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Caroline was hiding in the bathroom and listened with a smile on her face as Ella told her all about her day. She had just fallen asleep only to be woken up by her alarm because it was time to talk to Ella. Damn time change. It was all worth as she listening to Ella chatter away. That was something Ella and Caroline shared, they both loved to talk.

"They liked my drawing!" Ella said excited.

"Wow," Caroline said wishing she could be there to congratulate her. Bonnie had taken Ella to the art museum. Ella loves to draw at the children's center. One of the curators saw her drawing and told Bonnie that the museum offered art classes for young children. The cut off age to be in it was 6, but since Ella was so talented they made an exception and Ella was to become the first 4 year old ever to take the class! "I am so happy for you baby."

"Thanks Mommy," Ella said, "Aunt Bonnie wants to talk to you."

"Hey, isn't it exciting?" Bonnie said, "She is only 4 and she got in!"

"It's amazing," Caroline said, "I just wish I was there to celebrate with you."

"The first class isn't till next week so you will get to take her," Bonnie informed her. "How is it going with you?"

"Well the bride is a bitch," Caroline said, "Kol's brothers seem nice, and you remember Rebekah."

"How is she?" Bonnie asked, "It has been a while."

"She has made it perfectly clear that she is against this wedding," Caroline replied, "Kol does have one other brother I haven't met yet, he apparently always has to make an entrance. I am pretty sure he came in last night so I will probably see him soon."

"Good luck with the bride from hell," Bonnie said after they talked for a little while later.

"Thanks," Caroline said and they hung up.

Luck. She was going to need it.

K&C

"You seem happy this morning," Esther commented at breakfast. Nik had yet to make an appearance. Apparently he was still sleeping. Kol said that sometimes he thinks Nik is a vampire. He stays up nights and sleeps during the day.

"Ella got accepted into an art program," Caroline said a look of pride on her face. "The youngest you can be to get in is 6, but they were so impressed with her work she got in at 4. The youngest ever to do so."

"That's wonderful," Sage said from across from her, "Do you have any artist talent?"

"None whatsoever," Caroline said with a little laugh. "I can do a pretty good stick figure, but that is where it ends. When I draw with Ella she often takes the pencil away from me and shows me how to draw." Caroline looked back at Esther who once again had a strange knowing expression on her face.

"You must be very proud," Esther said.

"I am," Caroline agreed.

"My son Niklaus is a bit of an artist himself," Esther told her.

"A bit of an artist?" Rebekah repeated, "Yes, he is a bit of an artist whose work is hanging in gallery's all over Europe."

"Where is he?" Finn asked.

"I'm right bloody here," A grumpy voice said and Caroline turned around and looked at the newcomer. He caught her eye and smirk started to form on his handsome face. She felt bile rise up in her throat. Covering her mouth with her hand she ran out of the dining room and into the nearest bathroom, which thankfully wasn't too far away. (Thanks again to Kol for the well thought out tour). She opened the toilet and proceeded to throw up her breakfast.

5 Years Ago

"Come on," Bonnie said tugging on Caroline's arm. "Let's go out."

"No," Caroline said, "I am going to stay here and wallow in my misery for a while longer."

"Look I am sorry Tyler broke up with you," Bonnie said sitting on her friend's bed. "But it has been three months. You need to move on."

"So I can accidentally run into him at whatever bar you are dragging me to?" Caroline asked, "No thank you."

"Elena told me about really great pub we have to go to, she is already there with her new "friend." Bonnie told her.

"Oh yes, the Stefan that she won't shut up about," Caroline said, "Stefan is so smart. Stefan is so cute. Stefan, Stefan, Stefan, vomit."

"Wow," Bonnie said with wide eyes, "Bitter party of one."

"Of course I am bitter," Caroline grumbled, "Tyler dumped me out of the blue. Something about not wanting to be tied down too soon, and now I am supposed to be happy for Elena?"

"Yes, you are," Bonnie said and then with a slight pout said, "Please."

