Title: In another life
Rating: M
Pairing: Klaus, Caroline
Summary: AU/ AH. By the time he discovered what he truly felt for her, he lost her. He mourned asking for another chance which fate has given him. Still it isn't easy to claim his lost love.
Note: I don't own Klaroline or TVD. No offence to anyone. Everything I write is part of my imagination and is for fun. Thanks for your interest and patience =) Please review!
My heart is and will always be yours.
- Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
0o 4 o0
0o Past o0
"My lady, you haven't been eating properly from last few days." Caroline's hand-maid, Regina pointed out gently. Except for her no one in the castle ever spoke to Caroline using that tone. Kindness was rarely shown or maybe she interacted with wrong persons. She didn't know. Not that her thoughts really mattered to anyone.
She barely got a chance to see her parents in this year. And when she did, she found them happy, enjoying all benefits provided by the King.
Caroline now came to a saturation point and she simply couldn't tolerate whatsoever happening with her. She waited, she waited, and she waited from summer, from the day they tied knot! Now there arrived another summer.
Apparently something was wrong with her, she believed for she did not get a chance to bear child. Her mother was not happy with that and insisted to spend more time with the King.
Caroline wanted to laugh at everyone. Bitterly.
It was clear, her parents were stressed out thinking they might lose all the privileges.
Of course, it won't continue for too long.
Yes, the King was forming an alliance with the succeeding kingdom. Therefore, a wedding was on the cards. That's what she heard.
From the moment, her mind was no longer at peace. The thought of separation made her restless. Was it all? Nothing was there between her and the King? Had he not felt anything, at least for once? She had given him everything she could but he did not wish to return anything? These questions started to eat her from inside.
Moreover, the minimum attention she used to get from the King had discontinued.
And now the General Commander of the army became another trouble. Caroline loathed him to the core and she wanted nothing more than to get rid of his creepy behavior.
The relation between her and the King was weak and wide known to the other officials throughout kingdom. So the Commander was so eager to make a proper use of it.
Caroline felt really helpless.
At some point, she wanted to quit. Yes, she wanted to get out of here finding one way or another.
She had nothing to expect and no one to love.
Pressing the fingertips to the temple of her head, Caroline applied pressure enough to reduce mild ache which was bothering her from inside.
"I do not wish to eat anything tonight, Regina." Caroline murmured, without glancing back at her hand-maid, from the couch she was in. Placing her hands on top of cushioned arm, Caroline rested her chin, brought her legs up. "You may leave for now."
"But, my lady—"
The double doors were opened impeding the hand-maid and Caroline slightly turned to look from her shoulder.
The King walked inside making Regina to curtsy quickly. His hands were clasped at his back as he eyed at the plate of food in Regina's hands.
Caroline slowly rose on her feet, completely turned around to their side.
"Keep it here and leave us alone." His said in firm tone. Though, his steady gaze was on the floor in front him.
Regina placed the plate on the table before she left them like he ordered. Once the doors were closed behind, the King Niklaus locked his eyes with hers.
Caroline, for the first time, had felt no emotion in his presence. Empty, something inside her was.
"You have been avoiding food for a while now." He stated the fact with his eyes twitched to the slightest.
"Yes, my king." Her reply was short as her gaze fell down. Oh, finally he noticed her existence?
"Should I have to know anything?" he asked, closing the space between them.
"No, my king." Once again she answered, fully deadpanned.
And slowly he reached out for her face, placing index finger under her chin he made her to look up at him. "I knew you are a terrible liar, Caroline."
"Apparently you have mistaken, my lord." Caroline smiled stiffly as she pulled back. When a corner of his lips bent into an amused smile, she controlled this urge to scowl at him. "I have nothing to tell you." Her voice sounded stern but not disrespectful. "It must be another long day. Perhaps you need me to relieve you, isn't it, my king?"
Bitterness in her tone caused the King to lose his smile. His mouth became stiff as his eyes lowered to the ground. He seemed thoughtful and the moment passed in a strange fear. Caroline took a deep breath in and decided to face his wrath.
"Indeed," he muttered before locking his sharp gaze with her callous ones. "But before that I truly suggest you to come out of that distress." Klaus turned to the plate of food which Regina kept on the table. "You have not been feeding yourself well lately. Have something, will you? Weakness is all I can find in your eyes."
Before she could control herself, Caroline snorted. "That weakness, it would not kill me my king." Gulping down hardly, she reminded not to shed any tear in front of him. Not that water surfaced her eyes. She was beyond exhausted to cry and thought there left no water inside her to come out at the times as such.
