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"Klaus, hey Klaus wake up!" Caroline shook him.

Slowly, his eyes opened, unfocused. The first thing that came into view was Caroline above him.

"Ugh, what happened?" He groaned.

"You left us at dinner so I came out here to find you… I'm glad I did, I mean look at you…"

He brought his hands up behind his head, feeling thick liquid on his fingers. Blood. His blood.

He looked around and saw brick blocks everywhere, black skies with minimal starts and Caroline. He was at the Boardwalk, the alley way he was struck in yesterday. Why am I back here?

"Caroline, love, go it's dangerous," he warned groggily.

"Why?"

Suddenly, she screamed and stake pierced mere centimeters from her heart.

"NO!" Klaus yelled, quickly regaining his thoughts.

Klaus looked up to see Finn standing there. "And within a week she was dead!" Finn exclaimed, shoving the stake deeper into her body. "He'd grown bored," he looked Klaus dead in the eyes. He could never get bored of being here with her.

"Shut your damn mouth!" Klaus roared, getting up to lunge at Finn and save her, but being instantly thrown back.

It really is him bloody messing with me.

"I'll be in full control soon enough, I just can't seem to cancel out a certain feeling… love. Your love for this one girl," he stroked Caroline's hair as she gasped for air. "Even if you'll ruin her in the end."

"Don't you dare touch here again!" He lunged again but once again Finn waved his hand and used magic to get send him back.

"Niklaus listen to me! If you make the wrong move, she'll end up dead, you don't want that do you?"

Klaus looked up at him, listening. "Of course not."

"Then stop trying to find a way around this or you will be the one to kill her. Well, technically it will be my doing but she, oh yes, she will think it's you."

"So what? You want to take over my body, ruin everything, all for what?"

"Revenge," he started and Klaus eyed him. "You put me in a box for 900 years—lifetimes, Niklaus. You thought you were going get away with it, didn't you. Not everything works out the way it's planned, this, this game that you're playing with the bubbly blonde vampire from Mystic Falls, it will all be over soon enough. You're trying to redeem something that cant be redeemed. Yourself. You cannot be redeemed, Niklaus."

Klaus looked up with him, letting the words hit him.

Is he right?

"Goodbye, brother."

"FINN!"

Klaus jumped up, for real this time, gasping for air.

"Klaus!" Caroline tried to calm him down. "Hey chill out!"

He tried to steady his breathing. He could feel himself moving now, he could refuse speaking such dark words… he's back in control.

He looked around, they were in the middle of what looked like a small park. She was sitting with her back to a tree with her legs out stretched.

"If you're wondering, we're still in the theme park," she said somewhat bitterly.

His breath finally calming down, he rubbed his eyes and began to speak. "Where-where is everyone else?"

"They headed to Peter Pan, the fast passes were about to expire," she frowned.

"What's wrong?"

Her eyes refused his.

"Caroline?"

"Just stop," she snapped. She stared into his shocked eyes. "Sorry, I know I shouldn't expect you to be perfect the whole trip, but that was just totally uncalled for. She didn't do anything wrong."

"What, what was uncalled for?"

Caroline narrowed her brows. "What you said to Rebekah? You let your hybrid side show. There are people her Klaus-kids."

Oh right. Those words flying out of my mouth that I couldn't even comprehend.

"What did I say to her?"

"You told her that she'll never—wait why are you asking that?"

"I don't remember, I don't remember saying anything."

"Okay… that's weird…"

"What I do remember is saying words, seeing Rebekah's face, but not being able to control what I was saying."

"How does that work?"

"I don't know but Caroline, I wouldn't do that, you know that…"

"Do I?"

Klaus frowned. "You doubt me that much? After everything."

"Klaus, you've been alive for a thousand years, these past few days are so small in comparison."

"What have I been telling you since day one love?"

"You're here to stay."

Klaus nodded. "I'm here to stay."

He was able to say that so honestly before but now, after what Finn just reached out and said to him, he couldn't be too sure.

Caroline nodded. "I noticed something."

"What?"

"Well two things actually," she looked at him. "You seem… happier."

He smiled. "I am happier."

"But…"

"But?"

"Also way moodier."

His interest was piqued. "Oh?"

"I've noticed some mood changes recently, and I called you out on it once already but, before it was just you being you. Now… now I think it's magic centered."

"How?"

Caroline moved onto her knees and pulled the back of his shirt down slightly.

