"Okay, so we need to make reservations," Klaus said, opening his laptop to the website he used to book the room.
"My Disney Experience," Caroline read. "Wow, you really put a lot of effort into this…"
"I may not really know where we are, but I want to make it the best for you," he said honestly.
She smiled. "Well this was super last minute, so we need to get magic bands," she pointed to the first thing on the screen.
"I'm pretty sure we can find those in Downtown Disney."
"Wrong! It's Disney springs know-it-all."
He grinned. "Fine, Disney Springs. Let's start booking dinner, shall we?"
"Yes we shall," she giggled. Being here with Klaus was better than she thought. They were friends of course, but somewhere she knew that that was going to change pretty soon.
"Okay so I got the dining pass thing so we can have one dinner service a day and one quick service a day, plus a lot of snacks."
"Oh awesome. Where do you want to go tonight?"
"Well that's up to you," he looked at her. "We can go anywhere you like."
"I did some research too, Klaus and I wanted to go somewhere you might not approve of…"
He looked at her, his interest piqued. "And where might that be?"
"The Rainforest Cafe in Disney Springs…"
"How did I know that you were going to chose that?" He sighed.
"Can we go, please Nik…"
He looked away from his laptop and back at her. "Oh god," he muttered.
"I'll keep saying it, Nik!"
"You sound like Rebekah!"
"And?"
"Fine we can go."
"Thank you Nik!"
"If," He stopped her. "You stop calling me Nik."
"Fine, Niklaus."
"Caroline."
"You call me 'love'!"
He sighed in defeat. "Rainforest Cafe is booked for tonight."
She smiled and gave him a side hug like she did earlier. "Let's finish this quickly, I want to go swimming."
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They were done not long later, maybe a half hour. Every night was booked with a restaurant and a quick service meal.
Caroline was in the bathroom, getting her bathing suit on and fixing her hair.
Is this going to be weird? She thought to herself. No, we're friends, yeah.
She opened her toiletry bag and grabbed her makeup pouch out of it, applying waterproof mascara and a slightly blush, even if it was going to come off in the pool.
Why was she so nervous? Whenever she had a date she was nervous of course but they're just going swimming! It's not like its a date or anything. She's seen him without a shirt before, during the white oak stake incident, so that's nothing new. Nope, it was definitely part of it. Wait did he even say he was coming with her?
Once she thought she looked good enough, she shut off the exhaust and made sure everything was tidied up before opening the door.
"Klaus?" She called. "I'm done you can go in now…" She walked further into the room and saw that he was lying on the bed, with his eyes closed. "Sleeping over there?"
"No," he answered. "Not yet."
"Wait are you coming?"
"Do you want me to?" he opened his eyes.
"Uh, yeah!"
"I just drove 10 hours."
"Well that's your own fault," she said, putting on cover up clothes. "Get your bathing suit on, you can chill by the pool then."
He sighed and sat up. "Fine. You're making me do a lot of things already that I don't want to do," He teased.
She smirked. "I'll be waiting!"
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He emerged from the bathroom 5 minutes later.
Caroline tried not to let her mouth drop to far. He was shirtless yes, also in shorts and his hair was a rumpled mess.
"You okay?" he asked knowingly.
"Uh um… yeah im fine!"
He smirked and grabbed a shirt to walk outside with. It was a light blue with dark floral like designs. It was unbuttoned and had a collar. He also pulled down black sunglasses from his tousled hair.
"Ready?"
"Yeah um, lets go!" She said, her voice way too high.
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The two walked out of the hotel room and headed out towards the pool area.
"This is our first time walking around here, it's so beautiful," Caroline awed.
"The pictures don't do it justice," He said, hands clasped behind his back.
"You're right. So anything you'd like to tour over here?"
"Well right up there on our left is the pool area. That's about it," He said.
"Ha ha, you're so funny."
They approached the pool area and entered through the newly added gates. It was pretty dead surprisingly, only a few kids played in the shallow end and rushed down the slides.
"Thank god its not crowded," Klaus muttered.
"I would still make you have fun even if it was," Caroline said.
"I know, love."
They placed their things down on two lounge chairs next to the entrance of the shallow end. The pool was pretty big, shaped almost like a giant eight. There was a hot tub that jutted out from one of the sides, dividing the deep end from the shallow end.
"Hot tub?" Klaus asked.
Caroline nodded and kicked off her shoes next to Klaus's. This is the first time she has ever seen him this casual around her. He never wore shorts, not even short sleeved shirts. Most of the time he just wore those damn henleys that made him look really good.
