A/N: First of all I would like to take a moment to address some of the comments I got last chapter, re: the name of Klaus' father, well since I will be writing him in this chapter and the consensus, it was never mentioned. I would like to apologize in advance if in the future TO would mention his name and mine will turn out so lame, but for lack of an alternative I settled for 'Ulric' after doing a bit of research. Ulric is supposed to mean Wolf Leader. Second, yyyeeesss…the baby will happen, so many of us are really obsessed with a Klaroline baby, and this to happen and unlike the writers of TVD/TO, I do not want to disappoint, but I warn you it will be part of a twist. If you guys haven't gotten it by now I'm a bitch for the twist, twistbitch.

As usual, I do not own TVD/TO, but like so many of you writers or readers, we all feel both shows could use better storylines (that's my inner twistbitch talking). Here is to hoping we have a better TVDs6 or TOs2.

Happy Reading….

Original Sin

Chapter 15

Klaus was leaning on the pillar of the compound, watching as Caroline continued to bask in the sunshine laughing with Davina. The sight of a human Caroline enjoying simple things like a day under the sun and just being a girl was tearing at the heart of Klaus. He truly marveled how his Caroline was able to accept everything thrown at her so easily and fluidly, she was truly a remarkable woman. One of a kind, no equal not in his thousand years of existence and not in the next thousand years, that he was sure of. The shock of what had to happen as relayed by his Mother was not wearing off on Klaus. He said, he was never toying with her life again, not even for revenge against Mikael. He would choose his Caroline over revenge, no one, not his brothers and definitely not his Mother was going to make him change her mind.

Davina and Caroline where both walking toward him now and as they neared, Davina skirted as far away from him as she could to enter the house as Caroline stopped and stood in front of him. "I felt your stare all the way from over there," pointing to where she and Davina where moments ago staring at me." She circled her arms around his waist, "don't do it."

Klaus looked down on Caroline, "do what?"

Caroline placed her hands on his cheeks, "don't look at me like I will suddenly disappear and you won't see me again. I will always be here," positioning one of her hands on top of his heart.

Klaus exhaled kissing her hairline, "I won't be able to live without you by my side. A thousand or so years and then I met you, how could life be so cruel even to someone like me to take you away from me."

She gathered his hands and kissed his knuckles slowly, "you and me both. I can't survive without you too. I'm scared not because of what I will have to go through, because this is something I know I have to do, not just for your family, you….me, but for everything we stand for, the supernatural world. I'm afraid that I would fail, that I don't deserve to be turned into an Original."

Klaus shook her by the shoulders, "you are not seriously thinking about what Mother said!"

Caroline grabbed his biceps, "No Klaus, it's my decision to make, mine."

Klaus took a step back and looked at her like she betrayed him and the way he was looking at her hurt. She wanted to make him understand that after thinking about it, tossing and turning all night, she knew in her heart that this was something she needed, wanted to do. If she was to be beside the most powerful being for eternity, she needed to earn her place beside him. She had always been a neurotic control-freak, planner and force to be reckoned with when she was human before, it was the same thing that drove her today. The first time she was turned, she had no say whatsoever in what had happened. But now, it was very clear to her, crystal, she had a choice to make and she would chose to be the instrument needed to save their kind. She would be an Original, wow, if her Mystic Falls gang could see her now…she had really come a long way. An Original vampire with a bit of werewolf and witch in her, if what Esther said was really to happen.

Maybe Klaus just didn't want her to be an Original like him or his siblings. Maybe Klaus wanted that distinction to remain for his family only, the Mikaelsons. Maybe he felt she wasn't good enough to be an Original.

But as Klaus had taken a step back and turned his back on her to walk out on her, she realized that Klaus' hesitation was more because he had failed in protecting her, his stubbornness was a result of his fear of not being able to control what danger awaits her. Klaus had always taken the role of protector of his family, even if the way he did it was almost always twisted. If he failed he took it personally as his failure. There was no doubt in Caroline's mind that Klaus considered her family, that they all considered her family. Therefore, Klaus and his inner demons where coming from a place of fear of the unknown, the unpredictable. He was doubting himself because his father had planted that seed of doubt in him, the ability to out-think his Father. But that was where Klaus was wrong, because they had just outwitted Mikael, and if Caroline was the weapon to put Mikael away, Klaus was the key to make it happen, since her strength came from him, mentally and emotionally. They were much more to one another, they were halves of a whole. She needed him as much as he needed her. Granted it took her a full twenty seconds to get to him, she was human after all and she couldn't flash, but as she reached him she wrapped her arms around him as she pressed her front to his back.

