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Klabekah in this chapter, plus she meets Caroline!

Flashback too

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"My brother has a sister named Rebekah, or my half brother," Leo mentioned.

"Nice to meet you," Grace shook her hand, sorta jealous at her enthusiasm.

"What's your brother's name?" She asked.

"Nik," Leo told her because that's the way Klaus addressed himself when they first met.

"Wow my brothers name is Niklaus… similar."

Their mouths opened wide. "That's why you look so familiar!"

"The dream!" Grace said to Leo.

"The dream!" He laughed back.

"And the drawings at the airport," Leo added.

"That too."

"Excuse me?" They realized that she had an accent.

"You're her, you're Klaus's sister," Grace said.

"You know Nik?"

"Actually, don't be alarmed but I'm Klaus's brother, well half brother, on his real fathers side," Leo explained.

"How do you know about that," She threatened, the same way Klaus did when he first told him.

"It's true," Grace reassured

Rebekah was shocked. She put her hand on the railing to hold herself up.

"Woah, Nik has another brother?"

"Yes," Leo smiled.

"It's so nice to meet you, for real this time! And you, what's your name?" She asked Grace.

"I'm Grace, his half brothers friend," She smiled.

"I think you guys can be more than friends," She grinned in support of the pair in front of her. "Hey I sense the chemistry and I just met you."

"What?!" they said in unison.

"Wait my brothers brother is bloody Leonardo DiCaprio?!" She ran her hands through her blonde, straight hair.

The other two laughed as they started to talk more. They were still sitting on the top of the slide, people went in front of them and they sat by the corner and talked.

"I want to see Nik and meet Caroline. Nik has told me about her but I want to meet her in real life. And the Flash? Supergirl and another actual superhero!? This is awesome!" Rebekah awed.

"Kinda hard to believe," Grace admitted.

"Well today was a big surprise, and Nik doesn't know I work here so over the summer. He thinks Im in Europe with my fiancé, but we decided to come here for awhile."

"Well we'll meet up with him later, we'll tell him and Caroline to come visit," Leo told her.

"Great," Rebekah smiled. "Wanna ride?"

The other two nodded.

"You're going down, Walker," Leo challenged.

"Ha, yeah right."

They sat in their tubes and when Rebekah told them to go down, and they did.

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Barry walked around the water park. He saw a section that caught his eye, the baby area? Well maybe the kiddie area. There was a big bucket that dropped every few minutes and kids running in and out of the water flowing down.

Barry grinned as he ran towards it, releasing the child that still rattled around in his mind.

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"Klaus where should we go?" Caroline asked him. They were sitting in the chairs by the little wave pool, the excess water riding up towards their feet.

"I want to go to the lazy river," He said looking in that direction.

"Me too thank you for saying that," She laughed. "I mean the slides sound fun but I really don't feel like it right now."

"I couldn't agree more, love."

They stood up and headed over to the lazy river. There weren't many people there because of the hour, so that was good for them.

"Don't be a baby again," Caroline rolled her eyes at Klaus who was walking slowly into the water. "What can the big bad wolf not swim?"

Klaus grinned as he swiftly ran in after her and picked her up, throwing her back under water, again.

She came up and jumped on his back to get out of the freezing water. "I hate you! I'm cold now!"

Klaus laughed as she got off of his back.

"Grab a tube, love," Klaus told her as he walked towards the nearest one.

"No," She said stubbornly.

He looked at her. "And why not?"

"Because I don't want to."

"Suit yourself," He grabbed the two seater tube and gestured for her to sit. She rolled her eyes and went under water to go through the tube. She flung her legs over the other side as Klaus jumped on, sitting in the same position as Caroline.

They chatted as the current brought them through the path.

"I'm bored," Caroline pouted.

Klaus opened his eyes and lifted his sunglasses up. "Why?"

"We're just sitting here!" Caroline rolled off the tube. Klaus looked over the edge as he adjusted himself to lay across the whole thing.

"You're lazy," Caroline pouted again.

