I know this story has been taking me longer to update and I have been spending a lot of time either not posting at all or posting one-shots in Songs of the Moment. So I am sorry I have kept you all hanging.
This will probably be the last update for the year for this story. I have a lot of work to finish up; a gift to write for my Klaroline Winter Wonderland Secret Santa, all my family holiday things I need to prepare for and I have a few more drabbles to finish up for the 25 Days of Klaroline event happening on Tumblr. I will continue posting all my work for Tumblr in the drabble series Songs of the Moment on here. The only one that won't be will be the gift I am making for the Winter Wonderland, it's my understanding that I have to post that on its own so be on the lookout for that sometime in January as well as the next chapter for this story.
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The entire group was gathered in the Mikaelson's front parlor.
Caroline sat on the arm of Klaus's chair with her back straight and her hands twisting together as she glanced nervously around the room as the others looked to be in different stages of processing what they had just heard. The feeling of Klaus's hand rubbing small soothing circles over her lower back combined with the supportive smiles from Kol and Bonnie helped ease her concerns over how everyone would take this unbelievable information.
Elena's arms wrapped around her middle as she leaned forward on the sofa looking across the room to Caroline with a confused expression, "Wait. I don't understand. I mean how can you be…" She trailed off for a second with a shake of her head, "We went to school together, we grew up together. I can remember starting kindergarten together. I don't understand how any of this is possible."
"How is anything supernatural possible Elena?" Stefan posed the rhetorical question from next to Rebekah on a neighboring sofa, "Somehow we all exist through some kind of magic. Vampires, Hybrids, Witches."
"And some creatures you've never even dreamed of Darling." Kol interjected with a raise of his tumbler. At the questioning glance from a few members of the room Kol casually shrugged his shoulders before sipping his drink, "One issue at a time young ones."
"It was a really intricate spell and plus with Liz's actual daughter dying it was easy for the witches to manipulate the situation, allowing everyone to just assume they were the same child." Bonnie explained excitedly, caught up in the wonder and shear complexity of the spell the coven had cast.
Caroline shifted slightly on the arm of the chair as Elena scoffed, "Wow. A little harsh Bonnie."
Bonnie narrowed her eyes at Elena, "I said it made it easier 'Lena, not that it was right."
"Regardless of the how's and why's, I still don't see what this has to do with the rest of us? So Caroline is some freaky sleeping beauty daughter of the psycho Silas, what's the big deal?" Damon snarked as he wrapped his arm back around Elena's shoulders pulling her to rest against his side.
"The issue Damon," Bonnie spat, "Is that when we do this spell we have to drop the vale to the Other Side in order to destroy it." Bonnie nearly growled at the cocky lift of his eyebrow and casual shrug of his shoulders, "Meaning that every supernatural creature that has ever died will be able to return. I wonder just how many of them you have pissed off at one point or another."
"Please." Damon scoffed, "I'm sure Mr. Original Overlord here has more to worry about on that front than I do."
"Yes and being a part of my sire line isn't concerning to you at all is it now Damon?" Klaus replied with a cocky self-assured smirk at the dark look of understanding that floated across the vampire's face, "Looks like I'll need a bit of protection in the coming weeks."
"You mean you want to use the rest of us as cannon fodder. Let all of us lose our lives to keep you and your family safe." Damon snarled.
"Now Damon, you should know you hold a special place to me as well." Klaus placed his hand over his heart, "If anyone will be ending your retched excuse for a life it will be done by me and only on my terms."
Elena sputtered before turning a cold eye towards Caroline, "Are you really just going to sit there like his little trophy wife and not say anything about this!? We're your friends Caroline!"
"Oh pish-posh." Rebekah waved her hand nonchalantly through the air, "What's a little death threat or back stabbing between friends? Right Elena?"
Elena clenched her hands tightly in a fist, "What would you even know about being friends with anyone Rebekah?"
"Oh I learned plenty from you, you little backstabbing whore!" Rebekah spat, her eyes flashing in anger.
The room broke out into a riot of voices as Damon defended Elena and Elena defended Damon. Rebekah began shouting at the two of them with Stefan attempting to calm everyone down. Kol sat in his chair laughing up a storm, his drink sloshing over the rim of his tumbler while Bonnie rubbed her temples in irritation.
Caroline leaned back further on her perch as Klaus whispered to her, "This is going as well as I expected."
Caroline let out a groan of frustration seconds before the chatter was quickly silenced at the sound of a new voice shouting.
"What in the blue-blazing hell's bells is going on in here?!"
Caroline jumped to her feet making her way across the room with a wide smile, "Steven! What are you doing here?" She asked as she threw her arms around him noticing from over his shoulder he was not alone. "And with a full entourage?"
Steven chuckled as they released each other, "Oh you know me and my flare for the dramatics Sunshine."
Caroline rolled her eyes at him with a grin before Steven explained, "These are a few members of the coven." His eyes glittered as he smirked, "I also brought along, shall we say, a special guest."
Caroline eyes him curiously before clipped footsteps could be heard in the hall and a man strutted into the room.
"Papa!" Caroline gasped and then squealed as she threw herself into his waiting arms. "How did you know to come?"
