A/N: Happy New Years everyone, I hope that you're 2012 ended perfectly like you wished and that 2013 is starting to its best potential. I'm brining you guys a new update and I hope your ready to continue Illegal and I want you all to know that I have not quit this story. I spent the end of the year moving and I'm finally settled and I've been studying loads so I hope you all understand that.

Anyways, enjoy the story and expect chapter 27 either late sunday night or on monday night. I'm currently editing that chapter now and sometimes it takes me a longer time to edit chapters.

As always, disclaimer, I do not own TVD.

Chapter 26

"That was exhausting," I whispered to myself as I look down and move Jason's hair off his face.

He fell asleep the second the plane was in the air. I felt so bad for making him stay up for so long and not let him properly sleep. I felt like a terrible mother for even taking him away from Klaus when Jason enjoys himself so much around men.

I felt like I was ruining something that was so good for him. I was desperately hoping that having my dad around him would make Jason realize that Klaus and his brothers are not the only men in his life. He does have a grandfather and even though it is my fault that I don't come to Seattle as much as I should he should remember his grandfather.

It was bright and early in the morning and for the first time in years I was actually happy to be the Seattle hot sun. I was glad that I was no longer in New York and that for a few minutes I could forget about my problems.

I looked around and saw that both Elena and Bonnie fell asleep so I gently shook them.

"Time to get up, beautiful." I say gently as I touched both of their shoulders.

"Huh?" Elena asked.

"What? We're here?" Bonnie mumbled.

I giggle and smile brightly. "Yes, the plane just landed.

"Oh wow, we're actually in Seattle?" Elena asked as she looked out the window.

"Yes!" I replied smiling.

Elena smiled brightly and together we all got up our seats as everyone else collected their bags and started departing from inside the plane.

I grabbed Jason and began carrying him. "Will you guys grab my bag?"

"I'll carry it," Bonnie replied.

"Thank you, let's go we can leave now." I said gently as we started to walk away from the plane.

"So where to now?" Elena asks as we get to the airport and begin to walk away.

"We get out our luggage then we'll find a hotel. We can nap or at least Jason should then we can go see my dad if you both would like to join us." I explain.

"Definitely," Elena replies.

I turn around to see both Elena and Bonnie looking down at Bonnie's phone but the second they see me staring at them they smile at me. I know immediately they're hiding something and I truly hope its Katherine and not one of the Mikealson's.

"What's going on?" I wonder a loud.

"Nothing." They both say at the same time exactly.

I ignore them and continue to carry Jason to get our luggage. "Fine!"

Elena and Bonnie look down at the phone but continue to walk with me. I was ready for a nap.

Currently, Jason was sleeping while I was carrying him and I didn't know how I would carry our luggage. I knew that I still had to call my dad but I wasn't able to check my phone either. I was deeply afraid of the phone calls I would have but I was also curious to know if anyone actually did call me or if Klaus even bothered to call to wonder where I was.

I also don't want to know about him because of our argument but I did miss him and I do wish he was actually here with me holding my hand and actually go meet my dad with me but I'm such a coward and a complete baby.

I suck at relationships and the only thing I could think of during the whole plane ride was how I could reverse time and change my actions but at the same time this one action that I took was the one thing I needed to do in order to know that I was no longer able to be an escort.

I also thought about what kind of job I would need to get when I get back to New York. I can't be jobless forever and I'm freaking out about it.

"I think that's my bag!" Bonnie said while pointing at a blue luggage bag making its way over to us.

"Great, now we need ours it shouldn't take long, will you go check if there's any cab outside that can take us to a hotel?" I ask Bonnie.

Bonnie nods, "Definitely, I'll leave my bag with you guys then."

"We'll watch it," Elena replies.

After fifteen more minutes we get our bags outside and thankfully Bonnie was able to find us a cab. I was excited that the cab was driving us to the hotel and we could actually buy real food and eat a healthy meal.

"It's so beautiful here," Bonnie whispered as she looks out the window.

"Personally I like New York better." I whispered.

"What?" Bonnie gasped.

"I'm serious. I enjoy the life there much more." I continued but then I quickly snapped my mouth shut because I wondered about how my life would be when I returned to New York.

I guess I don't have much to worry about though, New York is a big state and there's probably thousands or even millions of people in Manhattan so I probably won't even see Klaus around much. I won't be spending nights at hotel anymore so my chances of seeing him again would be much more slimmer than before.

"What's wrong?" Elena asked and I shook my head gently.

I looked down again to see Jason still asleep. I was glad he was still sleeping and hadn't noticed anything after all the movements and me carrying him around. Both Elena and Bonnie were whispering about something but I wasn't paying much attention to them.

