Disclaimer: We don't own anything.
Chapter 4: 'Pirates of the Caribbean'
Part 1: 'Curse of the Black Pearl'- Will and Elizabeth
They were all standing there but Caroline wasn't paying any attention. All she could do was look up, into his blue eyes and feel his arms around her, holding her securely to his chest. His eyes were studying her with just as much curiosity, wondering why she had jumped in and saved him.
Slowly, all of her friends began to walk away and she could feel their disappointment hanging in the empty space they left. Now just her mother and Stefan stood there, watching, waiting for them to do something.
"Caroline?" her mother said and both her and Klaus' attention snapped to Liz. "This is it, isn't it? This is what you want."
She felt Klaus' eyes upon her once more as she thought about her answer. Admitting it to herself was one thing, admitting it to the people who kept trying to kill him was another. Caroline gave her mother a small smile.
"Caroline," Stefan said. "People will always be after him. Are you sure?"
She looked up at Klaus, saw the same question that Stefan asked in his eyes, and gently placed a hand on his face, cupping his cheek in her small palm.
"Yeah, but that's okay," she said, smiling up at Klaus. "He's an invincible hybrid."
And then Klaus' lips were on hers.
Part 2: 'At World's End'- Davy Jones and Calypso
She sat in the corner of the dark, musky cell with her knees pulled up to her chest. The candlelight flickered in her sad and weary blue eyes as her fingers fumbled with her necklace that had his old daylight ring on the chain. The necklace he had given her to remember him and his love by.
It would never have happened if she hadn't been arrogant enough to think she had the upper hand by lying in her tentative alliance with the Salvatore's. She had returned to her friends, begging for forgiveness and they had granted it immediately. Caroline had kept her true feelings to herself but in the end it hadn't been enough. Her friends were still intent on their mission to end his life and had double-crossed her to accomplish their goal.
Thanks to her vampire senses, she withdrew from her thoughts when she heard the light, cautious footsteps falling on the wooden floor Disheveled blonde curls flew as her head snapped in their direction and Caroline couldn't help the hope that fell across her face when she saw the dark figure slowly making his way toward her prison.
"You came for me," she breathed, standing and wrapping her small hands around the iron wrought prison bars.
"You were expecting me." There was no room for argument in his arrogant statement and his equally as arrogant smirk was plastered on his face when he stepped into the light.
"It's been horrible. Stuck in here day after day when no one knows where I am, cut off from everyone and everything, rotting away," she said, pursing her lips as she watched Klaus toy with her daylight ring where he stood. "Cut off from those that I love…from you."
He looked up at her, ceasing the movements of his fingers and hands. His face drained of all emotion, he growled as he began to walk toward the prison cell once more. "Ten years. That was what you asked for. Ten years for you to get your thoughts together and I gave them to you. Ten years of, once more, walking this world alone and when you said that we could finally be together again, you weren't there, sweetheart. Why?" he demanded, his gold eyes snapping to her face, his four fangs hanging threateningly in his open mouth
Caroline looked at the floorboards and gulped, "It's just me. I was scared that you wouldn't want me the same way you once did. I'm sorry. Would you love me any other way?"
Klaus turned away and scoffed, "I do not love you."
"You were many things, Klaus. But, now, you're just a cruel and heartless as you were all those years ago. You've been corrupted once again and you're hiding something that should always be mine," she said, reaching through the prison bars to place hand on his chest, over his heart.
At her touch, Klaus took a deep breath and his face softened as he relished the small but comforting contact her touch provided. He couldn't help but stick his own hand through the bars and caress her face in the palm of his large hand. "Caroline," he whispered, allowing himself to relax under her hand as her small fingers brushed the black veins under his eyes and he felt them fade, his eyes changing back to their baby blue.
"I will be free," she said as her hand fell away, returning to her side, "and when I am, I would give you my heart and we would be together always…if only you still had a heart to give, Klaus."
He growled at her words, his eyes becoming gold once more, fangs elongating in his mouth. His hand moved quickly from her face to her throat, picking her up off her feet and he finally saw the fear in her eyes.
"Why did you come?" she choked so pitifully that he dropped her back to the wooden floor. Klaus contemplated his answer as he watched Caroline backed away, just out of his reach. He grabbed a hold of the prison door and yanked, the iron breaking off the hinges, allowing him to step inside her cell. He smirked as the angry, determined look fell over Caroline's face and she backed up another step as Klaus continued to walk into the cell.
"And what fate have planned for your captors?" he asked once he was right in front of her.
"The last thing they will learn of this life is how cruel sweet little Caroline can be. I am very thirsty after all," she scoffed.
With a slight smile, Klaus grabbed her open hand and dropped her daylight ring into her palm. He closed her fingers around it gently before brushing his lips over the back of her Caroline's small hand, his fangs tickling her delicate skin.
"And what about you, Klaus?" she asked as he walked past her, out of the cell.
Klaus stopped and looked back at Caroline over his shoulder and whispered, "My heart will always belong to you. Always and forever."
Klaus disappeared and Caroline was left alone, smiling broadly at the place he had just been as she slipped her ring on her finger.
Part 3: 'On Stranger Tides'- Philip and Syrena
Klaus dragged himself to the edge of the pool, sweat beaded on his forehead, his life slipping away as the blood seeped out of the wound. In an effort to relieve his pain, he scooped some of the pool's cool water out and splashed it over his abdominal. The second time he lowered his hand, a blonde head popped out of the water. Blue met blue as Klaus looked into the mermaid's eyes.
"You're hurt," she said, her voice no more than a whisper, her head and shoulders bobbing in the water.
He tried to smile, "Body only. My mind is at peace…because of you."
"Me?" the mermaid asked, her eyes growing wide.
"Yes," Klaus said, reaching out and brushing a piece of perfect blonde hair that was stuck on her cheek away with his knuckles. "I was lost. The wind… the tides… they were to renew a man's faith. For me, it was only you," he said with a small shake of his head, his hand grasping the stake still embedded in his gut.
"Niklaus," Caroline said, laying her arms on the rock above her and lifting half way out of the water. She rested her forehead against his, "I can save you. You need only ask." Her hand brushed against his cheek before she sunk back into the water.
"I seek just one thing, sweetheart."
"And what is that?"
"Forgiveness. If not for me, you would have never been captured."
"Ask," she said, her blue eyes studying his face.
"Forgive me," he whispered once more before Caroline's lips claimed his.
Her thin arms wrapped around his neck and Klaus allowed himself to be pulled into the water below.
A/N: Suggested by shadowfaxangel
Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed them. Review if you have a minute to tell us what you think or give us a suggestion:)
