How will Caroline react when she realises that she possibly just. Spent the night with the someone other than the man she felt she had come to fall in love with? And more importantly, if he finds out, how will Klaus react?

Caroline sat up and squinted her eyes agains the morning sun that was shining brightly into her bedroom. She had been living in new orleans for just under a month, and in that short time she had fallen in love with the vibrant at own that was full of life. Caroline had lived a sheltered life and had barely taken a foot out of mystic falls. When she became a vampire, she knew that she would set out to see the world, go places and actually experience life, even if she was technically dead. She flopped onto her back again rolled over slowly. Her arm hit something, or rather someone and she squeaked. She pulled back the mound of sheets that were bundled next to her to find a man sleeping peacefully. She desperately clutched he head and tried to remember the night before. She remembered the club she went to, the drinks and the dancing but after that she couldn't remember a thing.

She had gone there to forget about Tyler, whom she had discovered had cheated on her with a certain she-wolf Hayley. After they had broken up, her first thoughts had gone to klaus, as the had so many times since her left for new orleans 6 years earlier. Since he had left, and effectively turning her world upside down in the process, something inside her screamed at her every time she was with Tyler. It hadn't taken her long to realise that the reason she wasn't working with Tyler, is because she didn't want it to. Her mind and her heart were telling her that she was trying to settle for second best. Without thinking about it, his words from so many years before rang clear in her mind "You mark my words. Small town boy, small town life. It won't be enough for you."

Her mind raced and she subconsciously closed her eyes, savouring the sound of his soft accent, in that tone he only ever seemed to use with her. She remembered that night vividly, the way he had held her, whispered in her ear and how she caught herself wishing she could feel like this with someone else. Hell, she didn't even feel like that with Tyler. From then things began to dissolve before when she didn't even realise. She shook her head violently, hoping pointlessly that it would erase all thought of the murderous hybrid from her head.

Somehow, she managed to pull her mind away from the brooding original and to the issue at hand. Who was the man in her bed? She tentatively climbed around to the other side of the bed. She reached out her hand to pull back the covers. As she did, the mystery man shot up and stood half naked before her ready for an attack. She launched herself at him, momentarily taken by surprise at his alarm. She sent a punch to the side of his, stunning him, but he quickly recovered. Before she could blink, she was on the ground, with her hands pinned together while he pulled back his other hand to strike. She closed her eyes waiting for the impact, when she felt his hesitation and heard his sharp intake of breath. She opened one eye cautiously, and then the other. And that is when she realised her mystery man was most definitely a familiar face.

"Caroline?" He asked incredulously.

"Elijah!" She squeaked.

They just stood and looked at each other, wide-eyed and confused. Dozens of emotions came rushing back to her all at once, Nostalgia, Fear, surprise and above all, shame. She didn't need to speak to him to know what he was thinking, because she could tell she was thinking exactly the same thing. "What the hell have I done?".