AN: Hello, this just pop to my head and I need to write it out and get it out of my way. Enjoy KC-ers!
Klaus: Hello Caroline. It's been a long time. How have you been?
Caroline bit her lips and look at her phone notification. It's been 6 years and he's contacting her via facebook messenger? Seriously?
Klaus's father and her father were buddies. And the occasional family gathering and trips together make the children from the 2 families quickly become close friends. That is of course until high school when Klaus think he's too cool to be her friends. When she part way to college and he became a celebrity, they barely even get to see each other during the holidays.
Well, he left me first. I'm not going to let him come and go in my life as he pleases. Caroline close that notification and return back to work. It was hard to concentrate for a while when she keep glancing at her phone, but later on to the day, she got her focus back. She had a nice lunch, rice and chicken, go to work and try to finish her article. Everything was going normal. When she got home in the evening and took off her heels though, her phone was ringing.
"Hello."
"Caroline"
The eagerness chime he said as her name roll her his tongue.
"Have you no shame?"
"That's after years apart and asking an irritated Elijah for your number?"
"We haven't had to talk for years. What change now?"
"I find myself a bit depressed."
Well that's a shocker. The great Niklaus, always the center of attention and party is depressed. Most shocker of all, why now? and why her?
"Your party friends is not there for you? Must be painful right?"
"Come on, Caroline. For old time sakes?"
Caroline went silent. There is a national assembly tomorrow and she need her mind in their sharpest state so she can ask the right question and write a good article. She can't just go and drink with him tonight. More importantly, she has no reason to mess up her schedule just to accomodate him.
There is no reason for her to care for him. She trash her away when he found cooler friends. He doesn't deserve her friendship.
"I actually have a big day tomorrow. You take care." She hung up and look at her phone. Before she could regret it, she deleted the number that just called her so she won't have any means to contact him.
"HOW ARE YOU HERE!"
Caroline just had a mask on and clean it off follows by a warm shower. When she was just relaxing in her bed and watch netflix her doorbell rang. She look through peep hole and there he was. Long lost friend in a cap and a black face mask, showing only his eyes. Caroline opened the door.
"Nothing will stop you, right?"
He just flashed his dimpled smile, invited himself inside, on his way, bump her on the shoulder since she didn't enough room for him to enter at the door frame. Caroline huffed in frustration and slammed the door shut, turning around to see he already took off his cap and mask and made himself comfortable on the white sofa of her living room, his feet resting on the glass coffee table.
"Seriously?"
"hah, I miss that. Now be a good host, get us some wine and sit with me."
"You ditched me for 6 years and now you came to my house unannounced and asked for wine?"
"Caroline. I really need a friend right now." the naughty glimpse gone from his eyes and he now take on a more serious tone. Caroline muttered fine and sighed in frustration. She sit down next to him.
"But this means, You get the hell out of my house after you're done." Caroline said with a stern look. Klaus smiled and nodded.
And that's it.
He did not say anything. His lingering smile stayed on his face, his eyes looked at hers as if she was an object to study.
"I'm really tired Klaus, get to talking and leave already."
Klaus bit the side of his lips and smiled. He opened his mouth to say something but stopped. Then he just stood up.
"I feel better already, I'll just go." He was at the door when Caroline got her shock in check.
"KLAUS NICOLAS MIKEALSON!" She quickly made her way to block him at the door. "You don't get to come and go as you please! Now spill or I'll torture it out of you, you cold hearted bastard."
He was a bit taken back at way she middle named him and her language.
"Talk." Caroline speak with finality.
"I'm dying." Klaus still smiled. But it doesn't reach his tired eyes.