Klausy had his tiny paws up and crossed them lazily lost in the sweet pattern that Rebekah was making on his tummy.

"Look at me, I'm so evil." Rebekah said with pursed eyebrows.

"Fear me!" Caroline chuckled with the super sweet image of Klausy resting on his back and surrendered to Rebekah's cuddling ways.

"Thank you for bringing him today." the Original smiled at Caroline accepting the coffee that the other gave her.

Caroline returned the smile and took a look around the busy environment surrounding them, she really liked New Orleans because it was such a lively city and there was always music and agitation in the streets, right now a random street band walked by the café and Klausy opened his eyes jolting back on his feet curious about the noise, Caroline stroked his head and he bounced restless, loving the new attention.

"I hate leaving him alone at the house."

"I could take care of him while you work on those really high grades to impress Nik."

Caroline lowered her eyes fuming Rebekah. "I'm getting an education because I like using my brain, I'm not doing this for anyone else but me."

"You have a certain fixation with remaining human, no matter what." Rebekah said tapping the table, the noise made Klausy react and leave Caroline's touch searching Rebekah's fingers instead.

Caroline slowed down the answer taking another long sip from her coffee. "I wasn't allowed any other choice Rebekah, from the second I was turned that I had to be human and deal with everything as fast as they threw it at me. I had to adapt and I had to have everything under control because everyone hated human Caroline but they didn't like Vampire Caroline either, so…" she shrugged.

"Which one are you really?" Rebekah asked with honest interest.

Caroline laughed quietly. "It's been a very long year so I'm not sure anymore."

"Either way, I forbid you to go back to Mystic Falls. Your friends are a bunch of narrowed minded tools who can't see past the double standards that they created themselves. Using who they please while being judgy about the rest of us."

"You used Matt all summer." Caroline stroked Klausy's back pulling his interest back to her.

"It was a mutual deal, it was one of those no strings attached things…" she smiled with a little evil sting. "Klausy?" she sweetly called and immediately the little dog went to her.

Caroline focused on the dog but gave Rebekah a smile. "Come here Klausy."

"Stay here little one." Rebekah called the dog to herself tenderly.

The little white Maltese was confused and barked between them unsure which one to choose, eventually he sat and rested his head over his paws watching them with his big puppy eyes.

As one big metaphor hitting both, they understood that there would have to be some sort of compromise and that they would have to share not only the dog but the big wolf so fond of both.

"This should be stirring." Rebekah had another sip from her coffee.

"Is that what you tell yourself every time that you fall in love?" Caroline beamed with malice.

Rebekah dropped the cup on the table and pulled her short dress a little down her legs. "I'm decided to turn things around and I will not be falling in love again any time soon." she said with utter conviction.

Caroline burst into a very loud and piercing laughter, she threw her head back and touched her chest only adding to Rebekah's uncomfortable hot seat.

"I will not get emotionally attached to anyone. I'm taking a pause from men… and women." she smiled so sure of herself.

Caroline still laughed but there was a deeper laughter joining hers and the girls looked at Klaus as he sat with them.

"That means that I will not have to throw any sad excuse of a lover over a balcony for the time being, I'm almost cheerless about it."

Rebekah scolded her brother. "He was such a nice boy and you simply got rid of him like he was an empty blood bag."

"You found a useless replacement very fast…" Klaus squinted while slanting on his chair. "I think that I removed the head of that one? I'm not sure, I always confuse that one with the brave heart who challenged me for a duel." Klaus laughed delighted with the hilarious memory.

Rebekah grabbed Klausy. "I'm going for a walk before you bring up my honor."

"It's not nice to speak of things that we have no knowledge of." he said with a malevolent grin.

Rebekah snarled upset before leaving and restrained from throwing the rest of the coffee at his face.

Klaus smiled easily and amused, he looked at Caroline half expecting a glower but she surprisingly smiled sweetly at him.

"Why did you spare Stefan? He was with Rebekah and yet you didn't harm him, just compelled him to forget that he was your friend."

"He said that I was a king among men, how could I harm him?" he leaned over immediately invading her personal space.

