This would probably be a lot better if you went back and reread chapter 13, but your choice! Thanks to everyone who reviewed! Made my day! I realize that this chapter won't make sense, and a lot of it will be OOC, but the next chapter will make up for everything! So just, hold back on the hate, please? Haha. Enjoy!
Klaus responded to the kiss by first just standing there, stunned; but then seconds later, wrapping his arms around her and pulling her into a tight embrace while her hands wrapped around his neck. She kissed him as hard as she could, getting as close as possible. She had pushed him into the car, leaning up against his now stabilized being. She moved her lips with his, feeling the pure passion of the moment, and not caring about anything else. Her mind was at ease.
But Klaus seemed to have just a couple things on his mind. He loosened his grasp around her and put his hands on her waist instead. He pulled back ever so slightly and leaned his head on hers. "What about Tyler?" he reminded.
Caroline scoffed. "Forget Tyler," she dismissed, pulling his head back to hers, needing nothing more than to be kissed by him.
As her lips came in contact with his once more, he moaned and leaned his back up off the car, getting closer to her and letting his hands roam her back. Caroline's hands mainly stayed on his neck, shoulders, and hair; but her mouth traveled his entire face, loving every detail. While she kissed his face, he had room to speak.
"And me being the Big Bad Klaus? Where did your thoughts on that go?" he questioned.
"It's all still there," she replied into his ear. "There's just a 'My' on the front of it now."
Klaus chuckled and gently bit the shell of her ear. Caroline, smiling, took his hair and pulled his face back into her view. She just stared at him for a second, relishing in everything about him. If her thoughts weren't completely correct right now, she didn't care. She'd deal with details later. But for now, Klaus was hers.
Hers. Caroline smiled at that thought. She rubbed her nose on his for a split second, then claimed his mouth once more.
Klaus kissed her back eagerly, not seeming to be able to make up his mind as to which angle he preferred to kiss her at. He turned their heads often, moving his lips in perfect rhythm with hers.
He leaned up off of the car completely and moved Caroline back a few steps. He reached for the handle behind him, but tried to keep her at a distance the whole time. Getting the door open while she was standing in the way would not end up in a good situation. Klaus' hand on her stomach, preventing her from coming closer, seemed to be working. Her hands were still on his face as she refused to leave his kiss.
Once the door was open, Klaus picked Caroline up by the waist and gently set her down in the seat. Caroline frowned at him and finally pulled her face from his. "What are you doing?" she questioned, looking around at the wheel she had been placed behind.
"Making this scene even better," he said, putting his hand on the lever under the seat and pulling it. The back of the seat dropped back, but Caroline was quick enough to hold herself up as she suddenly was no longer supported.
"Klaus!" she yelled when the seat dropped back.
Klaus smiled at her and started climbing inside of the car, himself, and shutting the door behind him.
Considering how small the front seat of the car was, Klaus accidentally honked the horn as he tried to cram himself in.
Caroline laughed out loud at him and fell back onto the back of the seat, where she was supposed to have laid down when he'd first retracted it.
As Caroline continued to giggle at Klaus for a silly action, he leaned down and laid himself down on top of her, propping himself up on his elbows and staring down at her smiling face.
"Ok, now why did you move us?" she questioned, calming herself.
"This is more romantic," he answered.
Caroline chuckled again. "Being crammed in a car is more romantic than standing in the middle of a breeze and under the sun?" she checked.
Klaus thought about it for a second. "But you see, in here, I'm leaning over you. And that is always the most romantic way to be with someone."
Caroline rolled her eyes. "Are you saying that every time I see you now, I should immediately drop to the ground so that you can be over me?"
Klaus smirked and pursed his lips in mock annoyance at her sassy attitude. "No. I'm saying you should be quiet and accept that I have more knowledge in the 'Romance' apartment than you do!" he insisted, leaning down and placing a single, sweet kiss on her smiling lips.
"Ok," she started. "When was this," she motioned to him leaning over her, "considered romantic?"
Klaus frowned at her like she was crazy. "This has always been considered romantic, darling," he informed her. In every fairytale, this is how the prince kisses the 'damsel in distress.'"
Caroline kissed the tip of his nose. "I thought we were making our own fairytale," she reminded him.
"There's got to be some clichés in the mix or it just won't be a fairytale."
Caroline frowned. "I hate clichés," she commented.
Klaus chuckled. "You do an awful lot of cliché things for someone that hates them."
Caroline didn't reply, she wouldn't let him win that war.
They locked eyes in an entrancing stare. Caroline was starting to see what people meant by 'looking into someone's soul' through their eyes. Looking into his intense blue eyes, seeing the reflection of the sunlight in them, the loving look twinkling on the rim, she felt like she was staring at him, the real Klaus. She reached forward and placed her hand on the side of his face, making it all the while by doing every cliché thing in the book.
