"SEVEN DATES"
Fan Fiction story / Season 3
By: Lovely Vero
Starring:
Klaus & Caroline
Matt & Rebekah
Chapter 9
"In the shadow of the full moon"
Not once, but twice in the same day, Elijah had to rekindle a part of his past in a time space of a few hours. A part, which he had certainly prayed and wished to forget for eternity, but the urgency of the moment, obliged him to put aside his pride and work in team with his brother and the vampires of Mystic Falls. Their specie was in danger, even more in danger than when their mother had decided to exterminate the fruits of her womb: Her children!
It was now his duty to explain to them a part of ancient history that he thought was buried in ashes forever: The Seven Treasures of the seven Kitsunes.
Klaus was pacing, back and forth in front of the fire mantle, while glancing, from time to time, at his brother, before suddenly bursting all his anger at Elijah.
"Will you finally explain all of this to me, or do I need to drag it out of your mouth, Elijah?" Klaus asked, while passing a hand though his tangled hair.
Elijah sighed, before placing both of his hands on each side of his waist, while closing his eyes for a short moment, before finding in himself the strength to answer his sibling.
"There's species that you've probably never heard before, we are not alone." Elijah replied, while lowering his head.
"You don't say, mate?" Klaus responded, falsely surprised. "I think I figured this out, the moment Caroline was abducted, and I was standing in front of an empty showcase, already prepared to expose our mother's lethal, silver dagger." He added. "Who's that fucking son of a bitch, Elijah? Who's that Shinichi character? And furthermore … What is he?"
"He is someone that you should never count as one of your enemy, Klaus." Elijah warned.
Klaus took a few walking steps to reach Elijah's standing position.
"The minute you had learned from me that Shinichi had in his possession our mother's dagger, you took the first flight to Tokyo, at the same time I was rushing out of the country to put miles of distance between that lunatic and myself, while bringing Caroline into safety. What is going on, Elijah?" Klaus asked, while narrowing his sight on him.
"I thought he was dead. I witnessed his death centuries ago, in Egypt, but always had my doubt that he could have survived the accident." Elijah replied to his brother. "As for the lovely Miss Forbes, I told you before Klaus, associating yourself with her will put the both of you in danger, especially in this present situation."
"And what situation are you talking about, Elijah?" Klaus inquired, with an arched eyebrow.
"Is this going to be like a weekly "Sunday brunch" gathering thing?" Damon asked Elijah, who was standing in front of the window, while entering the Parlour room of his house, before directing his walking steps toward the bar.
"Damon" Stefan warned, in annoyance, while crossing his arms in front of his chest.
"Yes, brother of mine, what did I do now to make you lose your legendary reserved self?" Damon grinned, while taking a big gulp of his Bourbon glass.
Stefan sighed, while ignoring his brother, before passing a hand through his hair.
"So, who's missing: Witchy – Blondie - Bitchy - Matty?" Damon smirked, while giggling, and gulping the rest of the amber liquid.
Elena rolled her eyes at Damon, before staring at the eldest of the Originals, while approaching his standing position, before sliding a strand of her hair behind her right ear.
Elijah turned his sight toward Elena, while timidly smiling to her.
"I can feel that you're upset, something has happened since our last encounter and visit in here, Elijah, and it is telling me that it could be real bad?" She murmured, while staring into his dark eyes.
Elijah lowered his sight, while slowly rubbing his hands together.
"I'm here to tell the truth, Elena. Please, try to avoid judging me for my words, or my past actions." He asked of her.
"I don't know what to say?" She responded in shock of his sudden admission.
"You never need to say anything with me, Elena." He replied to her, before raising his right hand and brushing a strand of her hair, behind her shoulder, while making her blush, in front of the intense and angry gaze of Damon Salvatore.
"OK, I'm here, what is it this time, Elijah?" Rebekah asked, while entering the parlor room, before crossing her arms in front of her chest.
"I have new information, Rebekah." He informed, while drowning his sight in his sister's.
Rebekah blenched, while swallowing a lump in her throat. She knew her older brother too well, and the emptiness in his eyes could only be the prediction of bad news.
"Sorry for the late arrival, we were stuck in traffic, from school to here." Bonnie informed the present audience, while entering the room, with Matt on her footsteps.
Matt nodded his head, as a salutation to Stefan, before turning his sight toward Rebekah, while glancing at her more time than necessary. She kept her stare in his, before lowering her flushed cheeks and head. Not defeated by the blonde careless attitude, Matt approached her, before brushing the inside of her left forearm with one of his fingers.
"What are you doing?" She asked, in a murmur, while scattering the room to verify that not a single one of these idiots were watching them.
"I did not hear from you since we fell asleep in your bedroom?" Matt whispered near her left ear, while brushing the tip of his lips on her hair.
Rebekah startled at his question, while pushing her body away from his too close proximity.
"I was busy." She responded, evasively.
"Elijah? I'm not known as a patient man; you know this about me. I'm waiting for an answer." Klaus said, while frowning with anger.
"And that was the weakness that oftentimes has put you in danger, Klaus." Elijah responded to his brother, before crossing his arms in front of his chest. "You are too impulsive and impatient most of the time, and not enough at others."
"What is your connection with Shinichi?" Klaus required an answer from his brother, with his closed fists placed on each side of his tensed body.
"So grandpa, now that everybody is here, can we start?" Damon asked Elijah.
Elena scattered the parlor room, before shaking her head in disapproval.
"We can't…. Caroline isn't here." She noticed.
"Klaus will take care of informing Miss Caroline Forbes and Mister Tyler of the problem in hands." Elijah responded to Elena, without further explanation from his part.
"Oh, I bet that he will inform Caroline, above all." Damon smirked, while pouring himself another glass of Bourbon. "He's literally drooling over Barbie." He added, with laughter in his voice.
"Damon!" Elena warned him.
"What?" Damon responded, while shrugging his shoulders. "He's infatuated with her, like a lost puppy. He's following her every move."
"Elijah, I don't feel at ease with my friend Caroline being in contact with Klaus. Your brother is unstable and dangerous, and I'm sorry...But… If it was not for his blood linking him to all of my friends, and the silver dagger of your mother, we would have done our best to get rid of him." Elena confessed to him, while crossing her arms in front of her chest, and raising her chin toward him.
Elena, if only you knew what my brother wants from your vampire friend. Elijah thought in himself, while biting his bottom lip, before raising his sight in hers.
"Fair enough, Elena, I can't debate your dislike of my brother. But, I can assure you that in this matter, your friend is actually the safest in the proximity of my brother Klaus." Elijah replied, while nodding his head in reassurance.
They all startled in surprise, before staring at each other in complete astonishment.
"That is a very big assumption, Elijah that is making me think, with certainty that a bigger threat than Klaus is near us." Stefan brought his thoughts to the table, while crossing his arms in front of his chest.