"I think that's why the name of this attraction is called the lazy river," Klaus grinned, putting his sunglasses back on and adjusting into his past position.

"Fine," Caroline started swimming more and front flipping and jumping through the empty tubes. Klaus watched her, amused at her stubborn, playful ways.

Caroline looked back at Klaus. He was laying on his back and his knees were bent up. His arms were straight out and his hands were wrapped around the handles loosely.

"Sleeping over there?" She called to him, half joking. He shook his head no. "I thought you were weird about this stuff."

He opened his eyes and took of his glasses again. "No…"

"Then why are you doing this?" She gestured to his position. "Actually relaxing? In front of me?"

"I trust you," Klaus murmured.

Caroline swam over to him and leaned against the tube. He sighed and laid his head back again, putting his sunglasses on and resting his eyes.

She just watched him for a little while, remembering what she witnessed this morning in his mind.

"I'm sorry," She whispered, knowing he heard her.

"For what love?" He answered.

"For what you've been through with Mikael and Elijah…" She went closer to his head and hugged him, well the best she could because of the way he was laying. It took him by surprise. He sat up, sinking more into his part of the tube and hugged her tight. She jumped onto the tube and he moved so she could lay next to him, half on his chest.

They stayed like that for a few minutes, they didn't move, not an inch. They just were there, in the moment, enjoying each others company. They just flowed around the lazy river, letting the current take them anywhere, listening to the soft sound of the water rippling beneath them.

Caroline wanted to tell him how much she loved him, how much she wanted to be with him.

He wanted to tell her how much he loved her and wanted her to spend the rest of his immortal life with her.

They were coming back around to the beginning. They were both still laying that way. It reminded Caroline of the way she woke up this morning.

Her sent was intoxicating. Her hair smelled like a mix of fresh pineapple and coconut, and her breath was minty fresh.

She looked up and saw that he was looking down at her. She smiled as she inched up closer to his eye level. They were face to face now, looking into each other's eyes. His lips quivered at her breath piercing them.

Was this it? Was he going to kiss her. They inched closer. Klaus closed his eyes.

Less than an inch apart.

"Hey guys!" Grace and Leo ran into the river.

Well damn.

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"Bloody hell," Klaus muttered as they sat up quickly and fell into the hole of the tube more as his legs flung up.

"You guys head over to the two race slides. Trust me it's worth it," Grace told them.

Caroline sighed and jumped off the tube, once again emerging into cold water after drying off. "Okay Klaus let's go."

Leo and Grace eyed Klaus and Caroline strangely. "What's wrong?" Leo asked.

"N-nothing everything fine," Caroline muttered, fully getting out of the water now. Klaus looked back at Leo and raised his eyebrows.

"What's wrong?" He mouthed

Klaus shrugged casually and followed Caroline.

"Oh she's going to be so pissed at me later," Grace giggled, jumping in a tube.

"Why?" Leo grabbed a tube and floated next to her as the current dragged them along.

"Well they were laying together in that tube, and they were about to kiss."

"They were?"

"You're just blind."

"I feel bad now…"

"Don't they could do better than a lazy river for their first kiss, more like the beach at sunset, or the top of a ride before they plummet, filled with adrenaline and not wet hair and bathing suits?"

Leo looked at her and she looked back in his eyes. Grace broke the stare by looking up at the sky. She wanted that to be her and Leo, lying on that tube and an inch away from everything she's always wanted.

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"I'm hungry!" Barry whined as he trailed Kara and Mon el.

"Shut up!" They snapped.

"Can we eat?"

"We need to get the rest of them," Mon el said.

"No we don't. We don't need them to eat," Barry implied, looking around. "Screw you guys I'm going." Barry was about to speed off when Kara grabbed his shoulder.

"I'm hungry too," She confessed, causing Mon el to roll his eyes.

"When we were walking up I saw a Mexican place that looked good…" Mon el suggested.

"Perfect! I'm in the mood for that."

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Klaus and Caroline walked in silence, it became very awkward, very fast.

"My feet hurt," Caroline pouted, breaking the silence and jumping around the tiny stones.

