okay people, now it's done. Enjoy 3

Klaus and Caroline both went to look after Anis, smiling in turns at the adorable cocoa-skin child, and playing with his hands and feet.

"Look, I lied to you before," she started. Klaus's eyes snapped back to her, replaying all the things she'd said since they first reunited. I'll never forget you?...You're being a good person?...I love you?...

"Before, when I told you you terrified me." He breathed a sigh of relief.

"I knew you weren't ever scared of me, love. One of the many reasons I fell in love with you."

"Yeah, but you need to know why." Klaus leaned back and gestured for her to go on. She smiled at the little action. That was old Klaus. He was coming back.

"I knew at some point, whether we found Hope after that drive or not, you would've come back to Mystic Falls." His eyebrows rose. "It was my way of making you subconsciously act less threatening when I was around." He chuckled.

Took a page of manipulation from my book," he wowed. Sadness and fear sparked behind her eyes. "Don't worry, Caroline. I know you did it for your daughters. And because of Alaric."

"Alaric?" She asked in surprise. Klaus looked at her.

"The father of your children seemed very controlling last I saw him."

"Well of course he was, because all of his loved ones had been killed supernaturally. And you're like, the beacon of it. Alaric did get pretty pissed when I told him I helped bring you back."

"I haven't properly thanked you and the others for doing such a dangerous thing. I must think about how to remedy that." Klaus grinned wickedly at her and she giggled.

"I'm not going to argue the validity of his actions. But if you'd pardon my saying so, you've a turbulent relationship history with men." He added, earning a look.

"Everybody had me as a backup. Except Tyler. But a peaceful vampire and a werewolf wouldn't have ended well anyway."

"I'm sorry, love." She slowly grinned at him and took his hand.

"That's okay. I have you. That's all I need," she replied.

"And the girls" they said together and laughed. "I swear to you," Klaus took her other hand as well. "I will never, break another promise to you."

"You did it for Hope. Though now I can say to your refreshingly alive face that it was a dumbass decision, you know I would've done the same," Caroline replied.

"You're amazing" he approved, and kissed her.

Everything was just...perfect. Everyone was happy, and in love...all the kids were content and doting on by their loving parents...Caroline hadn't felt so fortunate to be a part of such a family since learning Bonnie and Enzo had their son, Daniel. Which set her mind to work on another possibility.

"Bring Bonnie and Elena to the Quarter" Klaus repeated her suggested statement. "I assume with their husbands and children?"

"Well, yeah" she replied. She was expecting more resistance than a smile.

"Are you sure you want to put your friends in such danger? As you've said before, myself and my family are a beacon of the supernatural."

"I can protect them if I have to, and maybe Hope or Freya or somebody could put up a spell to protect them if I can't..." She trailed off, deep in her thoughts again. What about the children? What if Daniel didn't like the schools around here? What if Elena couldn't find a suitable practice? Would everyone just go back? She stopped her pacing when Klaus's warm hands rested back on her arms. She met his adoring eyes.

"I love, this idea, Caroline. Adore it, in fact. And we both know why you're wanting to make such a huge move with your friends to here. They will try their best with the Quarter. Everything will continue to be perfect." Klaus smiled again and kissed her, holding her tightly. As he breathed in her scent which was a favorite pastime of his, he thought about why she was wanting to do this. Because, she wanted to make the Quarter her home. And how better to move forward with such a plan than to bring her family here? Her daughters were her slight-biological family. But Elena and Bonnie were her sisters when she never was blessed with siblings. Daniel, young Bonnie Salvatore, Robert-Alaric, Miranda were Caroline's nieces and nephews. Damon and Enzo her brothers in law. If she would never again have an opportunity for blood family, she already had her adopted family.

Klaus kissed her, and became aroused from her happy moan against his lips. Clothes came off faster than they did their first time, the bed a disheveled mess as was their hair. But when Caroline looked at him and they looked at their surroundings, all they did was laugh, put the bed right, and hold each other under the covers until they were called on for something new.

There was a knock on the door an hour later, and a hybrid handed Caroline a phone. Josie was telling them they were on their way.

"I can't believe Alaric didn't push the issue some more" Caroline wowed, busily organizing, cleaning with the other hybrids. "I mean when I first told him I brought you back he threatened to dis-invite me from the school."

"I suppose it's good fortune he changed his mind. Or that someone changed it for him" Klaus agreed, handing her things to store in a nearby cupboard.

"I want to have everything ready when they get here. They have completely different tastes in things now."

"A known characteristic of older twins" Klaus replied.

"Josie is like a fixture of the school, she wears the uniform to the letter and is completely organized. Lizzie on the other hand, she's the rebellious one."

"Black makeup, sharp attitude, messy room, hardly does her homework" Klaus guessed

"Well, Josie usually persuades her to do it. And the thing is, Liz is so smart, if she does the homework she always does it perfectly. I've given her challenge on challenge, she always succeeds them."

"Just like her mother." Caroline grinned at him.

"Perhaps you should have her I.Q tested, possibly enroll her in a high-class college."

"We're pretty much a college ourselves; and Alaric would lose his mind if Lizzie went so far away where he couldn't protect her."

"Compel her a bodyguard?" Klaus suggested

"I thought of that, yeah. Liz doesn't want one and threatened to hurt them if she found out I didn't listen to her."

"Okay, veil the compelled bodyguard" he said. Caroline breathed a laugh.

"That's a bit much, don't you think? All that trouble when she could just stay home where she's safe?"

"Not if she's not happy there. Sooner or later she'll find a way to make happiness for herself, whether it be at home or somewhere a million miles away" Klaus countered. Caroline looked away, considering.

"I'll have to think about it." She clapped suddenly and grinned at him again. "Gotta text Bon and Elena, ask them to come here!" She danced away, leaving Klaus with a kiss on his cheek and a dopish grin on his face, dancing away himself to another part of the house.