"What-What are you doing?" He asked, her touch soothing him.

Caroline grabbed her phone and took a picture to show him.

"What the bloody hell is that?" He gasped, staring at the line of penny-shaped dots forming down his back.

"The reason we think this is magic centered. I was mad at you before, but then I really thought about it. You've been acting strange and we know something is going on. This isn't you, not anymore."

"But you just said—"

"I know, I had to be sure. I know that you're happy Rebekah is here and that you would never say that to her. She doesn't believe it right now, but I tried explaining the possibility that that wasn't you talking—it was the magic."

No, it was Finn trying to make everyone turn on me.

"What does Bonnie think?"

"She thinks the same thing, but needs to search her grimoire when we get back to the hotel for the answer."

Klaus nodded.

"What were you dreaming about?" Caroline asked suddenly.

"W-What?"

"When you fainted, you woke up in a panic…"

Klaus looked down at the ground.

"Don't wanna talk about it?"

"I don't think I can…"

"We went over this, it's better if I know what's ahead than to fall victim to it."

"I know, it's just—I can't."

"You can't or you won't?"

"Both."

"Did you see Finn again?"

Klaus nodded. "He's always here, he has power like no one has seen before. He's probably listening to this right now and these marks probably have something to do with him."

Caroline looked down as Klaus enclosed her hands in his. "You, you matter so much to me love. I don't want to see you get hurt."

"You can't control that."

"Yes, I can."

She sighed.

"Even if I have to keep you in the dark sometimes," he said and she frowned. "Caroline, love, listen to me. I would never hurt you, you know that right?"

She nodded. "I know."

He moved closer and put his forehead on hers, closing his eyes and breathing heavily against her face. "Please, please just always remember that."

"Klaus…"

"Just promise."

"I promise."

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"It was really hard to carry you through this crowd without people asking questions," she giggled.

"I can imagine," he smiled.

They talked it through a little more. Klaus danced around what he saw when he fainted—how Finn threatened her, them… how it's possible that any day now Finn is going to take complete control of his body and make it seem like he was killing her.

But their conversations now are light. He realized that if his admiration for her is what's blocking Finn from getting through to him, then he'll just do what he's been planning all along—to be with her.

"Rebekah stormed off, Stefan followed so it was Bonnie, Kol and I. We settled to let you cool off in here, it's shady and there's not many people here—it wouldn't look strange to a human eye if someone was sleeping in here."

Klaus nodded and rubbed his eyes again. "How long was I out?"

"Not long," she told him and sat back against the tree, outstretching her legs again. What she wasn't going to tell him was that he kept calling her name in his fainted state and laid on her lap the whole time.

He leaned his head back and nodded. "I'm sorry."

"It's not your fault."

He looks at her and gave a weak smile. "It is. If I didn't lock Finn in a box for 900 years he wouldn't be so angry and out for revenge."

"Well, yeah I guess the remote effects are your fault," she teased and he rolled his eyes. "Come over here and lean against the tree, you look uncomfortable… take it easy."

He came over and sat next to her, but opted for laying back the turf-grass instead to try and relax. She watched him struggle to lay right and moved his head onto her lap again. He looked up at her, confused.

"Just go with it," she shushed him.

"Was I like this before?"

She blushed. "Well I wasn't going to leave you on the ground so…"

He smiled and took a deep breath, taking in the fresh air. "In a thousand years i've never felt this drained. I hate feeling helpless."

"Finn is sucking the power out of you guys."

"We have to figure out how to stop it," he sighed.

"Kol and Rebekah seem to be dealing with it better than you, maybe they're less effected. You just seem to be getting hit worse than them."

"I know."

A few minutes of silence fell upon them. Daringly, she ran her fingers through his tuffs of hair, making his eyes flutter shut.

"Thats nice," he mused.

Caroline chuckled. "I've found that this is the best way to relax. My mom used play with my hair to calm me down when I was a kid. It's also a stress reliever, makes thoughts go away for awhile."

Klaus smiled. "You're amazing," he whispered drowsily, not really knowing what he was saying (but not in a bad way).

Caroline felt her face get hot, but didn't answer because she didn't know if he meant to say it aloud or not.

He's a literal lap dog, she chuckled to herself

Caroline watched the people walk by with balloons, hats and instruments. There were all different kinds of people, kids, teens, couples. Families that fought, argued and got along all in the same place. She looked down at the hybrid on her lap. His arm was covering his forehead to block the light and his breathing fully calmed down. She knew it'd work. She wasn't going to tell him this, but she used to do this for Tyler once before and after full moons to try and get him to calm down-oh how the tables have turned.

