AN: Hey here's chapter 5!
As I added this to the doc manager I realized that its a pretty lengthy chapter but I wanted all of the airplane and airport activities all in one chapter.
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They all squished into one car, Leo's. Leo was at the driver's seat while Klaus hanging on the passenger side. Cisco was complaining that he had to sit in the back-back, and not in the passenger seat next to his 'idol', and Barry was complaining that he didn't beat Cisco earlier in their morning race. Caroline, Gypsy and Grace were in the second row, and were perfectly content with it.
They drove to the airport, stopping every five seconds to sit in traffic.
"I hate traffic," Leo whined, throwing his head back against the seat.
"It'll pass," Klaus reassured his frustrated brother.
"We're behind on schedule!" Caroline panicked, leaning in between the front seats and pointing to her bare wrist as if there was a watch on it.
"Remember we made a backup?" Leo reminded her frantic brain.
"Yeah I know, but I didn't want to have to resort to the back up!"
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They pulled up to the airport and found a parking spot, quickly. They walked into the grand space of the airport and looked around. Busy people were flooding the floors and running to catch their flights.
"Come on guys!" Caroline started running.
"We're vampires we don't have to run!" Grace whined.
"Well we can't get lost!"
They went to baggage check and they put their bags on the moving conveyor belt, then headed upstairs to get their carry-ons inspected and go through security. They waited on the line for 20 minutes when Caroline checked the time.
"OH MY GOD!" Caroline screamed. She shoved the phone in Leo's face because he was the only one that truly understood.
Barry rolled his eyes. "Chill out, we're fine."
"SHUT UP!" Leo and Caroline yelled. Barry put his hands up in defeat as if he was waving a white flag.
Caroline conjured up an idea.
"Think about it Leo," Caroline started. "You are famous, you are hot," She could feel Klaus's eyes roll from behind her. "You can get us to the front of the line."
"That's a brilliant idea, and why, thank you," Caroline grinned and preformed a fake curtsy.
They walked up to the security guard at the front of the long line. The people waiting in line wanted to protest at the group walking in front of them, but they saw the leader, Leonardo DiCaprio. They also didn't want to mess with the creepy, yet hot guy in the back glaring at the people who looked at the pretty blonde in front of him. The girls gawked at the leader and eyed the other men following, jealous of the three girls in the group. Girls wanted pictures and autographs but Leo politely shooed them away. They reached the front of the line and the security guards eyes widened at the man in front of her.
"Hello miss, we are about to miss our flight... do you mind if we cut in so we would be on time?" Leo asked the girl with wide eyes.
The lady immediately shook her head yes. "Of course.. but can I please get a picture?!" She pleaded.
Leo wanted to protest but she was letting them cut, so… theres really no choice there. "Of course."
They heard some people from the like whine about them not being able to take a picture like the lucky security guard that picked the perfect hours that day to work.
The picture snapped and she let out a quiet, but noticeable, squeal. They went through the metal detectors to be inspected one by one. Leo was first, he slid off his slides and walked right through. He claimed his shoes and put them back on. Caroline was after him, she pulled off her Uggs and walked through, the cold floor seeping through her socks. Grace did the same as her, except she was wearing pink socks and her Ugg's were black and not beige like Caroline's. Gypsy went through and took off her leather boots, she was also wearing black socks so it looked like she didn't take off anything. Klaus went through next and felt violated taking his shoes off in public. He was wearing the same thing as Leo, slides and socks. Surprisingly, it's the new trend, and he just didn't feel like putting sneakers on that morning, plus walking on the cold, dirty, airport floor with bare feet, was just ew. Caroline and Leo's OCD-ness would certainly not approve. Plus, he usually preferred socks anyway. Come to think of it, Elijah would also pound him he went through and touched dirty germ filled airport floor with any part of his skin. Cisco went next. He took off his adidas and threw them through. He didn't realize it but that morning he had put on socks that were slippery, so when he walked through, he face planted. Barry followed, except he tripped right over Cisco.
Of course.
Grace laughed at them, knowing how typical it was, until someone tapped her on her shoulder. She turned around to see a familiar face smiling at her. It was Will, Will Gilbert, her high school friend.
"Will?!"
"Hey Grace!" He smiled. "I have something for you." He unzipped his bag and handed her an orange envelope. She eyed it suspiciously.
"What is this?"
"You need to open it in a time of distress. Don't open it otherwise, Grace, promise?"
"Uh sure.." She took the envelope hesitantly.
The man smiled. "Thank you, Grace." He brushed past her. Okay... that was weird, she thought. She unzipped her bag and put the envelope in.
Caroline called to the rest. "Come on! We're going to be late!"
Everyone ran to where the plane was boarding. Caroline whispered under her breath, "D13, D13."
They reached gate D13 and let out a sigh of relief. "Thank god we made it," Gypsy breathed. "Maybe if Cisco and Barry didn't fall we would still have time to spare."
"Hey come on!" Cisco crossed his arms.
"He's the one that fell, I was merely following him," Barry sipped his coffee. "And I'm the Flash I could of easily done this quicker.
"Thats what you said this morning…" Grace whispered to Caroline, a bit loud for Barry to hear.
