A/N: I'm sorry it took longer to post this. After the finale of TVD I started a new story a series of one shots like chronological stories of Delena's life and all the other characters too! I have only posted 2 chapters so far and am once this is posted I will work on chapter 3. I will never abandon this one I promise but I will go back and forth updating both.
This story is just ramping up and gets darker again for a time soon so I think the light hearted and more fluffy human story will balance that out well. So please go check it out. Its called Our New Beginning. And I feel it helps fill in the gaps that the show just rushed through. Any ideas you have for scenes you would love to see please let me know and I will do a scenes as people requests come in and as in order as I can.
My apologies to Imarifirst for one more 'horrible' Klaroline sex scene. So sorry to make you gag again. It was necessary for the plot but I felt bad writing it knowing the response I would get from you! Lol. But that is it for them for quite a while. Klaus will be full of rage when he finds out what she did.
Caroline was still laying under Klaus. She still had not answered him. She cringed slightly, closing her eyes as he turned her head toward him and gazed in her eyes.
"Luv? Are you okay? What did you want to ask me?" The lines on his face were relaxed and he looked at peace. She could see the hint of worry in his eyes at her conflicting emotions right now. Had he figured out what she did? She wanted to tell him. She wanted to just throw that blood out and instead just beg him to save Stefan. The way he had been with her, he might do almost anything for her.
She sniffled and wiped her nose. He slid to the side of her body and regarded her with concern in his eyes. "I barely know you yet Nic, but I'm not surprised you can see how I am feeling."
He ran his hand down her face tenderly. "I want you to be happy Caroline, with me forever. I have so much I want to experience with you. I can show you the world."
He rolled his eyes, a half smirk pulling on his lips. "Shit, I sound like that street rat Aladdin," he smiled at her.
She laughed at him. "My goodness! The powerful Original knows Disney movies? Am I your Jasmine?" Her eyes were sparkling at him, seeing the playfulness on his face.
He smiled back at her. "Well don't expect me to burst into song my darling, but yes I have sat through childrens movies over the years. I have had friends, close friends with children and those little creatures are very hard to say no too."
He grinned leaning over her and kissed her lips tenderly. "And you are most definitely my Jasmine; all strong willed, independent, full of fire and attitude. And I'm sure you would look hot in a purple, bikini, Arabian outfit.
She giggled at him. "Wow, I just can't picture you like that at all Nic; sitting on the couch with kids around you. And I might be able to arrange showing you me in that kind of outfit. That sounds so fun!"
"Well I knew centuries ago that I would never be able to have children of my own and never found anyone worthy of sharing that experience with," he bent his head and nuzzled her nose with his, "... until now."
She inhaled sharply hearing what he had just said to her. Neither of them very obviously could have children ever, but just the thought of it and hearing that he had never found anyone to have a family with before her was incredible to hear.
"Now, what had you wanted to ask me?" he interrupted her thoughts.
Caroline just lay there, scared to ask. She already had his blood, but part of her dreaded betraying him and using it to heal Stefan. But she had to try. She would give anything to not betray him.
She sucked in a deep breath. "I know that when Katherine had me in her grip last night and was going to kill me," she started. "I was pretty out of it. But I heard her scream at you to tell her how to heal a werewolf bite. I saw her skin was so raw and torn by her neck and you showed her that it was your blood that could heal her."
She watched him just listening to her, his hand absently stroking down her bare body. She shivered at his touch and pulled the blanket up over her more. "I guess I was asking you if you would please heal Stefan? For me." She was pleading with him and she knew it. She saw his eyes soften for a moment.
He opened his mouth. She wanted him to heal Stefan? That baby vampire was still his key to getting to the doppelganger. He had the leverage in his very veins to get Elena to cooperate. "You want that?" he asked her quietly.
"Yes, I do Nic. Stefan is my friend. He was there for me when Katherine turned me. He helped me learn to survive as a vampire, to control the cravings. I can't imagine what I could have done if he had not been there to keep me from hurting people. The cravings were so bad at first and I felt like I was going crazy with blood lust."
She looked sadly up at him. "He does not deserve this and if it wasn't for him I don't know if I would be here at all... to be with you."
