Hello, what do you think? Is it exciting enough, romantic enough? I love the sweet little things more than gory sex so I guess to each their own, but whatever. Please review!

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Chapter 5

Caroline opens her eyes slowly and takes in a deep breath, inhaling the woodsy musk that is Klaus. She looks up and studies his face. She slowly lifts her hand from his chest and lightly traces the features on his face with her fingertips; his temple, cheek bone, jaw, and lips.

"Morning, love" he whispers huskily. He opens his blue eyes and smiles at her. "Morning," she whispers back, smiling lightly. Then they hear a crash downstairs and yelling. They frown at each other and get up, speeding downstairs towards the noise.

They walk into the entrance hall to the front door to see the Salvatores, Elena, and Bonnie facing off against Elijah and Rebekah.

"Where's Caroline? We know you have her, her car is still in your driveway," Bonnie demanded.

"We haven't taken her anywhere, she's probably shacking up with Nik right now," Rebekah responded disdainfully.

Stefan growled at that, and Elena looked disgusted.

"Rebekah," Elijah warned.

"Quit screwing with us, just give us Caroline," Damon said forcefully.

It was then that they saw Klaus and Caroline walk in side by side.

"Caroline! Oh my God, we were so worried about you!" Elena and Bonnie rushed over and gripped her in a crushing hug, glaring over her shoulder at Klaus as they did so.

Stefan and Damon shifted towards the girls while keeping Elijah and Rebekah in there sight. "Are you alright?" Stefan asked, concerned.

"I'm fine now," Caroline said happily. But they misunderstood what she was saying.

"So you did kidnap her! What did you do to her!? I swear, if you hurt her-", Bonnie threatened.

"Whoa, wait, hold on guys, a lot happened, let me explain-" Caroline interjected.

"There's nothing to explain Blondie, they took you and probably tortured you, simple as that," Damon interrupted her and advanced towards the Originals.

Just then, Kol staggered into the room looking mildly insane and sweating profusely with unfocused eyes. He looked up and saw Klaus, "Brother," he ground out, and sprung at him.

"Shit!" Klaus exclaimed, as Kol tackled him to the floor and let out a string if profanities as he attacked him in full on vampire mode.

Stefan, Damon, Bonnie, and Elena looked thoroughly confused as Elijah and Rebekah just sighed at the situation and went to go help Klaus. Then Caroline sped over and tackled Kol to the floor. But Kol threw her off and she hit the wall and slid to the ground in a heap. Klaus snarled and pinned Kol to the floor.

"Niklaus, you've got to get your blood in him, it's the hybrid bite," Elijah called to Klaus as he helped Caroline up. He nodded and focused back on his little brother.

"Kol! Calm down! Think about what you're doing, look around, where are you? Focus," Klaus spoke to him calmly and firmly.

Kol stopped struggling momentarily as his eyes seemed to clear and he looked around the room and stopped to look at a stunned Elena staring back. Then Klaus bit into his wrist and shoved it in Kol's mouth until he swallowed a few mouth fulls and he calmed down. Klaus took his hands away as Caroline came over and knelt beside him.

Klaus unbuttoned Kol's shirt checking his shoulder and saw the nasty wound he left there from yesterday quickly healing and dispelling the poison from his body. Elena came up behind them and looked down on him with concern, ever the compassionate saint she always was.

"Will he be okay?" She asked as she looked down on him.

"He will be now that I gave him my blood; I bit him yesterday, it wouldn't have killed him but it still causes the same pain and symptoms," Klaus responded and looked up curiously at her.

Kol blinked, his eyes turned brown again and his fangs and veins retreated. He looked up hazily into Elena's own brown eyes before passing out.

"Okay, does someone want to tell me what the hell is going on?" Damon's voice echoed through the room.

Klaus and Caroline looked at each other, "I guess now is a good time as any for all of us to talk, although we'll have to fill Kol in later," Caroline said. "Works for me, love," Klaus agreed.

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They all sat down in the living room, Klaus had changed into jeans and Kol was lain across one of the couches, unconscious. Damon, Stefan, and Bonnie sat on a couch opposite Caroline and Klaus. Elijah and Rebekah sat on a couch to the side facing in. Elena curiously leaned over where Kol was laying and sat down in the space by his head since he took up most of the couch, although a little uneasily. Elena, Bonnie, Stefan, and Damon gawked at Caroline who sat relaxed against Klaus with her legs crossed.

"Alright, someone want tell me why Blondie's cuddling up to the big bad hybrid and who the hell these guys are and what happened," Damon said exasperated as Fin and Esther walked into the room, Fin sitting next to Klaus and Esther sitting next to Elijah.

Caroline sighs, "A lot has happened."

"Yeah, you said that already," Damon mocked.

"Okay, well, I'll start from yesterday. I had heard about the dinner you and Stefan were going to have with Klaus and Elijah about Elena's fate."

"What!?" Elena shrieked, standing up, outraged.

"Um, well, we were trying to get them to leave you alone, make a deal," Damon tried to defend him and Stefan.

"I can make my own decisions! What gives you the right to make them for me!? Especially you two," she exclaims, pointing at Klaus and Elijah. Elijah looks mildly uncomfortable and Klaus frowns and looks down.