Klaus reached for her other hand and held it to his chest, intertwining their fingers; and with his other hand, he gently stroked hair out of her face.
Yup, Caroline thought, every cliché thing in the book.
Klaus smirked and slightly shook his head. "This is completely cliché," he said her thoughts aloud.
Caroline rolled her eyes with a tiny smile on her face. "Ok, so I do cliché things," she agreed. "But I don't want clichés in my fairytale!"
Klaus sobered a bit at the thought of that. 'My fairytale.' Caroline's fairytale involved him. He smiled down at her gently. "Then what would you like in your tale, darling?"
Caroline held his gaze and couldn't help the faint blush that crept to her cheeks as he asked for her preference in their story. "I want us to be passionate. I want there to be a true, thick, sickeningly sweet love that practically glows off of us when we're together."
Oh, Caroline… he thought. If only I could give that to you…
He didn't reply to her. He couldn't tell her that could never happen, not after he just got her. He wasn't going to just push her away like that.
So instead, he leaned down and grazed his lips across hers, sending a shock down her arms. Her eyes fell closed and she inhaled sharply at the feeling of Klaus finally being this close to her. He closed his eyes as well, and sighed in relief. No one could act that well. She wasn't lying or playing him at all. This was real. It was all finally real. Leaning down, Klaus promised himself he wouldn't let her go, not now that he had her. He swore he would make sure he did everything to keep her safe, keep her happy, keep her loved. He would never turn his back on her, even if she hated him. He would be there for her, forever, until the day he died.
To seal off his vow, he tenderly kissed her. He kissed her slowly, knowing this was the last woman he would truly fall for ever again. Because after Caroline, there would be no other.
Tyler coughed and reached to roll up his window as the dust started pouring into the car. The tires of his car were flinging rocks and sand up into the air as he flew down the empty road. He had a smirk on his face. He was coming home, home to Caroline.
He reached for his phone and quickly dialed her number, needing to tell her. He couldn't keep his return a secret any longer.
The phone rang in his ear and he gripped the steering wheel with one hand as he kept the car on the beaten road.
A ring came from Klaus' back pocket, and Caroline frowned against him. "That my phone?" she asked.
Klaus pulled it out of his pocket with difficulty of holding himself up with one arm. He handed her the phone, but he took a quick glance, and panicked when he saw the number that was calling. "Who is it?" he asked as she looked at the screen.
Caroline shook her head at the string of numbers stretched across her phone. "I don't know. Someone I don't have in my contacts," she answered. She shrugged and reached behind her to drop the phone to the floor of the car, under the seat. Klaus felt a wave of relief sweep across him. She reached for Klaus' neck and pulled him back down to her in another heated kiss.
Tyler chuckled in irritation as he was taken to her answering machine. "Hey, Care, I know you're not answering because you don't have my number saved yet, so I'm not gonna stress about it. Anyway, I'm almost home, give me ten minutes, and I'll be at your doorstep," he smiled into the phone. He turned the steering wheel slightly to dodge a black Mustang that was just setting on the side of the road. "I miss you like crazy. Love you," he said, then clicked the end button and tossed his phone into the passenger's seat as he straightened his car back into the middle of the road.
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Caroline lightly dragged her finger around the back of Klaus' hand, making random designs. They were laying back-to-chest on the seat, as close as possible. She was facing the door of the car, but was content with Klaus' arm draped around her shoulders and his other arm below her for her to use as a pillow.
"What time is it?" she asked quietly, having not talked for a while. They had been laying like that for nearly twenty minutes straight, in a heavy silence.
Klaus pulled his arm away from her slowly and reached into his back pocket for his phone. "Almost two," he answered. Klaus frowned as he actually took a second to look at his screen. "Oh…" he said aloud. He had a voicemail, but he didn't remember ever hearing his phone alarm.
"What?" Caroline asked, turning over on the narrow seat to look up at him.
"Nothing. I've just got a voicemail. Mind if I listen to it?" he asked, seeing as that was the polite thing to do: ask before switching to something that only involved one of them.
Caroline gave him a 'yeah, duh' face. "Wait, don't I have one too?" she asked, trying to look behind her towards the floor of the car.
Klaus quickly snatched her phone and held it in front of his face, not letting her take it from him. "Yes, it appears you do. Mind if I listen to it for you?"
Caroline closed her eyes and shook her head at the random offer. "What?" she asked, opening her eyes.
"That's Kol's number. I just thought you wouldn't want to listen to his voice," he said. "I'll let you hear mine," he added onto the offer.
Caroline stared at him like he was crazy. "I…I-I guess? That's kinda weird…"
Klaus ignored her last comment and handed her his phone. "Six, eight, six, four," he listed his phone's code to her.
"Yeah," she dragged, staring at the phone like she was unsure about everything he was doing. She spaced out for a second, then suddenly remembered he wanted her code. "Oh. Three, five, four, four," she answered.
