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She heard a thud outside of her front door confusing Caroline as she turned over in bed still wishing for sleep to come.
Sleep would have to wait she thought as the blonde slid her hand under her bed for the crowbar she kept there for protection.
Lifting the cool metal from the ground she let her feet drop to the floor lightly as she tugged back her sheets and stood up.
Caroline shut her eyes as another thud sounded off closer to her door than to her neighbors' but stepped forward anyways.
She peeked through the eye holder and found no one as she clutched at the metal bar in her grasp before reaching for the door.
Caroline held the door open sighing with relief when she found Klaus hugging the floors fichus to keep from falling over it.
Smiling as she watched him stumble over his boots as his jacketed arms held onto the stem of the tree before he buried his face in the leaves.
"Hello Sweetheart," his accented voice greeted more merrily than usual as he let go of the tree and held onto the wall for balance.
Caroline set the crowbar against the door frame before she joined him out in the hallway heating at Klaus' blatant perusal of her.
She came to the conclusion that he must have found the top shelf of a bar and cleared it out before he stumbled back into the building.
"Hi Klaus," she replies unable to keep the smile from growing on her face as she takes a tentative step closer as if she might scare him.
"Did you know I can hear you sing anime songs in your shower Love?" he asks as she reaches him, Klaus' hand resting on her bare shoulder.
Caroline blushes looking away from the dancing blue orbs of his eyes as she makes a mental note to not do that again, well too loudly.
"I didn't," she tells him as she turns on his side with her arm around his trim waist helping him walk as she carries his weight.
The small hairs of his scruff tickle her cheek and make her body pool with desire as he murmurs against her face, "You have a lovely voice."
Her breath hitches as Klaus sways left to right as they waddle back to her apartment because she doubts he'll make it to his down the hall.
"Come on," she says pushing her door open with her foot as he holds onto the door making her almost drop them as she falls back on his chest.
Caroline looks at him about to ask what is wrong when he says, "That's not my lamp," and the blonde ha to bite her lip to keep from laughing.
"It's mine actually," she tells him as she helps him loosen his hold on the door frame and pull him inside so she can shut the door behind them.
"We live together?" he mumbles out loud in question as he walks over to the large sofa, "What about that bloke that's always around?"
"Enzo?" Caroline asks as her eyebrows crinkle matching his description with her old friend instead of posing the obvious question.
The fact that they don't actually live together, or talk usually, like at all, but he's drunk and she was brought up right so he can sleep it off here.
"Yeh," Klaus says his accent more prominent with the liquor swimming in his system as Caroline sets her knee on the sofa next to him.
"He's not here because he lives with his girlfriend," Caroline explains softly as she places her hands on the zipper of his leather jacket.
"So you're not then?" Klaus asks gesturing with his fingers making her smile as she shakes her head that no Enzo and her are not together.
Klaus lifts his eyebrows, a smile forming on his perfectly plump and pink lips making Caroline hot and cold as she unzips his jacket.
"Thank you," he whispers as she helps him shrug it off and set it on the back of the sofa and it's the first thing he's said to show her he's sobering.
"No problem," she whispers back as their eyes meet and Caroline realizes her breathing is a little bit heavier than usual.
His hands are at his sides as she takes a seat on the wooden coffee table instead of next to him, the pair of them illuminated by the moon.
"I'm lit," he remarks making her laughter fill up the quiet of her apartment as she tosses her head back lightly missing his blissful stare.
Klaus is smiling when she looks back at him but he's moved forward now, his elbows by his knees as he leans closer more sober than before.
She feels her heart pounding in her chest as she realizes just how close they are, how little clothing she's wearing and how perfect he looks.
Even drunk, with bleary eyes, and mussed hair there's something about him that makes her feel like a school girl with a crush.
The fact that he actually is a professor is neither here nor there because even before she knew that there spark of exhilaration.
Caroline feels it now too just like she does every time she sees him, from the first moment she knocked in his door with welcome muffins.
From the first time he smiled at her in the elevator a few months back or asked about her Mom when he accidently got a letter addressed to her in the mail.
Wracking her brain now she wasn't certain even know why nothing had ever happened between the two of them.
Caroline moves to stand and Klaus tries to follow consequently getting a head rush, "Easy," she sighs touching his face.
Klaus inhales sharply at her touch making her pull back, "You're welcome to the couch tonight," she tells him as she reaches over him.
The blonde shuts her eyes at the feeling of his warm body right next to her as she reaches for the red blanket she keeps on the back of the sofa.
"Thank you," Klaus replies as he kisses her cheek before she can stand up once again like it's the most natural thing to do.
Caroline pauses only for a moment ignoring the lingering scent of whiskey watching as he unties his boots and set them neatly aside.
"Happy to help out a neighbor," Caroline tells him trying to keep the mood light as she hands him the blanket she's been clutching.
Klaus chuckles softly watching her as she walks to the hall closet to grab a spare pillow and blanket just in case he might need it.
"You could just give him some sugar," he quips with a pout of his lips when she returns making her jaw drop at the suggestion.
"That," Caroline says bending slightly as she replies so that her lips hover over his own as she locks eyes with his widening ones.
"You earn," she tells him knowing he feels on his skin her enunciation because his lips quirk into a grin that has her heart stuttering.
"Soon enough," he promises as he takes the pillow and blanket from her grasp and lies on his side tucking his socked feet into himself.
Caroline purses her lips at the confidence in his sleepy voice before sucking her bottom lip into her mouth wishing he did it instead.
"Sleep tight," she softly says as she walks back to the front door and locks it grabbing her crowbar and strolling back to her room leaving the door open.
Klaus hums in reply as she tucks her weapon back under her bed hoping to roll over into sleep mode until morning smiling at the prospect of it.