Kissing You Goodbye
She stood there speechless.
He was really back and sitting in her bedroom waiting for her.
How long had he been there waiting?
What did he want?
Did he really expect to just come home now after everything she has been through and for her to take him back with open arms.
Did he expect her to forgive him?
'I missed you'.
He said breaking the silence that they had been in for the last few minutes, not
only did his voice break the silence but also her thoughts.
She looked at him as she walked past her bed and put her bag on the closet door before turning back to look at him.
'When did you get back?'.
She asked but what she really wanted to know was what he had heard while he had been sitting there waiting for her.
'A few hours ago, I don't know why but I expected you to be at home'
She rolled her eyes at this he expected her to be at home, doing what crying over him while listening to depressing music like the saddest girl in the world.
'I have a life and I had one long before you and I became a couple, sorry to ruin your fantasy'.
He wasn't surprised by her anger but he still hoped that maybe her anger would subside once she saw him again.
'Does your mum know your back?'.
She really didn't want him in her room, let alone sitting on her bed especially now when things where different.
'I haven't spoken to her, your the first person I wanted to see, I've missed you like crazy you have no idea'.
She looked at him thinking back to when he would have left her a message and she remembered listening to the start of the message and then walking away to open the door to Klaus, she never heard the rest of the message not that it would make a difference but she needed to tell him that.
'I didn't get any messages, my mum must have deleted it, I'm happy your back this is your home but do you really think that I can't forgive you for what happened and let things go back to how they where before you bit me and ran away,I could have died.
'I know and I will always regret what happened that night but it wasn't my fault Klaus'.
'Don't blame this on him, do you know how tired I am of hearing that it's his fault, take some responsibility for you actions and stop blaming everything on your stupid sire bond, it was your teeth that tore through my flesh not him'.
your the one whose teeth tore my skin not him'.
'I know but you need to understand you have no hard it is for me, you never gave me a chance to explain'.
'TYLER, do you hear the words coming out of your mouth right now, I gave you so many chances to explain to me but you didn't take any of them instead you ran'.
He shouldn't have been surprised that she was upset she knew everything that had happened her hostility should have been expected but for some reason he expected her to welcome him with open arms.
Her eyes glanced to the clock, how long had she been gone or more to the fact how long had her and Klaus spent kissing in the darkness of the alleyway.
'It's late, you can crash on the sofa for tonight but tomorrow you need to go home'.
'Okay, what about us?'.
He had to keep asking why couldn't he just come back and not expect her to be waiting for him.
'I need time to think you can at least give me that'.
He nodded in understanding and left her alone in her room.
Elena turned into Caroline's street, she had just finished training with Alaric and was now planning to spend the day with her best friend, the car smelled of coffee and chocolate.
It had been a while since her and Caroline had just spent the day being two normal 18 year old girls but then nothing for them had been normal for a while but Elena really needed to spend a day being normal.
He walked out of the door, closing it silently behind him so not to wake her, she looked so peaceful when he looked in on her, blonde hair spread out of the pillow, lips parted slightly as she breathed, how could he have walked away from her but he did.
She looked at him as he turned to face her and was surprised to find him standing their in front of her.
'Elena'.
He didn't even notice her arrival,a small smile appeared on her face and he smiled back.
'Tyler, I didn't know you where back Caroline hasn't mentioned it?'.
She said but she knew why Caroline hadn't mentioned it, everything had been so crazy, Elena's safety had been main priority and in all the chaos of trying to save her life, something's just got lost.
'I haven't been back long, I got back last night, look can you ask Caroline to meet me later at the grill'.
Elena nodded.
'Of course I will, it's good to have you back Tyler, she's really missed you'.
The smell of fresh coffee filled the air and she opened her eyes to find a cup being held out to her and Elena smiling at her.
'Thanks'.
She said with a smile as she sat up and took a sip of the coffee.
'Vanilla latte'.
'Your favourite and I also picked up a chocolate croissant'.
'What have I done to do deserve breakfast in bed'.
Elena shrugged.
'Nothing it's just I know that everything has been so crazy I mean between all the trying to save my life and get rid of the originals, I haven't been a great friend to you or Bonnie'.
'Elena, your safety is mine and Bonnie's main priority, what would we do if you where gone, we love you so much and I know we've end up getting hurt in the process but you are a great friend'.
Elena shook her head as she looked towards a picture on Caroline's wall of the three of them 2 years ago before their lives became vampires,werewolves and curses.
Back when they where three happy girls, with normal problems.
'A great friend would be here when you are getting tortured by your dad, a great friend would have rather died than let Bonnie lose her mum after just getting her back in her life'.
'Elena you where there for me when my dad died and you will be there for Bonnie now like you always have and we will always be there for you because we love you Elena'.
'I love you too'.
