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Ahhhhh. I keep falling asleep but here it is! Chapter 6. Lots of Klaus/Caroline interaction in this one. Thank you guys for the reviews, I want each and every one of you to know that your reviews are greaty appreciated and taken into consideration! Don't forget to review this chapter and enjoy! :D

A/N: Edit 1/20: I'd say that this story, because it's AU, takes place after season two. However, Caroline was never in the car accident with Tyler and Matt, therefore she did not become a vampire. Everything concerning Bonnie and Elena has happened the way it did on the show, though. Just... No Caroline vampire plots. I felt like I had to make that clear. Klaus has been around in Mystic Falls this entire time since breaking the curse. Yep. Okay.

"You want her to what?" Bonnie screeched. Caroline winced. She hated when Bonnie got all worked up.

"Well- maybe my brother is a trigger. Maybe he's the trigger. Caroline said so herself from her dreams-"

"Those are just dreams." Caroline interrupted, her face warm. "It doesn't mean anything- there's no hidden meaning to it."

"Caroline," Kol whispered, leaning forward slightly. "Dreams always have a mean something. And if what you're saying is true, we can't deny the fact that maybe Klaus is your motivation for your powers." he watched Caroline blush further and he smirked. "But perhaps you already knew that?"

"Absolutely not!" Caroline exclaimed.

Kol looked at Bonnie with a gaze that wouldn't back down. Suddenly Bonnie threw her hands up in defeat. "He's right, Care. As much as I hate the idea of you being so close to Klaus, we can't just ignore the fact that he's your trigger. And if we want to move further ahead with your training, we have to give this theory-" she threw daggers at Kol. "A try."

Caroline bit her lip. "Bonnie? Can I speak to you for a second... Alone?"

A few moments went by when both girls looked at Kol with a sudden glare. Kol seemed to take a while until he realized they were asking him to get out. "Oh. Fine. I was going to leave anyway so, have fun chatting it up ladies. I'll see you tomorrow."

When Caroline and Bonnie were sure he'd walked out the front door, Caroline quickly turned to look at Bonnie. "I'm not comfortable with the idea of Klaus being my trigger or whatever it is you called him."

"I know he's kind of intimidating-" Bonnie started but Caroline cut her off.

"It's not that I'm afraid of how dangerous he is, Bonnie." Caroline whispered. "I know he's killed so many people- Rebekah told me. It's that, when I'm with him, every bone in my body wants to stay that way. With him."

Bonnie blinked and shook her head. "I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say, Caroline."

Caroline laughed humorlessly. "I'm not sure I understand what I'm saying." she hunched her shoulders slightly. "I've never met the guy before yet it feels like I've known him all my life. It feels...unpredictable. Exhilarating. I just don't know what's wrong with me." she placed her hands on her face, covering it fully in frustration.

Bonnie knit her eyebrows together, perplexed. Could what her Grams had told her be true? If Klaus loved Caroline, could it go the other way?

She glanced at her friend who was still covering her face. She reached out and grabbed a hold of her wrists. Caroline obliged and removed them, giving Bonnie a look of desperation. Bonnie's every instinct from being a witch was telling her that Klaus was bad news. But the way Caroline would talk about him made him sound like he was the most special thing in the world to her friend. And she couldn't destroy that because this was the first time she'd seen Caroline truly awake since she'd found out about her dad's condition.

"Caroline, do you care about Klaus?"

Caroline's eyes looked at Bonnie with certainty. "I don't know why I should if I hardly know the guy, Bonnie. But I do. He feels important to me."

"God, it feels like forever since we've all hung out together." Elena sighed, sliding into the booth. All three girls had decided they needed some serious time together. Where better than the Grill?

"I know." Bonnie stated.

Elena looked at Caroline's sullen expression. "You okay, Caroline?"

Caroline gave her a look and Elena nodded. "Right. stupid question. I'm sorry."