However she wasn't moving an inch away from him, Caroline played with her smile and then with his eyes, she kept her arms crossed over the table and flirted openly with him. "A ripper and a hybrid to be, walk into a loud joint in the 20's…"

"I liked Stefan until he became insufferably in love and increasingly dull as the woman he chose for himself." he flirted back with her, his blue eyes toying dangerously lustful with hers.

"Don't you just hate when a man is capable of anything to prove his love?" Caroline asked while her big eyes lowered just a little bit finding his lips and staying there for a second.

Klaus licked his lips aware that she was looking at them. "Almost as much as I should hate a woman for making me work so hard."

Caroline looked down on the table and smiled coyly, her long eyelashes made the tiniest move before she looked up and she knew she had Klaus exactly where she wanted, the only problem here was that Caroline had no idea why she was seducing him without a big alarming sound behind it all. "Maybe you should get a new date for tonight then… someone less challenging."

Klaus laughed amused with her display of power. "I've never backed down from anything that I truly wanted Caroline."

She followed him with her blue sparkling eyes as he left the table.

"I will see you tonight sweetheart."

Caroline gently bit her lip checking him out as he walked away with all that natural swag.

"Can I get you anything else?" The sweet girl working at the café asked.

"I'd like to have my perfect feathers ruffled… hard." Caroline said absent-mindedly and playing with an earring.

"I'm sorry?" The girl asked with a heavy frown.

Caroline woke from her drooling moment and smiled at the girl. "You didn't hear anything." she easily compelled the girl to forget.

Caroline couldn't decide on the ties, she moved her index over the black ones but she wasn't too happy with those and decided on another color, she hated all the cream ones and moved to another row where the blue ties were.

She settled there knowing that this was going to take some time.

Caroline took the shirt from one of the many bags she had and rested it against the ties, yes, blue was the right color but not simple blue, she wanted something unique like him.

"I can't figure out if you are living out the wife fantasy or the mistress one."

The stinging voice came without warning and Caroline froze, she shouldn't be so surprised since they were now living in the same city but a face-off was something very distant from her mind today. "Which one are you recreating? The jealous one-night stand who got pregnant and believes that she has history with Klaus?" she asked turning around to face Hayley.

The werewolf annoyingly smiled at her. "I'm not jealous of him, we are linked now. We have a little wolf in common." she whispered touching her baby bump.

"How proud you must be of yourself Hayley... you delivered twelve hybrids to slaughter, betrayed Tyler and got his mother killed, then you went and slept with the man who chased Tyler out of town. And through it all you were in love with Tyler, if you do all this to the man you love, I really pity the ones you don't like."

"You are so fake, how dare you judge me when you're there choosing clothes for Klaus? Isn't he the enemy anymore?"

Caroline padded the shirt against her chest, like she was somehow searching for his support during the confrontation with Hayley, part of her knew how accurate she was. "Tyler is playing George of the Jungle in the woods and he obviously cares more about his werewolves than he does about me and although it took me a long time I've decided to move on. I'm not waiting for someone who spent his summer helping you."

"You must be so resentful that everyone prefers the wolves instead of the dead vampire girl."

"Resentful? And I thought you couldn't read but there you are ready to prove me wrong with big words. I wouldn't trade being who I am because I like being a vampire, I like being strong and not having to depend on a womb to survive. If it wasn't for that child that you are using now against us, you would be dead and I would be sipping on champagne with the hottest man in New Orleans... but wait, what are you doing tonight? Scraping the garbage?" Caroline asked with an acid smile.

"It wouldn't be the first time, believe me. I wasn't fortunate enough to grow up surrounded by futile things and money, I didn't have the fancy dresses and friends… I didn't even have parents." Hayley looked sad.

Caroline circled her finger in front of Hayley's face. "No! The Club of sad girls with sad stories is closed and you can't be a part of it. My friends back at home can beat any sappy story that you come up with so we're done here." she turned away from Hayley and went back to the ties.

"I'm not going anywhere Caroline and in six months this baby is coming out one way or another, and since Sophie can't reverse the spell I'm stuck with Klaus and he is stuck with me, there's just not enough room for the nanny."

Caroline clutched a few ties in her hand, she didn't look after Hayley as the peasant left but the future mom left a terrible vibe in the air and Caroline felt troubled by it.

