AN: This is part one! The chapter put together was too long, but all related to the same topic so I decided to break it up.

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Morning rose over Aruba, though it didn't look like it. Grace looked out the window in her room. Why was it always storming? The crashes of thunder shook the house every minute. She checked her phone and looked at when the rain was supposed to clear up. 10 AM and it was currently 7.

She sighed and turned to Leo. His hair was still slightly curly and it suited him. It was wavy and suited him nicely. She smiled and out her hand to stroke his hair.

She felt her stomach rumble and decided it would be a good idea to make breakfast, likely before anyone got up.

She snuck into the bathroom and got ready, which meant she tamed her hair and washed her face, not bothering to change. Then she snuck out of the room, careful not to wake him, and walked upstairs. She listened into Caroline and Klaus's room and heard silence. They were still asleep. She walked over to the island in the kitchen and saw a note resting upon it.

Morning!

Mon el, Barry and I (Kara) went out to go get breakfast for everyone. We'll be back soon!

Damn, she wanted to make breakfast. Her and Caroline talked about it when they were planning because they loved to bake but hey, they still have a lot of mornings to do it. She put the note down and went to the fridge to get an apple to hold her over.

"Grace! Grace!" She heard someone whisper in a hushed tone that only she could hear.

"Caroline?"

Caroline knew Grace could hear her because of their very, very handy vampire hearing.

"Come. Here. Now."

With that, Grace ran to Caroline's room.

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Caroline woke up to the crash of thunder. She looked outside to see the rain bucketing down, again, great. The rain was depressing but it was nice. It hadn't rained for a while in New York so the change isn't the worst. She wanted to go to the beach though... She heard someone outside in the kitchen and assumed it was Klaus since Kara had texted her earlier that her Mon el and Barry went to get breakfast. She started to get up when she felt something next to her. He was still there. She was facing the bathroom and she felt his heated breath slide down her spine. Oh god.

She felt him move and a new warmth on her side, his hand. She went to carefully move it so she could get up and let him sleep in peace, but then she felt him move, again. One arm slid under her and another hugged her waist. He held her tight in his grasp, pulling her closer to him like he never wanted to let go.

Okay mental panic time.

She felt him bury his head into her neck and blonde locks of hair. She wanted to turn around, badly. She carefully started to move in his grasp, turning around to be face to his chest, just remembering that she was still wearing his shirt, since he was wearing the same cut but in a different color. He was stirring a lot and she felt him pull her closer to him. She tried to move so she could get some air, since she was sweating to death at this point, but he just pulled her back.

She tried again, he pulled her back.

Wow. She was stuck. She was actually stuck. I mean she could just wake him… but no way was that an option. She knew that someone was still out in the kitchen and she was hoping it was Grace.

"Grace," She whispered under her breath.

"Caroline?" She heard.

"Come. Here. Now."

She heard Grace run in her direction and the door open slowly.

"What the hell did you get yourself into?!" She gasped.

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"Do you think everyone will be up by the time we get back?" Barry asked from the back seat.

"They might be. Caroline is an early bird," Kara said.

"She wasn't up when we left, though..."

"We left at like five to see the sunrise, but I texted her and she answered me so she was up," Kara said looking at her phone.

"Where are we going we've been driving for hours!"

"We haven't been driving for hours Barry," Mon el argued. "It's just up here."

Mon el pulled into a parking lot.

"We could just get this at home!" Barry complained.

They got out of the car and started to walk towards the Dunkin Donuts.

"What are we getting we have like a thousand people in the house," Barry asked, pushing car the door open.

"Why the hell are you being so sarcastic today? You're over exaggerating everything. We're just going to get a lot of everything," Kara compromised.

"Well, well, well, look who's over exaggerating now?" Barry shot back.

"Fine you got me. Mon el what are we getting?"

"Well I asked everyone sometime yesterday what they like and Klaus and Leo said bagel with cheese bacon and eggs, Caroline said she doesn't care she likes anything but things that involve ketchup, and Grace said the same thing so why not just get like four of those bagel things and then whatever we want."

"Great."

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"CAROLINE!" Klaus yelled.

"Klaus? KLAUS!" She yelled back.

"I'M COMING!" He moved branches around as he ran through the woods at top speed.

