Klaus smiled lazily as he watched Caroline dart a look at him, stop in her tracks and after biting on her lower lip for a few seconds, finally seemed to make up her mind and walked closer to where he stood resting against his car passenger door.

"Hey." She said when she was almost next to him. She was wearing a sleeveless, black, short dress with daises all over it and as always she looked beautiful.

"Hello to you, love." The lazy smile stayed on his lips as he gazed at her pretty face, her blond hair shining in the afternoon sun.

"What are you doing here?" She asked, her arms holding her text books to her chest almost like a shield he noticed.

He cocked his head a little while his eyes never left her face. "Picking up Rebekah."

"Really? Never took you for the doting big brother type."

His eye brows rose up creasing his forehead. "You'd be surprised."

"Yes, I would." She admitted with a straight face.

Her answer made him laugh softly. He always enjoyed her spunk. "What are you doing here?"

"I go to this school." She answered, with a what-kind-of-a-stupid-question-is-that written all over her face.

His smile widened at her expression. "I meant here...talking to me."

"Oh..." A crease appeared between her brows, but before she could say anything else he interrupted her, on a naughty whim deciding to rile her up to make sure she'd stay and talk with him some more. "Does this mean you finally accepted that my taking over Tyler's body, saved your life?"

"You really want to bring that up?!" She asked with an angry look.

He lowered his eyes to hide the mirth in them. "It was...fun."

"Not for me!" She retorted hotly.

"Oh, come on love, I could have let you have your way with me, without saying anything... your mouth kept me busy enough."

"Shut up!" She ordered him angrily, "I thought you were Tyler!"

Riling accomplished. He enjoyed when she got all fiery and her beautiful eyes sparked like they were doing now.

"Still..." He drawled out.

"Still nothing! You know I thought I was kissing Tyler, the man I love, not you! Never you!" She sneered out the last two words from between almost clenched lips.

Never say never, love. He thought as he remembered that he had quite enjoyed that kiss even in Tyler's body and wouldn't mind repeating it.

"You'll break those books if you hold them any tighter." He told her, ignoring her angry stare, as his eyes fell on her whitened fingers holding her books, pushing certain thoughts at the back of his mind.

She lowered her eyes to her hands and he watched her relax her fingers but her frown remained deep.

"Didn't mean to make you so angry, love, I'll do as you wish and not bring it up again." He said softly, "Shall we kiss and make up?" He added a second later as he chuckled to himself. He obviously hadn't pushed his thoughts back enough.

She sighed, rolling her eyes at him. "Not funny." She grumbled, to which he just kept laughing softly.

His eyes strayed to her teeth worrying her lower lip once more, and he knew she was making up her mind about something again. Having walked this earth for so long, reading people, their body language, the thoughts behind their eyes came almost second nature to him.

"Did you know there's a werewolf pack in town?" She asked quietly.

Of all the things…why was she asking that? "Of course. I know everything, love."

He could read a battle going on behind her eyes; she obviously had more to say. "Worried about them?" He asked. His hybrids had told him that a group of werewolves had made camp just outside town in the forest.

"No." She promptly lied, which made him frown. Why did she care about a random group of wolves?

"You should learn to lie better, Caroline...it's quite useful, you know." She had no poker face, few people could hide things from him and his eyes rarely missed anything happening around him, again another advantage of having lived for so long.

She gave a shake to her head. "I'm not worried, I'm just..." Again he noticed her hesitation.

"You just have to avoid going in the forest during full moon."

"The forest? Is that where they're staying?" She inquired, her eyes widening for a second.

He gave her a small nod. Yes, there was definitely an interest there. "Any way, there's no reason to worry, if something bad did happen, you know I'll be more than happy to share my blood with you again."

She sneered loudly and abruptly turned towards her car.

"What? Wait! You're just going to leave like that?!" He pushed his backside up from his car and walked a bit closer to her.

"That's as much as I can stand being next to you." She said, her chin going up.

"Ouch...that's harsh, love." He made a fake, sad face. "A softer heart than mine would be in shambles right now."

Her eyes narrowed on him. "That would imply you have a heart to start with."

He grabbed a handful of his shirt at his chest, pretending to be in terrible pain. "Do have mercy!"