"Nik…." Caroline whispered.

Klaus had immediately paused when she wrapped her hands around him and whispered his name. His breath had hitched, the way she whispered his name, she had called him 'Nik', only his family had called him that.

"What did you call me?" Klaus asked quietly without turning around.

Caroline breathed into his back, "Niklaus, Nik…. Is it ok for me to call you that?"

Klaus slowly turned around and wrapped his arms around her, kissing her neck. "I love the way you say my name. From now on, you will call me Nik," kissing her temple. "Please don't do this, let me find another way."

Caroline looked up and locked eyes with him, "Nik, I have to do this, for us, for family, for our kind. Maybe it has always been what has been written for me, my best friends after all are the doppelganger and a descendant of a powerful witch line who became the anchor, who would have thought this would be mine. I've said it before, I'm not the same girl anymore, this is my life now," intertwining their hands together," our lives now. I promise Nik, I will survive this, we will both survive this. I love you."

Esther and Davina where in the study with Elijah and Kol who were giving the woman some space as they did a locator spell to locate Rebekah. It was relatively easy. Rebekah had not even tried to do a cloaking spell to prevent the witches from locating her.

The fact that she was out of the country was a little distressing given the dire circumstances, thank god it was only Canada, so it was just a few hours away. Elijah had immediately taken his leave, calling for a private plane to be ready for him, promising everyone that he would be back the day after.

Now it was just Klaus, Caroline and Kol that night in the study. Esther had chosen to retire early she said she needed a good night sleep to prepare for tomorrow. She had advised Davina to do the same earlier. So as Klaus and Caroline with Kol all quietly contemplated the all things that could happen the next day, somewhere just outside of the Quarter, the opposite of quiet was happening.

"If you kill me, you will lose everything!" Monique all but choked at Mikael as he was crushing her windpipe.

"Why can't I get any answers from you!" Mikael let go of her windpipe as he pushed her against the wall violently.

Rubbing her neck and looking at Mikael in fear Monique answered, "my ancestors are being blocked from communicating with me, something powerful is blocking my powers and the powers of the witches with me. It isn't us, it's something else, something powerful than any of us witches."

Mikael came closer to Monique once again with a threatening stance, "what can be more powerful than ancestral magic which you practice, pure magic? Dark magic? Answer me witch….."

Monique was sitting against a wall in a corner, "I don't have answers now, but I will. I need my sister witches with me, please….let them come her….i will have the answers you seek by morning."

Mikael was about the grab Monique again but Monique blocked Mikael with a brain-freezing aneurism, "I told you, send in my sister witches and we will have answers by morning, I'm just doing this to protect myself, my ancestors won't take it kindly if you kill me."

Mikael fought the spell as he rose from his prone position and backed-off from Monique, "you will have until noon tomorrow or not even your ancestors will be able to help you!" with that last statement Mikael walked out of the room as Monique exhaled heavily and gathered herself thinking how wrong things turned out for her knowing that she was probably on the wrong side of this war since she had almost no help from the witches from the Other Side.

As the other witches, three to be exact entered all battle weary and beaten, Monique noted that they were in for a long and sleepless night. They had to find a way to aid Mikael in his quest, or they were all going to die. Mikael was so far gone in his rage that he was blinded to everything in the pursuit of killing all his children.

"Sister," Elijah faced his sister as he stood up from the armchair he was occupying.

Rebekah took a few steps until she was almost in front of her brother, "why am not surprised to see you here Elijah. And you even raided my supply of alcohol."

Elijah smirked then handed his sister the second tumbler of scotch he was holding, "it's a good brand of scotch, how could I not." He drank the remainder of his drink and gestured for Rebekah to do the same before he continued, "sister, I have come to take you home, it's time."

Rebekah stared at her brother for a few more moments before she gulped her drink down, then took a step forward to search the face of her brother. "you have worry lines, what have I missed."

