Author's Note:

I don't know if anyone is reading reading this. So if you are or if you like it, please leave me a review.
This is my first Klaroline fic, I hope that I am doing an alright job because I mostly write Forwood fics lol.

Paris xxx

"So where exactly is this trunk?" Tyler asked a little uncomfortably, when he had stepped inside Rebekah's room.

Rebekah had clearly not thought this through well enough. She had promised to distract Tyler for a bit, so Nik could pursue Caroline but this was going to be harder than she had expected; given that there was no trunk that needed moving.

"Can I tell you a secret?" she asked, locking her bedroom door behind them and leaning against it. "But you've got to promise me that you won't get mad with me."

"I would just rather move this trunk and get back to my girlfriend, actually. Where is it? Would it be under the bed?" Tyler asked dropping down to his knees to check under her four-poster bed. "I don't see it."

Rebekah laughed at his naivety. "Here's no trunk, Tyler. You can get up."

"Why did you-"

"Lie?" she asked cutting him off quickly. "Because I fancy you. I find you interesting."

"I have a girlfriend, I'm sorry."

"I know and she will never need to know." Rebekah said seductively. "It can be our little secret."

"I think I should be going now." He said trying to head towards the door.

"Ok fine, we don't have to do anything, but can we at least talk for a bit?"

"I should be getting back to Caroline. I'm sure she will be wondering where I am."

"Caroline is fine. She's with my brother; I assure you that she is in good hands."

"Your brother has been trying to make moves on her all night. I don't think she is in the safest company. Now, if you don't mind, I would like to go and find my girlfriend."

"Please don't make me have to do this the hard way." Rebekah said sighing heavily. "Look, just stay with me for about twenty minutes and I'll let you return to Caroline then."

Twenty minutes was all that she would need. That would give Klaus enough time to get to know Caroline and realise that she was nothing really special. She just had to keep Tyler as distracted for as long as she could for her plan to work. Otherwise, Klaus would become fixated on the perfect idea of Caroline he had made up in his head, rather than getting to know the real version of her boring self.

Rebekah sighed heavily. This was not how she pictured having Tyler Lockwood in her room all the times she fantasied about him in the past!

"Why are you so determined to keep me here?" Tyler asked snapping her out of her thoughts.

"I told you. I find you interesting, Tyler."

"He put you up to this, didn't he?" he asked angrily.

"I don't know what you are talking about." Rebekah lied quickly, trying to come across as sweetly and innocently as she could.

"Your brother. You're helping him by keeping me distracted up here, so he can harass my girlfriend!"

"Smart man." She said before taking a sip of her wine.

"Move out of the way, please." Tyler said angrily as he tried his best to reach past her for the doorknob.

"I can't. I'm sorry."

"Rebekah, I don't want to hurt you, so I suggest you move out of my way."

"Must we really do this the hard way? Fine, don't say that I didn't warn you before." She said sighing heavily. "You are going to sit down on the bed and talk to me until I tell you that you can leave; and you will not talk about Caroline Forbes." Rebekah said compeling Tyler stay with her eyes.

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"And this is my favourite room of the house." Klaus said opening the door to his library to show Caroline.

"It's really lovely." She said looking on in awe of the room. "There's a lot of books in here. Do you read much?"

Klaus wanted to tell her that he had read all of these books several times over, but he didn't want to freak her out with going into details of how immortals spent their time over the years.

"I read my fair share. Do you read a lot?"

"Not as much as I used to." She said walking further into the room, to admire his book collection closer.

"I used to buy a new book every week but now I hardly have a chance. My mom has been a little ill lately, and I've been trying to save money in case of an emergency."

"I'm sorry to hear about your mom, Caroline." Klaus said sincerely. "But you are more than welcome to borrow any books that you want from here."

"That's really lovely of you. Thank you." she said smiling at him a little.

Her small smile literally melted his cold heart. It was so unusual for him to feel this way about someone. There was a time that he had thought he might have liked Katerina Petrova, but he realised that never really had. He had only needed her for breaking the sun and moon curse. No other girl came to mind when he thought of women that had enticed him over the centuries. No women until her…

"So you want to be a governess…" he said, drawing on something she had said earlier in the night.

