It was strange for Caroline, to be in a bedroom that had belonged to Klaus in the past, and she skimmed through a few items, like the stack of books that were all written by foreign authors that she didn't know.

On the desk, there was an ink container and a white feather, which made her smile. He was such an old-fashioned man and yet, in contradiction, he loved all the modern gadgets that he could get his hands on.

She moved along, the room was big, but it wasn't filled with many things, she half-expected to find drawings lying around but deep inside, dreaded the thought of finding his other muses.

Her eyes landed on the opulent bed and that's when the awful thoughts assaulted her, she was inside of a room where Klaus must've pleasured a huge number of women.

The idea of another woman scratching his back or giving him pleasure, turned Caroline's stomach into a knot, even if it was a silly thought because she had also been with other boys before Klaus.

"He never brought another woman here." Elijah spoke from the door while he was putting his phone away.

She smiled. "And men?"

Elijah chuckled with a pointy look at her.

"All the time that he nagged me to come to London, and now I'm finally here and everything is wrong... he isn't here with me. He's doing everything wrong again, Elijah, he's doing it alone."

"Old habits die hard, Caroline and Niklaus always found comfort in the things he perfected over the years. Taking care of matters alone is one of them."

"He isn't alone anymore." She grunted upset.

"I know, but then again, he never truly was in the past either and that didn't stop him from achieving all that he did all by himself and by keeping everyone else at arm's length."

Caroline wasn't sure if being in London was harder than being stuck in New York, it was pretty obvious that he didn't want her around.

"I've just received an important phone call, so I'm leaving for a little while." Elijah started closing up his suit.

Caroline was right in front of him before he was done with his last button.

"I didn't come all this way to sit around and mope. Let's go get him back." She took the lead out of the room.

Elijah smiled, wondering if Klaus appreciated how lucky he was.

Rebekah was on her way to the lockers to change books when she stopped, stunned to find Bonnie. "You've decided that you need education after all?"

Bonnie smiled. "You could've gone to Kol's room this morning when you arrived, and at least said hi to us."

Rebekah closed the door of her locker a bit harshly. "Apparently, being a dark evil witch means that you can't keep small spells under your belt, such as privacy spells." She glared at Bonnie. "It was mostly disturbing to listen to your loud activities with my brother."

Bonnie started walking with Rebekah. "Why didn't you cast the spell yourself?"

Rebekah gave her a look. "Because…" She hesitated for a bit. "… never mind." She huffed.

Bonnie tilted her head. "You don't do spells."

"I use the magic card to hurt vampires and even with that, I struggle." She admitted.

"You did a major spell that saved my life and Kol's." Bonnie was confused.

"I did it with your guidance and help... then, I was left to discover my abilities alone and I don't think that I'm that good at it." Rebekah grimaced.

The bell rang and Rebekah moved towards the classroom, but Bonnie easily maneuvered her outside, Rebekah was giving her side-looks all the way to the stone seats in the yard where the artists used to hang out.

This morning, there were only a couple of kids too high to pay them any attention.

"So, you don't care about education after all." Rebekah concluded.

"I have forever to learn how to speak proper French and Kol has his own teaching methods." She sighed. "That's one sexy man with a sexier tongue."

"I just… threw up in my mouth, Bonnie."

"You need to loosen up."

Rebekah narrowed her eyes. "I need to do what?"

"You need to have some fun... doing spells and using magic should be fun and you're looking at it, like it's science with a strict method." Bonnie easily said.

Rebekah cocked her eyebrow. "Since when do you give lessons in having fun?"

"Since I'm able to actually enjoy life, to be with your brother freely and still do my magic. I can have the best of both worlds and what you listened to this morning, was us actually enjoying sex for the first-time pain-free and well…" She giggled. "Without any inhibitions."

Rebekah pressed her chest disgusted. "Can you hand me your bag? I need to throw up inside of it."

"I really love your brother."

"I liked you. I came to see you as my sister, just like Caroline but she was with Nik all the way and with her I can see that love. I can see it in the way she looks at him, the way she speaks of him but with you…" She shook her head. "I love too much, I give my heart out too easily, that's my one true fault but my brothers are masters when it comes to guarding themselves and Kol does it like no one, he takes nothing serious, or at least he didn't before he fell in love with you but you left him."

