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New Orleans

Klaus wakes up and sees Caroline curled into his side, still unable to fathom that she wants to be with him after everything she saw yesterday. He has dreamed about her lying next to him like this since he saved her on her birthday all those years ago.

After he kisses her bare shoulder, Caroline rolls over and kisses him. "Good morning," she smiles.

"Good morning, my love. You know," Klaus gulps nervously, "you can call me Nik if you want."

Caroline is shocked at this offer. "Only family calls you Nik. By the way, I like your new nickname for me."

"You are part of my family," Klaus says, kissing her again.

Knowing that he doesn't like to show weakness, she can't help but be touched by this vulnerability he's showing her. "I would be honored to call you Nik."

Klaus pulls her on top of him, kissing her passionately, as the covers fall from their bodies and onto the floor.

Xxx

The door bell rings and Elijah rushes to answer it. "Hello Camille," he says as he swings open to the door, "What can I do for you this morning?"

She walks past him into the house. "I need Klaus. He told me he'd help with my uncle whose condition is worsening, but he's been missing for the past two days."

"It's a witches hex. There is nothing we can do," Elijah replies.

Cami's face is severely Stubborn. "Where is he? I want to talk to him."

Remembering Klaus walking into his bedroom with Caroline the night before, Elijah raised his hand at Camille. "Wait here," he commands, "I will see if he's awake."

She side-eyes the clock on the wall. "It's nine o'clock. He never sleeps this late."

"We had a busy day yesterday," he says over his shoulder as he walks up the stairs. "Stay here.

Xxx

Elijah opens the bedroom door without knocking, only to wish he hadn't opened it at all. Caroline's straddling his brother in nothing more than a bra, her tank top discarded on the floor, hair covering both of their faces. Kissing. Kissing hard and fast and desperate. Feeling uncomfortable, he pinches his nose as he clears his throat, "Niklaus," he said.

Caroline sits up on Klaus lap and turns her head. "Good morning, Elijah," she says happily.

Realizing that she's only in a bra and a pair of shorts, she quickly burrows under the covers next to Klaus, who does his best to shield her partial nudity.

"What do you want?" he snaps. "As you can see, I'm busy."

Looking between the pair of them, Elijah sighs and says, "Camille is downstairs. Apparently you were supposed to help with her uncle?"

Pulling Caroline back on top of him, he tosses the sheet over their heads. "Tell her I'm busy and I'll be down when I'm done."

Elijah nods and goes back downstairs. Cami stands up when she sees him. "Where's Klaus?"

"He's busy at the moment, I'm afraid," he replies. "He will be down when he's finished, but you are more than welcome to wait for him."

With a huff, she plops back down onto the couch with her arms crossed and Elijah disappears into the kitchen to finish his breakfast.

Xxx

"If I'm keeping you from a meeting, then you should go," Caroline says.

Klaus looks up reverently at the goddess before him. "Right now, I am precisely where I want to be. Also, there is nothing I can do for her uncle. He's hexed."

Klaus rolls them over so he is on top of Caroline and starts kissing her neck until she giggles.

Xxx

Still downstairs, growing more and more annoyed, Cami decides she will confront him and sneaks into the upstairs. The first room she comes across is neat and organized, which she assumes is Elijah's. The second door she bursts through only to find the blonde girl from a few days ago sprawled across him.

"You kept me waiting for this?" she exclaimed, eyes wide. "You kept me waiting to make out with a whore?"

Klaus looks over his shoulder, incredulous. Caroline is out from beneath the covers in a flash, fangs down, and pins Cami to the wall by her throat. "I have been called many things in my time, but I am not a whore."

Cami knows she may die. "Who—who are you?" she wheezes.

"Is she an enemy?" Caroline asks Klaus without turning around.

"No."

She focuses back on Cami, eyes narrowed. "I'm Caroline. Now," she continued, "why don't you tell me why you barged into Klaus' bedroom to call his girlfriend a whore?"

"Girlfriend?" she gapes.

"Yes, that's what I said. Now, answer my question."

Cami pats at Caroline's hand, asking for her to release her tight grip. With a huff, she releases her. "Happy?"