Klaus took a deep breath, hearing her sharing with him. He had no idea the vampire that seemed so intent on saving the doppelganger's life was also connected to his Caroline. He had been her friend? Supported her? Kept her alive?
He let out the breath and looked down in her face again. "I had no idea, my darling. I would love nothing more than to grant you your wish...but I can't." He saw her features fall into a frown as she closed her eyes. "I want to Caroline I do, but I can't."
She snapped her eyes open fast, an angry coldness in them. "Yes, you can. You can save him. You just won't." She held up his wrist to her mouth, showing him how easy it would be to feed Stefan his blood.
"I can heal him luv, but it needs to be after we run away with the doppelganger. She is why I have not healed that young vampire. And I will, I promise, after I have her." He hated seeing the sadness in her face. Hell, he hated saying no to anything she desired. She was his queen in every way and he wanted to give her everything her heart longed for. But right now she was angry at him and sad and disappointed and he did not want her to feel any of those things.
"I can heal him. I can do to for you. But it has to be after I have Elena." He tried to sooth her but she sat up quickly, pulling the blanket up over her bare chest blocking him from any more intimate touches.
"How can you think I would let you hurt my best friend either Nic? Elena will not willing come with you. I told you I don't need you to be all powerful. Just run away with me. Forget this whole thing power trip crap and trust in our love."
She reached out to run her finger along his jaw and she saw he was clenching it, like he was holding back anger or frustration. "Please Nic. Just let go of this desire to break the curse and be more powerful. All we need is each other. Don't you believe me?"
She climbed fully into his lap straddling him, letting the blanket fall to her bare hips. She felt his hands cradling her body, pulling her closer. His eyes fluttered closed as she looked pleadingly at him. She stroked both sides of his face, knowing that she was such a weakness for him. She could see how much he wanted to give in to her. Maybe this could all end in peace. Could that actually be possible?
Caroline felt his fingers slide up her sides and he pulled her hands off his face and held them between them.
"Caroline, I can't. I can't... just trust in our love. Not when I know what my father is capable of. He has probably been waiting for decades for me to find someone as beautiful and kind as you, so he could truly destroy me by torturing and killing you n front of me." He was running his hands over hers as he spoke, his eyes looked imploringly at her.
"Father found a woman that I cared about centuries ago. Her name was Aurora. In the year 1002 when my siblings and I disguised ourselves as nobles and hid from our father in a counts castle, we met. She was human when I was already a vampire. She was my first love, puppy love, not even close to the deep feelings I feel for you now. But I had never experienced love before. We started to have an affair and I believed she was in love with me. She even discovered that I was a vampire and tricked my sister to giving her blood so she could be with me forever and killed herself to become a vampire."
He struggled knowing this next part all too well. He had kept it out of his mind for decades at a time. But now he had to tell her, no matter how hard the memories would be to relive again.
"He had eventually tracked us to the castle and when I begged her to run with us she said she would and would gather her things and meet us outside the castle. But then when it came time to leave and escape father's clutches, my siblings and I were already on the outskirts of the castle when I heard her cry."
He was trembling now, and shut his eyes. When he opened them a beat later they were glassy with unshed tears. He swallowed hard and forced the words out of his mouth. "I turned around and saw her hanging by ropes on her arms over the castle wall." He drew in a deep breath and a shudder escaped his chest. Just that image of her in his mind gave him shivers knowing what his father had done. He smiled sadly when Caroline squeezed his shoulder, trying to offer some sort of comfort.
He inhaled and exhaled slowly, knowing he needed to tell her the rest of the story. "So I looked up and heard her cry out my name. Father for some reason favors fire as his torture of choice and despite my screams to him from below to let her go, he laughed at me and poured kerosene all over her beautiful dress and on her head. She was crying to me to save her and I screamed out to father that he could have me. All he had to do was let her go. At first I thought he would concede and take me, but the next second he had us surrounded down on the ground and as he yelled for his men to attack as he tossed a match on her!"
Caroline could not believe the horror of the story he was telling her. How could someone have survived something so cruel and horrific and have it done by someone he thought to be his father. "Oh my God Nic," she pulled him into her arms, holding him tight against her.
