Chapter one

It was a Friday evening and instead of being out with her friends for a girls night or at home with her son, Caroline was stranded in the office with a stack of queries to see too before she could leave. Her boss Giuseppe Salvatore was a business mogul who ran two advertising companies. One in Mystic Hill and the other in Italy, he was considered an advertising genius and rumour had it he would soon be publishing his very first magazine which would feature all the latest news on Italy.

Caroline Forbes was a twenty four year old with big aspirations. And one of them was to leave Mystic Hill with her son, Levi and be a journalist in Italy. It had been her dream since she was sixteen years old. She would have been their sooner but due to a bumpy start in life she got sidetracked with her dreams. The person responsible for her little side track was Niklaus Mikaelson. Resident bad boy slash aspiring artist, her ex fiancé and Levi's father. Caroline glanced at the only photo frame she had on her desk. A tuff of dirty blonde curls dimples and a huge toothless grin greeted her.

Levi looked the splitting image of his father; he had only inherited her blue eyes and nose. Other than that he was Klaus's child through and through. Caroline had graduated high school with top honours and was even valedictorian. Her mother, whose sheriff of Mystic Falls was so proud of her only daughter that she rewarded Caroline by flying her out to London before she started college. It was there in London, in a bar that she met Klaus. His brother Kol was singing in a band at the time and Klaus was out supporting his younger brother. Caroline had locked eyes with the curled devil and next thing she was under the sheets with him. Her last few weeks in London were whirlwind, touring bars, kissing on the grass, doing shots and spending most of her days in bed with her British love. When it was time for her to leave Klaus had followed her back to Mystic Falls and that's when things got complicated.

Liz, Caroline's mother was not pleased with her daughter's companion and was even more pissed off when Caroline decided to move to Mystic Hill, the big bad city with her big bad boyfriend. They had rented a small apartment in the not so pleasant part of town. Caroline tried to keep up with Klaus's rock and roll lifestyle and in turn she neglected her studies and soon was kicked out of college. She got a temp job working as a waitress so she worked late hours , so one evening when her shift ended earlier than she expected she had walked in on Klaus banging his so called mate's girl. Caroline had been on the brink of leaving but he had flashed those big blue eyes and begged her to forgive him. Like a sucker she had forgiven him and on her twentieth birthday she had taken a pregnancy test and discovered that she was pregnant. Klaus had been overjoyed and soon afterwards he proposed to her.

When Levi was born, Caroline was scared to death of the responsibility that now faced her. When she had looked at his beautiful porcelain skin she knew she would do anything for him. So when Klaus lost his job as manager at a bar, cheated on her several more times, Caroline finally got the nerve to pack up her things and leave. Liz pulled some strings for Caroline and got her a job as a receptionist at Mystic Hill police station. Caroline started studying again and was able to finish her course and pay for a small enough place where she could raise Levi. She had been determined to get a good job, so when a position had opened at Salvatore Promotions; Caroline jumped for the position and was soon P.A for Giuseppe Salvatore himself.

"Caroline, What on earth are you doing here at this time?" Caroline startled as she looked away from Levi's face and into Giuseppe's kind face.

"Mr Salvatore I didn't see you there. Um I've still got all these queries to go through on the new ad for Nike." Caroline patted the pile next to her.

"Caroline it's eleven in the evening. I don't expect you to put in those hours. Heck I'm bushed and I only got in the office after one this afternoon." Giuseppe smiled fondly down at the blonde haired girl.

Caroline really loved Mr Salvatore he was like the father she never had. For a man that worked as hard as he did he always treated his employees like they were family.

"Well you work very hard sir, no wonder you're exhausted."

Giuseppe raised an eyebrow.

"I'm not the one that is here at seven in the morning, working overtime and raising a four year old my own Miss Forbes." He said knowingly.

Caroline just shifted her shoulders up. He knew she was hardworking and that she was a woman with great goals.

"How is Levi by the way? He settled into kindergarten?"

Caroline laughed.

"Levi would just love to be with his grandma arresting bad guys than at school. He's alright I think, just adjusting still." Caroline smiled fondly as she looked back at his photo.

"My boys were both handfuls at that age. Damon was hanging kids by their underwear from a tree and Stefan broke about seven windows at his school because he refused to listen and insisted on playing with a ball inside." Giuseppe laughed.

She could imagine Damon being the big bully at school. Caroline had met Damon, and it was at the Christmas office party last year where she walked in on him with a leggy brunette on his dad's work desk. He had asked her if she cared to join them, Caroline had promptly given him the middle finger and stormed off leaving Giuseppe's work on her desk rather than his. He was very well known for sleeping with his father's employees. Damon was second in command in Italy and was training up to take the business over there in Italy. Personally she thought he was a pig and secondly she was always pleased when Giuseppe would reprimand his oldest son, especially when he would call Caroline Blondie when he phoned to speak to his father. She had never met the younger son, Stefan. He never once phoned his father in the two years she had worked there and Giuseppe rarely spoke about his youngest son. Office gossip insisted that it had to do with Stefan not being interested in working for the family business.

"Talking about my sons, has Damon send the finances through from Italy?"

"Yip he emailed it and I send it through to the accountant." Caroline answered promptly. She was a perfectionist and always made sure her I's were dotted.

"Excellent. Now go home. Enjoy your weekend, Caroline." Giuseppe smiled.

"Yes sir. Good evening." Caroline smiled as she stood up from her desk.

Giuseppe was about to leave before he stopped and turned,

"Oh and Caroline leave those queries on your desk no need to take them home this weekend."

Caroline smirked as the older man winked at her. Damn he knew her to well. She had been planning on taking them home so she could finish them. Oh well she would enjoy her weekend for a change. Levi was with her this weekend, Klaus only had him every second week depending on whether he had any events planned at his art gallery called Hybrid Art Studios.

Caroline flexed her shoulders and arms. She was stiff all over and she wasn't looking forward to the twenty minute drive to Mystic Falls. Caroline always stayed over the Friday evening at Liz's place. It gave her some time to spend with her mom and it also helped if Caroline needed to work late in the evening then Liz would be able to look after Levi. Caroline packed her laptop away, arranged her desk and switched off all the lights in the office compartment before she headed off towards the elevators.

Caroline was stifling a yawn as she waited for the elevator. She undid the first two buttons of her office work shirt and unclipped her hair. She ran a hand and tussled her blonde curls loose. She hated wearing her hair up but Levi had been fussy that morning so she hadn't had time to wash her hair. The elevator doors pinged at their arrival , Caroline reached down for her laptop bag and looked up and was left gobsmacked at the forest green eyes that were looking at were with such intensity that she swore it burned to her core.

" Hi I'm looking for Giuseppe Salvatore?" The handsome stranger spoke as he looked at Caroline bemused.

Caroline gulped before answering.

"He's not here. Who are you?"

"I'm Stefan Salvatore his bastard son and you must be Blondie?"

AN: So I'm back and with a new story. This idea was just bubbling around in my head and it begged to be written. So i hope you guys can bare with me and that you'll like this story. As with regards to Problematic Situation , i'm in the process of writing the next chapters. I will be publishing them but at a later stage perhaps around April? Anyways hope you enjoy and look out for the next chapter which should be up latest Friday :)