THE PORT OF LOVE
Fan Fiction – Alternate Universe
Caroline & Klaus
With the participation of:
Elijah & Katherine / Kol & Bonnie
From: Lovely Vero
Previously on: the Port of Love …
(…)
"Thank you!" Bonnie said, while kissing Trevor and Katherine.
"We love you darling!" Trevor replied, while rubbing her back.
"We'll keep in touch!" Katherine promised, while hugging her new friend. "I love you."
Bonnie turned on herself, before reaching Kol and encircling his neck of her arms.
"Thank you." She murmured, while drowning her sight in his brown eyes, before rising on her toes to kiss him tenderly on the lips.
"And this ladies and fishermen, is how Kol is operating to get his woman!" Trevor exclaimed to the laughing crowd.
"I'm going to miss her." Caroline whispered, while leaning her head on Klaus's right shoulder.
"I'm feeling actually kind of bad for Kol." Klaus said, unexpectedly.
Caroline raised her head, in surprise, while taking a glimpse at him.
"I am certainly not ready to let you go." He added, while lowering his sight in hers.
"Does everybody have a glass?" Trevor questioned the assembly, while passing the remaining glasses of champagne.
"We do now!" A few fishermen responded, laughing.
"Ok everyone….To Clovelly and to Bonnie!" Trevor exclaimed, while rising his glass in the air.
"To Clovelly and to Bonnie!" They all replied in chorus, while raising their own glasses.
Chapter 25
"Farewell"
PART 2
The night after Bonnie's departure party…
"My legs are literally hanging on each side of this bathtub, Katherine." Elijah laughed through his sentence, while leaning his upper body on the back of the brass bathtub.
"You should thank God and all the heavenly Saints that I've allowed you to enter my private quarters." Katherine responded, while holding her laughter, before passing a bath sponge on the length of her legs.
"Oh! But I do thank them, beautiful." Elijah smirked, with his words being murmured between the soft touch of his lips placed on her left earlobe. "I actually feel like I've won the lottery, while taking a midnight swim with you, in this wonderful brass bathtub on feet!" He mocked, while grabbing the sponge from his lover's hands.
"You'll know that initially this brass bathtub was a gift from "myself" to "myself", and was not intended to be share with a man." She replied, with a smile twisting the corners of her lips, before closing her eyes, while appreciation the soft touch of the sponge on her lower back.
"The part about this bathtub not being built for two, I've quite noticed." Elijah giggled, while grabbing a hand full of her luscious curls. "Could you raise your hair in a bun, beautiful?" He asked her, gently. "I'll wash your higher back."
Katherine grabbed her curls in two hands, before raising their loose strands in the top of her head.
"Mm … It's nice." She whispered, eyes shut, while enjoying the sponge massage on her higher back and shoulders.
"I'm here to please, goddess." Elijah murmured, while dropping the sponge in the water, before strengthening his back and sliding his lips on the soft skin of her left shoulder, in a higher motion on the delicate curve of her neck.
"If only you had arrived earlier with the brass bathtub, as a duo-package." Katherine thought out loud, with a blissful smile plastered on her face.
"I doubt I'm the only man who've ever entered your private quarters, my beautiful lady?" Elijah mentioned, while slowly encircling her waist, before raising his hands on the delicious curves of her breasts, the tips of his fingers rubbing their sensitive tips.
"No, you're not." She replied, while blushing. "But, you are the only one who has ever entered my brass bathtub? Does it count for something?" She asked, mocker, while turning her head to take a glimpse at Elijah's dark brownish eyes.
"It surely does." Elijah smirked, before letting out a small cry. "I feel like we are crossing another step in our relationship, Katherine, especially with the intense cramps that are hitting my legs just about now!" He growled, under the intense pain.
"Oh, my poor baby…" Katherine exclaimed, while grabbing both of his legs, before raising them above the edge of the bath, soon emerged in the warm water.
"Oh yes, it's way more comfortable now that you have my heavy legs crushing yours!" Elijah busted into laughter, while rubbing his teary eyelids.
"There's water everywhere!" Katherine exclaimed, in shock, before bending her upper body over the edge and taking a glimpse at the floor, while not being able to retain her own burst of laughter.
"Well, if you put a ton of weight in a small bucket of water that is usually the effect expected." Elijah explained, smirking.
"Hey!" Katherine objected, vehemently. "I watch my weight and figure, if you must know!"
"Oh beautiful, I've noticed, believe me! I am a fervent admirer of your sexy, delicious body." Elijah replied, while pulling the brunette in his arms, her head now resting on his muscular chest, his strong arms encircling her waist.
"You better believe it, mate!" she replied, with a smile from ear to ear.
"I wouldn't want to be anywhere else but in this tiny bathtub, while rocking you in my arms, at the present moment." Elijah admitted, truthfully, while softly kissing the top of her head, his fingers sliding in the softness of her long curly hair.
"I should have put my hair in a bun before entering the bathtub." She said, apologetically. "You have this effect of making me forget about everything."
"I do?" Elijah replied, surprised. "But, don't worry, beautiful, I love to see your hair floating on the water, feeling their softness on my skin."
"I'll miss Bonnie." Katherine whispered, unexpectedly, while sliding the tips of her fingers on the reflection of the bath water.
"You'll keep in touch." Elijah consoled her, while rubbing Katherine's upper arms with his opened palms. "I'm sure you'll be friends for a long time." He murmured, his chin resting on the top of her head.
"Thank you" She replied.
"For what are you thanking me for, beautiful?" He asked, with an arched eyebrow.
"I'm thanking you for staying with me, in Clovelly, just a bit longer." She responded, while raising her head, before locking her sight with Elijah's. "It's the first time that a man is … Is actually making me his priority without any other purposes in mind."
Elijah swallowed a nervous lump in his throat, while twisting the corners of his lips into a timid smile, remorse of not being able to tell Katherine the truth, viciously starting to eat the purity of his soul.
"I want to be with you, beautiful, for as long as I can." He murmured, softly, while raising her chin in his right hand, before blessing her lips of a kiss.
"You look quite sexy with my shirt on your back, Miss Bennett." Kol smirked, while lying chest naked on Bonnie's bed, with his right arm tugged under his head, on the pillow.
