Queen of the Heartless

by melanoradrood

This was who she was. What she was. She was an Original. The Alpha of the Originals. The most powerful being to walk the planet. She was the Queen of the Heartless, and she left fire and death wherever she went. Dark Caroline, Role Reversal, Mystic Falls gang is the Originals, Mikaelsons are present day humans. Eventually Klaroline, Kennet, Stebekah Delena, Janna, Kalijah.

6. Chapter 5 : The Dinner Party

Chapter Five : The Dinner Party

Caroline knew that the brothers would be arriving within the next ten minutes, and she spent that time in front of her mirror. She had trusted that Stefan would take care of buying her a few items, but what he had purchased, she had not expected. It was actually something... nice. Something she would really wear. The rest of the closet would need to be filled in the near future, but for tonight, she actually liked her dress.

It was blood red with a sweetheart neckline and pleated skirt. She looked powerful in it. And her legs were absolutely fabulous. Matched with her favorite black pumps and the long strand of pearls she had had for almost 700 years, she looked good. Her hair had even been curled, at the urging of Bonnie. It felt odd not wearing her hair straight as per normal, but it was nice to have her hair back in it's loving waves for the first time in almost a thousand years.

There was a knock at her door and she opened it to see Stefan wearing a tuxedo. She looked him up and down and smiled. "Well, you certainly look more like yourself now, my Lord."

Stefan glanced down at his attire then shrugged. "I do not think we should consider ourselves to be nobility any longer. That title is tossed out far too easily these days."

He had offered his arm to her and she took it. He began to lead her down the hallway towards the front room to await their guests. "We should be honest with ourselves, Stefan. We had never truly been nobility."

Stefan gave her an odd side glance and she let a smirk slide over her lips. "We are royalty. We are Vampire Royalty, love. The oldest family."

Stefan let out a rough laugh and bowed before her then. "My Queen."

Caroline gave him a beautiful smile in return. "Your Grace."

They shared a warm smile for a moment, then Caroline turned away. She couldn't show happiness. She knew that Stefan was only here because he wanted his brother back. Because he wanted to protect the doppelganger. It was foolish to pretend she was anything other than the second choice. In some cases, she was more like third, or fourth. Stefan wasn't here to play Host with her. He was here to get back what was important to him.

Caroline stepped into the sitting room and pulled out two glasses. She filled both with scotch and handed one to Stefan. They both took a sip and she glanced towards the dining room. "Is there blood to be served?"

Stefan nodded yes. "I still remember your old intimidation techniques, Care."

"Do not call me Care."

"Of course."

She gave him a hard glare and Stefan glanced away, doing his signature smirk. She wanted to smack him for it, but she could hear the car pulling up in the driveway now. Caroline sat down on the edge of an armchair and crossed one leg over another. Ah, no matter how noble and honorable Stefan was, his eyes always gave him away. She was waiting for her legs to do the same to their guests.

There was a knock at the door and she could already hear the racing hearts of the brothers. Stefan answered it and she saw them both standing there in terrible suits. Where did they buy those dreadful things? She wouldn't even insult the fireplace by burning them there.

Both Finn and Elijah glanced towards her and she raised her glass towards them. Their eyes were locked on her long legs. Ah yes... the legs that had won her many a prize. The girls of the 21st century had no idea how truly lucky they were to get away with showing leg. She could remember a time when showing a toe was a scandal.

"Welcome, Gentlemen, to our home." Stefan was welcoming them inside and Caroline took another sip of her drink, then set it down. "Dinner is ready for us if you are?"

Both men nodded and Stefan walked toward her, offering her his arm. She raised from the chair and took it. Her walk was strong and powerful. She walked like a Queen. She was a Queen. Finn and Elijah followed behind them as Stefan led them to the dining room. She could already tell that they were nervous, but this show of elegance and grace was knocking them down further.

Approaching the table, Caroline was lead to the head. Stefan pulled out her chair and allowed her to sit, then went around opposite her. The Mikaelson brothers both stumbled into a chair and sat down. The wine glasses were already filled, but both she and Stefan had a warm glass of something else beside the wine. The brothers already seemed to recognize it.