"Bloody hell, what's all the yelling about?" Kol grumbles as he shifts on the couch and squints his eyes, bringing his hands to his blood covered mouth.

Elena turns around and looks down at him, and he freezes as he looks into her brown eyes staring curiously at him. "Who the hell are you?" He asks. "I could ask you the same thing," she replies, raising an eyebrow at him.

Klaus interrupts, "This is my little brother, Kol; he was a little loopy earlier." Kol scowls at him, "A little? I was out of my mind, thanks to you." He wiped at the dried blood on his mouth and chin, "Did you feed me your blood?" he grimaced.

"You're welcome," Klaus told him smirking. "And this is my older brother, Fin, and my mother, Esther," he said to the rest of them.

"Your mother!? She was in the locked coffin?" Bonnie asked.

"Yes, okay, can we start from the beginning?" Caroline burst out.

When everyone had calmed down and Kol had sat up and Elena sat down next to him wearily, Klaus gestured to Caroline, "Go ahead, sweetheart."

She sighed heavily, "So I was coming here to go all rageaholic on you guys, but no one had answered the door. I went inside looking for the four if you, but I couldn't find you. Then I heard screaming; Klaus'. I followed it to the parlor where they were torturing him and I just reacted. I tackled Kol and fought with him, then Klaus kinda went nuts when Kol broke my arm and put a table leg in me."

Klaus, Bonnie, and Elena glared at Kol, who shrugged, "The past is the past, move on," he said bluntly. Caroline just rolled her eyes and continued.

"So then Elijah got involved with Fin and Rebekah in torturing Klaus, which I completely understand now; he had locked you all in coffins for hundreds of years." Klaus grunted and Esther gave him a look.

"So then they got the upper hand," she decided to exclude the part where Elijah shoved his fist into her chest, and he glanced at her and she shook her head minutely. "And they knocked us out, and we woke up in a cell in the basement, when we tried to escape, Rebekah shit us with vervaine and wolfsbane soaked bullets, knocking us out again." Once again, everyone glared at another Original who made a face and looked away.

"Now we woke up in a cement room tied to metal chairs and Kol came in to have a little fun with Klaus," she said flicking her eyes to Kol, who looked confused as to why she hadn't said all of what he did. "And he pissed off Klaus so much that he turned and tore apart Kol's shoulder," she said smirking as Klaus chuckled with her and they all stared at them.

She cleared her throat and focused again, "And we broke out and was about to leave, Klaus still in wolf form, when we were thrown back by the barrier spell Esther put up, which was when she decided to show. Am I missing anything?" She asked, and the Originals glanced at each other, silently agreeing not to fill in any gory details.

"I'd say that's accurate," Elijah finally said. "So the reason our Mother us here is to reunite our family, she is not any threat to you or us, you have nothing to fear from our family anymore," he continued reassuringly.

Damon looked at him skeptically, but nodded after a minute, but then looked to Klaus and Caroline.

"So what's up with Barbie and the big bad hybrid?" He asked accusingly. Caroline took a deep breath and looked at Klaus then at her friends, "I've decided to give him a chance, if his mother and siblings can do that, I think I can too" she said finally.

Her friends gawked at her stunned and silent. Caroline began to worry until Elena spoke up, "I guess I can see where she's coming from, it would make me a hypocrite if I told her she couldn't be with him because he's killed so many people, I mean, look at Stefan and Damon, they've killed a lot of people and we're still friends with them."

Bonnie protested, "But they changed, they try to control themselves, they don't EAT people, Stefan doesn't even drink human blood anymore."

"Maybe Klaus can change too. I'm not saying he will stop drinking human blood and go on animal blood like Stefan, but I think Care has a good influence on him. Besides, Esther is here to control them," Esther smiled at this and Elena smiled back.

Bonnie huffed, "Alright, if it makes you happy, Care," then she looked at Klaus, "but if you hurt her in any way, I will come after you," she threatened.

Klaus smiled lightly, "I have no doubt about that, Bonnie."

Stefan sighed in defeat and nodded at Caroline, "If you know what you're doing, then I'm fine with it."

Caroline smiled brightly, "Thank you Stefan, you too Bonnie and Elena."

She looked at Damon, who grunted, "I guess Barbie can shack up with him if she wants, can't hold her against it," he said while smirking at her. She rolled her eyes and grinned back at him.

"Well," Esther finally interrupted, "I was going to send out invitations, but I guess I could use some help setting up the ball."

Caroline perked up, "Ball?" She asked. Esther smiled, "Yes, I'm throwing a ball to celebrate our family coming together and I'm inviting a majority of the town, would you like to help?" Caroline gawked, "Of course, I would love to! Can Elena and Bonnie help too?"

"Umm, no thanks, Care, I know it's more your thing, not mine," Bonnie said.

"Elena?" Caroline asked.

"Of course, Care, I'd love to help!" Elena exclaimed.

Caroline squealed and looked to Esther for confirmation who smiled and nodded.

Klaus chuckled, and everyone began to split off and go their own ways. Stefan, Damon and Bonnie went home, Elijah and Fin went to their rooms, and Klaus headed off to his studio to paint.

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