He remembers that she used to make these little mewling sounds while she sleeps. At the time, they had annoyed him because all he wanted was silence, and what he was getting was a girl who sounded like a damned cat.
Now, looking at the trembling mess of a girl as she stumbles out of the trailer in the woods, he can't help but recall the innocent little mewls and wish he could hear them instead of the little cries of pain he can still hear her emit.
Caroline's got blood on her hands, and it trails down the side of the trailer as Jules holds her to it. She's looking over at Damon, begging him, and he silently tries to tell her that he knows, that he's coming. If only he can kill these damn werewolves first.
-x-
Then there's screaming, and Damon doesn't understand what's happening. Caroline takes a step toward him, but for reasons both don't know, she doesn't run to him.
They see Jonas, and he tells them to leave, so they do. Stefan takes her home, but Damon follows close behind. He hears Caroline tell his brother she's going to take a shower, watches her yell at the Lockwood boy, and after a while hears the sound of the water running.
He can't go inside her house—Liz never invited him in, and Caroline isn't human any more—so he has to listen to her cry in the shower from outside. She pulls herself together, though, and Stefan comes back with Bonnie and Elena, so Damon leaves Caroline in their hands for the night.
-x-
It's weird, then, that he wakes up at the boarding house to the sounds of a mewling cat. Well, it was weird until he opens his eyes and finds Caroline curled up next to him.
If he were more awake, he'd roll his eyes. "What the hell are you doing here, Kitten," he mumbles sleepily, all the while pulling her closer.
He watches a slight smile appear on her face, followed by a sigh of contentment as she snuggles next to him. He watches her sleep. He wonders why she came to him, what on earth gave her the idea that he would allow this sort of behavior from her.
And yet…Caroline's little mewls eventually lull him back to sleep.
-x-
She's not there when he wakes up, and when Elena visits Stefan later and asks how the slumber party was, Damon hides a smirk when Elena tells him Caroline ditched her and Bonnie while they were sleeping.