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Alibi

Kol was pacing around the living room, until Rebekah had enough of it. She got up from the chair she was sitting in and flashed in front of Kol. Kol slammed into her and growled.

'Stop it, Kol!' Rebekah said firmly. 'Don't be so nervous, she will love it!'

'She left, Rebekah! What if she doesn't come?'

'She'll come, don't worry. She knows better than to disobey me.' Rebekah smiled at her brother.

'You threatened her?' Kol asked in disbelief.

Rebekah rolled her eyes. 'No of course not, you idiot. I just left her a note, which said what she needed to do. She knows I'll be disappointed or mad if she ignores it. She'll be here.'

Kol shook his head and started pacing again. Rebekah sighed.

'I went too far this time. She hates surprises! I never should've started this! I couldn't even be around her for too long, cause I was too excited!' Kol took a deep breath. 'I had to lie to her, Rebekah! I had to LIE! She's never gonna forgive me…'

Rebekah stopped her brother in his tracks, and made him look at her.

'She will forgive you! As soon as she knows what we have all been hiding, she'll forget how angry she was! She might not like surprises, but she's going to love this one, do you hear me? Have a bit of faith!'

'When will she be here, then?' Kol asked Rebekah, ignoring everything she said.

Rebekah rolled her eyes and checked the time. She could be here any minute now. Come on, we should go outside.'

Kol nodded. 'You'd better be right about this, sweet sister…'

The car stopped in front of the Mikaelson's mansion and the driver opened the door for her.

'I am not going there,' she said stubborn.

'Miss Mikaelson told me to get you in there even if it would kill me,' the driver chuckled.

Cara rolled her eyes and got out of the car, helped by the driver.

'Well, even though I don't like where it got me, thank you for your services,' Cara thanked the driver.

The driver tipped his hat, smiled and got back into the car.

Cara took a deep breath, straightened her dress and walked up to the door. She was fuming at Rebekah right now. She'd better not be walking into some romantic dinner with Kol.

She knocked, and waited. Nothing. She tried the door, and it wasn't locked. Of course not, idiot. They're vampires. Cara chuckled softly and walked in. It was eerily quiet and she looked around. There was no one in sight. She walked into the living room, but she didn't find anyone either.

She was about to walk to the kitchen, as she saw a little note on the table.

Try the garden

'Seriously, Rebekah?' Cara muttered.

She walked to the big doors that led to the garden. She slid them open, and got scared the shit out of her.

'SURPRISE!'

Cara gave a shriek and stared at all of her friends who were holding a big banner that said "Welcome Home, Cara!"

She scanned the faces, and noticed that everyone was here, even the ones she hadn't even met before.

When it fully hit her what was going on, tears started falling down her cheeks, and a big smile spread across her face.

She was looking for one specific face in the crowd, and when she found him, she could see he was extremely relieved.

He quickly left his spot at the banner, and Rebekah scolded him for dropping his bit all of a sudden.

Kol chuckled and quickly made his way over to Cara.

'Surprise,' he said nervously, while avoiding her gaze.

'You did this?' Cara asked with round eyes.

Kol gave a nervous little laugh and nodded.

'So this is why you have been acting all weird last week? Disappearing, finding excuses..?' Cara asked while she tried to get him to look at her.

Cara could feel everyone was holding their breath. Obviously they had all known what happened.

Kol nodded once more. 'I am really sorry, Cara… I never wanted to lie, or be away from you, but being around you made it so hard! I couldn't tell you, and I wanted to so bad.. Can you forgive me?'

Finally Kol looked up, fully expecting a cold look in Cara's usual warm eyes, but he got surprised when Cara flung her arms around him and hugged him tightly.

'I love it, thank you so much!'

Everyone was laughing and clapping, and Kol picked her up and spun her around.

When she got put down, Damon walked over to her.

'Damon!' Cara exclaimed. 'You sneaky little bastard!'

Damon smirked. 'You have no idea what I've been through these past days! Taking orders from Vampire Barbie 1 & 2 and that Kol idiot? I thought I was going to die.'

Cara laughed. 'It must've been awful,' she said ironically.

'It was,' Damon said seriously, with a humorous glint in his eyes. 'But it was all worth it, just to see you smile like this.'

Cara gave him a quick hug before making her way around the party.

She had laughed so hard at Caroline's flustered apology for ignoring her, and acting all strange. Of course she had forgiven Caroline. Caroline became the happy, bubbly person again when Cara pointed out that everything looked great.

'Rebekah helped me a lot,' Caroline grudgingly admit. 'The girl has taste.'

Cara chuckled and got tapped on the shoulder. She turned around and saw Elena standing there.

'Erm, hey, Cara,' Elena smiled warmly. 'I know we got off on the wrong foot, and I am sorry. Obviously we didn't know Kol… He totally changed our minds these past days.' Elena smiled apologetically.

'It's okay, it's not your fault,' Cara said smiling. 'Don't worry, we're good.'

Elena breathed a sigh of relief. 'Okay, now with that out of the way, I'd like you to meet someone. Wait a sec, I'll go grab him!'

