A/N Ok so as requested here it is, I do try to stay as canon as possible and stick to realistic time lines but this story is A/U anyway so please bare with me, I hope you enjoy and if there's anything you would maybe like to see happen with this story please do suggest so and I'll try and in-corporate if I can, happy reading

Disclaimer on 1st chapter, Rated T, Warnings: possible light swearing and innuendos.

Destined- Chapter 2

"Hey Caroline have where you been? You said you'd be here like an hour ago, is everything ok?"

Ok so after receiving that text from him, she kinda had a mini panic attack. Seeing her name, his mark on his hand, such an obvious open place, god how had she not noticed it before or had his just developed recently too. She went from being powerful and reckless and un-caring to utterly terrified in moments. She'd done it now, she showed him her mark, made herself available for him to claim, and rightfully so. He was going to be at the summer fair in the park today, waiting for her with his mark-her name, in the park the same place practically everyone she knew would be. It's too late to back out now, what was she thinking, why did she send him that? Yes Klaus can be horrifically awful and sinister, but the man does have a heart and she knows that better than anyone, she knows how much he desires her, wants her. She can't just tease him with the idea of being his willing soul mate then decide to back out, she's not that cruel even if maybe he does deserve it, or maybe it's the bond in her that is making her feelings for the Hybrid overshadow what he does and doesn't deserve. He wouldn't let her get away now anyway. Now that the bond has been established between the two mates, it only grows stronger, Klaus wouldn't give up, he's tenacious at the best of times, but bonded Klaus? There's no point in even trying to get away from it all, he would kill the whole world's population just to get to her and she knows it, that's what's both beautifully and terrifyingly romantic and dangerous about the soul mate bond.

So after a few moments of pulling herself together she inhaled a deep breath and tried to think as rationally as possible. Ok so maybe she'll go to the park and wear a scarf and just try to avoid him for as long as possible then talk to him later that night, she would have to talk to him, there's no changing the inevitable. She clenched her fists at her sides, determined and marched to the opened window in her bedroom, she dangled her head out just a bit trying to catch a cool breeze on her face. Oh my god, it's there's no breeze out here what the hell Caroline it's like a hundred degrees. Ok ditch the scarf, plan B, what the hell is plan B?

So after another few moments of freaking out, a splash of water on her face and several missed calls and texts she finally made it to the fair, she noticed her friends lounging around on picnic blankets on the grass and slowly made her way over, avoiding eye contact with everyone and hoping to god that, he, didn't show up at this moment, not yet anyway, she needs to deal with her friends first.

"Hey Bonnie, hey guys, yeah sorry, had a.. hair emergency, all's good now" She lets out a strangled half laugh and curls a finger around a lock of her hair to try and reiterate the lie she just told. The small group all gave their greetings and then went back soaking up the rays and enjoying the day, not paying much attention, huh this may not be as bad as she thought. Jeremy was laying with his head propped on Bonnie's lap, his mark Bonnie's name, of course, sitting proudly just above his right breast plate, peaking out the trim of his tank top. For a while nobody thought he would get one but one day he felt the tell tale signs and there it was, Bonnie's appeared shortly after, she thought that with Jeremy being a hunter and all the trouble he went through with Alaric's ring was the reason why the bond developed. Her matching mark was on show on her right wrist as she lazily stroked through his dark hair on his head. Matt was sitting next to Jeremy, obviously unmarked, he was leaning back on his arms listening to the music that was playing quietly from the iPod dock beside them. Tyler wasn't there, thank god, he kept disappearing recently with no explanation and honestly she just couldn't keep up with him anymore, explaining the soul mark to him would have to be a problem for another day, although there wasn't really much explaining to do.

"Hey where's Elena and.." She didn't really know how to finish that sentence, if she thought she had a case of bad soul mate luck then god knows what Elena was going through. Maybe that's the reason why she felt so confident about showing off her mark this morning, because if maybe she got a hard time off everyone else, Elena would, should, understand. Elena's mark started to develop slowly on her hip-bone after the car accident, the second one. Like Caroline's started out, Elena's is a single, lone letter, A. Now a while later and there's still nothing, but everyone knows who the only two options are. Now here's the problem, the brothers in question both have theirs also, on matching shoulder blades, also the single letter A. And here's the thing, her mark tingles around both of them and although they've both made it known she is the only one who could be their soul mate she's not so convinced, there's a lot of people with the letter A in their name who yearn for the Salvatore's attention. Yeah it's a big mess.

