AN: New character this chapter!

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"Whats so urgent that we are all here?" Leo asked as they gathered at a table by where they ate earlier.

"You've been acting weird tonight Mon el," Barry added.

"I know but theres a good reason," Mon el clarified. "The reason I wouldn't give Kara my jacket earlier in the ghost ship, Barry, was because something was inside that she couldn't see, a-a gift."

The three others looked at Mon el who was standing up in front of them while they sat at the table.

Klaus grinned, knowing what Mon el was getting at.

"Why are you grinning?" Leo asked as he looked at his brother.

"Because I know what Mon el has planned."

Mon el shifted his eyes to Klaus. "You do?"

"It's fairly obvious, mate, but congrats you guys deserve it," Klaus stood up and bro-hugged Mon el, patting him on the back as they broke.

"I'm confused…" Barry's words trailed off.

"I'm going to ask Kara to marry me, tonight, at moonrise."

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"So I wonder what the guys secret meeting is about," Kara wondered as they got online for the ride.

"I don't know but it seemed important," Caroline muttered, slightly annoyed because her time with Klaus was being taken away.

"He was acting really strange in the ghost ship and when Barry asked us to join him."

"Really? How so?" Grace asked as she scanned her wristband to enter the ride.

"I don't know he was annoyed that our little ice cream date got cut short, he was telling Barry that he needed to speak with him right away, and he wouldn't give me his jacket when I asked and told me that I should've gotten my own…" Kara told them, trailing off.

"What?" Caroline asked. "Sounds like he's being a jerk…" Caroline thought for a second. "Unless he's nervous."

They looked at Caroline. "What do you mean Care?" Grace asked.

"Kara how long have you guys been together."

"A few years…"

"This is the perfect setting. The moon rise, the cabana by the ocean under the stars, the day at the boardwalk and water park together… Kara he might be prepping to propose to you."

Kara's mouth dropped as realization hit. "Its just like Friends…"

"Why?" Grace asked.

"Monica had asked for Chandler's jacket because she was cold but he had the ring inside of it so he wouldn't give it to her and told her that she should of brought her own," Kara smiled and let out a loose laugh. "I'm gonna get married!"

They pulled their harnesses down and buckled the seatbelt. "Don't jump to conclusions, maybe it's just a really nice gift," Grace warned.

"I won't," Kara grinned.

The ride suddenly started to move up. They were on a free fall ride that rose pretty high into the hair.

"We've been talking about engagement for so long I forgot how nervous I was to ride this," Grace clenched the harness.

"Girls, we are invincible, nothing can hurt us," Kara grinned as they reached the top.

Grace was in an amazing mood. She and Leo kissed and confessed, it was everything she ever wanted. She was with him, they were official, but secret, for now.

Kara was excited to see if Mon el was going to propose. All the signs pointed to it and she would be lying if she said she wouldn't be disappointed if he didn't ask for her hand in marriage tonight.

Caroline was in an alright mood. She saw the looks of love on her friends faces and knew what soon Kara will be engaged to be married, hopefully, and something happened between Grace and Leo. She and Klaus have been having an amazing night, slightly awkward over their earlier encounter, but still, an amazing, fun, childish night. The only thing that could make it better was kissing his soft, plump red lips under the moonlight after she tells him she loves him, and falling asleep in each others arms under the stars.

She was in her own world for the whole way up that she didn't even notice they were at the top of the free fall, probably over a hundred feet high.

"Caroline! Earth to Caroline!" Kara kicked her.

Caroline looked at the girls. "Oh, sorry I was day dreaming."

"Look around! Quick!" Grace pointed to the view. It was beautiful. The lights of the town filtered in as far as they could see. The rest of the boardwalk was in sight and they could see how big it really was. From Grace's view on the ride she could see the cabana that looked really small from here and from Caroline's view she could see some of the waterpark they were at earlier.

"Look there are the guys!" Kara pointed down to the ground at four people sitting at a table, one standing.

