By the time Hope is an adult, Earth has transformed. The world's population is dying from a deadly virus and Hope simply wants to find a way to rebuild her life. Then she meets a mysterious blonde vampire from her father's past: Caroline. Can they work together to build a future worth fighting for? Dystopian/Future AU; post season finales. Shameless Klaroline fic, not Hope-centric!

In a society where vampire allegiance is worn openly on their skin, Caroline Forbes is anomaly. She woke from transition marked by a single triangle. For six decades, she's hid. Klaus Mikaelson's sudden appearance bodes well for no one. For Klaus has spent five hundred years burying the truth of his curse, given as bloody vengeance for the death of Katerina. Klaus has a soulmate.

'She doesn't know why, but she needs him to look at her. She needs him to see it, her lack of remorse, the power which courses through her at the sight of his pain. In a way, it excites her.' Post 6x17-snow-scene AU. Bonnie stabs Kai, but doesn't leave him in 1903. Internal conflict, angst and a particular brand of hunger ensue.