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He stormed inside of the house slamming the front door aware that she was just behind him but he was trying to stop another fight before it even started.
"Klaus?" she stepped inside of the house ready to take his head off.
He didn't bother with the ice as he angrily prepared a drink, just like he didn't bother after the first 5 drinks at the idiotic function.
"I have been calling you all the way from the driveway." she shot loudly, upset that he didn't wait for her.
"I had to be deaf not to hear it, sweetheart." he loosened up the tie and harshly drank the strong scotch in the glass.
How she hated when he said the word with a resent feel to it, she threw her clutch on the sofa and started unbuttoning the coat furious. "Do you mind explaining to me what happened tonight?"
"It was a glorious opportunity to be somewhere else." he mumbled without facing her.
"The charity event was Elijah's idea and no one forced you to go."
"Would you have preferred that?" he faced her only enough to see her reaction to his question.
Caroline lost her coat with a nice little scold. "You spent the entire night drinking and provoking Kol until he finally left with Bonnie."
"Hence the reason why you are really upset with me."
"I'm raging mad because my husband was a jerk tonight and apparently he's not done with his whiskey so I can't even have a decent fight with you because you reek of alcohol."
"You haven't answered my question." he blatantly had his drink slowly enjoying it.
"I wish that you would stop being jealous of Kol when you have no reason for it. Of course that I wanted you there but not on jerk mood."
Klaus simply turned his back on her to refill his glass but he smiled when Kol stormed inside of the room ready to redo his face.
"Do you mind explaining to me why you were an ass the entire night?"
"I was inspired." Klaus easily ended another drink.
"This needs to have an end because it's starting to affect things between Bonnie and I." Kol harshly told Klaus.
Klaus turned to have another drink.
Caroline felt horrible that this ongoing behavior from Klaus was having an effect on others as well. "I'm sorry Kol." she said in a low apologetic voice.
Klaus bitterly raised his drink with a loud chuckle. "I'm sure you will find the time to comfort him, after all you don't have time to have lunch with me whilst you spend the entire day with him."
It was Kol's cue to leave.
Caroline also started to gather her things. "You are drunk and mixing my profession with petty suspicion for my character."
"And according to your belief, blind to everything that goes on in that office of yours."
"There is nothing going on between Kol and I. How many times do I have to keep telling you this? I have never looked at another man Klaus but tonight I had to spend the entire night watching you flirt with that bimbo that Elijah introduced you to."
"She is a possible investor that Elijah wants for the gallery." he said almost astounded that she was jealous of the insufferable woman that he had to endure all night. "I was doing it for Elijah."
In that moment Caroline spotted the vulnerability in him but she was tired of backing down in everything lately. "What about me?"
"Elijah is my brother, they are my family." he said like someone pinned against a wall with no option.
"I am also your family Klaus. I'm your wife and you keep forgetting that, there's this wall that you have built between yourself, the family and myself, and I can't do this anymore." her voice began to crack.
"You are not making any sense." he proved her point by shielding behind that cold wall that he built because ultimately he couldn't please everyone.
"I'm tired of fighting for crumbs Klaus." she grabbed a frame and handed it to him mad.
He took it with a special hatred that she was calling him Klaus.
"I'm so exhausted that you will accuse me of something that hasn't even crossed my mind when I have to stand there and witness your disrespect in the name of your family."
"I reckoned that you were too busy tonight laughing with your close friend to notice anything that I did." he sourly dropped the frame on the table.
Caroline restrained from slapping him across the face and decided to be the first one to end a fight that was not headed in a good way. "Do me a favor and drink yourself to sleep down here, I can't even stand to look at you right now, let alone share a bed with you."
"With pleasure love." he waved his drink with a cold smile that hid exactly how much his heart was breaking.
Caroline flinched when she reached the door, glancing back in time to watch him drop the broken frame with the picture of their wedding on the floor, she forced down her heavy tears and left the room before she caught him shoving everything under his reach to the floor with painful tears dancing in his broken blue eyes.
The memory that woke him up early had pulled him away from the bed and from the woman curled up in a fragile ball, like she was covering herself from him or the pain that he inflicted due to his actions in the past.
These were the hardest memories to endure and as they kept coming to him more frequently Klaus had to really pretend that they didn't affect him at all because if anything they only gave him resolution to prevent them from ever happening again.