"It's okay." Caroline said. "It just feels weird being here and acting like nothing has changed. Everything has changed. Suddenly Bonnie's a witch, vampires are real and I'm half-angel. And you two knew all about this, didn't you?"

Elena looked at Bonnie who just shrugged. "We're sorry we kept all of this from you."

"What I kind of don't understand is how you knew about it all." Caroline stated.

Elena bit her lip. "Well, I guess it won't be that big of a shock but... Stefan? He's a vampire. I found out a couple months ago."

Caroline's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. "Stefan? He's a vampire?" she whispered.

Elena nodded. "Don't worry. I was pretty freaked out whenever I first found about this stuff. I told Bonnie about him a few weeks after when Damon nearly killed her-"

"Elena!" Bonnie hushed. She could see that Caroline's face was pale with shock. "Don't worry, Care. Stefan healed me with his blood."

"You almost died because of Stefan's psychotic brother?"

"Well. Yes. But it's okay now. He swore to Elena that he wouldn't try to kill me again, right?"

Elena nodded abruptly. "Yeah."

Caroline leaned back in defeat. "I can't understand how you two are so nonchalant about all of this. This is freaky. Magic, monsters... It's freaky and so hard to grasp my mind around."

"You get used to it." Elena said softly. "Especially if it's who you are. And in a way, we're all a part of it. You're a witch angel hybrid, Bonnie's a full-blooded witch, and I'm a doppelganger."

"A doppel-what?"

"Doppelganger." Elena answered. She waited until the waitress left them their drinks to continue. "Basically, I'm just like a supernatural reincarnation of Katherine. AKA Katerina Petrova."

"What the hell does that mean?" Caroline said.

"Her face isn't really her face. She looks like her ancestor who also happens to be a sadistic vampire."

"Does that make you part vampire?"

"Nope. Vampires can't procreate. Apparently Katherine had a baby before being turned. That's how the Petrova line kept going."

"Whoa." Caroline said. "That must feel weird. But how does that work? Is your blood special or something?"

Elena opened her mouth but Bonnie shook her head. She didn't want to tell Caroline that Klaus had killed her using her blood to break the hybrid curse. It would be too much. "Something like that."

They stopped talking for a bit, each one preoccupied with the soda in front of them when Elena suddenly stiffened. "Um, what is he doing here?"

Bonnie and Caroline turned to look and see who exactly Elena was talking about. Bonnie rolled her eyes and Caroline knitted her eyebrows as Klaus walked straight to the bar, a less than friendly expression plastered on his face.

"Don't pay attention to him, Elena. He's not going to try and kill you."

"He can't. He needs me to make more hybrids." Elena spat, stirring her straw. Caroline whipped back to Elena, eyes open.

"What did you just say?"

The brunette shrunk back slightly. "Uh- nothing."

"Elena," Caroline demanded, a sudden edge to her voice. "What aren't you telling me?"

"I don't think I should-"

"Tell me? Yeah, well, last time the both of you thought that, it resulted in me almost getting killed. So please. Tell me what it is that you're leaving out."

"Klaus is a hybrid, Caroline. A vampire and a werewolf-two things that shouldn't coexist in one person. But they do and it wasn't without a pretext. Klaus had a curse that bidden his werewolf side up until a few months ago when he..."

"When he what, Elena?" Caroline asked sharply. She hated when Elena kept things from her.

"When he killed me. He drained me dry, Caroline." she took her eyes away from Klaus sitting at the bar and back to Caroline. "The only reason I'm alive right now is because John Gilbert sacrificed himself so I wouldn't be a vampire. That's why I'm still human and alive."

Caroline shook her head, perplexed. "Why didn't any of you tell me this? Why the hell didn't you tell me anything?"

Elena shrugged defensively. "I don't know- I figured it was better if you didn't know-"

"No!" Caroline interrupted, her voice assertive. It was one thing to not know about her own heritage but to know that one of her friends had almost died and she had been ignorant the entire time? That made her look weak, stupid, and untrustworthy. It was almost like she wasn't good enough to have known anything.

