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"I got the syringes. It's a good thing we keep them with us 'round the clock."

Enzo stepped back into Klaus' bedroom waving a small black bag in his hand and tossed it onto the bed next to Caroline's body. Rebekah was next to the bed in a plush armchair and she watched Caroline laying on top of the covers unconscious. Enzo had done this same scenario for years now and the first step was to start removing the venom from her system to ease the pain.

"That really works?" Rebekah narrowed her eyes at the syringe.

"It won't remove all the venom in her system, I think that's probably impossible to do, but it takes enough to ease the symptoms until her body burns off the infection. Plus she gets blasted on whiskey each time." Enzo smirk and turned his attention to Rebekah who was still inspecting Caroline. "You've never seen her like this have you?" Enzo spoke quietly as he removed the instruments from the bag.

"Of course not. If Caroline would have gotten bit around me I would have went to Nik for the cure." Rebekah shifted to cross her legs and lead against the back of her chair. "She's so stubborn and would never ask for help."

"Is she ever not stubborn." Enzo mumbled mostly to himself.

"So why the snapped neck? To keep her from getting rabid?" Rebekah questioned.

"As you know, venom starts to take over you mind after so long and the delusions start happening. If they ever become to much for Caroline to handle, we snap her neck and hopefully by the time she recovers the hallucination is over with." Enzo eyed the girl laying on the bed. "Katherine unintentionally started it by letting her quick temper take over and snapped her neck one night."

"And that's were your loyalties lie?" It was still unbelievable to Rebekah that anyone would stay around Katerina all that time.

"It's complicated." Enzo gestured his fingers in front of him as he spoke. "My loyalties will always be to this blonde in this bed but so will Katherine's. Katherine and I have an unstable yet mutual respect between the two of us and after a few years you learn to tune out her theatrics. I've done that for several women in my life."

"You know I'm still upset with you and Caroline for not telling me about Katherine or her human blood?" Rebekah crossed her arms to her chest in a childish pout.

"I didn't even know about the blood until just a few days ago and I have know her for nearly twenty years. I'm not even sure that Katherine knows I know." Enzo pointed towards his chest. "I've already started to make amends and I must say my tongue still aches a bit from the apology."

Enzo rose his eyebrow at Rebekah, letting the insinuation float between them and she had to resist the urge to remove the smirk from his face.

"It's only a start." Rebekah's lips twitched upwards at the memory. "But it's a good start."

One thing Rebekah admired about Enzo was that if you were on his side, he would be loyal to a fault. After multiple lonely centuries on this earth, perhaps she finally found that affection and loyalty that's kept getting ripped away from her. Ripped away by her so called family. Nik was the one that murdered her lovers but the rest of her brothers stood by and watched. That made Elijah and Kol just as guilty in her eyes. Rebekah's eyes drifted back to Caroline and part of her really believes that this little blonde was Nik's true happiness and that maybe all of them could have their own.

"Caroline did want to see him you know." Enzo glanced up, twirling the syringe in hand and stepped closer to Rebekah. Her eyes lit up like Christmas with the new information. "She never said as much but her actions spoke volumes. She would get the call that we were to meet up with you guys and I could always see it. That extra nervous energy and excitement days before. Whenever you Mikealson's left there was always something different about her afterwards and it wasn't just because her friend left. Given Klaus' history, I can't see why the bother."

"You don't like Niklaus do you?" Enzo just shrugged and continued inspecting the syringe. "There are numerous stories about my brother and I can guarantee you they are all true... Except when it comes to her."

"We'll see."

Rebekah rolled her eyes at his big brother attitude and let the subject drop. One crisis at a time.

"So how do you know it wasn't because of me that she was so effect? No one dared miss me when I left?" Rebekah glared at Enzo and he leaned in to place a gently kiss to her lips.

"I was effected every time." Enzo smiled brightly as he stroked Rebekah's bottom lip with his thumb. Enzo walked to the opposite side of the bed and sat next to his semi dead friend. He placed his hand on her chest to touch the black veins snaking up towards her neck and inserted the needle into the wound. The handle was pulled back to reveal orange blood, a mixture of Caroline's blood and the yellow venom. Enzo discarded the liquid in a nearby glass to dispose of later and as far away from himself as possible.

"I do know what you mean about her. Do you remember when Kol came along with us to Spain?" Enzo bobbed his head and Rebekah sat forward to prop her chin on her hands. "I told her my brother was coming and didn't mention it was Kol, not thinking anything of it. I remember her mood shifted as soon as Caroline realized Nik wasn't coming. I guess she thought more of him than she let on."

