One Day You'll Show Up at My Door

Truly Happy

Caroline mingled around the party and at about the midway point she took to the raised platform where the band was and tapped the microphone.

"Excuse me, everyone," Caroline smiled. "Tonight is a very special night with a very special announcement from our guest of honor, Mr. Matt Donovan," she said clapping as he approached the platform.

"Thank you, guys," Matt said as she stepped to the side. He helped Rebekah up beside him before he spoke again. "Rebekah and I would like to thank all of you for joining us on such a happy night, but tonight is about to get even happier for a very close friend," Matt said with a bright smile. "I'd like to invite the owner of this awesome house up here, Mr. Klaus Mikaelson." The guests clapped as the flawlessly dressed man made his way to the front of the room. Caroline watched as Bonnie, Elena, Stefan, Damon, Jeremy, Delta, Marcel, and Cheri moved to the front of the room.

"Thank you all for coming. Tonight is a very special night and we all have my wonderful party planner, Miss Caroline Forbes to thank," Klaus said as he grabbed her hand and pulled her beside him. Everyone clapped and she noticed Delta giving her two thumbs up with watery eyes. "Caroline. As I said, thank you for this wonderful party."

"You're welcome," she said through gritted teeth. "What are you doing?" she whispered so that only he, and every other vampire in the room, could hear.

"Ladies and gentlemen, many, many years ago, Miss Forbes and I had had the grand pleasure of knowing each other. She was, as most beautiful women are, involved with someone else but attraction is attraction." Klaus said ignoring Caroline's question. "She and I were never really friends. The closeness that we've acquired is a recent acquisition and I wouldn't trade it for anything," he said with an easy smile. Caroline noticed that Bonnie, Elena, Delta, and Cherish were all wiping away tears. Confused, she remained silent and let him continue. "Caroline, those words that I spoke to you years ago still hold true today," Klaus said getting down on one knee in front of her. "Perhaps one day, in a year or in a century, you'll turn up at my door and let me show you what the world has to offer. Tonight, I ask you to do so with this ring and as my wife," he said opening the light blue box in his hand.

It was an immense brilliant round-cut diamond in the center of a platinum setting. It had tiny round diamonds around it and down the band. Caroline's mouth fell open. Shock wasn't even a good enough word to explain what she was feeling inside. What she was thinking. She met his blue eyes and then she turned to her friends. They were all nodding for her to take the ring. Her eyes flickered down to the ring again. It truly was beautiful.

Klaus never let it show on the outside but his nerves were beginning to travel through his body like vines twisting and knotting around a trellis. He hadn't gotten answered yet. He knew how he felt about her. He thought that he know how she felt about him but the waiting was going to be the end of him. When he decided that Caroline was what he wanted all those years ago he knew that her friends would be a reason, if not the main reason, they would become nothing. But so much time had passed and they had all moved on from the things that he had done to them. Now, with all of them being in loving and happy relationships, that is all that they want for Caroline and he was more than obliged to give her exactly that.

"Yes," she said softly, tears sliding gently down her face as she made eye contact with him. Klaus stood to his feet, slid the ring on her finger, put her head between his hands, and kissed her deeply.

"She said yes," Klaus said happily into the microphone. The crowd erupted with cheers and applause.

The rest of the party was a haze of congratulations and hugs. Caroline was engaged to Klaus and she was happy. Truly and finally happy. As the night wound down and the guests filtered out of the house, leaving Marcel, Delta, Matt, Rebekah, Cheri, Elijah, Klaus, and Caroline in the house.