All teasing left him and his jaw hardened as she pivoted away, hair flying. He hated when people turned their back on him. He was never the one to be dismissed. He vampire sped the small distance to her, just a hairline away from her body but let his lower lip graze her ear as he softly said to her. "As always, it was a real pleasure seeing you, sweetheart."

He felt her back go rigid but not before he felt her body give a slight tremor. Her head darted sideways and her eyes found his.

Slowly he let his eyes stray down to her lips and lingered there. He could smell the faint strawberry from her lip gloss and felt the sudden urge to taste it. Really taste those seductive lips of hers with his own for the first time.

"Is it me, or is it suddenly very hot out here?" Rebekah's voice said from behind them. Caroline next to him, jumped in surprise.

His little sister stood looking at them with the usual vexed look on her face.

"Hello, sister." Klaus smiled at her, deliberately keeping his body close but not touching to the young vampire next to him.

Caroline suddenly strode off and he watched her as she hurried towards her car while Rebekah got in his car.

"You know I'm still angry with you, for leaving me in the middle of the road and going off with her."

He sighed. She had said that at least a hundred times. "I was in Tyler's body. It was already quite odd that I took the time to save you at all." He repeated as he had done those hundred times before.

"She still realised it was really you, right?"

He let out a chuckle. Not fast enough.

"Why don't you just compel her and...Get it over with."

"Where's the fun in that?" Klaus retorted with a smug smile as he noticed that Caroline had got in her car but not started it. Was she interested in this conversation then?

"So it's just the chase that drives you?...I truly, don't get it, Nic, what you see in her."

He turned and smiled at his sister, his dimples deep in his cheeks, before starting his car and the radio at the same moment, loud music filling his car's interior. Let the little vampire wonder about his intentions. His sister raised her eye brows at his smile but didn't ask anything else.

Later that night.

His feet crunched on the dead leaves beneath them but he wasn't worried about making noise since he knew he was still a while out from where he was heading. Heavy wings flapped right up on his head as whatever bird it was flew away, making quite a few more leaves slowly drop to the ground.

His phone buzzed in his pocket and he got it out. "That was fast," Klaus admitted as he answered it, "You already know how many they are?" He was walking in the direction of the creek, intent on seeing these new werewolves camp for himself. He had sent one of his hybrids before him to find out the exact number since he had been surprised when the hybrids had told him the amount of caravans they had.

"No, but something's happening here!"

Klaus immediately perked up. "Something what?"

"Their leader just arrived back at the camp…with Tyler…" Leo, the hybrid whispered on his phone, "he had left with two of his pack but they haven't returned with them."

Klaus frowned as he hurried his walk, "What the hell are they up to?" He didn't trust the Mystic Falls group, especially since they recently tried to stop his heart, and he had found strange that Caroline was asking him about the new werewolves. He especially didn't trust Tyler and his unhidden hatred for him.

"They just sat down near the fire," Leo informed him, "They're having a beer it seems…maybe they knew each other before?"

"No." Klaus answered him with conviction. Caroline wouldn't have been inquiring about them if Tyler knew them. "Be on the lookout for the ones who haven't returned."

He vampire-sped away, running through the trees but stopped after a few moments to listen as a low but long growl caught his attention.

He vampire sped again towards the sound this time and, partly hidden in the trees, stood a big dark wolf, his golden eyes intent on something in front of it.

"Caroline…" Klaus hissed as he saw her blond hair, flashing almost silver in the moon light, just a few steps away from the wolf. His eyes darted back to the werewolf as it took another slowly step towards her before it sprang on her and she screamed and ducked sideways to avoid him and Klaus took that moment to jump in front of her and attack the wolf. A small yelp, like a little dog whine, was all the sound he gave it a chance to make, before he took the animal's neck in his strong grasp and turned his head with all his might. The wolf immediately went limp and he dropped his body, landing it with a thud on the dried leaves on the ground.

Klaus straightened up before turning to Caroline. "Thought I told you to stay away from the forest, sweetheart."

"Klaus?!" She gasped, her eyes wide open with fear, as they kept darting back and forth from the still body of the wolf at his feet to the original's face.