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The Plan

Her eye was twitching. Again. Eye twitching was an indication of stress. Caroline closed her eyes and pressed her fingers to the eye that was twitching in effort to stop. Maybe if she pressed hard enough she could stab her brain with her fingers and put herself out of this misery.

As if he knew what she was thinking she felt Stefan��s hand on her arm. She could feel the concern emanating from him in waves. It was nice to think he was concerned enough to stop her from stabbing herself in the eye, but she was pretty sure he was looking to restrain her should she make a lunge for his brother. As Damon was the usually main source of most of her stress which was a direct result of being in miserable situations that he was usually the cause of.

“Blondie, are you paying attention?”

Caroline opened the the eye that wasn’t twitching to glare at Damon.

“As fun as it would be to play one eye’d pirates with you, we don’t really have the time.”

Seriously was silently but clearly expressed with the tilt of her head and the accompanying glare.

Damon’s glacial blue eyes widened to say that yes, he was serious about not having the time as Caroline felt Stefan’s hand curl around her arm thus confirming that he was trying to restrain her from hurting Damon and not herself.

“Now, as I was saying, since a certain Barbie wasn’t listening, after we crash the Mikelson ball bash, we track down the Big Bad and get him into the library.”

“Damon, we should just talk to him in the ballroom, where he is less likely to tear us to shreds in front of the entire town.” Caroline said as she dropped her hand from her eye and gave Stefan a reassuring look that she wasn’t going to murder his brother. At least not right at that moment.

“He wouldn’t tear us to shreds.”

“Uhhh, hello? We are only going to ask to borrow his moon stone and some of his blood so we can save your psychotic girlfriend Katherine that Klaus has made it his life goal to murder in a really super specific way. How is he not going to want to murder us as well when we ask him for his help?”

“AND” Caroline said, holding up her hand to keep Damon from responding until she was finished.

“AND” she repeated ”what makes you even think he is going to want to help us?”

“Yeah, Damon. You haven’t even told us how you are going to get him to want to help us.” Stefan asked, his dark brows pulling together in concern as his hand dropped away from Caroline’s arm.

“Oh ye of little faith. I know exactly the thing to get the Big Bad to help us.”

Caroline and Stefan waited for Damon to continue, the silence lengthening to the point that they both realized Damon wasn’t going to say anything more.

Stefan threw out his hands as his eyebrows went up as he spoke. “Well?”

Damon smirked as he spoke. “First, he is going to want to help because he wants to kill Katherine himself. Can’t do that if she is already dead. Second, we are going to promise him a date with Blondie.”

“Are you out of your mind?!” Caroline screeched as she came off the couch and lunged for Damon.

As quick as Caroline was, she was still a baby vampire. Stefan was up and off the couch and in front of Caroline before she could grab Damon. Honestly, with what Damon said, Stefan was willing to let Caroline throw Damon around. It was well worth the risk of damaging the antiques in the Salvatore living room.

Damon jumped back and held his hands out ready to defend himself in case Caroline managed to slip past Stefan. She already managed to kick the shit out of him twice. He wasn’t looking to give her a chance at a third time.

“Calm down, Barbie. It’s just a date. Take him to a movie, sit in different rows. It will be fine. I’ve done it plenty of times.”

Both Caroline and Stefan stopped struggling to look at Damon, both of them nonplussed at what he had just said.

“What?” Caroline said with her brows drawn together, and Stefan echoing his own “What?” at his brother’s statement.

Damon dropped his hands and shrugged. “I mean they didn’t necessarily know we were on a date together. And I did eat them after the movie was over”

Stefan sighed with resignation as he let go of Caroline to rub his forehead from the sudden headache that he always seemed to get when he was with his brother.

Caroline went from dumbfounded back to mad in the time it took her to take a breath. “That’s not a date you creeper. That’s called stalking and murder!”

“Stalking. Murder. Date. Whatever.” Damon said with another shrug as he turned to go to the sidebar to pour himself a drink.

