Genre(s): Romance/Drama/Action/Adventure

Couple(s): Klaroline & Kalijah

Author's Note: Oh my god… Reality sucks. Let's just get that straight.

So I have been busting my butt trying to find the time to type this, two other fics, and a personal statement for a scholarship. Not to mention I have to get my stuff together to work on school work and somehow keep my GPA as high as it is. I am only a freshman I am too young to work this hard!

Time to make responses!

To Klarolinelove22: Yes, Katherine is being very unfriendly towards Caroline. Girls can be very mean to each other.

To yourloved: This is basically and development chapter so more Klaroline!

To Justine: I love your idea, though I don't know how I'd be able to make it happen.

To Looop: Thank you.

To Topaz Dragon: Caroline and Rebekah interaction? Granted.

Okay so I would like to thank Topaz Dragon for her wonderful suggestions. She gave me ideas that made my head whir with ideas. Thank you.

Enjoy the chapter!

Part One: Chapter Thirteen

"I hate love. Hate being in love. I never want it to happen to me again."— Muriel Box

[1492/England]

Carolina had a habit of doing something stupid when she was angry, like most people.

She stormed up to the door and banged on it harshly until it flew open to reveal a smirking Kol.

"To what do I owe this pleasure?" he asked with a condescending grin. Carolina just threw herself at him, crushing her lips against his. Kol smirked into the brutal kiss. He pulled her into the room and kicked the door closed behind him. He started to kiss down her neck as his hands played with the strings of her dress.

"I thought you didn't want me. I thought you wanted my big brother," Kol said between kisses. Carolina growled at him.

"Be quiet." This was nothing. This did not mean anything. She just wanted a release and he was just giving it to her.

Kol ripped the dress off her and smirked down at her. He pressed her body closer to his and kiss her once more.

"I knew you'd be back."

Katerina was walking everywhere looking for Rebekah. She was in great need of a friend and now that her best friend had abandoned her Rebekah was the next best thing. She had noticed that the two of them had a lot in common and thought they were going to be two peas in a pod if they were to ever meet, but that was not important now.

While she was lost in her thoughts, it appears that she has gotten herself lost somewhere in the great big castle. Huffing in frustration, Katerina tapped her foot trying to remember the way back to her room. She then turned only to face a servant that smelled strongly of outdoors and horses. He looked nervous for some odd reason and looked as if he wanted to say something, but Katerina cared for nothing he could or would say. She was busy.

"Out of my way," she said rudely, but the boy did not move only bowed his head.

"Um, Lady Rebekah says that she would like to meet you in the stables. I was told to escort you there," he said in a soft voice. Katerina's felt her face light up. She could finally tell Rebekah about what Carolina said and did.

She followed the young man to the stables, the whole time Katerina wondered why she would be there and just assumed that Rebekah wanted to ride around the property. The boy opened the door to the stable and when Katerina enter there was no one there. She quickly turned to question the stable boy, but he was no longer there.

"If this is some joke! You will not get away with it!" Katerina shouted into the stable. A horse huffed at her as if telling her to be quiet; she just glared at it in return. She was being courted by the lord of this manor and if they thought they could just get away with this they had another thing coming.

"Ma'am?" Turning, Katerina saw a maid looking at her with wide, glazed eyes. She looked as if she was possessed and it scared Katerina. The girl grabbed her hand and Katerina was about to pull her hand away when she spoke again. "Lady Rebekah says that she would like to meet you in the kitchen. She is sorry for the confusion. She says that the boy will be punished for playing such a prank on you."

Katerina smiled haughtily. The boy will pay. However, the same this happened when they reached the kitchen. She was left alone until another servant came a brought her elsewhere saying that Rebekah wanted to meet her at different location. They always looked possessed, but she thought nothing of it.

Finally the stable boy returned and told her that Rebekah would like to meet her in the sitting room. When he was about to take her hand she slapped it away and walked behind him until they reached the sitting room where Rebekah was lounging on a chair sipping wine from a gold rimmed glass.

"Ah," Rebekah said as they walked in. She put her glass down. "There you are. Katerina, another lesson in espionage; never trust the messenger unless they are loyal to you and if not just do it yourself." Rebekah took another sip of her drink and waved her hand at the stable boy. "You can leave now."

Katerina stomped over and sat down across from Rebekah glaring holes the size of craters into her. "I'm not in the mood for one of your lessons. I was trying to find you to tell you something."

