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Good to You Ch 23

A/N: Sorry for the wait. I hope you like this chapter and that it lives up to everyone's expectations.

We pick up right where we left off. Happy reading!

And as always I apologize for any mistakes.

“I did what I had to do. Caroline, your babies were nothing more than collateral damage.” Sophie said, her voice shaking.

“Step back,” Caroline ordered Klaus

Klaus looked at her, seeing the anger in her eyes burning brightly, he released Sophie and did as Caroline directed.

Caroline stepped in front of Sophie and slammed the palm of her hand into Sophie’s ribs using her strength to break them.

Sophie cried out and Caroline gripped her by the jaw. “Shut up! You think you feel pain, you have no idea. I am not a pawn. The twins are not collateral damage! You are going to regret ever taking from me what was not yours to take.”

Caroline released her and turned on Hayley. “And you! You backstabbing, baby-snatching bitch!”

“Caroline-,” Hayley started.

“Shut up!” Caroline snapped. “Nothing you say can excuse what you have done.”

“I was trying to get my family back.”

It took everything Caroline had not to punch her in the mouth, instead, she ground out through a clenched jaw. “You took my family. Mine!”

Hayley opened and closed her mouth but there was nothing she could say to that.

Klaus stepped forward, casting glares at both Hayley and Sophie. “You’re going to tell us everything!” he zeroed in on Sophie. “I want to know how you knew Caroline was pregnant when she didn’t?”

“How was it even possible?!” Caroline exclaimed. “Vampires shouldn’t be able to get pregnant!”

“Anything is possible with magic,” Sophie said, her voice low, cold. “It all depends on how far you are willing to take it. How dark you are willing to get.”

“Tell me!”

“My sister and I planned everything down to every detail,” Sophie spoke. ��Hayley walking into our bar desperate to reunite with her family was just the key we needed.”

Hayley clenched her jaw as Sophie spoke. She wanted to tell the witch to shut up but it would be useless. Klaus and Caroline were going to find out everything and there was nothing she could do to stop it.

“Hayley came looking for her family. She wanted us to help them and my sister and I agreed but first, she had to help us.” she looked at Klaus. “We needed to lure you back into town. Marcel needed to go and we thought if anyone could end his reign over New Orleans it would be the vampire who turned him in the first place.”

“And that’s where the pregnancy came in?” Rebekah frowned. “To lure Nik here for your dirty work.”

“It’s where Caroline came in and in turn the twins,” Sophie answered. “And Hayley’s involvement with everything.”

~*~ ~*~ ~*~

“If it’s Klaus who you want I think I know of a way to lure him here,” Hayley said.

Jane-Anne stood straighter. “Go on.”

“There’s this girl in Mystic Falls. Vampire. Caroline Forbes. Klaus has this obsession with her. If you bring her here, I’m positive Klaus will follow.”

Sophie scoffed. “We’re talking about Klaus Mikaelson. He doesn’t love.”

“But everyone has infatuations,” Jane-Anne said a calculating look in her eye. “An original's weakness is their family.”

“An infatuation isn’t family,” Sophie argued.

“But if they were intimate and she became pregnant?” Jane-Anne insisted. “Then she and the child will be family and he would have something no other original has. A child.”

“Vampires can’t get pregnant.” Hayley protested. “And last I checked they couldn’t get anyone pregnant.”

“The prophecy.” Sophie realized. “About the Hybrid but that doesn’t change the fact that vampires can’t conceive.”

“There’s a spell,” Jane-Anne said.

Sophie’s eyes widened. “We can’t. The sacrifices required. Are you really willing to go that far?”

“For my daughter? For Monique? Yes.” Jane-Anne answered.

“What are you talking about?” Hayley asked warily.

“There’s an old spell. It’s only been used once. Decades ago. A spell that upsets the balance of nature and makes it possible for a female vampire to get pregnant but it comes at an impossible sacrifice. The death of a newborn witch and the mother.”

~*~ ~*~ ~*~

“You killed a child and her mother?” Rebekah looked disgusted.

Sophie clenched her jaw. “You should be thanking me. What I did made it possible for Caroline to conceive.”

“You're sick.” Caroline was repulsed. “How could you do that?”

“I think I speak for both Hayley and myself when I say it’s pretty clear by now that we will do anything for our family,” Sophie answered.

“You don’t kill a child and you sure as hell don’t move people on a board like chess pieces!” Caroline snapped. “We are not your pawns. Klaus’s children are not pawns.”

“Don’t you mean your children, too.” Sophie sneered.

Caroline’s anger was so strong that she backhanded Sophie. The witches’ head snapped to the side and when she looked back at Caroline, insulted, her lip was split blood dripping.

“How were you so sure the spell wouldn’t go to waste?" Caroline all but demanded. "There was no guarantee Klaus and I would have slept together back in Mystic Falls.”

“It was a matter of time.” Hayley finally spoke, bringing Caroline’s gaze to her. “You may have fought hard not to feel something for him, because of Tyler, because of your friends but there was nothing you could do to stop it. I told Sophie and her sister about you because I knew there was no way something wouldn’t happen between the two of you.”

Hayley looked from Klaus to Caroline. “You don’t see the way you look at each other. You don’t know what it’s like to be in a room with the two of you. Even when you were still with Tyler I could see it.”

Hayley’s eyes settled on Caroline. “You looked at him like you couldn’t possibly understand what he sees in you. That he would willingly choose you over anyone. You look at him like he was the only one to ever truly see you.”

“And you.” Hayley addressed Klaus. “The way you look at Caroline. It’s unlike anything I have ever seen. You look at her like she has the answer to every question in the world. Like you're stranded in the desert and she is the only drop of water. You look at her like she’s life. Like she is all the world needs to be everything you want it to be. I have never had anyone look at me the way you look at her. Like you would lay down your life for her if she so much as asked. You would give her the world and more.”

Klaus didn’t deny it and neither did Caroline.

“The two of you are drawn together like magnets. Circling around one another endlessly. Incapable of staying apart. Of course, something was going to happen between the two of you and I told Sophie so and she and her sister ran with it.”

“Tell us about your part in all this,” Rebekah demanded.

Hayley hesitated for a moment but she was hoping if she was cooperative it would grant her some leniency.

“When I told them about Caroline they came up with the plan for her to get pregnant and I was supposed to keep an eye out for her. Watch her, tell them if their plan works.” Hayley explained. “Initially to cast the spell they needed to make it possible for Caroline to get pregnant. I sent them something through the mail. A personal item of hers." She looked at Caroline. "A bracelet that Tyler gave you for your birthday. They used the bracelet to target you for the spell.”

“If you were a part of all of this why did you drunkenly sleep with me? Was that part of the plan or were you just that desperate to sleep with someone you don’t even like?” Klaus demanded.

“If the spell didn’t work, I was the plan B. All I had to do was conceive a child when I slept with you," Hayley explained. "A secondary measure.”

“You were trying to get pregnant that night?” Klaus laughed bitterly. “I take it that didn’t happen.”

“No, it did not,” Sophie said. “When Hayley sent us word that she failed to get pregnant we decided it was time that we captured Caroline. With Hayley’s help, we were able to grab her and take her back to New Orleans.”

