THE PORT OF LOVE

Fan Fiction – Alternate Universe

Caroline & Klaus

With the participation of:

Elijah & Katherine / Kol & Bonnie

From: Lovely Vero

Chapter 14

"Breakfast menu"

Previously on: The Port of Love

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"I use a lavender soap also." She whispered, while moaning sounds of pleasure.

"Don't stop using them; I love this scent on you." He murmured more, sliding his hands under her t-shirt, feeling the softness and silkiness of her skin.

"No." She whispered, in a last attempt to regain consciousness, while shaking her head.

"Katherine…You're so beautiful." He murmured, while kissing her jaw line.

"No." She repeated, firmly this time, while pushing him away from her. "This has to stop!"

"I'm sorry…" Elijah replied, while passing a nervous hand through his hair, before adding. "It's just that …"

"Katherine?" They both heard a voice calling, before both turning their heads toward the opened pantry door.

"Stefan?" Katherine replied, in shock, to the young man who was standing under the arch door.

"Stefan…What are you doing here?" Katerine said, while rubbing her hands nervously on her jeans.

"Do I need a reason to see my girlfriend?" Stefan asked her, while taking a few walking steps into the small pantry space, before reaching Katherine's standing position and slowly lowering his head to kiss her lips. "I'm meeting Elena for breakfast." He finally replied to her question.

Elijah frowned, while biting the inside of his cheeks, before turning his sight away from their embrace.

"Of course not… You don't need any reason." Katherine replied, while slowly pushing herself away from her boyfriend's arms and glancing rapidly in direction of Elijah. "I … I was actually placing some boxes on the above shelf, and Elijah was kind enough to give me a helping hand." She explained, while blushing.

"Elijah?" Stefan repeated the name, while narrowing his sight on the handsome man, who was standing in close quarter with his girlfriend, not even five minutes ago.

"I'm sorry, where are my manners." Katherine mumbled nervously, before pointing her right hand toward Elijah. "Elijah is one of Caroline Forbes's friend from New York, the other one being her friend Bonnie, they are visiting Clovelly for the next few weeks, and therefore staying at the Rose Garden pub." She explained, before raising her sight in Elijah's. "Elijah, this is Stefan, my boyfriend."

"Pleased to meet you, mate." Stefan said, in a neutral tone of voice while handing his right hand.

"Same here" Elijah replied, in the same tone, before shaking Stefan's hand.

"Well, thank you for giving a helping hand to my girlfriend it was certainly appreciated, is it not, Katherine?" Stefan said, before sliding a hand and arm around her waist, while making a lot of emphasize on the "girlfriend" reference.

"Yes, of course." Katherine replied, while lowering her blushed cheeks.

"I'll let you handle the rest of the work by yourselves, then." Elijah said, with a smile, before nodding his head in respect to both of them, and turning on his heels.

"Elijah?" Stefan called, one last time.

"Yes?" Elijah asked.

"I hope you'll have a nice stay in Clovelly, and that you will cherish these souvenirs when you'll go back to New York." Stefan said, as an implied message.

Elijah raised his sight in Stefan's, because smirking, and nodding his head.

"I'm sure I will." Elijah replied, before saluting one last time. "Katherine."

She nodded her head in return, while swallowing a nervous lump in her throat, before seeing Elijah pass the threshold and leaving their sights.

"I'll continue to place the boxes on the shelves." She mumbled nervously, while turning her back at Stefan. "You can go meet, Elena, I am sure she is waiting impatiently for you." She snapped at him.

"What is going on between you and that man?" Stefan asked to her, abruptly, his sight fixated at her back.

Katherine startled, before closing her eyes, while sighing and counting to ten.

"Why are you ignoring me since Elena came back to the village?" She asked Stefan, while sliding a small box on a shelf.

Stefan startled at Katherine's insinuation, before smiling sarcastically at her implied question and shaking his head in disbelief.

"That is totally your style, Kat, you ask a question while avoid answering mine." He replied, with a made tone in his voice.

"Nothing is going on with me and Eli… and this man … He's just one of the many customers of this pub. Can I say the same about you and my sister? Is there something going on with you two that I should know of?" Katherine asked, while turning on herself, before facing Stefan, both of her hands placed on each side of her waist. "You've been passing all your time with her since she had arrived, and literally avoiding me, Stefan."