"Do you need help?" An elegant woman asked next to Caroline.

"No… I know exactly what I want." Caroline smiled at the woman and grabbed a beautiful dark-blue tie with a contrast of a plaid light blue pattern that gave it an edgy look, it also matched the color of her dress.

"Sometimes the right choice is just there, in front of you all along." the woman softly said taking the tie that Caroline handed her.

Caroline had to act on all the things rousing inside of her before they cooled down. "I need all of this delivered to this address." she scribbled down Klaus' address on the price tag and compelled the girl, handing her all the bags that she had.

She left the store rushing to her car, she made a call on the way knowing that he wouldn't pick up at first but she kept trying until he finally took her call.

Hayley tossed her bag to the sofa with a fit. "What an elitist, judging cold bitch with a superiority syndrome." she cursed under her breath.

"Are we feeling a bit threatened by others with better traits?" Klaus smirked walking into the room.

"Haven't you heard? I'm the biggest hazard around here now."

He nodded walking very slowly. "Hence my visit." he stopped in front of her.

She felt uncomfortable with the proximity but tried to put up some decent resistance. "I'm going to find out tomorrow if it's a boy or a girl but I can feel that it's a boy." she tried to appeal to his sensitive side.

"I will only say this once Hayley." his voice was controlled, there was no rage or anger or even disdain, he was simply formal as he spoke. "You will search within yourself for all the strength that you need and you will be the best mother that has ever existed. You will carry out this pregnancy with extreme care and caution and you will not put yourself in harm's way, as a reward for your cooperation I will allow you and this child that you still claim to be mine, to live."

"Are you going to search for a way to break this spell?"

"I'm handling things the only way I know how but I doubt that the Deveraux witch merely relied on someone, including myself, to kill that baby."

"So you think that she made sure that the baby wouldn't survive, like Katherine wanted all along."

He wasn't sure if the sadness Hayley was throwing at his feet was real but he couldn't relate to any of it, he had far bigger problems to worry about. "Honor your part of this deal and leave the planning and execution for the big wolves." Klaus turned away from her ready to leave the house.

"By the way, your brother Elijah has been missing for a few days now."

"And Katherine?" Klaus asked from the door.

"Left to Mystic Falls to handle a few family affairs."

Klaus nodded. "Time to childproof the mansion now that you are all alone in it." Klaus pointed to the outlets on his way out.

Caroline looked back at her car, she was about to lose complete sight of it as she went further into the dense woods but after another deep breath she carried on.

The first sounds became audible after a few minutes and Caroline didn't anticipate what she found at all, on a big clear meadow she found a group of men and women playing football, they were laughing and the longer she looked at them, the closer they seemed to her.

Someone just made a touchdown and there was a big party because of it but the other part of the group laughed instead of being upset and they all went back to the middle of the field ready to start all over again.

No one seemed to be bothered that she was spying on them and Caroline spotted the man standing a little aside from everything, he looked just like a leader watching them and smiled at her when their eyes met, she motioned her head a little asking him to follow her and Tyler left his pack behind to go after her.

Mystic Falls

Matt dropped the broken chains on the ground. "This isn't working Jeremy." he looked up at the Gilbert who just left the cabin of his van.

"We've tried everything so far but not even your car is strong enough to pull that steel coffin up." Jeremy sounded defeated.

"It's time to call Damon and Elena, they are vampires and we need them."

Jeremy shook his head at once. "Silas would read their minds and find out what we are up to, our 24-hour window is closing."

"Do you want to get Stefan back or not?" Matt eyed him for a moment before taking the phone to call Elena.

The second the call went through there was a piercing sound and Matt dropped his phone on the ground clutching his head, Jeremy was doing the same and trying to see anything as he lifted his head.

Silas greeted them both with a sly smile and nothing but his mind controlling them. "I like where my shadow self rests at the moment so can we all forget that he is there?"

"I don't think so." Bonnie said behind Silas.

He looked back at the witch. "I'm giving you a chance to go away before I really get mad."

Bonnie made this vicious sound and all around her leaves trembled on the ground. "I was slightly touchy a few hours ago, now I'm just borderline pissed."

Silas smiled cruelly and Matt was tossed in the air flying until he hit a tree and dropped to the ground unconscious. "The next casualty is your boyfriend."

