Sorry for the short chapter, it's about to get busy in my life so I wanted to post something before next week. Hope you enjoy it either way! As always Happy Reading! :))

"You've got a letter," Kol said in a dark tone making Caroline stop laughing as she looked back over at Klaus.

He didn't return her look he merely grabbed the envelope and stalked off muttering a thank you as he went.

He felt her eyes on him the whole walk inside he didn't stop until he reached her room pausing her only a moment when he recalled how they had awoken.

She awoke feeling his fingers dancing around her belly making her squirm in his arms once he'd heard her laugh his hand slid lower in between her legs as he kissed her neck.

Caroline moaned as she felt his fingers brushing over her heat her hips rose meeting his hand urging him on.

He chuckled into the back of her shoulder as he traced her feeling her twitch when he applied a more firm touch.

He rubbed her slick interior enticingly causing her to cry out and rub the rest of her body into his.

He grunted as he felt her grow wetter at his ministrations her body shaking as her breathing grew heavier spurring him on.

His hardness throbbed to be inside of her as she reached up gripping his neck, "Faster," she groaned as she rode his hand harder.

Klaus kissed her as he granted her command feeling her fall apart at his touch seconds later her body trembling against him as she pulsed against his fingers.

"I could do that all day," he remarked basking in the way she felt against him warm and sweaty but looking sated with a fresh color of pink in her cheeks.

"I wouldn't stop you," she said as her breath caught up with her looking in his eyes, "Good Morning," she greeted with a smile as she pushed her back against his front.

Klaus pushed back teasing her already sensitive body with his hard one, "Back at you," he said kissing her again.

Instead he walked past the room tucking the happy memory of her rumpled sheets into the back of his mind as he went to his office.

He shut the door locking it behind him, he poured himself a big drink and took a long swig of it quelling his nerves before he poured another.

Klaus then sat at the end of his desk leaning on it as he took another sip then set the glass aside turning his attention to the letter Kol had given him.

He longed to burn it in a fire even as he opened the seal the tearing of the paper grinding on his nerves until he finished tossing it to the floor.

He unfolded the letter his eyes falling to the letters on the page his brow meeting his hairline at the words incased in the letter.

"If you're reading this that means Kol has made it back safely and your blonde friend is still safe. Still that might not remain the case Klaus -I ask you to run. To keep running.

I have held off Mikael for as long as I can but know he knows you live. I will continue on with him if only to keep distance between you for as long as I can. RUN.

-Marcel.

Klaus is on edge by the time he read the last word his hand had made it to his drink polishing it off before he slammed the glass on the floor.

He thought on it for a long time on how he must get Caroline to run away he grit his teeth wanting desperately to sulk but now was a time for action.

Caroline would not go willingly, Kol would try to reason with her and in the end she would best them both with her brilliance.

No, he thought he had to find a way to trick her, make her think this was her idea and then push her away to save her.

Caroline waited outside of his door sitting by it on the floor her shoes at her side as she heard him pacing back and forth.

In the short time she had known him she gambled she knew his mind just as well as he did, the moment the dark crossed his features she knew what they had was over.

There would be no stopping him he would want her to go her heart broke when she realized he would be right, either way this went they could never be again.

Her mind whispered again just as it had often, they could die, he could die still and she wasn't strong enough yet to fight alongside him.

They would fight and be bitter and her last moments with him would ruin them, a dry sob escaped her as she sat up.

She heard him move closer and her mind was set she was up on her feet as he opened the door, "I have to go don't ?" she asked.

Klaus was stunned but ultimately nodded to her, "Yes," he replied as he tried to leave the room she refused to budge their conversation it seemed would begin and end here.

"You know I won't make it easy," she informed him even though reality had already set in it would be harder now to find another way.

"I'm not asking you to," he replied wishing there was another way but it was too late now, "I just need you to go, to be safe."

Caroline came closer resting a hand on his chest, "And if you die what will I do," she whispered looking into his eyes with all the sadness she felt in her heart.

Klaus cupped her face, "I was always meant to die," he reminded her, "You'll move on," he swallowed hard as if he was trying to be strong for her, "Have a full life."

After he said that Caroline's rational shut down, she shoved at him using all of her weight using her entire body just like he's taught her taking him aback.

As she looks at him in anger her body warming he smiles but it isn't a kind one like the one he gave her this morning after she awoke.

He stalks to her and before she can take another breath Klaus kisses her she resists at first but his arms wrap around her tight molding her to him.

She moans kissing him back as forcefully as he was wishing it tasted like love and not desperation as his hands snaked up her frame.

She pulled at his hair making him angle himself to her, making him relax in her embrace before she bit his tongue and shoved him back picking herself up.

Stunned Klaus watched as she put herself back together, "You know what I never got until now, Nik," she asked in an agitated tone.

She cursed his name hating how he made her felt, "You don't connect with people because you don't even try to understand them." She exclaimed angrily.

She wanted to stay, she wanted him to want her to stay and fight with him not to give up, give her up and yet it was him she was talking about.

She rushed back to her room grabbing the music box and whirled it at him, "And that is why we could never be friends."

