"Bring the boxes in, careful with his precious Art, bring the car around... dig the big grave..." Kol mumbled to himself. "Bloody hell..." he cursed and shoved the shovel deeper into the dirt mad that he was the one stuck doing the heavy work for Klaus again.
Caroline came closer to the grave and looked down on Kol cursing and mumbling, digging his way into the coffin. "Is everything ok?" she asked with a smile.
Kol straightened himself up and gave her a look. "Sure, I'm digging a grave at 5 am... alone. Everything is just peachy."
Caroline giggled and shed some light into the hole he was making. "You should go a little more to the left."
Kol pressed his lips furious. "You are a vampire, why aren't you down here helping me with this? I'm getting tired of being used by Nik as a slave."
Caroline gasped mockingly. "How dare you good Sir? I'm a lady and a lady does not handle the heavy work."
Kol smiled mischievously. "So now you are a lady?"
Caroline returned his naughty smile. "And a lady I shall remain."
Kol rolled his eyes and went back to his heavy work, Caroline smiled shaking her head. "Where is he anyway?" Kol asked happy that the dirt was finally starting to give in as he reached the area closer to the old coffin.
"He went to check on the rest of his pack, Finn killed the werewolves that were watching my house." she grimaced.
Kol removed the dirt from the top of the wooden box with his foot and then pushed the shovel using it as leverage to open the coffin. A rotten old dress covering a pile of bones appeared before their eyes.
"Who's that?" Caroline quietly asked trying not to be too sick with the view.
"Emily Bennett." Klaus' deep voice came near them. He stopped behind Caroline and looked down on the coffin. "I haven't been totally honest with you love, when I caught Finn 900 years ago he had a weapon on him, something that could kill us. I took the weapon, always changing its location, after Emily closed that tomb I had it buried with the witch."
Caroline squinted without moving entirely, remaining with her back turned on him. "I thought a werewolf bite from an original werewolf like Tyler was the only thing that was deadly to your family."
"It is, but apparently that can be cured with my blood, the werewolves found something else that we couldn't really fight against. The white oak tree that the witches used as energy when they turned my mother, the first vampire. We burned it to the ground but they had their hands on part of it before we destroyed it."
Caroline looked at Kol that bent down removing the stake from inside the coffin. "What gives life, takes life." he said looking at the dirty weapon in his hand.
"So that little pointy thing is able to kill any of you?" she asked pulling a face.
Klaus chuckled behind her and she had to hold back a shiver because he was so close to her. They had been forced to cut short their first night together, Klaus was worried about Finn being on the loose.
He took the stake from Kol and smiled handing it to Caroline. "Be careful with this one."
She met his eyes with a hint of a smile. "This one can actually kill you."
"Try not to drive it straight into my heart." he said smiling like the bastard he was and knowing he was messing with Caroline.
"I'll be gentle..." she whispered and couldn't help looking down on his lips, wishing they weren't cursed to constantly be running and trying to stay alive.
Klaus shared her trail of thought and rested his eyes on her lips, the ones that had been his just a few hours ago.
"For Christ sake, get a room." Kol snapped loudly.
Caroline smiled and looked up to Klaus' eyes, that sounded like the best idea in a very long time.
"By the way, I didn't know you two were so religious... with all that God praising going on inside Nik's room." Kol said with a stinging smile.
Klaus smiled. "Him... you are allowed to kill."
Caroline chuckled and nodded. "Ok..."
"Can any of you stop with the eye sex and help me out of here?" He interrupted their moment again.
Klaus sighed deeply and moved from where he was extremely comfortable and took Kol's hand pulling him out of the deep grave.
"What's the plan now?" Caroline asked putting the stake away inside her bag.
"Yana is rounding up the rest of the pack, we're going after Finn." Klaus was already on hybrid mood.
"What can I do?" Caroline asked determined.
"You can go back to the house and wait there for us." Klaus said naturally.
Caroline laughed. "Are you serious?"
"Yes," Klaus squinted.
"Don't be ridiculous, I'm going with you." she said and started walking, Klaus grabbed her arm as she went by him.
"Utterly out of the question." he said appalled.
Caroline folded her arms and gave him a judging look. "Are you going to forbid me now? Step into this Century Niklaus."
