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"I love you." I whisper and my heart swell with his answering-

"I love you" leaving me complete and whole as he gently pulls out and moves to the side embracing me in his strong arms and pulling me close to him as he kisses my forehead lovingly.

As our eyes grow tired and close, he gently pulls me tighter to his body, molding it and our breathes even out as we fall into a beautiful comfort in seconds, knowing that this -this right her- is only the beginning of our lives together.

Lying here in his arms felt right, perfect, amazing. It was like coming home after going out to war. The heat radiating from his body enveloped me and there was nothing that could pull me away. I traced his cheek from the temple all the way down to his lips. He hadn't changed, not a single thing had changed over these 17 months. His appearance was the same, the full raspberry lips, the sapphire blue eyes that looked as if they contained the secrets of the world. His hair was a soft cushion of curls and his necklaces – gorgeous damned necklaces- still hung around his neck making me want to grip them tightly and pull him closer to me. My finger moved down his perfect button nose and I dragged my thumb along his lower lip just wanting to nibble at it. I brushed his cheek softly with the pad of my thumb as he scrunched his nose like a little boy. I smiled wistfully at his innocent, perfect appearance.

"You know, staring is quite creepy." He whispers with a hoarse voice as his eyes flutter open. I let out a small sigh and smile.

"It's romantic" I whisper back.

"Why are you whispering?' he murmurs.

"I don't know" I continue to whisper making him smile which shows off his dimples.

"What are you thinking?" His fingers move over my waist and I feel him softly trace patterns over my skin.

"How insanely gorgeous and adorable you are." I smile as he chuckles and buries his face into my shoulder. I place a gentle kiss on his temple as I breath him in and he does the same.

"Say it again." He whispers as he pulls back slightly.

"I love you." I whisper as I trace over his heart and he catches my hand and holds it there.

"I love you too." We both grin at each other when his smile falters.

"What's wrong?"

"I could have never found you…" I shake my head and press my forehead against his as I look into his eyes.

"Not your fault, you couldn't have known, I'm just happy that I got out and I'm with you." I smile and he returns it. Just as I kiss him, his phone rings. "You should get that." He pushes me back down as he places kisses against my jawline. "Klaus, it could be important." I moan as he grazes his teeth against my pull. I reach out my hand and fumble round for his phone which is on the night stand.

Rebekah calling…

"Klaus, it's Rebekah." He sighs and I press the answer button as I hold it to his ear as he hovers over me.

"Yes Rebekah?"

"When are you coming back home?"

"I'll be there in a couple of hours." I raise my eyebrow as he grins at me.

"Nik-

"Dad, when are you?" I see his eyes soften and I smile at him as I listen to Henry's voice.

"I'm with a friend right now Hen, I'll see you soon ok."

"Which friend?" I can't help but giggle at his curiosity and adorable voice. "Dad, who was that?"

"That's my friend, you'll meet her later." My eyes widen in surprise. "I love you Henry."

"I love you too dad, see you later. Bye."

"Bye…" He hangs up and I give him a bright smile.

"He's so adorable, just like you." I arch up and kiss him on the lips as he chuckles.

"Adorable?" I trail gentle kisses over his face as he hums.

"Yep." He pulls back and cocks his eyebrow.

"Really? You're calling the Original Hybrid, the scariest, most terrifying man on Earth, adorable?"

"Most definitely." He gently pushes me back as his eyes turn gold and black veins ripple under them as his sharp teeth elongate.

"Still adorable?" I stare at him in awe as I lift my fingers and gently trace the veins.

"Beautiful…" I murmur and his eyes return back to their sapphire blue. I stroke his cheeks and smile at him as he ducks his head and places a kiss over my heart.

"Have you ever bloodshared, sweetheart?" I look at him in surprise.

"Of course, with you." I say obviously as I remember the times he gave me his blood. He shakes his head but smirks.

"No, I mean shared blood during or after sex?"

"No, why?" He brushes his fingers against my neck pushing back my hair.

"Do you know what happens if you do?" I blush.

"Stefan actually told me once I turned, most awkward 5 minutes of my life." I murmur when I look up at him. "Do you…do you want to bloodshare with me?" I ask surprised. He gives a small smile and nods.

"It would be a great honour to bloodshare with you, sweetheart." Just as I'm about to agree I remember.

"You're bite is deadly to vampire, witches and wolves"

"I can't Klaus." I say and his smile falters as his eyes emanate hurt. He moves back but I pull him to me. "No, I'm not disagreeing, it's just-"

"it would be too much, I get it, it's fine Caroline." He pulls back and rolls on to his side. I roll my eyes and roll onto him, straddling him.

