History Hides the Truth - II The Return
Summary: TVD Rewrite surrounding Klaroline. Caroline has spent centuries away from her husband after helping her best friend escape him. After finding a new companion in Chicago, she solves his bloodlust problems with a little help and forms a new best friend. In the present Caroline comes to Mystic Falls, eager to assist her best friend find love.
I do not own The Vampire Diaries.
CAROLINE
Things in Mystic Falls were quite…ordinary. I had to give it to Stefan for wanting to live such a human life. I would have to admit that I found it hard to fit in with the school way of life. When I was human, a woman never went to school or learnt anything besides raising a family and being the perfect wife. I guess I never met either of those expectations.
Stefan and Elena grew closer and closer as they became the couple that everyone aspired to be. I grew closer to her myself and her other best friend Bonnie, who was just starting to develop her witch abilities. Elena's ex-boyfriend Matt had also caught my eye, and like Damon, I shut him down. I hadn't been with anyone since Klaus and I had no desire to start now. I knew if I did I would break down. I couldn't reveal my weakness for that devil of a man.
Things only became difficult when Damon announced that he thought Katherine was in the tomb under the old church. I knew for sure that she wasn't after spending time with her in Chicago as well as the few occasions over the past decades. I managed to keep my mouth shut until Damon unveiled the truth when he raged inside the tomb.
I couldn't tell anyone I knew Katherine. Stefan always spoke so ill of my best friend, whereas Damon was a loved-up puppy. It would bring up questions about my past that I didn't want to answer. Things that could easily break my new friendships.
After some Gilbert device was set off to cause unimaginable pain to vampires I was put into hospital after being in a car crash with Matt Donovan and Tyler Lockwood. Tyler was driving and it somehow affected him causing the crash. We were all muddled as to why the device would affect him as we were positive he wasn't a vampire.
Now I'm cooped up in hospital faking my injuries so the locals wouldn't get suspicious on my miraculous recovery. Thankfully Stefan had managed to compel the nurses into leaving me alone.
I hated the hospital. All I could smell was blood which set my senses on fire. I couldn't leave the room to collect a blood bag without someone spotting me. So I was trapped inside the hospital room. It didn't help when Matt and Bonnie came to visit me which put me on my best behaviour. No veins or fangs were allowed to appear.
"Oh thank god you're here. Can I leave yet?" I demanded as soon as Stefan and Elena walked into the room after visiting Elena's Uncle John/Father…it seemed so confusing.
"I just signed your discharge papers," Stefan announced causing me to immediately jump from the uncomfortable hospital bed. "But you're going to need to go straight back to the house and lay low. People still think you're recovering."
"Fine," I sighed. "Just give me your car keys," I smirked and reluctantly he handed them over.
"Although we have a few issues…"
"What?"
"Katherine has returned," Stefan spoke of my best friend with such hate but I managed to control my inner joy. "Will you be okay to make your own way back to the boarding house while I tend to a few things with Elena?" I nodded.
"Thanks Caroline," Elena smiled before leading Stefan out the room.
As I scrolled through my phone, checking out the contents of the internet and finding amusement into the historical facts they got wrong, I heard Damon moving downstairs. I knew it was him from how he shifted his weight as he walked. Stefan had heavier pacing as he carried his larger build. Another give away was how his bourbon bottle continuously refilled his glass. Stefan only took the odd glass.
When Damon began talking I wondered who had arrived downstairs. When I heard the doppelgänger's familiar tone I automatically knew it was Katherine. She always spoke with a dark hint in her voice which Elena did not carry with her sweeter tone. I hoped Katherine wasn't leaving. I hadn't even spoken to her yet. Surely she wouldn't leave without seeing her longest friend?
I rolled my eyes at how she flirted with Damon, then kissed and then upset him. I kind of felt sorry for the elder Salvatore although he did kind of earn it. I wasn't sure what happened after Kat's last words: "The truth is ... I've never loved you. It was always Stefan." I waited for the display of anger, some form of crashing but there was nothing. I laid back in my bed throwing my phone to the bottom of the bed.
"Never thought I'd see the day that Caroline Forbes let someone tell her what to do," Katherine appeared in the doorway after a few more silent minutes. I sat up with a huge grin on my features.
"I was wondering when you'd show your face," I smirked before flashing from the bed and pulling my best friend into a tight hug.
"I wasn't going to leave you out of my hellos now was I?" I released her as I wondered whether Damon was still home. I didn't want anyone to know of our close relationship.
"Wait, is anyone home?" I questioned, trying to listen for downstairs movements.
"No, Damon left swiftly after he thought I did. Probably chasing the precious Elena," she spoke in a mocking and disapproving tone. Kat walked past me and picked up my phone. "Ew, seriously Caroline?" She showed me my lock screen, a picture of me with Stefan and Elena. I shrugged. "If only we had these back in the day. How many selfies would we have taken then?" She chuckled before pulling out the front camera. We moved in together and took a few pictures. Even with Katerina's Katherine façade, I still found my best friend that I met all those years ago.
England 1492
"You look beautiful sweetheart," Klaus' palm caressed my cheek as my maid had finished preparing my long dark dress over my figure.
"So do you," I smiled, gazing into my husband's eyes as my hand moved to his.