Caroline smiled at both of them then let her fingers graze the edge of the wine glass. As if changing her mind, she shifted her hand to the blood and picked it up slowly. Finn had likely already seen Stefan drink before, given they met as Stefan was stealing blood bags, but Elijah was a baby Vampire hunter.

Her eyes locked with his and she raised the glass to her lips. She took a small sip, then another one after it, and returned the glass to the table. Her tongue flicked out across her top lip and her teeth caught her bottom one, making sure that there was no blood stain there. The veins around her eyes had shadowed slightly, and then she sat back comfortably as the man caught his breath. He had finally looked away.

She looked at Stefan who was glaring at her and shook his head. Caroline shrugged and looked over at Finn. "So, Doctor Mikaelson. Stefan was telling me that you two met each other in Boston while you were still at Medical School. It must have been a shock to learn that Vampires existed. I must wonder why you never told anyone, and more importantly, why you think it is so ethical to use Vampire blood to heal your patients. Not very good at your job if you have to resort to 'magic', are you?"

Stefan was definitly glaring at her now and she shrugged again. "Pardon my dear sister for sounding so rude. What she means to ask is, why do you resort to using blood, and why did you keep our secret?"

"Is she your sister?" Elijah asked.

Caroline smiled at Stefan then turned towards Elijah, who was staring hard at his plate. He clearly was scared to look at her again. "What makes you ask that? Is it so unreasonable to believe that I am his sister?"

Elijah glanced up at her, then turned himself towards Stefan. She was being ignored. How... juvenile. "I noticed that you placed her at the head of the table, and she introduced herself as Forbes, while you went with Salvatore."

Caroline shook her head slightly at Stefan. He seemed to get the message. "I do not believe that my family is something that we should discuss right now."

"Then what should we be discussing? What you're doing in Mystic Falls? Or what you want with my family?" Finn had finally spoke now, and Caroline tilted her head to the side to study the doctor. He was even more scared than Elijah, it seemed.

Stefan spoke again, for the both of them it seemed. This was starting to annoy her. "Why don't we enjoy our dinner, then we can discuss this more."

.:| The Lone Pup |:.

"Oh, come on, Becca! Let me have a look too!" Kol was trying to get the Grimoire from Rebekah as she began flipping through the pages.

Klaus was sitting across from them, staring at a blank sheet of paper with his pencil in hand. Since Henrik's death, the young boy was all that Klaus could sketch, but now, a set of blue eyes with blonde hair filled his mind instead. He kept trying to brush it aside, but something about her called to him. He wanted to bow down before her, and at the same time, take control of her. It was all driving him crazy, and he couldn't flush these thoughts.

"It's my grimoire, Kol! Go away!"

She pushed on him and Kol fell back, dropping the Grimoire he had held in his hands. It came open near the center of the book. Rebekah went to pick it up, but stopped as she read the top of the page. "Hey, come look at this. 'The Original Family.'"

Klaus ignored them as Kol and Rebekah began to read to themselves. There was a flipping of pages and a whine from Kol that he hadn't finished reading the previous page, and then Rebekah gasped.

"What is it?" he asked, curious as to what could have silenced his younger siblings. They didn't say anything and he looked up to see that both of them had gone white, and Rebekah's eyes were wide.

"What did Caroline say her last name was?"

"She didn't say Forbes, did she Nik? Please tell me she didn't say Forbes."

Klaus rushed out of the chair and pushed his two siblings aside to see what the book said. His eyes scanned and he flipped back to the previous page. Oh God. Oh God, his brothers were in a house alone with Original Vampires. Oh God.

He pushed himself up off the floor and was running to his phone. He dialed Elijah and got his voicemail. He tried Finn and got the same. He had to go find them. He had to stop them. Elijah had wanted to stake her, and he was going to die tonight.

"Lock the door behind me and let no one in. If anyone knocks, ignore it. Don't open the door till I return."

They both just stared at him as he grabbed his keys and ran out the front door. Bekah slammed the door shut behind him and locked it, then turned and looked at Kol, who pulled her into his arms to wait for their siblings.

.:| The Queen of the Heartless |:.

