Hello all. Reviewer Justine, it wouldn't let me message you, asked about Katerina Petrova being apart of this story... All I will say is ... zips mouth, throws away the key... wink wink ;)


Connor Jordan leaned against his truck that was parked on the side of the road next to the Mystic Falls welcome sign and waited for his friend to pull up. It had been years since they have talked face to face but they were in constant communication. Each time the little blonde vampire was spotted he was the first to know and the little blonde was getting smarter. It had been many months since she had surfaced and he spent too long chasing this little brat. That's why the last time he saw her just outside the Texas state border he sent Caroline a little message. Her mother, Elizabeth Forbes, was to be killed and the blood to be on her hands unless she showed herself in Mystic Falls. It seem a bit drastic to Connor but he has known Bill Forbes for years and if this was his plan then he would play along. He had no intentions of killing the Sheriff, I was just a ploy to lure Caroline out so he could strike. The only hitch in Connors plan were the other vampires, namely the Original family. He wasn't sure if they were all friend or foe but he assumed at least the blonde sister would help out if ask, especially if that human boy asked. Connors face twisted as he thought of any human willingly taking the company of a vampire.

His backup would be here shortly and the best course of action against a Original vampire and a town with several vampires living here would be the element of surprise. A light blue car pulled just behind his truck and a tall slender man with dark brown hair stepped out. Connor stepped forward and extended his hand out for his long lost hunter friend.

"Well look who decided to show up." Connor states a smile creeps across his face and slaps the shoulders of his hunter friend.

"Connor, it's been awhile old friend. We don't have a lot of time so lets get right to it shall we? Were is my daughter. " Bill Forbes asked. "It is time to end this."


It was amazing what a few Tequila shot could do to help you forget your troubles. Well not forget but at least forget the numb unsettling feeling she kept having. Caroline had been in Mystic Falls for two days now and had not seen one hunter anywhere near town. When she received her not so subtle message of her mother's impending doom, Caroline was prepared for a full attack as she crossed over the Mystic Falls border but there was nothing. Even her trips to survey her mother's home were a bust and that meant that these hunter's must be waiting for whatever plan they had for her. So taking Tequila shots in the corner booth of The Grill was not the best of ideas but Caroline had a very emotionally draining day and need to just forget for a moment. Forget how crappy her life had turned out and how she had no idea how to fix it besides waiting for them to strike and ripping their hearts out. Yeah that sounds like a plan, it worked in the past so why not now. Caroline glanced over at the pool tables across the restaurant watching Matt bus tables and laugh with the locals over random human life. Caroline purse her lips together and stared down at the table, lost in her own thoughts.


"Penny for your thoughts?" A deeply accented voice asks from across the booth Caroline was sitting in. Klaus had came to The Grill after leaving the Salvatore's, fed up with the useless discussion of how to stop the hunter's from killing the town's Sheriff. It was no wonder Klaus was alive and well if this is how all the Mystic Falls vampires conducted meetings. After Caroline stormed out, heading to The Grill herself, he couldn't help but take the non invitation to follow along with her. What he found once he arrived was Caroline staring off into space with a liquor bottle at her table, an image not quite surprising, but still oddly unsettling. The little vampire exuded a cold, uncaring exterior but had a brightness about her that was disturbingly contagious to Klaus. Her smart mouth was oddly refreshing and didn't make him want to rip out her spinal cord. Her brightness was hidden by a black veil that hung over her head and he wanted to know what Caroline was like underneath. Not to mention what it was about her past that she had sworn Rebekah to secrecy and even threats of a dagger did not let the secret escape Rebekah. So he sat in front of her in the booth watching her blank face turn to surprise and then annoyance as she looked up at him.

"What do you want from me now, to choke me again? I like it rough and all but can we not do this. At least give me one day to loathe in the misery that is my life." Caroline bit out as she took a drink straight from the bottle and placed it back on the table, slinging her arm across the back of the booth. Klaus was annoyingly hot but she wasn't in the mood to deal with his comments right now. Or that sexy half smirk that seemed to be glued to his face. Caroline resisted a heavy sigh, remembering how many months it had been since she had shared a bed with anyone and it must have been too long if she thought this psycho hybrid was sexy.

"Well I do like a woman that knows what she wants but dirty talk wasn't what I came here for. We can talk about that later." Klaus said, his smirk growing wider as Caroline rolled her eyes. Another trait that would have gotten many other strangers hearts ripped out. " A lady shouldn't drink alone and that happens to be one of my few past times. I do suggest something a bit more refined. After all, Tequila is the drink of cheap sorority girls and your a bit above that don't you think."

"Unless you happened to steal Damon's sixty five year Bourbon, this is all we have. Bottoms up." She downed another drink and passed the bottle in Klaus' direction. He took the bottle and instead got up to walk towards the bar only to return with a very old Bourbon and two glasses.

