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Chapter 20: The Woman and Her Man
It had been a couple of months since anyone had seen Esther or Finn. The group of Originals and Mystic Falls gang had come up with a plan to kill Esther and possible spare Finn based on how much he fought against them. The only problem was they didn't know where to find her. Which was a big problem in Klaus's mind. He wanted to be rid of his mother as quickly as possible so he could live his life with Caroline and his family. Maybe his hybrids too if he could figure out a way to make more without the doppleganger, but surprisingly they weren't as important to him anymore now that Caroline was in his life. Besides there didn't seem to be a way to make hybrids without the doppleganger he had been looking for the past month and couldn't seem to figure it out.
Caroline and his relationship were going well. He enjoyed being around her and there wasn't a day that goes by that he doesn't think about how lucky he is to have her. She had even moved some stuff to his mansion since that's where she was most of the time. Rebekah was very excited about this development since she had always wanted a sister. He was happy that his sister and girlfriend were becoming fast friends, but sometimes she would bring up her broken friendship with Elena and Bonnie both of whom still weren't talking to her.
This upset Klaus since he couldn't understand the doppleganger's hypocritical ways nor the witch's judgment. The witch hadn't been as understanding either and both of them had stopped talking to her, but were willing to help defeat Esther so it wasn't all bad, at least in Klaus's mind. Honestly Klaus couldn't careless as long as he had Caroline he didn't care what the others did.
It was winter by this point and there still was no sign of Esther or Finn.
It was a week before Christmas when Klaus and Caroline were getting ready for bed.
"Can you shut up the lights?" Klaus asked as Caroline was still in the bathroom.
"Yeah just a sec." she responded brushing her teeth.
Then she shuffled to the lights and turned them all off before getting into bed and snuggling beside him.
They were quiet for a few minutes before Caroline asked how his day had gone.
"Fine, still no sign of Esther, but we'll find her soon." He said wrapping an arm around her and pulling her closer.
She sighed contently, "my day was good too. School's done for the semester finally and now I can spend all my time with you."
"Have you talked to your friends?" he asked quietly knowing it bothered her that she was so ostracized at school.
Caroline was quiet for a few minutes. "No, not yet. Not even Matt has talked to me although he's perfectly fine dating Rebekah and Tyler I know is still in the Appalachians God knows if he's coming back…but no not really. Elena and Bonnie I know are on board of getting rid of Esther but…I don't know if there's hope for us. Maybe in a couple of years or something, but I've realized that there's not much keeping me here besides my mom and you." she said quietly drawing circles across his skin.
Klaus was quiet for a moment, "I actually have a solution to your problem."
Caroline looked up at him. "What?"
"I got you three tickets to LA for Christmas. I know with Esther and everything it's dangerous so I shall be coming along, although I won't be following you everywhere Elijah and I could use the time to strengthen the fight against Esther, but I figured that maybe a vacation for the three of you would be nice. Maybe you can make up with your mates." Klaus said.
Caroline smiled sadly at him and leaned up to kiss him.
"I don't think a vacation with them is the key, but thank you for trying. We can just go though and give the other two tickets to Matt and Rebekah."
Klaus sighed, "I'm sorry, love, you should never have had to choose."
"I know. But I love you and I don't regret my decision." Caroline mumbled kissing him again.
Klaus smiled against her mouth and deepened the kiss. She pulled apart when there was a loud crash downstairs. They both glanced at each other curiously and Klaus got out of bed and grabbed a pair of pants to go investigate.
Caroline followed in her pajamas.
They descended the stairs and Caroline gasped at what she saw.
Elijah and Finn were sword fighting and Kol was passed out with a knife through his tummy on the floor.
Esther was in the corner chanting from her Grimoire the air was electric with magic.
Caroline was frozen in her spot afraid to see what Esther had up her sleeve.
Klaus grabbed Caroline's arm and she saw that he was shifting.
"Caroline go get the Salvatores and Bonnie we're ready for this. They know what to do." Klaus growled his face shifting.
Caroline nodded and ran as fast as she could to the Salvatore boarding house. On her way over she called Bonnie who picked up only after a few rings.
"This better be good." Bonnie grumbled.
"Esther she's at the mansion you need to go there." Caroline said hurriedly.