"A little," Camille gulps. "I need Klaus to help me with my uncle."

Caroline can hear the girl's accelerated heartbeat and how it pounds with fear. "From what I've heard, your uncle is hexed and cannot be fixed," she said, softening.

Cami is mad that is what everyone keeps saying " I will find a way."

Caroline just met Cami but already doesn't like her. She looks back at Klaus with a raised eyebrow. "Can I kill her?"

Klaus sits up on the bed, smirking. "I'd rather you didn't. I'm really not in the mood to find a new therapist."

"You have a therapist?" Caroline laughs.

Klaus jumps off the bed and walks over to them. "Well, I needed someone to talk to with you not here."

Klaus is now behind Caroline who still has Cami pinned to the wall. She leans back against his chest, his breath ghosting across her neck. "She's nothing but a cheap version of what I would've been if I hadn't become a vampire—same hair color, same first two letters in our names. Ha!"

Klaus looks at Cami he knew there was a reason he didn't kill her the second she became useless to him but hadn't thought that he was keeping her alive because she looked like Caroline. "You're right."

Caroline needs to get over to Davina's. She drops Cami and turns around and runs her hands down Klaus bare chest. "I'm going to take a shower. If you want to join, you can."

Klaus can see she's up to no good and he smirks, "I would love too."

Caroline pulls him to the bathroom by his necklaces, but before they enter Cami half-whimpers, "Klaus, I need your help. Please?"

The hybrid only has eyes for Caroline. "Like I said, Camille, I'm busy. Go and ask Elijah."

Xxx

Klaus rips Caroline's black bra off and leaves a trail of kisses from her neck to her breasts as the bathroom door slams shut behind them, sucking one nipple into his mouth with his teeth while he massages the other with his fingers. She suctions her hands around his waist and yanks his sweats to the floor in one swipe. He kicks them free from his ankles and guides her hands down. Right where he wants them. She strokes him long and soft and slow, then quicker and faster. Klaus closes his eyes at the sensation and hums.

Capturing her mouth with a kiss, he uses his hands to slide her shorts down off her hips and to the floor. Klaus loves seeing his blonde goddess naked—she looks so beautiful. One day, he will ask her to pose for him so he can have a sketch of a perfect moment like this.

Klaus leads her into the shower as they're kissing, his hands moving down from her breast and in between her folds. Lifting her up by the ass, he throws her legs over his shoulders and presses her back against the wall as he buries his head in between her thighs. His tongue teases in lollipop licks, then plunges. Deeper and deeper and deeper, garnering loud moans from Caroline. Her hips buck and push harder against his face, his stubble brushing against the inside of her legs as she tries to get closer.

Smelling her arousal, feeling her hands tearing through his hair, Klaus grows harder. He can tell she is close and it makes him rabid with hunger. He angles his tongue ever-so-slightly to the left and licks—sucks—until she comes in his mouth.

After she finishes, Klaus unhooks her legs from around his shoulders and wraps them around his waist. Caroline throws one arm around his neck, the other she places around him and strokes. Klaus moans against her neck. They both gasp as she slides him inside her, their kisses heavy and passionate, their tongues battling for dominance.

Klaus thrusts deep and slow as his lips pepper across her collar bone; Caroline rakes her fingernails across his ass and squeezes each time his hips crack against hers. His mouth ghosts across her throat and hovers over the artery in her neck until she moves her hair aside, signaling that he may bite her. Klaus sinks hybrid teeth into her skin without a word and her radiant blood dribbles down his throat and drips down the front of his chin. Delicious. Nothing has rivaled its taste in a thousand years.

Likewise, Caroline sinks her teeth into his shoulder and lets the euphoria overwhelm her senses. They both come with each other's blood on their tongues.

"Maybe one day we'll make it to a bed," she says as she rests her forehead against his and catches her breath.

"Well," Klaus laughs, "we did make it in a house this time. That's something."

"At least this time I don't have to wash dirt off my back."