Silas chuckled at his daughter's exuberance, "Kol was kind enough to send a text to Steven, suggesting that our services might be required to help in the explanations."
Caroline glanced to Kol with a thankful smile to which he raised his glass towards her with a slight nod of his head.
The attention of the room was drawn to Damon as he stood, walking stiltedly over towards the Father and daughter.
"Crazy. The resemblance between you and Silas Stefan is uncanny." Damon glanced back at his younger brother, "You could almost pass for twins, well if he wasn't so much older looking and didn't have blue eyes." Turning back to face Silas with his head tilted and his eyes narrowed in speculation, "Are we related somehow?"
"Somewhere deep within my bloodline I am sure it is quite possible." Silas grinned at Stefan before casting a withering glare towards Damon with his lips pressed in a frown, "Let's hope that it is very deeply down indeed."
"Awe," Damon clasped his hands together in front of his chest, "Does this mean I'm part of the family?"
"No!" Caroline shouted with disgust.
"The black sheep then fine." He chuckled before grimacing as he tried to stop the thoughts of just why Caroline would be so disgusted over them being family from floating through his mind. By the look of pure unadulterated rage that instantly grew over Silas's face, Damon knew he didn't succeed. He had barely uttered, "Shit." before he found himself lifted by an invisible hand off the floor unable to take a single gulp of air into his lungs.
Silas's eye narrow hatefully towards Damon, his hand rising in the air and with a flick of his wrist he held the offending disgusting vampire's body suspended a few feet in the air, his mouth dropped open and, by the look of Damon's face, it could only be construed as a silent scream of agony.
"Papa stop! Put him down!" Caroline shouted, pulling on his arm as Elena began yelling Damon's name as she tried to pull him back to the floor.
"I think not Little One." Silas growled, his eyes flashing with rage, "You may not be privy to all the vile, disgusting and traitorous thoughts running through his head but I am."
Klaus began laughing with glee, his mouth snapping shut with a smirk at her withering glare. Turning to her father Caroline looked at him beseechingly as she whispered, "Please. I don't even have to guess at what you saw but just let him go, please? For me?"
"You with your damned eyes like your Mother's." Silas grumbled before waving his hand towards the ground, allowing Damon to fall with a hard thud hissing, "This isn't over."
Elena rushed to Damon's side, falling to the ground beside him to cradle his head in her lap. After brushing his hair off his forehead she glared at Caroline, "You want our help after this? How are we supposed to help when we have to constantly watch our backs?"
Caroline rubbed her forehead in as she groaned frustration, "Look, I know not all of us like each other."
Kol scoffed from his chair with his tumbler raised, "Understatement of the century Darling."
"Anyways," Caroline shot him a look of exasperation through her narrowed eyes, "We need each other's help to see this through."
"I fail to understand why we need to assistance of the pathetic doppelganger and her rat of a lover." Rebekah huffed snootily, "We have a group of, from what Kol says, are highly trained and capable witches, a Bennett witch and three of the Original siblings. Even with you and your Father out of commission, I can't see where we would fail Caroline."
The smug smiles on the majority of the room caused Caroline to spin, throwing a pleading look at Steven, "A little help here would be great."
"Caroline is right," Steven began as he paced around the room making sure to make eye contact with each person he passed. "We are going to need all hands on deck for this one. With all the possible things that could go wrong and all the nasties that will come crawling out of the woodwork to have their revenge against any number of you; the more capable fighting hands we have the better off we will be."
"I agree." Bonnie chimed in sharing a small smile with him in a show of support. "As I've tried to say before, this spell we are casting, it cannot be interrupted and it cannot be stopped. It's the most complexed spell I have even seen. If we falter or pause for even a spilt second while preforming it, it will fail and we won't get a second chance at this." The other witches in the room murmured their agreement.
"So Caroline's curse stays unbroken and her father will still be alive. So where is the harm if it fails?" Elena asked as she helped Damon stand.
"The harm sweetheart," Klaus sneered, "Is that Caroline as well as Kol will be lost to us forever."
"And not to mention Elena, all the supernatural beings that make their way back when we drop the vale." She sucked in a breath before continuing; "If they are left alive when we destroy the Other Side and the spell is complete, they will stay alive." Bonnie spoke over Elena, knowing what she was going to say but wanted to keep this between them, "And yes while there might be some we want to stay that way, there are others that we would be way better off if they stayed dead. The entire world's natural order of things is at stake here." Bonnie added in catching Klaus's surprised glance, she was sure on one hand he was stunned that she was helping defend him but she had a feeling it was more due to the thoughts of certain family members of his having the chance to come back from the dead. Permanently.
The sound of hands clapping drew the room's attention to Kol who stood from his chair, "My brother Nik the voice of reason and the charming Bonnie helping him do so. Who knew?" He turned to point at each and every nay-sayer in the room with a hard glare, "If that doesn't prove to you that the world is ending then I don't know what else will."
"Yeah well after that little show of power I think I'll have to get back to you on this." Damon sneered, linking his arm with Elena's, "Come on 'Lena. We'll let this freak show figure things out."