“When did you decide to take the babies from Caroline?” Rebekah growled.

“When we realized Hayley wasn’t pregnant. We wanted to have more than one bargaining chip.”

“You could have had that without taking them.” Caroline snapped.

“Yes, we could have.” Sophie agreed. “But if something were to happen to you before the twins were born we would still have the pregnancy as a bargaining chip.”

Klaus started laughing, almost manically. “Do you honestly believe if something happened to Caroline I would care about anything ever again? You really have no idea the worth she holds to me. All the bargaining chips over me in the world wouldn’t have gotten you a damn thing if any harm fell upon her. She means more to me than this world could ever offer.”

Sophie clenched her jaw. “I underestimated her value.”

“A crime many have committed. Including myself.” Elijah appeared in the doorway, he looked at Caroline. “Something that I will try my best to atone for. Thankfully my crime isn’t the worst committed against her.” His eyes fell on Hayley. “You had me completely fooled.”

“Elijah, please I..”

“Quiet, I no longer can trust a word that comes out of your mouth.” Elijah stepped toward Hayley.

Hayley watched with rapt attention as he lifted his hand to her cheek. She leaned into his touch instinctively. “Elijah, help me, please.” she pleaded softly, looking up at him with beseeching eyes.

Elijah stared back at her, his thumb brushed her cheek, his hand smoothed down her neck, softly.

Hayley started to smile but then that feeling of security of being safe was ripped away by the same man who gave her the feeling. His hand wrapped roughly around her throat, forcing her head back.

“I will not help you. You lost my loyalty, my empathy, the moment I learned of your treachery and if you weren’t carrying Niklaus and Caroline’s children I would rip out your deceitful heart.”

“Elijah, please if you feel anything for me at a-”

“Oh, you have to be kidding me!” Caroline snapped. “You think he can save you after what you have done?!”

Elijah turned his head slowly to look at Caroline. “I am sorry for what you are going through. I can’t imagine what you are feeling but if you will grant me just a moment to speak with her I will help you with whatever you want to do. If you need me to be your hands of retribution just allow me this.”

Caroline’s eyes narrowed. She didn’t want to but she understood that Elijah like her was deceived by Hayley just not in the same way because Elijah had felt something for her. “I don’t need anyone to deliver me retribution. I am fully capable of doing it myself.” her anger seeped out of her with every word. “Speak to her. Keep it short.”

Elijah turned back to Hayley. “Was any of it real or were you just playing me like you played everyone else?”

“Of course, it was real, Elijah,” Hayley answered, eyes tearing up. “I hate it here and you are the only good thing I have had in my life in a very long time.”

“I trusted you,” Elijah said angrily.

“I was only trying to reunite my family. You have to understand that.” Hayley beseeched him. “Elijah, please tell me you understand I was only doing what I had to?”

“Your family? What about my family? Do you really think your family will be proud of you for what you have done? That they would accept someone with such poor morals? You are despicable.”

Hayley’s eyes filled with tears. “How can you say such things to someone you care about?”

“I did care about you,” Elijah said regretfully, shaking his head. “But not anymore. I thought you were someone to be trusted but you’re not. In fact, you have ensured that I could care less about what happens to you after Niklaus and Caroline’s children arrived in this world safely.”

Elijah took a step back moving to stand beside Rebekah.

A tear slid down Hayley’s eyes. “Were the babies the only reason you accepted me so readily?”

Elijah's eyes were cold. “It no longer matters, does it?”

Hayley hung her head, realizing she had lost her only true protection in this city. Now how was she supposed to survive after the birth of the twins?

“You willingly put Caroline in danger to get in good with the witches, I’m not surprised by that,” Rebekah stepped forward, looking at Hayley like she was the dirt beneath her shoe. “But tell me did you willingly agree to be an incubator for children that aren’t yours?”

Haley pressed her lips closely together, refusing to respond but it was answer enough to everyone in the room.

“How could you do that to a person?” Caroline looked at Sophie and Hayley appalled.

“You’re not a person,” said Sophie, scowling. “You’re a vampire.”

“What about the baby you sacrificed?” Caroline challenged, hating that Sophie was trying to dehumanize her simply because she was a vampire. Like any of it made her actions okay. “It was a witch but it was still human.”

“Sacrifices have to be made.”

“What is wrong with you? You can’t even see everything that you have done is wrong on so many levels.” Caroline shook her head and her eyes landed on Hayley once again. “I felt terrible for being mad at you when you were going to get rid of the twins, it was your body, your children, your choice, except it wasn’t. It wasn’t your choice because they were never your children. You were going to kill children that weren’t yours because you regretted your scheme.”

Hayley swallowed. “I was afraid of what would happen if the truth came out,” Hayley confessed. “I thought if they were never born then the truth would die along with them.”

Caroline laughed bitterly. “I can’t believe you. I remember how you made me feel guilty for telling you when it came to your pregnancy that it wasn’t just your choice because it was Klaus’s too. You got all high about how it was your body, it was your choice. What about my choice? I told you about what Damon did to me. How he took my choices away just like you did.”

Hayley said nothing and Caroline continued.

“God, I told you I was jealous that you were able to have something I was never going to be able to have because I’m a vampire. You could have come clean then but you didn’t.”

“I could have. There were times when I wanted to,” Hayley admitted. “But I couldn’t. I did this for my family. I will do whatever it takes if it means I can be with them.”

“You honestly think anyone will want anything to do with someone who has done the despicable things that you have?" Caroline spat. “You’re stupider than I thought.”

Caroline turned away from Hayley, just looking at her made her want to beat the living crap out of her but she couldn’t. Not as long as she carried the twins inside her.

Caroline clenched her jaw. She expected something like this from Sophie. The witch was horrible but she thought Hayley and her had come to an understanding. They weren’t friends but she hadn’t believed Hayley was capable of something this deplorable especially when she knew what it was like t go through life without your family.

“Look, I know what I did was harsh and it was wrong,” Sophie began and Caroline turned to her sharply, she felt Klaus’s hand land on her back but she didn’t react. “I know I’ve done things that I can never be forgiven for but everything I have done has been for my family. I’m am no different from any of you. You can’t stand there and tell me there’s not a single line you won’t cross for your family.”

“I can.” Caroline snapped. “I would never kill a newborn or steal someone else’s child and I know, Klaus, Elijah, and Rebekah are capable of some heinous deeds. I’ve seen it but I don’t believe anyone of them is capable of doing what you have. You should be ashamed of yourself.”

Sophie raised her chin. “I would do it again if it meant I had a chance of saving my family.”

Klaus wrapped his hands around her throat. “If you had family left I would kill every last one for your crimes.”

Hayley looked at Elijah wanting to plead to him but she knew by the way he looked at her that it was no good. He was done with her.

She looked to Zack, standing in the doorway. “Please, help me. Don’t let them kill me.”

Zack looked at her but said nothing.

“Please, I’m a wolf just like you, don’t turn your back on who we are. Help me.” Hayley pleaded.

Caroline looked at Zack, her eyes finding his and Zack stepped forward, walking into the room slowly. “I will never turn my back on a member of my pack.”

