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Chapter 13

Monique's only response was to lift her hands at Kol and chant, after a few seconds she frowned and restarted her chant frowning again.

Kol laughed, "your mojo has no effect on me, I have been spelled against witch attacks. Now tell me, what did Mikael tell you to do?"

Monique's eyes widened, "How do you know about Mikael."

Kol smirked, "that's easy, my name is Kol Mikaelson, I am his son. And father has been up to no good, as usual. Now answer my question, we can do this the easy way or the hard way, your choice."

Monique exhaled resignedly, "fine, I'll tell you. But I want you to promise that you won't harm me."

Kol raised a brow, "I don't really think you are in a position to negotiate with me, let's hear what Mikael told you to do first shall we."

Monique backed away from Kol until she had the wall to her back and Kol just a step into her personal space. Monique lifted her face to look at Kol for a moment, then looked away before responding, "Mikael made a deal with my ancestors. Mikael promised my ancestors that he was the only one who could kill all the surviving Originals, promised to rid New Orleans of all of the vampires and reestablish the witches as ruler of supernaturals in the Quarter. Genevieve was the contact here, They had spelled me, bound me to Mikael, but only partially. Only so that I could sense if another witch was messing with Mikael. I sensed he become weak, I was to help him in anyway I could."

Kol placed both his hands on the wall on either side of Monique's face, "and what exactly where you planning to do, love."

Monique pushed against Kol, and Kol allowed himself to be pushed away as she took a few steps away from him, "I was trying to fight to spell against Mikael, or at least that was what i was about to do before you interrupted me. What you did, you only weakened him and maybe broke the binding spell with that young vampire he was bound to, but if you think you can kill him, you won't succeed. There is only one way you can kill him. The ancestors planned the whole thing with Genevieve, too bad she didn't see Mikael double crossing her and kill her in the end."

Kol lifted his hand and gestured, "elaborate."

Monique looked at Kol, "I can't."

Kol flashed to Monique and grabbed her by the neck, "I will give you one last time to answer me love," pressing down on her windpipe.

Monique tried to talk but it came out as a whisper, "compelled…."

Kol loosened his grip, "what, compelled you say?"

Monique nodded vehemently, "I was compelled by Mikael, I can't share what I know even if you kill me."

Kol leaned forward to smell, "you don't have vervain in you that is good. That's the problem with you witches too trusting. I am an unoriginal too, so I can probably override your compulsion and maybe ask my brother to also do the same, two compulsions trumps one, I should think. Now, I can't very well leave you here so you and me are going for a ride love," flashing Monique toward the compound.

Klaus was looking outside the window distracted when Caroline suddenly sat up from the bed and heaved heavily. Klaus was immediately by her side enclosing her face between his hands, "Caroline…."

Caroline continued to breathe heavily taking in everything around her until she locked her eyes with Klaus'. "That's it, breath my love," Klaus carefully coached Caroline as he himself tried to calm down the sensation he felt, hearing Caroline heartbeat. It started faintly until slowly but surely her heart began to beat steadily. His Caroline was human, alive but human. Caroline quiet voice interrupted his thoughts.

"Klaus," Caroline called his attention, "am I…am I human?"

Klaus leaned in to kiss her temple, looked back at her, "yes my love. How are you feeling, maybe you need to lie down again."

Caroline shook her head, "I feel fine, a little confused, but fine. I do feel a bit hungry," trying to lighten her spirits.

Klaus picked up his phone to text something rapidly before bringing back his full attention to Caroline reaching out the hold her hands into his unconsciously rubbing her palms with his rough thumbs. He looked back at Caroline noting the color on her cheeks, a natural pinkish glow that only humans produce and was struck by her beauty, he had never seen her as a human before having arrived in Mystic Falls after she had already been turned so looking at her in her human state, he experienced the familiar tug in his heart that only Caroline was able to pull from him. No matter what, vampire or human, he was in love with her totally and irrevocably. He suddenly frowned, asking himself that same question, now that Caroline was human, did she feel the same way about him still. He was afraid to look deep into her eyes and see the answers in them.

Caroline pulled at his hand, "hey, what are you thinking?"

