"SEVEN DATES"
Fan Fiction story / Season 3
By: Lovely Vero
Starring:
Klaus & Caroline
Matt & Rebekah
Chapter 6
"In the showdown of a lie"
Caroline pushed the entrance door of her house, with Matt on her heels. She intentionally slammed the door on his face, which made him growl with frustration, before turning the door handle to enter inside.
He had drove Rebekah at the front door of the Mikaelson's Manor, after an excruciating ride, with the most awkward silence filling the truck, that he had ever experienced in his entire life. He had kept his eyes on the route, and the girls had turned their sights to their respective windows, with their arms crossed over their chests and pouting expressions on their faces.
"Caroline, you owe me the biggest explanation!" He yelled at her, while closing the door behind him.
"I owe you nothing, Matt…And lower you voice, my mother must be sleeping upstairs." She murmured, while putting a finger over her lips.
"I'll lower my voice, Caroline…But, you'll have to tell me what the hell you were doing in Klaus's arms when I found you in his car, in the middle of nowhere?" He mumbled angrily between his teeth.
Caroline signed him to follow her into the kitchen, before closing the door behind them.
"It's complicated." She answered, while lowering her head and rubbing her hands together.
"That is your explanation to me? This is not complicated anymore; Caroline…It went directly to suicidal, and the biggest mistake you've ever made!" He lashed out at her. "What is going on with you?" He asked her more, while passing a nervous hand through his blonde hair, before pacing back and forth in the kitchen. "Are you attracted to him? Or worst: Did you fall in love with him?" He questioned, in shock.
"No!" She exclaimed, while blushing. Well, for the "love" part, it was a categorical no in her mind, but as for the attraction part, the question was still in need to be defined and questioned in her head. "I love Tyler! That is why I do this, for him, Matt!" She tried to explain without further explanation.
"I'm sorry but I don't follow your logic, Caroline. You're sleeping with Klaus to help Tyler? In which twisted way this is supposed to work?" He questioned, in shock.
Caroline lowered her flushed cheeks…How could she managed to explain something that she was forbidden to explain in the first place? The ring tone of her cell phone saved her from formulating a lame excuse. She reached for it in her crossover bag, before sliding it near her ear.
"Hello! I mean…Caroline speaking…" She responded nervously, in front of Matt.
"Matt brought you safely back to home, I hope?" Klaus asked, in an ordering tone of voice, while making Caroline close her fists in anger. You just needed to talk about the hybrid and here he was!
"I don't have time for you, right now." She mumbled, angrily, between her teeth.
"Caroline … Don't hang up on …" She just had the time to hear him say, before closing the line on him.
"It was him, wasn't it?" Matt asked her, while gesturing with his arms.
Caroline lowered her sight to avoid looking at Matt in the eyes.
"What is going on with you and the hybrid, for God sake, Caroline?" Matt asked, while stroking his eyelids.
"I could ask you the same question, Matt?" She started, before adding. "What is going on with you and Rebekah?"
"Well, even if something was going on, between me and her, and it's not the case. At least, Rebekah is not sucking the blood out of Elena's veins, for the only purpose of creating an army of hybrids, Caroline. Tyler is not under her sire bond and she is not controlling Stefan as a ripper!" Matt busted into her face.
Caroline swallowed a lump in her throat. She was too aware of his good reasoning, and she was actually afraid of that.
"I know Matt, but I can't explain to you why I am doing this…Please, you have to give me the benefit of the doubt, and trust me. I'm doing this to free Tyler of Klaus." Caroline try to explain to him, while putting a hand on Matt's left forearm.
"You're doing this for Tyler, by selling your body to Klaus?" He asked, while looking at her with astonishment and disdain showing in his eyes. "What do you think Elena and Bonnie will think of you, Caroline, while seeing you with Klaus?"
"I'm sorry, what? Are you kidding me…Elena, who's not even able to admit her feelings for Damon, who by the way, if you remember, almost killed Jeremy!" Caroline busted into her friend's face.
"What? You're defending Klaus's actions now, by pointing others?" He exclaimed in shock.
"No, no…" She responded, while closing her eyes, and shaking her head. What was she doing? He was right, she was defending the Original. "I'm just saying that Elena made her own choices many times in the past, even if it was not approved by others."
"This will not be approved by the team, Caroline." Matt replied, with certainty.
"Are you threatening me, Matt?" Caroline asked him, in shock. "Because, it surely sounds like you are threatening to tell my closest friends?"
Matt shook his head, while putting his hands on each side of his waist.
