"I'm going to find Kol because I need to have a word with him and later on, I will make a stop by the Town's council." Klaus informed her casually, as he grabbed his phone.

"Okay..." Caroline lingered her eyes on his tight purple Henley shirt.

"I don't need a penny for those thoughts." Klaus gave her a bit of a side-look.

She laughed. "I just really like that shirt on you."

"Well… I happen to fancy your yellow dress as well, love." He referred to the ruffled bright-colored dress that curved her body so well.

"You really are serious about this decision of yours to tell me everything that you're up to when you're out to conquer the world?" She tilted her head.

"Yes, I am." Klaus answered with conviction.

"Let's see how long that lasts." She scoffed, smiling.

Klaus gave her a discouraged look. "Show me a little faith, sweetheart."

She picked up her Denim jacket from the bed with a chuckle. "Oh, I have a lot of faith, Nik. Just like I had the other two times that you promised not to leave me out of any of your raunchy plans and schemes."

Klaus reacted by turning his back on her and heading for the door.

"I don't get a goodbye kiss?" She protested, surprised.

"No." He replied from the door. "I'm keeping those for wives who trust their husbands."

Caroline easily smiled. "Good luck finding the obedient silent wife, Niklaus."

Klaus glared at her but didn't add anything else to the silly discussion.

While he left the room, she licked her lips watching his back and his ass. God help her, sometimes she just had no idea how she got so lucky.

Klaus was still shaking his head as he walked inside of the library and Kol watched his brother from the sofa with envy. He looked happy and this would usually propel a few jokes from him but today was not one of those days.

Klaus sat across from him. "I take it that things are not going well with Bonnie."

"Things are remarkable at this stage. She's in love with our dead brother and I'm processing it all with help." Kol raised his glass.

"Have you confronted her yet?" Klaus asked him quietly.

Bitterly, Kol smiled. "I made her confess, which should have made me feel better, only that it didn't." He had his drink fast.

"It never does, Kol."

"You've experienced this when Elijah nicked Tatia away from you, so, how do I deal with it?" He leaned over to abandon his empty glass.

"I did not care about Tatia enough to stay mad at our brother. I do reckon that the real quandary for you, is if you love Bonnie enough, to forgive whatever you think her fault is and if she has any."

Kol rested the back of his head against the sofa, looking up at the ceiling. "I don't know what makes me angrier, that she loves him or that I always knew that she did and decided to ignore it."

"You love her." Klaus reminded him. "Shouldn't that lull everything a bit?"

Kol reached for the bottle and refilled his glass. "I don't know, Nik."

All he knew was that he was mad and that he couldn't even look at her for the time being.

Damon waited for Liz to be alone before he walked over to her.

"Damon Salvatore in a town council meeting? Must be important whatever it is that you need to ask me." She mused with her hands loosely over her belt.

Damon pretended to be appalled. "I am a part of this council."

She frowned. "You don't care about it."

Damon gave in with a smile. "I might have been slacking a little bit on the attendance front."

"What do you want?"

"I had a visitor yesterday. An old boyfriend of a girl I had to stake… blonde bombshell, really long dashing hair, she was wearing a tiny, ruffled skirt on my brother's birthday?"

"That was a very long time ago, Damon." Liz remembered the girl and how it all felt literally a lifetime ago.

"Let's just say that her boyfriend is the... forever type?" He narrowed his eyes.

"Did you just say that he was in town?" Liz lowered her voice.

"I need you to track him down, so use your men to see if there's any new guys in motels around town. It should be fairly easy, since he only comes out at night and I don't think that they will screw this up."

"If you're going to need my help, shouldn't you be trying to be nicer?" She judged him.

Damon begged her to be serious. "I don't do nice."

"I'll see what I can do." She sighed.

"You're the best, Liz." Damon said with a genuine smile.

She believed him but the blonde just arriving stole her attention.

"So... I've seen you around with her." Liz looked at Damon. "New girlfriend?" She inquired about Rebekah.

Damon was instantly uncomfortable, not that he didn't consider Liz a friend because she was, but he actually had no idea what he and Rebekah were at the moment. "I don't have to put on a show with her."