Hayley’s shoulder sagged in relief. “Than-”

“But you are not a member of my pack. My loyalty lies with my pack, not you.” Zack finished and nodded at Caroline. “And what has been done to Caroline is unforgivable.”

“She’s a vampire. Not a member of a wolf pack,” Hayley protested. “How can you be more loyal to her than me?”

“Caroline has treated us as equals. She’s been there. She’s helped take care of us. She has done what any member of a wolf pack would do. Look after their own. She is a vampire yet she has not treated us with scorn or hate. She helped us without asking for anything in return. She did so without any ulterior motives.” Zack said, his voice held nothing but respect. “You cannot say the same. The things you do our for your own gain.”

“I will not apologize for wanting to find my family.” Hayley shot back stubbornly.

“And I will not apologize for Caroline being an unofficial member of my pack when you are not!” Zack snapped.

Zack's rejection stung like a knife to Hayley’s chest. Anger built in her chest. Anger for herself, for Sophie, the wolves but most of all for Caroline.

Caroline who everyone cared for. Caroline who had people who would do anything for her. Even throw down their lives at her feet. How was it that she inspired such loyalty when she was nothing more than a ditzy neurotic do-gooder vampire?

Listening to Hayley and Sophie and how all their scheming made this possible, hit Rebekah with a feeling of guilt. She had been so focused on getting even with Klaus but with the new turn of events, it all seems petty now in comparison.

Rebekah couldn’t believe that Hayley would do something so low. She had thought she was getting to know the wolf girl but she didn’t know her at all.

Rebekah realized she had been so obsessed with being a step ahead of her brother that she couldn’t see Hayley for the duplicitous bitch that she was.

Knowing what the witch and Hayley did to her family change things. Her plans against Klaus seemed pointless now because this was no longer about Klaus.

This was about Caroline. This was about her niece and nephew growing inside Hayley when they should be with their true mother.

Rebekah felt the strong urge to help Caroline.

To help in any way she could. It was the least she could do for Caroline although, she wasn’t all too sure Caroline wanted anything from her. She knew Caroline was still angry at her for her own betrayal against her.

Still, her betrayal paled in comparison to Hayley's. There was at least some hope for her.

The same could not be said for Hayley.

Caroline was having a hard time not ripping Hayley's throat out. All she wanted to do was kill the werewolf bitch but she couldn’t. She couldn’t do anything that would cause the children any harm.

Then there was the fact that she didn’t want it to be quick for Hayley or Sophie. She wanted them both to suffer. She wanted Sophie to pay for her evil treachery and she wanted Hayley to feel every bit of the pain she was feeling.

She wanted to take something irreplaceable from both of them. Like they did to her.

Caroline wanted to make it clear that they did not fuck with her. She wanted to get even.

“Enough,” Sophie said. “We did what we had to, you cannot fault us for this. I’m sure every single one of you has done worse.”

Klaus’s snapped forward, his eyes glowing amber, his hand gripping Sophie roughly by her neck, crushing her windpipe.

“Sophie Deveraux you have lived your last day, taken your last breath,” Klaus vowed as she clawed at his hand, unable to breathe, her face turning purple. “But I am not going to stop with you. The rest of your coven will be dead by sunrise, wiped from existence. You will be nothing but a footnote. A cautionary tale for anyone tries to come through Caroline or my children to get to me.”

“Wa-wait!” Sophie gasped out, her voice muffled. “I can fix it!” she said desperately.

“What?!” Caroline stumbled toward her.

Klaus released her abruptly. “What do you mean you can fix it?!”

“I can reverse the spell,” Sophie said quickly, as she took deep needed breaths into her deprived lungs. She didn’t want to do anything for Klaus but she was desperate to save herself.

She could not die here. Not now.

“I can put the children back with Caroline, with their true mother.”

Sophie’s words caught everyone off guard.

Hayley’s eyes widened in panic. “Sophie, you can’t! They will kill me the second I am not carrying the twins!”

Hayley’s outburst goes unheard. Everyone’s focus zeroed in on the witch.

“You’re lying. You’ll say anything to save yourself!” Caroline accused angrily.

“You’re right I will do anything to save myself,” Sophie said, making sure to lock eyes with Caroline. “But I’m not lying about this. My sister and I were the ones to cast the spell and I am the only one who can undo it. I can give you your children back.”

Rebekah took a step toward Caroline, wanting to offer her silent support. She could not imagine what Caroline was feeling. This had to be one of the worst things to ever have happened to the younger vampire.

Klaus looked at Caroline. This wasn’t his decision to make but it was hers.

Selfishly, he wanted to see Caroline carry his children, their children. He wanted to see her stomach grow, he wanted to see her talking to their unborn children, he wanted to feel them kick beneath her skin, he wanted to share all the moments two expecting parents were meant to share together with her.

However, it was not his decision to make. Yes, it was their children but it was Caroline’s body and she had enough people taking away her rights, her choices when it came to her body, and what she wanted.

He would not influence her choice. This decision was Caroline’s. He would take it from her.

“Caroline,”

Caroline’s eyes shot to Klaus as he stood in front of her, taking her hands in his.

“This is a decision I can’t make for us. You have to. What do you want?”

Caroline breathed shakily. That was the most loaded question she ever heard in her life. God, she loved him for not pressuring her, for not trying to make the decision for her but how was she supposed to decide for the both of them?

Hayley was the one who had been carrying the twins for months. Hayley was the one who was bonded with them. Caroline wanted the option to have kids but now that it was possible she was terrified. What if she couldn’t do this?

What if she couldn’t handle this on top of everything else?

She looked at Hayley and her rounding stomach and her anger intensified.

It didn’t matter if she wasn’t ready for this. Those were her children! Her son and daughter. She was not going to let Hayley give birth to them.

She was their mother, not Hayley.

Caroline was not going to let Hayley and her treachery win. Her kids were not going to be with Hayley longer than they had to be. They belong with their mother.

With her.

Caroline looked at Klaus and she squeezed his hands, hoping to convey to him her choice.

She watched as his eyes brightened and knew he understood.

She turned to Sophie, pinning her with her stare. “Do it. If it can be done, fix your mistake.”

“I will need a few things, ingredients for the spell,” Sophie said, still rubbing at her throat.

“What?” demanded Klaus.

Sophie listed it off and Caroline shot her a glare before pulling out her phone and shooting off a text to Marcel, asking for Davina’s help. She was positive the girl would know where to get the items that were needed and she wanted someone to keep watch over Sophie when she did the spell because she didn’t trust her. However, she did trust Davina.

It didn’t take long for Marcel to respond, promising he and Davina would be there in an hour with the requested items.

Right after Caroline put her phone back away she left the room.

Klaus as he followed her out of the room. She looked up at him, and clenched her jaw, trying and failing to fight back her emotions. It was easy to feel anger when they weren’t alone but when it was just the two of them she felt everything.

The anger, the betrayal, the violation. The pain, the loss of control, and the feeling of helplessness.

Klaus stepped forward, wordlessly, drawing her into his arms. Caroline clutched at his shirt, burying her face in his shoulder, his hands sliding up and down her back in a gesture of comfort.

Klaus knew there was nothing he could say to make any of this better. He did the next best thing he could do. Be there for her.

