AN: the pancake house they go to this chapter is actually a real place in Aruba! Ive never been there but it looked cute and fun to describe. (the dishes they order aren't real, only the dutch pancake platter)

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"Finally oh my god I'm starving!" Kara exclaimed as she jumped off of the bed as Klaus and Caroline approached the cabana.

"All morning she has been complaining about how hungry she is," Mon el explained. "I'm starting to get concerned because she's saying she could eat anything right now."

"Where are we going to eat?" Leo asked he started to make the beds.

"I can scope out the area for something with a short wait and good food," Barry offered. "I did find something yesterday so i'll check that out."

"Just do it fast alright?" Kara said.

"It's in my name," He reminded her before speeding off.

"Leo you know you don't have to make the beds right," Klaus told him.

Caroline quickly went to go make another bed once she realized that it was all messy. "Klaus are you kidding me? I mean I know we just met but you should know that I will never leave a mess like this," Leo gestured to the crumpled sheets.

"Caroline you too?" Klaus sighed.

"Yes! It's a necessity!"

Klaus turned to Rebekah and Stefan who were chatting to themselves by the cabin. "Are you guys joining us for breakfast?"

Rebekah looked at her brother. "Do you want to Stefan?"

"Sounds good to me, I'm hungry."

"Was everything okay last night?" Klaus asked.

"Yeah we were fine but the real question is, are you okay?" Stefan turned the conversation to him.

Klaus sighed. "I'm fine, just, confused I guess. There is no reason why Leo and I turned last night, it was like every cell in out bodies that rejects the transformations every full moon totally broke."

"Nik do you think it was h-him…"

"No, it cant be Bekah. Mikael isn't a witch, he can't make us turn."

"Sorry but I was listening in," Mon el interrupted. "What if these dreams that everyone is having are really glimpses of the future. We saw a man working beside Mikael, he could be the witch."

"He's not wrong Nik," Rebekah sighed. "Our world is crazy enough, theres a possibility."

"How about we drop this for now, we're on vacation and it could all wait until we return home," Mon el suggested.

"Speaking of home," Caroline joined in. "Where do you guys live?"

"We live on a different earth, but maybe, we could join Barry here. We would have to speak to the members of Team Supergirl though," Mon el said.

"Also, we would have to finish off any lingering evil the city," Kara added. "If there is any. My contacts from Team Supergirl are holding things together over there, nothing bad is happening, just minor crimes."

Everyones hair suddenly flew everywhere. "Barry stop doing that!" Caroline whined.

"Sorry, sorta. Well I did scamper the town and found a nice breakfast place that isn't to far and isn't that crowded. It was the one I passed by yesterday."

"Okay so one thing that I keep forgetting to ask, are we leaving the cabana now or coming back after we eat?" Kara asked.

"We rented it till about 1 PM, so we'll come back after breakfast, gather our stuff and head back to the house to get ready for todays activities," Caroline explained.

"Which are…?" Kara said.

Grace pulled out her phone to see the list Caroline made in her phone. "Hiking through a forest then the beach and scuba diving."

"Sounds good, lets head out."

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Leo pulled up his truck that they drove down here and since they all couldn't fit half went into Stefan's car.

Barry put the address into Leo's phone and propped it up onto the stand. "If you guys get lost, follow Stefan because I know where to go."

"Alright," Leo said as he started the truck. Mon el, Rebekah and Caroline joined him.

"Rebekah why aren't you going with Stefan?" Caroline asked.

"He and my brother give me head aches when they're together," Rebekah answered simply.

"Fair enough," Mon el said from the front.

"Well Mon el why aren't you with your fiancé?" Leo teased.

"She just followed Barry, Klaus and Grace I don't know. She said she needed a few minutes of 'girl time' to talk about me," He sighed.

"Are you upset about that?" Leo asked as they pulled out of the parking space.

"I'm not upset, I just feel like I never want to leave her."

"Aww," Caroline and Rebekah giggled.

"Shut up," Mon el rolled his eyes.

"Gotta admit, this week has been one crazy one so far," Caroline said.

"I have been here for one night and more interesting things have happened than they have all week," Rebekah added.

"What about getting engaged?" Caroline narrowed her eye brows.