"I have to talk to Damon and Stefan about this." He mumbled to himself, while passing a hand through his hair.
"What? That doesn't concern them, Matt! It's my life and my choices, not theirs! They are not keepers of my every move!" She lashed out at him.
"You don't even know what you're doing, Caroline, look at you!" He replied, while pointing an accusatory finger toward her. "You're defending Klaus; you're passing time with him, without even being a decoy for our plan." He explained to her.
"Oh…Oh right…" Caroline exclaimed, while putting her hands on each side of her waist, before rolling her eyes to the ceiling. "How silly of me, I'm only good for when I am needed as a decoy in the Salvatore's plan…Any other ideas or needs that "I" could have, are to be ignored by everybody and most of all by me!"
"You have needs in relation to Klaus?" Matt asked, while opening his eyes widely.
"Oh!" Caroline growled the sound, while hitting her feet on the wooden floor. "You see things the way you want to see them, Matt!" She added, while hearing the ring tone of her phone once again. "What?" She answered once more.
"You hung up on me!" Klaus busted in anger.
"Well, I'm about to do it again." She replied to him, while closing the line on him, for a second time.
"Damn you woman!" He mumbled, angrily, before hitting with his feet, the up front tire of his Mercedes-Benz. He, then, paced back and forth in front of the car, like a wild animal in a cage.
The mechanic from the emergency garage approached Klaus, while handing him a paper form to sign.
"Well, it's going to cost you a bundle. The carburetor is completely fried, and considering, the year of production of the car." The mechanic tried to explain, gently, to his client. "And plus, the rescue towing mission in the middle of the night…I can't lower the price of much."
"Money is not a problem…Fix the car!" Klaus muttered, as an order, while signing the paper and gesturing that the man could leave with the antique car.
"I can give you a ride to the city if you wish?" The mechanic asked Klaus, before adding. "It's certainly a long walk from the lake to there."
"Let's just say that I can run fast." Klaus replied, smirking.
"As you wish, then…" The man replied to him. "We'll call you when this beauty will be put back on her feet." He added, before walking to his towing truck and leaving.
Klaus passed a quick hand in his tangled, curly hair, before starting to walk on the main route, while staring at his cell phone and swearing along the route.
"My mind is made up, Caroline; because obviously, you don't know what you are doing…I need to talk to the others." Matt said to her, while opening the kitchen door and walking toward the entrance of the house. "I don't even know if you've been compelled by him or not? I need to protect you against your very bad judgement" He added, while putting his hand on the door handle and turning one last time to stare at his friend.
"What? No, I was not compelled by him! He would not do that to me!" Caroline mumbled, angrily, between her teeth, before crossing her arms in front of her chest. "Maybe you've been compelled to be the new toy boy of Rebekah?"
"No, Caroline, I still have my free will, I'm not so sure about you though." He replied to her, while turning the handle to open the door.
Caroline closed her eyes, she would have no other choice but to do what she was about to do. She pushed, abruptly, with her left hand, the door closed in front of Matt's eyes.
"What? What are you doing, Caroline?" Matt asked, with a shocked expression. "Let me out!"
She turned his body around, before pushing him with her vampire speed on the opposite wall of the hallway, while putting her upper right forearm on his throat.
"Caroline?" Matt chocked, with wide eyes.
"You'll forget everything about this night. You'll remember only that we run into each other at the Mystic Grill and that you offered to give me a ride to bring me home." Caroline murmured as an order, while compelling him.
Matt closed his eyes, before blinking them several times, while seeing Caroline standing in front of him, with a big smile on her face.
"Thank you for the ride, Matt." She said, while turning the door handle and opening the front door. "Goodnight." She added to him.
Matt shook his head, disoriented, before stepping outside her house, turning on himself and saying:
"Goodnight Caroline!" He replied, before walking toward his truck.
Caroline closed the entrance door, while letting a sigh of relief out of her mouth. She let her body fall on the wooded floor, her back now leaning on the wall, before bursting into crying.
She got back to reality at the sound of the ring tone, while wiping away her tears from her cheeks, before answering. God! That man was persistent when he wanted to be.
"What?" She yelled into her phone.
"You're crying?" Klaus noticed, while walking along the country road to head back toward the city. "What happened, Caroline? Talk to me." He asked more.
"Like you care about this?" Caroline replied.
"I care about you, Love. Did Donovan hurt you? I swear I will…" He lashed out in anger, into his cell phone.
"What? No! It's the other way around, Klaus." She responded to him, while sniffling, and rubbing her nose. "You know what is puzzling me? It's that you never seem to notice that it is "YOU" who put everybody in misery!"
