"Ok be calm caroline, its only the wedding you've been dreaming of since you were six, no big deal" said Caroline as she paced the dining hall. Today was the day she would marry stefan, she had no doubts, or second guesses.

Caroline went to the dining hall to make sure all the tables were arranged perfectly, feeling a presence in the room she turned around.

There he was, the man she never thought she would see again. "Hello love" he said as he stepped into the sun smirking as usual, she looked into his blue eyes lost for words "klaus" she said softly standing as still as ice. When she finally snapped out of he trance she crossed her arms with almost a childidh huff "what are you doing here, how are you here, I went looking for you a year ago and they all said you had basically kicked the a billion year old bucket" she said confused.

"well lets just say I was otherwise preoccupied with other things, I have to say I'm a little hurt I didn't get an invite to the wedding" he said staring down on her.

Caroline scoffs as she turns around and picks up the wedding schedule. Klaus amusingly walks and picks up a program "you know this reminds me of a certain resume for miss mystic falls queen, glad to know stefans brooding didn't allow you to lose your touch" he says smirking and looking at her through the corner of his eye. She chuckled shaking her head looking at him " don't even start" she says trying not to laugh.

"you know" he says pulling out a slip of paper "I think I still have the resume here somewhere, ah yes here it is" he says opening it. "You've got to be kidding me" she covered her face with her hands reaching for it as he lifts it higher while reads it laughing. She smiles "ok ok so i was a little ambitious, I can't believe you kept that" she said smiling.

He takes a rose from the table and gives it to her "of course I did" his voice took a serious turn as his eyes bore into hers. "I would never throw away anything of yours caroline, it would be like throwing away the Mona Lisa" at that moment it felt like her and klaus were the only one's in the room. There eyes locked together which such emotion that if they tore apart it would feel like the world is ending, and then it did.

"Caroline" said stefan as he slowly walked in the room examining the situation at hand, she snapped out of her trance and threw a smile stefans way walking towards him " sorry I got caught up talking to-" she trailed off turning around discovering the room behind her was empty "klaus..he was here, or at least I thought he was" she squinted her eyes around the room breathless then looks down at the red bloomed rose in her hand.

A thought crossed her mind as she looked at the bouquet of flowers on the table, she didn't order any roses, he had brought one for her.

Stefan looked at the rose then at caroline "what did he want" he said curiously. she stopped smiling and looked at him fiddling with the loose ends of her hair. "Oh nothing, you know klaus, threats, global domination, I think he left a mini fridge around here somewhere" she stuttered but saw the look her fiance was throwing her way "he just came to wish me happiness stef, you know how he felt about me, so I kindly took it and sent him off" she smiled in reassurance though she could tell he wanted to rebuttal so she shooed him off.

"Go salvatore it's bad luck to see the bride on her wedding day!" She teased and he smiled leaving a chaste kiss on her lips before walking out.

Sighing she walks to her changing area, slipping on her wedding dress and looking in the mirror doing her makeup and putting her hair up which was supposed to be bonnie's job but she was nowhere to be seen.

Elena wasn't here. Her mother wasn't here. Looking around at the empty room she always dreamed would be filled with bridesmaids. It didn't feel like the wedding day she had always planned.

"you look very beautiful" said klaus walking up behind her in the mirror, she swirled around in her dress and looked up at him " Thank you" she stated warily "where did you run off to earlier, afraid to face the groom" She teased. "well I didn't think stefan would be very happy to see me" he said ogling her from where he was standing. She bit her lip and causally walked towards him "why are you here really" she pressed crossing her arms.

"well love i just wanted to see you before you got married" he said "I mean out of all the paths I set out for you I certainly didn't see you ending up with Stefan Salvatore, some may think this means I'm out of the running but we both know you being accounted for has never stopped me and my promise still stands" he smirked with a serious tone in his voice.

