"What's in a name?"

A month has passed and Caroline was slowly but steadily returning to her routine in the small town of Mystic Falls. Or, at least that is what she wanted everyone to believe. She got up every morning, got dolled up, went to work, went to family lunches, smiled at Damon's sleaze jokes and teased Elena about her sex life. Yeah, everything was as normal as things can get. Everything was great, everything except her heart that is. She hated her stupid little pathetic vampire heart. It's been over a month, she said to herself more than once, plenty of time to start, well, to start forgetting … But no, her stupid heart wouldn't hear of it … Every day it thought of him … He left Mystic Falls the same night they said their goodbyes at the airport, nobody knew where he went, and nobody cared, she pretended not to care as well. It's not like she expected anything else. It's not like she expected serenades under her window, or him climbing her balcony pretending to be Romeo.

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;

Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.

What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,

Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part

Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!

What's in a name? that which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet"

She thought about her favorite verses from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" and started laughing at loud when she remembered how well that worked out for the doomed lovers. Apparently there was a lot in the name. But she had to admit one thing to Juliet, at least she had the strength to fight for her love, Caroline didn't even have that. The strength she had to find at this precise moment was the strength to put her lip-gloss on and meet Elena and Katherine at the new club opening near Mystic Falls. Her little sister's in law were no idiots and realized something was up with her from the very first moment she got home but they were not pushing. But I guess they finally had enough of her pretending to be happy and perky and decided a girl's night out with plenty of boozing and dancing would do the trick. She really didn't feel like going, she would much rather just stay in and watch "Dancing with the Stars" but as Katherine said: "There is no way in hell we're letting you say no to this one. If I convinced my over-protective and extremely jealous husband, your dear brother btw; to let me go without him going crazy something might happen to me, then nooo way you're ditching us."

"Yeah I agree." Elena added. "If I can take my time from my busy schedule of having sex with Stefan…" yes, you wouldn't have believed it but Elena was actually joking at her expense and the expense of her sex life without blushing.

"… then you have to get super sexy and go get drunk with us."

So how could she say no to that? She just had to go even though her heart wasn't really in it. A part of that was because she was dying to tell Katherine and Elena everything, I mean they were kind of her best friends, but was afraid … She had no idea how they would react? Would they be supportive or would they freak out? Saying: "Hey I slept with the guy that almost got my father killed and that my both brothers, your husbands, hate with every little part of their bodies." isn't exactly a picnic. And then she could just non chalantly add: "Have I mentioned I also fell madly in love with him and think about him every second of every day?" Yeah, that would sound just peachy. Maybe she would just stick to boozing and dancing for tonight and for a few hours try to forget about the big bad hybrid that stole her heart. Yeah, like that was even a possibility …

"Omg Caroline, you look amazing." Elena screamed when she saw her in front of the club.

"Me? What about you two? Show me your hands. I want to make sure the wedding rings are still on, or I'm going to have to beat the boys off of you. Stefan and Damon would have a rage jealousy attack."

"Caroline, they're really not that bad." Elena was defending her husband.

"Are you kidding me? I mean they are my brothers and I love them, but when it comes to women they love they are so medieval, they would challenge any guy that even looked at you the wrong way to a dual in midnight or some shit like that."

"Or they would just rip their heads off. I actually think that's kind of sexy." Katherine was once more proving why she was so perfect for Damon.

"I agree, jealousy can be sexy sometimes, don't you agree Care?" Elena asked her. And Caroline right away remembered that night in Chicago when she danced with Kol to make Klaus jealous, it turned out to be the most passionate night in her life, so yes … Jealousy could even be sexy if you can experience it with the right person. But she wouldn't think about him … she had to try to have fun …

"Yeah, yeah, enough talk … Let's get drunk! Who's for some cocktails?"

They were sipping their Manhattans and enjoying the music. They were playing "the hottest guy in the room" game and Caroline was trying to participate, especially because she knew they were playing it just for her, but all she could think about were a certain person's dimples and how nobody in the room even compared to him and his smile.

"Oh come on Caroline, you're so picky today." Katherine was complaining.