"It's ok to move on, Damon. Elena wouldn't have wanted anyone to stop living because of her. That wasn't who Elena was, and you know that."

"Last time I tried to meet someone's expectations, it all ended tragically bad, and I didn't even see it coming. One morning she was out to run and then she was replaced by a cheap tainted copy."

"If I had to think of someone who would know exactly what you're going through, it's that Original girl. She was played like all of us were, but she loved Matt. The kid I saw growing up and that was sweet and caring like Elena. And he tried to kill all of her family, including her. That had to be tough, but I haven't seen her give up yet, she still walks around town with her head high and that's saying a lot about her."

"It's easier to just stop feeling for us vampires but she's human, so she doesn't have that privilege."

Liz had a warm smile for him when his blue eyes returned to her. "You can fool the others, Damon but I was trained to catch a liar and you haven't stopped caring and feeling ever since you stepped foot into this town. You're just sneaky about it."

Damon's usual mocking smirk was back. "That's just what I want you to think, because I need you."

"And I hear that Rebekah has a gift as well... she's really good at calling out liars." Liz left him with a smirk of her own.

Bonnie was done packing her bag and somberly zipped it closed, when she heard a knock on her door, she hopped that it was Kol, so quickly she turned around.

"Is Kol aware that you're leaving?" Klaus asked her from the threshold.

Bonnie grimaced. "I doubt that he will notice anything right now. He's avoiding me and I don't want to stay here like this."

"I wasn't about to ask you to stay."

She gulped down with his coldness, but she had been expecting it. "Can you please tell Caroline that I left?" She asked without facing him.

"Part of this outcome is my fault."

Bonnie looked at him surprised.

"I pushed you towards Kol. I knew that you had some sort of connection with Elijah and I know that brother very well. I... knew." Klaus painfully corrected himself. "And I needed you on top of your game, so I couldn't allow you to be distracted by feelings. I was, however, not expecting Kol to fall in love with you."

"I wasn't expecting that either." She said in a low voice.

"I have come a long way since then, but I wouldn't have done anything differently because I was doing what I know best, I was protecting my family. One that you have been a part of. However, all the things that I have been tested with for the last two years have not changed what I have done for over 1000. I didn't allow Tatia to destroy my connection with Elijah, the way that Elena did with the Salvatore brothers, and I won't let you destroy this family now, Bonnie. We had a plan which was successful, and I know that you and I had greater hopes for Elijah, but it's time to forfeit. I can't allow you to drive Kol into misery by constantly trying something that is bound to not happen."

The tears rushed to her eyes. "I'll be at my old house." She picked up her bag.

"I'll inform Caroline of your decision." He turned his back on her.

"I didn't expect to fall in love with either of them." She lastly said.

Klaus faced her slowly, not harshly or coldly like before, but with actual sympathy. "Kol is my only brother left and although there is no doubt in my mind that he loves you, you aren't the best for him at the moment. You're confused about what you have and what you want and that's not what he deserves."

Caroline was headed to the town council when she heard his familiar car approach, deciding to have his company she waited for him to park the car and smiled at him as he walked in her direction.

"What are you doing here, love?" He asked her, puzzled.

"I'm here to see my mom."

Klaus reeled back on his determined strut. "Hmm..."

Caroline crossed her arms. "Hmm?"

"What I meant, sweetheart… was that I didn't recall that she would be here and..." Klaus fell silent as he spotted how high her eyebrow was.

"You planned on just ignoring the fact that I have a mother, to whom I still need to explain why I'm not living in sin any longer because I eloped." Caroline said slowly.

"Marriage is good... it's what mothers want for their daughters." Klaus ventured a brave smile.

"She didn't give me her consent to wear a wedding ring while you sex me up like I'm a star on my own adult rated movie." Caroline kept her eyes on his with a quiet scowl.

"Since when do you pay attention to anyone's opinion?" His bravery stretched into a smirk.

Caroline silently scolded him.

"So, your mother might turn out to be not that impressed." He concluded.

Caroline tilted her head. "You're afraid of my mother."

"I am certainly not afraid of her."