Reaching behind her, Klaus grabs the raspberry-scented shampoo and squirts some into his hand before massaging it into her hair. "Speaking of washing…"

Caroline leans back as his fingers tickle through strands of hair. Content. With his chest pressing into her breasts, she marvels at how perfectly his body fits against hers. Right now, there's only the two of them. No pregnant Hayley or Katherine real body complications or supernatural wars. No worries.

After washing out the shampoo and conditioner, Klaus lathers his hands with body wash and rubs out the knots in her shoulder blades. His lips press against her neck. His hands slide down from her shoulders to her elbows, they travel down across the planes of her stomach and brush under the curves of her breasts, they tickle the cheeks of her ass, they carve languid lines across her thighs. Caroline moans and leans into him as he bends to the floor of the shower.

"I never thought I'd bring the famous Klaus Mikaelson to his knees," she hums.

Klaus glides his fingers across her shins. "Only you can, my love."

Caroline's silence alerts him to some change and he stands, taking her head in his hands. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing," she shrugs unconvincingly. "It's just that—I've never had someone who loves all of me unconditionally before. I'm scared that one day you're going to leave or find someone else."

Soapy and naked or not, Klaus pulls her in for a hug. "I have never had anyone who cares for me like you do, Caroline. Don't you think I'm just as scared as you are? Don't you think that I wonder if one day you'll wake up and realize you deserve better and leave me?"

"You feel the same way?" she blinked."

Klaus smiles down at his soapy goddess. "I do."

Caroline feels better and rinses the soap off her. Grabbing his spice and mint body wash, she squirts it into her hand and brushes it across his muscular body—hands sliding down his toned arms, across his pecs and abs; fingernails running along his calves and feet. Her lips quirk as she hears Klaus grunt as she washes the soap off.

Turning off the water, they exit the shower. Klaus lifts Caroline up onto the sink counter and pats her dry with a towel. "My love, that was the best shower I've ever had," he said.

"Me too."

After they get dressed, Caroline in a pair of white pants with a pink jacket and stilettos; Klaus in a black Henley and jeans, he goes over to his nightstand to procure a long black box. "I have something for you."

"You didn't have to get me anything."

"I didn't," he said, walking over with the box tucked behind his back. "It's more of a return, so to speak."

Caroline raises her eyebrows as he places the box he gave her for her birthday into her hands.

"Open it."

"You kept it," she murmured, emotion gripping her by the throat.

Klaus shrugs down at the diamond infinity bracelet nonchalantly, "Of course. I knew it would be on your wrist again one day."

"You knew I loved this bracelet, didn't you?" Caroline smiled coyly.

Taking the bracelet out of its box, he rolls up her jacket sleeve and fastens it around her wrist. "I knew you could only resist me for so long, my love," he smirked.

"Come on my cocky boyfriend," she drawled as she kissed him, hooking an arm around his waist, "lets go downstairs. I want to talk to Elijah about that wannabe who is still probably lurking here somewhere."

As they cross the threshold of the stairs, they perceive Cami sitting on the couch.

"It's about time!" she whines.

Caroline goes into the kitchen and Klaus goes over to Cami.

Xxx

Caroline sees Elijah reading the paper, "I'm sorry about earlier."

"You don't need to apologize," he remarks. "I have walked in on Niklaus before. But I will admit that he is different with you."

"I see the good in him. He's always been sweet and nice with me since he saved me on my birthday," she explains while nibbling on a beignet.

Elijah crinkles his eyebrows. He's never heard anyone refer to his brother as sweet or nice before.

"I have never seen him this way with anyone."

Caroline wipes some powdered sugar off her mouth. "I'm dating him and I still don't get why he loves me," she says with a giggle.

"Do you love him?"

Elijah always puts her on edge, so she finds herself stammering. "I-I don't know. I mean, I think I'm definitely falling in love with him."

"You have brought out human Niklaus, and that's someone I feared was lost forever. So thank you, Caroline. I welcome you to the family with open arms."

Elated, Caroline beams. "Thank you. That means a lot coming from you." Clearing her throat, her tone becomes more official. "Now, as my first official business task as Queen of New Orleans and new Mikaelson family member, I am here to collect on our deal," she said.

Elijah thinks she will fit in nicely. "I remember," he nods.

