The Girl in the Woods

Chapter 9: Night of the Ball

A/N: Sorry I wasn't able to update last week. I wasn't feeling well :( So I made a longer chapter this week instead :)

~Recap from Chapter 5~

"Nooooo!!!"

Bonnie and everyone else turned in the direction of the scream and saw Faith running towards the flame.

As Faith passed her, Bonnie instinctively stopped her from rushing into the flames.

Klaus turned away from the fire and saw Bonnie struggling with a girl who was screaming.

Recognition and disbelief fell on Klaus' face.

"Faith?"

~TGITW~

Chapter 9: Night of the Ball

MYSTIC FALLS. 2010 A.D.

It had been a week since Mikael had died.

It had been a week since Klaus found out that Faith was alive.

Since then, many things had happened. His family had been undaggered and his mother was back. His mother whom he had killed.

While his siblings knew he killed his mother, they had yet to uncover the real reason why.

Fortunately, Esther was being quiet on the subject.

Klaus had lied to his siblings about it so of course he would not easily tell them the truth. They can never find out his secret. The reason why he had killed Esther. Especially Elijah. He can never know the truth.

Niklaus walked around his room filled with treasures. He was looking for something specific.

Ah, there it was. Klaus pulled out a blue gown from one of his chests. This is perfect.

He will send this to Faith together with an invitation to tonight's ball.

~TGITW~

Caroline had second thoughts about coming to the Original family's ball. After the whole fiasco with Mikael dying and the rest of the family coming back, she was questioning why she even stuck around.

Tonight, she had come as Tyler's date. She was wearing a soft red dress lined with glitters. Her dress had an off the shoulder bodice with a sweetheart neckline. Its fabric hugged her at the waist then came down to a mermaid silhouette with a flare bottom. Anyone could see that she rocked that dress. Standing beside Tyler in his classic tuxedo, they looked like a power couple.

They stood around in the foyer mingling with guests before Tyler had to leave on some matter. Caroline stood and watched the crowd, occasionally sipping the champagne in her hand.

It was then that a handsome looking man approached her. He had brown hair and brown eyes and like Tyler, was wearing a classic tux.

"Caroline Forbes, I presume," He greeted her with a slight accent. "We haven't formally met. Kol Mikaelson."

He stretched out his hand which Caroline eyed cautiously.

"You're one of the Mikaelsons." She stated rather than asked.

"That's right." He grinned then pulled his hand back when he realized that she wasn't going to shake it.

Caroline didn't know if it was because he was Mikaelson or not, but there was a dangerous glint in his eyes, a hunger almost.

"How do you know my name?" She asked him suspiciously.

"Gorgeous blonde vampire coming in with my brother's hybrid dog, who else could it be?" He replied charmingly.