"Hey, that is them!" Grace giggled.

"Normal people couldn't see that with normal vision." Caroline pointed out.

Without warning the ride suddenly plummeted.

The girls were laughing hysterically as they reached the floor. In front of them was the glass that blocked people from getting in the ride without tickets. They were on a pretty high platform but they could see three guys looking at them and whispering.

"What are they saying?" Kara asked the two vampires.

"That we're hot and looking right at them."

They girls hopped out of the harnesses once the attendant unlocked them and darted off the line, not using vampire speed or flight so they wouldn't cause attention because they knew the boys were looking at them.

"Hey," The middle boy said. He was Australian and wearing a blue shirt. His hair was slickly done and brunette as he stared at Grace.

The girls just gave a slight smile as they tried to walk away.

"You girls wanna go get some ice cream or something?" The seemingly cocky one on the end asked them.

"We're taken, sorry," Kara mumbled.

"What was that now?" The third one, also cocky said. "I don't see any guys? Why not we just get some harmless ice cream from you pretty ladies."

Suddenly a new voice came into picture as three figure popped out of nowhere in front of them. "You heard the ladies, they're taken," Klaus's familiar accent struck their ears.

"Leave them alone," Leo added.

Mon el went to stand by Kara, taking her into her arms as she watched the scene unfold.

"I don't see you three all over the pretty blonde and brunette over there," The middle one sneered at Leo, Klaus and Barry.

"I'm not with them, but they are," Barry dared.

Without hesitation Leo walked over to grace and place a chaste kiss on her lips. Caroline and Kara gasped in their minds and Klaus and Mon el eyed the scene, wondering if he was acting or it was real. You can't fake that kind of passion.

"Well what about you?"

Klaus eyed the boy and went and took Caroline's hand and placed a kiss to it. He didn't want their first kiss to be here, in front of three idiots in the middle of a loud boardwalk pier.

"Leave, and don't bother these girls again," Leo walked up to the three boys and compelled them to stop. "Forget about meeting us three guys and remember three beautiful girls rejecting you."

The three boys nodded and walked away. "Well Grace you should be an actor too," Caroline commented.

Grace rolled her eyes. "Why does everyone say that?"

"Because of me," Leo grinned as he stood beside her.

"That was one hell of a kiss…" Kara said smugly.

"It was acting," Grace quickly jumped to change the subject. "How was your nights?"

"Still young," Klaus grabbed Caroline's hand. "I believe love we still have one more ride we can make before we have to be back."

"I want to go back in the ghost ship!" Barry said.

"NO!" Mon el unlinked his hand from Barry pulling him.

"Someones scared!" Caroline giggled as Klaus tried to pry her away.

"I hate that place."

"Leo can we head back down to the cabana?" Grace asked him.

"Of course," Leo looked away from her and over at his highly annoyed brother. "Klaus, when will Rebekah and her fiancé get there?"

"She said by the time the moon rises," Klaus called back. Klaus yanked Caroline further away.

"Bye! See you guys soon!" Caroline yelled as she laughed at Klaus's newfound determination.

Leo looked away from his bother and back to his wonderful girlfriend, yes its official. "Let's go Grace," He said softly. With that, they were gone.

"And then there were three," Barry grinned as he leaned against a post.

"And then there was one," Kara played as she grabbed Mon el's hand. She couldn't help the smile blooming on her face as they walked away from Barry, knowing that soon she could be engaged to the man she loves within the next hours.

"Where are you going?!"

"To get more ice cream! You interrupted last time remember!"

"Yeah but as Klaus said the night is still young!"

Mon el stopped walking. "We made a deal, we do the ship with you and then we return to ourselves."

"Damn I thought you forgot about that."

Mon el grinned slightly as they walked off into the distance.

Then there was one.

Barry sighed as he decided to go play in some of the arcades, maybe he would win something that he could find remotely useful. As a kid he loved that stuff and maybe walking into an arcade decades later would remind him of the child still bobbing around inside of him.

