Okay, I was just as tormented about Thursday's episode as I'm sure a lot of you were, and I think I should update my one shot series. LOVED the reviews you sent me! Keep 'em coming!
4x14 AU.
"I have done more than enough. I have shown kindness, forgiveness, pity. Because of you, Caroline. It was all for you."
Klaus' last words to her before he left the porch still played in her head as Caroline stood in front of the swing. She couldn't tell if he was just telling her that to make her trust him or meant it. If she wasn't so upset right now, she would've asked him to clarify it for her. Of course, she couldn't ask him now because he was already long gone. She still found it strange that the spell that contained him in the Gilbert house had been broken. It was just so confusing and she couldn't really think straight.
Sighing heavily, Caroline decided to leave, since her presence here was no longer necessary. She descended the porch steps and went toward her car, getting in and turning on the engine. However, as she drove away from the Gilbert house, something told her not to go straight home. While it wasn't clear exactly what that something was, she knew that she couldn't go home. Damn it, why couldn't these things ever be easy?
Against her will, she went to the Mikaelson mansion. She saw that the lights were on, which meant that Klaus was already home. Sighing, she got out of her car and walked inside.
"Klaus? Are you here?"
No answer. That was weird, she could've sworn that he was home. In fact, she could sense him, so he had to be here, and she knew that he could hear, since his hearing was just as advanced as her own, maybe a little more because he was so much older.
"Klaus, where are you? I know you're here, I can sense you."
Again, no answer. Oh, now he was really starting to piss her off. Deciding to go looking for him, she walked from the foyer all the way to the living room, where she saw him sitting on the couch and as she approached him, she saw that he had his sketch pad out, hard at work on a drawing. At least she knew why he didn't answer her. When his senses alerted him to her presence, Klaus smiled as he looked up from the sketch pad.
"Good evening, Caroline. I was wondering when you were going to drop by."
"Really?" she replied. "Why didn't you answer me when I was calling you?"
Klaus ignored her and smiled again. "Let me guess, you came by because what I said to you on the Gilbert porch has you baffled and you wanted to find out if I said it just to say it, or if I meant what I said."
Shit, I hate it when he does that, Caroline thought. Well, I suppose that's the price one pays when one becomes a vampire. I should know, having been one for a year now.
"Yes, Klaus, as a matter of fact, that is the reason I'm here," she replied. "It's not just about that, it was about what you said before the stuff you said on the porch."
"Ah, the part about you and I being the same," said Klaus. "Well, love, I did mean that part. We've got a few things in common. We've been shunned by our mothers, for different reasons, and our fathers hated us, again for different reasons. Even though we want the cure, we both don't want to revert back to the way we were before we became what we are now. I don't want to cure myself of being the most powerful creature on the planet, and you don't want be weak and helpless again. We're stronger now than we were before, and we don't want to lose that."
Caroline blinked. "Well, I guess that is true. Now that we've settled that, what about the stuff you said on the porch? Did you mean that?"
"Yes," said Klaus. "Everything I've done from the night I first healed you was for you. You awakened something in me that I thought died centuries ago without any effort at all."
"Why did you nearly kill me last night if that's what you think?"
"Caroline, I never meant for that to happen," said Klaus. "Tyler angered me and in my anger, I lashed out and did an unspeakable thing. I wanted to teach him a lesson and in doing so, I nearly destroyed my one hope for redemption in this world." He got up and took her hand. "I am in love with you, Caroline, just as you said."
Caroline felt his hand in hers and her eyes widened, remembering what she said to him. Damn it, he had to remind her of that. She figured that she'd say it in order for him to agree to give her his blood, a throw away piece of information to pull at his heart strings a little, but it seemed like it meant so much more to him.
"I...I never knew you saw me that way," she said. "I thought I was just a distraction for you."
"You don't give yourself enough credit," said Klaus. "I do see you as my redemption. Hell, you're more than that." He pulled her into his arms. "Here, I'll show you."
Before Caroline could answer him, he captured her lips in a deep and passionate kiss, letting his love for her envelope them.
Note: Short update, I know, but I felt like doing something. Enjoy, lovelies!