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Elijah led Katherine upstairs and to his bedroom. The smile on his face hadn't altered in the slightest since Klaus had agreed to free Katherine from his revenge on her. He entwined his fingers with hers and playfully spun her until she could bury her face into his chest. Even throughout the decades his mind would always go back to Katherine and how he longed for her touch.

"How I've missed you, Katerina," the man said longingly.

The young vampire wrapped her arms around the man and gave him a soft kiss.

"Thank you Elijah, but I told you I shouldn't have come." He gave her a questioned look. "You're family hates me."

He looked over Katherine's soft face with such fondness. "Not to worry my dear, my brother would not harm you. He gave me his word."

"And you believe him?" she scoffed.

"I do," Elijah said and turned Katherine to face him so he could place a gentle kiss on her lips. The longing desire for her touch didn't take long for Elijah to deepen the kiss, almost snarling as he lifted her into his arms.

He had his fingers through her hair when he heard something downstairs, causing Katherine to pout at him when he pulled away. The yells of the hunter echoed throughout the house, he wasn't surprised by his brother's reckless actions of leaving the hunter alone downstairs.

"Ugh, can we kill him already?" Katherine whined.

"We can't," Elijah said with a chuckle. "Unless you want to endure the Hunter's curse."

"Well maybe you should lock him up in the basement because he's ruining the mood." Katherine kissed Elijah again but groaned in frustration at the hunter's continued screams. "Where the hell is your brother to take care of his pet?"

xxx

Klaus led a reluctant Caroline out of the Grill, the crisp Fall breeze greeted them as they walked in comfortable silence. The hybrid had been staring at the girl, rather joyful that she agreed to accompany him. He didn't have anywhere in particular in mind so he walked wherever his feet led him.

"So…" Caroline began awkwardly. "What do you want to talk about?"

"I want to talk about you," Klaus answered quickly with a dimpled smile. "Your hopes, your dreams, everything you want in life."

Caroline laughed nervously, "Why? I'm not that interesting, believe me."

He tried to catch Caroline's eyes as she dropped them to the floor. In all seriousness, he looked at her intently and said with such conviction, "Believe me, I've lived a thousand years and have never found anyone quite as intriguing as you."

The slight shade around Caroline's cheeks deepened the dimples in Klaus' cheeks as his smile widened across his face.

"I can't think of anything to say when you're looking at me like that!" Caroline giggled, hiding away her face behind her hands.

He hadn't noticed how intense his gaze was so he quickly dropped his eyes with a shy smile. The two shared a soft laugh before Klaus turned to Caroline to stare at her softly, "Let's start with, what are your passions?"

Caroline's face softened as she thought, "I don't know… I like to sing."

Klaus's face immediately lit up, the biggest dimpled smile surfaced his lips, which he quickly tried to hide once he realized how ridiculous he must've looked. "Really? I didn't know that."

"Yeah," Caroline said laughing to herself. "I wanted to be a singer for while… when I was like five. I was really into the Spice Girls."

Klaus titled his head. "Is this another modern reference?"

This caused the girl to let out a hearty laugh. "Yes, you need to catch up."

"Perhaps you could show me."

"You wanna listen to the Spice Girls?" Caroline asked with raised brows, but the man looked at her confidently with an easy smile tracing his lips.

"I want to listen to you."

The girl shook her head violently. "I don't sing in public – well I did this one time for Matt but I wasn't even thinking, I kind of just did it… I'm not very good."

The man chose to ignore the mention of the blonde jock and instead focused at how nervous Caroline had gotten, he quite liked when she rambled, which happened often he noticed.

"Do you sing?" Caroline asked teasingly, which Klaus only responded with a look that told her she was crazy. With a laugh she continued, "Well, have you ever done anything publicly embarrassing? Or have any embarrassing stories?"

"No," Klaus answered quickly.

"Oh come on, after a thousand years I'm sure you have some stories."

Klaus thought for a moment, much to the young vampire's surprise. "I don't know about publicly, but I do have a rather embarrassing tattoo I wish never happened."

Caroline stopped dead in her tracks, he could practically see her drooling over the gossip of a good story. "You have to tell me."

"I rather not, sweetheart," Klaus said with an embarrassed laugh. "Besides, we should be talking about you, not me."

"Oh come on Klaus, you can't mention it and never talk about it. It's not fair, tattoo stories are always the best kind of stories." Caroline pouted out her bottom lip and looked at the hybrid with big blue eyes. "Please?"

