A/N: Another chapter in the same day! Not much editing had to happen to this chapter in order to make it ready to read. I love this chapter because THE DRAMA! I hope you all enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it (and rereading it as I edited it).
CHAPTER EIGHT:
'Sick of all the insincere
I'm gonna give all my secrets away.'
Secrets by One Republic.
CAROLINE'S P.O.V.
Throwing my phone down on the bed, I slammed open the bedroom door and stormed through the house to find Katherine. My blood was boiling. I could feel the heat in face as I made my way through the hallway and down the stairs, my hands shaking as I opened the dining room door to find both Katherine and Nadia still debating on old presidents. They both looked up as I bustled into the room, glaring down at them.
I pointed my finger accusingly at Katherine, and she stared up at me from her chair, wide eyed and confused by my sudden reappearance.
"How dare you?" I yelled, pointing my finger in her face.
"What have I done now?" She asked, shifting so that she could look up at me better.
"Not you specifically. You. Plural. How dare you guys keep this from me? I have every right to know that Klaus and I have somehow become mated."
Katherine's eyes widened even further and her mouth opened slightly, looking almost like something from a cartoon. She looked at Nadia, and Nadia just shrugged back at her.
"How do you know about that? No one was supposed to tell you." Her words confirmed exactly what Alaric had told me and my heart beat even faster.
"So it is true! I am mated to Klaus. Why wouldn't you tell me something like that? I have every right to know. I thought that you were keeping something horrible from me. Like my impending doom. I was scared. But now I'm just royally fucking pissed off."
Katherine stood up from her hair, holding her hands up in front of her. "Look, it was Klaus' decision not to tell you. He made us all promise. He wanted to find the best way to tell you about it."
I squared my jaw and placed my hands on my hips. "So, Klaus decided that I shouldn't know? He's the one that decided to hide something that is going to dictate the rest of my life? Of course he bloody is." I curled my lip and narrowed my eyes. "You're driving me to see him. Now. And I'm not taking no for an answer."
I spun on my feet and stormed back up the stairs, stopping halfway and calling back to Katherine. "And don't even think about calling him. I want him nice and surprised when I kick his ass."
Grabbing my phone off of the edge of the bed, I slipped my shoes on, and threw on my hoodie, not even caring how I looked. I met Katherine and Nadia in the entrance, Katherine ordering Nadia to stay there as we climbed into the car. I was glad that Katherine decided to speed her way through the city, the speed making my anger seem to grow rather than fade.
Neither of us spoke during the drive, I just sat staring out the window, chewing the inside of my cheek and ringing my hands together. The tension in the car increased with every mile we drove, and I could tell that Katherine was excited to see what I did.
It didn't take us long to pull into the long driveway next to all of the expensive cars, and I barely let the car stop before I jumped out and started towards the front of the house.
I didn't even make it to the top of the stairs before Elijah opened the door, staring at me curiously as I pushed past him and stormed into the house. I looked around the front rooms, not seeing Klaus anywhere.
When the final room came up empty I opened my mouth and screamed out. "Klaus, you dog. Get your ass down here now!"
A second later Klaus appeared in front of me looking slightly dishevelled and slightly amused. He wore his trademark smirk as he took in my less than perfect appearance. When our eyes met the smirk faltered and he looked past me to where Katherine had just entered, his eyes narrowing dangerously.
"Hello Sweetheart, I wasn't expecting to see you today." He said, keeping his voice pleasant.
"Don't you dare even think about 'sweetheart'ing me. I am so beyond angry at you. How dare you keep this from me? It's my life and I deserve to know when something as monumental as this happens."
"I don't know what you're talking about." He switched his weight from one foot to another, rubbing the back of his neck with his hand.
"Yes you do, you…urgh! I can't even find the proper words to insult you with." I threw my hands up into the air and then reached across the space between us to push hard against his chest, which happened to be a horrible idea. A shockwave of electricity ran through my hands and up my arms. It almost made me forget what made me so angry at him. Almost. Looking into his eyes I saw that they had softened at my touch. "Don't even think about looking down at me like that. How the hell can you justify not telling me that some weird wolf-thing made you mate with me? Did it ever occur to you that that was something I should maybe know? Or did you expect me not to notice what was going on around me? I am not an idiot."
His jaw tenses as I spoke and his eyes lifted from mine to glare over my shoulder.
"Katherine didn't have to tell me anything, Klaus. I'm smart enough to figure it out on my own. The only person you should be angry with is yourself. I can't even comprehend how stupid and selfish you are." I was panting and out of breath as I finished my long spiel, still glaring up at him. "So, what do you have to say for yourself? Huh?"
He opened and closed his mouth like a fish before words actually made their way out, his hard voice turning soft. "I was waiting for the right time to tell you."