Bonnie zipped her suitcase, while turning to face her lover, before taking a few walking steps to reach the bed.
"Thank you for lending me your shirt, Mister Kol, it was very kind of you." She thanked him, while standing on the right side of the bed, with her right hand placed on her hip. "I've placed my travelling clothes on the chair, ready for the departure; everything else is in the suitcases now." She shrugged, sadly, with a timid smile on her lips.
"You do realize, darling, that I'll have to get my shirt back at some point, don't you?" He mocked, while subtly grabbing her right wrist, before pulling Bonnie on the bed, on top of his lying position.
"Hey!" Bonnie protested, with laughter. "What are you doing?"
"I'm repossessing my shirt!" He replied, scoffer, while strengthening his arm above his head to turn the lamp's switch at off, before leaving the bedroom in its penumbra. "And what do I feel under my fingers, Miss Bonnet?" He added, while slowly raising both of his hands on the back of her thighs, higher on the curves of her naked buttocks, before softly slapping her tender skin. "You should be a shame of yourself, young lady, you're not wearing any panties?!" He exclaimed, falsely outraged.
"Hey!" She protested some more, while touching the delicate skin of her rear. "I did not see the need to put any." She responded, while hiding her flushed cheeks, with her head buried in his naked chest.
"Did not see the need to put underwear? My … My … Aren't you a naughty one!" He added with a raised eyebrow. "I can't already recognize you, Miss Bennett!"
"Stop teasing me!" She laughed, while covering her head with both of her arms.
"What happened to the New-York diva that landed on the deck of the Clovelly port, couple of weeks ago?" He laughed, while pushing her arms apart.
"She was persecuted and insulted by a fisherman who told her that she was a prostitute!" She replied, while raising her head and drowning her sight in Kols's.
"Are you feeling nostalgic of the good old days, my cauliflower?" Kol smirked through his sentence, with an arched eyebrow, while caressing both of Bonnie's cheeks. "I would have paid good money for your services, you know?" He added, truthfully, while nodding his head.
"You can't be serious?" Bonnie protested, vehemently. "Don't say that, it's making me uncomfortable!"
"Granted I received the same services for free, but …" He pushed the humoristic note further.
"Oh my God, you're such a pig!" She exclaimed, while hitting his left upper arm with her closed right fist. "Stop it!" She laughed.
'What? It's true … It only took a bit of persuasion from my part." He shrugged. "Plus you couldn't resist this body, obviously!" He added, while pointing at himself.
"Can't you be more pretentious of yourself?" She asked, while rolling her eyes, a smile spreading on her face.
"Well, yes, I can be!" He mocked some more, before sliding a strand of her hair behind her left ear.
"I know what you're doing." She confessed to him.
'What am I doing, Miss Bennett?" He asked, while passing the tip of his thumb on the curve of her bottom lip.
"You're trying to make me forget that in a bit more than three hours, I'll walk downstairs, direct my foot steps toward a cab, before leaving Clovelly." She replied, with tears filling her eyes.
"Shh… Don't!" He ordered her, while pushing one of his fingers on her lips. "I don't want to hear another word, about your departure, coming out of your beautiful mouth. Am I clear to you?"
"But…" She tried to object.
"Shh… I've said not a word about that!" He added. "As of now I only want my shirt back!" He added, while lowering his right hand on her neckline before opening the buttons of his shirt, one by one..
"What?" She asked, with wide opened eyes, while trying to push his hands away from her chest. "I've borrowed it from you. You lent it to me!"
"Yes, and now I want it back, Miss Bennett, is it so hard to understand?" He smirked, while grabbing her right hand, before gently kissing each tip of her fingers. "How am I supposed to make love to you, for the three next hours, if you are wearing it?" He asked Bonnie, before rolling their bodies on the bed, under her cry of laughter. "Now that is a more enjoyable position, don't you think so, darling?" He mocked, while sliding his body in top of hers, before lowering his head and capturing her lips into a passionate kiss.
Klaus parked his truck on the side of the road, near Caroline's car, before opening his driver's door, and getting out of his vehicle.
He took a last look at the small paper that he had folded in his right hand:
"Meet me at the opened trail of the forest … You'll find me, I'm sure … Caroline"
He raised his head at the night sky filled with stars, before leading his walk toward the forest trail in front of his sight. He strolled between a few trees, before holding his pace, while sighing loudly and shaking his head in disbelief. What has that, undisciplined, stubborn, head strong, woman plan now?
"Forbes! For God sake can we go home now?" He yelled into the quietness of the forest, while slowly losing his patience. "I don't want to play cat and mouse all night, do you hear me? I'm on the boat early morning!"
"Who said anything about playing cat and mouse, Mikaelson?" He heard her voice answer him.
He turned on himself, before finally noticing her near presence. She was leaning her back on a century tree, with her left knee bent, heel of her boot placed on its trunk.
"Ok, we played, it was fun for about three seconds, now come, Love, you must be freezing?" He ordered her, while signing with his right hand, before turning on his heels.
"I thought we had a deal, Mikaelson?" She yelled to him, while holding his pace by her say.
"And what deal was that, Forbes?" He asked, while turning his body and sight at her.
"The "kinky" stuff, I thought you would have remembered?" She smirked, while slowly raising her right hand to push the straps of her tank top on her upper arms.
Klaus's breathe suddenly quickened under Caroline's display of seduction.
"I did not forget, Forbes. I'll collect my fisherman ransom when your ass will be tucked in my warm bed. Now come!" He ordered, in a firmer tone.
"I thought you had a "thing" for outdoor nakedness?" She teased him, before rolling her tank top on her waist, down on the ground, while slowly sliding her fingers on the delicate lace of her bra.
Klaus passed a quick hand through his undisciplined locks, while biting his bottom lip. This woman is the devil reincarnated on earth! … He thought while rubbing his face with his right hand.
"Ok, you won, Caroline, you made your point, now can we go?" He asked, in a nicer way.
"Not before you "fuck me" hard on this tree?" She suggested, teasingly, while sliding the straps of her bra on her upper arms, before raising her skirt on her thighs. "I got rid of my panties; it will be an easy task for you to do?" She grinned at her own "naughty" game.