Elijah proceeded to tell his sister about everything that had happened since she left and Rebekah's frown just went deeper and deeper until Elijah finished and all she could say is, "wow, so Kol, mother and father are all alive,' she looked at her brother anxiously, "so how is Nik taking all this."

Elijah sneered, "which part, the part where he would not be the most powerful being anymore?"

Rebekah grinned, "knowing Nik, I think he would be more concerned with Caroline and the spell going wrong than focusing on the mightiest of mighty contest with Caroline. Is he even on board with this?"

The shrug Elijah gave Rebekah was all the answer she needed, "so your hail mary mission to get me maybe for nothing?"

Elijah faced his sister fully again this time with a wide smile on his face, "Caroline can be very convincing if she needs to be."

Rebekah couldn't help but laugh at that, "and Nik has finally met his match. I missed Caroline."

"Not for long sister, we need to get back right now, time is of the essence," Elijah rejoined.

Rebekah walked away, "give me ten minutes to pack, I took everything I owned out of the Mansion the last time I left, I thought it would be a while before I would step foot back in New Orleans."

Elijah nodded quietly and looked at his sister, "family above all, always and forever."

Rebekah smiled, "family above all, always and forever." and flashed to her bedroom to pack.

Somewhere in the bayou…..

"What is it?" Oliver asked Jackson as Jackson stared into the dark wilderness of the bayou.

"I can feel something in the air and it's making me restless, I can't help but feel that whatever is out there is the reason for it," Jackson replied turning to Oliver who was now standing beside him also looking into the dark at nothing in particular.

"There are rumors, all over the Quarter of a war brewing. The families are also talking, werewolves from other clans are also making their way here," Oliver informed Jackson.

Jackson nodded, "I know, something is brewing. We have to prepare for it. It's just frustrating to be lacking in information."

Oliver nodded, "maybe we need to meet with Klaus again, he would have answers."

Jackson eyed Oliver, "we might need to and soon, I fear no one else can give us the answers we seek."

"That's where you are wrong," a voice in the dark answered.

Oliver and Jackson where suddenly in alert, looking around them, "who's there, show yourself!" Jackson shouted to the darkness.

After a moment, footsteps were heard until a shape appeared before them, "I can give you the answers you seek."

Jackson stepped a foot forward before he stopped as Oliver held his arm in warning, "who are you."

The figure answered calmly, "I am the wolf leader, Ulric, from where you all descended. A war greater than all of us is coming, and we have to defend our kind. The other clans are converging as we speak. Come there is much to do. No need to introduce yourself Jackson," then looked to the man to his right, "Oliver, i know who you both are."

Ulric had moved forward to stand before Jackson and Oliver as he spoke but now stepped toward the camp while Jackson and Oliver looked at each other for a moment before following the newcomer.

Early the next day, Caroline and Klaus where having breakfast with Kol and Esther, each one quiet and left to their own thoughts. When the front door opened, each of them looked to the dining hall entrance to see who was bold enough to come and interrupt them. The footsteps of a man and a woman was noticeable for the three Originals—Klaus, Kol and Esther—as three of them recognized the steps as Elijah and Rebekah. Caroline could only rely on Klaus for information since she was human, so as she glanced questioningly to Klaus, he smiled at her and answered, "Elijah has arrived and he brought back sister with him."

Even before Klaus had finished his sentence, Caroline pushed back her chair to stand-up. As Elijah stepped inside the room, Caroline was about ten feet from him but she was running toward something or more precisely someone behind him. Elijah paused and turned to look to his side, all of them heard a high shriek as Caroline launched herself to Rebekah who returned her enthusiastic embrace with fervor.

"Oww," Caroline yelped. Immediately Klaus was by her side reaching out his hand to her.

As Caroline spotted Klaus she shook her head to assure him touching his arm, "the embrace was just a little too tight for me, I'm human after all." She told Klaus before turning back to Rebekah who was a little guilty.

"Heartbeat, Caroline you really are human. And I missed you!," she glanced to Caroline's right side looking up at her brother to gauge his reaction to her, "Niklaus…."

"Rebekah," Klaus answered her stoically.

Rebekah looked back at Elijah for a moment before turning back to Klaus with determination and launched herself to him, "brother, I need a hug from you too."

