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Caroline.
It was about one in the morning when we reach the airport and I was so thankful that Jason didn't fall asleep and he was actually doing a great job at staying awake. I think the fact of seeing my dad was getting him excited.
The second we arrived to JFK I noticed that the next flight off to Seattle didn't leave until three in the morning and I was about to drive myself insane. I didn't think that Jason would be able to last so long awake but I knew that I had to wait.
I go ahead and buy our plane tickets and checked in our bags. I grabbed Jason's hand and we walk to buy us some snacks since he was hungry. "Are you excited to see grandpa?" I ask and he smiles and nods happily.
"Yes!" He says happily as he takes a bite of his chocolate chip cookie.
"Very good, I'm excited to go see Grandpa too, are you going to tell him that you're going to the third grade or am I?" I ask smiling.
"I am!" He yells and some strangers turn and look at us angrily. I giggle and walk to one of the tables and use my iPad for Jason to watch a movie while we wait.
"Toy Story!" He says happily and watches the movie comfortably and uses my headset to ignore the rest of the people of the airport. I frown for a second because I didn't know how I was going to tell him that we weren't going to see Klaus or any of the Mikaelson's for a very long time. I know that in the short time that we were living there Jason grew very attached to them and I wasn't sure what to do or how to break the news to him.
My phone begins to ring in my bag and the first thing I do is I hope and pray that it's not Klaus calling me and wondering where I've gone. I look at the screen as my stomach drops but instead I let myself breath as I read that it's the one and only, the loveable Katherine.
"Isn't it a little to late for house calls?" I ask as I answer the phone. I roll my eyes as she laughs darkly in response.
"It's a good thing you have a cell phone then, right darling, let's get to the chase why the hell did you bite and kick Alaric in the balls?" Katherine asks angrily.
I shake my head before I even reply to her, I should have know that she would have called me. "You know that he's our best client and he was going to pay you two grand, what the fuck, Caroline?" Katherine yells and I have to move the phone from my ears as she yells.
"Look, I told him that I couldn't do it and he tried to force himself on me, no one is going to force themselves on me, I bit him and I ran. No man is going to touch me like that no matter how much money they're willing to pay. Forget it. I'm done with the business, count me out, take me off the website and forget the whole deal about making men pay me so much. I'm not returning. Good bye, Katherine." I hang up the phone call and make myself take deep breaths. I wish she would have never bother to call and just fired me instead but Katherine was always the woman that needed to get in the last word, and that's the last thing I wanted to give her.
I look through my calls when I realize that I have five missed calls from both Elena and Bonnie. I sigh, it's like they were the parents in my miserable dumb life.
I shake my head for thinking so stupidly, they're probably both wondering how the conversation with Klaus went or if I even went back at all and crashed at my broken down apartment.
I decide to call one of them back before they go insane trying to figure out where I am. I can't leave with out telling them where I'm going they'll go crazy trying to find out where I've gone. They are my best friends.
"Where have you been?" Bonnie asks as she answers my phone call.
"We've been trying to reach you for hours!" Elena adds.
"We were about to call Klaus' to make sure you were two weren't having sex or something with out telling us how it went." Bonnie finishes.
"Do you have me on speakerphone?" I ask.
"Yes, I still haven't left Elena's I was going to stay until you called, besides I don't have anything else to do. Katherine hasn't given me a client since we haven't been to work in a while." Bonnie continues and I smile.
"Look, I'm fine, sorta but that doesn't matter I'm actually at the airport and Katherine just called me and then I saw both of your miss calls." I explain.
"Wait, what?" Elena asks.
"What the hell are you doing at the airport?" Bonnie demands.
"It went bad," Elena whispers as she figures it out.
"Care?" Bonnie says more gently, "You're running." I shake my head but I stop myself because neither of them can see what I'm doing since we're on the phone.
"Look, don't worry about me I'm going to Seattle. The flight leaves at 3 in the morning but please don't tell anyone I left." I beg them.
"Wait, you can't leave with out us. You need us." Elena interjects.
"You can't be alone." Bonnie adds.
"I have Jason, I'll always have Jason." I reply sadly.
"He's your son he has no choice, you need friends even if you don't tell us what happened with Klaus. Obviously it went badly that's why you've packed your bags and you're leaving but you can't be there alone. We're going to pack and buy tickets and leave with you to Seattle." Elena says.
