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Rosalie stood in a forest with complete and utter darkness surrounding her, the chill ninth air sent shivers down her spine.

"Stefan!" She calls into the darkness but the only response she gets in the sound of her voice echoing back to her

"STEFAN!" She shouts but it only echos through the forest again.

Then a spark catches her eye and she turns and trees are covered with burning with flames of orange fire, her body temperature changes from cold to boiling hot as her breath becomes irregular.

The sound of screaming rang in her ears and she runs toward the sound to see a mother and her child hiding and Rosalie ran towards them but it was too late a dark figure with a hood over it's face walked towards them and with a single touch made their bodies turn into ashes as they scream in pain and horror.

The figure then pulled off it's hood to reveal itself.

It was Rosalie.

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Rosalie woke up and quickly sat up with her heart pounded in her chest as she tried to calm down and she checked her phone to see it's only 3am and tried to call Stefan but remembered that he turns his phone off when he's asleep and she didn't know what room he was in.

Klaus had booked a hotel for them to stay for a couple of nights and gave them all separate rooms but made sure to tell Rosalie what room he was in just incase something happened.

Rosalie didn't even put on the lights as she franticly looked for shoes and picked up the key to her room and her phone and walked out her room leaving and locking the door behind her.

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Klaus woke up to frantic knocking on his door and went to the door and opened it to see Rosalie in Lilo and Stitch pyjamas shaking and then he heard her heart beating franticly as she looks to see if anyone is coming.

"Love, what happened?" He asks and Rosalie turns to him seeing him without a shirt with sweatpants.

"Sorry if I woke you but you gave me the number of your room and said if anything happened I should come here." She rambles while twiddling her fingers and picking off the nail polish on her nails.

"Love, it's fine. Come in." Klaus says and Rosalie walked into his room and he closed the door

"Sit down." He says gesturing to his bed and she sat at the corner of his bed.

"Do you want to talk about it?" He asks gently as she zones out while looking into the darkness in the room.

"Did you know that Phoenixes have to die so they can heal and activate their powers? I read about it in the book I was given by Shelia Bennett, she was really nice. I also read that there's a darkness in Phoenixes and each time they die they get closer to the darkness and then once they reach the darkness it says 'the supernatural world will break into chaos and worse the rest of the world'. The thing is I'm not scared of that I'm not scared of the darkness. I'm scared of myself." Rosalie says with tears flowing down her face as she continues to stare into the darkness.

Klaus didn't say anything. There was nothing to say. Instead he walks to the top of the bed and lifts the covers.

"You're staying here tonight." Klaus says and Rosalie shakes her head but before she can say anything he cuts her off.

"We can put a pillow in between us if you feel more comfortable." Rosalie nods hesitantly and puts a pillow between where they are going to sleep and then snuggles into the covers and tries to sleep but is unsuccessful as her mind was filled with her worries.

"I have an idea of how to get your mind off things." Klaus says turning to face her and she faces him

"Like what?" She asks.

"We are going to ask each other questions until you fall asleep." He says and she hesitantly nods her head

"Okay." She agrees.

"Why are roses your favourite flower?" Klaus asks

"3 reasons. 1) They are gorgeous 2) My brothers used to get me them for my birthday each year and 3) The different meanings of the different colours." Rosalie answers.

"Okay, what is one of your passions?" She asks

"I love art, painting especially." He answers and Rosalie's eyes light up

"Me too." She says and he smiles.

"What is your favourite thing to paint?" Klaus asks looking at her in admiration that she shares the same interest with him

"Mostly roses but I do sketch anything." She replies.

"What is your favourite era you lived through?" She asks and Klaus thinks for a moment

"The 20s or the 50s." He says

"What were the 50s like?" Rosalie asks her eyes meeting his.

"The diners were bright and colourful and the outfits were beautiful." He says in a trance like he was there

"That is the one thing I'm jealous of, vampires get to see the world go through different decades and see the world change. I mean I love everything about the 50s like the positive things, it would have been so cool." Rosalie says now looking up at the ceiling.

She yawns and her eyes start to get heavy and she turns to face Klaus while snuggling into the pillow.

"Thanks Nik."

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Rosalie wakes up with the sun in her face and she snuggled into her pillow further to hide from the sun as she lets out a small groan. Then she hears low chuckling and her head moves and she looks up to see that she was laying on Klaus' shoulder.

"Good morning, love." He says in his morning voice and Rosalie put her hands on his shoulder and places her head on her hands with a small smile appearing on her face

"Morning." She says in a quiet voice.

"How'd you sleep?" He asks her

"Good, you?" She asks

"Best night in ages." He says with a smile.

Not only did he sleep in the same bed as his soulmate, in the middle of the night his soulmate subconsciously rested her head on his shoulder and wrapped her arms around his neck.

Rosalie then sat up and looked outside and then at Klaus

"What are we doing today?" She asks and he sits up as well and reminding Rosalie that he is shirtless.

"Well, I do have a few plans for today." He says and Rosalie almost smiles

"And you take pictures for scrapbooking when we are there." He then says and she smiles with her eyes lighting up.