"It's more than likely what I will do when I finish school." She said sighing heavily.

"But it's not something interests you?"

Caroline laughed. "How do you know?"

"You lack the passion it takes in describing what you want to do for the rest of your life. I noticed that you don't seem too thrilled. This just seems like more of a means to an end."

"It's something like that." she said picking up the book that he was reading yesterday and flicking through the pages. "This is my favourite book."

"Mine too." He said smiling at how much despite being absolute strangers to each other they had in common. "Can I tell you something, Caroline?"

Caroline nodded quickly and continued to skim through the pages of the thick book.

"I think you shouldn't settle for anything else that makes your heart beat passionately out of its chest. Apply that to all aspects of your life and you will be fine."

Caroline laughed loudly and rolled her eyes quickly. "I don't quite know how to be passionate about my career, but I'm open for any suggestions you might have."

"Do the thing that makes you most happy. Find your passions and ignite them…life is only worth living when you are doing the thing you love the most. Why bother with mundane, boring things and routines? Challenge yourself. Surprise yourself."

"And how do you suppose me to do that?"

"By finding out who you really are as a person! What are your talents, Caroline?"

"I don't know."

"Surely you must. You don't have to be so modest. A gorgeous girl like you should have an endless supply of talents. I'm sure of it."

Caroline blushed, her cheeks flaring beetroot red instantly. She had no idea what to say to this.

"Can you sing, perhaps?"

"No." she laughed shaking her head quickly from side to side. "But I can play the harp quite well."

"There's a talent!" he said smiling. "I would love to hear you play for me one day. The harp is such a beautiful instrument, one of my absolute favourites."

"So Niklaus Mikealson," Caroline said a little flirtingly, "what then are you passionate about?"

"Allow me to show you." he said smiling and leading the way out of the library.

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"This is my second favourite room in the house." Klaus said when they had reached a locked door at the end of the hall. "If I am not in my library I can be found here. This is where I come to be undisturbed."

He reached into his shirt pocket and pulled out a small key. Caroline was starting to become extremely nervous. She had no idea what was inside the locked room. She was almost on the verge of suggesting that they re-join the party but curiosity had gotten the best of her. There was something about Klaus that she found exciting. He seemed like he was a dangerous person, the kind that she usually avoided in general; and yet somehow she was so drawn to him. She needed to know more about him. She wanted to know what he was passionate about. She wanted to find out the secrets hidden behind the locked doors.

Klaus stuck the small key into the lock and it popped open quickly making a loud clicking noise that made Caroline jump a little. He reached for two already lit candles hanging along the hallway's wall and handed one to her.

Caroline waited for Klaus to walk inside first. From the light of his dim candles she could see that the room was some kind of workshop. There were long tables that held pieces of carven and uncarved wood, painting tools and carving equipment. Along the walls, there were hundreds of paintings and portraits. Caroline gazed on in amazement. She couldn't believe the sight before her eyes. Every portrait was so immaculately beautiful and detailed.

"Did you paint all of these yourself?" Caroline asked in wonder as she held up her candle towards a portrait on the wall, to examine it more clearly.

"Yes."

"They are so beautiful!"

"Do you really think so?" he asked modestly.

"Yes! Have you ever thought of selling you work? You are definitely really talented"

"I have thought about it from time to time. But I never do."

"Well you should! How did you ever paint all these? There must be over a hundred paintings in here."

"Let's just say that I have a lot of time on my hands." He said smirking a little.

"If I had your talent, I would be selling what I painted. I would be able to support myself and my mom comfortably. You have no idea how much money you could make with a talent like this!"

"True." Klaus said nodding in agreement. "But I do not share my paintings with anyone. As you can see I keep this room locked at all times. You are the only person that has ever seen my work."

"Aside from your family, I'm guessing." She said correcting him.

"No, even my family have not seen what this room holds. I am a very private person, Caroline. I tend to keep to myself. I love my siblings to death, but they do not share the same passions as me. So I keep this part of my life private from everyone."

"Why then did you show me?" she asked frowning a little.

