After more talk and drinks the group decided it was best to let Kara and Mon el be alone for a while.
Stefan and Rebekah decided to go up to the boardwalk to grab some ice cream while Leo and Grace decided to walk along the shore. Barry wanted to check out the town so he sped off.
The moon was about half way risen now, the red color starting to fade slightly at the elevation.
"Grace," Leo said causing her to look at him.
"Yeah?"
"I love you…"
Grace stopped in her tracks. "Y-You love me?"
Leo only nodded. "I love you more than I thought I could love anyone." Grace processed his words that were now flooding her mind. He loved her, he flat out admitted it. "Grace please say something."
"I love you too," She pulled him in for a kiss against the moon light.
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Klaus and Caroline decided to take a walk along the beach as well. The waves crashed against their feet, soaking Klaus's sweat pants and sending a chill throughout their bodies.
"I love this," Caroline smiled as she moved her arms over her bare arms to calm her enraging goosebumps.
"Love what darling?" Klaus asked as he started to slip off his jacket to hand to her.
"This," She waved her hands around.
"Descriptive…"
"You know what I mean! I love being here with everyone and I love being here with you," She sighed with a smile. Klaus wrapped his jacket around her and she jumped at bit at the touch.
"You're cold, decided you might need this."
"Thank you, but what about you?"
"I don't get cold darling."
"Thats is total bull! You are always complaining about how your apartment is freezing!"
"Fine, you got me."
Caroline stopped walking and turned to watch the moon which was almost fully in the air, "I love this, I love everyone, I love you…"
Klaus narrowed his eye brows as he turned to look down at her. He didn't expect her to say that, but he didn't know if she meant as a friend or more.
"I'm happy you brought me back, Caroline."
"Brought you back from where?"
"Brought me back to reality," he confessed. "I never, every thought I could love again… until I met you." A tear fell down Caroline's cheek as she stared into his ocean eyes, still vibrant even in the darkness of the night, illuminated by the moon. "Come here love."
Klaus led them away from the water and onto the dry sand, sitting them down to look out at the ocean. "I've been around for many lifetimes and never, ever met anyone like you. You're strong, beautiful and full of a light, I never knew existed. You, Caroline Forbes, made me feel alive again."
More tears streamed down her cheeks and she moved closer to him and rested her head on his shoulder. "As a kid I dreamed of having the perfect life, I wanted to live in a castle and get married to the most perfect man… but that all changed when I turned into a vampire. My life was taken but a new one began. I realized that life isn't perfect, I won't marry the perfect man, I won't live in a mansion, I won't become famous… but I'm okay with that," Caroline told him. She felt his arms wrap around her, feeling instantly comforted.
"I'm happiest when I'm with you, Caroline," Caroline moved on his shoulder to look up at him, seeing the pure vulnerability in his eyes. "I have to tell you something…"
Caroline's body tensed as he moved to face her, taking both of her hands in his, but he didn't say anything, he just moved her hair from her face and placed it behind her ear. "Don't kill me please, love," he whispered as he inched closer to her.
It was all in slow-motion. His hands moved to cup her face and he closed his eyes, not wanting to see her reaction. He needed to do this.
Before she knew it she felt his plump, soft, crimson lips press onto hers. She had imagined what this moment would be like, but she never imagined to be this amazing. It was like sparks were flying everywhere and electricity was jolting through their bodies.
They slowly parted, panting, and put their foreheads together. "Sorry I…" He mumbled between breaths.
"Are you nuts?" She pulled away and kissed him passionately, making him fall backwards onto the sand.
It was total bliss.
But that bliss was disrupted by the cracking of bones.
"Klaus?" She jumped back.
His leg was bent the other way and there was pure fear in his eyes. "I don't know how this is possible…"
"What's going on?" Caroline stood up.
"Leave Caroline, I don't want to hurt you and I can't control my t-transformation."
Caroline looked at the moon that was fully risen now and a shade of pure white high in the sky.
"Klaus…"
"LEAVE!"
