Hello everyone! Here's the new chapter! I included some canon stuff here, hope you don't mind :) Enjoy reading! :)
Class is finished. Elena, Bonnie, and Caroline are putting stuff in their lockers.
"Why was Ric frowning at you in class? Is there something I'm missing?" Elena asked Caroline as she placed her books in her locker. Bonnie smirked.
Caroline only rolled her eyes and sighed.
"She got a B- in the exam." Bonnie stated.
"Really? A B-? You?" Gaping Elena said.
Bonnie crossed her arms. "Yeah Caroline, what have you been doing last night? Good thing we didn't have that slumber party I almost got no time studying, someone's been pestering me, it's irritating"
Caroline swallowed. "Uhm, nothing important." She said, almost instantly. "And who's pestering you?" She asked Bonnie, diverting the attention from her.
A group of guys caught the attention of the three girls all of a sudden.
A blonde girl standing nearby with her friends started to speak; her eyes are sparkly towards the group of guys walking down the hallway in front of them.
"Baseball team's suddenly got hotter, don't they?" The girl said; her tongue out to moisten her lips.
Kol is in the front of the group, walking with swag so cool and so handsome, and his self-assured smile is displayed on his face. Other four boys, tall, lean, and good-looking though not as big as the members of the football team, walk behind Kol.
Everyone in the hall starts to watch the group of guys, and Elena, Caroline and Bonnie had no other choice but to watch them as well.
With her arms still crossed and eyebrows still raised, Bonnie started to speak. "You were asking me about who's pestering me right?" She said. Her eyes then turned to no other then the guy in front of the group, Kol.
Kol slowed down at the sight of the three girls, only to give one of them a wink and a wider grin.
Caroline and Elena looked where the wink is directed at and they both saw Bonnie giving back Kol an obviously false amused smile.
Elena's eyebrows were meeting in confusion. "Okay… Bonnie?" She asked, her eyes wanting enlightenment. Bonnie rolled her eyes and shrugged. "Alright… Caroline, Bonnie? We need to have that sleepover tonight. No one's going to bail okay? Bonnie you got to tell us everything, and Caroline, you need to tell us what's been bothering you. I'll see you later guys" Elena finally said. "I'll just go see Stefan and Damon." She gave the girls a smile before she walks off.
Caroline arrived home frowning, still burdening herself with how calm she should be later at the sleepover. They can't talk about Klaus. And if they would, she should keep her mouth shut. This whole thing with Klaus is a very big deal. She drops her bag at one of the chairs in the living room went straight to the kitchen for a blood bag.
She shook her head in defeat. Why did she let herself submit to Klaus' charms? If only he was always evil and cruel and bad like how he was before and not the romantic, gentle and kind like how he is whenever with her.
"You still look beautiful when you're worried." Caroline almost jumped at the voice behind her. It was Klaus of course, leaning at the doorway.
"Klaus!" She whispered loudly. "What are you doing here?" She asked.
He smiled before he stood up and walked towards her. "Paying you a visit. It seems you're the only one keeping me here, so I thought why not spend more time with you?"
Caroline gazed at his smiling face and smiled back a little. "Why, you're not making hybrids or something?"
"Well, about that…" Klaus sighed, his face grew serious. "I think they'll be enough for now, since we all had an agreement that you and your friends won't kill any of my hybrids. And I can see you lot is keeping your side of the bargain quite well."
"But…" Caroline measured up to his gaze her voice is soft and careful. "You're still going to make more of them?"
Klaus looked deeply into her eyes and saw something unpleasant in them. He knows if this conversation continues they would disagree more, and he doesn't want that to happen. He looked down and smiled.
"Now, now, love, let's not spoil the potential for the rest of the day to be beautiful, shall we? I won't hurt anyone, not your friend Elena, if it pleases you. As long as we have a truce and the agreement stands firm." Klaus walks closer to Caroline, not breaking his gaze.
Caroline crossed her arms. "Well…" She started. "I can't come with you tonight. Bonnie and Elena will come over. You can't be seen here."
It took a while for Klaus to nod at her.
"Okay, so are we going to have secret rendezvous every time we want to see each other then?" Klaus asked before he smiled. He moved his hand on her face, pulling back some strands of her hair from obstructing her face. "Is that… our arrangement, love?"
Caroline can't keep herself from blushing so she looked at her feet instead to hide her face. Of course everything should be in secret and apparently, that's what they've already been doing.
She swallowed for courage before she faces his once again smiling face.
