A/N: Hey guys! Finally…finally here it is – Chapter 10. I am so very sorry for the long wait...I'll try to be better at updating:)

So, this chapter is going to be different than the other ones (I had to bring out Klaus' dark side because I felt it would be very OOC not to), originally it was much longer than this but I had to cut it in two because it was too much…but that's good news for you because it means that chapter 11 will be out soon:)

I hope you like it, please let me know

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters in The Vampire Diaries

"Stop! This is not something you can make jokes about Klaus…this is serious and it leads me to the question…..are you going to let me in?" her voice was soft and whispery.

As soon as the questioning words came out she regretted saying them because this time; she'd gone too far, she should've walked out when she had the chance. The web she found herself caught in was impossible to break free of and now she was afraid…..afraid of what the Original Hybrid would answer…..

"How much more can I let you in? I'm still inside you love" Klaus teased almost laughing as he lowered his lips to touch hers; he found his own comment very humorous but could quickly see on Caroline's expression that she didn't.

"Is it even possible for you to be serious just for one second?" Caroline asked as she pushed him off and sat at the edge of the bed, wrapping one of the sheets around her exposed body. Why was it so hard for him to reveal his true feelings in words? If he really cared for her that shouldn't have been a problem.

"I am serious Caroline" He replied and slid closer towards her. It surprised him that she needed verbal verification to be convinced that his affections was genuine, was there something he was doing wrong?

"So why won't you open up to me?" She questioned in frustration, still not looking at him.

"I have opened up to you, more than I have done with any other person" His voice was soft and caring…he carefully brushed his fingers through her hair and tried to place a kiss on her shoulder when she wriggled away and stood up…

"Oh, my bad…your idea of opening up to a person is to seduce them and then paint them?" She asked sarcastically and annoyed.

"What do you want from me Caroline? I am who I am, I'm not going to change...I've already told you that and I've been nothing but honest when it comes to my affections towards you" Klaus said as he reached for his clothes..

Caroline was desperate, she needed to hear the words...she needed to know if he could be trusted, would he lose interest now that they had been intimate? She had to know if he was going to be there for her after this, she had after all sacrificed everything by being here with him…

"You've never told me what you actually feel for me! You've given me a dress, you've given me paintings and you've told me that I am interesting and that I "intrigue" you in some way…how is that opening up? You know what? This only goes to show how unstable you are, for all I know I could end up with a snapped neck...you can't be trusted Klaus" Caroline cried

"Do you really think that I would harm you in any way?" Klaus asked the blonde vampire and stared into her eyes as disappointment made its way through him, was she serious? Hadn't he proven his leniency towards her?

"Well, you have tried to kill me…twice" she reminded him.

"I see" Klaus said while nodding his head in acceptance; she didn't trust him…

"What?"

"Caroline… this isn't easy for me. I have lived for centuries not caring for anyone but myself, that's the man I've grown into be…I have been stabbed in the back by those who I've held close so many times that I've lost count of it…I have never met anyone that doesn't want something from me or have ulterior motives for being in my presence..So I am sorry for my cautiousness here…" The first words came out calm and quiet but as he started to think about those who had betrayed him he couldn't hold back the anger anymore.

Everything was always about him, what about her and the things in life she was afraid of? She had also experienced betrayal and loss but that just wasn't important to him – all that mattered to him was the fear of being double-crossed.

"For god's sake Klaus...It's my ass that's on the line here, not yours. If you haven't forgotten I'm the one who's in a relationship and with Tyler – the one person that hates you the most...I've sacrificed everything I stand for, everything I believe in by being here with you and you can't even bring yourself to be completely honest with me?" She yelled

Tyler Lockwood's name was the last thing Klaus needed to hear, it brought him to the place where anger turned into fury...his voice was shaking as he emphasized;"Do not mention his name in my presence"

"What's wrong with you? You can't hear his name but its okay to sleep with his girlfriend?" She was pushing him, seeing how far she could take it before he would lose it. Could she trust him?