"Because you have captivated me completely and I fancy you. I fancy you a lot actually."

"Excuse me?" she asked a little startled by his response.

"I said that you have captivated me-" He repeated before she cut him off quickly.

"I heard you the first time." She said starting to feel a little angry. "I should be getting back to Tyler now."

"I've scared you off, haven't I?" he asked running in front of her to block the exit to the door. "I didn't intend on making you feel uncomfortable. I was only trying to show you what I am passionate about."

"I should go."

"Caroline," he said pulling her close to him roughly.

She was standing directly in front of him now, their faces so close, that their lips were only inches apart. Klaus watched as a range of emotions spread across her face quickly from embarrassment to annoyance to hate.

"Let go of me at once." She shrieked loudly.

Klaus smirked. He was too busy admiring the rise and fall of her chest. He could feel her accelerated heart rate start to kick that much faster at his touch.

"How long have you been with Tyler?" he whispered against her ear, his hot breath tickling her ear.

"Why do you care?" she asked stubbornly, refusing to answer his question.

"My sister was right about you. You do have a sharp tongue! But that's alright. I quite enjoy the challenge." He whispered against her ear again, this time making her whole body shudder with excitement.

Klaus was enjoying every second of this. He loved the way that Caroline's body was responding to his touch, despite all her protestations. She might have appeared angry on the outside, but he could tell by the way that her heart was beating that she longed desperately for him on the inside.

"Please let me go." She begged.

"Not until you answer my question first." He whispered hoarsely, this time making her knees buckle a little.

"Three years. Almost four."

"And in the almost four years that you have been with him, has he ever made you feel like this? Has he ever made you want to ravish him because you've desired him so much?"

"Yes." She said quickly.

"You're lying, Caroline."

"I am not."

"Caroline, I have eyes and I am not easily fooled. I have observed you all night next to Tyler. What you have with him is a sweet love." He said spinning her arm in his arms, until he was holding her from behind. "You both undoubtedly care for each other and love each other immensely but there is no passion…no desire…no lust in your relationship."

"My relationship with Tyler is absolutely none of your business." She said snapping loudly.

"Remember what I said to you when we were in the library? You should never settle for anything else that makes your heart beat passionately out of its chest."

"We were talking about careers!" she said trying to elbow him so she could break free.

"And I told you to apply that to all aspects of your life. You can fight me all you want Caroline, but I know you desire me. I see how your body is responding to my touch, how your senses ignite when I whisper in your ear like this…" he said against her ear, his voice thick with lust, that it made Caroline shudder uncontrollably again.

"I want to go to Tyler now." She said closing her eyes and fighting against the urges she was starting to feel for his dangerous man. She hardly knew him at all and yet she wanted him so badly. He was slowly driving her insane.

Caroline felt her accelerated heart rate pump so hard against her chest. She prayed that Klaus would not hear as her heart thumped loudly and uncontrollably against her ribcage. She was definitely aware of the affect he was having on her body and he was absolutely right in saying that she had never felt like this with Tyler.

She knew that she should be trying to fight him off harder, granted he was too strong and she would never win; but at least she could try. Yet somehow, she was drawn to their closeness. Sensations she had never experienced before began to overtake her weak and vulnerable body. She liked the feel of his hands on her stomach, on her hips…She loved the way she felt a tingling sensation when he whispered against her ear. The way her knees buckled at his slightest touch. The smell of alcohol that oozed out of his hot breath. It was starting to scare her exactly how much she wanted him…

"Please let me go back to Tyler." She pleaded, trying her hardest to fight the urges to ask him to kiss her hard.

"Very well." Klaus said releasing her gently. Her heart fell slightly and she looked up at him with tear filled eyes. "But know this Caroline; Tyler will never make you feel the way that I did tonight."

With one last look at him, she was gone. Caroline ran down the hallway so fast, that she tripped on the hem of her dress and tumbled roughly down on the hard wooden stairs. She wanted nothing more than to find Tyler and go home. She needed to put this night behind her because she was honestly scared to spend another second near Klaus; the stranger she had just met that made her question everything.

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Paris xxx