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"I feel so sad for her," Elena says, staring at the sketch of Caroline in the book that she has borrowed from Stefan.
"Why?" Bonnie frowns. "Elena, she's some crazy killer vampire and she's coming here with her crazy killer vampire boyfriend who wants to kill you."
"I know, but…" Elena shakes her head slightly. "She was our age, Bonnie. She was just seventeen when she became a vampire. She died and… everything was gone for her."
"I don't care," Bonnie shakes her own head, sitting down next to her on the bed. "She's a vampire. Whoever she was, she died. Whoever Caroline was, that's not who she is anymore. Now, she's crazy and blood thirsty and she does whatever Klaus tells her to."
"Katherine told us stories about them," Elena turns back a few pages to look at the sketching of Klaus. "He seems to be just as enamored with her. You should have heard about them together," she looks to Bonnie. "They don't care about anything except one another. It's terrifying but-"
"No," Bonnie interrupts. "There are no buts about it, Elena. It isn't romantic or sweet or anything like that. They're vampires and they're mass murderers."
"Technically… Stefan and Damon are mass murderers, too," Elena points out to her though she's not sure why. She's terrified of Klaus coming and Katherine's stories only confirm her fear. Klaus is coming for her. To him, she is nothing more than a doppelganger. A blood bag. The vessel for what he needs for this ritual he must perform.
The only thing Klaus cares about besides this ritual he needs to complete in order to become the ultimate hybrid is Caroline.
He loves her. History has proven that he will do anything for her.
And Stefan and Damon's brilliant idea is to kidnap her and kill her.
Elena goes back to looking at Caroline's portrait. Pale skin, blonde bouncy hair, blue eyes. She is beautiful. And so young. Dating Stefan, she thinks of this often. Becoming a vampire. Caroline hadn't had a choice. She had been tricked into drinking the blood of a vampire and then her neck had been snapped just hours later. She had been just a girl, filled with hopes and dreams. Maybe she dreamt of marrying a man she loved. Maybe she dreamt of growing older with him and sharing a life with him. Maybe she dreamt of having children. Elena knows she, herself, wants children someday.
She tries to imagine if Caroline had been scared when she first woke up, now dead, now a vampire. And then she met Klaus and she became a complete monster.
Stefan tries so hard to be good, to curb his craving for human blood – instead feasting on blood bags and animals in the woods, never attacking a person anymore – and she tries to imagine how different Caroline would be if Stefan had been the one to find her all of those years ago instead of Klaus. How different things would be.
Elena can't help but be curious about it all. She loves Stefan and Stefan loves her and they have both done so much for one another but Klaus and Caroline seem to be on such a completely different level.
That kind of love and devotion to one another person, she has only read about it in books and seen it in Hollywood movies. She had never thought it could actually exist and the closest she thought she would ever get is what she has with Stefan.
"You need to stop thinking about things like this," Bonnie tells her.
"I know," Elena sighs but she keeps staring at Caroline's sketch. "It's just sad."
"She will kill you in an instant if she has the chance, Elena," Bonnie reminds her. "There is absolutely nothing sad about her. She's a vampire."
Elena looks at her, smiling with a bit of sadness in her eyes. "A seventeen-year-old girl who fell in love with a vampire? Sounds a little familiar."
"You are nothing like Caroline and we're not talking about this anymore," Bonnie's words are firm and final and she stands. "Now, let's go. We're going to be late to school." She takes the book from Elena's hands and toss it aside, it landing on the bed. She then claps her hands. "Up, up, up!" She grabs Elena's hands and Elena rolls her eyes but laughs and allows Bonnie to pull her up to her feet. "Okay. What are we not thinking about?" Bonnie asks.
Elena sighs. "Klaus or Caroline."
"And what are we thinking about instead?" Bonnie looks at her, waiting. "Our test today? In pre-calc? Do you remember?"
Elena stares at her for a moment and then her eyes widen and she gasps. "Oh, crap!"
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Caroline giggles and then moans as Klaus's lips skim down the front of her body, between her breasts and to her stomach. His tongue circles her belly button and her back arches from the bed, her fingers tunneling through his dirty blonde curly locks.
"Are you trying to make me late for my first day of school?" She asks him, adjusting her head on the pillow so she can watch as he moves even lower.
He smiles against her hip. "I have no idea why but you saying that does things to me."
She laughs and he tosses her legs over his shoulders, settling down on his stomach between them. Her laughter turns into a long moan as he puts his mouth on her. She sighs his name and closes her eyes, her back arching from the bed again. He uses his tongue and she feels his fingers slipping inside of her and she gasps, digging her head back into the pillow beneath her.