In a way, it all reminded her of how long she'd been in the dark about her parents splitting up. About her dad's condition. About her virtues. Everything.

"You don't get to decide on what I can and can't know. Not anymore, Elena."

"Caroline- You need to calm down before your powers do something." Bonnie stated softly. "It was wrong; we shouldn't have kept it all a secret from you but you were having such a hard time with your parents and your dad's health... We didn't want to add more."

Caroline shook her head. "I just can't believe this. I- I have to go to the bathroom." she shot up from her seat and rushed to the restrooms, her anger clouding all judgment as she locked the entrance to the bathroom. Her breathing was audible and the rage that radiated from her was foreign. She never got mad like this. She was Caroline Forbes. As uptight and overly bitchy she could be- she was never full of such pure and undiluted rage.

Her hands clenched the edges of the sink in a death grip, knuckles turning white. Her reflection was much scarier. It was like looking at a different person. Her soft eyes were sharp and alert. Hell, her ears could hear the hard and fast thumping of her heart, quickening suddenly to a loud ringing and then... It stopped in sync with the mirror cracking into a million facets, right in front of her.

The action startled her and her eyes lost focus, returning back to a familiar gaze. There was a small stinging on her left hand that had come from a small cut due to the glass shards and Caroline swallowed.

She got mad and that's what happened. Her anger literally broke a mirror.

So it's true then. My anger is a trigger for my powers but Bonnie was right. It's uncontrollable. It's dangerous.

She grabbed a few towels to wipe the cut on her hand before unlocking the door and walking out before anybody else had a chance to see that it was her leaving the bathroom with the broken mirror. Her eyes looked to where she'd been sitting with Elena and Bonnie and frowned slightly. They'd left her.

Great. she thought bitterly. I need a drink to help me think. she added. It was later in the afternoon which meant less prying adult eyes that would rat her out but even then she'd probably need a fake I.D. to get a good drink. She spotted Klaus at the very end of the bar and bit her lip. Okay... Okay. Play it cool. Don't freak out and blow this way out of proportion, Caroline. After all, you're going to be working with him, right?

She gulped, her palms sweating. Right? she repeated as she walked up to where he was sitting. She quickly took the seat next to him before she could chicken out.

"Hello, Caroline." he said immediately, turning slightly to look at her. "To what do I owe the pleasure?"

"My friends ditched me." Caroline stated. She let out a breath and looked across the bar. What she would have given to be over the age limit.

"What happened there?" he asked, gesturing to her hand. He watched as she drew it closer to her.

"I might have broken a mirror in the bathroom." she answered cautiously.

"I see we have a rebel over here," he joked, taking a sip of his red wine. "Can I offer you a drink?"

"That would be great, thanks." Caroline said, smiling slightly. She didn't really know what to say. It wasn't that it was awkward because she didn't like him, it was awkward because she did like him. But she didn't exactly know how to express it.

Klaus flagged the bartender, requesting another red wine. "Kol told me you're working with the elements."

"Did he mention anything else?"

"He might have mentioned a couple of other things."

Caroline swallowed. "Like?"

"He told me about the whole trigger thing."

Caroline sighed, embarrassed. "I'm sorry. I realize that it probably sounds weird and everything but-"

"It doesn't." he said quickly, cutting her off. The way he was looking at her like she was the only thing in the world that mattered was really throwing off her concentration. Well, that and all coherent talk. "I bet this is all too much for you. Isn't it?"

"A little bit," Caroline answered, biting her lip as the bartender handed her the glass of wine. She took a sip and asked, "Can you tell me what your human life was like?"

He raised an eyebrow in surprise. Nobody ever asked him about his time as a human- but it wasn't something he could forget. "What do you want to know?"

She thought for a second before looking at him with a soft gaze, "How was your everyday life with your brothers and sister?"

