Author's Note: Happy valentine's day! I just wanted to grace you guys with a little gift! I hope you enjoy! I wrote in during class, kinda proud actually because I was supposed to be taking notes...but I obviously wasn't. Oh well. Anyway THANK YOU for the reviews from last chapter! so awesome! I'm so glad everyone is reading and enjoying! If you notice I changed the Rating to M since there is a bit of smut and language, so I changed that along with the summary which I think is a lot more interesting sounding. I was a bit hesitant about the first summary so I'm glad to have changed it! So I would like to thank everyone reading! and especially the reviewers! So I would like to thank:

Aaaammber, drewwness, lolsmileyface6, Bluestar, Hybridgirl, Psychvamp, daisychen0, softballlover298, glevez25, Emmalea, jessinicole, & missgwen33!

justine: Yes! I totally agree they r def perfect together and forbidden love is pretty sexy. At least I find it so. But anywho! Yes, yes! I know we are all in a hurry to see what happends and it's getting so close I can't foreshadow or even hint anymore because I will give it away. My friends get angry when I give the end away, which I do a lot...anyway! The wait wasn't too long i hope and of course the next chapter will be up soon the end of this chapter isn't too tormenting...I don't think. Anyways, thank you for the review! And I hope u like this chapter as well!

SageStoneXOX: lol I updated...obviously I'm sure you caught that. I didn't realize Rebekah was in H20. I used to be a TV major so my hw was watching and finding new shows and thats one of the ones i found and liked. That's ironic i didn't realize. Anyways you don't have to worry there will be no KolBonnie in my story, not because i don't like them, I honestly don't really get it. I feel like it's a bit random, but whatever. As for the story I'm glad you like it! I was thinking about a few ways of how to break the news of the real Klaus and seeing the locket was one of them, but I think the way it will play out will be hopefully up to par. I hope you like this chapter! And now worries I will also be updating soon, I'm sure.

VeraDeDiamant: I'm glad you liked the smut, I was a little hesitant about it because I'm not sure if it's long enough or good enough or whatever so I'm glad it was up to par. Yes! I'm glad you caught that I was trying to hint that Rebekah was going to tell Caroline the truth, but she couldn't for the very reason you named, but also because she's starting to like Caroline and she doesn't want to be the one to hurt her. Because let's be honest no one wants to tell Caroline that her bf is kinda a psychopath. A hot one, but a psychopath. Yes there will be more reactions to Caroline's bf. Tyler obviously likes Caroline and Damon's just Damon really. I tried to incorporate humor so...yeah. Thank you for reading and I can't wait to know what you think about this chapter!

Enjoy!

Chapter 10: The Girl in the blue dress

Caroline stared at herself in the mirror. She was wearing the borrowed blue dress from Rebekah. The dress was slightly above her knees with an empire waist light blue tulle skirt and a beaded royal blue bodice. She was pairing it with black Stiletto hells and the silver locket Nik had given her, which she constantly wore and never took off. She was wearing some silver bracelets that clinked when she walked and she styled her hair down and curly. She smiled at her reflection in the mirror and turned from every angel to make sure she looked good.

She just hoped that Tyler had pulled off the Great Homecoming party that he had promised. She had in turn found him a last minute date, one of the girls from the cheer squad whose boyfriend had just dumped her. Caroline felt as if she had out did herself and she knew tonight would be awesome.

The clock struck seven and the doorbell rang making Caroline grin even larger. She quickly applied another coat of lip-gloss and was about to leave her room when she heard her mother answer the door. She cursed inwardly and listened to the conversation so she could make an entrance and see Nik's expression when he saw her.

"Hello." She heard her mother greet.

"Sheriff Forbes." Nik said exchanging pleasantries with Caroline's mom.

Caroline decided then that she needed to get out there before anything unpleasant or God forbid embarrassing was said. She checked her appearance in the mirror again and slowly walked out of her room and down the hall to where her mother and boyfriend stood.

Nik was dressed very handsomely in black slacks, a black blazer and a white cotton shirt underneath. He wasn't overly dressed, but a nice casual that showed off his total hotness. Caroline felt the need to swoon a bit when she saw him.

They both watched her make her entrance and she saw the tears in her mother's eyes and how Nik's mouth dropped slightly open upon seeing her.

"Hi." Caroline said softly smiling at Nik.

He opened his mouth, but no sound came out. She wanted to pat herself on the back for making her boyfriend speechless. Her smile widened, but their moment was interrupted by her mother.

"You'll take good care of Caroline tonight, right?" Liz said a tone of underlining threat in her voice.

