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What the hell is going on?

Caroline felt the blood rushing to her head and her body aching all over. Then she remembered.

Ugh we crashed. Am I alive? Where's Tyler?

She tried to look around but her eyes couldn't open. Sharp piercing ran throughout her body when she tried to move.

I'm definitely not dead. If I was, this wouldn't hurt like a bitch.

Suddenly, she felt two arms wrap around her and unbuckled her.

Tyler. He's safe.

She sighed in relief as she felt herself get placed on the mossy damp floor.

It took all of Caroline's willpower to pry open her eyes. She looked around for Tyler and couldn't find him. "Tyler?" She croaked.

"Guess again." was the reply she heard. He had an British accent, definitely not Tyler.

Caroline looked up to see a familiar face. Her eyes locked with dark blue-green ones. He gave her a smile and a eyebrow raise.

Then it hit her.

"You." The man that was looming above was the one who she met in front of the restaurant. "Get off me!"

"I haven't heard that one before."

"Ugh as if!" Caroline growled showing his chest as hard as she could. Unfortunately, it was not very hard.

"Calm down. I'm not here to hurt you love."

"Who are you? Why are you here? Where's- Oh my god." Caroline struggled to get on her feet. She felt a stabbing pain in her arms and her legs. She looked down and saw pieces of glass in her.

It hurt.

Bad.

That didn't matter right now, all that did was his safety. "Tyler? Tyler!" When she finally got to the other side she gasped at the sight. "The tour guide, he's-"

"Dead as a door nail?" The man said while getting up. "Don't worry, I'm sure it was quick and painless." His tone implied he found this funny.

"How can you be joking about this? This is serious, he's dead." Caroline buried her face in her hands. Tyler wasn't here. She couldn't decide if she should be relieved that he was alive or depressed because he wasn't here. Maybe she should be relieved for both of the options. Had he tried to kill her because she pissed him off? If she had just gotten over it and out of bed earlier, she would've been able to book a proper tour, they'd still be together. "This is all my fault."

"Love, I think you need to calm down-"

"Shut up! Just be quiet for a second." Caroline sighed while wiping her eyes. "I have to go find my boyfriend." She got up and sort of limped past the man and he immediately grabbed her arm. "Let me go, dammit!"

"You need to calm down beautiful, before you go chasing over your one true love with blind, idiotic passion." He told her in a dangerous tone.

"Who are you to tell me what to do? I have no idea who the hell you are." Caroline grunted while tugging at her arm.

"I'm your worst nightmare." He smiled.

"Wow, I'm so scared." Caroline rolled her eyes, "now leave me alone you stalker!"

"No matter how much you protest, you are not venturing into the Amazon by yourself. Especially not after your murderous boyfriend Tyler."

Caroline flinched. Could he have read her mind? "Murderous? Tyler's not... murderous. H-how do you even know Tyler anyways? How do you know anything? Why do you have a British accent, I swear to God you were American the last time we met."

"Well to answer your questions, sweetheart, yes murderous. I know him because I'm an infamous assassin or serial killer if you must and he will be my next vitcim. Well if you try not to be too annoying. I know anything because I know everything and you learn how to fake an accent at the organization's academy." He smiled.

Caroline blinked and processed the information. "S-serial killer?" Caroline opened her mouth to scream but he covered her mouth quickly.

He man leaned in so close to her, she could feel his breath on her ear and he whispered, "you see Caroline, you're beautiful. However if you make a sound I will tear you limb by limb and scatter your body parts around the rainforest. But don't fret, I'll keep but your left arm and take it to your psychotic abuser so he can slide that ring on your finger before he meets his long awaited fate."

Caroline felt his hand move away from her face and he smiled at her, revealing his dimples. She didn't say a word. How did he know about that?

"Now come, follow me. I need to look for Tyler and figure out what to do with you." He began to walked deeper into the thick forest.

