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"Yes. I accept." Caroline said plainly. While the crowd was prising for the answer she had given them, all the vampires there turned their heads, in Union, towards her. Even Selena, who was more then upset with prince harry at the moment, looked up at her with shock. Niklaus stood up from his kneeling position. ".....w-what?" He asked, not believing his ears. "Yes. I said yes. I accept your hand in marriage." She told him over the cheers from the towns people. Esther stormed away, off to her carriage. "...um..okay....okay then. It looks like we have our princess brides." Elijah said, turning back to the crowd. He called for Selena and harry to join them on the small stage. Selena, standing next to Caroline, asked her. "You hate Nik. what the bloody hell are you going accepting his hand?" Caroline, who had to keep up a smile for the crowd, said though clutched teeth. "Watching out for you." This confused Selena. "...I beg your pardon?" She asked, turning to her slightly. "When we first got here, your mother made me promise her to look after you, to look after each other." Caroline told her. "......I remember that." Selena said, looking at her mother celebrating in the crowd. "You said yes. Which means you're staying, which means I'm....staying." Caroline said, as though she just now realized what she had gotten herself in. The princes, Niklaus and harry, held out their open hands to their ladies, and just as light as a feather, the girls let just the tip on their fingers fall into their palms. Selena blew her mother a kiss just as they all existed the small stage to return to the castle. But they could already feel it, it would be a long carriage ride home. Selena was walking when she heard harry behind her. "Selena. Selena, wait." He was saying. She ignored him. "Please stop and talk to me? Look, I know I should have told you, and I was going too! But then-" she turned around and cut him off. "But you didn't! You let me walk up there, and say yes to something that I didn't know I was saying yes too!" She yelled. Elijah walked over to them. "Stop it. You're not doing this, having this conversion outside, right now. You can it when you get to the castle. Now both of you, get in your carriages, now." He told them. He was just about fed up with all of the foolishness from today. Caroline was walking to her carriage, which she shared with rose, when Rebekah walked past and said. "Come, take the ride home with me." Caroline was taken aback when she asked her this. She could have sworn Rebekah and herself were at odd ends with each other. "..um... alright." Was all she could manage. Of course the carriages belonging to the Mikaelson's were larger then everyone else's. Rebekah was the first to step in, when Caroline got seated in, she was surprise to see, that sitting oppose her, were the faces of Finn and Niklaus. They were talking amongst themselves but stopped for a brief second when they seen her come in. "Rebekah, what's going on? I thought you had a carriage to yourself." Caroline whispered. "Elijah was riding with me, but I guess he switched." Rebekah told her. Caroline was going to leave but then the guardsmen came up and shut the carriage door. And just as the rain started to come down, she thought. Yes. This is going to be a long ride home. - and it was a long ride, but after a while they all seem to drift off into a quiet nap. Caroline woke up suddenly when she had a Dream that she always use to have as a child. It was of the day she walked outside and seen her mother's bloody, lifeless body on the ground. When she jumped up, Rebekah did as well, seeing as she had fallen asleep on Caroline's shoulder. "Oh. Sorry." Bekah said. "That's alright." Caroline sat up and sighed. "Why did you ask me to ride home with you?" She asked her. "Because I wanted to know your reason for accepting my brother's hand." Rebekah said. Caroline looked up at her. "You're not planing on killing him somehow, are you?"

"No. Well, not yet at least. I accepted because when I look out into that crowd and didn't see my father's face, I knew I had no one and no where to go..."

"Oh. I guess I shouldn't have asked."

"That's okay. You had a question in mind and you wanted a answer."

"Well I have another question."

"Go on."

"....do you honestly think he actually did it? Nik? You really think he killed your mother? Honestly?" Rebekah asked her. Caroline was thrown off with this question. Really thrown off. She couldn't believe Rebekah actually asked it. The carriage slowed and then came to a halt. And before she could give her an answer, one of the guards came to open the side door and said "we've have arrived home, your Highness." - what they thought to be a passing rain shower, turned into a hard thunder storm. Once the carriages stopped, everyone jumped out, rushed to the gates, though the courtyard and into the castle. "3 hours of work on my hair for it to be ruined in a 30 second sprint to the flat." Lexi remarked. Selena made some type of disgusted sound as she passed harry, who, in return, ran after her as she stormed off to her room. With maids waiting at the door for them, everyone retreated to their rooms to change out of they're wet clothes. One of the older maid, by the name of Lisa, was going to take Niklaus upstairs to help him change, but something stopped them. Or someone. "Excuse me, Lisa? Before you leave, i was wondering if could I talk to Niklaus for a moment?" Caroline asked. Lisa made a funny face. "I know, I'm the last person you'd expect to want to talk to him, but could we have a moment alone please?" Caroline asked again. "No its not that, it's just she can't understand what you're saying. She only speaks German." Niklaus told her. Instead of trying to remember the little German she did know, that Jenna taught her, Caroline just grabbed Nik's arm pull him down the stairs. She took him to the kitchen, by the back patio, out of everyone's view. "Okay. If you're gonna try to drown me in the river out back, then tough luck. I can't die from water." He guess with a smile. But she was everything but smiling. "Listen to me, and You get this though your head right now. The one and only reason I said yes to you was because if I didn't, you would have just went out and found Some other poor, innocent soul to do it. And I wouldn't wish this horrible life, that you call "living", on anyone. Not even my worst enemy. so Dont think for one second that i did it for you!" She finished. She turned away from him and was going up the stairs, that were in the kitchen, when he stopped her. "You know, a while ago I would have believe that. But now? I'm not so sure." He stated, walking slowly away from her. She came back down the stairs rather quickly.