"It's actually watching our every move, Stefan." Elijah replied, before adding. "An enemy wants to take down the entire vampire specie, and he won't back off until he'll succeed."
Damon dropped his glass on the bar, while narrowing his stare on Elijah, before taking a few walking steps to reach the eldest Original.
"Who's that new enemy?" Damon inquired, with a raised eyebrow.
"His professional name is Arian Satō, He's known as a rich and powerful business man, with his empire located in Tokyo." Elijah started explaining, as first input.
"Tokyo?" They all exclaimed in shock.
"What would a Japanese business man want with all of us, in the old Mystic Falls, U.S.A.?" Damon exclaimed, in complete shock.
"He had already obtained what he wanted, Damon." Elijah answered him.
"Oh yes? And what is that?" Damon responded, all snaky.
"The silver dagger created by my mother, the ultimate weapon to destroy the vampire specie." Elijah responded, to a jaw to the floor – speechless, Damon.
"What?" Stefan exclaimed, before adding. "Are you telling us that this Arian Satō is the one responsible for killing Alaric and that he has now the dagger in his possession?"
"Yes." Elijah nodded his head.
"And for what lunatic reason did he do that?" Damon busted in anger.
"Elijah?" Rebekah whispered his name, while swallowing a lump in her throat. "What does he want?"
Elijah raised his head, before drowning his sight in Rebekah's.
"He wants revenge, Rebekah." He replied to his sister and the present assembly.
"Revenge for what, Elijah?" Klaus asked, while crossing his arms over his chest, and placing himself at a near inch of his brother's face.
Elijah turned on himself, before taking a few walking steps toward the bay window, his sight lost into the sunrise.
"Arian Satō, whose true name is actually Shinichi, is one of the Seven Kitsunes of the Royal Guard who had the responsibility of protecting Inari, known as their divinity."
"What do you mean by: their divinity?" Klaus asked, while reaching his brother standing position.
"Yes, their God, their protector, the chief of their race...Whatever you want to call this entity." Elijah explained to Klaus.
"You said one of the Seven?" Klaus inquired, with a raised eyebrow, while crossing his arms in front of his chest. "Are you telling me that there are more lunatics like him in the world?"
"No, for what I know, he's the only survivor or his specie." Elijah reassured his brother.
"And who were the others?" Klaus asked Elijah.
"I know about them, Elijah!" Rebekah exclaimed, proudly, before adding. "I heard mother discussing this curse / legend, a short while after our transition as vampires."
"Did you say a curse legend?" Damon exclaimed, while rolling his eyes to the ceiling, and gesturing with his hands. "You got to be kidding me; I thought we were done with this shit, especially after the bogus curse of the moon and the sun!"
"Except that this time, this curse / legend is far from being bogus, Damon." Elijah responded to him, while shaking his head.
"And, don't stand there, tell us!?" Damon said to Rebekah, while shrugging his shoulders in annoyance.
"Seven children, forming the Royal Guard, were created by witches to protect Inari, and to balance the supernatural world. They would contribute into keeping the peace between the species, and more so between the werewolves and the vampires. But, the legend says that the Seven Children have become demoniac and started to live for their own goal of power." Rebekah started explaining.
"Did you say seven children? Like the seven dwarfs in White Snow?" Damon giggled.
Rebekah rolled her eyes in annoyance at Damon before sighing loudly and continuing.
"Their names were: Akainu, Chihaki, Fumiaki, Kazuhiko, Misao, Rengu, and Shinichi." Rebekah enumerated the names, before turning her sight toward her brother. "Are you telling me that this was not just a curse / legend after all?"
"They all existed, as much as we exist right this moment. "Elijah replied, while nodding his head to his sister. "But, the reality is far from being that simple." He added. "Their main goal was not to balance the supernatural world like the witches thought they would, it was to protect The Seven Treasures of Inari. – Each of the seven Kitsunes would be assigned to one of the treasures, as its eternal guard"
"Did you say: The Seven Treasures?" Bonnie repeated in astonishment, while tilting her head, and adding. "I remember reading about that in my Grimoire, something about the protection of the Seven Elements related to Seven Treasures that could not even be valued by human mind."
"Then, you'll know that what I am saying, is not bogus, my dear Bonnie, and that I did not lose my mind over a fairy tale." Elijah replied to her, with a smirk plastered on his face.
"What would happen to those seven treasures if one of the Kitsunes would die?" Klaus asked Elijah.
"The Kitsune would disintegrate into dust, and the treasure would be lost into the immensity of a third dimension." Elijah explained, while shrugging his shoulders.
"Come on, Elijah, what no sense is all of this!" Klaus broke in hysterical laughter.
"Klaus, it's a legend, and like any legend, all of it is explained in codes, and need to be unscrambled, you should know better, didn't you create a bogus curse yourself?" Elijah replied to his brother in annoyance, and a slight amused tone of voice.
"Did you have contact with all of these Kitsunes?" Damon asked Elijah.
"No, I was only in close contact with Misao and Shinichi. They were the last survivors of their Kitsune specie." Elijah replied to him.
"And what is exactly a Kitsune?" Matt asked Elijah, while shrugging his shoulder, before feeling all eyes staring at him. "What? It's not like we are not wondering the same question in all of our heads?"
Elijah stared at his sister, before nodding his head as approval, for her to continue.
"For what I could remember of the legend, they are foxes." She simply replied, while shrugging her shoulders, and wincing.
"They are what?" Stefan exclaimed, in shock, before raising a hand over his mouth, to hide his hilarity.
"You got to be kidding me! Like the fable of the Fox and the Raven. Ok, it was already a stretch that I would believe that werewolves existed, but this is beyond the worst bag of crap that I've ever heard!" Damon busted in anger.
"And yet, some still believe that vampires don't exist." Elijah replied, with a mocking tone of voice, to which Damon stuck his tongue out to him.
"So, what now... That Kitsune, Shinichi /Character, is he transforming at night, and search to feed on what exactly? What kind of predator is he?" Damon asked more.
"Apparently, he's a predator that steal silver dagger, before using it to destroy all of us." Stefan replied to his brother. "Therefore, he wants to be the only survivor of his specie that will rule the supernatural world, and revenge the deaths of his sisters and brothers. But, to do that, he needs to eliminate us, proving that they were the superior specie after all."
"Good ascertainment, Stefan. But, to answer Damon's question, they lived centuries with no need to transform themselves into their supernatural form, they used to function normally as humans." Elijah explained further more.
"But then..." Elena exclaimed, while staring at Elijah. "Why fearing them, or should I say, why fearing this Shinichi character, if he is a simple human?"
"I did not say that he could not transform anymore, I've said that he chose to not transform as a fox, Elena." Elijah replied, before adding to a speechless crowd. "You need to fear him, because he's a human with the most evil magical power that you will ever meet in all your life, and there is no end to what he can do."
