Break on Through

A/N: the song above totally reminds me of Lola and Klaus <3

Flashback, New Orleans - 1892:

It's been five years since Lola arrived in New Orleans and she was happy to be able to call this wonderful city her new home. At first she was staying in a hotel but that only lasted a month or so before the Mikaelson family insisted she lives with them, which she accepted.

For the first time in a long long time, Lola finally felt like she belonged somewhere. But there was the dark cloud in the back of my mind that was her brothers. After her argument with Damon when she left five years ago he hasn't reached out to her and Lola hasn't done the same. No word from Stefan either since the night they all turned into vampires.

There was a ball tonight that the Governor was hosting, mainly to just brown nose towards the Mikaelsons and to keep them happy in the city. It's a few hours away so Lola found comfort in sitting within the compound reading a book that Elijah gave her the other day, Jane Eyre.

Lola's peace and quiet doesn't last long until Rebekah appears out of no where, towering over Lola, "What on earth is wrong with you, Lola?"

Lola closes the book, looking up at Rebekah all nonchalant, "Well let's see, I was abused by my father, had a spell cast on me to hide who I truly am, currently not speaking to either of my brothers and to be quite honest," Lola leans forward in her seat, smirking, "I can get quite angry when I'm feeling peckish. Did I cover everything?"

Rebekah rolls her eyes as she takes Lola's book out of her hands, "I'm not talking about that! I'm talking about how for the first time in history I've seen my brother fall totally head over heels for someone and that someone doesn't feel the same way."

"Wow, she sounds horrible." Lola gasps, "Should we eat her?"

"I wouldn't do that, Lottie." Kol appears, sitting beside Lola with one arm on the back rest of the bench as he observes his nails on the other, "I've heard her blood is rather sour."

Lola tries to mask her giggle and sighs, "Oh, that's a shame."

"You're both idiots." Rebekah says unimpressed with the other two's humour, "It's been five years, Lola, when are you going to give Nik a chance?"

It was no secret that there was constant back and forth flirting between Lola and Klaus. In all honesty, Klaus has been crazy about her ever since she walked into their ball five years ago. Klaus has been careful about his feelings towards Lola, making sure he wasn't pushing her into anything as he heard from his sister that Lola has been hurt in the past.

Lola raises a brow as she narrows her eyes, "Why are you so desperate for this to happen?"

"I've never seen him like this before."

"Like what?"

"Oh you know," Kol starts in a dramatic tone, "Mixing his tears with paint for his art, staring out into the nights sky longing for your touch."

Rebekah throws the book at Kol, "Shut up, Kol."

"Why are you so bothered about our brother's relationships?" Kol questions as he stands up from his seat, "It's not like he wants to see you happy with a certain someone."

Rebekah sighs as she ponders on her brother's words for a moment, "Well despite everything he has done I don't want to be like him. Besides, Lola is my best friend and if I see someone so obviously in love with her then I want to see it through."

Kol claps his hands together, "Well good luck with that, I'm off to get ready for tonight."

Rebekah scoffs as she watches her brother walk upstairs, "How can a man take longer to get ready than a woman?" Rebekah takes the seat Kol had just sat in, without realising Lola's entire demeanour change, "The ball isn't for another 4 hours! He has such a sad little life."

Lola stares out in front of her, no longer with the sarcastic and dramatic attitude she had not two minutes ago, now looking sorrow, "You know what's sad? When you know someone is falling in love with you but you're sitting there afraid of falling for them because you're not prepared to get hurt again."

Rebekah frowns as she shifts slightly to face Lola better, "Is that what this is about? Nik won't hurt you like your ex did, Lola."

Lola shrugs, "Maybe not like that. But who's to say he won't hurt me in another way? He's hurt you, his own sister. Is there a reason why he's never truly been with someone since that girl you told me about not long after you turned?"

"It's because he has never really found someone he truly connects with." Rebekah laughs slightly, "Don't even for one second compare yourself to Aurora, she was just lust if anything. It's real with you, take it from someone who has known him from the start."

"She is right you know." Kol chimes into the conversation once more as he leans forward above them, "I hate to say it but Nik has changed ever so slightly since you arrived. Granted he may do the odd killing here and there but don't we all. But at least he hasn't daggered any siblings lately, that's progress surely."