"Actually, yes. And you don't have any other choice." She said with her eyebrows raised and head up high.
Klaus grinned much wider. His hands went down at her back to pull her against him. Caroline smiled and brought her uncrossed arms around his neck. Klaus leaned in to place a gentle kiss on her lips.
"You no longer think this is wrong sweetheart?" Klaus asked her in a whisper.
Caroline tiptoed to place her own gentle kiss on his lips.
"Of course I still do. This isn't right." She whispered back, a playful smile is on her lips, then she kissed him again.
Klaus smiled back and started tracing kisses from her cheeks to behind her ears down to her neck.
Caroline continued to speak. "But… just so you know… hmm." She can't keep herself from moaning, Klaus has been kissing her collarbones now and his hands are down low on her back. His touch feels so good and she's slowly melting in his arms. "I'm still not on your side." She managed to say.
Klaus slowly went back to her face to look deeply into her eyes, her hands still tight around her.
"Yet." He whispered. "But don't worry love I completely understand."
He kissed her again on her lips, this time, their tongues danced. Caroline grips his hair as Klaus pressed himself on her. They continued on kissing for a while when Caroline broke the kiss and stared at him as she catches her breath.
"No Klaus, you don't understand." She said softly. She held his face and looked at him. "My friends still want you gone, and I'm on their team. If they're going to kill you then I'll help them kill you." She said in a voice so low. Although her body throbs in his touch, her eyes are resilient. And Klaus can see how serious Caroline is.
"Then I'd love to see you try" He said, meeting up her gaze. "But if the worst comes to the worst and I have no other choice but to kill you…" He continued in a voice as husky as hers. "I will, Caroline. I'll kill you."
His words may be threatening but his gaze is calm and tender. Caroline knew he meant his every word just like how she meant hers.
Caroline sighed as she once again circled her arms around his neck.
"Okay then, fair enough I guess." She said with her eyes not turning away from him. She gave him a small smile.
Klaus smiled back at her and kissed her once again while he carried her down towards the sofa.
"It's a good start, but it's dangerous. I don't think it will play out well." Stefan stated calmly. As the sun starts to set, Stefan, Damon, Elena, Alaric and Tyler are in a middle of a discussion in the boarding house.
Damon, sitting comfortably on the sofa with his eyebrows meeting in mockery, spoke. "Of course it's dangerous, you can't just trust a kid with a plan like that. I don't even know why I came to this stupid meeting."
"Stupid?" Tyler exclaimed, slightly aghast. "Klaus won't have sired hybrids anymore, no army to do his bidding, how was that stupid? I'm tired of seeing him boss around our pack like we're idiots. He should be gone."
Tyler was almost stunned at Damon for calling his plan stupid. After explaining everything to them, after being successful in trying to help a few hybrids to get un-sired, after all the hard work he'd been to, after trying to come in the boarding house and talk to these vampires who started all the mess in this town, here's Damon calling his act stupid.
Damon walked closer to Tyler, his eyes hateful and contemptuous.
"Listen to me smartass, Klaus has many hybrids, a few of them get un-sired, you think Klaus won't notice? When he does, Klaus will get angry, you'll be dead in a second, our truce will be gone, we can't kill Klaus with the stake because we'll all die, but he can kill us, and Elena will be his human blood bag again. Anything about what I said confusing your brain? Oh and I forgot to mention, the entire originals are here." Damon finished.
Tyler stared angrily back at Damon, he never liked Damon, especially after he learned of what he'd done with Caroline. Tyler may have also done a less horrible thing to Caroline but he still cares for her.
Alaric came in between the two before any fight would start.
"Easy, don't pick a fight Damon, he's a hybrid, one bite and you're dead." Alaric said gently to his friend.
Damon raised both of his hands in defeat and walked away, turning to face the windows.
"Damon's right." Stefan said in a calm tone. "We'll risk so much."
"I can keep the un-siring secret, I can use the back of my house, or the cellars. Hayley's been helping me." Tyler insisted, much calmer now.
"Tyler, getting his hybrids un-sired won't miss Klaus' attention, that's for sure." Stefan stated.
"Unless…" Alaric said in a flash. "He's distracted."
Damon turned to look at Alaric, in deep thought.
Elena joined in the discussion. "If this goes out well, and Klaus won't have any idea his hybrids are getting un-sired, maybe we can find a way on how to get rid of him without you getting killed. Then at the same time Tyler will help the other hybrids in secret." she said, voicing out her thoughts.
