A drabble request for a 9 sentence drabble on my tumblr (klarolinesbuttons)- Caroline has an important mission in NOLA (your choice) and because of that becomes friends with Marcel. So when she sees Klaus she has to pretend not to know him. A little angst please.
Just to mention, I filled an old prompt from the reviews by Ms. ZoeiLang (FFN will not accept your username without the space there for whatever reason) in my drabble collection I've caught Myself Wishing, "The Trouble with Cats." I am super behind with prompts, but I am slowly catching up!
When Caroline first headed to NOLA to get some witchy help for dealing with the Travelers and helping Stefan and Elena, she had been relieved to have found, or rather been found by Marcel. He was capable and very knowledgeable about the witches, even introducing her to one who was a personal friend of his, a girl named Davina. Finding Marcel meant she could avoid Klaus for that much longer, which was definitely a plus in her book; she was so not ready for that conversation!
But Caroline was not surprised when on the third day of her stay in the vibrant city, on their way to meet with some new witches, Klaus found them; nervous, scared, freaked out even, but not surprised.
Despite what some people liked to call her, Caroline was no air-headed Barbie; she was smart. She had quickly noticed the discord amongst the vampire population of New Orleans, the majority of the conflict being between Klaus and Marcel, who was apparently some sort of apprentice-turned-king-turned-subject, who, unsurprisingly, had a bit of a tumultuous past with the hybrid (really, she had thought with a ginormous eye roll when she had heard the gossip, who hasn't Klaus had a tumultuous past with?).
So she knew the minute Marcel had found her and agreed to help her on her quest that she had picked a side in the war in New Orleans, and not one that the Original Hybrid would appreciate. And Caroline was also intelligent enough to realize that her relationship with Klaus, whatever the heck it was, was not something she would be wise to advertise, especially if she still wanted Marcel to help her and not turn around and try to use her as some pawn in his stupid fight over the city, something Caroline had absolutely zero interest in being a part of.
Klaus seemed surprised to see her, though she was sure his running into them wasn't an accident, she knew the hybrid better than that, but he was even more surprised when she pretended as if they had never met. The brief look of pain that crossed his eyes was mirrored by the uneasy feeling in her gut as she took Marcel's offered arm and left the King of NOLA standing there while they walked away together, staring after them while Caroline wondered if she had chosen the wrong side after all.