"What about that guy at the bar? You can see he has a real fine body. And he's been checking you out all night… Maybe he wouldn't be bad for warming your bad tonight."

" Katherine!" Caroline was playing shy.

"Seriously, that kind of a language from a married woman?"

" Hun, I'm married, doesn't mean I'm dead. Ok, technically I'm that too, but you know what I mean …"

And then, oh no. Then the guy from the bar figured out they were checking him out and he went towards their table.

"Dance with me." he said.

She was just about to say no when Katherine pushed her on him.

"She would love to." she just said and winked at her. My God, she was just as bad as Damon sometimes.

So she started dancing with him. He really wasn't a bad guy, the old Caroline probably would let him warm her bad for a night or two, but this Caroline wanted something more. Wild kisses in the rain and a certain hybrid …

"God, you're so beautiful, sweetheart." he whispered in her ear and she froze when hearing it … Sweetheart …

"I need some air." She looked him in the eyes and said: "Please don't follow me." She hated using compulsion but just needed to be left alone.

She went outside and started breathing heavily. She knew she didn't actually need to, but in a weird way it was calming her down.

"Caroline, what the hell?" Elena and Katherine stepped outside to find her.

"Why did you just leave like that? Did that guy do something?" Elena was worried as always for those she loved the most.

"No, I just needed … to be alone …"

"Ok, that's it. I'm really super pissed right now and let me tell you something Miss Caroline Salvatore, this ends now." Katherine was talking crazy.

"What ends now?"

"Oh no, don't you play dumb with us Blondie." it was actually funny when Katherine was trying to impersonate Damon.

"Something is up with you, from the moment you came back. First we thought it was the shock, ok, you went through a lot. But you're Caroline Salvatore, the biggest, baddest bitch I know, and I say this as a compliment. Where is that girl? What happened on that trip Caroline?"

"Yes, please tell us Caroline, because honestly? We're all going a little crazy already …" Elena felt the need to add.

"Ok, you want to know what happened. Your really want to know? Dying to know? Ok, than I'll tell you what happened… I fucking fell in love …"

Ok, that made Katherine and Elena shut up in an instant. But Caroline didn't stop there … It was like the Pandora's Box was unleashed.

" And you want to know who the person I fell for the first time in my entire life is? Want to guess? It's Klaaus! The evil hybrid that almost had my father killed, the man that has put this family through a lot of tears and misery. And I love him to death, I love him with every part of my wretched body, I love him so much it makes me want to bleed out. I love him so much it makes me want to scream!"

"Wow, didn't know you were such a drama queen when you fell in love." Katherine just said.

Caroline looked at them, both of them, with a complete and utter surprise.

"Yeah Caroline, it's like you're the only person in the world that has fallen in love. True love always feels that way." Elena added.

"You guys? Are you deaf or something? I'm in love with Klaus. You hate him, remember? Salvatore's hate the Mikaelson's. I'm supposed to hate him too, remember? He's the bad guy in all of this." she said sadly.

"So? Please, like Damon was Prince Charming when I met him? He was an ass… I mean yeah he did have a perfect ass, still has, but he also was an ass. That didn't stop me from going crazy over him."

" Stefan was the Ripper once." Elena was for once not defending Stefan. Wow, this has been a real strange evening.

"Caroline …" Elena approached her and took her hand.

"If would be too easy if we could just choose who to fall for, who to love, but where would be the magic in that? The heart wants what the heart wants. And yours apparently wants a Mikaelson. Why fight it?"

"But I have to fight it Elena. Joseph and Damon and Stefan would never forgive me … And I also made a promise …"

"And a lot of excuses as it seems to me …" Katherine was being harsh but honest.

"If you love him then fight for him. Don't let a stupid name, or anything for that matter, stand in the way of your happiness. Fight for him."

"Fight for him" was screaming in her ears and in her heart.

Whatever was she going to do?