"Mom!" Caroline whined glaring at her mother who shrugged slightly.

"I'm just looking out for you." Liz said defensively.

"It'll be fine. We're going to dinner and then Tyler's for Homecoming. I'll be home before dawn." Caroline said rolling her eyes and going to stand next to Nik who chuckled.

"Where are you going for dinner?" Liz asked.

"I've actually made dinner at my place." Nik said glancing between mother and daughter.

"Your place?" Liz and Caroline asked in unison.

"Is that ok? We can go out if you'd like." Nik said.

"No! No! That's perfect!" Caroline gushed as Liz's expression turned to skepticism.

"Maybe you guys should skip—" Liz began to say but was shushed by Caroline's glare.

"Or I guess just have fun. Wait! Let me take pictures!" Liz said hurrying to get the camera.

Caroline rolled her eyes, "I'm sorry, she gets excited when I go to formals."

Nik chuckled, "it's fine. Sometimes I wish my parents were still around or at least were enthusiastic about my life."

Caroline gave him a sympathetic look knowing that talking about his family was hard for him. She quickly kissed him before her mother came back with the camera and when she finally did they took exactly five pictures and left.

They walked down the pathway hand in hand towards his black car no words were exchanged between the two, but both cast subtle looks at each other, each enjoying how the other looked in their formal wear.

"You look ravishing. I wanted to tell you when you first came out, but words seemed to have failed me." Nik said as he opened the door for her.

She smiled shyly and got into the car. As he got in on the driver's side she turned to him. "You look very handsome yourself."

He chuckled and started the car.

"So I've never been to your house. I figured you were staying in a hotel or something. Or bed and breakfast since mystic Falls is too small for any real hotels." Caroline rambled nervous that they were going to his house.

Nik shrugged, "I actually just bought a place I've been fixing it up and finally it's ready for you to come over."

Caroline would have blushed if she were human. "I'm excited to see it. I've always wondered where you lived."

Nik smirked and continued to drive towards his mansion. He was excited to show her around his new house. In fact he was excited to spend the evening with her, which really surprised him since she could easily find out his real identity. But he just wanted to spend the evening with her, and her alone. Homecoming, he wished wouldn't happen and he and Caroline could just shack up in his room, alas though he wanted to make her happy and apparently her happiness was invested in Homecoming.

"What did you make for dinner?" Caroline asked.

"You'll have to wait and see." Nik said mysteriously.

Caroline sighed, "listen I have to tell you something about tonight."

"What is it, love?" Nik asked glancing at her.

"My friends…I told you a bit about them, didn't I" Caroline stuttered.

"A bit." Nik said quietly.

"Well…they have a tendency to get into…trouble and tonight they have this plan to take down the Original, Klaus. I told you a little about this." Caroline rambled.

"You did." Nik agreed his grip on the steering wheel tightening.

"Right, so they're planning on killing him at Homecoming. They have this whole plan. Of course they didn't tell me because I'm not important enough, but they tell Rebekah." Caroline continued to ramble angrily.

Nik didn't respond, but instead stared straight ahead his expression turning to anger as well, but for a different reason.

"Anyway they're planning on killing him and I don't want you to get hurt. So when the shit hits the fan I think we should leave." Caroline explained.

"What are they planning on doing?" Nik asked nonchalantly.

Caroline shrugged staring out the window, "some stupid plan that I'm sure won't work. None of the others have and besides they had to, like, breakout some crazed vampire hunter named Mikael that doesn't drink human blood, which you know is kinda weird. It's a really stupid plan if you ask me, but of course they didn't."

Nik didn't reply but instead turned into a large wrap around driveway in front of a huge mansion.

"Holy shit! You live here?" Caroline asked wide-eyed and looking out the window.

"Mhm." Nik mumbled staring at her an odd gleam in his eye.

"Damn! Why were we hanging out at my house then?" Caroline asked turning to look at him.

He smirked at her and leaned in, Caroline thinking he wanted a kiss leaned in as well. She kissed him slowly on the lips, then turned and got out of the car leaving Nik stunned still in the vehicle.

"Are you getting out?" Caroline asked as Nik slowly began to get out of the car.

"Caroline…" he began to say, but she hurried over to him. She wrapped her arms around his neck and smiled pleasantly at him.

"I just want to say thank you! This means a lot to me, Nik and I wouldn't want to be with anyone else tonight. Since we met, everything has been fantastic. I love spending time with you and I just want you to know that you mean a lot to me so tonight when my friends try to have this Mikael kill Klaus I think we should leave because I would be really upset if anything happened to you." Caroline said sincerely looking into his eyes, which had an odd emotion in them.