She shook her head agape at the words that just played in his mouth, it's as if a million thoughts and possibilitys had been injected in her mind "klaus..." she said turning around and thinking of the night they spent together

~~~FLASHBACK~~~

Caroline and klaus lay naked in the woods wrapped in each others arms, she never intend sleeping with the man who had done such awful things to her friends in the past yet. "ok thats it" she huffed getting up and putting on her jeans and her shirt.

"Is there someplace you need to be" klaus said putting on his jeans. "yes as a matter a fact there is, Rebekah probably found matt so you can go back to new orleans and do whatever it is that you've been doing" she turned to him "or are you still here to watch your dear katerina die" she said scoffing. "your to quick to judge me love, but none the matter, we had a deal, I'll leave and never come back" he said emphasizing the word 'never' while putting on his shirt.

She sighed closing her eyes tight then opening them while turning to him. "Maybe there is an allure to darkness" she said unsure of how he would respond "Maybe there is a path where I could possibly end up falling for you, but falling for you is wrong klaus! its not just all the horrible things you've done, its just...

Mrs.lockwood taught me how to put on makeup, she gave me my first pair of heels, she even gave me advice on boys, though we both know how that turned out" she said looking him dead in the eyes and his smile shrank "and you killed her, but that isn't even the problem, the problem is even after that I'm still considering in my mind that you're even an option!

you make me feel safe in a dangerous way that I just don't get" she said calmy and unsure of where she was heading. He walked up to her "I hope one day you forgive me for my mistakes Caroline, but for now I want you to be happy and not worry about the unknown until your ready to accept it.

listen very closely when I say small town boys, small town life, it will never be enough for you" he moved a piece of her hair from her hair and leaned in to the point where his lips were on her earlobes. "I hope one day in maybe a year or a century, you'll turn up at my door and let me show you what the world has to offer" he said with one last touch intaking her image before vamping away becoming only a fond memory.

~~~End of flashback ~~~

Caroline turned to him and looked in his eyes "I'm marrying stefan" she said with a shakey voice about to walk away as klaus gently grabbed her arm. She looked back at him biting her lip "I can't do this right now klaus" She felt like a weight was being lifted off her shoulder when stefan proposed, like she was finally going to get the life she always dreamed even as a vampire. This is why she told klaus to never come back, he made her think things and feel things that she shouldn't be thinking.

The music started and she snapped out of her trance looking at klaus with a face full of a uncertainty and sorror, she sighed going for the doors and as they opened up for her she braced herself walking down the isle, walking up to stefan and matt who thankfully agreed to marry them.

caroline waited for Matt to finish all the boring stuff that she insisted be cut out but stefan insisted otherwise, she looked at stefan as he had the biggest grin on his face. Why didn't she feel that way? She had butterflies in her stomach and not the good kind. It's like her body was telling her this was a mistake "Do you stefan salvatore take caroline forbes to be your lawfully wedded wife" Matt said looking at stefan. "I do" He said as if this was the happiest day of his life, as for caroline she couldn't help but feel this was moving all way too fast.

She turned to look at the crowd as they stare at her with expectant faces while bonnie behind her looked at her with a face full of concern, Caroline felt like she was buried 6 feet under and a weight was dragging her down.

"Do you caroline forbes take stefan salvatore to be your lawfully wedded husband" Matt said looking at Caroline. She froze and she could feel her palms starting to sweat as she felt about 100 eyes looking at her, waiting for the two little words that would change her life, and she wanted to say them, but just not to him.

Caroline then did something she was gonna regret for the rest of her life "I can't do this" she said looking at stefan "I'm sorry" his face twisted into the worst thing she could possibly imagine which was understanding and heartbreak, she picked up her train running back through the doors that were supposed to change her life, she didn't care who was watching, she just needed to get out of the quick sand.

From the blur of running she saw klaus in the corner of her eye. It was all in slow motion for Caroline she barely even registered the words coming out of her mouth "take me somewhere" she exclaimed pleading to him and he didn't need to hear her say it twice.

Caroline looked into his eyes and all she felt after that were hands grabbing her waist being pulled close and speed going to the unknown.

They had ended up in Klaus's car in silence "where to love" he said carefully and Caroline just shook her head "anywhere that's not here" she said in the faintest whispers that only an original could hear.

She looked back on tonights events and felt like crying, she was a horrible person and she knew it. She just needed to get away and at that moment she knew klaus was right.

Small town boy. Small town life. It just wasn't enough for her. God what had she done.

Three Months Later

"I can't do this"

"I'm sorry"

"How could you do this to me you just left, you don't deserve forgiveness" Stefan spat in her face as Caroline pleaded for him.