"I know that I hurt him but now that I know that he's the one, I will never leave him again."

"Did you know that while you were away, he killed girls who looked like you?"

"No…" Bonnie whispered.

"I love my brothers and that is what has solely driven me for centuries and I have no problem in being ruthless when it comes to protecting them, so if you ever hurt Kol again, I will rip you apart and burn the remains."

Bonnie nodded at her.

Rebekah smiled. "Good, now that that's out of the way, let's be friends again."

"Thank you, dear." Ansel smiled at the girl serving them lunch.

When she went around to Klaus's side, he expected her to serve him wine just as she had done with Ansel but instead, she used a small knife to make a cut on her wrist, she didn't even flinch as she filled a glass for him with fresh blood and when she was done, she wrapped a napkin around her bleeding wound and gave Klaus a small smile.

She then turned to Ansel and bowed her head, leaving the room next and the two men alone to enjoy their meal.

Klaus reached out for the glass. "Interesting…"

Ansel smiled from his velvet chair. "I don't want you to miss anything from your life."

The line made Klaus chuckle. "You have no idea what my life is like, old man."

"You would be surprised."

"We could have had lunch in Mystic Falls, I didn't have to come all the way to London for this."

"I've waited a long time to have a meal with my son."

Klaus pushed the food away from him. "I'm not hungry."

Ansel wasn't one to take a confrontation lightly but he was being patient with Klaus. "There is time tomorrow to talk about plans and schemes and empires, tonight I want to get to know you better, Niklaus."

Klaus laughed. "You are contradicting yourself by the minute."

"Not entirely." He picked up his wine glass. "I know all there is to know about the power-driven man and the heartless hybrid, I am however, hoping to know the man unguarded."

Klaus sipped on the sweet blood that would give him the only comfort he would find in this place. "I wouldn't waste my time so carelessly, I'm quite dull as a simple man."

The other nodded, smiling and stood up from the table, it was obvious that this dinner wasn't going anywhere. "I can tell that your resistance will consume much of the time I do not have to spend."

"Let's not burn any precious time then, why bring me to London?"

"Walk with me, please?" He asked as he stepped out of the big room.

Klaus took the blood with him and followed the man along the seeming endless hallway.

The manor with over 20 divisions was built centuries ago but it was very well-preserved, it was most likely a country house for the old Kings and Queens of England and there was still this aristocratic feel to it.

As soon as Klaus walked into the room decorated with art all the way to the ceiling, he noticed the big painting featured on the only wall that didn't have a mural.

"She was my mate." Ansel said nostalgically.

"My deepest condolences." Klaus finished his drink and turned away from Esther.

"She was afraid of Mikael and that stopped her from being the mother you longed for."

"She was a coward, whose biggest achievement in life was to be unfaithful. Naturally, I don't share your fascination with her."

"She gave you life, that has to count for something."

Klaus smiled that dark smile of his. "I returned the favor by carrying her body around, even after I removed her heart."

For the first time, Ansel wasn't friendly and warm, he was upset. "She was an extraordinary woman, perhaps you should have taken the time to know her a bit better."

"We all knew her enough, but I suppose Elijah and I were the ones closer to her heart, at least we were the ones with a hand around it."

Ansel's expression closed up, but he was undeniably affected.

Klaus was happy to have found the right button to push. "I'm going to my bedroom. Do call me when it's time to ruin dinner."

He walked out of the room petulantly.

Ansel crushed the glass in his hand, overtaken by his feelings.

Katherine smiled, accepting the blood that Stefan offered her from a cold blood bag. "A warm vein from a sweet 16, is out of the question?"

Stefan sat on the sofa facing her. "You're already feeling better."

"It's not the first time I was tortured, Stefan." She easily said.

"It could be the first one that I'm upset that you were." He smiled at her.

It created a sweet warm moment between them but it was one that was quickly interrupted by the Original arriving at the house without an invitation.

"That's good to know, because I have a lot of questions for you." Kol walked in, set on his purpose.

Katherine frowned at him. "What questions?"