"Be smart like a fox." Klaus recited a proverb.
"Yes, and extremely smart he is." Elijah replied, before adding. "Never underestimating Shinichi, Klaus, it would be your first lethal mistake."
"So, let me get this story straight, a legend about treasures, a divinity who wanted to restore peace between species, but was in reality into it for his own selfish and diabolic reasons, and six Kitsunes who found their deaths, with only one survivor named Shinichi, who's really a fox with demonic powers, and who is now in our modern time, while taking the role of a successful, multi-millionaires business man." Klaus enumerated, while pacing back and forth, with both of his hands on each side of his waist, before suddenly holding his pace. "Furthermore, who apparently stole the silver dagger of our beloved mother, killed Alaric Saltzman to make his point clear to us, in hope to destroy the vampire specie in a near future, while trying to steal my mate from under my nose, did I miss something?" He added, while hitting his chest, with his close fist, in anger.
"You think that Caroline Forbes is your mate, really?" Elijah asked, surprised, while raising one of his eyebrows in surprise. "Is this your werewolf side who's speaking to you? Aren't you jumping the gun, Klaus? Last time I check she was in a relationship with Tyler Lockwood, who you so conveniently sired to obey you to open a free path for your game of seduction, or am I mistaking?" Elijah, while crossing his arms over his chest, and narrowing his sight on his brother.
"Mind you own business, Elijah." Klaus growled, before directing his walking steps toward the bar, and pouring himself a glass of Whisky.
"A bit early for a drink, don't you think?" Elijah wondered.
"What was your relation with Shinichi? Why does he have a grudge against our family?" Klaus went directly to the point.
"We are the Originals, Klaus, if he managed to kill us; he kills all the vampires who came from us. It's very simple actually." Elijah replied, while burying his hands in his pants pockets.
"It's more than that, I can feel it in my guts that it is more than a war between species, that his revenge was directed at you, at us: the Mikaelsons?" Klaus said, while gulping his glass.
Elijah lowered his head, while closing his eyes.
"What are you not telling me, Elijah?" Klaus asked more of his brother.
Bonnie grabbed her school bag, before pulling out from its inside pocket, her Grimoire. She grabbed the book, while sliding page after page, between her fingers, before holding a page opened, and reading.
"The Devil Tail: A predicament about a powerful Devil with "Seven Heads" tattooed on his back. This devil has the power of controlling human mind by putting his supernatural supremacy into the human world. Look at the drawing; it looks like a red fox tail with black tips... If this is accurate, then Shinichi would be one of the Seven Heads, one of the Kitsunes?"
Elijah approached Bonnie, before handing his right hand and asking:
"May I?"
"Please." She nodded, while handing her Grimoire to him.
Elijah studied the pages, while staring at the drawing.
"What does it say?" Stefan asked.
"That the supernatural and human worlds, as we know them today, would eventually come to an end, if the power of that demon is awaken one day." Elijah sighed.
"So, this Devil and this Shinichi could be considered, one of the same." Elena exclaimed in shock.
"My only hope for centuries was that he could have been dead." Elijah sighed, while nodding his head to her.
"How did you meet him in your past, Elijah?" Rebekah asked, mostly curious.
"I met Shinichi in Egypt, many centuries ago, Klaus. I was at that time on a crusade, in 1493 to be more precise." Elijah started explaining, while walking toward the sofa, before taking a sitting position, and holding his head in his hands.
"After Katerina had turned as a vampire, I remember that I'd lost all contact with you that specific year." Klaus responded, before taking a sitting position, on an arm chair, in front of his brother.
"I wonder why?" Elijah replied, to which Klaus shrugged his shoulders, indifferent. "Shinichi and I, we became friends rapidly. He taught me how to fight with a sword, he was an expert in this sort of Japanese combat, and we bounded over friendly competition, not that I could ever be of his calibre." Elijah explained to his brother.
"That explains his obsession with weapons like daggers, swords, and knifes." Klaus commented.
"Yes, Shinichi had two obsessions: swords and achieving his goal of becoming the one who would rule the world one day. I only learned, much later, of this second one." Elijah informed.
"Did he know what you were at that moment?" Klaus asked, in surprise.
"You mean a vampire? Yes, but the seven Kitsunes were acting pacifically at that moment. They were crusading, from one town to another town, like gypsies, entertaining the children of villages with magical tricks." Elijah explained to Klaus.
"But their main goal was to maintain equilibrium between species or did I misread you before?" Klaus enquired.
"Theoretically, yes, but in truth, they were only following the malefic spirit of Inari, and guarding the Seven Treasures, unaware that they were directing their malicious ambition toward their own deaths." Elijah explained furthermore.
"And in what way was that?" Klaus asked.
"To assure that the Kitsunes would never turned on the witches spirits who created them, and their divinity, Inari, they had attached to them the most lethal weapon that would lead them to their deaths if they were to become greedy, obsess by revenge, kill one of the species that they were supposed to protect, or turned on each other in hope to steal the totality of the Seven Treasures."
"What was the lethal weapon that would bring them to their death?" Klaus asked, suddenly very interested.
"There was attached to each of them, the reverse of their own treasure." Elijah explained.
"The reverse, I'm not sure that I follow you?" Klaus asked, dumfounded.
"Yes, attached to each of them, with each treasure, a sin." Elijah explained more.
"Do you mean the biblical Seven Sins?!" Klaus exclaimed, while jumping on his feet, before putting his hands on each side of his waist.
"Yes: "Luxuria", "Lust"; "Gula", "Gluttony"; "Avaritia", "greed"; "Acedia", "sloth"; "Ira", "wrath"; "Invidia", "Envy"; "Superbia", "Pride"." He enumerated.
"So, they would die by their own sin if they would turn their back on the reason of their existence?" Klaus concluded. "Did I get that right?"
"Yes, you did … It's exactly that." Elijah replied, while nodding his head.
"Six of them died, because they turned their back at the witches who created them?" Klaus asked.
"They in fact did, Klaus." Elijah responded to his brother. "Therefore, the species were unbalanced, and the human world in danger, and we would be doomed to become enemies or to die, but, it was not six, but five Kitsunes who firstly died." Elijah added, while blushing, and lowering his head.
"Shinichi was not left alone, then?" Klaus asked more, while taking back his sitting position.
"No, he was not, his sister, Misao was still by his side." Elijah told him.
"Then if her death was not created by her own Sin, what was it?" Klaus asked his brother.
"Me!" Elijah replied, to a speechless, Klaus.
"You?" Stefan repeated in shock.
"You killed her?" Rebekah exclaimed in shock.
"By inadvertence, yes, I did." Elijah replied, while lowering his head.
"But, they were supposed to be eternal, how did you managed that?" Matt asked, completely dumbfounded.
"Were you close to Misao?" Elena asked Elijah, while lowering her flushed cheeks.