"This is ridiculous and ludicrous, how can you even imply this?" Stefan mumbled, while blushing and gesturing with his arms and hands, before lowering his head. "I'm passing time with her, because you're not able to see your own sister."

"Yes, you're right, how can I even imply that you could be interested in her?" She replied, sarcastically, before walking beside him, and leaving the pantry.

Elijah pushed the kitchen swinging doors, before pacing back and forth, stopping, and suddenly grabbing the edge of the counter, while staring at both Kol and Bonnie, that were still sitting on their bar stools with speechless expressions on their faces.

"What do you know about Stefan? I mean Katherine's boyfriend?" He asked Kol, without any warning from his part and under the surprised expression of Bonnie.

"Mate, are we friends now?" Kol asked Elijah, while turning his head toward Bonnie, before winking at her. "Darling, I think your friend wants to be my friend. It can only be a good omen for our future relationship."

"I seriously doubt it, and we don't have a relationship, Kol." Bonnie replied, while rolling her eyes at him, before adding. "Now that you are standing behind the counter, Elijah, could you refill me some coffee?" She asked him, while presenting her cup, tilting her head and pouting. "Pretty please, with a cherry on top?"

Elijah took the cup from her hands, before grabbing the coffee pot placed on the counter behind him, pouring the liquid, while snapping fingers in front of Kol's face to wake him up.

"Oh right … Stefan." Kol nodded his head, before suddenly smirking and crossing his arms over his chest. "But, wait a minute, American boy…Why do you want to know anything about Stefan? I'll be damn; you have a thing for Kat, don't you?"

Elijah sighed in annoyance, while sliding the refill cup in front of Bonnie's sitting position, before lowering his upper body near Kol, who stepped back taken by surprise.

"Ok, mate, no need to get physical with me now, there's like a safe perimeter that I like for men to not cross." Kol said, with hands gesture, before adding while turning his head toward Bonnie. "But you can cross that perimeter any time you want, sweetheart."

"Stefan?" Elijah demanded, with an ordering tone of voice.

"Right … Not much to say actually, Kat and Stefan have known each other since they were kids. They started going out end of high school, she became pregnant couple of years ago, but unfortunately she had lost the baby."

"Oh my God, that is so sad." Bonnie exclaimed in shock, while turning her head toward Kol.

"She also has a twin sister, named Elena, but you can't compare the two, it's like comparing the light of the day, and the darkness of the night." Kol explained, while shrugging his shoulders.

"I haven't met her yet." Bonnie told Elijah, while shaking her head

"You didn't miss much." Kol replied, while rolling his eyes. "The girl is Cruella De vil – London style version."

"I unfortunately have." Elijah replied himself, while crossing his arms across his chest. "Not a pleasant experience."

"And look what the devil brought to us." Kol exclaimed, while nodding his head in direction of the pub entrance.

Bonnie and Elijah turned their heads toward the entrance door, before seeing Katherine's twin sister entering the Rose Garden Pub, while swaying her hips on her high heels designer shoes.

"My, my … if it isn't Kol? What is bringing your bum face around here?" Elena asked, while reaching their positions and sliding her Chanel bag on the bar counter, before pulling her gloves down her hands.

""Bitchy", it's been so long!" Kol exclaimed, joyfully, while titling his head and smiling sarcastically to the young woman. "Did you miss me?"

"Not even the least." She replied to him, slyly.

"Oh my poor heart, I'm crashed now." Kol replied, while putting his right open palm hand over his chest. "But, I'll survive." He informed her, while winking at Bonnie, who lowered her head in her coffee cup to retain her need to burst into laughter. "Is it already the winter season starting in early August, Elena?" He finally added, while lowering his sight on Elena's gloves.

"It's not like I'm expecting you to know anything about fashion." She rolled her eyes, before glaring at the woman who was sitting alongside Kol. "Hi, are you a tourist visiting this charming Clovelly village, or simply the poor girl who had the unfortunate misfortune to be attracted in Kol's net? I'm Elena Gilbert." She addressed herself to Bonnie, before handing her manicured right hand.