"I must confess, I am a still a little surprised that you both actually managed to come, without more of your siblings tagging around, and have sat so patiently through this meal."

Stefan was sitting back in his chair as the plates were cleared away, and Caroline rolled her eyes. The entire meal, the men had been having a conversation about Finn's studies and Stefan's adventures. Elijah had added in the occasional commentary. Stefan knew how annoyed Caroline was.

"We didn't have much of a choice," Elijah muttered, and Stefan shook his head.

"Regardless of our earlier words, we will not harm any of you."

"Unless you try to harm us," Caroline added, locking eyes with Stefan. He bowed his head slightly in agreement.

"Why don't we move to the sitting room for drinks, and we can discuss our purpose here in your quaint little town."

Stefan rose from his chair and Caroline waited as he came to her, offering his arm. She took it and rose from her seat. They walked through the house to the front room and Stefan poured four glasses of scotch. Caroline accepted her drink cooly, but inside she was seething. The other two men had been ignoring her the entire night, and Stefan was letting this happen. This was not an old boys club. She was the one in charge here.

"Before I begin, let me please point out that what we intend to do here will not result in permanent death, nor even the return as a Vampire. We have a spell that must be cast, and soon, with the help of someone close to your family. After it has been performed, we will disappear, and you will have no worry of us again."

Both men nodded to Stefan, who was sitting down in his normal arm chair, while Caroline stood beside the fire. It had gone on long enough that Stefan controlled the talking, and she would let him get it all out before she stepped in to speak. The longer they ignored her, the bigger her plans for them became. Stefan would forgive her in a century or two for destroying the town.

"A thousand years ago, a curse was placed upon some of those in our little family. A curse that has kept their true nature locked up. In order to destroy the curse, we must use the blood of the doppelganger. That doppelganger is your girlfriend, Elijah. Katherine."

Elijah stood up in shock but Finn jerked him back down. Stefan raised his hands as if to calm them. "As I previously said, we will not kill her. We simply need some of her blood."

"How do you know she is the doppelganger?"

"Because she looks exactly like his dead bitch of a wife."

Elijah and Finn's mouths both dropped and Caroline swirled the liquor in her glass. The scotch didn't sting enough to burn away the bad taste of mentioning Tatia from her mouth. Stefan turned and glared at her. She shrugged her shoulders.

"What? Tatia was a bitch, and a whore for that matter. Good thing she was a whore, though, or else no doppelganger would exist."

Stefan was clearly angry at Caroline's words and she shrugged again. Tatia had been a whore, having a child with another man before she married Stefan. Why he had even bothered having interest in a woman that had a child out of wedlock was beyond her. This time she did take a sip of her drink, and noticed that Stefan's jaw was clenched. He clearly had no ability to finish this conversation.

"Look, you want the truth of the matter? Then I will set out all our cards for you. We require the blood of the doppelganger to break a curse. Our resident witch can make certain she will not die, and then we will leave. All we need from your family is to keep her protected. And, we want to help you train your sister. Bonnie is very good at training young witches, and it is better she learn to grasp her powers now than lose control later."

Elijah and Finn both looked at Stefan, and Elijah asked, "Stefan, is this true?"

Caroline had had enough of them ignoring her. She threw her empty tumblr at the wall, making both of the men jump. The glass shattered all over the floor and she turned back to face them, anger written across her face. "Is my word not good enough for you? Well, it should be, given the fact that what I say is what happens. Stefan may be the 'noble' one, but I am a whole new force of nature that you have never encountered."

Elijah and Finn both stared at her in shock and Stefan had his head in his hands. She wasn't quite sure whether he was mad at her for losing her temper, or upset because she had insulted Tatia, but she had had enough of the garbage. She turned away from them and walked to get herself another drink. She was opening up the bottle when she felt the stake enter her back.

"You fucking idiots..." she heard Stefan mutter, and Caroline stood there, feeling the blood drip down her back. It had only grazed her heart, and regardless, this was plain wood. She turned around slowly to see a scared Elijah, staring at her, almost like he was expecting her to die.

