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"Are there others?" Bonnie asked. Jeremy looked at Bonnie with a confused expression on his face.
"Others?" Jeremy said. Bonnie was losing patience, she needed him to understand.
"I mean have you seen other people come with you who are dead," Bonnie said.
"No, it was only me," Jeremy said. Bonnie paced around frustrated. Tasha picked up Shane's book that they had gotten from his office and started looking through it.
"The veil is definitely down, there is no way that Jeremy could be back just like that," Bonnie said.
"Bonnie, relax. Jeremy is finally back and no one else is. This is a good thing," Elena said.
"There's nothing in here about what happens after the veil has been dropped," Tasha said.
"Listen up all of you, I won't have of my supernatural enemies coming anywhere near here. Figure out how to put the veil back up or there are going to be bodies lining up to go back to the other side. And I don't mind starting with him," Klaus said as he pointed at Jeremy.
"No problem, I'll come right back," Jeremy said. Klaus was about to go at him.
"Nik, please," Caroline said. Klaus stopped in the middle. "We're all trying to find out what's going on. We have to let Tasha and Bonnie work on this."
"Well witches" Klaus stopped in front of Bonnie and Tasha. "If anything happens to Caroline, I will make sure you guys end up on the other side. Especially you," Klaus looked at Bonnie. "You put a protection spell over this house and still this hunter was able to gain access. Better figure this out quickly," Klaus threatened and left the room.
"I hate to admit it but he's right," Damon said. "How did young Gilbert here come into the house?"
"I think it's because he's human again," Stefan said.
"That could be it, but we're not sure," Bonnie said. "Tasha let's go to the library, we need to figure this out as soon as possible. Not all of the supernatural entities who may be coming down as we speak are our friends." Tasha nodded and the two witches went off to the library.
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Caroline walked into the bedroom. Klaus was sitting on the armchair resting his head back. Caroline came around to him and placed a hand on his shoulder. Klaus opened his eyes to look up at her. He held her hand and helped her into the armchair in front of him.
"It's going to be okay Nik," Caroline said.
"I don't know Caroline. I mean I cannot let anything happen to you or our children," Klaus said. "We don't know where this is going. I have a lot of enemies that I killed on the other side and they will come after me and you. I can't lose you."
"Nik, everyone here has killed someone who they don't want back in this world. Everyone will be working hard to take care of this situation," Caroline said. Klaus nodded as he kissed the inside of her hand. Caroline smiled.
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Everyone sat around going through grimoires and other books to find a way to put the veil back. They spent long hours studying spells, combination of spells, theories and anything that could help.
On the other hand, Caroline refused to postpone the wedding. She went on with planning it. She called the florist ordering Rebekah's favourite flowers, the centre pieces, a live band, the caterers and booked a time to go shop for a wedding dress and bridesmaid dresses. Everyone tried to explain how it would be better to wait and see what's happening with the veil.
"No one else other than Jeremy has come looking for us," Caroline said. "I mean you guys have walked around town and there's no one who has died and come back."
"Caroline, it's like we are playing this blind game. We can never be too sure," Rebekah said.
"Bekah, didn't you say that we're supernatural and problems are bound to come in our way?" Caroline said.
"Yes, but Care we could be under attack at anytime," Rebekah said. Caroline had had enough.
"You know what, I'm so tired of this stressful situation. I feel suffocated in here," Caroline said with tears in her eyes. She walked out the door and slammed the door behind her.
"Oh my gosh, I should have seen this coming. She's trying so hard to alleviate the stress build up but we keep going. This isn't good for her," Rebekah said as she sat down on the couch.
"You're right," Stefan said. "We became so absorbed in this that we didn't realize what kind of effect it was having on Caroline."
"Well we are going to have this wedding," Klaus said. "So Bekah, you better get ready for wedding dress shopping tomorrow," and Klaus walked out the door after Caroline.
Caroline sat on the bench in the garden. She was cold but she didn't care. At least it was better than being stuck in that stifling house. She placed a hand on her bulging belly to the spot where she felt a kick. Then she felt another kick in her ribs.
"Oww," Caroline said as she pushed down.
"Are you okay love," Klaus said. Caroline slouched into him. He put his jacket over her.
"Yah, they were up in my ribs," Caroline said.
"I'm sorry love, I didn't know you were feeling so asphyxiated in there with everything going on," Klaus said.
"It's not your fault or there's. It's just that stressful atmosphere full of anxiety and fear. I think they don't like it," Caroline said as she placed her hand on her stomach. Klaus smiled.
"It won't be long now," Klaus said.
"I know, I think I'm ready to have them out of me now," Caroline said.
"Come on love, let's go have dinner," Klaus said.
"I don't want to go back in right now," Caroline said.
"Who said anything about going back in?" Klaus smirked and picked her up in his arms. He vamp sped to the car. "I thought we could go out for dinner tonight." She laughed. This was just what Caroline needed to take her mind off things.