"What did you just say?" He asked, while standing in shock and motionless in front of her sight.
"Which part?" She mocked. "What? You need a little bit of help, sailor?" She asked, while slowly raising her hands behind her back to unhook her bra, before letting the bra fall on the dirty ground. "You wanted "kinky", or did you forgot?"
"You proposed "kinky, I've certainly never ask for it!" Klaus replied, with heavy breaths, before pointing an accusatory finger at the blonde, while avoiding looking at her semi-nakedness.
"If you're not interested, I'll get dress and we'll leave, as simple as that?" She shrugged, while bending her upper body to grab her bra and tank top left on the soil.
Caroline let out a loud cry of surprise when she felt Klaus's body violently pushing hers, on the trunk of the tree. He grabbed both of her wrists, while pushing her arms above her head, before crashing his mouth on hers, in a demanding kiss.
She let out a moan of pleasure, while feeling the intrusion of his tongue sliding between her lips, in a deeper hold of her sexual arousal.
"You're driving me crazy, Forbes, you know that?" He murmured, breathless, while releasing his hold on her wrists, before rubbing his hands all over her chest.
"I want you, Klaus, please take me!" She whispered near his left ear, while softly biting his lobe.
He growled a sound of pleasure, while lowering his hands on the waist of his jeans to snap open its button, before lowering the zipper. He, then, pushed her jeans skirt on the ground, before rising Caroline's naked body in his arms, with her legs soon crossed around his own waist.
She closed her eyes, with her head tilted back, while enjoying his lips slowly sucking on her hard breasts, before burying both of her hands in his tick curly hair.
Klaus teased her breasts with the tip of his tongue, in a mix of licking, and softly biting the hardness of her nipples, while enjoying her moans of pleasure, before slowly sliding his hard length in the wetness of her core. She let out an additional cry, while grabbing his shoulders, and slowly rising herself up and down on him. Soon, he increased the speed of his thrusting while bringing them both into their sexual peaks.
Caroline finally reopened her eyes, while suddenly noticing that Klaus had disappeared on her?
"Klaus?" She yelled his name several times, while scattering the penumbra of the forest, without being answered, "This is not funny? Please answer me?" She begged him, before bending her body to pick her clothes on the ground. She rapidly passed her jeans skirt on her shaking legs, before dressing herself of her bra and tank top. "I'm scare now, please answer me?" She screamed some more, while passing a shaking hand into her tangled hair. She was soon answered by a loud grunt echoing into the silence of the night,
"Who's there?" She asked with all her senses in alert, while turning on herself several times. "Please? Just show yourself."
She heard the distinct sound of steps brushing the leaves. And then she saw the yellowish eyes of the dark animal, fixated on its prey.
"Oh my God…" She murmured to herself, before taking a few steps backward.
The animal grunted some more, before jumping from his hiding place behind a tree.
Caroline turned on herself, before running in front of her sight, in the deepness of the forest, her heart pounding loudly into her chest … She ran, and ran for a long time, before reaching the opened gate of a cemetery. She pushed the gate, while entering the premises, a deep fog covering the tombstones.
"Is there somebody here? I need help?" She screamed several times, without being answered.
She noticed a hole in the ground, and she slowly approached the coffin that was placed beside it, before raising her hand in front of her chest at the horrible discovery: Near the coffin, a corpse was lying on the ground, in its own pool of blood!
The loud cries of Caroline echoed in Klaus's bedroom, and in his entire house.
"Caroline, wake up! Wake up, Love!" She heard Klaus's voice yelling in the deepness of her foggy mind.
"What? What happened?" She asked him, while slowly reopening her eyes, before firmly grabbing both of Klaus's forearms
"You had a nightmare, but you're safe, you're in my house, in my bed." He explained to her, before pulling her into his arms. "Shh…It's going to be ok, sweetheart." He murmured softly, while caressing her hair.
"It was awful, there … There was some sort of animal chasing after me, and then I ended up at a cemetery. There was a coffin, and beside the coffin there was a corpse… And there was blood everywhere." She tried to explain.
"Sweetheart, I've told you to not take the spicy chicken wings and the additional beer before leaving the pub, but you did it anyway." Klaus teased, while cupping her face with both hands. "Plus, the departure of Bonnie must have disturbed you more than you think. Look at me, it was a bad dream there are no animal, corpse or coffin." He added, while caressing her cheeks. "You're ok now?" He asked when he heard her breathing slowing down.
"Yes" She nodded, thankful of his gentleness. "What about the "kinky" stuff?" She asked, with flushed cheeks.
"What about it?" He let out a small laugh. "You're still stuck up on that, as I can see?"
"Did we … I mean the forest?" She asked, shyly, and without making any sense.
Klaus smirked, while strengthening his left arm to light up the bedside lamp, before grabbing a bottle of whip cream.
"I don't know about the forest, but I had to take four showers to get rid of this stuff! Do you remember now?" He asked, while winking at her.
"Yes." She replied, with a timid smile and a sigh of relief.
"You want to lie with me on the bed with the light on for a while?" He suggested, easing her tension.
She nodded in approval to the fisherman.
He lay on the bed, while opening his arms as a welcoming gesture. Caroline lay herself by Klaus's side, while resting her head on his naked chest, with her right arm placed around his waist.
"It's going to be ok; it was just a bad dream." He murmured, while caressing her hair and softly kissing her forehead. "Bad dream always have this tendency to shake us at the root of our soul."
"Don't leave me." She whispered, while closing her eyes.
"Not a chance, Love." He whispered back to her.
One week later … Rose Garden Pub.
"Well, hello, my favorite lovebirds!" Trevor welcomed both Caroline and Klaus, who were entering the Rose Garden pub, while directing their walking steps toward the bar counter, as the sunset was setting its last rays by the windows, and into the dining room.
"Trevor!" Katherine warned. "How many times do I need to tell you to leave them alone?"
"Why?" He asked, dumbfounded. "It's fun!"
"Keep quiet for God sake. It's not anybody's business, but their own, if they are together or not." Katherine added, with a smile spreading on her lips.
"But everybody knows!" He replied, while shrugging his shoulders.
"Good evening, Katherine, I'll take a cold beer, please." Caroline ordered her, before kissing both of her friend's cheeks, while ignoring Trevor.
