Authors Note:So basically I just really liked to play around with the idea that Caroline is the Original and Nic is the baby vamp. This is what came of it. Please tell me any way that I can make the characters closer to their canon while still following my AU. Also the character Lukas is going to be the Klaus of this story, and Caroline is more like Rebekah. Niklaus and Rebekah's names have been changed to Nicholas (nick) and Rebecca for the purpose of this fic. If for any reason I get deleted you can find me on tumblr as sansa-stark. Or LJ also as AntigoneBlack

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(990)

A gasp of air floods into Caroline's lungs, dazed she looks around her home. There is blood on her hands, but why? Clutching onto her abdomen she sees the source of the blood. As she looks at the wound it starts to close… but what is going on? Lukas's arms wrap around her as he finds her in their home.

"Brother, what has happened?" she says barely above a whisper.

"We died, but we are alive, that's all I know," he told her, gathering her long blonde hair. He started to tie it with the ribbon that she had used earlier in the day and left on the table. All Caroline could feel was thirst. She was thirsty, but nothing seemed to satisfy her.

"Mother!" she cried when she saw her mother walk into their home. In her hands was the chalice that was only used in grand occasions. Esther brought it over to her children.

"Drink, drink it all," she told Caroline. Caroline did as she was told, drinking in the red liquid. She nearly spit it out when she realized what it was. Blood. Her mother's blood, but the thirst wanted more. So she took her fill and then Esther refilled the glass for her son.

(June 2009)

"What the hell, Elena?" Nick asked as he was being dragged further into the woods by his lifelong friend, Elena. He was in the middle of a great conversation that would become a hookup with a redhead named Emily if Elena hadn't so rudely interrupted.

Elena tilted her head at him, giving her patent 'you have got to be kidding me' face. "Emily has been with half the basketball team, I was saving you, really."

"But she hadn't been with the Football team yet! Fine, whatever, why did you bring me out here, because I am damn well sure it wasn't for the reason that Emily would have brought me out here for," Nick gave her a smile.

Elena rolled her eyes. "It's about Matt. He's always discussing the future and acts like we are going to be together forever. I don't want him making all his life plans based on me, you know? We are sixteen! I don't want to think about marriage and kids, I just want to be a teenager."

Nick listened, still a little frustrated that he was the one being dragged away from the party for girl talk. Wasn't this what she had Bonnie for? Sure he probably was the one with the best insight when it came to Matt, but still Emily Stevens was totally going to go home with him tonight and Elena spoiled that.

"Break up with him. If you see your future and he's not in it then you have a different plan than him. So you have to end it. He's going to be broken, but it will be better for everyone. Can I go now?"

"You are a jerk, but you give good advice. Go."

(1927)

Caroline was sitting in her favorite booth with her brother, drinking champagne and looking out at the crowd that was gathered in the speakeasy. All walks of life gathered in this underground club, and that made for some very crazy nights. From across the room she saw him enter, tall and broad shouldered with dark blonde hair. She smiled and got up from her place.

"Looks tasty, good choice darling," Lukas said with a smirk. Walking confidently across the bar she positioned herself to maximize his chances of noticing her. It worked almost instantly and a tap on her shoulder was the introduction she had been waiting for.

"May I have a dance?" the young man asked her.

Caroline turned around and looked surprised, as if she hadn't noticed the man at any point in the evening. She looked into his green eyes and gave him a half smile. "I don't know, why should you?" she asked flirtatiously.

His head tilted and he leaned in to whisper in her ear, "Because I'm a monster, and if you don't I might just have to eat you up."

Caroline closed her eyes at the feeling of his breath on her neck. Now she was interested in him, and for more than just a snack. She leaned in and whispered back to him, "Good, let's dance, monster."

Pulling him onto the dance floor she was glad to hear a slow blues like song start to be played by the band. He held her close and she pressed herself up against him, wondering just how much of his statement was true. "Do you have a name, monster?"

"Stefan," he told her flatly, as he twirled her again.

Caroline played with the name in her head and knew that this wasn't going to be the average affair.

(Present day)

Nick knew that it was never a good idea to go anywhere with Tyler Lockwood, and this was no different. What was left of the car was mangled he was barely able to get himself out of the car. Out of nowhere Tyler just stopped driving, swerving off the county road and into a pole. Walking alongside the car Nick worries about Matt, who was in the back seat. They were leaving the founder's day celebration, heading to the party after changing out of their period clothes before they crashed.

"Matt, Matt!" Nick yelled, trying to look for his best friend.

"Nick! Are you okay? I'm okay!" Matt's voice said from the other side of the highway.

And then he fell over.

"Damon, you didn't!" Elena said sternly from outside her friend's hospital room.

"He would have died, Elena. The injuries he had? There was no way that he would have made it," Damon explained. "Besides, it will heal him and be out of his system in 24 hours, and Nick will be none the wiser. I just saved your friend's life."

Elena sighed, knowing that he was telling her the truth. She took one last look at her friend before she left for the night.

Nick awoke when he heard the door open. He was starting to feel a lot better, it was like nothing had happened. He saw Elena walk into the room, but her hair was still in curls. "Elena?"

"Nick, I was so worried about you," she said with a smile, "I know it's late, but I had to see that you were okay. You should sleep, really."

Something was wrong about her voice. Elena would have been by much earlier than this, and would know that he woke up with loud noises. "You aren't Elena…"

Katherine grimaced and swiped the pillow from under his head. She covered his face, smothering him with the pillow. Although Nick was strong he was unable to overpower this woman and found himself having to give up, knowing that this was the end.

"Tell your friends the bitch is back," Katherine told him as he took his final breath.