Thank you all for reading, favorating, and following. No beta still. A bit of a longer chapter. Thanks for the reviews, makes me happy when I get an email stating I've got a review. keep em coming and I'll keep posting. And I changed the rating of this cause of this chapt. yeah...see you at the bottom.
Matt was slowly waking up. He looked around and saw that he was in his motel room. He heard noises from the bathroom. He slowly sat up and touched his neck. He only felt smooth skin. Caroline walked in holding a tray of coffee and a bag of donuts.
"Matt! You're awake!" Caroline rushed to his side, putting the bag and coffee on the table
"Care, what happened?" Matt asked
"You're not gonna believe what happened" Caroline said sitting next to him
"I just remember some hot brunette talking to me and then I was out"
"Yeah, about that. Remember that time when we were in France looking for that executioner's mask?"
"Yeah and we were in that haunted crypt"
"And you said ghosts didn't exist and then after we found the mask and saw Casper and you believed in ghosts?"
"Yeah and we said that was a freak one time only thing"
"Don't freak out"
"Oh you didn't piss off a ghost or something did you? Is it following you? Do we have to do some weird voodoo thing again?"
"No, it's not that, it's more like-"
"I don't want to deal with any more roosters in my apartment Care!"
"Don't freak out, just hear me out ok?"
"Ok..."
The door to the bathroom opened and Klaus walked out, dressed in modern day clothes, freshly shaved and his hair cut short.
"Morning sunshine" Klaus said
Matt looked at Klaus and then back at Caroline.
"Who the hell is that? You didn't hook up in here did you?" Matt asked
"No! Can we not go there right now? Look he's like the statue thing we pulled out of the coffin" Caroline said
"What the hell have you been smoking?" Matt asked
"Just look at him, he's the statue" Caroline said
Matt looked at Klaus who was taking the lid off the coffee and sniffing it. Matt saw the similar features and then jumped back against the bed.
"What the hell?!" Matt yelled
"Matt, don't freak out, he won't hurt you" Caroline said
"The statue came to life!?"
"He's not a statue, he's a 1000 year old vampire" Caroline said
"Hybrid" Klaus added while taking a sip of coffee
"Whatever, he's real, he's real Matt. He's alive and he can help my dad"
"Care! He's a 1000 years old?! Is he gonna kill us?"
"No he won't hurt us."
"How is this possible?"
"Cmon Matt, with all the stuff we've seen, you're going to question this?"
"Did he do something to you?"
"No, his Jedi mind tricks don't work on me"
"Will they work on me?"
"Let's find out shall we?" Klaus flashed to the side of the bed next to Caroline
"Stop doing that!" Caroline yelled as she stood up
"Be quiet" Klaus said as he compelled Matt
Matt's body relaxed.
"How old are you?" Klaus asked
"22"
"How did you meet Caroline?"
"We met as kids, we lived on the same block. She tried to climb a tree to get to a cat but ended up skinning her knee and falling. She was crying when I found her"
"Do you love her?"
"Yes"
"Klaus!" Caroline yelled
"Are you in love with her?" Klaus asked
"No"
"You won't remember this conversation, but you will remain calm" Klaus turned and went back to his coffee
"What just happened?" Matt asked
"Nothing"
Caroline was driving the truck with Klaus next to her and Matt in the back.
"How come he's not burning up in flames?" Matt asked
"I can hear you" Klaus said
"So answer him then" Caroline said
"Honestly, you could find better help these days" Klaus said
"He's my friend, not the help" Caroline said
"I'm a hybrid not a vampire, which means I can walk into the sun and not burn" Klaus said
"What does that mean?" Matt asked
"He's one of the Original line of vampires. But apparently he was a werewolf as well when the original witch cast the spell, so he's both" Caroline said
"So werewolves are real?" Matt asked
"Yes Matt, they're real" Caroline answered
"What about the tooth fairy? Santa?" Matt asked
"Matt! Focus!" Caroline yelled
"You just dropped all this on me, I'm kinda confused right now! But I'm pretty calm for some reason" Matt said
Caroline looked at Klaus who looked bored looking out the window.
"How do you know werewolves are real?" Matt asked
"Cause I like dated one" Caroline answered
"Wait, no, really? Is it who I'm thinking?" Matt asked
"Can we not have this conversation right now?"