Silas tsked with a quick flip of his wrist and Damon's neck twisted at an odd angle with a sickening crunch before his body dropped to the floor. Dusting his hands off Silas glanced around the room as Elena shrieked. "Calm down, no need for your shouting. He's only temporarily dead after all." He pointed a waving finger towards Klaus, "You weren't as thorough with your job as you thought my Son. The wretch may not be able to speak certain things but he sure can think them."
Elena's eyes flashed with anger as she started to pull Damon's body up over her shoulders, she hissed through her dropped fangs as Silas placed his hand on her arm.
Silas had enough respect to look at her guiltily, "Please M'Lady, allow me."
"I think you've done enough." With her eyes narrowed she spat at him through her teeth.
"Aye, to you it would appear as such, but as a gentleman I cannot allow a Lady to carry such a heavy burden. One that does not belong on her shoulders to begin with." Silas leveled her with a look that spoke of the deeper meaning his words held.
Stefan stood from the sofa with a sigh, "I'll help. He is my brother after all."
Silas waved his hand, "No, your services are needed in here to gather information for the impending plan." Stefan attempted to interject but he continued, "You know as well as I that your fool...excuse me, your brother will believe no one else here but yourself."
As Stefan settled back down onto the sofa, Silas gave him a nod before scooping Damon's prone body over his shoulder and waved his arm out for Elena to pass, "Caroline, I shall see you soon Little One. Elena please, lead the way."
"So now that everything is all settled just when is this possible catastrophe happening?" Rebekah asked as she sat down on the sofa beside Stefan with a proud curve to her lips at the looks of disgust from Elena before she stomped out of the room.
Bonnie's head popped up from the table where she and the other witches had begun shifting through the book Caroline had taken from Professor Shane's office, her voice carrying an ominous tone, "In just under two weeks, on the next full moon."
Elena grudgingly showed Silas to Damon's car, opening the door for him to lay Damon's body across the rear seat before slamming it shut and turning an accusing eye at him, "Damon is not a burden."
"Is he not?" Silas raised his hand to stop her from speaking, "You need not defend him to me, only towards yourself." Elena cocked her head to the side not understanding what he meant. He sighed before stepping closer to her to which she matched his movement and stepped back, "You have no need to be afraid of me Elena, I mean you no harm."
Something in his eyes told her that he spoke true and she felt her body calm her ridged stance.
"You look so much like her, even deep within you there are such striking similarities."
"You mean Amara?" She looked at him questioningly, "You were in love with her right?"
Silas laughed deeply, "Heavens no. That was some story cooked up over the years to throw others off the truth. Amara was originally my wife's dearest friend. And a spitfire of a werewolf to boot."
Elena's eyes widen as her mouth dropped open in surprise, "She was a werewolf?"
Silas shook his head sadly, "My dear, you have no inkling of just who or what you are. You spout the term doppelganger with pride but know little of just where that pride stems from." Silas stepped closer to her as Elena drank in his words, "Amara was loyal and kind, she was fiercely protective of those she considered hers, a true martyr much like you yourself use to be. She proved all this time and time again, but it truly shined through when she gave up the very core of who she was to save my daughter and in turn was changed into a being unlike any other."
Elena's eyes shimmered with emotions, "You have her qualities dear Elena. You are her legacy but you know very little of why because you have not found your true path in this life."
"A life I never asked for you mean." Elena grumbled sourly.
"You could have all the answers you seek if you would only listen to yourself and not to others." He brushed a comforting hand over her arm, "That inner voice you used to listen to. One day you will get back to who you were before all this happened to you. One day your desire to discover just who you are and who you were meant to be will override all else."
Elena bit her lower lip not understanding just why she was listening to him but felt it deep within herself that she should, "And how will I know when?"
"Have you ever had that strange feeling deep within your gut, telling you something, telling you to do something?" He tilted his head and as he seen the flicker of understanding cross over her face.
"Like déjà vu?" She asked rubbing her hand over her arm feeling slightly uncomfortable with how much this man could see.
"Exactly." Silas beamed. "It will all make sense to you eventually. And when that happens, you will know just where you are meant to be and you will find the answers you seek. But most importantly you will know just where and how you will be needed."
Elena felt overwhelmed with his almost prophetic speech, "What if I'm never ready? What if I never get to that point?"
Stepping closer to her, Silas cupped her cheek staring heavily into her tear filled eyes, whispering to her as if his words carried the weight of the world with them, "You will come to a point when you will realize the burdens you carry are not your own and you will feel freer for it once you leave them behind you. Only then will you find your true self Elena. Only then will you be ready to dig deeper into just what being the doppelganger truly means. You will inherently know when the time is right Elena, worry not. You truly are meant for more than just a conductor of a spell." Silas sighed, his voice filled with regret over what he had to do now. He raised his hand, fingers pressing tightly into her temples, "But for now young one you will lock this conversation away. You shall not forget it, but you shall not recall it until the right moment arrives for you. I'm truly sorry Elena."
Silas stepped away from Elena watching as the tears dried in her eyes without her knowledge of them even being there in the first place. The glazed look in her eyes faded before she offered him a small hesitant smile.
