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Chapter 3
"Aunt Bekah!"
Liam jumped off the sofa and ran to his aunt who he hadn't seen for a month to give her a hug. Caroline stood up but remained behind.
"You came back!"
"Yes, I missed my favourite nephew!" Caroline?" she asked surprised.
"Hey Rebekah" she said timidly.
"You two know each other?" asked Liam.
"Yes my dear" answered his aunt. "What are you doing here?" she asked Caroline.
"I…I came to see your brother" she replied.
"Oh, I see. Liam can you go and tidy your room and then when you come down again you can open the presents I bought for you from Rome!"
"Presents? OK, I'm going."
"I believe we need to talk" said Rebekah.
"Me too."
They settled down in the living room and Caroline told Rebekah why she came.
"So if I've understood correctly, you came here to see my brother in his new life but you didn't actually expect to see him face to face, is that right?
"Yes that's it"
"And seeing as he saved your life, here you are!"
"Yep"
"But seriously, you really thought that he would be here playing house with Hayley?!"
"Well, I thought so!"
"That's where you're wrong; Nik hates Hayley almost as much as you do."
"I don't think so, I mean she is the mother of his child after all, and if he hated her then he wouldn't have slept with her."
"My brother is impulsive and does things without thinking about the consequences. He lost your trust in him by doing that didn't he?"
"Yes" answered Caroline sadly.
Liam came downstairs with about as much grace as an elephant and rushed to the women.
"I've finished! Aunt Bekah, the presents!
"Pl…?"
"Please?!"
"Please who?"
"Pretty please aunt Bekah, the most beautiful and kindest aunt in the whole entire universe!"
"They're in the foyer."
Liam ran to the foyer to get the presents and came back with a bag in each hand. His aunt really did spoil him, even more so when she returned from her travels. Luckily, his dad wasn't there otherwise he would have scolded his sister. He opened the first present and found a necklace made out of pearls similar to one that his dad had.
"Wow, it's like dads!" he said putting it around his neck.
"And that's why I knew you would like it!"
"Do you like it Caroline?"
"I do, you look beautiful with it Liam" she answered.
He opened the second present and found a child-sized suit by Dolce Gabbana.
"I feel like Uncle Elijah, auntie Bekah I don't like suits"
"I know, but you might get a chance to wear it later."
"I prefer a simple jeans and t-shirt."
"Eurgh, you're just like your father" she said sinking into the couch.
"Thanks!"
"That wasn't a compliment sweetie."
"For me it was"
Liam came up to her and kissed her on the cheek.
"Thank you Aunt Bekah, I love you"
"I love you too Liam"
Caroline smiled at this. She never imagined Rebekah Mikaelson to care about someone other than herself. But then again they didn't really know each other.
"So, where are my brothers?"
"They left about 2 hours ago, trouble with werewolves" Caroline informed her.
"No change there then" complained Rebekah.
"Dad is the strongest and anyway, he's the alpha male so there's nothing to worry about" said Liam reassuring them.
The two women laughed at him being so confident in his father, but they also knew that Klaus would sort out the problem.
Later, the two men arrived home slightly exhausted from their battle. They took at blood bag from the kitchen and flopped down on the sofa too.
"Bekah!" said Klaus surprised to see her.
"Hey brother!"
"You never told us you were coming home" said Elijah taking her in his arms.
"I wanted to surprise you!"
"Well you did! How was Rome?" asked Klaus.
"The same as it always is, absolutely magical!"
"Good! I hope you didn't leave too many broken hearts after you left" teased Klaus. He knew that his sister played with men.
"Yes, very funny Nik!"
"Oh calm down you two. You've only just got home and you're already starting!" complained Elijah.
"Dad and Aunt Bekah fight all the time but deep down they love each other really, don't worry" said Liam to Caroline.
Caroline laughed quietly, he was only 8 years old yet he already knew how to analyse people. Klaus who heard everything was touched that his son was reassuring Caroline. He seemed to like her.
"Hey dad, look at my necklace, Aunt Bekah gave it to me!"
"It's very nice and it suits you well."
"Yup, and did you see, it's like yours!"
"It is indeed. What else did your Aunt buy you?" he asked with suspicion.
"Nothing, that's it" lied Liam.
"Bekah?"
"Only the necklace Nik, I promise"
"Caroline?" he asked just to be sure.
"Euh, just the necklace."
"Still not able to lie I see love" he teased.
Caroline had never been able to lie, and that was something that would never change.
"Oh alright then, I bought him a suit. It's a Dolce Gabanna, it's beautiful he's perfect in it" admitted Rebekah.
"A suit! For what?!" he asked.
"That's what I asked her dad" said Liam.
Later on Klaus led Caroline to a spare room where she would stay. The room was just as big as those of Klaus and Liam with a double bed and an en-suite! Caroline noticed her things at the foot of the bed and looked at Klaus questioningly.