"If you are taking about you and Klaus courting I already know that. In fact, the whole castle knows that," Rebekah said looking over the rim of her glass. "Anyways is your friend no longer sick? Go tell her."

"I would, but telling her that is sort of the reason we had a falling out." Katerina looked down at her hands, downtrodden. Her best friend hated her, she was sure of it. She did not blame Carolina for hating her either after all those hurtful words she had said, but she wasn't going to take it back. Who was Carolina to judge who she could court? She was a grown woman.

"Really? Does she have feelings for Niklaus too?" Rebekah sounded as if she tasted something bitter and sour.

"Yes…well she did at one point. Now she does not seem to like him any longer and seems more upset that he decided to court me. She said many hurtful things when she found out." Though she was angry with her best friend she could not understand the sudden change in feeling. Sure, she would understand why the girl would not want to Katerina to be court by him, but when she spoke it sounded as if Klaus was something horrible.

"Maybe she is jealous. Maybe she was playing hard to get with Nik, he lost interest, and invested his time in you instead."

"Maybe."

It did not make the situation any better.

Lying in bed with Kol did not make Carolina feel any better about Klaus and Katerina. It in fact made her feel foolish.

Turning, she looked at Kol who was smirking at her devilishly. She breathed a sigh through her nose. "I was using you."

"I know." His response was simple and easy. She expected anger and betrayal, not casual conversation.

"And you let me? Do you not feel…disgusted?"

"You are really showing how much of a baby vampire you are," he chuckled. He turned to lie on his back and looked up at his ceiling. "When you're a vampire for as long as I have human morals…human anything in general holds less worth as time passes. After a while you create your own morals. You create your own lines that you are never to cross."

He sounded solemn, too old for the face he wore. Carolina turned a got out of the bed. Kol had a point. She was immortal now as was Klaus and Kol and even Rose. She was too caught up thinking that she was a monster that she labeled everyone who was like her too quickly.

"I see," she said as she pulled her chemise on. Kol did nothing as she dressed and then quickly left the room.

She was still thinking about being a vampire and exploring her limits when she bumped into the lord of the manor.

"Hello, darling," Klaus said. His voice was like a grater and a symphony at the same time. "I was just looking for you." His gave her a dimpled smile.

You are independent. You are strong. This was her new mantra. She would not let this man make her bend. "Really? And what for?" she said in the sassiest tone she could muster.

"You did offer to become friends did you not?" When she only nodded he continued. "I thought that you would want to go on ride with me? Unless, of course, you do not trust me." He had this glint in his eye that was challenging her. Daring her to say that she was going to go somewhere with him alone even though she did not trust a word that flowed from his mouth.

"No, I will go with you," she said with a smile.

She just loved challenges.

"Rose!"

The brunette in question turned around to see the only female Original stomping up towards her. Rose couldn't help, but notice at how beautiful the girl was and feel the tiniest bit insignificant. She looked down as Rebekah tromped towards her and began to fidget with the skirt of her dress. "Yes, Lady Rebekah?" she asked. She was usually so strong willed, but she knew when to be weak and humble and with a teenage girl that has mood swings, now would be that time.

"Rose, I need you to go entertain to doppelgänger while I am gone," Rebekah said. If they were human and in the same social circle Rose would have slapped her. Who was she to talk down at everyone as if she is the only one fit to breathe the air in the room she was in?

"Of course, I shall entertain her till you return." She peeked at Rebekah from under bangs just in time to see her smirk and raise her head a little higher. Rebekah then brushed pass her and disappeared down the hall.

Rose was not stupid. She knew that Rebekah was just dumping the doppelgänger on her and was not going to return. Rose sighed, and she really wanted to speak to Carolina today. She used the speed gifted to a vampire; to run to the room that she knew was to be Rebekah's favorite sitting room. She opened the door to see Katerina sitting in the room sipping at her tea daintily. Rose did not see what all the fuss was about over this girl. Sure she was a doppelgänger and was quite beautiful but in her opinion Carolina was much prettier.

"Hello Rose," Katerina said. Rose smiled at her and went to take a seat across from her. "How is your afternoon going?"

Rose smiled. She did not like this polite chit chat; if she wanted to say something that she should just come out with it. "Good and you?"

"Fine."

