Hello, my lovely readers. We finally get to see Klaroline interacting again! Do a backflip! On with the show…
Chapter 6: You're Safe
Watching Klaus struggling to get up, Caroline placed a hand on his shoulder. She wondered if he had been in that wall the entire time. If only she had stayed a little longer. More guilt piled on top of the already insurmountable amount she carried with her. No, she would not let Klaus go after Marcel. Not in this condition. She already lost too much. She couldn't lose him now that she had just found him.
"Caroline, love, this is not the time to stop me," Klaus growled, his eyes pinning her with barely contained rage.
"Klaus, you can't fight Marcel. You're in no condition to win," Caroline argued placing her hands on her hips and glowering at him.
Klaus let out a mirthless chuckle. "If I had known that all it would take to get you down here was being locked away, I would have allowed myself to be locked up long ago," he murmured with a smirk.
"Klaus, this is not the time to be all flirty. We need…" Caroline trailed off, not knowing where she was going with this.
Bonnie jumped in. "We need to get out of here before the 'king' and that crazy vampire get back here," she told them, eyeing the door as if she expected someone to enter at any moment.
"Yes. Why don't we leave this place? And, of course, the giant hole in the wall, where I was being kept will not raise any suspicions, now, will it?" Klaus seemed amused as he eyed Bonnie. "And what is it that is different about you, Bonnie Bennett? You smell oddly familiar and not so."
"She's taken up Raina Cruz's old line of work," Caroline said, absently. She examined the big pile of bricks. They would need to get rid of those and replace the wall. Quickly. But how? Then it occurred to her. "I'm going to make a quick call. Please. Try to not kill each other while I'm gone," she begged the two mortal enemies.
Klaus sighed. "If you insist, sweetheart."
"No promises," Bonnie replied, crossing her arms and glaring at Klaus.
Sighing heavily, Caroline walked into the hallway and peered over the balcony. So far, the coast was clear. She pulled out her phone and dialed a now familiar number. "Hi, what are you up to right now?" she asked the person who picked up.
"Just tending my garden," Hayley replied. "What's up?"
"I found someone you might want to see," Caroline informed the hybrid who inhaled quickly.
"Okay. I'll be right there," Hayley said.
"Wait. Don't hang up. I also need a big favor," Caroline said quickly. They spoke for several minutes before Caroline pocketed her phone and then returned to Klaus' bedroom. He had gotten to his feet and begun to pace.
"How is Hope?" Klaus demanded, taking a seat on his desk.
Caroline sucked in a breath. "You can ask her yourself soon," she told him brightly.
Klaus nodded. "Yes, I surmised as much from your chat with the Little Wolf. Well, we should begin cleaning this mess up." He waved a hand at the bricks.
Caroline stared at him. "If you think for one second that I'm leaving this room to find a broom or something so that you can whoosh off somewhere, think again, mister!" she waved a finger at him, causing Klaus to chuckle.
"You have not changed a bit, Caroline," Klaus commented. She looked away. "Perhaps you have. But not at the core. You are still the woman I always believed you would become. The one I dreamt of while I was in that wall."
"You guys want me to give you some privacy?" Bonnie asked, her face scrunching up with discomfort.
Holding up a hand, Caroline shook her head. "No. We're fine."
"Yes, we would like moment alone. Perhaps you could go through the secret passageways and meet Hayley when she arrives," Klaus suggested.
"Or she could stay here," Caroline snapped, glaring at Klaus.
Bonnie looked at the two of them. "Or option C: I go down the hall and wait for you to get done with," she waved a hand, "whatever this is."
"That suits me. Caroline?" Klaus looked to Caroline who shook her head and then nodded.
"Fine. Just be careful. Who knows whose running around here," Caroline watched Bonnie leave the room before turning back to Klaus. "So… I would ask how you've been, but that's kind of obvious…" She trailed off, not knowing what else to say. This felt awkward since the last time they were this close, she ended up against the tree with the two of them mating like it was the end of the world.
"I've been wonderful. Nothing like a soothing three years of excruciating torment to put a man in a better mood," Klaus replied, clapping his hands together and standing up.
Caroline tensed, watching him moving toward her. His movements weren't as limited as they had been mere minutes before. Damn his being The Original Hybrid. If it came to a fight, to keep him in here, she would end up in a heap, with her neck broken. This was not fair. "Klaus, you're not going to make this easy on me, are you?" she asked him.