As Rebekah locked her arms around his neck, Klaus froze for a few seconds before Caroline caught his eye and gave him a look, Caroline really had a scary look he thought and it was all he needed to prod him to he lift his arms to embrace his sister tightly.

"Awww, how sweet…don't I get a hug too sister?" Kol asked sarcastically, not wanting to be left out of the family reunion.

It turned out to be a long morning as Esther had briefed all of them as to what was going to go down in a few hours. Davina and her were doing last minute preparations for the spell. As Davina lighted the candles, Esther placed a golden chalice in front of her, nodding to Davina, she looked to all of her children as she told them she was about to start the spell.

"It is time, I will need drops of your blood," Esther told them.

Kol was the first to move forward and offer his hand to his mother, Esther sliced his palm with a dagger and squeezed his hand. When Kol was done, Esther prodded Rebekah forward and did the same with her. Elijah next moved forward looking at his mother for a moment before he lifted his hand and gave it to her. As Elijah stepped back he called to Klaus to go next. Klaus however refused to move forward and just continued to look at his Mother suspiciously.

"Nik….," Caroline called him softly, "it's ok"

Klaus still refused to move forward. It took Caroline pulling him, at least as far as her human strength could pull him. He finally took the last few steps forward still with Caroline by his side, "Mother, promise that everything will go according to plan. Because I swear in front of all of my siblings, if anything at all goes wrong, I will kill you myself."

Esther smiled sadly at Klaus and looked at Caroline for a moment, "son, if things go according to what we planned, then she will become an Original. If this fails, then you have my permission to kill me."

Klaus nodded to his Mother and looked at Caroline one last time, "are you sure my love?"

Caroline nodded, "I've never been more sure of anything else in my life, except for choosing to love you, love all of you."

Klaus placed his hands on her face to kiss her on her temple and look into her eyes finally exhaling and turning to his Mother to give him her hand to slice."

After Esther squeezed Klaus' hand for blood, she took a same dagger to slice her hand open, wincing a bit, "witch blood, you will have basic witch powers Caroline, to aid you if needed." Esther squeezed her hand and poured her blood in the same chalice. Finally she took out a chain from her neck form which a small bottle was attached. As she opened the bottle she made as if to pour the contents into the chalice before Klaus stopped her.

"What is that!" Klaus asked loudly. His siblings all circled around Esther.

Esther was still holding the bottle over the chalice, "its blood, werewolf blood. Your Fathers' blood Niklaus, while your blood should be enough you are a hybrid after all, it is better to give Caroline all the advantages she may need. Your father has pure werewolf blood. He is after all Chief of the wolves, above the alphas."

Klaus glanced at Caroline once again before looking at Elijah who gave him a subtle nod, exhaling he let go of his Mothers' arm so she could proceed. After a pause, Esther poured the content of the bottle into the chalice and once again prodded Davina forward as they linked hands and started to chant. Caroline was holding on the Klaus who did not take his eyes off of Esther the whole time. The flicker of the candles continued to grow and the lights started to blink. The chanting was at a feverish pitch before everything turned to dark for a second and the lights came back on while the candles died down. Unlike before Davina was still standing as the spell finished, a testament to the ability of Esther, the Original Witch, although Kol had stood dutifully behind her just in case she fainted.

Esther then gestured for Caroline to move in front of her but Klaus stilled Caroline's steps letting her face him, "Caroline, I'm begging you. You don't have to do this."

Caroline could see worry and resignation in Klaus' eyes, "yes I do, for everyone, all humans who have no idea of what is happening. For the supernatural, for family," glancing at each of the Mikaelsons, "for us, Nik, for us."

With one long exhale, Klaus brought her near for a kiss that told her everything he wanted to say to her abruptly letting her go and whispering, "I love you, always and forever."

Caroline looked into Klaus' eyes one last time and told him the same thing, "I love you, always and forever," then stepped to the spot Esther indicated. Esther gestured for her to drink the blood in the chalice and after a long breath she lifted the chalice to drink the contents entirely. Putting the chalice back on the table, she looked at Klaus again reaching out her hand to him and whispered, "Nik…" before collapsing in his arms as he quickly caught her.

That's it. Review please.

Next chapter will be battle royal part 1.