"Klaus." He looks out of the window refusing to let me see his eyes. "Klaus, look at me." He doesn't. I pull him up so that we're chest to chest as I cradle his face. I turn his head so that our eyes meet. "Don't ever think that I wouldn't want to bloodshare with you, I do." I place a gentle kiss against his lips as he looks at me in confusion.

"But you said-"

"I know what I said. I literally can't bite you Klaus. A side effect to being a vampire-witch hybrid is that my bite is deadly. Just like you, if you bit me and I didn't take the cure, your blood, I'd die."

"But you can just drink my blood, love" I roll my eyes.

"Keep up Klaus, I might have the cure for your bite but you don't have it for mine. I don't know what the cure for my bite is Klaus. I don't want to hurt you." I stroke the nape of his neck as I twirl his curls. He smiles at me as he grazes his fingers against my back. "So until, we figure out the cure, we're going to have to post phone it." He smirks.

"Hmm, which means that we have more time to do this." He says mischievously as I raise my eyebrows in confusion. He rolls us over and I gasp and giggle as he raises the covers over both of us.

Mikaelson Mansion

"Aunt Bek's where's uncle Eli?" Henry asked as he ate his pancakes which Rebekah made. She scrunched up her nose at the question.

"He's with a friend right now darling, he'll be back soon."

"Is there a friend for me? Everyone's got one today, dad is with his friend, so is uncle Eli and the others aren't here. Where is everyone?" Rebekah sighs as she sits beside her nephew and ruffles his hair.

"Some people came to town last night Henry, the others are catching up with them." Rebekah heard a knock on the door and immediately knew who it was. 'In fact, I've got a surprise for you Henry. There are some friends who would love to meet you right now. Wait here." She walked to the door and opened it to reveal Kol and Henrik standing on the porch.

"Hello sister, where is my handsome nephew?" Kol says as he struts into the room and looks around when he spots a small boy standing in front of the kitchen. "You must be Henry, I'm your uncle Kol." Kol walks to him slowly and kneels down as Henry stares with wide eyes. He glances over at his aunt who smiles and gives him a nod.

"You're dad and aunt Beks' brother."

"Yep, the most handsome member of the Mikaelson family, second to you of course Henry. It's a pleasure to meet you." Kol holds out his hand for a handshake when Henry throws his arms around Kol's neck and hugs him tightly.

"It's great to meet you uncle Kol." Kol smiles and picks the little boy up and walks to the others. Henry pulls away and turns to look at Henrik who grins at him.

"Hi Henry, I'm your other uncle. My name is Henrik."

"You stole my name!" They laugh at the young boy's surprised look.

"I'm sorry, it really wasn't my intention to steal your name Henry, if it makes you feel better, you can call me Rik."

'Hmm, I suppose so, but I'll be having some serious words with dad about you stealing my name." He says with narrowed eyes whilst the others try to suppress their grins.

"Of course, now can I have a hug?" Rik says with a pout causing Henry to light up and reach out to him.

"Why haven't I met either of you before?" Henry asks Rik whose eyes widen with panic.

"Um, well, we…" Rik looks over at Kol who shrugs amusedly at his bumbling brother while Rebekah rolls her eyes at them."

"They've been busy with some really important things, we'll explain it when you get older. Promise." She smiles as he nods hesitantly.

"Would you like to join us for breakfast? Aunt Beks made some pancakes." He pulls Rik and Kol to the kitchen and jumps onto his chair and resumes eating as he eyes his uncles. "Come on, don't waist daylight, tuck in." He pushes the plate of pancakes towards them as they sit down and watch him.

"Thank you Henry, may I say that you're manners are impeccable." Henry smiles and nods.

"Uncle Eli always goes on about manners and responsibilities."

"Hmm, Uncle Eli sounds like a bad influence…" Kol murmurs under his breath as he smirks.

"He tries his best." Henry says as he stuffs a pancake piece in his mouth.

"Well, you'll be joining me and Rik today to cause some trouble." Kol grins as he finishes his pancakes. "I'll take you to all the best places in town Henry and we'll have a fun Mikaelson day. What di you say?" Henry grins and jumps down from his seat.

"Looking forward to it uncle Kol, can we go to the town square, I want to see the artists paint again, dad only took me twice to show me."

"Of course, tell you what mate, you grab your painting stuff and we'll paint a giant picture in the town square for your dad." Henry lowers his head and shakes it.

"I don't want to…" he murmurs and Rik can tell he's embarrassed.

"Ok, well how about we go out and you can show us around the city since we'll be staying."

"Do you promise? To stay, do you promise?" Henry asks with wide eyes.

"Of course, why would we ever leave our awesome nephew?" Rik says with a smile.

"Cool, well, I'm going to get dressed, I'll be down in a minute." He says and runs up the stairs causing the others to laugh as they listen to him fumble around his closets. Rebekah begins clearing up as Rik helps her.

