I realize I've also prompted a Captain Swan TLK, but this idea came to me. This is Snowing, when Snow had to break Charming's heart the first time.
Caroline moved silently among the pillars, knowing any second a guard would walk through. But the footsteps belonged to another man, as she hid. Klaus. His rough blonde head going past her without noticing, his shoulders hunched his hands behind his back. Almost like the day they last saw eachother. But he was much happier then.
A bird landed on her arm, and gently she took the rolled note from its leg, setting it free.
'Dear Caroline,
As you have not tried to contact me I can only assume you have found the happiness that you so deserve. I have not forgotten you. If you'll forgive me, I must tell you the moment we parted runs through my head, every day. And I wish I had told you then what I am telling you now.
I am in love with you. Wholly, completely, always and forever. But I am to be wed in two days. Come to me before that day arrives, before I am to be bound. Tell me you feel the same way and we can be together. If you do not come, I will know my answer.
Klaus'
Caroline stroked the parchment of the note in her pocket and smiled at the briskly retreating head. She crept up behind him and reached out. A hand clapped over her mouth, big enough that no yelps or shrieks could escape her lips, and she was dragged back.
When a door closed before her, she was released. Caroline whirled around to see a sour face before her, his hands behind his back, his chin tipped high, his dark and sullen eyes gazing unimpressed at her.
"So you are the woman that the cur has fallen in love with. I should've known this would happen." The man said. Or rather king. King Mikael.
"That's a nice name for your only son." Caroline noted dryly.
"He is not my son mistress, I'll thank you not to use that tone with me, or I shall become cross."
"You dragging me back and keeping me from Klaus, that was me on your good side?" She asked. Mikael ground his jaw and she watched him. Mikael was not a kind king, and she had no notion of what happened to subjects who challenged him. Then again. She wasn't his subject.
"You're going to do something for me." Mikael stated. Caroline blinked.
"Why should I?" She asked.
"Because I will kill him otherwise." He said. She stared at him and gulped. Then studied his face.
"Why not kill me instead?" She asked.
"Because Niklaus is engaged to be married. You have poisoned their intended union. Killing you will make him love you more. This kingdom will fall, and it will be because of your memory. I will not allow that to happen." He replied. He stepped closer to Caroline who defiantly glared at him.
"You will break his heart, or I will kill him right before your eyes." He hissed. Caroline gulped again and felt tears rise to her eyes. She couldn't let him die. Not because of her selfish want for love. She looked down slightly and back up to Mikael, before turning away and heading for the door.
"He will never, be safe from me." He said calmly. Caroline froze in midstep, then continued walking. She closed the door behind her.
Caroline walked into the room, holding the note. Klaus was packing for his wedding. She silently stood on her toes, and then stared at him a long while. This was the last time she'd ever see him. It was either her confession, or his life. With an aching heart, she fell back on her hunter-boot heels and took two steps toward him, her footsteps echoing on the stone floor. Klaus looked up from his possessions and laid eyes on her. The love that encompassed his eyes made her want to forget everything Mikael had said and just tell him what he should know.
"You came" He whispered. Her adrenaline rush vanished. Mikael had threatened Klaus's life. This couldn't happen. "You came!" He said happily, rushing to her and wrapping his arms around her, laughing and twirling. Caroline buried her face in his neck and fur-lined coat, willing herself not to cry. He put Caroline down and she forced herself to pull back from him with a calm face. Klaus glanced at her mouth. This would've been our first kiss She thought in despair. But as his lips neared hers, she pushed him away slightly.
"Klaus wait. This...us...we can't be together." Caroline spoke in a murmur, her voice shaking.
"What? Of course we can, you came. You came. And as you feel the love that I do for you-"
"I don't." She interrupted. If she hadn't done so, her heart would've melted. She wouldn't have been strong enough. His face turned to one of confusion. "You told me always and forever. I can't keep your heart from someone else who will love you truly, it's not right. You deserve to love someone who loves you in return." She said. Every word she said drove home, every word she uttered made her feel nauseous. It was his life, or their love.
A single tear fell from his eye, slowly, as he stared at her. Utter despair clouding his features until he had to suppress them to keep from falling apart before her. She handed him back the note she'd come with, and he took it. It crumpled in his hand, and she had to keep her eyes upon his to ignore the sound of him throwing the note to the floor.
"Goodbye, Klaus." Caroline said, and side stepped him, walking away. It wasn't until she found the servants' quarters, behind the door where no one would be bored enough to look, that she let herself break down. She could never be with Klaus. Klaus was alive now, he would stay alive as long as he was what Mikael wanted. But she saved Klaus from him. And that she would never regret.
Wiping her tears from her face, she walked discreetly from the castle, and towards the wilderness.
But of course, this was not the end of Caroline Forbes and Klaus Mikaelson's story.
