Author's Note: Thank you to everyone who reviewed last chapter! And despite all of your confusion I'm so glad u guys are still reading! Below is a very LONG rant about how i feel about the new info we learned thanks to Comic Con. There are spoilers, but i needed to rant because i feel a certain type of way about it. If u don't feel like reading feel free to skip ahead to the thank you section and the story, I answered questions at the bottom of the chapter for those of you who are confused. Thanks again! And let me know whar u think! hopefully this chapter will clear somethings up!
(First I must rant about some klaroline related issues on Originals and TVD, if u don't feel like listening than please feel free to skip ahead, I must vent because of issues that I find annoying that the writers are doing to the beloved characters, besides of course all of the annoying things they've already done. There is also a few spoilers so skip ahead to read the chapter if u don't want to listen. So I was looking up info for the new seasons for Originals and TVD. Firstly, it said that caroline was getting a new love interest. We've heard non-stop for an entire season how badly Caroline wanted Tyler to come back and finally he's allowed to come back, but now she doesn't even want him? What was the point of complaining for an entire season if she is just going to move on, and she's moving on to some rando upper college classman. Where is the logic? She has Klaus through himself at her and instead she goes for some rando guy after Tyler is allowed to come back? Don't we at least get some resolution with her and Tyler? I mean she's claimed she's in love with him for the past two seasons and now that Klaus has nicely let him return she's like we'll im off to college, gotta find hot college ass. Whose Tyler? And the hot college guy will get rid of whats left of Caroline's feelings. Why in all holy hell would you decide to date an unaccomplished college boy compared to a 1000 rich hybrid man who would give you the world? Where is the logic? How does this make sense? Secondly Klaus, the writers have made his character incredibly skeazy! Like crazy skeazy! He claims to be in love with Caroline and telling her he'll be her last and all of this romanic awesome stuff, but he sleeps with Hayley and gets her pregnant and then in the new show his new love interest is Cami, who by the way looks like Caroline and has a C name? is that a coincidence? Is this caroline 2.0? So along with having a baby mama, claiming to be in love with Caroline and deciding to go chase after a Caroline 2.0 he's supposed to be such a great man? If this was real life no one would want this man. He's in love with someone else, about to be a dad, and has decided to give up on Caroline and chase a look a like her? How is that logical? What are these writers on? There is no logic, there is no resolution and I for one have no interest. I've been thinking about it a lot and I will stay with writing fanfic, but I can't for the life of me bring myself to watch these shows. The writers have killed the characters in my heart, and I feel that as a fanfic writer and reader we're doing a better job of portraying the characters than the writers. I've decided not to watch either show in the fall and maybe I'm being unfair and biased, but I feel like there could have been a better way of going about the character development, like Caroline realizing her feelings and acting on them and Klaus feeling some sort of remorse and seeing the light or something. What's the point of starting a new couple when there are already so many ships that have never been explored and at the rate the show is going never will be? The last thing I have to complain about is that one of the writers said that Klaroline was like Buffy and Angel, hello! No! So wrong! Klaroline is like Spuffy and let me tell you why. Spike is this evil vampire that falls in love with Buffy the slayer, Spike becomes good for her and loves her etc. Buffy is repulsed by him and after awhile she gives into her feelings because she knows deep down that she does truly love him. That's Klaroline. Angel and Buffy happened on the show, they dated then Angel went evil there was no animosity until he lost his soul and killed and tortured her friends and then they had a very tentative relationship that ended in him moving to LA and falling in love with another woman. That's not klaroline. To wrap up this super long spoiler ridden rant about Originals and TVD is that I've given up on the show, but I will still be writing and reading avidly because this couple should be canon. Enjoy the story.)
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Chapter 14 Distancing Hearts
Mystic Falls 2012
Caroline allowed Klaus to dance with her for several more songs until she wanted to go outside for a walk. The mansion was overcrowded and she wanted to take a break so he led her outside towards the horse-drawn carriages.
"You look ravishing in that dress." He said as they walked. She turned slightly towards him and smiled as they walked together.
"Thank you." She said biting her tongue to compliment him. She still had to act un-interested, since it would look a little weird to go from thinking he was the devil incarnate to showering him with compliments and offering her body and soul to him. Although he did look very dapper in his suit and she wouldn't mind ravishing him again.