"Okay I'm gonna pound yo-!"
"Hey where'd you get that?" Grace pouted casually, pointing to Barry's hands. In his hands rests a fresh cup of hot coffee.
"I have super speed."
"So do we," Caroline argued.
"Well not like me…"
"Well almost like you," They shot back.
They walked further into the gate and sat down in the the slick black seats.
"I just wanna sleep!" Cisco whined.
"You can sleep on the plane," Gypsy told him in a monotone voice.
"I have coffee to charge up," Barry bragged.
"Why do you brag so much?" Grace groaned.
"Because I can."
"It's like all the time Barry, it's annoying," Caroline added. "You brag about your science skills are how your speed is faster than vamp speed, and that you're better..."
"Okay I get it! And sorry I am faster than you, I am the Flash," He grinned sipping his coffee like it was fresh out of Jitters. The girls rolled their eyes for what felt like the millionth time in the past few hours.
"I wish I was like you," Cisco said causing them to all look his way. "What? I wanna be fast."
"You can like, teleport," Caroline said. Leo and Klaus looked at each other and quickly sped off without anyone noticing as they kept arguing over who was faster and Barry's bragging.
"The plane leaving for Aruba at 7:00AM will be delayed, we don't know how long but we'll notify you with further announcements," The over head announced.
"Come on!" Cisco said leaning his head against the back of his seat.
"Oh get over it! Why do you whine so much!" Gypsy groaned hitting his arm. "I knew this was going to happen."
"Because it's the only joy I have left," He looked into Gypsy's eyes, causing mini sparks to fly between their gaze. She looked back to the ground and blushed, feeling slightly guilty and really, really, awkward. "And, I just can." He added to cover what he just admitted. The others knew that that affected them, relationship wise, they weren't stupid.
"Were back!" Leo announced.
Caroline uncrossed her legs and sat up straight, looking to her side and finding Klaus's seat very much empty. "Where the hell did you two go?"
"To get coffee," Klaus said showing them the cup holders with six cups. Klaus handed Caroline one and she mouthed "thank you," while he retuned by mouthing, "you're welcome love."
Leo handed Grace one and she smiled and thanked him. He nodded and mouthed "No problem."
Leo handed Cisco his, expecting him to say something. "Oh em gee Leo is giving me a coffee."
Leo sighed. "Yes, yes he is."
Klaus handed Gypsy hers. "Thank you."
"No problem, love," He grinned.
"Klaus, Leo the plane is delayed," Caroline told them.
"So we didn't need to cut after all," Leo pouted.
"It was still fun…" Grace
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They still didn't know what time the plane was delayed to. It's been 45 minutes. Barry had his legs propped up on his bag and he was listening to music on his phone. Gypsy was looking at her phone and trying to ignore Cisco who fell asleep on her shoulder, but obviously she was freaking out, on the inside at least.
"Awww!" The girls squealed. Gypsy glared at them and they shut up. Klaus was drawing in his sketch pad and Caroline watched with an amused grin..
"I don't understand Klaus," Caroline started, moving closer to him. "I can't even draw a stick figure." She put her elbow on the armrest of his chair and her face in her hand.
"Well I've been around for a long time," He mumbled, continuing to sketch on the thick paper.
"Can I see some?" Leo asked.
Klaus nodded and started to rummage through the pages, skipping the ones he's drawn of Caroline since she was looking right at the book.
He flipped to show him a picture of Rebekah, his sister.
"Who is she?" He asked.
"That's my sister, Rebekah."
"She's beautiful," He said looking at the drawing of the girl.
Grace eyed Leo. She didn't like that every girl in the world adored him, the boy she maybe possibly could maybe like. She loved that Leo was a star and famous, but sometimes she wished he was just a normal guy, which he is, but he is extremely good looking and very, very famous. She'd be okay with if Klaus was famous, or even Cisco, or Barry and that girls would go head over heels for them, but Leo, her Leo… she just doesn't want to loose him.
She'll never let him know but, if he is ever sucked into the world of fame and becomes leaves them behind, that, that is her biggest fear.
"Yes, but she's a bit crazy," Klaus laughed as he started to turn the page. His face went blank and his body tensed.
"Is that.."
"Elijah," Klaus interrupted. "That's Elijah. My dead brother. I drew this before he died as a gift for his birthday, which was a week from the day he was killed. I never got to give it to him… I didn't know this was in here."
They studied the drawing of Elijah. The features on his face were smeared a bit, enough to make up his smile, but his body was covered with a perfect suit and his hands were at the collar. They could even make out the small ring on his finger, proving that Klaus paid attention to the little details. Caroline's mind drifted to something else, what if she did meet Elijah? Would he of approved of her? Would he like her? Would he appreciate her helping Klaus? If there is a such thing as an afterlife… if he watching over them? Klaus?
They were silent for a minute before Caroline slowly turned the page, Klaus wasn't paying attention because his gaze was locked on the wall in front of him. Memories were flooding his mind, stirring up things he didn't want rustled. Caroline looked down at the page she was turning and saw something. She took the book out of his lap and put it in hers, knowing Klaus didn't feel her remove it. Leo and Graces eyes followed the drawing on it.