They both smiled at each other as Caroline put down her coffee and embraced her friend and she felt the warmth in Elena's embrace.
Warm water cascaded around her as she stood under the shower, the smell of cinnamon and honey danced around her as her mind went back to her dream.
She stood in the darkness, instinct took over as she stalked her prey.
The sound of her blood in her veins was loud in her ears.
His hand touched her arm and the women blushed, then she heard his voice so low to the mere women in front of him he could have just been breathing but not to her, she heard his words clear in her ears.
'Caroline'.
She stayed moving within the shadows watching him, his lips came to her neck and she heard the small gasp of pleasure that escaped her lips and then her gasp of pleasure was replaced with pain.
She was in ecstasy as her blood filled her stomach and then he was there.
The women lay between there bodies, he stepped over her as if she was not even there.
His lips came to hers as he tasted her victim, she heard his sigh of satisfaction and then he stared at her a storm of desire brewed in his eyes.
'So you'll never guess who I found waiting for me last night?'.
Caroline said as she finally came out of the bathroom, it was hard but she couldn't live in her dream forever even if she wanted too.
'Tyler, I saw him leaving this morning, I thought I'd wait for you to bring it up and now that you have,how are you feeling?'
'I glad he's back and that he's safe, but I don't know what he wants from me all he wants is for us to go back to how things once where and I can't do it, part of me wishes he came back weeks ago because I would have taken him back without a second thought but now'.
'Things are different and your not sure if you want to be with Tyler the way he wants to be with you'.
'Exactly'.
'Well he asked me to tell you to meet him in the grill but I'm not going to tell you what to do if you want to go meet him I will be there for moral support and if you don't we can have slumber it and watch movies'.
She was thankful that Elena would support whatever decision she made but she needed to talk to Klaus, they had kissed and as amazing as it was it didn't answer anything, she still had no idea what she was to him, let alone what the hell happened now.
It was just the two of them now, it had been the two of them before and the got by just fine.
She looked up for the French Vogue she was reading and looked at him as he spoke in hushed tones with one of his hybrids, she didn't bother to listen and went back to the glossy pages in front of her but the sound of ringing cut through the air and he glanced at her for a moment and she rolled her eyes as she stood up to answer the phone.
She looked at the called I.D.
'Hello'.
Caroline's voice came through the phone and she looked in his direction but he had left the room and then she looked back at the phone.
'Hello Caroline, to what pleasure does my brother owe this phone call?'.
She heard Rebekah's voice and froze.
'I need to talk to Klaus'.
'Talk to him or distract him while your friends stab him in the back?'.
'It's important I know you have no reason to trust me'.
'Your right I don't, your little stunt last week almost got me and my brothers killed you should be glad that I don't rip out your tongue but my brother is busy, so your just going to have to tell me what is so important that you are calling'.
'Forget it I'll call him later'.
'You do that'.
She hung up and dropped the phone back on the table just as he returned minus his hybrid.
'Where did your friend go?'.
'I sent him to look for our dear mother and Finn, who was on the phone I hope you took a message'.
'No I didn't take a message but then I'm more curious to why Caroline Forbes is calling you'.
He didn't respond to her question and she smiled.
'Your silence speaks volumes, Nik, so when did that happen before or after she tried to kill you'.
'It's not something you would understand
'What's not to understand you are infatuated with her, so either you compelled her or she picked you all on her own without any persuasion, now I'm just curious do her friends know that she's a made a deal with the devil'.
'Well if your planning on telling them, it would be the last thing you ever do'.
'Calm your threats Nik, I haven't made up my mind yet but I don't understand how you can forgive her so easily have you forgotten what they've done, we are bound because of them, they used her as bait to lure you away so they could hurt us, you can't trust her, trusting her almost got us killed or do you not care because you got what you wanted'.
'She earned my forgiveness, I don't have to explain my choices to anyone especially you'.
'Well she hasn't earned mine yet so don't expect me to be happy for you'.
'I never expected that and like you've said we are bound but don't worry, it won't be for long'.
They where expected as seniors to ditch and normal seniors ditched they didn't go to school and thinking about the impending doom they always seemed to be facing.
They went into the city, went shopping, sang a long to songs on the radio and talked about boys that weren't Stefan,Tyler or Damon but the boys they saw, the boys who checked them out as they walked past, the boys that made them laugh.
Caroline had hope that Elena would understand her problem, nobody would understand but maybe Elena would she had fallen for Damon, who was far from a saint himself if his track record was anything to go by, he had killed people, attempted to kill Bonnie, snapped Jeremy's neck and used Caroline as his personal blood bag.
But Elena still fell for him in spite of all the things he had done, she had even changed him in a way.
Caroline would never change Klaus and she knew that but the moments he showed compassion when in her presences he changed for her.
