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Chapter 4:

Elijah was still waiting in front of the prison with Katherine who was currently going out of her mind. He did his best to keep her calm and next to him. He had to keep an eye on her if he didn't want to find her killing guards with her nails and high heels. Elijah could tell that she was on edge. She was biting her nails, and Katherine Pierce never bit her nails, never.

They were just there, waiting and it had been that way for nearly two hours now. Elijah who was usually a really patient man was starting to lose his patience and every now and then was asking around if there was something new. But at his despair there wasn't.

His thoughts were broken when he noticed Caroline's mother walking his way. She looked worried but there was also a little hope in her eyes.

"Hello, Mister Mikaelson, Katherine." She greeted both him and Katherine.

"Sheriff Forbes, please call me Elijah." Elijah greeted her.

"Liz, thank god you're here. Is there any news about Caroline? Oh my god! I'm so sorry about Bill." Katherine exclaimed not really tactfully, let's just say Katherine didn't do tactful, add that to the fact that she was on edge and this was the result.

Liz looked down for a moment, she didn't really realize the fact that her husband was dead yet. She hadn't seen him in a few months and her focus was on Caroline for now, so it really hadn't registered yet.

"Thank you, Katherine. And yes, that is why I am coming to talk to you, there is news about Caroline. It has been confirmed that Caroline is locked up inside the prison. We also know that all the cells are open, so prisoners are free inside the prison." Liz stated with her professional voice.

"That's horrible! They are going to kill Caroline." Katherine exclaimed looking frantically between Elijah and Liz, "But I'm sure she won't let them do it, not without a fight." she added to reassure herself.

"We managed to connect our system with the cameras inside the prison and we spotted Caroline. She is fine for now, even if she had an altercation with some prisoners earlier. Fortunately another prisoner helped her and apparently killed them. I don't know more for now because that's when I left to talk to you." Liz said and then looked at Elijah, "Some guards identified the prisoner who helped Caroline as Niklaus Mikaelson, and being his brother and his lawyer I'd like you to follow me to identify him." she said before adding, "and maybe you'll be able to tell me what are his intentions with Caroline, I mean, you know him so you can tell from his behavior if he is going to kill her or not."

"Of course, Sheriff Forbes." Elijah agreed looking at Katherine who mouthed 'I'm coming with you'.

After a few minutes of following Liz they entered a van and inside they discovered a lot of screens everywhere that were showing different places in the prison. Elijah and Katherine both looked quickly through the screens noticing that it was mostly corridors, the outside where a lot of prisoners currently were, the kitchens and a lot of other rooms including a few cells. It seemed there were cameras even in the cells, but they couldn't see the whole cell, they could only see the side were the beds were and not the one with the toilets.

"Can you identify and assure that the man standing next to Caroline is your brother, Niklaus Mikaelson?" Liz asked Elijah pointing at a screen.

Elijah walked closer to the screen and looked at it to see Caroline walking behind Niklaus. It seemed they were walking in the corridors and Caroline was talking to him but Niklaus didn't seem to talk he was just listening, or knowing him he was not even listening to what she was saying.

"Yes, this is my brother, Sheriff Forbes." Elijah answered not leaving the screen with his eyes once.

They all watched as Caroline seemed to talk and never stopping, she just talked and talked and talked. Elijah looked at Katherine to see that she was looking at her friend with a small smile on her lips. He could tell by her stance that she was relieved to see Caroline safe. He had to admit that it was weird seeing Caroline talking to Niklaus like this and him not seeming to be bothered by it, Niklaus usually hated people who talked too much.

Then Niklaus abruptly turned around and grabbed Caroline roughly shaking her. They couldn't hear what they were saying, they could only see them and Elijah noticed everyone starting to fidget in the room. Liz Forbes looked at the screen intensely and Elijah could see in her eyes the worry, Katherine on the other hand was looking straight at him and glaring daggers at him and he perfectly knew why. He had told her that if Caroline found his brother she would be fine, and now he was manhandling her.

Elijah sighed when Niklaus let go of Caroline and was taken aback when he saw the regret on his brother's face. Niklaus never felt regret for anything. Liz relaxed but he could still see the worry in her eyes as she kept her eyes on the screen and Katherine turned back toward the screen not saying anything.