Klaus exhaled, "you're beautiful. When I first saw you, you were already a vampire, I never saw you as a human," his hands on her cheeks before sliding down to her shoulders. He dipped his head as he clasped her hands once again glancing down at their entwined hands.

Caroline squeezed his hands, "Niklaus Mikaelson, what are you thinking," she asked softly.

Klaus spoke quietly, "I love you Caroline Forbes, I cannot imagine my life without you now."

Caroline brought their twined hands to her lips before unclasping them as she placed a hand to Klaus' chin to lift his head so she could look him in the eye, "I….Love….You….Niklaus Mikaelson, every piece of you, even the dark parts of you," she leaned in to capture his lips and was immediately overwhelmed by her emotions. As a human, her insecurities should have overcome her as they had in the past, making her feel inadequate, small and ordinary. She was after all a mere human now, and she was locking lips with the most powerful being on earth. But his impassioned declaration had given her all the assurance she needed, human or vampire, she had made her choice, every choice, with her eyes opened since she went to New Orleans. Even for the very short time she was to remain human, she vowed to herself, she would remain the strong and determined Caroline Forbes that she has become, the one the most powerful being in the world had chosen to love for eternity.

Caroline pulled Klaus with her as she slowly proceeded to lay down on the bed bringing him with her as they were still locked in a passionate kiss. Caroline finally broke the kiss, needing air to breathe. She bit her lip and giggled as she tried to catch her breath, "for a moment, I forgot I was human and needed to breath."

Klaus smirked and kissed her temple once again and was about to kiss her cheek when a knock on the door interrupted them. Klaus rolled away from Caroline sighing, "that must be the food I sent up, I texted Elijah earlier."

Klaus stood up to open the door, nodding at his brother and stepping aside so he could enter. Elijah brought in the food tray and placed in on the edge of the bed before walking the last few steps to Caroline. He grabbed a nearby chair binging it closer as he took in Caroline's appearance. "How are you feeling Caroline, this must be overwhelming for you."

Caroline gave him a timid smile, "it's definitely a different feeling. I don't have my vampire senses anymore, heightened hearing, being stronger, I sort of miss those things." Quickly glancing at Klaus who sat down beside her back on the bed, "but at the same time, I like being human, I almost forgot how it felt like. I don't feel as weak as I should feel as a human. Besides," shrugging, "it will only be temporary, so I fully intend to enjoy my being human for awhile."

Klaus leaned forward to pull the food tray, "well the human experience involves you eating and keeping up your strength, so," locking the legs of the tray underneath her thighs, "eat now, please my love."

Caroline looked down on the tray and scrunched her nose, "well I don't think I can eat all that by myself, I mean hello, I've never eaten that much in one sitting ever as a human. Klaus, you will have to help me finish this all up."

Both Elijah and Klaus paused a moment, with Elijah standing up and saying "I have to take care of something, please excuse me Caroline'" nodding to Klaus, Elijah flashed away from the room.

Caroline bowed her head a bit, "that's one thing I hate about being human, you both heard something didn't you."

Klaus turned to Caroline, "Kol has arrived and apparently brought someone with him that my brothers and I need to…talk to," smirking.

"Hmmm, and by talk to you mean…."

Klaus kissed Caroline on the cheek, "you need to eat something, I will stay with you as you eat and….i will share your food with you," grabbing a piece of chocolate cake from the tray."

Caroline spanked Klaus' hand playfully, "anything but the chocolate cake, I love that and I will never say no to a piece of chocolate."

Klaus forked a piece of the cake and brought it to about an inch of Caroline's mouth, "nice to know you love chocolate."

Caroline couldn't help but moan at the sinfully delicious dessert, closing her eyes in ecstasy. "oh my god, this is sooooo good! It's like having the best sex ever!"

Klaus took offence at her comparison, "well excuse me, comparing me to a piece of chocolate."

Caroline blushed, "how would you know I was referring to you when I talk about best sex ever, and besides when did we go so off topic."

Klaus touched her cheek, "I love your blush, it makes you more beautiful. Now on to more important topics, are you actually telling me I am not your best sex ever," raising an eyebrow, "I might be forced to prove you wrong."

Caroline kissed his cheek, pushing the tray away to straddle him "you are a class on to your own Niklaus Mikaelson, my perfect lover," leaning in to capture his lips to hers.

