Caroline's POV

I'm not going to lie; it had taken a long long time to adjust. I'd been living in the Maldives now for over two years, yet it still seemed like one big holiday.

With a new identity I was free to do as I pleased, well, even without a new identity I still would have been fine, aside from the beaches and amazing weather here the other perk was the fact there was no extradition to America, even if the authorities knew I were here, they could do nothing about it. Despite this, changing my name had been a major part of fitting into life here, if the neighbors knew who I really was, I knew they'd be very reluctant to spend time with me. So, as long as I never set foot on American soil again, I was a free woman.

I walked through into the kitchen and began to prepare a meal, life here has been so peaceful and so tranquil that some days it seems I have nothing major to do; hence why I learnt to cook. I never used to be able to produce so much as toast, yet here I was now creating a master piece. Even though I was now a multi-millionaire I have taken a job in the nearest town working as a chef in the local restaurant; it seems it's not only me who enjoys my new found talent for cooking.

Despite the fact that the lining of my pockets is filled with billions of dollars, I live to a pretty basic standard, I have a medium sized, well-furnished house set back from the beach and I never really spend any excess of money. I live well and I enjoy it; but just because I have money doesn't mean I'm going to blow it on whatever I want. Admittedly, if I see some clothes that I like, I buy them without bothering to look at the price tag like I used to before, but if I'm out food shopping I still collect coupons and try and get discounts. My friends think I'm stupid, but I'm not going to let money go to my head.

The only real expenditure that I had made an exception to was filling my garage with my favorite objects: Bikes. I had about seven of them now, one for every day of the week, and I didn't intend on getting anymore unless I sold one of them, I wasn't that greedy after all...

So no, there was no reason for any of my neighbors to think that I was exceedingly rich, or anything was amiss, they just assumed that I was a girl who'd worked hard in her younger years and was now able to provide for herself very well.

I stared down at my hands as I began to chop the tomatoes; oops, I did forget that there had been one particularly big expenditure in the household just lately, but in my defense it had been bought for me.

I stared down at the exquisite 'diamond - rock' of an engagement ring that Niklaus had bought me about 9 months ago and still couldn't quite believe how lucky I had been to find him. Ever since the break-out the two of us had been inseparable and immediately started living with one another as soon as we moved out here. When I'd first met him I'd thought him a monster, a terrifying monster who'd done so many bad things that he couldn't be forgiven, but beneath his hard exterior he had a kind and loving heart, and I, Caroline Forbes had found that.

I heard some disturbance by the front door and knew it was him, he was probably struggling to unlock the front door whilst carrying the mountain of freshly caught fish he'd bought at the docks today. Niklaus now worked down at the mariner, he now had a little art gallery down there and produced wonderful art works of the sea, the boats and everything else that caught his artistic eye. He was some-what of a legend in this area, and everyone wanted to own one of his paintings, I was so proud of him sometimes I thought my heart might literally explode.

"Hello, sweetheart, have you had a good day?" He inquired as he wrapped his arms around my waist and pressed small kisses to my neck as I cooked.

"It's been really great; how about yours, get any good paintings done?" I inquired, turning in his embrace and pressing a gentle kiss to his lips quickly before he spoke.

"I finished a new one of the harbor, it's drying as we speak, and Millicent from down the road is interested in buying it. I would have framed it and prepared it tonight, but seeing as we are waiting for guests I thought it was best for me to finish up early." He said thoughtfully.

"Ah yeah, that was a good idea. Any chance you can go and quickly put the sheets on the double bed in the spare room?" I asked quickly, knowing it was cheeky considering he had only just gotten in.

"I thought you'd already sorted everything out love?" He asked curiously.

"So did I, but Elijah just rang and told me he's bringing Katherine too, and I'd prepared a bed in the single room for him, but sleeping arrangements have obviously changed if he's bringing Katherine." I explained stressed.

Klaus nodded and pressed a kiss to my forehead before putting his work-stuff away and making his way upstairs.

I finished off the dinner and placed it into the oven to cook; I knew that seeing as they'd all have spent hours travelling from all over the world that they'd be starving. It was a damn good job that I'd treated myself to a brand new, massive oven otherwise all the food wouldn't have fitted in! I threw of my apron and hung it up before dashing up the stairs to change, I ran into the bedroom and pulled out a new outfit before tugging it on, it seemed that Niklaus was doing the same thing.

"We haven't left ourselves much time have we sweetheart?" He said with a laugh as he tugged his shirt over his head and came over to help me with mine.

"Nope." I replied, whilst staring at the clock and pulling on some socks. With a sigh of relief we both plunked ourselves down on the bed with a thud.

"Woah, just in time…" I said, as I heard the doorbell ring.

We both leapt from the bed and clattered down the stairs, pulling the door open together.

"AH! It's the bride and groom to be!" Elena screamed as she pulled me into a massive hug, whilst we were both busy jumping up and down and giggling like teenagers, Stefan strode in from behind Elena and drew Niklaus into a hug (a very manly one of course!).

"Ohmygod it's so so so good to see you!" I exclaimed over and over again, we'd been messaging one another and called each other every other day, but we hadn't seen one another in person for at least eight months.

"I know Care, I've missed you so much, but don't worry you're getting married in two weeks and I'm going to be the best maid of honor ever!" Elena responded.

I giggled in response and pulled her into yet another hug.

"Drinks are in the living room and your room is the one next to ours if you want to go and get settled in." Niklaus said stepping in with a smirk on his face.

Stefan and Elena nodded and smiled in response before making their way up the stairs.

After them came the others: Bonnie, Matt, Alaric, Kol, Elijah and Katherine, Jeremy, Rebecca and Damon who were now also an item.

"I thought your parents were coming?" I inquired later that night when all of us were gathered in the living room watching TV.

"Oh they're coming love, just fashionably late of course." Klaus replied with a laugh as he pulled me into is embrace on the couch.

I leant back against him and his arms went around me, and that was when I knew that I was the luckiest girl in the world.

I stared around at all my friends who surrounded me, my soon to be brothers and sister in law, my best friends since high school and other friends who had been made along the way.

They'd flown in from all over the world to see Niklaus and me, and witness our big day and it was going to be fantastic.

I had money to last me for the rest of my life.

I had the best fiancée in the world.

And I was a free woman with no intention of going anywhere near jail.

Life was good, and I knew what was coming in the future would be even better…

Hey everyone!

So there you have it, the very last chapter of One Last Job, I really hoped you enjoyed it. Thank you so so much to everyone who's added this to their favorites and followed this story, you're all amazing.

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