"That was like, two months ago."

"Well getting engaged to Kara is something I've been wanting to do since—"

"The day I met her," The rest of the car mimicked.

"Shut up you guys!"
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"Okay so turn up here," Barry pointed as Stefan turned the wheel.

"Where are we even going?" Grace asked from the back seat.

"We're going to a place called 'The Dutch Pancake House'," Barry told her. "The place looked nice on the outside but not like, fancy."

"Good I look like a slob right now," Kara chuckled.

"Speaking of you, why aren't you with your fiancé?" Stefan asked.

"I want some space, and I want to talk to Grace and I guess, you guys as well since you'll all listen in anyway."

"So you want to talk to me about your fiancé?"

"Yup, girls need to rant."

The car feel silent for a moment until Kara looked across Grace, who was sitting in the middle, to see Klaus staring off into space.

"Klaus?" Kara said breaking the silence.

He jumped up. "Yeah?"

"You were like in another world there for a second are you good?"

"I'm fine," He simply answered.

"Are you thinking about Caroline?" Barry teased from the front before quickly telling Stefan to make the next right.

"Seriously Barry?"

"She's not here! Come on spill!" Kara giggled.

"You're in a really good mood," Grace observed outwardly.

"I know, I just got freaking engaged! Now I want to move you guys along!"

"Who, Klaus and Caroline?" Grace said receiving a groan from Klaus.

"And you and Leo," This time Grace groaned. "Come on! You guys are soulmates!"

"Actually, love, Caroline has been pretty suspicious about you and Leo this morning," Klaus pointed out.

Grace turned to face Klaus. "Has she?"

"She came to interrogate Leo earlier," He explained. "She was saying something about doing right by her best friend."

"Leo told me that, he said it was funny."

"Well, she's watching out for anything she can salvage that proves that you two are together."

"Yeah why aren't you guys together?" Barry said from the front.

"I was just about to say that," Stefan added.

"Because it just wont work! I am a city girl and he is a big shot actor."

"No, you are a vampire, he is a hybrid, you are friends with his brother and have known his sister in law your whole life," Kara downplayed, receiving yet another groan from Klaus. "Well, future sister in law."

"Shut up guys," Grace chuckled as she opened her phone.
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The two cars pulled up in unison to a rock-filled parking lot. They all vacated the cars and started towards the restaurant.

The girls grouped together naturally while the boys followed behind falling into a lose conversation.

"Aw Barry this place is adorable," Caroline awed as they wrapped around to the front of the small building. The outside was cute and quaint, some older couples were seated outside and the palm tress surrounding the place flowed with the wind. The place itself wasn't huge, but it was big enough for everyone inside to move around freely and not feel cluster-phobic. There were tiny orange lights hanging from the canopies that covered the outdoor seating and plants in various shaped vases at the bottom of each support beam. The building was irregularly shaped, too. The front has a semi-circle sign that red 'the dutch pancake house.'

"Hello!" The hostess at the front podium welcomed as they walked under the canopy.

"Hey reservation under Barry Allen," Barry said to the lady.

The hostess scanned the sheet in front of her and nodded when she found Barry's name, gathering a few menus after counting how many guests were in standing before her because Barry didn't specify.

"You made reservations?" Grace asked.

"Of course I did, why was I not supposed to?"

"You didn't have to, but that shows a sign of organization, good job Barry!" Caroline patted him on the back as they heard the hostess laugh along.

"Your table is just in here, follow me."

The inside was just as cute and similar to the outside. The walls were the same color of brownish beige as the outside and there were little potted plants here and there. The hostess placed their menus down on the largest table in the place and told them that the waitress would be coming around shortly.

Before they sat, they looked around, taking everything in. The place wasn't too crowded inside either, so that mean't that they would get faster and more efficient service.

The table they were sitting at was circular and had another potted plant in the center with vibrant colored flowers spewing out from it.

There were eight chairs placed delicately around and they all took their seats. Caroline sat next to Klaus who was sitting next to Leo. Grace sat on the other side of Leo followed by Mon el, Kara, Rebekah, Stefan and Barry before it wrapped back to Caroline.

"Wow that looks amazing," Barry drooled as he received a smile from the passing waiter. The pancake platters looked divine and very complex. The aromas of the various breakfast foods filled the room.