"So much anguish, love?" Klaus pointed out, half-smiled. "Instead of burying it deep, why don't you spit it out?" he suggested moving away from her. His voice still held no emotion and it irritated Caroline to the core. "I waited for this long, Caroline," he stopped making her frown in confusion. Facing her once again he continued. "Expected you would come to me by yourself and share your burden. But you did not."
Still perplexed his wife squinted at the ground trying to understand what he was talking about.
His words brought her attention back.
"Even though I assured you, would you not keep it in mind?" his breathing suddenly turned harsh as took a dangerous step in her direction. He was suddenly angry and that made Caroline to move back immediately. "If I want your body, then I could claim it another way. I have not married you expecting physical relation." He stated coldly and slightly imbalanced from a new emotion which she would say—sadness. "I want more than that, Caroline."
This time Caroline gulped in fear as the man, her husband, terrified and surprised her at the same instant.
He wanted more?
If he was expecting more from her, then how could he have gone to tie knot with another woman?
"You are marrying someone else." Caroline blurted out and was not sorry about it. His frown dissolved, his gaze turned blank. Swallowing lumps forming in her throat, she added. "From royal blood. From your class."
Tilting head to right, Niklaus arched a brow. "Did I declare?"
"Everyone knew it—"
"—Did I declare?" he asked sternly. Caroline remained silent, her gaze met the floor as she shook her head as no. "I thought you are mature than this but you proved to me that you are no less than a child." At that point, she gave him a piercing look. Klaus challenged her silently as he clasped hands at his back. "Am I wrong?"
"But you will marry again at some point!" Caroline argued. "You cannot hold your enemies without alliance for too long."
"Alliance will be made in other ways." Her mighty husband informed in the same tone. "I have my methods to gain acquaintances without being involved in royal wedding or illegitimate affairs." She swore, the expression in his eyes darkened. "If it could lighten you, then I would say I am not interested in anything like that."
It surprised her, would be an understatement.
His declaration was something that had not been expected.
But a part of her wanted more assurance that he would not leave her.
"You had my attention from the very moment I saw you, and you will until my last breath." He said lowering his voice by the end. "Only you."
That—
An audible gasp escaped from the King's wife.
Her heart was beating faster than ever.
Her stomach was flipped inside.
She barely fluttered her eyelids.
A composed Niklaus looked around the room before he pointed at the food. "Now eat."
It was no statement but appeared like an order.
Without another question, she completed her dinner while her husband continued to have wine from the corner of their chamber. Of course, she was too stunned to find her voice.
"I believe it is time for you to have your perquisite." Klaus smirked in an unknown haze. Caroline slightly frowned, stood up a few steps away from the small round table. "Bring it in!" The King passed an order looking at the door.
Soon a guard emerged at the entrance with a large silver plate and a hollow lid covering something.
After placing it on the table, the guard bowed and left them alone once again.
Klaus walked to it, gazing at his wife. Something was wrong, Caroline sensed it from his mysteriously cruel smile.
He uncovered the content on plate by removing the lid.
What she saw had her speechless, frozen to the core.
The head.
The head of—Caroline took her time to register the blood drenching figure—the General of army.
She became nauseous soon after that and averted her gaze. Her features distorted with disgust and terror.
"The head of man who desired what is mine." Her esteemed husband spoke with hint of pride and sadism. "I present you, my wife."
Caroline did not dare to look back at it. What she witnessed could give nightmares for a few more years.
"His body is under pitchfork in the middle of capital of this kingdom." He informed in that tone. "It is going to be a crude reminder to everyone, love." His footsteps neared and soon pulverized filled breath washed her frame. Grasping her chin softly, he forced her to look up at him and his lips twisted into strange smirk. "No one can take you away from me, Caroline." Claiming her mouth as his own, he ran tongue across her bottom lip. "No one."
A pale Caroline's heart was thumping and her entire body trembled more than once.
"And you would not leave me, would you?" he asked nibbling her bottom lip.
Caroline glanced at the head before she looked back at her husband.
She had to be afraid of him for obvious reasons but instead she was afraid of something else: She felt pleasant for getting the assurance she craved.
0o 4 o0
Hello! We did another chapter =)
This one is - Past life. I really hope you guys enjoyed it.
From the next chapter I will try to put both the lives together. lol. So do tell me how you enjoyed it? Take care!