Klaus entered the room that had his brothers Elijah and Kol talking to young witch Monique Deveraux. Klaus walked further into the room and sense some tension, "explain brothers."

Kol walked toward his brother, he paused for a bit to place his hand to the back of his neck, "I was with the young witch as instructed, and it turns out she was indeed working with the other witches and their ancestors who brought father back. As you know, father killed all the other witches except for this one," pointing to Monique, "as she wasn't part of the witches who were present when Mikael was resurrected. But Mikael eventually went to seek her out and compel her to aid him in case he anything happened to him. She is partly bound to father via a spell and once she felt father weakened she started to try to fight Davina's spell, but I stopped her before she was able to do any damage at all."

Klaus frowned, "then why is she still here, you could have just done away with her."

Kol shook his head, "she started to share more information when I threatened her, but because father compelled her, she couldn't go further to give me the information I needed. I thought we can use juxtaposition compulsions to counter fathers, so we could break his compulsion."

Klaus walked forward to eye Monique before turning back to Kol, "what exactly did she say until her compulsion stopped her?"

Kol exhaled, "she said that Mikael made a deal with some with witches ancestors from the other side and swore if they brought him back here, he would end all living Originals, that's Nik, Bekah and you Elijah, they didn't know about me yet. Father also anticipated that we would try to break the binding spell with Caroline and attempt to make him human while still bound to Caroline. We succeeded in the first one since Monique couldn't stop the spell but the spell turning Mikael human will only be temporary."

Elijah joined his brothers, "Before he killed the witches who brought him back, they did a protection spell on him with the aid of ancestors from the other side making it impossible to kill him even if he was turned human. Sure he could be weakened and probably put in a deep sleep by other witches but nothing that will permanently kill him forever. The spell made him truly immortal, immune to death. Young Deveraux shared that fathers' state as a human is only temporary, he will revert to his status soon"

Klaus rubbed his face, "so you are telling me that risking Caroline being turned human was for nothing! Once again, Mikael is a step ahead!"

Elijah stepped toward Klaus and reached out his hand in an attempt to squeeze Klaus' shoulder as he normally would do to calm his brother down but Klaus fiercely pushed his arm away, flashing outside the room and into the night."

Elijah shook his head pinching the tip of his nose, "little brother, it is rare that I find myself floundering and at a loss of what to do. Do you think there is a way for you to contact mother and see if she could help us."

Kol nodded to his brother, "she did it before and helped me cross-over from the other side, let me get Davina to try to contact her ancestors maybe through them I can speak with mother, or at least they can deliver our message," before proceeding to the door, "I assume you will take care of the witch," pointing to a dazed Monique.

Klaus had never felt so much rage just shoot up from nowhere as he heard what his brothers had to say. Once again Mikael had outplayed him, had one-upped him. His rage multiplied as he couldn't come to terms with the fact that what Caroline sacrificed, her vampirism, what for nothing. She was collateral damage to his war with Mikael. It could have been a simple spell to unbind them, but no they had to make her human in order to kill Mikael. She was the sacrificial lamb, she had to suffer for his incompetence. She said it herself, she loved being a vampire, loved what she has become. He himself had loved how far she had come, how far they had come from where they were before she made the journey to New Orleans.

Would she ever forgive him once she found out that her sacrifice was for nothing? Deep down he knew she would, she was Caroline. She would forgive him, look past this and make the most of the situation. But he could not, he could never forgive himself. For taking away something Caroline had loved so much, her vampirism. For under estimating Mikael. For losing his edge, he was always a better planner, had been the master of several world changing wars. His self-loathing was interrupted by laughter from a distance, as he flashed toward the distasteful noise he spotted a group of men drinking, obviously intoxicated and oblivious to their surroundings. He did not take a moment and just flashed toward them making quick work and turning the surroundings into a macabre of blood and decapitated body parts. Feeling the overwhelming urge to repeat the process again, he flashed toward his next destination vowing to himself to inflict as much chilling pain to as many as he could as the night deepened.

