Above It All " SEQUEL TO ABOVE ALL ELSE "

Chapter 2

They rolled their eyes at Kol's antics yet still followed him off to the bar to order their first drinks of the evening. Once each had a glass in hand, Kol lifted his up, "To you on your birthday my tyrant brother. Let the blood flow gently, let the enjoyment be plentiful and may your evening end with the ceremony of ripping that seductive dress off your lovely lady."

Rebekah scoffed as Klaus eyed his brother in anger but Caroline's tinkling laughter, "Here! Here!" gave them both pause.

Rebekah simply shrugged her shoulder's, "Happy Birthday Nik."

After downing the drink Klaus licked his lips, tasting the blood mixed in with the alcohol. Turning a quizzical eye to his lady love, "Blood spiked drinks?"

Caroline shrugged her shoulders, "Well you are a hybrid and it is your birthday."

"Oh come on sweet Caroline." Kol purred teasingly, "Tell our dear brother what we talked his saintly Lady into for his birthday."

Caroline nibbled on her lower lip as Klaus stepped in closer, "Just what is his speaking of?" His narrowed eyes glanced condemningly towards his siblings as his mind swirled with random thoughts of birthday's past with his family. They could have talked her into anything and from all their past birthday activities there were not many he could conjure up that would not leave Caroline in a state of upset, "They did not pressure you into something, did they?"

Caroline glanced quickly to Rebekah, who took it as her cue to latch onto a gleeful Kol and drag him away as he protested, "I want to see this part sister! Unhand me! I've waited all night for this moment." Give the couple a chance to speak alone.

Making herself busy, and giving herself a few moments to gather her thoughts and how to tell him what they had planned underneath the party's exterior, she flagged down the bartender for a refill of their drinks.

Klaus tapped his foot as he watched her. His eyes narrowing at the busy work she was giving herself, "Well Caroline. I am waiting. I understand that you want this day to be special for me, but I will not have you involved in anything that goes against your own morals or judgement. If something less than savory is afoot then..."

"No. Nothing as bad as you are thinking." She cut him off before he got too upset, "And it's nothing I don't agree with per se," She added with pinched lips, "I can promise you that it does come with conditions and every vampire in attendance has agreed on point of death."

Her silence was doing nothing to calm his steadily rising temper, "Where the White Oak has failed, the suspense is winning out. Tell me Caroline." He demanded.

"God you're so pushy you know that?" She huffed sassily.

"Pot, kettle. I believe we've covered this ground plenty of times before." He pointed a finger between the two of them before pointedly lifting his eyebrow as if to say, I'm waiting.

"Okay fine. So, see all the humans that are here?" She waved her hand around the pack club before pulling her hand back in to fiddle her fingers together once he nodded, "Well they have all been compelled to not feel pain, to not remember a thing about tonight other than they had a kick ass time at a VIP party here at Inhibitions, and then to spend the next few days at home where they will be safe from any...accidents."

Klaus stood staring at her in a sort of shock, his eyes large and his mouth hanging open causing Caroline to giggle, "Looks like point one for me." At his confused look she smiled brightly, "I pulled one over on you already!"

"So," He said slowly as the ramifications of just what she had orchestrated with his siblings set in, "the conditions?"

"No killing obviously. And the humans and the vampires all have a different drinking menu. Vampire's drinks have the option of being spiked with human blood and the human's drinks are all spiked with just a drop of vampire blood for healing. They've all been pre-compelled." Her forehead wrinkled, "Pre-compelled? Is that even a word?" She shook her head, "Doesn't matter. Anyways, there is no need to compel them again all you have to do is ask or bite."