"Good morning." he smiled at Kol as they crossed paths in the staircase.
"Morning…" Kol murmured but stopped a few steps down. "Nik?"
"Yes?" he beamed happy that Kol was addressing him.
"If Bekah asks you for money, don't give her any under no circumstance."
"Of course." he easily agreed with another big smile.
"All right… see you tonight then…" Kol said awkwardly fighting his way between a smile and a nod, on a quick reaction he turned around and rushed down the staircase.
Klaus still smiled, they actually shared more than two words between them.
There was a strong aroma of coffee that forced her to open her eyes, Caroline moaned still sleepily and slowly faced the dashing man sitting on the bed with a big smile and a mug of fresh coffee for her.
She pulled the sheet closer refusing to leave the warmth of the bed. "Why are you up already?"
"I wanted to stay here watching you sleep but I had a few errands with Elijah that couldn't be postponed."
The mention of the older brother finally woke her up completely and she sat on the bed taking the mug from him with a frown. "Is everything ok?"
Klaus nodded with a smile and stroked her cheek. "But I need you to get ready, we went to the bank and I have a few papers that I need you to sign."
She clutched the mug somehow expecting the worst, just that she had no idea what that could be. "Papers?"
"I found out yesterday about an agreement that was signed prior to our wedding revoking you of any rights over my income."
Caroline had the coffee lowering her eyes from his.
"I've decided to change all that."
"Elijah was supportive of your crazy act?" she meant to make it sound like a joke but she was afraid that he was starting to remember her well by now.
"I should have never agreed to this, you must have been so hurt at the time."
Caroline held the mug with both hands and stared into the black beverage. "I sort of understood why Elijah was so straight forward and strict about the prenup, I mean…" she looked at Klaus. "One day I was your student and then I was your summer girlfriend…" she shook her head. "I found it incredibly romantic that you asked me to marry you on our first birthday but your family instantly saw me as the gold-digger."
"Is that why you accepted it or did I have anything to do with it?" As she looked down again her beautiful hair fell and he moved his big hand to her cheek silently moving the locks away so that he could see the look on her face properly.
"You wanted to please the family which I understood as well because our wedding was a chance to reunite everyone. Going to college was your small rebellion, Elijah wanted you to be an architect and instead you chose to follow your passion for the arts and you were so good at it that you became this little prodigy that the university didn't want to let go."
He shouldn't look so cocky but a smug smile graced his lips. "I know, I googled my name."
Caroline burst into laughter, she covered her mouth a little. "I see that you liked what you found."
"I was most impressed." he said excited.
And Caroline leaned her head a bit against his touch because his hand was still warming her cheek and she liked having that heat on her skin. "So was I… you were doing what you wanted and you didn't care what others had to say about it and I was just so taken by all that power and determination."
He caressed her cheek lovingly. "I intend to be that man again… Carebear."
She rolled her eyes, however he didn't miss the unwilling smile creeping in.
"Is that what you really want Nik?" she sweetly asked focusing on his blue eyes.
There was a small hint of a smile as he leaned over to kiss her. "I want it all."
Caroline's hand moved to caress his cheek as well and she answered a kiss that became naturally long, he powerfully claimed her lips and kept her busy with a sequence of small kisses that merely proved how irresistible he found her lips.
She gripped his neck keeping him in place when he dared to hint a break from her lips, who said that he was allowed to move those precious full lips of his away from hers?
She had missed the weight of them too much.
"A fancy dinner sounds nice but I would settle for greasy French fries and cuddling on the couch tonight." Bonnie whimpered into her phone while touching the button to bring the elevator to her floor.
"I'm trying to impress you here Bonnie." Damon protested.
"Do you know what would really impress me? A week of vacation on some island where clothes are forbidden."
"I'll start looking online for the perfect beach with white sand and blue water."
She smiled touching her bangs. "I could actually try to sneak out of the country before we really start working on the new production." she said thoughtful.
"I'll have a list for paradise that we can discuss over dinner… at Donovan's."
She sighed resigning to his wish to have dinner out. "I'll meet you at the restaurant."
"Wear something sexy, I'll be smoldering in my blue suit."
Bonnie shook her head ending the call and randomly looked inside of the elevator as the doors went open, Nicole was there indulged in a book but so was the smirking bastard who stood in the back.
