AUTHOR'S NOTE: I want to thank everyone for reviewing, favoriting and following my story! I hit over 100 followers after the last part. I'm happy to see that people are enjoying reading this story as I am writing it.

Guest who asked if by Bonnie mentioning that Klaus needed a wife: I wasn't foreshadowing, at least not deliberately. It was more of a quick way of explaining what Klaus needs from Caroline. More than a Nanny, more than a housekeeper, etc.

Guest who sent me the long list of possible scenes: Nope, you didn't scare me! I welcome the suggestions, funny enough I have several of them already listed in a similar situation. Not exactly but close.

And when I said it would be 20 parts before they get together, it's true but don't worry there will be plenty of scenes with THICK SEXUAL TENSION. Sorry, couldn't help it.

Thanks again to CeCeVolume for betaing.

Part 4

The next day Caroline showed up out front of the large building that housed Originals a few minutes before one o'clock. She had taken the train and had been worried that she might end up being late due to a delay but thankfully she had been wrong. She hated being late.

Once she straightened her jacket and ran a hand through her straight hair, Caroline felt put together enough to open the front door. The lobby was warm and inviting with earth tones and wood work, which included a large wooden desk that Caroline figured, was itself an antique. Behind it sat a receptionist who was talking to a young tall dark haired man. The two noticed her entrance and turned their attention to Caroline, the man's eyes swept over her in an appraising way while the receptionist greeted her. "Welcome to Originals, may I help you?"

Caroline smiled brightly as she approached the desk. "Hello, I'm here to meet with Mr. Mikaelson."

"Which one?" The receptionist asked sounding slightly annoyed.

"Sadly, not me." The dark haired man announced, as his mouth rose in a flirty smile. "She's here to see Nik, Dana. Caroline Forbes I assume?"

Caroline nodded as the man put his hand out in greeting. "Kol Mikaelson."

"Nice to meet you." Caroline replied as she shook his hand firmly.

"Oh I assure you, darling, the pleasure is all mine." Kol practically purred back before he looked to the receptionist. "Don't worry about it, Dana; I'll take her back to Nik's office."

Dana looked uneasy about his statement but Caroline knew she was probably hesitant to tell one of the owners no. Caroline just smiled at her, before she headed down one of the hallways with Kol. He continued to study her, mostly her chest if she was honest but she tried to ignore him by focusing on the various rooms that they walked by. The first rooms were galleries then what looked like workrooms and offices.

"I must say when Nik told me that he had found a new nanny; I never would have pictured someone so beautiful coming in."

Caroline had to stop herself from rolling her eyes at the obvious line. "Were you expecting someone like Mary Poppins perhaps?"

Kol laughed at her question. "You're a feisty little thing, I can…"

"Kol." A deep voice interrupted. Caroline looked over Kol's shoulder and saw Niklaus Mikaelson standing in a doorway. He was dressed as if for the office in a pair of dress pants, with a blue gray button down shirt on, but he wore no tie and the sleeves were rolled up as if he'd been working on something. His hair was slightly more unkempt than the previous time they had met, she guessed that he had ran his hand through it recently but her main focus was the glare he was shooting at his brother. He was not happy to see Kol.

"Nik!" Kol greeted. "I was just showing the lovely Ms. Forbes to your office. You didn't tell me how attractive she was."

"If I recall, I told you that she was off limits, Kol. I don't need you molesting my employees." Klaus scowled at his brother. Dana had called him the moment Kol had lead Caroline away, knowing he would want to know what was going on. He had left his office immediately to head his younger brother off. He knew that Kol never followed the rules but he had hoped that perhaps he'd listen at least once in a while. He should have known better.

"You can't blame me for trying; after all she's not technically your employee yet." Kol said as he smiled and held up his hands in surrender. He turned his attention back to Caroline and took her hand. "Caroline, I leave you in Nik's hands but I hope to see you again soon."

Kol moved to raise her hand to his lips but Caroline quickly pulled it away, which only caused him to laugh. "Okay darling, I can take a hint."

Caroline watched as he turned and left down one of the opposite hallways before she turned back to Niklaus. He looked very irritated and she was glad his annoyance wasn't directed at her.

"I apologize for my brother; he was born without restraint or modesty." Klaus confessed as he led her back the way he came towards his office. "But I assure you he is completely harmless."