"Stefan!"

In a ball of sweat and stress Caroline bounced up from her bed with heavy breaths looking around at her surroundings. Just a dream. It was just a dream. More like a nightmare, the same theme ever since that day. She knew why, her conscious was eating her alive everytime she stayed here. Here? Here. New orleans, with the mikaelsons.

It's been almost three months since the wedding and she still felt the heartbreak on her then fiance's face when she apologized to him leaving him standing alone. She hadn't spoken to anyone in mystic falls except bonnie, she and bonnie had been texting and video chatting for the past three months, she tried to reassure her that she wasn't a horrible person but that conversation sort of went downhill the moment it started.

That wasn't the highlight of their conversations though, Bonnie of course doesn't know where Caroline is, she had told her friend she was traveling around the world finally living her life to the fullest. When in reality she was sulking in the originals guest room like a heartbroken fifteen year old girl.

The situation was definitely not ideal especially when she found out that Klaus had knocked up the werewolf slut who tricked Tyler all those long years ago. Figuring out the guy she ditched her fiance for was a daddy was a little, well it was weird. She conquered through it though, Kol was away doing god knows what, god knows where.

Rebekah apparently was in a coffin hexed by some crazy which, but thats not the problem. No the problem is Esther mikaelson couldn't keep it in her pants and turns out she had yet another child, Freya Mikaelsons.

Freya was probably Carolines least favorite Mikaelson, they didn't trust each other and they had an understanding of ignoring eachother for the past three months and counting, which was fine with her.

Basically the only mikaelsons she associated with were Elijah and...Klaus. Hayley and Caroline had gotten over there petty fighting and had a sort of understanding of friendship maybe? Who knows what to call it but they weren't trying to kill eachother anymore, though if there was one person Caroline really was avoiding. It's klaus's daughter, Hope Mikaelson.

Caroline loves kids, their adorable and cute and so innocent, but this situation was confusing and she didn't need the stress of making a relationship with hope especially if she didn't know if she intended on staying.

Snapped out of her thoughts Caroline heard yelling downstairs. One thing she could always look forward to in the morning is more mikaelsons drama. She Reluctantly got up and went in the bathroom trying to ignore the heated argument like she always did. Living here was like being in the real housewives of New Orleans, Originals style. Except instead of drinks in the face they got daggers in the heart. Caroline internally laughed at her own metaphor.

Picking out the perfect outfit she put on her denim white washed jeans with a white floral top half tucked in her jeans half out, zipping up her beige combat boot and throwing on her dark denim jean jacket she smiled in the mirror while adding a touch of lip gloss.

At least thats what happened in her head, in reality she put on a pair of denim ripped jeans with an oversized sweater and some sneakers and no makeup. Which was so not Caroline forbes yet she liked to call it her post break-up outfit disaster wardrobe.

Exiting her door trying to ignore the commotion downstairs she used the back stairs to sneak to the kitchen but of course, vampire hearing.

"This is why I didn't want Hope to stay in the quarter" Hayley hissed at who Caroline could only assume to be Klaus

"In opposed to where, the bayou with the crocodiles and wolves, no I will not allow our daughter to be raised in a swamp" klaus said firmly as if the conversation were over.

Hayley scoffed murming something about how hope was a crescent but Caroline tuned them out. As far as Caroline was concered Klaus was being unreasonable but of course it's not her place to say. She placed four eggos in the microwave and then brewed herself some coffee not even hearing the tiny footsteps come in.

Hope tilted her head to look at Caroline "Morning" she stated and Caroline jumped turning around to look at the little seven year old with the moon footie pajamas. "Hope" Caroline smiled slightly "you snuck up on me" she trailed off pouring herself a cup of coffee. "I thought you were sleep" Caroline questioned. She knew she was sleep because she listened for her before she even walked down here, to avoid this very awkward confrontation that they were having at this moment. "Mommy and Daddy are fighting again" she sighed looked at her feet as she climbed on one the barstool with one foot crossed over another.

Caroline felt for the child, she knew what it was like to have to constantly hear your parents fighting over you and couldn't help but feel responsible. "I'm sure it's nothing, there just having a little disagreement" Caroline reassured but she could tell the child didn't believe her. Standing in awkward silence for a minute the microwave timer went off and Caroline had an idea. She took the Eggos out the microwave placing them on the Island.