Enzo just hummed along, not really wanting to hear more about the infamous Hybrid. He went to remove more venom but a iron grip stopped his hand mid movement.

"Get out. Now." Klaus' voice was cold and left no room for arguments, unless you were Rebekah.

"Hello, Rebekah. Thank you for taking care of the love of my life while I was out murdering the village." Rebekah stood from her seat with annoyance and tried shoving past him. Klaus grabbed her elbow before she could exit with Enzo,

"The only reason you are not boxed up in the basement is because Caroline lies here in pain. Do not think your betrayals will go unpunished."

"What is it this time, Niklaus?" Rebekah snatched her arm and lift her chin to him. "Did I blink wrong and you not like it?"

"Well, I would say ask Marcel but he no longer has a heart." The humorless smile crossed his face. Rebekah pulled her eyebrows together in confusion but their stand off was interrupted by light groans from the mattress behind them. Klaus turned to see Caroline rolling to her side and rubbing her neck, not fully realizing there were others in the room yet.

"Leave Bekah and take your fellow with you." Klaus demanded and the others didn't refuse his request this time and quickly exited. His suit was still covered in blood and he removed his jacket, tossing it in the chair. Exhaustion was starting to take over from the evenings battle and Klaus had wolfsbaine soaking into his clothes. All he wanted to do was make sure this blonde beauty was safe and then let sleep take him. "Caroline." Her muscles tensed at Klaus' soft words and Klaus' hand brushed away stray hairs from her eyes. Caroline's gaze went from his face and down to his bloodied hands. Klaus was taken back at the bit of fear he saw in her eyes and it unsettled him to see this look from her.

"You're here to kill me." Caroline leaned back on her elbows with wide but brave eyes. "I killed Elena and now you want your revenge."

"Your hallucinating." Klaus took a few steps closer, watching as Caroline sat up straight to meet his stare. "I can't kill you, Caroline. I couldn't kill you twenty five years ago and it's impossible for me to do so now."

"OK." Confusion painted Caroline's face. "Why."

"For many reasons." Klaus exhaled as he looked helpless around his bedroom before coming back to her. "Words that I can't bring myself to say. Words I haven't spoken in centuries." Klaus removed a few of buttons on his dress shirt to reveal more of his neck. "You need to drink my blood so you can heal, Love. We can talk more tomorrow."

Klaus never let her refuse as he bent to scoop Caroline from the bed and sat down with his feet still planted to the floor. Tired green eyes met his just inches from his face and an overpowering scent of dried blood on their clothes hit Caroline. There was a tickle of veins under her eyes and her fangs broke past her gums. Klaus moved his free hand in her hair and encourage her to start drinking by tilting his neck. It was only a matter of seconds before Caroline's fangs broke skin and the familiar taste filled her mouth. Her hand cupped his cheek on the opposite side and a satisfied moan left her throat. Caroline eventually stopped herself and pulled back to look into his expecting eyes, a bit of his blood smeared across her lips. It was as if this was the first time they saw each other all evening and they both smiled. Klaus breathed her name while laying his forehead to hers.


Caroline sat straight up with a jolt, lifting her head and shoulders from the bed as she looked from side to side. It appeared to be just before dawn and it quickly became apparent whose room she was in. Most of the events from last evening were blurred together and nearly everything she remembers was some form of hallucination. Directly to her right Klaus lay sleeping and her hearing was focused on his breathing which was still calm. Waking suddenly from her sleep wasn't something that was new to Caroline and after the vivid hallucinations she went through just hours ago it was no surprise that she was having a restless night. It wasn't the fake dreams the witches gave her but her mind was replaying images from Mystic Falls again. Images of her dead parents and torture attempts always seemed to show up. Plus lets not forget decades now of being tricked by hunters left Caroline feeling a tad paranoid.

Caroline lifted a hand to touched the missing venom wound on her chest and all that was left was a dry patch of blood that made her nose scrunch up. Even her clothes were the same bloody ball gown from the party and Caroline now noticed Klaus' freshly showered appearance. Klaus' chest was bare and she could just make out the tops of his boxer briefs from under the sheet. Caroline removed herself from the bed and quickly made her way to Klaus' shower of his master bedroom. She didn't even allow herself the luxury of enjoying the scalding water but instead flushed away any signs of blood.

"Clean hands, clean mind." Caroline thought to herself.