Klaus looked at the glistening bottles of liquor and wine, thinking back to a thousand years ago. "I guess I was always closest to Elijah and Rebekah. Finn didn't really talk much, he was rather quiet, though. Secluded. Kol was reckless-it's a miracle my mother didn't sew his mouth shut and kept him locked up. He caused too much trouble throughout the village... Well, for the girls in particular." his lips twitched and Caroline smiled small.

"And Rebekah?"

"Rebekah was unpredictable but she was so loyal to me and Elijah. She's my little sister, how could I not look after her? She looked up to me and I looked up to Elijah. He's the one with all the morals and whatnot."

Caroline nodded. "What about your mother and father? What were they like?"

Klaus swallowed thickly, the mood shifting to something darker. "My mother... Was different." When he saw Caroline's confused expression, he clarified, "She was a witch. She tried her best to give us a good life but she-she was also a coward. She would succumb to whatever Mikael would demand and stay silent when he would lash out at us."

"Mikael... Is that where you get your last name? Mikaelson?"

Klaus nodded. "An homage to the monster who ruined my human life and hunted me for a thousand years before I staked him." he took a long swig of wine.

"I'm sorry," Caroline said softly.

Klaus shook his head. "Don't be. It's not your fault he was a raging patriarch lunatic. The only reason that he hated me so much was because I wasn't even his son." he took another swig.

"What?" Caroline asked, leaning closer. "Mikael wasn't your real father?"

Klaus shook his head. "My mother had an affair with one of the wolf villagers. That's why I'm the hybrid- I have the werewolf gene. My mother, Esther, bound my werewolf side when I became a vampire. She didn't want me to become a bigger mistake than I already was."

"That's horrible." she stated sympathetically. Maybe because of how horribly he'd been treated as a human explained why he did the things he did. Like, kill Elena for example... And use Bonnie for her magic. Wait, Caroline thought silently. Magic? He's mother was a witch... "Wait a second, you said your mother was a witch?"

He nodded, looking back to her with unwavering eyes.

"Doesn't that mean you can do magic?"

"A vampire can't be a witch. It conflicts with nature's balance." he explained.

"Oh." she said. "But when you were human, could you do magic, too?"

Klaus shrugged. "If I could, I never knew about it. But Rebekah," he started. "Rebekah could. I remember although she was a lot younger then and she probably doesn't remember. But she showed signs of magical tendencies."

"But now she's a vampire."

"And now she's a vampire," he reiterated. "Despite even Mikael knowing of Rebekah's gift, he still killed us."

"Mikael killed you?" she asked incredulously. She noticed he'd finished his third round of wine. The more he talked the more he drank.

"He's the one who wanted to make us vampires. He didn't want to fall prey to werewolves within the village and those nearby. He was a petty fool who only cared about proving how much better he was than everybody else." He flagged the bartender again and Caroline bit her lip.

Garnet ran a finger across the pentagram carved into stone. They were currently in Italy. Why so far? It had been her brother's idea to stash their belongings inside a tomb halfway across the world.

"You realize how cliche this sounds, right?" the young witch said. Her brown locks of hair wavered in the harsh wind, her hands clasped tightly around her grimoire. "Two supernatural siblings with an evil agenda to take over the world?"

"It isn't just that we want to take over the world- Dear Miranda, we don't want to do that. We want revenge against the Original vampire family. They killed us- they sparked a war between werewolves and their own species over petty grudges." Devin said from behind her. "What we want is to have the power and the ranking we so rightfully deserve in the world. We would never take it over, too many humans reside for us to do so. We just want balance restored."

"Balance? But if you kill an entire species..."

"All will be as it was before Esther made the mistake of creating a monstrous species." Garnet intersected sharply, wiping the dirt off of her fingers. "We will restore the universe's natural balance. The balance between humans, werewolves who are servants of the moon, and witches who are nature's servants. That's the way things should be, my dear. Vampires should not exist."