He walked into the nearest arcade at the front of the pier. He watched the flashing lights and the games being played all around him. Kids were cheering after they won something like a stuffed animal, a shirt, candy and more.

Yup, he was right.
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"Come on love," Klaus said as she caught up to him, now standing next to him instead of trailing behind.

"Where are we going? This is so out of the way of all the rides. What did you say? Oh right, 'still young', as in the night is still young. And we're wasting it walking around aimlessly away from all of the fun."

Klaus grinned in amusement. "I think you'll like this way more than another little ride. This is better than any of those silly rides out there."

"Don't insult the rides they did nothing to you," She replied sarcastically. "Where the hell are we going?"

They were walking along the middle of the pier, heading to the far end, directly above where they were looking at the cabana from the waterpark earlier. Klaus led her to the left corner of the rectangular pier.

"Tell me where we're going right now or I'm…" Caroline stopped talking when she saw what he had planned. They were looking right at the helicopter that took passengers on tours around the area. "Holy hell, Klaus, we're going to do that!?"

Klaus chuckled at her enthusiasm. "Yes darling, we are."

Caroline couldn't stop smiling for the life of her. She never had been in a helicopter before. She was bouncing on the balls of her feet as she watched the helicopter land. Everything that was awkward between them was gone in that moment. Klaus only watched her and she watched the landing helicopter and then ran to him and gave him a giant hug.

It took him a second to wrap his arms around her and pull her in tight too. He smiled against her hair as he heard her giggling in his chest.

"Klaus and Caroline?" The worker that set you up called. Caroline and Klaus broke the hug and looked at the man calling for them. "We're ready for you guys."

Caroline smiled and this time, she took Klaus's hand and led them onto the platform.

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Leo threw his bag onto his bed, or their bed, and then plopped down. The cabana was beautiful, welcoming, and had a very warm glow to it. There was a little wooden rectangular hut on the side which contained a bathroom and a little tiny kitchen with a mini fridge and a stove. On the side of that there were two beds, which they weren't full king size beds, they were more like very oversized lounge chairs. Then on the other side parallel from the two beds on the side of the wooden hut, there were two more beds which were divided by a little shared nightstand topped with a warm lit lamp just like on the other side. There was also another little one that was about half the size of the others, specially requested for Barry. In front of everything, there was a little tv which all of the 'beds' were pointed at, and in front of that in the dead center of the cabana was a fire pit.

"I could get used to this," Grace mumbled as she plopped down next to him on the bed, lying on her back unlike him who was sitting upright.

"So can I," He looked down at his beautiful girlfriend and kissed her on the lips.

"Woah there! I thought you two weren't together," A female British accent ran though their ears. The pair parted and looked up at Rebekah who had finally joined them.

"Rebekah!" Grace smiled as she pulled the blonde in for a hug, not even a day and they were good friends.

After her and Grace parted she smiled at her and Leo. "What happened? How did this happen?! When?!"

Grace rolled her eyes but kept her smile. "A few hours ago, maybe less."

Leo nodded along and put his arm around her.

"Before you know it, you will be engaged and at each others throats all day," Rebekah glared at her fiancé who was walking up with bags.

"Rebekah why did you leave all this to me?" He complained.

"Because you are stronger and why would you make your fiancé do it?"

"Rebekah you're an original, I am nowhere near as strong as you are," He sighed as he put the bags down.

Rebekah giggled as her fiancé kissed her on the cheek and then turned to the two people in front of them. "Hello," He smiled.

"Whats your name?" Grace asked as she looked over the man. He was beautiful. He had dirty blonde hair, the same color as Klaus but his hair was straight and not curly like his. His eyes were a beautiful shade of green and his lips were pink. He had long eye lashes and a razor sharp jawline.

"I'm Stefan," Stefan told them. "Stefan Salvatore."