She chastised herself on that, reminding herself that she was still with Tyler and had just lost her father in this time. She was a total emotional mess right now and jumping into bed with a hybrid whom she didn't know as well as she could wasn't the way to go. Or so she told herself. Even though she'd already technically jumped into bed with said hybrid, in the future. How confusing.
"Are you enjoying yourself?" he asked as she petted the gentle brown horse attached to one of the carriages.
She glanced over at him and smiled shyly, "I am, surprisingly." She said looking back at the large creature.
She missed him smiling at her as she continued to touch the horse in glee.
"I'm glad, truth be told I was a bit nervous you wouldn't come." He said stepping closer to her.
She looked over at him with surprise and saw the vulnerability behind his eyes. She smiled and stopped petting the horse to look fully at him.
"You know horses are much different than people." He said pulling his eyes away from her beauty and towards the horse that was nuzzling Caroline.
She giggled as it's wet nose touched her arm and she looked over at Klaus who smiled gently.
"They're loyal unlike people." He said as she began to pet the mane.
"There are some people who are loyal, Klaus." She said quietly looking over at him.
He smirked at her finding her shyness enduring. "Yes, that may be so, love, but I've never met any of them." He said careful to hide his real feelings on the subject of disloyalty.
"I'm sorry about your father, by the way." He said staring into her eyes.
She looked away feeling the familiar grief overcome her chest, "thank you." she whispered.
They regarded each other in silence for a few minutes, neither knowing what to say. The wheels in Caroline's head were moving a mile a minute as they looked at each other. The only thing she wanted to do was lean over and kiss him, but she couldn't. She still had her doubts and she still needed to know so many things, like if she was even in the right dimension since she was three weeks in the past. Or if he even really liked her and he wasn't just using her. Since that thought had occurred to her more than once.
"Why did you invite me here?" she asked breaking the silence.
He looked at her in surprise and then smiled bashfully looking back over at the horse.
"Why wouldn't I?" he asked amused.
"I'm just wondering why you've suddenly taken this interest in me. The last time I saw you, you were saving my life…after you put me in danger." She said raising an eyebrow at him. It was a question that she had wanted to ask this Klaus. She knew what the other one would say, but this Klaus was now the one she had to get to know. Although she reminded herself that they were the same person, she had to remember that.
He looked back at the horse his expression turning shy once again. "You're beautiful, smart, full of light, I enjoy you." he asked glancing over at her.
She smiled happily and then tried to get control of her emotions not wanting to come across as too eager. "Oh…well you know I'm still spoken for, right? By Tyler." She said reminding herself and him of her MIA boyfriend.
He frowned at her and walked closer to her, "I thought you two ended things." He said.
She shook her head slowly, "no…but I've recently come to the conclusion that the love I have for him might not be…everything I've ever wanted. I have to talk to him before I make any major decisions, but sometimes these things aren't meant to be and when you take the heart shaped glasses off you see people for who they really are and what the relationship between you really is, you know." She said lost in her own thoughts.
He regarded her carefully trying to read between the lines of what she was really saying.
"I see." He said not knowing how to respond to her cryptic answer accordingly.
She turned to offer him another smile and he grinned back lost in the beauty of her face lighting up for him.
"Would you like to dance once more? And then I'd like to show you something." He said offering her his hand.
She nodded bashfully taking his warm hand in hers and allowed him to lead her back into the mansion. As they went inside they saw everyone taking champagne and getting ready for a toast.
"Let's dance after the toast." He said about to grab a glass.
She took his hand though to stop him from getting champagne and shook her head, "no, I think you should show me what you wanted to. Then we'll dance. I'm sure it's just another boring speech anyway. Honestly I didn't come here to listen to your family make speeches, I came here to see you." she truthfully said before her eyes widened and she covered her mouth in shock.
He chuckled at her, but chose not to respond before taking her hand and leading her down a dark hallway and towards a set of stairs that were used for servants in olden times to climb stairs to their master's rooms on the second floor since neither of them wanted to go back into the main room where the spiraling staircase was to interrupt the speeches.
