Hello, hello lovelies.

Shocking progress ahead, some will leave you breathless and questioning (hopefully).

You've been warned...

"Hello, Klaus."

He turned around to find the blonde of his dreams standing in front of him, a small smile tugging at the corner of her delicate lips. His eyes widened as he realized he was really seeing her and she was indeed alive. She hadn't aged a day though that wasn't a surprise when it was regarding vampires, her light was still shining bright but she'd a sense of maturity that he'd never seen on her before. Her blonde hair was longer, her blue eyes wasn't shining like they used to, it seemed a little lost and hollow, her stance wasn't at all confidence but she was still so beautiful.

He'd give anything to take her in his arms right then and there but his thoughts were cut short when he felt a jab at his ribs. He turned to see Elijah, who seemed to be sending him a message. He hadn't said a word since she came in and the way Caroline was chewing on her bottom lip, he knew she was nervous.

He smiled a genuine smile for the first time since Elijah called him. "Hello, love."

She seemed hesitant at first but the small smile suddenly grew into full-force. She walked closer to him, the smile still on her lips and her eyes shining bright. But the moment broke too soon when Elijah's voice rang out to them, reminding him that they weren't the only ones in the room. "Now it seems you had questions, Niklaus, and since I don't know the answers to any of them, I'm still looking for them myself actually, you could ask Caroline."

Caroline looked at him expectantly. "What do you want to know?" she asked in a small voice.

He had thousands of questions swimming around in his head but he found none he needed to know right away. Caroline looked tired and he wanted her to be comfortable-which she clearly does not-when she told him about what happened. He turned to look at her, hands clasped behind his back. "No, no. There's nothing that can't wait until morning. You should get your rest, love."

Caroline looked hesitant once again while she fidgeted on her feet. "Are you sure?"

"Yes," he said simply. He turned back to Elijah to see his brother looking at him and Caroline in an odd way. "Have you showed Caroline to her room yet?"

"Of course, I have."

"Let me walk you to your room then," Klaus offered. Caroline just nodded before turning and heading to the staircase, Klaus trailing behind. "We'll talk in the morning, Elijah."

The walk to her room was quiet and he found himself wondering to the possibilities of what could have happened. Somehow he hadn't found himself that shocked to hear Caroline alive but how she was alive was a big question. He and her friends or as Katerina called 'The Mystic Falls gang' had proves to believe she was dead.

"So, this is me," Caroline suddenly said. "I'm sorry I'm not in the mood of conversation right now. Your brother told me I lost a lot of blood and I haven't rest in a long time. I'm not being myself right now," she rambled.

He smiled at her. "It's alright, sweetheart. The silence wasn't bad. I should let you go inside then."

He contemplated on what he should do next and he found himself leaning down before kissing her forehead as an act of impulse. Before Caroline could realize what just happened, he flashed to his room, leaving a confused looking blonde.

When he woke up the next day, he wasn't on the best of moods. The sunlight from the open window was blinding his eyes, the air was too hot and all part of his body felt stiff. He supposed it could be the lack of blood starting to get to him because vampires didn't get sick. But there was that moment of bliss when you woke up, not truly realizing or remembering your life, that was when he imagined nothing had happened that he was waking up in New Orleans with his siblings bickering downstairs and a breakfast served at his dining table even though he had no intention of touching it. Of course then life caught up with you and he remembered that Caroline was across the hall, in his sister's old room, or downstairs with his noble brother and his sorry excuse of a lover.

He quickly got up, using inhuman speed to race across his room; he hadn't been on a hurry since the last time he ran from Mikael. The cold water did nothing to ease his tension and as he wrapped a towel around his waist he listed the question that he wanted to ask to Caroline, his brother, and possibly Katerina.

He walked to his closet, in search of decent clothes when he stopped dead in front of his bed. Caroline was sprawled across his rumpled sheet, her blonde hair a mess of tangled curls in contrast to his white sheets, a very little white lingerie that left nothing to the imagination adorned her body, a smirk on her lips. For a moment he wondered if he had woken up.

"Good morning," Caroline said in a sultry voice.

He gaped at her, not knowing what to say or how to react. The next thing he knew she was standing in front of him, a hand around his neck and her lips crashing to his.

He froze, trying to grasp what was happening but his body reacted on its own when he started to kiss her back. The kiss was both hungry and passionate, intimate yet rough. Their tongue danced in a way only old lovers understood with him as the dominance. To say he was shocked was putting it mildly. Where was the Caroline who was holding back each time they were together before she 'died', where was the girl who was so nervous last night.

She continued kissing him, shoving her tongue down his throat and if it was possible, he was more turned on. Her hand moved to his curls to entangled them with her graceful fingers before she wrapped her long legs around his waist. His hands moved to her silky back, the other on her waist. Oh, how much he missed her.

"You haven't changed one bit."

He smirked at her, pushing her body back to his bed. "Is that a good thing?"

She smirked back, pulling him closer. "You tell me," she said before crushing her mouth against his once again.