Kol smiled at an uneasy Stefan that was standing up from the sofa.

"I'll start with the obvious, why were you working with the Illuminati wannabe bunch?"

"I was only doing what I know best, which is staying alive." Katherine answered him bitterly.

Kol's next step was cut off by Stefan.

"You are in my house, so respect that."

Kol nodded. "I will, most definitely." He shoved Stefan so hard that the younger Salvatore landed on the other side of the room.

Kol flashed to Katherine next and held her down with a hand around her neck. "I don't have a silly 20's nostalgia keeping me from hurting Stefan so badly that you will need a new boyfriend, so be nice, and tell me what I want to know."

She defied him without blinking. "I have nothing to say."

The wicked smile on Kol's lips told her how stupid she had been and before she took her words back, he flashed to Stefan and easily fought him.

Stefan ended with his hand over the fire that was burning strongly inside of the mantel, he wriggled to break free, but Kol was stronger than he was.

Katherine fulminated Kol as soon as Stefan started screaming in pain.

"I'd hurry if I were you, I can do this all day and switch limbs as I please." Kol pushed her to speak.

Finally, she stood up from the sofa. "Let him go and I'll tell you what you want to know."

"Begin and I'll decide if it's good enough to save his hand."

"I didn't have a choice because they used Stefan as leverage." She had a small shake of her head. "You think that you know fear? I thought I knew it when I was running away from Klaus, but I knew nothing. Ansel and Eric have an army of blind followers, ready to sacrifice for what he promised them. The chance to become a hybrid."

Kol released Stefan. "He can't be that short-minded, surely he's conspiring something bigger."

Katherine rushed to Stefan's side. "I don't know what it is, just that he needs Klaus for it."

"He allures Nik with a fatherly love that he never knew and when that didn't work, he used the girls against him…" Kol started thinking out loud. "He really wanted to take Nik away from us, which means that whatever he's planning has to be achieved by isolating Nik…" He wandered off into a few silent thoughts.

"I only know that they have eyes everywhere." Katherine told him. "And the only way that we have to set them apart, is by looking for a wolf tattoo."

Kol turned away and left the house, already with a call on the makings.

Katherine sat on the ground with Stefan.

He was slowly healing from his hand. "Why do you always have to be in the middle of every elaborate scheme?" He asked her.

"Because every road always leads back to you, and you are always in the middle of it all." She easily confessed.

Klaus stepped out of the shower a bit more relaxed, now that he spent so long under a hot stream of water.

He wrapped a towel around his waist and cleaned the mirror with his hand, to stare at the image reflected there.

This was beginning to feel like a dangerous mistake as time went by and he was starting to suspect that Ansel was driven by revenge, rather than love.

He ran his hand through his wet hair and his eyes caught the ring sparkling from the midst of his necklaces.

Klaus closed his hand around it. He needed her more than ever, the distance between them was taking its toll on him. Before Caroline, he had been so good at being lonely, but now everything was different.

There was a small noise happening outside of the bathroom, so Klaus knew that he wasn't alone, he stepped outside with a frown for what he found in the bedroom.

Lying on the bed, was a girl wearing a sexy body-suit. The lingerie generously showed all of her curves and the lace was black and revealing.

She sat up with a smile, this wouldn't be a sacrifice at all, the man wearing only a towel was hot and he surely would make her time not only bearable but also memorable.

"What is this?" Klaus asked her.

"The Master sent me as a gift, to keep you distracted while you are staying here." She seductively laid back on the bed with her tummy down and a penetrating stare at him.

Klaus recognized her as the blonde who fed him blood at lunch. "Tell him that I'm not interested."

Suggestively, she changed position and now rested on her knees and hands, on all fours she showed the wolf tattoo on her flank. "I'd be honored if you changed your mind."

Klaus moved to the door and opened it. "Leave."

Unaffected by his austere tone, she evocatively left the bed and neared him with a smile. "I can change your mind." She knelt in front of him and decided to do just that.

Klaus stopped her just as she was about to touch his towel. "I don't want you to do that."

Although he grabbed her hands harshly, his words still gave her hope. "I'll do anything that you might like."