"Don't make that face Bonnie Bennett," Caroline said but Bonnie didn't stop. "Fine! Screw Tyler. I am going to go to the bar and I am going to have fun!"

"That's the spirit," Bonnie said and Caroline shot out of bed.

K&C

"I told you," Caroline said as she tried not to look at Tyler who was at the other end of the pub talking with some of his friends.

"Who cares?" Bonnie said, "You look fantastic, you need to flaunt what he was crazy enough to give up."

"You do look great," Elena agreed.

"Out of my way!" A loud voice called out. Katherine, Elena's identical twin sister, made her way over to them.

"Hey Kat," Caroline said.

"I saw the bastard," Katherine said to Caroline with a sympathetic look on her face, "My advice? Find the hottest guy in the bar and climb him like a tree!"

"Katherine!" Elena said motioned to the man next to her. Katherine glanced at Stefan.

"So you are the guy my sister won't stop talking about," Katherine said glaring at him, "Just so you know, if you hurt my sister I have a gun, and I will shoot you with it."

"I believe you," Stefan said not wavering under Katherine's stare. She smirked.

"Look at you little sister by two minutes," Katherine said to Elena, "You finally found a man with some balls. Well enjoy your night. Don't do anything I wouldn't do."

"Which is everything," Bonnie said and Katherine grinned.

"True," Katherine said and disappeared into the crowd. Elena looked at Stefan apologetically.

"Sorry about her," Elena said, "Katherine takes her "older by two minutes" duties very seriously."

"I have an older brother too," Stefan said, "I understand." They then proceed to make dreamy eyes at each other.

"I am going to go get a drink," Caroline announced and walked over to the bar. She felt someone looking at her and she glanced over to see a extremely good looking blond man shamelessly staring at her from across the bar. Caroline couldn't help the burn she began to feel on her cheeks.

The moment was ruined when Tyler suddenly stepped in front of her blocking her view of the gorgeous stranger. She knew it was only a matter of time before he saw her, but did it have to be now?

"Hey Care," Tyler said.

"Tyler," Caroline said with a nod.

"How are you?" Tyler asked.

"I'm fine," Caroline replied.

"Really?" Tyler said.

"Yes," Caroline said wanting to look around to see if the mystery man was still there.

"I know the break up was hard on you, but I think it is for the best, you know?" Tyler said but Caroline wasn't really listening. "We can still be friends though. I mean we came here from Mystic Falls together and..." He was interrupted by the bartender saying to Caroline,

"From the man across the bar."

"Thanks," Caroline said taking it. So he was still there.

"Caroline are you listening to me?" Tyler said bring her attention back to him, "And why is some guy buying you a drink?"

"Tyler, you broke up with me." Caroline said getting to the point, "And since you don't want me anymore there is an extremely hot guy from the bar who obviously does. Excuse me." Caroline walked around him and over to the blond man. He smiled upon seeing her, two adorable dimples appearing on his cheeks. He kind of had a dangerous look to him, but not when he smiled.

"Hi," Caroline said trying not to sound nervous. She had never done this before. "Thanks for the drink."

"You are more than welcome, love," He said with a sexy accent. Accent. Dimples. Help!

"I'm Caroline," She said introducing herself.

"Call me Klaus," He said.

The Present

"I have seen women react to you in many ways Nik, but I don't believe you have made any of them vomit before," Finn said after they all watched Caroline run to the bathroom.

"Must have been something she ate," Kol said getting up, "I better go check on her."

"So that is Kol's girl then," Nik said taking Kol's now empty seat.

"Yes, and she is a very sweet girl," Esther said, "They seem happy so whatever game you are thinking of playing, don't."

"I wasn't thinking about anything," Nik said innocently. "I didn't even get a chance to introduce myself."

"I mean it Niklaus," Esther said sternly. "Now eat something. You take that starving artist thing too seriously."

"Yes, considering your last painting sold for...what? Half a million pounds?" Finn said, "You would think you could afford to eat more."

"It was 600,000 pounds actually," Nik corrected.