"Thanks for helping me get him to the car." She pulled the car keys from her pocket tossing them back and forth in her hands, "I'll talk some sense into him, this stuff going on is bigger than all of us and as upset as I am with her right now, Caroline was right, we need to work together."
Silas smiled as Elena's true light shined through in that moment, "Thank you Elena."
He watched with a heavy heart as she pulled the car out of the driveway, knowing she had a long and hard road ahead of her. Glancing back at the house, he sighed thinking that she was not the only one, before he flashed away.
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Damon and Elena's departure brought relief to those who were left in the parlor and it wasn't long afterwards that the others began readying themselves to follow suit and go about their own lives. Steven and the witches said goodbye, letting them know they would return soon and wishing them luck.
Once the door had closed Bonnie closed her eyes before speaking hesitantly, "Now that it's just us there's one more thing we need to discuss."
Caroline licked her lips at Bonnie's solemn tone and the way Kol careful slid his way over to her positioning himself slightly in front of Bonnie as if to protect her from something. She had the funny sinking feeling that that something happened to be Klaus and by the ridged set of Klaus's shoulders he felt it too. Making a quick judgment call in a move that didn't go unnoticed by the other's, especially Klaus who rolled his eyes and huffed at her as she nonchalantly weaved her arm under the crook of his elbow before wrapping her other around the top to hold him close.
With a deep breath to prepare herself for the shouting that was no doubt about to occur she said, "Go ahead and say it Bon."
Bonnie inhaled deeply, drawing strength from the glance Kol gave her over his shoulder, "We have to break the link between you and Klaus."
"Absolutely out of the question." Klaus spat, leaving Caroline pleased that it was only a restrained growl instead of the shouting she had expected.
"It has to happen Klaus, whether any of us like it or not. She can't be linked to you when the spell is performed." Bonnie argued back.
"Then it shall be done prior to starting the damn spell. Problem solved." Klaus replied with a shrug.
Bonnie began shaking her head in a negative response but it was Kol who spoke for her, ready to take the brunt of his brother's anger if need be, "There won't be time for that Nik."
"Then make time." Klaus hissed. "There is a full coven of witches at our disposal. Allow one of them to complete the spell if the Bennett witch is unable."
"This has nothing to do with Bonnie's capabilities. Bonnie needs to be focused on the spell, not worrying about smaller side spells that have the potential to drain too much of her energy." Kol spoke over whatever Klaus was about to say, "And before you go there again, the coven needs to be at their best and conserve their own energies for the coming battle. They are needed to keep the protection spell in place."
"Side spell? You call the only thing keeping Caroline from weakening a side spell?" Klaus shouted, his eyes flashing yellow.
"Klaus calm down," Caroline ran her hand soothingly over his arm, "that's not what he meant and you know it."
"Calm down?" His angry eyes snapped to her as he yanked his arm out of her hold, "You want me to stay calm when they want to take away the only thing keeping you safe at the moment?"
Caroline raised her chin defiantly, "Yes."
"Is that so?"
His eerily deceptively calm voice drew her up short for a second before Rebekah groaned as she pulled Stefan up from the sofa, "I know that tone all too well and I'd rather not be around to bear witness to the fall out. Come along Stefan; let's get you out of here before Nik goes ballistic."
Klaus stood next to Caroline with his fists balled as he shook with righteous anger. Caroline offered a small smile to the couple as they quickly left the room before she turned back to her angry Hybrid, "I know this sucks Klaus, believe me…"
"Do you really Caroline?" he asked with his eyes narrowed as he stalked closer to her, "You'll be weak and vulnerable, barely able to lift a finger let alone function."
Caroline huffed with a roll of her eyes and a lift of her perfectly sculpted eyebrow, "Are you saying you won't be here to protect me?"
Klaus scoffed, "Don't be ridiculous. The real question here is, are you ready to not be able to see or spend any more time with your Father? To have the next time you see him be your last? You know Love, when he dies?" He smirked feeling victorious for a spilt second as the realization crossed her face before watching in horror as her face turned crestfallen with tears gathering in her eyes as her lower lips quivered.
Caroline bit down on her lip to control its quivering before saying, "No I don't, but thanks so much for bringing that up." Embarrassed by her wavering emotions she spun on her heals and stalked out of the room.
"Shit." Klaus muttered as he hurried after her ignoring the scathing looks from the others in the room.
He paused when he found her just outside of the room sitting on the lower steps of the staircase with her arms folded over the tops of her knees with her chin resting on top of them. Klaus sighed in regret for the way he had spoken to her as he crouched down in front of her to catch her tear filled eyes, "I'm sorry Caroline."
She cracked a halfhearted grin at him as she mumbled, "I know." Before looking back down at the floor.
Klaus ran his tongue over his lips, "May I sit?" At her nod of yes with her chin still pressed against her arm he sighed once more before shuffling to sit down on the step a few inches beside her. His arm was raised, ready to run his hand over her back as she suddenly sat up and leaned into him in one quick motion. Klaus felt the knot that had grew in his chest from the moment he uttered those nasty words to her so cockily unfurl and loosen as her body curled into his. He pulled her tightly against his side, wrapping his arm around her and tucking her head beneath his chin.
"This whole thing sucks." She mumbled as she clutched onto his other arm pulling it around her front.