Slowly Bonnie came inside and pushed the button for her destination, she didn't move and kept her eyes on the door as the elevator began to move up, she gulped down when Kol's cologne hit her hard, he melted his body against her back and moved a hand in front of her so that he could reach the buttons.
"How diverted of me, I forgot to push my floor... I'm meeting a reporter." he said while his left hand trailed her back slowly.
Bonnie shook his touch away with a scowl and then smiled at Nicole who noticed her now.
"Hi, I didn't see you come in… this one is so good." she pressed the book against her chest.
Bonnie forced a smile for her secretary.
When the elevator stopped Nicole looked back at the couple. "I have to swing by human resources but I will have those fabrics you asked for ready in one hour."
"Thanks Nics…" Bonnie waved as the secretary left the elevator immersed in her book again, as soon as the doors closed she pushed Kol away from her back. "Stop whatever little perverted little idea you have growing inside of your head because last night was nothing but a very wrong hallucination. We were both really high so let's pretend that it never happened."
Kol easily trapped her between the wall and his body, he moved both hands down the side of her curvy body and grabbed her ass pinning her to him. "I don't want to talk about being high, I want to be low… very low with you again." he whispered against her neck.
She tried to fight him but the small shiver gave her away and she gritted her teeth mad when the tip of his tongue tasted her neck. "We are never going to do that again." she bravely stated.
Kol left a humid kiss on her neck while one of his hands trailed to places that appalled her, she pushed him away with enough strength this time and cursed the tingle that his touch brought to her body.
Kol raised his cunning hands and walked backwards to the elevator doors. "If you change your mind, my office is always open." he winked at her.
Bonnie huffed her bangs with an unsteady breath.
Caroline eased on her smile and the quick pace once she reached the kitchen where Rebekah was sitting at the table, she left the mug inside of the sync and looked at the other blonde who was quickly cleaning a few of her silent tears. "Do you want some fresh coffee?" she asked Rebekah softly.
The other shook her head and another pair of tears fell from her beautiful blue eyes.
Caroline came closer to the table frowning with the stuff scattered there, she picked up one of the credit cards that was destroyed and soon realized that the table was full of cards cut in two or too ruined to be used.
"Kol decided to cut me off, I can't even buy a cup of coffee now."
"He's always so extreme…" Caroline left the destroyed card on the table and looked at Rebekah again, the girl played with the little hole in her Jeans, because she was sitting with her knees closer to her chest Caroline could see the contrast of her white skin with the black Denim and somehow the heavy look made Rebekah look even more vulnerable.
"Maybe you could lend me a little money… I won't tell anyone." Rebekah whispered into the kitchen.
"I can't Rebekah. You need real help." Caroline tried to be sweet but not condescending.
Rebekah snapped with a grunt. "You are such an idiotic little twit… I had more tolerance for you when I thought that you were getting married to Nik because he knocked you up."
"That will be enough Rebekah." Elijah sternly caught both girls off guard.
"Are you honestly defending her?" Rebekah's voice accused the shock.
"She is married to our brother and she lives in this house, she deserves to be treated with respect and Niklaus would be a little more brutal with you if he was the one coming inside of the room as those bitter words left your mouth."
Rebekah stood up with the most disgusted expression. "A big speech just to say that you have turned coats."
"You will respect Caroline and we will seek help for you, perhaps it's time for a family intervention."
"I can barely hold back my excitement." Rebekah moved her hand knocking half of the cards to the floor before she left the kitchen in her dark clothes and mood.
Elijah cordially smiled and nodded at Caroline.
She was as baffled as Rebekah about his attitude."I don't mean to sound ungrateful but what was that?"
"Niklaus seems determined to change the last years of his life and I think it's my duty as his older brother to help him with what I can."
"I'm very shocked that it includes being nice to me."
Like usual Elijah kept his eyes on himself, always fixing his tie or suit instead of looking at Caroline as he spoke. "I may have not been as supportive of your arrival to this family like Kol was but I did not spend that much time at home either."
"Yes, I know that. There were times when I was happy that you travelled so much because let's be honest here Elijah… you hate me."
Elijah jolted his head towards her at once, Caroline's strength hit him as hard as he expected while he was avoiding looking at her, just like it happened with her beauty.
"I know that you don't like me and that you think that Nik could have done a lot better than he did when he settled for the immature student that liked dancing and laughing, I know that and just because Nik isn't himself right now it really doesn't mean you have to pretend to like me at all."
