Chapter 20

A/N: This is an AU story for the vampire diaries. I do not own the vampire dairies.

Authors note: Wow I can't believe how many chapters has it been and so many reviews. I would like to take this time and say thank you all. I actually am started to like this story more than my previous. Don't worry this is also not all me talking. There is a chapter. Lol. So thank you to those who have written reviews and liked my work. You have encouraged me to write more. You guys are great. And just so you know I have a feeling you will love this chapter more. Well back to the story. So without further I do. Enjoy.

Caroline was working shifts at the pub. She wasn't surprised that Sophie had put Camille in charge when she went out to run some errands. Caroline lifted the tray of food and brought it over to the table to the customers. She was thinking of the reenactment of the civil war that principal Edwards has assigned for the school to do, well it wasn't just for school. It was for the whole town really. She had just heard about it. And apparently this afternoon she had to have a dress from back in the day. A girl named Callie had warned her that they were actually wearing corsets and those they were the worse pain in the world. She wasn't really looking forward to that. She put the plates in front of them before she walked back to the counter and heard movement behind her. She turned to find Davina standing there.

"Hey Caroline,"

"Davina, where have you been? I happened to be worried because things weren't exactly easy. There were some weird things happening." Davina nodded.

"Sorry I happen to have stayed home. Marcel had needed some help with a few things." Caroline folded her arms across her chest and huffed irritated.

"Right Marcel. The guy who happened to lock Klaus and I up yesterday." Caroline said. Davina raised an eyebrow.

"What?"

"You didn't know?" Davina shook her head.

"I knew he had Klaus. I actually had been the one to help bring him down." Davina admitted.

"What? Why?" Caroline asked in disbelief.

"Because Marcel has told me what he has done. And has told me that Klaus only wants me on his side because he wants to gain something from Marcel. Marcel has been like a father to me Caroline. And he is just trying to protect us from the evil that Klaus has done. You should be staying away from him." Caroline stared at her in disbelief.

"Well Davina that's funny because when I was in trouble he happened to be the one to save me." Caroline said. Davina looked at her. "Yes, he did. And you know what you were right. I like him…like a friend…well I like him much more then Marcel who has been nothing but cruel here. I don't know why you follow what he says. He is just making you do horrible things." Davina shook her head.

"He is not, he just wants to protect us and have peace." Caroline glared at her. As well as Davina. It was then that Caroline noticed the ground shaking. She gasped and looked at Davina who seemed to be in another trance. Plates crashed and Caroline seemed to be losing her footing now. She had to hold onto the counter near her to keep herself from falling.

"Davina stop," Caroline tried to say. She knew that she was the one doing it. But Davina wasn't listening as the sink turned on with running water.

"Davina!" It was a new voice. It was Sophie's. "Davina stop before you kill someone." But Davina was far gone and was started to have the flood out of the sink and flood on the ground to Caroline. In half a second it began to light with flames. Caroline's eyes widened when it started coming to her.

"Davina!" Caroline looked to Stefan at her side grabbing her by her shoulders and forcing her to look at him and not Caroline. "Snap out of it. Calm down." He said calmly. Davina seemed to look at him for a second and in less than five seconds the fire disappeared, the water stopped and the ground seemed normal again. Caroline was glad that everyone really didn't notice anything because they had fallen over or we're on the ground. Caroline sighed and looked up at Davina who looked worried. She swallowed hard and turned to Stefan.

"Did I do this?" She asked. Stefan slowly nodded. She shook her head and backed away. "Please don't tell anyone." She said before turning away and running out the door, she throw an apologetic look to Caroline before she did. Stefan was about to go after her when Sophie was there.

"Let her go. She needs to sort this out herself vampire. It is the only way that she will ever learn. She needs to start seeing the truth and who she is meant to be." Sophie said. Stefan sighed before turning to Caroline who was using the counter to help her stand up. She was still a little shaken. Stefan bent over to help her clean up the mess that was on the ground.

"Are you ok?" He asked. Caroline nodded.

"I didn't expect that to happen." Stefan nodded.

"She really is one powerful witch. She just needs to learn to control it though." Stefan said. Once he had finished helping her clean the last of the shattered glass on the ground her turned to her. "I have to go but I hope that your ok." She nodded.

"I will be fine." She said. He nodded before leaving. Caroline noticed that there was one more piece of glass on the ground and went to pick it up. As she grasped it she had grabbed it to hard and sliced her palm making her wince. She lifted her hand to look at it when another hand was there looking over at her palm. She gasped when she saw Klaus there. He didn't look at her as he examined her hand. She didn't speak as he raised her up and walked her over to the sink and poured cool water on it. The cool water felt good over it before the wound was now completely healed. She glanced to him. "You didn't need to do that." Klaus turned to her.

"I know but there is still pain though Caroline. It's better and heals faster with less pain." He assured. Caroline nodded and noticed that they were still holding hands before she withdrew hers.