Her hips fly from the bed and his hands clamp them down as he dives in deeper. Her thighs press against his ears and she cries out again, louder this time. She feels his mouth curve into a smile and her fingers dive into his hair again, grasping it, pulling him close. His mouth is wet and warm and he licks her, tasting and sucking her, making her moan and cry out and her body twists on the bed, trying to get away and yet, not wanting him to stop. He makes her feel so fantastic, she sometimes wonders if she can handle it.
"Klaus!" She cries out as her body explodes, every nerve sparking and igniting and she begins to tremble. He doesn't move his mouth away and stays with her through it.
She had never had an orgasm as a human.
She had lived with two very strict religious parents and they had sheltered her from the world for all of her life. She had been engaged to be married to a man she had only met a few times. She was a virgin who never explored anything about herself.
When she met Klaus and he took her with him, showing her how to live as she does now, they weren't intimate with one another away. They were together for years before he kissed her in Paris near the unfinished Eiffel Tower. And then, even after that, he hadn't wanted to rush her into anything. As he always liked to remind her, they had an eternity.
When one becomes a vampire, every sense is heightened to the extreme and how to reign it in and control it is something that must be taught and learned. Caroline was able to have an Original for her teacher and Klaus taught her everything he could. But while teaching her control, he also unleashed something inside of her that her parents had tried to suppress for her entire life and once it was no longer pressed down and forced to be hidden, there was absolutely no stopping it.
She can control everything if the situation calls for it or she can lose all power over it.
When she and Klaus had sex for the first time, Caroline thought he had killed her and she had died. Again.
The control he had taught her is instantly forgotten and she screams and growls and bites and scratches and Klaus loves every second of it. Not only is Klaus a vampire, but he's a hybrid; a werewolf. A complete animal in bed. He sometimes bites her and then she has to drink his blood so it will heal since his bite can cause her grave harm. She has grown to be a woman who loves her body and who loves sex and who loves being with her boyfriend and the young woman her parents were trying to raise her to be, Caroline can't even remember her anymore. It hardly seems real to her that she had even existed at all.
When the shakes of her body begin to subside, small aftershock tremors still popping at random spots, Klaus lifts his head and presses kisses to the inside of her thighs. She pants as if she's out of breath though she feels nothing like that anymore and she manages to prop herself up onto her elbows, looking at him. He lifts his head completely and smiles at her, a smile she returns – naturally, like a reflex.
"Alright, mister. What do you want?" She asks, her eyes twinkling, and he smirks.
"Why do you always think I want something, love, when I do that?" He asks, slowly crawling over her body, dropping kisses to her stomach and ribs and then her breasts and the side of her throat.
Caroline falls onto her back again and smiles up at him. "Please. We both know I'm easy," she jokes and he grins at that, his hands pressing down on the mattress on either side of her head. Caroline runs her hands up his arms, never looking away from his eyes.
Klaus shakes his head a little. "You amaze me," he tells her in a soft, low voice as if he doesn't want to run the risk of anyone overhearing.
"I haven't done anything," she shakes her head. "I'm just going to do a little spying. Nothing amazing about it." She lifts a hand to his cheek. "I'd do anything to help you."
He lowers his head and she expects a hard kiss but instead, his lips brush across hers. "I don't know what I'll do if anything happens to you."
"It's high school, Nik," she almost wants to laugh. "How bad can it possibly be?"
He shifts off of her a bit but she doesn't let him go far. They roll onto their sides, facing one another, their bodies pressed together from chest to thigh and their arms are wrapped around one another.
"Never underestimate the cruelty of teenagers, Caroline. Especially teenage girls."
"I think I can handle them," she smiles faintly. "After all, I've dealt with you this long."
He smiles and turning his head, he presses a kiss to the inside of her wrist as her knuckles brush along his cheek. "You won't need to go for that long. The next full moon is within the week," he tells her and she nods.
"What are you going to do with Katherine?" She asks him, her fingers now scratching through the hairs on the back of his head.
"What I should have been able to do over the last few centuries. She will not escape me again," he says and his jaw tightens just a little bit more at the mention of the Petrova.
Caroline is quiet for a moment, deciding on her next words. She doesn't hate Katherine like Klaus does. He truly despises her. But she certainly doesn't trust her and there are already so few people she and Klaus can actually trust. They all want to be near him because he's an Original and they all want her because of him. It seems there are those who will be as deceitful as they can be to get to him – or in Katherine's case, to stay away from him.
"You don't still think…" she stares into his eyes. "Do you think she was the one who allowed those brothers to get to me?" She asks even though she already knows his opinion on the matter.
"You are strong, Caroline. Much stronger than three incompetent humans. And you told me that Katherine was with you when those brothers grabbed you," he reminds her.