"I assume that he has already told you about his plans to add your name to all of his finances."
Caroline sighed tired of the same talk. "I wish you would just stop giving so much importance to money. I love him, even when I resigned living with a man I didn't recognize anymore I still loved him and I don't care how much money he has or how many paintings he is selling, I just want to share my life with him."
"I'm aware of the sacrifices you've made when you chose to move in…" Elijah looked away from her again.
"No one sacrificed more than Nik, he gave up on everything that he was just to have a family." Caroline left the kitchen troubled.
As she reached her bedroom she had a very deep breath before she looked for Klaus, she smiled at him when she found him inside of their big walk-through closet.
He was throwing suit after suit over his shoulder. "Loathe it… makes me queasy…" he mumbled while tossing another suit.
Caroline laughed softly.
He turned around holding a grey suit that he waved at her. "Please tell me that I never wore this… it makes me feel old just looking at it."
She took the suit from his hand conveying a serious expression. "It's very 50 shades…"
"No it's not, it's quite insipid." he said clueless to the reference.
She smiled. "Be grateful that your memory blocked the last literature success."
He frowned still at the loss but brought a bright shirt up to his face level. "Why do I have a satin shirt in my closet that reminds me of Scarface?"
Caroline started laughing loudly. "You hate your closet."
"I hate everything in it." he lowered his shoulders with a sulk.
"You are overreacting…" she went around him and looked at the huge amount of shirts that looked the same. "I'm sure that there is something in here that we can savage…"
"I already saved my Henley shirts and a few Denim, you are free to help me set fire to the rest."
She tilted her head. "We'll give it to someone…"
"I'll donate them all to Elijah." Klaus smiled mischievous.
Caroline knew how he was resolute about it so she helped him gather the clothes from the floor.
"Coming to think of it…" He paused. "I am married to a famous Stylist… you should design my clothes."
Caroline laughed not taking him remotely serious.
Just that he was exactly that. "Why should I be spending money on someone else's brand when I could be wearing the best?"
Caroline gave him a double look. "What are you even saying? I only make clothes for women."
"Perhaps this is your chance to do something different."
Caroline folded a velvet suit thoughtful. "I would be so bad at it…"
Klaus squinted surprised. "I doubt that there's a single thing that you can't master."
"I suck at math." she giggled.
Klaus took the folded clothes with a sweet smile. "I challenge you Caroline Forbes Mikaelson to do this, to design a line for men and to dress up your husband."
She shoved her hands inside of the pockets of her colorful summer dress. "What if I end up covering you in leather and chains?"
He lessened his lips a bit. "Is there any fantasy that I haven't… fulfilled?" he asked incredibly uncomfortable.
Caroline tilted her head with a cocked eyebrow.
"Oh, you were teasing. That was very funny of you."
"If you say so…" she said with a side-look before swiftly walking away.
Suddenly Klaus was questioning many things.
Elijah smiled with the pile of clothes left on his bed, Klaus did have a peculiar sense of humor and he should have guessed that with his current memory loss his brother wasn't interested in dressing like him anymore, clearly the infatuation phase was over now.
Elijah removed his suit jacket leaving it next to the large pile on his bed and walked to the laptop resting on the small desk, he had a few emails to respond to which was always easier to do on the computer, on the way there Elijah opened the shirt around his wrists and folded the sleeves allowing his eyes to drift to the book resting on his bed stand, it wasn't even a surprise that he went there first but the book looked untouched and Elijah breathed in relief.
Only now the horrible possibility that someone could have easily seen it came over Elijah and with a soft move he opened the book revealing the folded picture that he kept inside, he gulped down not daring to touch the smiling face that looked so delicate and surely was soft to the touch.
She was so mistaken when she confronted him for hating her, Elijah closed the book covering the folded picture of Caroline in her wedding day, he felt everything but hatred for the woman married to his brother.
The atrocious sin of coveting for her was like a second suit that he wore every day, one that prohibited him to even look directly in her eyes.
Klaus pulled the big paper bag away from her reach with a solemn warning. "I said that it was a surprise sweetheart."
"But I want to know what's in there, you disappeared back in the store while I was looking for a good suit." she leaned against the door after her fight to see inside of the bag on their way up the stairs.
Klaus turned the key inside of the door lock of the old loft. "I don't need a new suit because you will be sketching exciting new clothes for me and while we were in the store I spotted a small market across the street, I went shopping for a few items and now I'm making lunch."