Kol watched the two of them staring at each other, awesome time to leave. "I'm going to... the car or better yet, I'll walk home."
Neither of them acknowledged Kol and his departure.
"I will not take you with me Caroline." Klaus was stern in his determination.
She tilted her head. "I am not going to stay home like a helpless little girl while you go chase your brother that could actually have another one of these stakes with him."
"And I am not allowing you to tag along with me when you have been murdered by him once already and this time around tortured and almost killed again." Klaus said closing the gap between them.
Caroline sighed having Klaus inches away from her face.
He squinted at her serious. "One of us needs to step down right now."
She gave him her best smile. "How much do you want to bet that it's not going to be me Niklaus?"
He clasped his lips upset.
Katherine took a deep breath knocking on the big door, she heard his steps and shook her curls. She looked down on the revealing shirt and fixed her cleavage showing a bit more of it.
She could use all the help.
She gave him her best smile when Elijah opened the door, he simply stepped aside. "Please do come in Katerina."
She was a bit shaken by his flawless smile but didn't falter in her mission. "I decided to come explain myself befo..." she didn't finish because Elijah flashed and pinned her to the ground.
She gulped down with his strong hand wrapped around her "Elijah..."
His smile was still there but it was dark as he pondered how he would kill her. "Why exactly have you come here so willingly walking into your death?" he asked her slowly.
"I knew helping Rebekah was a risk but I always look after myself." she said serious.
Elijah looked down on her, taking all her beauty in, he seemed to vacillate and she was happy about it but then Elijah swiftly pulled her necklace out. She frowned because it was what granted her freedom to walk in the sun and the day was just beginning.
"What are you doing?" she asked when he stood up pulling her arm towards the big window in the living room.
"I suggest you start talking fast Katerina." he simply said stopping by the window.
She tried to fight him when she realized his intentions and managed to at least shove his tight grip around her arm but she didn't go very far because Kol showed up.
She tried to keep her posture having both brothers cornering her towards the bare window.
"Well this is a fun walk down memory lane." Kol teased Katherine.
She pulled a flawless smile. "Why don't you just kill me, if you are that upset that I helped your sister wake the sleeping brother?"
"I already told you that I am leaving the honors to Elijah." he looked at his brother. "You are going to end her life, am I right?"
Elijah simply stood there watching both in silence.
Kol clenched his jaw mad, Katherine tried running for her life again but was shoved harshly against the window by him; she felt it shatter as she hit it hard.
Elijah gave Kol a stern look which made Kol angrier. "I did not spend 1000 years deceiving Nik and looking for Caroline for you to throw all that away because of her now."
Elijah inclined his head that bit, thinking of what to tell Kol. "I suppose you are mad at me because of what happened in the past but that does not give you the right to question how I will handle her."
Katherine moaned sitting straight, fixing her clothes smeared with blood. "Before you both start fighting each other to see who gets the short straw to kill me, can anyone explain to me why you have looked for Caroline? And don't lie to me this time, consider it my last dying wish."
Kol narrowed his eyes watching Elijah's posture and he was furious that Elijah was considering telling her.
"Caroline was with Niklaus back when they were both human." Elijah quietly spoke.
Kol shook his head in disapproval. "You are pathetic." he said and left the house mad.
Katherine stood up looking betrayed. "You lied to me."
"Our relationship was everything but honest Katerina; you used my affections to make me turn you and then you walked away leaving me."
She softly shook her head. "I loved you Elijah but I loved my life and freedom a lot more and while Klaus wanted me dead, you wanted to search for Mikael. I would have been a prisoner my entire life, hostage until my human blood dried."
"I was trying to keep you safe." he said hurt, even after all these years it still pained him that she hadn't trust him enough.
"You wouldn't have gone against Klaus, he is you brother and your love for him is unconditional and I was no rival to that..." she said looking at him.
Elijah was suddenly serious. "What are you hiding from me Katerina, I know you."
"Better than anyone." she said with a smile.
Elijah flashed and she was again on the floor but this time she didn't fight him, she closed her eyes listening to the broken wooden piece from the window cutting through air as he used it to stake her, but she didn't feel the pain she expected in her chest.
