Caroline stared in the mirror. Had this night really just happened? Had Klaus, the oldest Hybrid in the history of time just admitted his feelings for Caroline Forbes, the young, blonde Miss Mystic Falls? She looked at the drawing one last time and then neatly placed it back in its box and tucked it into her dresser. She let down her hair and lay on her bed thinking of the night's events. She heard her front door open. "Caroline? You home?"
"Up here mom!" Elizabeth Forbes came up the stairs and entered Caroline's room.
"You're home early. Thought you would've stayed a little longer."
"I got tired. Elena left and I was bored so I thought I'd head home." Elizabeth nodded and sat on the end of Caroline's bed.
"I saw you dancing with Klaus." Caroline looked up.
"You did?"
"Yeah, are you two…" Liz gulped. "A thing now?"
"NO! I danced with him, big whoop! I danced with lots of people mom, doesn't mean I'm dating them all!"
"Of course not! That's not what I meant."
"What did you mean then mom?" Liz got up and looked at some pictures of Caroline when she was younger stuck to her mirror. She turned around and smiled at Caroline.
"What I meant was that you're still my little girl, and you may never age again… but you will always be my little girl. And Klaus… Klaus is evil from what Damon's told me. And I don't want anything hurting my little girl." A tear rolled down Liz's cheek. Caroline got up and wrapped her arms around her mom. "Promise me you'll stay my little girl." Liz whispered into Caroline's ear.
"I promise." Caroline wiped the tears from her mother's eyes. She smiled at her mom. "Now promise me something." Before Caroline had a chance to let her mother know what she wanted her to promise, her phone started to ring. It was Tyler. "One minute."
"I'll wait outside." Liz stepped out of the room and Caroline answered the phone.
"Tyler?"
"Caroline! I got your message."
"My message?" Caroline tried to remember leaving a message. "Oh yeah! My message… about that Tyler, I've reconsidered. Tyler… I care about you, but… I've moved on."
"Moved on? You're back with Matt aren't you?"
"No! I'm with nobody. I've just come to my realisation."
"You're realisation? And what would that be?" Caroline took a deep breath.
"That I can't let you torture yourself just because you think you love me, and I can't love someone who would kill me if they were told too."
"I would never kill you Caroline. Never."
"You told Klaus you wouldn't bite me… you still managed to do that."
"Caroline, please!"
"Tyler, I will always care for you… and I don't blame you, just know that." Caroline waited for a Reply. "Tyler?" She put the phone down.
"You broke up with Tyler?"
"You were listening?"
"Caroline, why did you break up with Tyler?" Caroline sat on her bed.
"I'm tired mom, I want to go bed."
"Caroline, tell me." Caroline turned away from her mom and lay on her bed, waiting for her mom to leave. Liz left her room and went downstairs. She went into her room and collected her washing. She went into Caroline's room. "I thought I told you to leave."
"I'm just getting the laundry." Caroline zoomed in front of her dresser preventing her mom.
"Caroline?"
"I'll give you my washing in the morning; just get out of my room!"
"Fine." Liz went to exit the room but ran towards the dresser opening it before Caroline had a chance to stop her. Caroline grabbed Liz's wrist from her dresser as she held the picture Klaus had drew her. "Thought you weren't seeing each other?"
"We're not. He was thanking me for my honesty? When was that a crime?"
"And what exactly were you honest about?"
"I don't need to answer to you. You don't control me anymore." Caroline stormed out of her room and out of her house still holding the picture her mom had took from her dresser. She walked straight down the street heading straight for Elena's when she heard a whisper from the bush across the street. "Hello?" Caroline approached the bush. "Is anyone there?" There was another rustle from the bush. Caroline couldn't feel a breeze of wind which left her confused. "Who is it?" Suddenly somebody zoomed past her. 'Oh great! I'm really not in the mood for a vamp fight!' Caroline thought to herself. She thought about zooming to Elena's house but she just couldn't bring herself to walk away from this fight. Today was just not the day to get on Caroline Forbes' bad side. The blurred figure zoomed past her again… she chased after it until it turned around and grabbed the picture from Caroline's hand. Now she was mad. Now whoever was messing with her was going to lose a heart. Suddenly the blurred figure stopped. Caroline sighed. "What are you doing?"
"Making sure you're okay."
"By scaring me? By stealing…" Caroline paused in mid-sentence. "Thank you for the picture." She smiled.
"You're more than welcome." Klaus smiled. "And sorry about the scaring, you weren't supposed to hear me in the bush… and when you did, I just couldn't resist." Klaus handed the picture back to Caroline.
"What were you doing in the bush?" Klaus grinned but Caroline didn't return his grin, she gave him a look of concern.
"I waited outside your house to hear your reaction to my gift, when I heard what your mom said about me, I left. Until I heard you slam your door. I hid in the bush waiting for you to walk past… I'm guessing your mom found the picture."
"Found? More like go through my dresser looking for it!" Caroline then returned his grin.
"Where were you heading?"
"I was going to go to Elena's, but I'm not going to risk getting involved in her Salvatore drama." Klaus chuckled.
"That's probably a good decision." Caroline smiled. "So how about Tokyo?"
"Huh?"
"Tokyo? Remember what I told you at the ball?"
"Oh, I don't know…" Klaus smiled.
"Caroline, you're the most stunning vampire I've seen in all my lifetime. If I don't get the opportunity to take you somewhere before the end of this fine night, I'm going to be miserable for a thousand years, maybe even two thousand." Klaus handed his hand out and Caroline locked her fingers with his.
"Well, being miserable for thousands of years can't be healthy." She was the happiest Klaus had ever seen her.
"Let's get to the airport then."
"Okay, but definitely not Tokyo. If I'm going anywhere, it's Paris." Klaus laughed. "What?" Caroline smiled.
"Nothing, it's just Paris being the city of love." Klaus looked at Caroline and they laughed together. "Bet you I'll beat you to the airport."
"You may be older, but I own these streets. If anyone's beating anyone. It's me beating you." Caroline zoomed of down the street followed by Klaus, heading straight towards the airport.