Maybe they were both right, Lola  thought.  Lola's maid walks over to them, "Miss Salvatore, it's time to get ready."

End of flashback.

"Love, we're here." Klaus says softly, making Lola jump out of her thoughts.

Lola looks around to see they've arrived at their hotel in Denver where Kol is currently. Lola clears her throat and begins to get out of the car, "Right."

It's a comfortable silence between them both until they get into the hotel room. "What were you day dreaming about earlier?" Klaus asks.

Lola comes up behind Klaus, wrapping her arms around his waist, resting her head against his back, "The night I finally admitted my feelings for you."

Klaus chuckles as her turns to face Lola, moving a piece of hair from her face, "You took your time with that, but it was worth the wait." Klaus leaves a soft peck against Lola's lips before breaking away, "Kol is busy tonight with something else I've asked him to do here, we'll be seeing him tomorrow. So we have tonight all to ourselves."

Lola smiles up at Klaus, "That sounds perfect to me. But first, shower."

She begins to walk away but Klaus takes hold of her hand to stop her, "Really?"

Lola laughs, "Yes really, we've been travelling all day I feel all travel gross."

Klaus falls onto the bed as he sighs, "Fine."

Continue of flashback 1892:

"You wanna get out of here?" Klaus asks with pleading eyes and a warm smile in the middle of the Governor's Ball.

Both of them barely being able to enjoy the ball because their minds full of thinking of ways to come clean to each other. Coming clean and admitting each other's feelings. They both stay looking into each other's eyes for a moment with the sudden realisation it's now or never. It's already been five years, everything they feel cannot be brushed under the carpet any longer.

Klaus was feeling more determined than usual. He was determined to get off his chest exactly how he feels, the truth was finally coming out. Tonight he was going to tell Lola everything and praying that she was going to say it all back to him.

Lola's eyes light up at Klaus' proposition to leave here, she quickly glances around the room to see Rebekah, Elijah and Kol are busy talking to other people. She looks back at Klaus with her bright eyes and smile then nods making Klaus' heart almost skip a beat. He doesn't wait any longer, he takes hold of her hand and they both rush out of the Governor's house and make their exit before anyone noticing.

They've been walking together in comfortable silence and soon reach the compound which is when Klaus stops in his step as he faces Lola, placing a hand against her arm to stop her from walking also, "Okay, I have to be honest with you."

Lola raises a brow in interest, "Go on."

A nervous laugh escapes Klaus, "You're kind of killing me right now."

"I thought you said you cannot be killed?" Lola quips as she leans forward to Klaus with her classic mischievous smirk.

"I'm sick of pretending with you, Lola."

"What do you mean?"

"Please tell me I'm not crazy." Klaus practically whispers as he steps closer to Lola, "I'm not crazy to think that there's something here between us."

"Klaus-" All night Lola has been trying to work herself up into telling Klaus how she feels but in the moment it's as though all of the words have escaped her brain as she tries to figure out what to say next. With every step Klaus takes towards Lola, she steps backwards until her back hits against the wall.

"I've been going crazy." Klaus sighs as he takes hold of Lola's hands, "You've been driving me crazy. I've never felt this way about anyone until you turned up five years ago. I just need to know that I'm not the only one thinking this because I am in love with you, Lola." Klaus' hands move from Lola's to then cup her cheeks as he gazes into her eyes. His own eyes filled with tears threatening to escape, "I am so in love with you. I didn't think I'd find someone who's worth all of these feelings I have within me until you walked into my life." Lola still unable to respond, looks away still staying in Klaus' hold, tears already have escaped as they run down her cheeks. Klaus takes his thumb and swipes away the runaway tears from her face, causing her to look back up into his eyes, "Say something please."

"I'm scared."

Klaus frowns, "Why?"

A shaky breath falls from Lola's lips to then reveal her bright smile that Klaus fell for straight away, "Because no one has ever looked at me the way you just looked at me." Lola places her hands against Klaus' on her cheeks, "I'm not sure what love is because my mind has fooled me before, but if this is what I think it is then, I am in love with you."

End of flashback.

In so much of a daze, Lola has had her shower and is now standing by the sink vanity, wrapped in a towel, as she reminisce of that night. Lola gets snapped back to reality as she feels Klaus' arms wrap around her waist, "Are you okay?" Klaus watches Lola's face through the mirror, "I was beginning to think you may have fell down the drain."