"We were involved." Elijah replied, while avoiding Elena's stare. It was a part of his past that he would like to avoid discussing with her.
"In other words, you were banging the slut Kistune." Damon added, in a mocking tone of voice, before adding. "What was her sin, Lust?" Damon asked Elijah.
Elijah kept quiet, while lowering his sight.
"Oh my God, It was Lust!" Damon exclaimed, while crossing his arms in front of his chest, and smirking.
"Shut up, Damon!" Rebekah warned him.
"Make me!" Damon responded, while narrowing his sight on her.
Elena rose on her feet, before approaching Elijah, while crossing her arms in front of her chest:
"She chose you over and instead of her brother, and it caused her death, isn't it?" Elena asked him, before adding. "And Shinichi is seeking revenge on the curse and the vampires' specie for the loss of his siblings, and on you for killing his sister Misao?"
"Yes." Elijah confirmed to her, while locking his sight with hers.
"Shit, we are in deep trouble then!" Matt exclaimed.
Klaus rose on his feet, while pacing, back and forth, in front of the sitting position of his brother.
"So, we're in deep above our heads, if I understand correctly, Elijah?" Klaus asked, while sighing and passing a hand through his tangled hair.
"Yes, we pretty much are!" Elijah replied, while rubbing his hands and shrugging.
"We need to run, we need to take Rebekah and Caroline with us, and run!" Klaus busted, nervously.
"He'll find us wherever we'll hide, nothing is passing the intelligent of this man, Klaus. And for me to say it, you can believe that it's true." Elijah added.
"What was Shinichi's Sin, Elijah?" Klaus asked him.
"Envy...It was Envy." Elijah replied.
"He doesn't strike me as someone who would be envious of anyone." Klaus replied to him.
"He's not!" Elijah confirmed. "He took an interest in Caroline, and that fact could buy us some precious time." Elijah added, before continuing. "For the time that he will stay interested in her, he won't try to kill our line of vampire, therefore, he won't try to kill you!"
"Are you telling me that Caroline has my life in her hands?" Klaus asked his eldest brother.
"Yes, it's exactly what I am saying." Elijah replied to him, before rising on his feet. "It seems that this young vampire girl was meant to become your salvation, Klaus."
"I won't let him be at a near inch of her!" Klaus mumbled, angrily, between his teeth, before bending his upper body near Elijah's, while staring into his eyes.
"Then you need to gain her total trust in you, and to prepare her to fight by your side, Klaus, because it's the only way, we will win this war against him, and that is by regrouping and joining our forces, otherwise, we will all die!" Elijah confessed his fear to him.
"Gaining her total trust now, Elijah, is easier said than done." Klaus replied, while sighing and closing his eyes, before reopening them suddenly, before letting a smirk raise the corner of his lips. He knew what he needed to do to make Caroline trust him, but it would not be an easy task to accomplish.
Caroline took her first walking steps on the sidewalk, while sliding a hand in her crossover bag to find her car keys.
"Ah! Here they are!" She exclaimed, while smiling and retrieving her key ring.
Her morning had been quite uneventful: boring classes, with the only highlight of a quiet coffee break with Elena and Bonnie, who both took the opportunity to question her, none stop, about her frequent trips away from Mystic Falls. She had to shrug her shoulders and mumbled that a far cousin of her mother was sick and that her help was needed, to which Elena and Bonnie had stared into each other eyes, with doubts showing all over their facial expressions.
And to continue her embarrassment, Mrs. Cartier, her French teacher, had asked her a question in the French class, to which she had answered correctly, but unfortunately, had added: "どういたしまして" – You're welcome in Japanese, making the all class burst into laughter, and herself blush the range of fifty shades of red.
"I was not aware you knew Japanese?" Bonnie had asked Caroline, while leaving the class, by hers and Elena's side.
"I don't o.k.?" Caroline had responded, nervously, before closing her eyes, sighing several times to calm herself down. "I saw a documentary yesterday on Tokyo, and that expression stayed in my mind." She gave the evasive explanation, in a more relaxed tone of voice, to which, Elena and Bonnie had shrugged their shoulders.
Truth being told, she was not able to put her recent trip with Klaus out of her mind. Their escape from Shinichi, her abduction, and her time with the hybrid in the shower, was enough to occupy her mind. She blushed while remembering the event for the hundreds of times since their return in Mystic Falls. She could not shake him out of her mind, and that was not a good sign, not a good sign at all, she kept repeating herself, while walking rapidly on the sidewalk, in direction of her parked car.
She raised he sight, and she suddenly saw him while jumping out of her skin. He was standing, arms crossed over his chest, the left side of his upper body, leaning on a tree trunk, while staring, with his deep blue eyes, at her. The wind has tangled his hair, and several days of no shaving was showing a beginning of a beard on his manly jaw. He was wearing a black pair of jeans, and biker's boots, fitted grey, long sleeves, t-shirt, with on his neck, a couple of beans necklaces, and a black cross.
Caroline closed her eyes for a short moment, while counting up to ten. She needed to get a grip on herself, she needed to stop this nonsense called: Fantasying about a man that you hated more than anything, not even a month ago.
She raised her chin in his direction before strolling by his standing position, near the tree, while ignoring his presence and continuing her walking pace.
"Oh so, I see, Love." She heard his sweet English accent say to her. "We are back with the: "I ignore Klaus, as much as I can, while showing myself in the public eyes of Mystic Falls", Even if you slept with me, in "my" bed, in Tokyo?" He added in a higher tone of voice, while smirking, and following her walking steps, his hands buried in his up front jeans pockets.
Damn he looked sexy! Caroline froze on the spot, while closing her fists in anger.
"Oh, you…" She lashed out to Klaus, while turning on herself and pointing a finger on his chest. "Could you lower you voice, and keep this to yourself! And for your information, I did not sleep with you; I lay down by your side, while falling asleep in your bed, big difference Mister I know everything!" She added, while crossing her arms over her chest, turning on her heels, and reaching the driver's side of her car.
"Don't be angry, Love. It's actually kind of nice, seeing you all shy and wrapped up in your feelings about what obviously happened between us in Tokyo. I think we're growing into a real relationship now." Klaus teased, while smirking and leaning his body on her driver's door, forbidding her to enter her car key inside the door. "I bet you've been thinking about me all the time since the plane landed in Mystic Falls, am I right? Especially while taking a shower, no?" He inquired, while titling his head.
"Klaus" She mumbled, angrily between her teeth, while rolling her eyes, before trying to slide her key in the driver's door, with him sliding his hips over the hole to forbid her to succeed. "Get out of my way! Your brother, Elijah, sent me a text message about wanting to see all of us for a meeting at the Salvatore's boarding house." She informed him, before adding in a whisper, with pleading eyes. "He wrote that it's urgent. It's concerning Shinichi; I need to go, please?"