Caroline smirks teasingly. "Since Klaus didn't kill Rebekah, you have to wear something other than a suit for a whole day."

"Niklaus tried to kill Rebekah, but I am a man of my word. What did you have in mind where my wardrobe is concerned?"

Caroline claps in excitement.

"Okay…" she says, "I was thinking a sports jacket and jeans."

Neither of which Elijah owns.

"Is that at least moderately classy? I don't want to look like some bum from off the street."

Caroline finishes her beignet and wipes her mouth before she takes a drink of blood in a cup. "I promise I will find the classiest sports coat out there and you will look like a million bucks!"

Xxx

Klaus is talking to a mad Cami but also listening to Caroline and Elijah.

"Klaus, are you even paying attention?" Cami complains.

He sighs. "There's nothing we can do, I'm sorry."

"There has to be something!"

He pulls out his wallet. "We are doing all that can be done."

Cami is frustrated. First, Klaus says he will help her—then he disappears for two days! And then, when he suddenly reappears, he has a young blonde girlfriend laying on top of him in his bed. "There has to be something more we can try—what the heck are you doing with that wallet?" she asked.

Klaus pulls out his credit card and then tucks his wallet back in his pocket. "Just because I'm an Original doesn't mean I can't own a wallet," he countered.

Before Cami can answer, Caroline waltzes into the room and announces, "Nik, I'm going shopping."

Klaus hands her his credit card. "It's on me."

"Thank you," she says as she kisses his cheek and flashes out the door.

Xxx

Caroline enters the church and and waits. A couple minutes later, a black Porsche Panamera pulls up and Katherine and Nadia get out and get Katherine's body from the back seat and bring it in the church "Why are we in a church?"

"The witch lives upstairs," she explains. "Follow me."

Caroline leads them upstairs and knocks on Davina's door. The room is large and full of lit candles for the spell.

"Do you really think you can do this?" Nadia asks, entering the space.

Davina takes a breath and says, "I have never done this particular spell before, but I think I can pull it off. It'll help me with finding a way to bring Kol back."

Nadia and Katherine look around. " Where do you want us?"

Davina looks at the body then at her grimoire one more time.

"It says we need to drain all the blood out of the body first, and then when I do the spell and put you back in your original body we will only have a couple seconds to give you blood because the body is already dead."

Katherine and Nadia look at each other; Katherine then looks at Davina "Ok," she exhales. "Let's get started. I can't pretend to be Elena forever."

Caroline puts her purse down. "And since Rebekah is here, when Elena awakes, she can compel her to forget being in New Orleans and seeing all of us."

Rebekah hates Katherine but she is going to have to get used to her because she is going to be living with her. "You realize that Elijah is devastated you died, don't you?"

Katherine looks down, averting her gaze and shuffling her feet. "I know. I will tell him I'm not dead…but not now."

Nadia and Katherine put Katherine's body on the floor and start draining her blood. When they're finished, they flick their gazes up to Davina. "The body's empty."

Davina looks around at the four vampires. "Whose blood is going to turn her… again?"

Katherine gestures with her chin, "Caroline," she says.

"I would be honored to turn the great Katherine Pierce into a vampire again," she smiles.

"It's only fair," she shrugs. "I turned you; now you get to turn me."

Caroline hugs Katherine. Rebekah didn't know Katherine turned Caroline. Davina tells them to put Katherine's body in the circle and for Katherine to lay next to her body. Caroline takes her jacket off and gets ready to bite her wrist.

Davina starts chanting, "Phesmatos Tribum, Nas Ex Veras, Uenes Phasmatos Et Sonas, Ex Tutam, Exum Limia, Matus."

Katherine's body gasps and Caroline bites her wrist, shoving it in Katherine's mouth as the girl's heart slows then stops. Katherine dies again and Elena remains unconscious, but the latter has a heartbeat. While they wait to see if Katherine wakes, Nadia gives Rebekah directions to their new house and assures her that her earrings are there.

Xxx

Meanwhile, back at the compound, Elijah comes into Klaus studio wearing a black v-neck sweater and black pants. Klaus is picking out a paint brush and paint.