Klaus simply hummed in agreement.
"I don't want to do this anymore than you do but we don't have a choice." Caroline pulled back slightly to look at him with her glistening blue eyes and her pouting lips, "This sucks."
He chuckled quietly at her petulant frown, lifting a hand to run the backs of his fingers down her face, "You've said that already Love."
Caroline shrugged her shoulders before ducking back down to curl into him once more, "Doesn't make it any less true."
Klaus held her silently as he stroked her hair, thinking that as much as it bothered him to have her left wide open for countless vulnerabilities to strike at her, she did have not only him to keep her safe, but an entire passel of others who would move heaven and earth to see her survive. It was only his fear of something happening to her, of watching her weaken like she did before they knew what was happening to her all over again that had him so against it. That and the gut wrenching certainty of how much this would pain her later to not have more time with her Father she had only just begun to reunite with.
The couple's heads looked up as Bonnie slowly crept up to them.
"Look, I can give you a little time. Not much, maybe four days to a week tops. But then, I'm sorry Care, we can't wait any longer than that."
"Thanks Bon." Caroline said with a half grin.
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Klaus followed Caroline into their bedroom watching as she kicked off her shoes and curled up on the center of the bed. After closing the door behind him he followed suit sitting on the bed and began removing his own shoes. He startled at the feel of her hand skimming over his thigh to his groin to cup him as he toed off his last shoe.
"Caroline, what are you doing?"
Shifting her body up just behind him she ran her tongue over the back of his neck, her hand massaging his rapidly growing shaft as she whispered huskily, "Don't think I forgot about all those promises you made me back at the Grill. I think it's time to deliver don't you?"
Klaus groan softly as her breath heated the back of his neck enticingly while her delicate hand brought erotic sparks of want through him. Steeling himself he grasped her wandering hand and placed it on the bed beside him, "Caroline," Klaus sighed in exasperation, "I want you for more than just sex. And in light of all that transpired this evening I think its best if you rest."
"Okay fine," She smirked, licking the shell of his ear, delighting in the reactions she was able to pull from him, "but maybe in light of what happened tonight I just want you to make me feel alive again just in case I…"
"Stop it." Klaus spat through his teeth as he turned to face her, "I told you once and I shall tell you again, you are not going to die. I will not be saying goodbye to you."
"So prove it." Caroline smirked as she leaned back against the pillows and ran her foot along in inseam of his pants only to pout when he gently knocked it away.
"You need to gather your strength Love while you still can."
"But maybe I would rather you wear me out." Caroline flirted only to pout with a sigh when he groaned, "Don't you want me Klaus?" The look he threw her spoke volumes of how ridiculous a question that was, "Okay then what is it?" She gasped as she widened her eyes and covered her mouth with the palm of her hand, "Are you saving yourself for marriage?"
He gave her a withering glare while he held back a chuckle, "I think that ship has long sailed My Love."
She shrugged her shoulders, "True."
"Besides, marriage is just another of those pesky human conventions that you learn to let go of. It's nothing more than a label human's put on a relationship that, in the end, the odds of failure is high."
"That and you save a killing on your taxes." Klaus chuckled at her quip as she fiddled her fingers together, "Is that really what you think about relationships? That they're all doomed to fail?"
Klaus bit back the jokingly scathing remark he was close to voicing when he studied her face, as much as Caroline tried to hide her true emotions from him they were written clearly across her beautiful face. He reached over and took hold of her hand gently in his looking at her meaningfully, "Not all relationships Caroline."
Her answering smile sent a wave of warmth and triumph through him, confirming that he said the right thing. He gulped down pushing past his still unstable vulnerabilities to give her a little more honesty, "I intend to be your last love, as you shall be mine."
Caroline gasped lowly before a radiant smile grew over her face, her eyes shining with a happiness that filled Klaus with pride of being its cause. "So then I'm your girlfriend." She giggled at the wrinkle on his brow and the scrunch of his nose, "What's wrong with that?"
"Girlfriend," He said with a hint of aversion, "is such a childish and paltry term when it comes to what you are to me."
"Okay fine I'll give you that, but what would you call me when introducing me to people hmm?" She tilted her head sweetly to the side with her lips pressed in a grin.
His eyes darkened and a predatory smirk grew over his lush lips, "Mine."
Caroline tossed her head back in laughter, "Seriously? Mine?" She sat up adjusting her body ramrod straight with her dainty nose turned up into the air as she butchered her attempt at mimicking his accent. "Good evening, this is Caroline. She is Mine."
Klaus's eyes grew a shade darker despite her mocking demeanor, his voice harsh and husky, "Aye. Mine."
"And what do I call you huh?" Her head tilted to the side once more with a goofy grin before she imitated what would be her proper greeting, "Hello this this Klaus, he is Mine?" Her breath hitch as the word she thought would be a mocking joke turned into something else; something that stirred an intense feeling of possession deep within her.
"You feel that Caroline?" He asked as he shifted closer to her, "That deep and delightful tugging of surrender and ownership from within you when you name me yours? When I name you Mine?" Her breath became shallow and heavy as his tone took a husky and seductive turn, "For all the labels in the world that is the only one that truly matters. I am yours as you are mine."