Klaus was standing next to his fireplace in his house in Chicago and burning his sketches … Sketches of his blonde angel. She was his obsession, even after a month of not seeing her face her could remember every little tiny spot on it. The way her lip curled when she was thinking, the way it looked when she was pouting, and the way it looked when she was smiling with the smile that could resurrect the dead. He stayed up all night sketching her, having her close to him at least in that point, and then spent every morning burning those sketches. All his goals and plans seemed so vague right now … He would supposed to be on the road looking for werewolves and trying to turn them into hybrids but somehow, his heart just wasn't in it … Honestly? He was getting tiered of forcing someone to be loyal to him … or to love him … He wanted her to love him, at least half how much he loved her, without force or compulsion. And he wondered if she did … As the time went by he even wondered if that night in Chicago actually happened of was that just some strange dream… A dream he couldn't' shake … He wanted to call her at least million times a day, just to hear that sexy voice of hers. The one he heard a month and a half ago and that made him shiver right away, even before meeting her. If he could turn back time? Would he done anything differently? Would it make a difference? Or would he forever be a Mikaelson and she a Salvatore …

"O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?

Deny thy father and refuse thy name.

Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love

And I'll no longer be a Capulet."

He thought about these verses from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet". He actually met him back at the day. He was an awful drunk, but talented as hell. And he actually knew what he was talking about, some loves are just not meant to be, since they would lead only to destruction and misery. People romanticized his play but the fact was, it ended up by two children dying. Love was not just a greatest weakness, it was also a murderous thing, he thought by burning the last sketch he drew the night before.

"Omg, brooding again I see. I seriously can't take it anymore. You have become such a bore brother."

"Well nobody is stopping you from leaving Bekah. I thought you'd be half way across the world about now. What's keeping you here?"

"You." she said honestly

"Funny, but I think about it and realize … You're the only one that has never left me."

"Well aren't we a pair …" he snorted spitefully.

"You have to stop thinking about her."

"I have no idea what you're talking about Rebakah." he said not even looking at her.

"Fine, you have no idea what I'm talking about." she rolled her eyes at him.

"Kol's in town and he wants us to go out. Paint the town red, and I think he means literally. So we definitely should go, to keep him out of trouble. And I could use some dancing and well … other stuff."

"Fine, then you go. Wouldn't want to spoil your party with me brooding." he was being sarcastic as always.

"Nik, you're going with us and that's that. You need the distraction, a red head maybe?"

"Anything but a blonde." she whispered to herself, but he heard her. And that is why he decided to go after all, he had every right to pity himself, but he would be damned if his siblings pitied him. He was still the big bad wolf and no blonde could ruin that.

The stepped into "Glories" where everything was in its full swing. He loved this place, not just because he owned it, a little detail he forgot to mention to Caroline when he took her here. He loved it because it reminded him of the days of glamour, when everything was so complicated but yet simple. Nowadays everything was supposed to be simple but was actually complicated as hell. He never, ever wanted to fall in love again. Not that he would … He knew, even if he couldn't have her, Caroline would always be the only one for him.

"Nik stop brooding, you promised." Rebakah scolded him.

"Kol …" she saw him at the bar and went to give him a hug. For so long they were like cats and dogs but after that Finn scene Rebakah was trying to get closer to him, and them being the youngest they finally realized how much they actually had in common. It was all partying from down there.

"Is he still being Mr. Grouchy?" Kol asked Rebekah.

"Kol I don't like people talking about me like I'm not here. It makes me want to dagger them."

"Again with the dagger threats? Please brother, that joke is almost as old as you are, and boring as well … And it was meant to be heard. You are no fun lately. I know a certain blonde preferred me but … "

"Easy there Kol …" he knew Kol was just kidding but still felt angry that Kol dared to even mention Caroline.

"Let's not presume anything …"

"Ok, fine … Prove me wrong brother … Be yourself tonight, and I mean the old self."

Kol looked around the room and said: "Pick your poison."

Klaus knew what Kol meant, and didn't feel like picking anyone. He had met his poison already and it had paralyzed him more than anything else in the world. His little Capulet.

"Come on brother, look how generous I am tonight. I'm letting you pick first, since I know you wouldn't stand a chance next to my charms and good looks. Don't spoil the party. Prove me wrong … Show me you feel nothing …"

Kol was daring him and he couldn't back down from a challenge.

