Weeks pass…

Caroline has been back and forth on what to do about over Klaus and the statue that was delivered after a 'Misunderstanding' at the airport so at least there's that. Finally after much deliberation and lots of vodka later Caroline gets a taxi to take her over to his penthouse late one night. When she gets to the building she falls into the door and makes it to the elevator after removing her heels. "Whew, I made it!" she yells at the lobby before the doors open to let her in and head up to the top floor. Caroline started to sing, "Making love out of nothing at all, making love…outta nothing at all!" the doors open and the man standing there starts clapping. She blushes, "Hi Kol, um is Klaus here?" she says struggling to put her shoes back on while leaning on the door of the elevator. She hears giggling as she peeks her head through the elevator. She blushes when she sees Bonnie trying to hide behind the kitchen counter. She looks back at Kol and sees that he's not fully dressed and her buzz has disappeared. "So on one knows where he is and that okay then?" she cries looking in between the both of them trying not to ask what is going on there.

Kol looks her in the eye and says, "Look Caroline, I don't know where my brother is, this is a usual occurrence." Caroline moves back into the elevator done with the situation so she pushes the down button tapping her foot as she waits for the door to close. "What the hell?" she thinks as she rides down absolutely fuming she gets out of the elevator storming out of the building. Outside the air hits her, "I should have gotten a coat, its October and I didn't get a coat," she paces back and forth by the street than face palms, "Oh crap I left it in the taxi 'cause I got hot." She's getting into her cab when her mood shifts to worried, "what if something happened to him?" she yells at the taxi driver. He yells back, "I don't know what you're talking about, what's the address?" she smiles meekly before giving him her address. "Something has happened to him. What if he's dead? No. He is not dead." She pulls out her phone and calls airlines to see what information can be given. Nothing.

Klaus has been trapped for close to a month now, hidden away in a drug induced state after he made his first escape attempt the night after Winston locked him up. Once they figured out he could get out of the ropes and picklock the door they had to find a new way to hold him. Klaus was really starting to get pissed with all this memory loss. Dreams seemed like reality most days and he saw Caroline all around, taking care of him. He hated this drug it made the most beautiful hallucinations hurt like hell. He had built up immunity to it years ago when he had started out but had slowly stopped its use. Now he was on it unwillingly and it was holding him back from finding a way out. He remembered a plane ride and another blonde woman but he wasn't so sure, he turned over wanting to return to darkness and remove all the pain he felt in his body. His arm felt stiff and his stomach felt like it was tied up in knots.

Caroline gets home and starts to pack, she has to move up her plans especially if Klaus was in danger changing from her outfit into travel wear she grabs her work cell. She calls a meet with the head of The Company to which she complies after Caroline reminds her of the terms of her deal and before she know it flies to Seoul. After the baggage claim she gets in a car that has been assigned to pick her up there at the airport. She looks out the window the whole time thinking about how she comes to all these places for him but he's never with her until the end of them. Once they reach the house she leaves her travel bag in the car with the driver walking straight into the house without assistance. She walks in without being announced straight into the foyer to see her boss talking with a familiar gentleman, "Hello Mr. Mikaelson. She says almost a whisper. He turns to face her then stands coming towards her and taking her hand, "Ah yes, Ms. Forbes. Please call me Mikael I insist." He says as he leads her to the other couch.

Her boss looks like she swallowed something awful and Caroline doesn't feel her commanding presence so much anymore. "Hello, sir." She greets her boss as she requested the night they made the deal. Caroline shakes her hand and turns to Mikael rather timidly but curious. It's been a few good minutes of small talk and chatter about the weather before Caroline feels comfortable enough to ask why he is there. "Well you see Ms. Forbes, I came in search of my son, it has been too long since I have heard from him, his siblings called as well." Caroline knows from the party that Mikael has no interest in Klaus, "Oh is that so? One would have thought you came here to make sure he was dead." Mikael looks at her stoically. The only thing that gives away his surprise is the slight widening of his eyes before he stands. She is sure he's about to give her a verbal beating when she hears something crashing up the stairs and turns her head to look. Someone is trying to come down the stairs but ends up rolling as Caroline rushes to assist Mikael grabs her arm throwing her behind him so she lands on the soft carpet.

