A/N: Let's just ignore the fact that a song I'm about to mention in this chapter was released after season 4. Thanks! Also, warning, this is like the one chapter that's gonna have a bit of angst in it (nothing extreme.) I hope to be done with it by next chapter because it's really just not my favorite thing to write but it could potentially go on just another chapter or so. There will be plenty of smut to ease any feels, hopefully.


-Chapter 4-

They both froze for a brief second listening to the sound of the phone. She'd picked out the ringtone specifically for Klaus using the logic that, if anyone heard it, no one in their right mind would assume it was Klaus calling and she'd be able to take the call privately or decide to ignore it without questions from anyone nearby. Thus, when Elijah turned around to see Klaus's name flash on Caroline's phone as Iggy Azalea's Fancy blared behind them, Caroline couldn't help the blush that rapidly crept over her features.

Dread hit Caroline in the stomach like she'd been sucker punched. It was true that she didn't feel like she was doing anything wrong right now - and not just because this was saving her life. As long as she was a succubus, monogamy didn't feel right anymore but, the fact remained, that she was pretty confident it was important to Klaus.

"I-I have to get that," Caroline stuttered out, her desire for the proper man clutching her making her silently beg for him to keep going despite what she said.

Elijah turned back towards her, merely quirking an amused eyebrow at her ringtone choice before ignoring the music and lowering his head to her breasts again, teasing the peak of a nipple with determined flicks. When she felt his fangs descend - so long, maybe the longest she'd ever seen - and begin tracing gentle lines back and forth across one stiff nipple and then the other, she lost it. Caroline's head fell back against the wall in pleasure as she began pulling energy from him again without thinking. Her nipples were so hard for him and internally she was begging for him to please stop teasing and just suck them already but, while she was feeding, she couldn't get the words out. Part of her brain registered the fact that one of the hands he'd been using to hold her up left her ass and she both heard and felt him begin to unbuckle his belt and pants. The thought of what was coming next made her mewl while aloud she fed. He smiled against her breast.

Fancy died down in the background and, as it did, Elijah simultaneously sucked her nipple fully between his lips and thrust himself into her for the first time. It didn't take more than that for her to know she was only a few more thrusts away from another release. Being taken standing up like this had always been one of her favorite positions, angling her in a way that allowed her partner to hit spots they never did in other positions… and Elijah was apparently well acquainted with exactly where those spots were.

"Elijah!" Caroline's cries echoed around the room and probably reverberated throughout the whole house. "Right there, don't stop, please… there again."

He chuckled at her insistent begging, more than happy to draw out her agony just a little bit longer. She'd already begun to feed, hadn't she? Now that she'd gone out of her way to so clearly identify for him exactly what she liked, what was the harm in teasing a bit and avoiding that spot. Very intentionally, he re-positioned himself at her entrance before thrusting in again.

Right when Caroline realized what he was doing to her and she was about to groan out in frustration, her phone began ringing a second time, making her groan out for an entirely different reason.

"Elijah, I have to answer, he might think I'm dead!" she pleaded. "What if he's not okay? We haven't been able to get in touch with him once!"

Elijah, who by this point, had brought his lips back up to her neck where he was greedily sucking at her sensitive skin parted from her to look into her eyes. There he saw genuine worry and concern for both herself and his brother. He was shocked to feel the old familiar sensation of jealousy overcoming him. Up until a few hours ago, he'd always thought of Caroline as ultimately destined to end up with Klaus… anyone could see that Klaus himself would stop at nothing to make that happen, at least. But now, Elijah had a taste of her as well and it turned out he found the delicious Miss Forbes to be every bit as addicting as Niklaus did.

And with that feeling, came the acknowledgment that he cared for her. Elijah didn't want her to worry about anything. Slowly he slid out of her and lowered her shaky legs carefully to the floor. She was fine though and she all but sprinted over to the phone, feeling much better now that she'd fed such a considerable amount from Elijah.

Still naked and with a mix of her own juices and his precum glistening along the backs and insides of her thighs, Elijah watched her pick up the phone. He was hard as a rock and desperately wanted to be back inside of her, knowing she was still just as aroused as he.

"Klaus?!" she answered breathlessly.

