I was originally going to post these (The Klaus Extra is next) after the story was finished but I figured why not.
In Love With A Monster
It all used to be so simple.
He was bad, he was evil, she was good, her friends were good. He wasn't to be trusted, he wasn't to be befriended, he was to be hated and left alone and destroyed so he couldn't anyone else. But she saw that moment of weakness when he admitted to loving to birthdays. He had just been a monster before that, a nothing that wasn't worth her thoughts. Maybe he had never been. But, God, was it hard after that. Admittedly it had been his fault Tyler had bit her, but he didn't have to come save her. He barely knew her!
He did though, the evil creature saved her for absolutely no reason - maybe it was because it was her birthday. The way he talked about the world though, it was something else. And then he showed up more and more, she had to admit the presents were flattering but aside from how flashy they were she wouldn't have noticed them, and the way he spoke to her, and that accent. And of course there was his obvious good looks - more than that, he was a God from both Heaven and Hell. The way he said he would protect her and he wanted to flatter her and he enjoyed her and fancied her...Caroline thoughts it was only because she wouldn't sleep with him and flatter his ego.
It was so much more though. Even she knew that maybe not then, not right away, but she felt herself falling. Like Alice down the damned rabbit hole, but it wasn't dark with Klaus, at least not intentionally or mostly. Mostly it was a quiet fall, darkness surrounding but a thrill and denied joy. Before she met him, she thought she would push everyone away and that she had to be perfect but then comes Klaus and suddenly, she's not alone. Suddenly she doesn't even have to look at him or do her makeup or even try to do anything at all except being herself so easily and he's saying he's in love. Suddenly she can see the darkness more clearly in her and she knows it's because she could be him if she let herself. And when he tried, tries so hard, to be good? It was purely amazing.
She never she could have someone else feel this way, act this way, all for her, putting herself first. Then he showed her his art, she was breathtaking, he complimented her and saved her without hesitation. The others would never have seen it, she knows, because they wouldn't even look, the good that was so plainly in him, hidden beneath all the hurt. Then she knew his story. Abusive father, lying mother, dead siblings, cursed, haunted, then spelled to have bloodlust. A broken home, and people who only put him down.
It was hard to admit that it sounded familiar; her mother had avoided her, her father had left her, she was always put last and was always put down by others. She hated she had so much in common with him, even with so much different. It made it harder to deny the feelings she felt for him, the greatness she knew he could be. Then he left and it was like her whole world stopped as long as he was gone - she tried to find a rebound without even noticing it - and when he came back, even just for a day, it was put back together. She kissed him, and it was beyond wonderful, she loved how he held her and touched her with love and passion and want and need all the same. It was so new, so different, so perfect.
She didn't hide it anymore, she had feelings for the so-called big bad and ruthless hybrid, Klaus Mikaelson. While others thought she was crazy she thought it was extraordinary. Being with him, she always had the control she needed while he had the same, but they challenged each other, and they yelled and screamed and they made love and they held each other and wiped each other's tears. Somehow, Caroline was so, so in love with being in love with the man. She only wished she had gotten over herself and the others quicker, but in a way, she wouldn't have changed a thing between them. Caroline Forbes, despite what people might think - and there had been such crazy conspiracy theories, like the one where everyone was sure she had been kidnapped and compelled - she was in love with him and knew he loved her and couldn't imagine leaving him. It was just so… Wow. Even if they always teased each other to no end.