He's shifting, but why?
She knelt down to capture his face in her hands. "You can get through this."
"I-I don't know why this is happening…" His voice was cracking as more body parts started to shatter. "I can kill you if I'm not in control, Caroline. From past experiences, I don't have control and I don't know why I have no bloody control over this now!"
"I believe you do, I believe you can do this, Klaus."
His caught her eyes. "I can't lose you."
"You won't, but I'm not leaving."
He screamed out in pain as he fell fully on the ground.
Caroline had to look away, not wanting to see him in such pain. "You're the strongest person I know Klaus, fight it!"
"LEAVE CAROLINE! I DON'T WANT TO HURT YOU!" More screams and cracks of his bones filled the air and before she knew it, she was staring into the eyes of a full fledged werewolf.
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"Leo?!"
Leo was screaming in pain and falling to the floor.
"What's wrong with you!"
"I-It's my werewolf side," His eyes turned gold. "It's activated and I don't know why."
"But I thought you could control when you turn…"
"I can," He winced. "I don't know why this is happening. I need you to run, Grace, now."
"I'm not leaving you!"
"You are, you have to. I could hurt you, or worse, kill you."
She tensed, "You wont, I trust you."
They could hear more screams from a distance, Klaus. He was turning too.
"That's Klaus," Leo said as more bones broke in his body. "He's turning too."
"This isn't just a coincidence, Leo. Someone is doing this."
"We don't have time to figure that out now, leave now."
"But Leo—"
"LEAVE PLEASE GRACE!"
"I'm not leaving you."
She watched as his hands and feet turned to paws and his body cracked and grew fur. She was looking at a werewolf, an actual werewolf, right there in front of her.
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Barry walked around the town, watching the people pass by him and the warm lights brighten up the dim streets. Stores lined either side of him and they were all unique in their own special ways. A helicopter flew above him, the same one Klaus and Caroline ventured in earlier that evening. The fully risen moon glowed down on him.
He had gotten a quick bite to eat and some food to bring back to the group at the cabana. He didn't want to interrupt Kara and Mon el now, who knows what he might walk in on. He knew something weird was going on with Grace and Leo, and Klaus and Caroline seem to have this tension building between them. He liked the new people, Stefan and Rebekah too. Stefan understood him well and Rebekah was beautiful and had an extraordinary personality. Everyone was in love, something he hadn't felt in years. Iris, his crush since he was a kid, got married and moved out of town, but they still keep in touch sometimes.
He started to head back to the cabana to walk the beach, when he saw something he did not expect to see at all in his life time. A werewolf?
"Nik calm down! You can control this!" Rebekah yelled at the jet gray wolf. The wolf was stalking towards Rebekah with an angry look in it's eyes. Barry sped to the scene and blocked Rebekah and Stefan from the wolves path.
"Klaus!" Caroline yelled running up to them. "Come on please look at me!"
"Caroline don't!" Barry stopped.
"Caroline is the only one who could possibly talk sense into his clouded mind!" Stefan reasoned.
"Is that Klaus?"
"Yes it is, we don't know why he shifted and don't know how, but it is. He is supposed to control his transformation but something is repressing that side of him," Rebekah explained.
"Hey Klaus look at me, it's me, Caroline. Rebekah is here, Barry is here and Stefan is here, you're safe and we're safe."
Wolf-Klaus stared at her, blinking the weariness out of his eyes. Caroline kelt down on the floor holding her hand out for him to come closer. He inched towards her.
"Okay that's crazy, she's crazy right?!" Barry ran his hands through his hair.
Wolf-Klaus was around two inches from her outstretched arm and suddenly pounced on top of her, causing her to lay fully in the sand.
"Nik what the hell!" Rebekah started to run towards him but Stefan caught both of her arms to halt her.
Wolf-Klaus growled as he looked down the beach. "Klaus!" Caroline fidgeted.
"Look!" Barry pointed in the direction Klaus was looking. Another wolf rushed towards them, followed by a girl.