"Are you ignoring me now, Miss Forbes?" Trevor asked, falsely hurt, with his left hand placed on his chest, over his heart. "My heart is crashing in thousands of pieces now. I'm not sure that I'll survive?"
"Ignoring you? What for? I couldn't do that … Now come here, my awesome Trevor!" Caroline invited the young English man, while bending her upper body on top of the counter, with her voluptuous lips pushed forward for a kiss.
Trevor approached the blonde position, with a smile spreading from ear to ear. He presented his left cheek, before being slapped behind his head by both Caroline's & Klaus's hands.
"Hey, hey, hey… What is this?" Trevor complained, while rubbing his head with both hands.
"You deserved it!" Katherine said, laughing, while pointing a finger at her brother, before sliding a bottle of beer on the counter, in front of Caroline's sight.
"We're giving you some "love", Trevor! Come here if you want to be kissed, I'll give you a smooch!" Klaus opened his arms widely, under the loud laughter of both Katherine and Caroline.
"Stay away from me, Mikaelson!" Trevor warned him, while raising his right hand. "I'm warning you, Mate!"
"Why?" Klaus asked, while keeping his arms opened. "It's ok for Caroline Forbes to kiss you, but not ok for Klaus Mikaelson?" Klaus pushed the humorous note a bit further, while smirking.
"I am harmed and dangerous now!" Trevor replied, laughing, while raising a butter knife in his right hand.
"It's nice to hear some laughter again." Katherine noticed, while sliding another bottle in front of Klaus's sight. "But, still … I miss Bonnie so much!"
"Me too, I miss her." Caroline added, sadly.
"How could you miss her? She's calling both of you, everyday!" Trevor replied, in shock of hearing their say.
"But it's not the same than having her by our sides." Both girls responded, simultaneously.
"Do you have to endure this whining and sobbing with your "boss"?" Trevor raised his head toward Klaus, while winking at the "boss" part of his sentence.
"Yap" Klaus responded, while nodding his head, before taking a gulp of his beer.
"Mikaelson…That is completely inaccurate!" Caroline protested, vehemently. "I've never mentioned Bonnie to you, since her departure from Clovelly!"
"And you know why?" Klaus responded, smirking, while leaning his upper body on the counter.
"Oh, I can't wait to hear this one!" Caroline replied, while rolling her eyes at the ceiling.
"So am I, I can't wait!" Trevor added, while leaning his own body on the counter, his sight fixated on both Klaus and Caroline.
"You're incorrigible, Trevor; you know that?" Katherine shook her head, in disbelief.
"Shh …" Trevor replied, while silencing his sister, a finger placed over his lips.
"Because I keep your highness occupy with "extra-curricular activities"!" Klaus winked at Caroline, a smile spreading from ear to ear.
"Oh my God…It's the most sexist thing I've ever heard you say to me, Mikaelson!" Caroline growled, while grabbing her hair with both hands.
"Extra-curricular activities?" Katherine repeated, while questioning.
"What? It's the truth, Forbes!" Klaus shrugged, amused.
"What kind of extra-curricular activities are we talking about?" Trevor asked, scoffer. "Can we elaborate on the description my dear friends, or can I presume you mean "sex"?"
"No, you can't presume anything!" Both Klaus and Caroline replied to him, simultaneously.
"Harsh much, you two?" Trevor replied, while rolling his eyes, under the general burst of laughter.
"Where's Elijah, anyway?" Caroline asked, while scattering the dining room.
"I don't know? I was just asking Trevor the same question?" Katherine shrugged.
"I thought you two were joined to the hips, or something?" Klaus winked at Katherine.
"Yes, they are! Can't you hear the wedding bells?" Trevor added, mocker, while nodding his head at Klaus.
"It's very funny, you two!" Katherine replied, while passing her tongue.
"Hey don't give us this attitude, because we are stipulating the honest truth." Trevor replied. "As for our American friend, he's probably upstairs in his bedroom."
"And where's Kol?" Caroline asked some more.
Both Katherine and Trevor nodded their heads in direction of the young man who was sitting at the far end of the counter.
"I've never saw Kol drown his sorrow and moping this much before." Katherine admitted, while crossing her arms in front of her chest. "I guess he fell for Bonnie harder than what he usually does with random women? Not that I don't think she is extraordinary, because she obviously is. But Kol is such a free spirit, and she is so … So … Bonnie!" She shook her head, before walking behind her brother's heels, toward a customer who wanted to be served.
Caroline turned her sight toward Klaus, while tilting her head and smiling.
"No!" He responded to her secret prayer, while gulping his beer. "Not one single of your sad puppy expressions, will make me change my mind."
"Oh come on, Mikaelson! He used to be your best friend!" Caroline pleaded.
"And?" Klaus replied, while shrugging his shoulders. "It's not a reason for me to go hold his hands, while he's drowning his sorrow in alcohol."
Caroline arched one of her eyebrows, before jumping away from her sitting position on the bar stool, while crossing her arms in front of her chest.
"Let me rephrase it then!" She warned him, while narrowing her angry sight on Klaus. "You'll go offer a drink to your "mate" Kol, while offering as an added bonus a comforting shoulder to cry on, or I'll find a way to make you regret it." She added, while pointing a finger in direction of the young sailor.
"Are you threatening me, Forbes?" Klaus asked, while crossing his arms over his muscular chest, before lowering his head near hers.
"It's exactly what I'm doing, Mikaelson!" She raised her chin.
Klaus busted into laughter, before raising the bottle back to his lips.
"No "extra-curricular activities" until you go talk to your friend Kol!" She pointed out, while standing firm on her decision.
"Oh no, Forbes, please tell me that you did not put that stupid threat on the table?!" Klaus waved a finger in front of the blonde nose. "This is pure bullshit, Love; you need these extra-curricular activities as much as I do!"
"You want to bet?" She raised an arched eyebrow, while keeping her sight narrowed on her lover.
"Damn you, Forbes!" He growled between his teeth. "Trevor! Give me another bottle of beer would you?"
"Why are you here? Your girlfriend has threatened you of a sexless night if you were not checking on me?" Kol smirked, while keeping his sight on his glass at hands.