"Caroline, I care very much for you but I would advise you to calm down" he warned as he took a few steps closer towards her

"Is that supposed to be a threat? What? – I'm supposed to be afraid of you? God, I should've known that it wasn't going to take long before the real Klaus showed up. The second you face any kind of adversity you react by lashing out at the first breathing organism within reach, who it is just doesn't matter to you. How many times have YOU stabbed your family and friends in the back? How many times have you stabbed me in the back? Don't talk to me about trust issues, because I really think you'll come in short there genius"

"How dare you?" Klaus roared only inches away from her, how was it possible that she could make him so angry? It felt like he was about to explode like a loaded gun any second now.

"I've proven my point" Caroline spat and started to look for her clothes so that she could be on her way. Why did she even bother? He would never get out of his own way, she knew that. When she turned around Klaus showed up in front of her screaming; "Don't turn your back on me" while pulling her back…

Somewhere deep down Klaus wanted to aim that explosion at Caroline but he couldn't…. instead he planned on giving her exactly what she wanted but in his own special way to see if she could be trusted..

"Get your hands off me" Caroline demanded, tears building up

"You want to know how I feel about you hm? Klaus asked as he held her quite forcefully

"Let go of me, your scaring me" She pleaded, he was scaring her…She had never seen him like this before, something had changed.

"Every time I look at you my heart pounds so hard that I swear I'm about to have a stroke" Klaus hissed in her face so harsh that his breath almost stung against her skin, the strength he was using to hold her back with was raw, brutal and utterly violent. He grabbed one of her hands and forced her around making her back collide with his front, he used his hands as handcuffs so she couldn't escape by firmly pinning her hand behind her back while the right one was kept under complete control when he draped his arm around her shoulders. He could feel her racing heart and he knew that he was scaring her but he didn't care, hybrid-strength was used to nudge her closer as he continued giving her what she wanted; his confession.

"You're beauty suffocates me, it consumes me – drives me to the point of insanity." Klaus growled while releasing Caroline and left her with an almost bruised wrist, she soothed herself by gently massaging the soreness before sending Klaus a smoldering glance of shock, why was he acting like this?

"You pull me in like a magnetic field and when I touch you it feels like I'm at the end of greatness – nothing or no one has ever…touched my heart the way you do, if I even have one" he added; desire pouring out of his voice as veins became visible underneath his eyes; he crashed into her in vamp-speed and positioned himself behind her again but this time he didn't restrain her, he let her hands roam wherever they wanted to and placed his hissing mouth only inches away from the pulsing skin…

"God" Caroline whimpered when the tip of his fangs raked lightly over the sensitive skin on the side of her neck, his power over her was terrifying; it was almost as if he could control her mood because he could easily turn her rage into the exact opposite. How pathetic was it possible to be? All he had to do was to go all "big bad hybrid" on her and she would surrender? No, No, No don't give him that satisfaction she thought as she desperately tried to resist the Original standing behind her illuminating the depths of his hot-blooded fixation on her; it wasn't easy though, for her to elude this elevated touch of compelling passion. He wasn't actually compelling her but it sure felt like it because it was as if she didn't have any other option than to submit, he was using her weaknesses for him in the most devious way.

"You feel that?" Klaus asked the overheated trembling girl when he stopped teasing her – showing how much he wanted her in addition to saying it. God how much he wanted to go under the surface of her alluring skin and take every ounce of lust flowing through her blood, taste it and feel it. Caroline needed to understand that the dark side of him would never disappear, it would always linger inside just waiting to be triggered and when it did she wouldn't have to be afraid of it, she could learn to use it for her own advantage in situations similar to the one they were in right now – he had to reveal himself because if she really cared for him and wanted the absolute truth from him as well, then she needed to accept every side of him.

"Now I think I have proven my point" he murmured in a ghostly tone when he felt her succumb before whooshing away into thin air….gone…

Caroline stopped breathing for a second because her heart ached for him even though he scared the hell out of her sometimes, she closed her eyes; envisioning that this was nothing more than a bad dream when she felt a frigid gust of wind swirling around her like a hurricane of passionate imprisonment, she opened her eyes and there he was….so close to her face that she could taste his breath. His eyes were yellow and the veins under his burning gaze were so prominent that she could've touched them; he snarled showing her the teeth of a predator before pinning her up against the nearest wall where he took her….feeding…nourishing himself from the one thing she had to offer: uncontaminated lust…

A/N: Chapter 11 will send Klaus and Caroline to new heights…Wait for it :)

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