Caroline's lips dropped open with a quiet moan at the tingles of electricity shot through her limbs. She leaned forward placing herself nose to nose with him, her voice nothing but a lust filled demanding whisper, "Then show me." She watched in avid interest as Klaus clenched his fist at his sides, "Show me how you are Mine." She grinned seductively as his eyes flashed before going in for the kill, "Show me how I am yours Niklaus."
Caroline's grin turned into a moan as his fingers threaded through her hair on both sides of her head, her neck bending back slightly under the tender but forceful press of his lips against hers. Her own hands cupped the sides of his face, goosebumps breaking out along her arms as his stubble that she adored grazed the palms of her hands.
Needing to feel his skin Caroline slowly ran her hands down his chest and across his abdomen to the end of his shirt, slipping underneath before slowly dragging it up and over his head. Her mouth watered as her stomach muscles clenched at the sight of him in nothing but his low hung jeans and those necklaces that always tempted her. Leaning in to give into the temptation of kissing where the chains laid against his skin she pouted as he stood from their bed, his outstretched hand offered to help her up and she didn't think twice about taking the offer.
Placing his hands at her waist once she stood before him, Klaus slowly trailed the seams of her dress until he reached the top of her zipper, watching through passionate eyes as her chest rose and fell in quick sessions as he slowly pulled the zipper down before trailing his hands up her arms to assist the dress's descent to the floor at her feet. His eyes slowly trailed a path over her body and the deep blue bra and lacey panty set she wore, its color making her skin look alabaster and ethereal in the pale light of the room. Lifting his hand he ghosted his fingertips from her temple, across her smooth cheek, following the elegant slope of her neck down to the center of her breast where her heart beat a frantic tune.
His reverent voice sent shivers through her body and caused her breath to hitch.
"Beautiful." He said breathlessly, "You are beyond stunning Caroline."
His eyes that had followed the trail of his wandering fingers lifted to hers making Caroline lick her lower lip as she felt her knees weaken with the force of the emotions pouring out of him.
Klaus took the few steps needed to be closer to her, keeping his eyes locked on hers as he bent to scoop her up into his arms with an arm behind her knees and one wrapped around her back. Her sweet breath washed over his face as he knelt on the bed and gently laid her in its center.
Caroline wrapped her hands around his neck to pull him down for a kiss only to be met with his shaking head as his hands carefully pulled hers away from him. His nose skimmed across her cheek, his breath hitting her neck deliciously as his whispered in her ear, "You wanted me to show you how you are Mine. You wanted to see how I am yours Caroline." Her hips lifted off the bed with a groan as his tongue curled around the shell of her ear before his hot breath ghosted over her ear, "Let me." Klaus pulled back tilting his head down with an erotic fire blazing in his eyes as he whispered his demand once more, "Let me."
Soundlessly Caroline nodded her head, mouthing the word yes.
Klaus ducked his head back down to her neck, softly brushing his lips and tongue over her skin as his hand lightly trailed over her hip and along her side bringing a tickle to Caroline's throat and chest at his unhurried tender touches. His lips followed a path over her shoulder as he shifted his body gently nudging her inner thighs with his hand and knee to settle over top of her.
Caroline felt her nipples pucker within the confines of her bra as his stubble rasped against the tops of her breast, his breath sending warm shivers through her body. She wrapped one arm around him, gliding her hands over the expanse of his toned back as her other skimmed up to the back of his head lightly gripping the ends of his hair. His hot wet tongue flicked and licked at the space between her breasts causing her body to arch up against his, her groan of pleasure turning into a moan of frustration as he lifted his hips away from hers denying her the friction she so desperately wanted.
Ignoring her frustration Klaus continued his sweet light torture, shifting his legs to rest his knees on the outside of her thighs he ran his tongue under the seam of her bra as his hand tunneled under her back to unhook it's clasp. His hands delicately pulled the straps down her arms before letting her bra fall discarded to the side of the bed.
His lust filled eyes scanned over her bared chest, greedily taking in every inch of her skin before he leaned down to reverently place his lips to the top of her hardened peek.
Caroline sighed lowly as his tongue traced a hot circle around her nipple before flicking over its tip. As his lips pulled back an inch from her skin the cool air of the room breezed over her, hardening her nipple further before warm tingling sensations filled her as his breath whispered over her skin.
"You are simply glorious My Love."
His calloused hands, soft lips and hot wet tongue worshiped every inch of her exposed skin, exploring it as if he had never touched her before this moment. With every brush of his lips on her body she felt the deep whispered meaning behind it.
A kiss at her temple said I adore you. The soft brush of his fingertips along her sides said I crave you. His heated breath feathering over her abdomen said I need you. The look blazing out of his shimmering eyes said I love you.
Never before had Caroline felt this wanted or needed. With each and every touch he laid on her skin it was as if he was paying tribute to his own personal Goddess. As the thought fluttered through her mind she realized that was exactly how she felt.
Like a Goddess, like his Goddess.