She opened her eyes and found Elijah fighting with himself to finish her off.
"I never told you about any of this but you don't look so surprised." he said clutching the stake in his hands.
She looked into his eyes like she had done so many times in the past.
Falling in love with Elijah had been the easiest thing she had ever done in her entire existence. He was sweet and caring and ready to do anything to keep her safe, falling in love with him had been almost inevitable, due to their long talks, his vision and take on life and love. It had been alluring and irresistible and then everything just happened, she fell in love and gave herself to him.
It wasn't long until she convinced him to turn her, running away as soon as she finished her transition but her love for him had made her search for him throughout the years. She just never allowed herself to stay too long, she always left before it got impossible to leave him.
"What are you hiding from me Katerina?" he asked her serious.
Katherine closed her eyes feeling the stake inches away from being buried inside her heart and the sun starting to sizzle on her skin. "Your mother has linked all of you together. When she turned you all and your father started hunting all of you down, she made sure she protected her favorite son, Finn. If you kill Finn, you all die."
Kol switched the lights on The Grill upset and dropped the keys on the counter loudly, he moved around the counter for a much-needed drink. He was already on his second one when Bonnie peaked inside and then came in.
"What are you doing here? The bar is closed, breakfast is only 3 hours from now." he said annoyed.
She sighed. "Caroline called me, I was supposed to meet her and Elena at your house but I saw the car outside and was curious to why you were here at this hour."
"I spent the night with a girl and just left her at home." he said with a smile.
Bonnie grimaced a bit. "Ok... sorry I asked."
"I don't see Harry Potter, did you leave him in the car?" Kol asked trying to sound far less upset than he was.
Bonnie smiled listening to all the jealousy in his voice. "Unlike you, I spent my night alone."
Kol looked at his drink and then at Bonnie. "You haven't settled things then? I thought so, since you insisted on making me compel his father so you could... take care of HP."
She laughed and folded her arms, standing in the middle of the bar. "And by that, you immediately assumed I was sleeping with him. Ok, no matter how old guys are, you all think the same. You are all just sick."
Kol wanted to stay unaffected as she turned around but he bloody wasn't.
"I'm happy you are healing fast..." he said closing his eyes, not exactly what he wanted to say but he wasn't going to apologize to her.
She turned around facing him, they looked at each other in silence, she knew this was the closest she was getting to Kol, though it didn't even matter, they were just pretending to be a couple anyway and now not even that, because she had told Luka everything.
"Yeah... thanks for the blood." she gave in smiling.
Kol smiled back and she found it to be honest this time. "I'll make coffee."
She chuckled. "Are you buying breakfast?"
"I have... pie." he said looking at the only food left inside the fridge.
"I'll have it." she sighed and went to sit by one of the tables.
Kol made the coffee and sneaked looks in her direction, she was on her phone and he fought the urge to ask if she was in touch with the idiotic kid that obviously meant a lot to her.
Finally he came around with the food and coffee and she smiled at him, happily.
He loved that in her, Bonnie had a breathtaking smile.
Caroline stepped inside her house feeling her chest ache; the house was a mess, filled with blood and so many things destroyed, she silently closed her front door and picked a few chairs up, trying to somehow clean the mess.
She fought stinging tears because she could recall everything that went down so vividly, what happened inside her home had been hell and she had a hard time dealing with it now. She made way to her room and was shaking when she pushed the door open, she stopped.
He was here, waiting for her.
"I was wondering when you would return home." he quietly said standing by her window without facing her.
Caroline took a step forward. "I'm sorry if I have kept you waiting."
Finn smiled darkly and turned slowly to meet her. "We had so much fun in here... what took you so long to come see how the house was?"
She flashed a perfect taunting smile. "I was busy making love to your brother."
Finn twitched his neck in a nervous tic. "So Niklaus is in town?"
She smiled even more now, poking him enough with her happiness. "He is and he gave me the night of my life."
That was enough to make Finn flash to her, her back itching when he pushed her hard against the wall but she kept it together. She didn't fight his grip on her collarbone, she faced him fearlessly instead.
"So I see that you both finally gave into each other. Is it all right if I call you his whore now?" Finn hissed furious.
She smiled. "For now you can call me bait."
