I had a fic similar to this but I'm 98% sure I'm just throwing it away. This one's got more to it anyway.

Caroline held her dress to her body, looking back at Bonnie and Enzo with expectant grins while they praised every dress she tried on. She'd known what her wedding dress would be since she was fourteen, but now nothing in the mirror looked good enough. She was getting married to Stefan Salvatore. Her what-if guy she loved more than anything that was making a home for her kids, who she was living with.

"That one looks perfect, Care." Bonnie assured her. Caroline smiled and looked back in the mirror. Then she looked to the pile of discarded dresses and bent down, the flap of her open gown falling far enough her bra showed. She looked out through the mirror. Someone was watching her.

And out there, standing in the street, was Klaus. Straggly, long-haired, restless angry Klaus. In surprise she let go of the dress and it pooled around her feet, she stumbled over the material of the dress and there she stood, only in her underwear, before the guy who'd promised to be her last love. Just like old times, wasn't it?

"What is it, Care?" Bonnie asked, walking over to her and looking through the window with her.

"Klaus." She replied, her face hardening. Her hands tightened to fists and she grabbed the dress she came in with, putting it on in a second, and stood before Klaus again, whose slightly amused face still held her eyes. "I'll be right back."

"Wait a second, who's Klaus?" Enzo asked.

"Wow you weren't here for a while." Bonnie replied. Enzo looked at her and Caroline flew past him.

"It's okay, I'll be alright. Tell Stefan where I went though, please?" Caroline called. She sped from the building and Bonnie and Enzo watched her storm up to the hybrid who had been out of their lives for so long.

Without a moment of hesitation, her hand flew up and Caroline slapped Klaus, hard. His long hair flew, his sunken eyes carried a measure of hurt at the blow and she narrowed her eyes at him.

"What in the hell are you doing here?" She snarled.

"I came to find you, love. I heard from a certain bartender you were looking for me." Klaus replied, trying to smirk. He winced and Caroline watched him try to pull himself together.

"What happened to you?" She asked. Klaus looked her over and chuckled.

"Too much." He replied. "And not enough." Caroline's concern for him overturned her anger for a brief moment and she gently took his arm.

"Here, let's get you inside." Caroline said, leading him. Klaus let her pull him toward the door, and she let him put his arm around her waist to steady himself while she brought him through the building and towards the room Bonnie and Enzo were in.

"What happened?" Bonnie asked, shooting up. Enzo mirrored her concerned face and Caroline dropped Klaus on the couch.

"I don't know. But I couldn't let him be out there, not while Sybil's still at large." Caroline replied.

"Who the bloody hell is Sybil?" Klaus grumbled, combing back his shaggy hair.

"Wow. He's been gone a long time." Bonnie said.

"You don't wanna know." Caroline told him, sitting down beside him. "The most you need to know is it took Damon, and it had Enzo for a while then let him go for some reason."

"Does Sybil have Stefan now?" Klaus asked.

"No." Caroline replied, shooting looks at Bonnie and Enzo as they stared at her. Klaus hung his head and so he didn't catch them. It was a long couple of minutes before Caroline shifted on the couch again toward him.

"What happened, Klaus. What did this to you?" She asked. He picked his head up and eyed her with a smile.

"Glad to see you still care." He replied. Her face suddenly twisted to anger again.

"I don't. But if there's a threat out there we need to know about it so we aren't just prepared for Sybil to come back." She snapped. Klaus looked away.

"Don't worry. That threat won't come looking for me, or any of you. It's finished with me now." He replied in a half-delirious voice. Caroline glanced at Bonnie and Enzo again. Enzo sat on the couch by Klaus, Bonnie sat by Enzo on the floor.

"Five years, right?" Caroline asked suddenly. Klaus looked at her in confusion. "Five years since we last saw eachother?" She prompted. Klaus's eyebrow rose and he looked away.

"When I was away it seemed longer."

"And two since we last talked." She said in a soft voice. Klaus looked back at her. "What happened? Talk to me."

"I have watched siblings die far too many times. Watched Rebekah go mad. Elijah finally got the happiness he so deserves." Klaus replied. He stared in her eyes. "I almost saw the end of the vampire race, more than once. And not just here."