Grinning, Klaus stopped in front of her, smoothing her hair behind her ear. "Oh, Caroline, do you really want me to make anything easier on you?" he inquired and she felt her heart beginning to race. She saw images of him, pressing her into that tree, his lips urgently finding hers, her hands on his pants, yanking them downward and then sweet bliss. His eyes lit up and she could tell he knew what she was thinking.
"Don't. Klaus. Just don't try anything. I'm not here for that," Caroline pointed downward and Klaus' eyebrows rose.
"Now, I don't recall accusing you of having such wanton thoughts of lust when we are in the middle of such a horrific battle." Klaus's lips twisted into the same smile that he wore when he kissed her for the first time. "But, if you are thinking what I suspect you are thinking, I cannot say I would be against it. After all, I've been in a spot of pain and could use someone to act as the balm to soothe me."
Caroline felt her breathing coming out in little gasps as he leaned closer to her. She backed up, until her back hit a wall and still he moved forward, caging her in with his arms, watching her intently like the predator he was. "Klaus," she breathed. "We can't. We have to go."
"Just a little taste," Klaus whispered, sliding his hand down her side and to her hip, pulling her to him. She let out a cry when he yanked her up the wall. "I promise, I'll be quick, love." Caroline intended on arguing with him when he yanked her top off, tossing it to the floor. Thank God he didn't tear it, like the last time, because she hadn't brought another one with her.
"Caroline," he sighed, his lips finding hers and Caroline moaned into his mouth while she reached for his pants. "Oh, my sweet, Caroline," he sighed and then he dropped her to her feet.
"Sorry. I think we have company," Bonnie said, averting her gaze from them.
Klaus' eyes narrowed before leaning down and handing Caroline her top.
Bonnie and Caroline walked to the balcony with Klaus behind them.
"Bloody Strix," Klaus hissed, glaring down at the besuited male vampires. "Why did I not kill them when I had the chance," he seemed to be talking to himself when he re-entered his bedroom and took a seat on his bed.
"Who are the Strix?" Bonnie asked Klaus, leaning against the doorframe while Caroline chose to lean against his desk.
"They are an inane group of elitist vampires that bloody Elijah formed years ago to deal with threats such as our father. Foolishly, I did not kill them when they arrived here three years ago. Needless to say, I have since seen the error is my ways," Klaus told them. "Well, it's never too late to correct a mistake. Now is it?" He grinned, walking toward the doorway.
"Stop, Klaus!" Caroline ordered him. "You can't just go out there. If they see you and one of them escapes, they'll go running straight to Marcel."
Pivoting on his heel, Klaus laced his fingers behind his back, walking back toward her and stopping when there were two inches between them. "Yes, you are right, love. Then we will have to make sure that none of them survive. Shall we?" he held out a hand to Caroline. She looked to Bonnie. Her former friend shrugged.
"If you're ready for this, so am I," Bonnie told them with a bitter smile. "At least I can now fight as well as you two can."
"Yeah," Caroline nodded. She hated this and hoped that Hayley did not appear in the middle of the fight. Or, worse yet, that Marcel and Aurora arrived.
Bonnie went downstairs. "Hey, guys, you know, I was looking for someone to show me where I can find a bunch of Elijah Mikaelson wannabes, you wouldn't know where that would be, would you?"
Klaus grinned as he looked at Caroline. She felt herself smiling as her eyes changed color. They stood on the balcony, waiting for the fight to begin. "Marcel told us he had guests and to not kill you. He didn't say we couldn't warm you up so that you'd talk," Wannabe Number One warned Bonnie before launching himself at her. That was all it took for the other four to move in.
Leaping off the balcony, Caroline fell on Wannabe Number Three's back while Klaus dropped between Four and Five, ripping out their hearts before they knew he was there. Bonnie kicked and punched at her vampire foe. Her last kick landed under his jaw, sending him flying backward. "Klaus?" the vampire cried while Klaus grinned before slamming his foot down the vampire's throat, severing his head from his body.
