Caroline didn’t hate people--not even the wolves who had tortured her for hours--but she was pretty sure she could hate Mikael and Esther for all the damage they caused every single one of their children but especially Klaus. Not that he wasn’t an orchestrator to his own madness but Mikael and Esther had been a major catalyst. How else could the sweet little boy who’d carved her a horse when he’d been in Lawrence become so damaged? That kind of thing didn’t simply happen over night and being a vampire could definitely mess with a person, especially when learning how to feed and trying to control the bloodlust, but all the anger, the resentment, and the yearning he seemed to have for family, for acceptance, to belong didn’t stem from that. It was far deeper and that she blamed on those two.
“I don’t think they’ll use it…” Well. No. She couldn’t actually say that. When arguments got going between all of the siblings a lot of things were said that didn’t make sense and were said while lashing out and trying to make the other hurt. “If any of them did, they would be wrong. None of us thought about vaccinations which is what would’ve prevented him from getting sick. It’s not exactly something any of us have needed to ever think about. Especially all of you.”
She frowned at the notion that Marcel had taken over New Orleans after Mikael’s destruction. There was good and bad to that, it could be seen in either light really, and she wasn’t sure how Klaus thought of it.
“It’s not very homey. This place. Maybe when he’s better we can really start looking for our own place?” For the three of them because of course Henrik would be going with them if he wanted. “Unless you’d like to stay here with Marcel then that works too. There’s enough rooms here. And I feel I should say this because I’m not always sure you know it.” And sometimes she simply thought he needed to hear it more often. “At the end of the day, no matter how angry or annoyed I can get with you or you with me, I’d still end up choosing to be with you.”
"Though I might make you sleep on the couch sometimes." Not that it worked all that well because she'd only end up heading to the couch in the middle of the night to curl up with him. But it was the principle of the matter.