Once this was over Caroline started to walk and he smiled seeing Katherine and Liz both smile as she went the wrong way and Niklaus had to call her back, and then they talked, Niklaus actually answered her and smiled at the last thing Caroline said. Elijah hadn't seen him smile in so long; it was really rare to see a smile on Niklaus' face.

They just all watched as Klaus and Caroline continued to walk in silence and then reached the cells, one of the policeman said that they would surely spend the night in one of them. He was right, they watched as Klaus and Caroline entered Klaus' cell.

Elijah couldn't help but smile once more as he saw Niklaus smile too once again and it appeared as if he was playing with Caroline, because she seemed uncomfortable and trying to explain something while Niklaus looked completely amused by it.

Niklaus was clearly taking pleasure in annoying Caroline, poor girl. It was weird but Elijah was happy seeing his brother like this and he started to feel glad that Caroline was locked inside. It sounded wrong and he knew it, but Niklaus always seemed to have this small smile on his face while being with Caroline.

They stayed in the van for a long time; they actually stayed until they saw Klaus and Caroline going to bed. They were about to go out when they saw Caroline moving and talking in her bed. They all turned back toward the screen to see Caroline standing up and Klaus jumping out of his bed. Caroline climbed in Klaus' bed and then they all watched confused as she looked panicked.

"Caroline is afraid of heights" Liz said still looking at the screen.

Everyone nodded in understanding still looking at the screen to see Klaus climbing in the bed after Caroline and her grabbing his arm and telling him something. He simply nodded with a nice smile lying down next to her in the bed and then they stopped moving.

Elijah was bewildered. Niklaus didn't stay with people to reassure them, the only person for who he had ever done this was Rebekah because she was his baby sister like he always said. Elijah had never seen Niklaus acting like this with a woman. Usually he saw women as a mean to an end and just a plaything but it appeared it was different with Caroline. Elijah couldn't help but wonder what was going on with his brother and the beautiful blond woman lying next to him holding onto him for dear's life.


Klaus began to stir in his sleep. He tried to bring his hand to his face but found it stuck, he frowned and brought his other hand to his face rubbing his eyes before opening them and looking down at his arm to see what was keeping him from moving it. A small smile grew on his lips when he noticed the two tiny hands holding onto his arm with an iron grip. Those said hands being Caroline's who hadn't let go of his arm once during the night.

She had grabbed his arm before falling asleep and not let go since. Klaus knew that she must be afraid to fall asleep here, in a prison full of criminals who could kill her so easily. He was one of them but she was still holding onto him, which meant that in some way she trusted him, at least at a minimum. And the thought of her trusting him made his heart skip a beat, never someone had truly trusted him except Rebekah, Kol and Henrik, even Elijah had his doubts sometimes. She tried to appear fearless as much as she could but now he knew that deep down inside of her she was afraid.

He looked back toward Caroline but this time he looked at her face. She was beautiful there was no denying that. She had this innocent look about her while asleep, not that she didn't look innocent while awake but when she was awake there was something else, something that came after having a trauma and Klaus perfectly knew that look.

His thoughts were broken when she moved and brought her head closer to him and put it on his shoulder. His smile grew even bigger as he looked at her and he couldn't help but look at her body, that she also moved and drawed his attention toward it. She truly was a piece of art, she had all the right curves in the right places and Klaus had to stop his thoughts as he felt his erection grow.

Then he noticed that Caroline's tank top was up and revealed her stomach, which usually wouldn't have helped for his erection problem but in this case it actually did as he felt the anger rising in his system.

His eyes landed on the dark purple turning black bruise she had on her side. He remembered seeing the prisoner, he killed the day before, punching her in the side so hard that she fell to the floor and had difficulties getting up. He hadn't even thought about it afterwards. She hadn't looked hurt and hadn't complained once about it, but seeing it Klaus knew it must be hurting her. It really was a nasty bruise.

He was like absorbed by the bruise and without even noticing it he brought his fingers on it. He delicately put his fingers on her skin and slowly caressed her bruise barely touching her not wanting to hurt her or wake her up. It really looked bad and it was weird that she wasn't even complaining about it, she didn't even seemed bothered by it in the slightest.

Maybe when she slowed down, when they were walking yesterday, it was because it was hurting her? But then why didn't she say anything? Klaus could tell she had her pride but if she was hurt she could say it. She wouldn't appear weak because she admitted that she was hurt, in Klaus' eyes she was a strong woman who could hold her own. Why would she even feel ashamed of being hurt? And the fact that she was hiding it so well was suspicious. This woman was a mystery. A beautiful mystery he might add.