The next task was more blood. Klaus had given his blood but she was still a vampire and vampires still needed human blood as survival. No matter how appealing it sounded to rip through Klaus' veins and take every last bit of his. It seemed he was quickly becoming Caroline's little addiction. Hanging on a rack was the fluffiest towel Caroline has laid her hands on and wrapped it around so she was covered to the knees. As quietly as she could, Caroline made her way back into the bedroom to find Klaus still laying on his back with his head turned away from her. This was the first time Caroline saw Klaus so relaxed and it was something she wanted to see more of in the future. She stood their watching him sleep for a few more moments before she was shook back to reality.

"I think I'm starting to blush at how much your staring at me." Klaus spoke from the bed with his eyes still closed, never moving from his position.

"How long have you been awake?" Caroline scoffed and clutched the towel closer to her body.

"Before you left the bed." Klaus opened his eyes to focus on her and the towel that clung to her wet skin, both hands moved to rest behind his head, "I've actually been awake for sometime now while you tossed and turned. I would have stopped you with a dream but I didn't feel that was appropriate given the witches situation."

"It's no big deal." Caroline walked closer to stand a few feet from the bed. "I have dreams or nightmares I guess you could call them. A lot actually and I usually wake every few hours out of habit."

"I'm a thousand years old, Love. I could teach you a thing or two about being paranoid." Klaus let a faint smirk form. "I was hunted by my father for centuries and that doesn't lead to restful sleep either. Nothing could happen in this room that I wouldn't know about, even while I slept. I told you the safest place for you was in this house with me and not one drop of your blood could be spilt without me knowing."

The gentle expression on Klaus' face was enough to set Caroline's feet moving towards the bed as his eyes watched her movements. She lifted herself onto the bed to straddle his lap with one hand clutching the towel and the other one was position near his head. Without giving Klaus a chance to speak, Caroline lowered herself to join their lips together briefly while Klaus ran his fingers up and down her arm.

"Thank you for curing me. You can never understand how excruciating that pain can be." Caroline whispered, flinging her hair to one side while lowering her chin to lay against Klaus' chest and her free hand that wasn't hold the towel ran lightly through the side of his hair. "I usually have to go three or four days at a time with venom in my system and just wait for my body to burn it off. This is certainly a better option."

"If you knew my blood was the cure all this time why didn't you find me? Surely Rebekah has told you." Klaus' voice held a linger anger. "I would have given my blood to you."

"Would you? Before I came to New Orleans, the last time we saw each other was when I killed your Doppelganger." Caroline tilted her head to the side awaiting his response.

"If I wanted you to suffer I would have done so in Mystic Falls the moment you turned my hybrid dreams into dust."

Caroline shrugged, casting her eyes down to his bare chest and ran lazy circles against his skin. A question had always burn in the back of her mind for decades and Caroline wanted to ask before she changed her mind.

"Why didn't you ever come with your siblings when they visited?" Caroline regretted the question almost instantly at the sight of Klaus who seemed too happy to hear it.

"Miss me did you?" Klaus finally broke his signature smug smirk while moving them both to a seated position and ran his hands to stop at the bend of her knees. Caroline's unimpressed eye roll brightened his early morning wake up call. "I'm a cruel man and part of me wanted you to come crawling back to beg for forgiveness."

Caroline scoffed much louder than their voices had been, "THAT'S not going to happen."

"And I wouldn't ask it of you now." Klaus ran soothing circles with his thumb across her knees. "Elena would have been turned eventually by one of her boyfriends and it was just a matter of time who did it. You were the unexpected candidate."

Caroline's eyes were cast down and her fingers played with the edge of her towel. Klaus stopped her with a soft touch of his hand.

"Can we talk about something else?" Elena Gilbert was the last subject she wanted to be talking about right now and certainly not while sitting naked with Klaus' hands moving up her body. The towel was still firmly in place but his hand left a lingering feeling as they travel over the soft material. Klaus feathered his fingertips along the now heal skin over her heart and his voice was back to a whisper.

"How are you?"

"Still a little drained but much better." Caroline smiled while running her own fingers over his hand before dropping it back down to her lap. "Most of last night was pretty intense so I'm still not sure what was real and what was a hallucination."

Klaus' mind flashed to the scene of his almost confession last night and was slightly comforted by the fact that Caroline didn't remember.

"I'm sorry I wasn't there to help you. If I had stayed you wouldn't have had to endure hallucination after hallucination."

"The family you spend a thousand years protecting was nearly killed in front of you, Klaus. If you would have left to chase after me, I would have been seriously pissed." Caroline lowered her gazed so their faces were just a few inches apart, "I ran off to self loath but I was in no real danger and it's not my first time in this situation. I'm a big girl and I can take care of myself."

