Karaoke
DG32173

Sarah: I know it's a little OOC, but I liked this song and decided it had to be Klaus/Caroline! Also, it's a really slow song. To get the pace, you might want to Youtube it or download it if you can. When I was typing this up, I couldn't find a Youtube video with Garth himself singing it, so I suggest you try to download it or find it somewhere else on the internet. Slight AU.

NOTE
Due to a warning from a member of Eliminator, I will no longer be including the lyrics to the songs I listen to while writing these chapters. It seems that Fanfiction made an announcement back in 2005 that including lyrics can result in account deletion. So, to avoid this fate, from here on, you will have to find the song yourself and listen to it while reading the chapter. I'm sorry, but I don't want my account deleted. Next chapter will be up soon hopefully. If only I can figure out what song I wanna use as inspiration.

Song: Anonymous

Artist: Garth Brooks

Album: The Limited Series

Pairing: Klaus/Caroline, mentions of Damon/Elena


Klaus sighs, running a hand through his hair. He has never been the kind of man who gets nervous over a woman. But then, Caroline Forbes is not just any woman. A thousand years he's walked the Earth, and he has never met anyone quite like her. Before he actually met her in person, she had been one of his options of vampire sacrifices when he was breaking the curse the Original witch put on him to seal up his werewolf side.

When he met her, he actually thanked a God he did not believe in that Damon Salvatore had chosen to save her life. A thousand years, millions of women, and only Caroline Forbes has ever knocked the breath he doesn't need from his chest. If he had written down all the qualities he wanted in the woman he would want to spend the rest of eternity with, he still wouldn't have been able to create anyone as perfect as Caroline.

But there is one big thing hanging in the air between them that is preventing him from actually getting a willing first date with her: he had sacrificed her best friend in his ritual then proceeded to try to kill Elena twice more by draining all the blood from her body. Sure he could compel her to forget that it ever happened, but that would be cheating. And normally he wouldn't be above cheating, but in the case of true love, or as close as he's ever come to it, cheating is completely taboo. Then there's the matter of one of his hybrids being her love interest.

He looks at all the sketches on the walls of his room. All of them feature the vampiress he has been unable to get out of his head since he laid eyes on her. He had included himself in some of his sketches, but most of them feature just the lovely young woman who he loves more than anything in a thousand settings and poses. Art has always been a passion of his. But not even in the best of his sketches can he bring forth all the vitality and passion in Caroline.

He sends her a bouquet of forget-me-nots every Monday and Thursday, having the clerk sign the card "anonymous". She would recognize his handwriting, after all. She had once mentioned in his hearing that her favorite type of flower is the forget-me-not, because it symbolizes true love. He had been nowhere near her line of vision, so she would not have known he had overheard her.

His heart, though dead and still, always feels like it will begin beating again whenever he is in her company. He had always scorned those who fall victim to love, even if they were his own siblings. But now he understands what it's like to be caught up in love. It's like being a fly trapped in a spider's web, only you want to be eaten by that spider that you are so in love with.

Maybe one day he could make his dream of being with her reality. Until then, she'll only know that she receives flowers and the occasional trinket from an anonymous admirer. But, unlike conquests of the past, Caroline deserves to be courted and wooed as if she was a young noblewoman from the middle ages.

Sometimes, his passion for the woman is damning, especially since she doesn't even consider her a friend! He can only take stolen moments in her company, knowing that she hates it the entire time. Hell, if she asked him to, he'd give up on stuffing the cure down Elena's throat to use her as a human blood bag again. He'd stuff the damn thing down Katherine's throat instead! That little bitch has very few supporters. In fact, as far as he can tell, only Elijah would object to Katherine being used like that. Elena, all of her friends, and even those Salvatore brothers would be glad to see Katherine subjected to such treatment.

At least now he understands why someone who finds their true love would do anything for that person, including risk death time and again. The Salvatore brothers are proof positive that that much is true: they have literally laid their lives on the line to protect their beloved Elena so many times that Klaus is somewhat surprised that they managed to last this long. He almost feels sorry for what the brothers are going through, trying to get the baby vampire to turn her emotions back on after Damon used the sire-bond to turn them off.

Klaus finds it highly amusing that Elena's precious friends keep failing to realize that a sire-bond only forms when there are powerful emotions in the human before being turned. They keep failing to realize that Elena had obviously been madly in love with the blue-eyed Salvatore before she turned and just refused to admit it. They keep telling Damon that her feelings are only because of the sire-bond, and the idiot actually believes them. Hate to say this, but sire-bonds only effect the actions of the new vampire, not the feelings.

Klaus smirks as he remembers a conversation he overheard between Caroline and Elena, from before Elena had her switch flipped. Elena had seen a bouquet of forget-me-nots on Caroline's front porch and asked her about them. Caroline had complained about not knowing who sent them. She had asked Tyler, but he hadn't even known she was receiving flowers and trinkets until she brought it up. Caroline has absolutely no clue who is sending the tokens of affection anonymously.

Klaus sighs, gently stroking one of the forget-me-nots he keeps in a vase on his dresser next to her picture. One day, Caroline will know exactly who sends her those love tokens. And one day she'll be his. Tyler Lockwood may be her first love, but Niklaus Michaelson will be her great love. Caroline will be spending eternity at his side, not Tyler's.

Until that day, Klaus will keep sending Caroline forget-me-nots and other tokens of affection with cards signed "Anonymous" by the clerks. Yes, until the day he coaxes her to be his, he'll be "Anonymous".