I've always been an avid Klaroline fan, but I love Enzo's character, and I think he might finally be the one who'll stick by her even when it hurts. I hope you like it!
"I hate you because if I don't hate you then I have to hate me, and I think I deserve better then that." She huffed off, Enzo smiled glad Liz was alive, and that Stefan was still getting the cold shoulder.
"You do, I see things went well." He skipped over the first bit even knowing that she would notice.
"You! You killed Tripp! What if it hadn't worked!? What if they'd killed my mom!" She yelled smacking him in the chest. He held his hands up in a placating gesture, trying not to smirk. She was cute when she was mad.
"I turned Tripp, which yes I suppose means I killed him, but it was only temporary. It was the only way to protect you and your mother while still getting revenge gorgeous. It worked didn't it?" He posed with that infuriating little smirk.
"It was a risk! God do you even think about the consequences of your actions, like ever?" She asked huffing past him, he frowned turning to walk beside her.
"Simmer down goldielocks, I knew exactly what would happen. Unlike some I never act without knowing the conciquences." He told her, she stopped abruptly turning and cutting him off.
"Always! Like the consiquences of killing waitresses! Did you ever think maybe if you hadn't just kept snatching people Tripp never would have suspected you, and when Stefan confrunted you, you would have just snapped his neck? Better yet did you ever stop to think that she might have been someone's sister, or mother, or lover, or only friend!
"People don't just disapear without hurting someone! Everyone has someone who'll miss them! You took those people away from someone because you were too lazy to compel them! Then you ratted me out, I trusted you, I was your friend too! God is that never enough for anyone!?" She yelled poking her finger into his chest over and over to punctuate her words.
He was stunned silent by her words, she growled wiping her eyes and shaking her head. The last bit struck home the hardest, why was it never him, why was he never enough? He'd thought those words too many times to count. She turned and left him gobbsmacked.
ELENA
"I found Liam, he's officially compelled, what was the second thing?" Caroline asked, Elena smiled weakly swallowing hard.
"Okay, don't freak out, but I need you to help me break the compulsion. I got bits back when I crossed the boarder last time, and now... even before... I know I said I didn't feel anything but... it was like when you want to remember a name and it's on the tip of your tongue. I could feel something missing that wanted desperatly to be there, and then I remembered.
It was only bits and pieces, but it was enough for that warm feeling you get when look at someone you like to come back, and then he said he loved me enough to let me go, and... I don't know it just broke my heart. I... I think I might be falling in love with him again, and I need to remember everything." Elena babbled, Caroline watched her as she ranted.
"So wait, what are we actually doing?" She asked, Elena looked up sheepish and hopeful.
"Repeatedly crossing the boarder, and you'll pull me back before I die." She explained, Caroline cringed holding her hands up.
"Oh no, no way! Elena you could die! Like for real!" Caroline insisited, Elena grabbed Caroline by both her shoulders.
"I know, but it would be worth it. Please Care!" She pleaded, Caroline wanted to cry. Elena was so deeply in love with Damon that even while she couldn't remember him she would die to love him. She'd had that with Stefan too, why couldn't she find that? Why was she never the one?
"Fine." She answered, her mind flashed to Klaus for a moment. He'd chosen her hadn't he? Well no, because despite them having mind blowing sex, he hadn't called or written a letter, or even text. Before he would have worked every loop hole around the whole leaving thing, but now he'd gotten what he wanted and moved on, and so had she.
She didn't love him, how could she? He was evil without purpous. He wanted to be redeamed but she wasn't enough to change him. So there it was, she still wasn't enough. No one would give up the thrill of evil, and the kill for her, she wasn't even worth that much.
Enzo stood over a half dead girl while Caroline's words echoed in his head like she was there nagging incesantly, but no that was only his own damn concience. He pulled out the girl's phone flipping the screen lock up. She had missed calls from "Donny3" and a text.
"Don't forget the milk sweetheart. I love you!" He growled tucking the phone back iinto her pocket and nipping his wrist to heal her. He hadn't killed a soul since she'd yelled at him.
"Forget me, you stopped because you hit a dog, the mongrel was fine." He compelled her and flashed away, a cursed woman.
"Caroline?" Enzo asked seeing her sitting with her legs curled up under her. She looked up at him wiping her eyes and forcing a smile.
"Hey." She whispered, she sniffed and wiped her face again.
"What's wrong goldielocks?" He asked moving to sit beside her. She shook her head smiling again.
