The sunlight woke Klaus up and he grimaced, turning to bury his face in his pillow. Caroline stirred in his arms and he smiled against the back of her neck. "We need to go to Stefan's today," she mumbled, turning on to her back and facing him. He brushed her wild bedhead from her face and nodded. "In a bit," he smirked, leaning over her. She smiled, finger hooking in to his necklaces. She gave them a light pull and he came down with them, meeting her lips. She pulled away and he moved to her jaw, nipping and sucking at her skin on the way to her collarbone. "I need a shower," she managed to get out, his head coming up from her. "Brilliant idea," he winked, picking her up and carrying her to the bathroom with him. "Klaus!" She shrieked, laughing as he nuzzled her neck.
They walked down the stairs with Caroline in one of his shirts, a belt around the waist. It would do until she got home and could change. Her ripped dress was still on the floor in his room and he smirked as he came up behind her. She wasn't wearing anything underneath his shirt but her bra, since he'd confiscated her briefs. He kissed her neck, arms wrapped around her so she couldn't escape him. "Klaus! We need to go," she groaned, wriggling her shoulders to try and fight him off. The front door swung open and they froze, staring at a very confused Kol. "It's only the end of the world as we know it. Please, continue your fornication," Kol drawled with a clipped tone. "Kol," Klaus tried as he moved to place himself in front of Caroline. She was only wearing his shirt and her heels after all.
"No, Nik. I don't care if you finally got the girl you've been pining over for a bloody year! You're all after the bloody cure and you'll raise Silas!" Klaus called Kol's name again but he carried on. "If you raise Silas, it'll be hell on Earth. You don't even know how much of the cure there is. There's supposed to be enough for Silas, so why would there be more than one dose? It's a waste on that bloody doppelganger, and it isn't guaranteed it'll even work on a vampire since it's made for Silas. Did I mention he'd bring the end of the world?" Caroline snapped. "WE KNOW!" He turned to her with a deep scowl.
"We're going to Stefan's because he's got Hayley locked up in the cellar. She broke the sire bond on Klaus hybrids. They thought they were getting rid of Klaus at the Winter Wonderland but Hayley and someone else wanted Klaus to slaughter them as a sacrifice for Silas. That's what Klaus was trying to tell you." He lost all fight from his body and crossed his arms over his chest. "Oh," he simply muttered. "Meet us at the Boarding House in twenty minutes," she offered, grabbing Klaus' hand and striding out. "Twenty minutes?" Klaus asked incredulously. "You're staying in the car. I'll be twenty minutes," she told him. Klaus slumped and let her drag him away with Kol's chuckling fading away.
The three of them arrived at Stefan's twenty minutes later with Caroline in a short summer dress and knee high boots. Stefan led the down the cellar where Hayley was sat on the little bed. "You didn't give her a water bowl!" Caroline huffed, crossing her arms and pouting. "Was I supposed to?" Stefan quipped, earning an incredulous look from her. "Yes, because she's a bitch. It's called irony and comedy. Not that broody Stefan would know that," she grumbled, walking in to the cell with Klaus close behind. "You're really annoying, you know that, right?" Hayley told her. Klaus growled and Hayley let out a scoff. "You're quick to jump from one hybrid to the other." Caroline let out a laugh. "You're quick to betray Tyler, considering you love him. Or was that all a lie too?" Hayley's face dropped and she looked away from them. "I had to do it," she muttered, "to find my family." Caroline shook her head. "You could've asked Tyler to help you. He would've gotten Bonnie to do a locator spell. Instead, you teamed up with someone who wanted you to get a bunch of kids killed." Hayley looked back up at her with a grimace on her face. "Oh for fuck's sake. Mate, does she have vervain in her system?" Kol asked Stefan. "Not that I know of," he shrugged. Kol grabbed Hayley's face and compelled her to slap herself in the face. She did so with a furious look in her eyes. "Wonderful. Now tell us who you're working with, darling." Hayley bit her lip but the words still came out. "Atticus Shane," she spat at him with a glare. "Why does he want to raise Silas?" He compelled again. "He wants to bring his wife and son back. They died doing a spell or something to find Silas. He didn't tell me much, but the veil has to come down for Silas to pass on with his true love." Kol stood up straight and turned to Klaus, waving his hands out at his sides. "I told you!" He sang striding away.
"Damon won't stop looking for the cure," Stefan told them as he looked down at the floor. "He won't give up until Elena's not sired to him and she's happy." Kol grinned at Klaus and disappeared. "Where did he go?" Caroline demanded, crossing her arms over her chest. "To find Elena," he mumbled, not meeting her eyes. "What is he going to do?" She glared as he tried to avoid her. "Compel her to turn her emotions off," he let out though his teeth. She groaned and threw her arms out, storming off. "Stupid Originals, stupid compulsion," she muttered under her breath. "KLAUS! Compel her to forget everything about Mystic Falls and send her to… Timbuktu!" He met Stefan's worried look but did as he was told, sending her to Australia instead without any knowledge of Tyler, Mystic Falls, Silas, the cure, or the Originals.