"Oh my god..." Caroline muttered.
"The flight to Aruba will now be boarding!" A peppy girls voice came over the loudspeaker. Caroline quickly put the pad back on Klaus's lap and flipped the page back to Rebekah, not Elijah. She tried to play it off like nothing happened, she totally didn't just see a detailed picture of herself. Her hair perfectly cascading over her shoulders while the look in her eyes was one of pure beauty.
She snapped her fingers in front of his face, trying to get him to snap out of his gaze.
"The planes boarding," She told him.
He blinked twice, clearing any remains of the trance he was placed in. "Alright."
They got up and looked at Gypsy and Cisco.
"Stuck in a icky situation?" Grace teased, draping her backpack over her shoulder and gripping her fingers around the handle of her carry on.
"No," Gypsy replied sarcastically. "I'm perfectly content."
"I'll help..." Barry smirked. "CISCO THERE'S ICE CREAM OVER HERE!" He yelled on the top of his lungs, causing people from around to eye them weirdly. Cisco jumped up like a two year old.
"WHERE?!" He looked around and noticed that he was in an airport, and people were still looking. "Really?"
Barry shrugged. "The plane is boarding."
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On the plane 1st class seats
"I've never been in first class before," Caroline awed, touching the seat as they walked down the aisle.
"I have," Leo grinned. The group looked at him as if to say "you don't say Mr. Actor?"
They were at the back in first class, achieving their own private little area because no one else took the empty seats around them. The seats were reversible to the group moved them to face each other. They were in rows of two, Klaus and Caroline sat next to each other while Leo and Grace sat across from them. Adjacent to them past the isle was Barry and Cisco and Gypsy.
"Enjoying yourselves over there?" Grace asked as she peered over Leo and saw the Gypsy sitting in silence while Cisco and Barry poked fun at each other across from her.
"Never better," Cisco grinned. Gypsy rolled her eyes but the smile was still plastered on her face.
"Ive never been on a plane…" Caroline mumbled.
Klaus looked to her with wide eyes. "What?"
"You've never been on a plane!" Leo said, astonished.
"No I mean I lived in Mystic Falls, Virginia. It was a very small town and it was hard to leave it. When we did travel we drove."
"You drove to California?!" Grace exclaimed.
"You went to California?" Leo asked.
"Yeah as a kid, I wanted to see Hollywood."
"I know the feeling," Leo grinned.
"Right Mr. Hollywood."
"So it took you days to drive there, right?" Grace asked.
"Yes."
"I feel bad for your mom and dad," Klaus smirked in his classic way.
"Why?"
"Because they probably had to sit through you singing and complaining the whole time!"
"Ugh you ass!" She playfully hit him. "Why did I ever tell you that?!"
"Because you love each other!" Grace teased.
Caroline glared at her while her cheeks brushed pink. "Because I'm just that awesome," Klaus grinned.
"Oh so theres that ego I love so much," She teased.
"Well, it slips out every once in a while."
"Well Grace told me something…" Leo smirked.
"Ive told you many things…. wait. Many EMBARRASSING things! No Leo!" Grace panicked.
"Spill Leo," Caroline insisted.
"When she was a baby she was running on the beach and face planted into the sand."
"Why?" Gypsy joined in from across the isle.
"Tell 'em Grace."
She pouted. "No, its to embarrassing."
"Grace…"
"Fine! I saw a hot boy…"
Caroline bursted out laughing. "Weren't you a kid?!"
"She was four."
That only made Caroline laugh harder. "A-any m-mo-ore?"
"Yes-"
Grace put her hand over Leo's mouth, making sure to shield the next words that might slip.
"Come on Grace, spill the juice bits of your childhood," Barry grinned. "We'll be stuck on this plane for hours."
"He's not wrong…"
"I'll tell another," Leo suggested, reviving a groan from the brunette next to him. "When Grace was eight she wanted to rebel."
"Rebel against what?" Caroline asked.
"School rules."
"Ugh Leo!" Grace face-palmed.
"So, she went into the bathroom and tried to escape through the windows above the sink…"
"Which resulted in me slipping on water and falling onto the tile floor, crying out for a teacher and being asked a million questions on how I managed to hurt myself… in a bathroom."
More laughter. "Okay lets switch now! Caroline your turn!" Grace turned the conversation around.
"What why me? I already went!"
"That was just one story, love. I'm almost 100% more you've told me more…"
"So Mr. Know-it-all, tell them one," She pouted.
She knew he didn't like being put on the spot, but he took this as an opportunity to grow more acquainted with the group. "Well, when Caroline was five years old she kissed a boy."
"What?" Gypsy gasped. "At three years old! I didn't have my first kiss till I was a teenager!"
"Well what you guys don't know is that I was crushing on this boy for a while before I kissed him so I was super excited…"
"But then…" Klaus added.
"But then I kissed him, he was surprised and I was embarrassed. Everyone in the class laughed and turns out I didn't like it as much as I thought… so he and I both yelled cooties and ran to the corners of the room for the rest of the day…. Yeah yeah bring on the laughs."
"Gypsy you go!" Grace said.