"Oh no, this conversation has gotten rather interesting now" Klaus said
"Who was it Care? Was it Barry?" Matt asked leaning on the back of her seat
"NO! God no!" Caroline yelled back
"Yeah he was such a nerd"
"Matt! He was intellectually stimulating" Caroline said
"Nerd! Apparently he only stimulated your mind"
"Well he was lacking in the other department. But he was so smart, it was like I didn't have to explain anything because he just got it"
"Apparently that's all he got" Matt laughed out
"Shut up!" Caroline yelled
"Wait, that was the same time you were dating that other guy"
"Shut up!"
"He was a, what was it? Like he was on a rig for months, he hadn't seen a girl in months and when he saw you, you wouldn't leave your apartment for days! What was he? An oil rigger?"
"A deep sea arc welder!" Caroline yelled
"Yes! What was his name? Jason! It was him wasn't it!?"
"Werewolves need to be in a pack, they can't survive that long away from people" Klaus added
"So it's not him, who else was there?" Matt asked
"I'm not telling you" Caroline said
"How did you find out?" Matt asked
"He triggered it when he killed someone. It was an accident, but he blamed himself"
"He's a murderer?" Matt asked
"No! It was an accident. I don't want to talk about it alright!"
Caroline saw a gas station and pulled into it. She got out of the car and stormed off. Matt got out of the car and started to fill the tank. Klaus got out of the car and went to look for Caroline. She was inside looking at the chips and pretzels. She grabbed a bag of cheetos and a few other things. Klaus looked around the store. Caroline ignored him and went to the counter to pay. Klaus walked around and saw a brunette smiling at him. The brunette made a not so subtle motion with her neck motioning to the door. Klaus watched her as she walked out the door and headed for the bathrooms. Klaus followed her out.
Caroline leaned on the side of the truck eating her Cheetos. Matt just watched her.
"Are you going to stay angry?" Matt asked
"I don't want to talk about it" Caroline answered
"What's the big deal?"
"I don't want to talk about it"
"Fine, we won't talk about it, even though you brought it up"
"I didn't bring it up, Klaus brought it up"
"Where is he?"
"Stupid 1000 year old vampire, I'll go find him"
"Hybrid!" Matt yelled
Caroline held onto her bag of Cheetos as she went to look for Klaus.
Klaus was inside a very dirty gas station bathroom with a brunette. The smell alone was horrendous.
"I wasn't sure if you were going to show up" the brunette said biting her lip
"I wasn't sure either" Klaus said
"Judging by the accent you're not from here"
Klaus approached her slowly. He caught a glimpse of yellow in her eyes. A wolf. Klaus smiled.
"Who's your alpha?" Klaus asked
"I don't have one"
Klaus's eyes flashed yellow for her to see. She realized he was a wolf as well. He grabbed her and shoved her against the wall.
"Who is your alpha?" Klaus asked
"You are"
Klaus wanted to find a pack so when he found the doppelganger and exacted his revenge on the Salvatore brothers for desiccating him he could make hybrids. But this she wolf had other ideas. Her hands were unbuttoning his jeans before she lowered herself down.
"No, really where is your pack" Klaus said
"Aren't you a talkative one"
An unrecognizable sound left Klaus's throat when he felt her mouth on him. It had been 500 years since he had any physical contact. He looked down and the brunette's head was bobbing up and down. Her mouth worked around him, sucking hard while her tongue licked the underside of him. He leaned forward and used his arm to hold himself up against the wall.
"Looks like you're ready"
"Be quiet!" Klaus shoved her head back onto him
Caroline was walking around, getting more annoyed by the minute looking for Klaus. All she wanted to do was take Klaus to her father. She spent the past year searching for him, and all it took was a gas stop to lose him. She kept eating her Cheetos while looking for him. She wondered if vampires had to use the bathroom. She opened the door and her eyes were in shock at what she saw.
"YOU! You slut! You were slut bitch!" Caroline yelled as she ran inside throwing her Cheetos at them
The brunette let go of Klaus with a loud pop and stood up. Klaus seemed to be in his own world, but heard the sound of Caroling yelling at the brunette.
