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Caroline POV

"Well obviously we can't let that happen! He'll be insufferable, Marcel as an original is just not allowed to happen!"

I said looking at Elijah and then towards Rebekah. I have enough originals to deal with in my life without the addition of another, especially a cocky and power hungry one. One of those is enough. My thoughts drifted towards Klaus, what's happening to him at this exact moment? Is he in pain? Why did the thought of him hurting bother me?

I am a nice person, admittedly I can be a bitch and a little over powering at times but I'm nice, I don't like seeing people in pain unless they really and truly deserve it. Which confuses me further, Klaus of all people deserves to be shackled up and in the worst of pain, he who has done nothing but hurt me and those I love in one way or another since he came into our lives.

He sacrificed my best friend and killed her, even though she came back but at the loss of her biological father who gave his life for hers. Jenna ended up dying in my place because Damon saved me and Tyler. He thought Klaus would have to postpone the sacrifice until he got another werewolf, which turned out Jules and Jenna was his backup plan. He made Stefan become the ripper again in order to save Damon, he used Tyler as his experimental hybrid, compelled Stefan to turn off his humanity, he got Tyler to bite me and Klaus himself bit me. He tried to drain Elena of all her blood twice, he killed Tyler's mother, he tried to stop Stefan and I from saving Bonnie from those witches and those are just off the top of my head, but still when I think of him in pain it bothers me.

It is so easy to remember all the bad things Klaus has done since he came to Mystic Falls, the pain, destruction and chaos. When it comes to looking for any redeeming qualities it is considerably harder.

I told my body to stop being a traitor and reacting to the images of him in the early days, before I knew just how evil he could be and I had thought him sexy, tall and lean with that amazing British accent, those gorgeous curls, deep blue eyes and the fuck me dimples.

Knowing that now was neither the time nor the place to be having such thoughts I shook my head and tried to focus back on the problem at hand.

"How do we stop him?"

I could feel my neurotic side come to light, a plan needs to be made, every detail needs to be discussed and we have to figure it all out now, so that I can leave this all behind and bleach my mind of every single thought of Klaus before my emotions have a chance to develop any further. Maybe once he is found the best thing would be to get Elijah to compel me to forget my feelings for him? Or at least compel me to determine what exactly my feelings are toward him; am I lusting after him or do I actually care for him? I have had feelings for guys before, they normally chose Elena and I got over them, if it turns out that I do like Klaus in that way I will managed to get over them…eventually.

Rebekah spoke what we were all thinking, well most of us as I was still slightly distracted

"The question is how do stop him without his Hench men wanting revenge?"

We all sat in silence trying to find a way to work all this to our favour, slowly my mind starting to calm down and focus.

"What does Marcel care about most apart from being king?"

I looked up, to see them all waiting on me to continue

"Okay. If Marcel doesn't have his army of nightwalkers he is left with the few day walkers he has which is what? Ten?"

Hayley chuckled

"So you are suggesting you kill the night walkers? The three of you, against three hundred of them?"

"No, I am suggesting that we offer them something better, something they have been waiting years to get from Marcel. The ability to come out during the day"

There was a small silence before Rebekah spoke

"They won't turn on him so easily"

Elijah agreed

"I agree with Rebekah, they have been with him for one hundred years. They have followed and trusted him and will not fall for anything less than a well thought out and believable reason to abandon him"

Okay fair enough. I just need to think about betrayal. What would make me turn on someone who I had spent the last one hundred years of my life protecting and working for? One reason why I would leave them behind, betray them. It hit me, I would betray them if I knew they would betray me, it would be survival of the fittest.

"We make them believe that Marcel is turning on them. We tell them his plans to become an original, show them that he will have the power to compel them, take away any freedom they have left"

It is risky but given the circumstances it's all we have, with no outside support risks need to be taken. Elijah who had followed my train of thought spoke

"We make a deal with them. Tell them Marcels plan and offer them the secret to the daylight ring and offer them a place on our side."

Each of us knew that this was extremely dangerous. No-one was more aware of the dangers than me. Elijah and Rebekah would survive a dagger to the heart whereas I would not. Am I really going to risk my life in order to save his? Since when had it come to this? Without even considering what I was doing I have offered up a plan that could kill me and I wasn't sure why I was still hoping it would work.

Wanting to get this plan into action I asked Elijah how do we even go about starting this, even though by now I should be a professional at executing plans to take powerful vampires down as I have been a part of so many.

"How do we go about this Elijah? Where do we start?"

"First we need to get Hayley out of here far away where no-one would think of looking for her, somewhere that both she and the baby will be safe. Just because we are making a deal with the night walkers doesn't mean that she won't be in danger. Then we need to make a scene, somehow force Marcel to reveal his intentions. The night walkers would not believe us if we told them his plan, they would see it as us trying to take him down by using them. We need to provoke him, maybe by making him feel insignificant? Make him want to think he is getting one over on us. I can only imagine that he intends to have Davina do the spell as soon as she can, which means she could be close to preforming it already. I need to get in her head again to find out how close she is. When Marcel has revealed his plan his nightwalkers should start to get paranoid, that's when we approach them and offer them our deal. With them on our side it would not take much to kill those closest to Marcel and kill him"

Rebekah flinched in her seat which caught my attention, her gaze softened slightly and a look of pain crossed her face, I kept watching her which she noticed and turned to glare at me, I brought my attention back to Elijah. The nagging feeling of missing something bothered me until I promised myself that I would talk to her later.