~*~ ~*~ ~*~

“Did Caroline say what she needed the items for?” Davina asked Marcel as they walked down the street to a witch shop.

“No,” Marcel shook his head. “Why?”

“I want to help with whatever it is.” Davina looked at Marcel. “She helped me and she didn’t do it for anyone but me. I didn’t think I could trust her before but I know I can now.”

Before Davina was unsure of the kind of person Caroline was but now she knew. Caroline was genuinely a good person and to Davina, which was rare in New Orleans. Almost non-existent.

“I know.” Marcel held the shop door open. He would forever be grateful to Caroline and he would help her with whatever she needed. It was the least he could after she saved the most important person in his life. “However you have to remember with Caroline comes Klaus.”

Davina’s eyes narrowed. “It can't be helped. I can’t turn my back on her after everything she’s done for me. Even if she is with that monster.”

Marcel chuckled but he was in full agreement.

Sometimes you had to take the good with the bad. In this case, Caroline was the good, and Klaus was the bad.

~*~ ~*~ ~*~

Rebekah watched over Sophie and Hayley unwillingly to let them out of her sight. After all their treachery she thought it best not to leave the two alone.

Zack was in the room with her, watching Hayley like she was his enemy and Sophie by extension.

Several of the other wolves had filed into the room and were acting as guards, making sure neither Sophie nor Hayley got any ideas about escaping.

They would have to get through wolves and then through her and Rebekah was done being nice. After what they have done, she was ready to show them her most ruthless side and not show them an ounce of mercy.

Neither Sophie or Hayley deserved it.

No, what the two of them deserved, was pain, suffering, agony, and Rebekah would be more than happy to dish it out to them.

~*~ ~*~ ~*~

Elijah walked into the room, his eyes seeking out the bed, Katerina appeared to finally be resting. He moved slow and sat on the edge of the bed slowly.

Still, it didn’t matter however how careful he was the second his weight shifted on the bed Katerine opened her eyes.

“How long do you think I have left?” Katherine asked him.

“More than you think,” Elijah answered.

Katherine gave a laugh but it held no joy.

“I know you brought me with you cause you think you can save me and I wish you could but it’s not possible. I’m a ticking time bomb, Elijah.”

“No, I refuse to believe that. I refuse to believe that’s how our story ends.” Elijah lifted his hand to her face his thumb tracing the curve of her jaw.

“I don’t see it ending any other way. Especially if Klaus has anything to say about it.”

“Let me worry about my brother, Katerina,” He responded. “And believe it or not you are the last person on his mind.”

“Oh, I believe it,” Katherine hesitated only a moment before asking. “How’s Caroline?”

Elijah’s lips curved up at the corners. “Are you actually concerned about someone who is not Katerina Petrova. I dare say that is character growth.”

Katherine didn’t smile. “I know what’s it’s like to have your child taken from you. I know it’s not the same thing but it is the most painful experience to go through. I can relate to her.”

“I wasn’t aware you and Caroline were so well acquainted,” Elijah eyed her curiously.

“We’re not but out of all of Elena’s friends I found her the most tolerable.” Katherine gave a small shrug. “It helped that she had her uses against Klaus.”

Elijah snorted. “How about you keep that line of thinking to yourself if we’re going to have any hope of saving your life.”

He would hate for Niklaus to kill her.

“Why are you so determined to save me?” Katherine asked.

Elijah smiled softly and cupped her jaw. “I think you already know the answer to that question."

Katherine’s eyes softened and she smiled sadly up at him. She reached her hand up and placed her hand over his turning her face into his palm and pressing a kiss against his wrist, her eyes sliding shut, feeling at peace in Elijah’s calming presence.

If she was going to die at least he would be there for her last moments.

~*~ ~*~ ~* ~

Caroline and Klaus ended up in the study, Klaus watching as she seemed to be in the process of reorganizing his books and wiping imaginary dust away from shelves.

“Do you want to talk about it?” Klaus asked.

“Talk about what?” Caroline didn’t look at him.

“Caroline,” Klaus sighed. “No amount of excessive cleaning and organizing is going to make any of this go away. This is-”

“You want to talk about this? Fine!”Caroline whirled around her arm sweeping out angrily. “Let’s talk about how my children were stolen from me when I didn’t even know they existed. Let’s talk about how I have never felt more violated, more wronged in my entire life! Let’s talk about everything that I believe since coming to New Orleans has been a lie!”

Klaus was in front of her in an instant. “Not everything.” his hands landed on her wrists and slid up her arms. “What has happened between us is real. No one can touch how I feel about you.”

Caroline’s face crumpled and she stepped into him until they were flushed. “I didn’t mean us. What we have is the only thing I feel like hasn’t been a lie. It’s the only thing that is still mine.”

Klaus felt his undead heart thud in his chest at her claim on him.

“I feel like I lost something I never knew I wanted.” Caroline’s hand drifted down to her flat stomach.

“You’re going to get it back,” Klaus swore.

Caroline’s chest tightened. In fear or anxiety, she wasn’t sure. “That doesn’t mean everything is going to be magically fixed. I still will have lost all that time with them. They will still be connected to Hayley in a way they aren’t with me.”

“Caroline, you’ll have to give it time but it won’t always feel that way.”

“You don’t know that,” Caroline protested. “What if I’m not a good mother, what if I’m not capable of taking care of-”

Klaus's mouth came down on her and she instinctively kissed him back, her rising panic coming to a screeching halt.

Klaus cupped her neck and broke away from her mouth, breathing her in. “There’s no chance of you not being a good mother. You’re the most caring and nurturing person I’ve ever known. You care even when you don't want to. You are going to love our children and they are going to love you.”

Like I love you, Klaus thought. He wanted to say the words but he didn’t want to say it under these circumstances.

Caroline smiled softly. “You used to say all the wrong things and now you say all the right things. What did you do with the man I first met?”

“I am still very much the same man I just want to be good to you.” Klaus murmured his hand sweeping through her hair.

“You better be. We’re connected now.” Caroline teased.

“We have always been connected,” Klaus countered. “You're stuck with me now. We share children, we will forever be bonded together.”

Klaus really loved the idea of that.

Caroline was admittedly scared at the responsibility of being a mother but she knew she had Klaus. She knew he would be there for her every step of the way. It was reassuring to know she wouldn’t be in this alone.

Klaus had long since come to terms that he was going to become a father but it was different now. He felt like he had been given a gift instead of a burden.

Against all expectations and laws of nature, he was doing the impossible with Caroline. He was starting a family with the only woman he could see himself with for the rest of his eternity.

The only love of his immortal life fit to be his Queen.

Caroline smiled faintly. “Forever is a long time, you’ll get sick of me by the next decade.”

“Never.” Klaus cupped her face, drawing her in for another kiss, his mouth moving over hers.

Caroline lost herself in the kiss. It was so demanding, so intense, she felt like he was claiming her.

Caroline gripped his shirt, turning them and pushing him back against his desk until he was leaning against the edge, their lips parting. “You better not treat me any differently and no ideas about keeping me locked away,” she warned.

“I will do whatever I have to if it keeps you safe,” Klaus countered, his jaw tightening.

“And I will do the same but I won’t be on the sidelines. “ Caroline argued, hands sliding up his chest. “And I have no problem reminding you of that if I have to.”

