Chapter 8 - Falling into Temptation

Last time...

Klaus, Elijah and Rebekah are saved from Celeste (who is working with Esther) by Kol and Bonnie. After an emotional reunion amongst the Originals, Kol and Bonnie inform Klaus about Caroline's impending death while discovering that Elena is missing through Bonnie talking with Damon. After two months of looking for Caroline with Elijah, Bonnie and Kol, Klaus finds Caroline making out with a guy who he kills in a bout of jealously. Not long after, he and Caroline engage in a confrontation that leads up to an impending kiss...

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I tried something different with the song, but I wanted to incorporate it since it inspired this chapter.

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It was like magnetism, two polar opposites pulling the other against their will. Nothing exists but that pull, the demand to be closer, all consumed with the fire which seeps through their veins with every touch, every breath, every kiss they share. It was all but rational, leaving nothing but need, lust, desire that inflames their souls. Klaus stopped thinking when his lips met Caroline's, no longer caring she had hurt him time and time again with rejection and would most likely do it again. Yet, his body is not his own. It is hers. Knowingly or unknowingly, he's hers to command and unknowingly or knowingly, she is his.

No matter how temporary.

Their first kiss in the woods was the equivalent of dipping one's foot in a cold pool. You did it to test the temperature, to see if it was safe to dive in head first or to ease in slowly. They dove in the first time and this second kiss was no different.

Except there is no breaking of their lips when they finally meet. Their bodies launch into auto pilot, for it remembers, had memorized the other.

And from what their bodies remember, it wanted to feel, indulge again for far too long. Though their brains deny how well they fit together, their bodies have no time for bull, overriding their minds as long as possible. It makes Klaus think nothing but how much he wants Caroline closer, pulling her plaint body unbearably into his until he feels every part of her - her lips, her breasts, her hips...

He doesn't hesitate to push her core into him by the small of her back, doesn't fail to push back against her rhythmically every time she rubs erotically on his rock hard erection as their kisses become more frantic and passionate. A grinding dance starts between them in the middle of the beach before Klaus flashes them to an alleyway behind a nearby bar/club, slamming Caroline roughly on a wall which upon impact, forces her lips to leave Klaus' with a gasp.

The sun is setting, casting shadows on their skin under the dwindling light.

Her gasp becomes moan the minute Klaus' raspberry lips suck on her neck, her eyes fluttering close as she brings her hand up to the back of his head, running her fingers through his longer than usual curls.

In between the haze of their mutual ministrations, Klaus murmurs against her skin:

"This..." he slips his hand under her bikini, caressing a full breast, kissing her neck...

"Oh God..." she whispers in pleasure, rewarding him with a languid kiss on his shoulder.

"...Means nothing," he finishes breathlessly, stopping briefly to look into her eyes...


Caroline POV

I drown into his stormy blue eyes, reading the deep desire in them and I knew mine mirrored the same because the minute he kissed me, I knew for a fact he had spoiled me for any man, explaining why for all these months when I tried to do anything with anyone, I never felt right.

Yet, now, being here in his arms, I knew why everything was off.

Those guys..Todd, all of them. Weren't him.

Which meant...Oh God...Was I...Am I...In love with Klaus?!

Alarm bells go off in my brain as I stare into his eyes simmering with anger and lust, which go down to my lips. I start to respond to his comment in the best way that would allow me to not stop this (because I SO didn't want to stop!) but ignore the feelings that are now making permanent residence in my heart. I can't name them. If I did, then it would be real and there is no way I can deal with the possibility or the reality that I...That I might...

In that moment, I notice Nelly Furtado's Say it Right playing in the bar/club not far from us. The words making my heart skip a beat...

"When your will is broken
When it slips from your hands
When there's no time for joking
There's a hole in the plan..."

He hears it too, his gaze softening as he raises his free hand to caress my face. The bass from the song seems to thrum through my veins and sync with the pounding of my heart from his tender touch that makes me close my eyes.

"Oh, you don't mean nothing at all to me
No, you don't mean nothing at all to me"

Pain etches his face then, and his next words makes me want to comfort him, to never hurt him again. "Do I truly mean nothing to you?" he whispers, his breath fanning my face.

"Oh, you've got what it takes to set me free."

Freedom from the pain, the denying of what is obvious we both want.

"Oh, you could mean everything to me..."