"How about while we wait for them to finish we decorate these waffles and stuff our faces" Caroline smirked and Hope beamed.

"I don't think I'm allowed to have sugar this early in the morning" Hope stated but her eyes were practically watering over the waffles.

Caroline moved a strand of hair away from her ear to hear Hayley and Klaus still fighting, while the so very noble Elijah tried to calm them down. She shrugged "they won't even notice" she smiled and grabbed whipped cream, nutella, fruit, syrup, and sprinkles placing them on the table in front of the small grinning child.

Caroline loved her smile, it was her dad's, it's as if she could see the innocent human Klaus in his daughter and it scared the crap out of her, decorating waffles with Klaus Mikaelsons daughter? This is exactly the seriousness she wanted to avoid.

Though five minutes later all those thoughts blew out the window as Hope and Caroline were laughing over all the supernatural faces decorative waffles they were biting into. Somehow whipped cream got in Carolines hair and Nutella on Hope's nose.

Caroline pulled out her phone facing it towards them "say Nutella!" She chuckled and Hope giggled posing for the selfie as caroline snapped the photo they continued eating.

Just at that moment the door burst open and two very guilty looking girls snapped their heads in that directions. Busted.

"Well I found the source of all the noise" Hayley stood there with her arms crossed looking slightly amused as the two Mikaelson brothers walked in.

"yes indeed you have, it seems someone got into the sweets" Elijah was leaning against the wall dapper as always.

"It was Carolines idea" Hope exclaimed and Caroline faked a gasp "after all we've been through together, we made waffles and this is how you repay me" she bit into one of her waffles getting nutella on her upper lip which made Hope giggle and Caroline smile.

Caroline then glanced up at Klaus who had this unreadable expression of happiness on his face, it was like he was imagining something and Caroline had a feeling she knew, his head then snapped to hers and she felt a blush rise to her cheeks as he stared at her, snap out of it Caroline!

"Well lets get you cleaned up" Hayley stated lifted hope out of the barstool and on the ground, Hope's face then converted to saddness again probably plauged by the thoughts of her parents fighting "ok" she stated as hayley picked her up bringing her out of the room.

Klaus was still staring at her, Caroline could feel the lazers piercing her cheek. Elijah seemed to notice aswell "I've got some buisness to take care of, Niklaus we are not done talking about this" he chastised at his younger brother who simply shrugged "we're more done with this conversation than you know" Klaus stated and Elijah sighed vamping out the room, which left her and Klaus in a room, alone.

Not wanting to be in this situation any longer Caroline did what she always did when she was stressed and started cleaning up the mess they made on the counter, wiping up all the toppings and washing the dish she had used.

"Hope seems to have taken a liking to you" Klaus's deep voice resonated throughout the kitchen and it made her knees buckle.

"She's a sweet kid" is all she could come up with, she knew what he was thinking and she didn't need to give him anymore reason to think so much into this so she needed a subject change.

"She told me she was woken up by your fighting" Caroline stated drying her dish not turning around to face him but she could feel him trying to inch closer "she wasn't meant to hear that" he stated softly almost regretful.

"Klaus the whole city of New Orleans could hear your lovers spat, Hope already doesn't have a normal childhood she shouldn't have to hear every problem you two are having" Caroline scoffed putting the dish up and wiping the island. Of course she had already wiped the island but she didn't know what to do at this point.

"It's seems Hope isn't the only who made a friend today" he smirked with a teasing tone and Caroline cursed herself in her brain, stop caring so much Caroline! It's not your buisness. She sighed and turned to him ready to give him a piece of her mind only to realize he was right in front of her, she could feel his breath tingling all over her.

His bright blue eyes pierced her skull with an intensity she had never felt, his arms trapped her in so she could only stare at him, which is exactly what he wanted. "I-I just don't want her to end up like me. I heard every fight my parents had. Every reason they had it. All up to the point where they got a divorce" she spoke trying to look anywhere but him but he was making it very hard "you and hayley aren't together which is bad enough. I'm just suggesting to be more careful on where you have your fights" she nodded and he kept looking at her until his arms finally unwrapped from besided her and he stepped back still piercing him with that stupid glare.

