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Chapter 5 They met on the Bridge

Mystic Falls 1864

Klaus was pacing his room in the Fell's mansion. He had taken one of the larger rooms on the second floor of the house when they had arrived. One side of the room was for his studio, which was filled with paints, charcoal, an easel, and various pieces of sketch paper. The other side he was using as his bedroom, which consisted of a bed, his closet, and various pieces of art, and books he traveled with. He tried to pack minimally, most of his things were back in New Orleans in his mansion there, he didn't want to move everything knowing he'd be in Mystic Falls for a short amount of time. Or that's what he thought at least.

After speaking with Caroline he had the urge to leave the party. The thought of her dancing with another man was too much, let alone his realization that he was being distracted by the blonde. He had a mission, a plan. Catch Katarina. Torture Katarina. But the more he was in Caroline's presence the more he wanted her. It was unfathomable that a powerful creature such as him could want a mere mortal, but he did. He wanted her almost as much as he wanted to kill Katarina and that bothered him. He had never felt like this way towards a woman before and the fact that it was happening with a human was not something Klaus wanted to deal with. He kept telling himself he would only bed her and then discard her, but that didn't do anything to quell his frustrations.

Once he'd returned home he'd drank from one of the servants and then disappeared in his room attempting to draw with a tumbler of scotch to distract him from thoughts of her. But all he could draw was Caroline. All he saw was Caroline.

So he attempted to paint and the picture he created with the colors was of a blonde woman in a gown. A blue gown. In the woods. It was of Caroline and his first meeting. He growled in frustration at the fact he couldn't seem to get the human girl out of his mind. He attempted to draw or paint something else, but everything he made was linked to Caroline.

Growing even angrier he stopped painting and drawing. He began to pace the room in frustration trying to think of a plan to rid himself of his desire for the beautiful blonde. He knew he wanted to bed her, who wouldn't want to with that gorgeous body and angelic face.

He finally came to the conclusion that all he needed to do was sleep with her and that would sate his desire for her. After that everything that had to do with Caroline would be over and done with. Yes, that's what he would do, seduce her and then have her. That would rid himself of his lust. He continued to tell himself that until he was interrupted by Rebekah knocking on his door.

"What?" He snapped turning towards the door to see his sister.

"Where did you go?" she asked staring at him.

"Here obviously." he snarled.

"Why? Weren't you having a good time?" Rebekah asked tilting her head to look at him.

He shrugged and looked away, "do you need something?" he asked annoyance filling his voice.

"I do actually…" she said trailing off.

"Well? I have things to do." Klaus growled turning to look at her.

"I want you to stay away from Caroline." Rebekah said boldly watching her brother. She noticed how he flinched when she mentioned the blonde's name.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Klaus flippantly replied.

"You do." Rebekah paused and stepped into the room.

"She asked me where you'd gone after she danced with the birthday boy." Rebekah added.

"I was talking to her." Klaus said with a shrug.

"Yes, I know, but—"

"Listen Rebekah it's been a long night. I want to go to bed. Leave."

"Nik, I want you to stay away from her." Rebekah repeated not budging as Klaus nodded at the door.

"I don't want to be around her." He said forcefully lying through his teeth.

Rebekah regarded him through narrow eyes. "Why did you rescue her in the woods? She told me about you finding her." Rebekah said.

Klaus cleared his throat and shrugged, "so I did. I was out and came across her."

"Why didn't you kill her?" Rebekah asked.

"I wasn't hungry."

"So? Since when has that stopped you?"

"Goodnight Rebekah. I'll see you tomorrow." Klaus said taking his sister's arm and pushing her towards the door.

"Seriously, Nik! I like her! She's my friend!" Rebekah said loudly. "She's a good person! I don't want her to be tied up with you! All you'll do is—is destroy her. She's a—"

"Goodnight. Rebekah." Klaus said fully pushing her out the door and slamming it shut on his sister's words.

"Good person! Pure!" Rebekah shouted into the wood knowing her brother could hear her anyway.