"The mighty hybrid, Niklaus Mikaelson is afraid of my mother."

Klaus turned his back on her, heading inside without waiting for her.

She hurried to join his side. "Don't worry, I'll make sure that she doesn't shoot you."

"Are you busy today?" Rebekah asked Damon with an easy attitude, one that was recurrent now around him.

Damon leaned his head to the side answering her in a whisper. "Yes, I'm actively avoiding my brother."

"Are you still upset with him?"

"I'm not mad at him, per say, but it would help if of all the times to try to accept who he really is, my brother chose the worst timing possible. It's so typical of Stefan, to pull a Damon when he should be a Stefan all the way."

Rebekah smiled. "I don't think he will be a Damon for long."

"Promise?" Damon asked with a hopeful voice.

"Stefan is too good in his heart to be a Damon full-time and for long."

"Thank you, Bex, that really warmed my heart."

"Just to be utterly certain, that is what you are, is it not? Cold, indifferent, sexual and mean all the time? God forbid if we ever earn a glimpse into Damon Salvatore's true soul and heart. That would be really bad because then we might just all fall for the real man."

Damon opened his mouth but closed it instantly, he was staring at her not fully getting where she was headed with this.

"You seem a bit lost for words there, Damon."

"I just don't know what I'm supposed to say."

"I've lived all my life with a man who showed the world a side that I knew to be a facade but I have accepted him regardless, so is it really that hard to believe that I would accept everything about you without demanding what others expect from you? I don't make distinctions. There's only one of you, with just a lot of sides."

Damon was truly speechless this time.

"Perhaps you should spend the afternoon with your brother. I'll ask Caroline to keep me company during my special errand."

"Where are you going?"

"Easy there, Damon… that's the side that would leave me attached." She said softly before leaving his side.

Damon didn't stop her, he watched her walk away with a busy monologue.

He liked Rebekah a lot, he cared for her in an unexpected way but there were promises he made when he lost Elena that he wasn't ready to break.

Rebekah was human, a very powerful Original witch but still human, she was still able to die on him and he wasn't ready to cope with that again.

The meeting was boring as always, they mostly discussed the upcoming elections for the new mayor and the fact that there were very few in town that didn't know about vampires and all the supernatural.

It was silly to consider any difference really, so the meeting was mostly a way to get everyone on the same page.

Caroline was genuinely surprised that Klaus didn't take charge at some point and stepped in for the mayor spot, actually, much to her surprise he mostly watched everything with a quiet interest.

After the meeting ended, some curious and known folks prone to gossip, came to speak to him keen on finding out if anyone from the Mikaelson family was going to run for the nearing elections.

She had to laugh when Klaus told them that he was forbidding any of his siblings to even think about it.

It was a good time to leave him tackling his social abilities to a full, and she approached Liz with a huge smile. "Hey mom..."

Warmly, Liz smiled at her daughter, hugging her tightly and close to her heart once she was within her reach. "I've missed you, honey."

Caroline smiled with her mother's affection, but she wobbled her head when Liz pulled away to check her from head to toe. "What?"

"I'm just making sure that you're ok. You left town in a mess, and you come back now smiling like nothing happened."

Caroline smiled at ease. "Mom... he's alive, of course, it's like nothing happened."

"And this wedding that you called to inform me about?"

"It sort of... happened."

Liz gave her one of her distinct judging looks. "You're so young, Caroline... vampire or not, you had all of your life ahead of you to do this."

"Are we really going there? Because you got married really young and had a baby and all that..." Caroline fought back with a slow speech.

Liz wasn't impressed at all. "And look how great all that turned out to be."

Caroline slumped in her place, not sure what to tell her mother, but almost instantly she felt his soothing hand on the small of her back.

"I asked her to marry me, and she said yes, I could have waited another 100 years to actually get married but there was no need because none of us had any doubts." Klaus addressed Liz with resolve.

Caroline smiled happily that he stepped in when she needed him to.

"Did you have to get married? That's all I'm asking. She's not even 19 yet, Klaus."

Caroline tensed a little.

"She will be 17 forever, Liz." Klaus simply reminded her.