He looked at her and held back a laugh. "Me too."

Most awkward conversation yet…

"I hate this," Caroline sighed in defeat.

"Walking without shoes?"

"No, this," She moved her hands around the air.

"I don't think the air did anything to you…" Klaus grinned cheekily as they started to walk up the stairs to the waterslide Grace and Leo told them to go to. Caroline glared at him. "Okay, I'm sorry…for almost… kissing you…"

"Klaus please, don't worry about it," Caroline brushed it off casually. "I'm going to murder Grace later," She whispered, hoping he didn't hear.

"What was that?" Klaus grinned pretending he didn't hear her.

"What? I didn't say anything," Caroline flushed.

Klaus couldn't help but laugh. They continued to walk up the stairs, they didn't have to stop because there was no line at all.

Caroline ran up the stairs faster than him, he just walked. Caroline's feet still hurt but she didn't care, she just wanted to win, as always. She reached the top and Klaus was still two flights below her, letting her play her little game.

"Hello!" The woman at the top greeted.

Caroline looked at her, she looked awfully familiar. "Excuse me, sorry if this is rude and unexpected but do I know you? You look so familiar…"

She eyed Caroline. "I don't think so… I'm not like, famous or anything… What's your name maybe I've heard of you."

"I'm Caroline."

"Caroline?! Caroline Forbes?!" The woman jumped.

"Yes…"

"I've wanted to meet you for so long! I just met Leo and Grace they said that you guys were here!"

Klaus was now coming up her flight of stairs.

"Caroline, love, is there a problem?" Klaus asked as he came behind her, the woman standing in front of Caroline catching his eye.

Caroline turned around and was trying not to be openly jealous of the way he was looking at her.

Klaus grinned. "Rebekah."

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"Okay Leo do you think we put on a good show for those girls before?"

"I do. You should be an actor with me Grace."

"Yeah as if!" Grace said dramatically.

"Clueless?"

"Yup."

"See you know movies! You would be a great actor!"

"Just because I watch movies, doesn't mean I'll be good acting in them."

They filled the time with little chit chats. They laughed and flirted.

"I'm hungry," Grace muttered leaning back on her tube and putting her hands on her stomach..

"Me too.. hey I saw a Mexican place on the way here. We can go there," Leo suggested.

"Sounds good, we'll head there next."

"Do you think Klaus and Caroline met up with Rebekah yet?"

"I hope so, she seemed hyped to see him, they must've not seen each other for a while."

They came back around to the front and jumped out of their tube, the water was cold now because they pretty much dried off.

"Lets go," Leo said and they walked out.

"OW!" Grace yelled.

"What?"

"I stepped on a rock."

Leo just chuckled and let her put her hand on his shoulder as she hopped on one foot.

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"I want like everything on this menu," Barry said looking at the board.

"Oh I want nachos," Kara said. "But they're enormous…" She saw someone passing with them.

"I want tacos," Mon el squinted at the board.

"Hey guys!" Grace called as she and Leo walked up to the three looking at the menu board.

"Hey," They smiled back,

"Oh. My. God…" The woman from behind the counter at the fast food Mexican place said. "It's Leonardo DiCaprio!"

"Hey," Leo smiled awkwardly.

Second fan today, granted one of them was family…

"I'll give all of you guys free food if you let me take a few pictures!"

"Okay first things first, are you related to Niklaus Mikaelson?" Leo asked quickly, getting a confused look from the rest of the group and the woman he was speaking to. He needed to make sure."Okay so she isn't. Of course I'll take pictures, and as for the free food, I'll give a generous tip."

"Deal."

Leo took a picture with the woman, wrapping his arm across her shoulders and smiling into her hair. The girl hugged Leo and Grace couldn't help but roll her eyes. Everyone they met was all over him. Again, she sometimes wished he was just a normal guy, like Klaus, or Barry, or Mon el, granted they are supernatural, but they aren't hounded by fans everywhere they go. But sometimes she did still love the fact that he was famous, the fact that he stooped down to her level to spend time with her and her friends. To him, she should be nothing at all, she should just be that girl next door.

