Chapter 4
Caroline could feel the weight of her eye lids growing ever heavier as she fought to keep them open. True she had been technically sleeping for days, yet those fitful hours of fading between un consciousness and reality had drained nearly as much out of her as the water itself had.
The man who had been crouched by her bedside her bedside had straightened his form, removing his hand from her face, and striding away from her. Caroline lifted her head, letting her gaze follow the man until he came to a stop at the doorway, catching hold of a doctor's arm and pulling him to the side. She continued to watch him, still fixated on her supposed saviour. Her memory of that night was blurred, her thoughts hazed and jumbled together. One moment she was falling backwards into the unknown and the next….
Had he been in the water too? Floating somewhere near by? But how could that be? She had listened and watched as those around her had gone still, their cries disappearing into the night until everything around her was hauntingly silent. She had kicked her legs and circled her arms, desperate to keep in motion, creating ripples in the waters all around her. Yet he had held her body with such strength, clinging to her form. Yet it had seemed that he too had just emerged from the water. She had felt small drops of water fall against her forehead as she leaned against his chest.
"How is she?" Klaus asked searching the doctor's face for answers.
"It's as I said before Mr. Mikelson, for her situation, for any situation really, her condition is rather astounding. Her body seems to be in perfect condition, no hints of frost bite, or infection, but she seems to be in a state of shock. We've been having trouble getting her to communicate with us, haven't a word out of her yet, which makes locating someone to release her too difficult. The ships passenger registry has yet to be located, and with her mental state, we're not permitted to set her out on her own." Ha dug his teeth into the side of his cheek, tasting his own blood in his mouth. He felt a pair of claw like nails dig into his arms, pulling him towards the doorway and into the hallway.
"Enough already Nik! I put up with your sulking for the past few days, but I've had it. I'm not going to wait around for you to get over whatever little trip you've gone on this time. "Klaus diverted his eyes from his sister's accusatory gaze, letting his sights wonder back into the ward.
"Look, I'm heading out west, come find me once you're finished with whatever hell this is." Rebekah turned on her heels, stalking away from her brother, turning the corner and leaving his line of vision. Normal he would have been furious at his sister's abandonment, yet having the responsibility of looking out for his sister lifted off his shoulder did give him on odd sense of lightness. His mind was now revolving on one thing.
"Drink up sweetheart." He placed the cup of water in the girls pale hands, before sitting down on the edge of her bed, The girl, Caroline, looked down at the water for a long time, before looking up to meet his gaze.
"How did you do it? I know you weren't in the water that night. God, why did you do it?"
"That's a question I can't quite answer, Love. You see I don't quite know myself" That was true. He had acted so rashly that night, yet thinking back on it, he didn't remember why. All he could think about was saving her. Not saving one more person, or even hundreds, just… her. Klaus placed his hand atop her knee, running his hand back and forth along the rough fabric of the hospital bed spreads.
"Is there someone the doctors can contact for you?" She shook her head.
"I'd rather they didn't, not quite yet anyway." She looked down at her hands still clasped onto the cup of un touched water.
"Come off it, I'm sure your family is worried about you Love, in less" He faded off, oh god, what had be done, what if they had perished in the waters around her. Had he pushed past their bodies on his way to his daughters rescue?
"Oh no, there fine, it was just me" her breath hitched at the thought of her parents, of her so called family. She was hard pressed to imagine them being worried. It's not like they cared what happened to her anymore, they had washed their hands of her the second her foot at landed on the ship's deck. Not even bothering to stick around long enough to see the ship safely off, waving from the ports decks, like other family members or excited bystanders.
Her relationship with her family had been strained from the start. Next to her older sister, Caroline had been nothing but a disappointment. A rebel child they couldn't keep in line. She had felt so suffocated in her life. Her parents judging gaze and condescending manner trying to force her into what they saw as a proper life.
The last straw had come only months before, and they had followed through with a threat they had been holding over her head since she was barely thirteen. Caroline had been caught sneaking back into her house at three in the morning, her hair in knots, tucking into a cap, dressed in her cousin, Matts old clothes, she knew she had really done it that time.
Back when they had lived in America, there was no one she had detested more than their "friendly" neighbors the Lockwoods. Carol and Richard Lockwood and been even worse than her parents. Watching her every move, shaking their heads when she would come back from a day in the woods, covered in dirt, satisfied by her day's adventure, and felt more than comfortable voicing their opinions about her, and anyone else that matter, for all to hear, but nothing, nothing, was worse than their son. Tyler. She shuttered just thinking of his name.
In Caroline's mind, she was basically being sentenced to death. Life with the Lockwoods. Maybe the water was a better option.
"I just want to be someone else. Just for a few days" Klaus smiled down at her, but the sadness in her eyes was mirrored in his own.
"Whatever you say, love" his hand still rubbing up and down her lower leg.
Okay, sorry for a late update. This chapter is kind of shit…sorry. And its super short…..sorry
