Previously in "Angel of Destiny", Lexi finds out that Evan signed up for football and calls Kol to be his stand-in.

Chapter Ten

Mystic Falls Middle School – Next Day…

Kol smiled at Evan as they pulled up to the field. He was looking forward to being Evan's stand-in and although he didn't know much about football, he also knew that he'd learn as much about it as Evan was. Before they got out, he cleared his throat. "Ready to show them what you're made of, Evan?"

Evan nodded. "You bet I am. I'm glad you're doing this for me, Kol."

"No problem," Kol said. "Your mother told me about your situation and I want to be there for you." Just then, a tap on the window where Evan sat was heard and the 8th grader turned to smile at the blonde waving at him. "Who is that?"

"That would be Amy, my best friend. She is going to be helping you at practice; she's never been more loyal," Evan replied.

Kol nodded at Amy. "She's certainly pretty. Do you fancy her by any chance?"

Evan blushed. "No! I mean, yes. I mean…"

"Evan, relax," Kol said. "I didn't mean to get you excited like that. I was only asking a question, that's all."

"Amy is the only daughter of a single mom. She doesn't know who her dad is, because her mom won't tell her," Evan said as he and Kol climbed from the car then moved around the back of the SUV to get the equipment Evan needed for practice.

Once Evan got his equipment, he and Kol walked onto the field, Amy following them. Kol thought about what Evan had told him and his heart went out to the poor girl. How could her mother not tell her who her father was? He was tempted to ask, but kept his mouth shut, because it wasn't his business. However, that didn't mean that he wouldn't still do some digging.

Later On – Amy's House…

Kol walked with Amy up to the door. "Are you sure your mother is fine with you staying home alone?" he asked the younger girl.

She nodded. "She's away a lot, on business trips. Or what she claims are business trips," Amy tells him.

"I'm not comfortable with the idea of you being here by yourself," Kol said. "Why don't you stay at Evan's until your mother gets back?"

"I don't want to intrude."

"You wouldn't be intruding," Kol said. "In fact, you'd be safe. I know I'd want my daughter to be safe while I'm away. I know; you're going to tell me that you're old enough to take care of yourself, but for my sanity, I think you'd be better off staying at Evan's. I'm sure that if I called his mother and told her the situation, she'd agree with me."

Meanwhile…

Caroline had just set Liam and Anastasia down, smiling at her stepmother-in-law before rushing out the door once again. She'd asked Klaus to meet her at home, but as soon as she got there, she spotted a strange car in the driveway. The blonde got out and went up the front porch toward the door, unlocking the front door while calling out, "Klaus, are you home?" There was silence and Caroline looked around curiously. "Hello? Nik? Are you here? If you're here, say something, so I know you're here." Another round of silence and made her nervous. "Okay, this is seriously not funny! If someone is here, answer me!"

Her frantic questions were soon answered with a moan from upstairs and she headed in that direction, where she spotted the door to hers and Klaus' bedroom door slightly ajar. "Oh, Niklaus, right there!" a woman's voice that Caroline had never heard before and then she was pushing the door open further to slam it against the wall.

"CAROLINE! I didn't think you'd be home so soon," Klaus said when he heard the door slam against the wall.

"Who is this woman?" Caroline demanded as she stood with her arms crossed over her chest. She was not amused to find him in bed with another woman.

The woman in bed with Klaus smirked at Caroline. "You must be Caroline. I'm Sarah Spencer." She eased out of Klaus' embrace and grabbed her underwear, as well as the dress and shoes she had been wearing. "I'll leave you two alone."

Once she was gone, Caroline approached the bed and slapped Klaus hard across his face, making his nose bleed, but didn't regret it. "What the hell were you thinking, Niklaus? You brought that…that…tramp into our home, and soiled the sheets of our bed with her! I'm your wife and the mother of your children, for God's sake! Didn't those vows you recited to me when we were standing up at the altar in front of our family and friends MEAN anything to you? It sure as hell didn't SEEM that way from what I walked in on! I loved you, Nik, and this is how you repay me? What have you got to say for yourself? Huh?"

