Trust Tryst
As night earths Mystic Falls every eye became weary; some hearts are broken while some are filled with resentments. Klaus surreptitiously walked into their foyer and slightly placed his hands inside his pockets and with feet a floating up to the stairs and into his bedroom, he smiled ambiguously. He found Caroline's brutal honesty quite invigorating. Basking on his new found feelings for this certain girl that averted his perception towards people and what it means to love and be loved.
But alas, he can't love someone without using it against him. Caroline's connivance with the Salvatores really threw him off and wanted to move past this feeling he has for her.
Lost in thought Rebekah facilely entered. "What are you being morose about?"
"Nothing. Just the idea that we don't have a mother what's worst the one we have or had tried to kill us."
"Are you sure about that?" Klaus derisively smiled at Rebekah; "I can always tell if you're lying to me Nik. We've been together for almost a thousand years minus the years you drove a dagger into my heart. I can sense if something's bothering you. Never seen you like this since Tatia." She paused and sinisterly laughed at him.
"This is about that frilly Barbie girl Caroline?"
"Don't be ridiculous Rebekah, this has nothing to do with her."
"Oh yeah? You can be high and mighty as you want, but you really like her."
"Whatever makes you sleep at night. Just leave me alone."
"Fine." She pulled the door while letting out a mocking smile and shook her head slowly. Satisfactorily thinking how she was not a deviant after all, that someone in her family, even as evil as Niklaus can also love.
Caroline awoke with a heavy heart, still pining for Tyler's absence. She cannot bear the fact that he is gone, again. She lay listless on her bed while reminiscing last night's episode with Klaus, how she might have gotten killed by him. Despite of it all, she loathes the feeling of empathy for him.
Ugh! It's Klaus, he is a reckless dominating evil turd who doesn't have a soul to begin with.
Her thoughts were deterred as the alarm goes off.
"Oh my gosh, I am late for school!" she dashed into the bathroom, thankful at times that she's a vampire and with a speed of light she can get ready in seconds.
As she twisted the knob on their front door, Elena simultaneously was about to knock. " Wow, you're psychic."
"Hey, Elena. What are you doing here? Is everything alright?" she closed the door behind her and walked with Elena towards the curb outside.
"I am really worried about Bonnie. With everything's that happened because of me. I can't shake off this feeling of guilt and sadness."
"you have to give her time. it's all she needs."
"What if she'll never forgive me? I don't want to lose her"
"You won't. She's your friend. She loves you of course she'll forgive you."
"What if she can't?"
"I can't answer that, Elena."
They silently walked up to the pavement and into Caroline's car. Caroline slide onto the driver's seat and fastened her seatbelt. Elena opened the door halfway through…..
Caroline perplexed and asked her, "What's wrong? Aren't you going to school? We'll be late."
"You go on ahead, I thought I can handle being around you and Bonnie and Matt but I can't." With sad eyes Caroline nodded towards Elena and left.
Different thoughts ran through Caroline's mind. All those unfortunate incidents that keep on bombarding Mystic Falls, with Tyler, Elena, Bonnie and Klaus are just too much. She doesn't know how to put on a brave face. Still, she has to remain strong for her friends.
When she reached the school's parking lot, there was no slot available.
"Are you kidding me? I'm already late." She sighed heavily and steered her car in the opposite direction.
Thank God everyone's inside.
As she got out from her car, she saw Klaus standing across from her. She furrowed her eyebrow and pursed her lips. She was about to turn her back on him and run away but got surprised when she bumped into him.
"Seriously, are you stalking me? Don't you have anything better to do than torture people?" she tried to conjure the ominous tingling sensation that's leisurely slithering on her back, despite that she's scared she acted formidable and unwavering.
"What makes you think I will torture you?"
"Well the fact that, I don't know, let's see you almost tear me limb from limb because of the plot with the Salvatore brothers last night?"
"And you think I'm here to get my revenge? You really think that low of me do you?"
"Uhmmmm. Let me think for a second. Yes! So if you'll excuse me I'm already late and you're in my way."
"What's the rush love? We all have the time in the world. You can always be a senior whenever you want to."
"Yes I can! But people here will start to wonder why I'm not getting any older. I have to wait for a hundred years just to get back to my life. Wait for everybody who knows me to die. Only then can I be a senior again." Her eyes started to well with tears this confounded reckoning that she tried to repudiate is burgeoning. She motioned away from him as she crossed her arms and lowered her head.
Klaus was crushed at the sight of her. He tried to move in a little closer to her and held her hand she tried to pull it away but it's too late. He lightly placed his hand on her face and lovingly brushed away the teardrops from her cheeks.
"I've been here for a thousand years and immortality sometimes can cripple a vampire's existence. Every day that passed, at times, feels so hollow and empty but as you go on and move forward, you'll just have to blind the tempest in order to see genuine beauty."
Caroline was speechless and gazed into his eyes with amazement.
The sound of the bell ringing interrupted their painful stares. She didn't know what came over her but with urgency dragged Klaus outside the vicinity of the school.
"I can't let anyone see me talking to you what's worst you holding my hand! Ugh!"
"Which explains why you brought me here" Klaus conscientiously searched the place.
"Do you have some place better in mind? I can't bring you to my house my mother, busy she may seem, may pop in from time to time. Can't bring you to mystic grill…"
"Because of Matt?" Klaus cut her off.
"No. Why would you bring him up? It'll be a total frenzy and the last thing I want are people speculating."
"No complaints love. This place is magnificent!"
"Yes it is, isn't it? It is special to me. It is where I do most of my soul searching or when I just want escape from the madness of the world for a while." She sighed. "Probably one of the best views in Mystic Falls"
"Yes it is" Klaus said fondly gazing at her and Caroline caught his stare and right that moment she realized it wasn't the view he was pertaining to, she smiled shyly and he noticed her cheeks turned red.
"So why do you want to see me?" Caroline asked snarkily.
"I can't stop thinking about you."
Caroline snorted sardonically at him, "Oh please. After what I did to you, you don't hate me?"
"How can I hate you? I totally understand why you did it. You're just protecting the people you love most. I'd do the same thing for my family and you." He said with a soft voice as sultry as anyone could ever hear.
Caroline gaped at him with wide bewildering eyes "Sorry but I can't give you what you're asking for. I still love Tyler and you're sudden fondness over me doesn't change the fact that you belligerently try to destroy everybody's life. You killed Aunt Jenna you forced Jeremy out from Mystic Falls, you almost killed Alaric. What you did in the past, I can't simply make it go away because you're suddenly nice to me."
Klaus walked a little bit closer towards her and he felt reluctance from both of them, yet he bravely reached for her hand and grasped it tightly towards his chest as he sincerely uttered these words to her,
"I am aware of it, I don't deserve your forgiveness or everybody else's but I know what I want now and I know where I want to be and that is right beside you."
"I want to be your knight in shining armor, the one who will take care of you, the one who will protect and shield you from the madness of the world you want to run away from. I have never felt more sure in my entire life. Life had no meaning before you. I was oblivious to anything real because I'm afraid that if I let myself, it can be taken away from me, that is why I can sometimes be overbearing and overprotective"
As Caroline and Klaus looked unto each other's eyes she could not believe in her wildest dreams that she felt something for this person not likeable to pity but of faith and trust.