4x13 Reaction Drabble set immediately after Klaus heals Caroline
Fear was the only word that Klaus could comprehend at the moment. After drinking her fill of his blood to dispel the damage of his bite, Tyler returned to spirit Caroline away. No words were exchanged after Caroline's piercing insight; though the room sizzled with the intensity of the emotions they privately shared. Even Tyler noticed something was different between the two of them, his lips pursed in obvious distaste as the victory of forcing Klaus to bend was lost.
Now Klaus was resting on the very spot his blonde vampire occupied just before, wanting to be close to her scent. He rolled onto his back to let his gaze drift towards the ceiling emotional exhaustion of past couple hours finally taking its toll. Caroline had said he was in love with her. Was that truly possible?
Love was a vampire's weakness, it was why he knew she had to die and earlier he was going to let her. She could not be a distraction for him, it created too much unknown. Additionally, Tyler needed to be reminded of who the real alpha was, since the dog was incapable of leaving sleeping dragons in peace. Klaus was willing to let it be at peace with the boy, his mother for Kol. It was a good and honorable deal until Caroline stirred him up in anger, informing him exactly how alone he truly was. His natural reaction was to lash out to protect himself so he did and she paid the price.
A single tear gathered in his eye again, he thought they had all gone. Never had a woman in his entire life created such turmoil within him. The strings of his heart were incapable of understanding which emotions were playing. He attributed the emotions to fear, they were close enough. It must be the fear that someone was getting to close to the core of the defenses he carefully constructed. Strangely though he wanted nothing more than Caroline to accept him and that desire grew the more he saw her.
Was that love? He did not know what love was. All he knew was he wanted to see the light of her eyes dancing happily again as the day they laughed over beauty pageant and the simple days of her human life. Letting lose a heavy sigh he turned back to his side and breathed in the soft smell of her lingering scent. The sweet smell stopped the flurry of emotions clawing at his black heart. Exhausted his eyes drifted shut and the four lettered word taunting his mind. Perhaps tomorrow he could start to understand what it meant.