"The doppelgänger will be downstairs, we must welcome her and keep her close," Klaus informed me and I nodded. I knew her blood was needed for the ritual that would unlock Klaus' werewolf side. Sadly Klaus wasn't honest about how he would need to be drained dry. "Become her friend if you wish, but do not get too attached love." I nodded once more, being the obedient wife.
We both walked down the grand staircase into the manor that we called our home. With my arm entwined with Klaus's I smiled brightly to the crowd that awaited us. I noticed Elijah speaking with an olive toned girl who carried a beating heart, alerting me of her human nature. She stuck out like a sore thumb as the majority of guests were vampires.
"May I present to you Lord and Lady Niklaus Mikaelson," a man announced causing the human's mocha eyes to shift to mine and Klaus'. My smiled continued on my lips, wanting to appear friendly and welcoming instead of my husband's smug features.
"Brother," Elijah called Klaus over, and naturally I came too as Klaus refused to let me leave his arm. "May I introduce Miss Katerina Petrova, and my brother the Lord Niklaus." From the way Klaus eyed Katerina I knew she was the special guest he was so eager to meet. I couldn't help but feel jealously pulse through me as Klaus' free hand kissed her palm right before me.
"Niklaus is the name my father gave me, please call me Klaus," the doppelgänger curtsied at his words. "And my wife Lady Caroline Mikaelson." Katerina smiled softly with a gently nod.
"Pleasure to meet you my lady."
Mystic Falls Present Day
"I was expecting to find you at the Lockwoods' but the Bennett witch spoke of you in hospital to me," Kat stated while scrolling through my photos.
"I kind of died on the scene of a car crash after this Gilbert device affected Tyler Lockwood. There were many witnesses so I'm kind of staying low. Thankfully Stefan compelled the doctors."
"Don't tell me, the Salvatores are curious as to what the Lockwoods are?" Kat assumed correct. "If you want to hint that they're werewolves, it might save them some time." She smirked.
"I spoke to Matt Donovan as well, he seems to care about you," she chuckled. "Why don't you go out with him? He's cute and god his eyes, they're so blue!" She fell back on my bed sheets trying to appear in a complete love daze.
"Seriously are you always trying to set me up when you're around?"
"Pretty much, what about Damon? He seems pretty much desperate as always."
"He's already tried…I turned him down, many times." I added wanting to show Kat I wasn't interested.
"So still after decades of seeing each other, you still haven't been with anyone?" I shook my head. Kat sighed. "Why Caroline? You've got a flock of guys in this town. Matt, Damon, what about that Tyler guy?"
"Will you please stop trying to set me up? I'm not following the 'Katerina Petrova guide to moving on'."
"Fine," she muttered sitting up. "Then perhaps you'd be interested in my latest scheme."
"What now?" I sighed, watching her closely. "I guess it's not 'nostalgia' or 'curiosity' like what you told Damon."
"Eavesdropping were we?" I shrugged at her accusation as I waited for her to continue her plan. "Word will soon get around to your hubby that there is another doppelgänger and you know what that means. Klaus gets another chance at breaking the curse. So I'm here to collect everything he needs like the moonstone, a vampire, a werewolf and of course Elena. Although I'm sure the Salvatores will keep her protected until he's ready."
"How did I not think of this?" I groaned, the realisation hitting me.
"Because you're too blinded by love to ever think that Klaus would be capable of such a thing but never mind you know now," she smirked flicker her long dark curls from her face.
"Oh shut up," I growled before throwing a cushion at her.
"Let me finish will you," Kat complained, dropping the thrown object to the floor. "So I'm going to offer Klaus everything he needs in exchange for my freedom and I thought you could be included in that deal. Everything he needs in exchange for our freedom."
"You think that'd work?" I raised a brow suspiciously. "Oh hey Klaus, sorry for leaving you all those years ago. Here's your ingredients in exchange for Kat's freedom and by the way I want a divorce." My voice filled with sarcasm.
"Okay when you put it like that…but it could work Caroline." She insisted. I shrugged, not convinced. There was a few moments of silence as I thought this through until Katherine revealed my secret.
"Or you don't want your freedom," she suggested before shifting her position on my bed to take my hand in hers. "Caroline, tell me the truth."
"I…I thought I did. For centuries after I left I told myself I didn't love him. That I couldn't love the monster he truly was but…but since Chicago…" I sighed as I swallowed the lump in my throat. "When I heard his voice, I cannot tell myself otherwise."
"Do you remember what you told me when I asked you about your relationship with Klaus back when we first met?" Katherine's lips curled.
"Yeah," I nodded with a small smile. "'I cannot see myself with anyone else by my side. If true love isn't what we have, then true love doesn't exist.'"
"How cheesy are you?" Kat chuckled before pulling me into a friendly embrace for a second. "Tell you what, you help me win my freedom and I'll make sure he takes you back Lady Mikaelson."
"I can't Kat," I shook my head. "He probably hates me for leaving him. If I went back I'd either be killed or chained to him by compulsion."
"Okay, you decide what you want in return but I do need an answer. Whose side are you on? Mine? Klaus'? Or the Salvatores?" Katherine demanded.
"I want Klaus to break his curse," I nodded for sure. "I know how much that means to him but I don't want to give Elena over, she's my friend. I want you to have your freedom too Kat."
"Seems like you're on all three…great."
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