"Oh oh I have one for her!" Cisco stepped up. "When she first met me she was a badass who wanted to pretty much kill me!"
"What seriously?" Caroline gasped.
"Its true, I was there. Cisco was scared," Barry grinned.
"Was not!"
"You so were," Gypsy scoffed.
"No! I was scared that you would think I'm weak!"
"Well it was pretty much a fight for your life so you should've feared that…"
"Did you fight?" Klaus asked.
"A little… lets not get into that but when Cisco was born he threw up on all of the nurses!" Gypsy came back.
"Ugh! Well when she was a kid she almost vibed herself to space!"
"I was like four!"
"Leo share something now!" Caroline kicked his leg.
"Umm well thats a lot of years to cover…"
"Just give one, I'm sure Klaus is interested too," Caroline said.
"I mean anything to know more about you," Klaus said.
"Well I'll try to think of something embarrassing."
"I have one for him," Grace raised her hand.
"Oh?" Leo narrowed his eyebrows and looked to her. She moved closer and whispered something in his ear. "Ugh that story!"
"Yes come on!"
"Fine. When I was on set of the Titanic I may of well…"
"Fell into the water!" Grace bursted.
"What!" Caroline laughed astonished.
"You seriously fell into the water?!" Gypsy said.
"Yes… worst part of it is that it was my first day on set…"
"Bad timing mate," Klaus let out a chuckle and grinned at his brother.
"Fine, laugh all you want but Klaus, its your turn now."
"Bloody hell," He muttered. "To many years to recover, they all just sorta mush together."
"I know the feeling," Leo agreed.
"Well there has to be something," Barry said. "If you've been around a thousand years it means you have a thousand years of memories."
"Caroline can you think of anything?" Gypsy asked.
"Ummmmm…" She thought. "Wait yes!" She turned and whispered into Klaus's ear, just like Grace had done to Leo seconds earlier.
"Ugh no not that story," Klaus shooed her off.
"Come on!"
"Fine. When I was a child I was very much into painting…"
"Which he still is…" Caroline said, thinking back to the beautiful drawings she accidentally saw in his notebook earlier while they were waiting to board the plane.
"I snuck out in the middle of the night when everyone went to sleep to sneak around the woods to try and make new paints out of leaves and berries. I remember when I ran back to my siblings swearing I had just invented a new color."
"Turquoise," Caroline added, grinning at the thought of the young Klaus running home with a goofy smile on his face and claiming he just made a new color.
"Yes, turns out I didn't but I like to think I did. Anyway one time when I snuck out I didn't pay attention to where I was walking and well…"
"He got stuck in a net, a net used to trap rabbits and small animals," Caroline held in her laughter.
"I was probably about 12 years old and I was stuck up there all night with only the moon as a light source. I was in trouble, but man when my brothers found me the look on their faces were priceless," He chuckled.
"Wait, Klaus?" Leo looked at him.
"Hm?"
"I remember that…"
"What?" He looked his half brother in the eyes.
"One night I snuck out as well, I wanted to run away for a bit, I don't remember why but I knew I needed to. I remember hearing a snap somewhere and the rustling of trees. I tried to approach quietly and I found a young boy caught in a net. I had no idea how stupid someone would be to get trapped in an animal net," Leo empathized, earning another amused grin from Klaus. "But I ran home and got my—our dad to help. By the time I was back three other boys were there, helping you down."
"Kol, Finn and E-Elijah," Klaus recited. "Well I guess that saying is true, you learn something new everyday."
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The group shared more childhood stories. Funny ones from Barry, mostly about him learning his speed or being a young clueless child. It was almost like a game, just passing around in a circle till they exhausted themselves of information.
"We're currently experiencing some plane turbulence so don't panic, just put your seatbelt on please, thank you!" The flight attendants voice rang through the small plane.
"Is it going down?!" Caroline shuddered and gripped the seat's armrest tightly.
"Calm down love, its just turbulence."
"What the hell does that mean?!"
"Fell that shake?" Leo said. She did. "That is turbulence."
"D-Does it mean anything bad?"
"No," Klaus responded reassuringly. "You're a vampire, Caroline. I promise you're safe."
She nodded and sulked under her seat.
"I haven't been on a plane for a while either," Cisco said.
"Why?" Caroline asked.
"I'm just so used to teleporting everywhere I don't need it."
"I'm with him," Gypsy agreed.
"I don't need planes because of the speed, it might take a while but I can run anywhere I want."
"Even across water?" Klaus asked.
"Even across water."
"Yeah well our speed might not be as epic as yours, but we're still fast," Grace argued.
"Come on seriously? I can beat you any day!"
"Wanna bet!" Caroline and Grace growled causing a groan from the rest as if they were saying, 'Seriously, this again!'
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Caroline reached under her seat and felt an eye mask under her fingers.
She pulled the string and wrapped it around her blonde head of hair. "Oh my god it's like were pirates!"
Grace did the same. "Care it's our childhood!"
"I was always the mermaid though…"
"No, you always wanted to be the mermaid but I was always lucky and picked the right straw."