Klaus laughed bitterly looking up at her, "Friends," he muttered the word is ugly in his mouth as blood dripped from his teeth.

"Were not friends Caroline," he got up from the floor languidly his eyes watching her, "I haven't cared about anything in ages but for some reason I care only for you," he shouts towards the end.

"I've said it before," he said seeing it register on her face, "You're the only thing I care for and you know why now recognize it and run," he said one last time.

Caroline backs away slowly but never seems to leave as he comes closer, "What," she sighs backing into the wall his body heat radiating off of him.

In another time she would have kissed him but not today, she might have thought he would say it and save her the trouble but he doesn't.

She bites back the words and the tears she had left for him and runs to her room slamming the door behind her.

In her rage she grabs her bed sheets and throws them on the floor her body shaking from how out of control things have become.

That is where Kol finds her an hour later sobbing on the edge of her bed and cursing his brother's name in front of her suitcase.

"There's a car out front for you," he said quietly as he sat on the bed his hand caressing her back in soothing circles.

"One for me too," he added as she wrapped her arms around her oldest friend sobbing into his chest, "He's gone for the evening. I suppose he didn't want to see you go."

"I know I should go," Caroline said wiping her tears away, "But every fiber of my being wants to stay. I said and I did awful things."

"On top of that," she heave a sigh of discontent, "I didn't get to tell him," she shook her head pulling back from her friend.

"You mean you didn't get to tell him you love him," he clarified grabbing her pillow from the floor and hugging it himself as she had before.

"And he absolutely refused to confess himself to you before he went off to die," he said grumbling to himself more than her unsure of his thoughts.

"Except he mustn't die," she cried out tugging his arm, "Or I'll die right along with him and just be alone as the world thinks I should be."

"I should really think before I speak," he muttered hugging Caroline once more she nodded in agreement as he kissed the top of her head.

"How about this," he suggested, "You stay the night, go on packing your things but stay tonight and have it out with him."

"And I," Kol tells her as he stands up, "I will run in the dark of night because Nik will kill me when he sees you still here."

She laughs agreeing with him, "I'll meet you as soon as I can," she said smiling for the first time in hours, "Are you going back to where you got that letter from," she asked.

"I am," Kol confirmed, "They have the most beautiful beach there it'll be fun to share it with you until my brother lets us come back here and finish our time together."

"I'd like that," she said as she stood up walking him out, "Please be safe," she whispered as she hugged him once more.

She packed her luggage pausing now and again when she was caught in a memory of their journey here, the red dress, the smell of water that still lingered on clothing.

The outfit she wore the first night he kissed her cheek, the beaded pin in her hair that he removed as he undressed her.

It was all here, a collection of how she fell in love with Niklaus Mikaelson, man on the run, international spy and king of heart.

Once she'd finished she started in her bed sheets getting gradually to her pillows reaching for his in comfort, hugging it to her.

She shut her eyes inhaling his scent enamored with it, "I love you," she whispered disturbing the darkness as she sat alone.

Lights outside alerted her to another presence she smiled in hopes that it was him even if it was just past midnight.

She scurried down the stairs eagerly awaiting him as she heard the door open, "What do we have here," an unfamiliar voice said in the darkness.

Her body froze on the staircase as he came closer, instantly she knew who he was, "Mikael," she said his name burning her lips.

"I came for a snake and found the snake dancer instead," he uttered enjoying the fear flooding in her eyes as he stalked closer.

He came slowly up the steps expecting her to cower, "Where is he," he asked his hand coming to his waist where he held a knife.

Caroline's eyes flickered to his weapon and back up to his face, "I –I don't know," feeling grateful that in the end Klaus hadn't said a word to her.

"He left, I was waiting for him to get back," she said as her back hit the wall no longer allowing space between her and the man that urgently wanted to kill Klaus.

"You know I might believe the wolf ran with his tail between his legs," he muttered with a caress to her cheek, "If he hadn't left you behind," Mikael said as another joined them.

Caroline shifted her weight slapping his hand away making him laugh before she shoved her head against his harder than she had ever practiced with Klaus.

It hurt but she ran past him making it down the stairs before anyone caught her, "Relax," the other man said trying to sooth her as he grabbed her holding her wrists together.

"He left," she cried out, "He didn't want me," she said struggling against the man behind her, "He just wants to be free of you."

"You're in love with him," the man behind her whispered almost tragically as Mikael came back down the stairs.

"You might prove useful yet," Mikael said as he grabbed her chin forcing her to look at him before he looked past her. "Marcel, you know what to do."

She felt the man Marcel behind her moving her forcing her onto his back as she fought him, "But I don't know anything," she shouted wondering where everyone was.

Mikael came closer as she lunged back almost dropping marcel in the process, he laughed as he held her gaze.

"We'll see about that," Mikael said laughter in his tone before something hit her hard and darkness descended on her.

The next morning Klaus arrived home happy to find no one was home even as his heart ached with love for Caroline, he knew she was safe and that was all that mattered.

Now he could wait for Mikael with peace of mind and soon after find Caroline and his brother and drag her back to where she belongs in his embrace.