So they climbed the small staircase and came to a room in the back that was locked. He took out a ring of keys and opened the door smoothly before nudging her inside. She gasped when she walked into the beautiful room with landscape paintings everywhere. She had seen his paintings before obviously, in the future but they were so much different than these. These were darker and of landscapes and sunsets, whereas the future version of himself did light paintings usually with her in them. She saw pieces of parchment with drawings on them on a table and she went over to inspect them as Klaus rushed past her and grabbed a few that she didn't get a good look at.
She walked over to him as he stuffed them inside a drawer of his desk and he locked that drawer before turning around. He raised an eyebrow at her close proximity.
"What do you have there?" she asked smiling teasingly at him.
He chuckled, "just some…things."
"Things that are….yours, perhaps? You did do all of these, right? This is your art studio?" she asked already knowing the answer.
He nodded watching as she stepped away from him and began to look at the paintings.
"They're all so beautiful, dark but so lovely." She said looking over all of the various paintings on the wall and then coming back over to the table where the sheets of parchment were.
"I like this one." She said pulling out a drawing under a few others. It was of a girl, just her face and she had her curly hair down. Slowly she recognized the girl in the drawing and she looked at Klaus with wide eyes.
"Is this…is this me?" she asked feeling a swirl of emotions rise up in her.
He slowly walked over to her and took the picture from her hand. He looked at it for several long moments and then set it back down on the table and let his stormy blue eyes fall on her frozen blue ones.
"Perhaps." He said his face expressionless.
She looked away feeling joy and conflicted about the drawing.
"Well you showed her in a really pretty way. I wish I could look that nice." She whispered staring at the floor.
Without warning he reached over and tilted her chin upwards so they could gaze into each other's eyes. He shuffled closer to her and stared down at her taking in all of the light she possessed.
"But you are, you are that beautiful and that's how I see you." he said quietly leaning even closer.
"You do?" she asked feeling breathless as he moved closer.
"What I didn't say outside for why I invited you was that…I fancy you Caroline. You're just such a special and incredible person, I realized that the night I saved you and I haven't thought of anyone of anything since." He said moving even closer.
She tried to blink or to move knowing that this was happening too fast, that she shouldn't be doing what she so desperately wanted to. She wanted to kiss him, but than the reasonable rationale part of her brain needed to put brakes on the situation to get her head wrapped around everything. She had just gotten back from a future with Klaus and she still had her reservations about this Klaus. She knew—with many reminders—that they were one in the same, but she still wanted to get to know him before anything like kissing happened. Plus she had to breakup with Tyler and figure out what was going on with her friends. She needed a plan and organization about this situation, but the idea of kissing Klaus was too tempting not to turn down.
As he was an inch away from her face Aqua's 'I'm a Barbie Girl' began to play from her clutch and the moment was ruined by her cell phone. She hastily got out the device as Klaus moved away from her and back towards the table of drawings. The moment was ruined even more when she saw who the caller was. She decided not to pick it up and then shoved it back into her purse.
"I'm sorry, you know it's getting late I should probably go." She said awkwardly shuffling her feet.
He looked over at her, "you're not going to stay for one last dance." He asked moving back towards her.
"I shouldn't. I had a lot of fun though." She said smiling sheepishly at him.
He smirked at her, "I'm glad maybe we can do this again soon." He said standing in front of her.
She nodded, "maybe. I'll see you later, have a good night." She said awkwardly before leaving the art studio, going down the staircase, and leaving the mansion through the back door out of the kitchen. She walked to the front and looked at her phone to see the voicemail Tyler left.
'Care, I miss you, I'll be back soon.' Was all he said.
She couldn't help the guilty and ominous feelings roll around her stomach. When she got home she was surprised to see a drawing on parchment on her bed, the picture was of her and a horse and the words written on the back were, 'Thank you for coming. I will see you soon. Klaus.'
She knew then that she was in deep shit.
New Orleans 2112
Caroline wasn't sure how long she had been chained up in the basement before Klaus came down again to see her. She had been getting blood bags from his servants and bodyguards, but she hadn't seen him. She was unsure how to proceed since she didn't know who this man was, nor did she know where she was. She thought that maybe the spell had activated before they could reverse the alternative dimensions, so that she was in another one, one where she didn't exist. But she had no way to test her theory since Klaus wouldn't come down to her.
Since the basement also had no windows she didn't know what day it was or even the time. The only thing she could do was sit and wait until he felt like coming down to see her. For all she knew years could have passed as she lay dirty and upset in the basement of his home.