Finn squinted and then felt the air leave his lungs as Caroline swiftly pushed a dagger into his stomach, she clasped her lips using the little space between them to fully bury it deep. He choked and bent down, she quickly flashed away from his reach and into Klaus' that came inside the room.
Finn widened his eyes as he turned and saw Klaus there, he wasn't able to talk, he just watched the way his brother placed Caroline behind his back protecting her. They had tricked him and he very disturbed about it. He tried to remove the dagger but Klaus clutched a stake in his hand mad.
He was breathing hard and didn't even speak as he launched himself at his older brother set on killing him. Finn yelled as Klaus buried the White Oak near his heart.
Caroline had her fingers nervously clasping her lip watching everything go down and waited for Klaus to finish Finn but strangely Klaus stopped.
She frowned. "Nik?"
Klaus staggered and sat on the ground releasing his brother, he touched his chest and his hand became red with blood, he looked at Caroline breathing harshly and feeling weak.
"Nilklaus..." she gasped and flashed to him, she nested his head on her lap as he fell backwards, she was confused and shaking, his blue shirt was covered in blood and it seemed to bleed more by the second. She looked at Finn that slowly sat up, he removed the dagger from his stomach and then smiled at her; he pushed the stake a little, suppressing a scream.
Klaus couldn't hold his and Caroline felt her tears fall, realizing what was happening.
"You can dagger me all you want but if you try to kill me, he goes as well." he said with hatred and moved his hand to the side, bringing the stake closer to the heart again, this time Klaus didn't scream, he lost consciousness because he was losing blood too fast.
"No... stop it, please stop." Caroline begged Finn.
The older brother was weak as well and gave her a wicked smile. "I will need blood..."
She squinted between her tears.
He licked his lips. "Come here child and give me your blood."
Caroline shook her head. "No..." she whispered.
Finn was upset and moved that stake, he yelled loud as it touched his heart, threatening to rip it apart any second now.
"NO. Stop! You are killing him." she yelled desperate, feeling Klaus' life fading in her arms.
Finn panted. "His heart is a little less resistant than mine so I suggest you hurry."
Caroline looked down on her lap, Klaus was dying and she stroked his face gently. She looked at Finn and closed her eyes nodding.
"Kol? KOL?" Bonnie was using all the towels she could find to try to stop the massive bleeding in his chest. "Oh God..." she couldn't understand what was happening.
She tried waking him again but he was unconscious, having dropped to the ground and bleeding from a chest wound. She cupped his cheek and closed her eyes; she began a spell to try to stop the bleeding or at least slow it down.
Matt was having the same problem with Rebekah back at his .house, the girl just slumped on the couch and started bleeding fast and in huge amounts, she managed to mumble that he should call her brothers before she passed out.
He desperately tried all the numbers in her cell but no one picked up. There was something going on and it was huge.
Finn sucked the blood in Caroline's wrist harshly, he wasn't being gentle at all about this and she bit her lip in pain when he sank his fangs harder into it, he was going to sever her hand if he kept going like this. He smiled feeling refreshed and slowed down, it felt a thousand times worse for Caroline; she could bear the pain, not the disgusting lust behind his ways.
Finn licked her precious skin under his fangs and lips and Caroline jerked her hand away repulsed. He looked up at her and she gave him a furious look.
"I guess that was enough... for now." he said and pulled the stake out.
It began healing almost instantly because of Caroline's blood in his system.
Finn stood up and looked at the couple. "I'll see you home... I'm sure there are rooms still available for the older sibling. It will be fun sharing a house with everyone." he dropped the stake on the floor and smiled. "You can keep that. I know you won't be killing me any time soon... no matter what I do."
Caroline never thought it was possible to hate someone so much like she hated Finn now.
But they would deal with him later, now she was worried about Klaus. She looked at him and stroked his perfect cheek until he slowly opened his eyes.
Caroline couldn't hold the tears back, he moved his shirt, the open buttons showing his chest, there was no visible mark now but it had been a close call.
Elena knocked on the wide open front door and looked around for any signs of life. "Hello?"
There was no answer but then she heard a strange sound, a moan. She walked further into the living room and saw Elijah clutching his chest, his smooth shirt covered in blood.