"Ok can you stop, Stop with the staring! Jesus I feel like we're at dinner and I'm your five course meal" she shivered at the thought, the imagine of klaus biting into her neck way back when flashed in her brain and she couldn't stop the slight arousal she felt inside.

He chuckled, his eyes finally leaving hers. "Nonsense love, why order the five course meal when you can have dessert" oh my god! He's killing me here! Where does this dude even come up with this stuff!

That resulted in her rolling her eyes throwing the cloth she used to wipe the counter on the island and attempting to storm upstairs which failed as he grabbed her arm and she snapped him a 'what now?!' look. "I actually need to talk to you Love" he raised an eyebrow and she sighed defeated "ok" she walked to the dining room sitting down like a child waiting to be scorned by the principle.

"How long have you been residing here Caroline" he asked her name rolling by the tip of his tongue.

"Three months" she answered confused. "Ahh yes three glorious months, and you're always welcome here Caroline, but contrary to what you may think I am not a mind reader" he looked down at her pacing to the other side of the room "what exactly is your plan now that you have made it clear you are intent on not stepping foot back inside mystic falls" he questioned and she had been dreading this question since the day she got there.

She honestly didn't know the answer, Caroline didn't expect to just stay here and not have him want anything in return but she had nowhere else to go. Sure she could travel the world and all that but that would make this situation more real, that she was completely and utterly alone.

She opened her mouth the answer but found nothing coming out and Klaus noticed "perhaps you should call the Salvatore" that sentence was over before it even started "no!" Caroline insisted "I can't. I'm not ready for that I'm not..Look I don't know Klaus, what do you want me to do. You come to mystic falls, you just show up amd rearrange my whole way of thinking and I call off the wedding you know. Not just for you but for me too! Because I don't think I'm ready for marriage to be honest, I've never been out of mystic falls for more than a year. Sure I went to texas for a while and also New York but thats not traveling! I went there on a mission.

I just want to go somewhere without knowing what to expect but then again I'm scared because.." She sighed. She didn't know where she was going with this "look if I'm becoming a burden" she trailed off and he shook his head vamping in front of me holding my chin lightly.

"Caroline you will never be a burden to me, as I said you will always be welcome in my home. You don't have to have a reason to be here Caroline this isn't an ultimatum. I just want to know where your head is at" he said softly his fingers grazing her cheek and pulling away.

She wanted to lean into his touch, tell him that she was here for him and only him, but she knew she couldn't and she knew she wasn't.

She smiled up at him standing up "You once left me a voice mail talking about how much you wanted to show me your city, the food, the art, the music" she teased "and so far all I've seen is the painting of who I can only assume is Mary queen of Scotts hanging up in my room" he chuckled along with her. "A dear friend of mine" he smirked and she rolled her eyes.

"I'll make you a deal, I'll show you my city and you change into something a little more Caroline" he mused looked up at her and she sighed "deal" only then did she realize how close she and him were so she quickly parted and vamped upstairs to her temporary abode.

What was this feeling? This excitement? It's like her skin was on fire, but in a good way. What was this feeling. Snap out of it caroline.

This was Klaus, evil hybrid who tried to kill her friends numerous times and ran her ex-boyfriend out of town. Though Caroline had sailed that boat long ago, she still remembered how Klaus acted as if he had some claim on her.

She is not an object and she wont be swayed by gifts and smiles from the immortal hybrid, or at least so she thought. Next thing she knew, she was walking along side him with a grin spreading from ear to ear.

"You think I'm bluffing"

"Wrong klaus, I know your bluffing"

"You don't think I could be up for the task"

"Ok look I don't care what you say, you did not sleep with marie Antoinette and thats final!"

Caroline and klaus wandered the colorful streets of New Orleans with smiles and teases filling the air. He had shown Caroline all his favorite spots and shops and much to his dismay she had dragged him to every cliche tourist shop she could find. He had said it made them seem like tourist and she replied with a simple "I am a tourist Klaus" while setting some beads around his neck.

They had stopped for Gelato on there way down the main street which was alive as ever, Caroline had hosted a lot of parties in her life but to see such culture and music, she knew New Orleans had her clipboard beat, if anyone ever asked she would deny it.