"Can we please not talk about money?" Esther said, "For goodness sake. I do hope Caroline is okay."

"I'm sure she is fine," Nik said taking a sip of his tea. He caught Tatia looking at him out of the corner of his eye. She smirked and bit her lip.

K&C

"Caroline?" Kol said knocking on the bathroom door, "Darling?"

"Go away," Caroline groaned from the other side. Kol ignored her and opened the door. He saw her sitting on the floor hugging her knees to her chest. She didn't look sick anymore.

"Caroline, what is it?" Kol said sitting down next to her.

"I can't go back out there," Caroline said and Kol nudged her.

"My mother raised a pack full of sons, a little vomit won't phase her," Kol told her.

"No, it isn't that," Caroline said, "You know how I don't date men with accents?"

"Yes," Kol said.

"Well, I am finally going to tell you why," Caroline said.

5 years ago

"Who was that?" Klaus asked motioning to the man who was now glaring at them.

"My ex-boyfriend," Caroline answered.

"Still pining after you I see," Klaus said.

"Actually he broke up with me," Caroline said and Klaus' eyebrows went up, "What?"

"You just don't seem like the type of girl anyone would want to break up with," Klaus replied.

"Oh?" Caroline said moving closer, "And what kind of girl am I oh wise one?"

"First there is the obvious, you are extremely beautiful," Klaus began, "You care about people. You're kind. A sweetheart."

"A sweetheart, huh?" Caroline said cutting him off. "I am always the sweetheart. Always the one that takes care of everyone else and everything. I never do anything wrong. So, yes I suppose am I a sweetheart, but a sweetheart is boring, and I am sick of it."

"You didn't let me finish, love," Klaus said with a smirk and Caroline blushed. "A sweetheart yes, but very strong. You seem to have a light around you. Yes, a bright light that surrounds you."

"A bright light?" Caroline repeated.

"Yes, and light attracts darkness," Klaus said moving a lock of hair out of her face.

"Are you dark then?" Caroline said with a smile.

"Very," Klaus said his tone so serious that Caroline was a little taken aback, "But that is why you walked over here."

"Because you're dark?" Caroline clarified.

"Yes, you are a good girl, but you crave adventure and at times...danger," Klaus said.

"You don't seem dangerous," Caroline observed, "I mean when you smile you look like a boy who had just gotten got stealing cookies from a cookie jar." Caroline ran her fingers through his curly hair, "And blond curls? I am not seeing the darkness here." Klaus laughed.

"Perhaps you aren't looking hard enough," Klaus said and Caroline tilted her head.

"So you think I need to look...harder?" Caroline said suggestively.

"Much harder," Klaus said.

A hour and a couple drinks later Klaus took her hand and they hailed a cab. Caroline didn't know what it was but she was acting so unlike herself. She had never had a one night stand in her whole life, and Caroline knew that is what this was. Klaus was not going to ask for her number after this. This was one night of passion and no expectations sex with the hot foreign guy. There was something dark and dangerous about him, almost tortured, but Caroline wasn't going to think about that. He promised he wasn't a serial killer, and Caroline told him that a good friend of hers owned a gun and would be prepared to hunt him down and shoot him if anything happened to her.

Klaus threw money at the driver as they made their way to her apartment. Caroline had texted Bonnie to stay with Elena and Katherine tonight because she wanted the apartment to herself. Her hands shook as she opened the door. Once she got it open and inside he slammed her against the door and kissed her, but Caroline wanted to be in control this time and spun them around so he was against the door. Tyler hated to be the submissive one and always had to take control, but this was Caroline's night of fun. They were going to do what she wanted to do. The clothes couldn't come off fast enough. She wrapped her legs around his waist and Klaus started to...

"Caroline! Stop! Too much information!" Kol said covering his ears and snapping them back into the present.

"Sorry," Caroline said blushing, "Got a little caught up."

"Yeah, I got that," Kol said with a traumatized look on his face.

"A couple weeks later I took a pregnancy test, and nine months later I had Ella," Caroline went on. "I didn't bother to look for the father because I knew I would never see him again."