"Who do you think she's with?" Bonnie replied with the roll of her eyes and held up her wrist to show her mark as if to say 'bond issues', yeah I know what that's like, Caroline thought to herself. "Hey nice necklace Car" Ok she noticed, stick to what we rehearsed. Caroline nervously lifts her fingers to the heavily, overly chunky gold necklace that was draped wide and long around her neck, spreading just nicely over, it. "Aren't you a little hot wearing that though?"

"Yeah well you know me, fashion first and didn't want to seem too bare you kn…"

"It's beautiful, so strategically and carefully placed too.." Ooh shiii…

"What do you want Klaus?" Bonnie stares at up the new addition of the group, her facial expression utterly bored and uncaring, she failed to notice her best friend almost jump out her skin at the sound of the new voice behind her. "Don't you have someone to terrorize or.."

"Oh calm down little witch I'll be out of your hair in a second, just wanted to make my presence known that's all, hello Caroline" This is it. Caroline painted on her best 'I don't care about Klaus' smile that at one time was real but now is a genuine 'Klaus is here for me, again but don't let anybody know how I really feel about it' smile. She slowly pivoted around, please don't screw this up, not yet, I'm not ready, I thought I was, I'm such an idiot..

"Hello Klaus"

"You look as lovely ever, dressed for the weather I see" His grin is both delightful and infuriating.

"Thank you" You look devastatingly handsome as usual, is what she wanted to reply, but bit her tongue. He did look just a little bit gorgeous in all honesty, wearing a light, long sleeved polo and faded jeans, his hair tousled, jaw lined with a short fur of stubble and a spatter of sandy hair peeking out of the V in his shirt underneath his signature necklace.

"That jewellery around your throat as elegant as it looks does seem to be rather out of place for this beautiful day..does it not itch and burn in the sun?" He knows, he knows what he's doing, the ba…

"Uh ok Mr Dior, are we done here giving fashion?" Bonnie was both perplexed and uninterested, she moved to stand between her friend and the Original, oblivious and unaware of what was really going. Jeremy gently tugged at her wrist, a silent sign to tell her to stay put. Klaus didn't even glance in the witch's direction, his eyes dancing mischievously were fixed on to the gold on Caroline's bare skin, in that spot, and grin growing wider and wolfish by the second.

Think Caroline, think, do not look down, do no.. Too late, she shifted her weight on to her other foot and fumbled with her fingers as her gaze fell onto Klaus's hands. They were clasped together at his front, resting against his leg, his left hand resting completely and fully over his right, with only his fingers on display. He's playing games but all may not be lost with the troubled hybrid, redemption still lies within soul, he just needs a little guidance, he needs her. She tilts her head back up, surprised and washed with relief to meet his steady, understanding gaze, her wide orbs of clear blue meeting the hazy dark blue of his, and she smiles, at him, for him. With a quick as a flash wink he starts to turn away whilst digging his phone out his jeans pocket.

"Good day one and all" He calls over his shoulder with last glance at his mate before turning his focus to the phone in his hands.

"Ok what the hell was that all about? We know he's like obsessed with you but that was ju.."

"Just leave it Matt, I don't, I-I can't…."

"Car are you ok?" Bonnie is standing now as she takes the blonde's hands in her own, the two men are looking up at the two from the positions on the blanket with curious, concerned expressions. "Is something going on with you two or..?"

"No no, of course not, it's just Klaus, typical Klaus." And she's right, typically on the outside he appears to be unruly and unpleasant but with her, he always manages to surprise her, there is something in him, something there that she can learn to..live with, learn to lo…

*beep*

She's pulled from her thoughts by her phone vibrating in her purse, Bonnie pulls away and returns to Jeremy's waiting arms, the two share curious looks but they better than to question when the blonde vampire is not prepared to answer. Caroline glances at the sender on her phone notification bar and starts to wander off towards the busy crowds whilst hurriedly mumbling over her shoulder to the rest of the group. "I'm just going to look for my mom, she'd said she'd be around here somewhere." She didn't even wait for a reply as she hurried off, not even looking where she was going, her eyes were glued to the small screen in her hands.

From Klaus:

I NEED to see it later today. Yours, K x

Her heart fluttered in her chest as her breath caught in her throat, her blood sang in her veins excitedly and as if on cue her mark started to tingle teasingly on her skin. She stopped walking abruptly, and closed her eyes, with just a second needed to calm and focus her feet started moving on their own accord, leading her in the opposite direction to where she was originally mindlessly wandering.

She was headed to where he was, and she didn't have to ask where in the park he was hiding, waiting, for her. Her mark, his name, him, tickling and beating like the heart in her chest was leading the way.