Klaus came fact to fact with a huge estate. There was a giant building in front of him with gates surrounding the perimeter. He walked up to one and touched it. He felt a spark run through his body.

"KLAUS!" Her pleading cries tore at his chest.

'Why was she here? She doesn't need to be here, in his hell!' He thought.

"NIKLAUS!" Klaus froze.

'That voice, no no it can't be…' He thought.

"Elijah?"

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"What the hell did you get yourself into!" Grace whispered, shutting the door lightly.

"I didn't get myself into anything," Her voice was muffled because her lips were pressed to his shirt.

"Just get up!"

"Don't you think I tried that?! Watch this," Caroline tried to move out of his embrace again, coming up for fresh air. He just pulled her back closer to him, but her head wasn't buried in his chest anymore, her chin was resting on the top of his head so his head was by her collarbone.

"Wow. Never seen that before," She sat down on the edge of the bed. Caroline reached up to touch his hair. "It's like he's a part of you."

"Huh that's weird," Caroline narrowed her eye brows.

"What?"

"His hair is so damp," She moved so she could look at his face for the first time this morning.

"Is it sweat?"

"Yeah," She was face to face with him now. The pit, or butterflies? In her stomach grew a lot more now. His arms were gripped around her waist and his breathing was picking up with every second. Without warning he pulled her so close to him it was like they were one.

"I was right!" Grace whisper cheered. "I knew he was going to have the dream!"

"It's nothing to celebrate!" She looked at him and saw his eyes looking around behind his close eyelids, well he looked peaceful and adorable before, proving her point that he was completely crazy, but now it looks like he's in pain and it broke her heart.

"Hey whats up?" Leo entered the room.

"SHHH!" Caroline and Grace shushed, Caroline continued running her hands through his hair, trying to ignore his lips on pretty much her bare skin.

"Sorry," Leo walked over to the bed and tried to figure out what was happening. "What exactly is going on?"

"We can get into his head Grace," Caroline came to realization. They are vampires, they can get inside people's head to see what they are seeing, to see what's going on inside their mind.

"I wanna join," Leo said.

"There's nothing to join," Caroline stroked his hair and rubbed his back reassuringly. "He's going through what you were going through but maybe worse, if your prediction that it gets worse every time was right."

"Alright let's help then," Grace said. "I've never done this how do I get inside his head?"

"So you have to open your mind."

"Just show us what to do," Leo told her.

Caroline rolled her eyes. "Just put your hand somewhere on his body."

"Because that's appropriate?"

"Shut up! Wanna see what's going on? Put your hand somewhere, within reason, on his body like his leg, back or I don't know foot or ankle, and we'll enter together."

"Because there is no dirty joke somewhere in what you just said," Leo put his hand by Klaus's ankle after they took the blanket off of both of them. Grace put her hand on his thigh and Caroline rested her hands on his head and mid back.

"Hey I have these socks," Leo commented out of nowhere.

"Leo!"

"Sorry!"

"I think Chandler rubbed off on you last night," Caroline scoffed. Chandler is sarcastic and always joking, just like Leo is now.

"I think so too."

"Can we do this it seems like he's suffering!" Caroline was face to face with him and sympathy was in her eyes. His plump red lips were parted slightly and they were quivering a bit.

It was tearing at her heart.

They entered his mind.

They were on an island, they were on what seemed like an abandoned ghostland. There was no one in sight. Suddenly the world shifted around them.

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Klaus needed to break through that fence. He managed by taking a tree branch and ramming it into the side. He sped into the building.

"KLAUS! WHERE ARE YOU!" Her voice cracked. "WE NEED YOU!" We. She said we. Was that Elijah's voice he had heard? Elijah? His dead brother? He followed her pain filled voice into a big arena area. The walls were white, pure white and it almost looked like pure quartz. His soaking wet shoes slid against the polished floor. He looked around and saw dead bodies. He ran over to them.

Grace. He moved her hair around her ear and didn't know what to do. He was in shock. Kara. He touched the bullet hole on her chest. Mon el and Barry too... His newest friends were lying there, dead. What kind of hell was this? Cisco and Gypsy lie in the back as well with stakes through their stomachs. Was this some way of paying him back for letting Elijah die? Klaus felt something die inside of him.

"AH!"

He jumped at the sound, alert and ready to kill anyone who dare do this.