His expression softened and he smiled down at her. Instead of answering he kissed her sweet and long on the lips savoring her taste and taking in her unique scent.

"Come on, love, I'll give you the tour." He mumbled taking her hand and leading her inside the house.

"What were you about to say?" she asked as they walked up the front steps.

Nik sighed and glanced at her, "it was nothing important, don't worry about it."

Caroline shrugged and smiled, "ok."

He led her into the house and she gasped, ohed and ahed at everything in the mansion. He showed her his study, the parlor, the library, the kitchen, the living room, and many of the other rooms except for any of the bedrooms. He couldn't tell her yet even though she was so close to the truth. He couldn't continue living this lie around her and yet he couldn't be honest with her. He wanted to, so badly, but he didn't want to destroy the illusion she had created of him. He had showed her all of the good parts of himself, and left out all of the bad.

They were looking at his paintings in his study when she turned to him and smiled sweetly.

"You're incredible you know that?" she said quietly.

"Incredible, you say?" he said chuckling.

"Oh yeah! These paintings are amazing! I can't believe you did these." She gushed.

He shrugged and humble replied, "One of my landscapes is hanging in the Eremitage, not that anyone would notice. Have you been?"

She shook her head, "I think they are beautiful and I would love to see them someday, but no I have never been anywhere."

He matched her smile and pulled her close, "I'll show you maybe we can take a trip. I'll take you wherever you want. Rome, Paris, Tokyo."

"I'd like that a lot." She said snuggling into his side and kissing him slowly. They got lost in each other, but Nik caught sight of the time and winced.

"Come on, love it's already seven thirty. We have to hurry through dinner so we can get there on time." Nik said.

Caroline nodded and they left the study to go to the dining room where he had set up candles and had taken out the nice china so they could eat off it. He ordered the on hand servants to serve the food and they ate while pleasant conversation flowed. He told her funny stories about the past and he enjoyed the chimes of her laugh. She told him about her family and friends and they held hands throughout dinner. When they finally ate dessert Nik stood up and pulled her with him.

"Are you sure you want to go?" Nik asked staring into her eyes.

Caroline sighed and nodded, "I want you to meet my friends. Elena thinks I'm ashamed because I won't let you meet them…but in reality I'm kind of ashamed of them. They can be…judgmental." She said delicately.

Nik chuckled and kissed her gently, "I promise to be on my best behavior."

Caroline grinned, "don't worry it's not you I'm worried about."

"Good, now, sweetheart let's go." Nik said putting an arm around her waist and they walked out, back towards the car to Tyler Lockwood's.

When they arrived the impromptu Homecoming was in full swing. Nik parked a ways a way since there were so many cars and they began to walk up to the mansion hand in hand.

"How are you doing?" Nik asked her casting her a sidelong look.

"Fine. Fine." she said nervously. He chuckled and stopped walking she followed suit. He brought her closer and placed one hand on her waist and the other in her hair. He leaned down slowly and kissed her passionately and tenderly, time stood still as they both took the other in and when they finally broke apart both were breathing raggedly as they rested their foreheads on the other.

"How do you feel now?" Nik whispered.

"Amazing." Caroline whispered back smiling.

"Good." Nik said and just as they were about to start walking again his phone went off. He took a look at who was calling and then he turned to Caroline.

"Love, go on up without me I have to take this real quick, but I'll come find you. Don't worry." Nik said.

"I can wait." Caroline protested.

"No it's fine. Just business. Go find your friends." Nik said kissing her forehead then walking away to take the phone call.

Caroline shrugged and began to walk towards Tyler's. When she got there though she couldn't find any of her friends. The mansion was overcrowded with hardly anyone she recognized. She couldn't even seem to find Tyler.

So instead she went to find a drink and wandered around looking for Nik. After about forty-five minutes and no sign whatsoever of anyone and she repeated anyone she knew she whipped her phone out and was about to call Nik when in walks Elena and Matt hand in hand.

"Hey! What happened to Rebekah?" Caroline asked walking over to them.

"Change of plans." Elena said vaguely taking her coat off. Caroline looked at her confused and then at Matt who shrugged.

"I'm so glad you guys are here I don't recognize anyone." Caroline said looking around.

"And I lost my boyfriend." She added annoyed.

"Boyfriend?" Elena and Matt asked confused.

Caroline shot a weird look at Elena and then looked at Matt. "Yeah we talked about this, like four days ago, remember? I wanted to introduce him to you guys, but I can't seem to find him." She said glancing around again.

