Her eyes slowly opened as flashbacks came rushing at her. She remembered her mom seeing her off at the air port, reassuring her that it was in fact okay to take a break from all the supernatural havoc she called her life in Mystic Falls. She remembered a call from Elena telling her the same. She remembered her first flight. She remembered calling Tyler while she had still been in the car with her mom, telling him about the trip. She remembered hailing a cab and getting to the hotel. She had a vivid flashback of her first view of the New York skyline. After that, she remembered unlocking the hotel room door. She had walked in, letting the door fall shut. Then she had put her luggage on the floor between the bed and the TV. The room wasn´t much, but it was hers, only hers, for an entire week and as she looked around with a big huge smile on her face, she remembered seeing him in a corner next to the door. "Hello love, how was your flight?", she remembered hearing him say that, she remembered a gush of wind and then she remembered her neck snapping.
Now she was waking up to find herself tied to a chair, however she felt a vague sense of relief at noting that she was seemingly still in the same hotel room. A woman, dressed in hospital clothing, was by her side, who was adjusting a tourniquet on her right upper arm. Then Caroline noticed the huge needle stuck in both her arms. That woman was collecting her blood.
"Please, don´t worry, Miss. The draining process should be finished soon. There is really nothing to worry about, you´ll be just fine." The nurse, at least that´s what she supposed the woman was, told her in an eerily quiet voice. She sounded like one of those robots from the stepford wives. Someone had compelled her. Then her words hit her. That woman was going to drain her? And from the blurry feeling in her eyes, she gathered that the process would indeed soon be finished. She had to get out, now.
As she struggled against the restraints, a soothing voice came from the direction of the bed. "Don´t make me snap your neck again, love." She looked up to find Klaus, sitting on the edge of her bed, facing the door, thus having his back to her.
"Klaus... what the hell?" She yelled, struggling even more.
Klaus slowly got up, and said. " I think she should be fine for now Agatha. Wait in the bath room until it´s time to change her blood bags again." The woman nodded and left, closing the door behind her.
He approached her slowly, but casually. This was not the fun part, he thought. This was just a plain necessity. The fun would begin tomorrow. He went around her chair, and started to tenderly wave through her blond curls. "You really thought you could go on a vacation after tricking me?" he asked softly. Caroline closed her eyes. So this is what it´s all about, she thought. The bench talk. "Just like you thought you could buy me off with your cinderella fetish right after forcing my boyfriend into nearly killing me. I didn´t think a week off would be too much to ask for." At the mentioning of Tyler´s name, he gently but firmly pulled her back by her hair, as he placed his other hand around her throat. "Ironically, I had had a similar thought." he smiled.
"So, you´re going to kill me now?" she asked, her voice trembling. "You always think so low of me", he teased as h caressed her neck with his fingers. "You know I really do not appreciate , nor do I tolerate, betrayal. I have ended people for far less than what you tried the other night. It would not be fair to them, if I were to let you go unpunished, now would it?" As she started to shiver under his touch, he abruptly let go off her and walked around the chair, crouching down to face her as he placed both of his hands onto her cheeks. "Don´t worry, sweetheart, I won´t kill you. I am far more creative than that."
"Last time I checked draining someone equals killing someone." she uttered defiantly.
"I won´t drain you, at least not completely. Your nurse has been compelled to take just as much to leave you barely alive, after which I will feed you plenty of your precious blood bags. You´ll be at no risk of dying." he explained soothingly.
"But, what´s the point?"
Her confusion was quite amusing. "You see, given that we only have ten days of vacation time, I thought I would not like to waste it waiting for the vervain to leave your system. It should be all out in a bit. So don´t worry, I won´t let you die." he said, placing a gently kiss onto her forehead, as the realization of his next plan for her brought fear into her eyes. "Agatha?" Klaus called out to the bathroom. "I think she needs new blood bags." Caroline never got to see Agatha walk back in, as her neck was snapped again.
Author´s note.
So, this story is more of another project, when I am busy overthinking "I chose your pain" and "Dark and relentless." It´s going to be a mixture of a loveable and a psychotic Klaus. And it takes place after 3x15. The other chapters will be longer, I just thought I put this first bit up, to see how people feel about the premise. Thanks. And by the way... I grow from reviews. No matter which story of mine, the more detailed a review (positive as well as negative) the more ideas I get for more chapters. So feel free to trash or praise me :-)