Jeremy stood up shaking, able to see Bonnie but not recognizing the dark smile in her, she moved her hand in the air and he barely had time to plunge to the ground dodging something heavy that crashed on top of Matt's van, perplexed he looked at the steel prison that held Stefan inside.

Silas simply flashed and pinned Bonnie to the ground ruthlessly crushing her throat with a tight grip. "Time to die again because insubordination is very bad." He hissed down on her.

Bonnie buried her fingers into the dirt next to her body and closed her eyes, the leaves covered her hand and Silas felt the ground shake beneath them, he was puzzled with all the energy coming from her and when she opened her eyes she scared him.

Nothing but black eyes looked at him and with a simple move she gracefully laced her fingers around his wrist making his skin burn with her touch.

"Let go off me." she said in the most eerie way.

Silas clasped his lips in pain trying to fight her but she was strong and taking energy from all the nature around her, with a howl he released her and she easily pushed him away from her.

Bonnie cleaned the dirt from her hair and straightened her black top as she stood up. "Show some respect, I'm a Bennett after all."

He scorned her affirmation with a loud laughter. "Once you've known one, you've known them all."

She held her head high as he walked away allowing her to enjoy the first win in a very long war ahead of them.

Jeremy could barely comprehend half of what just happened but he climbed the van to open the safe, water came out of it and Jeremy took Stefan's head pulling him out of the safe enough to check on him.

"How is he?" Bonnie walked to them in a hurry until Kol showed up in front of her.

"Hello sexy thing, loving the new dark look darling." He winked at her.

"Get out of my way Kol."

"Now that you finally came around to our side, it's time to meet the old sorceress and move things along. Silas will strike back and it won't be classy."

Bonnie ignored him and glanced over to Jeremy who was struggling to get Stefan out of the steel box, she growled when Kol stepped in front of her line of sight again.

"Eyes on me darling which shouldn't be hard since I know how handsome I am."

"What do you want Kol?" she groaned.

"I want to leave this dimension and to go back to the real world."

"And you want my help." she was almost smug about it.

"I want a little more than that, if that's all right with your boyfriend."

"I can hear you, you know? Dick..." Jeremy angrily said from the top of the car.

Kol smiled. "Well your girlfriend is hot and you are obviously tedious."

"And you're a sick ghost who needs to stay away from her."

Kol chuckled wiggling his eyebrows at Bonnie. "Are you aroused yet? I'm about to challenge him into a gentlemen's quarrel."

"You are beyond obnoxious." Bonnie said upset and there was a strange gust of wind as she spoke.

"You need to tame that temper darling..." Kol looked around. "I want to go back to a world with live people in it."

Jeremy was too focused on the clash unfolding in front of him and missed the moment Stefan shot his eyes open, Bonnie startled when Jeremy screamed painfully because Stefan sank his fangs into his arm.

Stefan greedily took all the blood that he needed but there was an inner struggle to stop so he pushed Jeremy away. "I'm sorry Jeremy." he said tiredly and hating himself for what he just did.

"It's... ok... but we should keep this from Elena." Jeremy pressed his arm against his chest.

"Elena..." Stefan breathed out with a sigh and then smiled, he swiftly left the coffin and flashed away to find her before Jeremy could stop him.

"They really look like a pack." Caroline smiled at Tyler as they walked back to her car.

"I've been trying to help them realize that they are not alone, once we trigger the curse the first thing that we feel is that we are doomed and I want to change that. None of them need to do this alone anymore."

Caroline's smile grew. "Look at you Tyler Lockwood, from making horrible alcohol in your garage to inspirational Guru."

He laughed loudly. "The really bad alcohol was the only good thing about those parties, they made us forget which was a blessing."

It was her turn to laugh and she did it with will. "I like vintage bourbon now."

Tyler stopped near her car. "I was surprised by the call Care." He softly smiled.

Caroline played with her car key, she lingered her eyes there gathering her thoughts. "I came to tell you something Tyler."

"You are breaking up with me officially." he spoke before she even formed the sentence in her mind.