"Okay what will I be getting you guys?" The woman asked as she walked back around to the counter.

Everyone there ordered their food and a plate of nachos for the table.

"Hold on what about Klaus and Caroline?" Kara stopped before the woman rang up their order.

"I texted them they didn't answer," Mon el told her.

"We told them to go see Rebekah," Grace said.

"Isn't that his sister?" Barry asked confused.

"Yeah, Rebekah was working the two race slide things over there," Leo said, pointing in that direction where you could see the slides poking up behind the boardwalk's rides.

"Okay well let's order for them," Kara suggested.

"Anything?" Barry asked.

"Yeah they can each pick on each others food, since its free now we shouldn't make them pay when they get here in like ten minutes," Mon el said.

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"Thats where I know you from!" Caroline smiled.

Klaus and Caroline both walked off the stairs and up to the top platform where the slide entrance was.

"I missed you Nik!" Rebekah hugged her brother tight.

"I didn't know you worked here!"

"I didn't know you were coming here!"

"It was my idea so thank me!" Caroline laughed, pointing to herself.

"Hey I've wanted to meet you for so long. Nik always talks about you… like always. He's like Caroline helped me through today, Caroline makes me do things like open up to her and do things outside of my apartment, Caroline makes me a better person, Caroline is so lovely, she's so beau—" Rebekah mimicked Klaus.

"Rebekah, love, stop it!" Klaus hushed his baby sister through clenched teeth, his eyes sending daggers.

Caroline only laughed as Rebekah brought her into a hug.

"So are you two finally dating?! Is that why you're on this trip?!"

"NO!" Klaus and Caroline replied together.

"Then why are you in Aruba? Together?"

"Well my friends and I have been planning it for a while and I was allowed to bring a plus one so I brought Klaus," Caroline explained.

"That's lovely," Rebekah smiled.

"Bekah when do you get off work?" Klaus asked her and she looked at her phone.

"An hour."

"Okay see that Cabana down there?" Klaus pointed to the cabana on the beach. Rebekah walked over to the edge of the platform and looked down.

"Thats beautiful…" Rebekah awed turning around to look at them. "Is it yours?!"

"Yes," They answered.

"Hey do you want to stay there with us tonight?" Caroline offered.

"I would love that!"

"So I'm uncomfortable right now in a bathing suit so I'll talk to you later Bex," Klaus patted her on the shoulder, feeling weirded out at the fact that his sister was seeing him this way.

"Okay just put your mats in the water and I'll tell you when to go," Rebekah pointed.

Klaus and Caroline laid on the mats, stomach first as the water swarmed around them, grinning at each other competitively.

"Go!"

And they were off.

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Caroline ran back to her lounge chair and looked at her phone which was coated in messages.

"Klaus they were texting us, a lot. They're all at the Mexican fast food place in the front."

"Okay lets head over there then."

"I am putting on these shoes," Caroline muttered, throwing on her slides.

"Me too, I'm not walking on pure wood without shoes, especially since it is a vampires greatest weakness."

"I thought love was a vampires greatest weakness?" She teased.

"Well, when I said that I had no life left, and when I was a psychopath, or more of a psychopath then I already am," He grinned.

Caroline remembered the day he said those words to her…love is a vampires greatest weakness, and we are not weak… the day he told her about Elijah's demise.

A few days after Klaus and Caroline met

Klaus and Caroline were sitting in his apartment, watching his plasma screen TV. He was across from her on the couch and she was playing with her thumbs. They had only met a few days ago, officially, but Caroline has been trying to get him to open up to her for at least a month now. He was the one person in her apartment building that wouldn't look at her, wouldn't answer her good mornings when he came down to the coffee shop that their apartment was connected to. Nothing, he was very secluded and she wanted to fix that. In her apartment building she was known as a ray of sunshine. When people were having bad days, a smile from her would cheer them up.

But Klaus Mikaelson was a different story.