Though Caroline followed him silently and without any troubles, she guessed he felt her aura of fear. A minute passed before he turned back to her. "Where's all that spunk love? Don't tell me you're afraid of me now." When she didn't answer he closed his eyes and sighed. "I am not going to hurt you Caroline. You may still be of use to me. And I wouldn't want such a pretty face to go to such a waste."

He was not getting away with that no matter how creepy he was. The last person that hadcalled her just a pretty face was Damon. Now they're cool, but back then, she showed him and all of her friends to watch their tongues around her.

So Caroline slapped him, across his face. No, he did not flinch or show any signs of pain, but she had little patience, a short temper and that was the last staw. "Do not materialize me. Ever." She huffed as she walked away.

At first, Caroline could not see any signs of her being followed and she smirked to herself.

She showed him.

Then after her minute long victory, she could hear the crunching of dried green leaves behind her. Caroline's pace quickened and so did his. Before she knew it, she was sprinting away. Or at the most, trying to. Ducking under branches and darting between trees, twisting and turning to lose him. Her cheerleading stamina helped her the most here, but even that had it's limits. Despite her great efforts, Caroline was now clumsily jumping over logs and jogging at most. It was hard to run with a piece of glass buried deep into your calf.

Soon, her exhaustion and pain got the best of her. Her stupid foot caught a nick in a rock and she toppled over into someone's arms.

"Careful love. If I had let you fall, you would've fractured your wrist. It would seem like it healed up quite nicely but, whenever you would move it, it would make this irritating popping sound. It happened to one of my colleagues."

Caroline was breathing too hard to respond immediately, but she knew this guy was right. It happened to Bonnie, she hated it so much she got surgery to fix it. He really was a know-it-all.

She felt the muscular arm behind her neck, holding her head up. The other was snaked around her waist tightly. The intensity Caroline saw when she met this guy's eyes was indescribable.

He was angry. "You see, I was too busy trying to stop an accident waiting to happen. Now I have no idea where we are." The man's tone was calm as he lifted her up, but every inch of her was shaking in fear. Caroline guessed he felt her shivering and he let go. "Are you frightened?"

She nodded.

"Listen, I'm not going to decapitate you or cut you up into little pieces-"

"But you do that to other people. You do tons of bad things. You're a serial killer who wants to kill the love of my life. I bet you put peole in torture chambers and rape innocent women and stalk people like you're doing to me." Caroline said quietly.

The man smiled. "Not entirely true. I do quite enjoy torture chambers, but I'm not a rapist. I'm not stalking you either."

"Then how do you know my name?"

"Tyler was screaming at you in the restaurant before he threw the glass at you." He ran his thumb against a cut on her cheek. "This wasn't from the car crash. This was from the glass."

The way he talked so softly quickened her breathing. So dangerous, but so gentle. His simple touch made Caroline wonder if he wanted to simply caress and admire her or strangle her. She wanted to slap his hand off her face, but the new anger in his eyes shut her idea down.

"I've been tracking Tyler for some time. I don't know his every move, but I most likely can guess. He was going to propose to you at twelve midnight if the night went smoothly. Then he got mad because of the jacket I gave you. He was also triggered because of someone who's name he didn't mention."

He once again leaned into her. "I'm sorry you had to experience that because of my mission. It was not my intetion to have him react so aggresively. I had thought he matured. If I wasn't on my mission, I would've snapped his neck in a second for taking someone so exquisite for granted."

The sincerity of his accented voice against her ear could make her melt. He wanted to help her? To stand up for her, but he couldn't because of his plan.

Someone cared enough to even consider helping me. Someone wanted to protect me. Caroline mentally scolded herself. He also wants to murder Tyler, you moron. So get that selfish idea out of your head. She saw him as a cold hearted, terrifying murder. At the same time, he's so- not attractive and dangerous and not Tyler. She reminded herself.

"If you would like, I could make it up to you." He smiled.

"Stop trying to seduce me, you creep. I need to find Tyler asap."

"You cannot wander this forest on your own, sweetheart. You have to trust me."

