AN: Drabble based loosely, very loosely on Vikings and star wars. I said very loosely. Anyways no beta.
When Klaus is born, he is born into a Viking family. He is the third son, after Finn and Elijah. He can't really remember anything from his childhood, except that there is another baby brother after him, and his mother's belly swells with another child.
Klaus is 5 when his baby sister cries and his mother's belly swells with yet another child. He is happy for the most part until one night his father takes him into the forest and savagely beats him. Klaus doesn't know why or what he's done wrong. He doesn't know anything except that he passes out from the pain, and is unable to find his way home. He wakes in the morning on a wagon, traveling south. He is a slave now, being sold by his father.
After numerous attempts to escape, he is beaten savagely. He heals and tries again. He is beaten each time, until he finally gives up. Even if he did escape, he doesn't know where to go. He doesn't know where his family is.
Klaus is 7 when he meets her for the first time. A small girl carrying vegetables into the market with her mother. He watches her as she walks through, laughing and smiling. Her golden hair braided with flowers and her eyes shine as she laughs.
Klaus is 10 when he speaks to her. She is carrying more vegetables when she trips and they spill out of her basket. She reaches down to gather them up. Klaus bends down to help her. He places them into her basket and she smiles at him.
"Thank you" Caroline said
"You're very pretty" Klaus said
Caroline blushes and looks down.
"KLAUS! GET BACK HERE!" a man yells
Klaus jumps up and runs back to the man who berates him for wandering off. He places boxes into his hands and orders him to carry them.
Klaus is 10 when Caroline learns that he is a slave. For the first time he feels ashamed and cannot look at her.
"I do not care about your station, we are friends are we not?" Caroline asks
"I hope we might be" Klaus answers
Caroline places a loaf of bread in his hands and smiles.
Klaus is 15 when he is sold again. He looks back sadly at Caroline as he is being carted off again. He wonders if he will ever see her again. He has nothing to remember her by, except her memory.
Klaus is 20 when he sees Caroline again. In the 5 years he was gone, he grew and his owners noticed. In fact his owner's daughter noticed quite a bit and ended up using him for his body. Not that he minded that much. Aurora didn't seem to mind sneaking into the barn to have her way with him. She was betrothed to another man, a wealthy land owner. She had plans on taking Klaus with her but her father had other ideas. Aurora's father knew of their indiscretions, and had planned on selling Klaus.
"Father! You cannot sell him!" Aurora pleaded
"I can and will, you are to be married, and I cannot have you bringing him along. You must be faithful to your husband!" her father yelled
"But, but, you don't understand"
"I understand well enough. He has been sold. You are lucky no one has discovered what you were doing with a slave!"
Klaus stood outside, waiting for his new owner. He was to be sent away before the wedding. Klaus looked down, wondering what was to happen to him next. A loaf of bread appeared into his vision and he looked up. Caroline stood there smiling at him.
"Caroline?" Klaus asked
"It's me Klaus, I've paid for your freedom, let's leave this place"
"You bought me?"
"I paid for your freedom. I do not own you"
"Why?"
"The opportunity presented itself. You are my friend are you not?"
Klaus is 21 when he marries Caroline. Her father died in the previous winter. Her mother had grown sick and weak. The small farm Caroline owned did well with just the both of them. Klaus worked hard to keep the farm alive. Caroline saw the numerous scars on Klaus's skin and wondered why he was sold into slavery. She never asked him.
Klaus is 25 when his mother finds him. He is in the market when he hears a woman call out his name. A stranger, someone he's never seen before.
"Niklaus, is it you?"
"Do I know you?"
"It is you, he told me you had died, that you had been killed. I mourned your death"
"who are you?"
"I am your mother"
Klaus is 25 when he learns that he will be a father. He lifts Caroline into the air and swings her around laughing. She's made him so happy. He feels his heart swell with pride and joy that his wife is carrying his child. Nothing can destroy this moment for him. Except his happiness is short and fleeting.
Klaus is 25 when he drinks the wine along with his siblings, and is brutally killed along with them. He wakes up thirsty and confused. His mother is there, forcing him to drink blood. His mother has turned them into monsters. He runs home to find Caroline, only to find that Mikael has found her first. And Mikael has taken her away, he has taken his joy away. Caroline lay dead on the ground.
Klaus is 25 when he learns the truth. That he was a product of his mother's infidelity. It was at 5 that Mikael learned the truth and sold him into slavery. Upon learning the truth, Klaus strangles his mother, unleashing his werewolf side. He will spend the next century chasing after Mikael, to exact his revenge upon what he has taken from him.
Klaus is 25 when he walks into Mystic Falls, searching for the next doppelganger so he can continue his army of hybrids. He finds Elena, sandwiched between the Salvatores. He easily subdues them, but Elena escapes running off into the night. Klaus follows her scent to a house, a human's house, which means he cannot enter. So he'll just burn it down instead.
He walks up the steps to the house with a torch in his hand intent on burning the house down. The door flies open and a woman, a blonde stands there pointing a shotgun at him.
"Get the hell off my porch!" she yells before shooting him in the chest
Klaus freezes when he sees her face. Klaus flies back, landing on the ground. His vision blurred as his body tries to push the bullet out of his chest. He sees two pairs of feet running past him. He hears the car drive off as he shakes his head.
Klaus is 25 when he meets her again. He's standing in the middle of the road, when their car is headed straight at him. He doesn't move as it keeps speeding at him. He jumps up and lands on the car. He holds onto the roof and hears the girls screaming inside. He smashes the window and the car stops abruptly, sending him flying on the ground. The two girls run out into the forest.
"We can't outrun him!" Elena yelled
"We can try" Caroline said
Caroline grabs Elena and flashes deeper into the forest. Klaus follows, he loves the hunt. He flashes into the forest and knocks them both onto the ground. Elena looks up and sees Klaus towering over her.
"Don't hurt her!" Elena pleads
Caroline flings herself at him, trying to buy Elena some time as she runs off. Klaus's body doesn't move when her body slams into his. His hands rest on her hips and he holds her there. Klaus studies her face as she struggles against him.
"It is you, after all this time, it is you" Klaus said
"Let me go"
Klaus loosens his grip on her hips and allows some space between them. His hand travels down to her stomach and rests there. Caroline freezes, not sure what he's doing.
"You're not human. You've been turned, recently" Klaus said
"Get your hands off me!"
"The baby"
The baby Klaus had never spoken of. Not since he found Caroline's dead body on the ground. He started his quest for revenge, chasing after Mikael to destroy him. To take from him what he had lost.
Klaus's had reached up to brush Caroline's hair away from her face. He smiled and snapped her neck. Her body felt limp in his arms and he carried her back. He let the doppelganger run off into the forest. He would find her in the morning. He had more important things to take care of.
He places her on the bed carefully and sits and waits for her to wake up.
"What the bloody hell is this?" Rebekah asks as she enters the room
"It's her" Klaus answers
"Her? Who?"
"Caroline"
"It's been a thousand years!"
"It's her! IT IS HER! I lost her once and I won't lose her again!"
"It's not possible!"
"Do not take this from me! She was the only one in the world that showed me any kindness throughout my pathetic mortal life. She loved me, when I was just a slave, when I was nothing, when I had nothing. Yet she still loved me"
"She did love you, and you mourned her, you buried her, she lives on in your heart, no matter how hard you try to hide it. But this girl, bears a resemblance to her, that's all."
"No! It is her!"
"Nik!"
"Get out!"
Rebekah sighed and left the room. Klaus held onto Caroline's hand and kissed it.
"I have waited for you, for so long"
Klaus is 25 when he falls in love again.
