R-E-A-L-I-T-Y

"In that moment Caroline...everything I felt for you was forgotten. In my mind you weren't anything more to me than a source of blood. I fed on you until every ounce of blood in your body was gone. It wasn't until then that I realized what it was that I had done." he shook his head, as if this memory still haunted him.

"I had killed you. The only person in my life that I was sure that I loved. In that moment when I realized your heart was no longer beating I began to panic. I was sure that if I tried hard enough, I could bring you back to me. Though I was not sure how I would do this, I knew I could not lose you..." he paused.

"It was too late to give you blood to turn you. There was no sound of a heartbeat left within you. Though I had not known my father was a vampire, I knew for sure my mother was a witch, I had seen her heal people before with various concoctions and spells she had created. I knew I had to bring you to her in order to bring you back to me."

F-L-A-S-H-B-A-C-K

"You are not dead!" yelled Klaus to the body of his dead lover. "I will not lose you!"

Klaus began to push on Cosette's chest trying to bring a beat back into her lifeless heart. He had not realized the strength that had come from this transformation of his and soon crushed her ribs.

At this he knew she was gone, he had lost the woman he had fallen in love with. He would no longer be able to look into those glowing blue eyes and see that continuous smile of excitement.

He decided a life without Cosette was not a life he wanted to live. He needed to find a way to kill himself. Is it even possible to kill a vampire? he thought. It must be, he realized. No species is completely indestructible.

"You cannot give up yet," he whispered to himself. He decided to give life one more shot and bring Cosette's lifeless carcass to his mother, Esther. If she could not figure out a way to bring Cosette back to him then he would know for sure that his life was over.

"Come love," he said in a whisper wiping his finger along Cosette's cold forhead.

He picked her up and carried her away to his former house, not caring who spotted them along the way, only wanting to make sure he was able to get her there in time to bring her back to life.

"Mother!" he yelled before even making his way into the door.

His mother looked at him seeing at first every ounce of life drowned from his face by his tear streaked cheeks, red eyes and blood covered shirt. Then the body of the lifeless blonde in his arms.

"Put her on the table Niklaus," she whispered not even seeming the slightest bit startled by this situation.

He immediately listened to his mother, he put Cosette down as gently as possible across the hard wooden table. He grabbed her cold hand in his and began to breathe into it trying to bring warmth back into her.

"Please Mother." he said with a voice that sounded as if coming from a dead man. "I cannot lose her..."

She did not need to ask what happened for she already knew the answer.

"You will not Niklaus," she said this as if questioning herself.

Though she had not completely agreed with their marriage she knew what Klaus felt for this girl, she knew that if Cosette was dead then as was he. She would not let her son kill himself and since he was now immortal she would not let her son live an eternity of misery.

She began to make her way over to Cosette's body. She had various forms of herbs within her hands and began to spread them all across Cosette.

"Let go of her hand," whispered Esther.

Klaus left one last kiss on her palm and slowly dropped Cosette's hand into Esthers. Esther then placed a herb looking somewhat like a strange ingredient he had seen his mother use before in the kitchen into Cosette's hand.

Esther began saying words in a language Klaus had not even known to exist. In a matter of seconds he could see color returning to Cosette's face.

His hope for life began making a reappearance with the gleam of hope that appeared within his eyes.

His mother looked up with a saddened expression on her face. "One day," she whispered. "But not yet Niklaus, the spirits will not allow it."

Klaus ignored the sentence his Mother had just said. He would not let anything ruin this moment for him. His Cosette of whom he loved with every ounce of his being was returning to him.

Klaus could now hear a thump within Cosette's chest that had been lifeless just moments ago. Her eyelids began to flinch. She looked up at him with those glowing blue eyes.

"Klaus," she whispered.

He smiled as if this were the best sound he had ever heard, the sound of the woman he loved; saying his name.

Cosette slowly picked up her hand bringing it up to Klaus' face. With her forefinger she wiped away his fallen tears.

For a moment she looked over at Esther, with their eyes they exchanged some hidden secret.

"One day," nodded Cosette.

Klaus could not make sense of this.

"No," he whispered. "You are here with me now. You're alive Cosette."

"Klaus," she whispered once again.

He wondered why the color looked to be fading from her her face. Why her palm he was holding was once again becoming cold.

"I need you to promise me something," she choked out.

"'Cosette? What's going on!" he hadn't even realized he was shaking with fear.

"Klaus," she tried to yell out, but only managed to screech out a harsh whisper. "You need to make me a promise,"

Tears began make a reappearance upon his face.

He bent down on his knees next to the table where Cosette was lying unable to make out any words. She grabbed his hands weakly and wrapped them in hers. She bent her lips down to kiss them gently.

"I want you to promise me you will never forget what I am about to tell you. I want you to hold on to these words and keep them with you forever,"

He nodded though he was not sure what exactly was going on , just wanting to bring any comfort to Cosette that he could manage.

She let out a gasp as if she was holding on to her last moments of air.

"I love you." she choked out.

I love you, he repeated in his mind. Are these her final words? he wondered to himself.

"No Cosette. You will not die on me," he whispered. "I will not let you,"

She reached her hand up back to his face. "Please Klaus, You need to say it. I need you to promise me."

"I promise," he whispered painfully.

She let out that smile that he loved so and he knew that in these last moments of her life he could not let her down. He knew this would be there last moment together in this lifetime and he knew that he could not ruin it with his dreadful tears.

"And I must ask you for a promise in return," he said bringing her fingertips up to his warm lips.

"You must promise me to never forget how much I love you. You must promise me to never forget these moments we have shared. You must make me a promise in which I know that my love for you will never be forgotten,"

"I promise," she cried out.

"You must never forget," whispered Klaus.

"Never." she answered in return with one last breath escaping from her lips.

Klaus sat there in silence holding on to Cosette's hand for hours; unable to take in everything that had just happened.

"She can't be gone," he cried out, standing up while slamming his fist onto the edge of the table.

"She is not Niklaus." replied Esther in a whisper.

"What did you do to her?" cried Klaus.

"It is the spell of the doppelganger, Niklaus...she will return."

Klaus gave his Mother a look from which she could tell nothing she had just said had registered into his head.

"The spirits would not allow her to return in this body," said Esther. "It is too soon." she paused.

"I have taken the essence of her ancestors and her soul. She will arrive back to you in her own form. She will be the Forbes doppelganger. She will be herself but she will also be a whole new person. This part of her will be within her but it will be up to her as to whether or not she will allow it to return. You will have to find her on your own Klaus if you want her to remember. You will be the only way she will remember."

R-E-A-L-I-T-Y

"Throughout this millennium Caroline I have watched you become a new person. Never once stepping in and making myself known to you. I believed that without me you would be able to find happiness yourself; finally giving you the chance to live a happy, normal life but each time around you find yourself in a new tragic death. Do you know how many times I have watched you die? Each time I have felt the same amount of pain I felt that first time. I can no longer watch you go through these deaths. I can no longer handle losing you. I will not lose you ever again." he paused waiting for Caroline to react.

He took a look at her face now; completely full of pure confusion. He sighed and let out what he assumed she had already understood.

"You must understand by now Caroline...you are the Forbes doppelganger."