"Elijah..." she called and ran to him, she knelt in front of him. "Are you ok? What happened?"
"I think Niklaus tried to kill Finn but wasn't successful..." he said and used her help to stand up.
"Are you sure you can stand? Do you need... blood?" she asked slowly.
Elijah smiled. "Lovely Elena... you are far too noble and good for your own safety."
She smiled. "Are you sure? I trust you." she said warmly.
Elijah had to look at her twice, where had he seen and heard this before? Oh right, the selfish bitch that had left him bleeding on the ground.
"I'm good Elena, I'm already healing. But thank you for the kind offer." he said and opened his shirt to check on his wound.
Elena felt compelled, it must have been like this when Caroline compelled her because she couldn't take her eyes away from his chest and she knew it was rude but frigging Elijah Mikaelson was unbuttoning his shirt in front of her and she was mesmerized by the view.
"Let me see it Kol." Bonnie demanded.
"No need darling." he snapped already getting away from her.
She crossed her arms mad at him. "Take your shirt off and let me see if it's really healed Kol."
He frowned at her demanding tone. "More than healed."
"You had an open chest wound gushing blood out fast." she said and moved closer to him.
"What are you doing?" he squealed when she took hold of the rim of his shirt pushing it over his head before he had time to react decently. "Boundaries darling!" he snapped.
She rolled her eyes and checked his chest. "Yeah, you'll live..." she said cleaning his chest from all the blood with a towel.
"That's what I was trying to tell you." he said but without the snapping tone, he was talking slowly and low now.
Bonnie cleaned the blood without meeting his eyes; she was becoming very self-conscious of her impulsive action. Now she had her hands on Kol's naked firm, amazing chest and she was enjoying the proximity a little too much.
She slowly met his eyes. "All cleaned..." she whispered still rubbing the towel without any clear pattern.
There was a staring moment between them, going from their eyes, to their lips and when their gaze met again, he grabbed her face and kissed her. She dropped the towel and tugged at his hair, kissing him back and pressing herself to him.
Kol kissed her deeply and with passion.
He moved his hands down her back and picked her up, she laced her legs around his waist and pulled his hair getting lost in the heated kiss.
He sat her down on one of the pool tables and her shirt quickly came off. She moved her hands over his smooth back and gasped completely lost in him when he unclasped her bra.
"Kol..." she moaned loudly when his lips came down her neck and his hands started discovering her body.
Caroline came inside her room with a clean buttoned shirt, she handed it to Klaus. "It was my dad's... he left it behind..." she sighed.
He fixed the collar and before starting to button it up he looked at her noticing how she was still shaken, he pulled Caroline into his arms.
She closed her eyes and hid in his chest.
"Well that was a dull plan..." he mumbled.
"We didn't know he was linked to you." she said against his chest.
"I need to find a way to break this spell so I can take my revenge on Finn." he pressed his lips.
Caroline loved that he was holding her so close to him, so strongly, it made her feel safe. "We'll find a way... let's just... go home now." she said pulling away from him.
Klaus cupped her chin.
"I went through so much inside this house, inside that bathroom is a bathtub filled with water, vervain and blood. I almost died in here, you almost died tonight. My mother is gone and I have done nothing but cry inside this house."
"What do you want to do?" he asked her quietly.
"Go to the only place I have ever been happy. If you will take me." she said with a smile.
"And this house?" he asked ignoring her silly remark.
She sighed enchanted with his ways and leaned over so she could kiss him.
Klaus took hold of the kiss, his hand on her cheek and his tongue sweetly invading her mouth.
She kissed him more certain than ever, this was what she wanted.
Caroline stood outside watching her house burn, the house of pain was burning to the ground and she took a deep breath turning to face Klaus that was waiting for her.
He reached out his hand to her and she smiled taking it, she walked with him knowing her full life was ahead of her, a new life with him.
Whatever outcome came from all of this, whatever obstacle or enemy they had to face, they would do it together now and they would deal with it as a couple.
She leaned over his shoulder, maybe it was time she had a go at this being happy thing even if she was about to share a house with Finn and the rest of the Originals.
Soundtrack:
Titanium - David Guetta
All my life – Foo Fighters