But she looked at him owing him at least that. "We started this together, undertaking the real monster that we became. We grew up together in a way and I wouldn't have made it without you Tyler…"

He smiled slumping against her car with his hands inside of the Jeans. "But we went on separate ways."

"You may think that I gave up on you Tyler but I never did, I kept waiting that you would find me as important as you were to me, that I would matter more than the rest that you went after."

Tyler hated the small hint of tears in her voice.

"I kept holding on to something Tyler and even when Klaus came after me and seduced me, I still tried to hold on to you."

He looked at her hand as she retrieved something from her pocket, he gasped when Caroline handed him the bracelet that he gave her for her birthday and he reached for it with a trembling hand. "But I wasn't there for you…" he whispered.

"I'm going to make a lot of mistakes and I'm going to get hurt but I will do all the things that I have safely planned to avoid doing. And I'm going to have fun for a change." she opened her door ready to leave her past with him.

He held her door with a smile. "You were worth fighting an ancient Alpha, you were worth every second I've spent with you, because Caroline Forbes you are that amazing and I wouldn't have done it without you. I would have taken the easy way out and cowardly ended my life if you weren't there during my first shifts."

Caroline fought the sting in her eyes and leaned over kissing Tyler's lips softly as their final goodbye. "Help as many as you can, I understand now that this is something you need to do."

"And you need to carry on with your life so…" he cradled her face with glistening eyes as well. "I promise I will never think of you again and I will stop loving you and I won't be a bit jealous of the next man who dances with you and holds you close."

She smiled a little through her fat tears that now came down her cheeks and nodded unable to speak, Tyler sighed before he collected enough power to let her go.

Caroline got inside of her car and drove away crying because it was painful growing up but she turned her radio up and was happy that Tina Turner was there pushing her forward.

New Orleans

"She's not coming." Rebekah informed Klaus as she reached the bottom of the staircase, she closed her small clutch and looked at her brother who was finishing the knot on his tie and picking the blue suit jacket from the sofa.

He didn't say a word as he closed the suit but she could tell how upset he was that Caroline had vanished all day without answering any of his calls, she got ready to speak again when Caroline stormed inside of the house taking her jacket off.

"I need 20 minutes." she yelled running up the stairs.

Rebekah grimaced with Klaus' annoying smirk. "I will be taking my car." she simply told Klaus headed for the door.

He prepared a drink for himself while waiting for Caroline.

Mystic Falls

"You know that I'm stronger than you so why are you fighting me on this?" Damon asked with a sigh.

Elena shrugged playing innocent. "You bring out the rebel in me."

Damon grunted and grabbed her rolling them over in bed, Elena laughed happily under him and giggled when he added another grunt trying to prove that he was right.

She allowed him the small tantrum because he made her smile and forget about all the bad things that kept happening in her life. "I love you Damon." she stroked his face and ran her fingers through his thick black hair.

"You are my life Elena." he spontaneously said.

Elena's eyes came to life with a sparkle of love and she kissed him ever so sure of her choice.

Stefan listened to everything on the other side of the door, now he remembered that she chose his brother over him and he looked at the picture in his hands, it was of a time where he had been happy with Elena, before it all crumbled to pieces.

Everything was different now and Elena was happy with Damon.

There wasn't much going through his mind as he dropped the picture on the floor and left the house that meant nothing more to him now but a painful diary of his life, nothing but memories lived in this house now and they all belonged to the human girl he loved with all of his heart but that Elena was dead now and in a way, so was he.

New Orleans

Klaus gulped down the second Caroline showed up on top of the staircase, she came down wearing a bandage dark-blue dress that had long sleeves and finished its length just below her knees.

She smiled and gave him a small spin once she reached the hall. "Do I look classy enough for a Masquerade Ball? I tried to stay away from the Prom and school dances' look that I'm so used to." she toyed with her age bluntly.

The dress was very tight and unlike the full covered front, it had a long V opening in the back that reached down to the crook of her back exposing her ivory complexion divinely, her hair was neatly fixed in a curly waterfall braid that made the bouncy golden curls come to life against her naked skin.

Klaus needed to drink, he needed to get that Scotch into his mouth and harshly allow the alcohol to restart his brain but right now nothing was working.

A small smirk escaped Caroline, she was happy with her look because it was the first time she felt like a woman before him instead of a schoolgirl or a princess wearing something that he chose.

