Chapter Eight
Caroline got back to the house sitting down on the couch a small smile across her lips, she was glad Klaus had trusted her to at least not make a run for it on her way back to the house. She really did care for him, though sometimes she wondered why. There was always a reason when she did wonder. Somehow he never said the right thing, and she loved that. Maybe it was strange, but that's how she knew he was trying. When he said the right thing is when she worried, he always knows what people want to here. Whether it's the truth or not he'll say it to get what he wants, when he does that, that's what bothers her.
She jumped when she heard a sound outside straining her ear and sitting up to pull back the curtain in front of the window. She expected to see Klaus walking toward the house, but instead she found unfamiliar faces carrying some sort of red container in there hands. She ducked behind the wall before she could see what it was, when they looked towards the window. Thinking for a second she realized if Klaus had visited this place more than once he had to have enemies. That was confirmed when she heard the voices outside.
"You sure he's not here?" One of them asked nervously.
"Yes, we've got Kaleb back at the diner, he's still there. Now will you shut up before she hears us."
Her eyes widened, her? Were they talking about me, she asked herself, ducking lower. How did they even know she was there, or who she was? What were they trying to do? Suddenly she realized what people kept in red containers. Gasoline. They were going to burn her, she realized with a start. Looking at all her escape routes, and the placement of the people outside, who by the looks of them were werewolves, she quickly concluded that she was totally screwed.
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Klaus pulled up at the house, eyes wide jumping out of the car and running toward the burning structure. "Caroline!" He called out frantically, practically ripping the door of his hinges. The entire place was up in flames, and he was terrified. "Caroline!" He called again. He almost hopped with relief when he heard the small voice coming from the bathroom.
"Klaus?" She said softly from where she laid on the floor of the bathroom. Had he not been a hybrid there is no way he could have heard her. He ran through the house knocking the door down swiftly and pulling her out the nearest exit.
"Caroline." He said, his hands cupping her face as she tried to focus on what had just happened. "Are you alright?" Klaus asked sincerely. A small smile spread across her face, feeling slightly delusional and finding the expression on his face endearing. He frowned at her amusement in his turmoil. It took him a second to see the burns on her body that weren't healing quite like the others. "Why aren't these healing?" He asked seriously.
She laughed, sounding slightly like a crazy person. "They had vervain gas, very...effective." She said leaning her head into his hand closing her eyes and smiling.
He huffed furiously, his eyes turninf black and a small snarl escaping his lips. Someone was persposely targetting his Caroline, and he would not allow it. When his eyes returned to Caroline they were their normal blue and he kissed her forehead. Apparently she had fallen asleep. He lifted her up into his arms and carried her to the car. He was going to make whoever did this pay, but first he had to get her out of harms way.
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Caroline had never dreamt like this before. She was watching herself with him.
She watched herself smile as he spun her around. Caroline remembered this day, it was the third time he had visited her dream, before she knew what he was capable of. "Caroline." He whispered into her neck, after pulling her close to him.
She watched as his fangs extended, watched herself stand there eyes closed, happy and completely oblivious. It made her feel like the stupid girl in the horror movie. The girl, who she refused to call herself anymore, froze her eyes shooting open when his teeth pierced her skin. She whimpered quietly. "W-what are you doing?" She asked quietly after a long moment of fear silencing her.
He just shh'd her and the girl shut up. It made Caroline frown, this man didn't look like he cared about the girl in his arms. This man looked like he wanted to possess the girl in his arms.
Suddenly the scene dissapeared from in front of her, it was replaced with another more recent dream.
"Caroline." He said softly, playing with the girls golden hair, eyes looking at her with so much admiration. The girl looked so scared though. He was being so sweet to her. Unbelievably happy, but she was terrified.
The girl took in a ragged breath and his gaze immediately became concerned. "What's wrong, sweetheart?"
All she did was shake her head though. Caroline watched the interaction and saw Klaus' eyes sadden. She suddenly realized why he had gotten so angry. He knew she didn't trust him and he hated it. That's why he did what he did next. Caroline flinched when she saw his hands move to the girls waist, making her stand and pushing her towards the wall, his eyes growing cold. The girl looked up at him with trembling lips with a shocked, and scared expression. He didn't even say a word before his teeth were imbedded in her flesh. When the girl went to push him away he grabbed her face roughly forcing her to look him in the eye. "Do not move." He told her.
"Klaus, please." The girl begged. "I-I'm sorry."
He looked at her with sad eyes again suddenly. He wrapped his arms around her kissing the spot on her neck he had previously attacked. "You have nothing to be sorry for love." Her hands went to his shoulders feeling weak, using them for support, she whimpered and hid her face in his chest.
Then she saw it, though he had a crappy way of showing it Caroline saw the way he looked at that girl, at her, he loved her.
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