"This will go down much smoother while you tell me all about those dirty little secrets you don't want me to know. My dear sister hasn't so much as muttered a word about you and it is uncharacteristic of her to be so loyal, especially to a stranger. Kol was of no use either, totally oblivious. What do you have hanging over her head to keep her silence?" Klaus now mirrored Caroline's position of facing her and one arm slung over the back of the booth, their hands now within a foot of another.

"Why does it bother you so bad? Is it because she is so fiercely loyal to me but can't seem to do the same for her big brother? Well half brother. " Caroline pokes the big bad and notices his jaw clinch a bit before releasing. "I thought we were over the whole I want to end your family thing. I have plenty of family drama of my own that I don't need to concern myself with yours. I don't manipulate people unless provoked and despite the fact that you almost choked me to death, you haven't provoked me to want to harm you. So you can leave anytime."

"You are either very brave or very idiotic to provoke the most powerful creature that walks the earth."

"So you think." Caroline blurts out before really thinking of what she had spoke. Caroline looks away and gulps down her entire glass while trying to avoid Klaus' eye line. He eyes her suspiciously, moving closer to her and now just a matter of inches away from her side. He places his palm down on the bench next to her, near touching her upper thigh and leans in to speak firmly,

"I believe I am, sweetheart. I am THE Original Hybrid, a one of a kind creature and completely indestructible . Unlike you..." the sentence is left hang, not needing to be finished. Caroline's eyes move across his face to inspect his. Cold but beautiful eyes that must have seen every occurrence in history, seen every amazing sculpture or painting. Probably meeting the artist himself and all these amazing adventures and here sat Caroline. A vampire with no home and no restrictions that has the capacity to go anywhere but has never even stepped foot outside of the United States. Alaska was the farthest she had traveled and that didn't last more than a few months because Caroline would rather lay on a beach until sunset. She let a hard frown fall across her face and Klaus noticed her deep unspoken thoughts because his face became questioning at the sight. She finally lets a deep breathe blow out her lips and pours another glass of liquor, filling Klaus' glass as well.

"What on earth are you thinking of?" Klaus asked before realizing what he asked and his eyes still fixated on the mysterious blonde before him. The one that just seem to keep invading his mind the last few days. Caroline lets out another sigh before speaking,

"What it must be like to live a thousand years and see everything." she laughs and looks down before returning her eyes back to Klaus. " How I haven't even left the United States and to make things short, how I have a miserable existence. But I guess I have eternity to figure things out. "

"Your life doesn't have to be miserable, you just choose to make it that way. My father hunted me for a thousand years and I have had more betrayals than I have fingers yet I wouldn't call my existence miserable." Klaus averted his gaze but decided to press forward, needing to reassure her somehow. " Lonely perhaps but not miserable. I had many dark years and have done more unspeakable things than you can even conjure up, but I have also seen more beauty than you can imagine. There are many places you can go beyond this horrid little town as you put it and when you do leave Mystic Falls, I hope you see them. Then when I leave Mystic Falls for good, I hope we can meet one day. I can show you a great many things and how you can truly be a vampire, Caroline. "

Caroline's pulsed raced at the sound of her name coming from his perfectly full lips. His soft voice seemed to seduce and draw her in to his wicked web. She had a hundred comebacks she used for men trying to hit on her or offering her pick up lines but she knew Klaus wouldn't have needed to use any of those. Seriously, just looking at the guy he seemed to be molded from the perfect gene pool. Caroline couldn't help the smile that crossed over her face and noticed his own seemed to come to life as well as Klaus' eyes drifted down to her mouth. It was a genuine smile, not the smirk or arrogant one he seemed to have for people.

"And the Devil has dimples." Caroline immediately frown and saw Klaus' smile brighten even more. " I just said that out loud didn't I? That's not embarrassing at all." letting out a nervous laugh.

"I'll take that as a compliment ... you should do that more often." continuing as he saw Caroline's confused look. " Smile. It's quite lovely." Blushing and rolling her eyes she continued,

" Anyways, I actually came here for a reason besides getting weird compliments from you."

"Like telling me what you're hiding?" Klaus butted in, raising his eyebrows at her. Caroline smiled, placing her elbow on the back of the booth and resting her head on her hand.

" You are very persistent." she sighs heavy. " What if I promise to tell you at some point but just not tonight. Since you have plans to stalk me once I leave Mystic Falls and all. I just need to get my plan together for my fathers demise and then I will work on telling you ... something. It has been a long day and I am in need a blood snack because someone interrupted mine last night. "

"Why is it you drink from the vein? The rest of your friends .. ex friends .. all practice the blood bag diet and you choose to drink the natural way."

"I have to be strong at all times. The hunter's like to plan surprise attacks or send in secret agents after me. I can't take any chances, they don't." Caroline stated. "Plus I move around a lot and it just makes more sense for my lifestyle." "And it makes my mind control abilities stronger." she thought to herself.