Of course when she vocalized her thoughts Klaus replied with an oh so gentlemanly response.

"You could plan circles around this town Caroline, your presence is better than any art in this city"

Which was not at all true but it made him one step closer to getting in her pants and frankly she needed the compliment. It's no secret Caroline had insecure issues that didn't want to seem to bury even after her transition, being with Klaus made those all go away everytime he showered her with compliments and little butterfly kisses on her hand that she was trying so hard to ignore.

Caroline stopped at a man painting on a canvas that was half finished and half blank and she tilted her head examining the way he gently stroked his brush into his master piece, the emotion she could tell was apparent.

"There's something, lonely about it"

Shaking her head off the thought of the past klaus crept up behind her "I see you've caught your eye on an artist" he mused with his mouth leaning down to her ear. Caroline turned around with her small gelato cup in hand "Just admiring one of many beautiful things about this city, I see why you've fought for it so much" she smiled at him and his eyes twinkled in delight, pride, and dare she say. Relief?

"I'm glad you're enjoying yourself love but unfortunately I just got a call and am needed back at the compound" as those words fell from his lips her heart sank. Of course. He has a life and a city and a daughter and you just took up his whole day by parading him around tourist shops and exhibits he's already seen. Such a Caroline move.

Klaus must have seen her expression because he place a hand on her shoulder "There is nothing I would rather do more than spend the day with you. Unfortunately buisness awaits" his eyes looked down on her like they were unlocking a puzzle he didn't have all the pieces to. She didn't feel like being solved.

"Lets head back then. I should probably call Bonnie anyway" she lied and stood up straighter licking some gelato off the spoon and raised an eyebrow at Klaus "lead the way tour guide" she joked and he looked at her smirking quickly grabbing her waist close, which Caroline of course did not expect, and faster then the speed of light they were back in the quarter.

Some of her hair had gotten in her face and she felt strong hand gently move the piece to the side to find him staring intently at her.

Their bodies were stuck together like glue and there embrace was a strong hold no one could break, he was meant to let go a while a go and she knew she should have been pulling away but she couldn't see to find movement in her body, it was like she was paralyzed by his touch.

It felt like warmth, like she was being held in the safest place during the apocalypse and the missiles were being shot beside them but they didn't even notice, and she didn't want to go back.

She felt like she wanted to stay like this forever, Caroline had unconsciously moved her face closer to his looking up into his crystal sea eyes.

Only centimeters apart, they could feel eachothers breath and in that moment it felt right, and it that moment she knew what she wanted to go for it, and in that moment..we hear someone clear their throat, and the moment is ruined.

Immediately she was gone, in an instant Caroline was back in the room where she was residing, door slammed shut and her back leaning on it out of breath like she just ran a 5K marathon.

What had just happened! Well Caroline knew what had just happened, she had felt what just happened, but what had just happened! She was seconds away from kissing Klaus Mikaelson and if one of the many faceless people in this house hadn't stopped them, they might've. God what if it was hope! No it was a man's voice! Still what if it was Elijah! Like it isn't awkward enough which the weird looks he passed Caroline like he was confused by her presence, he was going to ask questions and that is so not what she needed right now.

Three months ago she was engaged and picking out table cloths and now she was almost kissing homicidal hybrids! She felt like she was in a stephen kings movie. She didn't come here for that, at least she thinks she didn't. Thinking back on it, the sunnyside stroll down New Orleans probably wasn't the wisest idea but she just wanted to shut him up with all the questions he had been asking.

Deep questions she wasn't even ready to answer herself, not to mention she still didn't know where her and stefan were at, oh my god stefan! She had just kissed Klaus! Klaus who tormented stefan and her friends! She might as well get the words 'horrible person' engraved on her forhead for a warning of anybody who would want to be friends with her.

Coincidently speaking of stefan, suddenly the soft tone of her dial phone silently went off in her jacket pocket which was odd considering bonnie usually calls her later on in the night. Struggling and tugging to get the phone out of her jean jacket she finally managed to flip it out clumsily, though that was probably the worst mistake she had made all day, and that was saying something considering the day she had just had.