"You did no seem to be in misery, while being in my arms in the car, Love?" He mocked, while grinning.
Caroline rolled her eyes to the ceiling, while wincing.
"I faked my feelings for you; it is part of the game." She replied, shrugging, before hearing Klaus burst into loud laughter. Something about the sound of his laughter was extremely enjoyable to her.
"Ah, Love…We, you and I, both know that what happened in that car was not faked." Klaus replied, smirking.
"I do what I have to do to obtain what I want from you, and you do the same with me." Caroline replied to him, while shrugging some more. "Don't put feelings on this."
"Nothing about you was planned in my head, Caroline. But, if it's easier for you to accept it this way?" He replied, in a sadder tone of voice.
Caroline felt ashamed of herself. He had been a true gentleman: courteous, kind, in each of the dates that she had been in his company. And, if she was honest with herself, she would admit that she wanted to kiss Klaus as much as he wanted to kiss her, since their last date in Paris.
"How's Irène?" She asked him, to make diversion, while putting a smile back on Klaus's face.
"She'll live!" He replied. "And, she'll be happy to know that you care about her, way more than me." He added with a smile, while making her blush.
"Where are you?" She asked.
"I'm heading back toward Mystic Falls." He replied, while looking at the moon.
"You're walking?" She asked, in total shock.
"Is this your way of not caring about me again, Love? Faked feelings?" He asked her, scoffer. "Are you challenging me, to prove to you the contrary again?"
"No, it's me who's bored to death, and who's trying to pass the time in hope that you will hang up soon." She replied, while biting her bottom lip to not burst into laughter.
"What happened with Donovan?" He asked again.
"Nothing happened that should concern you." She replied to him, while raising her chin in the air.
"Translation: It is all about "me" " He mocked, while hearing her sigh in annoyance.
"I had to compel Matt." She confessed to the Original.
"I figured that much." Klaus responded.
"How could you have known?" She asked him.
"Well, you don't have to be Einstein, Love. He would blow this out of proportion to the Salvatore brothers and the little "Heavenly" team, in the good intention of keeping you away from the hands of the bad hybrid. Am I even near the truth?" He asked, while arching one of his eyebrows.
"Not too far…" She murmured.
"We both know that you don't need any protection when you with me or in my arms, Caroline." He whispered, seductively, while making her blush.
"And you seem to stay stuck on the idea that I like you, when in fact, I have the complete reverse effect on me." She replied, while wincing.
"And for the third time you're challenging me to show you otherwise." He laughed, before adding more seriously. "I swear that I had no idea that Rebekah was at the lake with Matt, Caroline."
"I know, and I believe you." Caroline replied, while nodding her head.
"Now, I suggest that you save the number." He ordered the young woman to do.
"I'm sorry?" She asked, dumfounded.
"Put my number in your contacts." He suggested, once more.
Yes boss! She thought in her mind, while rolling her eyes. It's not like she was going to confess to him that she had already saved his number the first call he had made to her.
"Are we done for the night?" She asked.
"For a girl who's not interested, you certainly stayed on the phone for a good fifteen minutes, while chatting with me." He noticed, with a small laugh.
"I…What …No…Oh, go to hell!" She stammered the words, while hanging up on him for the third time.
Klaus busted into loud laughter, while closing his cell phone, before sliding it in the back pocket of his pants.
It was near midnight when Klaus Mikaelson entered the parlour room of his Manor, while rubbing the back of his neck to release the tension, before raising his sight in Rebekah's who was now standing in front of him, in the entrance of the room.
"Nick." She said to him, while rubbing her hands together.
"Bekah, not now, please…You got on my nerves enough as it is." He replied, while directing his walking steps toward his art shop.
"You don't understand, look who's here." She got his attention, while making him turn on himself.
"Elijah." He exclaimed, with astonishment.
"Good evening, Niklaus." Elijah replied, while rising on his feet from his sitting position in an armchair, before pulling the arm length of his tailored jacket.
"You're back." Klaus said, while narrowing his sight on his eldest brother.
"I'm back." Elijah simply replied, while nodding.
"What bring you back here, brother?" Klaus asked, before approaching the bar and pouring himself a glass of Whisky. "You want one?" He inquired, while showing Elijah an empty glass, to which his sibling shook his head in negation. "Rebekah, leave us, would you?" Klaus ordered her.
"What? No!" She exclaimed, vehemently, to him, while crossing her arms in front of her chest as rebellion. "Elijah is back and we can be a family again…We just need Kol to come back, as well, and we'll be united stronger than ever." She exclaimed.
