I opened my eyes and everything was blurry. I kept blinking until something anything came into focus. A painting was hanging on a wall in front of me. The colors were all swirling together around a sun. I traced it with my eyes until a sharp pain hit me. I screamed and looked down at where it was coming from. The wound from where I was staked. I thought though..I winced and grabbed my side.

"Caroline" Klaus kneeled down beside me and took hold of my hand.

"Don't touch it, let it heal" He said while laying a towel on the wound.

"Klaus?" I asked confused "Am I dead?"

He took my face in his hands and shook his head. "No, you are not dead"

Tears started rolling down my face at the realization. I wasn't dead, we were both ok. We were both going to be ok. I flung myself forward ignoring the pain and grabbed Klaus from behind the neck and pulled him into me. I kissed him with so much force that it took him completely by surprise. He stayed frozen as I pulled back a little and said "Always stay one step ahead, Always..I can't lose you" His eyes softened and he then pulled me into him. Gently caressing my lips with his and kissing me gently as if not to hurt me.

He gently pulled me away from him with lip pouting from me of course. "Rest now" He said gently.

"I am fine" I said reaching to grab him again but not making it and winching

"Caroline, you need to heal. I already gave you some of my blood, now please rest" He pulled the covers up over me

"but.." I protested

He gave me a stern look and then went to sit in a chair across the room.

"Klaus?"

"REST CAROLINE" he snapped

"I will, but would you lay here with me. Please?"

I watched him as he got up from the chair and walked over to the bed. Gently lowering himself onto the bed he took my hand and held it so gently that I could barely feel it.

"Thank You Caroline" Is all he said and then he shut his eyes.

When I awoke the first person I saw was Klaus. He still had his eyes closed and my hand was still in his. I touched the place where my wound was and it was gone. How did I live, I don't understand? I had so many questions about what happen. I guess the most important right now was that I was here with Klaus, I had chosen him. My loyalty was to him and last night I choose the side I was on. I wiggled myself closer to him and watched him. Tracing his face with my eyes, I couldn't believe I once thought this face was a killer. He was misunderstood, yet aren't we all?

He opened his eyes and smiled at me. "Morning Sweet Heart" He said while gently stroking my face with his hand.

"Morning" I said back letting out a little giggle.

"What is funny love?" he asked offended

"Nothing, this is just…"

"Very predator and prey?" He said while stroking my chin

"I can't explain it" I said and gave him my brightest smile

He put his hand over where my wound was. "May I?" He asked and I nodded

He gently moved my shirt to see that it was healed. "Good as new" He nodded

"You don't even know what new looked like" I said teasingly

"So how am I still alive? I was staked?"

"You were staked, that is true" He said while nodding "However it wasn't in the heart love"

"I felt burning though!" I protested

"I am sure you did love, it doesn't feel pleasant to be staked" He said while gently touching the place my wound once was.

"What made you take the stake for me?" He asked not looking up but watching his own fingers stroke my side.

"I came to the realization that I fancy you too" I said trying to make it not sound cheesy

He smiled and looked up at me. "Thank You" he said while taking his fingers and letting them weave thru my hair.

I wiggled closer to him and laid my head on his gest. "How Thankful exactly?" I said in a whisper

He lifted my face up so that I was looking him in the eyes. "Caroline in my lifetime no one has put their life on the line for my own." He gently brushed back my hair "I don't have the words that can express how I feel right now"

I walked my fingers up his chest to his face and gently glided them on his lips. "Well you could show me" I said letting my finger linger

He gently nipped at it and said "Not yet, you have one more dose of my blood before you are allowed to move again"

I sat up and pouted

He was laughing as he pulled me into him. "Here you go love" he said while placing his arm in front of me.

I gently turned around in his arms till I was facing him. I took my fingers and gently glided them up and down his throat, caressing him lightly.

He didn't say anything at all just allowed me to keep caressing him. I let my fingers drop down to his chest and put my lips to his neck. Lightly caressing his skin with my lips. Then planting a trail of kisses from his ear lobe to his collar bone. Still no protest; so I placed my body up against his and sunk my teeth into his neck as hard as I could. He wrapped his arms around me tightly constricting my movements and then gently just holding me.

I let go of his neck and leaned back to look at him. I could feel his blood on my lips as I licked them. He took his hands and pulled me into him and kissed me. This time he wasn't holding back. He kissed me long and hard and ended it with a trail of kisses along my cheek.

"I am yours Klaus" I said and the warmth of those words warmed my cheeks