Caroline scoffed, "trust the man that's trying to kill my boyfriend. I don't even know your name and you expect me to bow down and worship you? You're the definition of in over your head."

He seemed to laugh at her bravery. "I am Niklaus Mikaelson. You can call me Klaus, that's what all my friends call me. Now you need to follow me in case you get into trouble." Klaus held out his hand, "I'm your best chance."

Klaus smiled as she walked past him. "Okay then. Since we are traveling companions now, I have a few rules. Number one, no lying. There will be absolutely no tolerance for the telling of lies. Number two, I am in charge. You have no experience of navigation or tracking. If I let you lead, we wouldn't find Tyler in a millennia. Then three, no secrets. Secrets will cause cracks in our newly developed relationship and we wouldn't want that."

Caroline thought about it for a second. "Fine Klaus, I agree to your terms and conditions. Now according to rule three, you have to answer a question. How did Tyler and I get into an accident? You've been following Tyler 'for some time' now. I want to know what happened. I'm guessing it was the dumb engine of that old, beat up car engine but I need clarification."

Klaus caught up with her. "Well if you want the simple truth, I blew your jeep up."

She gasped and he rolled his eyes. "You're the reason Tyler is gone! And the reason our tour guide is dead!"

"Trust me, that was not how I planned it to happen, love-"

"Don't 'love' me asshole! Someone is dead and someone is missing because of you!"

"It wouldn't be the first."

"This is not a joking matter!" Caroline shouted.

Klaus was getting irritated. Did she not have the capability to listen? "Neither was Tyler choking you."

Caroline stopped and quieted down.

"Yes, I planned to get Tyler and the driver into a bloody car crash. The driver died like he was supposed to, it was inevitable. Tyler was supposed to be in a state of shock before I drove a knife in his heart. That did not happen because you weren't supposed to be there."

"W-what do you mean?"

"I thought you wouldn't be in the car because you two were having a lovers quarrel."

"That doesn't answer my question. Why wasn't I just another one of your innocent casualties who dies for 'the mission'?" Caroline rolled her eyes.

"I threw the explosive too early."

Caroline scoffed again.

That angered him. She was so difficult. "I threw the explosive too early for you, sweetheart. Tyler was going to kill you and because of that, I threw it too early. Now Tyler is gone thinking he has outsmarted me! Because of you, Tyler is alive instead of on the floor without life in his eyes!"

Caroline shut her mouth.

Klaus saw the fear in her eyes and regretted for shouting. "I apologize for raising my voice. We need to get going so we can find little Lockwood." Klaus started to walk fowards.

"Don't flatter yourself, you murderer. I rather die by the jaws of an aligator than at your hands." Caroline said in response to him smiling as she moved closer to him.

"Then why are you here?"

"Snakes will always be my biggest fear." Klaus laughed at her response and they continued onward. What a compatible pair.

. . .

"It's pitch black and Tyler's no where to be seen." Caroline continued to cry. "And it hurts everywhere and I'm cold and have nowhere to stay. I'm also with you, a ruthless psychopath who will kill me if I make one wrong move."

"Sweetheart, I'm not going to hurt you. I'll find somewhere for us to stay if you're tired."

Klaus looked down at her leg that continued to ooze blood. He told her he couldn't take it out because there was nothing to clean it with. It would get infected quickly because there was nothing to clean it with. Caroline was only wearing a short sleeveless bodysuit and Klaus wore a long sleeved shirt with black pants. No extra clothing to wrap it with. The dust and dirt particles would get into the deep gash and just make it problematic.

A faint sound in the distance caught his ear. Klaus stopped and began to listen. He recognized the sound. Running water. It was maybe a thousand meters away. "Come on love, not much longer."

After ten minutes of walking, Klaus spotted a small waterfall with a cave covered in moss behind it. Jackpot. Caroline sighed in relief and quickened her pace.

When they got to the cave the two sat there in silence. They were exhausted. Caroline's sniffles broke the quiet after some time. "Caroline, what's the matter?"