"I want you to leave." He let go of her wrists and waited for her to stand up.

"I'm a werewolf and you would be surprised how well I understand the needs of another wolf." She touched his face just as she brought her body closer to his. "I'm here for your pleasure alone."

"I'm not going to ask you to leave again." Icily, he said.

Disappointed, she ultimately respected his wish and left the room.

Eric was waiting in the hallway and smiled as he saw her. "Did he refuse the gift, Samantha?"

"I couldn't sway him at all." She closed up her short coat.

"Are you going to make the old man happy, before you leave?" Eric brushed her chin, she had delicate features and enticing green eyes that clashed against a light complexion.

"Today I'm here for his son." Samantha reminded him.

Eric smirked. "I'm his son as well."

Samantha's night was taking a bad turn to the worst, Eric was a handsome tall man with slick blond hair that reached his shoulders, his eyes were extremely blue and although he was attractive, his reputation in the bedroom wasn't.

He was known to be hardly gentle, but Samantha knew better than to say no to him.

"I will be back later."

He walked away happy and headed straight to the office.

"Come in." Ansel said after Eric's knock on the door.

"He sent Samantha away, untouched." He informed Ansel.

"His connection to his wife is untarnished then."

"Do we get rid of her next?" Eric asked him quietly.

"Not yet… we will carry on as planned, for now." Ansel stood up glancing at the calendar on his desk, he was really running out of time.

Rebekah was in the middle of cheerleader practice when she spotted Hayley sitting on the bleachers and waving at her, the playful gesture was weird but still Rebekah got ready for another routine.

"Where is our dear Captain?" Kensi interrupted Rebekah's preparation for a stellar tabletop jump.

Rebekah sighed. "Caroline had to leave town for a week."

"Really? What can be so important that she's skipping school already?" Kensi lowered her voice. "She's hiding a pregnancy, isn't she?"

"She went to New York on a scouting trip for colleges."

"It will be kind of hard to get into a college, if she doesn't finish High School." Hayley suddenly joined the conversation acidly.

Kensi laughed amused.

Rebekah scolded both but focused on Hayley mostly. "Are you trying out?"

"For cheerleading?" Hayley laughed. "I'm not that lame."

Kensi carried on with practice, leaving Rebekah out of it on purpose.

Hayley eyed her with a vicious little stare. "Tyler mentioned you once… you instigated his blood lust."

"Do you mind keeping your voice low? I happen to like my lame life."

Hayley wrinkled her nose. "Once a vampire, always one. You still reek like one."

Rebekah clasped her lips happy that the others were making a lot of noise now. "You little punk… I don't know why you came to town, but I'd recommend that you stay away from us, or I will provide you with an endless supply of Wolfsbane tea that I will personally shove down your throat."

"I'm more of a coffee girl." Hayley smiled. "Get ready to have your silly lame human life revoked." She waved at Rebekah again, before walking away.

The blonde shook her long ponytail and tried to focus on practice, but it was hard, she really wished that Caroline was around.

Hayley arrived at her car entertained with her phone, she rested her books on top of it so that she could finish this text message, when she was done, she reached for her key but when she went to open the door the car burst into a huge fire.

She yelped backwards in fright, not knowing what to do and looked around for help but everyone was ignoring her.

She was appalled by it and looked back at her car, freezing in shock because it wasn't burning anymore and she touched her forehead, apparently, she was losing it.

Hayley chuckled and grabbed her books, she tried to open the door but before she turned the key, the car was in flames again, and this time she dropped her books and looked around.

Was everyone literally ignoring her on purpose or just not seeing the same as she was?

During her scared scout, she noticed the girl by the fence.

When she looked back at the car, it was intact.

She gritted her teeth mad and made her way to Bonnie. "Stop messing with my head." She yelled at the other.

Bonnie shrugged. "I don't know what you're talking about."

"Stop it!" Hayley demanded.

Bonnie pretended to be offended. "I'm innocent."

Hayley had a deep breath. "Ok, witch… it's your call." She turned around trying to control her werewolf anger.

"You know…" Bonnie started with a serious expression that soon turned into a dark one. "When you keep calling wolf…"

Hayley pulled her eyebrows together confused and looked back at Bonnie, this one just smiled playfully as a loud sound startled everyone, except her.