Then Klaus decided that it would be a better idea to cover her bruise up. She would surely feel uncomfortable if she knew he saw it, if she had worked so hard to hide it. And he clearly should stop touching her because she wouldn't be really happy if she woke up with him touching her. But still, her skin felt wonderful under his fingers and he couldn't deny it. He stopped his thoughts from going any further and gently put her tank top back down, so it was covering her stomach.

After doing so Klaus looked back up at her face to see that she was starting to stir in her sleep. Klaus couldn't help but notice how cute she was, she scrunched her nose up as she moaned and rubbed her eyes with her tiny hands balling into fists letting go of his arm. Klaus could finally move his arm and he should be happy about it but he actually felt like something was missing when she wasn't touching him, or him touching her.

Caroline woke up slowly a little confused at first. She looked around to see that she was in a small cell and everything came back to her mind all at once. Then she remembered Klaus and looked toward him to see that he was already awake and looking at her, she could feel the blush appear on her cheeks at the way he was looking at her, so admiringly. Stop, he is a criminal, he kills people, he can't have that effect on you, you can't let him have that effect on you Caroline, she thought.

"What? Why are you looking at me like this?" Caroline asked touching her hair, "Do I have something in my hair?" she asked brushing it with her fingers, "I look horrible don't I?" she continued as she found nothing in her hair, "I look like a panda because of my make up?" she asked rubbing under her eyes, she looked at her fingers to see that they weren't black so that wasn't it, "Am I drooling?" she asked drying her already dry lips with the back of her hands.

"God, you are so talkative even in the morning." Klaus sighed amused, with a smile, "You see, someone with manners would say hello before talking that much." he stated still amused.

"Right, Hi." Caroline said nonchalantly, "Now can you tell me why you are looking at me the way you are."

"Hello, love." Klaus greeted her, "I'm looking at you because you're beautiful, sweetheart." he added with a smile, which earned a scoff from Caroline.

"Just to be clear, I'm too smart to be seduced by you." Caroline said sitting up and Klaus followed suit.

"Well, that's why I like you." Klaus answered with a smile looking into Caroline's baby blue eyes.

"And we are getting out of this bed before you get your hopes too high." Caroline said. He liked her? He had to stop, he couldn't tell her she was beautiful, or look at her the way he was and tell her he liked her, he was a killer, Caroline couldn't fall for his crap.

"Well, I remember you telling me you prefer being on top last night, how do you want my hopes to stay low?" Klaus asked amusedly, he had been serious though; he was looking at her because she was beautiful and he really liked her. He had never really liked a girl before, they had always been playthings, toys to play with during one night and then throw away, they had always been disposable but for some unknown reason he didn't see Caroline the same way.

"Move." Caroline snapped looking straight at him with her 'I'm not joking' face.

Klaus chuckled before turning toward the edge of the bed and quickly climbing out. Once down he grabbed his orange combination and put it on before going toward the small sink and putting some water on his face. He then looked toward Caroline to see what she was doing and she was still in the bed.

"What are you waiting for?" He asked frowning, then he looked at her face and remembered. She was scared, it was written all over her features, he was stupid he should have remembered, "Wait I'll help you." he added before she had time to answer. He didn't like to see fear on her face, in her eyes. He usually enjoyed watching fear on people's face but not hers.

Caroline watched as Klaus climbed out of the bed so easily, well he literally jumped out not bothering with the ladder. Caroline looked down as he walked toward the sink, it was not that high but Caroline was still scared, she had always been and she couldn't help it. She put a hesitant foot on the ladder but quickly went back into the bed and decided she would stay there until Klaus noticed her, which wasn't long.

Klaus approached the bed thinking of a way to get her down from the bed, the easier way would be to simply hold her and lift her from the bed carrying her out of it, that way he would be the one doing everything and he would have the bonus of touching her and have her in his arms.

Once he was in front of the bed he extended his arms toward her and Caroline seemed to understand as she came on the edge of the bed and tentatively bent down putting her feet on the ladder and trying to reach his shoulders with her hands but she was too high and she was too scared to bend down any more than she already had. Klaus came even closer and climbed a little on the ladder to be higher.