"Barry you're like a dog," Kara chuckled, reviving a look from Leo and Klaus. "Well I know you two are but…. You know what I mean shut up."

The groups attention, except for Kara who was gazing at her ring that was placed on her finger, turned to the waitress that stood in between Caroline and Barry. "Can I start you off with something to drink?"

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"You seriously cant stop staring at your ring!" Caroline finally said after watching her gaze at it for at lease twenty minutes now. Their drinks had came a few minutes ago and everyone had ordered their food.

"I'm sorry its just too beautiful."

Mon el leaned near her ear and whispered something that only she could hear and made her giggle and blush roses. No where near as beautiful as you.

"I picked it out myself," Mon el bragged.

"You did good dude," Barry looked at the ring closely or the first time.

"I love this," Rebekah said nonchalantly. Everyone turned their attention to her.

"What?" Barry asked.

"This," She waved her hands around the table. "I'm not used to being in big groups like this, its fun to have so many little conversations like this happening at once."

"You've been around for a millennium, Rebekah. Surely you've had friend groups," Grace said as she sipped her orange juice.

"Sure I have, but I never actually liked them."

"I think thats the nicest thing you have ever said, sister," Klaus chuckled. Caroline turned to look at him. She hadn't been avoiding him, she tried that and failed horribly earlier, she just hadn't been giddy and staring at him constantly. She finally now got the chance to look at his demeanor. He was wearing a simple, thin gray long sleeved shirt with black pants and his hair was slightly messy which she liked.

"Okay sorry to interrupt but why are you dressed like it's winter?" Caroline acknowledged.

Klaus looked at himself and just shrugged as he slouched back into the chair with his hands folded in his lap, "It was the first thing in my bag."

"I want food!" Kara cried.

"Me too!" Barry added, slightly pounding the table.

"Okay now my head is rushing from all of this conversation change," Stefan rubbed his head.

"Okay so it started with food, moved to Rebekah's nice comment, to Klaus's clothes and now back to food… seriously guys?" Leo sighed.

"Well you two are awfully quiet back there," Klaus grinned at Leo and Grace. "Anything you would like to contribute?" He sat up in his chair and rested his elbows on the table with his face in his hands.

"I'm cold," Grace muttered. "What? The air is like blasting in here."

"Why is temperature such a big topic recently?" Barry wondered. "I can literally just run in there and speed up the food making process."

"But Barry then we will all vomit," Kara pouted.

"Why?"

"Because you can't cook!"

Barry pretended to be offended, well half offended. "That is so not true! Back me up guys!"

"I've never eaten anything you've cooked so I trust Caroline and Grace's judgements," Leo said.

"I agree," Klaus jumped in.

"He's horrible," Caroline flat out admitted.

"Awful, we order take out whenever he comes over," Grace added. "Or after he makes something and leaves."

"Okay fine I agree with all of you," Barry sighed with a laugh.

"Oh my god our food!" Kara exclaimed as she jumped up. Two waiters came out with two trays each, steam floating above each plate. They had all gotten pancakes with different sides. Caroline and Grace both got the fresh blueberry pancakes with powdered sugar and a scoop of vanilla ice cream on the top. Klaus and Leo both got the "full moon pancakes", which was not surprising but it was surprising that it was on the menu. It was round pancakes with powdered sugar to make it look like a moon, fresh fruit surrounding the plate topped with eggs and bacon. Kara and Mon el got the "dutch pancake platter" to share, luckily it was grand enough for both of them. Rebekah and Stefan got the same thing as they did, but so did Barry because he was "really hungry".

They finished up their breakfast, paid, and headed back to the cabana.

"I don't want to leave this place," Kara said as she ran her hand over a freshly made bed.

"There were a lot of memories here for just one night," Caroline sighed, thinking back to the wolves, the moon, the engagement, the confession, the kiss(es)…

"I got freaking engaged here," Kara chuckled.

"Maybe we'll get married here," Mon el suggested jokingly.

"Seriously?"

"I was kidding, Kara."

"No, I love that idea!"

"I thought you would've liked a big fancy wedding like all girls dream of," Barry said.

"Like me! I had my wedding planned out since I was ten," Caroline interjected.