"Caroline! Love, are you alright? I'm not far from home-"

Elijah visibly winced upon hearing Klaus call her 'love,' a reaction he'd never had before. Luckily his back was turned to her and Caroline was left unaware of his response.

"Where the hell have you been?!" she demanded, shrilly. "You're hours late and you haven't responded to a single call or text!"

She made a motion to sit but, upon noticing the couch was leather and she was still wet, she continued to stand. Elijah gallantly picked up his suit jacket to drape it onto the seat of the couch and gestured for her to sit. Caroline glanced to him gratefully, taking his hand to squeeze it as she sat down. They were both a little surprised when he made no motion to release her grip, holding her hand the entire time she spoke with Klaus.

"Caroline, I'm sorry, I made a mistake… we rushed into Alexandria not knowing what we were going into. It was a hasty decision made in a moment of panic for you and… the Augustus descendant was more powerful than we thought and she and her coven temporarily gained the upper hand…" Klaus explained. "But we're on our way back now and should be home in less than half an hour. Have you fed? You need to feed."

"Um, well…" Caroline began, glancing to Elijah with worried eyes. His somber expression gave her no indication of what to do but he did squeeze her hand to let her know he supported whatever she said. All she could think was that the truth would inevitably come out so there was no use avoiding it. "Yes, I have fed. I'm not in imminent danger."

"So you've transitioned then?" he asked next, and Caroline could not pick up an ounce of meaning from his tone which he kept void of any emotion.

"Not exactly…"

"Did they compel another vampire for you?" Klaus pressed. "Who was it?" That last question was made in a low and demanding tone. Caroline could practically see his eyes flashing with possessiveness.

"Not exactly…" she said again, waiting for him to make the leap on his own because she just couldn't bring herself to say the words aloud.

Klaus left her waiting with the most dangerously pregnant pause she'd ever had to sit through in her life before finally, finally saying next, "Love, are you alone right now?"

"No," she admitted with a heavy sigh. Her eyes locked with Elijah's, prepared for her to make the admission. "I'm with… I'm with Elijah."

"Earlier you'd been trying to get in touch with me for hours, I had a good dozen missed messages from you… Why didn't you pick up the first time I called?" Klaus asked. They'd reach the point of no return. She felt Elijah squeezing her hand again, giving her the strength to respond to Klaus.

"Because I was with Elijah," she replied. Her meaning was well understood despite her casualty.

Caroline heard a not at all muffled roar from the phone, so loud she actually had to jerk her head away, followed by what sounded suspiciously like someone's neck being cracked. It was silent on his end of the line for a moment after that before she heard him growl angrily into the phone.

"I'll kill him."

And the line went dead.


"This is absurd!" Rebekah barked as she paced around the library.

Caroline had redressed, Elijah had collected himself, and Kol had rejoined them as well. They were all waiting for Klaus to arrive and planning how to diffuse the fight that awaited them.

"He left us with no instructions on what to do if she started desiccating again… get her a human, compel a vampire, feed from one of us?" Rebekah continued. "I begged him for a back up plan before he left and he refused to 'indulge my anxieties' as he put it. Bugger was so certain he'd be back in time… This is all his fault!"

Caroline was less worried about the fact that she and Elijah had slept together and more about the fact that, clearly, something had now shifted between the two of them. The same way she'd suddenly felt eager to be closer to Klaus after she'd fed from him - wanting to sit next to him or hold his hand - she was now feeling that with Elijah too. And, perhaps more importantly, he was reciprocating.

"You know, you can't be sitting like that when he gets home!" Rebekah insisted, gesturing between the two of them. They were both on the couch now, Elijah sitting at one end with Caroline tucked into his side, her legs bent beneath her. He had an arm securely wrapped around her shoulder where his thumb traced a lazy but comforting pattern of circles on her skin.

At her words, Caroline startled from a deep state of contemplation and shifted several inches away from Elijah. The motion made him frown but, less than a second later Kol broke his attention by announcing in a singsong voice, "Oh no, it sounds like brother dearest has returned!"

Sure enough, they could all clearly hear the impending approach of several vehicles in their driveway. As some stopped, they heard the hybrids getting out and head off in various directions, some of them placing themselves on guard alongside the house. And then they heard the telltale steps half a dozen or so people approaching the front door. At the sound, Elijah himself elegantly stood up from the couch and decided to stand closer to the armchair where he'd earlier feasted between her legs. Even at this dramatic time, Caroline could feel her pelvic muscles clench at the memory.