She bit her lip to contain her cries, but it failed. "Tyler was supposed to propose to me but he didn't because of my stupidity. Because I accepted a nice gesture and defended my friend that he hates. Then the highlight of our trip was ruined when I tried to talk to him about the incident like a dumb bitch. I should've just gotten over it and try to forget, but no. I couldn't just let another one slide."

Another one? Tyler's been hurting her like this before?

"Then our jeep crashed and Tyler is missing and that innocent tour guide is dead because of me. He could have a spouse and a family and now he's dead and no one knows. Then there's you. You're attempting to kill Tyler and I can't do shit to stop it! I'm scared to run because I know you'll catch me. I know too much, don't I? About how you look, your name and you being a killer. You'll never let me go. You might as well put me in a coffin and nail it shut. What's worse is that you're the only chance I have to see him again. Now we're lost with no food or chance of getting help. In conclusion this is the worst birthday ever!" She sobbed into her hands.

Had he put all these challenges and loads of pain on this precious little lady? On her birthday? Klaus didn't know what to say. All he could come up with was, "those are not your fault."

"Yes they are. If I didn't agree to come to Brazil, I'd be with Tyler right now. He would embrace me and tell me that he loves me no matter what. Maybe I'd have an engagement ring on. Not the picture of small black box that was never opened. The picture that shows up after I think about how much I hurt the love of my life."

Caroline was completely bawling her eyes out and that left Klaus in utter discomfort and a difficult situation. The academy of the organization had taught him nothing on this subject. Assassins were emotionless on missions and your partners and colleagues were the only people that mattered. Regular human life meant nothing and you should care nothing about their feelings. So what was he supposed to do when a gorgeous, feisty but vulnerable blonde poured her heart out to him? The only person he had comforted in his life was his sister. The big difference with this was that Caroline was not his family. She was a complete stranger who resented him.

Just do something Niklaus. You are not a coward. She also cannot hate you more than she does now. You have everything to gain and nothing to lose.

Klaus sighed quietly and wrapped his arms around her frail, shivering body. Caroline stopped crying for a second and look at him. The whites of her eyes were now bloodshot and the red brightened her sky blue irises. Caroline searched his own eyes as if she was looking into his soul. Klaus was about to let go but when she crawled onto him and burried her face into his shoulder, he decided otherwise. She contined to cry into him as he caressed her golden locks and rubbed her back. Klaus's sense of touch seemed to be heightened. Her body pressed against him and her tears soaking into his sweater, he could feel everything. He thought of the many he could do with her.

"These circumstances are not your fault sweetheart. Tyler lashed out at you for nothing at all. He got jealous and angry for a petty reason."

"That doesn't excuse the driver. He's dead and alone."

"He deserved to die." Klaus muttered under his breath. "He was going to let Tyler kill you and force Tyler to pay for his ever so useful silence. I've experienced it first hand."

"Tyler wasn't going to kill me. He's a football player, not a murderer. I know that he'd never do that. It's never crossed my mind before."

Klaus could tell she was lying, but he would let this one slide. He also didn't want to tell her that he had taught Tyler that technique. It was too soon and the wrong time. Instead of yelling, he stroked the silky blonde hair that belonged to her.

"Klaus?"

"Yes Caroline?"

"I'm scared."

"Scared?"

"I'm scared that I'll never see Tyler again. Or anything out of this place for that matter. I'm scared because we're lost and we'll never get out."

"I'm not going to let that-"

"Maybe you'll leave me here stranded in the middle of the night. I mean, why wouldn't you? You have no reason to keep me along. I hate you and I'm terrified of you so why are you letting me tag along? I'm just a useless tool that you have to lug around with you."

Caroline was sobbing hard and Klaus took a deep breath. "I know you have no reason to, but you have to trust me love. I'm not going to abandon you. Do you understand me?"

He felt Caroline nod into him and her crying got softer and softer. She was finally falling asleep. Before she drifted into a deep slumber at the cause of her stressful day, Klaus pressed his lips against her ear and whispered, "goodnight and happy birthday Caroline."