This time Caroline stood before Klaus like a confident young woman ready to be seduced but holding the control on her side and seducing him without being a distraction, she wanted this and that confidence showed in every steady step that she gave towards him in the red velvet high stilettos.

"I'm taking the speechless reaction as a very big compliment." she said in a calm low voice.

"There was a drink that I should be drinking and many admiring comments that should be leaving my mouth." his voice wasn't that loud either.

Caroline reached for his drink and took it with a smile. "I can help with the drink…"

Klaus laughed and she laughed along with him, they had found their niche.

This is where they were comfortable around each other, when small gestures and whispered words were framed between long gazes and easy smiles.

If she was forced to admit, this was their thing, to speak without speaking, to bare a soul without fear.

"You look very beautiful tonight Caroline." he finally got the praise out of the way and reached inside of his suit to retrieve a small red box. "Indeed we are done with the high school theme dances so I don't have a corsage but…" he opened the box pulling a soft gasp from Caroline. "… there has been a request for earrings?"

Caroline made a small whimper sound staring at the perfect diamond earrings, she was about to touch them when she narrowed her eyebrows and looked at him. "Did you get these from the same Princess that owned my bracelet?"

"It's from Cartier, down on Royal Street." he blatantly enjoyed the quick change in Caroline, he was definitely aroused by the sudden empowerment in her but he was in love with the candid child so innocently part of her personality.

She snatched the box from his hand and rushed to change earrings in front of the first mirror that she found, they were too stunning, they reminded her of two small rain drops and they were blue shaded which meant that they were rare and outrageously expensive.

Caroline pulled away from the mirror and went to the man waiting for her, she then took his arm ready for her big night.

Caroline held on to his arm feeling a little tense when they were about to go inside of the Ball, it was after all her first big party outside of the world she knew and mastered.

In here, she didn't know anyone and the environment was strange to her, a few people wearing elaborated masks and costumes just went in ahead of them and Caroline started doubting if going for the classic look was a good choice.

Honestly the costume choice didn't even cross her mind, she couldn't picture Klaus wearing a costume and she wasn't a fan of those unless it was Halloween but then again the small experience she had from this kind of party came from her Mystic Falls resume.

One of the annoying traits about Klaus was that he was able to read her mind, so she wasn't surprised that he leaned over to whisper in her ear.

"We are all wearing our masks tonight sweetheart, the true beast that we should be sauntering with pride rests carefully hidden from those with shortcomings."

Caroline giggled. "I'm not a beast, I'm a lady Nik." she corrected him with the biggest smile.

"My Sire finally arrives and with a dashing partner by his side." Marcel greeted them loudly as soon as they walked inside of the big ballroom.

"Nice party." Caroline dryly said after quickly scanning the space. "But I would have chosen a different light. And the humans dancing barely clothed on a stage?" she pulled the side of her lips covered in bright pink lipstick. "A bit tacky of you, isn't it…"

"Is there a chance that you might come to like me Caroline?"

Caroline smiled. "You sent out your vampires to kill me during my first day of college and everywhere I turn there's one of them impersonating everything I hate about a man. Now from what I've heard, you instigate all this as a way to keep the witches in town under control but I'm one of those who really loves calling things for what they are so all that I see is a lame man keeping a short leash on every powerful woman in town as a way to feel like a real man."

"So that's a no?" he asked with a terrible dark amusement.

"It's a, I hope you take a walk under the sun without a ring very soon." she smirked and left him with Klaus.

"She really doesn't hold back, does she?" Marcel asked Klaus still looking after Caroline.

"I know, she's extraordinary." Klaus beamed with pride.

"She's hot and she speaks her mind, she reminds me of your sister." Marcel faced Klaus with a smile. "Where is she by the way?"

"You know Rebekah, she always enjoys to make an entrance." Klaus deliciously chuckled knowing that she was about to arrive.

Marcel felt the blood drain out of him when he looked at the door, Rebekah just arrived in a hot black dress with her date. "What is that?"

Klaus casually looked at the door. "I believe that she is the devil and sweet Camille is the angel?"