Once Klaus had figured out the drug being injected in him he started back tracking in his mind to how he had built up immunity to the drug years ago. After a few days he started to get used to it once more feeling it affect him less and less so he would fake the haze. Winston started to believe he was giving him too much and lessened the dosage just like Klaus thought he would. After a time he manages fight it off completely plotting his escape from this dark room and dastardly house. Today after his injection he decides to break free once more from his binds having already tested the rope to see how quickly it would come undone. He struggles a bit before he stretches his arms down and pulls his legs up and under his arms pulling them forward so he can see them. Thankful he didn't break anything in the process, quickly unties the rope and tosses it aside looking around for shoes. He finds none so he runs out of his room quickly realizing he is in another house as he heads down the hall way bumping into a large table in the process. He rolls trying to regain his composure and lands safely but before he can stop himself he falls down the staircase.

"Mother?" he says looking up from his position on the ground trying to get up off his back as he takes in the room. He sees her on the ground behind Mikael as he stands. "Caroline please get up and leave." She nods trying to get up but Mikael pushes her back down and Klaus tackles him to the ground on Caroline's left. "Mikael you may think I'm the bastard, but it's always been you." he yells punching Mikael in the jaw as his mother stands there watching. Caroline already up grabs onto Klaus from behind and she somehow manages to pull him off. She assumes it is because he doesn't want her to be hurt and a little part in her dances inside. They both run out the front door racing to the first car they see, Klaus knocks out the driver that drove Caroline there as she steals the keys from the man's pocket. Klaus makes his way to the driver's side, "Toss me the keys love," she shakes her head and says to him, "Get in and give me directions! You look drugged!" he doesn't have time to argue because four men race out of the house and down to the drive where they are, he get in as they start shooting at the windows.

They speed off out passed the front gate and she speeds up trying to put as much space between them and the house as possible. Klaus automatically puts on his seatbelt after seeing how fast she is going down the revolving hill heading down with little to no fencing. After a moment he turns to her and says, "I want answers you know." She turns her head to face him as she shifts gears picking her hand up she slaps him not believing his gull to question anything at this moment. She puts her hand back on the gear not even looking at him as she yells at him, "Directions Nik! I don't know where I'm going!" He secedes in his thoughts of questioning her pointing passed the hill and instructs her to down the hill. She rolls her eyes muttering, "No shit Sherlock," turning her wheel to accommodate the truck heading in her direction on the other side moving passed it without a car swipe. "Apparently she knows how to drift," thinks Klaus and that's when Mikael's security team comes up from behind them in a black van.

He hears the sun visor on the roof open looking at Caroline he wonders what she is thinking but he doesn't have to wait long to find out. "Take the wheel would you honey," she instructs as she pulls out a gun from the back of her waist and removes her seatbelt. She stands on her seat, as Klaus shifts gears back once more maneuvering the wheel as she places herself in position. She aims and fires at the black vans tires, hitting the front two in her first tries. "Yes!" he hears from above him as she comes back down in her chair brushing past him and sliding back into place. He can't believe it but when he turns around the van is losing control and skidding across the road off the side of the hill. She smiles as she feels his eyes on her, "They would have killed us, it was self-defense in advance." She shrugs as he points to her left. Klaus hasn't said a word and Caroline is lost, "Hello snap out of it," she snaps her fingers in his face as she turns once more but this time to her right." He mentally shakes himself and says, "Uh, yeah keep going this way. I have a hideaway straight that way." Knowing he's not making much sense but there isn't much more he can get out. "You keep saying that Nik where?" she slows down as she tells him this, "I'm lost and I need your help."

He turns as much as his seatbelt will allow looking at her, "I'm doing the best I can in an impossible situation, those guys are gone but more will come Caroline. On top of that my mother is alive and is currently my former boss now your boss. To add to that little gift my father tried to have me killed, I heard what you said in there. So excuse me, it's been a long hour to be awake." He says irritated at himself for sounding like a child who's been denied candy. Caroline pulls over as they head into the city stopping by a bus stop turning to him. He asks, "What are you doing?" as she gets out walking around the car to him and opens his door. "Get out of my seat and get in the driver's side," she says unbuckling his seatbelt. It seems it is her turn to have a mental break as she speaks, "Drive the rest of the way, I'm lost in a different country and I really don't care how drugged up you are right now. I'm just happy you're alive." As she says this he gets out and hugs her wiping her tears away, "I can't believe I'm crying right now." She sobs into him as he rubs her back, "Shush, sweetheart it's a perfectly natural response to all that's happened. The other involves a bed." He tries to make a joke trying to make light of their situation and she looks up at him trying not to smile but failing, "Get in the car and drive Nik."