I was actually in my own little world inside my head and I was deeply craving some sleep and what's worse is that my head keeps playing the argument with Klaus like a movie.

"We're here." Bonnie said excitedly. I could tell by the sound of her voice that she was excited to be outside of New York but that she was also hiding something from me. They both were.

"It's only Seattle, Bon." I said softly.

I quickly held on tightly to Jason and left the cab. I paid the driver and both Elena and Bonnie helped me with my luggage.

Inside the hotel we were easily able to get ourselves a big room enough for the four of us together.

"This is a beautiful hotel," Elena said as we entered our bedroom together. It actually was a beautiful room and I was impressed as well. The beds were big enough for all of us to fit.

Elena and Bonnie were both fine with sharing a bed for a few days since I wasn't playing on staying here for a long time, at least so I hoped. Everything always changed as the days passed. I slowly laid down Jason to the bed and I was very thankful that he didn't even feel a thing from all the moment that has happened since we landed in Seattle.

"I think we should order some food, I am starving." Bonnie said as she laid down on the bed side-ways and looked at both Elena and I. She then turned her head down and looked at her phone that had just light up.

I frowned as Bonnie avoided my eyes and I felt the need to scream. "Okay, what's up with the both of you? I know that you're hiding something I've been trying to figure it out but I quite don't want of know what you both are keeping from me." I tell them impatiently.

Bonnie hand me her phone and I look down at the phone screen, there were at least six missed calls from Kol. There were at least two voice mails and I let one played on speakerphone.

"Bonnie, it's Kol, Klaus told me that Caroline left his house last night and we don't know where she is, I tried calling her and so has Rebekah and Klaus is giving up on finding out where she is. We just want to know that she's okay, please tell me if you know where she is, my brother is going insane. Thanks, Bon," Kol finished his message and the voicemail recording stopped.

I sighed heavily, "Okay, so if you want to tell him that I'm here go ahead," I continued.

"Really?" Elena asked.

"All right, I'll just text him and then I don't have to tell him any more details but are you sure that you don't want to call Klaus? Tell him where you are?" Bonnie replied.

"I'm not sure about anything, I thought about it a lot when we were on the plane and you both fell asleep. I was in the wrong for going to the hotel to see Alaric and planning on having sex with him but I also think that he was in the wrong as well because he also called me a whore. The fight was stupid and we were both wrong but I think we should take time apart." I explained.

"Wait, you're admitting that you're wrong?" Elena asked surprisingly.

I couldn't help but to giggle when she said this, "Yes, I'm admitting that I'm wrong, I know that I should have change my tactics the second Klaus and I had sex with each other, more like the second I moved into his home but I was stupid and I have trust issues and I didn't trust myself. My brain has been running on money and not on love and passion for years and that's why my first instinct was to go to Alaric and get paid a crap load of money." I continued.

I knew that I was wrong. I knew it even when I was doing the act but I can be stupid sometimes we can all be stupid sometimes. We all make mistakes and I admit that I make mistakes but Kol said himself that Klaus is giving up on me. We both have trust issues and relationships are difficult to begin with, of course they're just going to be twice as hard and frustrating when you don't trust each other. Relationships are complicated and I wasn't ready for complicated and I still don't think that I am ready for complicated when life is complicated enough being an escort and while having a child.

Even here in Seattle I can't stop thinking about Klaus and to be honest, for the first time I am going to admit to myself that I could actually be falling in love with him and that scares me. I'm afraid that I might do something just as stupid as yesterday and have him run away and give up on our relationship. I don't want to get heart broken and that's why I've always pushed myself from other guys. I'm afraid of falling hard and not have that same person love me back.

"So tell me this, can you honestly see yourself loving Klaus?" Elena asked seriously. "I understand that it's hard and that you haven't been anyone, seriously for a long time or never but be honest. I don't know much about the relationship business either because I don't have a boyfriend but I do know what love is and how it feels to be in love and what isn't love." Elena continued and explained deeply.

I sigh once more, "I think I do love him." I whispered.

"You said the "L" word!" Bonnie said excitedly. "You've never said that to anyone but Jason and us."

I smile sadly, "I know, I totally know that I said the "L" word and I'm really freaked out about it. I never thought that I would actually love another man and that it could actually be real love not the fake love that I thought I had with Tyler when I was a teenager. I'm so afraid of going back to New York and seeing Klaus again."

"Care, it's okay to be afraid," Bonnie began.

"It's normal, every one is afraid of love." Elena continued for Bonnie.

"But what if he doesn't love me?" I said so softly that I wondered if either Elena or Bonnie heard me but in fact they did.