"It was never supposed to get this far," he finally muttered in his British accent. "She used to date my brother, and she told me, although not in so many words, that she'd always found me attractive and wanted to know/wandered what it would be like if she'd been with one of Finn's brothers."

"SHE'S FINN'S EX? YOU SLEPT WITH YOUR BROTHER'S EX?!" Caroline yelled at him.

Klaus growled. "YOU THINK I DIDN'T TRY TO RESIST HER? WELL, I DID, CAROLINE! I TOLD HER THAT I WAS A MARRIED MAN!" He saw that Caroline was shaking. "I don't love her, Caroline, you have to believe me."

"How the hell am I supposed to believe you after something like that?" Caroline said. "Now I'm beginning to see why Mikael divorced Esther. You're just like her!"

Before Klaus could answer her, Caroline was rushing out the door, an object landing on the covers of their former bed after she threw it over her shoulder. Klaus reached over and picked it up, tears springing to the corners of his eyes when he saw it was her wedding-engagement ring combination.

Hoping to catch her before she left, Klaus quickly dressed and went after Caroline, her rings still in his hand. "Caroline, wait."

Caroline turned around and looked at him. "Whatever you have to say, Niklaus, I don't want to hear it!"

He attempted to embrace her but her elbow poked his stomach in a hard manner before she got away, running down the stairs and out the front door. Once she was safely locked in her car, Caroline got out her cell phone and dialed Eleanor's number.

Eleanor was holding Liam while fixing him and Anastasia a snack when her cell phone rang. She looked at the caller ID then pressed SEND once she saw it was Caroline calling. "Caroline, what's wrong?"

Caroline heard Klaus pounding on the door as she sobbed, "Eleanor, Niklaus cheated on me! I caught him in bed with another woman!"

Mikael walked into the kitchen where his wife was and she indicated that she was on the phone. He nodded and took Liam from her but stood close by in case she might need him for something else.

Eleanor smiled at Mikael and then said to Caroline, "Did you let him explain himself? This is probably a misunderstanding. You can't throw away a good marriage like yours because of that."

"Probably a misunderstanding," Caroline said in question form. "Is it a misunderstanding if the woman I caught him with is my brother-in-law's ex?"

"Wait, what? Which one of my stepsons' exes is in town?" Eleanor asked as she shifted her phone from one ear to the other, sitting down in the chair across from her granddaughter.

"She said her name was Sarah Spencer. Is that supposed to mean something, Eleanor?" Caroline asked.

Eleanor shook her head. "Of course she does. She and Finn used to date and then, she became obsessed with him. Fortunately, Finn got free of her and found salvation in Sage." Curiously, she added, "But why would she go after Niklaus?"

"I don't really know. I can't stay here any more, Eleanor. My marriage is over!"

Eleanor bit her lip and said, "Caroline, listen to me, okay? In the time that I've known you, you've never given up on anything, especially not this. I know that Niklaus will definitely not let you give up. Think of Liam, Anastasia and the baby. They need their father, Caroline. If you love Niklaus, like I know you do, you'll work this out."

"Work it out?" Caroline said. "But, Eleanor…"

"Don't 'but, Eleanor' me," Eleanor said. "Now, as far as Sarah is concerned, let me and Mikael take care of her. In the meantime, do what you need to do to save your marriage. Remember when you told me that your parents' marriage fell apart? Well, don't let what happened to them happen to you. Do you understand me?"

Caroline gave a hiccup reply of, "Okay, Eleanor, thank you."

After hanging up with Eleanor, Caroline got out of the car and was met with the sad face belonging to her husband. Before she could say anything, he said, "Caroline, I want you to know that I never meant for this to happen. Sarah, she…she threatened me. She said that unless I slept with her, she would kill you and the children. I did what I did to protect you."

Caroline blinked at that. Sarah threatened him? "Nik, I had no idea." She fell to her knees. "And I had to go and jump to conclusions like that. Damn it, I'm so stupid!

Klaus knelt down next to her and pulled her to him. "No, love, you're not stupid, far from it."

Caroline shook her head, but accepted the comforting embrace, returning it without hesitation. After a moment of silence, she said, "We'll get through this, Nik. Mikael and Eleanor will take care of Sarah and make sure that she never threatens us like that again." She pulled back and then kissed him softly. "I love you so much."