Never had she felt such a sensual seduction before, never had she been as turned on as she was right in this moment. It wasn't the way his hand skirted past her throbbing lace covered core leaving her aching for his touch; it wasn't the way he feasted slowly on every inch of her heaving chest. It was the emotions that poured out of him with every touch and look that had her writhing on the bed in a sensual erotic haze.
She watched with heavily lidded eyes as Klaus slowly stood from the bed, the pure fire in his eyes scorching her, sending a wave of white hot lust to her core. His pants hit the floor with an echoing thud as he crawled his way back over the bed to her feet. His tongue peeked out of his mouth to lick his lower lip as he slid his hands up the outside of her legs, grasping her panties on each side of her hips to torturously pull them slowly down her legs. He dropped them to the side, his eyes skating over her nude body, his mouth falling open with a gasp as he sat back on his knees staring in an awed trance at the beautiful laid before him.
Caroline's heart pounded in her chest, her body arching off the bed at the way his eyes tenderly devoured her, her need of him all but choked her as she whimpered, "Klaus."
The pure and desperate need that filled her voice called to him on a primal level, breaking him out of his daze. Leaning forward he ran his hands up the inside of her legs, pushing them apart the higher he reached, groaning deeply at the wetness he found as his thumbs brushed her folds.
Klaus crawled his way up her body, fitting himself between her loving thighs as he trailed his eyes from her core, up her clenching abdomen over her heaving breasts to her flushed face to finally lock with her heated blue eyes.
Bearing his weight on a hand next to her head, he slowly trailed his other up her thigh to her hip before leaning down to meet her lips with his own as he shifted his hips, pressing his shaft into her slowly until he filled her completely.
Both tore away from the kiss as their hips laid flush together, both gasping as he slowly rolled his hips against her. With each slow rolling thrust her hands feathered across and pulled at his back as they gasped and groaned between softly tasting lips and swirling tongues.
With a graceful precision Klaus lifted his legs one at a time to the outsides of her thighs, pressing her legs together tightly while never stopping his slow shallow thrusts. Caroline's hands reached up to cup the sides of his face at the same moment he allowed his upper body to fall, landing on his forearms resting next to her upper body as his palms cradled the sides of her face.
Klaus passionately breathed out her name as if in prayer at the feeling of her walls clenching around his aching shaft. Her eyes never left his as he began to move over her entire body in a pleasurable wave. She never felt this connected to him, this close to him before. It felt as if they were wrapped completely around each other. With every glide of his body over her own it brought her closer and closer to the edge. Sweat covered their skin and she seen from the corner of her eye a bead of it rolling down the side of his flushed face before it fell, landing on her lips making her moan at its salty taste.
Almost as if they were one, their bodies began to tremble and shake. Their harsh breaths clashing together as their pupils dilated. A guttural groan of her name bellowed from his lips at the exact moment the hoarse moan of his left hers. Her scorching wet walls clamped down on his throbbing shaft as they both spiraled into an exploding ball of euphoria.
As their bodies slowly came down from their high, still trembling in the aftermath, Klaus laid his forehead against hers, sighing with his hoarse voice as he gazed into her eyes, "That is how I am yours just as you are mine Caroline."
Her slightly numb hand lifted to hold his face with a lazy smile before she pulled him down into a sweet and loving kiss.
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Deep male laughter intermixed with a light feminine giggle could be heard coming from the media room towards the back of the house bringing with it a slight grin to Klaus's face before it dropped to a worried frown.
"She'll be alright you know. After a while. "
Klaus startled for a moment before wiping the concern from his brow with a quiet clearing of his throat as he resumed his perusal of the documents and books laid before him on the table, "I have no idea what you are talking about."
Bonnie sighed as she set down her notes and turned to face Klaus, "Look Klaus, I don't like you and I probably never will."
"Harsh Miss Bennett. And here I thought we were becoming such good friends. But alas you've torn asunder my hopes for mutual birthday invitations." Klaus smirked at her attempts to withhold her chuckle.
"Look," Bonnie said as she shook her head to cover her humor, "no matter what we have one very special thing in common."
"Oh? And what pray tell is that?"
"Caroline." She told him simply, feeling pride that she wiped the cocky smirk form his face, "We both love Caroline. I know you're worried about her, just as much as I am about how she will handle this after it's all over but she's strong. And even if I don't see birthday parties in our futures you should know that when it comes to her, I will do anything, even if that means being here for you."
Klaus licked his lip in indecision, while he wasn't one for being open about his thoughts or feelings, when it came to Caroline all his previous ways of living ceased to exist. Seeing the earnest look on the young witch's face had him doing something he never thought he would, he caved, "Yes Caroline is one of the strongest women I have ever had the pleasure of meeting, but she has been through enough in her short life and I've seen lesser vampires cave to the draw of the switch over much less than she is dealing with."
"Yeah but do you really think Caroline, Miss Control-Freak herself would ever let go of who she is enough to fall victim to the switch? I mean she can turn anything that goes wrong into a positive; she makes the best out of everything. I think that gives her a better chance of avoiding that." Bonnie explained, feeling confidence begin to grow within her over how Caroline would cope.
"Yes she is quite the eternal optimist isn't she?" Klaus replied with a thoughtful and caring grin before his own dark thoughts took over, "Then again the brightest stars are often the ones whose light burns out the fastest."