"Oh right that's how it went," Caroline took off the eye mask and played with it in her hands. She grinned and put the eye mask on Klaus, ruffling his already ruffled hair in the process.
"Was that really necessary?" he asked putting his hands up in 'defeat'.
"Yes."
"Klaus I dare you to keep it on for as long as you can." Leo said, making up an unnecessary challenge, or in this case necessary. Somehow with them, anything became something fun. They always seem to be thinking of new, random things to have fun with.
He peeked his eye through. "I dare you too as well."
"Challenge accepted," Leo said as Grace put the dark mask over his eyes.
Caroline leaned over and whispered in Klaus's ear. "You're going to fall asleep with that on you know."
He shook his head. "No I wont love."
"Suit yourself." Yeah. Right. You and you're big ego. "Gypsy!"
"What?" She said from across the small isle.
"Have Cisco and Barry do the challenge too."
"What challenge?"
"The eye mask challenge," Grace chimed in.
"What the hell is that?"
"Have them take their eye mask from below them and put it on. Who ever takes it off last, wins," Caroline explained.
"What if you fall asleep?" Cisco asked.
"That's even better," Caroline answered.
The other two boys did the same as Leo and Klaus. Why did they make up the most random games? At the most random times?
"Wait what about you girls?" Barry asked.
"It'll mess up our hair!" Caroline pouted.
"Of course it will."
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They were talking for a while about things they were going to do in Aruba, Caroline even told Leo about her list. He wanted to see it so bad but he couldn't because he was blindfolded, so she told him he could see it when he loses.
Caroline plugged her headphones into her phone and grabbed Klaus's eye mask from under his seat since he had hers on. Cisco and Barry were sleeping. Well, they didn't really have much else to do because Gypsy was in her own world and doing something on her laptop. Grace plugged in her headphones and grabbed Leo's mask from under his seat.
"Leo?" she whispered. He didn't answer. She smiled and then put the mask over her eyes settling into her spot next to Leo. Caroline looked at Klaus and he wasn't moving. His breathing was in sync, so that was good. She didn't want to bother him so she put her eye mask on, leaned her head against her head rest and listened to the music through her head phones.
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Leo
Leo woke up in an unfamiliar place. There was sand everywhere and the sky was filled with reds and purple. Leo stood up and realized that he was only wearing shorts. He continued to walk till he felt something cool on his bare feet. The ground was now snow and the sky was now a dark royal blue. The wind was whipping and he heard a gunshot in the distance and a girl scream.
"GET AWAY FROM ME!" She screamed.
"GRACE!" He ran to the screaming voice. The atmosphere around him shifted into what seemed like different worlds. The northern lights filled the sky and the ground switched from rocks, to snow, to grass, to sand and to dirt. The snow pelted on his face along with autumn leaves and the summers golden sun rays. "WHERE ARE YOU!"
"Leo!" She yelled in pain.
"I'M COMING GRACE!"
The worlds still shifted but he kept his focus on Grace's panicked voice.
"I'M GOING TO DIE! LEO PLEASE HELP! EVERYONE'S DEAD!" She pleaded, letting out a hoarse cry. He saw a hut in the distance. He barged inside and saw something he never thought he would see. His friends. Dead.
Caroline, Gypsy, Cisco, Barry and... Klaus. Klaus was laying near Caroline on his back. His skin was desiccated and Leo felt something die inside of him. The brother he searched for for years was dead. He looked nearby and the girl from the drawing was lying there dead too. He saw four more people he didn't recognize.
"What is this..." Leo said with helpless tears falling down his face.
Graces sobbing was out of control now. "Help me Leo!"
She was tied up and shot, blood seeping through her shirt. "Oh no Grace no…"
"He killed them..." She said, gulping for air.
"NO!" Leo cried holding the girl in his arms.
"We should've listened to him…"
"To Who?! Who should we of listened to?!"
"Dan—" Grace muttered before she passed out cold. Then, two men emerged. They were intimidating, around the same height and had the hint of the devil in their eyes.
"NOOOO!" Leo screamed.
Everyone was dead. Everyone he loved. His family.
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Caroline jolted awake at a slight shake of the plane. She didn't recognize the song that was playing through her headphones, meaning that she had dozed off for a while. She took off the eye mask she was wearing and put it on her lap, causing her hair to frizz. And Barry wondered why they didn't want to do the challenge!
She felt a weight on her shoulder and tried not to freak out when she saw Klaus's curly dirty blonde mess of curls through the corner of her eye. He fell asleep on her shoulder. Niklaus Mikaelson had fallen asleep on her shoulder!
"Oh my god," She whispered under her breath trying not to move.
"Awww!" Grace whispered while taking off her eye mask her hair falling in brunette waves down her back. Caroline looked over at her friend with a totally shocked expression.
"Ooh Caroline's getting it," Gypsy chuckled looking at her phone.
"Shh!" She hushed. Klaus's red lips were slightly parted, they quivered a bit. Caroline couldn't hide the smile on her face.
"Take a picture Care!" Grace urged.
"I can't do that to him…"
"Why?"
"He has this weird problem where he doesn't like sleeping around people. He claims that he needs to keep watch so that nothing bad happens in his wake. It all started after El-… never mind," She opted not to get into that right now. "That's why he stayed up all night last night and I think he did the night before too."