"It's bad enough you had to slut it up with Tyler but now him in a gas station bathroom!? Is there something you won't do?!" Caroline yelled
"And that's why Tyler left you"
"Bitch!" Caroline lunged at her
Klaus snapped out of it, and adjusted himself and fixed his jeans. Caroline managed to get one punch in before she was thrown onto the dirty floor. The brunette was on top of her punching her.
"You're a dumb blonde picking a fight with a werewolf"
Caroline pulled the brunette's hair and to get her off her. The brunette then grabbed Caroline's hair and yanked her back.
"Hair pulling is such a girl thing to do" the brunette said
Caroline grabbed her wrist and arm and threw her over onto the ground. Klaus watched her in amusement. She could handle herself against a werewolf. The brunette growled. Caroline felt her head smash against the mirror. She didn't hesitate slamming the brunette's head onto the sink, breaking it. Caroline's mind went blank to block out the pain.
"Stay away from my vampire" Caroline said as she elbowed the brunette in the face
"Vampire? Ew, he's a wolf" the brunette said
"I'm both actually" Klaus said watching
"Not like you could keep him anyways"
And just like that the calmness the emptiness of her mind was shattered with the anger and rage entered. She felt the pain from her head and her nose.
"You're not a wolf, you don't understand it, none of your mind tricks will work. We embrace the rage and anger, that's why we're stronger than you" the brunette smiled
"Better a human than a bitch like you" Caroline said
"Is that the best you can do?"
Caroline kicked her hard in the stomach, which sent her stumbling back. Caroline wrapped her hands around her neck and started thrashing her against the wall. Suddenly a knee was in her stomach and Caroline fell forward. The brunette punched her across the face sending her back. She grabbed onto Caroline and raised her arm to punch her when she felt something holding her back. She turned to see Klaus standing there holding her arm back.
"It smells like wet dog in here" Klaus said
The brunette relented and let Caroline go. She turned and faced Klaus.
"You've mistaken me for those sad girls who wait for the guy to choose. You're not worth it"
"No you're not" Klaus said as he slammed her head into the wall and watched her body slide down to the floor
Caroline wiped the blood from her nose and glared at him.
"I had it under control" Caroline said as she walked past him
"Oh no doubt in that, the smell of wet dog was becoming unbearable" Klaus said walking alongside her
"Seriously!? Her of all people in the freaking world?!" Caroline yelled
"Do you know her?"
"Yes I know her! She slept with my boyfriend!"
"You said you weren't with anyone"
"Because she slept with him! We broke up because of her!"
"Well then he wasn't a very good boyfriend then"
"That's not the point!"
"Why are you so angry for? Are you jealous?"
"What?! No! I hate her! All she does is just ruin things! She ruined my last relationship and you think this is funny!"
"You're cute when you're mad"
"And you're an ass! An original ass! Can't you just keep it in your pants!"
"Why? You made it clear that you're not attracted to me at all. I need to keep my options open, I do have needs, I am a man after all"
"Before you're a hybrid now you're a man"
"Just admit it, you are jealous"
"I'm not!"
Caroline shoved past him and walked towards the truck. She had to keep it together a while longer. Matt saw her bloodied and ran over to her.
"Are you ok?" Matt asked
"I'm fine, you drive"
"Care you're bleeding"
"I know, just drive" Caroline said getting into the truck
Matt got into the driver's seat and looked back at Caroline. She was searching for the first aid kit.
"What happened?" Matt asked
"Hayley happened" Caroline answered
"No way, she was here?" Matt asked
"Yeah, the odds of that"
"I see you two had it out. Who won?" Matt asked
"I did" Klaus said sliding into the backseat with Caroline.
Caroline reached to open the door but Klaus grabbed her arm to stop her.
"Let me go" Caroline said
"You're hurt and bleeding" Klaus said
"Aren't you so observant"
"Don't be childish"
"Me? You're the one in the bathroom with your pants down with that were slut!"
"Wait," Matt turned around, "Hayley's a werewolf? That means-"
"Drive Matt!" Caroline yelled
"Care you're bleeding, I'll take you to the hospital" Matt said
"She doesn't need a hospital"
Klaus bit into his wrist and placed it in front of her face.
"No!"
Klaus shoved his wrist onto her mouth and then held her head there. Caroline tried to scream but the blood kept pouring into her mouth. She struggled against him. When he felt she had enough, he released her.
