"I don't care if he is obsessed with me, I don't want to do it. Can't you find someone else this time?" Caroline asked exasperatedly, stepping to the side so she could view Damon in the mirror. Damon just stood calmly, framed in the doorway, with his arms crossed and gave her that look that told her he was going to shoot her down. He was such a pain in the butt sometimes. Strike that, ALL the time. "You're the only bait we have for Klaus now that Elena's a vampire and he can't get her doppelganger blood. Other than that, there's Bonnie, but she's being a bit… broody right now," he shrugged slightly. The comment hit a sensitive spot for Caroline. Bonnie had been different ever since she'd performed the spell to put Klaus's soul in Tyler's body. She'd been mad at her friend at first, but it had ultimately saved Tyler's life and that was what really mattered. She knew that now, but she'd said some pretty horrible things to Bonnie when she'd first found out.

"He pretended to be Tyler, you know…" she commented offhandedly, pulling a scarf around her neck and turning to face Damon as she stuffed some items into her purse. Damon rolled his eyes. He'd never been one for talking about 'feelings'. "Just get over it. You don't have to be biffles with him, you just have to distract him long enough that we can separate him from his canine girlfriend."

Making a face at him, she pushed past him and into the hallway, walking toward the front door. "Fine, but I want you to know this is in protest."

"I don't ca-aaare," Damon replied in a sing-song voice with a grating smile on his face. Rolling her eyes, Caroline stepped out of the house and steeled herself for her first encounter with Klaus since he had been de-Tyler'd.

—-

"I still remember that first time I saw you after, what was it?, thirty years?" Klaus asked, smiling over at Indigo where she sat on the park bench beside him. She smiled slightly and glanced slyly over at him, "I enjoyed the Jazz Age, what can I say?"

"I never knew you could sing!" he teased her. Fixing him with a scathing look, Indigo smiled at his teasing. "There are many things about me even you don't know, Nik." She winked at him and crossed her legs, one foot aimed in his direction. Leaning toward him, she ran her hand down his chest and half-smiled as she looked seductively into his green eyes. "A lot has changed in the past century, you know. I'm not that same girl you knew before cars were invented," she smiled mischievously and bit her bottom lip, captivating him with her caramel brown eyes. He'd forgotten how beautiful she was, how addictive she could be.

"I figured it out, Nik," she whispered confidentially, momentarily confusing him. His brow furrowed slightly as he looked down at her, her touch on his chest feeling as if it would burn its way through his shirt and sear his skin. "I figured out how to make a hybrid for you." He chuckled slightly then, shaking his head. "I already solved that mystery, love," he replied simply, smoothing down her hair. "My mother set up in the curse so the doppelganger had to die for me to become a hybrid, but I needed her blood to create more. Tyler Lockwood, your nephew, was the first successful specimen after myself."

Indigo rolled her eyes in that way he'd seen so many times - as if he was a stubborn child who wasn't listening to what she was saying - and she sat up and away from him. "I don't mean that sort of hybrid," she spat as if the idea disgusted her. Her brown eyes locked with his green ones. "I mean a real hybrid…"

Klaus opened his mouth in confusion, about to question her meaning, when he heard footsteps behind him. Indigo stiffened visibly, her arms crossing over her chest, and he turned to see who was approaching.

Caroline.

This had the potential to become complicated very quickly. Klaus turned smoothly on the bench and smiled the smile he knew irritated her. He could see it on her face even as he noticed a flash of something else - jealousy perhaps? - pass over her delicate features. Caroline was everything Indigo was not: blond, blue-eyed, a vampire. They had that same spark to them that allowed no one to use them against their will, but he didn't imagine them becoming fast friends.

"Caroline, I believed you mad at me," he commented nonchalantly, feeling Indigo's eyes burning a hole in the back of his head. "Is Tyler simply too boring without me that you had to run me down?" His jab clearly set her off, but she allowed her gaze to flicker from him to Indigo and then back again. "I was actually just trying to find him and Bonnie, and I thought you might know where they are. Excuse me for interrupting," she snapped, turning her back on them and beginning to walk away.

Before he could rise to follow her, Indigo slid to her feet and was in front of the younger immortal in the blink of an eye. She cocked her head, inspecting Caroline as the young vampire stood, her blue eyes wide in a mixture of fear and anger at the original werewolf. Indigo smiled slightly then, flicking a curl of Caroline's blond hair over her shoulder where it bounced buoyantly for a moment. "Don't bother leaving, dear," she purred, shifting her weight to look over Caroline's shoulder at Klaus. "A few more hours after waiting centuries to see Klaus again won't hurt me," she commented, offering Caroline a smile which she didn't return. "Perhaps I'll go fish up my nephew while you're preoccupied." She smiled broadly then, that sly, mischievous smile, and she was gone in a blur.

After a brief moment of silence between them, Klaus rose and stepped toward Caroline as she turned to face him. His eyes were hard, not flirtatious like they'd been before, and Caroline find herself momentarily taken back by the lack of affection she saw there. He'd been looking at her in that way that made a girl's insides flutter like a million butterflies for so long now, that she found herself missing that look. She shouldn't be feeling that way. She hated him, and she had a mission anyway.

"You were lying," Klaus hissed, his jaw tightening visibly as it always did when he was angry. "Is this another ruse to distract me while your friends try to kill my family? Not going to work this time."

"No, Klaus… I… I really don't know where Tyler and Bonnie are. I just thought… you might," she finished, crossing her arms and trying to regain her former composure. He shrugged nonchalantly and pushed past her, so different than the crushing boy he'd been for the past several months. "I don't really care. It seems Indigo knows where Tyler is, so maybe he just doesn't want you to know?" The suggestion was harsh and hurt her more than she wished it did. "I would suggest you find someone else to help you. Maybe Matt? He's seems the helpful, boy-next-door type. Or even Elena? I'm sure her senses are heightened, being a new vampire and all."

"You're just trying to hurt my feelings now," she commented, her brow drawing down unhappily. "You're mad because I shut you down when you were trying to pretend to be Tyler. You will never be like him."

"That's true, love," he commented, unashamedly. "But you've missed your chance to explore your options." With that, he turned and walked away from her, leaving her confused as to why she was so hurt by his dismissal.