"I know my love. I know." He hung his head. "He killed her. He laughed at me from up on the castle wall as he watched her screaming and burning. The men around us attacked and we fought them hard and killed them all. I was so blind with rage that I could not even see them as people. All I saw was red. I heard Aurora screaming as we fought father's men off. I tried to get back into the castle to stop him, to save her but no matter what I did the guards would not let me in. I couldn't reach her or do anything to save her. The ropes eventually burned through and her body fell to the ground outside the castle walls. Elijah was pulling me to run, that father would be on us in mere moments but I cradled her charred and broken body in my arms and cried. Elijah finally got me off of her and pulled me along before father got down to catch us. We ran when all I wanted to do was die. She had died because of me. All because of me."
Nic grabbed for Caroline's face and turned her head to him. "And I would die if anything happened to you. That is why I need that power. I need to defeat him before he comes and finds us and burns you alive too." He paused seeing her eyes sadden at his words. He looked deeply in her eyes. "I love you so much. More than anything and I can't, I just can't take that chance with your life, my luv."
She continued to hold him, her arms clutching at his. He held her tight, his fingers digging into her hair. How could she deny why he wanted to defeat his father after what he had done to that poor girl. She could not imagine being burned alive.
Nic continued to try to reassure her. "I promise you my love, that Elena will be fine. I would never kill her. I found another way and a way that no one has to die. You just need to trust me darling."
She knew he meant the babies. She now understood more of his reasoning of kidnapping children. It was still horribly wrong but she understood more now, hearing what had happened to the woman he cared about. But taking Elena away from Damon and using her children? No, her mind was made up...she had to do this. Despite all he just said to her, she still could not let him harm innocent children. She had to heal Stefan herself, steal and destroy the moonstone to protect Elena and Damon's miracle babies. She had to.
"I do trust you Nic. I do. And what your father did was unimaginable. But I can't bear it if my friends were hurt just because of me."
Nic released her hands, seeing her relenting to him. "I won't hurt them. I won't. I just need her for a time. I can bring her back to Damon, I can. It doesn't have to be like that forever."
Caroline snapped her eyes back up to his. "But don't you see? Damon would hunt you and kill you for daring to take her from him. He loves her and she loves him. They would fight to the death not to be apart. How do you know Damon would not be a worse enemy than your father, if you stole the woman he loved?"
Klaus narrowed his eyes at her. "Are you telling me they are together, in love?" He wanted desperately to know if the spell worked. Seeing her pleading with him again made him more sure than ever that compelling her last night to forget anything to do with Elena's pregnancy spell was the right play.
As much as he hated doing that to her he could not just let go and just trust in their love, as she so sweetly put it. Their love would not be enough to fight his father. He could not take that kind of risk with her. Not when Aurora died such a horrific and painful death, just for loving him. He would do right by her and once his father was dead... he would free Elena and her children. He only needed to drink their blood daily till his father was destroyed. Then Damon and Elena and their family would be free of him forever.
"How would I know that? I have been with you for most of the day and night here." Caroline knew he was talking about the spell and her children and what he had thought he compelled her to forget. She had tried and begged and she saw that he was not backing down. She swallowed a sob, scared that this might be the last time they were together.
She wrapped her arms tighter around him and pulled his lips to hers. "Just kiss me Nic. Forget about doppelgangers and sacrifice and power. Just kiss me please," she breathed. She wanted one last kiss before their whole relationship would get turned upside down. She wanted so much for him to forgive her for what she was about to do. That faith and the knowledge that she was saving Elena's babies from pain and suffering was the only thing she had to rely on right now.
She felt him surge forward, pressing her back into the seat and his mouth attacked hers in a bruising, heart pounding kiss. She opened her lips more to him, tasting the rough masculine scent of her love. She felt his hands that had at first gripped her head holding her still for his tumultuous, passionate assault trailing down her sides and grip her hips and tug her body flush with his. She moaned his name into his mouth as she felt him cup her ass and lift her up more, his hardening manhood rubbing at her entrance. She pulled back from his lips and nodded to him.
Nic was taken away by the intensity of her against him and her breathy begging him to kiss her. He wanted to give her everything she wanted and right now she wanted him to kiss her. He was more than happy to and moaned against her mouth. She was intoxicating, every inch of her body was like fire on him and he could not bring her close enough to him. He saw her nod to him and his desire to have her again.