"Neither, I'm visiting a friend." Bonnie replied, politely, while nodding her head and shaking her hand. "I've met your sister, Katerine, she is a very nice woman."

"You're visiting a Friend? Is she one of your friends?" Elena demanded, before finally raising her, long, black lashes at Elijah, while ignoring the mention of her sister Katherine. "Mister … Let me remember … Elijah, am I right?"

"There was no need for you to remember my name, Miss Gilbert, for my short stay in Clovelly, I would like to stay incognito, nothing personal of course." Elijah replied to her, while narrowing his sight on her, with the most devious smile plastered on his lips.

Kol and Bonnie buried their heads between their shoulders, while giggling in silence.

"We'll… I'll surely try to remember your request for the next time we'll meet, Mister Elijah" She replied, coldly, before grabbing her Chanel handbag placed on the counter. "And especially, do not spend my precious time to be polite to simple peasants of your kind." She added, before turning on her heels, toward a remote table.

"And the American man score against the ice Queen!" Kol whispered, to both Elijah and Bonnie. "Mate, you're my new hero."

"Wow! I have the hardest time to believe that she is actually related to Katherine." Bonnie added, while shaking her head in disbelief, before sipping her coffee.

Stefan suddenly strolled beside them in direction of Elena's table, while nodding his head to Kol.

"Kol" He saluted, while raising his sight for a short moment at Elijah.

"Stefan." Kol replied, while nodding himself. "See…." Kol murmured, near Bonnie's ear. "I am a man of integrity, when I set my beautiful brown eyes on a woman, I don't play with two at the same time."

"Are you kidding me?" Bonnie replied, while turning her head toward him and staring into Kol's eyes.

"Oh come on, Bonnie, I'm not that bad, what will it take for you to accept a single date with me?" He asked, while showing his sad puppy face.

"Could you give me a hand in here?" Bonnie asked Elijah, while raising her sight at him.

"Nope … You're all alone on that one." Elijah responded, while smirking at his friend and crossing his arms in front of his chest.

"Thanks a whole lot!" Bonnie replied, while seeing Katherine pushed her way through the kitchen swinging doors.

"You need to be on the other side of the counter." She addressed herself to Elijah, while pointing a hand, and staring at Stefan's and her sister's sitting position in the dining room.

"Are you ok?" Elijah asked her, while scrutinizing her facial expression.

"I'm fine." She added, while pushing him gently out of her way.

"Are you finished with your breakfast, Bonnie?" She asked, evasive, while grabbing Bonnie's plate.

"Yes, thank you, Katherine. It was delicious." Bonnie replied, while shrugging her shoulders at Elijah, who was now standing beside her, his sight fixated on Katherine.

"You're not ok, Katherine." Elijah insisted.

"Then, I'll be ok, Elijah." She replied to him, while occupying her time behind the counter.

"Mate, why don't you walk with me toward the port? We're leaving in about an hour for a two days period at sea. I'll make you visit the boat." Kol suggested to Elijah,

"You're leaving?" Bonnie asked, surprised.

"Oh, little cauliflower, you're missing me already, how sweet." Kol replied, while winking and lowering his head to kiss Bonnie's left cheek. "I'll be back before you know it." He added, before sliding Euros bills on the counter to pay his due. "Thanks Kat!"

"Ohhhh…." Bonnie complained, while blushing and rubbing the skin of her cheek, to erase any trace of his kiss.

"Be safe on the boat, Kol." Kat added, while giggling at Bonnie's gesture.

"Will do" Kol responded, before grabbing his army bag and approaching Elijah's standing position. "Coming mate?" Kol asked him.

"And why not?" Elijah replied, while blinking an eye at Bonnie before lowering his head near hers. "I'll take good care of your boyfriend." He murmured, with the biggest smile on his lips, before raising his sight in Katherine's and adding. "We'll talk later."

"Really? You're mocking me?" Bonnie exclaimed, while shaking her head at him. "I'll get you for this, Elijah!" She added, while pointing an accusatory finger.

Both men walked toward the entrance of the Pub, before seeing tornado Caroline stormed inside the Rose Garden pub.

"Where are Katherine and Bonnie?" She asked both men, while stomping on her feet, and rubbing her hands nervously.

"Well, hello to you too my dear friend. Did you sleep well?" Elijah mocked.