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Rebekah stood in front of a big mirror wearing a fluffy, feathery white wedding dress. Seated on the sofas behind were Caroline, Klaus, Tasha, Bonnie, Elijah and Katherine. It seemed like Elijah and Katherine were a two pack deal now. They were inseparable and Rebekah couldn't care less about the doppelganger.
"This looks hideous," Rebekah said.
"I agree," Caroline said. "Try that other one on. The one with the stone beading on the top, with the sweetheart neckline and it flares out." Rebekah nodded and went to try on the dress Caroline was talking about. Rebekah comes out wearing the dress.
"Wow!" Caroline said.
"That one looks nice," Katherine said but everyone ignored her.
"This is it," Rebekah said.
They ordered the dress and the lady told them it would take at least a month to come in. With a little compulsion and persuasion with extra money, the lady agreed to have it in by a week. After that they picked out bridesmaid dresses. They decided on a coral coloured knee length, strapless dress. Caroline pouted when the lady was like they need it custom made for Caroline because she was pregnant. Either way, they also made sure the bridesmaid dresses would come in at the same time as the wedding dress.
"Time to get tuxedoes," Rebekah said.
"Hey, who are Stefan's groom's men?" Caroline said. "Damon's his best man, followed by Nik and we need one more."
"Let's ask him when he comes in. He said to call him once we were done buying the wedding dress," Rebekah said.
"He should be here shortly," Klaus said.
"Okay, so here's what's going on. The bride's side of the family will wear coral flowers on their suits and the groom's side will wear white," Caroline said.
"What about me love?" Klaus asked. He was the bride's brother and a groom's men.
"You can wear a white one because I'm technically on the groom's side and I'm wearing coral," Caroline said. Klaus laughed.
"What's funny?" Caroline said. She looked serious.
"Nothing, I'm just amused how you're so into perfection," Klaus said. Caroline rolled her eyes. Then they saw Stefan, Damon and Elena walking towards the shop.
"Finally," Caroline said as they walked through the door. She walked up to Stefan, took him by the arm and pulled him towards the tuxedoes.
"Okay so I was thinking we could go with a dark grey," Caroline said as she pulled a suit and placed it on him. "What do you think Rebekah?"
"I like it," Rebekah said.
"Hey, I thought this is what the groom's side gets to choose?" Damon said.
"Yah it is," Caroline said.
"Then why can't we have dark navy blue?" Damon said. Caroline and Rebekah looked at him like he was crazy.
"Uh no!" Caroline said. "The groom's side is choosing because I'm on the groom's side as well. When the groom's brother slash best man can't choose correctly, the groom's sister has to interfere."
Damon rolled his eyes.
"Actually, we can't have the best man standing around. Elena, can you look at those light grey suits for the groom's men?" Caroline said. Elena nodded and pulled a light suit out.
"I think this looks nice Damon. It brings out your eyes," Elena said. Damon smiled as well as everyone else.
"I think Elijah should go with traditional black," Katherine said as she placed a black tuxedo over Elijah.
"I agree," Caroline said. "It's perfect." Elijah smiled. Caroline was the only one who wasn't giving Katherine a hard time fitting in. It wasn't like they were super close. Katherine was the one who killed Caroline by suffocating her. But Caroline tried to forgive though she kept her distance.
Once they were done clothes shopping they all decided to have lunch. Everyone was trying their best to keep Caroline happy and stress free. It wasn't very hard, though the threat of the veil still existed, taking their minds off of it for a while did help. They sat at the grill having lunch. Damon volunteered to feed one of the twins but gave it back to Stefan when he was splattered with pureed sweet potato all over his face.
"Wait a minute, it makes sense," Bonnie said. She had just realized an important fact.
"What is it?" Elijah asked.
"The expression triangle," Bonnie said. "If the veil is down, only the people who died within the triangle will come back."
"Okay, another thing is that now we have four hunters," Tasha said. "With Jeremy back and we need one more to get rid of Silas."
"That's right, look at the stones on the emblem. Only one is crimson," Bonnie took out and emblem and pointed it out.
"Wow, I guess we did need a wedding shopping break," Damon said.
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They all made their way back to the Salvatore house. Damon, Elena along with Jeremy came first. Elena couldn't distance herself from her brother after losing him once. They walked towards the house.
"I forgot my bag in the car, you two go ahead," Elena said as she walked back to the car.
"Hello old friend," Elena hears a familiar voice behind her. She turned around to find Kol standing right behind her. Fear was clear on her face.
"You should be afraid," Kol said. "I guess it's just me and you," and he charged at her. He kicked her hard in the chest and she went flying across the yard. Damon and Jeremy came out. Damon rushed towards Kol and held onto his throat but he wasn't strong enough. Kol broke both his arms and threw him across the yard. Jeremy shot at Kol who caught the stake in his hand.
"Kill me once shame on you kill me twice," Kol was about to charge at Jeremy when Elena caught a hold of him from behind.
"Jeremy, go inside!" Elena yelled.
"Elena but," Jeremy said.
"Now!" Elena said as she was thrown on her back.
"I think I'll take care of you first," Kol said as he kicked Elena and sent her flyer another few feet. "Now this is what I missed. Two people connecting," Kol said and he vamp sped to Elena and picked her off the ground by her neck. Elena was profusely bleeding.