"Just shut up and take the damn bottle of beer, would you?" Klaus mumbled, angrily, between his teeth, before taking his sitting position at Kol's side. "And if you could wave at "her" discreetly, she would believe that we are friends, and it would make her day."
"She threatened you, did she?" Kol exclaimed, while bursting into laughter, before grabbing the bottle from Klaus's hand. "Well, here's to you beautiful Caroline!" He raised the bottle in the air, while waving a salute at his beautiful boss. "I've never thought in a million years that I'll saw you grovel in front of a woman, Mikaelson. You're so domesticated now." Kol shook his head, in disbelief.
"I never thought in a million years that I would see you drown your sorrow for a woman, Kol." Klaus responded, tit for tat.
"Touché!" Kol responded, while nodding his head, before taking a big gulp of his beer. "What happened to us?" He asked Klaus.
"I don't know?" Klaus shook his head. "Loneliness I guess?" The fisherman shrugged.
"It seems like a bit more than loneliness if you're asking me." Kol replied, while gazing at Caroline. "I think you're falling hard for your "boss"." He added, while nodding in her direction.
Klaus kept quiet, while starring at his bottle at hands.
"You know what that means don't you?" Kol asked, while turning his head toward his drinking buddy of the moment.
"I'm careful." Klaus responded, while swallowing a nervous lump in his throat. "If that is what you're worrying about."
"Yes, I believe that you are, but ..." Kol responded, while nodding his head. "I was careful too, except the last full moon Bonnie found me covered with blood in the barn." He added to Klaus, his sight fixated on the bottle in his hands. "Now, even if I miss the girl, like I've never missed any other woman like her before. I'm still thankful that she left town, Klaus." He confessed, while turning his sight toward him. "I was not ready for her to see the real "me"."
"I'll handle it!" Klaus reaffirmed, while biting into the inside of his cheeks.
"How will you handle "it" the next fool moon, Klaus?" Kol asked, while bending his head near the English man. "Tyler is retaliating, you need to come clean now by letting her go or telling her the truth, if not? It will be too late!" He added as a warning.
"Damn Kol! And me who wanted to "play" the friend card tonight, while offering you a shoulder to cry on, thanks mate!" Klaus mumbled, angrily, between his teeth, while finishing his beer.
"But that's exactly it, Klaus, the difference between you and me is that I'm not playing the part of a prank tonight, because even after what had happened between us, even after all these years, I've always considered myself your friend!" Kol confessed, while locking his sight in Klaus's, before swallowing a nervous lump into his throat.
Klaus kept his sight in Kol for a few seconds, before lowering his head, while sighing loudly.
"Well then, does "my friend" care to join me and my girlfriend at the other side of the bar?" Klaus let out the invitation, while holding his breath.
"What will happen if I stay here and continue to drown my sorrow in alcohol?" Kol mocked. "What will she ask of you next?"
"I don't know? To rock you in my arms I suppose?" Klaus shrugged, mocker.
"I'm coming!" Kol replied, while jumping away from his perched position, under the loud laughter of his "friend".
"I'm fine, Caroline!" Kol reassured her. "Look at me; I am as handsome as ever!" He tried to mock to make her smile.
"You're sure?" Katherine asked Kol, while lowering her upper body on the counter.
"That I am handsome, yes!" He nodded, scoffer. "Thanks for the concern, girls."
"Did you talk … I mean did you exchanged with "her" on the phone since her departure?" Caroline asked, carefully.
"I'm surprised that you did not put Bonnie under the lie detector test yet?" He smirked.
"Oh we tried!" Katherine nodded her head, while crossing her arms over her chest. "But she refuses to talk about your … Can I say relationship?"
"I don't do "relationship", Katherine." Kol replied, while sighing loudly. "I thought you knew me better than that?"
"Well I believe you did this time around." Caroline replied, while shrugging to her friend Kat.
"So, you've talk to "her"?" Katherine put the question back on the table.
"No!" Kol replied, while lowering his head, shyly.
"Why not… Kol?" Katherine asked, dumbfounded.
"Well, simply because we have both decided to not keep in touch." Kol replied, nervously, while jumping from one foot to the other.
"Girls, come on! Could you leave this poor mate alone?" Klaus lashed out, while rolling his eyes. "If one day he decides to contact Bonnie, or she decides to contact Kol, I'm sure you'll be the first to know!"
Katherine and Caroline pulled their tongues at Klaus, before crossing their arms in front of their chests, in pouting poses.
"Mate, I'm eternally grateful to you!" Kol thanked him.
"Don't even mention it!" Klaus replied, smirking.
"Klaus…" The fisherman heard a shallow voice calling his name.
Klaus turned on himself, before facing Charles.
"Charles, how are you Mate? Can I offer you a cold beer" Klaus asked, a smile spreading on his face. "Where's Rosa anyway?"
A dead silence suddenly filled the pub, all customer's heads turned toward the two men.
Klaus took a better look at Charles, while noticing the tears filling his eyes.
"What … What is wrong? Why are you crying?" Klaus demanded, while feeling a lump forming in his throat. "Did something happen to Rosa? Is she back at the hospital?"
"No, she's not back at the hospital, Klaus." The eldest of the fishermen mumbled, between his teeth, while lowering his head, before taking a deep breath into his lungs.
Caroline raised her right hand over her chest, the heavy beats of her heart rising drastically in her chest, a veil of sadness blurring her vision, with a bad premonition hitting the deepness of her soul. Her dream … The cemetery … The coffin …
"Katherine?" Caroline called, while strengthening her right arm over the counter, before grabbing her friend's hand in hers. "Is Rosa…?" She managed to whisper, in a trembling voice, without finishing her sentence.
"I don't know, Caroline." Katherine whispered back to her friend, while shaking her head.
"Katherine? Get the phone!" Trevor yelled at her, while nodding in direction of the counter placed behind their backs.
She shook her head to get a grip on herself, before releasing Caroline's hand and dragging her feet toward the incessant ringtones.
"You're reached the "Rose Garden Pub", how may I help you?" Katherine announced, in a trembling voice.
"Katherine? It's Bonnie? How are you? Is Caroline around?" Bonnie asked her, with a smile spreading from ear to ear at the sound of her friend's voice.