Stefan Salvatore

If she wasn't having a panic attack a couple minutes ago, she was definitely having one now. She looked at the contact ID of her ex-fiance's name popping up on her screen saver taunting her like a demon on her shoulder.

If she didn't answer it then he would go to voicemail but then if she did, god what would she even say. "Hey stefan, sorry I pulled a Rachel green on the happiest moment of your life, I'm just not in that point in my life right now. By the way I'm staying with the guy who made you become a ripper and go all physco on people and try to kill your then girlfriend. Lets have coffee!"

Then again if she didn't answer he might think she was mad at him. She didn't have any reason to be mad at him, she's the one who ran out on him! The last thing she wanted to do was hurt stefan more than he probably already was, he hasn't called her or tried to contact her since that day so maybe it was important? Yeah, she had to answer, of course she had to answer!

Caroline reached for her phone to swipe up when her hand stopped and she cursed herself in her mind. The ringing noise stopped.

Damnit Caroline! Why do you have to spend so long contemplating your decisions. Her frown deepened and the groan that left her lips got louder. She couldn't call him back, no she had her chance and that was fate's way of saying that her and stefan so did not need to talk, maybe it was for the best, Caroline didn't think she was ready anyway.

New voicemail

Screw you fate, make up your mind! Caroline bit her lip and tried to wipe her sweaty palm on her jacket and she walked to the edge of her bed sitting down, using her index finger to click the voicemail and await the bad news that mystic falls had burned to the ground while she was gone.

"Um hey Caroline."

Oh god that voice, why couldn't have mystic falls burned to the ground, Caroline hadn't heard that voice in three months except in her nightmares and it felt good, but it also made her uneasy, she didn't know what he was going to say.

"I know we haven't talked in a while...truth is I spend my nights hovering my finger over your number only to 'wuss out' as damon so poetically put it."

He let out a humorless chuckle and it broke her heart, that was her, she was the cause of that heartless chuckle and it chilled her to the bone.

"Anyway um everything is good over here, you know in mystic falls. Matt became Sherrif, we're proud of him for that. Alaric and Jo opened up a school, yeah me and damon allowed them to convert the boarding house to a school for the supernatural. Their kids seem to like that..."

Oh god he's reverting to small talk! Yep Caroline had definitely broke him.

"Listen Caroline we all miss you, and Bonnie told me you were travelling the world like you always wanted and I'm happy for you...but."

'No not but! Never say but! They should just eliminate that word from the dictionary' Caroline thought in her head weirdly coming to the image of burning all dictionaries.

"I just wish I was traveling the world with you, showing you the different music and art, spreading petals all over the bed only for you to complain about the mess."

He let out a laugh on the voicemail and Caroline couldn't stop the tears from sledding down her cheeks and it hurt so much to hear this, this perfect fantasy that she ruined for him.

"I understand why you walked away, I sometimes forget that I've lived my life as a vampire, travelled and experienced things and had time to settle down when your still trying to grow as a vampire, and I now know your not ready for this, for marriage. I don't want to pressure you Caroline. Just..call me back when you get this and we can talk, start over with a clean slate.

I love you."

Shutting her eyes to let the tears drop Caroline held her hand over her mouth to stiffle the cries. He had sounded so broken, all for her. She had complained in her human years that nobody wanted her yet here this amazing man was showering her and wanting to be her husband and yet it just didn't feel right. It's worse to be with stefan and pretend to be happy then not be with him and have him hate her.

She had no right to cry, she hadn't been the one to be broken. Wiping the salty tears from her cheek she sat her phone on the nightstand softly. She hadn't cared that anyone in this house that was within hearing distance had heard the voicemail or her cries. She just wanted to get in the shower then lay in her bed.

Her bed.

Not her bed.

She didn't want to lay in her bed and she knew it, she knew who she wanted to comfort her and it made her feel so guilty. Caroline went inside her bathroom looking in the mirror at the wreck in front of her. Tear stained. Puffy eyes and cheeks. Blotchy red skin. She was pathetic.

As Caroline lathered her hair with soap she thought back to her day with Klaus. Staying here with Klaus made her feel guilty. Wanting to be comforted by Klaus made her feel guilty. Almost kissing Klaus made her feel guilty and yet the day they spent together out and about. She didn't feel guilty. Should she? If it wasn't obvious she broke up with stefan, so who did she feel guilty for. Caroline spent years not doing things because of her image and all of a sudden it all seemed pointless.