“God! No wonder you and Katherine are together.”

“Love is love is love.” Damon said as he lifted his glass in a mock toast before downing the contents.

“Ugh.” Caroline said as she turned and collapsed back on to the sofa.

“So back to the plan.” Damon said as he refilled his drink.

“Why does it have to be a date?” Caroline groaned as she went back to glaring at Damon.

“Because he likes you.”

“Ugghh.” Caroline groaned at the reminder of the original hybrid’s crush on her. “And why am I helping you again?”

“Because you care about me enough that you don’t want me to be parted from my true love for eternity.”

Caroline’s eyes rolled so hard she was sure they were going to pop out of her head.

“Ok, because Stefan cares about me enough that he doesn't want me to be parted from my true love for eternity. And you care about Stefan enough to help him help me.” Damon amended as he took a slip from his freshly refilled glass.

Stefan looked up, his green eyes meeting Caroline’s in a silent apology. As much chaos that Damon had caused in his life over the years, he still loved his brother and truly did want to see him happy.

Caroline let out a resigned sigh and gave her best friend a slight smile, letting him know that it was ok. If anyone could understand how complicated families could be, it was her.

Caroline sighed again and sat up straight, her eyes moving back to Damon as she begrudgingly said “Ok, back to the plan.”

XxX

“I never should have agreed to this plan.” Caroline muttered as she arrived arm and arm with both Damon and Stefan to the Mikaelson ball.

The Salvatore brothers were both dressed in black tuxes, looking even more insanely handsome than usual.

Caroline made the perfect counterpoint to their black suits, dressed in a strapless cream tulle and silk gown with an intricate beaded pearl and gem overlay that made her feel like a princess.

The dress was a gift from him. But she wasn’t going to think about that because it made her absolutely livid that the gown was absolutely exquisite and a million times more beautiful than anything she could find to wear.

“It’s a great plan. Just shine your inner disco light bulb or whatever it is he said he liked about you and it will be fine.”

“That was private when I told Stefan that.” Caroline ground out as they pushed through the entryway to the ballroom that was awash with flowers and music.

“I’m a vampire, remember? Plus it’s not like you are quiet when you come over to share your life story with my baby bro.”

Caroline felt her eye twitch.

“Come on, Barbie. Let’s go get you liquored up so you don’t chicken out on the plan.” Damon says as he pulls Caroline to the bar.

XxX

They were dancing. This was the plan. It changed from cornering him in the library, to cornering him in the ballroom to her dancing with him because she would have his undivided attention. Plus the fact he had sent her a gown to wear for the ball that looked like it came from the princess of Monaco’s closet tipped the whole Caroline presenting their offer to Klaus while dancing together heavily in that direction.

“So, umm you remember Katherine right?” Caroline asked as she tried to give him a smile that ended up mostly just her baring her teeth.

Klaus' face instantly shifted from pleasure at having Caroline in his arms to angry suspicion. “What about her?”

Caroline tried to keep from tensing up, he really was scary when he was angry, but damned if she would let him know that he made her afraid.

“Well, remember last week when you were yelling at all of us and ranting about how you were going to kill Katherine in that really super specific way?”

“I wasn’t yelling, love. I was being emphatic.”

“Sure. Emphatic.” Caroline nodded as Klaus swept her in a slow spin around the ballroom floor. “But seriously, you were yelling.”

Klaus opened his mouth to argue the point but was cut off when Caroline rushed in . “Anyway, about Katherine.”

“Ah, yes, Katherine. The Katherine who I promised to hunt down and kill everyone she knows and loves and then spend the next century torturing her in every way imaginable before putting her in a safe and dropping her in the lake where she will spend eternity drowning to death? That Katherine?” Klaus said with a flourish of pleasure at the suffering he would inflict on the vampire who had earned his ire.

Caroline winced as she nodded her head. “Yeah, that Katherine.”