Marcel gritted his teeth furious with Rebekah's nerve, she brought Camille to a vampire party and his sweet human was oblivious to everything, he paced to them fast and tried to pull a smile on the way.

Camille melted as soon as she saw him. "Marcel."

"Cami… I wasn't expecting to see you here."

She grimaced a little and looked at Rebekah. "Your friend said that you wanted me here."

"May I speak to you Rebekah?" he shot his eyes to the Original watching the two lovesick tools with a nasty smile.

"I would love to dance, thank you for asking." she gave her hand to Marcel who hastily took it.

He pulled her along the room and then harshly against his chest.

"Marcel… don't start anything that you don't intend to end." she purred stroking the back of his neck.

"You compelled her?" Marcel hissed with anger.

"Only after I told her a few things about our history together."

"Like how you convinced Niklaus to turn me?" he called her out on the lie.

Rebekah shrugged. "You shouldn't waste a good story with the truth."

"What else did you tell her?"

"Only that I was your first and that I taught you all those moves that she hopes you will show her one day. She is in love with you by the way, it only took my heel pressed to her jugular for her to confess."

"What happened to you?" Marcel asked softly now. "You were so sweet Rebekah but now I don't know you anymore, compelling a human and using her against me? That's why you and Klaus will always be alone, there is no limit to any of you."

He heaved away from her but she pressed his shoulder and his hand in hers, keeping him where he was. "You are in love with a weak human who doesn't use vervain and believes that you are not capable of breaking her in two the first time you rest with her over a mattress so you make my life easy and the sweet girl you once swore to marry, went very sour the second you chose immortality over her."

Marcel gulped down his shame and stayed in the dance floor unable to look at Rebekah as she strutted away from him, he knowingly concealed all that when one of his men neared him to whisper something in his ear.

Rebekah rudely interrupted a heavy eye-flirtation that Caroline was surprisingly finding it hard for Klaus to follow.

Klaus kept looking at Marcel which was unsettling for Caroline and her night only seemed deemed for sorrow because Rebekah callously took her champagne glass.

"This better work because I'm seconds away from killing Marcel." Rebekah shot at Klaus.

Caroline frowned between Rebekah's words and Klaus' scowl. "What did I miss?"

"An entire day." Rebekah huffed upset. "Where were you?"

Caroline pressed her lips into a very thin line. "At college…"

"It's Sunday." Rebekah reminded her.

"I… had… a group thing." Caroline cleared her throat and then smiled.

"Like an orgy?" Rebekah asked clueless.

Caroline tilted her head. "Seriously Bekah?"

The blonde gave up and left to look for Camille, she was in charge of distracting Marcel tonight.

The focal point for Klaus rested again with the small agitation regarding Marcel and his men which meant that his plan was on the move, he glanced at Caroline finding her with crossed arms and staring at him.

Obviously she expected an explanation. "This is a Ball and we should be dancing." he cunningly smiled and took her waist guiding her to where other couples were.

She waited for her intense dance and to get lost in his eyes but not even his carriage was that good, he was barely keeping a frame with her and his eyes were somewhere else just like his attention. "How many plans do you have ongoing while we are attending this really boring party?"

He briefly looked at her smiling. "Two, I tried to go for three but you should never bite more than you can chew."

"Do you want to share any of them with me?" she asked hoping that he would center his attention on her.

"Elijah and Katherine are missing." he said squinting when Marcel ordered two of his men to leave the building.

"Maybe they eloped." she moved one hand over the velvet lapel of his suit keen on winning his interest.

He stayed with her this time when he looked at her. "He is too invested on the teenwolf drama living under his roof so my bet is that Katherine flipped sides again and Marcel has something to do with my brother gone absent."

Caroline smiled leaving his hand and lacing both arms around his neck, she even melted her body closer to his. "So plan number one is to find out if Marcel does have Elijah and if he does, why hasn't he rubbed that in your face yet?"

Klaus parted his lips with a proud smile and he made her shiver by resting his hands on her waist, he moved his hands a bit up her back and touched the skin that her steamy dress allowed him to. "He is too arrogant to hide something that big."

"How well do you know Marcel?"

"I took him in when he was a little boy, he was part of my family for the longest time until we parted paths right here in New Orleans."