"Grace!" Rebekah called.
"It's Leo! I don't know whats wrong!" She yelled, out of breath. "Is that Klaus?!"
"He's defending her," Stefan realized. "He sees another wolf coming this way and pounces on her to protect her."
"Well would you look at that," Rebekah said.
"Klaus, Klaus it's Leo!" Caroline muttered from underneath him. "You don't want to hurt him and he doesn't want to hurt you."
"I don't think he's in control guys!" Grace yelled.
Wolf-Leo was a few feet from them now, the blurry figures in front him now becoming clear. He stopped in his tracks, sand spewing everywhere. Wolf-Klaus and wolf-Leo's golden eyes scanned each other, making sure it was safe. They didn't fight, they didn't pounce.
"Okay Klaus can you please get off now? It's starting to get uncomfortable and hard to breathe!" Caroline sighed from underneath his grasp. He listened, jumping off of her and standing fully on the sand. Everyone let out a sigh of relief when both wolves touched heads, showing that they knew who they were and are in total control of their wolf forms.
"Thank bloody god," Rebekah mumbled as Stefan let go of her hands.
Grace plopped down on the sand, wiping the sweat from her head as wolf-Leo paced over to her. She tensed slightly but then held out her hand, similar to what Caroline did before. Wolf-Leo put his head in her palm and started nudging it like a puppy. "Awww!"
Wolf-Klaus turned to Caroline and ran over to her, knocking her off guard again as he nuzzled into her stomach. "Oh my god you're like a giant puppy!" She started to run her fingers through his fur.
"I can't believe I just saw that with my own eyes," Barry said.
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The group started to walk back to the cabana, sending a warning text to Kara and Mon el to make sure they were, well, decent.
Wolf-Klaus and wolf-Leo walked next to them, it was strange to see them like this, completely in their full-on wolf forms.
It was currently midnight, the moon was at it's highest point in the sky, which must of triggered their werewolf genes to activate.
Grace decided to be playful and rubbed Leo's back, basically telling him that she was about to jump on his back.
"Oh my god this is amazing, I'm riding a werwolf!"
"Me too, me too!" Caroline giggled as she jumped on Klaus's back. "Okay this is cool, my legs hurt anyway so carry me the whole way back!"
If the wolves could laugh, they probably would be, the girls liked to think that they were laughing on the inside.
"Stefan can I ride on your back?" Rebekah pleaded.
"How did I know you were going to ask that question?"
"Because you know me," She smirked.
Stefan sighed, "Of course you can darling."
They getting close enough to the camp to see the dim lights of the fire. "KARA, MON EL, THEY'RE RIDING WOLVES!" Barry yelled. "THEY'RE CRAZY!"
"What?" They heard them say back. Kara and Mon el watched as two wolves and the rest approached. Caroline and Grace were riding them, Rebekah was getting a piggy back ride from Stefan, and Barry was running towards the cabana.
"Yes I wanted to see them turn!" Kara giggled as she jumped out of bed. Caroline, Grace and Rebekah were set down to the ground as Kara and Mon el ran up. "Aw!" Kara started to pet wolf-Klaus while Mon el did the same to wolf-Leo.
"I thought you weren't supposed to turn…" Mon el said confused.
"They aren't, thats why we have to figure out why this happened," Rebekah said.
"Can we do that in the morning? I'm totally beat," Grace mumbled as she laid on her bed.
"I am too, we can discuss over breakfast tomorrow morning," Caroline suggested.
"When I was walking the town before I saw a little place that looked good. I also brought back food but I don't think its good anymore, being I totally dropped it when I saw a freaking werewolf looking at me…" Barry confessed.
Rebekah giggled, "We'll go to that place in the morning that you saw."
"But what are we going to do about them?" Kara asked, referring to the two wolves in front of them.
"Well they're still Klaus and Leo, they can do whatever they want," Grace said as she got under her covers. Wolf-Leo jumped up on the bed and curled into a ball. "You're literally like a giant dog."
