Fire and Desire
Chapter 1
Klaus P.O.V
It was unexpected. I came for answers and she gave me sex, i'm not complaining, I just don't know where we stand. Literally, we were moving so much through the forest we ended up off course. She's a few feet away from me buttoning her jeans and looking for her shirt.
"I'm afraid I destroyed it quite badly love". She looks at me, scoffs, and mumbles under her breath
"Great. My favorite shirt gone." She get her hoodie and puts in on zipping it up most of the way. "Stop staring at me!" She says.
"From what I recall you weren't saying that fifteen minutes ago" I move in front of her and say "I think it was more along the lines of my name". I'm grinning and she's rolling her eyes as usual. " You know just because we had sex doesn't mean that anything changed." She says while started to pace, i'm just about to respond when she says "I mean people have sex all the time and being a vampire-" She looks at me. "And an original hybrid emotions were heightened and one thing led to another".
" A thing you initiated if I might add". She's glaring at me and for once I'm okay with it. " Anyway " She says.
"We both agreed that after this we would go our separate ways, forever". She says the last word a bit hesitantly like she's not completely sure this is the last time.
" Just because this is my last time in Mystics Falls doesn't mean you can't come to me". I'm speaking hopefully and maybe a bit irrationally, with all the drama in New Orleans going on. She starts pacing again staring at me.
" Why did you have to ruin it?" She ask me angrily.
"Ruin what?" "This, we just said parting our separate ways and you say something like that. You got what you wanted, why can't you just leave!?"
"You think all I wanted was sex? Are you serious?" I'm angry now, my words carrying such venom it could not out a snake. Is she mad? Sex wasn't, isn't my intention at all.
" What do you want then? You got the truth and sex there's nothing left here for you". She crosses her arms and turns her back to me.
"I see what you're doing" I say " Clever, getting in an argument shutting me out to avoid the topic at hand, that you enjoyed it just as much as I did. Well you can throw your guilt at somebody else because I don't have time for games Caroline. Not anymore." After I finish speaking I begin walking away. Sometimes I feel like I set myself up for this; The rejection I received from her is so common you'd think i'm used to it but i'm not. I have prior engagements in NOLA anyway like Rousseaus, where I can drink myself to unconsciousness and complain about life to Camille, the brave bartender.
I'm at the outskirts of the woods when I hear her say "wait" I turn around and she vamp speeds in front of me.
" Want to say I took advantage of you now or better yet that I payed you, that would be quite a scandal." I have sarcasm for days or a millenia i guess.
" I just- why do you want me so bad?" She's joking. She has to be because I've told her countless times, her beauty, young wisdom, her light. I may take many things from many people, but I would never take her humanity.
" If I knew exactly why, I would have tried to stop myself get saved from all the heartache." Her eyes are full of sympathy, I hate it ,sympathy is just a flattery term for pity, something I know all too well.
" I'm confused, Klaus-" She starts. "Like I said i'm not even 21 yet. I can't dedicate an eternity to someone without experiencing life for a while maybe centuries. But I think the worst would be If I came with you and lived a life of coulda, woulda, and shouldas". She's right, and thats what upsets me the most because aside from her dying the worst thing that could happen to her is unhappiness.
"I won't do that to you, thats why I'll make this easy. You'll have a choice, I can compel you to forget what happened and forget me, or you can keep your memory and understand that there won't be a moment where I'm awake that I won't regret you hating me". I feel tears coming, I swear if I cry it will be my ruin. I might slaughter the town.
"I don't hate you Klaus". She sounds exasperated like she's been saying this all day. " I just want normalcy, to go to college and live a free life. But I will promise you this, next year I will come to NOLA for the summer and we can hangout, like friends do." She gives me a small smile. I've learned to take what I can get from Caroline.
"Sure sweetheart, just give me ring, i'll be there". She starts walking again. I call out " Caroline I -" Before I could finish she zooms to me and says.
"Don't say it "
"What are you talking about? I was going to ask if we could walk together to the boarding house." She grew red from embarrassment.
"Of course". When we get to the property line I say
"This is where we part." "She turns toward me, her hands fiddling with her drawstrings. "Yeah I guess so" She says.
"Keep in touch" She says.
"You know I will love"
"Well I'll call you when you get to New -" I place a soft, chaste kiss on her lips and speed away."It isn't till I get in the car do I say "Goodbye Caroline".