All her statements were true and her strength was what had drawn him in decades ago. Klaus ran his fingers along her jaw and tilted her head to the side to take in her hallow eyes that came with blood deprivation.

"You need more blood, Caroline. My blood is powerful but the venom still drained you."

"Yea that's actually were I was headed before I realized you were fake sleeping." Caroline smiled but felt Klaus' firm grip against her thighs to stop her from leaving. "I have to actually leave the bed to do so."

"Debatable." Klaus shrugged while feathering kisses down her neck and Caroline exhaled at the feeling of his lips against her skin. "We've blood shared multiple times already so what's one more time."

Klaus broke away from her throat to look down at his hands that pushed the towel higher up her thighs. It still clung to her breast while the bottom parted enough to expose her thighs completely and the smooth skin of her core. The scent of Caroline's growing arousal floated in the air and Klaus' fingernails dug deeper into her hips. All inhibitions left as Caroline sent one hand to grip his hair and brought his gaze to eye level.

"Do you like knowing that the only thing that keeps me standing is your blood in my veins?" Klaus' jaw tensed as he nodded once and the vulnerability he allowed made her smile. "So do I."

"Well have at it." Klaus whispered while gesturing his neck sideways for her to feed just as she had last night. A gesture Caroline could only assume wasn't offered to anyone but her. "I told you anything you want and it's yours. My city. My luxuries. My blood are yours for the taking."

Caroline gulped down his words but looking at his expression there was no question Klaus meant it. From a cup of coffee to a old fashion murder spree, Klaus would in fact give her anything she wanted and that type of devotion terrified her. But the not so terrified part wanted that devotion in her life. Fangs dropped down and the black veins Caroline kept hidden for decades were on full display as she sank her teeth into the soft skin of his neck. A deep growl filled the air as she felt the towel being thrown from her body and strong hands stroked the skin of her back. Caroline's right hand roamed freely down his bare chest to cup his half hard erection over his boxer briefs. Her name tumbled from his lips as his hips thrust upwards to meet her palm. One hand was still firmly gripping the back of his hair as Caroline released her fangs but lingered her lips to his ear.

"There is one thing I like just as much and that's feeling of you get hard in my hand as I stroke you." Caroline pull the fabric away letting his much harder erection free and stroked him once painfully slow. Klaus head fell to her chest and his breath warmed her skin, soft lips placing kisses to her skin. "Just as much as I like knowing I'm the only one that can do this to you."

Caroline's hand tightened gently around him, slowly pulled up towards the head of his cock and stroking back down. Her motions were repeated as her lips went back down to his neck to clean the last drop of blood she missed and sucked hard. It really was the most powerful feeling having a thousand year old hybrid shake and bend at your actions. The speed of Caroline's hand increased, stroking only the head of his erection and she felt fingernails dig into her back, causing her to smirk. Klaus stilled her movements with his own and tangled his free hand in her damp curls.

"I'm not planning on coming on your skin, Sweetheart. I have many more pleasurable things to do to you." Klaus pulled her back by the hair so he could take one of her nipples in his mouth and smirked at the moans that flowed. Desperate fingers clung to his shoulder as she spoke,

"What if that's what I wanted?" Caroline breathed out. "Unless you think you can do better?"

The teasing smirk on her face was enough for him to release her breast and trail kisses down her waist. Klaus slide further down the bed between her legs so he was now leaning back on his elbows with his lips on her belly button. His mischievous eyes stared back at her while sliding completely on his back with her wet folds hovered over his face since she was still in a straddle position on her knees. Klaus closed his eyes to run wet kisses along her inner thigh stopping inches away from were Caroline really wanted them to land. A huff left her throat as she watched him lay his head back to the bed with that same damn smirk on his face. Caroline's gasped as both his hands slid her knees farther apart so her center could lower farther to the bed and ghost over Klaus' lips. Their eyes met as his warm tongue grazed against her folds and Caroline's body betrayed her by shaking into his touch.

An iron grip went around her waist while Klaus' tongue worked heavenly circles around her clit and her head went towards the ceiling. The room was filled with obscenities and moans as Klaus curled two fingers inside her to pump in and out. In need of stability, Caroline placed her hands against his hips and ground herself against Klaus' face. The only part of Klaus' face she could see was his eyes and nose but Caroline could tell by the crinkle of his eyes he was enjoying it as well. She felt a sudden sting of fangs that made Caroline look back down to see Klaus' yellow eyes staring back at her and fangs were dug into the soft skin around her core. As he pulled blood from her body, it simultaneously sucked on her clit and it instantly brought her to orgasm. Klaus released his fangs so his blood that was already in her system could heal her and cleaned his fingers that were inside her.

