The Enigma: A Klaus Mikaelson Love Story {1}

Chapter 24: Lovely To Me

~Klaus POV~

Klaus walked to the front of the Lockwood Mansion where he saw Caroline hounding down people, clipboard in hand. He smiled, suddenly understanding the appeal of the blonde.

"What are you doing here?" She asked him not even turning to look back at him. "If it's to see Fiore, you can't so shoo."

"I actually came to ask for help." He said walking up to her.

"Well as you can see, I'm busy so it'll have to wait" She said still delegating tasks while talking to him.

"I need you to be my date tomorrow." He asked her.

"Oh in that case, I can help easily—no" She said walking away from him but Klaus followed, he had an agenda, one that just happened to be in alignment with hers.

"Sorry sweetheart, that's just not good enough" he said cutting her off and snatching her clipboard from her. "Look, I know you've been working behind the scenes to get me and Fiore together, it's one of the reasons you're still here, but the thing is, your tactics aren't working, so I want to takeover. That means making her jealous and seeing as you've just gotten rid of Tyler, I figure you need a date anyway." He told her with a casual shrug.

"Fine" she said hesitating before answering. "Only because you and Fiore are crazy people that only respond to weird love mind games." She took the clipboard back from him and started to walk into the mansion. "Meet me here at 2, black tie"

"See you tomorrow" Klaus said walking away from her, satisfied he had completed phase 1 of his mission. He was going to get Fiore back, no matter what it took.

~Fiore POV~

"Red or blue?" I asked Caroline and Elena as I held up two dresses for them to choose from. I was going to win this bloody pageant by fire or by force. Literally if needs be.

"Blue." Caroline and Elena said in unison.

"Really?" I pouted. "Blue is so boring and safe." I said referring to the plain blue dress.

"Honestly, safe is good when it comes to the judges." Elena assured me.

"It's up to you, do you want to win or do you want to be Gracie Lockwood who had a three foot slit and practically got laughed off the stage?" Caroline asked, her competitive side kicking in.

Elena laughed until Damon opened the door and her heart literally skipped a beat. What the hell was going on there?

"You've got my vote." Damon said to me, whilst looking at Elena. I didn't know what was going on but it was intense.

Caroline threw something at him and it him square in the chest. Not that it was ever in doubt but Caroline is 110% Team Stefan.

"Get out of here, you creep." She said, scowling at him.

"Ouch, I'm so hurt." Damon said sarcastically. Elena laughed really hard, so hard it was unsettling. "I'm looking for the Professor." He told us.

"Judges table, bye now." Caroline said as she started to close the door on him, but he resisted.

"Oh and Fiore, red one, definitely." He said, choosing my favourite dress by far. The red one was more me, it was bold and stood out.

"Shame we already agreed that the red one was too flashy." The blonde, said crossing her arms.

"That's the whole point of a pageant." He said, rolling his eyes at her.

"I'm sorry, I forgot you won Miss Mystic Falls last year, oh wait you didn't, that was me." She spat.