Caroline staggered a bit before doing that little tricky bump to open the door. "Do you remember how to cook?"
Klaus laughed quickly recognizing the mocking tone and dropped the bag on the small counter. "All I have to do is add water to the pasta and make your favorite."
"Actually you were the one who really liked Italian and assumed that I did as well." she waited for his reaction with a sly smile.
"It's too late to change the menu now…" he said discouraged.
"But Pasta a la Nik should be interesting." Caroline left him at ease and walked over to the canvas curious if he had painted anything since they were last here.
"I never cooked for you?" he pulled the long cotton sleeves up getting ready for his mission.
"We always ordered food when we were here, there wasn't much time between the…" she pulled her eyebrows together moving a little away from the canvas to look at him. "… artistic liberties… that we were indulging ourselves in." she said slowly.
He smugly looked up from the scarlet tomato that he was slicing perfectly. "I'm very pleased to find that I was keeping my muse busy."
"I was keeping you busy as well." she returned the smug smile.
Klaus chuckled slicing an onion now. "So we can cut the small prelude between us. We had a very pleasant sex life."
Caroline approached the small kitchen and sat on the only stool there, she rested her chin on her hands and stared at him with a smile. "It was ok." She bit her lip holding back a roar as the skin on his neck wrinkled in doubt and simple horror for the word she chose.
"My ego might not survive this… however you mentioned that we were very passionate." he waved the knife at her.
"And we were, I mean it's not that alarming that I fell asleep during the act itself a few times." she said carefree.
He dropped the knife and gulped down loudly. "I beg your pardon?"
Caroline raised a little and rested her hands on the counter leaning over and kissing his appalled lips. "Relax Nik, I'm just teasing you."
"You are a very hilarious girl." he mumbled while picking up the knife.
She giggled sitting down again. "I used to be before I got so serious."
"Due to everything that happened between us?"
"That and the overwhelming change in my life, one day I was sharing a dorm with Bonnie and then I was moving to the Mikaelson castle."
"I feel underwhelmed in there, I have nothing but mopping childhood memories from it and the house is awfully big and dark. I was expecting Elijah to keep his dead wives locked inside of some room."
Caroline laughed again with a genuine happiness and stole a piece of tomato. "I've lived there for three years now and I can honestly tell you that I haven't been to all the rooms yet."
"Is it possible that Elijah enjoys a different kind of tea?" he asked suddenly.
Caroline threw her head back laughing again. "It would explain the hair."
"Oh but then we have Stefan that nests something up there." Klaus pointed to his hair.
Caroline wrinkled her nose. "That one isn't gay… I'm almost certain of it."
Klaus sighed dropping the perfect slices inside a pan. "He had a liaison with Rebekah."
"Seriously?" Caroline asked invested in the story already.
"And I think that it happened during our wedding party."
"Kol and Bonnie happened there as well."
Klaus smiled cleaning his hands on a towel. "It was a memorable day for everyone."
Caroline smiled enchanted and moved those long lashes of hers keeping him trapped in her eyes for a little longer.
"Well food will be ready in one hour, I hope I don't disappoint." he folded the towel.
"My husband is cooking for me." she said in a slow pace, as if reality was overtaking the surreal and she was finally accepting what was happening.
"And I have another surprise that I don't want you to see so go entertain yourself for a little bit."
She shook her head with a big childlike frown. "There's nothing to do… I rather watch the handsome man cooking for me." she ended with a big smile.
"Off you go sweetheart." he sent her away determined.
She growled in protest and sulking went away to sit on the bed, she sighed leaning a bit to peek into the kitchen.
"Do not cheat Caroline."
She folded her arms like a little kid and dramatically dropped on her back facing the ceiling. "I'm bored."
Klaus ignored her and she quickly realized that he was on a quest and she was by no means allowed to interrupt him so with a loud huff she turned, resting now on her tummy and facing the floor.
That's when she spotted the pad, Caroline reached for it without moving from her position and opened the pad while it still rested on the floor, it was an empty pad and she made little circles on it with her finger, stroking the cold smooth blank page until the circles became imaginary lines and slowly Caroline left the lying position to sit on this side of the bed.
She took a few pencils that were lying around and trapped her long hair with one, then she took her flat shoes off and folded her legs on the bed resting the pad on her lap and giving life to the lines that she imagined just now.