"Nothing I can't tell you myself. You're always safe with me, Love. And, you're about to discover how safe you really are by my side." He replied, while grabbing firmly her right hand in his, before dragging Caroline by his side, toward his own car. What did he meant by that exactly? Caroline thought in herself.
"Klaus, let go of my hand, now!" She yelled the order, before trying to free herself from his grip, but without being able to succeed, before feeling a wonderful tingling sensation on her skin. "Where do you want me to go with you?"
"I'm bringing you to our fifth date." He answered, while keeping his walking pace.
"What?" She exclaimed, in complete shock, while pulling her hand so hard from his, that she finally free herself. "No, you do not take me anywhere! I do not belong to you, I belong to Tyler! I'm not going anywhere with you now, or even later today. I'll let you know when I will be willing to be with you for our fifth date. That was our agreement, do you remember?" This was getting too personal for Caroline's taste.
Klaus turned on himself, closed fists leaning on each side of his tensed body, while narrowing his sight in hers.
"Yet…" He mumbled angrily between his teeth, to a surprise Caroline.
"Pardon me?" She asked him, with wide opened eyes.
"You do not belong to me, yet!" He lashed out. "Caroline, get your pretty little ass in my car, now! It's not a time for you to act like a spoiled child." Klaus ordered, while raising one of his eyebrows and pointing a finger toward the parked car. "Or I will put you on my shoulder like a bag of potatoes, and I'll bring you in it, myself?" He added, as a warning, while staring into her eyes. "Am I enough clear in my intention now?"
Caroline felt a range of intense shivers, hitting her spine, all at once. She had never seen him so focused and cold with her before. The man was on a mission, and she had the strange feeling the mission was entirely to kidnap her to a recluse hiding place, only known by him.
"Pff…" She responded, while raising her chin, turning on her heels and walking back to her car, before feeling Klaus's strong hands lifting her up in his arms, before raising her body on his right shoulder.
"Now, that is more like it." Klaus exclaimed, while slapping her butt.
"Put me on my feet now, you heartless jerk!" She yelled from the top of her lungs, while hitting his back with her closed fists. "Klaus put me down!"
He walked the last remaining steps in direction of his car, with the biggest smirk plastered on his face, with the curious stares of pedestrian fixated at them in a mix of curiosity, amazement and amusement.
Klaus reached for his car key in his jeans' front pocket, before entering the key, and opening the passenger door, before sliding his hands on Caroline waist, and slowly letting her body fall on his, their eyes meeting for the first time.
Caroline was now standing in front of him, her body glued to his, while grabbing, with both of her sweaty palms, his t-shirt to maintain her equilibrium. His hands were firmly placed on her waist to maintain her equilibrium.
"Get in the car!" He ordered gently, with his eyes locked in hers.
She raised her hands in the air, in the intention of slapping him across the face, but he intercepted her gesture, while grabbing her wrist firmly with his left hand.
"Oh, oh, oh…What did I tell you about raising your hand on me one more time, Caroline?" Klaus asked, while lowering her wrist near her hips. "Good girl! Now, get in the car."
Caroline kept her stare in his; she would not back down in front of him, never! She swallowed a nervous lump in her throat, and felt shivers of fear and raw desire hitting her all at once.
Yes, for the first time, she was feeling a mix of fear and hot desire inside of herself, a mix of feelings that she was not accustomed to experience. And she finally realized that Klaus Mikaelson had the power of turning her life upside-down.
"What? You're going to abduct me too? Drug me, or abuse me?" Caroline asked, while raising her chin in a confrontational gesture.
Klaus growled in anger, before putting both of his hands on the car, on each side of her body.
"I would never hurt you, in any way, and you know that fact about me, Caroline." Klaus replied, while biting the inside of his cheek, and closing his fists in anger.
"I know nothing about you, Klaus, except that in all our previous dates, you were able to show me the world, because of the power and money that you have in your disposal. But, that is not showing your heart. You were never able to make me feel safe like Tyler is able to make me feel safe!" She busted, in anger, while lying through her teeth.
Klaus blenched on the insult, while sighing loudly; receiving ten punches in the stomach would not have been worst for him.
"Well, Caroline…Then you won't be sad if this date is nothing like the previous ones." He informed her, before adding. "No luxury, no private jet, no Tokyo or Paris…Just you and me, and this time, I won't protect you. Now get in the car!" He ordered once more, while seeing her climb on the passenger seat, before closing the door on her.
"Do you want to listen to music?" Klaus asked Caroline, while turning his sight from the route to take a quick glimpse at her.
She kept silent, with her arms crossed over her chest and her head turned to her own window, while staring at the panorama.
"So, it's the silence treatment then? From you it's quite a change, sweetheart." Klaus said, mockingly.
"Go to hell!" She simply replied, while tightening her arms around her.
"So, what changed, Caroline?" He asked, while tightening his hands on the staring wheel.
"What do you mean by what changed, Klaus? You've changed! Where are your good manners, or are you finally showing your true self to me now?" She asked, while shrugging her shoulders with annoyance.
"What changed inside the woman who was in my arms in Tokyo, half naked, in the shower, or with me in my bed, while confronting her fears and letting me rock her in my arms to fall asleep? Now, it's a cold bitch who's sitting beside me in the car." He mumbled, angrily, between his teeth.
"Oh!" Caroline exclaimed, in total shock, while turning red in a matter of seconds. "How dare you saying this to me? I followed you all around the world; I've been abducted and drugged by an enemy of your family, I've lied to my family, I lied to my friends, I compelled people, all of this only to free my boyfriend from the sire bond that you have over him."
Klaus kept quiet, while fixating the route in front of his sight, before letting a smirk spread on his lips.
"Why are you smirking now?" She asked him, while closing her fists in anger.
"It's all bullshit, Love, and you know it." He replied, while leaving the highway and taking a deserted route in direction of the woods. "You did not do all of this to free Tyler from my sire bond... I know it, and you know it."
"No? And for what other reasons then?" She shouted at him.
"Well, maybe you did it on a small scale to help Tyler, but mostly, Caroline, you are drawn to me, on a deeper level that you've ever experienced before. I awaken the woman that you are meant to be, and it's triggering a desire to be with me that is bigger than your all being. Whenever our eyes met, it goes deeper into your soul, and it's scarring the hell out of you, every past time I've touched you, a burning desire left you breathless, but you can't do without wanting more of me, because I am the breath that's reviving your heart, body and soul." Klaus explained to her, before turning his head and locking his eyes with hers.
Caroline raised a hand over her chest, an intense fire reaching her cheeks, while keeping her eyes locked with the alpha.
Klaus took her left hand in his, while raising it to his mouth, before sweet kissing each of her fingers.
"And you're afraid of getting physical with me, because you already know in the deepness of your soul that it will be different than what you've experienced before, and that it will shatter your life in thousands of pieces." Klaus continued explaining, before turning his sight back at the route, but while keeping her hand in his.