"Elena got her memories back, I had to watch her almost die like a hundred times to do it, but she remembers." She told him, he could imagine how painful that would be ecpecially after she'd so recently lost a friend.
"That sounds entertaining." He said dryly, she leaned her head on his shoulder.
"Why are you always around when I'm crying?" She asked feeling sorry for herself. He chuckled.
"I'm just the only one who's always around gorgeous, in case it escaped your notice my list of friends is a tad short." He explained it away, she laughed, and it was worth it. He knew he should apologize for risking her mother's life, but he wasn't sorry for killing Tripp.
"You do kind of suck at making friends." She mumbled, he put his arm around her.
"Well I may know some tidbit that may cheer ya up gorgeous." He coaxed, she looked up at him from his shoulder.
"What?" She asked ceriously, he smirked down at her brushing her hair off her cheek.
"Damon was lieing about Bonnie, he thinks we can still save her. Guess he thought she had been offed over there, but... there was something about a teddy bear. It was all very confusing." He told her, she sat up like a shot with a look of disbelief.
"Really, we can still save her?" She asked desperately, he smiled waggling his eyebrows.
"Maybe so." He told her, she jumped forward and hugged him. He froze for a moment in shock, but then wrapped his arms around her waist. She was so soft, and smelled so like honey and melon.
"Thank you Enzo!" She said excitedly scrambling to her feet, he just smiled letting her go.
"Anytime gorgeous." He called after her, she waved back at him all his previous sins forgotten.
N.O.
"Hello gorgeous, to what do I owe the pleasure?" He asked when she finally tracked him down.
"Hey, okay, so I need your help." She told him, he chuckled slamming down his shot and getting up.
"With what?" He asked, she perked up brushing her hair from her face.
"I need to get some artifact thingy from this witch Niya in New Orleans. I was kind of hoping you could come." She told him, he cocked an eye brow at her skeptically stepping into her space.
"Are you asking me on another road trip love, or is there something you're not telling me?" He asked, she gave her best beaming smile.
"I sort of had fun last time, and... okay so my ex... I don't even know what lives there and he's a hugely bad influance on me, and super evil, even more so then you, and I just don't wanna go alone okay. No one else will go." She pouted after her rant, he chuckled.
"Last pick am I?" He chided, she scoffed poking him in the chest.
"No, I haven't asked Damon, or Stefan yet." She told him, he smirked holding his hand over his heart.
"How could I refuse such a touching proposal. When do we leave gorgeous?" He asked, she beamed shifting towards the door.
"Nowish would be good, we can't bring Bonnie back until we get it." She told him, he went over and held the door out of the bar for her.
"Well, then what are we waiting for?" He asked, she lead him out to her car with a bit of a hop in her step.
"So tell me about this ex of nonspecific origan." He prompted after they'd started driving. She groaned of coarse he would ask.
"He was annoying and cocky with an infuriating accent and he was kind of evil." She told him, Enzo laughed letting his hand hang out the window.
"I really am your type, so why did you break it off with this dashing rouge?" He asked, Caroline looked over at him as if to say "really?" Before answering.
"We never dated, we just... he chased after me a lot, and it was nice to feel like for once someone chose me. We only even slept together once, and I made him promise to leave and never come back before I'd even admit that I liked him. Wow, why am I telling you this, it's so none of your business?" Caroline veered off from spilling the whole story about how she loved who Klaus could be in those rare peaceful moments, but the man he was when things went wrong... she could never love that part of him, and loveing someone is about loveing all there parts.
"Sounds like a tosser, no real man could ever be chased off so easily." He teased, she rolled her eyes ignoring his comment and the smile it brought.
"So... killed anyone interesting lately?" She asked once the silence had stretched on for almost an hour.
"No. I haven't killed anyone since Tripp thank you very much. I'm on a strict catch and release diet." He informed her, that shocked her quite a lot.
"Why?" She asked, he tilted his head at her as if she of all people should know.
"Dead bodies equals a trail, and unnecessary risk. Not to mention everyone has someone who'll miss them remember." He answered, that struck home, he had actually listened to her and stopped killing people just because she'd asked.
"Thank you Enzo." She said quietly, he didn't look away from the window, but he smiled.
"You get over Stefan yet?" He asked as if that were the logical next step in the conversation.
"Ugh! Really Enzo!? Every time I start to like you, you have to turn around and be such an ass. I never even said that I liked him!" She countered, he scoffed leaning over to giver her a look of full on skepticism.
"Please you might as well have had Stefan and Caroline forever in little hearts on your binder gorgeous." He told her, she huffed pretending to focus on the road.