Liz pressed her lips unhappy.

"It's just a formality to us." He assured her. "I do not require a piece of human paper to be faithful and to love Caroline above all."

Caroline inched closer to his side to touch his chest, she could sense things about to heat up between him and Liz.

"When I invited you into my home that night, I knew that I was making a deal with the devil. I expected you to demand loyalty and support during your town domination, in return for the favor of saving my daughter's life. I was, however, not expecting you to give her your last name." Liz dropped the last words somewhat in anger.

Klaus was serious, there was no hint of his usual malice and playfulness. "And I was not expecting to fall in love with the woman for whom I would gladly and willingly walk through the gates of hell itself."

Liz nodded, knowing that she had no way of winning this argument, she had no saying left in this and she could only accept it and have hope that her daughter would be happier than she ever was.

She brushed Caroline's arm before she left them alone.

Caroline faced Klaus and after a few seconds looking at him with a million things wanting to burst out of her mouth, she chose to kiss him instead.

"For God's sake, don't you ever get tired of doing that?" Rebekah sighed next to them.

They broke the kiss and Caroline looked at Klaus smiling, she touched her lips loving that they were left ticklish.

"Apparently, not." She slowly faced Rebekah.

"Can I borrow you for a few hours?" She took turns looking at them. "Do you think that you can both survive that?"

"We can try…" Caroline inched closer to Klaus again.

He cupped her face and gave her one of his intense kisses before he let her go.

"Ugh, vomit!" Rebekah turned her back on them.

"So, I did get my goodbye kiss after all." Caroline teased him but noticed that his mood had changed.

"Bonnie moved out of the manor this morning." He told her.

"I didn't see that one coming at all. I knew that things between her and Kol were shaky, I could tell that much from the way they acted in Brazil but moving out is a bit extreme, even for Bonnie."

"She went back to her old house, plus…"

"Oh, there's more… It's so much fun getting back home." She sadly sighed.

"Rebekah will attempt to undo the binding spell that links Bonnie to Kol."

"You don't trust Bonnie." Caroline said, merely to give voice to all of her hectic thoughts.

"It's not that I don't trust her, sweetheart… I mistrust her." He tried to be gentle with his honesty.

"I understand." Actually, she didn't but she knew by now that things had to be dark gray before they could be labeled as black or white.

"You won't fight me on this?" Klaus wanted to narrow down his options.

"She's my friend and she needs me more than ever but if push comes to shove, I know with whom my loyalty rests."

Klaus gave her a slow awestruck look. "Well, that was… strangely comforting."

"And I know that look, so we better go our separate ways before we do something that might be really stupid, as well as hot."

Klaus was nothing short but sly on his smile, but she determinedly turned away from him and left.

Jeremy looked at the smiling girl in front of him bewildered, he stood up again and paced around his room mindful.

Vicki was sitting on his bed with her legs crossed. "Jeremy, it's ok."

"This is everything but ok, Vicki… you were dead."

"And now I'm alive."

Jeremy ran his hand through his hair. "This is all kinds of wrong and you aren't just a ghost that I can see and touch, other people saw you on our way here, so I know that you're real."

"Of course, I'm real but just in case… Do you want to test it?" She playfully asked him.

Jeremy grabbed the sides of his head. "I just don't understand how this is possible."

Vicki left his bed. "This time I'm really here and I can tell you that I was only the first of many unprecedented events that will shock everyone, back in that tiny hole called home."

"What are you talking about?"

Vicki neared his window and pushed the curtains open so that she could see the sun, as she placed her hand in front of the light it started burning, she lingered just a little before she pulled her hand back and looked at Jeremy.

"That's not important, the info I have is the really juicy part of it all."

Jeremy looked further confused but she left the biggest shock for last.

"I know how to bring Elena back."

Bonnie sat on her kitchen table feeling exhausted and weighed down from everything, it was painful that she was at odds with Kol.

Now that she thought about it, it was unnatural not having spent the night with him and she dialed his number again, hoping that this time he would pick up, she needed to at least listen to his voice.

Kol was at The Grill drinking alone, he looked down on the counter when his phone started buzzing and picked it up when he saw her name, slowly he hovered his finger over the screen before he turned his phone off.