"Nice to meet you Stefan," Grace shook his hand, as did Leo with a smile.

Stefan looked at Leo sideways. "Wait aren't you like world famous or something?"

Leo nodded, still smiling smugly like his brother would. "I am."

"Then why are you hanging around with us idiots?" Stefan chuckled.

"Hey, I am not an idiot," Rebekah pouted and Grace bit back a laugh.

Stefan laughed at his fiancé. "Really though, what are you doing here? Especially with Klaus Mikaelson?"

Leo sighed. "Klaus is my half brother."

Stefan's mouth flew wide open. "You're what?"

"I am Klaus's half brother, on his dads side, well, his real dad, Ansel's side."

"Well you learn something new every day," Stefan said, still shaken over the fact that Leo is Klaus's brother.

"I was shocked too," Rebekah chimed in.

"I could imagine."

"So guys, when will the rest be back?" Rebekah asked the pair in front of them.

"Um well they should all be back in at least twenty minutes for moon rise," Leo told them as he looked at the time on his phone.

"Alright then so what do you want to do in the mean time?" Rebekah grinned.
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Kara watched as Mon el ordered her, her favorite ice cream for the second time of the night, and as he ordered his own.

The worker handed them their frozen treats and they retreated to the table they were sitting at before Barry came like a bat out of hell and ruined their 'date'.

Things seemed tense between them for some reason, maybe because Mon el was nervous as hell to propose and Kara was nervous as hell that he wasn't going to do it, guessed wrong and got her hopes up.

The cool air winded through the rides and struck them directly, adding the wind from the beach next to them, and maybe the ice cream.

Kara shivered as she warmed her goose-bumped legs with her hands trying to generate heat.

She heard Mon el sigh as he stood up. She watched him move and stand behind her, taking off his jacket and wrapping it around her shoulders.

Kara smiled when the jacket made contact with her skin, but also felt dampened by the fact that he wasn't hiding the ring in there anymore.

"Thank you," Kara smiled warmly as her body stopped shaking and Mon el sat in front of her again.

"You're welcome, sorry about being an ass earlier I don't know what came over me, maybe just nerves from being in the creepy ship."

"The rat tails hitting my ankles I will never, ever, forget that," Kara shivered at the thought.

Mon el laughed. "The worst part for me was the jump scares with the people dressed in makeup and costumes, it's just they are real people, so it brings the effect of the jump scare more to life."

"True, all true," Kara pointed to him playfully. "Are you alright?" She noticed his smile disappear and his eyes wander.

"Hmm?" He looked back to her. "Oh, nothing I'm alright, what about you are you alright?" He pried, slightly concerned.

"I'm alrightm" She said with wide eyes, confused at his mannerisms. Is this proposal nerves? She prayed that he was going to do it after her thinking of all the future possibilities and mental planning where she wanted the wedding.

"Good. I always want you to be okay."

Kara smiled warmly and took his hand. "I love you."

"I love you more."

"Not possible."

"I think it is."
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Barry walked out of the arcade with two giant bags of stuff he convinced himself he needed. He spent a lot of money in there and came out with not as much stuff (but still a lot of stuff) as he hoped.

He saw a stand in front of him, it was a plate game. The rules are you take a quarter and have to throw it onto one of the plates and make sure it stays there.

Seems easy enough, Barry thought.

Barry walked over to the stand and asked for a roll of quarters. He paid and wished he could compel himself free stuff like Caroline, Grace, Klaus and Leo, Rebekah too, he guessed.

He took his first shot and missed.

Damn, not as easy as it looks.

Barry continued throwing the quarters till he was all out. He hauled the guy over and asked for another roll. He was about halfway through the roll when he heard a girl scream in delight that she got one. Barry glared at the her, kinda jealous that a girl, that could be no more than six, made one and he didn't.

So he kept trying till he won… thirty dollars later. He came out with another pointless thing he didn't need. His childhood was definitely taking advantage here.

