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“ by all means be THAT person!” caroline nearly shouted before shaking her head. a brief laugh pushed through her thin lips as her light hues looked at the other girl. “ we need more of THOSE people, actually. i don’t think i’ve met anyone that’s had a choice in coming here, yet!”

“ oh they would definitely DESERVE it. i wouldn’t let just some random let me lose control. so i’d only need your backup if the person was needing a good ass kicking.”

caroline looked at the boy before nodding her head with a soft smile. “ klaus is a bit of a mixture of BOTH.” she spoke truthfully. she couldn’t bring herself to HATE klaus. she understood him, she understood that he was merely misunderstood. but she wished that there was a way to make him realize that he doesn’t need people to fear him to have POWER. “ but i wouldn’t worry about it too much.”

“ it has ? how come ? what’s getting in the way of having a good time in new york ?”

“ yeah ! i definitely do, seen it work a few times.”

“ i’m sorry to hear that ! but just know that somehow, someway it’ll get better. everyone got some sort of family problems.”

“ YES, you are.” caroline stood her ground as she looked at the other blonde. “ well, klaus should have known that it wouldn’t just be ME handling his child. & alaric wouldn’t hurt any one of those kids. she is perfectly SAFE there being taught & guarded by him just as she would be if i was there.”

“ i’m rather ADAPTED to klaus’ social graces, so there is certainly no need to apologize for him.” she returned with a nod. it would be a LIE if she claimed that now and then klaus’ anger && behaviour didn’t gnaw at her. but there wasn’t very much she could do about it. it wasn’t actually her RESPONIBLITY to attempt to solve it --- she didn’t even have the need to anymore. “ the town is more than reasonably fully informed by now.”

" i'm sorry to hear of that !! would you like to tell me about what's clouding your mind ?? i'm constantly up for being an understanding listener."

“ i’m going to take a guess && assume that it would be alaric looking after your niece && our daughters as well. you have no need to worry.” 

“ yeah, well who is TRULY fan of that kind of regard for others ?? pathetic, really.”

“ nice to know that at least you COMPLETELY got my back if i need to snap one night !!”

“ YEAH but don’t you want to make more friends ?? gotta at least learn how to FAKE being good with people until you don’t need to fake it anymore !!”

“ you’re currently in new york && you still haven’t been able to form an opinion about it ?? now, i’m just curious. why no opinion on the BIG APPLE ??”

“ a week or TWO, i think. --- not a hundred percent sure off the top of my mind.”