Caroline was now able to put her hands on his shoulders and Klaus put his on her sides around her waist but when he touched her bruise it hurt, she didn't say anything and didn't let it show on her face as she tried to ignore the pain. She put a little more of her weight on his hands so he would be able to lift her, but it put more pressure on her bruise and Caroline couldn't help but flinch from it.

Klaus looked at her face to see it contorted in a painful expression as he was about to lift her and he immediately remembered that he had his hand on her bruise, it was clear she was trying to hide the fact that she was in pain but Klaus could see her eyes glistening from the tears that were filling them.

"Ok, it won't work that way." Klaus said climbing even higher on the ladder forcing Caroline to get back into the bed and once she was in it he let go of her, "Here, turn around that will be easier that way. You turn around and climb out, I'm just behind you and if you fall I'll catch you ok?" he proposed with a nice word.

"Ok." Caroline simply answered turning around and climbing out of the bed and stepping on the ladder but then she looked down and closed her eyes when she felt the fear growing inside of her. Come on Caroline, you can do it, it's not even that high you are ridiculous, she thought, "I...I...Can you, can you hold me please." she asked hesitantly not looking at him.

Klaus kept his eyes on her the whole time, she reminded him of Henrik, he had always been afraid of heights and Klaus had always been there to help him but also make fun of him at times. Caroline was reacting the same way Henrik did, she sounded ashamed when she asked for him to hold her, just like Henrik used to, but she had nothing to be ashamed of. It was a weakness, that was true, and Caroline was a strong woman that didn't like to show weaknesses, he could tell by the way she was acting. But everyone has weaknesses, at least one.

Klaus' only weakness in his knowledge was love, the love he had for his family was his weakness and that's also why he didn't open his heart to anyone else than his family, he couldn't let some stranger become his weakness. But Caroline had nothing to be ashamed of.

And there was this other part of him, the part that couldn't help but look at her bottom appreciatively, for a bottom it was a bomb. She wanted him to hold her, well that would be his pleasure to do so. And that would surely take her mind out of the fear, at least a little.

So with the biggest smile ever Klaus put both of his hands on her bottom, he thought about squeezing it because her ass felt so good in his palms and he had to fight the desire to do so. It was like her ass was made to be in his hands.

"What do you think you are doing?" Caroline spat angrily but not moving much too scared and keeping her hands firmly on the ladder not to fall, he was lucky her hands were busy because she would have slapped him without thinking twice about it, if not, "Get your pervert's hands off of me. NOW!" she yelled.

The smile not leaving his face, Klaus took his hands off of Caroline's delectable ass, but of course his eyes never left it, Klaus had always loved beautiful things.

When Caroline felt his hands leaving her body she panicked once more because he was not holding her anymore. She perfectly knew that if she asked him to hold her once more he'll do it touching her bottom again, but she really was scared.

"Ok, ok, ok, Can you please hold me." She whispered exasperated.

Klaus smiled, well he already was smiling before she said this but his smile grew even bigger than before, "As you wish, love." he said before putting his hands back on her ass.

"GOD, can't you hold me without touching my ass?" Caroline shouted once more.

Klaus stopped touching her bottom once more and didn't touch her anymore, if he was going to help her at least he could do it the way he wanted to and taking a little pleasure in it. So he just stayed like this waiting for her to start going down, but she didn't move as if she was waiting for him to hold her. After a few minutes she snapped.

"Alright! ALRIGHT YOU PERVERT! Put your FUCKING hands on my ass if that's what it'll take for you to help me." she yelled, let's just say that she was a little on edge from the fear and all that, and when Caroline was on edge, well, things like that happened.

Klaus raised one eyebrow and smirked, "I wouldn't dare to touch your marvelous bottom, love. I'm not a pervert; you are the one asking me to touch your ass. It's not a very mannerly thing for a woman to utter, might I add." he said putting his hands on each side of her on her hips. He had just wanted to make her snap, she reminded him a lot of Henrik and he always had fun making his little brother snap when he was scared, because he knew that it took some of the fear away, and that's all he wanted to do, take her fear away.

They both climbed out of the ladder and once on the ground Caroline turned abruptly around pointing a finger at him with her serious face on, "Next time you touch my ass without me agreeing to, let me tell you... let me tell you that..." Caroline said angrily not knowing what to say, and then she showed her hand, "You see this hand? Next time you touch my ass this hand will end up in your face, got it?"

"Without you agreeing to? Which means you might agree." Klaus stated with a giant smile on his face.

