I don't do the Caroline being pregnant thing, because frankly, I think it's ridiculous. She's a vamp for cryin' out loud, nature ain't gonna find a loophole with her, even if Klaus is the one that slept with her. But in this, I'm going to make her human, because I recently learned that instead of Christine choosing Raoul in Phantom of the Opera like I'd thought, she chose Erik the Phantom. And I was team Phantom, so that made me happy. In wanting to have seen the night that Christine and Erik spent together when she became pregnant, I wanted to write it out so I could see it in my mind's eye. It'd be so cool to see the real thing, but since I haven't found it yet (maybe it's not out there), I thought of Klaroline, as I am obsessed with my ship. And so this is what came of it. I hope you like it :)
Although I would like to say, despite this particular drabble being inspired by Phantom of the Opera n Love Never Dies, it'll be more to Klaroline's lines than Phantom's.
"Everyone thought you were dead. They thought the spell Bonnie cast worked, and everyone's relieved they didn't die along with you. But for some reason, I wanted to seek you out." Caroline told him. Klaus stared at her in surprise. "Not to declare my undying love for you, God no, but to say goodbye." Klaus looked away. "Tyler and I are running away in the morning. I wanted to find you and say goodbye, cut the ties to the past, forget every memory you and I had." She said. Klaus looked back up at her, his eyes full of betrayal.
"I see. You don't want to have yet another reason to return." He replied.
"Another reason? You don't stay in Mystic Falls for too long anyway, Klaus, did you think I was expecting you to wait for me if I never came to see you?"
"Of course not, I was hiding from everyone though, love, not just you." He replied
"But I still found you." Caroline replied. He sighed.
"You did indeed, love." He said.
"When I opened your coffin out there, you weren't there. That body shackled in chains was gone and there wasn't even a singe mark on the fabric, where the fire was supposed to have burned you." She said in annoyance.
"Well what can I say, I always have a plan. Anytime someone tries to kill me, I'm five steps ahead of them." He replied.
"I know that." She said.
"And yet you still helped them to try and kill me." He hissed at her.
"What was I supposed to do, tell everyone the plan wouldn't work? Sit around and refuse to help because you'd still get away?" She demanded
"Of course, Caroline Forbes is always more concerned with what others think of her than of what she thinks of herself."
"Shut up." She snapped.
"But it's true, isn't it?" He demanded. Caroline glared at him and didn't reply. Klaus stood up and moved to her, she didn't move back but held his eyes. "You were afraid to let yourself show what you already knew. And isn't that also what drove you to seek me out?" He asked.
"I don't know what you mean." She stuttered, looking away. Klaus stood before her, unmoved. She looked back at him.
"Yes you do." He replied. Caroline searched his eyes and blushed. Klaus smiled.
"Tell me, what did you hope to gain from telling me goodbye, before you and little orphan Lockwood ran away into the sunset together, never to return" Klaus asked her. Caroline studied him.
"What did you think I wanted?" She said rhetorically. "Closure."
"In knowing I was truly gone and you and Tyler could live happily ever after, or in learning that you had to say goodbye to a friend?" He asked.
"You're not my friend." Caroline replied.
"What am I then?" He snapped. She fell silent. "Surely if you came to seek my dead body out, you would've brought another friend here in case I wasn't, you are human after all. Was coming to say goodbye, the only reason, you came?" He asked. Caroline stared hard at him and her expression softened.
"No, it wasn't." She said softly. And before Klaus could utter another word, she'd reached out, and touched his face. Klaus drew an intake of breath in surprise, and slowly, he brought his hand up to hold hers against his face longer. His other hand came up and he touched her face as well, before Caroline came in and kissed him. He kissed her back, his hand falling away from her face. But his other hand that had held hers took her waist and kissed her again.
With each kiss that she gave him, every kiss he gave her, the voice in the back of her mind died down. The fact that Tyler would be waiting for her tomorrow didn't matter as much anymore. Her friends were safe, she knew that. No matter what would happen tomorrow, she had this moment with Klaus. Even with a million things to worry about, she couldn't think of a single one. Klaus's lips were on hers, and she could feel his skin under hers. She could hear his sighs. And she felt her own escape as well. Caroline caressed him, and she felt his hands on her own skin, reveling in the feeling with every minute that she couldn't tell where she ended and he began. Or was it the other way around.
"I love you, Caroline." He breathed. "I think I did from the moment I met you."
"I know." She breathed in reply, her hand going into his hair. His lips travelled down her neck and she sighed in reply. She knew right then, she knew it with more certainty than she did about herself. Klaus was good. He was a good man. He wasn't pure, and he wasn't whole, but he was the best he could be. He wanted to be good, and he tried every day to be. That's why she loved him. "I love you too." She said. He groaned and she smiled. She wondered how that felt to him, her saying the words and his lips on her throat as they travelled through.
"Will you still go tomorrow?" Klaus asked her huskily. "Even after this is all over?"
"Who says it has to be over?" She asked in reply "I'd happily be with you for the rest of my life." She breathed. Klaus nipped at her neck with human teeth and she gasped, pulling at his hair.
He sped them into a wall in the cave and even though the breath was knocked out of her, Klaus continued to kiss her like crazy, his hands went everywhere, and she continued to caress him as well. When she got her breath back, they kissed deeply, and soon Klaus's fingers whispered under the hem of her shirt. She pulled his shirt off first and then her own. His mouth landed on hers again and she let his mouth travel back down to her neck, uncaring if he bit her. She reached her hand down to his jeans and unbuckled them as fast as she could.
And then they made love. They made love and every time that they fulfilled their urgent need, Caroline almost thought she could see him with her eyes, even with no moon above them.
Caroline fell asleep after they'd made love their last time. She had buried her head in Klaus's neck and her hand rested on his chest. Though there was nothing to cover their bodies, she didn't feel ashamed. She loved him. It didn't matter who discovered them, if they even did. It didn't matter what happened tomorrow with Tyler. She wanted to stay with Klaus. And she would.
The morning light woke her and she smiled to herself. She looked in front of her and thought she would see his sleeping form next to her, but she didn't. It was just the cave's wall. Suddenly she felt very cold, and self-conscious. She hadn't had a blanket to fall asleep under. Where were her clothes? She looked around and saw they were in a pile almost next to her. There wasn't a note like Klaus usually left. Maybe he'd come back. Maybe he didn't expect her to be awake yet. Caroline quietly and slowly put her clothes back on, and replayed the night before in her head. It was dark in that cave last night. She barely saw his face when she found him. When time progressed, she realized, she would felt Klaus's body under her fingers, she couldn't see him. She'd still sensed that he was good. And it didn't matter what anyone else thought.
When she'd gotten all of her clothes back on and tried to brush her hair out with her fingers to make it look less of a mess than it appeared to be, she travelled outside. There was a note pinned under a rock, flying in the wind. She picked it up and unfolded it.
I'm sorry love, but this can't be. You are supposed to be with Tyler, not the big bad wolf.
I'm not coming back.
I love you, Caroline.
Goodbye.
A twig broke and Caroline looked up in hope. Maybe he'd changed his mind. Maybe he knew he was making a mistake.
It was Tyler. Caroline had to hide the disappointment in her eyes. She felt like her heart was breaking.
"You ready, Care?" He asked her as he neared. He looked behind him and Caroline remembered what was happening. They were running away together, because Tyler was a hybrid and he wasn't safe in Mystic Falls any longer.
"Yeah." She replied, and she felt another pang of sadness as she followed Tyler back through the woods.