"Caroline!" Klaus bellowed when the front door slammed open.

"Everyone is in here Klaus, calm down!" Rebekah hollered back.

They heard some murmured instructions as Klaus directed a few hybrids to take care of something and then, in a flash he appeared at the doorway.

He was radiating anger, that much was clear. But despite that, the first thing he did was rush to her side, kneeling before her at the couch to gently grasp her face. He was checking her over, she realized, looking for color and signs of desiccation. Klaus still wanted to make sure he was okay.

"I'm fine," she reassured him, lifting her own hand to place overtop of his while he stroked her face. Feeling her fingers on his own, though, seemed to wake him up a bit.

Then he started sniffing her.

Well, sniffing was the wrong word, more like trying to inhale her. As he did so, the frown on his face became etched more and more deeply into his features. Next to her, Elijah's jacket was still draped over the couch and Klaus seized it and brought it to his nose, breathing in the fabric deeply. Caroline knew full well that the her juices from when he'd laid his jacket on the couch were still fresh on the fabric. When he finished, a terrifying growl began to emanate from deep within him.

"Nik… I begged you to tell me what we should do in the event that you weren't back-" Rebekah started first before she was quickly silenced.

"Hush, Rebekah."

Klaus sprung up so quickly from his spot in front of her that Caroline was honestly shocked when Elijah skillfully blocked the swift attack. Kol was watching the display warily, apparently having witnessed his two brothers spar frequently enough over the centuries to be unimpressed with the display. Rebekah was far more involved, screaming right alongside Caroling sentiments along the lines of: For god's sake get a fucking hold on yourselves!

His first attack deflected, Klaus was quickly at Elijah again making a direct grab for his older brother's chest. Klaus's jab was so fast, Caroline could barely keep up with what was happening but Elijah quickly grabbed hold of his brother's wrist. A disturbing crunch confirmed that he had crushed it but Klaus didn't even bat an eye in response, knowing it would quickly heal. Using the full force of his body, he tackled Elijah backwards into the wall using his full Hybrid strength to his advantage.

It was against the wall the same place Elijah had first fucked her, that Klaus's double fangs descended.

"Did you just fuck her across this whole goddamn room?" Klaus barked out in a tone that wasn't even entirely human. Caroline had never heard that sound before and it chilled her. (And also kind of turned her on, she would be lying if she didn't admit that.) Nevertheless, seeing Elijah lose his composure as he slipped into his vampire form - veins darkening beautifully on his pale skin and the same elegant fangs that had tormented her earlier with descended - worried her just as much. Oh god, he smells us on the wall, Caroline realized from Klaus's question.

"I was trying to save her life, Niklaus! And I did!" Elijah argued back.

When they heard Klaus growl this time, while Elijah struggled to break free of the Hybrid's hold on him, Caroline and Rebekah simultaneously realized what was happening. Klaus was transforming into his wolf form. He was going to bite Elijah.

"Klaus no!" Caroline insisted. Very suddenly a strange surge of energy began to pulsate from her core out into the rest of her body and Caroling felt flooded by strength. Propelling herself upwards with greater agility and strength than she'd ever had as a vampire or even experienced at the hands of another vampire, she barreled herself into Klaus from the side and knocked him off of Elijah.

When they landed in a heap, Klaus was still baring his fangs and snapping while he rapidly transitioned. Elijah was in front of her a second later.

"Niklaus, you'll kill her!" Elijah demanded in the loudest and angriest tone she'd heard him use that evening.

Klaus seemed to realize what was happening and stopped transitioning. He morphed back into the form of a man, panting hard and staring them both down. Caroline realized that she and Elijah were effectively positioned so that they were clutching one another, both ready to fend off Klaus on behalf of the other, no matter who he came at first.

But he didn't come at either of them again. He just panted heavily, his eyes filled with nothing but pain. Caroline's heart surged because, no it wasn't like that at all. She hadn't chosen Elijah over Klaus, she had feelings for both of them. Sure that he was no longer immediately threatening his brother, Caroline left Elijah's side to immediately scoot over to Klaus on the floor and throw her arms around him. She wasn't sure what possessed her to do it, knowing that it would confuse him more than anything. All Caroline knew was that she couldn't stand to see him look at her like that.

