Unsolved AU Snippet
Since @goldcaught created this absolutely banger pic spam for this fic, I thought I would post a snippet, to prove that it is actually being written (I even got a plot figured out!). So yeah, have Klaus being a simp for Caroline who thought he was getting a date and instead got dragged to film 5 hours of nonsense for a 20 minute YouTube video.
(Note: I have borrowed some things from the actual Buzzfeed Unsolved... because yelling out for cultists and demons will never not be funny).
Contrary to what Lorenzo St. John thought, Klaus Mikaelson was not, in fact, an alien.
No. Klaus was very much a demon.
He thought, at one time, he might have been human. But it had been so long ago that any memories of that life had disappeared, replaced just by memories of being born from rage and hubris somewhere in Sweden, before the place had carried that name.
But simply existing as a demon wasn’t as lucrative as it had once been, and when Kol had scoffed about how the authors of every ridiculous demonic legend had obviously never met one… well, Klaus had gotten an idea.
Elijah hadn’t approved, of course. But while Elijah had been there in the beginning, had assisted Klaus with his rebirth, those memories had also been long forgotten, and Elijah easily ignored.
And so, he had begun to write his books. Books about how demons actually worked. It had drawn the ire of many of the other demons, including Mikael. Which had been… less than ideal. Killing demons wasn’t easy, but it could be accomplished, and Mikael had decided he would do that to Klaus, for so cavalierly sharing their secrets with the world.
Klaus had been contemplating that it might be time to move on. To retire the Professor in a tragic death and disappear until Mikael decided to fixate on someone else. Kol was always good for doing something stupid that moved him to the top of the “should be eliminated” list.
But then she had appeared.
Caroline Forbes, in a floral sundress that swirled around her legs, asking questions about demons for her “YouTube channel.”
Had Klaus realized at the time that United States of Mystery had become somewhat of a pop culture phenomenon, he might have rejected the interview request. But since he had planned to retire this particular identity, he’d thought why not send Mikael one more fuck you?
And then she walked into his office, and suddenly disappearing was no longer an option.
It wasn’t that Caroline was perfect. After all, she came with a dry-witted buffoon of a co-host who seemed to believe that Klaus was an alien – Enzo was entirely too certain in his beliefs, that he refused to acknowledge the things right in front of him. And then there was the camera, which Klaus had to be aware of at all times. Plus, there were mentions of a witch.
So yes, the company she kept was less than ideal.
But Caroline herself? She was filled with a light that Klaus coveted with a hungry, greedy need. That light, he decided, would belong to him. It was beautiful, and there was nothing in the world that Klaus appreciated like true beauty.
It also attracted others. Others who didn’t share Klaus’ appreciation. Others who would want to snuff that light out, because its glory burned their eyes. Klaus would revel in the burn.
And he wouldn’t allow any to put it out.
And so, when Caroline had made to leave, Klaus had kissed the back of her hand with an old world charm, leaving his mark on the back of her hand, unseen to mortal eyes, but vivid against her skin for any other demons.
And then he had begun to plot how to see her again.
In the end, his plots were unnecessary. Or so he thought.
“One of our viewers gave us this suggestion,” she explained, after having asked to meet him at a small coffee shop on the campus. She was in another dress, this one without the flowerprint, and was sipping something that smelled incredibly sweet. “They said it’s super cool. I thought you might want to go?”
In hindsight, he should have asked more questions.
In the moment, he somehow decided that she was asking him to accompany her on a date.
In the end, she asked him to guest star in a video about the Goatman’s Bridge.
The Goatman who was a bit too big for his britches, who had dared to approach when Caroline not only carried his mark, but Klaus was right there.
Thankfully, Enzo remained so stuck in his own beliefs that he came to the completely wrong conclusion.
And Caroline, who did believe in it all? Well, she simply laughed the concept of Klaus being Other off.
She laughed, and Klaus didn’t even care that Enzo had managed to drag him into being the butt of the joke.
Enzo could believe in him all he wanted – Klaus could not, for lack of a better word, give a fuck.
He would, however, very much believe in Caroline Forbes.