Hayley was cradling her stomach and I agreed with Elijah that it would be best to get her out of this mess, but where in the world would she go? She had no family that she knew off; she had no friends since she betrayed Tyler. I looked to see Elijah with a frown on his face probably coming to the same conclusion as me. It was then that it hit me; I was not included in this plan?

"Elijah, the plans seems good and like it could work but what about me? What can I do?"

"You Caroline will stay out of it as much as possible. This is not your battle; you have done so much by just coming here in the first place to tell me what was going on. I understand there is so much more that you want to learn about your connection with Niklaus but now is not the time, you are too easy to kill, and Niklaus would never forgive me if I let something happen to you, I may not know the extent of his feelings for you but I do know that he would be impossible to live with if you were to be killed while saving him."

I was pissed off to say the least; I am here to save him. I needed to be a part of this. To pay the debt! I can't just leave now that they know what is going on, that doesn't count I have to physically be there and be a part of the rescue party. I stood up and raised my voice slightly

"Elijah I know how cranky your brother can be trust me, but you do not want to piss off a neurotic, teenage, female, baby vampire. I am here for some reason that I don't fully understand myself, but I know that I need to be a part of this. In order for me to repay my debt to him I need to be there when he is saved."

Rebekah and Hayley couldn't help but chuckle at my outburst, Elijah sat there slightly shocked at the manner in which I spoke to him, and I always tried to be well mannered around Elijah as he was noble and elegant.

"Caroline, please consider what it is that you are asking"

"I know what I am asking, I know the danger I am getting into. I started college, I got on a plane and saw New Orleans things I would have not been able to do if Klaus had not have been there to save me on my graduation day. This is important to me…"

Niklaus Mikaelson, original hybrid. Ultimate big bad. Ruthless. Scheming. Vindictive. Possessive. Jealous. Infuriating. Annoying. Demanding. Controlling. Spiteful. Cocky. Stubborn. Self-confident. Charming. Funny. Playful. Talented. Flattering. Fashionable. Flirtatious. Confusing. Lonely. Hurt. Sad. Unlovable.

No not unlovable, all these words that spring to mind when describing Klaus but he was not unlovable. He could be saved, he could be helped and he most definitely could be loved. It will just take someone who cares enough to look past everything else, to see the lonely man that is on the inside who has lived one thousand years with the knowledge that his own parents did not love him, feeling as if his siblings didn't love him, making himself into a man that no-one would want to love, closing himself off and hiding behind the villain mask.

A thousand years of not trusting anyone. Not letting anyone in. Not allowing himself to share his passions with anyone, his love for art and music and all that natural beauty. Never truly feeling as if he was important to someone. Knowing that no-one would risk their life to save his, that no-one was waiting on him to come home every day, depending on him coming home. Someone who smiled with genuine happiness when they saw him or anticipated when they would see him again. Never letting himself love someone so much that it would kill him to lose them.

She would be someone who as a child never truly held their parents attention and felt isolated. Who grew up be second best to everyone else, who was never first choice and had to change who she was just to fit in. Distracted herself with prom committees and other activities just to take her mind of how lonely she was on the inside. Fell in love with any boy who would look at her twice, bend over backwards to make them happy to ensure that their interest remained with her. Someone who would give their life for her friends and family, for those she loves. Someone who would go anywhere to help him, save him. Someone who would have to be one crazy son of a bitch to even consider letting herself love him but still not stop her emotions develop towards him, knowing that he is all those things but still be determined to risk her life to save his. Someone who will tolerate his annoying sister and live in the same house as the woman he had a one night stand with and is carrying his child. Someone who didn't even know until this very second what her feelings where, that it took her this much thought to even believe the fact that she was falling in Love with him. That she was terrified to love him but knew that it was unstoppable and that she didn't want to stop it. Realising that it took the threat of being sent away for her own safety for her to realise that no matter how hard she tried she couldn't leave, realising that she is sitting in a room with three people staring at her as if she's about to pass out and that she has been talking about herself to herself in a third person narrative for the last number of minutes.

I found Elijah's eyes and said

"…he is important to me"

I noticed how his eyes widened slightly and a small smile formed on his lips, but it quickly looked away when he seen the panic all over my face.

"Caroline, are you alright?"

I nodded not able to say anything else. The tension in the room felt as if it was going to smother me. Why of all places did I have to have this epiphany in the living room with all of them here? Could I not realise that I like him on my own? In private where I can shout at myself to snap out of it and not be so stupid?