"Hi, Elijah" Caroline replied, while rising rapidly on her tip toes to kiss his cheeks.

"Can I have kisses too?" Kol asked, enthusiastically, while smiling heavenly.

"No, Kol … You can't!" She responded, with a sharp tone of voice

"Not my lucky day with women as I can see." Kol responded, while shrugging his shoulders and holding the door open for Elijah.

"They both are at the bar." Elijah responded, before sweet kissing Caroline's forehead and following Kol outside.

"Oh, thank God…Good!" She said, before walking toward her friend's sitting position.

"Finally… Care, where were you? I was worrying sick about you!" Bonnie exclaimed, while turning on her stool.

"Hey, Lady Caroline, we were wondering when you would show up?" Katherine exclaimed herself, with a sarcastic smile.

"Hey! You're hurting me, what are you doing?" Bonnie asked, while feeling the hands of Caroline pull her hair, and dragging her behind the bar counter.

"What is going on with you?" Katherine asked, dumfounded, before being grabbed by her right forearm and pushed into the kitchen.

"There!" Caroline ordered, before pushing both women in the pantry, before closing the door behind them.

"If you would at least turn the light on, we wouldn't be forced to listen to you while standing in the dark." Katherine asked.

"Oh right!" Caroline replied, before sliding her hand on the wall to find the light switch. "There!" She added, before pacing back and forth in the small space.

"What is it with me and this pantry today?" Katherine mumbled to herself, while crossing her arms in front of her chest and shaking her head.

"I don't know; but you could tell us about your secret "rendez-vous" with Elijah, perhaps?" Bonnie mocked, while smirking.

"What? I was not having any kind of secret "rendez-vous" with you friend Elijah inside this pantry, Bonnie." Katherine replied to Bonnie.

"You can say whatever you want, Katherine." Bonnie replied, with a twisted smile at the corner of her lips. "What's up with you?" She suddenly asked Caroline, while seeing her friend biting her nails.

"I've mouthed the word: "I love you" to Klaus." Caroline confessed, while biting her bottom lip and cutting their conversation short.

"What?" Both Katherine and Bonnie exclaimed, in shock, before turning their heads simultaneously to stare at Caroline. "Are you crazy?" They added, in perfect timing.

"Why would you do something like that?" Katherine asked, while gesturing with her arms.

"Care, is that true?" Bonnie asked her jaw left on the floor. "Are you having any kind of feelings for Klaus?"

"I don't know what happened, it kind of came out, out of nowhere, at that moment." Caroline replied to Katherine, while shrugging her shoulders, before turning to face Bonnie. "No, it's not true, Bonnie; of course I don't have those kinds of feelings for him!"

"So you were with him the all time, last night, then?" Katherine asked her, while smirking before adding proudly to Bonnie. "I've told you so."

"Yes, he was the last one on my list of evaluation." Caroline explained, while passing a nervous hand through her tangled hair.

"Oh I bet you evaluated him, alright." Katherine added, while making Bonnie burst into laughter.

"Seriously? That is your answer to me." Caroline replied, while putting her head in her hands. "I'm a nervous wreck since last night and I can't breathe at the moment. This man is literally pulling all the strength out of me."

"Ok, Caroline, calm down." Katherine responded, before grabbing a paper bag on a shelf and handing it to her. "Here, take that, my lady, and breathe in and out in the bag."

"It's going to be ok, Care." Bonnie told her. "Isn't it?" Bonnie asked Katherine, while shrugging her shoulders.

"Yes!" Katherine responded, in a firm voice. "Where is the strong Caroline Forbes that I've met recently and learned to truly respect in a short amount of time?"

"She's here!" Caroline replied, while pulling the bag away from her mouth. "I don't know what possessed me to mouth those words."

"Maybe after sharing a strong sexual connection with him, you simply mixed the feelings." Katherine suggested.

"Yes, Caroline, listen to Katherine, It could simply be that?" Bonnie added.

"He's good in the sack, no?" Katherine asked, while raising one eyebrow.

"You're not asking me that question, aren't you?" Caroline asked Katherine, while shaking her head in disbelief.

"I'm not asking you for any details, I'm just suggesting that you were just taking into a twirl of intense physical emotions while being in his arms." Katherine explained. "And that is explaining why you mouthed those words afterward."