It was daylight as everyone in the study turned their attention to the opening of the door. The sight that greeted their eyes was as ghastly and as horrid as can be. Caroline stood up from her perched position near the fireplace trying not to gag at the smell. She was after all human, and smells like these just made humans want to gag no matter how tough they were. She looked at Klaus who did not make any attempt to go beyond a step into the room. She exhaled a breath before saying, "Elijah, Kol, can you please give Klaus and I a moment."

Kol made as if to protest but was given a look by Elijah. Elijah looked at Caroline for a few seconds before nodding slightly and signaling Kol that they should leave. He briefly stopped infront of Klaus to try to search his face for any sign of what his state of mind was finally just put his hand on his brothers' shoulder to squeeze it for a moment.

When they were left alone, Caroline went to face the window looking out into the clear day. The minutes stretched with no one attempting to start any conversation until Caroline finally broke the ice, "if this had happened a year ago, the mere sight of you would convince me that you really deserved your reputation as the 'monster', the big bad hybrid who purposely and consciously sets out to murder countless without thought or rationale. But I get it now," turning around the face Klaus but maintaining their distance, "you do what you do when you feel out of control, powerless to protect family, the ones you truly care for, the ones you truly love." Caroline made a gesture for him to approach her and he did with slow and deliberate steps and stopped a mere foot from where she was standing, Caroline took the final step toward him before lifting her hand to scrape of some blood that was in his cheek. "I understand and I'm not trying to change you, but I want to also make you recognize that we, you and I," gesturing between them, "your brothers, Elijah and Kol, your sister Rebekah, we, all of us, we are a family. That means we all work together, it's not all on you, despite what you believe." Klaus had been gazing intently at Caroline, listening to what she was saying and finally shook his head, lowering it in defeat.

"I should have anticipated his moves, I should have known he had something up his sleeve. That it wouldn't have been that easy to get rid of him. I underestimated Mikael, I made a mistake that would have resulted in loosing you."

Caroline uncaring of the blood and gore that was all over Klaus grabbed his face, pressing her body to him, "you didn't lose me."

Klaus pushed Caroline gently away from him stepping away and turning around to face the window, "I don't deserve you, I failed to protect you. I failed you. Mikael was right, I am nothing but a pathetic nobody who doesn't deserve anything."

Caroline gulped before circling her arms around Klaus, embracing him from the back, "he's wrong. You deserve love, you deserve to be loved by me of you would let me."

Klaus spun around suddenly and grabbed Caroline by the shoulders, "how could you say that after I failed you. It's my fault that you are in danger, that Mikael had to use you, bind himself to you. My fault that you had to be turned human, used you for my revenge."

Caroline shook her head, "I was there Klaus, I was the one who decided that we do this, I was the one who agreed that this was the best way. I chose to do this, to be human, look at me," searching Klaus' eyes. "Everything I did, I chose of my own free will. Coming to New Orleans for you, caring for you, loving you, agreeing to be turned human, every single one was my choice. Mine. Besides it's only temporary," shrugged, "maybe it will take a little longer for me to stay human, longer than what we originally planned, but I do not regret it. Why should you?"

Klaus remained quiet and closed. Caroline tried to reason with him again, "you said you loved me, so many times, you loved my light, my control, me. You love me. Vampire or human, you love me. Unless….you don't want me anymore, because I am a weak, fragile human, is that it."

Klaus eyes shot up at Caroline, "that will never change, vampire or human, I will always want you. But you should hate me, I have failed you."

Caroline exhaled, "so what you're saying is, I should hate you because you want me to hate you. Ignore that fact that I am whole-heartedly, irrevocable, madly, deeply, intensely in love with you and just hate you because you think that I should?"

Klaus experience the pinched in his heart and found himself drowning frantically at what she was saying, but for the last time tried to state his case, "look at me, I am covered in blood, I have killed again and I will kill again if I have to in the future. It's my nature."

Caroline placed her hand over his heart, "and it's my nature to see the good in you, to believe in you. I see you, the real you, we are both not perfect, but you and me both together, we balance each other off. You see dark and light, black and white….i see my other half, the half that I was just too stubborn to admit I wanted, I needed, I loved. Look at me," letting her hands trap his face again so he could lock his eyes with hers, "you told me that you waited more than a thousand years for me, I may not have waited that long but now that I have you, that we have one another, I will never let you go, never, I will fight you every single time until you finally get it into the thick head of yours that nothing you will do will push me away, vampire or human, I love you unconditionally. This," grabbing his hand and putting it above her heart, "beats for you," and I wish that this," placing her own hand over his heart, "is mine to keep safe for all eternity."

