Their Anonymous Guardian Angel

Chapter 20 : Her Journey

Third Person POV-

Caroline sat in her living room waiting for Klaus to return with Hope and couldn't help but reflect on her life and how she finally got to New Orleans.

She finally finished college at Whitmore despite a little supernatural drama, but not detrimental enough to affect her and her friends like the past problems did. No one died which was strangely bizarre, but very welcome. After graduation, she persuaded Bonnie to go travelling with her. They toured the country first, purposely avoiding New Orleans. Due to the lack of contact and having too much fun discovering new things, they unintentionally cut ties with the Salvatore love triangle. Enzo ended up meeting up with them and the three became inseparable.

Enzo and Bonnie travelled solo for a few months at a time, her diving into her magical roots around the world like they did in America, and Enzo wanting to experience life outside of a cage and Damon. Caroline finally convinced her mother to go on holidays, but they always met up and toured the next country together, making a point to come back to Mystic Falls and spend Christmas with Caroline's mom. Liz practically adopted Enzo into the family along with Bonnie.

Caroline went back to college and majored in event management and business, and started up her own business, travelling to clients to plan parties and weddings and events. Bonnie always tagged along for the free holidays. The money helped her buy a few properties in her favourite cities and she usually rented them out for extra cash. She needed all the help she could to help foot her expensive taste in clothes.

The pair met up with Kol years ago and after interrogating him, they were finally convinced he wasn't going kill them for their stunts back home. They actually became great friends. When Enzo turned up, the four were unstoppable with the amount of fun they had. There was maybe some shared jail time, but that was mainly all the boys fault in the girls' eyes, even if sometimes it was Caroline's drunkenness teasing that led them in that particular direction. Kol never really mentioned his family, Klaus in particular and Caroline was glad. It was sort of a silent understanding between them.

It wasn't until they got extremely drunk three years ago that Kol spilled the beans about the birthday gifts Hope received each year and how it annoyed and excited them not knowing who they were from. Caroline was confused since she thought Klaus would have known they were from her and she told that to Kol. They both agreed to keep going with the secrecy, but she would have to show up one day eventually when she was ready. Kol loved riling Klaus up and being able to have one up one him.

Caroline was nervous to finally officially meet Klaus' daughter. She was kind of embarrassed that she never turned up for Hope's 18th birthday party last night due to her overwhelming nerves, and Bonnie made her go today. She was so excited while she was getting ready, but then her trusty insecurities got the best of her and she kept over thinking everything about how would Klaus even remember her? Would Hope like her? What would his family say? Would Hayley want to kill her? She threw the questions to the back of her mind and put her shoes on, trying to build her confidence to show up, but by the time her hand hit the crystal door knob, she froze.

Bonnie and Caroline had comforting chat afterwards while they snuggled on the sofa in their pyjamas eating ice-cream. Caroline spilled about all of her fears and it felt good to finally get everything out in the open. She knew Bonnie wouldn't judge her for falling for Klaus anymore, but she still had that tiny nagging doubt she would disown her. So much history had happened back in Mystic Falls, so she couldn't help but feel a tad nervous. But eventually, her friend's support and the fact that she knew all along about Caroline's feeling for the Hybrid helped her gain the confidence to leave the house and visit the Mikaelson family the next day.