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New Orleans, the Night Before:

Klaus and Rebekah, having just returned from Mystic Falls,are walking to the front door when Rebekah says, "I still can't believe Caroline gave in and slept with you! You really need to take a shower. You smell of Caroline and forest!"

Klaus is annoyed with Rebekah because during the entire trip back from Mystic Falls all he's heard is Rebekah bitching about Caroline. "Bekah, for the last time, yes, I slept with Caroline in the woods, but you also meet Matt. Why not Stefan? Don't you love the rippah?"

Rebekah turns around inside the house. "Who is see is none of your business!"

"Well, whoever I want to see and sleep with is none of your business!"

Rebekah, a little louder this time, retorts, "Of course it's my business! If Caroline comes to live here with you I will have to see her bubbly face every day and it will be annoying!"

Klaus growls,"Rebekah stop being a brat! Caroline is not here. She's still in Mystic Falls."

Elijah is sitting in the study reading a book and drinking some blood relishing in the quiet when he hears his siblings come through the front door. Elijah hears his siblings yelling, and he vamps to the front door to say, "Children, please! Niklaus, what seems to be the problem? Why do you seem to be happy? You two just came back from Mystic Falls, a place that has tried to kill you both several times."

Rebekah just scoffs, "I'm leaving!" and goes up the stairs.

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Elijah and Klaus walk to the living room, and Elijah asks Klaus, "Brother, what's wrong with Rebekah?"

"Rebekah is just mad about who I saw in Mystic Falls and I'm happy because I saw a friend there."

Elijah, curious now, asks, "I thought everyone hated you in Mystic Falls. Does this have anything to do with the girl you and Rebekah were yelling about a few minutes ago?"

Klaus answers him while going over to the drink table and pouring some bourbon "I have one friend in Mystic Falls and, yes, the girl we were talking about is my friend. Her name is Caroline Forbes."

Elijah, trying to remember where he's heard that name before, remembers Katerina telling him about her at the ball. "Elena's blonde vampire friend, and your date to mother's ball?"

"Yes, she told me how she feels about me."

Elijah, still curious because he didn't know that his little brother had a romantic relationship with Caroline Forbes, asks, "And how does Miss Forbes feel about you?"

Klaus, with a smile on his face, tells Elijah, "She feels the same way I do about her," and with that, he leaves to take a shower and go to bed, leaving Elijah confused.

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Present:

The next day Klaus leaves the compound and goes to the garden. He gets Thierry, and while returning to the compound says, "Vampires of New Orleans! Welcome back Thierry! I pardon Thierry of his crimes in the garden."

Thierry walks forward, toward his best friend Diego, and puts his hat back on.

Klaus walks toward Marcel, stands in front of him, and smiles. Marcel Says, "You're in a good mood. You should go to Mystic Falls more often!"

" I think I might, but right now we have problems here that need to be taken care of."

Klaus addresses the vampires and tells them, "The witch Davina is dead and the harvest ritual failed, so the witches will lose their magic," and then he leaves.

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Klaus is in his studio with a glass of bourbon and drawing a picture of Caroline on the forest floor when Elijah walks in and says, "Brother, there seems to be a problem."

Klaus closes his sketchbook and puts it on the table before him,and then answers Elijah. "What's the problem?"

"Rebekah is missing, and there was a vampire found dead with a familiar mark carved in to the vampire's head."

Klaus gets up. "How could Rebekah be missing already? We just got back yesterday. You go look for Rebekah. I will look at the dead vampire and then join you."

As Klaus and Elijah are walking to the front door, Klaus' phone rings. Klaus takes his phone out, looks at who is calling him, smiles, and says,"Excuse me, brother," and vamps to his room.

Elijah decides to wait for Klaus and goes to his study to look over things.

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Klaus gets to his room and answers the phone, "Hello, Love! What a pleasant surprise!"

The person on the other end of the phone turns out to be Caroline. "Hi, Klaus! I have made a decision about what I want. "

Klaus, intrigued, asks, " What is your decision?"

"I have decided that I want you to be my last love, but for now I want to live here. Can we be in a long distance relationship? I'm not going to agree with everything you do and I will still stand up to you!"

Klaus, happy that Caroline is telling him that she chooses him, tells her, "Love, of all the things we have survived, I think we can survive a long distance relationship and I wouldn't expect anything less from you!"

Caroline hesitantly replies, "There's something else…"

Klaus doesn't know what to feel now."What is it?"

Caroline says, "I know you would never hurt me physically, but you have to promise you will never hurt me emotionally, too."

Klaus knows this is important to Caroline and Caroline is important to him, so he tells her again, "Love, you know I'd never hurt you, but I promise if I ever do hurt you, I will let you drive the white oak stake through my heart."

