After her visit with Rebekah and Stefan she strolled back to her office her assistant in tow planning the next week's events. She desperately tried to picture what one of Rebekah's brothers' might look like and how she had never met one over the last few months. Now that she had time to think about it however she didn't even really know her last name and yet she considered her as close as a sister.

That would needed to be taken care of soon enough she decided as she pushed her personal life aside and got started on her day. Caroline had always got what she wanted, the job, the apartment and the guy sort of. That thought left a sour taste in her mouth as she thought back to earlier today.

She shut her scheduling book, "Guess I'll be thinking about him all day. Just when I had started to get through the work week he walks back into my hallway." Caroline knew that wasn't fair considering her lived there first but if things didn't get better she might have to move out and move on.

The day was just getting longer for Klaus as Kol started tossing his things around his former/current apartment. Kol insisted on not leaving until they were both over the girls that had crapped on their hearts like pigeons, his words not Klaus'. Klaus of course knew that was not true because Kol knew he had missed out on Anna. He still loved her as much as Klaus loved Caroline.

He never told her that though did he? Never gave her a reason to stay or take him back at his worst. Klaus had many thins haunt him, things from his past and the things from the present. Some including the last few months after Mikael destroyed his family income and ran off to some island. That wasn't the worst, they found bodies in his burned down home. Klaus knew who they were right away and decided Caroline was safer without him.

He remembers even now the broken voice Rebekah had called him in, half tormented and half relieved it wasn't him buried at the depths of the house. It took something like that to make him realize his family really did love and need him, it would matter if her disappeared one day. He didn't know if that was sure of Caroline though at first it seemed so if her silent wails where counted.

Then she stopped and their silence clouded his heart until he only felt cold that was when he left his apartment for good. Or so he thought and no he was seriously considering running back to his sister's apartment no matter how often her and Stefan did things that made him miss his bed. Speaking of her however he groaned at the thought of going on a blind date, he wasn't that hard up thoughts of Caroline usually helped him along when they weren't messing with his mind.

Klaus checked his watch he had an hour to get ready though he didn't know why he had to apologize for his entire gender to this girl. "Someone thought highly of herself," he thought bringing a smirk to his face, "Sleep on the couch but don't touch my stuff, Rebekah has me doing her a favor tonight so I'll be out late."

Caroline marches up her stairs making it halfway before deciding she was being too loud and Klaus might have heard her -A somewhat ridiculous notion. She rolled her eyes telling herself she didn't care what he thought of her or if he came out right now and planted a kiss on her. She would be frigid and act like her former high school self if she had to when she heard his door open however she freaked out.

"Alright, alright I'll be back soon," the accent rang in her ears making her sigh in relief, Kol. She finished up the steps the smell of turpentine filling the air as she passively passed his door. She almost bumped into Kol as he shut the door on a ranting Klaus about groceries. "We meet again," Kol draws out.

Caroline squeezes her eyes shut taking a deep breath as she turns around to face the younger Mikaelson. "It would seems so," she replies carefully feeling exposed because the look in his eyes. She reads them all clearly, sadness, pity, hope. This guy is a softy underneath his flirty exterior.

"I was just heading out to the store, you wouldn't want to walk me out would you," Kol asked before she could cut him off knowing this was quite possibly the only chance he might get her alone. His brother was good at a lot of things but admitting the he was being stupid and practically becoming an isolated hermit because of it was not an option.

She seemed reluctant at first but agreed nonetheless as he held out his arm for her to take she placed her small hand at his elbow. "I wish there was a way to start a relationship on better level than most start theirs now. Maybe a few years in after you stop pretending you don't need each other to survive." Kol begins catching the surprise in her face.

"You have to agree, it would be a lot easier to let yourself connect with someone if you could trust them and trust they wouldn't hurt you or walk away from you when they need you the most." Kol said baiting her with his words almost clueing her in because he thought Caroline should be a part of what was happening to his brother.

"Nik doesn't want me around," Caroline told him firmly as they reached the bottom of the stairs, "And even if he did. It wasn't me who pushed him away, he let go." He nodded leaning over and kissing her cheek she smiled at the gesture. "He doesn't want me and that's okay because we can never go back to whatever we were."

Kol stood taking in her words one hand in his pocket and the other on the door when he smiled looking Caroline directly in the eye, "If that was true you wouldn't still call him Nik." He winked at her as he opened the door finding her agape mouth most amusing as he made his way to the corner market.

Caroline races up the steps yet again realizing she has a date in like half an hour and wants to shower and make sure she has everything in order. After she freaked out on Stefan at lunch they both decided it was to be a double date even when Rebekah protested over his speaker phone. Fortunately she had emergency date night outfits not that she'd needed them the last year but most were still in style.

She was cut off in the hall when she picked up her work bag off the floor where she had left it to walk Kol out shoving into a barebacked Klaus. How did she know it was him, you never forget that backside. Her heart picked up as her breath hitched her hands still in contact with his warm back her fingers feeling the scars his father had left on him.

She inhaled his scent making her knees weak to the farthest degree as she quickly remembered herself and stepped back. Her hands tingling as he turned to face her. Caroline tried yet again to look as if he wasn't affecting her by the way he was looking at her she had failed. His eyes traveled her curves like his fingers might have a few months ago and it was all she could do to not convulse right then.

"It seems you do miss me, at least certain parts of you do." Klaus said as his hand reached out the tips of his fingers grazing her heaving chest. She slapped his hand away but he just chuckled pushing a little further, "I have some time, if you'd like to come inside Caroline." He said leering at her. She looked like he had slapped her and it cut his heart.

"As much as I'd like to add to the scars on your back, I have a date I have to get ready for." Caroline said hitting him where it hurts, metaphorically as she jutted her hip out placing a hand on it. He in turn looked wounded before his mask went back up and he stepped out of her way.

"Wouldn't want to keep you," Klaus muttered Anger building at her comments on Mikael, moreover not liking the idea that she was about to go out with another man while she was supposed to be heartbroken over him. a conceited thought but a valid one which only strengthened his resolve to stay away from her. She didn't want him anymore.

AN: Next chapter should be up in a bit if everything goes to plan!

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