"Caroline breaks up with Klaus when she hears about Hayley's pregnancy. she gets drunk and non other than kol is there to heal/take advantage of the drunken blonde. but what if the one night stand turns into a regular Tuesday night thing? what if they form feeling for one another? how will Klaus react to loosing his little blonde to his younger rather? characters are vampires" –CB4389
"Can you write one where Kol's first and only choice is Caroline? Making her see that she won't always come second picked after Elena?" –Kitsunekit75
We seem to be doing this game where I finish a prompt and you give me three more. At this point, I'll be writing this prompts till I'm thirty.
The alcohol burns her throat as Caroline swallows another shot. She knows she's getting beyond buzzed now, that familiar and very welcome warmth and calmness overtaking her but not quite fully to let her forget.
A few hours ago her life took an unexpected turn when Klaus, who had been pursuing her like a dog with a bone for months, confesses to her that he got freaking Hayley of all people pregnant and would she like to go to New Orleans with him to become both his wife and stepmother to his unborn mutant baby?
Caroline doesn't know what fucked up family dynamics Klaus is expecting her to be okay with but this isn't it. After she flat out refuses – because seriously, it's the strangest situation ever – she ends up at the Grill to drink her sorrows away and also the constant thought that 'the men in this town are fucking insane'.
Seriously, if there is one normal guy in Mystic Falls he ends up food for the psychopaths that run adamant here. What makes it even worse was that usually they'd be all sweet and like 'I'd die for you because I love you so much!' and then you see what total crazies they really are.
Damon – need she say more?
Stefan –blood addict and he really can rip right through a town (get it?)
Jeremy – remember his hunter days and how he tries to kill his own sister?
Tyler – jealous, possessive asshole even when they've already broken up
Heck, even Matt who's like the honorary human in the gang had his moments.
What? You don't remember him being all judgy with her when he learns she's a vampire and then being all supportive wirh Elena later on when she becomes a vampire too? The dude's bipolar.
Maybe she should leave town. The prospects her is just dim and makes her want to die from alcohol poisoning. Which makes her drink more and then brood and then drink more. Hello, cycle!
"Hello, sweetheart,"
The English lilt in that voice could only belong to a damn Original because even if their parents were from Eastern Europe and they were born and grew up in America.
Caroline sends Psychopath #106 a glare before downing another shot. She's trying to get drunk enough to forget her own name. She wants to forget everything really. A lobotomy is looking good at this point.
Kol (insert explanation why he's back from the Other Side) chuckles in amusement and takes the seat beside her at the bar, ordering a drink for himself and watching her with those dark eyes of his. Now he has serial killer eyes. Like you know he's probably killed someone. No goddamn angel blue or forest green – just dark 'I've ripped out throats for fun' brown.
"So, what got you drowning your sorrows in alcohol?" Kol finally pipes up. "Did a boy broke your heart?"
The mocking in his voice is so condescending and she answers anyway. "Your brother,"
"Which one?"
She gives him a 'are you stupid?' look. "Which one has been pursuing me like crazy for weeks?"
"Well, of course, Klaus," He rolls his eyes. "But I thought maybe Elijah at some point took a fancy to you because people around here seem to jump from one person to another like it's a bloody game."
Caroline finally realizes that Kol is the only one who hasn't participated in the said love circus and remembers why. "You're just upset no one wants to play with you."
He looks indignant, pouting at her like a child. "No. I just know what complete lunatics the people around here are like. Elena killed me, if you remember. Bonnie tried to take down the bloody Veil cause she thought she was super witch. Katherine is a fucking sociopath."
He levels her with a dry look. "Why would I ever want to get tangled up in them?"
She shrugs. "Because it's what people around here do. If you're not pining for someone, you're doing it wrong."
"Apparently," He's finished his drink and ordered another one. "How many out of the merry group have you dated?"
Damon, Matt, Tyler, Klaus – and Stefan without his memory said he thought she was 'hot' so maybe that could've….
She blushes and avoids Kol's gaze. He leans down anyway, having guessed already. "And how did that all work out for you?"
"Really shitty," She answers and looks up at him again. He really is handsome especially when he smiles at her just gently enough to-
She gets up on wobbly legs and Kol watches her try to walk away before she inevitably falls over, him there to catch her in seconds.
"Forbes," He chides. "Just how much have you had?"
"A lot," She admits embarrassed. "Are you going to take me home?"
"Did you drive here?"
She shakes her head and he sighs before lifting her up into his arms. She wraps her arms around his neck and leans against him because it feels nice and he's strong and powerful and could break her in half without thinking about it.
She's up in her room and tucked in bed before she knows it, Original speed and all. And she stares up at Kol as he brushes stray hairs from her face, eyes tender. "Are you going to stay with me tonight?"
"You mean like every Tuesday night since I've been back and you get drunk at the Grill for some small reason?" He gives her a playful glare. "You're not even sober enough for sex this time. You make me sad."
She groans and tugs on his hand to pull him closer to her. He obliges even if he's much stronger and lifts the covers to get in bed with her. "Are we tangled up?"
He wraps an arm around her to pull her against him. "Now we are."
"No, I mean like….like we're doing that circus trick everyone does."
"No, we aren't."
Her heart does that little fluttering thing when it wants to go down to her stomach and dissolve itself there because ouch.
Until Kol leans closer and kisses the tip of her nose and it's so sweet, her heart starts dancing in her chest. "I don't plan on jumping to anyone when we encounter a problem. We'll get through it like mature adults."
"But we're not mature adults despite how old you are," She giggles. "You're bloody ancient. There are artefacts from Egypt younger than you."
"Nevertheless," He brushes his lips against hers, gently nipping on her bottom lip. "We'll work it out."
She rests her head on her chest and breathes in his spicy scent, just basking. Cause if you have a hot Original boyfriend you bask at the sheer awesomeness, okay? And he's quiet, one of the few moments he isn't blabbing away because apparently to him he has the voice of God.
"Klaus asked me to go to New Orleans with him," She finally tells him. "After he confesses to having impregnated another girl. He wants me to be the stepmother to his demon child."
"That is a level of creepy even I haven't touched." He twirls one of her curls in his fingers. "Did you tell him 'fuck no, I'm going to elope with your brother and we're going to live happily ever after in a land far, far away instead'?
"I just told him I prefer to stay here where I can – what's that word you use? – shag you until we forget our names because the sex is that mind-blowing."
He grins brightly and kisses the top of her head. "That's my girl."
"He looked quite miffed."
"Yeah, he seemed miffed too when I refused to come with him as well," Kol shakes his head, gravely. "The cunt forgets I exist for months and when I return from the dead he wants me around to play babysitter to his devil spawn."
"What's wrong with everyone here?" She looks at him pleadingly. "Let's elope to somewhere far, far away?"
"And live happily ever after from the loons here? Absolutely," He holds her even more tightly and rests his chin on the top of her head. "But in the morning."