Chapter 3
Mystic Falls, VA
-992-
"My name is Rebekah MIkaelson, by the way. I am 15 years old." She said, waiting for Caroline to respond.
"It's nice to meet you Rebekah. I am 17." Said Caroline, deciding to go with her last human age.
"Really? My brothers will be pleased. None of them are courting anyone. Well, except for Elijah, but father doesn't approve." Said Rebekah, rolling her eyes.
"How old are your brothers?" asked Caroline, genuinely curious.
"Finn is the oldest, at 23, Elijah is 21, then Niklaus, he is 19, and Kol is 17. That is just my older brothers. There is also Henrik, and he is 11." She said.
"Wow. That is a lot of brothers. I am an only child, so I'm not used to that." She said, eyes wide. Rebekah looked at her curiously as they finally approached the house.
They entered the Mikaelson house to find the four oldest boys drinking and laughing around the fire. This activity stopped, however, as soon as Rebekah and Caroline walked through the door. Each of the boys looked towards the girls, getting ready to give a casual greeting to their little sister, but once their eyes found Caroline, they each stood up and walked one at a time to kiss her hand. As Rebekah formally introduced the boys to their new houseguest, Caroline's eyes never left Niklaus. It was obvious that his personality was about the same, but the way that he carried himself was so much less confident than the Klaus that she knew. She hoped that Rebekah's parents would let her stay, because she needed to get to know this Klaus.
-2012-
"What do you mean you sent her back in time?!" Elena nearly yelled. Stefan and Bonnie had finally decided that it was time to clue her in to the situation.
"It wasn't me! Okay, it was me, but I was being controlled by Emily and the other witch spirits!" Bonnie defended.
"Girls, I think you are missing an integral part of this whole situation. If Caroline being there changes Klaus in any significant way, there is a possibility that Katherine never would have run away from him, and therefore would never have turned Damon and me, which would impact Caroline too," Stefan interjected.
"I think that the best thing that we can do is let the spell run its course, and hope that she doesn't do anything detrimental to the future while she is there," Bonnie stated with mild uncertainty.
Suddenly there was a loud knock at the door, followed by the door being flung open, and an agitated-looking Klaus stumbled into the Salvatore's living room.
"What have you done to me?!" he demanded, glaring daggers at Bonnie.
"What do you mean?" she responded.
"Beginning early this morning, every few hours, my head starts throbbing and I lose black-out. When I come to, I have new memories that weren't there before," he answered.
"What do you remember?" Stefan asked him.
"The memories, they're from when I was still human. There was a girl who mysteriously stumbled upon our property, and Rebekah took a liking to her, so my parents agreed to let her stay with us," said Klaus. He kept closing and opening his eyes, as if he were hoping to wake from a dream.
"What do you remember about the girl?" Elena asked, tilting her head.
"I.. I can't remember anything about her.. just that she stayed with us for a while," Klaus responded, confusion evident in his voice. He looked around at the people who were there, furrowed his brow and asked "where's Caroline?"
-992-
"Rebekah, who is this?" Esther, who had been cooking dinner, came out into the sitting room to find her four oldest children competing for the attention of a girl who she had never even met.
"Mother, this is Caroline Forbes. She has lost some of her memory, and I was hoping you would let her stay here with us," Rebekah finished hopefully.
"I will have to talk with your father before I can give you a definitive answer," Esther said.
"Talk with me about what?" asked Mikael as he walked through the door. Caroline froze. For a split second she forgot that she was human in this time, and that vampires hadn't even been created yet, but even so, Mikael was still intimidating.
"Darling, this is Caroline Forbes, Rebekah was hoping that she could stay with us for a little while," Esther explained." Mikael glanced curiously at Caroline before agreeing.
After a significantly awkward dinner, during which Caroline couldn't look up without making eye-contact with one of the four oldest Mikaelsons, Rebekah took Caroline to show her where she would be staying. After everything that had happened that day, between waking up in a different time with nothing to protect herself, and "meeting" all of the original vampires and the original witch, Caroline was sufficiently overwhelmed.
"Rebekah, would you mind if I took a walk outside? I feel like I need some fresh air." Rebekah's eyes snapped to Caroline's.
"Alone?" she asked.
"Is that okay?"
"Well, around here we do not take walks after dark." Caroline was confused, but then it hit her- wolves. But it wasn't even the full moon…
"If it would make you feel better, you can come with me." Caroline offered.
"Oh no, I cannot. I will ask one of my brothers. Before she left, Rebekah explained to Caroline that Kol and Henrik shared a room, Finn had his own (she suspected that he was their mother's favorite, even in this time), and Elijah shared a room with Klaus.
Because Henrik was so young, and Kol was known for being overly flirtatious, Rebekah decided that the choice was between Elijah and Niklaus. She burst into their room, knowing that it irked them.
"Bekah! What if I had been indecent?!" cried Niklaus.
"Oh Nik, do stop talking. Where's Elijah?" she asked, looking for a sign of her brother.
"Likely off with Tatia. You know how he lives to disobey father." Niklaus said, smirking.
"No, brother, that is you. Anyway, I came to talk to you. Caroline wishes to take a walk." She said, hoping that he would pick up her hint.
"So?" Either he was an idiot, or he really did not want to accompany Caroline on her walk.
"Please Nik? I really want her as a friend, and she is going to be mad at me if she cannot go on her walk." Said Rebekah, on the verge of "tears."
"Bekah…" he said in a warning tone.
"Please?" she used her wet eyes as best she could.
"Hmph. Fine. I will take her on a walk. But do not expect this to become a regular occurrence."
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