"When are we going?" She asks him

"At 11." Klaus says

"What time is it now?" She asks not bothering to check her phone

"8:30." He says and she quickly gets out of bed and looks for her phone, shoes and her room key.

"What's the rush?" He asks looking at her as she runs about the room

"I take about 3 hours getting ready and I need to get my scrapbook stuff ready so I can start the book in the car." She says while getting her shoes on and then going to the door and then quickly turning back and kisses Klaus on the cheek.

"Thanks for letting me stay!" She calls out as she leaves the room and Klaus remains as still as possible with a giant smile spreading across his face.

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Rosalie's outfit

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"You weren't kidding when you said it would take you 3 hours to get ready." Klaus says as Rosalie as she walks out of the hotel to the car.

"I'm sorry but this doesn't just happen is like that." Rosalie says gesturing to her outfit

"Oh, my apologies, love." Klaus sarcastically says

"You are forgiven." Rosalie says with a smile and then gets into the car and turns to see her brother in the back seat.

"Hi." She says with a smile and he smiles back

"Hi Rosie." He says and Klaus gets into the driver's seat.

"Lets go."

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The car came to a stop and Rosalie had fell asleep against the window

"So, what are we going to do?" Stefan asks looking at his sister.

"I'm not saying leave her in the car but I'm implying it...I'll just leave her with the keys." Klaus says and he places the keys on the cup holders and the guys get out the car.

"She's going to kill us." Stefan says

"Well, I'm an Original Hybrid so she won't kill me." Klaus says confidently

"Well in that case, I'm her brother she won't kill me." Stefan says in the same confident tone as Klaus.

Then they both look at each other and then back at Rosalie who's still asleep and then back at each other.

"We are dead."

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Rosalie backed away from what seemed to be her and then when she got further away she turned around and ran.

Her lungs burning with each breath but the forest was endless.The endless amount of trees were the only thing in her vision. Her feet began to give out and soon she had to stop and lean on a tree.

When she took her hand off the tree to wipe her head she felt this liquid on her face and then looked at the tree to see a dark hand print and then looked at her hands to see blood. Lots of blood.

But it wasn't hers.

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Rosalie jolts awake to see Klaus and Stefan not in the car and she gets out the car to look for them and then went back into the car and tried to do some scrapbooking to calm down.

Rosalie had suffered with some separation anxiety, it was mostly due to her being in a box for over 100 years with her life playing like a movie over and over again with her missing her brothers.

When they reunited they promised to not leave each other ever, but of course Rosalie wanted to save her older brother so she came on this trip, luckily she had Stefan... and Klaus. She scrapbooks sometimes to relieve the stress of being alone or if something happens.

She was writing with a fine pen when the pen went through the paper and the tip of the pen went into the metal part of the pen and cut some of her hand.

Then looked at her hands to see blood. Lots of blood.

She shakes her head and closes her eyes, trying to get the image out of her mind

"Fuck." She mutters while looking at her hand.

Then the car door opens and Rosalie jumps and looks to see Klaus getting into the driver's seat

"You alright, love?" He asks as he notices similar characteristics she had last night.

"Yeah. Just had a little mishap with the scrapbook." Rosalie says holding up hand with a small smile and Klaus takes her hand

"The pen nicked you?" He asks says also holding up the broken pen and Rosalie nods.

"Where's Stefan?" She asks noticing her brother's absence

"He's getting himself something to eat so he's meetings us back at the hotel." He says.

"So, what are we doing now?" Rosalie asks

"Well, we are going to Tennessee tomorrow because I have something planned." Klaus says and then bites his wrist and holds it out for Rosalie

"What the fuck do you think you're doing?" She says and looks at him to see if he's serious, which he is,

"What?" He asks.

"Put it in a bottle first or a glass for god's sake." She says offended

"Are you serious?" He asks and she nods so he gets a water bottle and poured his blood into the bottle and gave it to Rosalie who accepted and drank it.

After she drank the blood he handed her a bottle of water and she gladly accepted it and then looked at her hand, which was now completely fine she looks at Klaus

"Thanks." She says and he nods and starts the car.

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"You still haven't told me when we are going." Rosalie says to Klaus as he smiles

"Well, we are almost there." He says and she rolls her eyes with a small smile forming on her face.

Then Klaus parks up at a 50s styled diner and Rosalie looks at him

"Why are we here?"

"Well, you said you loved the 50s well the positive things." He says and Rosalie playfully rolls her eyes remember she said that the night before.

"Since we are packing the rest of the day and planning tomorrow I thought we should eat here." Klaus says and Rosalie's eyes light up

"Really! Thank you!" She exclaims and kisses Klaus on the cheek and looks at him again and giggles.

"Love...don't tell me..." He says and Rosalie nods her head and Rosalie takes a photo and shows him the red kiss mark on his cheek and he looks at her

"Sorry?" She gently shrugs and then gets out her bag and takes out make up wipes and tries to wipe the lipstick off and he moves.