Klaus ran with his inhuman speed and busted the metal door down. He stopped in his tracks when he saw the scene folding out in front of him.

Mikael was standing there, white oak stake in hand, and Caroline tied up in a chair, vervain ropes tied around her wrists and mouth. Mikael killed everyone outside and was about to kill her too. But didn't he hear Elijah? He looked at Mikael and he was holding someone by the throat.

It was him, it was Elijah.

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"Where are we?" Caroline looked around. They were now in a building with white walls and grey floors.

"We were just on an island…" Leo looked at the floors and around the arena in general. "In my dream the worlds sorta shifted too… maybe this relates."

"Now we're in an institute for the insane?" Grace said. "I don't think Klaus is okay, mentally…"

"I don't think this is a mental institute for the insane, Grace, maybe it's somewhere he's been in his past, or somewhere he's going to be in his future…" Caroline analyzed.

"You guys, that's the man from my dream," Leo shakily realized.

It was Mikael. Caroline knew it. The scene flew out in front of them. Klaus walked into the giant room and shock filled his face. Caroline saw all of the raw emotion in his eyes. Rage at Mikael who was standing there with his hand around a mans neck, a mans face that she could not make out. Sadness in his eyes about the people lying dead in the back of the room. She saw herself tied in the chair with vervain ropes.

"Thats me," Caroline pointed to the dream-Caroline.

"Where?" Grace asked.

"In the chair. Tied up with vervain ropes."

"Shhh listen," Leo whispered.

"Mikael…" Klaus's voice sounded broken and filled with rage.

"Hello boy," The man's voice was itching with hatred when he looked at Klaus. Klaus looked so innocent right now, so vulnerable, something he hated being more than anything.

"Let. Them. Go. Now," Klaus hissed.

"Don't you want your brother back?" He shook the man in his grasp.

"Y-Yes," He stuttered.

"Do you want your girl back?"

"More than anything…"

"You have to choose one."

"You can't do this," Klaus's voice crackled.

"I can, and I will. You're an abomination."

"YOU KILLED MY BROTHER! How the hell did you think I was going to react? Did you expect me to just sit there and mourn him for a few hours? Days? Or did you expect me to not miss him at all, or just come to kill you because you killed my brother? That's what you expected, right, and that's what I wanted to do more than anything else. I wanted to avenge my brother by killing you. I wanted you dead, but did you really think I would come find you? Just so you could hurt me more? You have made me suffer for years, centuries even, and I wasn't okay until she came into my life."

"Well now she will make you suffer."

"No…"

"NO YOU WILL NOT DO THIS TO HIM AGAIN YOU MONSTER!" A female British voice filled the room. A blonde girl appeared in the doorway.

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"REBEKAH GET OUT OF HERE!" Klaus yelled, frightened that his sister will feel Mikael's wrath like they are. "He has the white oak stake."

"I'm not letting you die, Nik."

"I would rather die than let that monster kill the two best people in my life," He looked to Caroline and then Elijah with unshed tears in his eyes.

"Who shall I kill first? The girlfriend?" He stroked Caroline's chin. "The brother who you thought you lost? The sister you love so much? Kol, the brother who I can find easily…"

"Easy is my middle name, or maybe it's difficult but you can have it either way Mikael. Let my family go, now," Kol walked into the room with a serious look on his face.

"Now look at this family gathering, I can add one more," Mikael left the room, releasing Elijah from his tight grasp.

"Niklaus," Elijah hugged Klaus tight. Klaus clung to his shirt and held back his tears.

"Elijah…" A tear ran down Rebekah's cheek as she was pulled in for the hug.

"Brother, look who's back," Kol chuckled and was pulled in too.

Caroline kicked Klaus's leg and he turned around and gave him an 'um help me now' look.

"Right sorry sweetheart," Klaus breathed, releasing himself from the hug. "Let's go before he gets bac-"

Boom.

Klaus turned around to look at the gun shots victim whilst un-tying Caroline. "Elijah take it from here," He said, his voice emotionless, still.

"LEO!" Caroline cried. "NO!"

Klaus was shocked. His new brother was dead.

"You killed him. You killed one of my brothers again."

"Brother?!" Kol said confused. Rebekah already knew because she met him at a water park earlier that month.