"The brunette in that slick black dress on the other side of the bar."

"Nice taste … I prefer blondes but fine …"Kol gave him a smile and Klaus had to control himself not to strangle him.

"Go for it brother. Drain her dry."

Her name was Eva, she was 26 years old, and was visiting her relatives in Chicago. She was smitten with him from the moment he approached her. And it felt so boring to him. He remembered his sweet Caroline, how she was fighting to fall for him, how she was constantly teasing him and putting him down. He right away knew she was special. One of a kind … Made for him … But Kol was looking at him and Eva from across the room and Klaus had to pretend he was having fun. Finally after a little more of pointless chit-chat he took her outside, he didn't have to compel her, she was more than willing to go with him anywhere. Silly girl. Before he could even say a word she was the one that practically attacked him. Started kissing him while pulling her body closer to his. And of course instead of enjoying it he remembered Caroline and their wild kiss in the rain. The taste of her sweet lips, the want they both felt, her wet body in his arms … He wanted Caroline, he did want this insignificant girl, he wanted Caroline and no one else … He was just have to kill this girl and be done with it … His fangs were already growing and his eyed blurred but was she even worth it? Caroline would hate him if he took advantage of some poor girl just for being stupid and naïve to go for a stranger. He could already hear her voice in his head: "you will always be my hero."

"Leave!" he growled at her and she ran away.

He heard someone clapping behind him.

"Well, well, well, wasn't that a spectacle. To see the biggest, baddest vampire in town so wiped."

He grabbed Kol and threw him against the wall.

"Not really in the mood brother. Better get out of my way."

"You know what? I won't …" Kol said and pushed Klaus off of him. While Klaus wasn't paying attention he grabbed him and threw him on the sidewalk.

"You know what your problem is, brother? You had this great girl that was obviously, although I still can't really understand why, mad about you and you let her go. And now you're moping like a little bitch you really are."

Klaus threw him against the sidewalk ready to break his little head.

"One more word and I swear …"

"If you spent have of the time that you spent threatening me in showing her you loved her maybe she would be here now."

"Go to hell Kol. You know nothing. She's a Salvatore. We're supposed to hate each."

"So? You daggered me and left me rot in a coffin but I still don't hate you. Funny as it may sound. And you don't hate me, or you'd ruin my pretty little face long time ago. Life doesn't consist of what is supposed to be."

Klaus was feeling tiered from all of this, Kol was telling him the obvious, but it was Caroline that said her goodbyes. What was he supposed to do? Go all Romeo on her? Would that even work?

"I'm going home Kol." he said and started walking away.

"Fine brother, walk away. But that won't bring you what you're after …"

He was walking and trying not to think about Kol's words but they managed to penetrate into his brain: "If you spent have of the time that you spent threatening me in showing her you loved her maybe she would be here now."

He had to see her; he had to tell her how he truly felt. He had to do it even if it was the death of him. He ran into the house and was going upstairs to pack and catch the first flight to Mystic Falls. Then he saw the light in the living room. It must be Rebakah, she came home early. He started walking up the stairs when he heard a voice behind him.

"Hey you, hope you don't mind me crashing in …"

"Caroline …" he whispered while his dead heart stopped beating one more time.

First of all, im sorry if there are any spelling mistakes or something like that, I'm really busy, a lot going on, so I don't have time to read it more than once, and I really wanted to share this with you guys since I know some of you really love this story and are waiting for an update ...

First I thought this chapter would be lame since no Klaus and Caroline together, but it actually turned out to be one of my favorites to right ... I looove Katherine and Elena and Rebekak and Kol in it ... So much fun writing it :). Hope you like it too ;) ...

So in the end she is the one that comes to him, I thought it would be appropriate for her to show some initiative for a change ;) ... But what will happen now? You just have to wait and see :)))

AND PLEASE REVIEW, so I can know what you thought about this one ... Love you all for reading and reviewing ;))) ...

P.S. Hoped you liked the Romeo&Juliet parts, it kind of seemed appropriate ;)