"Besides, we could use a vacation as well." Bonnie says happily.
I giggle, "You don't have to. I'll understand."
"No, we're going with you." They both say in union and they hang up the phone leaving me with no say.
About half an hour later my phone rings again only this time it was Elena calling me. "Where exactly are you?"
"I'm sitting with Jason by the Cinnabun restaurant, I'm not exactly by the airplane doors just yet." I explain.
"We're almost there then." Elena replies and hangs up once more.
I shake my head. They have been hanging the phone up on me a little too much but I ignore it because they did everything they could to be here with me. Before I know it they're both sitting with us. Jason notices that we're no longer sitting alone and goes to hug both Elena and Bonnie. Then he continues to watch Toy Story on the iPad.
"So, we're doing this?" Elena asks.
"We are, are you two sure you want to go with me?" I ask them.
"We already bought the tickets so we are leaving with you no matter what. You can't be alone. I don't know much about relationship either but I do know you, even though we haven't been friends for a really long time but I do know that whatever he said to you wasn't pretty and you don't have to tell us now, I understand but you shouldn't have to deal with everything all by yourself." Bonnie says gently.
I nod and stay quiet. I always did everything by myself and it wasn't until now that I made friends, especially girlfriends. I never established them when I was younger and I was always an outsider but I love both Elena and Bonnie because we both understand the scarifies of being an escort are and the lying that we have to do to protect others and ourselves.
"I'm going to get coffee and maybe a bun do you want something?" Elena says in order to break the tension and I shake my head.
"We all ready ate some when we got here." I reply and I look down at Jason who's still watching his movie.
Elena nods in agreement and leaves the table to get her bun and coffee for Bonnie and herself. Together they eat in silence and we waited for our departure.
It was at around three thirty in the morning we were all in the airplane and I was surprised that we all somehow got to sit next to each other.
I was sitting with Elena and Bonnie was next to us. Jason would move around from Bonnie and Elena and eventually once the plane was in the air he fell asleep once more and I laid him down by the window seat and let him sleep.
He must have been extremely exhausted since I barely did let him sleep tonight and I was upset with my own actions. Elena and Bonnie also fell asleep while watching the movie on board but I couldn't let myself rest. I couldn't stop thinking about what happened with Klaus just a couple of hours ago. I couldn't stop wondering if he went back to his house and notice that I was gone.
I couldn't stop hearing his words, calling me a prostitute and a whore. Saying how Jason would hate me after he found out of my job when he was older. I hate this feeling and I can't help but to think that Klaus was right about me.
I try to pay attention to the movie, I try to read on my iPad, I try to distract myself from everything that is Klaus and his hurtful words but I couldn't. I can't even stop thinking about what Alaric tried to do with me. He forced himself to me and I can't stop but to think if he would have continued until he got his way if I didn't bit and kick him.
My life that last couple of days has been falling apart and I can't stop thinking about how fine everything used to be until I met Klaus and until Tyler came back to my miserable apartment.
Eventually my mind shut off and I was thankful for that small amount of time I didn't have to worry about anything and I was able to sleep.
Klaus POV.
I wake up early in the morning and for the first time since the fight with Caroline I notice that the house is very quiet. Usually at this time both Jason and Caroline are up running around the house together trying to get Jason ready for school but this morning was different, it was quiet.
I get up from my bed and decide to ignore it and get ready for work. I set out my best grey suit and white button up shirt with black shoes. I brush my hair back and get my things together for work. Today was going to be a long day since tomorrow I would have to go to court for another case.
I leave my room and stand quiet and notice that there's no noise coming out from Caroline's room next door. I wonder if she all ready left to take Jason to school but usually I leave before her.
I go and knock on her door and frown at the silence and the lack of response. I open the door myself thinking they might have never woken up and notice that the room is completely empty with no trace of either Jason or Caroline.
All of their bags are gone and the room is just as empty as when they arrived here. The bed was nicely clean and done and there was not even one trace that a mother and a son stayed here.
She was gone.
She left and didn't even say anything.
She ran.
I took a deep breath trying my hardest to not get angry at the fact that she left and didn't even leave a damn letter.
She ran from the fight and I felt like I was going to lose it. I slam the door and leave the house. I pull out my phone and call Rebekah.
"Nik?" Rebekah answers the phone with.
"Bekah, is Caroline or Jason at school today?" I ask her trying to keep my anger at ease.
