This is for The Lovely Vero may all good things come her way in trying times.


He smiled with beaming pride as he felt her move beside him, "I thought you said you didn't know how to relax," Klaus remarked with a hint of teasing as Caroline mounted his lap.

She made a face before she kissed him just as she set her arms reached his shoulders. "Like with all things I figured it out," she breathed as she pressed herself against him.

Klaus groaned in his throat as he kissed her neck she whimpered as her body screamed to lie back down when with each movement.

Klaus noticed her discomfort as he hugged her, "Why don't you lie back down Love," he suggested as he ignored his own growing need for her.

The sight of her bare and against him was all he needed for the moment there would be more time to spend in these sheets and all the others that he owned.

"I think I will," she said with a small laugh her body thanking her as she moved into his side his hands curving over her hip her body exposed to him.

She shivered under his gaze, "Don't look at me like that," she reprimanded him already feeling her insides turn to goo with the power he had over her.

"While I'm lying next to you," he said re-wording her response as he rubbed at her hip with his thumb kneading her sore muscles as with his fingers as he traveled her length.

"No," she sighed as she tucked her hand under her pillow allowing his lingering touches, "My body aches in the most delicious of ways and when you look at me like that I want a reminder of why."

Klaus grinned his cheeks turning pink and revealing his dimples to her as he leaned his head closer, "If I'm being honest I'd like to remind you so you never forget."

Caroline pretended to think on it, "Hmmm maybe later," she yawned her eyebrows rising in a feeble attempt to keep her awake as she longed for more sleep.

He kissed her temple softly as his hand trailed back up her spine and pressed her gently against him ready to tuck her back into bed when she spoke and he froze.


"Right now you can tell me if I'm right," she said softly as her hand curled into his hair looking up at him with a mesmerizing look.

"About what," he asked carefully unsure where this conversation could go but knowing he wouldn't lie while she looked at him like that.

"Your general," she began feeling as he stiffened at her words, "He's coming isn't he?" she asked leaning on her elbow as she propped herself up to look over him.

"Yes," he responded without hesitation not missing her pleasant surprise at how forward he was being with her.

"And Mikael, your step-father," she pushed further as her finger traced down the line of a scar on his stomach, "Is he the same man?" she asked.

Klaus' hand caught hers before she could do it again unknowingly touching a scar Mikael had left him, "Yes," he replied once more.

She pursed her lips as he watched that little line in her forehead form as she thought, "How did you end up under his command?"

Klaus balanced himself on his elbow as she had, "I had to survive," he answered her vaguely as his hand traced down one of her curls before falling to the bed.

"Okay," she said once again shifting the mood as she shifted over him her chest hitting his rubbing across him.

He swallowed hard as he felt her and barely heard her, "Would you read to me," she asked reaching behind him for a book behind him by the bed side.

He was stunned once more by how easily she accepted the things she shared but in the end he grabbed the book she placed on his chest and kissed the top of her head feeling her smile against him.


Klaus read her poetry from a book close to an hour her sleepiness disappearing before he grew curious his eyes peeking at her every now and again.

He decided to share out loud so he shut the book ignoring the look of disappointment that flooded her eyes as he did.

He turned pushing their sheets even lower down their legs, "What are you doing," she asked nervously grabbing for the thinnest sheet she could grab.

Klaus smiled as he held her hand until she let it slide down before picking her hand up and kissing her fingers.

"I want to know about you," he said as he landed on index finger biting the tip of her nail, "What drives you," he asked as he leaned over her almost hovering.

Caroline smiled under him as she touched his jaw with the tip of her finger hearing him ask, "What are your hopes, your dreams?" before he sucked his bottom lip into his mouth.

Caroline ignored the fact that they were naked on her bed exposed to the sunlight flowing through her windows as she took a deep breath.

"I'm boring," she said pressing her hand into the little crease between his eyes that formed when she spoke his eyes saying he didn't believe her.

"I am though," she tried protesting with a little laugh, "I was born in a small town in Virginia no one had heard of and I don't remember the name of."