"He must be exhausted."
"I know," Caroline placed her hand on his knee and rubbed with her finger tenderly. His hair was touching her neck and cheekbone, itching at her skin. He adjusted himself so he was further upon her shoulder. She let out a quiet, muffled squeal of delight. She reached up and touched his hair with her other hand, running her fingers through his curly tufts.
"You like him don't you, like, like like him," Grace grinned causing Caroline to sigh. "Come on I'm your best friend."
"Yes...I do," She admitted. "Since I first met him I was intrigued."
Grace smiled. "I could tell."
"You like Leo, admit it."
"I do. I cant deny it anymore… I need someone to know. I trust you guys."
"You guys found people who really care for you," Gypsy said. Grace and Caroline looked at each other and then to her sympathetically.
"You have Cisco," Grace told her.
"I know but that is a long, complicated relationship that I don't want to jump back into..."
"Just yet…" Caroline finished her sentence. Gypsy smiled and let out a low laugh.
"Grace, I guess we really do have friendships that are evolving…" Caroline grinned, remembering their talk in her apartment yesterday.
"Ha ha yeah… I just feel like Leo is so good looking..." Grace started.
"Ego much?" Caroline said.
"Well I mean it's true! He's a superstar!" Grace stated the obvious.
"I mean yeah…" Caroline agreed.
"Well you are doing fine too!" Gypsy pointed. "I mean look at that piece of man that you have there." She chuckled and pointed to Klaus. Caroline smiled, knowing her tone was playful but still pretty true. "Sexy accent."
"And red lips," Grace pointed out. "I mean does he wear lipstick or something?!"
"No I've asked him that before! I was so jealous!"
"What did he say?" Gypsy asked.
"He said that he uses chapstick," Caroline answered blandly.
"Bull!" Grace leaned back. "I mean look!" She squinted and looked at Klaus's lips.
"Okay this is getting weird now," Caroline chuckled at her two friends examining her 'friends' lips. "Okay seriously!"
"Lucky dude here," Grace said. "We are all very lucky, and Gypsy," She looked at Caroline. "Cisco is totally adorable."
"I know," Gypsy grinned. "And that's what I like."
"Well we have a pretty good selection here… Leo is pretty Hollywood movie star hot, Klaus is charming sexy British accent hot, Cisco is sciencey, cute lovable hot, and Barry... is Barry but he's even very good looking," Grace summarized the men in their group.
"Cheers to that," Caroline held up a fake wine glass in the hand that wasn't on Klaus's leg. She looked back over at Klaus and was happy to have him here with her. He's going to be so pissed though when he wakes up, though. "You guys know not to mention this to him, he'll over react."
"Leo is the complete opposite, he doesn't care at like all," Grace laughed.
Caroline fiddled with Klaus's curly hair again. Grace looked over at Leo who was sleeping with his head against the seat. He was twitching and shaking slightly.
"Leo?" Grace said shifting herself so she was looking at him. "Leo?!" She shook him. He let out a gasp and took his eye mask off.
"Grace what's wrong with him?" Gypsy asked.
"Earth to Leo?! Are you okay?" Grace shook him again. He caught his breath and looked at her. He wrapped his arms around her and held her close to him, stroking her hair with his hand as if to make sure she was really there. Grace also ran her fingers through his hair and patted his back with her other hand. She whispered calming words into his ear. Leo unwrapped his arms from around her waist and looked into her eyes.
"What happened Leo?" Caroline asked. He glanced at her and then back at Grace.
"Leo?" Grace whispered. "You okay?"
"Leo did you have a bad dream?" Gypsy asked.
He nodded his head yes. "You were all dead. He killed you Grace, right in front of me."
"Who? Who killed us?"
"It was awful. You were all dead. L-Lifeless…" He closed his eyes. "I-i cant get the images out of my head." He put his head down on Grace's shoulder and buried his face in her neck. She hugged him and rubbed his back. "K-Klaus-he-he was dead my new brother was dead! The brother I was looking for my whole life was dead. His brother, I think, Elijah and his sister Rebekah was there too. A few people I didn't recognize either…" He stuttered. "Then you Caroline, you, you were dead too, and you Gypsy and Cisco... and Barry! But you Grace, you were killed right in front of me by two men. Right in front of me. You were in so much pain… Y-You were s-screaming and crying my name and for me to help you, a-and I couldn't. I-I can only picture all of your bodies dead and your eyes looking up at the ceiling lifeless."
The rest frowned. Leo came out of his embrace with Grace and went over to his brother. He didn't notice that he was asleep, but he just hugged him, which was really sweet to watch. Caroline opened her mouth to protest, because she was loving him laying on her shoulder, but she knew Leo needed it. Klaus started to wake up slowly with the embrace. He took the eye mask off not knowing what was going on, he was totally out of it. His hair puffed up when he took off the mask, his eyes were wide and his eye brows were furrowed. He saw Leo hugging him and comforted him back after a second of realizing who it was. Caroline moved in her seat and went over by Grace so Leo could have his bromance with his brother. Leo shifted so he was in Caroline's seat next to the window.