One hand after the other, I grasp his face, the desperate look I see there reaching into the depths of my soul to pull out the words that want so much to be voiced. Instead, I kiss him hard, and the groan I hear in response sends electricity throughout my very being. He grabs the back my head and tilts my head so he can kiss me in a way that I swear I almost came. I totally was lying to myself. Klaus...God. Kissing him...Ugh! It was as if...

"I'm...lost and found."

Why did being with him had to feel so right?! What does this say about me? Was he right about what he said about the allure of darkness, that even the purest hearts are drawn to it? Does this mean...

"I can't say, that I don't, love the light, and the dark
And all of what I feel I could show you tonight..."

Those damn words to that song are not helping. They simply serve as fuel to the fire burning between us, making my want for Klaus become all I feel.

And I feel like ripping his shirt enough to grant me access to his flawless chest. I run my hands through it, kissing a path to his nipple I start to play with between my lips, licking it occasionally. I feel him slam me on the wall, but I don't stop, silently smirking at how I found his sensitive spot, before he dips his hand into my bikini bottoms, into my wet folds to finger me.

I release him, the feeling of his hands being too much. I don't have a chance to moan before his lips descend on mine.

It's all tongue, and the method of his kissing makes me remember how amazing his mouth feels where is fingers currently are. His hand on my vagina feels even more wondrous as the images of him eating me out assault my mind. I feel myself growing warm, my wetness drenching his fingers as I start to reach my peak.

He pulls back slightly, not stopping.

"You're not going to come love," he growls. He pushes my hair from my face with his free hand, tucking it behind my ear to say sexily into it:

"Not until I plunge myself into your heat, fuck you senseless and hear you cry out my name in ecstasy."

Oh my God. Can he not talk so dirty to me with that memorizing accent of his? How can I NOT come when he sounds so uncontrollably hot...

"Care?"

I freeze. Oh shit.

I feel Klaus slowly set me down, pulling his hand from bikini bottoms as I turn my head to look at Bonnie who looks like she just saw her grandparents doing the nasty and...

"Kol?!" I exclaim, shocked.

"Hello Darling. Sorry to interrupt what looks to be an eventful reunion," he says with an amused smirk as his eyes land on partially exposed breast.

I hurriedly readjust my bikini, averting my eyes from Klaus who has yet to move away from me. I feel him staring and I don't look at him as I push him away enough to move out of his arms, walking towards my best friend whose stunned look is now replaced with disappointment.

"Bon..." I start to explain.

"Let's just go Care," she says, turning and walking away.

"What of Katherine?" says Kol, stopping Bonnie in her tracks. "We aren't forgetting about her now are we? Where is she sweet Caroline?"

A number of conflicting emotions flood through me in that moment. I can totally rat her out. She did kill me, turn me into a vampire, kidnapped me, hurt my friends, but then there is the Katherine I got to know in the last two months. The Katherine that trained me to defend myself, the Katherine who served as the Bonnie to my Clyde as we ran and showed me some of the world. Made me have fun and was actually nice to me.

Mostly.

And here I am, being asked to give her up so they can kill her.

"Why?" I ask with an accusing tone. "So you can kill her? Big problem with that. She's linked to me and the spell she made the witch use made it so you can't unlink me without her. Meaning if you kill her..."

"We kill you too. We know," interjects Klaus, forcing me to look at him. I bite down my lip when he rips off his shirt the rest of the way, throwing it casually to side as he walks up to us, his chest glistening with a thin layer of sweat from our make out session, his hair looking properly ruffled.

He throws me a knowing smirk, catching me checking him out and I blush.

I try to avert my gaze, knowing if I keep looking I might jump his bones again, but he catches my face, turning it back to him. "We WILL break you from her," he vows.

He had moved closer somehow, and I fight hard not to get wrapped up in his close proximity.

"Then you're going to kill her," I press.

He drops his hand, allowing me to think clearly.

"I don't see how that is a problem," he says roughly.

"Well it is."

He scoffs. "You can't be serious love! She kidnapped you! Kept you away from me for months!"

"I don't see how that is a problem," I say, throwing his earlier words at him, making him growl in aggravation. "I honestly don't blame her for kidnapping me. She was just doing what she needed to in order to survive. She knew people would find out she was pretending to be Elena eventually and Elena's body wouldn't be strong enough to defend herself from Stefan and Damon never mind you, so she looked for a witch that would make her immortal like Silas, some Celeste or whatever who..."

"No!" erupts Bonnie in frustration, effectively shutting me up. "First, I have to deal with you liking Klaus..."

My mouth drops, blushing furiously. "Wait. No. I...I never said..."