Damon waltzed inside of the Pub looking for Stefan but quickly realized that his brother was probably hunting.

He was not in the mood to go over to the woods, so in alternative, he focused on the sad show happening by the counter. "Your baby brother is having a really hard time dealing with his first real fight with Bonnie." He looked to his side when he felt Klaus stop there.

"He was inside of a coffin for most of his life and she was the first woman he ever took into his heart." Klaus looked at Damon. "What about your brother? I haven't seen him yet, so I'm assuming that he's losing his judgment with Katherine."

Damon shook his head defeated. "He's turning to blood now, first there was Katherine and loud sex, now he is hunting animals again, on top of all the blood that we had stored up at the house."

"Bonnie is Kol's first heartbreak, so that should be nothing short but dramatic." Klaus nodded towards the counter.

"He only needs some male insight to know how we deal with this stuff." Damon was aware that he and Klaus had the years behind them and the occasional pain to back it up.

"I'll help you with your brother and his current blood craze." Klaus suggested.

Damon looked at Klaus with a dither. "Are you going to compel him out of it or turn him into a full-on Ripper again?"

Klaus gave him an actual amused smile. "Neither. I'll help him deal with the thirst and then I'll take the time to teach him how to keep it under his full control."

Damon was satisfied. "This was not as awkward as I imagined it would be."

"We still need to discuss the delicate matter concerning your interest in my sister." Klaus joyfully grinned. "Once you find the time, that is."

"Kol needs us first." Damon quickly started walking.

"Do you think that it worked?" Caroline asked Rebekah as they left the family mausoleum.

"I hope so." She quietly replied while putting away the vial with Kol's blood. "I love Bonnie, she's like a sister to me, so if she really is determined to move earth and hell for Elijah maybe when she finds out that she's no longer linked to Kol that will slow her down a bit. It's not that I wouldn't love to hug Elijah again but not on the expenses of desiccating Kol."

"I can't lose Bonnie…." Caroline quietly said as they reached the car.

"We need to talk to her. She's not thinking lucidly right now."

Caroline smiled at her knowingly.

Scolding her, Rebekah slumped against the car. "Go on, ask what you are dying to ask me."

"My first time with Nik was a huge teasing moment for you, it's only fair that I get to enjoy the download of the most recent hookup between a Salvatore and a Mikaelson."

"Sorry to disappoint you, but nothing aside from kissing has developed between us." Rebekah calmly got inside of the car.

Caroline started it without a hurry. "Was that your choice or his?"

"Both, I guess… it's not like we can go at it like before. It wouldn't feel right." Rebekah confessed.

"So, you like him…"

Rebekah tossed her bag to the back seat annoyed. "Just be quiet about it, will you?"

"You look good together… Debekah." She said with a giggle.

"What's that?" Rebekah asked with a shriek.

"What I will call you and Damon from now on." Caroline beamed.

"Oh Lord…" Rebekah mumbled. "And to think that my brother married you…"

Caroline laughed. "I'm the best thing that happened to him." She lifted her hand from the wheel. "To this entire family."

"You used to be humble and sweet." Rebekah teased.

"You were miserable while I was gone, now you're all smiles and confetti. And you just said that it wasn't the Damon magic so… all me!" She countered smugly.

Rebekah inevitably laughed but refused to give her the thrill of admitting to any of it.

Kol shook his head vehemently. "No, I refuse to believe that."

Damon breathed out loudly. "We are older, we know what's best for our younger idiotic and juvenile brothers."

Klaus finished his shot to refill all three glasses. "Besides, she's your first real girlfriend."

"What do you know about women?" Damon quickly asked, opening his arms.

Kol fiercely took his shot. "I've been with plenty of women before Bonnie, probably more than you, Damon."

Klaus sighed, shaking his head. "Blasphemy..."

Damon pointed at Klaus agreeing with him. "Klaus and I probably have been with half the female population scattered around the entire world."

"That would be you, I just fed on half of them." Klaus said solemnly.