"My sister Bekah is the eternal optimist!" Klaus mocked, before gulping his entire glass. "So, my dear Elijah, what is the purpose of your visit this time? Or is it that you are feeling nostalgic, and in need to see your precious Elena? You always had a soft spot for the doppelganger. I mean the list is adding up now: Tatia, Katherine, and now Elena…Though, you're not in luck this time, the Salvatore brothers are in it for the win, and are a strong competition."
Elijah sighed with annoyance, before turning his sight to the left, while putting Klaus speech in the back of his mind.
"Alaric Saltzman is dead. He had been found in a dark alley near the Mystic Falls grill." Elijah announced, while sliding his hands into his front pants' pockets.
"What? How is this even possible?" Rebekah asked, in a mix of complete shock and relief.
"Damon? Stefan?" Klaus asked Elijah. "Those morons were finally able to do something right for once? I can hardly believe it. Which human did it? Jeremy Gilbert?" He asked, while smirking, and pouring another glass.
"Unlikely, it's actually Damon Salvatore who found the corpse in the alley." Elijah explained, while crossing his arms over his chest, before locking his sight in Klaus's.
"What? How is this possible? There was only one way of killing an original, and it was with the ultimate dagger that mother created, and Alaric had it in his possession?" Rebekah said, in surprise.
"Rebekah, leave us, would you?" Klaus ordered his sister, for the second time.
"Nick stop treating me like a little girl…I hate it!" She busted in anger.
"Rebekah, we'll see you in the morning, my dear…Go to sleep." Elijah ordered, firmly, but with a calmer tone of voice, while nodding in direction of the exit door.
Rebekah closed her fists in anger. She had not chance to win against her united brothers.
"Fine…I will!" She mumbled in her teeth, before approaching Elijah and kissing him on the left cheek. "Nice to see you back, Elijah." She said to him, before leaving the room.
"Like wise, Rebekah." Elijah replied, before turning back his sight into the one of Klaus.
"Have you done it, Elijah?" Klaus finally asked, while sitting on the left arm of the leather sofa.
"I don't have a suicidal mission in my bones, Niklaus." Elijah responded, while shrugging his shoulders. "Killing Alaric Saltzman, with the help of mother's dagger, would have killed me instantly. I was against mother's methods to get rid of us all. Therefore; I would not vanish so easily while bending myself at her wishes."
Klaus rose on his feet, before taking a few walking steps to reach Elijah's standing position, while staring into his eyes.
"Who cares, Elijah, the man is dead, therefore "we", or should I say, "I" am not a target anymore." Klaus replied to his brother, with a smile blessing the corners of his lips.
"On the contrary, Niklaus…Alaric is dead but the dagger is still in the hands of the murderer. You're more a target now than ever, "we" all are." Elijah replied, while making Klaus wince.
"Do you know something?" Klaus asked, with an arched eyebrow.
"Let just say that I hope that this dagger is not in the wrong hands." Elijah replied to him, while turning his head and sighing.
"And those hands you're talking about, they belong to whom exactly, Elijah?" Klaus asked.
Elijah lowered his head, before turning his back to his brother and taking a few walking steps to stand in front of the bay window, while sliding his hands back in his pants pockets, while staring at the night.
"If it's another vampire, he won't be able to kill us, Elijah." Klaus said, while reaching his brother position.
"Who said anything about our species, Klaus?" Elijah replied.
Klaus raised his sight to look at his brother, with a surprise expression plastered on his face.
"What are you saying?" Klaus asked, while scrutinizing his brother's face. Elijah stayed immobile and inexpressive, and being inexpressive was something that he was mastering very well.
"I'm saying that we don't know who has the silver dagger at the moment." Elijah replied to his brother, before adding. "And that we need to watch our back, Niklaus."
"You know more, I can tell." Klaus said, while grabbing firmly the right forearm of Elijah. "We are the ultimate species, Elijah. We are the "Originals", nothing and no one can beat us!" Klaus exclaimed in anger, while hitting his chest with his closed fist.
"And yet, Finn is dead, isn't he?" Elijah replied, while staring into Klaus's eyes.
Klaus lowered his sight, while wincing and swallowing a lump in his throat.
"Finn had drawn in the color of blood his own destiny, Elijah, and you know it." Klaus replied to him, while shrugging his shoulders. "He was against being a vampire. He wanted to end his life."
"But, he wasn't the one who did it. He did not choose to die this way, Niklaus." Elijah replied, while staring into Klaus's eyes. "It came to my attention that you got somehow attached to Miss Caroline Forbes." He added to the hybrid.