Their movements became more and more frantic from there with the sound of loud moaning enveloping the room. He touched her everywhere and she let him. At some point, he needed more contact with her, as if reading his mind, she slid one of the strings from her shoulders before pulling back up, he groaned as he realized she was teasing him. He grabbed her wrist, stopping her but before he could do anything else, she shoved him down to the mattress. He was on his back with her on top of him, straddling his hips once again. Her blonde hair fell from her face and she leaned down to kiss him fully on the lips. He couldn't seem to get enough of her, every angle held a different experience, every touch brought back different memory and every kiss created a different feeling. He still remembered how it felt to kiss her all those years ago. Before she'd been missing, she'd been holding back-a lot.

As if coming to his senses, he abruptly pulled away from her. There was no time to do these things; there were so many unanswered questions. He tried to push her away but she wasn't having it, and she tried kissing him again but when he didn't budge, she moved her target to his neck.

"Sweetheart, I think we should slow down," he finally said.

She stared him down. "Now why would we do that?" she asked in a mocking tone.

He watched as she peppered his neck with open mouth kisses, trailing down his shoulder then his bare chest. They both froze when there was a knock on his door.

"Mr. Mikaelson?" one of his human maids called out before the door opened.

Clara-one of Elijah's most trusted maid-entered, holding a letter as she entered his room further and Caroline stopped her assault on his neck. The human girl didn't show any emotions at all as she held out the letter to him. In an instant, Caroline flashed behind Clara, her vampire face showing.

"What are you doing here?" she all but growled out.

The girl seemed unfazed by Caroline looks which seemed to piss the blonde vampire even more. "A letter was delivered to Elijah and he wanted Mr. Mikaelson to take a look at it."

Caroline snarled, forcing the human to look at her straight in the eyes. "Can't it wait? You're interrupting something."

"Love..."

"No, this human needs to be taught a lesson," she said with a sadistic smile. Caroline plunged her fangs on Clara's neck and drank her blood greedily. He tried to stop her but before he could reach her, she'd ripped out the poor girl's vein and let her drained body fall to the floor with a thud. She looked at him once again with a smile.

His jaw dropped open, his eyes went back and forth between the girl's now-dead body and Caroline. His blonde angel looked so peaceful as if nothing happen but the blood in her mouth and the stains on her clothes said otherwise.

She walked over to him, smile still in place, before connecting their lips once more.

"Elijah?"

Silence met his question as he and Caroline descended the grand staircase.

"Elijah? Katerina?" he called out once again.

"In the kitchen, Niklaus."

With Caroline in tow, Klaus walked into the kitchen to find Elijah, Katerina and surprisingly Kol sitting around the kitchen island. "Good morning Nik," his annoying younger brother greeted.

Katherine smirked. "Yes, good morning Klaus, Blondie."

"Save your unsavory greetings to yourself, Petrova," Caroline said from behind Klaus.

Katherine smirk grew wider and she was about to answer with a sassy remark when Elijah stopped her. "Why did you look for me, Niklaus?" Elijah asked, noticing Klaus's sour expression.

"Yes, what's with the early morning shouting?" Kol groaned playfully.

"Behave, Kol. Let's not cause any trouble now," Elijah said with a smile.

"If you'd walk with me," Klaus finally asked as he poured himself a cup of coffee from the counter.

"People would think you'd use machines for making things as simple as coffee or maybe even asked one of your many minions," Katherine chimed in again.

Klaus, who was sipping his coffee, tried his best to not snap the doppelganger neck but the struggle was too hard. Instead, he narrowed his eyes at her. "Now why would I do that?"

"I don't know. You're pure evil, I guess."

Caroline glared at the brunette. "You should really try to hold your tongue."

"Now why would I do that?" she asked, taunting Caroline. "Oh, have your friends know you're back in the land of the living? Do they know you're hanging out with Klaus?"

The next thing he knew, Caroline flashed to Katherine with a look that could kill and snap her neck as if it was a normal thing to do.

She walked back to him as the brunette's body fell from the chair and he looked at Caroline with wide eyes. He noticed his siblings doing the same before Kol snickered. "Wow, impressive, darling."

Caroline threw him a smile. "Thanks. The bitch needed to be taught a lesson."

Kol gave her a wicked grin. At the same time, Rebekah entered the room, shock clear on her face. "Um, what just happened?"

"I just snapped the doppel-bitch neck," Caroline said to Rebekah.

She walked to Klaus and placed a quick kiss on his lips. "I'm gonna go change, I'll see you in a minute."

"Uh, what just happened? I thought she was dead," Rebekah whispered.

"Why are you whispering?" Kol whispered back.

Rebekah glared at him but Klaus cut them off. "Enough, this is not the time to act like children."

"I thought Caroline Forbes hated hurting people," Elijah said more to himself.

Klaus nodded, agreeing with Elijah's statement. "She did, she even hated compulsion."

They all sat around the kitchen island, still shocked. "What happened when you found her?" Klaus demanded from Elijah who sat across from him.

Elijah shrugged, putting down his coffee mug. "There was nothing happening, Niklaus."