She also knows that he's not telling her something. Finn said something to him, he got to him.

Everything was going fine, they we're going to ride a ride and then hell broke loose. Why do all of the good things need to always be ruined?

"I know very well that you're not telling me something, but it's okay. We'll figure it out together…" she whispered softly and planted a reassuring kiss to his forehead, knowing he was fast asleep.

But in reality, he wasn't and heard every word she said and knew that his family was running up to ruin the moment.

"What are we interrupting here?" Kol smirked.

Caroline felt her heart jump and eyes widen, knowing she'd been kind of caught. "Holy shit! Why must you do that?"

"Is he awake yet?" Rebekah ran up and looked down to see Klaus already staring back at her with a blank expression. She got onto her knees to be move level with him.

Caroline noticed that he was awake.

Shit, he was awake the whole time wasn't he! Oh god. I shoud've known! He dragged on last night about always being on alert! We're in public, there's no way he could fully relax in public! Jesus Caroline think!

Caroline shifted uncomfortably and Klaus sat up to face his sister.

"I wasn't in my right head…"

Rebekah frowned, the hurt still prominent in her eyes. "Then who was in your head?"

Bonnie looked down and Caroline stared at her confused. "What?" She mouthed and Bonnie shook her head no.

"I couldn't control it—this thing, the thing messing with us, it's getting stronger."

"It's trying to turn you all against each other," Stefan realized. "It's using your weaknesses."

"My sister is one of my weaknesses," Klaus said.

"Hey," she pouted and he smirked.

"Not saying it's a bad thing… I know you kick ass."

Rebekah jumped and hugged her brother. "I didn't want to believe it was you saying that, I should've listened to Caroline."

Klaus turned his head towards her, to see her face was flushed. "You talked her down?"

"A little bit yeah, but I told you I didn't let myself fully believe it because if it really was you, I would call you out on it."

"Now that's the Caroline I know," he grinned and she flushed harder, face almost completely red. "Do you need water love?"

"Please," she reached out and he handed her a bottle they left for him before.

She chugged it, knowing he saw right through her.

"Guys we have those reservations at the castle," Stefan told them. "I think it's a nice way to cool off for a bit before getting back into the swing of lines and craziness."

Stefan helped Klaus up and he and Caroline fell towards the end of the pack as they exited.

"Well, i'm glad she forgave you easily," Caroline said awkwardly. "I thought she'd put up a fight."

Klaus looked down at her with an amused look. "I could thank you for the help."

"Yeah, I guess," she looked up at him.

"Why are you so smiley Nik?" Kol questioned, turning around and walking backwards.

He shrugged with a smirk and Caroline felt like she wanted to sink into the ground and never come out.

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"Cinderella's is prettier," Rebekah critiqued.

"I like the colors here more," Klaus contradicted.

"Of course you do Nik, the colors are so much duller."

Luckily, there wasn't long of a wait so they were able to enter the castle quickly. To their left was a stained glass portrait of Belle and Beast dancing in which the light shined through.

"Bet you can't do that," Caroline said to Klaus, breaking the silence she was slightly enforcing.

"Please," Klaus scoffed.

Caroline laughed and rolled the rest deeper into the castle's restaurant. Through the halls where you order were large chandelier lights and knight armor lining the corridors.

Caroline felt as if she could run through these barren halls with a gown singing and dancing without a care in the world.

At the end of the hall there was a rounded area with kiosk-menus to order the quick services on. Since there weren't many, they grouped up.

"All of this looks awful," Klaus said as she scrolled through the options.

"You picked this place."

"Because I thought you'd like it," he told her. "But I can see I was wrong because you don't know what you want either."

Caroline chuckled. "I'll do a spring chicken salad," she clicked her order and added a beverage. "All right you go."

Klaus followed through the steps and ended up going with Braised Chicken (Coq Au Vin Style).

"You two done over there? Jesus you've been there for days!" Kol shouted.

"Shut up Kol," Klaus rolled his eyes.

Caroline smirked and they followed the rest of the group into the main dining room.

