Hey Guys! Chapter 4 is up! Just a heads up, I changed a few things in chapter two, with Klaus and Caroline's interaction to make his inner conflict hopefully more apparent :)

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Chapter 4-Enjoy!

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Caroline stayed in what used to be Vicki's room the whole night, burying her blood and tear stained face into her knees, as if they would some how shield her from the cruelness of the world, the cruelness of him. She felt ashamed, disgusted at herself for holding an infatuation, for allowing herself to believe that Niklaus was even capable of kindness.

"But…he had shown kindness to me" A voice in Caroline's head said, before Caroline mentally slapped herself. How dare she!

Caroline wept endlessly for the end of Vicki, who in reality was her only connection to her past in this wretched place.

Caroline wept for the other poor souls who had probably shared the same fate. She wept because Caroline had allowed herself to be fooled by Niklaus. She wept because he turned out to be so evil, and she desperately wanted herself to be wrong.

Caroline wept until she had no more tears left, where she then sat, back faced away from Vicki's lifeless form and towards the bloodstained window of her room, staring numbly into space until sunrise.

Only when the constant gnawing of hunger started to increase, so much that it became painful, did Caroline finally stand up.

She stumbled out of her room only to trip on Vicki's dead body.

Caroline felt horror at the sight of Vicki's slowly withering body. Caroline quickly turned around, resisting her urge to vomit.

The glint of glass caught her attention as she turned towards a vanity mirror. Caroline gasped at her figure. Her blonde hair was matted with blood, Vicki's blood, as well as her entire body. Tears covered her face, which was now an unsightly pale mess.

Suddenly, Caroline knew that the same fate would come upon her if she stayed in Niklaus' mansion. Why was she still here anyways?!

With new found adrenaline, Caroline opened the door and ran away from the horrid room, out of the corridor, up the long, winding stairs, through more doors until she spotted the entrance to the great house that she had been living in for the week.

She didn't care if she starved, she'd be damned if she ate another bite of anything in this horrible place. She needed to get out. Crashing into walls, falling on the richly carpeted floors, Caroline ran like a madman.

"Where are you going in such a hurry love?" A voice called.

Caroline stopped. Oh no. She hadn't run into Niklaus once in the past week, until now. She slowly turned around, heart hammering against her delicate diaphragm.

She saw his face harden from the smirk that previously graced his face as he saw Caroline's bloodied figure, and suddenly his eyes widened.

"Who did you see?" He asked, dangerously low.

So he knew that she had seen him.

"You…killed…Vicki…" Caroline said, staring straight at the hybrid. Her anger and rage had all resurfaced now she was in front of this…monster, and it gave her new found courage.

Niklaus' lips formed a tight line as his eyebrows furrowed.

"You knew what I was capable of already, love" He spat.

"I thought you were capable of kindness, but I was wrong." Caroline replied, equally venomous in her state.

His eyebrows furrowed. Was that…hurt? No. Niklaus was not capable of feeling hurt.

Her small hands found the doorknob, as she turned around and frantically tried to open the door, her back to the hybrid.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you"

Caroline froze. When did he get so close! She was going to die. NO. Somewhere in the back of her mind, she remembered her father, whom she should have been searching for the entire time. She couldn't die. Not now. And she wasn't going to give Niklaus the satisfaction of her death, either.

Summoning all her strength, Caroline turned around and kneed Niklaus in his…privates. And then she ran as fast as she could, out the door into the forest.

"You don't seriously think that you could run away from me, do you?" Niklaus snarled as he appeared right in front of her. Caroline pushed him back, but he caught her arm.

He lowered her head, and brought his lips to her ear. Caroline shivered whether it was from fear…or proximity. Caroline convinced herself it was the former.

"You see, Caroline. You can't leave." Niklaus whispered, almost sensually into Caroline's ear. "I have something that I think you will find quite interesting." He flashed back into the mansion with Caroline, before she even had a chance to scream.

Caroline found herself in darkness, except for the hands around her waist…Niklaus' hands. She pushed herself away roughly from them and ran as fast as she could…anywhere.

Clang. Caroline crashed into metal bars, and fell ungracefully to the ground.

"…Caroline?"

Caroline froze. She knew that voice! Suddenly her heart nearly stopped.

"F…Father?"

Caroline's eyes adjusted to the darkness and saw the man she had been searching for. Despite her current situation, Caroline smiled. She had finally found him. He was alive! She had known it!

Caroline brought herself back to the situation as horror suddenly filled her as she saw her father's blood stained clothes, and his neck.

No. His neck had two holes, two fangs that had punctured her father's neck and sucked the blood out of him.