Her top theory for why she was here was that something in the future had happened or she had done something wrong in the past and it activated the spell before they could reverse it. Hence sending her to the wrong future, where Klaus didn't know who she was. She wondered what had happened to her pastself and if she went back to her own time and if so than why. The only thing Caroline could figure out was that she was deeply confused and this spell sucked.
The basement door opened and she looked up at it hopefully to see the person she wanted so desperately to.
"I've been thinking." Klaus said sauntering over to her.
She looked up at him from the dirty floor not knowing exactly what he was talking about.
"You claim that you know me, but yet I've never even heard of you. I want to know how well you know me and how you do. So I'm going to unlock these chains and I'm going to allow you to take a shower and have a nice meal. If you so much as try to escape or attack me in any way I will not hesitate to lock you up back down here and torture you until you want to die. Ok?" he said gazing down at her.
She nodded eagerly and then he slowly unchained her and she stood up on shaky legs. He lead her upstairs and she was surprised to find that the mansion she knew so well was unlike anything she'd ever seen before. It was decked out in blacks, reds, and whites. There was nothing warm or inviting about anything in the mansion and there were guards everywhere.
"This is 2112, right?" she whispered looking over at him.
He raised an amused eyebrow at her and then nodded, "it is. Do you know where you are?" he asked walking towards a set of stairs.
She followed him noting that this was not the mansion they had built together, but a deeply depressing mansion that he seemed to build for himself and the millions of guards he kept.
"New Orleans." She guessed.
"Well about an hour out of the city, but yes, New Orleans. Where are you from?" he asked leading her past many rooms and finally to a large bathroom.
"Mystic Falls." She said as he gestured for her to go into the bathroom.
"Huh." He said snapping his fingers as a guard came to stand at the door.
"You can shower, but you won't be alone." He said smirking at her as he closed the door behind him.
She gasped at him alarmed that he was going to stay and watch her shower.
"I don't get any privacy?" She snarled as they stood in the large white bathroom.
He shrugged, "take it or leave it." He said smiling at her nastily.
She narrowed her eyes at him and reminded herself that he'd seen her naked a million times before, but that still didn't make it right since he wasn't technically her husband.
"Fuck you." she snarled turning around and yanking off her dirty pajamas before stepping into the shower stall and starting the shower.
She could hear him laughing behind her and she couldn't help but shiver at the sound. She noted that there was only male soaps, but she still used them just thankful that he was letting her shower. Eventually she was finished and he offered her a fluffy white towel before leading her through a door and into a dark bedroom. He threw a shirt and a pair of yoga pants at her and she tried not to notice that they were women's. She hoped that they were Rebekah's but since Rebekah had been in a coffin that scenario was pretty slim. She tried not to think of him with another woman, but that was impossible since jealousy roared through her body like a white hot rod.
"Hurry up." He barked at her waiting for her to get ready.
She winced and finished up before turning to face him with an irritated expression. He smirked at her and then gestured to the table near the window on the opposite side of the bedroom.
"Sit." He ordered.
She rolled her eyes but did what he wanted having mixed feelings about following his orders and being treated like a dog when she could easily fight back. Although he'd probably hold true to the threat of torturing her and she didn't want to test that theory.
"Tell me about yourself." He said as they sat at the table by the window.
She stared at him with raised eyebrows, not knowing what to say to him and not knowing how to feel. Here was a man that wore her husband's face and the attitude he had towards her was one of the complete opposite way of how he would treat her. Ever. Even when they first met he wasn't this dark and deranged. Or maybe he was but she didn't see it.
"My name is Caroline Forbes, I lived in Mystic Falls I became a vampire in 2011 by Katherine." She recited haughtily sitting back in the chair and glaring at the hybrid in front of her.
He smirked at her finding her irritation with him enduring. "Go on." He demanded.
She sighed loudly, "I lived in Mystic Falls until tragedy struck and then I moved with you around the world before we eventually settled down in New Orleans with your siblings." She said crossing her arms and looking like the teenager she would forever be.
He scowled at her, "stop lying and tell me the truth." He snarled.
She glowered at him, "that is the truth! I don't know what's wrong with you, but—"
"Stop lying!" He seethed slapping her across the face.