"So, how are you going to carry this plan out?" the witch, Miranda, asked slowly.

Garnet smiled. "There are two options, my dear. One, we do a spell to turn them all human. Of course, that would cause the unbalance of the Otherside since they're technically suppose to be dead. Then there's the second,"

"Where we completely eradicate the entire species. Kill them all." Devin finished for Garnet.

"And the best part is that all we have to do is kill the Originals and their entire bloodline goes with them."

By the time the Grill was getting ready to close up for the night, Klaus was completely drunk. Caroline herself was a little tipsy but at least she could still talk and somewhat walk. He was out of it.

"Okay," she said, grabbing a hold of the glass from his hand placing it on the other side of her, far away from him. "I think you've had enough to drink. It's time to call it a night, Klaus."

He rubbed his hands over his face. "I'm sorry I'm such a mess. I don't exactly let go like this... I'm usually..."

"Uptight?" Caroline offered lightly, causing them both to smile with humor. "Come on," she said again, this time making an effort to actually leave by jumping off her stool. She tugged lightly on the sleeve of his coat and he obliged, following her as she made her way towards the exit.

Once they were out in the street, she gave him a look. "Did you drive here?"

Klaus shook his head. "I walked."

Her eyes widened a bit despite her dizziness. "You walked over eight miles? Are you joking?"

"Vampire, remember? It wasn't that bad." he retorted.

Caroline rolled her eyes before hailing a cab. It took a while to get a drunk Klaus inside the vehicle but once he was in, she sighed, following suit. He mumbled his address to the driver and leaned his head back against the seat.

"I'm sorry again, Caroline. This is slightly embarrassing right now."

"Hey. I'm not judging. People get drunk. God knows I have." she said, trying to make it a little less awkward. They'd spent the entire afternoon and most of the evening talking about their lives. Aside from learning how horrific Mikael had been to Klaus, she'd also learned about the places he'd been over the centuries. She'd learned that he was a big rock music fan and that despite looking uptight, he could let loose if he wanted to and if the situation was appropriate.

But what scared Caroline was that every time he'd reveal something about himself to her, it only made her care all the more. She wanted to comfort him when he'd told her about his human life and how bad it had been. She wished she could just take away all the misery he'd had to endure, just like how she wanted to forget about her pain in her own pathetic human life.

When they'd reached his mansion, he handed the driver a fifty and climbed out of the cab, holding the door open for Caroline.

"Oh... I figured I'd go home since..." Caroline started but stopped when she saw he wasn't backing down. She sighed, climbing out and giving him an appreciative look. She couldn't really face going home to her mother right now. The good thing about having had today was that she'd heard her father was stable.

Once inside, she walked to the couch, him behind her at a respectable distance. They both plopped down side by side and stared at the ceiling. Suddenly, Caroline moved and hugged him. She'd wanted to comfort him after everything he'd told her. It felt right and apparently he wasn't objecting as he leaned into her for support.

Klaus didn't normally behave like this. He was always collected. But tonight, after revealing parts about himself that he hadn't shared with many people in his entire existence made him vulnerable. He felt entirely too exposed and it was uncomfortable which was why he'd drank so much in the first place, so he'd cope with the new feeling. But having Caroline actually hug him, despite the fact that they had just met, was surreal. He felt her warmth emanating from her body and he buried his face into the crook of her neck. Her scent was unbelievable. It was downright intoxicating and addictive. Nobody had ever held him like that since he'd become a vampire. To have this one girl break him just by touching him was frightening.

He was the almighty Klaus. He was the hybrid. The Original everyone feared and hated the most. He was invincible.

But right now, in this one moment of time, he felt completely and utterly vulnerable. Weak. His insides felt like putty as she didn't let go.

He didn't want her to let go.

Lots of Klaus/Caroline interaction in this one. What did you think? Too fast? I tried as best as I could to explain exactly why it was all happening so quickly. They're just meant to beeeeeee. Gah. Don't hate on me for it. :P

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