"I asked my hybrids to find your car so they could bring your things here" he answered.
"Oh thank you so much Klaus!"
"No problem love. Caroline, I would it if we could talk just you and me."
"About what?"
"Before I left earlier you made it clear to me that you blame yourself for my, err, thing with Hayley, am I right?"
"I, I don't know."
She sat down on the bed. She was embarrassed to admit her jealousy to him, to tell him that she felt betrayed, to admit to him that she had feelings for him.
"I hurt you Caroline, I know that. I truly am extremely sorry for everything."
"…"
"I want you to talk to me love, tell me what you felt when you found out what I had done."
"What good will it do though Klaus? What will it change?" she asked beginning to get annoyed.
"I want for us to start again and be on good terms. I want us to make things right between us. For me, before I left we were becoming friends, that's my point of view" he told me hesitantly.
"It was Stefan who told me about it" she began.
"How did you react?"
"I was… I felt…."
"Go on" he said taking her hand.
"I felt betrayed Klaus, I thought that I was important to you and after I learnt that you slept with her, a girl who I hate more than anything! I was hurt, humiliated. I've always been the second choice throughout my life whether it be with Damon, Matt, Tyler, even my dad. I never had the attention of others for the reasons that I wanted. But with you I felt like it was different and then I learnt that that wasn't the case."
She started crying and it broke Klaus' heart. What had he done? He had broken one of the few people who he cared about. He blamed himself for it.
"I promise you love that it wasn't my intention. You are much more important to me than Hayley was, or any other girl for that matter. I'm not good at admitting what I feel but I care about you Caroline and sleeping with Hayley was not planned. I can't say that I regret it because it brought me my son and I will never regret that. But I regret hurting you."
"When you gave Tyler back his freedom, that evening at graduation, you knew she was pregnant so why not tell me then?"
"I didn't want to lose you Caroline"
"It hurt me a lot to hear it from someone else and not from you"
"I wanted to tell you but I couldn't. You had just received your diploma, you were going to see Tyler again and I just wanted you to be happy."
"Anyway, that's in the past now and I shouldn't have reacted as I did. It's not like there was anything between us at the time."
"Although if that's how you reacted when you heard the news, then surely there was something between us that you just didn't want to admit to."
These words sawed into Caroline. 'He was right, I must have felt something for him hence my overreaction. Thinking about it, I was more upset about that than Tyler saying he would not be returning!' thought Caroline.
"I… I'm tired. I'm going to go to bed, please leave me" she asked him.
"As you wish love, but think about what I said. Everything happens for a reason" he said leaving.
Caroline took a shower, she wanted to isolate herself from everything. She knew that Klaus was right and this scared her. She knew she definitely felt something for him. With all of these questions buzzing around her mind, she fell asleep.
Klaus isolated himself too, but in his studio, a glass of bourbon in hand. He was thinking about Caroline, he thought he had surely lost her. She had become distant and it was going to be more and more difficult to get her to admit to her feelings. Two knocks were heard on the door which interrupted his thoughts. His sister entered with a worried look on her face.
"Nik?"
"What do you want Bekah?"
"How did it go with Caroline?"
"Why do you care?"
"We spoke earlier, the two of us"
"What did she say to you?" he asked interested.
"You lost her trust in you when you slept with Hayley Nik; it's going to take time. Yes it has been 8 years but you have only just seen each other, which makes it fresh in her mind. She's going to need time."
"Did you know that she left Mystic Falls, that Tyler is no longer in her life. I thought…"
"Yes?" She encouraged him.
"Oh nothing just let it go!"
"No Nik, you were going to say that you thought there could be something between you two, right?"
"Yeah"
"It isn't dead you know. Overtime it'll work out, you'll see."
"Bekah. Look at her then look at me! How could someone like her want to be with someone like me? I don't deserve her."
"Don't say that! You were friends before, right?"
"For me she has always been more than that, but I don't know if I was a friend to her."
"Well sure you were. Listen, she helped you when Silas was in your head and you thought you were going to die, when she had dress trouble at prom, she came to you for help, and she invited you to her graduation ceremony. There's no doubt that she cares about you!"
"You're so sure of yourself" he laughed.
"Trust me, I know these things!"
"I thought you didn't like her?"
"Actually, it was Elena I didn't like. Also, it's not like we had the time to sit down and get to know each other better!"
"Yeah I suppose."
"Good now stop moping and get downstairs!"
"I'll follow in a minute Bekah"
"OK"
She walked over to him and gave him a kiss on the cheek before leaving. Klaus finished his drink and went to get some drawings from his office, drawings of Caroline. Despite all these years, he had never been able to forget her and continued to draw her as often as he could. How did she manage to me him so? He didn't know, but he liked it. Protect her, cherish her, and amuse her, he cared for her as he had never cared for anyone except for his family. He wanted to regain her trust in him, to see her happy again and to be sure that they could have a relationship if she gave him the opportunity.
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