Stefan and Damon looked at each other. All of a sudden, they think this might actually work.
"If we'll go with this, we have to be really careful." Stefan stated. "We should keep Klaus distracted."
Damon took a glass of wine and blood and drank. He walked towards Elena and smiled at her.
"Give Blondie a heads-up." Damon said.
The sun has set and Klaus and Caroline are still snuggling on the sofa. Klaus has his arms around Caroline whose head rests comfortably on his chest. They were talking and laughing and drinking and whispering stuff and kissing. A moment passed when they just both remained silent, basking in the warmth of each other. Caroline revels at the comfort she feels in Klaus's embrace.
At least it's all clear between them. They may find each other attractive, they may enjoy each other's company, they may find pleasure in each other's embrace but it's clear that they are still enemies.
"What would you do if they find out?" Klaus asked Caroline out of the blue.
"They won't" Caroline said, turning slowly to get up from him. "They shouldn't. And that is why you have to go now." Caroline stood up. "Go, before Elena and Bonnie sees you."
"When can I see you then?"
Caroline shrugged. "I don't know, not tonight definitely."
"Your friends' distraction plans can be quite convenient, don't you think?" Klaus teased. He smirked as he slowly stood up. "Maybe you can put that into suggestion." He said seductively.
Caroline raised her eyebrows. "Oh about that, be careful though. With our arrangement you might not know which a distraction is and which is not." She teased playfully with her own seductive voice.
Klaus chuckled. "This game is pretty interesting." He touched her chin and placed a soft and tender kiss on her lips. "Goodbye love, I'll see you."
"Bye Klaus" Caroline said, giving him another smiling kiss on the lips before he disappeared like air.
"You what? You had a date last night with Kol?" Elena asked Bonnie.
They are in Caroline's room, Elena is painting Bonnie's nails on the carpeted floor while Caroline lies prone on the bed with her legs upwards as she dries out her newly painted toenails while she flips magazine pages. For Caroline, sleepovers are always fun. And she's thankful she had managed to keep all conversations they had away from her.
"But would you call that a date?" Bonnie asked, more to herself than to Elena and Caroline. "Kol only saw me in the store and he was so persistent to come with me grocery shopping. He did and then he bought us coffee afterwards." She stated.
Caroline rolled her eyes. "And you don't call that a date? And then what happened?" She asked.
"Nothing, he talked about himself, how he's having a good time adjusting to this time. He was even asking me about the internet and stuff." Bonnie said.
Caroline laughed. "Seriously? But that's…"
"uhm... cute?" Elena, smiling and amused as well, finished the sentence for her. "But Bonnie I hope you know he's not-"
"I know. He's dangerous. But yesterday he was just like a normal person it's kind of funny honestly."
There was a moment of silence and Caroline thought about what Bonnie said.
Caroline starts to speak. "But as long as they're not doing anything wrong maybe it's okay to talk with them right?" She said. "I mean, he, Kol, as long as he's behaving alright maybe it's alright for you to talk."
"Maybe but I don't know. They may be planning something. It's difficult to trust them." Bonnie said.
Elena bit her lip as she sat straight. "I have something to tell you guys. I'm sorry we promised to talk about anything normal but a while ago at the boarding house we had a discussion."
Caroline and Bonnie looked at each other before they sat up straight as well.
"They're still on the plan to take down Klaus." Elena continued. "Tyler has been un-siring the other hybrids. Damon and Alaric are heading out to find how to kill Klaus without the others dying as well. If everything falls into place, we can all get rid of Klaus."
Caroline gaped at Elena. They're planning to kill him. Again.
"What if there's no way and we can't kill him?" Caroline asked, all of a sudden she felt alarmed. Somehow, a big part of her wishes there is no way it can be done.
"There is, there's a way." Bonnie said in almost like a whisper.
Caroline turned to face Bonnie. In her head she can hear glasses shattering, and in her chest her heart thumps as if it's alive. Caroline's ears are ringing all of a sudden.
"But it's dark magic." Bonnie continued speaking. "They should just find a witch capable of it. I'm not capable of any magic I can't do it."
"And… and what if Klaus finds out about his hybrids getting un-sired before we find a witch?" Caroline heard her voice becomes weaker.
"We can't let that happen." Elena said. "That's why we need you." Elena turned her head on Caroline.
Caroline's face is now full of confusion and worry as she looks back at Elena.
"They want you to distract Klaus." Elena told her.
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