"We're going to bed you guys, its been a long day," Mon el said as he led Kara over to their bed.
"Should we let the fire burn?" Barry asked.
"Yeah it will burn out sometime tonight, but by the time we wake up it will be day so we won't need it," Mon el told him.
"Sounds good," Barry plopped on his bed. "Night guys, wolves."
Wolf-Klaus and wolf-Leo growled as an answer and the rest of them just laughed. "Night guys," Grace smiled as she ran her hands over Leo's wolf head.
"Night," the group returned.
Caroline went to go lay down as well, being followed by wolf-Klaus. "Klaus I'm going to go to sleep okay? It's been a long day. I think if we watch The Office or something I will fall asleep instantly and I don't want that."
Wolf-Klaus nodded. She realized how beautiful he looked in wolf form, his fur was gray with streaks of black and his eyes were a mysterious shade of yellow, brown and gold.
"I want to tell you something," Caroline whispered as she pet wolf-Klaus's head, casing his eyes to flutter closed. "I think it's easier to say when you cant respond, but I know I'll have to face it in the morning, or maybe you wont remember this," She stopped rubbing his fur and he opened his eyes, looking right at her. "I love you."
Wolf-Klaus looked as taken aback as a wolf could. Inside of him all he felt was utter joy and he wanted to say it back, but he couldn't.
"I just thought you should know that," she smiled as she laid down. Wolf-Klaus shook his head and sprawled out on the bed, trying to wrap himself in the sheets. "Oh right, when you transform back you'll be totally naked and I'm pretty sure, no one wants to see that."
He growled at her teasing and settled into his spot. His head was resting on his paws and he moved it slightly to gesture for Caroline to lay down next to him. His head was at the opposite side of the bed so she fixed the blanket to suit her position and wrapped her arms around Klaus's wolf torso, her head resting there as well, on top of a pillow, though.
"Try to sleep, please Klaus," She whispered. Wolf-Klaus nodded as she continued to stoke his fur by his eyes an around his ears.
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Everyones minds were quiet that night, no horrid dreams and visions, just blissful silence, must be the moons work.
Kara dreamed of picking out the perfect wedding dress as Mon el waited at the end of the isle for her, taking her hand in marriage. Flowers braided in her hair and her shining heels killing her feet, but she didn't care, didn't care at all.
Kara's eyes opened as she sat up in bed. She glanced at her phone checking the time, it was four am, and then looking down at her engagement ring placed delicately on her finger. Earlier she hadn't had much time to examine it but now, she realized just how beautiful it was. The ring was pure silver and fit around her ring finger perfectly. In the center there was the biggest diamond she had ever seen, plus two more in between the two added sapphires that matched her eyes. She imagined the perfect wedding in her mind, some tweaks added from the dream she just had. Her dress would be beautiful, cut to fit her body and the lace would flow behind her like a waterfall. Her vale would be discreet and delegate, yet consuming to her peers. She wanted her supergirl side to be apart of this somehow as well, she just didn't know how yet. She thought to the honeymoon, she hadn't discussed it with Mon el, well maybe it did come up once. Maybe here? Maybe Aruba where they got engaged. Maybe Italy? A little villa just outside of Venice, close enough to smell the odors of the fresh Italian food and water streets. Maybe Paris? Maybe both? She had always, always wanted to see the Eiffel Tower in person, she dreamed as a kid of having her husband or lover take her there. That time was now.
Kara faced Mon el who was fast asleep, giggling, she made him roll to his side so she could lie on top of him. He didn't stir, he only wrapped his arms protectively around her waist as she settled.
She loved him.
He loved her.
They were in love.
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AN: so, major relationship advances in this chapter. Will Klaus remember that scene in the morning?
I wanted to add the wolf forms into the story because I wanted everyone to rect to seeing werewolves in real life, plus Caroline and Grace should see them in their true forms. Plus, it adds up to something later.
Next time:
More Barry stuff, goes back to see some old faces and one of our old friends comes back :)