She jumped into the hot tub first, settling down in one of the corners as he followed close behind, sitting across from her.
"This is nice," she mused.
He nodded, eyes hazy.
"You look really tired, I'm sorry you can go back to the room if you-"
"Caroline, its okay," he assured.
"Really?"
"I can tough it out," he smiled.
She nodded. "So, do you like it so far?"
He looked around. "I do, it's nicer than I expected."
"Disney is known for being a kids playground, but without them the adult just get to relax and have fun," She said, apparently comparing them to parents.
He narrowed his eyebrows. "However you'd like to put it."
They sat in there for awhile and talked almost to casually. She said it before but just a few months ago, he was the villain of their town, but now, he's her friend and they're in Disney, the happiest place on earth.
"I'm getting out," she said, standing up and stepping out. His eyes followed her movements. "Hey, eyes up," she played.
He gasped innocently and got out as well. "You too."
She pretended to ignore him and jumped into the main pool.
"Holy shit!" She screamed.
"Love, there are kids present," Klaus mocked.
"Well then you jump in too!" She jumped up and pulled his hand, causing him to fall in after her.
"Wow well, yeah holy shit you're right," he agreed, freezing with her.
What neither of them thought about was how relaxing in a hot tub for a half an hour really warms you up, and then jumping into a cool pool really sends chills through your body.
"Totally didn't think that through," Caroline said.
"Hey, we'll loosen up," he said.
"What about the slide?"
"You want me to go on that?"
She nodded and jumped up and down, half because she was freezing and half because she was excited. "Come on Nik lets go."
"Caroline!"
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"Love I told you I don't want to do this," Klaus groaned.
"Well I'm making you. It's a day for new beginnings right?"
They were standing at the top of the waterslide. It wasn't very big, it was made for kids but everyone still gets a kick out of it.
"What are you scared?"
"No," he mumbled stubbornly.
"Come on, Klaus."
He sighed in frustration. "Caroline-"
"Yes!" She pulled him down to sit behind her.
"I don't want to."
"Why are you being so stubborn my god! You're the thing that people are afraid of, and you're scared of this?"
"I'm not scared! It's complicated," he sighed.
"Well I've got time."
"But the people I hear coming up the stairs don't!"
"Fine then were going together because I know if I go down you won't come after me!" She firmly took his hand, linking it around her's.
"Ready?"
"No, Caroline," Klaus said looking down the slide.
"And we're off!" She giggled and dragged her feet against the bottom to gain momentum, still pulling on his arms.
"Caroline!"
They slid down swiftly. Two people weren't supposed to go at once but no one was watching, luckily
Within seconds they were at the bottom, dipping under the water and jumping right back up.
"Caroline!" Klaus exclaimed gasping for air.
"Come on you know you liked it!"
They swam over to the ledge and sat down. "You're lucky I somewhat enjoyed that, love."
"You see?!" She jumped. "You have to trust me sometimes."
"I trust you," he looked at her, making direct eye contact.
She swallowed hard. "Uh, yeah thanks…" she didn't let her eyes wander around his face. "Wanna go again?"
He smiled in defeat. "Lead the way."
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They swam for a little bit longer before they got out to take a break.
"I need a tan," Caroline said, adjusting her towel to lay on her chair.
"Can vampires even get tan?"
"I hope so! And shouldn't you know Mr. Know It All? I mean you've been around for what, a billion years?"
"You have to adjust your perception of time when you become a vampire, Caroline," Klaus repeated.
Caroline looked at him knowingly. "I remember that line, you said that to me the night you healed me."
"You remember, I'm surprised, you hated me then."
"I didn't hate you, well yeah I guess so..."
"But we're you intrigued?"
"I'm not answering that."
"I figured."
"That night you opened my eyes to what being a vampire is truly about, well, besides the blood and neck feeding, but you know. Living for eternity makes you see incredible things, literally everything. You were right Klaus, and we're starting here."
She's using were again, he thought.
"And now you finally see where I'm coming from."
"I do," She smiled. "Now, I'm going to try to get tan and then go back in later."
He nodded. "I'll stay with you for a little bit, but then can I go back to the room?"
"I figured you were gonna say that," she admitted. "Yeah, you can go back now if you want though."
"You sure?"
"Yeah, we wouldn't want you falling asleep at dinner," she giggled.
"Thank you love," he smiled back at her, grabbing his phone from the chair and waving goodbye to her.
Caroline watched him leave, closing the gate on the way out. She liked him, she really liked him.
