New Klaroline fic! It's roughly based on the song Little Talks by Of Monsters And Men, which is amazing, and I just kind of got this idea from it. I'm not entirely sure if I'm going to continue it or just leave it as a one-shot yet, but I hope you guys like it! And thanks for reading. :)


"And some days I can't even dress myself. It's killing me to see you this way."

"There's an old voice in my head that's holding me back. Well tell her that I miss our little talks."

"You're gone, gone, gone away. I watched you disappear. All that's left is a ghost of you. Now we're torn, torn, torn apart. There's nothing we can do."

They were gone. Her mom, Matt, Tyler. All of them. And they had died protecting her.

For the past two months Caroline had been almost unfunctional. And he'd taken her far away, somewhere she had never been, hoping it would help. But it hadn't.

Klaus had taken to doing almost everything for her. Most days she wouldn't even eat. She would just sit there, on the beach, the porch, the couch, sometimes never even leaving the bed.

There were some moments of real clarity where she would just snap out of it, but they never lasted long and didn't happen very often.

This morning Caroline was sitting out on the beach, looking out at the ocean and wriggling her toes in the sand. She had a faint smile on her face but her eyes were distant. Days like these worried Klaus the most. It made it seem like he would never get her back, not really.

As he started to walk out onto the porch his phone rang. "Hey Jeremy."

"Hey Klaus." The younger Gilbert sounded tired, worn down. "How is she?"

"I can't tell yet. But it doesn't seem like much has changed. How's Bonnie doing?"

"Better I think. She's off visiting Abby right now."

"So you're alone?"

"Yeah. If anyone would have told me a year ago that I would be calling you when I'm upset and lonely, I probably would have laughed my ass off." Jeremy let out a laugh that had a tinge of sadness to it.

Klaus grimaced. "Yeah, me too. When Bonnie gets back, you guys should come here. It might help. She doesn't have anyone else."

"I know. I'm just…Honestly, I'm terrified of seeing her of all people like that."

"I know, it hurts. You just see these little glimmers of light in her, and then-damn. God this just makes me want someone to hate. To blame." He had stepped back inside, not wanting her to hear.

"Not yourself."

"I was the one that hurt Elena though. I'm the reason she went to the hospital in the first place."

"That doesn't matter. No one could have controlled what happened to her."

"I know." Klaus walked into the kitchen and found a blood bag, pouring its contents in a dark glass. He had to find a way to get it into Caroline's system at some point today. If this whole situation wasn't so sad, it would almost be borderline comical. This drastic change of events.

He slipped back outside. "I should probably go though. It's been almost three days now since she's eaten, and I have to find a way to change that."

"Ok. Good luck."

"Thanks Jeremy. Tell Bonnie about what I said when you see her again, because I think we're all feeling kind of lonely at this point. And I'll try to call you again sometime later."

"Alright. Bye Klaus."

Klaus shoved his phone back in his pocket and stepped off the porch, padding his way across the sand to Caroline.

He sat down beside her and she didn't seem to notice. Or if she did, then she didn't react.

"Hey Caroline." He said quietly. "I brought you this." He offered out the cup to her. "You should really probably drink it, it's been a while since you've eaten." She made no movement. She just kept staring out at the ocean. "I'll put this here then." Klaus sat it down beside her feet.

After about a minute of them both just sitting there, she reached out and grabbed the glass. She brought it up to her lips and slowly drank all of it down. When she was done she handed it over to Klaus. "Thanks." She said, though she still didn't look at him. Klaus let out a sigh of relief. This was the first time she'd spoken to him in about a week.

"You're welcome." He gave her a smile. "Would you like anything else?"

She shook her head. "Alright. I'm going to take this back inside then." He started to stand back up.

"No wait." She grabbed his hand. "Will, will you stay for a while?"

He took her hand in his, a smile passing across his face when she didn't resist. "Of course."

After a few seconds of silence Klaus realized that she was waiting for him to speak, so he did.

"Jeremy just called." He stroked her hand with his thumb as he spoke. "I think he's still really struggling with everything. And Bonnie went to go see her mom, which is good, but it leaves him all alone, which he still can't really handle at this point. I told him they should both come here soon. I think Bonnie would love it here. I always did picture her as being the traveling type once she got out of high school."

Caroline gave a slight nod. "I miss her."

"I bet you do. I even miss her a bit myself."

Caroline carefully slipped her hand out of his. "I think I'm going to go take a nap." She stood up. "Or maybe take a shower."

"Alright love. Let me know if you need anything."