Later…

Sarah arrived home and found a strange car, immediately grimacing because she knew who it was.

Sarah saw Eleanor stepping out of the car. From the look on her face, she didn't appear to be too thrilled. Instead of being intimidated by the older woman, she said, "What the hell are you doing here?"

"I'll be the one asking questions around here, thank you," Eleanor said. "Why did you make my stepson, Niklaus, sleep with you, knowing that he was a married man that would never hurt his wife?"

"You think that I didn't know that he'd try to refuse me?" Sarah said. "Well, he was quite a fighter, your stepson. That is, until I threatened to kill his wife and children unless he slept with me."

Stepping up to the tall brunette, Eleanor got in her face. "Don't you EVER threaten Caroline, Liam or Anastasia again, are we clear on that?" she ground out.

Sarah scowled at the older woman. "Oh, it's clear all right. It's clear that you Mikaelsons think you rule the world because you're rich."

Her face is quick to turn away when Eleanor sends a loud smack across her face. "Unlike you, I don't seduce the brother of your ex-boyfriend nor do I threaten the family he has," the blonde replied through gritted teeth.

Sarah growled at Eleanor. "This isn't over, do you hear me?"

Eleanor handed her an envelope. "This restraining order says it is."

Sarah was about to respond when her cell phone rang. She got it out of her purse and looked at the caller ID, seeing that it was Amy calling her. "Amy, honey, where are you?"

"I went to Evan's house, Mum. Because you weren't home and someone told me I should," her daughter replied.

Sarah had a feeling that she knew who told Amy to stay at Evan's house. "Well, I'm glad you're safe, sweetheart. Be a good girl and I'll see you soon, okay?"

"Okay, Mum," Amy said. "I love you."

Sarah smiled at that. "I love you too, Amy."

Once Sarah ended the call, she looked at Eleanor, who was holding up a batch of money. "You are going to take this, Sarah, and once your daughter gets home, you're going to make sure that she is well-taken care of, got it?"

Sarah shook her head. "I don't want your money."

"I don't care, just take it," Eleanor said. "If you don't do it for yourself, then do it for your daughter."

"You're willing to give me money?" Sarah said. "After what I did to your stepson, you're being generous?"

"Oh, this doesn't mean you're off the hook about what you did to Niklaus," Eleanor said. "But, it does men that you need to support your little girl." She placed the money in her hand. "Now, take it and don't let me catch you making trouble for my family again, is that understood?"

"Understood," Sarah said with a forced smile as she wrapped her hand around the money.

Eleanor nodded and went toward the car, getting into it and waited until Sarah went into her house before taking out her cell phone and dialing Mikael's number. After several rings, she heard his voice on the other end. "Yes, my love?"

"It's done, Mikael," she replied. "Sarah agreed to never bother us again. I even gave her money so that she can support her daughter."

A Few Hours Later…

Finn was playing football in the front yard when a car pulled up in the driveway then turned to his only son and suggested, "Cooper, son…why don't you go inside for a while and see what your mom and sisters are doing, okay?"

Cooper went inside and Finn crossed his arms when he saw the person stepping out of the car. "Sarah, what are you doing here?"

"I don't want any trouble, Finn," she replied. "I just want to talk."

"You want to talk after what you did to my brother?" Finn said. "I'd rather have shards of glass in my eyes than talk to you."

Sage came outside then and stood beside her husband. "Oh, look, it's the wicked witch from England!" she said with a smirk at Sarah.

Sarah scowled at Sage. "Look, I already caught hell from his stepmother. All I want to do is talk. There's something I need Finn to know."

"Oh, and what's that? How much of a tramp you are, by seducing his MARRIED BROTHER?" Sage said with a scowl back.

Finn got between his wife and his ex-fiancé. "Sage, sweetheart, I need you to calm down, okay? I will handle this. Please…just go back inside with the children, okay?"

"NO. I'm not leaving you out here with this…thing who thinks she can ruin your family!" Sage yelled back at him.

Sarah then said, "I wanted to tell Finn about his daughter."