Of course, at first, he stiffened, suspicious of her embrace. But ultimately, Klaus couldn't help himself but hug her tightly back. Her grip on him only tightened when she felt him press his face into the crook of her neck, breathing in the scent of her hair deeply. Then he stiffened again and, from the hall, Caroline could hear the approaching sound of two sets of footsteps. Klaus released her so that he could look around suspiciously to see was approaching. When he did, Caroline looked back to Elijah.

It was all she could do not to groan aloud in frustration. Now Elijah was looking between her and Klaus with an identical look of hurt in his eyes, clearly thinking that she had 'chosen' his brother over him. Oh no, what have I gotten myself into, Caroline thought.

"Well, here she is," a shrill voice trilled from behind Rebekah, causing the other blonde to whip around suddenly and defensively. "The baby succubus herself."

Klaus sped over to face the woman who entered the room. She was bound with heavy ropes and being led in by a hybrid.

"What is she doing here?" Klaus hissed to the hybrid. "I told you I'd send for her when I was ready!" The hybrid didn't respond. He looked dazed, as if he'd been robbed of all coherence.

"Klaus, who is this?" Caroline asked, getting an unwelcome and angry feeling from the woman. Though, she supposed, anyone who had been brought to Mikaelson Manor as a bound prisoner was probably at least somewhat within their right to be angry.

"Hello, Caroline," a young, petite brunette woman with intensely black eyes said as she appeared around the corner. "I am Anika Leving, the last descendant of - I'm sure you've heard of her by now - Marie Augustus, your creator."

"I will only ask one more time," Klaus said, interrupting the uncomfortable introduction. "What is she doing up here? I never sent for her!"

It occurred to Caroline, with an involuntary shudder, that "up here" probably indicated that they had dungeons underneath their home. Accommodations probably considerably more horrific than what the Salvatores had to offer.

"Please, Klaus," the witch, Anika, answered him, "You may have gotten me away from my coven and dragged me here but you haven't suddenly gotten rid of my powers. This lovely hybrid of yours is under the impression that you wanted to see me so immediately that if I wasn't here in under a minute, you'd burn him alive."

The first thing Caroline thought after hearing that psychotic explanation was: We need to get Bonnie.

"Rebekah, keep them both in here and keep an eye on the hybrid until we can figure out what she's done to him," Klaus ordered, making sure at least one of his siblings was set to be on guard while the others could focus their attention on getting any helpful information out of Anika. Klaus was already pretty sure she wouldn't break… no mind. He had what he needed now that he was in possession of the Augustus family grimoire. As for Anika? Whether she talked or not, Klaus had his own plan for her… how long would it take for Anika to realize what it was?

Anika smirked at Klaus before plopping herself all too comfortably into one of the high backed arm chairs in the library. Well, she wouldn't be comfortable for much longer, he supposed.

"That was quite an impressive display you put on back there," Anika continued, only addressing Caroline. "I didn't see all of it but heard enough. You, just a baby succubus who hasn't even completed transitioning, was able to stun the Original Hybrid in the middle of transitioning? Wow! I mean, what do you make of that?"

Caroline looked between Klaus and Elijah in confusion, occasionally even trying to lock eyes with Kol or Rebekah but both were studiously ignoring her, wholly focused onto the witch in case she made a move at any of them.

"What?" she asked them. "Is that not normal?"

Klaus answered her first, "Transitioning into a succubus is exactly like transitioning into a vampire. The younger you are, the weaker you are. You're not even two days old or completed transitioning and you managed to knock me off balance in the middle of transitioning into my wolf form."

Caroline swallowed hard. She had to admit, the budding feelings of intense power were part of the reason she wasn't entirely sure if she did or didn't want to complete the transition. She felt more powerful now than she'd ever felt as a vampire.

"Well what does that mean?" she asked, breathlessly. "Is there something wrong with me?"

"Caroline, you fed from Klaus before he… started a war in Alexandria, correct?" Anika asked.