"Are you at work?" Katherine managed to articulate, while starring at the sad scene in front of her sight.
"Yes, I'm in between two patients / appointments … I was thinking about all of you a lot…And…Well, I was wondering if Kol was around?" Bonnie asked, in a trembling voice.
"Charles, tell us, where is Rosa at the moment?" Kol asked Charles, while sliding a comforting hand on Klaus's left shoulder. He knew intuitively that Charles would manage to say the truth to him, when in reverse it would be heartbreaking to announce it to Klaus.
"She passed away Kol, she left us." Charles replied to Kol, while turning his sight back into Klaus's. "She wanted me to bring this letter to you, my son." Charles announced, while raising his shaking right hand toward the fisherman.
Klaus grabbed the envelope, a single tear rolling on his right cheek.
"When did she pass away?" He managed to ask Charles.
"She … She passed away, earlier this afternoon." Charles nodded. "There were complications with her last chemo-therapy, she fought until her last breath, believe in that." He added, briefly.
Caroline took a few steps toward Klaus, her heart breaking in thousands of pieces for the man she loves, before being retained by Kol, with a firm grip of his right hand on her left arm.
"Don't, Caroline! Let him come to you!" He murmured into Caroline's left ear, as a friendly warning. "I know him well enough to know that he will reject you now. Give him time." He suggested, while drowning his sight into hers.
"I can't leave him like this, Kol; it's breaking my heart in pieces, don't you understand?" She whispered to him, while wiping her tears away from her reddish cheeks and nose.
"Yes! But I know him; he'll soon retreat into himself. And for a while, he'll need to be alone!" Kol pledged his case to her.
Klaus folded the envelope, before burying it in one of his jeans back pockets.
"Thank you, Charles, for telling me the news." He nodded his head, while raising his right hand in top of the old man left shoulder, as a comforting gesture, before turning on himself and yelling at Trevor. "Give me two bottles of vodka!"
"Klaus, I don't think …" Trevor started, while shaking his head in disapproval.
"Now, Trevor!" The fisherman yelled louder, before grabbing the bottles from Trevor's hands and leading his walk toward the exit of the pub, before slamming the door behind him.
"Let him!" Kol murmured to Caroline, while keeping a firm grip on her arm.
She nodded her head, before raising her right hand to wipe her tears away.
"Katherine… Are you still there? What is going on? Talk to me for God sake? What is happening in the pub?" Bonnie shouted to her, while sitting on the edge of her office chair.
"It's … Rosa, Bonnie, she just passed away … She left Clovelly for good." Katherine murmured, with tears rolling fluently on her face, before raising her right hand over her trembling lips to mute her sobbing.
"Oh my God…" Bonnie mumbled the words, in shock. "I'll take the first plane available … I'm on my way!" She added, while hanging up the phone line on her friend.
Bonnie grabbed her handbag, before storming out of her office. "Melissa?" She called her secretary, while burying her right hand inside her bag to find her car keys.
"Oh my God, what is happening, Miss Bennett!?" Melissa exclaimed. "You're as white as a ghost!"
"I've just received a bad news, but I don't have time to explain it to you." Bonnie replied, briefly.
"Not your friend Caroline I hope?" The secretary asked, with her right hand raised over her chest.
"No, Caroline is fine. Book me the first plane available New-York/London with transfer to Clovelly, would you?" She ordered her. "Send me a text of the itinerary the moment it's done, I'll go pack!" She added, while opening the entrance door of her dentist cabinet.
"But Miss Bennett, what will I do with your afternoon appointments? What will I say to your patients?" Melissa objected, while raising herself on her legs, before standing motionless in front of her office desk.
"I don't care! Re-schedule them or refer them to another cabinet. If the patients are complaining, tell them I had a family emergency." Bonnie replied, before slamming the entrance door behind her back.
"But when will you come back?" Melissa yelled, before being answered by the silence.
"Give me the handset, Katherine?" Trevor suggested to his motionless, glass eyes, sister; while grabbing the said handset from her shaking hands, before replacing it on its base.
"Why does it need to be Rosa, Trevor? She fought so hard against this cancer…" Katherine mumbled, between her teeth, before throwing herself in her brother's arms.
"Why… I'll say because life sucks most of the time, Kat." Trevor whispered, near his sister's left ear, while caressing her hair.
"I … I need to find Elijah, he hasn't learn the news, yet." She said, frantically, while pushing herself away from her brother's embrace.
"Ok! But take a deep breath before finding him; because you need to calm yourself down." Trevor suggested, while firmly grabbing both of Katherine's upper arms.
She nodded, before closing her eyes and taking a few deep breaths into her lungs.
"Now, I'll go check outside to see if I can find him, and you'll go check if he is retained in his bedroom? Maybe he received a business call from New York or something?" Trevor suggested to his sister.
"Ok!" She nodded, in approval, before storming away toward the corridor leading to the upstairs' rented bedrooms.
The sound of Elijah's boots hitting their heels on the deck echoed into the silence of the Clovelly port. The sunset was disappearing at the horizon, and a few lightening could be seen between the dark clouds, announcing a violent thunderstorm.
"Mayor Brownston." Elijah nodded his head with respect to the middle aged man. "I can't stay very long."
"With this dark sky above our heads, it's an understatement, young man." The Mayor responded, while lightening the tobacco in his pipe with the help of a match, before taking his first puffs.
Elijah grabbed the guard-rail with both hands, his sight lost in the raging waves, awaken under the storm.
'Did Klaus's father contact you again?" Elijah enquired.
"Not up to date." Mayor Brownston responded, while enjoying his smoking time. "I believe he understood that we wouldn't bend under his many threats." He added, while shrugging. "We only need to prepare ourselves for the upcoming full moon."
"Do you have any ideas how we should operate?" Elijah asked Mayor Brownston, the man that used to be one of the most feared warlocks of Europe.
"We still have time to "brainstorm", as you say in America." Mayor Brownston smiled. "Katherine is still in the dark I suppose?"
"Yes. Do you wish otherwise?" Elijah asked, while turning his sight toward the Mayor.
"Do you?" Mayor Brownston replied, while arching an eyebrow at Elijah.
