I slid down into bed and hid under the covers. I gently lifted the bracelet from the box and smiled, holding it in my hand, close to my eyes to examine it. I put it on and stared at it. What did it even mean, for Klaus to give me something like this? It had to be an apology. There was no other reason to give me something this exquisite. I dropped my bracelet from Tyler into a drawer of my nightstand and put it out of my mind. I was so confused... why the hell did Klaus even save me? If he killed Jenna, sired Tyler, and took Stefan's freewill, how was I any different? I just couldn't grasp it. I sighed and rolled over, my arm resting beside my face, I stared at the gift from Klaus and closed my eyes.

You can have a thousand more birthdays...

There's a whole world out there waiting for you...

Great cities...

Art...

Music...

I jumped up at the sound of a knock on my door.

"Who is it?" I asked, pulling the covers off of myself. The door opened and Klaus walked in. I gasped softly. "Klaus." I breathed. He was wearing all black, a loose jacket, well fitting jeans, and combat boots. He smiled when I said his name.
"Hello, Caroline." I leaned back against my pillow, my hand under myself so he couldn't see the bracelet. "Did you get my gift? I'd have given it to you myself, but I'm afraid Sheriff Forbes is quite strict about after hours house guests." I bit my lip a bit and looked away from him, offering a small nod.

"Yeah... it's really pretty." I looked back over at him. "Thanks." He smiled wider and came over to sit on my bed. He reached for my hand and took it in his, then his eyes met mine.

"I must admit I'm touched, Caroline. I didn't think you would have it." I laughed quietly.

"It matches like... all of my outfits so..." I trailed off and he chuckled then dropped my hand.

"How are you doing?" He asked after a moment. "I trust my blood has put everything back in order?" I nodded. He looked at me, almost as if expecting an answer, but what could I say? "I am known to have a short temper, Caroline. Rarely do I think of circumstances. Being a supernatural with little to no ways to die leaves very little room for second thoughts. I'm not accustomed to ever having to feel anything." I blinked, dumbfounded.

"You feel guilty?" He scoffed and shook his head.

"I feel... many things, Caroline." He turned his head to look at me. I gave him a challenging stare and swallowed thickly before I spoke.

"Don't you feel guilty for what you did to Jenna? Elena? Jules? How could you have done all those things, but feel guilty about what you did to me?" I crossed my arms. His pursed his lips and stared at my floor, then his eyes came back up and met mine.

"My entire existence has consisted of things to live for. One after another. After I turned, I wanted to make Hybrids, Caroline. I started off fighting in wars, figuring that I could focus my... aggression" his eyes grew darker, "toward killing for my country." He sighed and looked at me still. "Afterward, I tracked witches that could help me find what I needed to break the curse. The moonstone, the doppelganger, the werewolf, vampire... When I finally got my doppelganger, she got word of what I planned to do. She fled, taking the moonstone. She had Vampire Blood in her system, and therefore killed herself. Katerina." A lot of things started to make sense to me now. Katherine, the moonstone, all of it. "I spent 500 years since, waiting for another doppelganger. Do you really believe I want to kill people for the sake of being a monster? I kill who needs to be killed. I do what needs to be done. Stefan kills my hybrids, you've killed humans, I'm sure," I shivered and grimaced. "Tyler killed to become a werewolf. We all take life in trade to keep ours eternal. How I am different, is a state of opinion. Jenna was the only Vampire available other than Stefan. I still see the faces of those who's lives I haven taken, Caroline... I can feel." I took a deep breath and took all of this in, wondering why he was so willing to open up. I looked at my bracelet, somehow it felt like I liked it more. Like it belonged on me.

"Klaus, why did you make these Hybrids?" I asked honestly. Was it the winning question? He smiled but it faded.

"Eternity is nothing if you are cursed to spend it alone. I may as well off myself now." I flinched.

"So in the long term, you're afraid of being alone?" He didn't answer, he started to get up. "Thank you... you didn't have to save me... but you didn't. Which means, though it's buried... like really hellishly deep... you have a heart, Klaus." He laughed. "I really appreciate you being there for me while I was dying..." I whispered. "But it's going to take a lot for me to be able to forgive you, and a lot more for anyone else to even consider it." He nodded.

"I have all eternity, Caroline. As I said, you have to adjust the way you view time..." I smiled and looked up at him. "I came to invite you to a House Warming party this Friday. My mansion has been renovated and is ready for Mystic Falls approval." I smiled.

"You have a house here?" I asked. I wondered why, and what trouble this may cause everyone else. "What do you want me to wear?" I mumbled, looking over at my lame closet full of outdated clothes. He smiled and looked in my eyes.

"Your best." He pulled some money out of his wallet and set it on my nightstand.

"Hey! I-" I started, he cut me off.

"It's on me." He leaned in close to me, I could smell his cologne, feel his breath graze lightly over my ear. "I'm very favorable to blue." Then he walked out, and I heard the front door slam shut.