"How?" Caroline asked.

"It doesn't matter now, it was my sireline that broke. You're all safe now." Klaus replied with a smile. "But after I was freed, after, everything calmed down….after we were safe again…" He began, and cautiously leaned towards her, her eyes open in caution. "When I heard of your visit to my city, I knew where I must go." He said. Caroline held his eyes still. "What kept me going, what kept me from falling to dust, was the thought of finding you again." Klaus said. He reached for her hand and before she could pull it back, his thumb went over the one thing she wasn't ready to tell him about yet. Stefan's 'friendship ring.'

Klaus looked at it and Caroline looked at Enzo and Bonnie, who simultaneously decided they better stand back. He held up her hand and looked at the diamond covering her slight ring finger.

"What is this?" He asked, dumbfounded.

"Um, it seems to be an engagement ring." Caroline replied. His eyes went back up to hers and she stared hard at him.

"You're getting married to Stefan." Klaus stated, his face falling. Caroline pulled her hand from his, his hand frozen in the air.

"Yep. He asked when you were gone. After I came back from looking for you in New Orleans, when you were nowhere to be found." She replied.

"And you said yes."

"Why wouldn't I?!" She demanded. "You knew how worried I was about Stefan when he was running from the huntress, you even promised to keep him safe. You probably even knew from how I sounded that I loved him. So of course, I said yes." Klaus' eyes showed such sadness she had to fight to keep from showing her sympathy. He wasn't there when she needed him. Why did he deserve her compassion now?

"Well." Klaus replied in a soft voice. "I'm happy for you." He raised his hand to her shoulder and quickly came in, kissing her cheek. Caroline merely closed her eyes.

A soft rapping on the wall opened Caroline's eyes and she looked into Stefan's. Klaus slowly turned around.

"Klaus." Stefan greeted with a hard face. Bonnie and Enzo watched Klaus try to muster a happy face.

"I believe congratulations are in order, old friend." He replied, standing up as carefree as he could.

"What are you doing here." Stefan asked without pretense.

"I was just here to see an old friend, it seems."

"Well you've said your peace, you can go now."

"I wasn't talking about you, mate." Klaus replied. Stefan held his stare for a moment. "Tell me, did you inform Caroline about the advice I gave you?" He asked.

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"So letting Caroline go because Damon would always be first on your list of priorities that went in one ear right out the other?" Klaus asked dubiously. Stefan remained silent. Caroline stood up and stared at Stefan, suddenly full of questions. Klaus turned around to Caroline and looked her in the eye.

"I do have one question for you, though." He said. Caroline gave an interested look. "If you knew I was nowhere to be found, why did you not wait for me to turn up?"

"You think I wanted to feel more like an idiot for believing you wanted to be my last love?" Caroline replied. "When you weren't in New Orleans I figured it out. You weren't there, you didn't tell me you were going anywhere, and then you didn't contact me after to tell me you turned up."

"I thought you didn't want me to."

"Don't you think I would've dropped everything to find you again if I thought you were actually gonna be there?" She demanded.

"I don't know, Caroline, you were with another man. A man who I trusted, a man that told me he loved you. And as you so accurately pointed out I could hear in your voice how much you felt the same, so why would I have contacted you?" Klaus replied. Caroline stood in silence for a while, seeming not to notice everyone else listening in. Stefan's eyes fell and he planted himself at the door.

"I wanted to be your last love too, Klaus." She murmured. "If you had been there I would've stayed." She added quietly. "With you." She lifted her eyes to his and Klaus couldn't help but let a small smile drift on his face, chuckling in surprise.

"I'm here now, love." He replied.

"You're late." She snapped. Klaus's smiled fell slightly. She looked at Stefan who had an eyebrow raised and his eyes snapped to hers.

"Well if you'll excuse me…" Stefan said, drawing everyone's attention "I think I'll let the happy couple have their reunion in peace." No one stopped him. Caroline watched him go with a frustrated face and looked back at Klaus.

"Okay, there is only one way I will let you stay in this town." Caroline snapped. Klaus looked at her, ready for anything she could say.

"Tell me what the hell happened or I swear I will kill you myself." She said.