She was fuming. She had been nothing but polite and they had come here trying to stake her. She tried to keep her Vampire face from coming out, telling herself that she needed this hunter to protect her doppelganger, but the feeling of blood running down her back was too much for her to ignore. The werewolf that had been kept at bay within her was rising out, and she wanted more than anything to shift forms and rip him to shreds.

She reached one hand over her shoulder and yanked out the stake, then threw it onto the ground. The spot began to heal up, and Elijah tried to back away from her. She let him and turned to look at Stefan, who was standing in front of Finn. "Caroline, do not do this. We need their help."

"Their HELP? He just tried to STAKE me, Stefan. Fuck their help, I am going to rip his fucking heart out."

Elijah was backed up against the wall, staring at her in shock. "How aren't you dead? I staked you. You should be dead."

She whipped her head around to stare at Elijah, keeping her Vampire fangs in as she spat out at him, "You missed my heart. And even still, regular wood? Show some RESPECT. I am an Original."

Caroline flashed forward and grabbed Elijah by his neck. She lifted him up so his feet were off the ground and Elijah had both hands wrapped around her wrist. "Let me tell you a little something, hunter. There are many evil creatures that walk this earth, but there are none so dark and evil as me. I taught them everything they know."

"How?" Elijah gasped out, and Caroline raised an eyebrow and laughed. Even facing death, this man was trying to learn more about them.

"I was the first Vampire created. When the spell was cast, it was performed on me first. I am part werewolf and part vampire. I am the oldest, strongest, and most powerful vampire alive, and soon, I will be a hybrid as well. Right after I drain your little girlfriend dry of her blood."

Her fangs descended and she considered how to kill him. His blood was full of vervain, but she wanted to know how it felt to drain dry, just as the doppelganger would soon enough. She considered just ripping his heart out, but then Stefan spoke up behind her.

"Don't do this, Caroline. He was only trying to protect his family."

Caroline dropped Elijah to the ground, and the man began to gasp for air, holding his neck. She turned back to Stefan and considered killing the Doctor that he was protecting. How could he even ask her to spare Elijah? He knew the temper that was within her. Had this been any other town, he wouldn't have even dared to ask something like this of her. Stefan was going soft just as she was coming towards her true power. "His FAMILY? I have been protecting our family for a thousand years. He just tried to kill me."

"But you didn't die, Caroline. And he has learned to not play with you. You can't do this Caroline."

Caroline raised an eyebrow and crossed her arms over her chest. "Not only can I, Stefan, but I have to. I have a reputation to uphold."

Stefan's look was hard and she raised her chin and glanced over at Elijah, who was working his way closer to the front door, as if he could escape her. She began walking towards him then glanced back over her shoulder and said, "Moreover, I want to."

She grabbed Elijah by his hair and dragged him into the middle of the front hallway. She knocked everything off the table and picked him up just to slam him down on the middle of the table. She held him down by his neck and looked down at him, struggling beneath her.

"Hmm, how to kill you. Should I cut up your body so that you will slowly die from blood loss? No, my ripper might not be able to resist. Maybe I should bleed the vervain from your system, then drink you dry? No. Would you like a stake to your chest? I'll stake you where you staked me. It was actually quite painful."

"Caroline, please."

Stefan was approaching her and she turned slowly on her heels to glare at Stefan. "You may save one, Stefan Salvatore. Would you rather save this hunter that tried to kill me, your oldest friend, or save the woman that looks just like your dead slutty wife. You may choose one, and the other will die."

Stefan's calm mask dropped and went to shock, making Caroline laugh. "You think I didn't see right through Bonnie's request? I knew the second that Petrova blood came into the mix, I could no longer trust you."

Her hand settled over Elijah's heart, ready to rip it out, when the front door burst open and she saw Klaus standing there. He looked at her in shock, then down at his brother, and Finn yelled out, "Run, Niklaus!"

Instead, Klaus was foolish enough to step inside. "The Salvatore brothers. The Grayson siblings of the doppelganger. The Bennett witch. The Richardson Werewolf. And the Williamson Alpha, of the Forbes blood line. The Original Family."

