.

Klaus cursed himself and Jade. How could he have forgotten such an important detail of Jade's wicket plans? He had just allowed him to steal his beloved right in front of him.

Klaus slowly stood up and picked Caroline's limp body up into his arms. He glanced at his brother shortly as he turned to take Caroline to her room, where her body could lay until further possessions.

He looked down at her open, blank eyes. He felt like he had just allowed her to die before him. Reaching down, Klaus closed her eyes gently, making sure not to press on her at all. "I'm sorry, darling," he whispered to her, although he knew she couldn't hear him. "I'm sorry."

This had happened before, yes, but the people Jade stole never returned. They killed Jade before they ever figured out how to return the vampires to their bodies. But this time, he needed to get her back. He would torture Jade until he knew how. And then he would kill him.

No one, ever, would harm Caroline again…not with Klaus around.