She avoided her eyes uncomfortably in response. Klaus would have to enlighten her later as to what went on in Alexandria but, this witch was scaring her. She really wished Bonnie was here.

"Yes," Caroline admitted, and Klaus threw her a comforting look which she relished. She knew it must have taken a lot for him to be there for he amidst his own pain of knowing what had happened with Elijah. Every second she spent with Klaus, it astounded her how much he was willing to simply give for her.

"Feeding from your life source is a powerful thing," Anika said with a shrug, sounding exactly like Elijah when she'd first been told the tale of succubi earlier, and then began to explain further: "Legends of succubi have been passed down for many years in my family, continuing well after we suspected they had died out," Anika told her, being suspiciously helpful. "There were stories of succubi who, even if they had fed even just once from an Original, gained an impossible amount of strength from the experience. But you, Caroline, may very well be the first succubus I've ever heard of feeding from more than one of them!"

She stood from her seat at the arm chair to stalk towards Caroline but Anika only held out her hand to show him that she wanted to read her. Caroline got the distinct impression that Anika was trying to take advantage of Klaus's jealousy over what had happened with Elijah.

Klaus growled but finally stepped back from his guarded position in front of Elijah, apparently intrigued at what the witch might find from her reading. "Do you mean to say that Caroline is getting stronger because she's fed from more than one member of my family?" He asked it like he clearly wasn't fond of the idea but, at the same time, it intrigued him. Was that a good sign or a bad one? Was her strength really that important to him?

Anika put a hand on Caroline's shoulder before smirking at the image that popped up, "Hmm, and almost not just the two of you it would appear! Little Caroline has been busy learning her new skills and trying them out, I see..." she said, almost gleefully, clearly relishing being able to torment her kidnapper, if nothing else.

In a flash, Klaus had crossed the room and pulled Kol out of his lazy position flopped in the arm chair and had him pinned by the neck against the wall. .

"Klaus, no!" Caroline screamed at him but, Kol was nonplussed. Even as Klaus's grip around his neck tightened enough to make him begin to sputter, Kol was mostly just laughing at the situation.

"Am I to understand that you fucked her as well?" Klaus spat out, his double fangs making their second appearance while his eyes flashed golden again. "Elijah I can perhaps come to terms with... learn to understand for trying to save her life but both of you? That hardly seems necessary!"

"No, no, brother," Kol managed to choke out. "I only tried to fuck her. Just offering my services, should she need them, you see! Being a gentleman, really!"

Klaus dropped him roughly at that, looking satisfied when Kol didn't land on his feet but crumpled just slightly when he hit the ground.

"Somehow I have the distinct feeling that's not the entire story but, I'll deal with you later," Klaus's eyes were still flashing with the intent to murder when the witch interrupted them again.

"You should be thanking him," Anika laughed out at Klaus. "If you truly want to protect your little succubus for all eternity then you should be trying to have her feed from all four of you."

Rebekah let out an overly dramatic shudder from the doorway of the room where she was still posted in case Anika tried to make an escape.

"All eternity?" Caroline asked next. "Klaus what is she talking about? You said you were going to find a way to reverse this! Isn't that why she's here?"

Klaus eyes met hers again, only long enough for her to see they were filled with pain before he dropped them ashamedly to the floor. Anika laughed again, cruelly behind them.

"You created succubi to curse two others but instead you've ended up cursed yourself," she hissed to Klaus before looking at Caroline. "Klaus knew his quest to turn you back into a vampire was fruitless. The spell to create succubi was modeled off of the very spell that created the Originals standing before you. Reversing your transition is like trying to find a way to turn each of them back into humans."

Caroline gulped down a sob, smothering the urge to cry that was very suddenly welling within her. Of course, she couldn't help but think, You never get a choice, why would now being any different? But her self-pity was abruptly cut off by a much more sobering thought. What if you don't want to be a vampire anymore anyway? It certainly wasn't the first time she'd thought it since she'd arrived here tonight. Being a succubus was coming with a lot of unexpected perks - an ability to read minds and emotions, to sense people's desires, super strength and agility beyond what she'd ever had as a baby vampire, particularly now that she'd fed from two Originals. And the sex… good heavens, the sex was incredible. Not to mention, like a vampire, she had still been able to compel a human earlier that morning and she still had her fangs, which she'd grown quite fond of since turning, even though she no longer craved blood.