He looked at his buzzing phone and saw Grace texting him to 'get his ass back to the cabana for moon rise and to bring the rest of the idiots that aren't answering their phone'.

Barry shrugged as he sped off into the pier and went to find the rest of the group.

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"I'm nervous," Caroline played with the hair tie around her wrist.

"Don't be love, it's like a plane, only smaller and more likely to crash and burn."

Caroline looked at him and rolled her eyes. "That's not helping."

"Oh it is, you know it."

She giggled. "Maybe it is."

"Are you guys ready?" The pilot got on the helicopter and sat in his seat. "All buckled up?"

The two nodded at the pilot as he started the engine. It was hard to hear now since the engines were really loud but Caroline didn't take her eyes off of Klaus for a second. He was looking out the window, grinning slightly because he knew she was watching him aimlessly. Tonight he was going to do it, tonight he was going to tell her.

He knew it.

But he wasn't sure of it.

Caroline jumped up when she felt the helicopter move off the floor and into the air slowly.

"Oh god," Caroline wanted to close her eyes but didn't want to miss anything. Klaus without hesitation, okay maybe slight hesitation, grabbed her hand and squeezed it reassuringly.

Caroline looked down at his hand covering hers and smiled, instantly feeling 10x better.

Soon enough they were up in the air. They flew over the length of the boardwalk and watched the beaches down below and the waves crash on the shore.

Caroline felt the adrenaline pump thorough her veins, she turned to look at Klaus who was looking out his window. She was so happy that he did this for her, for them.

Without thinking and high on adrenaline, she moved closer to him and kissed his cheek softly, yet quickly. He jumped at the contact and then turned to face her when she parted. He saw her smile at him with her beautiful smile and he returned one just at beautiful as hers.

"This is amazing!" Caroline yelled.

"It really is, love!" They had to shout because of the wind.

They overlooked all of the boardwalk and some of the town. They could see little lights everywhere they looked. They saw the cabana on the beach and the people walking along the streets.

It was amazing, truly amazing.

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"Where the bloody hell is everyone?" Rebekah slumped against the headboard of her bed.

"They will be here soon. Did you try Klaus's phone Bekah?" Grace asked.

"I did, no one answered it went straight to voicemail."

"What about Kara and Mon el?" Leo asked.

"This was Kara's response, 'shut up and let me have my date'…" Grace chuckled.

Suddenly everyones hair was in disarray after Grace hit send on a text he wrote to Barry.

"What the—!" Rebekah moved her disheveled hair from her face and looked at Barry. "You're the bloody Flash!"

"The one and only, literally," Barry grinned. "Unless you count that comic book guy, he's nothing like me."

"Yeah because you're still a child," Grace teased.

"I won't go against that, I just spent like a billion dollars in the arcade."

"No you didn't," Leo face palmed himself.

"Yeah, then more money till I won on that plate game."

"Barry we tried that, it was like impossible!" Leo scolded him.

"Yeah well, I did it till I won, plus it was more difficult with speed, I was scared I was going to break a plate."

Leo and Grace groaned.

"Oh right Barry this is Klaus's sister Rebekah and her fiancé Stefan Salvatore," Grace introduced.

Barry turned around to face the pair. "Hello."

Stefan waved and Rebekah smiled. "Whatever my brother said about me isn't true," Rebekah clarified.

"He actually didn't say anything at all."

"Really? Nik is losing his touch…"

"I think Caroline is helping with that." Grace added.

"They just need to make out already," Rebekah pouted, earning look from the group. "What I want my brother to be happy and Caroline makes him happy."

"The tension between them is surreal," Leo commented as he stood up from the bed.

"Nik has had no epic loves in his life, the only one that maybe mattered was a girl from his past named Tatia, he never let anyone get close to him after that," Rebekah told them.

"Tatia died when Esther, their mother, used her blood to make them vampires," Stefan explained.

"Interesting, I never knew that," Grace said.

