Happy Birthday Miranda (livingdeadblondequeen)

"Forbes, there is a ruffian demanding to speak to you." Damon said with a smirk as he leaned against the doorway watching the Pirate Queen inspecting the bounty of a treasure chest with careful thoroughness.

"Tell him he can go to the devil." Caroline said with an absent flick of her wrist, her attention fully on the treasure before her.

"He claims to be your husband." Damon said airily, although his attention was on her watching her carefully.

The moment Damon said the word husband her entire body tightened with rage. Her ragged breaths made the swells of her breasts rise and fall, like ripened fruits that her corset facilitated such a delightful display. The ruffles of her bountiful skirts swirled around her as she turned to face the pirate in her employ.

"What did you say?" Caroline said with a hard careful voice.

"He said he is your husband." Damon repeated with a smirk, as he watched his Queen with interest.

With that Caroline lost every bit of her calm reserve.

"That arrogant, jackass, son of a whore!" Caroline raged as she pushed past Damon and stalked down the hall.

"Where is he?"

"In the courtyard." Damon said with a sardonic smile as he followed the enraged Pirate Queen through the halls of the compound that stood like a castle on the small little island in the south seas.

It had become an oasis to those that pirated the ocean, claiming what they could and then coming to the island to sell off their ill begotten booty and indulge in the illicit pleasures to be had on an island run by a Pirate Queen who had won the island in a game of dice. She earned the loyalty of the island when she single handedly fought and killed the original owner and two of his men as they had no intention of handing the island over to her or allowing her to live.

Caroline burst through the door and into the courtyard that was filled with not only her men but also with the men of the ship that was Captained by The Wolf. Caroline's seething green eyes searched the crowd of men until they landed on the one man she was looking for.

Bolting forward she came at him so quickly he couldn't even say a word before the smack of her hand across his face sent him reeling back, the force of her blow leaving him in a daze.

"Husband?! Husband? You dare to call yourself my husband after what you did?" Caroline screeched as she moved to pounce on him once more, but he quickly gathered his wits enough to pull her in his arms and hold her steady against him, keeping her from harming his person once more.

He was dressed handsomely in all black. From his ruffled black button up shirt to his breeches that hugged his powerful thighs. The gold earring in his left ear and the sword hanging at his hip his only adornments. Well only adornments if you discounted the beautiful blonde in his arms.

"Love, we had a spat. I'm over it."

"SPAT!? Taking my ship is not a spat and now you have the balls to come back here and expect forgiveness? I have half a mind to string you up like a Christmas day goose." Caroline raged.

Klaus smirked and gathered the furious blonde closer pressed his lips to hers. Instead of a responding kiss she kneed him in the balls and step backed to glare at the ship's crew that had been snickering if not right out laughing at the treatment of the captain who released Caroline and fell to his knees in pain from the blow she had dealt him.

"Seize them all!" Caroline called out and her pirates came to life, pulling out cutlasses as they took on the crew that was captained by The Wolf, laughter and yelling accompanying their attack.

Klaus' pirates of course pulled their own weapons and met the impending heard with anticipation. After all, isn't a good tussle what all pirates lived for?

With fighting all around them, Caroline tugged Klaus up by his necklaces until he was on his knees before her. His sullen blue eyes bold with anger as he looked up at his wife.

"Don't look at me like that. You got exactly what you deserved." Caroline said flippantly, her eyebrows raised in challenge as she glared down at him.

It was a challenge that Klaus could not help but meet. Surging to his feet, he caught his hellion wife by the waist and pulled her hard against his body, tight enough that she could not perform a repeat of unmanning him again.

"Nik!" Caroline growled out as she struggled against her husband's hold.

"Lovely little island you found for us, sweetheart." Klaus said as he pulled her tighter against his body, so she had little room to move.

"My island." Caroline hissed.

"Our island." Klaus corrected. "Just like it's our ship"

"No, it's my island and my ship. And it was my ship that you took without my permission!" Caroline's voice rising with each work until she was yelling.

Klaus jerked his head back to save his hearing but did not released his hold on her.

"Now, love, are you just upset because I didn't take you with me? I know how moody you get when I am not there to warm your bed." Klaus said with a little smirk as he leaned down to kiss and nibble at her throat.

Caroline shivered as she felt his soft lips and hot breath against her skin, she could feel his need for her hard and heavy against her stomach and she felt her own body ignite in response. She truly did miss him in her bed, but she was also still really pissed off he took her ship.

Klaus gave a grunt as his head pitched to the side and fell to the ground unconscious. Caroline whirled the pistol she had used to knock him out around her finger, her lashes fanning against her pink cheeks as she looked down at her husband and admired her work.

"Search him for weapons and then tie him up." Caroline commanded as she glanced at Damon who watched the whole reunion with a smirk of amusement.

"And then where should we put him?"

Caroline smirked, her brows lifting as she looked up at Damon.

"My chambers."

Who ever said you couldn't mix punishment with pleasure.