"Secret agents? I didn't realize your father had James Bond working for him." Klaus smirked.

"Last time I was .. Intimate with someone, he turned out to be a hunter. Quite the blow to my ego if I must say and that is yet another embarrassing thing I have told you tonight. I should probably leave before I say something worse."

"Well I can't pass up a chance at a meal, so I'll join you." Klaus stood up and held a hand to help Caroline up from the booth.


Klaus and Caroline had found an anonymous human and were in the large alleyway behind The Grill. Caroline was a bit on edge to put it mildly since she was about to share a meal with the evil one himself, although he was slightly less evil as as she thought he would be. Today at least. Sharing blood with another vampire was oddly intimate, whether it be their own or a humans, it was the usually occasion for a vampire to become unhinge and be their true natural. To be the monster that lurked within. While running in New York, Caroline ran into a vampire bar and met a few decently friendly vamps but she had never shared as much of herself as she had with Klaus. Her mouth just seemed to be on overdrive and would not turn off. Now she was going to share a human vein with him and being that close to him with blood plus her voluntary dry spell .. It was going to be interesting.

"Ladies first." Klaus held his hand out towards the compelled quite human man with his back to Klaus. To be perfectly honest, Klaus wanted to see Caroline feed and how she would do it. He noticed last night that her eyes never changed, no black spider veins appeared like all other vampires. She has barely lived and she had more control than another other vampire he has come across in the past thousand years. That was exactly what happened, she dropped her fangs and sank into the mans vein. Eyes unchanging and he was mesmerized. Her lips pushed flush against the mans neck and her hand gently cradled the other side of his neck. Her eyes fluttered open and locked with his own and Klaus let out a heavy breath. He stepped forward and his eyes never left hers as he let his own double fangs drop. His eye burned a bright yellow and black veins shown freely under his eyes.

Caroline dropped her hand from the humans neck and Klaus bit into the opposite side from her. There was this odd jolt that went throughout her chest and she felt the soft touch of Klaus' hand in her hair. It only intensified the feelings and Caroline had to break contact with the human but stayed were she was so she could continue to hold Klaus' gaze.

"Don't kill him. " Caroline said softly. Klaus released the human and compelled him away. Now it was just the two of them, blood still remained on their lips and she tried to back away but it did no good. Klaus followed after her until she was leaned against the cold brick wall, still holding each others stare. Two hands went to either side of her head and Klaus leaned in close, just inches away,

"Why don't your eyes changes when you feed."

"I can't let get, I have control freak issues." Caroline breathed out and all her hands wanted to do was grab his wavy hair so they can finally make contact. Clearly Klaus has the same idea and inched even closer, hovering his lips above hers as he spoke.

" Just let go, Caroline." so she did. Her lips found his and they both let out a long suppressed moan as Caroline slid her left hand to Klaus' hair while her other hand found the snug fit shirt and ran up his chest. He let out a deep grown as her nails drug down his chest and his hands found her hips, pressing his own against her. Large hands found their way down Caroline's thighs and found the bare and beautiful skin as he hoisted her against the wall. A smile spread across her lips while sliding her hands to his shoulder for stability and felt shock waves to her core as his hands lingered on her thighs. They were lightly rubbing up her thighs as he gripped her bare ass that was exposed by the almost invisible thong Caroline wore. The new discovery made Klaus groan to himself and deepen the kiss that much more and worked his tongue against hers, the taste of blood still lingers on both their lips. She truly was sent to Mystic Falls to drive him mad and she most certainly was succeeding. He broke the kiss to suck the last bit of blood off her lips and descended down to her perfect bare neck.

"Hmm ... Don't stop." Caroline spoke as she tilted her neck for encouragement which Klaus gladly took. She heard a muffled "Wouldn't dream of it, Love." as he continued to kiss and suck while his scratchy beard tickled her neck. She had one of her hands digging into the back of his hair, massaging it with her fingertips. He took a bite of her neck with his human teeth and Caroline thought randomly what his fangs would feel like in her neck. But that was the last pleasure Caroline felt as she heard Klaus' cry out in pain, dropping Caroline and falling to his knees before her. She shot down after him and grab his shoulders,

"Klaus?"


Author's Note:

Sorry to cut it off her but we have a lot of developments next chapter and it needed to be kept separate from this one. I should have up by the end of the week.

I also wanted to add that Caroline's abilities are something that need to be developed and practiced in order for her to use them. Much like a witch would have to practice magic to use it properly. When she first started getting her abilities she had no idea what was happening and did not know how to control them. She was a sixteen year old human that was scared and had no idea that anything supernatural even existed. This story is not exactly canon and does deviate from the TVD timeline. In a few chapters we will see Caroline in complete control of her abilities and we will get to see her use them next chapter. That is all I will say without spoiling the story. Enjoy!

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