He rolled his eyes, damn her blue eyes and cute pout. "Fine, but you don't speak a word of this."

Caroline nodded eagerly.

He sighed and dropped his head in defeat. "My family and I were in China, a couple of centuries ago. On the first night Kol and I went out for drinks and we got plastered. We wanted to do something wild, just for a good laugh. Mind you, tattoos weren't very common in those days, and in China persons with tattoos were often criminals or bandits, which for some ungodly reason appealed to us…" Klaus paused, reluctant to continue his story. "So my idiot little brother… convinced me to get a matching tattoo with him."

Caroline bit down on her lips and tried desperately to hold in the laugh. "Please tell me it's a shape of a heart."

"I don't know why I told you that…" Klaus grumbled and turned away from Caroline in embarrassment, which only made the girl burst out in laughter. He turned back when the girl spun him around by the shoulders, leaning against him as she died of laughter.

Despite the utter embarrassment he couldn't help but be captivated by the way she looked at the moonlight. The moon shone almost as bright as her as she gave a hearty laugh. The hybrid stopped and looked over the young vampire, and smiled at the way her face lit up whenever she laughed. She looked carefree and innocent and overall happy, it was in that moment that the hybrid decided Caroline was most beautiful when she laughed.

xxx

Kol's confident grin dropped from his face and with raised brows he turned to Bonnie. He noticed the little smirk that tugged the ends of her lips when she hit yet another solid ball. He may have underestimated the witch's pool playing capabilities a little bit.

"To be fair, I've been daggered in a box for over a century," Kol began, when Bonnie got another one. "They didn't have this game then."

The girl giggled and stood to look at the boy. "Why did Klaus dagger you?"

The vampire's face turned serious but Kol was never serious for long, his usual grin soon surfaced his lips again. "I'm actually insulted you haven't heard this story, I'm quite legendary."

Bonnie rolled her eyes and watched Kol take his turn.

"I used to run with some witches. Africa in the fourteenth century, Haiti in the seventeenth century, New Orleans in the nineteen hundreds." Kol loved the big smile on Bonnie's face, it was the first time he got the witch to drop her guard. "They are fascinating creatures with quite a history. I loved their stories best, they were like ghost stories Nik used to tell me as a child."

Bonnie giggled. "Then what happened?"

He hesitated but he liked the way the girl edged closer to him, intrigued by his story so he continued, "On my travels I heard stories about this 'immortal being', they called him Silas. They said if he rises, he'll unleash hell on Earth." Kol paused, a serious look on his face. "I came across a clan of witches who worshipped him, they wanted to do a ritual for him to rise again… but I happen to like Earth just the way it is." He paused. "So, I slaughtered them."

He frowned when Bonnie's smile dropped. He bowed his head a little before continuing, "I had gone on a bit of a rampage and word had gone out about a reckless vampire killing clans of witches. That was when my father had gotten word of me. After my brothers heard of my doing they came to me before Mikael could. Klaus was furious at me for leading Mikael to America, so he struck a dagger in me."

Kol watched carefully as Bonnie processed his words, not sure what the witch was thinking. Her face was straight, not showing any true emotion and that only made the vampire more nervous.

"I've never told anyone that before…" Kol said in almost a whisper. He caught Bonnie's eyes and continued, "Perhaps it wasn't the best story to start off out date with."

"This isn't a date, Kol," Bonnie retorted, she still hadn't looked in Kol's direction.

"What a relief, on our actual date I'll start off with the time I spent in China with my family. Now, that's a funny story."

xxx

Rebekah stormed down the street, she hadn't realized in her dramatic exit that she didn't have a car to drive home and her stubbornness refused her to go back inside and ask for a ride from one of her brothers. So, there she was, forced to walk alone in the dark back to the manor.

A car came to a slow beside her, but the girl refused to greet yet another middle-aged man shouting crude words at her. She raised her chin and continued to walk confidently, her steps just a little faster.

"I'm guessing you don't want a ride then?"

She quickly turned when she heard the familiar voice and found Matt Donovan in his old pickup truck. He wore an easy smile and opened the door for the girl to jump into his truck.

"I know you're an Original but you still shouldn't be walking alone at night."

Rebekah raised her chin. "I can handle myself."

"Oh I know you can," he said with a chuckle. "But, you should still be careful."

"Are you concerned for me?" She couldn't help the smile that grew on her face.

Matt only chuckled, the ends of his lips twitched into a smile.