"Obviously you do if you're making out with him and about to fuck him again," she snaps.

I blink at her, stunned as Kol laughs. "It sure looked like it was going in that direction! Poor Nik's already lost his shirt and looked more than excited if that bulge in his pants was any indication. All ready to let the wolf in you jump out and play..."

"Why don't you go back to being dead Kol?" Klaus spits out, cutting him off.

"Yes. Please do," I mutter under my breath.

The amusement on his face falls. "Fine. I'll talk about something else. How about killing Katherine?"

"No," I say dimissively.

"Stop protecting her!" Shouts Bonnie. "We don't have time to worry about Katherine when Elena is still missing!"

That takes me aback. "WHAT! Oh my God! What happened to her?!" I demand, concerned.

Bonnie's face falls in sadness. "We don't know. Damon and Stefan have been looking everywhere for the last two months. Nothing."

"Well, even more reason to keep Katherine alive," I say. "Who knows? She can probably help us find 'Lena through that weird link the doppelgangers seem to have going on, like Silas and Stefan."

Klaus' eyes widen in surprise. "The Ripper was Silas' doppelganger?"

I brush him off. "Yeah. Long story. Anyway, all I'm saying is Katherine is more helpful to us alive."

"We use her to find you precious Elena then she dies," butts in Klaus. "As long as she is linked to you, she is a threat to your life."

"And if she wasn't anymore, would you let her go?"

"No," he says without a moment's hesitation, sparking my anger.

"Why not?!"

"Because she's Katerina! She's conniving, dangerous..."

"Like you?" I shoot at him.

His jaw clenches. "No. Not like me. She has no honor, cares only for herself..."

My eyes narrow at him. "Again. Like you?"

He steps up to me, his eyes flashing gold in fury. "No! I care about YOU! Have I not made that abundantly clear? Why else would I chase after you for two months across the bloody planet?!"

I feel my anger dissipate. Why he has to go and say things like that for? It's so much easier to deny feelings when I'm mad at him. Then he goes and says things like that and grabs my face like this...God! Now he's making me look into his eyes so I can see the affection he holds for me in them...and yes. I start to swoon.

I...Hate him...

"I..." he sighs, brushing his thumbs over my cheeks, "Care for you Caroline," he says softly. "You know this, and from what I can tell, Katerina knows as well. You truly think she won't use you against me to complete some revenge fantasy for killing her family? Do you think she will be able to resist taking you away from me in retribution?"

I touch one of his hands that is grasping my face, stroking it while I let his words sink in.

He counted losing me like Katherine losing her family...

Klaus is turning me into a puddle of feels right now.

Yes. I knew he loved me but I still couldn't help but dismiss it, not believe it.

Except times like this when he made it so hard to do so.

"Klaus," I start to say, "I..."

His phone rings, his eyes never leaving mine when he reluctantly pulls away and answers his phone.

"What?" he says gruffly.

"Niklaus."

He finally turns away from me. "Elijah."

"Have you found Caroline?"

He glances at me. "Yes. We'll be heading back to the hotel once we've found Katerina..."

"Katerina is with me."

I close my eyes, not before I see Klaus break into a huge grin. Well. Guess that's it for her.

"Fantastic Brother! We'll be waiting for you at the hotel. Then..."

"I will not be bringing Katerina to you Niklaus."

My eyes snap open in surprise. What?

"What?" growls Klaus, echoing my thought.

"I will not be bringing Katerina to be unlinked unless certain...conditions have been met," says Elijah calmly.

Too bad Klaus is anything but calm.

"Conditions? CONDITIONS?! Elijah, I swear to you, if you do not bring Katerina to me by tomorrow, there is no corner, no crevice on this planet that will hide you and your doppelganger whore. What happened to all your grandiose speeches about Caroline being my redemption?"

His...redemption? I gape, mind blown.

"She is, and I believe that, but you WILL comply to my demands Niklaus," he says unperturbed by Klaus' threat. "For Caroline's sake," he adds.

Klaus snaps. "I WILL NOT BARTER WITH HER LIFE!" he roars into the phone.

"Unfortunate, but yes, you will, all the same."

Klaus chuckles darkly. "Here I thought I only needed to worry about my enemies using Caroline against me. Foolish, I, to not have foreseen this..." he says angrily. Yet, that wasn't all. I couldn't see Klaus' face, but his voice, though not obvious, holds a deep disappointment in it. Elijah's actions are hurting him...