As he plunged inside her and heard her cry out, he felt this sad foreboding like this was the last time he would be one with her. He felt a coldness around them, even when he could see the windows fogging up with the heat of their passion.
He wanted to just dismiss the feelings but they pulled at him, like a darkness swirling around them from outside forces. That the darkness would surround them and tear apart their love in its wake.
He held her tighter, grateful in that moment that she was a vampire and he did not have to be gentle, as the overwhelming dark feelings would not leave him. He knew she loved him. She wanted him, she was moaning his name right now as he felt her nails digging into the skin of his biceps. What was coming? Why could he not let go of that feeling?
He suddenly gripped her face and shook her gently watching her eyes focus on his. "I will always love you Caroline. No matter what. Don't ever forget that, luv." He saw her nod her head slowly at him and he clutched her tighter. "I mean it, my lovely. There is nothing you could ever do that would make me stop loving you." At that he saw tears in her eyes and he kissed them before they fell as he thrust harder and deeper into her. His hands moved back down to her hips and he lifted her up and down on him as he stared in her eyes as more tears fell.
Caroline prayed that he was telling the truth, knowing she would need that forgiveness after what she was going to do to him. She felt more tears pooling in her eyes and she just pulled him against her, burying her face in his shoulder as he held her. They lay in each others arms, no one saying a word for a few minutes as they both came down from their highs.
Her head snapped up suddenly and she looked at him. "Nic, I can try to talk to Elena? I can explain and maybe I can convince her to go with you?" She knew that was a complete lie but he didn't. She knew Damon would have her head before he let Elena go anywhere without him. Damon would not care about any of what Nic had been through. He would always just protect Elena and now their babies too. There was no way he would allow Nic to use them for their blood.
He nodded to her. That might actually work. He ran his hand over her arm. "You could try."
She hurriedly got dressed and he just sat back, watching her. She tossed on his gray t shirt again and he passed her her jeans, and pulled on them from being inside out. She thanked him with a smile and slipped them on. He was acting strange she thought and seemed to be a million miles away. The last time she tried to get dressed he was flirty and teasing and doing everything he could to prevent her from getting her clothes back on. Now he was just quiet and his eyes were on her but yet not really looking at her.
Slipping on her jacket and socks and shoes, she smiled again as she opened the door to leave him and their little love nest, to possibly never return. She hated the lack of space in sports cars and now here she had spent the night with him and part of both days laying in the backseat of his SUV. She loved the time they had spent here alone, as cramped as it was, but she was so ready to sleep in a bed again.
She knew she was just looking for a reason to race back to the cabin to give Stefan the cure. Damon had told her to hurry and it looked like Klaus had bought her lie.
She turned back to him and grabbed him behind the back of his neck and pulled his lips back on hers one more time. He hungrily met her kisses and pulled her closer. She pulled back after a few minutes, rubbing her nose on his. "I love you Nic. No matter what happens." He nodded to her and she turned and raced back out into toward the cabin.
He leaned back in the seat, pulling the blanket over his still nude body and just closed his eyes. He had no idea where the dark feelings were coming from but he just could not shake them. Like it was a calm before the storm. That things would never be the same. Was his father here already? Had he found them. Usually his witches are the first to know and let him know right away if there is any danger near. But on that front it had been quiet for years now. Decades even he thought. But that did not mean things could not change.
He raked his hand though his sweat soaked and very sex messed hair and looked around for his clothes. He pulled on his jeans and grabbed another t shirt from the bag in the back, shrugged on his socks and boots and pulled his black trench coat back over his shoulders.
He looked around, seeing the cabin in the distance in the trees where she had said she was heading. He knew his brother had been trying to figure a way out of the cabin and had been sneaking around at night. But he had been able to rest easy with his love knowing he had men out there to keep his victims right where they needed to be. He had not wanted anyone harmed but just for them to not be able to get away. Elijah had been fast and easily avoided getting caught but he just wanted to show him that they were trapped, nothing more.
He already had the means to get his doppelganger in his clutches, and he would soon have the moonstone and then him and his queen could run away and remain hidden till his father decided climb out of the hole he must be hiding in. He had no doubt that the minute his father learned of his lady, he would waste no time in showing his rotten little face and they would be ready for him.