Caroline raised an eyebrow. "Well, I am surprised. It seems like someone here actually did their research. Yes, Sheriff Mikaelson. We seven are the Original Family. And I am the Alpha. Your brother was stupid enough to try and kill me tonight, with a regular stake that didn't even hit my heart, of all things. What do you have to say for that?"

"We'll do what you want. Whatever you want. We won't fight you. We won't try to kill you. Just let him go. Please."

Caroline tilted her head to the side and studied him. Something was different about him. Earlier he had been scared of her somewhat, but now... He was aroused. She thought earlier that it had been his younger brother that was enchanted by her, but no, it was this young soon to be wolf. She released her grip on Elijah and walked forward to Klaus. He stood still, watching her as she approached.

"You do not fear me," she said, and studied him. He shook his head no. She let her Vampire fangs recede.

"What do you feel?"

"Torn," he whispered, and she smiled.

"I know far more about you than you do yourself, Niklaus Mikaelson."

"Tell me," he asked, and she tossed the idea around for a moment. It would be lovely to play with him for a bit.

"How about I give you a little hint. There is a good reason as to why you are torn, little wolf. Part of you is bowing before my superiority over you, while your blood is calling for you to try and take control. Your ancestors have had much the same problem, but let me tell you, I always win."

Klaus' eyes had gone wide at the term little wolf. She smiled at him. "Ah, I can see the wheels turning. There is so much for you to learn, but one day at a time."

"Let my brothers go," he said, more of a statement than a request. She studied him for a moment, then nodded.

She turned towards Elijah and picked him up with one hand, then shoved him out her front door. He stood there in shock and just watched her. "You're free to go."

She then turned to Finn, who had taken a step back. She walked towards him, then gave him a smile. "Thank you so much, Dr. Mikaelson, for joining us this evening. For your part, it was enjoyable."

Finn nodded then ran out of the house. Klaus turned to leave as well, but Caroline flashed to stand in front of him. She looked him up and down, taking in the long sleeved open shirt he wore and the necklaces at his neck. She had to ask him about those later. Instead, she leaned forward slightly and whispered into his ear, "You are a hot piece of ass, but tell me what to do again, and I will kill you."

She pulled away and watched as Klaus stared at her for a minute, then walked out her door. She shut the door behind him, then turned to Stefan who was staring at her with his jaw dropped.

"What the fuck just happened?" he asked.

Caroline shrugged her shoulders and glanced at the shut door. A smile quirked across her face as she heard their cars leaving. Oh yes, he would be a fun one to play with. "His Alpha blood is stronger than Tyler's. Granted, the Lockwoods were second to the Forbes at the time, but you would think that being so old would make him more powerful."

"And so you gave him what he wanted? You let his brother live?"

Caroline turned to face Stefan with an evil smile across her face. "Sometimes, Stefan, sudden brutality is best. Other times, planning revenge is much more sweet."

She sniffed the air one more time, and Stefan did as well. He moved closer to where Klaus had been standing, then shuddered. "Please tell me that is not what I think it is. Was he actually turned on by you?"

Caroline glared at Stefan. "Seriously? A guy can't be attracted to me?"

"You had your hand on his brother's heart and yet his arousal was strong enough for me to smell 10 feet away."

Caroline let a smile slide out as she glanced back towards the door that he had disappeared from. It had been more than just attraction, true. He had wanted her. He had seen her, Vampire fangs and veins and all, and he had wanted her. She had been ready to kill his brother, and all he wanted was to lose control with her.

It was a pity he was so below her. She was never one to sleep with humans. They were so weak and fragile. And he had werewolf blood. The only way he had a chance with her was if he was a hybrid. He hadn't even activated his gene yet. No, he had no chance with her... but she would get the highest amount of pleasure from playing with him.

"Perhaps this is a good thing."

"What? How can it be a good thing that he wants you?"

Caroline rolled her eyes and looked at Stefan with a smirk. "Think about it. He is a part of the group protecting my doppelganger, and he is the town sheriff. He wants me, and we can use him. He can play my little spy."

"Caroline, you know Elijah has all of his siblings on vervain by now."

She was already walking towards the stairs, ready to shower off the blood from her back and have a long rest. Hopefully without any dreams. "There are ways of getting information from a man without compulsion."

