#[ caroline forbes ft. storias ]

[fightforbetter]

Despite the precautions they took, she has a recurring nightmare of the police turning up to arrest them for the deaths of their husbands. Taking her and @storias away from the girls, leaving them parentless — and it would be all their own fault. They stole their daughters' fathers from them, and now ...

Gasping awake, sweat soaking her skin and sticking to the bedsheets, she's disoriented for a long minute or so, half-convinced someone is rapping at the door. Caroline's presence beside her registers then, as the familiar words of the lullaby they sing to the girls ( it's an old Norse song that Elijah sang to Hope as a baby, then Klaus to the twins; the thought hurts ) filter in through the terror.

❛ I'm okay. I'm okay, ❜ she hears herself repeating, in spite of the evidence to the contrary.

[savagevillain]

@storias / a kiss while one or both parties are crying for 🎲 meme.

HIS INTENTION HADN'T BEEN TO MAKE HER CRY, or even to upset her as a matter of fact. He doesn't precisely know what she's crying about. He hadn't realized that his absences were affecting her that much. But didn't she realize that he was busy at work? Running businesses isn't the kind of thing he can just waltz out of at the end of the day, some standard 9-5 job; he's working non-stop to earn them the life ( the designer clothes, the big house, the fancy cars ) that she's living.

Striding towards Caroline, he reaches out to cup her face between his palms. ❛ Hey, hey, love. Why are you crying? I'll be here more often, I give you my word. ❜ He runs his thumb across the tender skin below each of her eyes, an attempt soothing her, despite how irrational he feels she's being right now. ❛ I'll make time for us. ❜ He presses his lips against her cheek, tasting the salt of her tears; trails up and over to kiss them all gently away before lingering on her lips.

[savagevillain]

❛ i’ll be so quiet, i’ll never talk again. ❜ caroooooline

Frustration spikes with the level of sarcasm his fiancée grants him, but his only expression of it is a mostly-concealed glower. For the moment at least. He's ... nervous about this meeting with his brother, sister-in-law and niece ( daughter ); but as it has been pointed out to him, he can hardly marry a woman and not introduce her to the rest of his family. If only he trusted that no one would try to ruin this for him ... if Hayley even implies —

She wouldn't, he assures himself whilst turning the car into Elijah's driveway. She may resent him for the events surrounding Hope's birth but she would not so blatantly speak of it at the dinner table, where her ( their ) daughter can hear. In this house, he is and always will be "Uncle Niklaus". She will not betray him in front of Caroline. She wouldn't, he tries to calm himself as he cuts off the engine.

Taking a deep breath, he sinks back in the seat and stares out the windshield, at the house Elijah and Hayley have made for themselves and Hope. ❛ I'm not asking you not to talk, I just ... ❜ He exhales, long and deep. ❛ My relationship with my brother and his wife is ... strained. ❜ Turning his head, ensuring his expression will not give him away; reaching out his hand, he takes hold of hers, intwining their fingers. ❛ I don't want you caught in the middle of it. ❜