She never brought it up but she wanted to she wanted someone to talk about how she was feeling but Elena would never understand how she fell for the man that turned and killed Jenna, the man who once was ready to kill her to break the curse.
She knew all these things but she still had hope but it was a day of normal and talking about Klaus would haven't been the right time.
She was hard to miss, he was surprised to find her in the city with Elena by her side, both of them laughing and then he saw the man dressed smartly in a suit watching them, well not both of them but the blonde as she walked past.
He was old enough to have a daughter his age but that didn't stop him approaching them.
He listened from his place at the words of confidence left his mouth and her rejection followed by a laugh at his efforts as she walked away but that didn't stop the man calling something out after them before turning back to his friends and the comment that left his mouth, he would soon live to regret.
They walked into Elena's house still laughing about there day when she felt her phone vibrating in her pocket she took it out and looked at the screen and showed it to Elena.
'What are you going to do, remember whatever your choice I'm here'.
'I'm going to have to talk to him, I can't avoid him forever'.
Elena nodded and walked into the kitchen leaving Caroline to answer her phone.
'Hey Tyler'.
'Hey did Elena give you my message?'.
He was already in the grill she could hear music from the stereo in the background.
'Yeah she did but I didn't know if I was ready to face you yet'.
'And now?'.
'I'm being honest I don't think I can go back to before or if I even want too but I'm coming to talk, we need to talk'.
'Okay, I'll wait for you'.
Tyler sighed as she ended the call and looked around and then he felt someone sit beside him.
'Hello mate, it's been a while'.
He didn't expect to feel fear at the sound of his voice but it had been so long since he heard it, he felt the hairs on his arms stand up.
'Klaus'.
Klaus sat opposite him and smiled.
'Where have you been, actually more to the point when did I say you could leave, that's right I didn't but that didn't stop you'.
'I can explain'.
Klaus raised his hand and shook his head.
'Don't worry you'll have time to explain, are you waiting for someone?'.
Tyler nodded.
'I'm waiting for Caroline'.
'Really, I'm surprised'.
Tyler looked back at Klaus who rose from his seat and walked away.
She looked at him as he approached her when he saw her but he became distracted when he heard the crude words come from the man's mouth about what he would do to Caroline and a strange feeling took over him, he had never been a jealous man, why would he ever be jealous of anyone he was the most powerful creature on the planet, he was feared by many.
Jealousy was never a feeling he had ever felt until now and he wondered what he felt that afternoon was it the same as what Caroline felt the evening.
She told Elena that she was okay going to the grill alone and that she would be back later.
She was walking across the town square, she felt like someone was watching her but when she turned around to look nobody was looking at her more distracted by there own lives to pay her any attention.
She crossed over the road to the grill, she heard her name being said repeatedly, it was nothing more than a low whisper, she knew the voice that whispered her name and she couldn't ignore it.
She followed his voice into the darkness, she walked further into the alleyway until she felt him there as he stepped out of the shadows.
His expression was unreadable but a smile appeared on his lips.
'I tried calling you earlier but Rebekah answered'.
He nodded as he reached out for her hand looked at it before looking back at her.
'She told me, that you called was it important?'.
'No, nothing that couldn't wait'.
She lied and he knew was lying to him but he didn't question her not yet.
'I couldn't stop thinking about you'.
He replied and she smiled.
'I was thinking about you too'.
He smirked as he pulled to him pulling her body to his as he put his arms around her and held her there.
His eyes smouldering into hers and then his lips where on hers, she could taste the blood on his lips, it made her head spin and made her yearn for blood, the thought alone was enough for eyes to darken and her fangs reveal themselves and then his lips went rigid against her own and she looked at him meeting his hard gaze.
'Anything you want to tell me love'.
'No anything you want to tell me, I can taste the blood'.
He scoffed.
'It was nothing they didn't have coming, nobody should ever talk about a women that way especially not you'.
'What are you talking about?'.
'I saw you, earlier today with Elena and I heard what the poor excuse for human life said to you'.
'It was nothing, I couldn't handle'.
'True but I was sickened by him, almost like you were sickened by the thought of me with another women'.
'You felt jealous'.
'The thought alone is ridiculous who am I to be jealous of anyone but you have made me vulnerable to jealousy powers and with Tyler back I'm not sure I'll be able to control myself'.
'How do you know about Tyler?'.
'He's in the grill waiting for you I was surprised to find him there waiting for you in fact'.
'I was going to tell you, I wasn't even sure I was going to come'.
'What changed your mind?'.
'Nothing has changed my mind I would rather not be here but I need to talk to 'What could you possibly want to talk about?'.
'About me and him, he thinks there is still a chance for us, I came here to tell him that we can't be together any more'.
'What are you going to tell him?'.
'That my feelings have changed'.
'What if ask if there is someone else will you tell him the truth?'.