She stared at him in horror and held her face in her hand feeling the vibration of his palm on her face. She looked away and willed the tears that she could feel forming in her eyes.
"Listen, I'm not in my right time, there were these witches—" she began angrily trying to get a hold of her emotions to think straight and explain the situation as easily as possible.
"What witches? All of the witches work for me no one would dare go behind my back. I already told you to stop lying and that hit was a warning if you continue to lie your going back to the basement." He threatened her loudly.
She stared at him and then turned away to look out the window. There was nothing for miles, just land and swamp and millions of bodyguards. It was nothing like her home with him in the middle of New Orleans with excitement and glee everywhere. This man was not even close to her husband and she realized with dread that she must be in another alternative universe, one where Klaus was off his rocker and one where she was…where was she? Dead? Forgotten? Where was she?
"I'm not lying." She said staring out the window.
She was tired of the time-traveling and she was tired of the alternative dimensions. She wanted to go home to her Klaus.
"Prove it." He demanded yanking her face from the window and to him.
"Tell me who you are and prove that you are who you say or else I'll kill you." he warned staring her deep in the eye.
She pulled her face from his and rolled her eyes irritated that he wouldn't believe her and that he was threatening her. Instead of answering she thought of a way to escape, but that seemed impossible with the large amount of guards and the fact that they were in the buttfuck of no where.
"How am I supposed to do that?" she asked running a hand through her hair.
He shrugged and smirked at her leaning back in his chair and regarding her through dark blue eyes.
"Figure it out." He said.
She scowled, "How about you tell me what's going on in this time and then I'll tell you about myself and you can research me and find out if I'm telling you the truth."
He gave her an odd look but shrugged, "fine. We're an hour out of New Orleans, I won't tell you which direction. It's 2112, October." He said vaguely.
She glared at him, "I already know that! Tell me something I don't know! Like are you a hybrid?" She snarled.
With supernatural speed he lunged at her and they toppled to the floor as he held her by her throat pushing her into the ground. She had a flashback to when she woke up in bed beside him and he began choking her then. She gasped and tried to pry his fingers from her throat, but it was no use.
"Who told you about being a hybrid. Who?" he yelled his grip on her tightening.
She choked and tried to get free, but she didn't have a chance.
"Who!" he growled.
"Let go." She rasped struggling to break free.
He rolled his eyes and then threw her towards the bed. She hit her head hard on the base of the bed and she struggled to get up as he walked towards her.
"How do you know about Hybrids?" he asked bending down to her level and grabbing her by the hair so they could look at each other.
She growled and spit in his face having had enough of the treatment he was bestowing upon her. He gave her a wicked grin before pulling her head back further by her hair. She struggled against him and eventually kicked him off of her. They ended up on opposite sides of the bed, growling at each other before Klaus lunged at her and grabbed her before she could get away. He threw her over her shoulder and she wiggled around trying to get out of his grip as he took her down the stairs and back down to the basement. He chained her back up the wall as she screamed and fought against him. Once he finally got her back in chains he slapped her again and she glared daggers at him as he stood up above her smirking at her.
"I'll be back in another few days, maybe then you'll feel like talking." He said before turning to leave the basement. She screamed in anger and frustration wanting to draw someone's attention, but Klaus didn't come downstairs again, and eventually some of the guards went down there to teach her a lesson, on Klaus's order's no doubt.
(A/n: I know future Caroline is also in deep shit, but it won't be all violence. Swear. So if you guys still have questions I am here to answer them. Firstly, 2012 Caroline IS in the right time and dimension, the 3 week thing WILL be explained. 2112 is NOT in the right dimension and that will also be explained. Hm...why would one carolien go back to the wrong time and the other wouldn't...questions will be answered. As for direct questions I know u guys are confused but all will be explained! i have to say i loved your explanations they even confused me. This will probs be the last time i do a time travel confusion fic like this cause its freaking crazy. Anyways to answer direct qustions, evrything will be fixed, yes 2112 is in another alternative dimension because the spell had side effects. 2012 is in the right dimension and Klaus will eventually remember. Yes 2012 caro messed up because she slept with klaus, i'll tell u guys that now and the side effect are happening ie missing three weeks and 2112 not in the right dimension...I think that's all the questions. Well that an everyone confusion if u guys are still confused let me know! I'm happy to answer questions. Also please review and tell me what u think!)