"It sounds legit." Bonnie added, while shrugging her shoulders.

"Did he hear you? Did he saw you murmur those words?" Katherine asked some more.

"No, if he had he would have mocked me forever." Caroline replied, while crossing her arms in front of her chest and rolling her eyes.

"I highly doubt it. It's not like he'd ever heard those words murmured to him before." Katherine replied, while opening the pantry door. "I need to go back to the dinning room." She added, with Caroline and Bonnie on her heels, before pushing the swinging doors.

"What do you mean you highly doubt it?" Caroline asked her, surprised, while grabbing her left arm. "And why are you saying that it's not like he has ever heard those words before?"

"What is it matters to you, Caroline?" Katherine asked. "You both need to stop what you're doing, or one of you is going to seriously get hurt." Katherine added, while starting the coffee machine to make a fresh pot. "Or at least you need to put a label on what exactly you are doing, or soon enough the words you mouthed will become reality, and truth be told, I don't think you're ready to handle all of Klaus."

"I'll go upstairs to pick up my handbag." Bonnie said, while smiling timidly to both girls, before leaving them to their conversation.

"So, I'm the bad guy in this, then?" She whispered, while taking a seat on a bar stool, and lowering her head, shamelessly.

"No, neither of you are, my lady." Katherine replied, while grabbing both of her hands in hers. "Look at me." She asked softly. "I think you're avoiding the fact that you're starting to fall hard for the man, and I think he's not realizing his own feelings for you. And this situation could turn good or bad depending how you will both handle it." She explained, before adding. "And, I feel responsible, because it's me who pushed you toward Klaus. I want neither of you to be hurt."

"No, Katherine, you're not responsible. What happened between me and Klaus would have happened either way." Caroline replied, while shaking her head.

"So, you're finally admitting that you are attracted to him, and starting to develop feelings for him, then?" Katherine smirked, while crossing her arms in front of her chest. "Those feelings being whatever you want to call them, and are not necessary what you've mouthed to him."

Caroline blushed, before shrugging her shoulders, no need to hide it to Katherine anymore.

"Fine" She mumbled between her teeth. "But, he's still getting on my last nerves, Katherine." She added, while rolling her eyes. "And he refuses to see that I am doing my very best to save the fishermen's jobs. Either ways, this thing between us can't happen again … It's ethically wrong."

"Well, talking about him, look who the devil brought to us?" Katherine responded, while smirking and nodding her head in direction of the entrance door.

"He's here, isn't he?" Caroline asked, while sighing and grabbing with both hands, the coffee cup that Katherine had put in front of her eyes.

"Yap" Katherine responded.

"Katherine" Klaus greeted, while reaching Caroline's sitting position at the bar and dropping his army bag at his feet.

"Klaus" She greeted him, while nodding her head. "What can I do for you, Mate, breakfast?"

"Wrap me an eggs sandwich, I'll take it aboard the boat." He responded, before taking his sitting position beside Caroline. "We're leaving at sea for two days." He added.

"Coming right up" She responded, before winking at Caroline, and entering the kitchen.

"You've burned your eggs in the pan this morning?" Caroline mocked, while sipping her coffee. "And could you do me a big favour? Just go overboard, head first into the sea."

"Ah… Love, do you always have this sharp tongue so early in the morning?" He asked her, while tilting his head, before adding. "Or is it for my ears only?" He added, sharply. "And don't forget, doll, going overboard is clearly more your style." He mocked, with the biggest smirk on his face.

"Actually, my sharp tongue has always been for you ears only." She responded, while smiling perniciously into her cup. "As for my wish of you going overboard, a girl can dream, can she?"

"I…" He started, while growling, before lowering his head near hers, his left hand placed on the bar counter in front of Caroline, and his right behind her back, on the edge of her stool. "Look at me, Caroline, please?" He demanded.

"I don't want to." She responded, while pouting.

"I am trying to apologize to you." He whispered.

She turned her head slowly, at a near inch of his, while lowering her sight on his beautiful, full lips. He was wearing a torn pair of jeans, army boots, and a grey, Henley, long sleeve t-shirt… This man was obviously too sexy for her own good.