"For future reference, brother," he starts, "if Caroline and I are in the middle of something…don't interrupt us again."

"That is not the only thing I wished to discuss. Remember when you told me that love was a weakness?"

"Your point?" Klaus snaps.

Elijah walks over and claps his brother on the back, squeezing his shoulder. "My point is that you love Caroline and perhaps you were wrong?"

Klaus puts his paint brush back and shrugs off his touch. "You had something else to talk about."

"The factions will not get along," he speaks bluntly.

Klaus glances at his brother. "It's hard to get the community together when they all hate each other."

"Spare me the lecture."

"The werewolves almost ran this city until they got kicked out and had to watch their enemies destroy the legacy they'd built. If you want peace," Klaus continues as he sways in front of his paint table, "start with them."

Elijah knows peace in New Orleans won't be easy.

"Which is why everyone is so hesitant about bringing them to the table. Moreover, once Kieran dies, we'll need a new leader of the human faction. Monique Deveraux has taken the head witch spot, but I think someone else would be better suited."

Klaus walks over to his brother and puts his hand on his shoulder "If the table is the obstacle, remove it," he suggests.

Walking back over to the table, he pours himself and his brother a drink. "Use 1720 for inspiration: the governors were desperate to secure our help to build the first levies. We refused. They plucked us full of wine and women until they had their yes."

Elijah scratches his chin as Klaus hands him the drink. "Are you suggesting I throw a party?" he asks, lips upturned.

Xxx

Katherine gasps awake and both Caroline and Nadia rush to her.

"Kat how do you feel?"

"Mom?"

"I need blood," Katherine says hoarsely, looking around.

Nadia vamps outside and grabs the first human she sees and brings him to Katherine "Here."

Katherine kills him.

"That felt wonderful," she grins. "Thank you, Davina, for putting me back in my own body. If I ever need a witch, I will call. Consider yourself protected by me."

Caroline and Nadia agree, "You have our protection too," they say in unison

Caroline's phone dings with a text message from Klaus:

Elijah is throwing a party tonight. You should buy yourself a new dress. ;)

Caroline has a wicked smile on her face when she looks up. " Apparently Elijah is throwing a party and I have Klaus' credit card, so…who wants to go shopping?"

"This is one of the reasons why I love you," Katherine says as she throws an arm around her shoulders, pulling her into a hug, "One Original throws a party and the other gives you his credit card."

Caroline looks over at Davina. "Would you like to come shopping with us?" she asks.

"Lets go," she says excitedly, more than ready to act like a teenager for once.

Xxx

Nadia hides their car in the back of the church and they climb into Caroline's convertible.

"I love your car," Davina says.

"Thanks," Caroline says. "Since you're from around here, where's an awesome place to buy dresses?"

"Hit Parade is nice. It's right there," she points to the right.

Davina finds a long grey maxi dress and Caroline finds a short, strapless black dress. Katherine and Nadia are going to sneak into the party Katherine finds a spaghetti strap black dress and Nadia finds a one-sleeve black dress.

Before they leave Caroline turns to Katherine, "Can you help me find a sports coat for Elijah?" she asks.

Katherine raises her eyebrow. "Why?"

"We made a deal and he lost," she smiles. "Now he has to wear something other than a suit for a whole day.

Katherine laughs and wiggles her eyebrows. "Your a genius! Though, I love my Elijah in a suit or nothing at all."

They find the perfect sports coat. Its black and from the shoulder and down the length of arm there's a strip of red and on the front there is a strip of white at the top.

They leave and drop Davina, Katherine and Nadia back off at the church.

"The party is at the Mikaelson compound," Caroline says.

Xxx

Caroline returns to the compound and enters Klaus bedroom. " I'm back and I have bags."

Klaus steps out of his walk-in closet wearing dress pants and a black dress shirt, a jacket and gold tie draped across his arm. "Hello, my love, did you enjoy your shopping trip?"

"I did. And you're going to love my dress."

"Am I now?" he says with a quirked eyebrow as he buttons up his shirt

Caroline laughs and goes over to her suitcase to remove a black strapless bra. She puts it on under her dress. "Can you zip me up?" she asks, turning her back to him.