"It's fine Mr. Mikaelson." Caroline stated. She could tell that Kol was just being overly flirty with her. Normally it would have bothered her but now with her employer's assurance, she had to admit that it made her feel more comfortable next time she was around Kol.

Klaus stopped and turned towards her suddenly, causing Caroline to almost run face first into him. As it was they were only inches apart. She was so close she could see the little details of the necklaces that peeked out of the collar of his buttoned down shirt, the color of which seemed to make his eyes stand out even more than normal. He grinned slightly as he said, "Caroline, if you are going to work for me and live in my home, I believe we should be a bit less formal. Please call me Klaus."

"Um..I don't know. I mean you are going to be my boss." Caroline replied as she licked her lips absently. Now she was feeling a little unnerved again. First the familiarity he was insisting on by having her call him by his first name and now the closeness of his body to hers.

"Exactly." Klaus retorted quietly, his eyes focused on her lips as her tongue came out to caress her lips. He was very aware of how close they were and how it seemed to be making her uncomfortable. He had to admit that the feeling of her was disconcerting so he stepped back as he finished what his argument. "When a member of my staff calls me Mr. Mikealson, you make me feel like I'm my father and that is not something I want on a daily basis."

Caroline was confused with his explanation but gave in. "Okay. Klaus it is then."

"Great." Klaus replied with a smile before continuing the short distance to his office. "However unfortunate Kol's interruption, it does remind me that I should warn you about my family. We are all very close and with that closeness comes… intrusiveness. They have a tendency to drop by my house with no warning to visit with Henry and Lexi or myself. It is more likely to happen in the next few weeks due to curiosity about you as well. I hope that won't make you too uncomfortable."

"No, I don't believe so. I enjoy being around families. It's part of why I became a nanny." Caroline admitted as she walked through the door into what looked like an office as well as a studio. There were paintings everywhere as well as various art supplies. "Wow."

Klaus's eyebrow rose in surprise at Caroline's look of awe over his workspace. Her eyes flitted to various paintings and he could see admiration in them. "Are you an art enthusiast?"

Caroline shrugged. "Um no, not exactly. I took a few art history classes in college. I love to look at art though I can't draw a straight line to save my life." Caroline said with a laugh. "I do dabble a little with photography. I like the idea of capturing memories forever."

Klaus nodded in understanding, he took lots of pictures of the twins as well as sketched them quite often as a way to hold onto the memories so they would have them when they grew up. Before he could say anything, someone joined them. "Caroline, this is my assistant Mindy. She'll be your contact here regarding my schedule or pretty much anything if you can't reach me."

Caroline reached out and shook the brunette's hand. "Nice to meet you Mindy."

"Nice to meet you too Caroline." Mindy greeted before she looked at Klaus. "I know you said you are unavailable for the next few hours but I wanted to remind you that with the shipment this morning, you skipped lunched. Did you want me to have something brought in?

"Yes, that would be fine sweetheart." Klaus agreed before looking back at Caroline. "Would you like to join me? We can discuss the details while we eat."

Caroline started to decline before she realized she was a bit hungry. She had eaten a late breakfast so had forgone eating anything for lunch. "Yes, thank you."

Once the food orders were dealt with, Klaus led Caroline over to a high table that he had cleaned off for their meeting. "I had two copies of the contract draw up, most of it we went over the other day but I felt it best that we cover it again."

Caroline nodded. "Before we do, I have a couple of questions that I thought of after we met but I felt were a little personal to ask on the phone."

"Yes?"

"The first one is that I wanted to ask what the situation between you and your ex-wife is. I have that you are divorced and you have sole custody but it doesn't mention anything about visitations or really any details." Caroline asked.

"That's because there aren't any. She has no legal rights to them." Klaus replied.

"Is there any possibility of her trying to see the kids despite that?" Caroline asked. "I just want to make sure there aren't any safety issues, it happens."

"Tatia, my ex-wife has not had contact with my children since they were young." Klaus explained as he tried to keep the anger out of his voice that always came out when he was talking about Tatia.

"That must be hard on Lexi and Henry. And you." Caroline confessed before she caught herself. "Sorry."

"It's okay, it has been hard on the two of them but they don't remember so it makes it easier." Klaus stated as he ignored her reference to him. "With that dealt with, what was the other question you had for me?"