"Klaus!" Caroline yelled from her position under the vampire she had attacked. She hadn't anticipated how much stronger he would be. Grabbing his wrist, she broke it while he tried to rip her head off, his fingers entangled in her hair. "Klaus," she cried again, when she saw him standing over her with the vampire's bloody heart in his hand. He offered the clean one, dropping the heart to the courtyard's cement.
"That was… a rush," Bonnie told them, coming over to stand with them while Klaus yanked Caroline to her feet.
"Who the bloody hell let him out?" someone cried and Caroline's eyes widened to see twenty more suit wearing and non suit wearing vampires surrounding them.
"That's a mistake we can fix," one of the non suit wearers stated, glaring at Klaus before racing toward him, her long, dark hair flying, her fangs extended.
"I was hoping for a fight!" Hayley cried jumping down from the balcony, dropping from the balcony and biting into the neck of the woman who had set her sights on Klaus.
Klaus grinned as the female hybrid turned to him, her eyes glowing yellow, her body poised to spring. "Good job, Little Wolf. Let's see if we might end the infernal misery of seeing my brother's so-called brethren making a mockery of his name?" Hayley grinned before looking at Caroline.
Caroline nodded at the other female before she began to punch and kick at anything that was not familiar to her. Hopefully, Marcel would not show up in the middle, although she wondered what they would do with the bodies. But she did not have time to answer her own question as a female vamp tried to rip her heart out. Caroline hissed in pain when the older vampire's arm shot through her chest. Suddenly, it went flying and Caroline wondered where Bonnie had gotten a sword from but didn't bother to ask.
Two vampires had ahold of Hayley, pinning her to the ground, trying to rip her apart, limb from limb, while she struggled. "Get off of her!" Caroline growled, launching herself through the air and landing on the male vampire's back. It took all of her effort to separate his head from his body but she was really, really pissed. Hayley bit right through the other vampire's throat before ripping her heart out. "Klaus!" Hayley yelled, staring at Klaus.
Klaus had five vampires on him. Somehow one of them had that damned blade. "No!" Caroline screamed, racing faster than she had ever run in her entire existence. Bonnie threw the sword and Caroline cut straight through the vampire's arm, dropping to her knees and raising the sword before slicing his head off.
"Get her!" One of the vampires yelled, pointing at Caroline. She turned around and cut off three more heads before tossing the sword back to Bonnie who had been backed into a corner by three more vampires.
Soon they were all dead. Klaus and Hayley stood, breathing heavily, blood dripping from their fangs while Bonnie stood, blood covering her from head to toe. Caroline wondered how she looked but did not want an answer to that question. "What do we do with the bodies?" she asked the New Orleans residents.
Klaus and Hayley glanced at each other. "Burn them," they said in unison. Hayley whipped out a lighter while Caroline and Klaus began to drag the bodies into a pile. Bonnie went in search of a bottle of alcohol. The former witch returned and doused Klaus' former enemies before Hayley tossed the lighter into the pile.
They watched the flames for a few seconds before they went back upstairs. They had work to do. Hayley had brought the bricks that Caroline had asked for in two huge sacks. "Don't even ask what people who saw me dragging these around asked," Hayley warned them while Klaus began to brick up the wall at a pace that made Caroline blink. Within five minutes, it was as if she had never torn the wall down, aside from the pile of old bricks which they placed in the bags. Bonnie found a broom and swept up the mess.
"Are you ready to see our little girl?" Hayley asked Klaus. He nodded but Caroline saw uncertainty in his expression. She knew the feeling. Yes, she had only been away from her daughters for a couple of months when Bonnie chased after her, but the girls had not been happy when she returned. However, she thought Hope would be another story.
"Yes," Klaus said firmly and Caroline took his hand in hers, squeezing it. He smiled at her before they left the room and walked through a tunnel entrance. Klaus pulled the door closed and followed through the hallway in which they had to walk single-file. Caroline reached backwards, taking Klaus' hand in hers. She felt him lift it to his lips, kissing her skin and making her shiver in the darkness, glad he couldn't see her blush.
They exited out the other side of the compound. Hayley marched over to a car, opening the trunk. "In we go," she ordered Klaus who narrowed his eyes. "Sorry. But it's the only way we can get you out of here without raising eyebrows. Now, do you want to see Hope, or not?"
"I'll get in with you," Caroline offered.
"And, Bonnie, sorry but you're going to have the ride in the back in this," Hayley held up another bag.