Before she noticed there was a full sketch of a man with a Henley type of shirt but with large buttons and she added texture to the drawing imagining it in a warm wool fabric, easily she made the pants with cool pockets and imagined them to be red, Caroline tore that page from the pad and began drawing a new kind of shirt, she added a little vest this time, something that would be very loose but with intricate buttons and then she added glasses to the model giving it a very nerdy look that made her giggle but oh, she was on fire and she made a sketch of the pants as a strong opposite because she made them low-cut and with big pockets and a few holes on the leg.
She was so absorbed in it that she didn't perceive Klaus speaking to her and simply drew sketch after sketch, she was now deeply focused making a suit with a soft plaid pattern, she wrote down the colors deep blue and navy blue before she forgot them and then there was a small noise that finally made her pull herself away from her work, Klaus was standing there with a plate on a towel and a glass of white wine, she melted with the smile accompanying it all.
"Sorry, I was so over-involved in all of this." she glanced to the bed now filled with dozens of sketches.
"For now you eat, then you go back to being terribly hot while working."
She smiled dropping the pad and taking the food. "It's just silly stuff that I made…"
Klaus returned with his food and sat next to her holding one of the many drawings that she made. "These are actually quite spectacular." he said honestly.
She hardly believed him and dug into her food. "Just stuff that I was doing as it was coming to my mind."
"I'm not trying to be nice, I'm being sincere love."
"This is the best Italian Pasta that I ever ate, truthfully." she clasped her chest holding back a moan.
"Thank you wife." he smirked into his wine.
"Wifey approves and wifey demands that hubby cooks more often." she beamed.
It made Klaus laugh and as his chest shook with it Caroline slowed down her eating process, she admired the man who was indeed hers.
"I might show these to Bonnie though… I like the idea of having something different for Power like an all male collection." She said.
"You are quite the designer love…" he admired another sketch.
"I had the best teacher…" she ate happily shifting the conversation into naughtier alleys. "In many many things."
Klaus laughed without facing her, he was just enthralled with her work.
"Thank you for giving me the idea and fir nudging me to do it."
Klaus faced her with a big grin. "I want this as payment." he held the sketch with the red pants.
"You already walk around with my name on a ring, my art on your body and now you want to wear my clothes?" she lifted a flawless eyebrow at him.
He chuckled while eating but raised his eyes to her, he had his chin low which gave him a winning advantage and he smoldered Caroline easily. "I'm in disadvantage… I should add something to your body as well."
"Like what?" she had her wine trying to sound so cool but she could feel her heart racing like mad.
"I should lay you down on this bed and paint all over your back, wherever my inspiration would lead but I would certainly take my time with it… dragging a wet brush over your ivory skin and slowly making it shiver under my touch because the paint would be cold against your hot skin and while I traced it to pull a decent portrait I would cherish every loud gasp or quiet moan that I would steal from you and then when temptation won me over I would add my lips to the canvas followed by my body."
Caroline was breathing so harshly that she had her big glass of wine in one take, she threw her head back and just gulped down the beverage. "Do we have more wine?" she asked in a screechy voice that she cleared to control the fluster reaction to his erotic words.
"Last one…" Elena sweetly smiled handing Stefan the last medical chart that needed his signature.
He left his amazing handwriting on it and a cute little heart as well.
"Doctor!" she called him out on the rebellious act.
He smiled cheeky. "Do I have to add my phone number so that you finally take the hint and go out with me?"
Elena trapped the long hair behind her ear. "I'm going to blame the really long night shift for the intrepid flirt."
He handed her back the pen with a whisper. "I want to go out with you nurse Elena but you are not making my life easy."
"Sorry if I'm not easy."
Her big chocolate eyes seemed to lure him in even more and he finally built the courage to go home, after all it had been a really long shift, one that he blamed for the sudden double vision.
Elena looked back noticing his puzzled look and instantly wanted to run away with him so that her sister wouldn't get her paws near him.
Stefan pointed at Katherine truly lost.
She eased on her fast pace sizing the hotty. "Hi, I'm Katherine Pierce, I'm Elena's sister." she introduced herself with a hot smile.
"Stefan Salvatore." he said looking at Elena surprised that she hadn't mentioned a sister before.
"Ok Stefan, see you tomorrow, it's time to go home and rest." she dismissed him almost coldly.