God, she was too stubborn but he wouldn’t change it. He moved, taking her face in his hands and kissing her.

Caroline sucked his bottom lip into her mouth, taking control of the kiss.

Klaus's hands gripped her hips before moving around, his large hand palming her ass and pushing her closer. Caroline arms wrapped around his neck, arching her back and pressing her body flush against his, hands moving through his curls.

One of Klaus's hands slipped back up, moving underneath her shirt, pushing at her lower back and gliding up her soft skin.

“Caro-Oh God, my bad! I should have knocked! Sorry! Sorry!”

Caroline pulled away from Klaus who reluctantly let her go.

Josh stood in the doorway, looking embarrassed.

“Joshua,” Klaus growled. “What are you doing here?”

“I came with Marcel and Davina. Is that a problem?” Josh asked, looking between them uncertainly.

“No, it’s not,” Caroline answered before Klaus could. “We will be there in a moment.”

Josh nodded and walked back out of the room.

Caroline let out a slow breath, Klaus pushed off of the desk and cupped her neck. “Are you ready for this?”

“No,” Caroline answered. “But I will be.”

That was his Caroline. Always pushing forward. He felt pride in her strength and ability to handle anything the world threw at her.

Klaus pressed a hard kiss to her lips before urging her forward and out of the room. It was time to take back what Sophie and Hayley took from them.

~*~ ~*~ ~*~

Caroline had only taken a few steps in the room before she was approached by Davina who threw her arms around her.

Caroline was a little taken back by the drastic change in Davina’s reaction toward her.

Davina pulled back to look at her. “Are you okay?”

“No, not really,” she answered, her eyes drifting over to Marcel.

“I’m not going to even understand how any of this is possible but are you sure, you want to reverse the spell?”

“Of course, she does why wouldn’t she?” Rebekah joined them.

“We don’t know the logistics of this spell.” Marcel pointed out. “What if moving them from Hayley’s womb back into Caroline’s unintentionally harms them or causes a complication.”

Caroline's chest tightened at the thought of something going wrong. Maybe they shouldn’t do this. Maybe, it was safer for Hayley to carry them to term and be the one to give birth.

God, the thought sickened her. Hayley giving birth to her children would be a nightmare.

Caroline felt the weight of Klaus’s hand on her lower back before he spoke, his words laced with anger. “Our children should be with their mother, not the woman who stole them away for her own traitorous agenda.”

Caroline hesitated, looking over at Hayley, gaze drifting down to her rounded stomach. Her children. Could they risk it?

She vamp-sped in front of Sophie glaring. “Is it safe for them?”

Sophie's eyes went to Hayley who shook her head rapidly at her.

“Sophie, please, don’t answer that!”

“Is it safe for them?” Caroline grabbed Sophie’s jaw forcing the witch to look back at her. “Answer me!”

“Yes,” Sophie answered and Caroline released her. “The children will be safe, any harm from the spell will not affect them but they will affect you and Hayley.”

“Effect them how?” Klaus demanded, his eyes shooting to Caroline in undisguised concern.

“Pain,” Sophie answered. “The Spell comes with its consequences but the pain is only temporary.”

“Okay.” Caroline nodded. “Then we continue with the plan.”

“Wait,” Klaus said, turning to Caroline. “Are you sure?” He hated the thought of Caroline being hurt in any way.

“Yes and I can handle pain. More than you might think.” Caroline responded she cupped the side of his neck. “I have to do this. Those twins, our babies, they belong with me, their mother.”

Klaus nodded. “Okay, love.”

Elijah was silent as he watched their exchange and how his brother was not trying to make decisions for Caroline. It was a side of his brother he didn’t expect. It was once again staring him in the face that he had not been seeing what had been in front of him the whole time.

The key to his brother becoming the man he was capable of being if given the chance was the one person he had been treating with callousness and disregard.

That was going to change.

Klaus released Sophie. “You try anything and I will decorate your entrails all across bourbon street.”

“I'm not going to do anything, I know when the odds are stacked against me,” Sophie responded, rubbing at her sore wrist and Davina stepped forward, glaring.

Davina held out the bag of ingredients for the spell. “I can’t believe you were capable of something like this. I used to think Monique was lucky to have you. I was wrong.”

“I did this for Monique!” she spat with venom. “And I will not apologize for it.”

“You don’t have to,” Rebekah interjected. “Because from this moment on we will know your every move, you won’t even be able to so much as breathe your next breath without our okay.”

Sophie glared but said nothing, not wanting to give them another reason to kill her. Instead, she focused on getting the spell ready. “Give me some space, I need room to work.” She waved everyone further back from her.

Caroline worried her bottom lip anxiously and Klaus rubbed her back.

ten minutes later, Sophie was announcing that she was ready. She had created a circled that dominated the room, one that had been drawn in her blood and some other liquid.

“I need both Caroline and Hayley to lay side by side.”

“Zack, unchain Hayley,” Klaus ordered as Caroline moved to lay in the circle.

Caroline paused in the circle, looking at Sophie distrustingly, she switched her gaze to Davina.

Davina who had been hovering around Sophie watching the older witch's every move like a hawk nodded at Caroline.

Caroline took a deep breath, hoping she was making the right choice and lowered herself into the circle laying flat on her back with her arms at her sides.

As soon as Hayley was free Rebekah seized her by the arm and dragged her over to the circle.

Seeing she had no choice but to do as was expected, Hayley lowered herself next to Caroline, her heart pounding in fear.

Klaus paced anxiously as Sophie started to chant. A strong wind blew through the room and she raised her voice louder the candles lit around the circle, the flames jumped, burning brightly.

Caroline and Hayley seemed to gasp at the same time.

Hayley's hands clawed at the ground.

Caroline’s eyes shot open wide and she tried to curl into herself, hand gripping at her stomach, a look of pain etched into her face.

“Caroline!” Klaus was moving instantly, kneeling at her side he took her hand in his and she grabbed at his arm, holding it to her. “You can do this.”

“Hold them down.” Sophie order. “It’s better if they don’t move around too much.”

Rebekah moved toward Caroline, kneeling above her head and holding her shoulders down. Elijah did the same for Hayley his grip on her more forceful and unforgiving.

Sophie’s chants climbed in volume and she snatched her hand toward Davina as if she was attempting to draw power from her making Marcel tense.

Suddenly the sound of thunder clapped and another gust of wind blew through the room this time blowing out the flames of the Candles.

Hayley’s body shook and a whimper tore from her mouth as she shut her eyes tight against a quick bout of pain followed by a feeling of emptiness.

Caroline let out a screech of pain, her back arching, face contorted in agony.

Klaus watched, eyes wides as her stomach distorted before him, the size of her stomach expanding.

Sophie took a step back. “It’s done.”

Caroline panted and Klaus released her hands and the moment he did, she curled her hands around her stomach. Her hard, slightly rounded stomach.

God, she could feel them. A slight fluttering. Tears filled her eyes. They were okay and she bad them back, a tear slipped out of the corner of her eyes.

Rebekah removed her hands from her shoulders and gently wiped Caroline’s tear away. “Are you okay?”

