Caroline gasped with fear, turning her body away from the screen as she hid her face against Klaus's shoulder, her slender fingers clutching his shirt in her fists as she tensed her body, waiting and listening for the scary part of the movie to be over.
Klaus just chuckled and pulled her tighter against his side, his eyes falling away from the tv screen to look down at the adorable blonde who was currently curled against him and kissed the top of her head. "You know you are a vampire, sweetheart. You are one of the scary things that go bump in the night."
"I'll have you know I am a nice vampire, not scary at all. " Caroline mumbled against his shirt, completely indignant that he found her fear humorous yet still too afraid of what was going on in the movie to look up at him and give him the glare he deserved.
"Well if being a vampire does not keep you from being scared of horror movies than what about the fact that you are the wife of the most powerful and feared creature on the planet?" Klaus smirked at his title, Caroline could hear the pride in his voice.
Caroline finally pulled herself away from his shoulder to meet his eyes, the look on her face conveying the fact that she could not believe that he was serious about his statement. "Ummm, Pin Head is way scarier than you are."
Klaus just scoffed.
"AND I think Pin Head could totally take you."
"Love, I hardly think a man with nails in his head and Rubik's cube could take me down." Klaus rolled his eyes, an annoying habit he had picked up from Caroline.
"All the powers of hell torturing you Klaus, and let's not forget the chains and hooks all that creepy crap."
"I'm the Original Hybrid, sweetheart. I invented torture." Klaus said, unable to keep the condescending smirk off his face.
Caroline scoffed and pulled herself away from his side, coming up to her knees as she sat back on her feet, the movie forgotten as she was completely determined to win this conversation.
"Ok, how about Freddy Krueger. He is scary as fuck, tortures and kills you in your dreams."
"Unless he has a white oak stake he is not going to do much killing and a burned man with glove made of blades is hardly frightening, especially when I have claws." Klaus said with a wolfish grin, his eyebrows lifting as he tucked a stray curl behind her ear.
"Jason Voorhees."
"The only way he could kill me would be boring me to death by forcing me to watch a hockey game."
Caroline frowned at him, her brows pulling together as she tried to wrack her brain for scary movie characters.
"Ok, what about that guy from Texas Chain Saw Massacre."
"I eat people, sweetheart." Klaus dead panned as he lifted his hand to stroke her hair, gently threading his fingers through her curls. Caroline sighed softly, her eyes closing for a second at the feel of his hand in her hair. And then she was back to reality, smacking his hand away giving him a glare, she knew he was just trying to distract her from the conversation.
"What about Pumpkinhead?" Caroline said trying to sound confident knowing he wasn't going to take her seriously.
She was right. The moment the words were out of her mouth he just snorted not even bothering to reply.
"What about Stephen King's freaky clown monster."
"Easier to kill than a werewolf, love, you just need a little bit of silver. I however, am not." His trademark smirk back in place as he pulled her into his lap, his head dipping to nuzzle the curve of her throat as his hands settled around her hips.
Caroline just sighed, her arms lifting to curl around his as she settled herself in his lap. She would complain but he would just spout something romantic and then they would get off topic and she was bound and determined to win so she said nothing about being in his lap.
"Ok, what about Michael from Halloween." Caroline said as she played with his hair along the base of his neck, her body relaxing against his.
"Again, love, I would eat him." He murmured softly against the skin of her neck, his lips grazing absently over her shoulder causing her to shiver.
Caroline wrinkled her nose, clearly not pleased with her quickly diminishing list of characters.
"What about that girl from The Ring?" A grin of triumph touching her lips as she finally found a horror movie character that could do at least something to him. "She could totally desiccate you."
"When all I have to do is stuff her back into the telly and make a copy of her movie and send it on like a bloody chain letter, there isn't much she could do after that love." He said as he looked up at her, an eyebrow lifted as he took in the grin on her face.
"But she could still do it!"
"And so did your witchy little friend Bonnie and look how that turned out." Klaus smirked as he watched Caroline's face fall and she softly grumbled 'she could still do it' under her breath a last ditch effort to at least pretend she had found one character that could at least do something because there were no more horror movie characters she could name. Klaus just snickered knowing he had won.
"Now let's get back to the movie, shall we?" Klaus's annoying British accented voice dripping with condescension.
Caroline muttered softly as slid off of his lap and curled back into his side, his arm looping around his wife's shoulders he lifted up the remote and rewound the film back to the point they had left off, a chuckle escaping his lips as he could feel Caroline hiding her face against his chest once again knowing that they had only been half way through the scary part when they had started their debate.
The funny thing though, she actually wasn't quite as scared watching the movie now as she was before their little talk. It reassured her knowing that out of all the monsters imaginary and not, her husband was the biggest and baddest of them all and she was safe within his arms.