Klaus' answer to her impassioned speech was to grab her and crash her to him, crashing his lips to hers and putting everything into the kiss that he couldn't word at the moment until together they fell on their knees on the floor still entangled against one other.

When Elijah and Kol stepped back into the room Klaus had already been cleaned up and had showered and both he and Caroline where seated, well Klaus was seated and Caroline was on his lap, with Klaus tenderly stroking her arm as she nestled in his chest.

Elijah had a rare smile on his lips as he saw his brother and Caroline, pausing for a moment as if afraid to interrupt the not so rare now show of affection by Klaus for Caroline. Klaus finally acknowledged his siblings, "brothers, what have I missed."

Elijah raised his brow at Klaus' attempt to ignore his state earlier in the day, but seeing as everything seemed settled with Caroline he decided to follow his brothers' lead and forget about the incident too, "first, we confirmed by testing Caroline and father are unbound, so we at least have some good news. Father however has reverted back, no longer human. The spell the witches made was stronger than we anticipated, we have however given him vervain shots to keep him week in the dungeons. But the one that will interest you is we have information on how to get rid of father permanently."

Klaus raised a brow to challenge his brother, daring him to call him out on his 'behavior' last night, "out with it then, I don't have the patience to play a guessing game with you at the moment."

Elijah and Kol both sat down on the couch and Elijah continued, "we asked Davina to contact her ancestors, so that we could learn more about how to deal with father. But as it turns out, they were also trying to contact us. Esther delivered a message while Davina was in trance."

Klaus straightened up, bring Caroline closer to his chest, "and what was the message?"

Kol interjected, "a way to finally end father permanently."

Klaus hands tightened around the waist of Caroline who whimpered a bit, since she could feel the pain now, she was human now after all, Klaus belatedly realized this and kissed her cheek mouthing a sorry at her before turning back to his brothers, "and what needs to be done."

Elijah straightened his coat before stating, "it's actually very simple, it takes an original to kill an original. Father is no exception since he and mother are also considered originals. We have to bind one of us to father, temporarily turning both human, then and only then can father be killed by a special dagger coated with white oak ash. But the kill blow should come the one who will be bound to father. He is the only one who can kill him, as it will also break the bond. After father is killed, the spell that makes the one bound to father human is lifted, he should revert to Original status a few hours after.

"And this time the death is permanent, not other side permanent, but forever gone permanent. The white ash has already been prepared with the help of the witch ancestors, we just have to settle the matter of who among us," pointing to his brothers, "will be bound to him."

Klaus smirked at that, "well brothers, I think the answer is simple. That will obviously be me," wagging a finger at the protest about to escape his brothers, "for one, I still have my werewolf side so it gives me added leverage against Mikael, second, I think even he would appreciate the irony of all this."

Elijah looked thoughtfully at Klaus, "it will take a lot of strength for the spell to be done by Davina even with the help of the ancestors, magic has its limits. So we have to decide, we can either do the binding spell with Mikael or turn back Caroline, and we have talked about it in your absence, Caroline agreed to stay human longer, at least a couple of days after we do the binding spell with father."

Klaus looked at Caroline who shrugged, "it's fine. I'm safe. It's just a few more days. This is more important, we have to finish this."

A scream interrupted the rest of their conversation, as all four of them flashed to the source of the sound finally finding Davina sprawled on the floor passed out. Elijah and Kol looked at one another with Elijah pointedly telling Kol, "look for Monique, I'll check on father," flashing away.

Caroline was bended over Davina then looked up at Klaus, "we need to move her to a bed, could you. I can't carry her anymore without my vampire strength." Klaus leaned in to kiss Caroline head before he took Davina in his arms to carry her. He had just closed the door to Davina's room, Caroline had opted to spend a few more minutes with Davina and was about to make his way back down when both Elijah and Kol flashed to him. Klaus raised a brow before Elijah pinched the tip of his nose, "father is gone, the shackles are broken, looks like he recovered from the spell and has his strength back. Monique is also missing."

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