Cara watch amused as Elena walked over to Jeremy and pulled him along with her.

'Cara, this is-' Elena began.

'JEREMY!' Cara exclaimed and she hugged a totally taken aback Jeremy.

'Oh right. I guess introductions aren't that necessary with you,' Elena laughed.

Cara let go of Jeremy, and a smile broke through on his face.

'Hello to you too, Cara,' he chuckled.

'Hello there,' she smiled innocently.

They started talking a bit about her being here, when Kol interrupted them.

'Why don't you go say hi to everyone before you start chatting with Gilbert over here, darling?' Kol asked sweetly.

Cara raised her eyebrow. Was Kol jealous? Of who? She snickered.

'Something funny?' Jeremy asked amused.

Kol shot him a glare, which made Cara laugh even harder.

Damon walked over, having overheard the conversation, and asked: 'Does this have anything to do with that show of yours?'

Cara nodded, still smiling. 'Sometimes the irony is just too much,' she said, while catching her breath.

'But, Kol was right. I should go say hello to everyone.' Cara started to walk around as Kol yanked her back softly.

'First tell us what was so funny,' Kol insisted.

Cara looked from Kol to Jeremy, and felt another bubble of laughter coming up. The way Jeremy stood there, uncomfortable in Kol's presence. The way Kol glared at Jeremy, not liking him one bit.

Cara bit back the laughter and said matter-of-factly: 'I was shipping you like crazy.'

They both stared at her like dolls.

'Shipping, rooting…' Cara tried to explain.

Jeremy caught on first, and Kol followed soon after.

Their mouths fell open, and they stared at each other in wonder and disgust.

'We were a … couple on the show?' Kol forced out. 'If I was gay there, why would you crush on me?'

Cara blushed slightly.

'You weren't a couple on the show. But boy, did I wish you were! Obviously, my hopes were crushed when you killed Kol,' she looked at Jeremy. 'Not completely, since you seemed to feel bad about it. But then you got killed by Silas and I knew it was over.'

'He? Killed me?' Kol gave a sarcastic laugh.

Cara raised an eyebrow. 'Yes he did. It was awful. I do not wish to relive that episode. I was grieving for weeks.'

They both just stared at her.

'Give me a break,' Cara rolled her eyes and looked at Damon, who was laughing so hard he was attracting glances from the people around them.

Klaus walked over with a worried glance.

'Everything okay?' He asked with a worried tone. He didn't tone his voice down. Everyone was listening in anyway.

Damon caught his breath, and said: 'Cara just told us about one of her favorite ships from that show we supposedly are all in.'

Klaus raised an eyebrow. 'Ship?'

'Yeah, that's apparently what they call "rooting for someone to be together" nowadays,' Damon air-quoted.

Klaus eyes started to sparkle. 'So…?'

Damon looked from Jeremy to Kol, who both were still stunned.

Klaus' eyes got all big and round. 'Kol and Jeremy?' He said with an amused tone.

Cara looked around to see everyone trying to fight their smiles.

'So, Cara. Who do you ship me with?' Klaus asked, his eyes amused.

'Realisticly, or AU? Like Kol & Jeremy?'

'Both,' Klaus said wiggling his eyebrows.

'Fine.' Cara walked up onto the little stage. 'Everyone, I received a question about my pairings. I want this to share with all of you, since keeping secrets like that is quite impossible. If anyone else wants to know something, this is the time! If this has to become my home, I can't spend my days answering everybody's questions. So, if you want to know something just ask me. Just line up or something,' Cara laughed.

'One small notion: Every answer I will give, is based on the characters of that show, not on you. So don't be mad at me.'

She took a deep breath.

'So, all of you heard about my Kol & Jeremy pairing. I won't go into details why, you wouldn't get it,' Cara smiled. 'Now, Klaus asked me about him. Once again, this is based on the show, and doesn't have anything to do with you personally.'

Klaus gave her a wide grin. 'Come on, then, love!'

Cara rolled her eyes. 'My realistic pairing with you, Klaus, is with Caroline. For the record, realistic is something that could actually happen. The other one, the AU, as we call it, is what will never happen, but what fans like to imagine. Like Kol and Jeremy. For Klaus, that is with Stefan.' Cara struggled to keep a straight face, as she heard Damon roaring in laughter.

'Why?' Stefan and Klaus asked together.

Cara laughed. 'Didn't I just tell you I wouldn't go into details? Let's just say it has to do with the 20s and the tension between you two.'

The crowd laughed. Cara spent the rest of the evening answering everybody's questions, and the mood shifted from friends to family. She really was home. She got off stage and walked up to Kol, to give him a loving kiss.

'Thank you, this was amazing,' she whispered. She could feel Kol's grin when he hugged her.

So... I hope I didn't disappoint you! Most of you thought Kol was going to propose, and I am not saying that it will never happen, but right now it wouldn't be realistic. Cara is only 18 and she hasn't known him for that long. But, who knows? Haha it's hard to say.

I just needed her to have an evening of fun, which she got :). I just thought a lighter chapter would do the story good!

So, I hope you still liked it! Please review and let me know what you think! I'll try to update as soon as I can!