The night I told him I knew he loved me and he saved me I thought he would laugh at me, for making such a big deal out of a little attraction he had for me, that it was all a game, a challenge to win me over before he pushed me to the side. I didn't expect it to be true, or to affect me in anyway, but apparently it has. It has got into my head and if not mistaken my heart and decided to care for him without letting me know.

Again I shook my head to concentrate on our plan, all this emotional stuff I can deal with at a later stage, or not deal with at all if I get Elijah to take it all away.

"How do we provoke Marcel?"

Elijah accepting that she needs the distraction begins to talk.

"We need to make him feel powerless, to take something from him. Knowing he will potentially be an original soon he won't be able to keep it to himself, he won't be able to let us feel as if we can take everything from him hopefully causing him to break and tells us. He will not want us making little of him in front of his mean, or those that fear him. He'll reveal his hand when he feels that we are getting one over on him"

Rebekah who had recovered from her little emotional moment spoke up

"So we need something that he cares about. That he was once willing to risk getting killed over just to have? Something that even to this day he can't help but let get under his skin?"

Elijah smiled

"Rebekah are you sure about this? That was a hard time for you, you where terribly hurt by the actions of all involved"

She squared her shoulders and held hear head high

"Always and forever Elijah, it might not mean much to him but I value it as much to day as I did back then. None of us can afford to have him become an original. We have to think about Hayley and the baby now."

I was confused as I watched brother and sister talk about something that happened in the past.

"Very well then sister, it is your call"

Hayley as confused as me asked

"So what exactly is her call?"

Rebekah got up and made her way towards the small table that held the alcohol and poured herself a glass before she came to stand in front of us all.

"When we first came to New Orleans and made ourselves a home, I fell in love. Well a few times actually but this one was different. Marcel was a slave that Klaus saved and brought into our family. With us he grew up and worshiped the ground Klaus walked on. For so long I ignored my feelings for him knowing that if Klaus ever found out he would kill Marcel. One day Marcel told me he didn't care, that he wanted to be with me and that was it any resistance I had crumbled and we kissed. It was at that moment that Klaus came to us, I begged for Marcel's life knowing Klaus could not kill him as he loved him like a son. Instead he daggered me and gave Marcel a choice, he could remove the dagger from my heart and life the rest of his days with me as a human or he could forget me and become a vampire, something he wanted as much as he wanted me"

My heart broke for her, I knew that Rebekah never truly got to be in love without Klaus taking it from her, another thing to add to the list of terrible things he had done. Seeing her tell us the story with her emotion clear on her face made me pity her and I knew that she kill me if she knew that.

"Fifty two years later the dagger was removed from my heart and Klaus told me what Marcel chose. From that day I vowed to never fall in love again, the pain of repeatedly having it taken from me was too much to bear. Since my return to New Orleans I have seen on his face that he still cares for me. I know that given the chance and if I could convince him there is no ulterior motive he will be with me, protect me from Klaus and if the need arises fight for me"

For once I would not be the blond haired distraction.

She tipped her glass back and emptied it in one mouthful and went to refill it once more, this time she came back and took her seat. Elijah spoke, shedding light on the rest of his plan.

"Caroline it looks like for the next few days you will be the love of my life that I will do anything for and to protect. You should be so lucky"

He smiled and gave me a wink. This playful side of Elijah was unheard of; his eyes sparkled and held of a hint of cheekiness. I really couldn't help the blush that appeared on my cheeks. I looked away from him smiling and was met by Hayley's eyes, with a hard glare she looked away from me. Oooh somebody was not happy with this part of the plan.

Needing this distraction and something to lift all the emotional tension in the room I kept up his charade

"Tell me my love, how is it that we met?"

"I was on my travels through the small town of Mystic Falls when I saw this beautiful baby vampire struggle to come to terms with her transition, not one to give up the opportunity to be in the presence of a beautiful woman I befriended you and helped you overcome said struggle. From then on it was love at first sight."

"And from then I have sworn to be at your side forever more because I cannot bear to be parted from you, but I despise your brother who has wronged me in the past, and as a new vampire my intensified emotions of hatred towards him have led me to hurt him as much as possible, and I really can't stand your sister so kill both birds with the one stone I daggered her to get back at him"

"And together we are here to take back what once belonged to my family. Starting with breaking all of Marcels rules, just because we can"

Rebekah joined in

"And when you two are living the dream I am stuck in a coffin waiting for Caroline to get over her jealousy of me and the fact that no matter how much she tried she will never be as beautiful or as powerful as me and free me so I can join my brother in power of our home"

"Yeah, and I can shipped of somewhere I don't know anyone be on my own, carrying a miracle baby vowing to never again in my life have a scotch fuelled one night stand with an original hybrid"

Hayley said smiling but still sarcastic.

A/N So there we go, again apologies for any mistakes. I am currently typing up the next chapter and if you guys are lucky I'll have it up later this evening! There a few shocks in store and as expected this can't always be plain sailing so there will be ups and downs.

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