"I know all that Nik, you told me already." she didn't hide the small victory that he was so easily opening up to her. "But you also said that you all believed that Mikael killed him that night." Caroline's voice dropped to nothing but a whisper. "Don't you find it strange that Mikael would spare him? You are a thousand times more powerful than Marcel and you barely survived Mikael yet Marcel somehow managed? He created an entire kingdom and he isn't too quiet about it so what if he wanted this all along and he told Mikael where you were so that he would chase you all away and leave the city for him to take?"

"Is that why you don't like Marcel?" he asked after Caroline's strong point stroke a chord.

Caroline smiled lowering her long black eyelashes, it was such a long list but she didn't want to talk about Marcel now, she lifted her eyes searching for his and her hand did the unthinkable, she got her fingers lost in his hair and batted her eyelashes once, hoping that that would do the trick.

But she lost her balance when Klaus hauled away from her, it took her a good few seconds to assimilate the disheartened outcome of her first real move towards him and yet strangely she wasn't that surprised.

She knew that he was about to speak so she did the only thing that she knew best, she protected herself by turning away and leaving him before he saw how rejected she felt.

Klaus instantly tried to redeem his bad move by following her but Marcel cut his way.

"Two of my vampires are dead, five of Leah's witches perished and a powerful weapon of mine was unleashed to the world. I'm not happy."

"Do you still have any men left Marcel?" Klaus ignored the undertone of a threat.

"You and Leah are working together and you used this party to attack my vulnerable home tonight."

"You shouldn't throw the big parties if you don't have a clue of what you are doing, this was nothing but a silly attempt to show how regal you have become with the unnecessary party and the fancy suit Marcel. I raised you better than this. Use your head if you really want to impress me, I'm not easily blinded by idle power like the blonde that my sister is getting highly intoxicated while you shake hands with those who should fear you and not be bribed by your champagne."

"Davina escaped the attic so tomorrow there will be thousands of heads rolling down the river."

Klaus laughed. "Now that's my kind of a party Marcel, tomorrow we have fun old friend." he said loudly as he rushed out of the dreadful gathering.

Caroline closed the front door and walked resolute to her car, she could see his racing up the driveway but she didn't stop and shoved her things into the back seat with a snapping attitude that he didn't miss as he stepped out of his car.

"I expected to return home with my date, not to follow the taxicab."

Caroline slammed the door shut. "I expected a lot more from tonight but hey, here's to plans and schemes and how important they are to you."

"Caroline…" he sighed.

Which really enraged her. "Seriously Klaus? I spent the entire night flirting and seducing you. Have you looked at me?" she snapped holding her hands in front of her. "I look hot!" she pointed to the ground with her index. "I look really hot and it took me an entire week to prepare this look to the tiniest detail. I gave closure to all my past affairs today and I really wanted my perfect night and yes, it included a kiss that you just… Ugh!" she threw her hands in the air. "All that time chasing after me and when I finally make a move you just shut me down and…" she yelled unable to form proper vicious angry words. "I didn't even get a decent dance and I tried really hard to be all woman like and y…"

Caroline's angry speech was cut short because Klaus paced quickly to her and cupped her cheek pressing his lips against hers, she slowly opened her eyes in a daze when he eased the pressure on her lips and stroked her cheek.

"I didn't want our first kiss to be under Marcel's gawk." he tucked her waist with his arm.

"And our second one?" her voice was barely audible.

Klaus smiled tilting her head a little and sweetly pressed her soft lips again, Caroline moved her arm under his and rested her hand on his back answering his pressure, her other hand found his hair knotting her fingers with his short curls and she parted her lips for Klaus allowing him to really kiss her.

One hand got lost slowly under the wall of blonde heaven that was her hair and then his tongue teased hers before they melted together in the most amazing long kiss that neither wanted to break.

Klaus reacted to the way she answered his kiss with honest raw passion by pinning her to him and Caroline really loved how the skin in her back burned under his powerful touch, how everything felt just that kind of right and epic.

Soundtrack:

Simply falling - Iyeoka

Think I need it too - Echo & The Bunnymen

Monsters demons – Skye

When I was your man – Bruno Mars

I'm ready – Tina Turner

Make me fall - Nina Nesbitt