"You're keeping track on me, now Elijah?" Klaus asked, while smirking. "I'm kind of flatter, brother." He added to him, while walking in circle around him. "But…" He questioned, before placing himself at a near inch of Elijah's face. "This is none of your business; I suggest that you go pay a visit to your dear Elena, if you're looking for entertainment, and keep out of my personal life!"
"As you wish, Niklaus…But, don't come crying on my shoulders if something happened to your lady friend afterward, because this time it will be your hands with blood on them." Elijah replied, while walking toward the door. "By the way, it's nice to see that someone was able to rift the walls of indifference, anger and hate, that you've surrounded yourself for near a thousand years now." He added, before leaving the room.
Klaus closed his fists, while taking a few walking steps toward the bar. He poured, with his shaking hands, another glass of whisky, before throwing the glass on the fire wall with all the anger he had gathered inside of him.
"Answer me, damn it!" Rebekah mumbled, between her teeth, with her cell phone glued to her right ear, while taking place on her bed, before biting her nails in anticipation.
"You got to be kidding me." She heard Matt voice. "Rebekah, it is nearly 1:00 O'clock in the morning, for God sake! Are you alright?"
"Yes, I'm sorry, I wanted to thank you for the ride back home, and…It's just that I was wondering how you were holding up since you know, we saw them together?" She whispered to him, while blushing.
"Well…You'll have to enlighten me, because at this hour, my brain is fried." He answered, while making her arched her eyebrows in surprise.
"Oh…Well, I …I thought that you would still be upset with my brother and Caroline, but my bad, obviously it did not upset you as much as I thought that it would." Rebekah replied to him.
"Rebekah, I had an exhausting night at work, I don't have a clue what you are talking about…And I don't have the time in the middle of the night for your rubbish speech." Matt exclaimed.
Rebekah jumped away from her bed, while passing a hand through her tangled hair, before pacing back and forth.
"What do you mean you have passed the night, at the Grill, working?" Rebekah asked him, completely dumfounded.
"Because it's what I did, Rebekah, and it's not because you do not have to lift a finger to earn you money, that it's the same for me." He replied while adding. "And…I don't know where you get the idea that I gave you a ride back home? Did you meet a random guy again? Were you drunk tonight? Did you think that it was me?" Matt asked, dumbfounded, while straightening his body on a sitting position on his bed. Since they had kissed, in the parlour room of the Mikaelson Manor, it was the first time that he had heard from her.
"Oh, my God…" Rebekah whispered, while putting a hand over her mouth, before adding in anger to herself. "Nick!" It was obvious that her brother had compelled Matt to forget all about their previous encounter.
"Rebekah, answer me…Are you alright? Are you sober?" Matt asked, once more.
"Yes, I am…I'm sorry, I must…I mean, forget about it!" She replied to Matt, before hanging up on him.
"Rebekah…Rebekah?" Matt screamed several times into his cell phone, before closing the line, and wincing. "Damn!" He mumbled between his teeth, before passing a hand through his hair. What was this all about? Since their last kiss, he wasn't able to stop thinking about her. And now, this call was not going to help him fall back soundly asleep…That was for sure!
He lied down on his pillow with his right forearm tucked underneath his head. It's true that something about the past evening sounded strange and made him feel uneasy about it. Like moments of the night missing from his memory, but he had put that in the back of his mind, and had blamed it on him being tired after a hard day at work. Now, after this call, he could not stop thinking that something was even more suspicious about it.
"I can't believe you did this!" Rebekah yelled from the top of her lungs, while storming into the parlour room and reaching Klaus's standing position, in front of the fireplace.
"Oh, for God sake, what is it now, Bekah? Go to sleep!" Klaus exclaimed, why rolling his eyes to the ceiling.
"You compelled Matt to forget all about the events of tonight!" She lashed out at her brother, while putting her hands on each side of her waist.
"What? No!" He responded, before closing his eyes, wincing, and remembering that Caroline had compelled Donovan to forget about their previous encounter.
"No? Seriously…You're going to lie to my face and telling me that you did not compel Matt to forget all about tonight?" Rebekah asked him, while pointing a finger at his chest.
Klaus stroke his eyes, while shaking his head. Ah Caroline, what are you making me do for you, Love? He thought in his mind, before raising his head to stare at his sister.
"The man is a moron, Bekah…I still don't know what you find, even remotely, interesting about him?" He asked her, while crossing his arms in front of his chest.
"That is beside the point, Nick. You've protected your precious Caroline by compelling Matt. He certainly did not ask for this!" She lashed out.