"He's shy." Rebekah hums in agreement,

"He's been sheltered a lot Rik-"

"I know, I saw him from the other side." He murmurs and Rebekah turns to face Kol and Rik who stare at her as her eyes fill with tears. Kol gets up and walks towards her slowly as he looks at Rik. He nods at him and Kol embraces both of them in a family hug as Rebekah lets the tears fall. She wraps her arms around them tightly.

"Bekah…still human, can't breathe…" she giggles at him and releases them from her hold.

"I thought I would never see either of you again, it's still unbelievable…" she whispers as she stares at them.

"We're here Bekah, and we're not going anywhere… I love you sister." She smiles at them.

"I love you too." Kol rolls his eyes and sighs.

"Well, if we're doing the whole emotional feature of the show then I guess…I love you too. But I'm not hugging you again, don't want to make this anymore sappy than it already is." Both Rebekah and Rik roll their eyes and smirk as they share a brief look.

"Come here Kol…" they both say with outstretched arms to which he backs away from slowly but Rebekah flashes to him and embraces him again as does Rik.

"Oh what the hell…" he murmurs as he lets himself enjoy the family moment.

"Are you lot done yet, don't want to waste daylight." Henry says loudly as he breaks up the family reunion.

"Of course Henry, now where should we go first?" Rebekah asks as she takes his hand and leads them all out of the house into the open air.

"Bourbon Street, all the street dancers are always there. It's amazing." Henry says with a grin.

Caroline

"Klaus, we need to get up, come on." I say as I pull on my heels and grab my jacket when he pulls me back onto the bed and precedes to place kisses along the column of my neck.

"Just five more minutes sweetheart…" he murmurs and I pull myself up with determination and turn to look at him.

"Klaus." He smirks as he raises himself on the bed and kneels so that he's nearly the same height as me. The sheet sits around his waist and I avoid looking at his defined abs so that I won't get lured back in

"Caroline" he says seductively. I roll my eyes and flash into Kol's room and grab some clothes for Klaus. I flash back and throw the clothes at him.

"These are Kol's, they should fit you. Now get dressed, I won't repeat myself." I say causing him to narrow his eyes.

"Number 1, why do you have Kol's clothes sweetheart?" I roll my eyes.

"He lives here with me, Henrik and Katherine." He growls.

"Sweetheart, you and my brothers living together doesn't inspire a lot of confidence." I scoff.

"Please, as if I would move on to Kol or Henrik for that matter." He continues to scowl and I breathe in deeply. "Niklaus Mikaelson, you are gorgeous, sexy, adorable God with cute dimples. No one could ever compare to you. You are everything to me and I will never, ever leave you or let you go. I love you with everything I am." I say slowly as I look into his eyes and cup his face. He stares at me with glistening eyes. "Now, for the love go God will you please get dressed, I have some people to deal with. Two of them being your brothers who told the whole of New Orleans that I'm your wife. I turn to lace up my boots when he flashes in front of me fully dressed.

"Would that be such a bad thing?" He murmurs. My eyes widen but soften at the gentle and vulnerable tone of his voice. I smile at him and shake my head slightly.

"No…no it wouldn't…but I was hoping we'd have a couple of dates first, I would meet your son and the rest of your siblings again, set up a life here, go to university to name just a few things." He cups my cheek and looks into my eyes, I can feel the intense connection, the full weight of what I just admitted. "But if this is your proposal then I think we might need to postphone." I kiss his lips and turn away to grab my phone. "But seriously, announcing it to the whole town, without telling me, now that's low. Kol's lucky that I won't dagger him, but I might just mess with their heads for a little while." I smirk deviously as I pocket my phone. "Ready?" I turn back to Klaus and smile brightly who chuckles.

"I look forward to it sweetheart." He takes my hand and leads me out of the mansion. "Come along Mrs Mikaelson." He says.

"I hate you." I murmur under my breath as he chuckles and kisses my cheek.

"No you don't" I roll my eyes as we walk down the street hand in hand.

"You're right I don't." I pull him in for a spontaneous kiss which gets heated and then pull away quickly leaving him stunned as I continue to walk away. "Come on Mr Mikaelson, got places to go, people to see."

"I love you." I hear him say as he flashes to me and takes my hand again.

"I know, I love you more."

"Not possible, sweetheart." I roll my eyes at his response.

"Why do you have to have one over everyone."

"Did you forget that I'm the alpha male, love." I smirk at him.

"After last night, not possible." I whisper into his ear causing him to grin. "Where are we going?" I ask curiously as he leads me into the French Quarter.