Elijah lowered his head, while sighing loudly, under the loud sound of thunder.
"Longer you wait, young warlock, longer it will take for her to forgive you." He added to Elijah.
"I still have time to "brainstorm"." He replied, tit for tat, with a timid smile blessing his lips.
"Touché!" The mayor replied. "If only we had a "moonlight witch" with us. They used to tell the future with such precision back in the eighteen centuries." He added, while shaking his head.
"Well … We actually do have one with us!" Elijah replied, while passing a hand through his dark hair. "The problem is that she has no idea she is a descendant of those line of witches."
Mayor Brownston turned his head, in shock, toward Elijah.
"Caroline Forbes!" The mayor exclaimed, with a smile spreading on his face. "How is this even possible?"
"They are almost all extinguished; she is one of the last." He announced to the Mayor. "I was actually asked to keep an eye on her, a couple of years ago, while keeping my distance. One thing leading to the other, we started going out together, and when we break up, we stayed friends."
"You friendship giving you the alibi to still keep an eye on her, does she know?" Mayor Brownston asked, while crossing his arms in front of his chest.
"Not that I have noticed. She never manifested any sign of her abilities and power." Elijah replied, while shrugging his shoulders. "So, why bothering her with this now?"
"It's a shame, in other circumstances; and under good teaching, Miss Forbes could have helped us." Mayor Brownston added, while blowing out his pipe.
"Elijah! Mayor Brownston!" They heard a loud voice calling them.
They both turned their heads in direction of the loud commotion, while feeling the first drops of rain falling on their heads, from the sky.
"What is it, Trevor? What is happening?" Elijah yelled, with raised eyebrows.
Trevor ran toward the deck before reaching their standing positions, while taking time to catch his breath.
"It's Rosa…" He announced. "She passed away, and Katherine is in a very bad shape!" He added, while nodding his head.
Elijah turned his head toward the Mayor.
"Go! My niece needs you now!" He told him. "I'll try to find Charles, Rosa's husband, he must be devastated!" He added, while seeing Elijah running toward the pub.
"He's here." A werewolf guard informed Tyler, while nodding his head in respect.
"Let him inside." Tyler ordered him, with a sadistic smile plastered on his lips. "And come back in a short while to pick "him" up."
The guard nodded his head once more, before bringing back the mysterious guest with him a few seconds later.
"You've asked to see me?" The male voice said while standing on the threshold. "A bit late in the day would you say?"
"Sorry for the inconvenience. It's been a while my friend, I was wondering if you had any new information to brought to my attention, regarding our common enemy?" Tyler asked, politely.
The mysterious man stepped inside the room, before sighing loudly and rubbing his hands together.
"Let just say that I've arranged for one of his most undiscovered "secret" to be revealed very soon." The guest responded, with a smirk plastered on his face.
"Mm…I know that he took something precious from you, and you never entirely accepted that fact." Tyler replied, before walking to place himself in front of the mysterious man.
"Is that all that you wanted, Tyler?" The man asked. "It's getting more dangerous for me to show myself in here." He added. "I think that we could maybe part ways now?"
"No, it's not all … I wanted to thank you for your help." Tyler said, while crossing his hands on top of his chest. ""We", as the all entire pack, are so grateful for your help ….. Stefan!"
"We had a common goal, don't see more to it." Stefan replied, while narrowing his sight on the werewolf man.
"True" Tyler responded, while tilting his head. "Still … Your help was grandly appreciated."
"I just … I want you to assure me, that Katherine and Elena won't be harmed in any ways, the next full moon?" Stefan requested.
"You have my words: No harm will come to them." Tyler nodded.
"Thank you." Stefan replied, while nodding his head
"Unfortunately … I can't make the same promise for you." Tyler said, while subtly pulling a dagger tucked in his belt, before using the element of surprise and stabbing Stefan several times in the abdomen.
Stefan opened his eyes widely, under several spams of pain, before taking his last breaths lying in his own pool of blood.
"Goodbye, Stefan!" Tyler gave his farewell, while smirking, before taking a handkerchief in one of his pockets to wipe the blood off the blade and his hands.
"You wanted us to come back, boss?" The werewolf man addressed himself to his Alpha, while entering the room with another guard on his side.
"Yes" Tyler smirked. "Now you can pick "him" up, and burn his body to ashes." Tyler added, while nodding his head at Stefan's dead body.
Elijah rushed into the upstairs corridor of the pub, while directing his steps toward its bedroom door, before frantically entering the key in its lock and turning the handle. He pushed the door back on its arch, while turning the light switch, and raising his sight toward the dark shadow placed in front of the window.
"Katherine?" He called her name. "I've just learned about Rosa, and I'm so sorry!"
She remained motionless and wordless in front of the opened window, her teary sight lost into the darkness of the night.
"The thunderstorm sky was so beautiful at the port, that I guess I've lost track of time." He added, while approaching her standing position. "How's everybody, how's Klaus?"
"Why don't you say the truth for a change, Elijah?" She took him by surprise by her say, before turning on herself to face him, while holding a book in her arms. "And tell me why I had no clue that you were a "warlock"?" She lashed out, before throwing his "grimoire" on the bed.
Elijah lowered his sight on the bed, where the old book had been thrown, with a speechless expression plastered on his face. How could she have found it? It had been hidden in a safe place?
"Damn!" He mumbled, angrily, between his teeth, before nervously passing a hand into his tangled hair. "I can explain, Katherine, just give me the chance, please?"
"So what was I for you, Elijah, a simple mean to an end, a way to infiltrate Clovelly and the mystical part of the village?" She busted, while pointing an accusatory finger at him, tears falling from her eyes.
"No… God no, you're way more than what you think to me, Katherine!" Elijah implored her to believe him. "Let me explain, beautiful, please?" He begged her more.
"There's nothing to explain!" She lashed out, while strolling by his side, to reach the bedroom door. Elijah grabbed her right upper arm, before pulling her nearer to him.
"There is a "lot" that needs to be explained, please, listen to me?" He requested his indulgence; his eyes drown into hers, his chest rising faster under his heavy breaths.
"Did … Did you knew who my uncle was, Elijah?" She asked him, while holding her breath.
Elijah frowned, while closing his fists in anger.