"Now what the fuck do you're doing?" He asks and she looks at him

"What!" She says trying to keep her composure as she can't take him seriously with a lipstick mark on his cheek.

"What are you going to do with it?" He asks and she starts laughing

"I'm going to wipe the lipstick off unless you would like that to be on you forever." Rosalie says.

"Fine." Klaus rolls his eyes and turns towards her and she grabs him by the jaw

"Bloody hell." He mutters and she releases his jaw and sits back again.

"Okay this isn't going to work, my arm is getting sore." She says and he looks at her in utter astonishment

"Aw poor arm, but I might as well be decapitated at this point, I mean seriously is that some sort of Phoenix strength?" He asks

"No..." She trails off.

Then Klaus pushes his seat back and unbuckles their seatbelts and lifts Rosalie up to sit on his lap and makes her turn around

"Now none of us will get injured." Klaus says and a slight blush covers Rosalie's cheeks and wipes the lipstick off his cheek.

Then Klaus and Rosalie meet eyes and it was like the world had stopped, like all the answers of the universe were solved. In that one moment there was peace.

"Um... All done." Rosalie says looking down snapping out of what seemed like a trance

"Thanks, love." Klaus says and Rosalie opens the car door and climbs out of the car and Klaus comes out the car after her and they walk into the diner.

"Hi, Welcome. Table for 2?" The hostess asks and Klaus nods and they show them to a booth right next to the window since the place wasn't busy and gave them menus.

"This place is utterly gorgeous." Rosalie says looking around the place

"Okay, so I know you probably want to take pictures for your scrapbook so I called here and asked if someone could take picture for you and here." Klaus says sliding a stack of photos of the diner towards her.

"Theses are so good." Rosalie says looking through the photos and then looks back at Klaus

"Thank you so much." She smiles.

Then a waitress came over to their table

"Hi, do you know what drinks you'd like?" She asks both of them and Klaus looks at Rosalie

"I'll have the cherry vanilla milkshake, please." She says and the waitress looks at Klaus

"I'll have the chocolate milkshake, please." He says and she writes them down with a nod and leaves.

"Chocolate, really?" Rosalie asks

"What?" Klaus asks

"I thought dogs couldn't have chocolate?" She asks innocently with a teasing smile.

"Wow. Not one nice moment. Not one bloody nice moment." Klaus says as he shakes his head and Rosalie laughs

"Sorry, it had to be said." She laughs and then Klaus lets out a chuckle and then their drinks were brought to them and they thanked the waitress and they ordered their food.

"So, do you have any siblings?" Rosalie asks while taking the cherry from the whipped cream and eating it

"I have 4." Klaus says,

"What are their names?" Rosalie asks, she knew his mother had 7 children but she didn't want him to relive something if it was tragic.

"The eldest is Finn, then there's Elijah, then my younger brother Kol and then my sister Rebekah." He says and then their food comes and they say thank you

"Are all your siblings hot or is it just you...r brother?" Rosalie teasingly asks and Klaus rolls his eyes and gives her a look

"Fine, fine. I won't ask." Rosalie says and sips her milkshake while looking at him.

"So, tell me, what were you like in the 1800s?" Klaus asks

"Um... in 1863 I won the Miss Mystic Falls pageant." She quietly says.

"Really? Didn't take you as a pageant girl." Klaus teases

"Well I didn't take you as a chocolate milkshake guy." Rosalie teases back

"It's good, try it." Klaus says and the pair swap drinks and take a sip from them.

"Remind me to never doubt you." Klaus says

"And I am always right." Rosalie says giving back his milkshake and then eating a fry.

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"It's okay, I wanna split it." Rosalie says, they were currently having a little argument about how they were going to pay.

"Love, I brought you here. I'm paying." Klaus says, they had been doing this for the last 8 and a half minutes.

"Fine, but I owe you." Rosalie says and soon the waitress comes with the cheque and then the waitress slips something to Rosalie and walks off.

"What's that?" Klaus asks looking at the piece of paper and Rosalie looks at it.

"Her number." Rosalie says with proudness in her voice and Klaus looks at her

"What? Jealous?" Rosalie teases and Klaus playfully rolls his eyes and then pays for the meal.

"Thank you for the meal it was amazing." Rosalie says and then takes Klaus' hand and they walk out the diner and get in the car.

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"Jeez you guys have been gone forever." Stefan says as he sees his sister and Klaus.

"Well, we went to this 50s diner and I made a scrapbook." Rosalie says passing it to him and he looks through the pages

"Looks like you both had fun." Stefan says.

Rosalie then yawns

"I'm going to take a little nap and then I'll pack." Rosalie says and then Klaus throws her his keys and then she walks to the room and passes out on the bed.

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Klaus finished packing Rosalie's stuff for her and then his stuff while Rosalie sleeps and the it's time for him to sleep and he sleeps beside Rosalie and she moves so she is resting her head on his chest and Klaus gets falls into a peaceful sleep.

The couple didn't have nightmare, they just held each other close.

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