Stepping out of the shower Caroline dried herself and her hair while looking back at her relfection. No tears. Glowing eyes and rosy cheeks. Clear fair skin. She wasn't pathetic.

Reaching for her white v neck t-shirt with the words 'Dream' on it in fancy italic letters sprawled on the front and her not too short purple shorts placing them on putting her hand in a ponytail she turned off the bathroom light and looked at her bed. It's been neatly made, by her of course, and it was waiting for her to lay in it, waiting for her to sleep in it and yet, her feet moved in the opposite direction.

She slowly crept down the hall, so much that it felt like a scene from a movie where the girl runs to the guy with a beaming smile for a romantic kiss in slow motion. Except there was no running, no slow motion, no smile, and no romantic kiss. It was just her heart beating like a fire cracker amd her palms sweating like a waterfall. And her soft knuckles being placed on his door.

She could hear his heartbeat, he was in there, she had heard rustling and she knew she could just vamp back to her room and pretend like she was never there but her feet didn't move. The creaking of the wooden door made her heart start beating faster and she felt like she was going to pass out until she saw his face. All the nerves she had suddenly disappeared when she saw his face open that door and look at her in a way no guy has ever done.

"Hi" she spoke almost in a whisper tone

Once the look of shock passed through his face it was soon replaced with confusion. "Is there a problem?" He questioned and she softly shook her head looking down at his feet. Silence passed and she didn't know why she didn't say anything.

"Would you like to come in" he asked and she bit her lip nodding as he made way for her to pass she walked past him feeling so tiny under his gaze.

Looking around his room for the first time being here she was shocked at what she saw, easles, brushes, paintings, and everything was so elegant and neat. She didn't know why she was expecting to walk into something straight out of chucky riddled with blood and dead naked women sprawled on the floor.

"So do I get the Caroline Forbes stamp of approval on decor then" he asked obviously seeing her interest in his room, twirling with the end fabric of her shirt she nodded "could use a little remastering but I'll give it a solid B" she stated.

"B positive, since that happens to be your favorite choice in a meal I'll happily take that as an A" he grinned and Caroline couldn't help but blush under his gaze and hers was brought to the canvas by the bed with the wet paint and she opened her mouth "oh your painting. God I'm so sorry I'm just going to go" she quickly attempted to go to the door but he caught her wrist.

"You came all the way to my room Caroline, don't tell me all you wanted was to scout out my taste in bed spreads hm?" He lifted her chin up with his middle and index finger and she sighed, too late to turn back now.

"I just...I couldn't sleep and...well I didn't know if you were sleep and well I obviously got scammed out of you getting the better bed" she was trying to find a way of asking him to stay without sounding like a desperate hooker and it was not working at all.

He placed his two hands behind his back amused "I don't think I quite understand your question love"

He clearly understood her question he was just being Klaus and it irked her, she was vulnerable right now and he was going to make her beg! She sighed , she didnt want to ask she just wanted to curl up in his bed and watch him paint. It would calm her.

In that moment she sounded more vulnerable and more human than ever. She looked up at him "please" she said in the tiniest of whispers and pleads and his amused expression died down quickly and he had his mouth agape. "Of course Caroline" he gestured her to the bed and she walked slowly and softly almost as if she was a child climbing into her parents bed. She got under his covers and it was heaven, his scent was overpowering every object and every pillow and it calmed her in seconds that is was almost scary. He gently tucked a strand of hair behind her ears and looked down at her for a minute before walking back to the stool and easle in front of the bed.

Caroline then forgot all of it. Mystic falls. Stefan Salvatore. The voicemail. Her being a vampire. Her insecurities. It all just vanished and the last imagine that invaded her mind before sleep consumed her was the image of Klaus Mikaelson lightly feathering the brush over his master piece. The last bit of consciousness was a feeling of caressing lips being placed on her forhead and tingles igniting a fire in her body.

"Sweet dreams Caroline"

I gave you a lot of Klaroline action! And some steroline in their which just a warning is going to be common for a bit throughout this story, because it is about her struggle between choosing two sides of herself.

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