She glared at him. Matt looked at them from the rear mirror.
"You ok Care?" Matt asked
"Yeah, just drive" Caroline said
Matt started the car and started to pull out of the gas station.
Caroline dozed off and ended up falling asleep on Klaus. Klaus looked down at her as she slept. He placed his arm around her as she curled closer to him. He wondered what she was dreaming of. Slowly he entered her dream.
He looked around and saw he was in a park on a bright and sunny day. He saw a man with a little girl on the swings. He was pushing the girl higher and higher.
"Higher daddy! I want to go higher!" the girl yelled
Klaus looked at the girl and realized it was Caroline smiling brightly. Her father was behind her pushing her.
"Any higher and you'll be with the angels" her father said
"Higher!"
"Alright, but we have to go soon"
"No!"
"Yes sweetie, we have to get ice cream"
"Yay ice cream!"
Bill Forbes stopped pushing her and picked her up and spun her around in his arms. Caroline giggled.
"You know I love right?" Bill asked
"Yes daddy"
"Good, then remember everything I've taught you"
"Daddy?"
The park disappeared. Caroline was no longer a child, instead a teenager. She was somewhere on a snowy mountain with a blanket around herself sitting near her father. They were sitting in the snow, freezing. Klaus wondered if this was a memory.
"Remember everything I taught you" Bill said
"I have" Caroline answered
"The things I've seen in the world, you must be prepared"
"I am"
"You have to be able to protect yourself when I can't"
"Dad?"
"Stop shaking, you're never going to get it right. Clear your mind, empty it, your mind is the only thing that makes you who you are. If you let them take it, then you're nothing. You're just one of them. Do you understand?"
"Yes dad"
"Then do it!"
Caroline closed her eyes and tried to concentrate. She was freezing. She opened her eyes and her father was gone.
"Dad? Dad where are you!?" Caroline yelled out
Caroline got up and looked around. The snow started pelting down harder.
"Dad?! DAD?!" Caroline yelled
Caroline saw her father standing near the end of the snowy cliff. She ran over to him
"Dad what are you doing?"
"Do you remember everything I've taught you?"
"Yes, dad, what are you doing?"
"You have to ready, ready when I won't be there"
"Stop talking like that!"
"Death is the only guarantee in life. There are things I can't protect you from. Protect yourself. Protect your mind, they can break your body, but don't let them take your mind"
"Dad, you're scaring me"
"Good, don't be weak like I was"
"What?"
"Remember everything I've taught you"
Bill jumped off the cliff. Caroline screamed and ran to the edge. She couldn't see anything but snow.
"Dad?! DAD!" Caroline yelled
Klaus watched as Caroline did the unthinkable and jumped after him. It kept snowing still. He walked closer to the cliff to see where they had landed. Instead he saw someone climbing up a rope. He could see it was Caroline. He stepped away and watched her climb up. She made it back, the blanket she had for warmth was gone. She started pulling on the rope, struggling. She let out a scream.
"You can do it honey!" her father yelled
Caroline breathed in and out, calming herself. She made her mind blank. Her breathing and heartbeat became calm and even. She held the rope in her hands and pulled hard. Digging her heels in the ground she pulled her father up. The rope burned into her skin, digging in causing blisters and blood to ooze out. She kept pulling until her father was back on the cliff. She dropped the rope and ran over to him.
"Dad, don't ever do that again!"
"But you did it, you did it, I knew you could"
"Dad," Caroline hugged him and began to sob
"It's ok, you're going to be ok"
Caroline looked at the blood on her hands and started to feel the burning in her palms.
"You're ok honey. Once you let any emotion in, you feel it again. I'm so proud of you"
Caroline just cried as her father held her.
"Dad don't go" Caroline said
The scenery started to change again. Caroline sat there in the snow alone, crying. It got darker and the winds picked up. Klaus decided to change the scenery a bit. He didn't exactly favor the cold. He changed it to somewhere warm. A beach. Caroline stood up and looked around confused. She looked down at herself and she was wearing a pink bikini. She looked around and saw the old journal that Klaus had thrown into the fire. It was sitting on a chair in the sand. She went over and picked it up. She flipped through it and saw that the pages were all blank.