Klaus goes over and zips the dress up and kisses her bare shoulder. "Just beautiful, my love."

Caroline looks behind her, "I'm not done yet." Pulling on a pair of black Christian Louboutin heels, she spins for him. "How do I look?" she asks.

Klaus takes in his beautiful girlfriend.

"Like a queen fit for a king."

Caroline picks up Klaus' black and gold baroque tie from the bed and fastens around his neck, knotting it in place for him. "We will be the best dressed couple at this party," she says.

"You will be the most beautiful woman there," he counters, wrapping his arms around her.

Caroline kisses him. "You look extremely handsome, now let's go."

Xxx

Fire flickers from the fountain in the middle of the courtyard as vampires begin to filter into the compound. When Davina enters, Caroline excuses herself from Klaus' side to welcome her.

"Thank you so much for completing that spell for us. Any time you need something, just let me know," she offers. "I will do whatever I can to help you."

Davina nods, looking around at all the splendor. "You're welcome. And thank you for the offer of protection."

"Did Katherine and Nadia arrive with you?" Caroline asks in a whisper.

Davina points to the bar and she smiles. "Excellent. If you could help keep those two away from Klaus and Elijah tonight, that would be great."

"Sure."

"Awesome. Now go have fun."

Caroline makes to move away, but Davina calls out to her again. "Wait—why do we need to keep them away, again?"

Looking around the room, making sure no ears are primed to their conversation, she lowers her voice and answers, "Because both of them believe that Katherine's dead. We need to keep it a secret until the big reveal," she winks.

That seems to appease Davina enough so she trickles around the room while Caroline heads to the bar to talk to her friends.

"You guys look hot," Caroline says.

"Thanks, you do too," Nadia says.

Katherine gestures to her wrist where the bracelet twinkles. "Love the diamonds. Fancy." Cami enters then, pulling her from her admiration of jewelry. "Hey, who is that?"

"That's Camille," Caroline half-groans. "My wannabe and (you will never believe this) Klaus' therapist."

"Klaus has a therapist?"

Katherine laughs " Klaus has a therapist."

"Yeah," Caroline laughs, "that was my reaction, too."

Xxx

Klaus and Elijah perch on the stairs with glasses of champagne and survey the party, which is full of members of all the different factions. "I'm impressed, brother," Klaus remarks.

"Thank you." He takes a sip from his glass. "Now all I have to do is keep them from killing one another."

"Well, here's to a spectacularly boring party, then," Klaus says, raising his glass in cheers.

They clink glasses. Afterwards, Elijah moves toward the bar. Seeing him coming, Caroline defaults into hide-the-friend mode. Grabbing Katherine and Nadia by the hand, she steers them out into the middle of the floor. "Elijah is nearing. Let's dance."

The floor is crowded with many dancing supernaturals providing Katherine the cover she requires, and the opportunity to gaze at the love of her life without being noticed.

Xxx

Caroline makes her way back over to Klaus. "It's a party, Grumpy. You're supposed to have fun," she chastises him.

"These people will never get along. There's no fun to be had among this bunch."

She puts her hand on his shoulder and gazes out at the crowd.

"I disagree. I've met some of them and they're not all bad," she counters. "I mean, sure—there's a witch who glares at me every time I chat with Davina and the werewolves and vampires stick to opposite sides of the room, but so far, no one's died. That's a plus!" she maintains.

Klaus shakes his head and chuckles. That's his love—always making the best out of every situation.

Xxx

Watching the party proceedings from the Other Side, Kol monitors Davina's movements closely, following her with his eyes as she leans against a wall. She looks so divine this evening and he wishes he could be there to spin her across the floor. To dance and dance and dance until the sun rises. He wishes he could silence this werewolf who's sidled up next to her and whispers tacky sweet nothings into her ear. The wretch.

Davina flings off the man's attention and excuses herself shortly afterward. She has much more important things to do than stand on the outskirts of some grand party—like bring Kol back.

Then, all of a sudden, the werewolves and vampires break out into a brawl, sending Elijah into the middle of the fray with his arms raised in between them. Trying to keep them from ripping each other to quartered limbs.