"So, you only want to sleep with me then? Do I need to sleep with you to free Tyler of your sire bond?" She replied, dryly.
"Of course I want to sleep with you, Love. I'm not made of wood! But, I told you that I would not force myself on you, and I will keep my words. I will wait for the day that you will ask me to make love to you. As for our agreement, I will free Tyler after our last date together; I swore that I will on this subject." He responded to her, while softly caressing her wrist with the tip of his thumb.
Why was he doing this, Caroline thought, while feeling butterflies attacking her belly?
"Then what do you want from me?" Caroline asked him.
"I want you to admit that you desire to be with me, that you are thinking of me, and that you want to make love to me." He listed, while shrugging. "Can you do that?" He asked of her.
"Klaus…Please, don't do this." She begged, in turmoil, while turning her head back to her window. They were now heading toward a small path in the woods.
"Why not, Love? How can we trust each other, if we are not being honest?" Klaus wondered.
"Klaus…I can't!" She repeated, while closing her eyes.
"Yes, you can, Caroline!" He replied, while stopping the engine of the truck in front of a cabin, before slowly grabbing her chin in his right hand. "Look at me." He asked. "Are you attracted to me?"
Caroline lowered her flushed cheeks and sight away from his.
"Look into my eyes, Love." He ordered, softly.
She slowly raised her sight in his, while swallowing a lump in her throat.
"Are you?" He asked, once again.
"Yes…" She responded, in a low whisper.
Klaus grinned, before caressing her left cheek, with the back of his right hand.
"Then, maybe if we would have met in different circumstances, maybe if Tyler was not in the mix, maybe if we were not enemies, Klaus…But, all of those factors are changing everything. You've killed people that I love, you sired my boyfriend, and you tortured Elena. But, you also saved my life, and you brought me to places that I've never imagined seeing, you can also show a girl a good time, and you can make her feel like a princess, while being cherished and desired, and I never felt this way in all my life with any man before you, I've never been treated that way either, so I felt something, and yes, I'm attracted to you physically, but, I can't explore this further." She confessed, in one single breath of a sentence.
Klaus stared into her eyes, while bending his head near Caroline's, before cupping her face in his hands.
"Why? Tell me why, you can't go further, Caroline?" He asked.
"I can't trust you completely. If there's no trust in a relationship, nothing can exist." She finally admitted, while lowering her sight away from his.
Klaus stayed motionless for a short moment, before slowly sweet kissing her forehead, making Caroline raised her head in surprise.
"I'm about to prove to you otherwise, Love, are you up for the challenge?" He replied, while smirking at her. "Now come, our fifth date is waiting for us." He suggested. "You should call your mother, and tell her that you will be at your friend's house for the night … And we also need to discuss an urgent matter."
"Come?" Matt invited Rebekah, while taking a few walking steps into the footpath that was leading to the porch of his house.
"Matt, I've told you already, I don't need baby-sitting from you. You don't need to feel obligated to anything just because we …" She stumbled through her sentence, while blushing and rubbing her hands together.
Matt turned on himself, before rolling his eyes at her, and reaffirming his invitation.
"Come, I've said!"
He reached the front porch, while sliding the house key inside the lock, before pushing the door open. He got rid of his coat jeans, before hanging it on a hook placed on the wall, before frowning incredulous at Rebekah's standing position in front of the arch door.
"Rebekah, what did I just told you? Stop being your melodramatic self, please?" He asked of her.
"I'm not!" She exclaimed, while staring at him with puppy eyes. "I just can't enter, literally."
"Oh… Of course, I was silly." Matt responded, while smiling, and passing a hand through his hair. "Rebekah, you can enter in the house." He invited the Original. "Sorry, I'm still new in this supernatural stuff."
"It's ok." Rebekah replied, while smiling timidly, and rubbing her sweaty hands on her jeans, before closing the door behind her.
"You can enter further more you know, I know it's not a Manor, but nevertheless it's my home." He said, while waiving his fingers for her to enter into the living room.
Rebekah took a few steps inside the house, while scattering the room, a timid smile plastered on her face.
"It's charming." She said, while grabbing in her hands a picture frame placed on a table.
"Charming? It's a dump, Rebekha, I won't be mad if you're telling the truth, believe me." He replied, while shaking his head.
"It's not a dump, it's a home, with pictures, and lace curtains, and homemade cushions." She noticed, while shrugging her shoulders.
"You have a Manor, Rebekah. It's huge, and beautiful!" Matt replied, shrugging.
"And cold, and most of the time empty…Elijah is for the most part never there, Kol is God knows where. Klaus build this huge house to bring our family closer, and at the end, we are all alone in this big empty space." She responded, toneless, while putting the frame back on the table.
"I'm sorry, Rebekah, I did not realize." Matt responded, while shaking his head.
"It's ok." She reassured him. "Is it your mom?" She asked, while pointing toward another frame on the fireplace mantle.
"Yes, it is." He nodded, while approaching her standing position, and taking the frame in his hands.
"She's beautiful." She said, honestly.
"And also very absent in my life." He added, while putting the frame back on the mantle.
"But at least she did not try to kill you." Rebekah responded, scoffer, to which Matt started to laugh.
"I'm so sorry." He mumbled, apologetically. "It's awful to laugh at what your mother has tried to do to you and your siblings."
"No, please, it's actually laughable." Rebekah responded, laugher in her own voice.
They share a good laugh for a short moment, before staring into each other's eyes, and smiling.
"You're strong; do you know that, Rebekah Mikaelson?" Matt affirmed, while sliding a strand of her hair behind her left ear.
"Far from it" She told him, while lowering her sight.
Matt took her chin in his right hand, before raising her head to lock his eyes with hers.
"You are." He reaffirmed, while smiling at the vampire.
"I…I have to go." She informed, while nodding her head.
"To go where, Rebekak, to an empty – big – cold house, where nobody is waiting for you?" He asked.
"But it's the only home that I know now, Matt." She shrugged.
"Come!" He said, while grabbing her right hand, and dragging her behind him, toward the kitchen.
"Where are you bringing me?" She giggled, while following him.
"I'm bringing you to the kitchen." He replied, while grabbing an apron on a hook, and handing it to Rebekah. "We'll make an early dinner. You will taste my extraordinary meatballs spaghetti." He explained proudly, before adding. "I hope you can chop cucumbers for a salad?" He asked, before grabbing an apron for himself, while dressing with it.
"Hey!" Rebekah exclaimed, while laughing and hitting him on his bottom with the piece of fabric. "I'm not that useless." She added. "What can I do to help?"
"Take the chopping board, and cut the cucumbers and tomatoes that you will find in the fridge." Matt guided her. "You'll see. We'll make a real feast for ourselves." He added, while putting water and salt in a casserole to prepare the pasta.
"Matt?" She called him, while standing by his side, in front of the kitchen counter.