"I'm so sorry, Caroline," Klaus said, breaking her out of her thoughts, clearly having only seen her grow upset. He was unaware of how she was weighing the potential benefits of her new life. And though her first inclination had to been to wallow in self-pity for a moment, Caroline was no stranger to transitioning even if she was new to being a succubus. If feeding from the Originals was making her one of the most powerful succubi alive, she could damn well pull it together and start acting like it.

"I guess deep down I had a feeling…" she admitted, "But if we could still get Bonnie over to take a look at the spell?"

"Of course, love," Klaus said. "I took the Augustus grimoire, Bonnie can look at it as well if it will make you feel better." Caroline looked at him with thankful eyes while he immediately pulled out his cell to send a text. She could tell he didn't think any further insights from Bonnie would be successful though.

"Well, in the meantime… I get that feeding from Originals helps increase my strength but is it really enough to… ya' know..." Caroline let the awkward question dangle as she gestured mutely to Klaus. Internally she was asking Why is my increased strength important enough for it to warrant Klaus potentially being okay with me feeding from his siblings? Caroline was well aware of the Tatia / Katerina drama and it didn't make sense to her that Klaus might dive back into that just so her strength would be increased.

"We figured that out pretty quickly that succubi get stronger after feeding from us," Rebekah said next, "And we actually actively tried to avoid relationships with them after that."

"So who knows what kind of power you'd develop long-term if you took dear Nik's promise for forever and ever a little more seriously?" Kol suggested before looking at her salaciously, "And, you know, had a couple of other options when your new nature finally made you bored of… well, whatever Nik's version of eternal married life ends up being?"

Caroline couldn't help when her eyes flitted over to Klaus at that, trying to gauge his reaction. He hadn't bitten off Kol's head yet which was a positive sign. Did he… did he actually look like was considering it? Why? Hadn't Rebekah just said that the additional strength succubi got from feeding off of them had not been a welcome side effect of the spell in the past?

"As you may have noticed with your own encounter with the succubus who turned you," Kol explained, actually sounding uncharacteristically serious now, "Succubus blood is kind of like a drug for regular vampires - both delicious and addictive. It's why we thought the race died out. Most vampires were so much older than succubi that if a vampire lost control around a succubus, they wouldn't be strong enough to protect themselves. A vampire without control can decapitate a succubus with ease."

"Oh god, are you telling me I'm basically candy and heroin all wrapped into one for vampires now?" Caroline asked, feeling horrified at the prospect. Suddenly, the newfound strength she'd thought she felt earlier didn't seem so great. Suddenly, it seemed more like all of her closest friends had just become cannibals.

"What he's telling you, love," Klaus said moving back towards her and grasping her hand in his own, pain still in his eyes but a sort of resignation as well "Is that allowing you to have a relationship with more than one member of this family would greatly improve my chances of spending a real eternity with you because it will make you considerably stronger."

Caroline supposed it was true. She had just knocked a transitioning Original Hybrid off of one of his Original Vampire brother - probably no one else had done that… well, in the history of ever. If she was able to do that just from feeding once from Klaus and Elijah, she felt much more secure about protecting herself from any potential vampires who saw her and thought "juice box!"

She shook her head, feeling overwhelmed with information once again. And not just because her post-coital glow from Elijah was finally starting to wear off. Caroline heard a ding from Klaus's phone and she looked up sharply.

"Is it Bonnie?" she asked quickly.

"It is indeed… seems the whole lot of them have been looking for you all day," he said. "And…. they're all on their way over now?! Elijah, Rebekah, get her and Jim back to the cells and make sure she won't be getting out this time… we don't need her stirring up trouble before we can talk to Bonnie."

As Elijah and Rebekah dragged the smirking witch and dead-eyes hybrid out of the room, Caroline looked back to Klaus. Only briefly did the thought flit across her mind that she was unsure why he hadn't sent Kol out.

"So, if you have her grimoire, why is she here?" Caroline asked referring to Anika.

"Yeah, why didn't you just kill her?" Kol seconded, far more eloquently.

"Initially I had a rather poetic death in mind for her… but now I need something confirmed by the Bennett witch. Bringing her back may have proved more useful than I anticipated."