After she went inside Klaus stayed there for a while, just sitting in the sand. He closed his eyes and held his head in his hands. He hated this. He felt fucking miserable. This whole situation sucked. But he could never leave her. He was in love with her. The Caroline that was still in there, trying to block out all the pain and sadness, blocking out everything in the process.

He stood up and walked to the edge of the ocean, letting the water hit his feet. "Dammit." He cursed to himself, kicking at the sand.

He eventually came back inside and it was almost nightfall at that point. Caroline was locked up in her room. He turned the TV on and absentmindedly flipped through the channels.

"Knock, knock." He heard someone say from the door.

He got up and opened it to see his sister. She was standing there smiling with a bottle of wine in one hand and her bag in the other. "Hello Nik."

"Rebekah." He hadn't seen her in over a month and he was glad she was here. "I'll take that." He grabbed the wine from her.

"Of course." She stepped inside. "Where's Caroline?"

"In her room."

"Good day or bad day?"

Klaus walked to the cabinet to get glasses. "I'm honestly not sure yet."

They suddenly heard a door open and Klaus watched for Caroline to walk out.

She had curled her hair and done her make up, also changed clothes. She had a smile on her face. "Rebekah!" She ran over to the other blonde and hugged her.

After she got over her initial surprise, Rebekah hugged her back. The last time she had seen Caroline had been a very bad day. "Hey Caroline."

Caroline walked over to Klaus and took his glass from him, taking a drink. "I needed that." She handed it back to him.

Klaus took a drink himself. "Have a nice nap love?"

"Yeah, it was good. I actually feel really good. And Rebekah's here. And I'm starving, for actual normal food. We should make something!"

It took Klaus a second to wrap his mind around this. He hadn't seen bubbly, normal Caroline really since everything that had happened. Klaus took to opening the pantries and then standing by the fridge. He had the house stocked with food, prepared for moments just like this. "What do you want? The kitchen is all yours."

Caroline smiled and the determined look she got when she was about to plan a dance or some kind of school event spread across her face. "Something with chicken." She thrust open the door to the fridge. "And Italian."

"Well alright." Klaus looked to Rebekah.

Klaus and Rebekah followed Caroline's orders as Caroline told them what to do as she went along. And Klaus couldn't help but stare at Caroline in awe sometimes because of her sudden change back to more of her old self, and she would scold him and tell him to get back to work. God he had missed her.

As they were finishing up and Caroline had decided she wanted to have a picnic on the beach, she started transferring a blanket and towels outside and Klaus and Rebekah were left alone.

Klaus caught Rebekah watching him. "What?"

"Nothing." She shook her head. "It's just weird, seeing you like this. So smitten over a little eighteen year old girl."

"She's not just any girl."

"Oh I know." Rebekah took a breath, trying to think of how to say what she had really came here for. "Klaus I need to tell you-"

"Tell him what?" Caroline came through the door.

"Just that he needs to start helping you carry everything out."

"Yes," Caroline started handing things to him. "He does."

Klaus gave Rebekah a strange look but decided to let it go for now. "Come on Bekah."

"Yes!" Caroline grabbed Rebekah's hand and pulled her out with her.


They all sat closely together on a blanket facing the ocean. Klaus took a bite as Caroline started pouring the wine. "This is actually really nice Caroline."

Caroline rolled her eyes. "Don't sound so surprised. My mom was almost never home and I was bored, so I got creative." That was the first time she had mentioned her mom since she had died. Klaus waited for her to realize that, but she didn't falter.

When they were almost finished eating Rebekah's phone started going off. "It's Kol." She stared down at the screen. "I should probably answer this." She pushed herself up from the blanket and started walking toward the house.

When they were alone Caroline moved closer to Klaus and nuzzled into him. "I'm sorry." She looked up at his face.

"For what love?"

"For being this way."

They locked eyes. "Caroline it's-"

"No, stop. Don't say it's ok, because it's not. I shouldn't be like this. I hate it!"

"It's not your fault." He brushed her hair back.

"I, I know that. But you've been taking care of me this whole time, and I want to feel better, and sometimes I do. But I have to see that whole night all over again every time I go to sleep."

"What?" Klaus thought back to that night himself. It had even changed him. God, Mystic Falls had to be cursed. There was so much death there, and it was also where everything had started. Where he made his first kill. And now where Caroline had lost almost everyone she cared about.

"I have that same nightmare every night, and sometimes when I wake up I try to just get over it and not think about it, but other times I can't."