"I just can't believe… we had so much fun together. I thought she was my friend," she says in a quiet voice.
She doesn't have many friends.
She has Klaus, of course, and they know vampires all over the world. And there are his brothers and sister that they spend the most time with when they decided to spend time with anyone but she doesn't have that many that she would consider to be true friends. When she met Katherine in New Orleans, having no idea that she was the Petrova vampire doppelganger that Klaus often cursed about, they had had so much fun, dancing and drinking and flirting with men and hunting together. She had told her that her name was Kate and Caroline had had no reason to not believe her.
"Katherine will do whatever she has to do in order to survive," Klaus tells her in a gentle voice he uses only for her. His hand smoothes back some of her hair. "Normally, I would respect such traits but not with her. Not when she betrayed me and not when she…" he stops himself, not wanting to say it, and instead, he stares into her eyes. "I would kill a thousand people to bring you back to me," he whispers.
Caroline moves closer to him, pressing her body to his and he wraps his arms tightly around him, holding her close.
"Will you and Elijah go and see her today?" She asks him quietly.
Klaus nods. "There are many things that need to be discussed," he presses his lips to her forehead and rests them there. "Don't get too close to Elena and Bonnie today. Watch from a distance. Elijah has told me some things and Elena has a merry band of friends that have been doing their research. They will know of you."
She is quiet for a moment, thinking that over. She then shakes her head. "They don't know what I look like. They probably have that awful sketch of me that you drew while we were in Venice and there isn't exactly a likeness," she teases him, breaking the somber mood hanging heavily above their heads.
Klaus growls and she shrieks with laughter as he tickles her on the ribs underneath her breasts. Her body twists and she is laughing, pushing on his chest.
He grins, not stopping his torturing even as he slides on top of her. She spreads her legs for him and then he is drawing his hips back before pressing inside of her, sinking in deeply.
She moans and his hands stop, sliding up her body and bringing her arms back, pinning her wrists above her head. She closes her eyes as his hips are brought back again and then are thrust forward, his length entering her tight and accepting body, both of them moaning.
She honestly doesn't care how late she is for her first day of high school.
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Lucy Mikaelson.
That is the name she gives to the woman at the registration desk in the front office and compels her that she doesn't need to see her records. Lucy had been her mother's name and Mikaelson is the name that Klaus is using at the moment – for his father – though after hearing so many stories about that horrid man, Caroline has no idea why Klaus wants anything that even mentions him.
The halls of Mystic Falls High are crowded with students walking to their next class and Caroline looks down at the piece of paper in her hand – class schedule and locker number. She frowns as she sees what she is assigned to take. French I. She's fluent. History. She knows it. English Literature. She and Klaus are constantly reading. Pre-Calculus. What the hell is that?
People are looking at her – all curious as to who the new student is. Caroline smiles at some of them as she makes her way to her locker. She is supposed to be the new girl – eager to make new friends.
But as she walks, she keeps a lookout. The high school isn't that big and Klaus is right. She wants to watch Bonnie and Elena. She doesn't want to engage them – not yet anyway. She will wait for Klaus to give her the go-ahead before that. And if Elijah is right – and he usually is – they know about her. She doesn't want to expose herself too soon to them.
Her eyes also search the halls and faces for Matt. She had showed control in the woods the night before and had not drained him as she drank from him. No, she has other plans for him. She will have him under her compulsion and he will be her eyes and ears in places she cannot go.
As she spins the combination of her locker, her nose catches a whiff of something. Very familiar.
Cologne and blood and she lifts her head. It is very close and it's unmistakable.
She knows that scent. It has been such a long time since she has inhaled it but she hasn't forgotten. She sniffs the air one more time though she is certain of it and she spins around.
She gasps when she sees who is there, standing behind her, watching her. He looks the same and yet more modern. Jeans and a tee-shirt and a black jacket, his hair styled and sticking up a bit. Still as pale as ever though and she bursts into a smile when she sees him. She hadn't known he was here. She hasn't seen him in years. She wonders if Klaus knows that he's here. Why is he here?
"Stefan!" She exclaims, so happy to see him, and she throws her arms around him in a hug.
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A/N: I love all of you. Seriously. I cannot believe the response this story is getting and I'm so happy, grateful and relieved because when I began, I doubted that anyone would want to read about dark! Caroline. So THANK YOU so, so much for all of the comments and support. Your comments really push me to write this story. PLEASE keep commenting!
There have been a few requests of showing some of Klaus and Caroline's past together. I will definitely fit that into the story.
Also, I'm an idiot. I made a boo-boo with some of my math. I know when Caroline turned and when Klaus found her and I made a stupid mistake in one of the earlier chapters. I will edit that and be more careful from now on. Thank you!