They sat in a semi awkward silence with Katerina sipping her tea and Rose nibbling on a biscuit that sat on a saucer. The only sound was the tick-tocking of the clock and the sound of fabric rubbing when they shifted positions.

"Have you spoken to Carolina already?" Katerina suddenly blurted out. Rose took another nibble from her biscuit, placed it on the saucer and raised an eyebrow at the girl.

"Yes, but just before she went to see you this morning; has something happened?" Katerina looked at her feet. Rose knew the girl was anything, but bashful. However it seemed that whatever had happened between the girls was not going to come out of her lips easily. "Come now, Katerina," Rose crooned. "You can tell me. I promise that I shall tell not one soul about whatever troubles you."

The girl sighed then looking at the ground started to murmur her point of view of what had happened.

Kol sat in a room with his oldest brother.

Many people had said over the years that they had looked alike and maybe they did, but it must be obvious to everyone that he, Kol, was the better looking sibling. Elijah must have thought it a compliment to be compared to his beauty and finesse. The only downside was that people expected them to act in similar ways.

It was quite annoying. It actually may have caused a little rift between the brothers, for past reasons of course.

Though right now sitting with in brother in the great room was actually relaxing. It was nice to just get away from his annoying little sister and his brooding half-brother. Elijah was the essence of calm and wisdom and it was nice to just look out into the gardens and speak with his brother about the world. Still Kol sometimes worried for his brother, no matter how distanced they may become.

"Brother," Kol said as he shook his wine by the stem. The red wine was sloshing around in the cup almost jumping the edge, but not quite. "How do you feel about the girl?"

Elijah chuckled at him. "Which girl? There are many girls in this castle."

"Ha ha, very funny, 'Lijah. You know who I speak of; the doppelgänger."

Elijah's eyes seemed to become a little cooler than usual. "There is nothing to feel. She is the doppelgänger. She will die in the next week when the moon reaches its apex and then…"

Kol looked at him, goading him with his eyes to finish that sentence, but Elijah stayed silent. "Do not stop on my account. If it is Niklaus you fear, then you know better than anyone that I would not tell him a word that you speak. I am not here to interrogate you."

"I feel foolish. I feel something for her like I did Tatia—"

"But she isn't Tatia, 'Lijah. This is Katerina; the doppelgänger that our brother is going to kill. Do not mix your feelings with Tatia for a girl that shares the same face. That will cause nothing but pain; for the both of you."

Elijah looked at him with a sharp glare. "I know that. It is hard not to try and find similarities between the two."

"Then stop seeing the girl before you do something stupid." Kol said as he pulled the wine closer to his lips. "I do not wish for you to end up like Finn."

"Finn will be undaggered as soon as Niklaus becomes a hybrid," Elijah stated confidently, as if it was a god given fact that was irrefutable.

"Mmhm." Kol sipped his wine.

Kol loved his brother he really did. Kol worried for his brother too, but rarely ever. Elijah was smart, wise, and levelheaded.

But honestly, in some situations the man was nothing but a fool with a heart too big, and a mind to narrow.

"Have your pick."

Klaus watched as Carolina looked around. She stopped to look at one brown horse, but then moved to a white horse. He watched as she looked at all the horses in the stable. He found in amusing to see that she was picky about her horses. Most people just wanted a horse that looked good enough to show off to others. Once all of the horses were "thoroughly examined", Carolina turned to him with a frown on her face.

"Do you have any more horses?" she asked.

"Why?" Klaus smirked, "What are wrong with these ones. I assure you that they are good, fine horses' they are thoroughbreds. Carolina looked to her sides and looked at horses in the stalls next to her.

"I am sure they are, but they are all so…plain."

"Plain?"

"Yes, plain. You see all these horses once, you have seen them all. I want a horse that is different."

"Well, this is just one of many stables. I am sure that we can find you one horse that you will like."

They strode over to the next stable; Klaus's stable, where Carolina found the horse that she wanted to ride immediately. "That one," she pointed. It was a pitch black mare that seemed to have a bluish tint in the light that transcended down into white when in neared in hooves. The horse looked nice. It was Klaus's favorite horse.

"That, darling, is my prized horse Nocturne." He smiled as she gawked at the horse, but wrapped an arm around her when she went towards it to touch it. "Be careful. She bites."

"I want to ride her," she said.

"She'll buck you off. She only allows me to ride her."