"Do you remember that night?"

Klaus smiles knowing that Lola is still speaking about the same night as earlier, "Of course I do, it's in my top 5 favourite moments."

Lola turns to face Klaus and wraps her arms around his neck, smiling up at him, "You have a top 5?"

"Yes and they all involve you." Klaus says with a familiar look on his face that Lola has came to know over the decades. Never knowing truly what that look actually means and only seeing it in his eyes when he's with her.

"There's that look again."

Klaus laughs slightly before looking back at Lola with the same look, "You used to always ask me what this look means. It means that I cannot believe someone as amazing as you is spending their time with someone like me. It means I look at you and can see you as the only person in the world. This look is when I can't describe in words how much I love you."

Lola takes in the moment between them both as she starts to feel her chest becoming tight as she moves her fingers down from his neck, slowly moving them down his neck, to his chest as Klaus watches her in awe.

Lola's hands then trace back up Klaus' chest, past his neck to then nestle against his cheeks as she looks at him lovingly, "You just did."

In one swift motion with a strong pull, Klaus leans down and presses his lips against Lola's, leaving her feeling powerless in his arms. Lola's arms wrap around his neck once again while Klaus' tightly wrap around her waist. The passion and heat coming from the blinding kiss is as though this is the first kiss ever. Neither one of them feeling as though they couldn't get enough from each other as the kiss begins to become more rough.

Shivers get sent up Lola's spine as she feels Klaus moving from her waist down to her thighs, pulling off the towel that was wrapped around her and throwing it onto the floor without even breaking their lips apart. Gripping onto her thighs, Klaus lifts Lola up so her legs then wrap around his waist and he takes no time to moving to the bed.

Klaus' shirt and jeans are soon thrown to the floor leaving them both skin on skin. Klaus' hungry kisses soon slow down when he then starts to kiss the corner of Lola's mouth, her cheek then to her neck, sucking hard against her neck right where he can feel her pulse. One hand still gripped on her thigh, pulling her legs further apart for access while the other intertwines with Lola's beside her face.

This wasn't just a lustful moment between two loves, two soulmates.

This was how one expressed to the other how much they were made for each other. Expressing how much they couldn't live without each other. How much they were meant to be.

Always and forever.

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The next morning Klaus awakens to the vibration of his phone on the table beside the bed. He presses ignore on his phone without even looking to see who was calling. He then turns in the bed to see Lola still fast asleep with her back to him. Klaus wraps his arm around Lola's waist and nestles his face into the nape of her neck.

Within seconds it was now Lola's phones turn to ring which stirs Lola awake. She reaches to the table on her side for her phone but Klaus pulls her closer to him, "No, don't answer it."

Lola laughs slightly as she tries to pull out of his hold and tries to grab her phone, "Come on, Nik."

Klaus pins Lola down on the bed as he hovers over her with his up to no good smirk plastered all over his face, "No whoever it is can wait, I'm not finished with you yet."

Klaus lifts the sheets up above his shoulders as he presses his lips against Lola's, however before it can go any further they get interrupted by no other than Kol barging into the bedroom, "Rise and shine, campers!"

"I'm going to murder him." Klaus mumbles annoyed against Lola's lips as she tries not to laugh.

He turns his head to see Kol grinning at the pair which is returned by a glare from Klaus as he keeps the sheet up so it's covering Lola. Even not Klaus still thinks that Kol feels something towards Lola, just like he did with Elijah. Kol knows just that which is why he acts the way he does but it's just simply a joke between him and his best friend.

Lola sighs as she sits up slightly, "Really, Kol? Couldn't you have knocked?"

Kol shrugs, "Well I've tried calling you both so this was my last option." He smirks over to Lola, "Don't get me wrong, Lottie, it is really nice to see you."

Klaus sits up properly as he continues to glare at his younger brother, "Do you want-"

"Do I want another dagger in me, blah blah blah." Kol finishes Klaus' empty threat, "I've heard it all before, Nik. But until you've got us all unlinked you can't do that, brother. So really the only thing you can do in this moment is get dressed, we've got quite a bit to do today." Kol turns to walk out of the room, "I'll be downstairs."