Hayley opened her mouth in shock as her car exploded into a huge ball of real fire. "What did you do?"

Bonnie started walking away. "You should be more careful about who you pick to harass in this town."

Hayley raised her hands in the air, confronted with a burning car and a crowd of curious teenagers.

Rebekah rushed to Bonnie terribly excited. "You have to teach me how to do that."

Bonnie smiled. "Now, you want to have fun."

"I want that." She pointed at the blazing mess happening in the parking lot.

"This stays between us, Bekah. I don't want Damon or Kol to know that I'm helping you with your magic."

Rebekah nodded in consent. "It will be a witch secret or a pact, whatever you want to call it. Just teach me how to mess with someone's head and how to set things on fire."

Bonnie couldn't help but laugh at how riled up Rebekah was. "We'll start small at first..."

"We'll start with the fire." Rebekah quickly got inside of Bonnie's car.

They were parked inside of a black SUV, from across the street Caroline could see the huge driveway and a few men guarding it.

"Is that where Nik is?" She asked Elijah.

He nodded. "I know someone with an inside perspective."

"This isn't the time for evasive descriptions, Elijah." She snapped.

A girl crossed the street in a rush, she pulled the long coat closer to her front and without wasting time, she got inside of the car.

"Elijah." She said quietly from the back seat.

Caroline shot her head to the original at the wheel.

"I'm just calling in on a favor that Samantha owes me." He explained.

The girl tucked a long coat closer to her body. "I owe you, my life."

"So… you found out that she worked for them?" Caroline was a bit confused, obviously it was easy to jump to a fast conclusion, but she didn't want to judge either Elijah or the girl.

"I belong to a group of girls who benefit from the Luna's power, they pay for all of our bills and in exchange, Ansel hires us to entertain his guests."

"So, you're paid to do this?" Caroline asked in a low voice.

"Those in the circle know the price to pay for a good house and warm food on the table. Some like me, grew up in the streets where we didn't have protection and where it was easy for men to lose control." She looked at Elijah. "That's how I met Elijah."

Caroline looked at him intrigued.

"Samantha was abandoned by her parents when they found out that she was a werewolf and from a very young age she was forced to do whatever it took to survive." He looked back at Samantha. "I was fortunate to be in the right place when I was needed."

They shared a look.

"Are you free to leave, if you want to?" Caroline asked her softly.

"They take care of us, why would I leave them?" Samantha asked with a squint.

"Because Ansel is a really old creepy man hiring young girls to sleep with his creepy friends." She gasped. "Wait… have you entertained my husband?"

The girl smiled. "It would have been my absolute pleasure, it's not every day that a wolf girl gets the chance to mate with an Alpha…"

Caroline snarled, ready to claw the face of the other girl.

"Have you seen him?" Elijah was more subtle with his approach, for he was certain that Klaus was unyieldingly faithful.

"Yes, I have." Samantha licked her lips. "He was wearing only a towel."

This time, Caroline kept it together, she trusted Klaus enough to know that nothing happened between them.

"What can you tell me about Ansel's plan?" Elijah quickly directed the rest of the conversation.

"He doesn't give anything away and even if he left any clues around, they would be in his office, where I can't go. I'm sorry, Elijah but my involvement in this, ends here."

She prepared to leave the car, but Caroline had other plans. "Not so fast." She sneaked back to the back seat. "Take your clothes off."

"Why would I do that?" Samantha asked with a frown.

"You're going to help me get in there." Caroline started taking off her boots.

"I'm what? Elijah!" She looked at him worried.

"Caroline, what are you doing?" He asked, looking away when she started opening her Jeans.

"I'm going to see Nik so that I can tell him how much I'm mad at him."

Elijah shook his head. "I can't let you go inside of that house alone."

"Try to stop me." Caroline pointed at the tiny black dress that Samantha was wearing. "Strip."

The girl was scared of Caroline, to be honest. "What am I supposed to wear?"

"Keep the coat and the slutty underwear." Caroline slipped into the tight strapless dress that was also shorter than anything she ever owned, she tore her bra straps and tucked her big breasts under the really steamy dress.

