"Could you do a family game night? You can do whatever game you like and could you add a bet like winner gets this and the person who loses has to do something?" –Guest

Sequel to 'i need you to need me'. Last part for the universe.

Five more to go.

The tension in the house was becoming unbearable. An awkward love triangle between two psychopaths and a very confused Caroline that soured all family activities with Kol and Kai sniping at each other, Enzo trying to lighten the mood with unnecessary jokes, Klaus' head in the clouds and a very pissed off Caroline. After the events of Christmas, Caroline was beginning to feel more and more like the proverbial bone between the two assholes she had to put up with. Her inner feminist was roaring to punch the lot of them and be done with it.

But, no. She had to be patient. She had to continue relaying to them the fact that she was not a trophy to be won. She was a person who was capable of choosing who she wanted to spend eternity with, thank you very much.

Of course, the two said psychopaths finally called her out on it and demand she make a choice. Kol or Kai? The Heretic or the Original vampire? The boy who made her laugh as they made dinner or the boy who looked at her like she was magic?

Tick tock, Caroline. The clock mocked her. Make your choice. Time is running out.

But it was a Friday and that meant Family Game Night. And that gave her a pass not to have to make her decision because she had a Monopoly game to commandeer for the rest of the night. Violence was imminent. Death was a possibility.

How did those Parker Brothers sleep at night?

Caroline was the Banker. She had to take the role because Kol kept trying to slip himself more money, Kai would randomly award (her) or bill (Kol) any of the players money when he was bored just to cause chaos, Enzo didn't want to do it and Klaus always scheduled some kind of business trip to avoid playing. Violence was imminent. Death was a possibility.

Caroline smiled awkwardly as they sat at the kitchen table, the board in front of her and the three other men on the other sides of it. She rolled the dice first and moved her Cat five spaces. She frowned and handed a smirking Enzo a ten dollar bill. Kol and Kai were glaring at each other so intently, Caroline had to nudge Kol for his turn.

He rolled a six and landed on one of Kai's properties. Kai taxed him thrice as much. Kol throttled him to the ground. And so it began.

She and Enzo tried to pull off Kol from Kai, the latter shouting insults at the snarling Original who was trying to take a bite out of his neck. Kol's strength was something to behold when he was furious and she and Enzo were having a hard time. She really didn't want to get blood on that rug, she just shampooed it. She got an idea and the words were out before she could think twice.

"Whoever wins the game wins me!'

All three men stopped moving. Kai and Kol were staring at her incredulously. Enzo looked at her like she was insane. He may be right about that.

"What if I win then?" Enzo asked.

"If you win, I'll make you a pie every day for the week." Caroline sighed. "If either of these two idiots win, I choose that guy."

Kol got to his feet and slowly approached her, gently putting his hands on her arms. "Are you sure?"

"Yes." She stared into his dark eyes and nodded. "I'm sure."

Kai got to his feet and made his way back to the table. "Back to the game then."

They followed and Enzo muttered to Caroline as they sat down, "This is going to be the most intense game of Monopoly you've ever seen."

Caroline was kicked out of the game one hour later when Kai bankrupt her with his increased tax prices. Enzo was out too after Kol bought his properties from him and then took all his money by commandeering the Bank and declaring a recession. Caroline is sure none of what they did was legal but she could do nothing but watch as Kol and Kai fought for her like a jousting tournament for ten year olds. Enzo had made some popcorn and they munched on that as they watched.

Kai smiled as he read the card and declared he'd won runner-up to a beauty contest.

"Were the judges blind?" Kol snarled as he handed Kai a hundred dollar bill.

"You're just jealous, Mikaelson," Kai replied. "Like you would've even placed."

Enzo poured her more soda.

She added more salt to the popcorn.

"Really, mate? I'm a fine specimen of the male species." Kol looked over at her. "Right, Caroline?"

She shrugged.

Kai snorted.

Kol looked hurt.

"Look, I wouldn't know who's the better specimen between you, it's not like I've seen you shirtless."

"You've seen them shirtless before," Enzo muttered to her. "You minx."

Caroline wanted to giggle as the two dark-haired boys hunched over the game, glaring at each other. Their shirts were somewhere on the floor now and she laid back on her seat as she appreciated the view.

Whoever won between them, she still felt pretty lucky.

Another hour later, a bathroom break after Kai stabbed Kol in the eye and they had to wait for him to come back to life, two bags of chips, some Long Island Iced Tea and a now semi-wet Kol who washed his bloody face in the faucet and didn't bother with a towel, the game was still on-going.

"You know," Enzo started. "The sexual tension between them is quite powerful."

"Mm-hmm, you can't fake that kind of chemistry." She returned with a smirk. "They should realize the real love story is between them and run-off together to Vegas."

"Oh please, all you really want is to get between them," Enzo waggled his eyebrows at her. "Biblically."

Kol and Kai had stopped playing to look at them incredulously.

She sighed deeply. "If only, if only."

The game was finally at a stand-off. Kol and Kai head to head to win the game once and for all. Kol had taken half of Kai's money but the latter had most of the properties. The game could go on for an eternity really. These two were insane, you see.

"Give up now, Mikaelson."

"In your dreams, Parker."

"I'm going to get all your money soon."

"I'm gonna own the entire board soon and all you'll have is the Bank."

"Not going to happen. I have a plan."

"To lose the game, you mean?"

Enzo had taken out the bourbon half an hour earlier and she was now on her third glass. As she drank, the more she saw the truth clearly. No matter who won, the other would not give up. Kol and Kai were unstoppable forces and what they needed was an immovable object to end all this madness…or at least control it.

She swallowed the last of her drink and put down the empty glass on the kitchen counter. She turned to Enzo who was making himself some kind of drink and said, her voice clear as day. "I left my headphones in the living room. You can drain the liquor cabinet. And I heard there's a horror movie marathon on TV tonight."

He eyed her with a glint in his eyes. "Are you going to do what I think you're going to do?"

"There's a reason we're besties. You get me."

She smiled at him, a little dopey and walked over to the kitchen table where her two idiots were still arguing.

They stopped talking to look at her and she took one of their hands in her own. "Okay. Time for bed."

"But we haven't-"

"-finished the bloody game!"

"Mm-hmm," She nodded. "I've declared it over."

"You can't-"

"-do that!"

"Yes, I can," She told them sagely. "You see, I win."

"How?" They both asked.

She pulled them to their feet and started to tug them upstairs to her room.

"Why are we-"

"-going in there?"

"You'll see," She said in sing-song and closed the door behind her.