Klaus looked at her from their bed, he was sitting on the edge. "You do?"

"Of course I do, I'm a control freak."

"Well I did have a plan, but I didn't expect the tables to turn like this. I kinda did want a beach wedding, wind in our hair, sand below our feet. It would be cute," Kara fantasized. "Caroline, Grace, Rebekah you are all helping me plan, just so you know."

"I would be honored to help you," Rebekah said as she ran to give Kara a hug. "Just remember to call, okay?"

"Of course."

"We have to go guys, her shift starts in an hour and we need to get back to the house and pack for our next trip," Stefan told the group as they all gathered in the center of the cabana.

"No! I don't want you guys to leave!" Caroline pouted as she hugged Rebekah and then went over to Stefan.

"We'll see you guys again, promise. The wedding is coming up soon too, don't forget," Rebekah reminded them.

"Oh right!" Caroline exclaimed.

"Just give me a call if you guys need anything, like a wedding planner or just someone else to talk too," Rebekah told the girls before she turned to her brother. "Nik can I talk to you for a second?"

"Of course sister," Klaus smiled, trying to his sadness of his sisters goodbye.

Rebekah grabbed his hand and led him to the back of the rectangular cabin, away form the rest.

"Guys don't listen in," Klaus heard Caroline whisper to the rest. "Just give them a minute alone."

"Do right by her Nik," Rebekah blurted.

He looked at her, shocked by her question. "Rebekah what are you talking about?"

"This morning, I was awake."

Klaus stiffened. "How much did you see?"

"She was already awake when I woke, you were still a wolf."

Klaus sighed. "No one was supposed to see that."

"I know, but I'm your sister, you know you can trust me."

"I'm going to miss you, Bekah."

"I'm going to miss you too Nik," Rebekah teared as she bought her bother into a big hug. "Remember to call okay?"

"Of course, we will all keep in touch."

"Don't let her go either, Nik. You guys are in love, I see the way she looks at you and I see the way you look at her. You're meant to be, don't fight it."

"We're together, Bekah," Klaus admitted.

She looked at him, a big grin blooming on her face. "Seriously?!"

"Yes, we discussed it this morning before we left."

"Aw Nik! Im so happy for you!" She hugged him again. "Was that why you took forever to get back to the cabana so we could leave?"

"Yup, we set things straight."

"Are you okay, though? I mean I know you and I know that…"

"Rebekah, love, I'm alright. It will take some getting used to, having someone else I could lose in my life, but I will protect her and I will do it with all of my strength for as long as we both live."

"I know you will," Rebekah smiled. "I love you Nik, till next time."

"I love you too sister, till next time."

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"Bye cabana!" Kara sighed as they stepped up onto the boardwalk. Rebekah and Stefan left less than a half hour before.

"We do have pictures Kara," Mon el reminded her as they set the bags in the trunk of the car.

"I know, but it's not the same."

The trunk slowly shut as they all gathered into the car.

"Klaus, will you miss her?" Leo asked him.

"Of course I will, she's my sister," Klaus answered as Leo started to pull out of the parking spot.

"A lot of things happened in the past day," Barry sighed.

"It's a day we'll never forget," Grace said.

After minutes of silence the group finally arrived back at the house.

"I'm actually glad to be back, I love this house," Caroline stretched. She loved long car rides, but being crammed in the middle of Grace and Barry, she didn't enjoy that too much.

"I want to sleep in my bed again," Barry said.

"Random but alright," Kara squinted.

"No the last time I slept in it it was so comfortable."

"Now that I think about it, me too," Caroline said as she glanced at Klaus who made instant eye contact with her as he emerged from the passenger side.

It was currently noon and it was hot, sticky and muggy out.

"Do we have instant plans?" Barry asked, hoping they could hold off for an hour or two.

"No, I planned on leaving around two for the hike and be back to the beach by 3:30 for scuba diving and that stuff," Caroline told him.

"I'm going to take a nap," Barry said as he walked up the stairs of the house.

"You know, thats not a bad idea," Kara agreed.

"How bout this…" Grace started. "Everyone set alarms for 1:30 and we'll get ready to leave then? This will be free time."

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AN:

next time: free time; mini dates