“What about her?” The pleasure on his face at the thought of torture once again shifting back to angry suspicion at where this conversation was going.

“Well, so she kind of had a run in with a group of werewolves who were super pissed about you moving into town and were looking to eat some vampires. You know to send a message about how they were not going to bend to the hybrid.” Caroline said with a roll of her eyes. “I mean, why not just confront you head on? It’s the behavior of bullies, is what it is. Always looking to find a stand in to take their anger out on instead of addressing the real problem. As president of student council, I totally started this amazing anti bullying campaign tha -“

“Caroline, love.” Klaus interrupted with exasperation but couldn’t keep a bemused smile off his face. “You are straying from the point.”

“Right. The point.” Caroline said as she pulled herself back from the details of her anti bullying campaign as she brushed a bit a lint off of his tux before resting her hand back on his shoulder as they took another turn around the dance floor. “So, werewolves wanted to send you a message. And Katherine being her usual trouble finding self became their target. Although knowing her she was probably trying to scam them or being her usual dick self because it is super suspicious that she was the nearest vampire when they decided to send a message.”

Klaus opened his mouth to once again ask her to get to the point, but Caroline raised her eyebrows giving him a look that she was getting to the point and he closed his mouth once more. Although he couldn’t help the admiration he felt for her at how she was so much herself with him. Most who truly knew what he was cowered before him. Or were sniveling sycophants who only said what they thought he wanted to hear. Which was all quite enjoyable, but it was nice to have a change of pace. Especially a change of pace as beautiful and bright as Caroline.

“Katherine was bitten. And not only did she get bitten, she ended up in the cave that is spelled that any supernatural being that goes in can’t get back out, because she ran in there to keep them from ripping her apart.”

Klaus smiled at the thought of a not only suffering and dying Katherine, but a trapped one as well. “A more wonderful thing could not have happened to a more deserving woman. But I don’t understand what this has anything to do with me.”

Caroline took a breath and gave him her best campaigning Miss Mystic Falls smile. “Well we were hoping you would give us some of your blood to heal her and let us borrow the moon stone to get her out of the caves.”

Klaus came to a stop on the dance floor, his face blank for a moment before breaking into rolling laughter. Caroline blushed with embarrassment as couples on the dance floor gave them dirty looks as they skirted around the standstill couple that was interrupting the flow of the dance floor. “It’s not funny, Klaus.” Caroline gritted out as she took the lead and got them dancing once more. Her frustration with Klaus climbed even higher as she felt her eye start twitching again.

“Oh, but it is, love. So very funny.” Klaus said between bouts of laughter. Caroline felt herself turn even redder as it seemed they caught the Original family’s attention, as she could see Rebeka, Elija and Finn looking towards the couple with curious expressions on their faces as to what could cause their brother to be laughing so freely.

“Will you stop laughing.” Caroline hissed as she gave the passing couples her everything was fine and under control smile that she used when an event had gone off the rails.

Klaus laughter eased into a wide grin as he took his hand from her waist to wipe the tears of laughter from his eyes. Despite her annoyance with Klaus, Caroline couldn’t help the jump in her stomach at how handsome he was. His dimples seem to get her every damn time.

As Klaus’ hand returned to the curve of her waist he took control once more of their dance, smoothly taking the lead as he danced across the floor with her. The cream skirts of her dress twirling around her legs and his with each turn across the floor.

“Thank you, sweetheart. I haven’t laughed like that in ages.” Klaus said with a grin still plastered across his face.

“I didn’t tell you that to be funny!” Caroline gritted out trying to keep her voice low since the both of them had come to the attention of the whole room.

“Now why would I want to help Katherine when I very much want her dead?” Klaus said, finally letting go of his humor and getting down to business.

Caroline took a deep breath, her shoulders going back as she presented the facts to Klaus as per ‘the plan’.