She looked at the wood for a moment and then walked away. If she had stayed long enough she would have heard Klaus growl and begin destroying the started drawings he'd created of Caroline. He had a mission to complete and would be damned if anything was to get in the way. Tomorrow he would execute his new plan of dispose-of-lust-for-Caroline.

Caroline was walking through the woods arm and arm with Bonnie. She was tired of sitting inside the house and since her father wasn't back yet she'd been able to sneak Bonnie out of the mansion and coarse her into taking a walk with her. Especially since Damon was using the time alone with Katherine to woo her.

"Do you think she likes either of them?" Caroline asked looking over at Bonnie.

Bonnie hummed, "possibly. I've seen her with Stefan more, though. I think she likes him better." Bonnie didn't really like the brunette either way, she had secrets, ones Bonnie knew too many of. It didn't take Bonnie long to figure out Katherine was a vampire. She had tried to stay away since her discovery.

"Perhaps she doesn't like either." Caroline mused stepping over a dead branch. She cursed under her breath at having to wear a gown. Sometimes she wished she could just wear pants like the men.

"Perhaps. Or maybe that's just you wishing she didn't like either so you wouldn't have to deal with her possibly becoming a sister to you." Bonnie said wisely and inwardly shivering at the thought of the vampire living with them longer than she had too.

"Or maybe I just don't want to watch my dear brothers tear themselves apart because she's around." Caroline said raising an eyebrow at her friend.

Bonnie smirked, "or that. So tell me how was the party last night? How was Mr. Lockwood?" Bonnie asked.

Caroline had told Bonnie what had happened that night with Tyler, the real story, not the one Tyler had concocted to get her in trouble. Bonnie had sympathized with her and tried to comfort her, but there wasn't much she could do. Woman were viewed as making babies and keeping house, their freedom was a non-issue in society. At least in the 1800's.

Caroline shrugged. "Mr. Lockwood is a pig. He wanted to dance with me. His parents were practically beaming they were so happy we were together. I don't like him." Caroline said still annoyed that she was made to dance with Tyler. Especially by Damon who if he had known the truth would've killed Tyler.

"I hope you don't have to deal with him again for your sake." Bonnie said patting her arm.

"Me too. But let me tell you of someone else. A much better man." Caroline said excitedly.

"Who?"

"Klaus Mikaelson. Rebekah's brother."

"Really? What is this man like?"

Caroline blushed thinking of him. "He's the one that saved me in the forest. I talked to him for awhile last night. But then he disappeared when Tyler asked to dance." She finished with a frown.

"Maybe he was jealous."

"Maybe."

"What did you talk about?"

"My dreams and hopes." Caroline said dreamily.

Bonnie laughed. "What did you tell him?"

Caroline grinned, "The truth. And you know what, Bonnie? He liked it! He liked my honestly! I was totally amazed."

Bonnie smiled at her friend, "so you like him?"

"I do. Very much. He's so handsome too! Like a Roman God!" Caroline said giggling.

Bonnie joined her in the giggling and Caroline lowered her voice to a whisper.

"I find myself…envisioning…this is so embarrassing but I have to tell someone…I want…I want him to touch me. I want him to…kiss me. He has such kissable looking lips." Caroline said her face the color of a ripe apple.

Bonnie and her burst into a fit of giggles again. They had to stop walking they were laughing so hard, but eventually they began again until they reached the mouth of a bridge. Bonnie looked over at Caroline with a cautious expression.

"Do you want to cross?" Bonnie asked.

Caroline shrugged, "why not? Father won't be back till the morning and I'm sure Damon and Katherine want more time to do the dirty. Maybe we can explore somewhere different today?" Caroline said hopefully.

Bonnie shrugged and they stepped onto the bridge beginning to walk across it. Caroline began to tell Bonnie of the other things that had happened the night before. She was staring down at her shoes or else she would've noticed they weren't alone on the bridge.

"Well hello there! This is a surprise." Klaus said smiling widely at Caroline and her companion.

"Mr. Mikaelson!" Caroline gasped blushing a deep red and then turning to his brother, Kol who was with him. "Or should I say Mr. Mikaelsons." She said then turned to look at Bonnie who was staring down at the wooden bridge.