He dug in his the pocket for his phone and hurriedly dialed his most trusted witch. She would know what was going on with why he was feeling such darkness. She knew things long before he did. He waited patiently till he heard her voice on the other end.
But then blinking in the brightness of the day, his eyes spied a small vial reflecting the sun in his eyes from on the floor of the SUV. He lowered his eyebrows in confusion as he bent to pick it up. The small clear vial was full of blood! He opened the top of the vial and tipped it so a few drops spilled out. He recoiled instantly as the drops burned on his skin. Vervain.
He snapped his phone closed and felt rage building. Why would there be a vial of vervained blood in his vehicle? Did Caroline drop it? What the hell was going on?
He did not even want to think that she could have stolen his blood after he had said no to her begging to heal the baby vampire that was her friend. She would not do that to him...would she?!
He was determined to get to the bottom of it. He slammed the door and already he could not see her. Where did she go?
Caroline had raced away from Nic's vehicle and then paused leaning against a tree out of sight. Should she go back to Katherine first and get her to tell her where the moonstone was? Or should she race back to the cabin to heal Stefan? She reached into her jacket feeling for the vial of Nic's blood. She had transferred the vial with her blood to her jeans during the night to make sure she did not mix them up and then felt in her jeans for that one. Her hand felt all over every pocket and there was nothing there. Damn it. Where was it?!
Her eyes flew back up to Nic's SUV in the distance and she cringed at the thought that it had fallen out in somewhere. He could not find it. He would ask far too many questions that she could not answer. But she had to have a fake vial for Katherine or her plan would not work.
She pulled out the extra one she had stolen, thankful that she had even thought to take an extra one and cut her wrist with her nail and let her blood drip into the tiny bottle. Then she added the few drops of vervain from the syringe. That would be her way to get the upper hand on Katherine if the bitch tried to get away without giving her the moonstone. Caroline licked the blood off her wrist as the cut healed and then closed the vial tightly. She took Nic's blood from her jacket and tucked it deep in her jean pocket and then put the decoy vial in her jacket.
She glanced around once more. There was no one around. She could make a run for the cabin. Stefan would be so glad to see her. She could save him. She tiptoed slowly around to the other side of the big tree and sighed with relief. There was no one hiding there either.
But her relief was short lived and no sooner than she had braced herself to vamp speed to the cabin that she felt a hand over her mouth and hot breath on her face. Her eyes went wide and she screamed beneath the person's firm grip on her mouth. She tried to turn around to see who it was and before she could she heard a crack and she crumpled to the ground.
Bonnie stood beside Elena as they watched Damon race out of the cabin. Elena nearly fell over in fear for Damon as well as her brother. Katherine was trying to use her brother to get free?! Oh God, that could not mean anything good.
Elena had raced to the front door, unconsciously having her hand protectively over her belly. She watched Damon throw the door open and he blurred across the front yard to the garage. She stood in the doorway watching him till he disappeared from her sight.
Damon flung open the door not thinking of his safety at all and that he was so far out in the open right then. He skidded to a stop seeing Jeremy on the floor in the center of the room. There was blood all over him and it looked like his throat was in ribbons!
Then he swung his head around and around. Where the hell was Katherine!? He knelt on the floor, his knees in the blood, Jeremy's blood, as he checked his pulse. "Oh shit, Jeremy!" he cried out.
He gathered the young boy in his arms and his head fell back against his arm as he leaned down to see if he could hear even the faintest slow heartbeat.
Nothing. He was gone.
Oh God, how would he tell Elena? He pulled the boy up more in his arms and cried. Then he heard shuffling and his head snapped up, tears tracking soundlessly down his cheeks. His eyes widened at who was in front on him.
Klaus stood in the doorway, his face showing as much surprise as his had to the scene as he looked around. And then he focused his hateful glare on Damon's face. "Where. Is. Katerina?!" he snarled, spitting out each word like its own sentence as the vampire in him sprung alive in his features.
Damon swallowed hard, his eyes darting back and forth looking for a way out. He was still holding Jeremy tight to him seeing Klaus step closer and closer.
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