Sweet Caroline

Set in a world where Kol is alive and Klaus and Caroline are together. Semi-Crack

Kol liked music. He liked listening to it, discovering it, sharing it with his family. He liked blaring music at random hours of the day, specifically when everyone was trying to sleep... or when everyone was engaged in more amorous activities.

He was moving steadily through modern music, and Caroline finally got tired of the supposedly scary original singing Call me Maybe at all hours, so in desperation, and for the sake of her sanity and in the hopes that Klaus would not dagger his sibling again, she introduced Kol to more classic music.

It was a choice she would live to regret.

It started out as him humming the lyrics, and she turned her head quickly toward him when she heard it the first time, eyes widening. She ignored it though, brushed it off.

And then, when her alarm went off one morning to that song, she passed it off as merely a strange coincidence. There was no possible way...

Oh but there was.

Her phone would ring, and no matter how many times she changed it back, the song was always suddenly her ringtone for everything again. And every time she cringed in horror, Klaus would look at her with a worried expression and she would brush it off. She was supposed to be helping Kol, not making Klaus go into his "over protective, now I have to dagger him" mode.

Truth was though, she hated that song with all her being. And entire month of sixth grade spent being teased with it by some boy that she would not kiss no matter how hard he cajoled and pleaded with her had discovered it, and decided to sing the song to her every day as she walked down the halls, notes passed to her with the lyrics written on them. Soon other kids joined in, and she had no good memories of the song at all.

And Kol was certainly not helping in that regard. Especially not when, Klaus kissing her lips passionately, the soft beginnings of the tune could be heard outside their door. They both tried to ignore it, but the song got louder and louder, and then Kol started singing along. Sweet Caroline, bah bah bah, good times never seemed so good, and that was all it took for Klaus to lose his patience, flash to the door and open it, and promptly break his brother's neck before turning off the stereo.

And the song was never played in the originals' home again.