Klaus nodded encouraging her to continue, "Come on, -You know all about me," he pleaded, "I just want to know some things about you," he persuaded kissing her where ever he could reach.

Caroline shut her eyes enjoying his lips until he nips right above her chest making her flush, "I …" she tried to form a sentence as he grew closer to the tip of her breast.

She felt his breath tickling her then she felt the scruff of his jaw scratch causing a shudder to run through her, "Please," he asked once more.

Her hand runs into his hair as she lifted her leg up bending it over his entangling them. "If you want me to be able to form a sentence you're gonna have to stop."

"You're right about that," Klaus smirked looking up at her but not moving making sure she could still feel his lips moving over her.

"But I do love the sounds you make," he sighed his tongue sticking out to lick her softly, "I love being the one that affects you like this."

"Stop," she pleaded feeling her eyes roll back in pleasure, "I don't want to feel so," she groaned as he bit her again tugging softly.

"Aroused," he interjected smiling as she nodded in confirmation not that he wasn't already certain.

"At least not while I'm telling you about my parents," she told him as she felt him move up giving her an innocent look as he moved back to his lying position.

Caroline gave herself a moment to collect herself as she felt him pressing into her thigh she smiled to herself happy she affected him too.

Turning to look at him she began, "William and Elizabeth Forbes," she said as she laid her head back down, "They were the travelers, famous archeologists' once though now retired." She said with a taste of bitterness.

"I remember when I was little we were always moving, just when we had settled we were gone." She said lost in memories of what once was, "Never to return." she sighed dramatically.

Klaus watched her as she spoke with observant eyes searching for cues, "I didn't have a lot of people around me but them and I did have books." She said with a smile, "I had the best teachers their money could buy."

"Education was everything," she said with a warm smile, "They weren't always great at being parents but I have had a lot of opportunities most women didn't and they made sure I didn't forget it."

"The day I told my father I was going to be a layer he hugged me for the first time since I was a child," she recalled shaking her head at how silly it sounded but it had meant a lot to her at the time.

"I remember every hug he ever gave me," she said sadly, "When I fell off of his lap in his study at five. When I hit Jimmy Rogers in the stomach for calling me a girl," she counted on her finger.

She pursed her lips up thinking, "When he taught me how to fence and I bested him," she said with a grin at Klaus' impressed look, "When I graduated and the day before he retired."

"The day I opened my firm," she clarified with a tear threatening to fall before Klaus wiped it away and it ceased to exist, "He said the world could only handle so many Forbes at once. "

"He's convinced I'm going to do something great one day and I'm afraid I'll fail him," she said blinking quickly hoping to push back the feelings rising in her chest.

"I'm sorry," he offered Caroline smiled as she shrugged blinking back any other treacherous tears that might have been forming. "But I think he's right, I have yet to see you fail."

"You as impossible as ever," she said thankful for his admission both of them grinning like fools, "Either way I think moving so much made me more of a homebody."

Klaus shook his head, "Oh doubtful Love, or you wouldn't be here," he said disagreeing, "And I wouldn't have met you," he said kissing her, "I wouldn't be able to hold you like this."

She whimpered into his mouth gaining him leverage as he slipped his tongue inside her mouth, "Or I never would have felt the rise and fall of your chest as you slept against me last night."

"And I'd still miss you while I was away and never have met you," he mumbled as he lifted them both up cradling her against him.

She suddenly felt her chest rise and fall unsteadily, "You really know how to make a girl swoon," she remarked leaning into him feeling completely free in his arms as she kissed him back.

"Would you like to learn something else today," he asked kissing her neck making her laugh he smiled against her collarbone. "I meant to shoot." He said making her laugh harder.

"I'd love that," she said in between laughs as he held on to her smiling even as he shook his head at her, "But how about we practice since I already know how."

Klaus pulled back looking at her inquisitively, "My father always wanted a boy," she said in simple explanation.

"And like with all things you figured it out," he asked making her smile against his lips as she nodded pecking his lips once more.