"Does this mean I'm forgiven?" The hope seeped through Rebekah's words.

"Maybe." Matt turned and met Rebekah's blue eyes. "What were you doing walking anyway? You had like three brothers back at the Grill, I'm sure one of them would've given you a ride."

"Finn doesn't know how to drive, Kol doesn't have a car and I refuse to accept a ride from Nik," Rebekah gave a huff before folding her arms across her chest. "He was distracted by that Caroline girl and besides I'm grumpy with him."

Matt nodded as he drove, "So, does your family ever not have drama?"

"What kind of family has no drama?" Rebekah gave Matt a knowing look and watched the boy agree with a sadden look. "What's your family like? You don't seem to mention any of them."

Matt's chin dropped a little, his light blue eyes glistened. "I never knew my Dad, he left before I was even born. My Mom was never around long enough to actually be a mother, so now I'm stuck paying the bills."

The girl turned to Matt with solemn eyes. "Don't you have any siblings?"

"I had my sister," he turned and met Rebekah's eyes again. "She died."

The two sat in silence for a while, listening to the breeze whistle through the opened windows.

"I may fight with my brothers constantly but I can't imagine what I'll do if one of them died. Matt, I am so sorry." She turned to him with tears in her eyes. "I want you to know that if you ever… need someone, I'm here for you."

Matt turned to her, and then slowly a smile made it's way to his lips as thanks.

xxx

The two had walked in comfortable silence, Caroline's occasional giggle filled the air at Klaus' story. She wasn't going to let this one go too easily, much to the man's dismay. He had his arms folded across his chest and continued to walk like a grumpy child, which only made Caroline laugh at him more.

"Okay, okay, I'm sorry. I won't laugh at your tattoo," Caroline said jumping in front of Klaus and pretended to zip up her mouth and throw away it's key.

The man eyed the girl for a moment, and watched as the corners of her lips twitched into a laughing smile. "I'm never telling you anything ever again." Despite his embarrassment he couldn't really be grumpy with Caroline, she had never been this calm and friendly with him, so he let her continue to tease him.

"Okay, no more laughing this time. I am serious now." Caroline released a long breath and gave the man a serious face. "Fire away with your questions."

He eyed her again, in case she was to laugh, when convinced she was done teasing him he continued. He walked beside Caroline, dropping his hands and placed them behind his back and thought of another question.

"What are you going to do once you graduate?"

The girl looked at Klaus and whispered, "Wow, serious question."

She turned away from him, her eyes glistened as fresh tears started to surface. The man was thrown back by Caroline sudden change of moods. "I was always the girl who planned every step, who knew exactly where was she going and what she wanted to do, but now… I don't know what I'm going to do anymore," she said in a whisper.

Klaus took a step toward the girl, wanting desperately to comfort her.

"I always thought I'd go to college, meet the man of my dreams, get married… and have a family. I guess that's not going to happen now, is it? Since my transition it's changed… everything," Caroline whispered with tears falling from her blue eyes. "And now… I have absolutely no idea what to do with my life and it scares me so much."

The man took a deep breath, "I told you Caroline, that the world has so much to offer you. You don't have to limit yourself to human conventions. Being a vampire means there are endless possibilities out there and you have all the time in the world to decide what you want. I can show you all those things. I know you're not ready now, but when that time does come, whether in a year or a century from now, I will show you that everything you are scared of are the greatest things in the world. And you can have all it, I can give it to you, all you have to do is ask."

Caroline looked at Klaus with her lips slightly gaped as she processed Klaus' heavy words. There was a silence between them as they stared into each other's eyes, conviction and raw honestly filled Klaus' eyes in a way that hypnotized the blonde vampire.

The silence was soon broken by the beeping of Caroline's phone, Klaus watched her open up the message and frowned at the sight of Tyler's name on the screen. He looked to the ground with gritted teeth, only meeting Caroline's eyes again when she spoke.

"That was Tyler…"

Klaus couldn't help the anger that expressed on his face.

"He wants to meet up now..." Caroline dropped her gaze. "I should get home."

Disappointment washed over the hybrid's entire being but with a nod he offered to walk the girl home. They walked in silence until they reached Caroline's street, she stared at him for a long while before surrendering her gaze to the floor. She turned to leave when Klaus spoke, forcing her to stop.

"A small town boy, a small town life, it won't be enough for you. You deserve all what the world has to offer, and you deserve better Caroline."