"He asked me why." She whispered, she wasn't sure why she was telling him, but she had to tell someone.
"Why what?" He asked unable to fathom why anyone would ask such a stupid question when confronted with Caroline's affections.
"Why I liked him." She elaborated, he shook his head at the notion.
"What an idiotic question, if it were me I'd be asking how I could get that back, and how I could have been so dense as to miss it in the first place." He said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. She looked over at him in awe so long she had to swerve back onto the road.
"How do you do that? It's like sometimes you're this really amazing guy that I completely want as my friend, and other times you are an insensitive ass!" She was baffled, he was so sweet sometimes and it scared her because Klaus had been like that too. She didn't want to fall for a man who would only hurt her.
"I am unwaveringly who I am gorgeous, and I came on this trip as a favor, so be nice." He countered, she huffed focusing on driving. Enzo slumped down in his seat, he shouldn't have been so forward, so to hide his embarrassment he feigned sleep.
Caroline kept looking over at him, he was hot she couldn't deny that. He had stopped killing people, even if it was just because a hunter almost killed him, and he had such deep chocolate brown eyes. It was kind of a nice change, she was so sick of blue eyed boys.
Her eyes kept flicking down to that patch of facial hair, she just wanted to scritch at it. She wondered if it would tickle the way Klaus' had. Oh God was she really thinking about kissing him? Did that bother her? She looked over at him and he caught her eye flashing her a smile. No it didn't really bother her.
She bit her lip watching him for a minute out of the corner of her eye before reaching out and resting her hand gently over his. His breath hitched and his heart skipped, but he made no outward indication that he was awake. After a few seconds when she hadn't pulled away he turned his hand over in hers twining their fingers together, and making Caroline smile.
She didn't know how she felt about Enzo, but she wanted to give him a shot. She wanted to be happy, and despite her better judgment being around him made her happy. She deserved someone who would be there for her over all his other stupid obligations. She deserved to be someone's first priority.
His hands were rough, calloused even which was rare for a vampire. She wondered if it had come from before his turn, but she didn't dare ask and break the moment. He was so warm and holding his hand made her feel good. She didn't think she'd held hands with someone she cared about in a long time. She never took it slow enough to enjoy the way simple touches made her heart skip. This time she would take it slow.
Enzo was practically vibrating in his seat his heart was hammering so loud. He knew she could hear it, but he hadn't been with a woman for seventy years. Sure he'd had a few dalliances with some witch girls and the like, but not like Caroline, not with a real woman.
He of coarse was showing none of it, but having her soft delicate hand in his was the most intimate thing he'd done in decades. He'd only ever held Maggie's hand, before her it never seemed important. Since his imprisonment though he'd realized the significance of slight touches.
She left her hand in his for the rest of the drive and he never made a single comment about it. He just traced his thumb over the back of her hand absently on occasion. She was glad he hadn't called her out on it. She couldn't give him an answer if he'd asked if it meant more, because she didn't know yet.
"Darnisha's? Tell me this isn't were Niya resides." He piped up as she pulled into the restaurant. She rolled her eyes, but still hadn't released his hand.
"No, she works at Niya's Cerio, but google maps doesn't know where that is, and I can't find an address anywhere, so we're stopping for directions, and lunch. Apparently they serve delicious gumbo here." She explained, he chuckled giving her hand a squeeze.
"Don't you think we could have acquired better directions further in gorgeous?" He asked, she blushed at his nickname now that she was holding his hand. Oh God what was she twelve, focus Caroline.
"Maybe, but I want to spend as little time actually in town as possible." She told him, he looked at her for a moment in silence.
"So you're trying to avoid bumping into your ex?" He pointed out observantly, she groaned in defeat releasing his hand.
"Yes, now don't rub it in or you can walk home." She told him getting out, he smirked.
"I wouldn't dream of it love." He said as if he was actually offended. She scoffed.
"You're paying." She told him, he laughed following her inside.
"Hi ya'll!" A peppy mocha skinned woman with huge tits greeted them. Caroline groaned, why did women like that have to ware shirts that were unbuttoned practically to there navel?
"Hello gorgeous, what's good here?" He asked as she lead them to a seat.
"Oh everything's good hun, but our gumbo's to die for!" She flirted touching his arm, Caroline found that it actually bothered her.
"Told you." She mumbled, he smirked pulling her chair out before sitting down.
"Now gorgeous you don't happen to know how to get to Niya's cerio by chance because we're helplessly lost?" He asked, pinning her with that sexy look he had. She beamed putting her hand on his shoulder when he sat down.