"Mm…" He mumbled, while placing the casserole on the burner, before turning his head to take a look at her.
"Thank you." She simply said, with a smile.
"You're welcome." He replied, while smiling back at her. "I knew you were feeling alone, after the meeting with your brother, and this unreal "Kitsune" curse."
"I was." She replied, while nodding her head.
"Well, the good news that came out of it is that for the time being, we seems to be ally and not enemies anymore. So, why not celebrate that fact with a nice dinner?" He concluded, while shrugging his shoulders, to which she nodded her head, before starting to chop the vegetables for the salad.
The cabin was rustic, clean, and with a nice scent of pine inside. Red cotton curtains were placed in front of the two front windows, with only a single room to compliment the inside. A round table with four chairs, a sink with a small kitchen counter, and an iron bed, with a patchwork bedspread, that gave the finishing touch to the decor.
"It's an old fisherman relay." Klaus explained to Caroline, while carrying a picnic basket in his hands, before dropping it on the kitchen counter.
Well it was definitely not a five stars deluxe hotel that was for sure! But if he thought for even one second, that she would feel uncomfortable in this situation, he would be surprised.
"So, you want to have a picnic or something?" She asked, while rolling her eyes at him.
"Actually, Love, I only brought with me: bags of blood, bread, cheese, and strawberries, and bottles of wine." He explained furthermore, while bringing out from the inside of the basket, the enumerated list. He took a few walking steps to reach Caroline's standing position, before bending his upper body near hers, while lifting her chin to brush her lips of a kiss. "We'll need to go hunting for our dinner." He announced, with a mocking tone in his voice.
"What?" She exclaimed, while looking at him in shock. "No, I won't go hunting small little rabbits or Bambi, out of the question, Klaus!" She responded, firmly, while crossing her arms in front of her chest, before pouting adorably.
Klaus rolled his eyes to the ceiling, before handing a fishing rod to Caroline.
"Where going fishing." He explained, while smiling heavenly.
Caroline took the fishing rod in her right hand, while smiling back at him.
"In that case, you're on." She responded, smiling, while raising her chin in the air, as a confrontational gesture.
"You seem sure of yourself, Miss Forbes." Klaus mocked, while smirking.
"I am, Mister Mikaelson. I've been fishing with my father since I was three years old, and I will catch fishes, and not share any of them with you!" She exclaimed, proudly, while taking in her hands the fisher boots that he was handing to her.
"In case you're really bad at it, we still have the blood bags, the strawberries, the wine, the cheese and the bread, you know?" Klaus replied, scoffer.
"Oh, go to hell!" Caroline lashed out, while stumping her feet on the cabin floor, before storming out of the cabin, while hearing the laugh of the hybrid in her ears.
"Well?" Matt asked, smirking, with his left arm put behind Rebekah's shoulders, on the sofa, before taking a gulp of his beer bottle.
"It was not bad." She responded, playful, while shrugging her shoulders, and gulping a bottle herself.
"Not bad, what do you mean not bad?" Matt asked, horrified, while dropping his bottle on the living room table, before tickling Rebekah on her waist.
"No, no, no, stop, Matt, please!" She begged of him, while dropping her bottle on the floor, before wrestling to free herself from his tickling attack. "Ok, ok…It was the best meatballs spaghetti that I've ever eaten."
"It sure is the best spaghetti dish from Mystic Falls County, Miss Mikaelson." He mocked, while holding her wrists above her head, before laying his body in top of Rebekah's. "Now say that you are sorry?" He demanded, while drowning his sight in hers.
"That is unfair… I've never said otherwise." She exclaimed, while laughing.
Matt brushed one strand of hair away from Rebekah's face, before following the line of her delicate jaw. He caressed both of her cheeks, while sliding his thumb on the length of her bottom lip.
"You're so beautiful." He murmured, hoarsely.
Rebekah put her hands on his forearms, while kissing the tip of his finger, before saying:
"I should probably go now." She said.
"Or you could stay and we could make out on the sofa?" He suggested with an arched eyebrow.
"Make out?" She asked, surprised, and while lowering her flushed cheeks.
Matt straightened his body in a sitting position, before handing his left hand to help her sit.
"I always forget that you did not live for very long, in our modern time." Matt reminded himself.
"I'm not stupid, Matt!" Rebekha pouted. "I know what making out means."
"And I've never said that you were, Rebekah." Matt replied, gently, while bringing her in the comfort of his arms, with her head resting on his chest. "I thought we could stay like this, in each other's arms, while listening to the music, and kissing from time to time. And after making out with you, I could bring you back to your home, would you like that?" He asked, while caressing the silkiness of her blond hair.
Rebekah raised her head, before drowning her sight in his, while smiling.
"Yes, I would like that very much, Matt Donovan." She replied, while closing her eyes, and feeling the softness of his lips on her mouth, while responding eagerly to his kiss.
"Who caught these two beautiful trout? You know? You know?" Caroline teased Klaus, while entering the cabin, before passing them under his nose.
"Who will clean these beautiful trout? You know? You know?" Klaus asked, tit for tat, mockingly.
"Bark…You, perhaps? Pretty please, Klaus?" Caroline begged, while beating her eyelashes at him.
"Not in this life time, Love…I will sit, and enjoy a big piece of fresh bread, that I will warm up in the oven, with a slice of delicious melted cheese on top, and a big glass of wine in my hand, while you will eat your trout." He replied, scoffer, while sitting on a chair, before raising his boots on the table, with the biggest smirk plastered on his face.
She frowned, before pushing his boots back on the floor and glaring madly at him, while approaching the small kitchen counter and taking a chopping board and knife to open the fish.
"I know how to clean a fish, my father thought me, it's just disgusting." She replied to Klaus, while shrugging her shoulders.
"At least your father thought you something, Caroline." Klaus murmured, while staring into the emptiness of the room.
Caroline turned on herself, while seeing him lost in the deepness and darkness of his thoughts.
"How…I mean, how was Mikael with you?" She asked, while turning her sight back at her task. "I remembered you've told me that he killed your horse, but he could not have been this bad with you all the time?" She added, honestly concerned.
"With me he was cold, distant, and indifferent…All the time." He responded, truthfully, to Caroline, before rising on his feet, and picking up one of the bottles of wine placed on the kitchen counter. "He hated me the minute I was born; I was the bastard child of my mother."
"But you were only a baby." Caroline responded, while shaking her head. "How could he put his hate on you this way?"
Klaus shrugged his shoulders, while pouring wine into his glass, before gulping its content.
"I don't want to talk about it, Love." He told her, before pouring more wine in his glass.
Caroline closed her eyes, while counting up to ten, and in reverse. That hybrid man was without a doubt the most complex and stubborn person that she had to meet in all her life.
"Ok" She replied, while shrugging her shoulders with a false indifference. "Do you have an idea how we will battle against Shinichi?" She asked, while turning on herself and cleaning her hands on a kitchen cloth.