She paused halfway up the stairs, hearing Stefan's sigh. "I'm going to make them pay for this, Stefan."

She turned around to see him looking at the shut door. He sounded sad, as if he actually cared for the humans. "I know."

.:| The Lone Pup |:.

Klaus' car was following behind Elijahs, but his eyes were hardly on the road. He still wasn't quite sure what had happened. The drive over to the mansion was a blur with the information of the grimoire running through his head. He wasn't quite sure how the book contained so many secrets, but what he had just seen scared him. Well, it should have scared him...

She was beautiful. Unbelievably so. Her pale skin covered in those dark veins, and white fangs behind blood red lipstick. The dress had clung to every lithe curve, and her long legs were calling to be wrapped around his body. He had wanted her. Every part of him wanted her, just like that. She was a dark enchantress.

And he was a wolf. He didn't even know until tonight that werewolves existed until he saw the title beside the name Richardson. What was a werewolf? He had never changed with the moon, as the stories said, so then what had she truly meant? He could only hope that the secrets would be revealed in the grimoire, but that was too much to hope for.

He suddenly realized he was in front of their house and got out to help Finn with Elijah. They approached the door and he fumbled with his keys to open the door. On the other side was Rebekah with a bottle of vervain water in each hand and Kol holding a gun. The gun was dropped to the ground at the sight of Klaus, and Rebekah rushed to hug him.

Elijah and Finn came inside and Elijah sat down hard into the nearest chair. Finn was trying to take his blood pressure, but Elijah just brushed him away, saying he would be ok. Klaus held Rebekah as she cried and got her to sit down on the sofa while Kol locked the door behind them.

"What the hell happened?" Kol asked.

Finn shook his head, then looked at Klaus. "I have no idea. He staked her, and yet she didn't die. What were you saying about the Original family?"

"My grimoire. There is a whole section on the Original family," Rebekah was sniffing now, and got up to go get the book. Kol went to the kitchen to grab beers, and Klaus knew that he needed one.

"Yes, but what the hell is the Original family? Caroline had just called herself an Original, and then you came in listing off names. And why didn't the stake work?"

"I missed her heart. Oh God, no one tell Alaric I fucked up my first Vampire kill," Elijah said, putting his head into his hands. Finn patted him on the back then looked at Klaus, who was still in a daze.

"A stake won't kill them. They're powerful. They are the Original Vampires. From them, all Vampires were created." And Caroline was their leader. He could see that she was the strongest of them, by the way that Stefan had seemed to fear her, and she was listed in the book as the Alpha. It didn't take a genius to realize what that meant.

Rebekah had returned with her grimoire and sat back on the sofa, flipping through the pages. Kol came in with four beers and handed one to Klaus. He didn't even take a sip of it. He didn't want the crisp taste of a beer. He wanted the burn of whiskey. Strong whiskey.

"Alright, here we go. It lists off the Original Vampires, says they were the product of a spell to save them from a plague, and that there is no real way to cure them. They were hurt by sunlight, vervain, and wood, but not even those would actually kill them. It says the spell was done with the blood of a Petrova at the base of a tree and it was mixed with vervain. That's why vervain and wood hurt them."

"Alright then, we already knew some of that, but what else does it say?" Elijah asked in between gulps of his beer. Klaus handed his own over to his brother.

"Well, that's it."

"Alright, and how does this grimoire have information about it?" Finn asked, confused.

Rebekah shrugged. "Mother always said that I had Fell blood in me, but I never understood what that meant until now. It says in the front of it that this is the Fell witch bloodline, which originated here in Mystic Falls."

"Where the Originals were created as well." Klaus surmised, and Rebekah nodded.

A silence settled over the group. Klaus stared at the book for a moment, wanting to look for anything about werewolves, but he didn't want his younger siblings to know. He wasn't sure if his elder ones realized what had been said earlier.

"Let me see the list of the Originals again. Caroline said there were seven."

Rebekah handed the book to Klaus, and he scanned through them all. It looked like there was seven listed here. He flipped the page, looking for more information on each, and instead just found more information about how to make a daylight ring and the best ways to use vervain. He flipped another page and found - a drawing of Caroline.