"Look, if anyone is coming over, I need to shower and change like now," she told Klaus, figuring she could get the details on whatever Klaus needed "confirmed" from Bonnie later.

"Of course," Klaus said, standing and beckoning for him to follow him out of the room. Caroline cast a last look at Kol who also looked perplexed to just be left there without any cursory instructions from his brother like normal. Once they were out in the hallway Klaus continued with a question in an amicable but concerned tone: "May I ask why all your friends seem to be under the impression that I have kept you kidnapped here the past day while they've been unable to get in touch with you? I know very well that your phone is working just fine."

Caroline looked at him sheepishly. "That's my fault… of course they're worried, I've been dodging calls and texts for over a day now. I didn't know how to explain…"

"Of course, I understand," Klaus answered then, understanding she was embarrassed. "Look if you want me to explain when they get here-"

"Klaus, that would be amazing," Caroline said, honestly. She loved and trusted her friends but being so out of control in lust that she had ended up at Mikaelson manor wasn't a summary she felt in the mood to give currently. She'd have to answer their inevitable questions at some point, she knew but, if Klaus could hold them off even for a little while she would appreciate it. "And… if you could limit it to maybe just Elena and Bonnie?"

Answering questions from her girlfriends was one thing. Stefan and Damon? Much more awkward.

"Certainly, love, you know I'm always more than happy to kick Damon Salvatore out of my house!"


Klaus had left Caroline in a guest room to shower off and put on some new clothes. Caroline noticed he left her casual things… very easy to take off. Before he'd left her to bathe he'd asked her if she was okay; if she needed to feed again. Her desire for another round was already rising within her again, true, but she really couldn't let herself reek of sex when her friends arrived. Bonnie wouldn't be able to smell it but Elena certainly would as a new vampire.

So she'd told him no and she could tell he didn't believe her but her coloring looked good enough for him to leave her be.

The shower was mostly uneventful. Only the briefest of fantasies would flash through her mind - particularly images of feeding from Klaus's kiss while Elijah took her from behind - before she was able to successfully smother him. In this moment, she was more concerned about the impending arrival of her friends.

Out of the shower, she redressed in a spare pair of underwear she'd hastily thrown into a bag before leaving home and a new set of workout clothes from Rebekah, gym shorts and a casual graphic tee with Notorious B.I.G. emblazoned across the front. She never would have taken Rebekah, of all people, to be a Biggie fan. But she supposed the loose clothing would come in handy when she inevitably needed to feed again to prolong her transition. Or you could just make a decision, she chided herself but smothered that thought too.

Entering the guest room, she released her damp hair from the fluffy towel wrapped around it and stopped dead in her tracks when she entered the room to find none other than Kol standing in her doorway with his arms crossed and extremely smug expression plastered across his face.

"Fuck off, Kol," she spat out to him. He hadn't even said anything to her yet, just standing in the doorway, grinning at her the way he had been all evening with extremely dangerous and dark eyes was enough to make her wary of him. Lord, she'd already seen how Klaus reacted to the mere suggestion of Kol having her. Not to mention, Kol kind of… scared her. He was the most unpredictable.

But that's also why you want him. Aren't the crazy ones always great in bed?

"Come now, darling, that isn't very nice," Kol baited with a sneer. "I've been waiting my turn so patiently all evening."


Sorry to leave you right here but this chapter ended up being longer than I expected! I had initially planned to have our first Koroline in this chapter but, with it in here, I was pushing 8,000 words. But, at least you know what we're opening up with next chapter!

There probably won't be anymore angst going forward (and I felt like what was here was so tame it barely even counted) unless people collectively really want to see more. Definitely keeping in mind requests for other pairings outside the Mikaelsons. For sure, though, Klaroline is the OTP with Elijah and Kol being secondary and tertiary OT3's (OT4's?). Rebekoline (as SweetyK appropriately named it for me) I'm still on the fence about and, if it does happen, it's definitely several chapters away.

Thanks as always for reading, the positive feedback, and follows/favs. Let me know what you thought! I know that was a heavy dose of explanation in this chapter but we'll be into even more smut-intensive chapters soon enough! I took portions of suggestions for the Carlijah scene and would love to do the same for our first Koroline.