"Oh that's in the quarter sweety, it's a straight shot, if you get to Antonio's ya went too far." She told him, he flashed her a smile.
"Perfect, I think I'll pop of for a drink before dinner, what do you say... Tasha?" He asked his eyes dilating, Caroline groaned grabbing his wrist as he got up.
"Don't leave a body." She told him firmly, he smiled taking her hand in his which also took it from his wrist.
"I told you before gorgeous, I'm on a strict catch and release diet." He reassured her, she rolled her eyes, the name didn't have as much pull when he used it on every girl he saw. She flagged down another waitress and ordered them both gumbo. She got a long island, and ordered him a burbon.
A pair of large warm hands slipped over her shoulders gently. She smiled despite herself, she wanted to be mad at Enzo, but he was just so hot. She covered one of his hands with hers.
"Did you have to... Klaus!" She gasped shifting away from his touch with a start.
"Who were you expecting sweetheart?" He asked smirking at her and stealing Enzo's chair. He started sipping at his bourbon too.
"Not you, why are you even here?" She asked a little panicked now, the whole point of bringing Enzo was to avoid this. He looked so good, maybe a little more haunted, but sexy. Kind of scruffy though, she liked that Enzo actually cared about his appearance. Klaus always seemed to just look adorably ruffled.
"I live here love, you're the one visiting." He pointed out, Enzo came out of the back and saw a sandy haired man sitting with Caroline. He'd known she was jelous when he'd flirted with the waitress to get information, but he hadn't thought she would pick up another man.
"And who's this gorgeous?" Enzo asked putting his hands possessively on her shoulders, Caroline groaned, this wasn't going to go well.
"And who the hell are you?" Klaus asked, Caroline held her hands up.
"Enzo, this is Niklaus Mikaelson, my ex. Klaus, this is Enzo, be nice." She said pointedly to each party. Klaus finally tore his glare away from Enzo who still had his hands on her. She found it oddly reassuring.
"I wasn't aware we'd ever stopped whatever it is that we were." Klaus told her, Caroline sighed reaching up and covering Enzo's hand with her own unconsciously. When Klaus' gaze drew her attention to it she dropped her hand like she'd been burned.
"Oh my God, we were never anything Klaus, we slept together once and then you never called, and yes I told you to get out of my life, but that was so I could get on with living it and I am. Come on Enzo let's just go. We shouldn't be wasting time anyway." Caroline said, Enzo was smirking like he'd just won something.
"You're right, no time to dawdle gorgeous." He said reaching his hand out to help her up. She took it and let him pull her up.
"What is it you're in town to get sweetheart?" Klaus asked getting up stopping only long enough to compel a waitress instead of paying.
"Really Klaus, it's nothing okay, just leave us alone please." She pleaded, Klaus smiled leaning in towards her until she could feel his breath fanning her cheek.
"This is my town sweetheart, I could help you." He told her, she rolled her eyes leaving him behind. He was in full on testosterone overload whith Enzo around.
"I think we got it covered mate." Enzo countered, Caroline just kept walking out to her car.
"What your car in the shop, had to ride bitch?" Klaus chided Enzo quietly, not quiet enough, but at least he was trying. Enzo for his part just smiled walking over and opening Caroline's door for her. Thankfully Klaus had his own car to stalk her in.
"He's a real charmer." Enzo said as they drove towards the quarter.
"When he wants to be he's actually very nice, it's the rest of the time that's the problem." She explained, he reached out hesitantly and took her hand with a reassuring squeeze. She smiled twining them together.
"Good thing he didn't stick around then." Enzo offered, she shook her head.
"Thank you for coming, even if you are butting heads with Klaus like a teenage boy. Also do you have to call every woman you see gorgeous, it's usually not true, and it's disgusting!" Caroline huffed, she hadn't meant to scold him, but it really bothered her.
"Well I can always stop if it makes you jealous gorgeous." He offered, she rolled her eyes pulling her hand away under the pretense of steering.
"No! It doesn't make me jealous, just nauseated." She snapped way to quickly, he smirked knowing he was right again.
"Then it shouldn't bother you... gorgeous." He added at the end like a punctuation, she growled. There was no way she was admitting that.
"I take it back you're an ass and you should have stayed home!" She barked steadfastly ignoring the way he was looking at her.
"Hit a nerve have I?" He teased as the pulled into a parking spot.
"Ugh, shut up Enzo." She snapped getting out, Enzo laughed following her out.
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