Caroline retorts, "Klaus, I'm serious!"

Klaus replies, " I know, Love, me, too."

Caroline says teasingly, "So, I'm dating Klaus Mikaelson, the original hybrid?"

Klaus laughs and answers, " You're not just dating the original hybrid…"

Caroline, now confused, asks,"What do you mean?"

Klaus answers, "You're dating the King of New Orleans!"

Caroline can't resist and asks, "Does that mean I could be Queen?"

Klaus laughs again and says, "Queen Caroline has a nice ring to it."

Caroline corrects him by saying, "King Niklaus and Queen Caroline! You know, when every girl is young, they all have dreams of being a princess. I dreamed of being a queen and now it's coming true!"

Klaus says, "Im happy I can make one of your dreams come true, but I have to go now. There are a couple problems here that need my attention."

Caroline says, "OK. See you in a month! Bye!"

Klaus says, "See you in a month, Love! Bye!"

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Elijah hears Klaus come out of his bedroom and goes to the bottom of the stairs. "Is everything OK?" he asks.

Klaus,coming down the stairs, answers, "Yes, and you know how you have been searching for my redemption for a thousand years?"

Elijah, not knowing where this is going answers, "Yes?"

Klaus, going out the door, replies, "It will be here next month."

Elijah, now completely confused, follows Klaus."What are you talking about, Niklaus?"

Klaus explains,"Caroline was on the phone. She told me that she wants to be with me, but she still wants to live in that one-pony town. She is coming next month for a visit."

Elijah, happy that his brother is happy and maybe he can be with Katerina now, asks, "Does Caroline know about Hayley and the baby?"

Klaus answers, "Yes, she does. When I told her, she yelled at me, and I thought she was going to slap me a couple of times, but we moved on."

Elijah knows this question might ruin his good mood, but has to ask, "Niklaus, now that you're happy with Caroline, does that mean me and Rebekah can be happy with other people?"

Klaus replies, "If I approve of them. If you want to go after Hayley, well, I don't care about her, and because you're thinking, 'Now I can be with Katerina,' that might be a little hard. As for Rebekah, I always liked when she was dating Stefan."

Elijah concerned now asks, "Why would it be harder than usual to be with Katerina?"

Klaus turns around and answers, "Nobody called you? Katerina finally died."

Elijah, now mad, yells, "Niklaus, tell me everything!"

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Before Klaus can explain, Hayley runs out of the house. "What's wrong? I was taking a nap and heard yelling."

Klaus turns to tell her he can't talk right now because Elijah is mad "Hayley, leave us. This is a brother thing."

Hayley doesn't leave, instead she asks, "Is Elijah OK? Is it a brother thing or a Mikaelson thing?"

Klaus yells, "Hayley, get in the house now!"

Hayley turns around and as she's walking back to the house she mumbles, "I should just run away to a place you'll never find me and raise this child by myself."

Klaus flashes in front of her to say, "Hayley, I don't have time for you right now! I have to tell Elijah the woman he's loved for five hundred years is dead, and then find out who is killing vampires in the Quarter, and find Rebekah. So, right now? On the list of importance you're not even on the list, so get back in the house and stay there!"

Hayley goes back into the house.

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Klaus turns back to Elijah who is pacing and looks ready to kill somebody. "Elijah, when I went to Mystic Falls for Caroline's graduation, I overheard Stefan saying that Damon had the cure. What I think happened is Damon gave the cure to Elena. You know Katerina and Elena didn't get along something must have happened, Katerina took the cure and after Davina died, Damon called me and told me Katerina was on her death bed. I told him I have moved on, but then he told me Caroline broke up with Tyler. I told him I would be there. Rebekah overheard me on the phone and said that she wanted to come, too. When Rebekah and I were driving to the Salvatore house, Rebekah heard Matt yelling and told me to pull the car over. She jumped out and went to find him. I was going to continue to the Salvatore house when I heard Caroline yelling Matt's name, and I got out of the car and went to find her."

Elijah still mad, but not as mad now that he knows what happened and asked, "So you both knew Katerina was on her death bed and didn't tell me? And did at least one of you see Katerina?"

Klaus swallowed, "We thought you moved on with Hayley, and, no, we didn't see Katerina. Rebekah was with Matt and I was with Caroline."

Elijah, trying to stay calm says, "I never moved on from Katerina, even if we're not together I still love her. Hayley was just a distraction."

Klaus,trying to get back to the issue at hand replied, "This is also Rebekah's fault, so can we move on for now? You have to find Rebekah and I have to figure out who is killing the vampires then you can yell at us for not telling you Katerina was dying."

Elijah takes a breath and moves to his car "Niklaus, I have forgiven you for a lot, but I don't know if I can forgive you for this one."