He nodded knowing that there was a good cause for her change of attitude. "It was a pleasure Katherine." he politely faced the other sister.
"The pleasure should have been mine Doctor Salvatore… and please, call me Kat."
He nodded excusing himself without prolonging the flirt and the talk, he looked back once at Elena who looked angrily at her twin.
"Ummm… someone make me ill so that I can be healed by that." Katherine purred as Stefan walked away.
"What are you doing here?" Elena clenched the words out.
"I need money." Katherine easily replied.
There was a sigh and then Elena closed her eyes rubbing them in a sort of appeasing system.
"Ease on the drama E, Matt is a sweet man but he is only paying me in two weeks and I'm running out of good dresses to wear every night… and it's not like I can use anything you own so..." she stretched out her hand.
Elena took her time reacting.
"I'll pay you back." Katherine said with an attitude.
"No, you won't…" Elena mumbled but she was certain that Katherine would camp out in the hospital or make a scene until she gave in. "There's money in the cookie jar behind the honey but take only the money you need for the dress." she warned a grinning Katherine that was leaving already. "You are welcome." Elena shouted upset.
Katherine waved her hand in the air not even bothering to look back.
Elena grumbled very annoyed but smiled when she looked at the chart and saw Stefan's heart there, she touched it already feeling a little better.
Caroline gathered the drawings on the bed waiting for the surprise, even though she was certain that her heart couldn't handle much more, her eyes landed on something that Klaus placed on the bed and she immediately looked up. "Nik…"
"I remembered." he said proud of himself.
If there was one thing in the world that Caroline was absolutely crazy about was blackberries, she had an irrational love for them and he remembered as soon as he saw them.
"I saw them in the market and I had to buy them for you."
"Stop." she said utterly serious.
Klaus simply looked at her.
"You have to stop, you are too perfect right now and I'm just waiting for you to wake up tomorrow and to go back to who you were and I'm going to have a breakdown and cry and be miserable for days." she stood hectically from the bed.
"Love…"
She stopped him almost angry. "Stop being so romantic and sweet and telling me all these things that I can't handle without skipping several heart beats."
"I can't." he said in a low voice.
"Of course you can, just… be Klaus." she demanded.
"I'm not him anymore Caroline and even if I do get all my memories back I will never be him again."
She wasn't even sure why she wanted to cry. "I feel guilty because I'm falling in love so hard for this man in front of me and I'm starting to panic because I don't want to lose you again…" she turned her back on him touching her forehead. "Because you were always this larger than life man and I somehow fell quietly into your shadow and I lost my voice between all the fights and then I didn't bother having my voice heard because I didn't know what to say anymore."
She was looking at the floor when Klaus took her arms, he kissed the back of her head and laced his arms around her next. "I should have never put my family or anyone else before you." he whispered against her hair.
Caroline widened her eyes and moved a little to look at him.
"This morning I remembered the fight that we had on that night after the charity event, the night I broke the frame with our wedding picture."
Caroline's fat tears made a glorious silent return as the pain consumed her all over again but Klaus turned her completely to him and stroked the arms he was holding gently.
"I didn't smash it because I regretted marrying you, I did it because I couldn't stand to look at my reflection, the man there was not what I had become and I hated it. I wasn't strong enough to resist all that was surrounding me, when I should have been doing what I have done now, learn everything about the woman of my life and spend my time with her, marveled about every tiny detail about her." His thumbs stroked her skin warmly as he carried on. "True that I am not the same man you first knew nor am I the one I became later but I am a better man now love, am I not? A worthy one of you, I hope..."
She silently nodded.
"I woke on that hospital bed as a blank canvas Caroline and all that happened after that was because of you. It was all for you."
She closed her eyes as he kissed her wet cheek.
"It was all for you Caroline and I may wake up tomorrow and remember all that I was but I know now what I was missing and I won't give up on that sweetheart so I will never forget what happened since I woke on that hospital bed with an angel watching over me."
Caroline gripped his face between her hands and kissed him, she kissed his lips a few times before smiling. "I've already asked you to stop…"
"It's not a reasonable option Mrs. Mikaelson." he powerfully claimed a kiss that was nothing but a clear statement of how much he was in love with her.
Soundtrack:
Who you are - Jessie J
I don't believe you - P!nk
Wildest moments - Jessie Ware