Elijah tried one last time. "This is madness, and you know that I can stop you without even hurting you."

She stopped her movements only to plead with him once. "I need to see him, Elijah."

He shook his head unhappy. "You have 15 minutes, Caroline, before I take action."

"I'll be right back." She stepped outside of the car confident, she only wished that she was wearing black stilettos instead of boots.

Samantha gave Elijah one last look. "She's going to get us both killed."

"She can handle herself and if you lead her to Niklaus, he will make sure that nothing happens to you."

Samantha smiled. "You are so noble that you believe that everyone is like you."

He only gave her a small sympathetic look.

Gloomily, Samantha left the car. "Do we have a plan at least?" She asked Caroline as they walked to the front gate.

"Are they on Vervain?" Caroline asked, swinging her hips as she walked towards the men.

"Of course, they are... even if no one is stupid enough to come to the house without being invited in." Samantha whispered.

The guards immediately reacted to Samantha's company with whistles and a few cheers.

"Hey, I'm back with the extra girl that Eric asked for."

"I don't know this one." One of the men paused on his smoking action to tilt his head and admire Caroline's ass.

"She's new and that's why Eric wants to meet her." Samantha smiled. "And you know how he doesn't like to wait."

The man closer to Samantha sighed. "Lucky bastard…" He stepped aside so that the girls could go inside. "Welcome to the freak show." He smiled at Caroline.

She smiled back with a tiny flirtation.

The girls made their way inside of the manor, while the guards exchanged typical lewd looks followed by laughter.

Samantha was shaking, as she led Caroline along the hallways, when she reached Klaus's door, she whispered. "Don't be long." She warned Caroline, before rushing to the beginning of the corridor to keep watch.

Klaus was resting on top of a bare mattress and staring at the ceiling when he heard voices and someone opening the door.

"I already told you that I'm not interested and that you should never come back to this room."

"It's me, Nik…" She whispered.

Klaus shot from the bed in a jolt. "What are you doing here?" He asked as she stepped away from the closed door. "And looking like that?" He was even more confused.

"Oh, I don't know… I came searching for the moron that I married."

"Have you lost your bloody mind, Caroline?" He fought to keep his voice low.

"Well, I'm not the one with daddy issues, all of a sudden."

"I had no choice."

She hissed. "Every time that you royally screw up, you say that."

Klaus took a step towards her. "And coming here, right into the eye of the storm, is what? Brave or ultimately stupid?"

She narrowed her eyes. "I just came to tell you face to face, how much of a fool you are and how mad I am at you, for leaving me like that. You had no right to do that and on top of it all, because of a complete stranger."

"I don't trust him, Caroline."

"You chose him over us, over your family."

"He threatened to kill you and Rebekah."

She threw her hands in the air. "You know what, Klaus… I came here to tell you that if you don't want a wife anymore, I'm moving on as well and forgetting that I ever had a husband."

She pushed her hair back, fixed the tight dress around her boobs and tried to pull it just a few more inches down her ass, though it was a hard task.

"Now, if you excuse me, I have to go and entertain the guard who was kind enough to let me in. Luckily, he was really cute." She turned away to leave.

Klaus grabbed her arm fast. "Really, Caroline?"

She gave him an angry look. "Where is your wedding ring, Klaus?"

He freed the necklaces from inside of his white Henley shirt. "Close to my heart, where I keep you." He warmly said. "I need you to forgive me for leaving you as I did, but I did it to protect you. Even if you don't see it."

"I'm tired of you seeing me as a weakness. I'm mad that you took my will away and that you left me... again, Nik." She eased up.

"I'll be forever blinded by the possibility of losing you."

"God… you're such a jerk."

He smiled at her, while gently pulling her closer to him. "I love you, Caroline. That's my one big weakness."

She rested her palms over his chest, so that she could feel his heat. "I love you so much."

He was already searching for her lips, so it was an easy kiss.

She became one with his body and stroked his neck while the kiss lasted.

It became deeper when his tongue slowly met hers, erasing some of the stormy feelings that haunted them right now, and Caroline held on to him as much as she could, aware that she would have to let him go soon.