“Ok, the first reason is that super specific death you had planned for Katherine. I mean dying of a werewolf bite is like what a week? When you planned to toture her for at least 100 years and then have her die over and over again for the rest of eternity.” Caroline said with arched brows. “AND you and I both know that suffering for a week and then dying is too easy of a death compared to what a dick she has been for like the last 2 years at least.”

Klaus gave a slight nod of acknowledgement to her first point.

“Although Damon has been just as bad if not worse for the last 4 years.” A frown pulled at her lips as she thought about it. “I mean seriously. What is it about vampires that makes them want to terrorize random people that they don’t even know for no reason whatsoever? I mean if you are going to terrorize, at least have a point. I mean Katherine and Damon do it to just be assholes.”

Caroline’s voice got a little louder, as she warmed to the subject. “I mean at least you were terrorizing because you wanted to become a hybrid. There was an actual point to your terrorizing.”

Pursing her lips she did concede “Although there were times you were just terrorizing just to be a dick. But you did it to Damon for the most part - so that was totally justified.”

Klaus’ bemused smile was back as he gazed at the rambling beauty before him. “It’s good to know that at least some of my terror was justified.”

Elijah swept by the two of them, the mayor his partner for the dance. He met his brother’s eyes for a moment, amusement evident on his face at the thought of his brother’s terror on the human and supernatural population having a point.

Stefan was dancing beside them and caught Caroline’s eye, sending her a silent message to get on with the conversation.

“You’re still a dramatic megalomaniac who does occasionally terrorize for no reason other than to be a giant dick.”

Klaus smirked, still too amused to take any offense at her assessment of his character.

Caroline chaisted herself for saying that. Calling him out for what he is wasn’t going to endear him to helping Katherine.

Caroline felt stupidly nervous to state the second reason Klaus should help them. Plus it really ate at her that she was finally giving Klaus something he had been hounding her about for weeks. She had planned on holding out on him for the rest of eternity.

“And the second reason to help is that I am willing to go on a date with you.”

Klaus stumbled to a stop this time, a disbelieving shock crossing his handsome face.

“You’ll what?”

Caroline flushed again as a couple ran into the back of her since they were once again blocking the flow of the dance. Caroline gave them a quick sorry before she pulled Klaus into moving again, once again taking the lead as she thought that maybe Damon was right and this conversation should have happened in the library. Her eye started twitching again when she thought of Damon being right about anything.

“I said I’ll go on a date with you if you help us with Katherine.” Caroline gritted out, her ego feeling the stress of having to repeat it.

“Like to a movie where we sit like three rows apart.” Caroline added quickly.

Klaus having seemed to have gotten over his shock smiled with elation at having Caroline finally agree to go on a date with him. A happy grin once more dominating his face.

“I would hardly call that a date, sweetheart.”

“So you wouldn’t call it a date going to the movies with a girl who doesn't know you are there and then eating her after the movie is over?” Caroline asked suspiciously.

Klaus lost the happy grin as and it was replaced with a confused look at the question and slowly shook his head no.

Stefan of course is still dancing beside them and gives her a look over Klaus’ shoulder that he can’t believe she asked him that.

She throws him a look back silently telling him that of course she had to ask him that.

Before he can ask about the movie thing the song is over and Caroline moves out of his arms, wraps her hand in his and drags him to the side of the dance floor.

Once Caroline has him where she wants him she lets go of his hand, puts her hands on her hips and gives him an expectant look. “Well?”

“I don’t understand the question about the movie date…” Klaus starts and Caroline quickly interrupts him.

“Not about that! I mean about Katherine.”

Klaus lets out a breath and runs his thumb over his bottom lip in thought.

“If you are truly serious about the date, then yes. I’ll agree to help Katherine.”

Caroline feels the nervousness that had been weighing against her chest lift and she can’t help but smile that the plan actually worked.

“I’m excited about our date too, sweetheart.” Klaus says with a smirk.

The smile falls from Caroline’s face and she grabs his arm and starts him out of the ballroom. “Come on. Let’s go get the moon stone and put your blood in a bottle before I change my mind.”

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