"What?" She asked, while swallowing a lump of nervousness in her throat.

"It bothered me the way you left my house this morning….And … I wanted for you to know that I wouldn't expose our … Whatever we call "this" that we have going on between us … to the world." He whispered to her, with cut sentences, his blue eyes drown in the ones of Caroline. "I was upset and mad, and when I feel this way, I sometimes react like a jerk, but I am not one, Caroline… I wouldn't do that to you."

Caroline hold her breath for a short moment, while noticing the truthfulness in his eyes.

"Thank you….I mean… for reassuring me that you are not, totally, a jerk." She simply responded, while feeling the beats of her heart rising dangerously in her chest. He was standing in a too near proximity and triggering a range of delightful shivers in her spine. "But, needless to say that "this thing" between us, was a mistake and it needs to be part of the past, so we can stop dwelling on it." She explained, with shortness of breaths. "From now on, it will be essentially a professional relationship between us, Mister Klaus." She added, while turning her head back to the counter, and grabbing the coffee cup with her shaking hands. "I've acted idiotically, and outside my professional and ethical value. For that I'm truly sorry."

"Your palms are sweaty, your hands are shaking, you heartbeats are rising, and you're biting your lips, all of those are really disturbing to me, Miss Forbes." Klaus murmured, slowly and softly, into her ear, with his warm breath caressing her skin. "If you want this "professional relationship" to work between us, you need to stop seducing me and sending me mixed messages."

Caroline lowered her coffee cup on the bar counter, while closing her eyes and fists, before counting to ten, to calm herself down.

"Try to not miss me too much, while I'm gone, Love." She heard him murmur more, while feeling his lips slowly caress her earlobe.

She reopened her eyes, only to see the entrance door being closed on its arch.

Katherine reappeared from the kitchen, while holding a paper bag in her hands and scattering the dinning room in every direction.

"Where is he?" Katherine asked.

"Give me that." Caroline told her, while grabbing the bag, and rising on her legs, before storming out of the Pub.

"Caroline, don't forget what I've told you!" Katherine yelled to her, without receiving any answer from her part. "Jesus, Marie, Lord, these two are going to drive us crazy!"

Klaus walked slowly toward the port by passing through the Rose Garden' parking while whistling, smirking and holding his army bag on his right shoulder.

"Five, four, three, two, one…. Come at me, sweetheart." He counted, while reaching the quay, before hearing the delightful and beautiful sound of her voice.

"Klaus Mikaelson, hold your wild horses right this minute!" Caroline yelled at him, while running after him.

"Yes, Love?" He asked, before turning on himself and facing her. "Oh, pardon me … I meant: Yes, Miss Forbes … I completely forgot about our "professional relationship" status… Shortness of memory, I presume."

"Oh you think you're funny, don't you?" She asked him, while titling her head, with smoke coming out of her ears. "You forgot your damn sandwich." She said, while throwing the mashed paper bag in his left hand.

"You should say what is left of that said sandwich." He said, while looking at the crushed paper bag, before pulling out the eggs sandwich from its inside and biting full teeth into it. "Mm…that is good!" He added, while talking with his mouth open.

"Could you act with some decency for once in your life?" She asked him, while stomping her feet on the dock, with her closed fists on each side of her waist.

"What has your beautiful bottom in a twist, Miss Forbes?" He asked, while biting more into his food.

Caroline closed her eyes, while sighing loudly.

"I am not in any shape or form, seducing you or sending you mixed messages. This is the end of whatever this was between us." She busted at him, while pointing an accusatory finger at him. "Do you understand me?"

"Crystal!" He responded, while nodding his head.

"Really, you're agreeing, just like that?" She asked, while raising a suspicious eyebrow at him.

"Sure." He said, while smirking, before adding. "How sweet and romantic it is, Love … Oh, my bad again, I mean "Miss Forbes", to bring me a sandwich in a paper bag, while having an audience of fishermen that are standing right behind my back, on the deck boat, with their eyes on you. What were you saying about a "professional relationship" again?"

Caroline lost all her colours, before hiding herself in front of Klaus's chest, and slowly sliding her head on his right shoulder to take a peak at all the fishermen that were watching them from the deck boat, including Elijah and Kol, with their arms crossed in front of their chests.