"Then we be here for her, in whatever way she needs us to be." Bonnie turned to face him, "You just be your disgustingly charming self to her and I'll be the best friend I've always been and we will see her through this."
"You find me charming Miss Bennett?" Klaus chuckled jokingly, "My, my, a compliment from you? How extraordinary."
"Yeah well I'll try not to make a habit out of it." Bonnie giggled along with him before sighing, "So are you through looking this stuff over for the millionth time?"
Klaus scoffed, "You young and you penchants for the over exaggerations. There is nothing wrong with be thorough." He sighed as his eyes scanned over the papers once more, he knew she was right, he was only delaying the inevitable. "I'm finished. Go ahead and bring her in."
He watched out of the corner of his eyes as Bonnie grudgingly made her way out of the room. It seemed she was no happier about preforming this spell than he was.
Bonnie stood quietly outside the door to the over the top media room the Mikaelson's had with a soft happy smile as she watched Caroline's hands gesture wildly about, her voice filled with laughter as she told Silas a story. Her green eyes glanced to Silas who looked at her friend as if he lived just to hear the next words she would speak.
It was a look Bonnie had always wanted from her Mother or even her own Father but never received. But it did remind her of someone else, someone she missed so much. Her Grams.
Bonnie felt her eyes fill with tears as she inhaled a steading breath. She hated what she was about to do, hated that she had to break up this special moment. She had been dreading this for the past week but it couldn't be held off any longer. She wished she could find something comforting and profound to say to make this easier but words failed her. She flinched at her own shaky voice when she uttered, "It's time Care."
Caroline's hands froze midair, the light and laughter slowly dying from her eyes as she let her hands fall to her lap, her voice sounding like a sad child's, "Already?"
Bonnie felt her lower lip tremble at how small her friends voice sounded, a barely whispered, "Yeah." Breathing past her own lips.
Silas choked down his own emotions as he placed his hand on top of his daughters, her glistening blue eyes looking up at him from under her lashes and he smiled gently at her, "All will be well my Little One."
Caroline pressed her lips together with a jerky nod of her head. She wanted to scream, she wanted to fight. She wanted to grab her Father's hand and run as far and as fast as she could.
But she didn't.
She took the hand he offered her and stood from the sofa they had sat on, watching Star Wars much like she threatened, chatting, and spending what she wasn't ready to admit were possibly her last moments alone with him.
She numbly followed him and Bonnie into the study where Klaus waited, his hands held out in front of him waiting for her to take them and his face solemn. Her eyes flicked away from him, knowing if she kept looking in his empathetic eyes and add to that the forlorn atmosphere of the room she would not get through this without crying or running. It took every bit of her strength to let go of her father's hand as he placed them into Klaus's waiting palms.
It was over quickly. Much more quickly than when they were linked in the first place and so much more quickly than Caroline wanted. A couple insignificant words, a flare of the candles and a rush of wind and it was done.
Caroline glanced up to Klaus's anxious face and offered him a small grin, "That was way less dramatic than I expected."
Klaus chuckled and opened his mouth to offer her a witty retort only to panic as she gasped and fell against him. He caught her easily and scooped her up into his arms as she began to grey. A quick brush of wind blew past him, his eyes barely registering the movement until it was done and his mind was able to play catch up.
Silas's tear filled eyes watched in horror as his daughter collapsed within seconds after the spell was complete. Drawing in a much needed breath he flashed to her placing a tender kiss upon her brow just as Klaus had her settled within his strong and protecting arms. "I love you Little One. Take care of her my Son." And then he was gone.
Klaus inhaled heavily once his mind was brought back to the present, his sorrowful eyes glanced down to Caroline's greying face and her blue eyes filled with tears. He gently shifted her body in his arms to bite into his wrist, silently offering her the bleeding wound.
Taking a few pulls of his blood Caroline felt a small amount of strength return to her limbs, though not as much as she had hoped for. Licking her lips clean she gave him a pitiful attempt of a smile, her voice croaking with emotions, "Now there's the dramatic effect I was looking for."
His grimace told her that her attempts at the joke fell flat. "Hey," She uttered softly as her shaking hand cupped his pinched face, "I'll be fine. Beside," She grinned even as her tears slid down her pale and drawn cheeks and her voice quivered, "I've always wanted someone to wait on me hand and foot. And who else can say that they had the Original Hybrid at their beck and call?"
Klaus chuckled softly, placing his forehead against her as he whispered lowly and began carrying her out of the study to their bedroom, "I am but your humble servant My Lady."
Bonnie heard Caroline try to joke once more in her shaking voice as Klaus carried her out of the room, "We'll have to get me a bell on a velvet and silk pillow so I can ring for you to come attend me while I'm…"
Bonnie felt the tears spill over her own lids as Caroline's voice cracked and she broke down into a fit of sobbing tears.
The last thing Bonnie heard was Klaus's impassioned whisper, "Shh My Love. I'm here. Shh." She never warm up completely to him, even if they had a small friend-like moment earlier, but she couldn't help but think that he was so perfect for Caroline. He was just what Caroline would need when all this was said and done. And for that she was thankful.
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