"Oh, honey," Elena said sadly as she grabbed me and tightly hugged me for a few seconds. "You will never know how he feels until you let him open up to you. Men don't share their feelings but he cares for you, his feelings have been hurt when he found out about Alaric."

I tried my hardest not to cry. I've been holding my tears for so long that I didn't want to break down now. "I get it," I said slowly and Elena hugged me once more.

"It's ok, don't worry about it now, just worry about seeing your dad and his husband and let Jason have his fun with his grandfather." Elena said gently and I nodded.

For the second I suddenly felt like the child and Elena was my mother. She was telling me exactly what to do and was actually making me feel better. I've been a mother for a long time and I had to grow up and I've never regretted any decision that was meant for Jason to have better life and I was glad that I actually had two best friends to be here to support me. I was glad that I actually had friends and that I had someone to be with me so that I would never be alone.

"I think it's time for all of us to take a nap." Bonnie said as she stifled her giggles.

"Right," I said giggling in return as well. Elena went to bed with Bonnie and they both fell asleep instantly.

As usual I couldn't sleep so I went to take a shower first and hope that it could help me get a few hours asleep. Ever since Tyler found his way to my apartment my sleeping pattern has been completely ruined and I didn't trust any of my surroundings while I slept.

Once I was out the shower I lay down and looked at Jason. I took my iPad and immediately began a new book on my Kindle app. Slowly while reading my eyes began to close and some how I kept fighting my sleep but my eyes got the best of me and I slept for as long as I could.

It was about two in the afternoon when Jason woke up and woke me up as well. Together we woke up Bonnie and Elena.

"Ugh, let us keep sleeping!" Bonnie begged as she tried to push Jason and I off her. I quickly started laughing at her child like behavior.

"You two want to stay while we go see grandpa?" I said gently.

"Yessss!" Elena grumbled. I laughed once more and showered Jason and got him dressed.

We took a cab from the hotel to my dad's house. Thankfully when we arrived I noticed my dad's car was there, I didn't call him to tell him we were coming over since I thought he would actually enjoy the surprise but the surprise would be useless if my dad wasn't there.

"Are you ready to surprise grandpa?" I ask Jason as we get out of the cab and the cab drivers leaves the neighborhood.

"Yes!" Jason yelled and giggled.

"Don't yell too loud or then he'll know we're here." I tell him softly and we walk to the front door and ring the doorbell.

"Ready?" I whispered and Jason smiled brightly and nodded.

After a few seconds of waiting my dad opens the door and his eyes widen as he sees us. "Caroline?" My dad says surprisingly.

"It's us," I whispered and I was afraid that my dad didn't want us here.

"Come in," he says and I was actually afraid to go inside his house. Jason not knowing that anything bad was happening and not feeling weird about anything because he is a child quickly runs over to his grandpa and hugs him tightly.

"Grandpa!" Jason yells and Bill quickly picks him up and hugs him.

"How are you big guy? I'm so glad that you're here." Bill continues and they both go inside and like a scared puppy I go behind them and enter the house.

Quickly I was flooded with flashbacks of when I was teenager and I was taking care of Jason when he was an infant and becoming a toddler. I had such difficult times here growing up as I constantly had to study and had a minimum wage job and take care of Jason every night. Bill didn't help as much but I know that he did his best but he also wanted me to do the mother job to my fullest potential.

"Caroline, how are you?" My dad's husband said surprisingly. I quickly noticed that he tried to put a good smile and be welcoming but he was looking at my dad like something was wrong, like there was something they needed to tell me but they didn't say anything out loud.

"Let's take a seat." Bill says as he motions us to go to the living room. Jason as a very obedient child that he is went straight to the living room and Bill brought him a few toys to play with.

"Thank you, Grandpa," Jason said happily as he began to play games with the toys my dad brought him from another room.

"Caroline," Bill began.

I tried not to roll my eyes at him because he was talking to me just like he did when I was in high school and I was in trouble.

"We're concerned about you." Bill continued.

"What are you talking about? Things are great." I replied immediately. Usually it was a defense mechanism to constantly prove to other people that I was fine even though I wasn't.

I never told the truth about how I felt, I only ever cared about making sure no one got in my business and I wanted to protect my privacy even if it was with my father.

"No, we've been trying to avoid the topic by calling you but now that you've shown up here we need to discuss something very serious." Bill continued.

For the moment I wanted to run away to my room and hide there with Jason but I no longer lived here and I couldn't run away that easily from my problems.