She looked beautiful. There was a smile on her face and a sparkling in her eye. Whoever had drawn her had seen a beautiful woman, full of innocence and light. What had happened over a thousand years to change her so? Was any of that light still left?

He flipped the page again, and found what he hadn't realized he was looking for. "I just found more details on the Originals themselves. Listen to this:

The seven Originals were created with a single spell that bound them all together with the blood of their dying friend. She was the twin sister of Elena Petrova, daughter of Grayson. They also had a brother who was turned with them, Jeremy. The husband of the Petrova Doppelganger was Stefan Salvatore, who had recently come to the village with his elder brother Damon. Damon and Elena were also promised. They were turned by their friend, a Bennett witch, by the name of Bonnie. Bonnie kept her powers after the transformation, even though they were all technically dead and she should have been cut off from the witch spirits.

The last two Originals were the best friend of the Bennett witch, Caroline, and her promised, Tyler. Tyler, son of Richardson, was to take over the village council. He carried the Lockwood gene of the werewolves. Caroline, daughter of William, was to take over the pack. Her father carried the Forbes Alpha bloodline. The spell was performed at the order of Caroline, and she was the first to drink, and the first to die. She is the most powerful of the group."

There was a silence over the group for a moment, then Rebekah asked, "Does it say anything else?"

Klaus flipped through the next few pages and saw nothing else about the Originals. He shook his head no, then turned back to the drawing of Caroline. She was part werewolf. Just like him. And she was engaged to Tyler, a Lockwood. Lockwood?

"The Lockwoods are werewolves," Klaus said, then looked up at the group. He pursed his lips for a moment, tossing around what Caroline had earlier said at the Grill. His mind started to tick as he thought about it all, and his eyes went wide. "She called me little wolf, and asked if we knew the Lockwoods. Esther cheated on Mikael with a Lockwood. I'm part werewolf."

Rebekah jumped up, shaking her head. "Mother never cheated on Mikael. He only said that to make you angry. Mother never would have cheated."

Klaus laughed at Rebekah. "Are you ignoring all the signs? She called me a wolf. She recognized the Lockwood scent. She knows things about me, Bekah. She can read me like an open book."

Elijah looked away from him, as though he knew something. "What is it, Elijah?"

Elijah was looking at his hands, then glanced up. "I know rather little about werewolves, but what I do know is this. Their anger is always getting the better of them, and they tend to be a little stronger than most. And that is before they have activated the gene. You do show the signs of being a potential werewolf."

Finn was looking uncomfortable as well and he glared at his eldest brother. "Anything to add?"

Finn shrugged a little, then said, "Mother was never very happy. Even back when I was little. And she was always very close with the Lockwoods. I remember many times being at their house."

A silence settled over the group, as if that confirmed it.

"What I want to know," Elijah spoke up finally, "is why she let us go."

"Because of Niklaus. Niklaus came in, and she changed her tune."

"What makes you say that? Maybe she was going to let you both go all along."

"She wasn't," Elijah said. "Stefan begged her to stop, but she yelled at him and said she had to. That she wanted to. And then you came in and told her not to kill me, and then she didn't."

Rebekah and Kol were just staring at him, and Klaus shrugged. If he didn't know any better, he would think she was interested in him. She had even called him attractive, in her own way. He wasn't quite sure what to make of it all, and he wasn't sure if it was a good or a bad thing that the Original Werewolf Vampire was interested in him.

"We can use this to our advantage. If she has an interest in you, Nik, you could be a good distraction."

Klaus glared at his little sister. "I think she is smart enough to realize when a man is trying to distract her. I doubt she has any interest in me."

A silence settled on the group again, and Klaus shrugged. "I'm going to bed. I have work in the morning. Everyone make sure they drink their vervain."

Klaus walked out of the room, still holding the grimoire, ready to get some answers.

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Next Update : Normally I have another chapter or two already written before I post. That being said, I was gone all weekend and didn't write yesterday. I'm already three pages into Ch 6, but that doesn't mean squat. The chapter isn't done till I'm done saying what I need to. I'm hoping for Thursday, to give us all Klaroline feels before the episode, but it may be Friday.