"He'll live, Bekah." Klaus responded to her, while shrugging his shoulders, before adding. "You should be happy that I did not kill him instead." He added, while arching one of his eyebrows, before nodding his head.
"I won't forgive you for this….Sometimes you can be the biggest bastard!" She, hurtfully, screamed at him.
Klaus locked his teary eyes into his sister's, before swallowing a lump in his throat and replying:
"But that is what I am, isn't it, Bekah, the bastard of this family?" Klaus said, before walking toward the door and adding. "Don't wait for me; I'll be out all night…Not that you would care, anyway." He added to her, before leaving the parlour room.
"Nick!" Rebekah yelled his name several times, while rushing into the entrance of the Manor after him, before seeing the front door being slammed in her face. "I'm sorry." She whispered, while putting a hand over her chest, and filling tears rolling on her cheeks.
Caroline was turning and tossing in her bed since a good hour now. She sighed in anger, while pushing her sheet away from her body, and turning to look at her alarm clock: 2:30 am!
"Seriously?!" She mumbled in desperation in her teeth, before dropping her head back on the pillow. "Oh, I can't sleep!" She murmured to herself, before turning on her right side, sliding her hands under her pillow, and closing her eyes, with memory images of the evening flashing into her mind…
He laid himself in top of her, while keeping his lips on her neck, before hearing her moan sounds of ecstasy.
"Caress me, Caroline…" He murmured to her, as a request, while putting her hands on his chest, and creating discharge of electricity on her fingers, spreading a second later in her entire body.
She reopened her eyes widely, while turning on her left side. She re-closed them and focused her thoughts on the beautiful lake view that she has had the chance to see earlier, before suddenly drifting into a peaceful sleep.
A refreshing summery breeze entered by the opened window of Caroline's bedroom; with on its trail the spirit of the dark shadow of a hybrid.
Klaus took a few silent walking steps to reach the bed, before very so slowly taking a sitting position beside Caroline. She had fallen asleep with the sheet pushed at her feet, while wearing a two pieces PJ, with a short that left her sexy long legs at his sight, and a white lace camisole with a deep cleavage that was showing the roundness of her full breasts, her blond hair spread all over her pillow.
Klaus felt a mix of intense desire and sweet tenderness hitting his entire body all at once. He needed to leave or he would not be able to control what would happen next. But, the tips of his fingers were already sliding on the lengths of her legs, making her moan sounds of pleasure in her sleep. And without being able of controlling himself, he closed his eyes and entered the deepness of her mind, but what he found behind the curtain of her soul, was not in need of any of his erotic compulsion…She was already, and shockingly dreaming of him!
Caroline was standing in front of the lake, with her eyes closed, while feeling the fresh breeze of the wind caressing her cheeks. She was wearing a see through lace summery dress, with her long hair falling freely on her shoulders. She opened her eyes, while looking at the reflection of the moon over the water, when suddenly her breathing quickened, her pupils widened, her legs started to shake. She raised her right hand and placed it on her chest, while trying to control her raising heartbeats.
Klaus was slowly getting out of the lake, with drops of water running down his naked muscular chest, eyes sparkling with burning desire, parted lips, with the tip of his tongue sliding on their lengths, while passing a slow hand though his wet, tangled, and curly hair. He walked his way out of the water with seductive, sexy, and calculated movements.
He got out of the lake while wearing what God had gave him the day of his birth, which was basically not a single clothes on his back, before showing to Caroline, the intensity of his desire, while making her blush. He reached Caroline standing position, on the lakeshore, before grabbing her by the waist, pulling her strongly against his chest, before sliding his manly hands under the skirt of her dress, while raising the fabric on her thighs, before grabbing the tender part of her flesh.
"Oh…" She moaned in surprise, with flushed cheeks.
"What are you wearing under your dress?" He asked, his lips murmuring the words in top of hers. "As I can hope, and from the sight of it, you're not wearing much at all, Love." He mocked her tenderly.
"I'm wearing nothing underneath my dress." She answered him, while grabbing his naked shoulders to keep her balance. She felt like she was drunk and about to fall on the ground.
"Good girl!" He replied, smirking.
"My dress is all wet." She noticed, before being raised in his arms, her legs wrapped around his waist, while being carried into the water.
"The dress is about to be even wetter." He replied, while entering their bodies into the freshness of the lake.
Caroline entire body tensed while entering the water, before feeling a range of delightful shivers and an intensifying fire reaching her spine. She crossed her arms around his neck, feeling his hands lowering the straps of her dress on her arms.