"Yes." He replied, while having no other choice but to admit the obvious truth to her. "I knew him. We've been exchanging for months now."
"Oh my God, I can't believe this!" Katherine exclaimed, while pulling her arms from his grip, and stepping away from his standing position. "Is Caroline in it too?" She asked, while grabbing her head with both hands.
"No, of course not, Caroline knows nothing … She's … She's in Clovelly essentially for her work assignment, She don't even know who … I mean what I am. It's all a weird twist of faith." He tried to explain to the brunette. "Please, Katherine, let me explain. You need to keep quiet … The village is in danger now, and your uncle was in serious need of help." He tried to explain more.
"I don't want to hear your excuses, they mean nothing to me!" She responded, while shaking her head in denial, her trembling hands held together. "So, you've extended your stay in Clovelly because of what is happening, and in reality it has nothing to do with "me", you just used me as a bonus, as a warm body in your bed?" She busted some more.
"Oh my God, Katherine, how can you even think that?" Elijah asked, breathless. "The first time I saw you… You took my breath away and then … You stole my heart, woman."
"It's all convenient for you to say, Elijah, because you want me to keep quiet." Katherine replied, while crossing her arms in front of her chest.
"No, it's not the reason … You'll keep quiet, because that's what you did for so long to protect your friends and this village." Elijah replied. "It has nothing to do with me." He added.
Katherine lowered her head and sight while biting the tender skin of her bottom lip.
"We're in deep trouble, Katherine." Elijah announced. "Tyler has built an army of werewolves, and he wants to attack the village at the next full moon. He is seeking revenge on Klaus. Both him and Kol are in danger."
"My uncle… That is why he came back, isn't it?" Katherine asked, while raising her eyes back in his.
"Yes." Elijah nodded. "I'd exchanged with him from New York several times in the past few months. He needed my expertise, my … My family expertise on the subject."
"You … So, you're a warlock like my uncle used to be?" She asked him, while holding her breath.
"Yes." Elijah nodded. "I've been thought how to maintain harmony and balance on this earth. It's been a long time since one member of my family was contacted for this kind of assignment." He added. "With this new modern world we were unnoticeable among the large crowd; we were living our life like ordinary people."
"Fine…" She mumbled, nervously, between her teeth, while taking a deep breath into her lungs. "Do what needs to be done with my uncle, but leave me alone in the meantime." She warned him, while reaching the door and turning the handle. "I don't need to have nothing to do with you anymore.
"Katherine, please … Listen to me, I beg you?" He asked, while reaching her position.
"You lied to me, Elijah." She whispered to him, her sight fixated on the wooden panel of the door, tears rolling fluently on her cheeks.
"I couldn't tell you for obvious reasons, but … What I'm feeling for you is genuine, Katherine, and it has nothing to do with your uncle or the mystical events in the village." Elijah replied, honestly.
"Were you ever going to tell me, or was I going to learn about it the night of the full moon?" She replied, as a question.
Elijah sighed loudly, while keeping his peace, his sight lowered on the floor with both of his hands placed on each side of his waist.
"That's what I thought." She replied, mostly to herself. "Just stay away from me, would you?" She asked him, before storming out of the bedroom.
Elijah turned on himself, while approaching the bed and grabbing the "grimoire", before throwing the book furiously on the wall.
Doom, doom, doom …. ;)
Thank you for reading "Farewell – part 2" guys, I hope you enjoyed it?
Yes, when you think that I've done a certain death plot; I'll surprise you with another ;)
Directing my fingers toward writing the next update of "Sweet Kisses from Russia", followed by 1, 2, 3 … Cha, cha, cha, a new story in progression for those who are interested.
So, until next time…Much love to all of you,
Lovely Vero
Thank you for all the anonymous reviews received, guys!
My answers are below.
Anahita: Sweetie, I don't know if your guest name is one that you have attributed to yourself, or your real first name, but just know that it's beautiful! I'd appreciated grandly your good words, and just know that I let my imagination take the lead, but most of all, I trust my inner sense. As you can see, Klaus is literally letting his walls of protection fall on the ground, with Caroline. For the first time in his life, he trusts someone other than the villagers of Clovelly. As for the comment you've put on certain reviews, it's the same, I'd listened to my inner voice, and I know when it is meant to hurt an author, being me or whomever, it doesn't change anything. Thanks again!
Justine, my dear Justine: Dis? Tu as appris que Mikael revient dans le spin-off des Originaux? LOL … Non? Bon, bien voilà, ma chérie, je t'apporte la nouvelle sortie du four! Ah tu sais, je ne me pense pas géniale du tout! Je sais juste une chose, j'adore d'écrire, j'adore de passer l'émotion que je crée aux lectrices. Mais tu es gentille comme un cœur de me complimenter! Je crois qu'intuitivement, Caroline sait que Klaus est relié au mystique. Ce qu'elle ne sait pas, c'est de quelle façon il est relié. Pour ce qui est de Kalijah, bien … Voilà! On peut dire que c'est officiellement la galère! Elle connait ses secrets maintenant, et elle ne l'a pas bien pris du tout. Rebekah & Trevor? Un secret encore plus grand se cache, c'est tout ce que je peux te dire. Pour ce qui est de Kol et Bonnie… Et bien, elle n'est pas partie très longtemps … LOL. Merci pour tes bons commentaires, ma chérie!
Guest- Vicky: Hey sweetie!Caroline was acting strange in regard of Trevor & Elijah? I think it was unintentional of her part, and though, her and Elijah were a couple in the past, they were more friends than anything else, and she is considering him as such as of now. As for Caroline being a werewolf? I prefer to put this to rest as of now, and tell you that she is not related to any werewolves' family. I'm not taking this road with the story at hands. Thanks for your presence in the review, it's always nice to see you pop up!
Ilovetvd: When I've read your review I laughed, because there was no need for you to be upset with Bonnie's departure, she is coming back now! Mikael and Tyler want Klaus for revenge. Don't forget Klaus was the heir of a colossal fortune. As for Esther, no! No one even met Klaus's mother or know who she is as of now. And her appearance changed over the years.
If I have forgotten someone in the responses to the anonymous reviews, it was not intentional and I thank you for it!