"The right time?" I screamed. "The right time would have been the moment that you found out. The night that you sat down all cosy next to me and asked me about my future. That was the right time. I had to eavesdrop on cryptic conversations and then lie to a friend in order to find out what was going on. As you can probably imagine, it came as quite a shock."
"Well maybe you should have minded your own business and waited until I was ready." He yelled back, stepping towards me, his face darkening with each word.
I gasped, readying myself to slap him across the face, but was stopped by Katherine stepping between us. "Woah. You two need to calm down."
Moving away from Klaus, I continued to stare at him angrily. He stepped back too, but his gaze softened as he looked at me. I was close to snapping out of the trance of madness that I was under, but I pushed myself to remember that he had kept this secret from me for days. And it wasn't a small white lie that wouldn't affect my life. It was something that would have an impact on every day of the rest of my life.
"Now. Yes, Klaus was a dick for not telling you right away. Yes, he's an ass. But I don't think screaming at each other is going to solve anything. So, why don't we all just calm down and-"
"What's going on now?" Rebekah said from the front door. I turned to look at her, taking in the tall, tanned man that she was accompanied by.
Katherine looked up, opening her mouth to shoot a snarky retort back at Rebekah, but froze, staring directly at the handsome stranger. His eyes landed on her and they grew wide. Something in her completely changed. Her face turned an unhealthy shade of grey and her shoulders slumped in defeat.
"Caroline and I were just having a small domestic." Klaus said, stepping forward. He walked past Katherine and I and headed towards his sister, shaking the man's hand enthusiastically. An enthusiasm that wasn't shared with the man. He quickly dropped Klaus' hand and looked back at Katherine. "Andre, old friend. What are you doing down in New Orleans?"
I turned my attention back to Katherine as she took a hesitant step forward, one hand coming up to her necklace, the other one covering her mouth. I could see Elijah looking between the two of them as well, watching their reactions to one another.
"I'm just passing through. I ran into Rebekah at a bar and she told me you guys were staying here for a while." He said, his words coated in a light accent. "It's nice to see that you and your remaining siblings are getting along. I was sorry to hear about Finn and Kol, my condolences."
Katherine seemed to snap out of her catatonic state and it was quickly replaced with rage. Rage like I had never seen it before. Katherine's eyes immediately grew veiny and red, her teeth elongating as she hissed. Everyone in the room tensed and I took an instinctual step away from her, knowing that one wrong move and I would get snapped in two. Rebekah's eyes widened as she looked between Andre and Katherine for the first time since she arrived at the house. Elijah was the only one who dared a step towards Katherine, edging closer to her without trying to make it seem obvious.
Within a split second Katherine had lunged towards Andre and tackled him through the front door, and down the porch steps. Klaus and Elijah jumped into action and ran after them, leaving the rest of us standing there in shock. Had that just happened? I had seen Katherine do a number of horrible things before, I had been on the receiving end of some of those horrible things, but she had never lost control and attacked someone like that.
I rushed forward to see what was happening, watching Klaus and Elijah as they tried to pull Katherine off of Andre. He didn't seem to be fighting back, just taking hit after hit as she sent them his way. She was screaming in what was probably Bulgarian.
Klaus managed to break her vice-like grip on Andre's shirt and him and Elijah scooped her up into their arms and pulled back.
Klaus handed her over to Elijah and reached to help Andre stand back up, whose once neat hair was now mussed as he tried to straighten out his dishevelled clothes. He stood, reassuring Klaus that he was okay, while Katherine continued to scream at him.
Elijah carried a struggling Katherine up the front steps and towards the front door where I stood. I stepped aside to let them through. As they went passed I looked over at Andre as he started to climb he steps. He was watching Katherine disappear inside, his eyes flickering to mine.
My breath caught in my throat as I took in the brilliant emerald green eyes that bore into my blue ones.
A sudden noise behind me told me that Katherine had broken loose, and I quickly moved further inside as she stormed out the front door, her blood-soaked hands clenched into fists at her side, Elijah following at her heels.
"You slimy son of a bitch. How could you?" She yelled, pulling her arms out of Elijah's grip. "I love you. I mourned you for years. And you've been gallivanting around this whole fucking time, like you left nothing behind."
I stared wide eyed as the strong and powerful woman I knew seemed to break apart in front of me. Her rage made the anger that I had felt earlier seem like a happy greeting, but as the tears started to fall down her cheeks I knew that whatever this man had done to Katherine had to have been significant for it to warrant this sort of reaction. And for what I guessed was the first time in a long time, Katherine fell to the ground and wept. "I lost everything because of you. I sacrificed so much for you, and you've been alive this whole time."
