"OT 5 - Caroline and klaus have to help Enzo, Kol and Kai acclimate to 2012 (I think that's the current TVD year)" -Desi44

Kol/Caroline/Kai is the love triangle I didn't know I needed in my life until after I wrote this. I want this as a prompt. Somebody suggest the love triangle as a prompt. I want it. Badly.

This could be a sequel-ish to 'breathe me'.

It was an odd day when Kol discovered television (or as he, Klaus and Enzo called it "the telly"). The Original could sit and stare at it for hours on end, trying to understand how it was even possible. Enzo would sometimes join him, still adjusting as well to the many years he had missed while locked up in Augustine. But while he and Kai had merely missed decades, Kol had missed a century and thus didn't understand a single thing about the New World.

It was often that Caroline and Klaus would have to explain something to the dark-haired Original and it always ended up with Kai making fun of him and Klaus and Caroline would have to break up a fight between the two homicidal maniacs while Enzo ate chips in the background. It was maddening and Caroline hated how this was becoming a routine.

Currently, Enzo and Kol were sitting on the couch watching the latest Transformers movie and munching on popcorn. Klaus was near the windows of the living room talking on his phone with Elijah about something and Kai was the only one helping her cook in the kitchen (or more like watch her cook and make little funny comments because she would not allow this idiot near anything sharp, thank you very much).

"You know, Carebear,"Kai started. "You should give us American guys more of a chance."

She looked up and gave Psychopath #4 a questioning look. "What do you mean, Malachai?"

He gave her a glare for the use of his real name but it was half-hearted. "What I mean is, you seem to have a thing for the English guys and the accents but what about your own homeboys? Don't we get a shot at it?"

"I dated Damon, Matt and Tyler,"

"Yeah but they're all…boring and they didn't appreciate you," Kai shrugged. "Not like I would've done."

She raised an eyebrow as the boy moved closer to her, going past the island to be closer to her. He stopped an inch from her and his hand was on her hip, the other taking the knife from her. She eyed it warily as he started playing with it, tossing it into the air and catching it, all the while Kai gave her a heated stare with those blue eyes.

He looked far too enticing and she wondered again how she ended up under one roof with all these charming lunatics.

"What do you say, Carebear?" He gently flicked a blonde curl off her shoulder with the tip of the knife, nearly grazing her skin. The act sent shivers up her spine and she stared at him wide-eyed. "You wanna give me a chance?"

She was about to answer but a sudden noise from the living room broke her out of the trance she was in with Kai and she ran past him to look at what was the matter in the other room. Klaus was in between Enzo and Kol, trying to keep them from fighting about something and Caroline could only sigh in annoyance.

She could feel Kai approaching from behind her and moved to push Kol away from Klaus, the dark-haired boy quickly relaxing upon her touch. He looked down at her with an adoring gaze, hands quickly on her waist and trapping her to him, touch gentle like she was porcelain.

She stared into his dark gaze before looking over her shoulder at where Kai stood at the doorway and felt dread.

This was going to be so messy.

It already was.