"I'm so sorry." He wrapped his arms fully around her. "Why haven't you told me?"

"I don't really know," She leaned back into him. "I guess I was just scared."

"Of what?"

"Having to actually talk about it for the first time I guess, and you thinking I'm even more of a freak."

"Caroline I-" Klaus stopped. "I would never think that about you."

"No, you what?" She pulled back to look at him. "What were you going to say?" She smiled.

He sighed. "That was it."

"Fine." Caroline pushed herself up and started running toward the water. She couldn't remember the last time she had actually been in it.

"Caroline." Klaus groaned lowly enough that she wouldn't have even heard him if she wasn't a vampire.

But Caroline just smiled to herself.

Right as her feet hit the water she felt strong arms wrap around her waist and her feet were off the ground.

Klaus spun her around once and she giggled. "Can I help you?" She said when he put her back down.

Klaus bent down and touched his forehead to hers. He took a few breaths. He was actually nervous. She made him nervous, and that terrified him. "I love you Caroline." He finally said all at once.

Caroline smiled and pressed her body closer to his. "Took you long enough." She started to bring her lips to his, but she slid her hands to his chest and at the last second pushed him into the water behind her. He was faster than her though, so she ended up getting pulled down too. They both came up laughing.

Caroline grabbed his hand. "Hey." He looked down at her. "I love you too."

"Took you long enough." He said as a soft smile spread across his face. He hadn't heard those words in a very long time.

"Well," She lightly kissed his cheek. "I'm going to go change, because someone pulled me in to the ocean."

"I wonder whose fault that is?"

"Certainly not mine." Caroline started walking toward the house.

"No, of course not." Klaus followed after her.

When they came inside Caroline went straight for her room, but Klaus stopped when he saw Rebekah sitting at the counter finishing off the rest of the wine. "What's wrong?" He walked over to her.

"Klaus, I need to tell you something."

"What is it?"

"I didn't come here just to visit you and Caroline. I found out something, something that I thought you should know. I wasn't completely sure, but Kol just called and confirmed it." She stopped.

Klaus was getting irritated. "What? Just say it Rebekah! I don't see how it could be that bad."

"It's Stefan." She said quietly.

"What?"

"Stefan, apparently Katherine had a witch place some kind of protection spell on him, she saw it coming. He's not dead."

"What?" They both looked up to see Caroline standing there. "What did you say about Stefan?"

Rebekah swallowed. "He's alive Caroline."

She brought her hand up to her lips. "Oh my god."

And Klaus felt like his heart sunk to the floor. He was glad that Stefan was alive, it had hurt when he died and he missed him. But that wasn't it. There was a reason they were all silent now.

Elena's transition into a vampire had been hard. She couldn't find some kind of normal balance. She would be herself sometimes, but then her humanity would just slip. She had killed people, and she was even worse sometimes than Stefan had ever been. No one could control her.

Caroline and Stefan had grown closer through trying to help Elena though, and he fell in love with her. And naturally she fell for him as well. That was part of what had sent Elena over the edge. She should have never been a vampire. And Klaus felt guilt, a lot of it, as he assumed that doctor did too.

It was Elena. She lost it all. And in turn, wanted the same to happen with everyone else, starting with Stefan. Her humanity was gone. She killed him, and Damon in the process. Then she went for Caroline, and they were all prepared, trying to save her. But Matt, Tyler, and Liz still ended up dead. And as soon as Klaus got there he killed Elena. He hadn't stayed in Mystic Falls, there was nothing keeping him there. But he came back to save Stefan and Caroline, being too late for the first. Or so he thought.

Klaus kept his eyes on Caroline's face, watching a variety of emotions pass across it. He was selfish. Of course he knew Caroline would want to go after Stefan, they had loved each other and they had no closure. But a part of him so badly wanted her to just forget about it, decide that she didn't need to go find Stefan. Especially when Klaus was just now starting to really get her back. But he knew she wouldn't do that, no matter how much she loved him now.

"Where is he?" Caroline asked after what seemed like forever.

"Take a wild guess." Rebekah answered dryly.

"Mystic Falls?"

Rebekah nodded. "He just got there according to my brother. Apparently he finally found out you're alive."

Caroline's eyes found Klaus' for the first time since she had entered the room. "I have to go." A single tear rolled down her cheek.

"I know. And I'm going with you."

Caroline looked relieved. She went over to him at vampire speed and wrapped herself in his arms. "Thank you."


Thanks for reading! I'd love to know what you think of it. Should I continue?