"No, Jason doesn't have to come back to school since he passed the placement test yesterday, didn't Caroline tell you he's going to be skipping the second grade completely?" Rebekah asks and I flare once again.
"No," I say bitterly and she can sense it.
"What did you do, Nik?" Rebekah demands and I can already feel her rolling her eyes at me.
"I didn't do anything," I reply.
"Just tell me what happened, she was excited to tell you that Jason was going to skip the second grade. Obviously something happen between the two of you." Rebekah said gently.
"Maybe that was before she went to go screw another man for money." I replied and for that second I wanted to hang up the phone and just not talk to anyone.
"I'm going to call her," Rebekah said and hung up the phone call on me. I didn't want to talk to anyone but I was just realizing that she probably did run away after our fight.
I know that I was angry and that I said harmful things but that didn't mean she should have ran away from me. I can't be the man who can easily be with a woman who's with other men even if it is for money.
My work phone rings again and I pick it up.
"She's not answering, Nik," Rebekah answers the phone with.
"You didn't think to ask me that, love, before you hung up the phone?" I ask.
"Sorry, I just thought she would pick up the phone for me. Do you think she's back at her old apartment just crashing there?"
I sigh, "I don't think so the place was completely trashed, Bekah."
"Right, well I'm just trying to figure out where she's gone." Rebekah replies.
"Just tell me one thing, Nik, do you really care for her? Did you mean whatever you told her?" Rebekah asks once more.
"No, I was mad, I was drinking, you know what happens when I drink. We had a spat I didn't think she'd run." I reply.
"She probably left to Seattle with her dad. I'll call Kol so he can try to reach Bonnie." Rebekah said gently. "Nik, be honest with me, what do you want with Caroline?"
"I love her, Bekah," I whisper and hope to god that she heard me because I was not repeating that again.
"I didn't want to call her those names, but I can't deal with the fact that she's going out there and being with other men after she was with me." I said gently.
"I understand, Nik." Rebekah whispers.
I knew Rebekah would understand because she's the only one I can ever talk to. She's the only one who wont makes fun of me for admitting once in my life that I actually love someone and that someone being Caroline.
I don't want to change Caroline; I don't want to be that kind of person but that one fact about her I just can't accept. I thought that she knew and understood that about and I thought she would be willing to give that up to be so that we could both have a happy ending but that wasn't what she wanted. She wanted the money and she let the money drive her motives and I can't handle that.
"We'll get her back." Rebekah continues.
"She will have to come to me this time, I didn't run away from her." I said gently.
"I have to go, I have work to do. I'll talk to you later, Bekah." I continue and finished that call.
I was tired of thinking of Caroline. I was tired of thinking of how miserable it was the first time I've ever said I was in love. If this is what's waiting me I don't want it. I would gladly stay single and living the life I had before I ever met Caroline.
But, she got under my skin and I can't get her out of there. The way she kisses me, the way she smiles, the way she does anything. The way she feeds her son, the way she loves him I could only ever want that she would love me the same way but I don't think that she does.
I try to concentrate once more but then one more my work phone rings. "Where is Caroline?" Elijah says on the other side of the phone line.
"It's nice to hear from you too, Elijah, I on the other hand am not having such a great morning so can we please speak later?" I reply.
"Stop the remarks, where is she? Her room is empty I had brought a gift for Jason but the house is empty and quiet." Elijah continues.
"I don't know where she's gone brother, but I do know she's packed her things and left." I reply.
"What did you do, Nik?" Elijah replies.
"Why must everyone continue to ask me that? Has anyone ever thought that maybe she did something that I didn't like? That I wasn't the one who pushed her away, that maybe she was the one to pushed herself away?" I reply and hung up the phone on Elijah.
The last person that I need to call me is Kol and I was silently praying that he wouldn't dare to call me because I didn't need his snarky remarks on a day like today.
The only thing I can do is focus on my work because Caroline is no longer a part of my life. She left, she took herself away from my life and I was going to give her what she wanted.
For the rest of the day I ignore any phone calls and do everything by email. I don't want to speak to either of my siblings. For the first time I wish that I could makes myself run away just like Caroline but I don't have that option. I can't pick up my things and run away like she did and for once I wish I never knew what the term love is.
I wish I never fell in love with Caroline Forbes.
This was going to be a very long day.