Bonnie's eyes widened. "No. No way. I'd rather ride in the trunk with Klaus and Caroline."
"Sorry, Bonnie, but there will not be enough room for all of us," Klaus said with a grin while he climbed in. Caroline watched Bonnie roll her eyes and get into the back of the car, pulling the empty sack over her body and then disappearing, probably onto the floor of the car. Hayley got into the car. This left Caroline to look at Klaus. "Would you prefer to share that sack with Bonnie? I'm sure it's comfortable," Klaus teased while Caroline rolled her eyes.
Allowing Klaus to take her hand and snuggling up to him, she tried not to cry, when he pulled the trunk lid down. She hated being trapped. Too many times of being tortured. "Klaus, what are you doing?" Caroline hissed, she felt his hands beginning to slide up and down her body.
"Trying to distract you. I can feel the tension in your body, Caroline," Klaus whispered. "Would you like a massage?"
"In the back of a car?" Caroline couldn't help but laugh at the sheer absurdity of his question. "I don't think we have room," she told him.
"You know, that I can hear everything you two are saying, right?" Hayley called from the front of the car.
"Then turn on the radio, love," Klaus called back, making Caroline giggle.
Hayley sighed and then the radio came on, loudly, with a Country-Western band that made Klaus swear. "Her taste astounds me," he swore into Caroline's ear.
"At least you're getting along. When I heard that you two had spawned, I half-expected to come here and find Hayley's head mounted on a pike outside the family home," Caroline whispered to him.
"Really? You think so little of me?" Klaus said in a mocking tone.
Caroline smiled. "Yes," she told him with another giggle.
"How very right you are. We've had many ups and downs. Now, my primary concern is to cure Elijah and to get Freya back from the curse she placed on them and to get the hex placed on Rebekah removed. Not too much to do down here in the Big Easy as your lot call it."
"My lot?" Caroline replied.
"Yes, your lot," Klaus retorted. "Anyone born in the twentieth century. Unlike us… how did you put it… billion-year-olds?"
"I said a billion?" Caroline mussed when she felt his lips on her neck. "Klaus, don't start," she told him.
"Why ever not?" Klaus asked her, running his lips over her collarbone and nipping at her skin.
"Because we're stuck in the back of the trunk of a car, headed toward an uncertain future, where one or both of us might die…" Caroline thought about what she was saying and placed her hands over his face, directing his lips to her own.
"That's more like it," Klaus whispered against her lips.
Caroline grinned as she turned, sliding her legs around his waist. They might one day be in more uncomfortable places and she wanted to enjoy their limited alone time. Who knew what would happen to either one of them in the future? Shutting her eyes, she enjoyed the feeling of his body pressed to hers, their lips remembering each other's taste as she slid her hands under his shirt, tracing his muscles and humming while he unzipped her pants, sliding his hand between her legs.
"We're here," Hayley said suddenly and Caroline jumped, hitting her head on the top of the trunk while Klaus jerked his hand away and she hurriedly rearranged her clothes before the trunk lid swung open to reveal an amused Hayley. "Hey, Horny Vamps, out get of there. I don't want to have to clean the trunk with Lysol and to steam vacuum it."
Smirking, Klaus hopped out of the car and then pulled Caroline out while Bonnie stretched. They stood just outside the trees to the bayou and Klaus took off before anyone could say another word. Hayley was right behind him, followed by Caroline with Bonnie right on her heels. When they got to the cabin, they found Klaus on his knees, holding onto his daughter. Caroline could see his shoulders quaking as he held the child to him. She felt tears begin to run down her own cheeks, thinking of her little ones.
"Daddy, don't cry," Hope told her father. "I knew you'd come home," she said and Klaus stood with her in his arms.
"I have missed you, my Littlest Wolf," Klaus exclaimed and Caroline thought she had never seen him let down his walls like this with anyone before. That's when she knew, she was about to fall head over heels for Klaus freakin' Mikaelson. This was not good. Not at all.
So many problems to fic, so little time. Haha. Tune in next week to see what our hero/villians get up to trying to save their friends and we will see the real villain of this piece soon. J
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Guest: Hope does have lots of skills. Her powers are growing every day and she has some tricks we have yet to see. J
Peace,
Jessica