Klaus turned to Caroline and mouthed "What?"
She shrugged.
"Leo are you alright?" Grace broke the silence. Leo was leaning against Klaus now.
"It was awful…"
Klaus was still beyond confused. "What exactly is happening?" He asked.
"He had a nightmare," Grace said.
"And now he's freaking out," Caroline added.
"I can see that," Klaus said. "Leo what was it about?"
"You were all dead. The world was changing around me as I was running to Grace who was screaming for me to help her," He paused. "I ran up to this cabin which was surrounded by tropical trees and flowers. Inside Grace was shot and dying. Everyone else was dead. Gypsy, Cisco, Barry, Caroline, and you, even you and four other people I didn't recognize," He looked at Klaus and he flinched. "The beautiful girl from the picture was there too, she was dead next to you
"Rebekah?" He asked in disbelief.
"And Elijah, I assumed."
Klaus tensed up at the name and the thought of him being dead again. "El-Elijah...?"
Leo only nodded. "Then two men came out, they were the ones who killed everyone."
Klaus was stunned, confused, and didn't know what to say. He was still half asleep, but Leo saying that Elijah was dead too, made him come fully back into reality.
"Wait Gypsy had a bad dream last night, and Leo had one just now. They both involved some man, or men killing the ones we love..." Grace analyzed. "Does that mean it is going to happen to all of us?"
They all looked at her, knowing what she meant.
"I agree with that. I mean, sorry Gypsy and Grace but I'm making a statement... Gypsy, the one you love, or once did, Cisco, died in your dream, and Leo, Grace, the one I can so tell you like-like, died in yours. Painfully."
"But everyone died mine…" He said.
"Well, Grace was the one you saw get killed, so it might've had the most effect on you," Caroline explained.
"Well maybe the next person to have a nightmare tomorrow night will be you or Klaus," Grace grinned. "And maybe Klaus will dream about you dying and or you will dream about him dying."
Caroline rolled her eyes and Klaus sighed.
"Well, I mean it is possible, but it won't be about that," Caroline rolled her eyes again.
"Oh I know!" Grace got up and went over to Klaus. She didn't even care as sketchbook and put it in his lap, they were comfortable enough around each other now. He just looked up at her. "Draw it."
"You could've just asked me, love."
"It's easier," She shrugged sitting.
"HA YOU GUYS LOST!" Cisco said jumping up with the mask still on his eyes.
"How would you know you have your mask on," Gypsy looked at him.
"He could sense it or something isn't that what you do?" Barry said sitting upright.
"Yeah don't you vibe?" Caroline said.
"Yeah..." Gypsy and Cisco said in sync.
"What happened why are you guys so freaked out?" Barry asked.
"Leo had a nightmare," Grace said.
"So the world stops?!" Barry squinted his eyes.
"I'LL HELP YOU!" Cisco exclaimed getting up.
Gypsy put her arms over his chest as if she was barricading him. "No."
Cisco pouted and slumped back into his seat. "Well Leo what was it about?"
"You were all dead."
"Woah that got dark fast…" Barry muttered.
"Well you don't say, it's a nightmare idiot," Grace said.
"Sheesh your boyfriend has one bad dream and now you're all defensive?" Barry rolled his eyes and pulled out his phone.
"I'm serious Barry," Grace said. "He had a dream that we were all dead, and the night before, Gypsy had a dream that someone, who shall remain nameless, died right in front of her."
"Dark," Barry said.
"That's odd," Cisco said pulling out his laptop.
"Klaus are you going to draw it?" Grace said pushing the pad further on his lap.
"Yeah sure," He took the pencil out of his bag and placed it on the pad. "So what did the people look like?"
"The older man had a more circular face, short brownish hair that was like a trapezoid hairline. When he grinned, wrinkles poured out of his small eyes, which were full of danger. His lips were thin and he had a scruffy mustache. He had wrinkles above his forehead and thin, yet bushy eyebrows. He had some scruff around his face and he glared daggers at me. His voice was raspy and devilish..."
Klaus started sketching furiously. He got all of Leo's descriptions spot on. The hair the winkles the face, the devilish look in his eyes... Caroline looked at the drawing and gasped at the sight.
"Leo is that what he looked like?!" Caroline said movie forward in her seat, gasping over the drawing on the pad.
"Yeah that was one of the men."
Klaus was stunned. His pencil was loosely being held in his hand while his bright red lips were wide open.
"What is it..." Leo said confused.
"It's Mikael," Klaus let out. "The man who tormented me my whole life."
Caroline went over to comfort Klaus, sitting on his lap and wrapping her arms around his neck. He put his hand on her back and rubbed it.
"Who was the other man?" Klaus finally asked when Caroline went back to the seat next to Grace.
"I'll explain."
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"That was the man in my dream," Gypsy said grabbing the sketch pad from Klaus's lap. "He was the killer."
"So this isn't a coincidence..." Cisco said putting the dots together. "The dreams must of come from things you've seen in real life. At one point, Barry was having nightmares about a Meta-human he fought so we made him sleep and got into his head. The dreams were coming from things he had seen during the day, for example, once he saw a gun during the day, so the meta-human in his dream that night was a gun man thing."