Klaus started leaning up off of her. "Hungry, love?"
Caroline thought for a second. "Yeah. Didn't realize it until you said something," she admitted. "Wait, you brought food?"
"I have extra blood stored in the back," he said, opening the door and moving Caroline's legs aside so he could get out.
He gracefully exited, his necklace gently swaying as he was bent down to avoid hitting his head on the rim of the hood. The second he was out, he closed the door and punched in the numbers onto Caroline's phone.
He took a few steps away from the car, listening closely. "Hey, Care," Tyler's voice came out of the phone. Klaus mumbled a few curses before continuing to listen. "…you don't have my number saved yet, so I'm not gonna stress about it. Anyway, I'm almost home, give me ten minutes, and I'll be at your doorstep."
Klaus didn't need to hear anymore. He clicked end on the phone and quickly deleted the message so Caroline wouldn't be able to listen to it later.
What did he do? What could he do? Caroline would find Tyler soon enough if they went home. Ten minutes. That meant Tyler had already been to her house, found she wasn't there, and is looking for her this very second. He had to do something. Get Caroline away from Tyler…
Klaus put Caroline's phone in his pocket subconsciously as he briskly turned around and marched back to the door of the car. He pulled it open and leaned down to look at her.
"Run away with me."
Caroline looked up from his phone with a stunned look on her face. "What?" she exclaimed, louder than necessary.
"Right now. Come with me. Skip town. Let's you and me run off together," he said in one breath.
"Klaus, I just got used to kissing you, I'm not just going to stop what I'm doing and leave everything right off the bat like that," she snapped.
"Come on, Caroline! We're making our own fairytale, remember?"
"And that is the most cliché thing there is!" she defended.
"Forget about cliché, darling." He crawled into the car far enough to sit on the edge of the seat and place a hand on her knee. "We'll be gone a week at the latest. We could go anywhere you wanted. This is the perfect opportunity!" he said in an excited hushed voice.
"The perfect opportunity for what?"
"For us to get to know one another. For us to escape the chaos of this town," he explained.
"Why can't we do that in like a month?" she questioned, not liking the sudden spontaneous plans.
"Because in a month from now you will have changed your mind about everything."
Caroline calmed herself at that statement. "You don't know that," she said in a defensive, quiet tone.
"No, I do know that," he corrected, staring straight into her eyes. "The minute after I start this car and begin heading back to town, you'll shut me out. You'll pretend that this never happened. That's what you do every time. That's why we're not together." He sighed and looked down. "That's why we won't ever be together."
Caroline frowned at him. But thinking back on everything, that was exactly what she did. "No," she said to him firmly. "No, that isn't going to happen this time. This time I'm going to be happy, and be happy with you. This is happening, Klaus. You and me." Despise her promise to be happy with this, Klaus didn't look at her. He looked up and out the window ahead of him. Caroline bit her lip, thinking about what else she could do. "Fine," she agreed without telling him what she was agreeing to.
Klaus raised an eyebrow at her. "Fine what?"
"We're leaving," she said in a cheerful but driven way. She turned around and scootched herself backwards into the passenger's seat. She smiled at him. "We're running away together. Being all cliché-y."
Klaus stared at her for a while, like she was going to crack and demand he take her home. But she didn't. She just gave him a waiting expression and pulled her feet up on the seat under her.
"Well?" she asked after about two minutes of just staring at one another. "Are we going or not?" she checked.
Klaus couldn't help the tiny curve that appeared at the corner of his mouth. "You really want to do this?"
"If you promise to take me shopping, then yes. I really, truly do," she smiled at him.
Klaus leaned across the divider of the two seats. Without touching her with his hands, he kissed her once, making the kiss long, and making it count.
Caroline even surprised him by humming right before she pulled away. He smiled with his eyes still closed before pulling himself back over into the driver's seat and fixing the backrest. He pulled his door closed and started the car, smiling the whole time.
"Oh!" Caroline started, but decided not to finish the thought. She settled herself down in her seat. "Never mind," she dismissed.
Klaus frowned at her, still smiling. "What?" he asked, pulling onto the middle of the road and driving away from their lives for the time being.
"Nothing. The auction was today, but I realized now that it's set up they don't really need me."
Klaus finally stopped smiling. "Do we need to go back so you can be a part of it?" he checked, feeling a bit discouraged.
Caroline slowly started to smile. "No, we don't. I said I wasn't going to turn on you like I always do. And I plan on sticking to what I said this time. We're leaving together, and we're not worrying about anything else!"
Klaus had plenty to worry about. His family killing the Gilbert girl. Lockwood finding out that he had his girlfriend. Caroline deciding halfway through the trip that she hated him again. But she said they weren't going to worry. And that's what they both intended to do. Not worry about anything. Especially being alone together for the first time ever…