Klaus sat up and their lips joined together, mixing blood and her own orgasm between their tongues. Caroline shifted so she felt his erection between her legs and moved her wet center along his length. Their kiss never broke as her back fell to the foot of the bed.

"You need to be inside of me right now." Caroline mumbled against his lips and ground their hips together. Klaus pulled her hands above her head and thrust inside her. Caroline looked into Klaus tinted gold eyes as he made slow and deep thrusts. His forehead rested to Caroline's and Klaus' hands left hers to pull her legs around his waist. Caroline moaned as her hands gripped Klaus' arms for support and cursed his name between thrusts. Without thinking, Caroline turned and bit hard into his wrist that was near her head. The movement urged Klaus to move faster so they could both find their release together in a mixture of sweat and blood.


Caroline was floating in a half conscious state of bliss and exhaustion. The warm sun felt heavenly against her naked body and her lips cracked into a smile at the soft lips that covered her chest. Caroline didn't have to open her eyes because the familiar scent of Klaus washed over her and her hand found the back of his head as it lowered to her stomach.

"Caroline wake up." Klaus glance up at the blonde that still had not opened her eyes. "I need to tell you something and you need to be awake to understand."

"I am so tell me." Caroline's past month in New Orleans was nothing but non stop drama and she wanted to keep this rare moment of peace. Clearly Klaus had other things in mind as Caroline felt the bed dip and his voice was hovering near her ear.

"Open your eyes, Love. I need you fully alert for what I'm about to say." Klaus had a hand on either side of her head and was doing his best to focus on her face and not on her beautiful exposed breast. After Caroline was fully healed from his blood last night, Klaus was informed that Bonnie was very much alive and he knew he couldn't keep this to himself for long. Not with the guilt he knew Caroline was pushing away. He smiled at the tiny groan she made and watched her green eyes flinch as they met the sunlight.

"Oh my gosh what time is it?" Caroline smiled as she looked up at Klaus.

"Nearly nine. You slept several hours." Klaus paused for only a moment and it was enough for Caroline to cut him off.

"Wow really?"

"Yes.." Klaus was cut off once more by his blonde vampire bringing him down for a kiss and all his restraint was used to not give in to his growing need.

"Do you know the last time I slept longer than two hours." Caroline smirk as she flipped them so she was now straddling Klaus. "I must have been very tired after all.."

"Caroline!" Klaus broke her joyful rambles and her eyes narrowed at his tone. "Bonnie is alive."

Caroline drop her mouth open to speak but snapped it shut. A sharp pain hit Klaus and he growled back at the blonde who had her fist planted firmly on his chest.

"If this is your idea of some kind of sick joke, it isn't funny." Caroline gritted her teeth while Klaus removed her fist from his chest and sat straight to meet her eye sight.

"Bonnie is alive." Klaus ran a hand over her cheek and stroked his thumb across her skin, waiting for her reaction. "From what I can hear she is downstairs with the others."

Caroline flashed from her position and started pacing around Klaus' bedroom, a frantic hand ran through her hair.

"That's impossible, I saw her dead body last night." Caroline's voice raised a few octave by the end of the sentence. She was searching the room looking for clothes to put on and all she could find were the torn clothes from last night.

"My devious little brother managed to slip her some of his blood as an insurance policy. It seems Kol still has no interest in sleeping away his centuries in a coffin."

Klaus sighed as he walked closer and handed her one of his Henleys to wear and slipped on a pair of jeans.

"Why would he do that? I mean, it's not like he gave a damn about Bonnie. I'm not vindictive enough to have you dagger him."

"Bonnie was important by association." Klaus shifted his eyes between hers. "I'm important to Kol, you are important to me and Bonnie was important to you. Unfortunately, this is how our family shows we care."

"I don't believe you." Caroline huffed and made her way towards the door, letting it slam against the wall as she left. She flashed down the stairs with Klaus just behind her as they followed the sounds of distant chatter that leads towards the kitchen. Every step she took made Caroline's hopes rise as she heard the female voice get louder and louder. The voice that she never thought she would hear again. Just as she stepped into the kitchen, Caroline's feet froze in the doorway and her gaze locked with a set of brown ones.

"Bonnie?" Caroline's voice was barely above a whisper but her friend still heard her speak. Bonnie rose from her seat at the table a smile spread across her face. "Your a vampire?"

Bonnie exhaled loudly and let her shoulders drop slightly. "Yeah, I am."


Author's Note:

It's nearly 3 am here and I don't have any useful brain function to leave a proper note but I still want to hear what you think.

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