'I can't tell him that he'll want to know who and if he finds out about me and you, he will assume you compelled me because I couldn't develop true feelings for you without persuasion and if thinks that he will tell the others and they will find a way to keep me out of the loop while they come up with another plan to try and kill you and your family or you'll kill him and my friends'.
'I can take care of myself'.
He told her and she nodded knowing this to be true.
'I know that but you are still vulnerable, you and your siblings are still bound and I don't want you to get hurt and I don't want you to hurt my friends and I know that the concept is weird to you because you don't have friends you have alliances and that you don't care about them but I do care about them and I love them'.
'You love them and they may love you now but what happens when they find out the truth, your worried about them killing me but what do you think they'll do to you, they'll never forgive you for betraying them, even if they don't succeed in killing me they may attempt to take you down with me, one day you will have to make the choice your friends or me'.
Where they already at this point was he already giving her an ultimatum, she wasn't ready to make a choice between her friends lives or his, let alone her own happiness.
'Are you asking me to choose between you and my friends right now?'.
He shook his head and looked at her.
'That decisions belongs with you but you will have to make it'.
'I know but can I not think about that right now, can't I have my friends and you'.
'For now, now as for you and Tyler, I have an idea',
She listened to him and she hated the plan, she told him herself that she didn't want to do it and he hated suggesting it himself but it was the only way, he couldn't run the risk of having Tyler ready to spill there secret especially when he had Rebekah to worry about.
So that was it he would pretend not to be interested in her at all by keeping himself occupied with other women and she would take Tyler back just as she would have before Klaus got into her system.
It was going to be difficult for them both, for her it would be hard to be with Tyler when she wanted to be with Klaus and for him it would be a test of his patience to watch her pretend to be in love with him.
But it was going to be more difficult for both of them watching the other being with someone else when all they wanted was to be with each other.
He listened from where he sat at the bar just as the night before it wasn't hard for him to get women's attention.
Her name was Amy she sat beside him talking and he nodded and smiled all the while listening as the words left Caroline's mouth
'I know what I said last night and earlier, I was angry and I was upset but I can't have you back in my life and not be with you, I'm not saying it's going to be easy and that things will just snap back into place but we will find away to make it work, I'm not losing you'.
She may have been saying the words to Tyler but her eyes where on Klaus as he spoke to Amy who sat beside him, he meet her gaze for a moment and then her eyes went to Tyler as he kissed her and he turned away looking at Amy and that familiar feeling she felt the night before not only filled her but it filled him.
This feeling was so alien to him, he was the one that told her to take him back but now he sat there not watching them but he could hear every word.
The feeling of jealousy was slowly growing, filling his blood.
His eyes went dark and his mind went to a even darker place a place where he spent hours torturing Tyler before putting him out his own misery and ripping his heart from his chest.
He was only relieved of such dark desires when she excused herself from Tyler with some excuse that she needed to fix her make up which wasn't at all true she was beautiful, make up did nothing for her beauty.
As she walked away from Tyler she looked back and while her eyes may have looking at Tyler she was calling to him.
He didn't even bother to make any excuse to Amy simply compelling her to stay seated until he returned.
She stood inside the bathroom waiting for him and he bolted the door behind himself.
'Why are you making me do this?'.
She pleaded her voice close to breaking.
'It's the only way Caroline, I need to break my bound from my family and you need to make sure that nobody becomes suspicious of us not until it's safe'.
'I'm watching you with Amy or whatever her name is and all I want to do is kill her, I'm not a killer but last night I killed and I told you I do it again and now I have to make myself suffer while this women get to be with you'.
'They will never be with me not in that way but you have to be that way with Tyler'.
'How long do I have to do this pretend?'.
'For as long as it takes I have my hybrids looking for my mother as we speak, this won't be forever'.
'I know'.
He touched her hair and she looked at him.
She was the one to kiss him, her hands in his short hair as he pulled her closer, held her tighter as if were the last time.
She gladly fought for control with him, their lips moving in perfect sync, their minds branding the feeling into their souls.
She left the bathroom first and returned to Tyler who looked at her as she sat back down and he smiled at her.
'You okay?'.
He asked her as Klaus exited the bathroom and walked past where they sat his eyes landing on Tyler for a moment and then he went back to his seat where Amy waited.
'Yeah I'm fine'.
So this was a long one, I know I mentioned that Stefan would be in this chapter but after writing and reading I didn't like the chapter I had written so I re-wrote a new chapter which revolved around Tyler,Caroline and Klaus.
I include a little friendship moment for Caroline and Elena as the show doesn't have enough of them and I have to say I loved all the Klaus/Caroline scenes in 4x07 each moment was perfect and I'm hoping that they do get together this season.
The next chapter will take two weeks after this one and will include flashbacks to Klaus and Caroline but will also feature more of the other characters.