"Well umm thank you." She turned away to proceed with work.

"Caroline," She stopped as she was picking her tray back up. She turned to him. "I wanted to know if you would like to accompany me later this evening for the Civil war reenactment," She stared at him wondering if he was serious.

"I don't know…"

"Certainly someone new to the traditions wouldn't go alone. And I assume that you have no one else that will accompany you. After all it's what friends do isn't it." He said. She watched as he seemed to be giving her the puppy dog eyes. She bit her lip. She couldn't believe he was doing that and she was giving in to it. She sighed.

"Fine, if you insist. Meet me on the battlefield where it is apparently happening." She said. She moved around him to continue to work. Klaus couldn't help but have a smile spread across his lips.

"I'll see you this afternoon Caroline." She couldn't believe herself. Had she agreed to go on a date with Klaus? She wasn't sure how she was suppose to feel but knew she was starting to break her promise that she had made. And she couldn't stop herself.

Caroline looked at herself in the mirror. She was wearing a white dress with ruffled straps that wrapped around her shoulder blades. She had found the necklace that had belonged to her grandmother that had belonged to hers. It was a choker like necklace with red stone that dangled down to the ridge between her neck and chest. Callie had been right when she said that the corsets killed. She didn't understand how women back then wore these. Were they trying to suffocate themselves? She thought. There was a knock on her door. She turned and found her father standing in the doorway.

"I see your heading out to that civil war thing." She nodded. "You look beautiful." He complimented. She nodded once again before she turned to the mirror once again and took the curling iron to curl the last strand of her hair. She heard his footsteps enter her room when she had put the iron down. She turned to him as he looked down on her. "I'm sorry I haven't been around that much. Work has been stressful but I want you to know that I am still here for you if you need anything. I know things haven't been easy since your-

"Don't." Caroline said. Her father looked at her.

"Caroline, she is your mother. I know she wasn't the best but she still is. And you look just as beautiful as she did." She shook her head.

"I don't want to talk about her. I don't care about her." He sighed.

"Caroline I know you say this and wish it was true but deep down-

"I do hate her ok. She left. That's it. It's done. End of story." She saw hurt in her father's eyes but he nodded. "I have to go." She said. He nodded and she walked past him downstairs lifting his dress slightly so that she wouldn't trip. No matter what Caroline said she knew her father was right in the end though.

When Caroline arrived she looked around to the women and girls that were sitting down under the tents. She could hear the sounds of the thundering canons and guns. She could see the men out pretending to fire their guns and attack the Union. She lifted her dress slightly so that she could walk around and look at all the tents and things that were set up. She could see some rifles, cauldrons for food. Water pitchers. She looked up and stopped. There in front of her stood Klaus who was in a Confederate uniform. He smiled to her. She gave him a small smile as he walked over to her.

"Good evening," He said. He studied her. He couldn't help but stare. She looked beautiful he had never seen such an entrancing woman in his entire life.

"I see your family is also here." She nodded to Kol being his annoying self playing with the rifle. And she could hear Elijah lecturing him to not load the weapon or someone could get hurt.

"Yes well as much as I would have preferred they had stayed home Kol actually is fascinating with well as you can see guns. As well as annoying everyone." Klaus said. Caroline nodded.

"No Rebekah?" Klaus's jaw clenched.

"At the moment she and I are actually having a sort of argument if you might say." He explained. "What about your father?" She didn't look at him.

"Please don't seriously." She said. Klaus nodded.

"Well on to more mattered subjects, like how ravishing you look in that dress." He complimented. She blushed slightly and swallowed hard.

"Well Sophie was nice enough to lend another dress to me. She really has everything in her closet." Caroline said. He smiled.

"Allow me to show you more of the battleground some of which tourist don't talk about or have many stories unlike me." Klaus said. He held out his arm to her. She smiled and took it and began to walk with him. Klaus showed her many sites where the battle had supposedly took place. He said he and Kol enrolled in the army and had seen many things. He told her that most vampires liked war because it was the easiest time for feeding. Caroline and Klaus had been talking for hours and it was nearly dark now. They had got on the subject of family once again.

"So is it just you, Elijah, Kol and Rebekah?" She asked. Klaus nodded.

"I had more family but that was a long time ago." She nodded. She had forgotten that he was a thousand years old.

"What was it like back when you were human?" Klaus glanced to her.

"Well it was probably different from your like style today. But I did have everything that most everyone has started in life with. The rest is left for fate to decide." He paused before glancing to her. "I had a mother and father two other brothers that are unfortunately not alive today. My siblings and I always had fun then. It was probably a happy time for the most part. Except for my older brother Finn he wasn't really that fun. He was rather serious. But I had younger brother named Henrik…" He stopped and Caroline thought she saw his mask break slightly revealing sadness in pain in his eyes. Obviously this was a very hard subject. "Anyway he passed away then and that left my family broken. My mother Esther was the original witch and had decided to protect us by turning us into vampires. She was hoping that we would be protected. But there were some problems. Such as how we never aged, never became hurt by anything, we were burned slightly by the sun, and most of all the hunger." Caroline looked at him confused.