"Caroline has brought love in his life again since Elijah, passed… I saw the pure happiness in his eyes earlier when they were on the slide,." Rebekah confessed.

"Klaus has opened up since the first time I saw him. That night he was tense and paranoid but he really seems to like us now and we really like him," Grace smiled reassuringly.

"You don't know how happy that makes me. Sure Nik and I have had our spats…"

"Dagger spats…" Stefan interrupted. Rebekah shot him a glance.

"Dagger?" Leo questioned.

"Don't ask, its a long story. It was a way of protecting us. But I love my brother and I want nothing but happiness for him, much like he wants for me," She looked at Stefan and smiled.

"When's the wedding date?" Grace asked.

"Maybe around June," Rebekah said as Stefan nodded. "And yes, you guys will be invited."

"Speaking of marriage… there a proposal going down tonight," Leo said.

"Yes!" Grace almost jumped up. "He's doing it!"

"How did you…?"

"We were wondering why Mon el was acting so weird and then we came up with the conclusion that he was going to pop the question. Kara may of gotten her hopes up but we told her not to incase he was wrong."

"How did she know?"

"Well when she asked for his jacket her told her no and got defensive, she said something similar happened in friends when Chandler was proposing to Monica she asked for his jacket and he started to give it to her, felt the ring in his pocket and told her she should of brought her own."

"Mon el seriously! He should've known she would catch on, she is a genius after all."

"I think its sweet," Rebekah said, joining in on the convo. "I mean he is nervous and planning, hoping she wont say no, and she is nervous that he wont do it and not want to marry her. It just fits together and they would both be happy when he pops the question and she accepts."

"Stefan how did you propose?" Leo asked the man next to the blonde. Barry sat down on his little bed in between them and listened in on the conversation, staying silent for the moment.

"Well Rebekah and I first met in the 1920's when I had my humanity off. I was known as the Ripper of Monterey, some of my darkest years… but we won't get into that. I decided to revisit a bar that night, Gloria's, this woman stood up to me because I was being a douche," Stefan chuckled. "She told me that I was still wearing my date because I took out her hair piece and clipped it to my suit after I drained her, yes, I was dark back then. I was hooked instantly. She kept snipping comments at me until we started to…well, make out. Then her bother came, Klaus. There was a sudden rivalry that went away and we acted as if we were brothers. Rebekah and Klaus were on the run from Mikael, their father, and stopped at that bar. We became close but then there was an attack on the bar and the attacker was using wooden bullets. Klaus told Rebekah they were leaving at once, which they did. They left me behind because they couldn't have any loose ends for Mikael to find. So Klaus compelled me to forget them and they fled from the attacking Mikael."

"So why are you together now?" Grace asked.

"Well when I met Klaus again, he compelled my memories back when he un-daggered Rebekah. So I remembered. We had a love hate relationship, on again off again."

"So what does that have to do with proposing?" Barry asked.

"Well I took her back to Gloria's bar and we danced to the same songs we did that night. We drank and laughed and then I told her how much I loved her, and how my life has changed because of her, and then I proposed."

"Were you nervous?" Barry asked thinking of Mon el.

"Nope because I knew she would say yes," Rebekah smiled and Stefan returned his own.

"I swear why isn't anyone answering!" Grace whined.

"Well I'm gonna guess that Mon el and Kara are going at it somewhere, in the bathroom maybe… or Klaus and Caroline are. Or you know… their phones are dead or off," Barry played.

"Seriously!" Grace rolled her eyes. "Why Barry, why must you put those images in my mind!"

"It's my job."

A few minutes of comfortable silence passed until Rebekah jumped up. "Nik!"

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AN:

Stefan! I love Stefan, especially Stefan and Rebekah, they're really underrated.

house link: vacation/all/detailpage/398/better-together

I just realized that for some reason the boardwalk link isn't showing up but the pier is Moreys pier in Wildwood new jersey