"What the hell?" Caroline said as she tossed it aside
She looked around and saw no one around. She suddenly saw someone in the water swimming towards her. She shielded her eyes from the sun to see who it was. The figure got closer and closer. She stepped back. Klaus was swimming towards her. He emerged from the water slowly, his eyes locked on hers as if she were his prey. Caroline stood there unable to move or breathe. She watched as the beads of water slid down his body. She tried to keep her mouth closed as she saw what he was hiding under all those clothes. His swim trunks clung to him giving her imagination what he had there. She watched as he approached her. His wet arms pulled around her and held her close to him. His piercing blue eyes looked into hers.
"Take a chance love" Klaus said lowering his lips to hers
Caroline awoke with a jump. She looked around and realized she had been sleeping on Klaus who's arm was around her. She immediately pushed herself away.
"What did you do?" Caroline eyed him
"I'm just sitting here, while you used me as a pillow. I feel used."
"You didn't, you can't, I mean you don't-"
"All I hear is a lot of negative words."
"Nevermind"
"You're cute when you sleep, it's cute when you drool too"
"I do not"
"Puddle on my shirt says otherwise"
"Don't you ever sleep?"
"Not really, I was stuck in that box for half a millennium, I have a lot to catch up on"
Caroline shook her head to clear her thoughts. She saw Matt was still driving.
"Where are we Matt? Do you need a break?" Caroline asked
""We're in Maryland right now. I need to get more gas. I think there's a motel coming up we can stop at"
"Alright, you go gas the truck and drop us at the motel"
"Another motel? What is with you and motels?" Klaus asked
"Sorry if it doesn't agree with you, but we're on a budget right now"
"Is that all? I have money and a few other things. Take us somewhere nicer" Klaus said
"Alright then" Matt said
"Matt!" Caroline yelled
"Care, if he's got the money why not? I hate those motels, the beds are old, it smells and I hate sleeping in my clothes"
Matt dropped them off at some expensive looking hotel. Klaus walked in as if he owned the place. Caroline followed him carrying her bags. Klaus walked up to the front desk and compelled the largest suite they had for them. The man at the front desk handed Klaus the key cards and Klaus took them wondering what they were.
Caroline couldn't believe he just compelled the man to give them a room. She took one of the key cards from him and headed towards the elevators. Caroline stepped into the elevator and Klaus hesitantly followed her in.
"You're not claustrophobic are you?" Caroline asked
"No, I've never been in one of these things before"
"It's an elevator, or a lift as the British call it. It takes you to different floors"
"And what's wrong with the stairs?"
"People in this century are amazingly lazy"
"I'm starting to notice"
Klaus followed Caroline and watched as she slid the card into the slot above the door knob and opened the door. He followed her in and looked around at the massive room. Caroline walked in and looked around.
"Not bad, if I knew you could do this earlier I would have asked for a nicer car" Caroline said
"All you have to do is ask" Klaus said standing behind her, "I will give you anything you want"
Caroline instinctively placed her arms over her chest.
"I'm not a plaything for you, and don't try to grope me again!" Caroline said as she spun around
"Your body says otherwise"
"Stop that!"
"What?"
"That!"
"I don't know what that is"
Caroline huffed and pushed past him and went into a room. She sat down on the bed and tried to calm herself down. Klaus's flirting was getting to her. She wouldn't let him get under her skin. She didn't spend the past year trying to dig him up just so he could use her. She laid back onto the bed trying relax.
Klaus looked out the window and heard voices a few floors down. He decided to go see the rest of this hotel. Plus he was hungry.
Katherine ran back to the Salvatore's boarding house. She banged on the door.
"I can hear you in there!" Katherine yelled
Stefan opened the door and stood there.
"We have a problem" Katherine said trying to get into the house
She realized she couldn't and tried again.
"Yeah you have to be invited in" Stefan said
"What?!" Katherine yelled
"We don't own the house anymore" Stefan said
"Are you crazy? Now is not the time for games. Some stupid girl is trying to dig up Klaus! Do you remember? You and your brother dessicated him about 5 centuries ago, I'm sure he'll be glad to see you"
"Why do you think we don't own the house anymore?"
"Like that's really going to stop him. He's just going to burn it down"
"It buys us some time"
"Not much. I couldn't get to there, it was a full moon and the werewolves were out"
"Did you go back?"