"Holy crap," Caroline gasped and circled around. The room was beautifully decorated with a grand ballroom restaurant. The ceiling was painted a sky blue with painted clouds with pink hems and topped with two of the biggest chandeliers she had ever seen—gold chandeliers with a billion candles. The rest of the walls were designed like a real castle with balconies as if it was an opera house. There were fake windows that started from the floor to the ceiling look out at the night starry sky as if you were int eh movie. It was one of the most beautiful things she's ever seen.

The waiters walked around with elegant serving carts topped with pure white tablecloths and silver dishes. They wore suits and pinned name tags to their jackets.

The main room branches off into smaller themed rooms, which guests were dining.

"Okay I have no words," Caroline said in awe.

"Maybe the interior here is better than Cinderella's," Rebekah laughed as they sat. All of them sat at a big circular table right in the center of the room, waiting for the waiters to come around with their food.

"I feel like im back at you're stupid house warming ball," Caroline said.

"Thats what it is!" Stefan remembered. "I knew this reminded me of something."

No one was dancing obviously, but it gave her the urge to dance with him again.

"That bloody party," Kol rolled eyes. "Your brother Damon snapped my neck."

"Right, well, he can be a dick," Stefan raised his brows.

Eventually, the servers came around with silver platters and their meals.

"You know, for the display, the food isn't that great," Kol said, talking mostly with food in his mouth.

"It's not," Klaus agreed. "I could take you to real France an we can get way better for than this," he winked at her.

She rolled her eyes. "Well, you can tomorrow."

"Whats tomorrow?" Bonnie asked.

"We're going to Epcot," Klaus pointed to himself and Caroline.

"Well we're coming," Rebekah gestured to the rest of them.

"Cant we just have one bloody day?"

"Hey, you don't get to be mean to me remember?" Rebekah scolded.

He waved his hands in innocence and sat back in the chair. "You got me."

"Well, actually I have something planned for us tomorrow," Stefan looked at Rebekah next to him.

"Really?" She jumped up in shock. "Stefan Salvatore doing something for little old me?"

Stefan rolled his eyes with a smile. "It's a surprise and Kol say nothing," Stefan eyes him.

"Wouldn't if I wanted to," he smirked. "Well I guess that just leaves us Bon-Bon," Kol stretched his arm around her chair.

"Let the little witch be, Kol," Klaus said.

"Help," Bonnie mouthed to Caroline, making her laugh.

"Sorry, I think you're stuck with Kol," she winked.

"Great," Bonnie scrunched her nose and looked at him, not admitting she was actually glad to have his company for the day.

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Caroline and Rebekah finished early and decided to take a little tour around the place.

"Happy to get away from Nik for like—the first time this trip?" Rebekah laughed.

"You'd be surprised," Caroline laughed alongside her.

"Is he really that bad?"

"W-What no thats not what I meant!"

"You mean a break from the sexual tension."

"Rebekah!"

"Fine, fine. You two are the only ones with their heads in the clouds."

"I do not have my head in the clouds."

"Nik cares about you Caroline, and if you hurt him—"

"I won't," Caroline looked at her. She was putting on a strong face for her but Caroline knew that Rebekah was seriously afraid of her hurting her bother. "I won't hurt him."

Rebekah nodded as they entered a new room. It was dark and in the back of the room was a glowing rose.

"Woah," Rebekah said as they approached it.

"It looks real," Caroline awed. The hologram rose in a golden encrusted case, shimmering on a pedestal.

"I wanna keep it," Rebekah pouted and then bursted into laugher.

"Me too!"

"You know, in all these years I never expected to enjoy someones company so much," Rebekah smiled at her

"When I first met you you were the blonde bitch courting Matt," Caroline sighed and looked at the rose. "And now look at us."

Rebekah smiled and looked down.

"How are things with Stefan?" Caroline asked suddenly.

"You'd be surprised, he's a real sweetheart," Rebekah grinned. "He treats me right, unlike many other people I've been with."

"Im glad he got over Elena with someone as good for him as you," she looked at her. "You've changed, all you wanted was to be loved and I see that now."

"I'm glad," Rebekah smiled, holding the tears back in her eyes. "I'm glad he's giving us a day to ourselves tomorrow."

"What do you think you'll do?" Caroline smirked.

"A little this, a little that," she winked.

"Rebekah!"

"What? Am I just going to pretend you didn't kiss my brother earlier!"

"I-," Caroline gasped and felt her face burn. "You bitch."

Rebekah winked again and blew a kiss. "Thats what I do best."

The two girls walked out of the room, laughing, not caring if the whole world could hear.