"This is my friend, Bonnie or Ms. Bennett." Caroline said elbowing Bonnie to curtsy. The two women did so in unison. Caroline noticed Kol eyeing Bonnie hungrily.

"Well aren't you a lovely creature." Kol said taking Bonnie's hand and kissing it lightly.

Bonnie's eyes widened and she let out a low gasp at the contact. Caroline looked at her friend and maid curiously before turning back to Klaus.

"How do you do today?" she asked trying to make conversation.

"Much better than last night. I was feeling a bit sick." Klaus said apologetically. "I wanted to continue talking to you, but I'm afraid I had to go home." Klaus said sincerely inwardly hoping he could still execute his plan despite his odd behavior the night before.

"Oh! That's ok! I was pretty tired after dancing with Mr. Lockwood." Caroline lied hoping she didn't sound too eager at seeing him again.

"I see. Well since tomorrow is the Gilbert's welcome dinner I was wondering if you would like to accompany me?" Klaus asked cautiously.

Caroline's eyes widened surprised at the invitation and she shifted nervously on her feet wondering if she should take Rebekah's warning into consideration or if she should completely ignore it. She also had her brother to worry about since he also wanted her to stay away from him.

"I would love to." Caroline said grinning widely at him. She decided to ignore both of them. This was her life no one should tell her what to do. She already got enough of that with her father and society, but mostly her father.

"Fantastic. I'll pick you up tomorrow night. How's six?" Klaus asked smiling at her.

She nodded happily, "that's perfect. My father will be home so you can meet him."

Klaus smiled tightly at Caroline the idea of meeting her father was as appealing as drinking vervain tea.

He turned to his brother who was staring at Bonnie with hard eyes. Bonnie was looking anywhere but at Kol and she seemed to be in pain.

"Come dear brother, we must be going. We have business to attend to." Klaus said nudging her brother and giving Caroline one last smile before leaving the woman on the bridge. Once they were gone Bonnie grabbed Caroline's arm and began to pull her away from the bridge and hurried far from them.

"Bonnie! What's wrong? Bonnie!" Caroline cried as Bonnie's grip on her arm tightened and she basically dragged her back to the house.

"Do you know him or something?" Caroline asked confused.

"Caroline…"Bonnie began and then stopped not knowing what to say. She frowned and then shook her head.

"Never mind." Bonnie mumbled releases her arm and letting her walk the rest of the way in a normal pace.

"What's wrong?" Caroline asked again rubbing her arm.

Bonnie looked off into the distance and shook her head. "It's…it's nothing. Don't worry about it." She mumbled her mind straying back to Kol and what she felt when she touched him.

Bonnie knew what Kol and his family were, they were the Originals she could feel it, just like she knew that Katherine was a vampire as well. She wanted to tell Caroline, but she wasn't sure how to broach the subject without sounding crazy. She knew she'd have to protect her in another way. She knew where the vervain grew and made a mental note to collect a few plants and put them in some jewelry to protect her friend and also put it in her nightly tea. She would need it if she was going to be around vampires, who knew what they were capable of. Especially the Originals.

Once Klaus and Kol were off the bridge Kol turned to his brother with wide eyes.

"She's a witch." Kol said smirking happily.

"Who?" Klaus asked his mind still on Caroline's acceptance of his invitation.

"Bonnie."

"A witch? Could she be helpful to us?" Klaus asked interestedly.

Kol shrugged and then caught his brother's interested eye. "Don't think about it Nik. I want to find out. I have a feeling she'll be quite appealing to get to know. You know how much I enjoy witches and this one is particularly lovely." Kol said smirking at his brother. Klaus shook his head and let his mind travel back to Caroline and tomorrow night.

(A/n: Ok...what did you think? Next time is their first date! THe whole town will be there so draaaaammmma. and will Klaus find out Katherine is living with Caroline when he picks her up?! and what about Kalijah (which will be happening) also will Kol get Bonnie? and one last food for thought will Klaus's plan succeed and he'll forget about Caroline OR will it totally backfire in his face!? ;) Let me know your thoughts! Please review!)