"I want to show you something." He leads me into an apartment building and to a room. He takes out the keys and opens it allowing me to go in first. "I need you to know that I didn't give up on you. I never gave up on you. I tried everything, I didn't know where you were and I followed up on every lead…" I can't believe my eyes. The walls are covered in maps with x's on, countries that have post it notes attached on with various things, 'possible sighting', 'most likely, lots of sightings', 'places Steven said she wanted to visit'. The table is full of newspapers of recent killings which I walk towards. Profiles of killers are sitting beside them with stacks of notes. The bed is covered in pictures from my house, pictures of me, my mom, my dad, Steven. Other family members around the world. I gasp as I spin and see a board with my name on and notes of things I had said to Klaus when we spent time together. The last one being 'I intend to stay in Mystic Falls'.

"I didn't know what happened to you Caroline, I had so many different scenarios, you travelling the world, visiting relatives, being kidnapped or turning it off. I checked everything, I exhausted every lead. Stefan and Bonnie tried to help me, they tried to find some answer. Bonnie did a locator spell everyday for the first 4 months until it began draining her and then I had other witches try to find you. Stefan followed up on leads where you could have turned it off, murders, killings. Elijah contacted witch factions over the world and loyal vampires who would keep their eyes out for you. They would report back to you. I tried looking for your mother as well. She's loyal to Mystic Falls, I knew she wouldn't leave the town so something else must have happened. I went to Mystic Falls every week for the first few months after you disappeared to find something, anything that would tell me where you were. I even contacted Tyler but he said he hadn't seen you in months. I tried so hard to find you love. I need to you know that you are my priority as well as Henry, I would do anything for you. I love you too much to let you go…" I stand frozen with my back to him as I listen to his words as they pour out. The tears cascade down my face. He moves in front of me and a tear drops down from his eye. "I would do anything for you…"he whispers as he looks into my eyes. I glance around the room one more time when it hits me, the moments he spent, every lead he followed, all the effort. I gasp as I take it all in and Klaus reaches out to cup my face. I wrap mhy arms around him tightly and cry into his shoulder as I hear him sniffle.

"I love you, Nik, I love you so much." I pull away and kiss him passionately trying to show him everything that's inside me, all the love, the pain, the anger, the hurt. Everything comes out in that moment and his warmth contains me. His arms keep my up as I feel like falling down and his kiss breathes in the touch and life I've been craving for the past 17 months. "I love you…" I wipe away his tears as he opens his eyes and holds on tightly to me.

"I love you." He says to me. I close my eyes and compose myself as I get out my phone. "What are you doing, love?"

"Calling Kol, I want to know where the bitch is." I say as I type in his number and rest my head against Klaus' shoulder.

"Hello"

"Kol, where is Elena?" I spit out her name with hatred.

"At Nik's mansion darling. She's knocked out in the dungeon, ask Nik, he'll show you. How is everything darling?"

"It'll be much better when I kill that little bitch." I hiss as Klaus' fingers move through my hair.

"Ooh, wait for me darling, I need to see this. Where are you?"

"In the Quarter, you?"

"Bourbon street with Rik, Bekah and Henry." I exhale as I calm myself down.

"Ok, do you know where Kat is?"

"She's with Elijah right now, have no idea where though."

"I don't want Henry to see me in this state Kol." I feel Klaus tilt up my head and wipe away the tears. He kisses my forehead and I give him a small smile and then takes the phone form me.

"Brother."

"Nik, good to hear from you, the sounds coming from Care's room last night explains the lack of morning contact." I can practically hear the smirk as Klaus rolls his eyes.

"Shut up Kol, I spelled our room last night so you didn't hear a thing." I say as Klaus smirks at me.

"Brother, tell our dear sister to take Henry to get some more art supplies and meet us at Rousseau's, we have a little doppleganger problem to fix."

"Alright dear brother, Rik is insisting that he'll stay with Henry as well." I nod at Klaus who nods back.

"All right Kol, we'll see you at the bar, I'll call Kat as well. Bye."

"Bye Mr and Mrs Mikaelson." He sniggers and I roll my eyes at him as he hangs up the phone and I dial Kat.

"Hello?"

"Hey Kat, where are you?" I hear her giggle and Elijah's voice in the background. "Actually, don't answer that, I need you to come down to Rouseau's, we're taking Elena down." I say .

"Give me ten minutes and I'll be there, this should be fun, bye." She hangs up and I pocket my phone.

"You're incredibly sexy when you're planning someone's demise, sweetheart." He pulls me in tightly so that our lips are cm's away.

"Hmm, and you're just incredibly sexy all round." I smirk. Just as he leans in to kiss me I pull away leaving him hanging. "Come on, time to kick some ass."

"God, you're killing me here love." I peck him on the cheek and take his hand to pull him out. I hear him whine slightly and I giggle. "And if you're a good wolf, you might just get a treat." I say seductively.

"Love, if we didn't have to go, I'd take you against that wall right here right now." I pat his arm.

"Of course my dear, whatever you say."

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