"You like being with me in the water, Caroline?" He asked the young woman, while lowering his head, his full lips kissing the hollow of her shoulders, before slowly lowering the zipper of her dress.
"Yes…" She murmured, with her eyes closed.
"What else do you want me to do to you?" He asked in a shallow murmur, while raising his lips on the right side of her neck, managing at the same time, to undress her completely out of the said dress, by passing the fabric above her head, and letting it float on the lake.
"I want to be yours…" She murmured to him, in a whisper.
"You already are, sweetheart." He replied, before crashing his mouth on hers in an intense, powerful, and passionate kiss.
Caroline let out a cry, while strengthening her upper body in a sitting position on the bed, before placing a hand over her chest and opening her eyes widely under the intense realisation and shock of her dream. She was all sweaty, and a range of intense shivers was passing through her entire body, from her head to her toes.
She took several breaths into her lungs, before closing her eyes to try to calm herself down, while repeating to herself: This was just a dream, this was just a dream…Then, she raised her right hand to her mouth, while feeling with the tips of her fingers the swallowing of her lips….It was like the kiss of her dream had been real?
She shook her head in denial, while lowering her head back on the pillow, with her hand still placed over her lips.
Klaus entered the entrance hall of his manor, while whistling, merely, his way up the staircase.
"Nick?" He heard his sister calling him, before turning on himself, while holding the ramp.
"Bekah? Why aren't you sleeping, it's very late?" He asked her, in surprise.
She was holding a shawl over her shoulders, while taking a few walking steps to reach his position on the stairs.
"I was worrying about you, you left, and you were mad, and I felt horrible." She said, while looking at him with tears in her eyes. "I'm so sorry, Nick…I didn't meant what I said." She tried to explain, before adding. "Please forgive me?"
Klaus lowered his sight, while swallowing a lump in his throat and feeling a different range of emotions hitting him all at once, before nodding his head to his sister.
She reached his position on the same stair, raising her body on her tip toes and sweet kissing his left cheek, before climbing the rest of the stairs.
"Rebekah, can I inquire why you've asked me to bring you at the lake of all places, and after school, none the less?" Matt asked her, while following her footsteps to reach the lakeshore.
She stood immobile, in front of the lake, while seeing Matt reach her standing position from the corners of her eyes, before turning on herself, encircling her arms around his neck, before sliding her mouth on his to kiss him.
Matt stood still for a few seconds, with his eyes widely opened, before sliding one of his hands around her waist, and the other one in her hair, while closing his eyes and returning her kiss.
"Wait a minute, I don't understand this?!" He asked, in complete shock, while gently pushing the Original away from his embrace. "We kissed at your home, and then I did not hear from you for days, except from your call in the middle of the night…And now, you brought me here, to kiss me?" He added, completely dumfounded.
"You couldn't understand…Let just say that I needed to regain a moment than was stolen from me." She responded to him, while nervously rubbing her hands together.
"For God sake, Rebekah…You're like the most complex girl that I ever known!" He exclaimed, while passing a hand through his hair.
Rebekah shrugged her shoulders, before approaching him, and sliding her hands on his chest.
"And, is it bothering you that much?" She asked, while smiling seductively.
"It depends on the day, my mood, and what devil plan you have in your pretty head." Matt replied, while smiling back at her before sliding strands of her hair, behind her ears.
"I don't have a devil plan at this moment." She replied, while biting her bottom lips.
Matt locked his sight in hers, while slowly lowering his head to kiss her again, before hearing both of their cell phones ringing at the same time.
They looked at each other with surprise, before reading their text messages.
"It's from Elijah." Rebekah exclaimed, dumfounded. "And, yes … By the way, he's back in town."
"Same!" Matt said to her.
"Meet me at the Salvatore Boarding house in a half hour. This is not a request, it's an order." Rebekah read on her small screen.
"What is this about?" Matt asked, while shrugging his shoulders.
"I have no idea." Rebekah replied, honestly, while raising her sight in his.
Caroline pushed her way inside the passengers' cabin of the Mikaelson private jet, while carrying her luggage in her right hand. She winced when she noticed Klaus sitting in one of the ultra-modern – sophisticated – leather seats. She dropped her bag at her feet, in a big "bang" noise, while crossing her arms in front of her chest, before standing in front of the hybrid with an angry stare.
Klaus folded his newspaper calmly on his laps, before taking a sip of his morning coffee.
"Good morning, sweetheart, how are you on this lovely day?" He asked her, while raising his mischievous stare in hers.
Caroline closed her eyes, while sighing and counting to ten, before reopening them.