"We found an ad," Bill began. "An ad online, it came up randomly while we were looking for some information and we saw you, the ad was about escorting woman and you were the woman on the photo. We clicked on the add and we were taken to a website in which you were on once more and there were more photos of you, provocative photos of you in a bed and in underwear and some wearing nothing. Then there were prices of you, in which men could take one in order to be with you, as in have sex with you." Bill finished.

I wanted to crawl in a hole and die; the last thing I wanted was for my dad to find out that I was an escort. That I was with me for money but I couldn't help the fact that he in fact found out about me and that this was not going to end up good.

"Caroline, are you still doing this job, is this really the job you've been doing since you left Seattle?" Bill's husband asked.

"Umm. No, I don't escort, but why is it bad if I did?" I asked.

"Because you're hurting your body, you can get an STD, you could probably already have one." Bill replied.

"Definitely not, I check myself monthly and I do not have any STD or any other sickness I'm in great health actually, we both are." I told both them.

"Caroline, we're both going to be very honest with you escorting is not a profession, it's just something lazy woman do and it's not a job that you should be doing, people all over the world probably have seen this adds, they are saying that you're the best in the business. You think its good that advertise that you can fuck a guy properly?" Bill said angrily and I wanted to leave.

"You should not be proud of being the best escort in the business, that's not something to be proud of. Do you think that giving away your body is something to be proud of?" Bill's husband asked.

"Look, I escorted, I no longer do but that doesn't give you the right to call me that and judge me. My body is fine, I'm fine, we're both fine and I take care of Jason everyday. He's going to one of the best schools in New York City and he's the smartest boy in his class, he's even skipping an entire grade and if escorting got him that then there's no reason for you to judge me for that." I began getting defensive about the issue and I quickly wanted to leave.

"You don't have that right, you can't judge me for that I've done, you don't even know what's been going on with my life the last couple of days, and I almost died! You do not have the right to tell me I'm ruining my body." I yelled at him.

"Caroline, what do you mean you almost died?" Bill asked scared to even know what I was going to say.

"Tyler, Tyler almost killed me and Jason had to watch him beat me almost to death, Tyler's in jail now for what he did to me, that bastard. You don't even understand how crazy he got. Manson broke into my apartment and broke everything. My television, my kitchen, completely trashed my entire home and I didn't have anywhere else to go. I met a wonderful guy who I might actually love and I ruined every possibility of me having any kind of perfect relationship I've thought of. I don't even know if he wants to see me anymore. I thought I would always have my dad, a man that would never judge me and I come here to seek safety and instead I just get judge because you see an old add of me. So what, I did what I had to do to give the perfect life to my child and I know that in the future he'll understand."

I quickly walked over to Jason who was distracted playing with his toys, "Come on, Jason, it's time to leave grandpa has to go somewhere."

I took Jason's hand and Jason turned away and smiled at Bill, "Bye, Grandpa."

Together we leave and walk a few blocks away while I called a cab and asked them to meet as away from Bill's home.

"Where are we going now, mommy?" Jason asked.

"Anywhere you'd like to go, we could go see grandma, remember her?" I asked Jason.

"Yes," Jason replied.

"Come on, let's go have some fun with Bonnie and Elena." I held Jason hand tightly as the cab driver took us back to the hotel.

"What happened? You're both here quickly," Elena said and they both had food all over their bed.

Jason immediately ran to their bed and began to eat food. "You're hungry, huh?" Bonnie asked and Jason giggled.

"Grandpa must have not feed you." Elena continued and Jason shook his head saying no while he ate one of Elena's grilled cheese sandwiches.

"What happened?" Elena asked as they came and sat on the bed with me and let Jason continue eating and watch cartoons. Thankfully the hotel had good cable service and TV completely distracted Jason. It was as if he was in his own little world and nothing else mattered. The only thing he currently cared about was his cartoons and Elena's grilled cheese sandwich.

"Well they apparently found out that I was an escort. They completely judged me for escorting so I just left." I continued and I could fell the hot tears fall down.

"Caroline, please don't cry, please," Elena begged as they both hugged me.

"I can't control it. I've been trying to keep my tears in check but I can't anymore. I always thought my dad would always stay by my side but that's not likely to happen anymore." I said gently as I cried.

I tried to sniff and hold my tears but I couldn't. "What are you going to do then?"

"I can't stay here and I'm not ready to go back to New York. I think I'm going to go to Mystic Falls, see Carol and let Carol spend some time with her grandson." I said sadly.

"Let's just stay here for another day and just rest, sleep for as long as you want and we'll definitely take care of Jason for you, just don't worry." Bonnie said gently and they both put me in the bed like the perfect parents.

"All right," I whispered and let my eyes closed and let them take me to the perfect world where I didn't have to worry about my family judging me and not having the man I wished I could by my side.

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