"It's lonely on the other side and I swear being invisible will drive you mad. The way you couldn't see me standing in front of you or feel my breath on your cheek as I whispered all the ways I wished for you to suffer. At last, now you can," Kol said. Elena struggled against his hold.
"Kol stop!" Caroline yelled. Elijah, Stefan, Rebekah and Katherine vamp sped to his side. Klaus stayed with Caroline just in case.
"Let her go," Elijah said.
"Greetings big brother," Kol said but didn't let Elena go.
"Kol, come on let her go," Rebekah said. Kol looked at Rebekah and then at Stefan. He suddenly let go of Elena and fell to the ground with his hand on his head. Stefan helped Elena up onto her feet and Damon had come to stand behind her.
"Ahhhh," Kol groaned in pain. Then he looked up at Rebekah and Stefan.
"I remember you! You came with your sister. Caroline," Kol said. Rebekah kneeled down beside her brother.
"Do you seriously remember?" Rebekah said with an ecstatic smile on her face. Caroline and Klaus came towards them.
"Nik, Caroline," Kol said as he stood up. Caroline beamed at him.
"Well old fried, don't I get a hug?" Kol said looking at Caroline. Caroline laughed and hugged him.
"Wow! One more nephew on the way?" Kol said. "Good job brother." Klaus smirked.
"Who said they are all nephews?" Rebekah said.
"Oh so there's more than one?" Kol said. Caroline nodded. "Well then, nephews!"
"Who said they are all boys?" Rebekah said as she put her hands on her hips.
"Stop with the whining baby sister and where are my adorable niece and nephew?" Kol said.
"Right here," Bonnie said as she and Tasha brought Arianna and Aden.
"Come to your favourite Uncle Kol!" Kol said as he took them both from the witches. "Alright Kol Junior, you've grown and you too sweetheart," the twins smiled up at their uncle.
"Let's take this family reunion inside," Bonnie said.
"I can't get into the house, I've been trying for hours," Kol said.
"Ah, so the shield does work," Damon said.
"I'll lower the shield so you can get in," Bonnie said.
"Not yet," Damon said. "Not until he promises not to kill Elena."
"I can't promise that mate," Kol said.
"Then no entry into my house," Damon said.
"Come on Kol, let it go," Stefan said. Kol looked at Stefan for a bit and remembered old times with his friend.
"Well mate, just for you," Kol said. "I promise I will not kill Elena Gilbert."
Once the shield was taken off and Kol was let in, Bonnie put it up again. The twins were put to sleep in the nursery and everyone sat around the table.
"How is it that only you and Jeremy are back?" Klaus asked.
"Well brother, technically I wouldn't know but I overheard some witches on the other side. So here's what's going on. Silas found Quetziah's descendent other than Miss Bennett here and the veil as been dropped within the boundary of the expression triangle. The day the veil was dropped acts as a dividing line. The number of days a supernatural has died before the veil dropped, that's the number of days later the supernatural can come back to Earth. For example, young Jeremy Gilbert here died a few months before the veil was dropped so he came back a few months later. I died way before, so I came back that many days after the veil dropped. Now all I can say is that the others will be coming shortly, depending on how many days they had died before the veil was dropped," Kol explained.
"We need to figure out a way as soon as possible to put the veil back up," Bonnie said.
"Bonnie, that's what we have been trying to do for a while now," Tasha said.
"We have to find a way," Bonnie said.
"No kidding," Klaus said. "We can't even kill them again because they'll come right back. I want this veil up before Mikael and Ester come back!"
"I second that, I not fond of seeing mama and papa especially the old man," Kol said.
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Kol was in the nursery playing with the twins. The twins laughed as he talked to them and they googooed back.
"See they missed their favourite Uncle," Kol said as Rebekah and Caroline walked in.
"Now I don't see the reason behind giving Aden the middle name Kol," Rebekah said as she rolled her eyes.
"Don't fret sister, you know you missed me," Kol said.
"Here give my Kola bear," Caroline said. Kol made a face.
"Kola bear? What did you do with his amazing name?" Kol said.
"Well his amazing aunt gave him cute, cuddly name. Did I?" Caroline said to Aden.
"Oh my goodness, look at your aunt darling," Kol said to Arianna. "She can make the most amazing name sound so," he didn't finish because right then Stefan walked in.
"Hey mate," Kol said. "How could you let your sister name your son Kola bear?"
Stefan laughed.
"Hey Stef, Kol can be your third grooms men," Caroline said. She was adamant about having the wedding. Secretly she hoped that Klaus would remember proposing to her.
"That's perfect!" Rebekah said.
"What's going on? Stefan and Bekah were already married," Kol said.
"Well they are getting married again here," Caroline said. "And the wedding is in a week."
"Well from what I remember, you and Nik were going to get married," Kol said.
"That's another thing; don't talk too much about the past to Nik. He hasn't completely remembered everything yet," Rebekah said. "And he becomes such a grouch about it."
"Then you know I'm going to overdo it," Kol grinned.
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