She was only a mile away from the boarding house. She had to hurry she couldn't let Klaus face this on his own. Bonnie hung up without saying anything and Caroline hoped she was gathering her things and was heading over to the mansion. Caroline finally reached the boarding house and didn't bother knocking. She ran into the living room and saw Stefan, Damon, and Elena sitting there talking.
"Don't you knock anymore, Blondie?" Damon snapped finishing his drink.
Elena refused to look at her and Stefan already knew what was up without Caroline opening her mouth.
"Esther, she's at the mansion." Caroline gasped then turning to run back.
She knew that Stefan and Damon were behind her without having to look back, but she was surprised that Elena followed too.
When they got back to the mansion Caroline was afraid to find it quiet.
There was no one in sight. The lights were off and there was an eerie stillness in the air. Damon, Stefan, Elena, and her were in the foyer not knowing what to do.
"Where'd they go?" Damon stage whispered.
"I think…" Caroline began to say but that was as far as she got because Bonnie ran into the room her face white with fright.
"We need to go! Esther's insane! She's trying to kill her children! She wants to get rid of the vampire race!" Bonnie shouted her Grimoire clutched to her chest.
"We're vampires, Bonnie! This concerns us!" Elena said bravely.
Caroline resisted rolling her eyes and vampire sped to where Bonnie came from intent on finding Klaus to make sure he was ok.
"Caroline!" she heard Stefan shout behind her, but she ignored it and went to go find Klaus. The house was quiet and dark she didn't know where anyone was and then she felt a cold hand on her shoulder.
She knew without turning around who it was.
"We meet again sweet Caroline." Esther purred in her ear.
Caroline turned around her eyes wide and she saw Esther, her eyes black with malice and a dangerous smile on her face.
"What do you want?" Caroline whispered.
"To destroy my creations! To rid the world of my monstrous children and their children! I want all of this done. I have yet to kill my children, but I think a little torture is in order and I'll start with Klaus's torture since he's the worst of them all." Esther said grabbing her by the arm.
Caroline resisted and head butted Esther knocking her off balance. Caroline turned to run but was frozen my Esther's magic. Caroline gasped when she felt unbelievable pain all over her body.
"Stop!" Caroline cried, but the pain increased until suddenly she was free.
She turned around to see that Elena had tackled Esther to the ground and had bitten her. Caroline watched in awe as her ex-best friend began to drain Esther, but then Esther punched Elena and she flew into a wall. Caroline took that opportunity to continue looking for Klaus. She could hear fighting behind her, but her main concern was finding Klaus.
Finally she found wolf Klaus breathing heavily on the floor. He had a sword coming out of his stomach and Caroline cried seeing the damage to her lover. She rushed over there, pulled the sword out and bit her wrist so she could feed him. He eagerly lapped up her blood and slowly turned back into himself. She watched as his wound healed and he stared at her with so much emotion in his eyes.
"Where's everyone else?" she asked quietly.
Klaus slowly got up and she handed him a pair of discarded pants so he could be dressed.
"I don't know. Finn stabbed me and took off after Elijah." Klaus said looking around the house. "Are you ok? Where's Esther?" he asked.
"Back there, Bonnie, Elena, and the Salvatores are fighting her." Caroline said.
"Alright you go find Kol, Elijah, and Rebekah, and I'll help them kill Esther." Klaus said vamping out.
Caroline looked at him for a moment and then reached forward to kiss him gently on the lips, "I love you, be careful."
He smirked at her, "always, love." And he kissed her again before taking off towards his mother.
Caroline creeped around the house to look for the other Originals and gasped when she found Rebekah daggered along with Finn. She undaggered Rebekah and then waited for her to come to.
"What happened?" Rebekah asked groggily.
"Esther attacked us. Do you know where Elijah and Finn are?" Caroline asked while helping the other blonde up.
Rebekah shook her head looking down at her eldest brother her facial expression blank. "No… I'm sure they're around somewhere though."
"Hopefully." Caroline muttered. They looked around the mansion while the fight with Esther was still brewing, Caroline hoped Klaus was ok.
On the other side of the mansion Klaus fought alongside the Salvatores, doppleganger turned vampire, and witch. Finally he got a good attack in on his mother, he stabbed her with a power-sucking blade they had procured a few weeks earlier with the help of a few of his witches. Klaus smirked happily when his mother fell at his feet and Bonnie continued to chant her spells draining the last of Esther's life force.