"Bloody Hell," Kol exclaimed walking into her bedroom and quickly walking back out, "I can't unsee that!"

Klaus growled grabbing for the covers that were now on the floor pulling them over Caroline just as Kol walked back in to her room.

"Get out," she shouted throwing Kol the pillow she had shielded herself with as Klaus helped her cover up still exposed himself until she stood in front of him.

Caroline shoved Kol out, "Seriously?" she shouted at him as she slammed the door on him turning on Klaus about to scream when she saw him standing naked in all his glory.

"See something you like," he asked after she sized him up not so subtly with his hands on his waist as he strutted to her.

"Yes," she said distracted as he reached her, "But also, can we take Kol with us when we practice," she asked dropping the sheets to the floor.

"He can be the target," she offered as she stepped out of the puddle of sheets Klaus grinned at her suggestion.

"I like where your minds at," he said as he surprised her by lifting her up off of the ground to carry her in his arms.

"But right now," he murmured against her cheek, "We should wash up," he entreated as he walked them into the bathroom shutting the door with his foot.


Close to a week and a half had passed and Caroline had to admit she had quickly grown accustomed to having Klaus in her bed holding her at night.

While they hadn't done anything else but sleep other than some pretty heavy kissing sessions around the house and while she enjoyed a different kind of intimacy with him.

She craved a certain kind, it was a crazy hunger for him she had never felt before especially in this moment as he slept pressed up against her his in the days that had passed.

She pressed her back into his chest smiling at how even in his sleep he reached for her making sure she was close his body seeking out hers as he kissed her

shoulder something she enjoyed all too much from a man people generally feared.

In the last few days they had worked out their built up tension in other ways other than horizontally, her face fell, well most of the time she thought wishing he would

go further than kissing her again.

She moved from those wanderings and smiled as she thought back to how he had taught her the basics on how to swing, kick and basically use her body and the things around her as a weapon.

She yawned softly waiting for tomorrow, Klaus promised a surprised for her and she wanted to know if it had anything to do with where Kol had disappeared to.


In the morning she awoke to an empty bed but Klaus didn't give her time to pout she realized as she reached for his pillow and grabbed a flower instead.

She smiled sitting up as she opened her eyes to look at the flower of his choice when she looked around and found more flowers around the room.

The vibrant colors and his sweet gesture making her face warm as her heart swelled she blinked clutching the flower as she looked around again.

She found a note where the flower was and greedily grabbed for it, "I've searched all my life for the light in the world just like this garden of flowers and all I had to do was look at the sun. You." She read internally squealing.

"There she is," his voice making her smile as she got off of the bed walking around the room carefully, "Just got up did you?" he said as he checked his watch.

"Just passed noon," he told her making her mouth fall open as he grinned, "I wonder was has you so tired."

Caroline didn't like his teasing and soon he would figure out just why she thought as she walked straight past him, "It wouldn't be anything you're doing," she said

looking from him to the bed and back again as she put on her robe.

She made sure to tread carefully on the way hoping not to diminish the beauty of his gesture she couldn't figure out why she was so cranky all at once.

He had done a nice thing for her and on top of that had kept her company, he didn't seek to spend more time being intimate with her which most women would be

glad for but it made her downright mad.

She fought with herself over what she wanted verses what he might want, or what she assumed he wanted.

On top of that there was the fact that she had basically seduced him with no regrets, it was a night she would never get over and craved to re-live again.

Even though she still didn't even know if she had a real future with a man who for the better part of know him thought he was going to die.

They might still die, she thought darkly before shaking her head of any thoughts of the kind hating that it had even occurred to her.

"That's not very nice," he said bringing her to him as he came closer patting the inside pocket of his jacket, "I've got you a present but if you're sore with me now it can wait."

"I'd rather be sore because of you," she muttered making him blush as she walked into the bathroom, "Can it wait until I bathe," she asked half shutting the door as he followed her, "Alone."

Klaus held his hands up in surrender something he would never do for another as she shut the door on him confused he sat waiting for her to come back out.


