Chapter 20

"Hey that looks like Hayley," Rebekah pointed as they reached another page. "Someone definitely took too much poetic license with her likeness."

"I haven't met any of them yet." Caroline said with a shrug. "You know them better than I do!"

"Who wrote this?" Kol asked as he looked at it. "Does it say?"

"I haven't seen the author page yet-if there is one." Caroline told him.

They flipped all the way through but there was no indication as to who had written the beautifully illustrated book.

"No idea," Bonnie sighed.

"Isn't there like a spell you could use to find out who did this?" Caroline asked. "Like a revealing spell?"

Bonnie tried a spell to reveal the author. She shook her head.

"It's sealed with some very powerful magic. I can tell you it's light magic though and not the magic that made the huge spell Jeremy is afraid of."

"So basically, whoever wrote this book wants us to find out who cursed us and get our memories back?" Rebekah asked.

"It seems like it." Bonnie told them. "For now, leave the author of this book alone and let's try to figure out a way to get Mayor Mikaelson and his wife to admit to this."

Caroline gaped.

"Mayor Mikaelson?" At Kol and Rebekah's nods, she groaned. "He went to meet with my mother."

"Someone should go make sure everything is okay!" Rebekah worried.

"I'll go." Caroline said but Bonnie decided to help Caroline by taking her necklace and muttering something over it. Handing it back to her, she smiled.

"It's for protection. I don't know what will happen but I don't trust Esther and Mikael." Bonnie told her. Caroline nodded and as she left the house, she walked over to her car when she felt someone behind her. Turning, she saw a tall man with blonde hair, pale blue eyes and a smirk.

It was like her walking fantasy come to life.

"Hello love." She was doomed. She had a thing for British accents. "I'm Klaus. You are."

"Caroline." She managed to say without panting.

"Good evening Caroline. Where might you be going?" Klaus smiled at her.

"Going to see my mother who had spoken to the mayor. I just want to check up on her." Caroline said before getting into the car as fast as humanly possible. She didn't need to look in the mirror to see how red her face was.

Klaus watched her pull away and then followed her at a discreet distance. There was something about the beautiful blonde that intrigued him.

He watched her get out of the car and stalk towards the doors of the police station. He followed her inside and then he sat at an empty desk.

"Are you stalking me!" She gasped after she took him in leaned back in the chair with his feet propped on the desk and a wolffish grin on his face.

"Oh it's not stalking love," he said with a wave of his hand, "it's called 'protection detail'."

"What are you protecting me from? Because if it's strange men stalking me you're doing a bad job," Caroline said.

"I'm protecting you from most of my family." He said. "My parents are here along with my elder brother Finn."

Caroline looked at him a long moment before walking back to her mother's office.

Klaus stared at her and just kept sitting in the chair by the empty desk and with a grin on his face. Oh he wanted to know more about her-especially once he saw her leave Elena Gilbert's house.

Where Kol, Elijah and Bekah were staying while Katherine was away.

VVVVVV

The minute she entered the room, she saw a woman with shoulder length blonde hair and cold blue eyes while the man had cropped short blonde hair and cold dark eyes unlike Elijah's warm ones but the second man who was with them had some of Elijah and Kol's looks but he seemed to be colder, slightly crueler than the rest of his siblings and a little boy who seemed to be twelve years old. He was dressed in something that British school children would wear.

"Hi there buddy, I'm Caroline. Who are you?" She asked and the boy.

"My name is Henrik," he replied with a smile.

She smiled at him.

"Do you like it here in Mystic Falls?" She asked him sweetly. He smiled and nodded.

"I do!" He said enthusiastically. The dark haired man-the colder, crueler one-glared at her.

"Would you stop that insistent chatter? It is annoying." He barked and she glared at him.

"Unlike you? Worst fashion sense and believe me-just being around you is annoying." She spat at him.

Finn sneered at her.

"You must be the sheriff's daughter," he replied coldly. "You know Mystic can be a dangerous place. You wouldn't want something happening with your mom because she's distracted by trying to keep you out of trouble," he let the barely veiled threat slip.

Caroline nearly said something about him having bad manners when another voice popped up.

"Oh Finn... I truly believe that the girl is right. You were always so eager to bend to mother and father's whims. It was very annoying." They turned to see Klaus there with his feet on the desk. "I do believe that I have a dagger dipped in ashes of White Oak to shove into your heart."

Finn glared at him, "dagger threats over this slip of a girl. Mother and Father should find that of interest."

"They should but we all know that you truly fear the only one who will find out. Elijah." Klaus smirked coldly. "That and the fact that Caroline here is friends with Elena, the Bennetts and Kol...what do you think will happen once our siblings find out that you threatened her?" The fear of his younger siblings filled in his eyes before a cool mask of indifference settled over him.

"No one will ever know." Finn snarled before walking away.

"Thanks for that." Caroline muttered to Klaus.

Klaus shrugged, "let me get you back to your friends." He walked to the passenger door of her car.

"Do you think he's going to tell your parents?" She asked.

"I doubt it as he's afraid of Elijah." He told her. "Finn might be the eldest son but he can't beat Elijah at anything. No one can."

"So you're younger than Finn but older than Kol..." Caroline calculated aloud, "but I'm thinking you're younger than Elijah."

"Older than Kol, Rebekah and Henrik but younger than Finn and Elijah." He said smirking at her.

They got to Elena's house and Caroline texted Elijah.

*Your brother Klaus is out here with me. He protected me from Finn*

He ended up being a gentleman as he opened the door for her and walked her up to the front door.