"Ugh, you're so frustrating." Caroline sighed exasperated throwing her hands in the air which provoked Klaus to erupt into laughter, Caroline looked at him pointedly and sternly before saying slowly and insisting on each word, "It is not funny"

Klaus looked back up at Caroline still laughing and then said, "I know, I know."

"Then stop laughing." Caroline said with the cutest voice and the cutest face Klaus had ever seen. He did his best to stop his laughter and pressed his lips in a thin line which caused Caroline to start laughing as well, but it quickly stopped as it provoked her side to hurt. She hissed and grabbed her side before turning around when she noticed Klaus' concerned stare.

She didn't want him to know she was hurt, she could handle herself. She wasn't weak and she couldn't let him think she was. She already looked weak enough as it was because of her fear of heights. Once she was sure he couldn't see it she brought her tank top up and looked at the nasty bruise that was forming on her ribs.

Klaus watched as she stopped laughing and hissed and he looked at her concerned, so now it was clear that it was hurting her even when nothing was touching it. She turned around from him and brought her tank top up to look at her bruise thinking he didn't know she had one, but he knew, it was all over her ribs and it must be painful. Klaus didn't like to see her in pain.

He reached for her arm to turn her toward him and as he turned her around she dropped her tank top not wanting him to see the bruise. Klaus looked into her blue eyes and saw pain in them and he didn't know why, but it made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't only dislike it but now he could tell that he hated seeing her in pain. And there was something telling him that it was not the first time she was in pain and it angered him so much.

"You're hurt." Klaus stated concerned, he wasn't supposed to have seen the bruise though.

"No, I'm not hurt, I'm ok." Caroline said dropping her eyes to the floor. His gaze was so intense and so full of worry. She couldn't look at him in the eyes and lie to him. He knew her only since yesterday and he seemed more troubled than people she had known her whole life, and she couldn't hold his gaze lying to him.

Klaus watched as Caroline looked down saying she wasn't hurt and he felt this pain in his chest seeing her so vulnerable. He didn't know why but he cared for Caroline more than he had ever cared for any woman, not counting Rebekah of course.

He gently brought his hand to her face and grabbed her chin making her look at him, "Caroline look at me, you're hurt. Just let me take a look." he said with a sweet voice.

"No, I'm not hurt. I'm fine, really Klaus." She said but Klaus could see in her eyes that it was a lie.

"Why don't you admit that you're hurt, love? I know you are." Klaus said keeping his hand on her face.

Caroline wanted to admit it, yes she was hurt, it was not that difficult. You could tell there was nothing wrong with being hurt and admitting it but Caroline had been hurt so many times before and she had always said she wasn't. It was a way to protect herself, always saying she was alright and hiding her wounds. She had always been that way.

"I don't need you, I don't need a man to help me, I can take care of myself, I don't need men in my life I've had enough." She said angrily almost yelling this time as tears started to appear in her eyes, "Because men are always the ones who hu..." she stopped in the middle of her sentence realizing she had already said too much. Men are always the ones who hurt me, she finished in her thoughts.

Klaus dropped his hand that was still on her face but he kept his eyes on hers. Her eyes were filled with tears and even if she stopped before finishing her phrase he was not stupid and he knew exactly what the end of her phrase was. Men were always the ones hurting her.

There was no doubt now she had been hurt before, and now he also knew that it had been by a man. Maybe he hadn't been wrong the first time he thought about it and her dad had been the one hurting her. His dad had hurt him and his mother; he had even once almost hurt Rebekah which was actually what made Klaus snap and commit his first kill.

"I...huh...I'm sorry I didn't want to yell at you, it was not my intention. You were just trying to be nice and I..." Caroline started but stopped when her stomach rumbled loudly.

"No problem, let's forget about it." Klaus said nicely and then smiled, "It seems you're hungry." he stated.

Caroline blushed, "No it's ok I'm not hungry." she said as her stomach made another loud growl.

"Well, your stomach is saying otherwise. We are going to go in the kitchen to see if we can find something to eat but if we have to spend another night in here we'll come back here to sleep." Klaus said before turning around and walking out of the cell. Caroline was about to follow when she heard him yell, "You have two minutes to pee, love."

Caroline smiled and quickly peed before walking out of the cell as well to see him with his back against the wall. He appeared to be thinking but as soon as he saw her he straightened up and started to walk once more. Caroline silently followed him all the way to the kitchen.


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