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Kol grinned and ambled over to the drinks table.

Bonnie shot Caroline a wide approving smile before making her way over to a sofa. With nothing to do and the express purpose of avoiding Klaus' gaze, the blonde stuck her hands into her back pockets and looked around the room, her eyes raking over the art the house was decorated with. She wondered how much of it was Klaus'.

"What'll it be, darling?" Kol asked.

She turned to him uncertainly, catching Klaus still staring at her with a smirk.

"Um, whiskey, thanks."

Klaus pushed off from the back of the sofa. "I'll get us some snacks."

He took his drink from his brother as he passed on the way to the kitchen before pausing in the doorway.

Looking up, Caroline caught his eye. He gestured with his head invitingly and once again she felt her heart flutter. With what, she wasn't sure, but it was making it damn difficult to concentrate.

Working for hostility, Caroline narrowed her eyes at him and shook her head but he didn't leave and she gritted her teeth before following.

"Seriously?" she asked once they were in the kitchen. "How much manpower does it take to grab a bag of potato chips?"

He looked at her with amusement as he took a sip of his drink. "You would have preferred being the third wheel with those two out there?"

She rolled her eyes but dutifully went to peek back out into the lounge.

Bonnie was on a one-seater and Kol sat on the armrest, saying things that Caroline preferred not to tune into based on how profusely Bonnie was blushing.

She moved back toward Klaus with a glare but relented.

"Fine, point taken."

His smug smile appeared for the second time that night and she rolled her eyes as he stood back and regarded all his kitchen cabinets, his forehead slightly creased.

She frowned. "What are you looking for?"

"Our snack cupboard."

"You don't know which one it is?" she asked with a small smirk.

She was trying to taunt him but honestly she had no idea how anybody could keep straight which cabinet was which considering there were about a million of them.

"I used to, very well, but I believe someone did some re-arranging," Klaus replied, moving forward to relinquish his drink and open a cabinet.

She smiled at his small grunt of disappointment before he moved to another.

"Very well? Are you telling me you have a sweet tooth, Mr Mikaeslon?" she said flirtily, moving to help him search.

He paused for a moment, looking at her with an amused smile.

"No. But I've found that my sister becomes slightly more agreeable after a platter of candy and crisps."

Caroline raised a brow. "Rebekah calms down after a sugar high?"

Klaus only smirked as he continued to search. She watched as he leaned up higher, noting the skin his riding Henley revealed.

Quickly Caroline averted her eyes, opting to look through more cabinets.

"So what, you just send up a plate of sugar whenever your sister's mad at you? You think that's the only way to shut a woman up?"

"There are certainly other ways," Klaus replied suggestively with a smug smirk.

Thinking of the way they'd been practically been glued to each other not half an hour ago, Caroline blushed and turned away.

"But, moreover," he continued, "I usually accompanied the… plate of sugar," he repeated with amusement, "and attempted using it as a point of entry into some sort of dialogue."

She turned to him in surprise. "Seriously?"

He looked amused. "You seem astonished."

"I am. I mean that just sounds way too normal and considerate for you Originals."

She'd meant it half-truthfully but half-teasingly and they shared a smile before she bent down to open another cabinet.

Glimpsing marshmallows inside, she sighed in relief. They'd been in here alone together for way too long already. She didn't want Bonnie suspecting anything weird.

"Found it," she informed him, making to straighten up.

Klaus held out his hand and she hesitated for a second before taking it.

She shouldn't have.

Klaus used his strength to pull her up onto her feet and into him in one swift movement. She didn't have time to think before his mouth was on hers, hot and demanding. Caroline gasped against his lips before engaging in the battle, her hands dropping to his sides to anchor herself.

Klaus' free hand slid up into her neck, slowly caressing it before tangling it through her silky blond locks. He used the grip to pull her even closer and she held back moans, remembering where they were and who was in the other room.

Finally, Klaus pulled away, with a smirk, like he knew exactly how much he was affecting her.

Breathing deeply, she watched him bend down to retrieve the snacks she'd found.

He was literally going about business like he hadn't just pulled her into a mind-bending kiss and then released her just as quickly.

God, she felt hot and cold all over; her entire body fearful that he would touch her again even as it begged for him to touch and kiss her more.

Caroline continued to stare as he found a snack platter, opened various bags and meticulously went about distributing the contents into the platter.

His story about taking snacks up to Rebekah when she was moody had seemed unbelievable but watching him now she realised that he'd been telling the truth.

It warmed her, somehow, to know that he could treat his sister that tenderly and considerately even if it was only occasionally.

She considered this as he finished up, re-placing the leftover snacks into the cabinet.

"Well about the Rebekah thing, I don't mean to tell you how to do your job or anything but you seriously could've done that once or twice over the past year," she pointed out, thinking of multiple times the female Original had been an utter bitch about things.

Klaus chuckled. "You tell me how to do anything? Unfathomable."

Her jaw dropped at his sarcasm and she was about to reply but he leaned down and caught her mouth with his instead, sneaking his tongue inside.