"But I don't understand. If you were a vampire, how are you now a hybrid? I mean it doesn't seem possible really." Klaus nodded.

"It turns out my father wasn't really my father. And I have to say that I was happy about that. My mother had, had an affair a few years back. She had known it was a mistake. My true father was a werewolf. My father had been angry and went on his way and killed my true father and mother's lover along with his family. Unbeknownst that he was actually started a war between species that ranges to this day. Werewolves and Vampires. My mother happen to try to fix it by binding my werewolf side with a rock and a doppelganger. I had to wait almost one thousand years till I was able to break the spell and active my werewolf side. I hate to admit but I wasn't very happy with my mother and in anger had accidently killed her." He looked down ashamed. He hated his mother but knew that it wasn't the right thing to. He didn't want to kill his mother. Caroline looked away.

"You hated her though," It wasn't a question. All he did was nod.

"She had always found a way to look at me as her mistake. That's all she ever saw me. That was the reason that she wanted to get rid of me for so long. She wanted to have the perfect family. But in the end we destroyed each other." Klaus said.

"I'm sorry," She said. Klaus looked at her. She had been the first that he had ever told about his past. And some things that he regretted.

"What about your mother?" She didn't answer and Klaus realized he must have over stepped his boundaries but she cut him off before he could apologize.

"What about her? She just left my father and I." She mumbled.

"She didn't have a reason." She shook her head.

"What do you want me to say? She left me and my father. She left us to be with another man." She confessed. She had never told anyone about this. She didn't want people to pity her. She shook her head. "She never cared about me. And that's when I decided to also forget about her. And I did for so long that I never wanted to look back." She shook her head.

"Your angry," He said. She looked at him. "You try to forget about her but the truth is you're just angry. You have this rage built up inside of you, most of it directed at her but at other things as well." She sighed and looked away. Why was he telling him about this? She felt a tear escape and slide down her cheek. She cursed herself.

"Look it's getting late. This was nice but I should be getting home." Klaus sighed and nodded.

"Allow me to take you home." She nodded.

The car ride was silent on the way home. She didn't say much and didn't feel like saying much of anything. And Klaus could tell that she really didn't want to speak. When they arrived at her house. The lights were all off symbolizing that no one was there. Klaus walked her to the door. And she slowly turned to him.

"Thank you for taking me home." He nodded.

"Of course love,"

"I'm sorry I sort of yelled at you." He put his hand up.

"It's alright Caroline you don't need to apologize-

"No let me finish. You want to know why I have a hard time letting people in. You know why I hate Tyler, that I dislike my dad, that I hate my mom. You want to know what I am angry of most of all." Klaus swallowed hard but nodded. "It's because everyone that has ever said they loved me has abandoned me. They have left me. Every time I am second choice. My mother didn't want me so she chose another man over my dad and I. My dad being depressed and not accepting that she was gone abandoned me most of my life. And Tyler who claimed to love abandoned me so many times. And I thought because he loved me I could keep on giving him chances. All because he claimed that he did. But the truth was the first time he left he had met someone and slept with her. The second time was when he had returned. And even when I gave him a chance to confess he didn't. And in the end he broke up with me leaving me again this time for good. So you see Klaus everyone in my entire life has abandoned me. So I figure what's the difference going to make when I am always second choice." She sighed and looked at him as he stared at her taking every word she had said in. Klaus realized that this girl was damaged. She wasn't as damaged as he was but nearly with him. But the difference between them was that for so many years she learned how to deal with it. How to cope with it and try to be good. And even as a vampire she was strong enough to try and put the past behind her.

"You have never been second choice to me." She looked up at him. "I meant every word that I said last night. That I care for you, I love you and I don't think that will ever change." Caroline froze at his words.

"You love me?" Klaus froze to for a moment and realized that he had said the words that he swore that he would never feel or say for that matter. He swallowed hard and looked at her uncomfortably. He wasn't use to voicing his feelings or feeling that much really.

"I didn't mean for it to come out like that but I did. And I guess that it is true. Yes Caroline I love you. I don't know how it happened but I do." Caroline felt her heart flutter. And she knew that if she did this that it was too late. She could never go back after this. And she found that she didn't want to. She grabbed his face and kissed him.

Note: So there is another chapter. I told you there would be a kiss. Hint guys remember that Sophie had gone out for some errands or did she? Lol Davina is having a hard time with her power. Stefan is there to help. Klaus and Rebekah are still enemies right now really. Kol is acting like an idiot. And Klaus and Caroline have finally admitted to their fears. So tell me what you think? I will also be updating the original drabbles with part 2 of the Elejah story. Reviews thanks.

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