"The other bastard is dead and you will follow," Mikael went to fire a white oak bullet into Klaus's chest but Elijah jumped in front.

"ELIJAH!" Everyone screamed.

Klaus got up and watched his brother lay on the floor, shaking and trying to pull the bullet out of his heart.

"Brother…" Elijah grabbed Klaus's face so he would look him in the eye. "Be strong. Don't do this again. I won't let you live your life that way…"

Klaus had tears running down his face. "You will live a happy life without me, you'll have Rebekah, Kol, Caroline. Niklaus she loves you so much, I can see it in her eyes."

"P-Please don't leave me…" Klaus's voice was weak and damaged.

"You'll be okay… I love you, hold onto that."

Klaus nodded. "Me too…"

"NIK!" Rebekah screamed. Klaus whipped his head around and his eyes grew wider. Mikael plunged the white oak stake through her heart. Her skin started to turn black and the veins hardened.

"REBEKAH!" Klaus held Elijah's hand and went to Rebekah. "No.."

"KLAUS!" Caroline yelled trying to help.

Klaus couldn't even think straight. He looked and saw Kol plop onto the floor, his skin similar to Rebekah's.

"Kol…"

They both went up into flames and Klaus couldn't believe his eyes. Their bodies burned to a crisp in front of his eyes. Caroline wrapped her hands around Klaus's shoulders.

Klaus looked down at Elijah, then back to Rebekah and then Kol. His big brother was dead, his baby sister was dead, his baby brother was dead and his new brother was also dead.

Mikael came up behind Klaus and grabbed Caroline. Klaus didn't notice because he was looking as his dead family, they were gone. Tears came out of his eyes and his fists were clenched in utter rage.

"Look. At. Me."

Klaus shakily stood up and faced the monster behind him. He gasped when he saw how he was holding Caroline.

His hand was wrapped around her pure, beating heart. The color in her face seemed to drain every second.

"Don't you dare," Klaus ordered. "Not her. She doesn't deserve it."

"But you do."

"N-No, he dos-doesn't," Caroline stuttered. Klaus looked her in the eye, slowly breaking.

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"This is heart breaking," Grace said trying not to cry.

Tears streamed down Caroline's face. "He's literally being haunted."

"That bastard killed me," Leo muttered spitefully. "I can't believe this is what Klaus had to suffer through his whole life."

"I hate him," Caroline stuttered. She watched the bodies of his invincible siblings lying on the floor, dead and desiccated, about to burst up into flames and turn to ash.

"He's going to kill you Caroline…" Grace told her.

"I know," Caroline wished she could do something, anything to stop this.

They watched as Mikael jammed his hand through the back of her chest and wrapped his fist around her beating heart. She watched as 'dream Caroline's" face turned pale and Klaus watched, eyes glued to the scene, powerless to stop it.. The pain flooded in his eyes was like no other.

"STOP!" Caroline yelled at the scene in front of them.

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"Don't touch her!"

Mikael clenched his fist harder around her heart.

"Klaus…" Caroline let out a breath.

"Don't do this," Klaus was speaking to both Caroline and Mikael.

"I love you, so much."

"Don't you leave me too damnit!"

"You'll be alright…"

"I have nothing," His voice cracked.

"No, you have me, Nik," Caroline kicked Mikael in his crotch, and then snapped his neck.

"Caroline…"

She collapsed to the ground holding her chest. "I'm okay."

Klaus smiled in relief and pulled her into a tight hug. "You're okay…" He moved her hair from her face.

Caroline nodded, tears streamed down both of their faces. "It's so good to see you. I thought you would never find me."

"W-why wouldn't I of found you?" Klaus was trying not to think of his dead family and friends, but confused. 'I lost her?'

"N-never mind lets not get into that now. Klaus I'm so sorry…" She looked around.

He only buried his head into the crook of her neck and held her close, not wanting to let go.

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"That must be why he was holding you so tight," Grace concluded, still frowning.

"Yeah, I think so."

"Guys…" Leo pointed to Mikael who was waking up behind them.

"DREAM-CAROLINE MOVE!" Caroline screamed as if it would help.

"Caroline I love—"

"NO!" Everyone in the room screamed including the dream Klaus who held the staked Caroline close to him.

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AN: So yes, Klaus was the next dream victim

Heres the house!

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