Rebekah poured a coffee from her own and downed it on one gulp. "I was walking down the path with Katerina in the Mystic Falls forest when she noticed a trail of blood. We followed it down to the old Lockwood's cellar but the trail ended there. Then we moved on and about a few miles from there, I found Caroline's body lying around in front of a broken-down cottage," he explained.

Trails of blood? From his memory, Caroline had rejected human's blood fresh from the vein and only drank blood bags on special occasions. But the she'd killed his main with no hesitation earlier.

"She turned off her humanity," Rebekah stated suddenly, no hint of surprise in her tone.

All three Originals brothers turned their heads to Rebekah before gaping at her. Klaus finished his coffee in one gulp while Elijah seemed to finally realize Katherine had been lying unconcious this whole time before excusing himself to take care of the brunette, Kol looked at Klaus questioningly, wondering what his brother would do.

He was still wrapped up about the idea of Rebekah's statement when the door bell rang. "I'll get it Nik," Rebekah said.

"Could it be true?" he asked, looking at Kol.

Kol just shrugged. "It's possible, brother. I don't really know this Caroline person but she seemed ruthless. I think you'd more self-control than she did."

He knew it could be true but it was a theory, there was still a chance it's not true. "Nik, I must get going. I'll see you tonight," Kol said, breaking him out of his trance.

He smiled at his little brother, watching the younger Mikaelson go. Before he left the room, Kol threw him a sympathetic gaze.

He finished off Elijah's leftover pancakes, settling on human food instead of the much-needed blood. He was still contemplating the situation around him when Caroline came back out again, a blue tank and jean-shorts replacing the white number she wore earlier.

"Where's everybody?" she asked as she grabbed an apple from the kitchen island.

Klaus shrugged, observing her lightly. "Doing their things, I supposed."

"Did I miss something?" she asked again, eyeing the room.

"No, not really," he said nonchalantly. Two maids came in, cleaning the room. He eyed Caroline who was glaring at the two humans in front of them with contempt. Somewhere inside him, he knew nothing good would be happening if Caroline was left alone with humans so he went around the island, coming closer to her. He put an arm on the small of her back and steered her out the room.

"Come on, love. Let's go somewhere more private," he said. They left the room quietly, walking to the foyer.

"What did you want to talk about?" she said with a smirk.

He eyed her. "Caroline, what happened when Silas captured you?"

She sighed, taking a seat at the couch Elijah sat on last night. "Why you want to know?"

"If I recall, Elijah already told you I have questions."

She smirked. "And you said nothing important came to your mind last night."

"That was last night," he complained.

He glared at her, still not sitting down with both his hand clasped behind his back. "Alright, fine. What do you want to know?"

"What. Happened," he asked once again, his patient wavering slightly. He cared about Caroline but he wanted to know what happened right now.

"Ask the question you really want to know," she said stubbornly.

"Which is?"

"Oh come on, you know," she teased. When no answer came, she sighed. "Why I killed your stupid maid, why I snapped Katherine's neck?" she tried.

He stared at her, somewhat shocked. He'd never been an open book, was he losing his touch around her?

"Yep, I was right," she said again triumphantly.

"Why, Caroline?"

She smirked again, he was getting tired of this. "All will be answered, Niklaus. Patient is a virtue isn't it?"

"That's what Nik kept saying isn't it?" A new voice came through.

Both Klaus and Caroline turned their heads to see Rebekah with Stefan Salvatore in tow. "Welcome Stefan," he said sarcastically.

"You're in an awful mood," Stefan said with a smile.

"Ah, the younger Mr. Salvatore is here," Caroline chimed in.

"Caroline?" Stefan asked shocked.

"You're not here for her?" Klaus asked questioningly.

Stefan came closer to Klaus, confusion etched on his face. "She's alive? But how..." he trailed off.

"Actually, Stefan's here because he needs our help. Shocking isn't it, Nik?" Rebekah explained.

He eyed Stefan, ignoring his questions. "How does he know we're here?" he asked his sister.

Rebekah only shrugged. "Said something about Elijah and Katherine being in town for a couple times. He's looking for them."

"Though Katherine's not available," Caroline smirked, coming to stand up from her seat. "You look great, Stef," she added as she came face-to-face with Stefan.

"Okay, I'm still confused so you guys better be explaining about this later," Stefan said as he point to Caroline. Klaus only shrugged, gesturing for him to continue. "We have another threat and The Originals might be the only one to help."

Klaus cocked an eyebrow while Rebekah stared at Stefan curiously. "There's blood spattered everywhere on the far side of town and half the people there are missing."

Silence came quick after Stefan's statement. Confusion etched on both Originals face. Finally, Caroline broke the silence. "There's a new vampire in town."

"No, vampires..."

Thank you for reading and those who left a review, follows and favorite this story. Tell me your theories!

I haven't had time to watch TO or TVD this last couple of weeks and while I hate writing spoilers, if any of you are interested in spoiling me in the last couple of episodes, really I don't mind ;)

Xoxo, Ems