Caroline followed Kol's heavily perfumed scent – which she found annoying because he did not need that much man-scent – to the back alley of the Grill. "KOL!" She screeched, seeing him with Damon in one hand by the heart and Elena by the throat in the other. "This is stupid! Just compel them not to search for the cure!" He paused and turned to her with a frown. "I don't like being ordered, darling. It usually doesn't end well for people," he warned, making her scoff. "You're only pissed because it's a better idea than yours," she retorted with raised eyebrows. He didn't reply and she smiled victoriously. "Now I know why Nik loves you. You're as smug and annoying as he is," he whined as he threw an in-tact Damon to her side where Klaus and Stefan appeared. Both brothers set about compelling them, but Kol added that Elena would lock herself up for a day to turn her emotions on and off until she wasn't sired any longer. "Thank you, Kol," Caroline smiled sincerely, making Klaus growl.
"Are you serious right now?" She busted, spinning around to him. "I can't thank your brother for sparing the lives of all the people Elena would've killed without her emotions on? Do you know what that would've done to her when she turned it on again? There's no need for the freaky jealous hybrid growling, okay?" She grabbed Stefan's hand and pulled him away towards the front door of the Grill. "Let's go, Stefan. We need to get Bonnie away from Shane." Klaus and Kol sulked, the latter grinning like a fool as the other sulked.
Inside, Bonnie sat next to Shane in the booth in the corner, hunched over a book as he pointed some things out to her. Suddenly the table filled and they both looked up. Beside Shane was Klaus and Stefan and beside her was Kol and Caroline. "What is this?" Bonnie demanded angrily. Kol grabbed her hand then covered her mouth when she tried to scream. Her hand was on fire where he pressed something to it. Caroline tensed and even through the pain she noticed that the blonde relaxed at the shake of Klaus' head. When Kol pulled his hand away, she had a mark on her hand and her magic was bound. "That should keep your devil magic at bay for the remainder of our conversation," Kol smiled at her with a hard glare as she sat there stewing in anger.
"Who are you?" Shane demanded, looking between the Mikaelsons. "Kol and Klaus Mikaelson, I assume you've hear of us," Klaus grinned wolfishly as Shane beamed star-struck. "To what do I owe the pleasure," he asked in awe, looking between them. "Stop trying to raise Silas," Kol deadpanned, making Shane's face fall a little. "You don't understand-" Kol cut him off. "Oh, I understand perfectly. You are manipulating the little witch to practise expression so that you can sacrifice her to raise Silas who should stay dormant for eternity. Raising Silas means bringing hell on earth and I rather like how it is at the moment. Which is why I'm having little Bennett cleansed of her magic and your so-called herbal tea that was spelled so she would obey and believe you."
"No, but we need the cure-" Bonnie tried, but Caroline cut in. "Bon, Elena will be fine as a vampire. She doesn't need the cure to break the sire bond to Damon. There's another way and we've dealt with it. I know you don't like to think about us being vampires and that your best friends are technically dead and will live forever, but that's what happened and we can't change it. We can't be that selfish. Say we get the cure and there's one dose, do we really give it to Elena? What makes her so special? And say we have to raise Silas to get it, are we really selfish and stupid enough to wake a billion year old guy that's going to bring the veil down and unleash hell just because one girl cried about being a vampire? We can't do that, Bon, even if we love her."
Bonnie just shook her head in disgust. "It's true. You're with Klaus. He's changed you!" She span around to Klaus with furious eyes. "What did you do to her? Did you compel her, you bas-" Her eyes rolled back suddenly and Kol pushed her back when she fell forward, saving her from smashing her face on the table. "Come on, princess, let us take you to the tower," Kol grinned as Caroline slid from the booth. Kol pulled Bonnie along, carrying her over his shoulder out of the Grill. Matt stood to attention and Caroline waved him off. "I'll explain later," she offered with a sympathetic look before running to Klaus' side and taking his hand. He tensed a little but gave her hand a squeeze a moment later. She needed him and he wouldn't push her away just because they were in a public place and he had a reputation to uphold. Stefan and Kol were on either side of Shane, leading him to the car.
"We'll meet you at the Boarding House," Klaus called to them as they piled in to the car. "I just need to make a quick stop with Caroline." Kol nodded, lacking his usual sarcastic comment and that had both Stefan and Caroline concerned. Klaus pulled her along and she fell into step beside him. "Where are we going?" She asked as the car drove away. "Tyler has been following us. I assume he wants a confrontation and I am taking us far from the humans in case it gets dangerous." She smiled softly, knowing he was trying for her.
AN: Hope you like. I'm going to do the confrontation in the next chapter and we'll get a bit of non-klaroline-centric stuff too. If you haven't already, feel free to check out my other stories. There's the old ones and a new one, Danse Macabre of Light and Dark (dark!klaroline) and a sort-of new one New Images (AH celebrities). Also, if you wish, you can leave me a review and make me smile. :)