"Don't push it, you have hissed and commanded me to be here, and here I am, like a good obedient girl!" She shouted at him.
"Now, Love…I did not command you, I ask you, nicely, to a date, it's not, nearly, the same." He replied, while smiling at her. "You remember our agreement, don't you?"
"Madam, do you want me to take care for your luggage for you?" A steward asked Caroline.
"What?" She busted at the poor soul, before shaking her head and adding. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry…Yes, thank you so much." She added, while blushing.
"Not a problem Madam…My name is Alexander, I'm the flight attendant for the duration of this flight, don't hesitate to ask me if you are in need of anything." He replied, while nodding his head in respect, before taking from Caroline's hands her luggage.
Caroline nodded his head, before turning her sight back at Klaus, who was signing her, with his left hand, to take a sitting position on the seat at his left side, near the porthole. She sighed more, before striding over his legs, and taking a place near him.
"Don't forget that there will only be three more dates left after this one." She mumbled angrily in her teeth, while closing her seat belt.
"Sweetheart, how could I ever forget with your lovely voice repeating it to me at every chance that you get?" He responded, with a smile twisting the corners of his lips, while taking his newspaper back in his hands.
"Well" She started. "This date should count for at least three dates. You took advantage of the fact that you are the one deciding of all the conditions regarding our agreement. I would have never accepted to follow you for more than a day."
"Your fault, Love, if you did not put your conditions before, therefore, I put mines." He replied, while turning his head, and blinking an eye at her.
"I had to lie, to cheat, and to compel people for being able to be with you on this airplane." She added to him, while pouting.
"And you're getting quite good at it, if I may say." He mocked her, while giggling.
"This is not a joke, Klaus!" She replied to him, while pushing with her right hand, his newspaper on his laps.
"It's actually quite funny." He replied to her, while smirking more.
"Grr…" She growled the sound of discontent, while crossing her arms in front of her chest, before taking a look outside, through the porthole. "If this is the case, I refuse to speak to you for the all duration of the flight."
Klaus busted into laughter, before stroking his teary eyelids.
"I highly doubt that you could hold your speak for a good twenty hours." He replied to her.
"Twenty hours…You mean cooked up in this airplane with you?!" Caroline exclaimed in panic, before asking. "Where are we going?"
"You'll know soon enough." He responded to her, with a mocking tone of voice.
The airport land crew pushed off the gateway from the entrance of the plane, and Alexander pushed the porthole door, while taking the safety precaution necessary.
Caroline grabbed the arms of her seat, while sighing, and closing her eyes. This plane was way smaller than the one they had took to go to Paris.
"This plane is smaller, isn't it?" She suddenly asked Klaus.
He turned his head to take a look at her, while dropping his newspaper on a near side table.
"It's very safe, Caroline." He murmured to her, while caressing her right cheek with his left hand. "Gilles has been our pilot of Elijah's plane for years now." He added, as an explanation, before sliding a strand of her hair behind her right ear, creating a range of shivers in her spine.
"Elijah?" She repeated, while turning her head to take a glimpse at him, in total surprise.
"Yes, my brother is back at Mystic Falls; therefore, we are able to take the family jet." He responded to Caroline, without giving any further explanation.
"You seem all chippie about it." She responded, while rolling her eyes.
"There's nothing more to say about the return of my brother." He replied, while locking his eyes with hers.
Caroline blushed, before turning her sigh to the porthole, once again, and hearing a voice coming from the plane speakers system.
"Good day Mister Mikaealson, Miss Forbes, my name is Gilles, and I will be your pilot for the duration of this flight. I'll be assisted by Roger, the co-pilot. The duration of this flight, if we don't experience any turbulence should be of approximately of 19 hours, 34 minutes. I'll keep you posted of the flight itinerary to Tokyo in every four to five hours."
"Tokyo!" She repeated in shock, before turning her head toward Klaus, while showing him sparks of pure joy in her eyes.
"Happy?" Klaus asked, while smiling at Caroline.
She did not answer him, but she smiled back, before turning her sight at the porthole, seeing the plane rolling toward the runway.
"Folks, fasten your seat belts, we're about to take off." The pilot added into the speakers.
Caroline sighed in fear, while sliding her trembling right hand in Klaus's, making him startle in surprise and turn his head to stare at her, before squeezing her hand and raising it to his mouth to kiss its back.
Thank you for reading: "In the showdown of a life", which was the sixth chapter.
A few of the scenes were rewritten.
This story is now completed.
REVISED DATE FOR THE SEQUEL: "SEVEN SINS" / autumn – winter 2013/2014.