"What was that you stabbed her with?" Elena asked once everyone had calmed down from the adrenaline rush.
"One of my witches made a power sucking dagger, it's kind of like the daggers I used to put my siblings to sleep with, but it only works on witches in this case. She isn't dead, just temporarily asleep. You have to remove the dagger to wake her up…but I think I'm going to put her in her casket and if Bonnie should allow it could you possible bind it so no one can open in?" Klaus asked looking at Bonnie.
Bonnie was surprised by the question and not the usual demand that he gave.
Maybe Caroline was changing him for the better.
"S-Sure." Bonnie stuttered.
"Excellent." Klaus mumbled and then turned and walked out of the room presumably to find his family and Caroline.
He found them in the basement and they all helped carry up the coffin to put Esther in so Bonnie could bind it and Esther could never escape.
"We can throw her in the Atlantic." Klaus said quietly as they all stood around the casket.
"We can take a roadtrip." Caroline suggested softly looking at him.
He smiled and took her hand. "Then LA?"
She nodded slowly realizing that this was it, they really were going to explore the world together starting with the United States and maybe Europe after or maybe some tropical islands. She'd enjoy a stay on an island for awhile. She knew her mother would be fine without her and she could always come back and visit.
"It's a date." She said quietly resisting the urge to kiss the enemy in front of her former friends.
"Caroline? Could we talk to you?" Elena said breaking their moment.
Caroline glanced at Klaus and then over at Elena and Bonnie who were looking at her quietly. Caroline went over to them and the three of them went into the kitchen.
"I want to say that…I'm glad you found happiness with Klaus, but I still don't approve." Elena started to say.
"And I am glad too since I know you're always hurt. But is Klaus really the way to go? I mean he's evil." Bonnie said.
Caroline gave them both a sad smile, "someday when you're both in love with your dream man you'll understand. But what Klaus and I have is none of your business. You guys are my best friends and I want to continue being best friends, but if you can't accept me because of who I love it's not my problem. I'm leaving with Klaus for awhile and maybe when I come back we can start over, but for now I think we all need some space."
Bonnie and Elena looked at each other and then back at Caroline. "What about senior year? What about prom and, like, everything else?" they asked.
Caroline shrugged, "I have eternity to be in high school and go to prom, but for right now I just want to be with the man I love. I hope I see you when I come back and hopefully we can still be friends. But I didn't plan to fall in love with Nik, it just happened like life does."
She turned around and went back out to everyone leaving Bonnie and Elena staring after her stunned.
"Go pack, love." Klaus said as she came back into the room. Caroline nodded and looked over at Stefan and Damon.
She went over to Stefan and smiled, "I'll see you when I come back."
She hugged him tightly and then smiled at Damon. She turned around and went upstairs to take all of the stuff she had over at the mansion and pack it up.
Then she went home quickly to tell her mother what was going on and to pack up a few more things. Naturally her mother wasn't happy, but finally allowed her to leave knowing she'd be back in a few weeks. Liz just asked her to be back by graduation since she wanted to see her baby graduate. Caroline promised and then hurried back to the mansion a few too many bags packed.
Klaus was ready for her, the coffin in the back and she squeezed her bags beside his. She said goodbye to Elijah and Kol and finally Rebekah who gave her a long hug and a tearful goodbye.
Just as the sun was rising her and Klaus got into the car and began to drive towards the Atlantic. Their problems were behind them and the last of their immediate obstacles were in the trunk in the box. Caroline felt good about what was to come and her heart warmed when he took her hand and kissed it.
"Are you excited?" he asked smiling at her.
"About dumping your mom in the ocean? I think not. But I am excited to be outside Mystic Falls. I'm excited to see the coast and LA and I'm excited to be with you." Caroline smiled at him.
"Good. I was thinking we'd explore further south and then work our way back up the tickets are for the twenty sixth so we can go south for a week and then come back and fly to LA, what do you think?" he asked glancing at her.
"I think it sounds perfect." She said happily.
She knew they'd have more obstacles to overcome, finding out his real identity, accepting their feelings for each other, and finally killing parts of his family was just the beginning, but if they faced all the obstacles together she knew they could overcome the darkness and look into the light.
THE END!
(A/N: Thank you everyone for reading! I'm so glad you guys enjoyed the story! And maybe in the future there will be a sequel. Not sure yet. Depends if I can think of an idea for it.)