How could he! Caroline had told Niklaus, when she still thought he was decent of course, about her father! He lied! He stood by her, sympathizing, and she actually found comfort in him.

He disgusted her, almost as much as she disgusted herself for still ever believing that there was a speck of humanity in him.

"WHAT IS HE DOING HERE!" Caroline screamed at Niklaus, her anger making her bolder than usual.

The hybrid didn't even flinch.

"You see, love, he stole something of great value to me, and did something very dreadful with this…object. I had to exact my revenge on him" Niklaus looked murderous.

"Caroline, you need to get out of here, and never return. Tell the villagers that I am dead, please. No one can know that I am here, you understand me?"

"How can you ask me to leave you here alone with this monster?" Caroline shrieked, pointing and Niklaus, who growled.

"You seemed to be quite friendly for someone who thinks so low of me"

"That was before I saw who you really were"

Niklaus' fists clenched, and then he paced towards her, stopping to meet her in the eyes.

"You could have gone away, searching for your father eternally, but to no avail. I fed and clothed you. I showed you kindness. I SHOWED YOU YOU'RE FATHER!"

Caroline watched him, eyes wide, and mouth slightly open as he held her gaze. Her heart was pounding erratically as she struggled to keep her breath steady.

The hybrid turned around to compose himself, running a hand through his golden locks before turning back to her.

"I showed you William for a reason. You stay, and your dear father gets to leave."

Caroline turned back to her father. She couldn't let him live here. And as much as she loathed Niklaus, she couldn't live with the guilt of leaving her only family left in here.

She slowly turned back to Niklaus.

"You will be my maid and tend to the castle, for as long as you live"

Caroline faltered. She would spend her whole life with Niklaus, probably as a blood bag.

"Caroline…please don't do this" William started.

"Father! Please." Caroline whispered slowly, still crying. She turned slowly back to Niklaus.

"And how long will I actually live?" She asked, no more sarcasm or venom in her voice.

He glared back at her.

"As low as you think of me, Caroline, I don't regard everyone as walking blood bags."

There was silence in the air, so thick that Caroline felt that the weight would suffocate her.

"I'll stay."

Niklaus' gaze remained stagnant, as he nodded slowly.

He went to open the cell door, where William stumbled out.

"Caroline! You cannot do this!" His eyes were filled with rage and helplessness. Caroline embraced her father, for what she knew would be the last time.

"I love you father"

"I don't deserve to be free." He started sobbing quietly, too.

Caroline turned his face slowly to meet her gaze.

"I forgive you. I have forgiven you a long time ago for what you did to me" Caroline sobbed.

"I still can't let you do this."

"Good bye, Father."

She had to do this for William.

Niklaus sudenly flashed in front of William.

"You will leave, and you will tell no one of where Caroline is, what as become of her, or of your little adventure with the big bad hybrid."

Caroline watched as her father suddenly stopped struggling, and walked right past the pair, eyes glazed, out of the room, and up the stair case that Caroline had not noticed was there.

She turned, shocked, to the hybrid.

"What did you do to him?" She asked softly, afraid to anger the hybrid now that her sudden boldness seemed to vanish into thin air.

"I compelled him. I made him do something by my will." Niklaus answered, softly too, although he almost seemed sad about the fact he could do it.

But no, he had no feelings, Caroline reminded herself again. But…looking at the hybrid, who was starring intently at the now vacant cell, hands behind his back, lips pursed and eyebrows furrowed, he looked so…human.

"Have you ever compelled me?" Caroline asked, voice rising slightly.

"…never"

"How can I trust you?"

"You can't"

"Why haven't you compelled me? Or moreover, why did you even ask me to stay here!" Caroline asked, hands flying in the air.

Niklaus looked at her. Caroline couldn't believe it. Niklaus looked so…vulnerable right now. If she didn't know who or what he was capable of, she would have tried to comfort him.

He stood forward, and suddenly, they were standing very close. Very, very close, and suddenly, she felt very shaky as her eyes became lost in the deep blue eyes that belonged to the hybrid.

"I would never compel you, because while I now have bargained for your services and your body, I have every intention of earning you, and no amount of compelling will ever achieve that. "

Caroline scoffed. "I will never, in my entire existence, forget all the horrible things you have done."

And with that, she turned around and walked and away, refusing Niklaus to see the tears already resurfacing from the pain of letting her father go, for the confusion and mystery of the hybrid she hated, from the life she was doomed to live.

What did you think? I was trying to show a more vulnerable side of Klaus, though I don't know how much his actual character would usually open up to someone like that.

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