"Descriptive," Gypsy rolled her eyes.
"Everybody fasten your seat belts, the plane will be landing in just a few minutes. I hope you all enjoy your stay in Aruba!" The lady on the loud speaker announced to the passengers.
"Thanks for the interruption!" Leo whisper-yelled under his breath.
"Let's put this conversation on hold for now until someone else has a bad dream," Grace suggested. "It'll clear our heads.
Klaus mumbled under his breath. "I hope mine isn't about you, love."
"Huh?" She turned around to face him.
"What nothing," He covered, his face turning slightly pink at the thought.
"AW!" Grace squealed at her friends growing relationship. "You guys are seriously adorable. The most adorable thing was earlier before…"
"GRACE STOP!" Caroline put her hand over her friends mouth, not wanting her to say anything about before.
"What is she talking about?" Klaus asked.
"NOTHING!"
They all stopped when a phone ringing filled the area.
"Hold on that's me," Cisco said taking out his phone. He swiped to answer the call. "WHAT YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING!"
"Cisco what is it?" Gypsy asked.
"There's been a problem on earth 19. It might destroy the universe."
"Oh god we have to go, now."
"Wait, wait, wait, you're leaving?" Caroline stopped.
"I DON'T WANT TO BUT WE HAVE TO!" Cisco pouted. "I WANNA GO TO ARUBA!"
"But then we're down two people. We already made plans to go do all of these things with seven people," Caroline pouted. "This is bothering me. We need two more people."
Gypsy thought for a second. "I have the perfect pair."
"Who?" Cisco asked her.
"You don't know them, actually I think you met them once," Gypsy opened her phone and dialed someone. The others looked at them confused. "Hey, do you and Mon el wanna take our place on our trip to Aruba? We have an emergency to take care of and all of our reservations were made for seven people."
"Seven people?" The girl on the other line asked. "Who are the other five?"
"Well, let's just say that they are pretty great," Gypsy smiled warmly to the others in the first class section.
"Is there anything we should know about them?" The girl on the other line asked.
"Well, one is Barry."
"My super friend!"
"Hey Kara!" Barry said into the phone after Gypsy switched it to speaker.
"Hey Bar!"
"Okay and there is a girl named Grace and her plus one Leo, and i'm sure you know Leo."
"Leonardo DiCaprio?!"
"That's me," Leo greeted.
"Omg! I can't wait to meet you!"
"Hi I'm grace," Grace smiled into the phone.
"Hey Grace!"
"Then there is Caroline and her plus one Klaus."
"Hey Kara, right? I'm Caroline."
"Yes I'm Kara, and hey Caroline!"
"Hello Kara," Klaus said into the phone.
"Nice accent!" She squealed. "Hi you must be Klaus!"
"The one and only."
The girl laughed from the other line. "Okay Gypsy text the address and we can be there in a flash! Ok sorry bad joke… I'll let Mon el know who the people are and maybe Gypsy text me some more things about them, I like to know the little things that make them who they are."
"Sure," Gypsy told her. "See ya Kara."
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Once they got off the plane they parted with Gypsy and Cisco. It was pretty sad to see their new friends go, but then knew they were going to save the universe and maybe come back to them one day. Plus, they get to meet these new people, Kara and Mon el.
They were in the car, Leo's rental, going back to the house.
"I looked up images of the house, it looked really nice inside and out," Klaus said from the passenger seat.
"I never got the chance to I'm excited to see the it," Leo said turning the wheel.
"Well that's why Grace and I chose it," Caroline said from the back. "We thought it was the perfect distance from the beach to walk and ride bikes, skateboards, drive, run, etc."
"Well, I can run anywhere," Barry chimed in.
"Well we can too," Caroline pouted.
"Not as fast as me!"
"BARRY!" The two girls screamed. "WHY!"
"Sorry!"
"STOP!"
"Alright, alright, okay shut up I have a head ache!" He whined as his head hit the seat.
The boys in the front laughed. "Think about it love," Klaus started. "Were stronger, we have better senses."
"Well no one is as strong as you!" Caroline, the baby vampire, said. "You're the original hybrid."
"True, but no one is as full of light as you," Caroline blushed and Grace elbowed her in response to Klaus's words. "And I bet no one is an OCD freak turned vampire." Caroline smiled and bit back a laugh, that was so going to be her new Instagram bio. Just your average OCD freak turned vampire.
"Well Grace is a baby vampire too, she was turned a few years ago. She makes the perfect vampire," Leo added.
Caroline elbowed a blushing Grace this time.
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AN: Well sorry for the late update but here is chapter 5! Its basically a bunch of plane fluff but the second victim was set for the dream. Who will be next?
Next time: two new characters! Kara and Mon el! Also some betting and games, more specifically pool games.
In an interview/panel thing with Joseph Morgan, someone said "You have awesome lips!" And asked him how they're so perfect and he said something along the lines of "I use a lot of chapstick…" but I mean seriously his lips are perfect!
Link to the house that will be described in the next chapter ( a lot)
vacation/all/detailpage/398/better-together