During their fishing time at the pond, he had explained to Caroline, in details, the Kitsune Curse and the involvement of Elijah in the story.
"Elijah seems to think that we need to trust each other, because we are linked together, at least for our safety. Shinichi has taken an interest in you and he will not back down until you will be his." Klaus explained, while making Caroline startled in fear. "But, now that it's been cleared between us that you don't feel safe with me by your side, I don't see how this is even remotely possible?" Klaus concluded, while stirring the wine in his glass.
"I did not say that!" She busted, while closing her fists and eyes in rage.
"Yes, that is exactly what you've said to me." Klaus confirmed. "You've said clearly that you don't trust me."
"Well, I did not mean it that way then." She replied, while throwing the cloth, and grabbing the counter with both hands, while closing her eyes.
"What did you meant, then?" She heard the soft whisper in her left ear, while feeling two hands encircling her waist.
She closed her eyes, while feeling an intense desire hitting her chore.
"I meant it as it is difficult for me to trust you completely because of your past behaviour, Klaus…But, I know inside of me that you could not hurt me in any way, intentionally that is." She whispered, while closing her eyes.
"How could you be certain that I would not hurt you, sweetheart?" He asked, while caressing the roundness of her hips, raising his hands on her waist, higher on the curves of her breasts.
"I…" She whispered, while leaning her head on his chest, her eyes closed, while pouting under his expert caresses. "I just know." She confessed in a murmur.
He suddenly detached his body from hers, while making Caroline open her eyes in surprise.
"I'll go find some wood to make a fire." He informed the young vampire, before storming outside the cabin, while leaving her breathless.
Caroline had a smile plastered on her face the all-time she wiped the dishes. She had to admit to herself that she loved the time she had passed with Klaus today. And it was not because of Paris, or Tokyo, or beautiful luxury hotel rooms this time…It was…It was…It was because…Oh shit! It was because of "him", she admitted to herself while closing her eyes. She loved to be in his company, it was as simple as that.
"You want me to make coffee, before you drive me back to Mystic Falls?" She asked, while sliding the last plate on a shelf. "Klaus?" She called his name, while being answered by the silence, before turning on herself and finding the room deserted, with the cabin door opened.
"Klaus?" She yelled once more, while directing her walking steps toward the opened door, before passing her head underneath the arch, while glaring at the full moon above her head.
She stepped outside, before walking toward the parked truck, turning on herself several times, while shouting his name repeatedly, before hearing the cabin door slam close in a big bang noise, while making her jump out of her skin in fear.
"Oh my God…Ok, get a grip on yourself, Caroline!" She mumbled, while sighing loudly, before closing her eyes and sliding a hand on her trembling chest. "It's just a door that shut by itself."
And then she heard the subtle growl sounds. She froze on the spot. The last time she had heard that sound, she was standing in the woods with Stefan by her side, while battling Mason Lockwood in his werewolf form.
"Who's there?" She asked, before turning her head alternatively from left to right – right to left, while slowly retracing her steps toward the cabin.
Caroline froze on her track while keeping motionless. In front of her sight, the most magnificent animal that she had ever saw in all her life, with its glossy black fur and its blue intense cold gaze, was blocking her path.
She was not as stupid as not knowing who it was; she raised her sight at the full moon, then back at the animal that was staring at her, like a predator would at his prey, his fangs out of his mouth, with his dark stare directed at her.
"I know what you're doing, and it won't work, Klaus!" She busted, in anger, at the animal, while drowning her sight in his.
The werewolf growled more, before encircling her, in a slow – ritual dance, while staring at her every move.
Caroline was gasping, drops of sweat on her forehead. She tried to take a step on the right, but the beast growled ever more, while barking furiously.
"Ok, ok, I won't move!" She said, while slowly lowering her hand in front of the beast. "Just stay calm, ok?"
The beast turned its head for a fraction of second, and Caroline reacted without thinking – She started to run in her vampire speed in direction of the woods, while trying to save her life, before hearing the mad rush of the animal behind her running steps, in tempo with the whisper of his breathing, and the sound of his rage. She tripped over a branch while growling on the forest ground, before feeling its breath on her neck, his growl in her ears.
"Oh my God…Please, no!" She growled more to reach a tree trunk, rising on her feet, before grabbing the bark with her left hand, while sighing with fear.
The werewolf encircled the tree, before approaching Caroline slowly.
"No, please." She pleaded for her life, while feeling tears rolling on her cheeks. Now, she had no other choices but to face her fatality.
When suddenly, she felt the snout of the werewolf touching the palm of her right hand, she startled in surprise, before slowly reopening her eyes, and feeling the werewolf lick her hand.
"I'm going to kill you for this, you know, I swear." She murmured, while letting herself fell on the ground, not able to support herself on her legs anymore, before facing the werewolf, her hands slowly sliding on its back, on the fur of the beast, her eyes lost in his dark bluish eyes.
She caressed the werewolf for a moment while hearing grown of satisfaction.
"Even in your werewolf form, you want me to caress you?" She mocked, while rolling her eyes and starting to relax.
The werewolf howled at the moon, before pushing its nose on Caroline, to which she laughed. Then, the beast detached itself from the vampire, while staring at her one last time, before leaving.
Caroline closed her eyes, while sliding a hand on her chest to calm herself down. She would never remember how long she had stayed in that position; she only remembered finally rising on her feet, before slowly raising her head and noticing a dark shadow advancing toward her.
Klaus finally reached Caroline, while putting his hands on the tree trunk, on each side of her head, while standing naked chest and feet, with his jeans ragged in pieces on him.
"Don't ever do this to me again, do you hear me!" She angrily warned him, while hitting his chest with both of her closed fists, tears rolling fluently on her cheeks, before drowning her eyes in his. She raised her hands on his chest, while encircling her arms around his neck, before crashing her mouth furiously on his.
Klaus growled sounds of pleasure, while sliding his hands on her waist, down on her hips, on her bottom, before elevating her body on his by making her cross her legs around his waist, her back pushed on the tree trunk. His lips devoured each inch of the right side of her neck, up to the delicate line of her jaw, before searching for her mouth again, while sliding his tongue between her lips, in a kiss that demanded total submission of her part, while frantically rubbing his hands all over her body, his hard bulge pushing into Caroline's pelvis with rhythmic tempo, that would have probably damned a saint!
"You're mine, Caroline; you're my "female". And now you know that you can trust me with your life." He murmured on her lips, while letting her get back on her feet, sliding a hand under her knees, before carrying her to the cabin, her arms crossed around his neck, her head resting on his shoulder.
Thank you for reading: "In the shadow of the full moon", which was the ninth chapter.
A few of the scenes were rewritten.
This story is now completed.
REVISED DATE FOR THE SEQUEL: "SEVEN SINS" / autumn – winter 2013/2014.