The pair soon get dressed and head downstairs to meet with Kol who is waiting by the car. Klaus throws the keys over to Kol who gets into the drivers seat and drives them all to location of the meeting he has set up.

"Okay so what have you found out?" Lola asks as Kol pulls into a cafe not far from the hotel.

"Not as much as I know you would like." Kol admits as he switches the ignition off, "I've been speaking to this witch called Kate and I think she will be able to explain things better for you."

The three of them sit around a table with a young blonde witch who is explaining more about the spell, "Everything your Aunt said is true." Kate starts, "It is true that the mark on your wrist it's part of the rebirthing spell and that you will need to die in order to be reborn as a witch. Once the second witch completes the spell, the mark on your wrist should no longer be there but this spell is so rare so we are unable to be certain on that."

Lola looks over to Klaus who looks just as unsure as she is, she takes hold of his hand and looks back over to the witch, "Is this a guarantee though? How are we so sure that I'll come back to life?"

Klaus grips tighter onto Lola's hand, obviously anxious about all of this. He fixates a glare to Kate, "If this is all one big lie you will regret it."

Kate smiles softly at the pair, "It's not a lie I assure you."

"Kate has explained previously that it can't just be any witch to finish off the spell." Kol chimes in.

Kate nods in agreement, "It's needs to be a witch who comes from a powerful witch line. But not just any witch line either. Someone who has a foothold on both the other side and this side, someone who has performed a binding spell similar to this one."

Klaus scoffs as he sits back in his seat, "If I didn't know any better I would think you're describing the original witch."

"She is the only one powerful enough to complete it."

"This is rubbish." Klaus snaps as he stands up from the table, "I won't hear any more of these lies. Where did you find this witch, brother?"

"She's right." Lola says quietly but loud enough for everyone else to hear. Klaus takes a seat again beside her as she continues, "Gloria said something to me back in Chicago, it's only just made sense to me now. When she was trying to find Rebekah's necklace to contact your mother she said that your mother is the only one who can fix this for me."

Kate smiles over to Lola sympathetically as she takes hold of Lola's hand, "I am sorry if these are not the answers you had hoped for but it is the only solution. I haven't came across anything like this before and neither has any of my ancestors. I know this isn't what you all wanted today but the best answers will come from the original witch."

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Once Kol has thanked Kate and said his goodbyes he walks over to Klaus who is standing by the car. Kol frowns as he looks around the empty car park, "Where has Lola gone?"

"Back to the hotel." Klaus responds, "Today has been a lot for her to take in."

"I understand." Kol passes over a folded piece of paper over to his brother, "This is where Finn is, I had Kate perform a locator spell after our little meeting. Is there anything else you need from me?"

Klaus takes the paper and puts it inside his pocket, "Just keep doing what you're doing with Jeremy Gilbert. I'll be in touch soon."

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When Klaus returns back to the hotel room Lola isn't in the bedroom itself but sitting on the cold tiles of the bathroom floor, staring down at the marking on her wrist, lightly tracing over it. Klaus sighs as he sits beside her, "You know there is a perfectly comfortable bed in the other room, I'd have thought you would have known that after last night." Lola laughs slightly as his remark but continues to still stare down at the mark. Klaus takes hold of her hand, causing her to look up at him, "I'm not going to give up this, sweetheart. We will find another way, I give you my word."

Lola shrugs, "I don't know, maybe it's just better off this way. I don't even know if I want to break the spell. I especially don't if it means we need to have your mother involved in all of this." She scoffs, "I'm sure I'll get used to this god awful mark."

"Have you still not told your brothers?"

Lola shakes her head, "There's never really been any point because I just got used to living like this. But even now there hasn't really been an ideal time where we are all getting along at the same time. I can't really see us being how we used to be and I can't see this spell getting lifted so I'm not telling them."

"Love..."

"Nik, honestly, it's fine, I am fine." Lola stands up and fixes her shirt, "Did Kol give you any more updates about Jeremy?"

Klaus nods as he also stands to his feet, "He's keeping a close eye on him and is on standby for when the time comes."

"And what about Finn?" Lola asks.

Klaus smirks as he reaches into his pocket for paper Kol gave him earlier, "We know where he is and Rebekah is already on her way to meet us there."

"So where to now?"

"New York."

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