Caroline nodded, even as more tears slipped from her eyes, she let out a shuddered breath, her hand drifting down to her stomach, feeling another flutter.

“No, you’re not,” Rebekah said knowingly. “Come here,” she helped Caroline up into a sitting position and pulled her into her arms.

Klaus swallowed, an unnamed emotion making his chest tight watching his sister put aside her grudges and differences with them all to comfort Caroline and be there for her in her time of need.

Hayley watched closely, waiting for Elijah to back away from her and the second she did she leaped to her feet.

She had to get out of there before they killed her, she was almost to the door when Klaus was there in front of her suddenly his hand slamming into her chest and sending her flying across the room. She crashed into the wall.

Hayley let out a cry. It had Caroline forcing what she was feeling down and stood up, glaring daggers as Hayley crawled back to her feet.

Hayley looked around panicked as it seemed like they were all closing ranks on her. Klaus, Caroline, Elijah, Rebekah, Marcel, Davina, josh, Zach, and the wolves.

Panic crawled up her throat, desperation feeling her.

“Hayley!” Her eyes snapped up to see Dwayne the hybrid from the Bayou storming into the compound.

“Dwayne, please, you have to help me.” She said, voice cracking in desperation.

“You make one step toward her and I will make you regret it. Hybrid or not.” Caroline threatened, eyes cold.

Dwayne’s head snapped to her and his brow furrowed as the pull he once felt to Hayley pulled him toward Caroline instead. “I will stay away from her if that’s is what you want.”

“No, Dwayne, you have to help me! You’re sired to me! You have to do as I say!” Hayley panicked. “Please, I need your help!”

“No, you're wrong. It was never you that he was sired to,” Elijah injected. “It was the twins. He’s sired to them and Caroline by extension now that their back with her.”

Hayley paled, falling back a step, the feeling of hopelessness consuming her knowing she would get no help from Dwayne.

The twins had been returned to their rightful mother and with it his loyalty.

Hayley shook her head and steeled herself; she tried one more time to make her escape.

Caroline was in front of her in a moment’s notice, she gripped her by the neck and one swift move knocked her feet out from under and slammed her headfirst into the floor rendering her unconscious. Hayley fell to the ground in a heap.

Klaus moved toward Sophie and pulled her back over to the chains hanging from the ceiling and chained her back up much to her chagrin.

Sophie knew better than to fight back, she needed to be compliant and hopefully, they wouldn’t kill her.

“I did as you wanted! You don’t have to keep me locked up!”

Klaus ignored her pleas.

Caroline, however, stepped toward her. “You want your freedom? You want us to let you go?”

“Yes,” Sophie answered. “I will do anything.”

Caroline looked at her, eyes cold. “Then find a way to save Katherine because if she dies... You die.”

Elijah’s eyes shot to Caroline in surprise. He didn’t think Caroline cared if Katherina lived or died. Not after everything she did to Elena since she returned to Mystic Falls.

Elijah’s eyes turned to gauged his brother’s reaction to Caroline’s ultimatum.

Klaus squared his jaw, a look of irritation flashing in his eyes but other than that he said nothing to disregard Caroline’s words.

It threw Elijah and he wasn’t sure what to make of it. He didn't know what it meant for Katerina if they against all logic find a way to save her.

“Secure Sophie in another room. I want her locked and guarded.” Caroline ordered.

Dwayne moved to do as she ordered without question before anyone else took a step. Marcel and Davina moved to help him.

“What do we do with her?” Zach asked, nudging Hayley's unconscious body with his foot.

“Lock her up. She does not get off that easily.” Klaus said. “We are not done with her. She has yet to suffer for her crimes against Caroline and myself.”

Zach nodded and grabbed Hayley by the foot and started to drag her out of the room.

“Caroline,”

Caroline's eyes shot to Rebekah. “I’m sorry. You probably don’t believe me. I know you don’t trust me after what I did but I want to put that behind us. I want to be there if you need someone to talk to. I can’t imagine any of this is easy.”

“I want to be alone,” Caroline said shortly and walked out of the room without another word.

Rebekah’s lips twisted. “Well, that could have gone better than I intended.”

Klaus ignored his sister. Caroline had said she wanted to be alone but he didn’t think that was what she needed. Still, he would give her time if that was what she wanted. Time to process and time to come to terms with their new situation.

Hell, he needed time to reconcile everything himself.

~*~ ~*~ ~*~

Klaus pushed his way into his room, his muscles coiled tightly ready for a fight. However, the second he laid eyes on his favorite blonde he felt the tension drain out of him.

When Caroline said she wanted to be alone he gave her that but when he walked into her room and she wasn’t there, it was like the walls were closing down on him. He searched the house but couldn't find her.

He should’ve known she would have gone to his room. She hadn’t stayed in her room since she had allowed herself to be with him.

“Where have you been?” Caroline looked up at him and he hated the lost look in her eyes.

“You said you wanted to be alone.”

“I didn’t mean you,” Caroline said, her eyes growing wet with tears. “I can be alone with you.”

Klaus was at her side instantly, sitting next to her, he took her hand in his. “Tell me what you need,”

“I don’t know," her free hand touched her stomach. “It’s hard to believe any of this is possible but I can feel them.” her voice broke with a crack.

“That’s a good thing, isn’t it?” Klaus asked, confused by her near state of crying.

“I feel them but I don’t feel them,” Caroline stressed.

Klaus’s brow drew together having trouble understanding her meaning. “I don’t understand.”

“For months Hayley carried them, she formed a bond with them. A bond I can’t touch.”

Caroline's eyes were filled with pain and it cut into his chest like a dagger to the heart. “That’s not true.”

“It is,” Caroline cried, ripping her hand from his and touching her chest. “I don’t feel connected to them.”

“Caroline, you are more connected to them than anyone. You’re their mother, not Hayley. And you have fought for them when you didn’t even know they were yours.”

Caroline felt a tear streak down her cheek but she didn’t move to wipe it away.

Klaus did it for her. His thumb brushing it away. “Give it time and I promise you the bond you will have with them will be something that Hayley could never fathom.”

Caroline nodded, his words a comfort to her, she surged forward, pressing her mouth to his.

Klaus returned it, cradling her face in his hands and kissing her like it was an art form, his lips moving in unhurried strokes.

Caroline slid into his lap and bit his bottom lip. “Show me how you feel about me.”

Klaus paused, his eyes softening and he turned them, laying her back on the bed and covering her with his body, intending on worshiping every inch of her.

~*~ ~*~ ~*~

Caroline laid curl into Klaus, his hand resting on her stomach.

“We should be getting up. I need to talk to Davina.”

“About what?” Klaus rolled them, brushing her hair back over her shoulder as he pushed the sheet away from her baring her perfect curves to his hungry gaze.

“About Katherine.”

Klaus scowled. “No, we don’t and the last person I want to be thinking about when we're in bed together is Katherine.”

“Don’t be unreasonable.” Caroline pushed at his chest and he rolled off her sitting up. She followed turning toward him, the sheet held up against her body. “Katherine revealed the truth to us. Without her who knows how long we would have been left in the dark about our children.”

Klaus paused, the words our children coming from Caroline still foreign but left this feeling in his chest he wasn’t used to feeling. Happiness. “Fine, what about Katherine? Is this about you wanting to save her?”

