Falling
This story was inspired by an amazing Klaus & Caroline video by xXWhisperOfDreamsXx
I'm obsessed with Klaus and Caroline they are just perfection and tried my hand at writing my own version of what should be their romance.
So enjoy & let me know what you think with reviews.
The love she wanted was -
Cherishing
Amazing
Inspiring
Eternal
Joyous
Perfect
Delightful
Hope
Trusting
Tenderness
Cherishing
The Love She Found wasn't any of the above it was -
Dangerous
Consuming
Mysterious
Empowering
Ecstasy
Sensual
Illogical
Boundless
Weakening
Emotional
Obsession
Passionate
Powerful
Painful
Reckless
When she was human, she was neurotic, a control freak and insecure.
She wanted to fall in love, the type of love she read about in books and watched in movies but she never said the right things to guys and even if she tried she was never the one they wanted they always wanted Elena.
Then she turned and everything changed, she became more comfortable in her own skin and she fell in love with Tyler, who would have seen that coming back when she was human, she didn't see Tyler for anything other than a womanising jock and now he was the boy she loved.
He was her prince and then he entered the story the dark knight who wanted to steal the princess away from her prince and make her his own.
He had threatened and killed people she cared about,he had turned Tyler into a hybrid, so much blood was on his hands.
But then he had saved her life, he came to her after Tyler had bitten and she knew he was the reason why but when he came into her room.
Something changed that night when he walked into her room, he wasn't the aggressive and hostile monster she knew him to be he was empathetic towards her, it was a side of him she thought didn't exist but she was watching it with her own eyes.
She assumed that he would leave her to die, why would he care that it was her birthday she was nothing to him just another vampire someone he could easily get rid of but he didn't, she couldn't believe the words coming from his mouth but yet she found herself believing every word.
He had given her the choice it was up to her whether she wanted to live or die before he came she was ready to die but listening to him speak about the life she could have the great cities,art and music that world had to offer her, she knew she didn't want to die she wanted to experience it all, so she made the choice.
It was in that moment that everything between them would change.
The ball or as she describe it some twisted Cinderella fetish was that evening and to say she didn't want to go would have been a lie.
She was intrigued by the invite she had received and the dress he had sent well it made her want to create her own Cinderella moment.
He saw her before she saw him, she was a vision in blue. the bracelet he gave her rested on her delicate wrist, she saw him notice her and walked towards him an air of confidence surrounded her.
'I need a drink'.
She replied to his greeting and walked past him leaving him stunned but yet wanting her even more than he did before.
They danced and shared small conversation, she refused to speak about her father especially to him but it was something they had in common, fathers who would rather them dead than try and love them but she refused to speak of the father she lost so recently.
'I fancy you'.
She wasn't sure if she was hearing things but he had come out with the words another rare moment of honesty from Klaus's lips.
He couldn't believe that she didn't believe that he could fancy her but then he knew why most of the guys she had gone for had always fallen for someone else and she was never really first choice but she was his, Elena did nothing for him but she did.
She challenged him and excited him and it had been centuries since a women made him feel anything.
She wasn't going to let him know that the words he used when he spoke about her made her heart flutter, nobody had ever said such sweet things to her before and the last person she expected them from was him.
She left him that night upset and she felt bad for the things she had said but they needed to be said and she was the one to say them.
She saw the light on the answering machine flashing and went to hear the message that had been left.
'Caroline, it's Tyler'.
She started to listen to the message but was distracted as there was a knock at her door, she walked out of her room the message still playing and found herself looking at him as he stood outside the door.
She was surprised to find him there after the way they had left things, she composed herself and answered the door to him.
'Hello'.
He said politely and she nodded.
'What are you doing here, Klaus'.
Her voice sounded angrier than she intended it to and he looked down as he stepped into the house.
'I wanted to give you something'.
He opened his jacket and took out a slim black box which he handed to her and then he turned back to the door as she removed the ribbon from the box and opened it to reveal a rolled up piece of paper which she opened and looked at and then she looked at his retreating figure.
'Klaus'.
He stopped in his tracks and turned to look at her as she stepped out of her house to face him and they stood there two people with things to say but she would never say these things to him and he didn't know how to say the things in his head out loud to her so instead they just stared at each other, everything they had to say would have to wait.
She hated this plan that they had come up with she didn't want to be used as bait to lure him away, things had changed between them but she didn't want to let her friends down, she knew they would never understand they still thought her heart belonged to Tyler and maybe it did but he wasn't what she wanted any more she craved darkness.
'I remember her from last night, she looks like a tasty little thing'.
He had no idea of who his brother was talking about until he looked up to find her walking into the grill and in their direction.
He looked at Kol and kept his voice low.
'Say another word and I'll rip out your liver'.
He didn't like the way Kol spoke about Caroline, she wasn't ever to be spoken about that way especially in his presence he wouldn't stand for it.
She pretended not to notice him standing there with Kol as she walked towards the bar, she was wearing a top that was a little tighter than usual but she was using her feminine charms to her advantage to get Klaus to tear away from Kol.
'Caroline'.
She tried not to smile as he said her name and looked at him.
'It's you'.
He looked down almost embarrassed and she felt a rush of pride that was the on to have a real affect on him.
'Join us for a drink?'.
He knew it was a long shot, she would never join him and Kol for a drink and he would much rather have a drink with her alone than with his brother.
But she declined as he suspected she would and turned to walk away.
Kol's comments hung in his ears, he had accepted the challenge, she was always going to be his ultimate challenge and he thought that they had some break through but he was persistent and wasn't giving up on her that easily and he followed after her almost getting hit by a car in the process not that it would have injured him the slightest.