Finn looked at Sarah. "Excuse me, but did you say daughter? What are you talking about?"

"Oh, don't play dumb with me, Finnegan; you never did tell your WIFE over here the night you spent with me, oh…around 14 years ago?" Sarah said with a smirk at Sage.

"YOU SLEPT WITH HER?" Sage yelled as she began to hit her husband's chest.

"You get out of here; I don't want to speak to you again. I don't even want to know about our daughter. As far as I'm concerned, she probably isn't even mine," Finn said to Sarah before grabbing Sage and tossing her over his shoulder before turning and heading into the house.

Once they were in the house, Finn shut and locked the door behind them. He then set Sage down on the couch, joining her a second later. It was quiet for a while until Sage said, "Was she telling the truth, Finn? Did you father a child with her?"

"Sage, please, I don't want to talk about it."

"But, I do," Sage said. "I want to know if what that woman said was true."

"Damn it, Sage, I said I didn't want to talk about it!" Finn ground out. Sage sniffed and nodded then got up and left the room, going back to the kitchen. Finn flinched when he heard her slam the back door to the porch.

Sage then went to her car, determined to get the answers that her husband wasn't willing to give her. She just to find out if Sarah had been telling the truth about her daughter being Finn's, and the best place she could get the answers would be from Mikael and Eleanor. Making up her mind, she started the engine and drove off toward the mansion.

Back at their house, Ruby came downstairs and found her father pacing the length of the living room. "What did you say to Mum that made her upset, Father?"

Finn looked at his daughter. He wanted to lie to her, but found that it was impossible, especially since knew that Ruby was too smart to be lied to. Sighing, he said, "Your father's past is catching up to him, Ruby Red."

"It is? How is that so, Daddy?"

"It seems that you have another sister, a sister whose existence I've been unaware of until now," Finn said. "Before I was with your mother, I was with a woman named Sarah Spencer."

It didn't take Ruby long to figure out who that was. "You mean the one who slept with Uncle Nik?"

"Yes," Finn said. "The sad part was I almost married her, but I broke off the engagement. Of course, I had no idea that I had gotten her pregnant in that interim until today." He sighed. "How could I have been so blind?"

At the mansion, Sage knocked on the door. She smiled at Eleanor when she answered the door, smiling brightly at Anastasia as the toddler played with the older blonde's hair.

Eleanor stepped back to let Sage inside. She cleared her throat and said, "I wasn't expecting you, Sage. What brings you here?"

"Eleanor, I need to ask you something," the redhead replied. "It's about Finn and Sarah. I feel like he isn't telling me something."

Eleanor nodded and was about to reply when Mikael came in, noticing his daughter-in-law. "Sage, love, this is a surprise. What brings you by?"

"She thinks Finn isn't telling her something about him and Sarah." Eleanor gave Anastasia to her husband. "Here, take her, Sage and I are going to talk in the study."

He nodded then bounced his granddaughter a little, smiling when she squealed at him. In the study, Eleanor closed the doors behind her and Sage before sitting down on the couch just inside the study. "When I asked him about it earlier, he didn't want to talk about it. What's really going on, Eleanor?"

"Sage, you have to understand that Sarah wanted to trap Finn into marrying her, even though her sister, Amelia, Elijah's first love before Katherine, told her it was wrong," the older woman replied. "So, one night, just before he broke off the engagement, Finn reluctantly agreed to meet Sarah at her place for drinks. Sarah placed a powerful drug similar to the date rape drug into his drink and as soon as he ingested it, he was like putty in Sarah's hands. She took him to the bedroom and they had sex. Well, she did most of the work because Finn was in and out of consciousness."

"So, it's true," Sage said. "Finn did father a child with Sarah."

"Yes, it is," Eleanor said. "The reason he didn't want to talk about it isn't because he doesn't trust you, far from it. The experience of it all was and still is humiliating for him."

"What should I do then? Should I apologize to him?" Sage asked as she took it all in.

Author's Note: Time for another fan fiction update! Yes, the timeline looks bad with the whole Finn/Sarah/Amy debacle, but that's okay. I haven't really decided yet how everything will fall into place yet, whether Sage was already married to Finn or not. Let me know what you think!