She hadn't told him yet that she was a vampire, she couldn't. She did sense though, something was off with him, not just the antisocial part, she could tell that he had a hell of a past.

She felt like she was lying to him by not telling him she was a vampire. Hey, maybe he was too? Her best friend, Grace was a vampire as well. Her and Grace call this building the ''super building", being a play on the word supernatural and super hero. Barry Allen lived in this building as well, he was the Flash and she knew that Barry was friends with more metas like him. He's mentioned a friend named Crisco once and his girlfriend Gypsy, also someone named Caitlin and killer frost who were apparently the same person?

Caroline watched Klaus from across the couch, his eyes were trained to the tv.

"Klaus," She started. His attention turned to her, his gaze falling on hers.

"Yes, love?" His voice was more serene, now, he was less frightened of her.

"What happened…"

"Caroline…" He warned. He didn't open up much to her, all she knew was that he had a tragic loss in his family, a sibling or possibly a parent. She was good at reading people that need help being brought back to reality, especially someone as broken as him.

"I want to know what happened, I can help you."

"No one can help me, Caroline," His voice wasn't cold, just blank as he looked at her. "You don't know my past, you don't know what I've been thorough!" He stood up and ran his hands across his face, she could see that he was growing agitated.

She stood up as well, inching closer to him and putting her arms on his shoulder for him to hold her gaze. "Look at me Klaus," His cerulean eyes broke and peered into hers. "Then show me! Show me what happened! Trust me! If you cant already tell, I am reaching out to you! I want to help you!"

"I don't deserved to be helped…"

"Thats where you're wrong, everyone deserves to be helped and cared for," She noticed the unshed tears in his newly glistening eyes.

"You don't know me, Caroline."

"I know you enough to have figured out that you have a checkered past, a past that you would only share with someone you trust, someone that could be there for you. I will be there for you!" His lips quivered and he looked at her. "Show me Klaus! Tell me!"

Klaus abruptly put his hands on either side of her head and memories flooded her mind like watching a movie. The images went by quick but the details were all there.

Klaus broke and stepped back, not wanting to look her in the eyes because now she could see him for the monster he is. Elijah, Mikael, murder, vampire, hybrid, it was all in there. Klaus didn't trust easily, but he also didn't find someone like her easily either. He felt better with her, he felt like she could be the start of something new, someone to bring him out of this closure, someone to make him a new and better person.

Caroline held onto his couch for better support, letting her mind filter the new information. She regained her balance and looked at him."How did you—?"

"You know how Caroline," He looked down at his feet. "I'm like you."

"No you're not, you're something else. You're not just a normal vampire, y-you're a werewolf too…"

"Yes, it's known as a hybrid."

"The original hybrid."

Klaus nodded slowly, showing shame for the first time in centuries.

"Your brother, he died. You loved him, I could feel that love that you two shared. He was killed, killed by the person you loathe most."

"And it was my fault."

"Are you crazy! That was not your doing!"

"It was!" Tears shed from his eyes, but he didn't sob. "I stayed later than I said I would! I wasn't home when Elijah expected me! I would've been able to be there to protect him but no! I had to stay at the petty bar, drink the whole supply of scotch and become too buzzed to screw my head on right! I KILLED MY BROTHER!" He fell to his knees, they couldn't hold him up any longer.

Caroline rushed over to him and dropped to her knees too, cupping his face in her hands. "You didn't do this Klaus, you don't deserve any of this," He looked up at her, tears swarming his eyes, making her twinkle in the darkness. "Come here." She pulled him in for a tight hug and he hugged her back, burying his head into the crook of her neck. "You deserve love, and you still have it. Your family loves you Klaus, I don't know much but from what I could see Elijah, Rebekah and Kol love you dearly, and I am here for you from now on, always."

He took in her words and continued to shake in her embrace, letting the most emotion out since Elijah died. Most nights he spend lying up in his bed, couch or floor, anywhere, thinking of what he did or what he could've done to prevent it. "Love is a vampires greatest weakness and we are not weak."

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AN:

Boardwalk link:

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House link:

vacation/all/detailpage/398/better-together