Klaus appears at her doorway knocking on the doors window drawing her attention to him as he strides in. "I've come back for you," he says taking the trinkets in her hand and dropping them on her couch.

Caroline stops short still in shock that he's there her hands almost reach out to touch him before she jolts and pulls away, "No you haven't," she insisted with a shake of her head.

She almost would have shoved him out if she didn't have to touch him, "In fact you're not here at all," she says more to herself than to him as she steps back her legs hitting the couch.

Klaus smiles softly, "But I am, and I want to be with you," he says as she looks at him in bewilderment, she looks tired and worn but beauty still resides in her broken eyes.

"Are you insane Klaus?" she asks flippantly as she once again begins gathering things into her bag on her way far away from her a plan he is trying to derail.

"You have a whole other life," she reminded him as she adjusted the white sheet over the couch and tossed some picture frames into her bag, "I won't fit into it," she said more to herself.

"You will," he said grasping her wrist softly only to call upon her attention letting go as she looked up at him, "Just like you'll fit me into yours," he added with a sigh that spoke volumes of hope.

The front door slid open once more with a more uninvited group Caroline felt as Stefan, Damon and Elena strode in, "Klaus," Elena asked, "What are you doing here?"

Stefan looked from her to Klaus the frustration that built in her at the action of his brows meeting in a concerned way made her speak, "Nothing, absolutely nothing," she said standing in front of Klaus.

Klaus kept his smirk to himself as she moved to stand in front of him even as she tried to hide what was transpiring, why he was here, "I've come back for Caroline," he explained offhandedly.

The looks the Salvatore's threw him Klaus knew he would lavish in for centuries, "What are you talking about?" Stefan said making his way passed the other two.

Caroline frowned looking back at him before turning back to her friends, "No he hasn't," she told them as she moved away keeping an obvious distance from Stefan and Klaus.

"I love her," Klaus said not letting her get away with her next sentence and ultimate denial of him, "And when she's not blisteringly mad at me I suspect she loves me too," he said looking solely at her.

Damon strutted in holding Elena's hand, "What now?" he asked with a hand to his ear as if he hadn't heard them or at all understood what that meant.

To a passing observer it might have looked like a standoff Klaus on one end, Caroline on another and somehow they were both against the Salvatore's.

Caroline tossed her hair back with both hands at the end of her rope, "Wrong," she says correcting him turning to look at Klaus instead of Stefan, "I love you then too."

Klaus smiles his teeth almost gleaming as she looks to him standoff over, Klaus and Caroline for the win it seemed as he rocketed to her side uncaring of their audience.

"Get me out of here, she asked as she grabbed her bag draping it over her shoulder he didn't need to be asked twice as he slid them out of the front door.