Caroline could tell he wanted to drop the subject so she did as well and moved onto the other question. "About your current personal life, I was wondering if you are currently in a relationship and if so if part of my duties will include watching the children late into or possibly overnight? I have no issue with doing it but I would like to know upfront."

Her question took Klaus off guard. It was an ordinary question but not one that he had even considered and should have anticipated that the subject of his personal life would come up. "There may be times that I am gone overnight for business but I am not involved in a relationship."

"What about when you go on dates then? What has been the practice for that in the past with your current nanny?" Caroline asked.

"There isn't one." Klaus answered. "I don't date."

Caroline was floored by his answer and again words flew out of her mouth before she could stop them. "Why the hell not?"

Her outburst seemed to humor Klaus, causing him to smirk and Caroline tried to quickly recover herself. "It's just you're an attractive successful guy and I just figured. I'm sorry; sometimes the filter between my brain and my mouth doesn't always work."

"Don't apologize; it's a rare quality that someone speaks their mind so openly." Klaus replied honestly. It had taken him aback but found it refreshing as well. "Now to answer your question, there are several reasons. The two most important are Lexi and Henry. I split my time between my work here and them, and I don't want to give up any of the time I have with them. I doubt that there aren't many women out there that would understand that, not that I've found."

If Caroline thought that Klaus Mikaelson was a good man and father before, her opinion of him had just doubled or more by his statement. She never would have thought that a guy would sacrifice his own needs so completely just to make sure he could give his children all of his time. She knew many women who would find that incredibly attractive, herself included. However noble it was though, Caroline felt a bit sad for him as well, he must get lonely at times. Before she could think on it more, Mindy returned with a bag of food and they sat down.

"Now if I have answered all of your questions, let's move forward." Klaus instructed as he tried to guide the conversation away from its current subject matter.

For the next few hours, they went over all of the details of her contract. All of the duties were listed as they had discussed, and Klaus stated that Ayanna would stay on as well for the first couple of weeks to help the kids with the transition as well as teach Caroline the ins and outs of everything. At the end of that time, Caroline would then move in and become the primary caregiver.

Caroline was very pleased with the offer; her salary was higher than her previous one due to the extra duties she guessed. Most of the remaining part of the offer was standard such as room and board. She had her own bedroom suite with attached bath, free range of the rest of the house except for of course the Master Bedroom and Klaus's home office, and anything she wanted in regards to groceries was expected to be part of her weekly grocery trip for Klaus and the kids. She joked with him that he might rethink that part of the arrangement when he saw how much she spent on coffee and chocolate but he only laughed and admitted that he too drank quite a bit of coffee himself.

However when they got the area explaining her paid time off, Caroline got a bit confused. "Okay, I must be reading this wrong. It says that I have off the week of Christmas with the option of a second week if desired?"

"Yes, we close down the office and shop for two weeks at Christmas so that we and our employees can spend time with our families. The first week we stay here in town and the second one, all of my family goes on holiday together. Ayanna sometimes accompanied us to help out with the twins as well as my nieces and nephews but other years she didn't. I wanted to give you the same option; your expenses would be paid of course as well as your salary."

"Oh, okay." Caroline replied stunned. She had never gone on vacation with her employers before though she knew other nannies that did. "Um…where do you typically go?"

"We choose a different destination each year but in the past we've gone to London, Madrid, Maui, Fiji. This year we are staying a little closer to home though due to my sister in law Katherine's pregnancy; my brother doesn't want her taxing herself on an overseas plane ride just down to Barbados." Klaus clarified. "The choice to go is completely up to you."

"Do I need to make the decision now?" Caroline asked thinking she was glad she had kept her passport up to date. She had never traveled anywhere, a few coastal visits when she was kid, a trip with her girlfriends to New York and then small trips around New England when they had moved to Boston. The thought of traveling with the Mikaelsons was a bit overwhelming.

"Of course not, we still have a few months." Klaus assured her before they wrapped things up and Caroline was officially Klaus's newest employee.

Sorry that the last line was so cheesy but really couldn't figure out how else to do it.

Well what did you guys think about Klaus's personal life? I know he's a gorgeous guy who has needs but he's just too family/work focused for him to be a big dater.

As for the trip, don't worry Caroline will be going. Whose going to turn down a week in the tropics?

This was the last of the set up scenes. From now on we'll be seeing various days in the life of Caroline working for the Mikaelsons.

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