'Caroline'.
She heard him call her name but she also heard the car driver curse at Klaus as they slammed on the breaks to avoid hitting him and she couldn't help but smile but then she remembered this wasn't part of the plan as she turned to face him.
'Are you serious take the hint?'.
She said as she turned to face him, arms folded across her chest a look of annoyance in her eyes, even though she wasn't really annoyed that he had chased after her.
She turned to walk away the smile reappearing on her lips as she heard him continue to follow.
'Don't be angry love, we had a little spat I'm over it already'.
'Well I'm not'.
She continued to walk and he continued to follow after her, he'd follow her anywhere if he had too.
'How can I acquit myself?'
She stopped and sighed as she got her game face on and looked at him.
'You and your expensive jewellery and your romantic drawings can leave me alone'.
He knew she was bluffing something in her eyes gave her away and he smiled.
'Come on, take a chance, Caroline'.
He sits down on the bench and looks at her.
'Talk to me, get to know me, I dare you'.
He was now challenging her, to sit down with him and join him in conversation.
His smile would have won her over before she turned, in fact she would have already jumped into his arms and let him whisk her away if she was still human but she wasn't that Caroline any more.
'Fine'.
She sits beside him acting to much like she doesn't really want to be sitting beside him and he turns his whole body to face her and she looks at him as he smiles at her and she is now the one to feel embarrassed
'So what do you want to talk about?'.
'I want to talk about you'.
She scoffs at this suggestion but this doesn't stop him.
'Your hopes, your dreams, everything you want in life'.
She laughs and shakes her head a little before looking at him.
'Just so were clear, I'm to smart to be seduced by you'.
He nods and smiles.
'Well that's why I like you'.
It was just many of the reason he liked her.
They talked a while mainly about her and then he stopped talking and she watched as he placed his hand to his heart and she knew he felt it.
The dagger that entered his brother's heart.
'What is it?'.
She asking her voice staying even so not to give anything away.
'What did you do?'.
'Nothing'.
She replies but he has already grabbed her and is holding her tightly.
'What did you do?'.
He asks again his voice full of venom and anger, his eyes where raging showing recognition of the monster she knew him to be.
'I didn't do anything, stop it'.
She is scared now, he has never acted this way in her presence before and she isn't sure if he aware of the fact that he scaring her as he loosens his grip on her and steps back from her and disappears.
It has been along night for them both, she goes to Bonnie's to help Abby but she feels guilt for betraying him and she hopes that more than anything he is still there.
She arrives at the house just as it starts to rain and finds it in almost darkness, she doesn't need a invite as she walks into the house she can hear the crackling of the fire place and can smell the burning of paper.
He tears page after page from his book, she had betrayed him and he did suspect that she was capable of such things.
He had hoped that he changed her view of him but obviously he was wrong she would much rather him dead than let him into her life.
The pain he felt in his chest, he couldn't place it whether he was feeling the pain that his brother felt or the pain of knowing that she was using his feelings against him, he had admitted to fancying her but it was more than simple infatuation, she captivated him, he was animal trapped in her snare or he was now he wasn't sure what she was to him but the flames that engulfed his drawings helped if only a little.
He hears footsteps and assumes it's Rebekah or Elijah but when he looks up she is standing there and he doesn't say anything as he tears out another drawing and she looks at it.
It's a drawing of her, they are all drawings of her in his sketchbook, she watches as he throw the page into the fire and the flames consume the paper turning it into nothing more than blackened ash.
She had no idea that he spent many a night and day drawing endless pictures of her beauty and now she watched as he burned them as if she meant nothing to him at all.
'Stop'.
She commanded but he ignored her as he fed another picture to the awaiting flames.
She watches again as the flames take away his drawing and she knows he's mad, worse than that he is vulnerable and it was her fault.
She herself had called him out on his crap and he changed let his guard down with her own for her to turn him in the nearest chance she got.
'What are you doing here?'.
He asks not looking at her as he tears out another drawing and feeds it to the flames.
'I wanted to apologise for what happened tonight'.
He looks at her, his eyes suspicious.
'Why, you wanted me and my family dead and you almost got your wish'.
She shook her head and walked further into the room but he put his hand up to stop her getting any closer to him.
'Your wrong, it wasn't my wish, it hasn't been my wish for a while, I never wanted to get you hurt tonight but I couldn't deceive my friends they wouldn't understand, I don't even understand myself but I don't want anything to happen to you ever'.
He closed the sketchbook and rested it on the table as he moved towards her.
'What are you saying that you couldn't live in a world where I would be dead'.
She nods instead of answering, her eyes can't hold the gaze he is commanding out of her and her eyes leave his and land on his lips.
'Why is that, Caroline could it be you have fallen for me after all your denial and persistence that you belong to Tyler, have I truly found my way under your skin'.
His voice questioning, like he asking himself this question as well as her.
'I don't belong to Tyler, I don't know what I want any more'.
'That's obviously not true otherwise you wouldn't be here, tell me what it is you want?'.
She turned away from him and closed her eyes tightly imagining that he wasn't really there and that she was just telling her feelings to the wind.
'They'll never forgive me if I made that choice, they'd hate me, they never understand but it's okay for her to want something so wrong but not for me, I'll never understand that but I can't help wanting it, wanting you, I want you'.
Her eyes remained closed and he stood motionless and she opened her eyes and turned around to look at him unmoving and then she felt his hands on her face eyes burning with unspoken desire as he looked at her.
'Where does this leave us?'.