"Do you really think that's a good idea to invite a human to this Homecoming? Especially when we are trying to kill Klaus." Elena said nastily.

Caroline looked at her shocked and bewildered.

Matt shrugged apologetically at Caroline.

She opened her mouth and was about to retort that A) Elena had brought Matt and Matt was human and B) Nik wasn't human but instead she took the higher road.

"You know what I think I'll just go look for him." Caroline mumbled and turned to walk away so she could look for Nik.

Outside Klaus stood with some scattered hybrids around him to guard him. He had to take care of a few things before he could get back to Caroline. Or at least he had to figure out a way to keep his identity a secret. He was standing in the midst of his hybrids when he saw Matt, Elena, and Tyler circled around each other.

He smirked coming up with an idea.

"Hello all." Klaus said coming to stand near them.

They all turned to glare which made his smirk deepen.

"Tyler, I need to borrow you for a moment. You don't mind, right? Great." Klaus dragged Tyler away from his friends and out of ear shut before anyone could protest.

"I'm not your—" Tyler began to whine, but Klaus shut him up with a glare.

"I need you to vervain Caroline, make sure she's passed out, and take her home. Do not let her find out anything about me and do not let anything happen to her. After you drop her off go get exceedingly drunk and forget everything about tonight. We never talked." Klaus compelled and watched as Tyler walked off to find Caroline without a second thought.

Klaus smirked watching him go then turned to go talk to Matt and Elena.

Tonight was going to be fun.

Caroline had just gotten done circling the Mansion for the third time. She couldn't find Nik anywhere and her phone was dead so she couldn't call him either. She cursed quietly and almost karate chopped someone when they grabbed her shoulder from behind.

"Hey, it's me, Tyler." Tyler stammered hands in the air in a surrender motion.

"Oh. What do you want?" Caroline asked her eyes searching the crowd. She thought she saw Nik, but whoever it was moved and she lost sight of him.

"I need to talk to you." Tyler said.

Caroline glanced at him and sighed, "can't it wait. I'm looking for someone."

"No. I need to talk to you now."

Caroline rolled her eyes, "fine but let's make it fast."

Tyler nodded and they went upstairs and into his room. He shut the door behind her and she started to walk over to his bed so she could sit down.

"So what did you—" But she was cut off by a sharp syringe being stabbed into her neck and the familiar feeling of Vervain entering her body. Her world turned black before she hit the floor.

Caroline awoke in a soft warm bed. She slowly opened her eyes and they came to rest on a figure sitting in a chair beside her bed. He was still dressed in his suit and white cotton shirt although there was blood on it now. One of his hands was holding hers and he had a concerned expression on her face.

"Nik?" she whispered her body weak from the vervain. She tried to sit up, but he gently pushed her back down and motioned for her to slide over so he could get in beside her.

She gladly moved over and snuggled into his side as he made himself comfortable against her. He didn't say anything for a long time, just tenderly caressed her hair.

"What happened?" she finally asked her voice slightly stronger.

"Some boy vervained you…I found you in his bed passed out. I carried you home. I'm sorry I didn't find you sooner love. I couldn't seem to reach you." He said quietly.

Caroline sighed, "I was looking for you all night. I don't know why Tyler would vervain me. That's so weird. Maybe because he likes me…I don't know..." She said incoherently.

Nik's grip on her tightened, "I'm sorry tonight didn't work out like you wanted."

Caroline shrugged, "it's fine, I guess. You can meet my friends another time. I just, wanna sleep. I'm so tired."

"Alright I'll leave you to it." Nik said moving to get up.

"What? No! Can you…maybe stay with me tonight?" Caroline asked shyly. "Just you know sleep here with me. I don't want to be alone." She added equally as shy.

He smiled and nodded taking off his clothes so he could sleep more comfortably. Caroline changed out of her dress and into a t-shirt and shorts. She then turned off the lights and snuggled back into him, their bodies entangled in each other. Caroline began to drift off, but right before she did Nik interrupted her dozing.

"Caroline?" he whispered.

"hm?" she mumbled half asleep.

"I…I'm not…I had a good time tonight, love." He stuttered silently cursing himself for not being able to tell her the truth.

She smiled sleepily already drifting into dreamland, "me too. I love you."

With those words uttered out of her mouth his entire body stiffened but when he looked down at his blonde angel he felt his heart warm knowing that she loved him.

He knew then that he was doomed when reality finally struck.

(A/n: happy val day! tell me what you guys think? I love and appreciate the reviews!)