A/N: this is NOT the last chapter. hold on tight. i still havent decided if there will be a happy ending or not.

Chapter 11

Klaus had left town alone and was staying in a low rent hotel in some unknown part of Virginia. He hadn't slept or eaten at all since he'd seen Caroline get staked and he was an absolute mess. There was no part of him that wanted to live but there was so much of him that couldn't die. He considered ripping out his own heart and killing himself by pushing a stake through it. But he wasn't sure if that'd quite do it. He'd thought over his own suicide for hours and nothing seemed like it would work. But for now he was depriving himself of blood. It was painful, having not eaten in days, but he needed to feel that pain just to remind himself that he was still living.

Today was also Caroline's viewing and then her funeral and he knew that he'd have to see her before he left this world to travel to the next. He dragged himself from bed and opened the blinds, seeing the sun for the first time in two days. He cringed at it and reshut them. He gathered himself as best he could and prepared to sneak off to where Caroline's body was being prepped. Since the medical examiner had been killed and he was the only one that knew about vampires, Dr. Fell was in charge of cleaning Caroline for burial. Klaus knew he could easily overpower her, rip off her vervain necklace and then compel her to forget she'd even seen him.

And that's exactly what he did. He was now face to face with the cold, lifeless body of Caroline Forbes. The sight made him sick. He wanted to just turn around and leave but he couldn't. Not without saying something first.

"I really loved you, Caroline." He breathed through his years. "And I can't believe you've gone. I'm going to join you soon at whatever place vampires go to when they die. Then we can finish our plan and run away together and still spend eternity side by side. And I guess this way we're sure not to be found. I just know you've gone to heaven and I hope I end up there too."

Klaus looked around the medical examination room and saw the stake that was used on Caroline. He grasped it and ran his fingers along it. It burned his skin a little. And it was an unusual color and texture for a stake. He concluded that it must have been a white oak stake that Esther had used on Caroline. But why? She wasn't an Original. Any wood could have done it. But Klaus figured it was because Esther was always one for theatricality. He was glad this time for it though. Because now he had the weapon that was sure to make it all go away. He took a last look at Caroline and raised the stake up in both hands with tears in his eyes.

"Adjo, Caroline. Jag hoppas att vi motts i himlen." he whispered before he brought the stake down into his chest.

He fell to the ground with a thud and the room went deathly silent.

Caroline's fingers began to twitch uncontrollably. She felt as though she had just been under water and was being brought to the surface all of a sudden. But she couldn't move anything else quite yet. It seemed like hours passed by and every few minutes another part of her body would regain sensation. She felt really good and refreshed, like she'd taken a long nap. She had regained all the feeling up to her neck. All she needed were her eyes to open.

She felt warm and happy like she'd been reborn. For a second she hadn't trusted Esther but here she was. Alive and well. She was probably in a coffin though, under the ground, but that was okay. She'd reemerge and start her life brand new. Slate clean.

Her eyes popped open and she couldn't help but smile to herself. 'This is it' she thought. Her suspicions were correct. She had been buried.

She popped the coffin lid off with ease and dug through the freshly laid dirt to get to the surface. She was covered in dirt when she got out but once again it was all right. Her new life was waiting.

She looked around the empty cemetery and smiled at the bouquet of flowers that was next to her headstone. It was creepy to see her own headstone but slightly soothing. She was dead after all. She should have a headstone.

She looked around at the beautiful Spring day and surveyed the other gravestones. There was a freshly dug hole not too far from hers and she couldn't help but frown. She walked up to it and her heart sunk when she saw the name on the gravestone. 'Niklaus Mikaelson'.

She peaked into the hole but there was no coffin. She turned to her left and took off in the direction of the church. Inside there was a coffin at the front of the church. She inched closer and closer fearing the worse. Tears started to sting the back of her eyes.

And then her worst fear was realized. Klaus was in the coffin, in his finest suit, clutching a wooden stake in his hands. Caroline instantly broke down into tears. It was as though a hole was punched through her chest, replacing her heart. Never had she been so devastated in her life. Not even the day she realized she was dead. This was much worse than death. This was the death of her love.

She put her hand on his chest and could feel the hole in his skin where the stake had been pulled out. She wept some more, smearing the make up that'd been put on her when everyone thought she was dead.

A voice startled from behind startled her and she leapt back, afraid of being seen. But it was only Abby Bennet.

"Abby? Tell me he will wake up. Tell me this is part of the plan." Caroline said through thick sobs.

"I'm sorry, Caroline. He went into hiding and I couldn't find him to tell him the message. He turned off his phone and fell off the planet. I'm so sorry." Abby said solemnly.

Caroline dropped to her knees and held her chest, fearing if she didn't her heart would explode with grief. Her body melted with exhausting sobs.

Abby said a small prayer before turning around to leave. She couldn't watch Caroline anymore. The sight was far more than she could handle.

"I'm sorry, Klaus. I'm sorry. I thought Esther told you. I thought we'd meet somewhere far away after I woke up and we'd spend forever together. I thought I was doing what was best for both of us. How could I have been so stupid?" Caroline whispered through her tears. "I'm supposed to be dead right now, Klaus. What do I do now? I can't go on without you. I can't go through this life roaming this earth alone when you're supposed to be with me."

She wiped her tears away with the back of her hand and then brushed Klaus's cold cheek with her other hand. He would have loved that he was being given such a fine funeral. His family did really care about him even if they were mad with him. There's nothing thicker than blood after all.

Caroline grabbed the stake and recognized it as the one that Esther had used on her. She broke down in tears all over again. He must have seen her dead and then took his own life with the very stake that had taken hers. He really did love her. If she ever doubted him, she certainly didn't now.

"I'll be with you soon, Klaus." She whispered, as she turned the stake over in her hands. "I promise."