I hear Elijah sigh. "Brother. Let Katerina go free. She gives her word she will no longer plot against you or Caroline..."

I watch Klaus angrily end the call. Minutes pass with no words being said, only the sound of Klaus' phone ringing (probably Elijah) breaking the silence that falls upon us until Kol breaks it.

"You must admit, Elijah played his hand well. You'll have no choice but to bend to his will now if you want Caroline to be safe."

"Whatever happened to the plan of turning Caroline into an Original?" snarls Klaus. "You two were so confident you can do it."

Now I speak up. "What are you guys talking about? Why turn me into an Original? Isn't unlinking me from Katherine enough? Is that even possible?"

"Not if you're going to be with my brother for eternity and yes, it is possible," says Kol.

"But Elijah has Esther's grimore which we would need to do the immortality spell," says Bonnie with a frown. "So, that brings us back to doing a deal with Elijah..."

"STOP!" I shout, panicking over the information I just heard. Me? An Original? An ETERNITY with KLAUS! Like SERIOUSLY?!

"I don't even know what I feel for Klaus, never mind spending eternity with him!" I say, flustered. "I'm barely 19 and now you guys are talking about eternity and being an original like I didn't JUST turn to into a regular vampire and can we just...SLOW THE FUCK DOWN?! How about we just get through today huh, before you guys freak me out more than you already have and this one," I point a finger at Klaus, "starts getting ideas that I belong to him or some other Alpha Male bullshit or something because I SO don't need that in my life and..."

"CAROLINE!"shouts three voice at my simultaneously, startling me. Oh. They must of been saying my name for awhile, I think, noting their exasperated expressions except for Klaus.

Even though he is still noticeably angry a bit from the Elijah conversation, he shakes his head and smiles slightly before grabbing my hand, sending warm tingles through my body.

"Let's get back to the hotel love."

I hesitate briefly, contemplating pulling my hand away, but I remember Elijah, and how hurt Klaus seemed to be by his betrayal. Deciding now would probably be a wrong time to reject him, I intertwine my fingers with his, not missing the surprise then elation which rests in his eyes before we start walking together behind Kol and Bonnie.


Later that night, in the hotel suite, I wake up, hungry for some blood. When I walk to the living room, I see a lone figure standing in the darkness, staring out the bay windows, shirtless, the city lights outside playing on his skin as he holds something in his left hand I can't quite make out. When I come closer, my eyes are drawn to the triangle tattoo on his back, the fine planes there and I know it's Klaus, remembering the last time I saw his back like this, I was trying to pull a nonexistent piece of white oak out of him. He doesn't acknowledge me when I come to stand beside him. He just stands there, deep in thought.

"You're not going to give into Elijah's demands are you?"I say, after awhile, breaking the silence. It wasn't a question. I knew him enough to know he didn't want to be perceived as weak and giving in to Elijah would be considered as that, to him.

"No," he admits.

I sigh heavily. "Why do you have to be so stubborn? Is killing Katherine that important?"

He narrows his gaze at me, warily. "This isn't about my pride Caroline if that is what you are eluding to," he says in a soft tone. "It is about your safety in the long term."

"She says she won't come after us."

"Her word means nothing!" he hisses, his anger rising up again.

"Then take precautions!" I hiss back, trying not to wake anyone.

"Or kill Elijah and her and be done with the both of them."

I freeze, searching his face for some indication that he is joking.

He wasn't.

"You can't..." I say, slowly. "The white oak stake is gone..."

"You mean this?" he asks, revealing what he has been holding in his left hand all along:

The indestructible white oak stake.

Oh.

No.

A/N Well. Um. Yeah. You can yell at me through reviews :) (ie. How dare you even THINK of having Klaus kill Elijah?! Where did Elijah take Katherine? Will Care ever get unlinked from Kat? And please end this story soon (or not) I'm so tired of this (or not). Please do the next arc (or not). I would see love to see Klaroline's relationship grow before the end (Maybe))! Something like that.

Answer to guest reviews:

Guest: I'm glad you love this story and Kennett. I think I'll keep them around. And Caroline's reaction to the Klayley baby? I have not forgotten. It is coming soon enough.

AmandaKlaroline: I had you in mind when I wrote the last chapter. I was thinking you'll straight cut me (Along with some other folks) if I do another chapter without Klaroline interacting. Glad you liked their kiss at the end. I rewrote it so many times and then I gave up. I still think it's missing something but I couldn't come up with anything else.

Another guest: I updated. Sorry it took awhile :(