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Next they headed towards tomorrow land.

"So is like place supposed to resemble the future?" Caroline asked Klaus as once again they lingered towards the back of the pack.

"This area is supposed to showcase Walt Disney's ideas of tomorrow—much like we'll see tomorrow at Epcot. The rides here are more futuristic I read."

"I mean it looks futuristic, look at that thing!" She gestured to the 'Astro Orbiter' a ride that holds passengers in spaceships and makes them orbit around moving planets—a very upgraded merry-go-round.

"Do you consider that a spread out sign too?" Klaus teased.

"Ha ha, funny," She rolled her eyes and looked at the Tomorrow Land entry. "You know kinda…"

"Guys!" Rebekah called, turning their attention to the group far ahead. "What are you doing?"

"What?" Caroline shook her head.

"We're gonna be late for the next show!"

"Show?" They said in unison once catching up with her.

"The 'Carousel of Progress,' come on!" Rebekah ran through the crowd with them closely behind. "Kol and Stefan ran ahead leaving Bonnie and I behind. They're letting people into the ride now and if we don't get on we'll have to wait."

Luckily, they just made it inside, grabbing the few open seats left—Klaus and Caroline in the front row on the end and the rest behind them.

"Of course you have to be in the front Nik," Rebekah said and Klaus smirked.

"Do you know what this ride is?" Caroline whispered to Klaus.

"I think I remember reading about it. Apparently it takes you through periods of this family's life."

"Kinda like you," she said aloud and earned a confused look from him. "I mean because you guys have seen so many periods of life."

"Very true," he nodded and stretched his arm across the back of her seat just as the curtains rose. Her eyes turned to his hand that was resting just next to her shoulder.

Why are the smallest things getting to me today?

The ride moved from scene to scene of a man John talking about his home life. The seats moved like a carousel from scene to scene, each one advancing in technology.

"You know he's right," Klaus whispered to her suddenly.

"With what?"

"All of these small technological advances," he said soft enough for only her to hear—dangerously close to her ear.

Caroline didn't look at him and instead tried to stay focused on the show in front of her. "Well, you lived through it."

He nodded as the daughter of the family tripped the electricity, causing everything to shut down and the rest of the family to yell.

Klaus chuckled, "Rebekah did that all the time."

Caroline smiled. "Honestly not surprised."

She heard Rebekah even whisper to Stefan about the million times she's done that, mostly to piss of her brothers.

"I noticed he's not really aging," Caroline observed aloud as they traveled to the next scene.

"I can see the slight change in the animatronic, more wrinkles," Klaus chuckled. Now this scene was more brightly colored. John was sitting at a table with coffee and a newspaper, explaining the advances of that decade. The colors were blues, whites and yellows. The fridge worked and made its own ice and the dishes washed themselves.

"You can see the drastic change in this decade. The kitchen appliances are working much better."

"I like the colors," Caroline said observing them closer. "This seems like the perfect life."

Klaus looked at her as she studied the room. "Suburban. Simple."

"Sometimes that's all one needs," Caroline looked at him for the first time.

He hesitated. "Is that all you need?"

Caroline was about to speed when she was cut off but the scene change with the same song: "There's a great big beautiful tomorrow, shining at the end of every day. There's a great big beautiful tomorrow, and tomorrow, it's just a dream away."

"I like that song."

"You would, wouldn't you," Klaus chuckled, realizing she was avoiding his question.

"It's catchy, it gives hope," she smiled as she started to take in the next scene. "Wow, this is an upgrade."

This scene was the family on Christmas Eve. The left side of the set had a tree, fireplace and two arm chairs where the daughter (now grown up) and grandpa sat with the dog, Rover. In the kitchen was John cooking dinner. His wife was sitting at a desk. Their son was teaching his grandmother virtual reality on the tv—she was killing his high score.

John talked about their new automated oven. If they say a temperature, it would automatically set. During that virtual reality game, the son kept saying new numbers whenever the grandmother reached a new score, which set the oven higher and higher until an alarm sounded off and burned the food.

"See, cons of modern day technology," Klaus said.

Caroline chuckled. "Normal people don't live like this."

"So kids don't get their grandmothers to play virtual reality video games?" He smirked.

Caroline rolled her eyes. "I don't think they have automated ovens."

Once again, that theme song went off sticking into Caroline's head like an earworm.

Tomorrow is just a dream away.

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