"Wait, are you telling me that my brother is Ella's father?" Kol said clearing everything up and Caroline could only nod. "How could I not see it?"

"It was too impossible to even consider," Caroline said, "I don't understand something, how come you call him "Nik," but he introduced himself to be as "Klaus."

"His full name is Niklaus," Kol replied, "He likes to go by Klaus, but his family calls him Nik. Rebekah started it. Becks couldn't say Klaus when she was younger so she called him Nik. It stuck."

"Niklaus, I should have known. This is a nightmare," Caroline said putting her head on her knees.

"It isn't so bad," Kol said trying to comfort her, but it wasn't really working.

"I acted like a slut!" Caroline said, "I must have been channeling Katherine because I was all over him. I guess it was the accent or something. He was the one man I never wanted to see again." Caroline seemed to realize something else, "Wait, Klaus was in Chicago visiting you, right? That is why he was there."

"Yeah, I guess so," Kol said remembering when his brother came to stay with him for a weekend. "What are you going to do?" Kol asked. "Are you going to tell him?"

"No," Caroline said automatically, "I think of Ella's father like a sperm donor, he isn't supposed to be involved."

"I understand, but Ella is his daughter, Caroline," Kol said serious.

"I can't go back out there," Caroline said, "I can't face him and that stupid smirk."

"I don't really fancy going out there and see my brother gloat over the fact that he shagged my supposed girlfriend 5 years ago," Kol said and Caroline manged to laugh, "He will love rubbing that in my face."

"What do I do?" Caroline asked in small voice Kol had never heard her use before.

"I'll think of something," Kol said and put his arm around her. They sat like that on the bathroom floor for a while longer pretending the world outside didn't exist. It was just the two of them and everything was fine.

K&C

"They are taking a while in there," Sage commented.

"Maybe she is pregnant again," Tatia suggested.

"Tatia," Elijah warned.

"Again?" Nik/Klaus asked.

"Caroline has a daughter," Finn answered.

"Kol is playing house with a girl who has a daughter?" Klaus said shocked.

"All of you enough," Esther said sternly, "Leave them alone. I am sure Caroline is not pregnant due to how many cups of coffee she had this morning, and for someone who was already pregnant once would know caffeine is not good for a baby."

"Hmm..." Klaus said. So the women he slept with ages ago has a daughter. Wonder why that didn't come up?

"There seems to be so much to do still," Tatia said directing the conversation back to herself. "It is hard to believe the wedding is in two days!"

"Yes it is," Rebekah commented and Tatia plastered a fake smile on her face.

"I wish you would have reconsidered my offer," Tatia said to her soon to be sister-in-law, "Elijah was very disappointed you refused to be in the wedding." Rebekah glared.

"Excuse me I think I have to go throw up now too," Rebekah said getting up.

It wasn't too long before Kol came back into the dining room, and Caroline was not with him. Kol didn't glance at Klaus who already had that damn smirk on his face.

"Is Caroline okay?" Sage asked.

"She went to go lay down," Kol replied. "She isn't feeling too good."

"She was fine until Niklaus showed up," Finn pointed out.

"I am sure it was nothing, honestly, do you not understand that you are adults now?" Esther said wanting to end this conversation before anymore questions came up. "Now Niklaus why don't you tell us what you have been up to?" No one noticed Klaus' eye flicker to Tatia for the briefest moment before he began to talk about the new piece he was working on.

…...

What do you think? We know who the father is! (Not that you lovely readers didn't already guess). Klaus also knows Caroline has a daughter now too. I am not good at the sexy scenes, and I eventually do want to try to do a M story, but I am still working on it...

I am having fun with the Tatia character. Feel free to hate on her. I love Katherine too.

No stones please! I like Stefan and Elena as a couple. I see the appeal of Damon and Elena and I don't hate on anyone's ships, but I like Stefan and Elena better. They are going to be a very background couple anyway. Sorry if that disappoints people.

Thank you all for reading and reviewing. Near 100 freaking reviews! Bloody Hell!