Carolina turned her head and smiled at him. "Give me a chance. I'm a vampire now. Am I not invincible?"

"Getting kicked by a horse still hurts."

"It will be worth it."

Klaus let her go; Carolina was too determined to hold her back. If she wanted to learn the hard way well so be it. Carolina inched towards the horse, making a low cooing noise. The horse stomped its foot and threw its head back and forth. Carolina did not waver only inching closer. She got close enough to the horse. She patted its nose and the horse just stomped it feet again until after about a minute or so it stopped suddenly soothed.

Klaus was impressed. No one had ever gotten close to Nocturne, not even the stable boy could get close to her. Somehow the girl had many too. However, that was only a small part of what Klaus was thinking about. Carolina looked so beautiful in that moment. She looked caring, and serene. The light was hitting her at just the right angle that made Klaus itch to have his sketch pad and charcoal with him. This moment needed to be captured onto paper. It almost made Klaus want to crush his lips against her own.

And he did and it was wonderful. He felt something that he had not felt when he slept with the doppelgänger. It felt as if something bright and airy was being poured into his veins. It made Klaus forget about the world and pull Carolina closer to him. He could feel Carolina moving her lips against his, but he wanted more. It was like he was addicted nonetheless it was pulled away from him.

Klaus's eyes shot open as he looked at Carolina as she turned away from him with a small smirk. "You cannot kiss me if you are courting my best friend."

Klaus smirked back. "I can do whatever I want. I am a vampire, love."

"You can do whatever you want, but not with me." She turned away from him and went to the wall to grab a saddle. "Now help me put the saddle on this horse."

Klaus's blood was boiling. He wanted that feeling again. He wanted the feeling of light that she gave him when they kissed; and that was from just a kiss! Imagine what he would feel like if he was touching her, inside of her. Klaus shivered at the thought.

He had already known that she would be a great vampire. Now it was time to see if she would make a good companion and lover.

Author's Note: Okay people.

I know that this is very late, but at least it I got it done!

I was busy filling out scholarship applications to go study at Oxford (yes, the exact one you are thinking about; the one in the UK) for the summer. It has been really stressful, but I think I can make it. Keep your fingers crossed for me!

Okay I am still taking suggestions as the nest chapter will be like this one; character relation development. So keep telling me what you want to see!

Oh yeah, how would all of you feel if I posted my stories on different sites. I mean would you guys like to see these stories on Tumblr? Blogger? LiveJournal? I was thinking about maybe starting up my tumblr again since I have finally learned how to use it, though it may take a while since I deleted it. You should all know that I would post stories from other fandom's on the site as I do not intend to make fandom exclusive tumblrs. It would be too much work. I guess I would make separate pages for each fandom.

Anywho! I want to talk about the latest TVD episodes.

I personally think that both Elena and Stefan are my most hated characters so far. Stefan needs to stop being such a big baby. Okay, Elena doesn't love you anymore! Move on! You don't have to hate your brother because of it. This is how I see Stefan in my head:

"Oh my god! Elena doesn't love me anymore! She loves Damon! Even though Katherine and my dad liked me better than Damon I'm gonna be mad that my brother may have a chance at being happy after all the sacrifices he has made for me without my knowing!"

Though happy with all the Stebekah!

As for Elena…

Dear Lord, you are conceited. "I see what this is. You're hurt and you're lashing out…" "Why are you with Rebekah? Do you not remember she killed me!?" I don't think those are the exact words she said in the last episode, but that is what I heard. I mean really when one of the Salvatores isn't in love with you and may just move on to be with someone doesn't mean that you get to say anything anymore! Your relationship is over! You chose Damon! Leave Stefan alone to "lash out".

(BTW, it took her long enough to notice that she loved Damon! I mean it took her one season to admit she loved Stefan but 4 season to do so for Damon!)

When me and my brother watched the last episode we clapped for Stefan when we saw the face that Elena made when he told her that she had no clue what he looked like when he wasn't in love with her. My brother said that she made the "That really hurt" face. Well, that's what you get for playing around with two brothers for what, like a year. You were bound to lose one of them.

Deal with it you hoe.

Rant over…for now.

So people send it requests and tell me whether or not I should post my stuff on places like tumblr. Thank you guys for everything so far. Also you should know that this story may go on a spring hiatus. I will alert all of you for when or if that should happen.

Until Next Time,

Winterangel44