“Oh, we are going to save her,” Caroline said, determined. It was the only option. “Davina can do it. I know she can but I want to talk about what happens to her after.”

“Caroline..” Klaus washed a hand down his face in frustration.

~*~ ~*~ ~*~

Elijah stopped just outside Klaus's bedroom. He was headed back toward his room where Katerina was resting but he stopped as he realized who the pair were discussing.

He waited with bated breath to hear what his brother would say.

“I want Katherine dead. I have wanted her dead for a very long time.” The hate in Niklaus's voice could not be mistaken.

Elijah clenched his jaw, his hands tightening into a fist.

“But I don’t.” Caroline countered. “I want her alive.”

“Caroline,”

The way his brother said her name had hope growing in Elijah’s chest.

~*~ ~*~ ~*~

“Klaus, I am asking you to let her live. She’s human now. Katherine hates being human. She loved being a vampire. Don’t you think it’s punishment enough that she has to spend the rest of her days being something she hates.”

“No,” Klaus responded. “I want every second she lives to be filled with misery and agony.”

Caroline leveled him with a look. “Klaus, I’m not asking you to forgive her for your grudges against her. I’m just asking that you don’t kill her once we find a way to save her life.”

“Fine.” Klaus snapped. He loathed to deny Caroline anything and bloody hell did he hate it, like right now. “But if she gives me one reason, I won’t hesitate in killing her in the most painful way imaginable.”

“Noted,” Caroline said allowing the sheet to fall away as she shifted into his lap and buried her hands in his hair. “I won’t even lecture you about the value of human life.”

“I highly doubt that.” Klaus wrapped his arms around her back, drawing her closer, his mouth seeking out the tender skin of her neck, her pulse against his lips.

~*~ ~*~ ~*~

Elijah was surprised that Caroline had gotten his brother to agree so quickly. Was she aware of the power she held over the most dangerous being on the planet?

He sure as hell hadn't been aware.

Caroline had more influence on his brother than he thought possible.

He started moving again walking to his room. Feeling a little bit lighter with the knowledge that Klaus would not be killing Katerina the first chance he got.

He had a feeling his brother would rather die than go back on his word to Caroline.

~*~ ~*~ ~*~

Caroline tugged on a fist full of Klaus's hair, forcing his head back. Their eyes locked.

“Let’s not argue,” Caroline said and pressed her mouth to his.

Klaus let out a groan and he flipped them without warning.

Caroline let out a squeal that quickly turned into a moan as Klaus filled her.

She arched her back, whimpering, her breast rubbing against his chest as he withdrew from her slowly.

She wrenched her mouth from his when he thrust back into her to the hilt, throwing her head back and shutting her eyes tightly against the pleasure.

Klaus withdrew from her completely. “Caroline.”

Caroline let out a low keen in need.

“Look at me.” Klaus's voice lowered into a growl, needing her eyes on him.

Caroline’s eyes shot to him and she was caught by the intensity she found waiting for her.

Klaus wasn’t used to getting everything he wanted but he had that with Caroline. He couldn’t help but believe it was only a matter of time for that other shoe to drop and ruin everything.

Because him being happy, having Caroline, her being the true mother of his children… It was all too good to be true. It was only a matter of time before it was ripped from him.

He thrust back into her, his name leaving her lips on a needy whimper. “Klaus.”

He planned on enjoying every single moment with her until that time came.

This was his version of heaven and he was going to hold on to it for as long as he could.

A/N: For everyone who still wants Sophie and Hayley to suffer even more for what they have done, they will. I'm not with them just yet.

You can also read the full fic on ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/5880592/chapters/58226251

Tags: @zinebaklaro @eloiselili @caritobear @paulinhaals @lord-luminous @bellarkehotchniss @storm-pirate @luckylouiebug

#tvd #the originals #fanfic #tvd fic #the originals fic #klaroline #klaus x caroline #klaus mikaelson #caroline forbes #fanfic: good to you

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thetourguidebarbie · 7 years

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20 min drabble klaroline + swimming lessons

Obviously this was not 20 minutes lol. This is a sequel to the step-sibling drabble from yesterday for @goldcaught and the others who asked. There will be two or three more and I'll probably combine them into a one shot and post on ffnet. This has no smut, but it's definitely suggestive enough to be considered NSFW.

“I still don’t understand why we have to do this,” Elena grumbled, adjusting her ponytail.

“Because it’s the best way to practice after football season,” Caroline replied, trying not to let her irritation with Elena’s attitude take over too obviously. “Do you have better things to do? Should I give Hayley front row instead?”

“No,” Elena said quickly. “That’s fine.”

“Good.”

“And look at it this way, ‘Lena, at least we get to watch shirtless guys dripping with water between routines. I know he’s your irritating brother, Care, but Klaus is hot.”

“Step-brother,” Caroline growled. “I don’t share a single speck of DNA with that jerk.”

Which was good, since they’d snuck into each other’s bedrooms almost every night for two months. The guilt had eaten at her insides the whole time, and she’d ended it the week before when they’d nearly gotten caught. What stung the most about it was that Klaus didn’t fight it. She knew he had feelings for her (and she most definitely reciprocated), but he hadn’t bothered to protest, the only sign of his reaction a brief flash of hurt in his eyes before his face cleared. He’d shrugged, laying back in the bed with the sheet pulled up around his waist and didn’t even look at her as she pulled on her cami and sleep shorts. She’d tried to convince herself that it was better that way, that it would help her get over him faster, but if she was honest with herself, she knew she wanted to be with him, even if it was a terrible idea. She also could recognize that what she’d actually wanted wasn’t really for him to fight for her. She’d wanted reassurance, for him to acknowledge that what they were doing was wrong and impulsive and stupid, but that she was worth it.

And he hadn’t given it.

Still, despite avoiding her at school, he’d still give her appreciative looks when they were at home and she was lounging in her pajamas with her laptop in the living room or bent over the kitchen table with a textbook, and she’d tried her best to restrain herself from returning them.

Instead, she pushed her bed back against the other wall and tried to ignore how much she regretted walking away.

“Whatever,” Katherine said, shrugging. “I have eyes, at least.”

“Yeah, but trust me, you’re wasting your time,” Caroline said, an irrational stab of jealousy hitting her. Sure, she couldn’t let herself have him, but she still thought of him as hers, still held on to the tiny shred of hope that he might make the first move and validate her desire for him. She’d be damned if Kathering fucking Pierce got her claws on him before Caroline let him go for good.

It wasn’t fair or reasonable, but whatever.

“Why?”

“He has a girlfriend,” Caroline said impulsively. “She’s back in the U.K. He’s really into her.”

“Why haven’t I heard about them?”

Caroline swallowed, her mind racing. “When has Klaus ever talked about anything personal?”

“Umm…When he fucked Dana at Lockwood’s party six months ago.”

“That was a rumor.”

“Wow, someone’s defensive.”

“I just don’t want you to get distracted by my dumbass brother during season,” Caroline said, the word ‘brother’ sour on her tongue.

“You don’t have to lie about his love life, Caroline. I get why you’re upset, but I promise that if we break up it won’t ruin our friendship.”