Kol took the drink fast and annoyedly looked at the two men siding him at the counter. "I don't want the ache to go away, it's… soothing." He said, clutching his glass with grim.

Klaus and Damon rolled their eyes in perfect sync.

"It is so!" Kol childishly insisted.

"Take it from me, pain isn't good. At all." Damon signaled the bartender for another bottle of Bourbon.

"I'm handling this the best way possible, but you are both doubting me. When you are consumed by all this angst, how do you two deal with it?"

"I tend to kill women in the middle of the night, after I scare them on the road." Damon said, slamming his empty glass down on top of the counter.

Kol looked at Klaus blinking with the heavy side effects of their drinking marathon.

"I tend to torture and cause mayhem indiscriminately." Klaus said, shrugging casually.

"My two role models." Kol picked the bottle for a refill.

Klaus finished his drink and turned around facing the rather full pub, his wicked smile twisted his lips as the plan forged. "Maybe you need a little distraction instead..."

"What are you going on about?" Kol asked suspiciously.

Damon had his malice smile as well. "I think your brother is dead right."

All three of them stupidly laughed with the silly pun.

"Excuse me…" Damon asked as a couple walked by them.

They stopped to look at him a bit iffy.

"Is that your girlfriend?" He asked the guy while pointing at the girl.

The guy saw that the trio was obviously drunk, so he tried to ignore them and move along.

Klaus stopped him when they walked by him by pressing his hand against the man's chest. "I believe my friend asked you a question…"

The guy sighed annoyed and faced Klaus, actually convinced that he could take him on.

Klaus smiled, showing his dimples.

"Oh… distraction…" Kol whispered with a big smile.

Bonnie gave up on trying to reach Kol, he was mad, he made his point clear, and she got the message loud and clear.

She dropped her phone and went to her room where her bag was lying on top of the bed, she opened it removing the few clothes that were on top, revealing the black Grimoire that she had stolen from Klaus.

Then she took a pair of Jeans, unfolding them and exposing a small bottle that she had hidden among the Denim.

It was filled with blood, and she nodded, listening to that voice again. "I know, I've lost Kol, but I can still save you." She looked ahead of her to the emptiness of her room.

Klaus slowly walked inside of his bedroom, trying to be as quiet as possible and he was relieved that Caroline wasn't in bed waiting for him.

She was probably talking to Rebekah and catching up on their long conversations.

He fought with his leather jacket, he didn't quite recall the last time he had so much alcohol and vampire or not, 8 bottles of Bourbon between him, Damon and Kol were enough to knock anyone out.

"Hey, you're back." Caroline cheerfully came inside of their room.

Instantly, Klaus straightened himself up and smiled. "Indeed, I am."

"Oh my God, what happened to you?" She noticed how his amazing purple shirt was ruined and how his hair looked like a big mess. "Is that blood?" She gasped when she saw a dry stain around his eyebrow.

He was discouraged that his attempts to clean up entirely before coming home were a failure. "I sort of started a brawl."

"You started a fight, Niklaus?" She was appalled and slightly pulled her head back. "And you've been drinking a lot."

"Damon and I did it to help Kol." He was elated by his selfless intentions.

"Did you kill anyone?" She asked him sternly.

"It's a little vague in some parts." The sleeve of his jacket was stuck on his left arm because of his watch so Klaus decided to shred his jacket to free himself from it.

She shook her head.

He smiled at her innocently. "I'm headed to the shower, care to join me, my hot wife?"

Caroline slapped his hands away as he reached out to pull her near him. "Absolutely not!" She tried to sound very mad. "You are every wife's worst nightmare, right now. Human, vampire or hybrid you're all the same with alcohol."

Klaus sulked as she headed for the door.

"I'm going to watch a movie with your sister while you sleep it off. I won't share a bed with you while you smell like The Grill, and don't leave your clothes scattered on the floor." She warned him before closing the door.

"Yes, love…" He answered most seriously and took his shirt off, dropping it on the floor exactly where he was standing.

He smirked and lost his shoes on the way to the bathroom, not caring where his Jeans ended as he removed them next.

Silly Caroline, he was Niklaus Mikaelson, no one told him where to leave his clothes.