He dutifully waited on a chair watching the bathroom door his ears following her every sound his eyes shut imagining what was happening.

A picture of her robe falling along with her gown her arms coming above her head as she stretched her joints cracking as she did came to the front of his mind.

Klaus smiled when he heard the water run and her soft sigh of satisfaction as she entered fully dowsing herself under the water.

He imagined her just like the morning after when he lathered her up and kissed her like a starving man and the truth is he was.

Another ten minutes passed and he grew impatient his gift weighing on him as he removed his coat and set it on the chair.

He followed her inside the bathroom just as she about to go look for him which he realized too late because his face it the door.

Caroline gasped hearing a loud crunch as they collided giving Caroline barely enough time to hold her towel against her still wet skin.

"Oh I'm so sorry," she began apologizing thinking she had hit one of the maids before she realized it was him holding his now bloody nose. "Oh it's just you," she

said unable to keep the bit of discontent from her tone.

Klaus eyed her as she rose her hand extending to help him up but he didn't take it so she crossed her arms over her body instead. "If you're coming to apologize…" she began.

A part of her did feel bad but another bigger part of her smiled because if he the only way he wanted to touch her now was in combat then she was liable to be a little rough with him.

Klaus gawked taking his handkerchief from his front pant pocket and pressing it to his nose as he wiped of the remaining blood, "I'm not apologizing." He replied.

Caroline jutted her hip, "Then why are you," she began as she reached the drawer where she kept most of her delicates.

"Why did you hit me," he asked as he watched her dry herself off as she picked a pair of stockings and tiny particles of clothing he would like to have the honor of removing later.

She felt his gaze but ignored it as she tossed her towel aside after drying as much of her hair as she could and reached for her lotion.

"I was leaving and you walked through the door," she said shrugging, "It's not like I did it on purpose," she reasoned with him as she rubbed the rose smelling lubricant over her body.

Klaus took her answer with a hard swallow as he watched her, "Fine," he said shortly as she looked up at him pulling on her underwear and adjusting her bra.

"I just wanted to ask if you'd have dinner with me," Klaus asked moving back to where his jacket lie taking something from inside as she continued dressing.

"I'm still mad at you," she mumbled as he moved closer his hand reaching out to help her with her garter feeling her shiver.

"Maybe," he said, "And I'll figure out why later but you have to admit you were checking to see if I was still in the room weren't you?"

Caroline blushed, "Maybe," she said repeating his answer back to him, "Fine, I'll have dinner with you," she said as she moved to her closet still feeling a tad bit under dressed.


She let the dress and hanger drop as he called her, "Wait," Klaus said his hand coming from behind his back as she turned back to him.

"Your present," Klaus looked eager as Caroline looked from him to his extended hand as he presented her with an ornate box glittered in gold and blue.

"Open it," he entreated as she hesitantly reached for it, "I had it ordered to be made the day we went to town," he offered in explanation.

"Just a little trinket so you wouldn't forget," he added 'About me,' to himself, as her deftly fingers lifted the lid open and a familiar song began. "It was a silly notion,"

he said self-consciously babbling the longer she stayed quiet, "But I thought..."

"It's my song," she said feeling close to tears as she came closer her hand coming into his hair just as she kissed him. "Our song."

Klaus grinned at her suggestion before picking her up by the waist and kissing her again happy her good humor had returned at least for the moment.

"I hope you're not too sore today," he whispered as he set her back down Caroline closed the lid to the box as he spoke making the music stop as she listened

intently to what he said.

"I have plans for you after dinner," he finished making her frown again her face noticeably falling at the thought of another training session and then straight to bed.

"Is it because I lacked form last night," she began moaning, "I was just really bored and I was really wanting to come back to bed because I have the last chapter

of this book." she explained scratching the side of her face.

Klaus felt a light go off in his head as he realized why she was upset fully intending on making it up to her, "No training tonight," he whispered close to her ear

kissing the shell as he stepped back, "But I will test your endurance," he promised as he kissed her one last time before he was off leaving her to dress.


I hope as always that you enjoyed reading! :))