Caroline honestly wasn’t quite sure how to respond to that, but she didn’t have the chance as Klaus surfaced from the water to take a break from drills and Katherine marched over.

His hair was sticking to his face, and she longed to trace the drips of water falling down his abs with her tongue, to make him groan as she let her nail run below the waistband of his swimsuit, and she tried not to wish ill on her frenemy, but just watching made her want to claim him, to run her hand down his arm in front of everyone and bask in the warmth of the way he looked at her.

God, she needed a drink. Or something.

She couldn’t resist listening in as Katherine stopped in front of him, slightly reassured by the complete ambivalence he exuded when she asked him if he wanted to go to dinner later that week. His eyes seemed to naturally find hers, and she flushed, looking away, though she let herself peek at him out of the corner of her lashes, and his lips twitched before he turned back to Katherine. “No,” he said firmly, grabbing a nearby towel from the stack and rubbing his hair and face with it.

“Caroline said you had a girlfriend. Is that why?”

“Did she?” Klaus asked, his lips twitching as he slung the fabric over his shoulder.

“I thought she was lying,” Katherine said triumphantly, and Caroline felt a stab of nervousness as Klaus seemed to consider whether to respond.

“It was supposed to be a secret,” he finally said, his voice deceptively light, his gaze darting towards her again before his lips twitched. “She’s a jealous little thing. Clever. Ruthless. I advise you don’t get mixed up with her, Katerina.”

“She sounds like a piece of work.”

“Careful, Katerina,” he whispered, his eyes flashing. “I do not take well to insults to the few people whom I care for.”

Caroline bit her lip, her heart soaring at his words, and she smiled slightly when their eyes met, but he didn’t return it, instead giving her a calculating glance before chugging a bottle of water and turning around when Coach Tanner called for him to get back to drills.

She lingered after practice, and when he came out she asked if she could have a ride home, knowing that she was being about as subtle as Rebekah did when she wanted specific birthday presents, and Klaus nodded, gesturing to the parking lot. They walked in silence until they got into the car, Klaus turning to her once they had their seatbelts on, not starting the ignition.

“I wasn’t aware that I was in a relationship,” he said abruptly, no humor present in his voice. “Care to explain, love?”

“Kat’s the literal worst. You don’t want to bother.”

“Are you a mind reader?” he asked dryly. “I had no idea that you could tell what my desires were without exchanging a single word with me in the past two weeks.”

“I…I just—”

“You were jealous,” he finished, and her shoulders slumped.

“A little, yeah.”

“Well then, I suppose you have a choice, don’t you? You said you didn’t want me, yet it’s clear that you don’t want me to be with anyone else. You can’t have it both ways, sweetheart.”

“I thought I didn’t get to choose what you wanted for you.”

“I already chose you. I made that clear.”

“What? No you didn’t. You just like, let me walk out on you—”

“Let you?” he asked, his chuckle a bit too hollow to carry any real amusement. “It’s always been your choice, Caroline. You left. That was all you and your insecurities.”

“I didn’t want to.”

“Then why did you?”

“Because this…what we have…this is wrong, Klaus. If our parents ever found out—”

“Then they won’t. Not until we’re both legal adults, and then they’ll just have to get over themselves.”

“You’re already thinking that far ahead, huh?”

“Weren’t you?”

There was a slight undercurrent of confusion in his voice, of hurt, and she laid her hand on top of his on the gear shift, turning to look at him fully.

Klaus had seemed eternally unflappable, his emotions only pulling through his facade when he lost his temper or his control, and she was surprised that he was being so open with her, even though she desperately wanted his honesty now that he’d freely given it.

“Yeah,” she said, letting out a shaky laugh. “I made a ton of plans. Unrealistic ones, obviously, bit—”

“Unrealistic?”

“You know… life plans. Like, going to college in the same city and living together and stuff.”

“Those are all doable,” he said, and she was weirdly thrilled that he was taking what she considered to be childish fantasies completely seriously, that he’d thought about what being with her might mean.

Sure, it could be high school sweetheart puppy love, but something already told her that this could be epic.

“Great,” she said, giving the area around them a quick glance before pecking him on the lips, and he immediately, deepened the kiss, his fingers winding through hers as his other hand cupped her neck.

“I’m sorry that I’ve been so weird about this. It wasn’t fair to you.”

“It was worth it for the end result,” he said before giving her a smug, dimpled grin. “I must admit that it was also satisfying to watch you pine after me at practice.”

“I wasn’t pining. I just have eyes, okay?”

“If you say so, love.”

“No, seriously!”

“Perhaps one day I’ll let you fulfill those filthy thoughts I can see running through your mind, hmm?”

She scoffed. “Oh please, like you don’t have a thing for my cheerleading outfit.”

“Wearing our respective uniforms isn’t mutually exclusive.”

She let her mind wander to the fantasy of him leaning against a pillar under the bleachers as she peeled the tight fabric of his suit down with her teeth before she took him in her mouth, his fist wound in her ponytail, her skirt hiked around her waist, uniform shorts nowhere to be found, and felt her core clench.

“Someday,” she said, her voice a little breathless, and his smile was infuriatingly smug, as though he knew exactly where her mind went (and it probably did.

They caught up on the last few weeks as they drove home, Klaus indulgently listening to Caroline’s complaints about Elena’s lack of commitment to the squad, and how extracurriculars only counted on college applications if you actually participated, and he gave her a few ideas on how she could fix that, none of which she felt justified in doing.

“I can’t accidentally drop her, Klaus,” she said for the third time as he parked in the front of the house.

“Why not? Just move slightly out of position and apologize profusely. Problem solved.”

“But I can’t be out of position! I’m the captain, and I lose my authority if I fuck up.”

“You have to stop caring so much what people think of you, sweetheart,” he said, and she felt like he was talking about more than Elena’s cheering incompetence.

“I know, but it’s hard,” she said, unlocking the door, and he reached out to cover her hand with his before she could turn the knob.

“Tonight?” he whispered, his hot breath on her ear sending a shiver of anticipation down her spine. “I’ve missed you.”

“Sure. Me too.”

She pushed the door open, stopping in the front hall when Mikael strode out of the back office, her body naturally moving in front of Klaus’s as though she could protect him.

“Hi Mikael,” she said, putting on her best customer service smile, and he grunted, glancing at Klaus over her shoulder before speaking.

“Your mother wants the whole family to go out for dinner,” he said, nodding at Caroline, and she could practically feel Klaus’s discomfort behind her when Mikael pointedly ignored him.

“Okay. We’ll get ready,” Caroline said with a saccharine smile.

Klaus followed her upstairs, and before she could go past his room to hers, he grabbed her arm, spinning her around so that their noses were only an inch apart. “Wear a skirt for me,” he whispered, letting his fingers play with the hem of her cheer skirt. “Or one of those pretty sundresses you favor. You can make the past two weeks of silence up to me by giving me something exciting to do during dinner, hmm?”

She felt arousal build in her lower belly just from his words, knew a flush was creeping up her cheeks, but she nodded.

She showered and dressed, zipping up her sundress and debating with herself before foregoing her panties, knowing her forethought would turn Klaus on all the more.

Everything about their relationship was so wrong, but she couldn’t resist when being with him felt so right.

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