She whimpered, first in surprise then overwhelming pleasure, as he placed a hand on her lower back and pushed her into him, bringing her flush with his body.

The kiss was hard and intense and Caroline wrapped her fingers into his hair, scraping her nails down his scalp. He hissed into the kiss and she was smirking beneath his mouth when he flashed them against a counter, the hard marble digging into her lower back.

She gasped and he pushed in closer to her, dominating the kiss as his hands burned on her, one against her throat and the other in the nape of her neck.

Klaus pulled back then drove his body back against hers. She whimpered again, albeit as softly as she could manage, feeling heady with all the sensations, most notably from his scotch tongue wildly exploring her mouth as his lips pushed into hers roughly. And there was the way his hard body was grinding into hers which was doing all but driving her completely insane.

When she couldn't go another second without oxygen she used her grip to pull his head backwards. Klaus reluctantly removed his mouth from hers and smirked at the way her chest was heaving as she desperately sucked in air.

Needing more of her, he leaned back in and began kissing the side of her mouth as she breathed. His hands moved to her waist, thumbs deliberately rubbing circles on her ribs through the thin fabric of her top. He wanted higher and, god, he wanted nothing more than to taste the breasts teasing him from over her shirt but he reminded himself of their current situation, tightening his hands on her instead as he continued to move his body against hers.

His eyes widened when he felt her leg come up to hitch over his hip.

She whimpered when he gripped her knee to anchor its spot on him before grinding against her faster.

"Klaus," she moaned until he moved his lips back to hers.

God, he tasted so good. Sweet and warm and like expensive alcohol. And his body against hers was making her wonder exactly how much they could get away with without Bonnie suspecting or hearing anything from the other room.

Slowly she moved her hands down from his hair. Feeling all the muscles in his back tightening as she worked her way down, the blonde groaned into his mouth. God, he was hot. It really wasn't fair.

Her hands hit the edge of his Henley and teasingly she slipped them under, thumbing his taut skin and moving her hands around forward to search for the trail of hair.

Surprised, Klaus halted his grinding before nipping at her bottom lip to offset the overwhelmingly erotic sensation of Caroline touching him. Her fingers were soft, nimble and torturous.

Her hand found the line of soft hair and Klaus growled, grabbing at her wrist to bring it to a stop.

She would've laughed if he didn't increase the intensity of the kiss, all but bruising her lips, and she curled her nails into his body in response.

If she'd ever had any doubts that they would be crazy hot together, this would've eviscerated every single one of them. They were only making out and she felt undone.

After a few more seconds Caroline pulled away, panting hard as she removed her leg from his body then reluctantly pulled her hands away too. She dragged them through her hair before hesitantly looking up at him.

The blue fire in his eyes was enough to tell her that he was feeling just as wanting as she did.

Suddenly feeling shy beneath Klaus' intense gaze, Caroline twisted around to face the counter. Her mind was racing. With what Bonnie might have heard – what Kol had definitely heard – and whether she'd gone too far with Klaus.

Seeing his drink on the counter in front of her and having never gotten one of her own, Caroline lifted the tumbler and took a long sip, relishing the scotch burning down her throat. It tasted like him.

She stiffened a little when she felt him pull her hair out of her neck then gasped sharply when Klaus' hands settled on her hips.

It was all she could do not to throw her head back in full appreciation when he put his lips to the inside of her neck, against the throbbing of her pulse. His sexy stubble tickled and teased and Caroline found herself gripping the counter to offset the sensation.

He kissed her first, tenderly and slowly, and that was bad enough but then he nipped at her neck and it was all she could take in silence. Soft moans escaped her lips as Klaus brought out his tongue to cool the spot, only succeeding in making her hotter.

Reaching down, Caroline intertwined her fingers with his, squeezing to let him know what he was doing to her; to make him continue.

Mercifully he didn't stop, alternating between kissing, biting and licking.

She was a mess beneath his mouth and she didn't have to think about it to know that if they'd been alone in this house right now, things would be escalating far quicker and further than they were now.

She wanted him and could feel exactly how much he wanted her. And her body was coming closer and closer to the point where not even Bonnie in the other room would matter.

She allowed herself a few more moments of the heaven his mouth was providing her with before working for a breath so she could speak.

"Klaus… we should – we should go back out there."

He paused in her neck, hesitating, then nodded lightly as he rubbed circles with his thumb against her hand still clasped in his.

He placed soft kisses down her shoulder before backing away and with a last heavy breath Caroline turned back around to face him.

She was about to step away from him and head to the lounge when she remembered that this was her last chance – tonight was an anomaly; this was the last time they'd be together like this.

With that thought she pushed forward to lay one last kiss full on his lips. It was hard, desperate in a way, but still tender and he reciprocated with the same passion she felt burning in her belly.

After a few seconds she slowly pulled her lips away. She leaned her forehead on his then lightly rubbed the side of her nose against his.

She smiled broadly and he did too. Instinctively she knew that never, not if she lived for five thousand years, was she going to forget this night.

Then she walked away from him.