"No, I came here, we need to find Elijah"
"Why?!"
"Because he's the only one that can protect us from Klaus"
"Maybe he'll help you but not us"
"Just give Elijah the human, he can reason with Klaus. Once he gets the doppelganger he can make more hybrids"
"Yes that's exactly what we need more of in the world"
"Well what would you like to do then? Hide in here forever? It's only a matter of time before he finds you"
"I'll take my chances then. If I had known now what desiccating Klaus really meant, I would have never done it. You manipulated me and Damon into taking him down"
"And you did, and it was hot"
"And you forever cursed us to constantly running from the Originals"
"It's not so bad after the first century"
"You lied to us, you played us both"
"And isn't that what the human is doing now? It's the curse of the doppelganger, to always be torn between two brothers, never being able to choose"
"Leave"
"Your loss" Katherine turned and left
Stefan closed the door and saw Damon standing there.
"What did the vampire slut want?" Damon asked
"She didn't get to see if anyone dug him up yet"
"What good is she?"
"I think we should go see if he's still there"
"Do you really want to do that?"
"If someone really is trying to dig him up, we have to stop them"
"Yeah, I guess he's pretty pissed off at us, fine, I'll drive"
Caroline stepped out of the shower when she heard something. She walked out into the living room and saw Klaus walking back into the suite.
"Where the hell did you go?" Caroline asked holding the towel around herself tighter
"Out for a snack" Klaus said
"Did you kill someone?"
"Not really, she'll live"
"I don't need you leaving a string of bodies here"
"I do know how to be discreet"
"I doubt it"
"Jealousy isn't a good look for you love"
"You wish"
Caroline turned to walk back to her room. Klaus laughed to himself and headed to the bathroom. He decided to take a shower, though there seemed to be 6 shower heads and he wasn't sure how it worked. He turned and went into Caroline's room.
"Caroline how does this shower thing work?" Klaus asked
Caroline was still changing and looked up to see a very naked Klaus standing in her doorway. She grabbed the pillow that was nearby to cover herself up.
"What the hell Klaus?!" Caroline yelled
"I can't figure out how the shower works. It's got so many spouts" Klaus said casually
"Put some clothes on!" Caroline said turning her head to the side
"How am I suppose to shower with clothes on?"
"Stop being naked!"
"Are you uncomfortable?" Klaus walked towards her
"Yes!"
"Are you afraid you won't be able to control yourself?"
Caroline moved her head to face him when she realized just how close he was to her. And very naked.
"I'm not attracted to you" Caroline said holding the pillow tighter
"Then why are you holding this?" Klaus reached and held onto the pillow
"Cause you're going to grope me again"
"Is that it?" Klaus said gently tugging the pillow
The fabric of the pillow case glided along her bare skin. She could feel it moving, falling down. She could feel him pressing up against her. She could feel herself letting go, becoming those girls in romance novels being swept away.
"Hey Care, I-what the hell?!" Matt said from the doorway
Caroline snapped out of it. She still held the pillow and moved it firmly against her body and turned facing a very shocked Matt. Klaus stood there unabashed.
"Matt! You're back" Caroline said
"I'm not interrupting am I?" Matt asked
"No! Nothing happened!" Caroline moved away from Klaus and ran towards the door near Matt, "He just didn't know how to turn on the shower"
Klaus tilted his head and watched Caroline's naked backside run towards the door.
"Whatever, I don't want to know!" Matt threw his hands in the air, "I'm going to sleep"
Matt grabbed his bag and went down the long hallway.
"Nice ink!" Matt yelled
Caroline was going to turn around but she felt him standing behind her. His finger slid along the curve of her butt cheek and she quickly turned around and took a step back from him. Her eyes immediately flew to the tattoos he had on his chest and arms.
"See something you like?" Klaus asked
Caroline tried to compose herself and walked into the bathroom, giving Klaus another good view of her backside as she turned the water on in the shower.
"There, the water's on, it's this one here" Caroline said
"What do all these others do?" Klaus asked behind her
"I don't know, I don't want to know and I'm going to sleep!" Caroline said pushing her way past him
So, what do you think so far? bonus points to anyone who knows where the deep sea arc welder is from. XD I can't ever really get over that there's really a job like that. Thank you reading.