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Chapter 24

Caroline's POV

Kol calls Klaus and I walk back inside. Bonnie is sitting on the couch, just staring. I know something's  wrong. I don't know what my history is with Klaus.

Did we date or something? 

I sit down next to Bonnie and let the memories enter.

I enter a big ballroom in a beautiful blue dress and Klaus' approaches me.

"Good evening." He says. I just roll with my eyes, "I need a drink."

"I'm glad you came." He says while we dance."Well, it was either caviar or sympathy casseroles.""I heard about your father."

"Don't. Seriously." The memory of my dad is painful. 

"Very well. On to more mannered subjects then, like how ravishing you look in that dress." He smiles.

"I didn't really have time to shop." I try to play hard to get, I think it's working"The bracelet I gave you, what's your excuse for wearing that? You know, you're quite the dancer." "Well, I've had training. I happen to be Miss Mystic Falls.""I know."

So we did had a connection I guess. I look at Bonnie, still staring at the wall. I close my eyes.

"You like horses."

"I'm not talking to you until you tell me why you invited me here."

"I fancy you. Is that so hard to believe?"

"Yes."

"Why? You're beautiful, you're strong, you're full of light. I enjoy you."

"Well, I'm spoken for. By Tyler." I almost forgot about Tyler.

"I thought you two ended things."

"Yeah, because of you, and your freaky sire bond with him."  What's a sire bond?

"So, you aren't spoken for."

"You know, horses are the opposite of people. They're loyal. My father haunted me for a thousand years, and the closest he ever came was the day he killed my favorite horse. He...he severed his neck with a sword as a warning."

"Did you ever consider sitting down with you father and talking it out?""I'm afraid my relationship with my father was a little more complex than yours."

"Maybe so. But I let my father go with no regrets. And answer to your question, yes, I like horses, but I also like people, and they actually like me. So I'll be inside." And I walk away.

I have no idea why I was so hard on him. He's cute and we clearly have a history. I just wish I could remember it.

"We're going." Kol enters the room. Bonnie looks up but doesn't move.

"Where?" 

"Just go." Bonnie says,"You're in good hands, just go and he will explain."

I look her in the eye, full of doubt, but I stand. 

"Is anyone going to explain this?" I ask.

"Car. Now." Kol says impatient.

I walk after him while he takes Bonnie's car keys and walks outside. 

When we drive away he starts talking about me. 

He talks about the cure, about the pregnancy and about Klaus.

After two hours when he tells about how she was born my head hurts so bad. It's like there is someone inside me desperate to get out. 

But I keep an poker face. I need to know the whole story.

"Klaus thinks it's better to keep Rose away, to keep her save." Kol says and he looks at me. A tear streams down my face.

I remember.

I remember her blue eyes. I remember her tiny hands that softly hold a curl. I remember... darkness. I remember Klaus who holds my girl. I remember the pain in his eyes but not in his face. I remember daddy Klaus.

"Please don't cry Care," Kol says,"I'm bad in cry situations."

I manage to laugh a bit looking straight forward. I need to see her. 

I close my eyes. It feels like they are burning from all the tears that want to come out but I hold on.

After half a hour of silence Kol stops the car. I see another car standing still and I see a back. And a girl. 

Freya.

The moment Kol opens his door the back turns around. Klaus. I freeze, not wanting to go out of the car. I see Kol rolling with his eyes outside and opening the door for me.

"Is there anything more you need princess?" Kol asks and I just shake my head not coming out of my trance. 

"Is anyone going to answer me?" Kol says,"Nik? Freya?" 

Kol shakes his head rolling his eyes. "Caroline?"

I wake up stand up out of the car shaking my head like I've been sleeping. 

Then I run up to him and hug him tightly.

Klaus' POV

"It's okay love." I say into her hair. I hear her sobbing quietly and it breaks me. "Everything is going to be all right."

"How could I not know?" Caroline slowly lets go of me,"She is the thing I most care about how could I not remember?" 

"It's not you're fault love." I say wiping her tear away with my thumb.

"I need to see her." She says.

"You will." I say. I take her hand open the door of the car and lead her to the seat. I drive away leaving Kol and Freya behind. Not that I care. 

"How much do you remember love?" I ask

"Everything." She says shortly. I look behind me and see Kol following with Freya in the backseat.

"They, they wanted to take my baby.." She says obviously still confused.

"I wouldn't have let them." I say

"But I would! If you weren't there.." She says.

"Don't blame yourself for what happened, love." I say looking at her.

"How long?" She asks

"Couple more minutes." I say and I take her hand.

"I love you." She says.

"I love you too," I say,"Always and forever."