They make it to his hideaway in the middle of town, Klaus says, "it's the best way to hide, where everyone is watching." Caroline rolls her eyes as she walks further into the apartment thinking, "total bachelor pad yet again," as she removes her jacket and sits on a very hard couch. "Are you sure they won't find us here Nik?" she says looking up at him as he walks out into another room she can only assume is the bedroom. "They never asked about my hideouts, but just in case I always keep a few things to help disguise myself. She hears him say from the room, he comes back pulling a shirt on over his head. She stands up in hopes of redirecting her eyes looking at his skyline she asks, "And what about me?" He walks up behind her and takes her hand in his dragging her to the bathroom entrance instructing her to stay there. Pulling a box from the cupboard he shows it to her, she laughs a bit before she questions him, "Hair dye? Really? That's your big plan?" she's teasing him but he still feels a little hurt, "Well it's what we're working with right now. Both of us have limited connections and so far getting out of here doesn't look good." he stops short holding the boxes out to her, "So red or brown you decide."

Then he walks out of the bathroom leaving her to decide as he heads to the kitchen to get a drink in order to flush out the rest of the meds. She picks the red one, opening the box up and sets up the supplies, she hears him shuffling around but she chooses to ignore him. Caroline walks into his room looking through the drawers to fins another shirt to change into so she doesn't ruin her own clothes in the process. She comes out of his room wearing nothing but a black shirt having folded her clothes into a pile on his bed. He sees her from his position in the living room walking out in his shirt, only his shirt and his mouth goes dry. "It really has been too long," he thinks as he stands up walking into the bathroom she disappeared into. "Hey," he says as she sits down on the chair he's brought with him, she ignores his stare as she adjusts her shirt so she doesn't show too much. She looks up into the mirror, and says, "Hi." as she divides her hair into sections hoping she can get it all without leaving any spots of blonde.

He watches her playing with her hair, he loves the way her lip curls and her tongue sticks out in concentration. He smiles as she sneaks a glance at him through the mirror eyes widening when she sees him remove his shirt as he watches her. He comes forward leaning in and extending his right arm out in front of her, she wants to protest but then she sees he's reaching for the sink. A small twinge of disappointment hits as he grabs the paint bottle and stands back up breaking all physical contact. He says, "I'll help with the back," she raises an eyebrow at him still watching him through the mirror, "I used to help Rebekah when she had streaks as a youth. It drove my father made so I had to." She smiles at him and releases the bit of hair she was twirling placing her hands in her lap, ""I'm all yours." She says blushing at her double meaning nut she doesn't correct herself. He ends up doing her whole head forgoing the gloves and running his hands through her hair to make sure every single spot was hit. She wasn't complaining, in fact to him it looked like she was enjoying herself after he started to massage her head.

He lets go of her feeling the temperature rise fairly quickly, maybe it's the fumes but he is definitely drunk on her. She frowns once more feeling the cold all around her it feels like someone has just thrown water at her cooling her off when she didn't want to be. Instinctively she looks at him pacing by the shower hands on his hips in clear frustration. She feels it radiating off him in waves and she wishes she didn't have to wash out her hair because it is the only thing keeping her from going to him and try to soothe him. Klaus looks at her watching him his head tilted and she says, "Screw it." She marches up to him and kisses him before he can even process his next thought. He kisses her back in the next second wrapping his arms around her running one hand up her back into her wet hair and the other down to her thigh before coming up and grabbing her butt. She moans into his mouth as he does all this pulling his hair to try and get more pressure from his lips.

"Times up," she whispers against his lips removing her hands from his back to point to her hair, he doesn't let her go as he smiles remembering the situation. One of his hands moves up around her waist as he moves the other one to the shower turning it on. "I guess we both should get in, this paint will stain my skin if I don't get it out now you know." he waves his hand at her before reaching down and pulling her hem up and over her head tickling her unintentionally. She giggles and he wants to hear it again so he pulls her close tickling her again as he drags her into the cold bath she squeals as both sensations hit her at once. He pulls her in for another kiss as the showerhead reaches her hair and he runs his fingers through her hair killing two birds with one stone. After they finish up in the shower he goes back to the cupboard pulling a towel out and wrapping her in it before reaching for his own around his waist. He takes her hand entwining it in his, "I'm glad this is a dark towel," she says looking at her hair dripping on the floor. He kisses her cheek and pulls out another towel handing it to her. "Let me get the menus, I'm sure you're hungry by now, I know I am." He says as she looks up after wrapping her hair up blushing as he walks out.

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