"You're enjoying this, aren't you?" She asked him, while rapidly hiding her head in front of his chest.

"What are you doing now?" Klaus asked her, while lowering his head to look at Caroline and retaining his need to burst into laughter. "They know it's you, Caroline."

"You did this in purpose!" She added, while frowning.

"I did this in purpose, seriously? It's you who ran after me, like an obedient wife would run after his husband. It's not entirely my fault, "Miss Forbes", if you have the hot for me." Klaus responded, before throwing the paper bag into a trash can. "Now, you want to give a kiss to your fisherman hubby before he boards the boat for a few days?" He mocked her.

"On your deathbed" She responded, while raising her chin and fiery eyes to him.

"Ok, Miss Forbes… I have a plan to preserve your professional ethical virtue."

"Whatever it is, I want nothing to do with it." She added.

"I'll turn you this way…" He started explaining, while turning her body around. "Then give a little push on your back …" He added, while pushing her to walk away from him.

"What is he doing?" Kol asked Elijah, while both standing on the boat deck, beside the group of fishermen, who where also watching the scene.

"Your guess is as good as mine." Elijah answered him, while narrowing his sight on them.

"What are you doing?" Caroline asked Klaus, while trying to turn her head to look at him.

The sharp noise of Klaus's right hand slapping her behind echoed into the quietness of the morning waves.

"Ohhhh…." Kol exclaimed in vocal synchronisation with the other fishermen exclamations. "That must have hurt." He added, before bursting into laugher.

"Not as much as what will follow." Elijah smirked, while placing a hand over his mouth.

Caroline stood motionless for a few seconds, with her mouth opened, while sliding a hand on her behind, where she could feel the redness and sensitivity of her skin. She growled, before turning on herself, raising her right hand and slapping Klaus's left cheek with all the strenght she got in her.

"Ouch!" Kol exclaimed more, while closing one of his eyes.

"I've told you." Elijah added, with the biggest smirk on his lips. "That's my girl, Caroline."

"There, I bet that is what you had in mind." She responded to Klaus, before turning on her heels and walking away from him.

Klaus raised his right hand on his cheek, while rubbing the redness of his skin, before bursting into laughter…She was a fighter that one.

"Don't miss me too much, Miss Forbes." He yelled.

"Go to hell!" She replied, harshly to him.

But, she was definitely smiling while walking back to the Rose Garden Pub…

Thank you for reading this chapter my faithful readers. I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it … Clovelly village is like my sweet escape.

Chapter 15: "Merry-go-around" is on its way in a very short period of time, I'd been working on it, while working on this one, give me a couple of days, and it will be updated as well.

Response to the anonymous reviews:

Ilovetvd: Ha ha ha … Yes sweetie, Klaus is falling for her, hard … Very hard, and so is she … Kat is worrying about them for reasons that are about to be revealed in further chapers. As for more tender moments between Klaus and Caroline: Next chapter will be a big one that is a promise. Thanks for your awesome presence in the review.

Viki: Hello sweetie - Ah! Finally … Someone who sees Klaus as a good man! Finally! Yes, he is a good man … He's just afraid of letting himself go at loving someone. What do I think about the upcoming Spin-Off? Well, truthfully, Joseph Morgan deserves this chance, he is an awesome actor, and as for Klaroline? Mm … It could go either way … They could do crossover between the two series, or it could also be the end, though, I highly doubt it. Thanks for your nice review.

Hallie: Thanks sweetie, very nice of you to encourage me with writing.

Mademoiselle Justine: Bon, bon … Toi aussi tu veux Klaus, et encore quoi? Tu prends un numéro et tu fais la ligne ok, et en arrière de moi en plus! Ha ha ha ... Je blague, chérie ... Tu sais en fait, et aussi surprenant que cela va paraitre, moi, mon préféré c'est Elijah ... Bien oui quoi, étant plus âgée, il me faut l'ainé des frères ... LOL. Je t'embrasse et te remercie pour tes reviews qui m'apporte toujours tant de soleil!

Germangirl: Sweetie, it's been long. Yes, Klaus has a secret, but he is not the only one … Patience, you all soon know. Sometimes, I wonder myself where my ideas are coming from? LOL …Thanks for your so nice review … Much love.