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"How old did you say you were?" Klaus asked.
"I didn't," Caroline grinned, remembering Kol asking her the same thing.
After a while, Rebekah and Alex had wondered off and Kol got distracted by a pretty girl and was somewhere with her, leaving Klaus and Caroline. Surprisingly Caroline did have a problem being alone with him. She should have been worried, nervous, something, anything, but she didn't. She felt surprisingly safe, which was just plain stupid.
"Something tells me you're not a baby vampire," He said.
"And why is that? Because of my knowledge of the all-powerful hybrid and his family of Original vampires, or because I can handle my alcohol better then you?" Caroline teased.
"While your knowledge of me and my family is rather impressive and you do have a high tolerance of alcohol is impressive, that's not it," He said.
"Then do tell, what is it?" She asked.
"Your bravery," He shrugged.
"Excuse me?" Caroline frowned.
"You know who I am Caroline, who my family is, and yet here you are," Klaus said, leaning closer.
"Here I am," Caroline muttered, hypnotized by his blue eyes.
"Want to know a little secret Caroline?" He whispered.
"What?" Caroline asked, her eyes wondering to his lips.
"I admire that about you," He said. Their lips were a breath apart and Caroline felt the ridiculous urge to lean over and close the gap between them. Before Caroline could make the most delicious and worse decision of her life, Alex called her name.
She moved back away from Klaus and finally took her eyes off him to focus on Alex.
"What is it?" She sighed.
"Sorry, nit we have to go," Alex snapped, his voice seething with rage.
"Well who the hell pissed on your cheerios?" Caroline snapped.
"We're going not," he hissed, grabbing onto her arm.
"Sorry you're not having fun, but I am. So let go and leave me alone," Caroline said, holding her ground.
"I believe she said let her go mate," Klaus said, standing up next to Caroline.
"This is family matters, back off," Alex said, glaring at Klaus.
"Alex," Caroline warned quietly.
"I suggest you remember who you're talking to," Klaus said.
"Why don't you remind me," Alex challenged.
"Let's not make a scene," Caroline said, quickly placing a hand on Klaus's chest. Wow. She didn't think it would be that firm. It made her wonder how it looked underneath that shirt….She quickly chased those thoughts away and focused on the two vampires in front of her. "We're leaving," She said, shooting Alex another look.
He finally let her go and backed up a few feet, never taking his eyes off Klaus. Caroline turned to Klaus to face him. "You mentioned how I'm still here, even though I know what your family is capable of, it's because I know when to back off and not when to cross a line. Alex is about to cross that line, so I'm going to get him out of here before he ruins a lovely friendship that was started here tonight. Thanks for tonight, and sorry to cut it short, but I have a couple family issues to deal with," She smiled.
"I understand love," he said, grabbing the hand on his chest and bringing it up to his lips.
Caroline swallowed and smiled at him. "Until next time Klaus."
Caroline waited until they were a couple miles away from the bar to actually freak out. She grabbed on to Alex's shoulder and slammed him against a wall. He dropped but got up and glared at her.
"What were you thinking? Challenging him like that?" She hissed. "Are you that much of an idiot?"
"You're the idiot here," He snapped.
"Excuse me?"
"I saw you Caroline! You almost kissed him! You almost kissed Klaus!"
Caroline's eyes turned red and her fangs dropped. She lunged at Alex and punched him hard in the gut. He doubled over and she elbowed him in his back. As soon as he touched the ground, she kicked him and watched him go flying across the ally.
She walked over to him and crouched down. When he tried to get up, she placed a hand on his chest and shoved him back down, keeping him there.
"If I want to kiss Klaus, I'll kiss Klaus. If I want to sleep with Klaus, I will sleep with Klaus. If I want to get up on a table, strip naked, and start singing the national anthem, then I will! You do not get a say in the choices I make Alex, you do not have the right!" Caroline hissed, standing up and backing away.
He sat up and looked at her. "I have no right? How long have I stuck by your side Caroline? How long have I fought and defended for you?" He asked.
"I may have turned you in 1717, but we didn't stick together that long, did we? You walked away Alex, you're the one that didn't trust me enough to stick by my side, just like you did tonight. You didn't trust me and trust that I could handle myself and walked away. The first time you walked away from me Alex, you lost your right to have a say in what I do," Caroline said, making her point by turning around and leaving him on the ally floor.
Caroline walked into the house to the smell of blood. She followed it to the living room where she found the two vampires that held her down earlier lifeless on the carpet, Hearts ripped out, body parts missing, and a lot of blood. Whoever did this left a mess behind, and stains of her carpet.
"They must have pissed someone off, and I can't say I'm disappointed. Too bad they're already gone, because they owe me a new carpet," Caroline said, sensing Mikael behind her. "I'll call a few people and have this mess cleaned up before morning."
"No point in calling just yet," Mikael said.
Caroline tensed up at the sound of the emption in his voice and felt shivers run down her spine. She turned around and faced the monster that stood behind her. "You killed them," She said.
"And you killed my wolves," He said, grabbing her throat and slamming her against the coffee table.
"I didn't kill your wolves," She said.
"You didn't do a damn thing to keep them alive," He growled, crashing her throat. "What were you doing that was so important? Where were you?" He leaned forward and inhaled, and Caroline prayed that he didn't smell his children. Suddenly his hand was wrapped around her heart and was squeezing.
She gasped and started choking up blood. It dripped out of her mouth and down her chin and onto Mikael's hand, but he didn't seem to notice. "What did I tell you about alcohol? It weakens you, slows you down, and makes you completely useless, and also," Mikael said," it destroys your liver."
His hand finally released her heart, but now grabbed her liver and yanked his hand out, liver and all.
She screamed in pain and rolled of the table and onto the floor, clutching at the spot her liver use to be. Her body started shutting down. She wouldn't die because of a missing liver, it would grow back, but the rest of her body didn't know that and was still acting like it was human.
"I really thought you would be different from all my children. I thought you would be stronger, faster, a child I would be proud of, I guess I was wrong. I'm beyond disappointed in you Caroline," Mikael said.
She remained on her hands and knees, blood pouring out of her and onto the floor. Her vision was becoming fuzzy, but somehow she managed to pull out her phone and send someone a text before losing consciousness.
She left water running over her face, but she didn't bother to move, she was too weak. Suddenly she felt the feeling of being lifted and then something bumped her side and once again, she consumed by the darkness.
This time she woke to blood running down her throat. She latched on to the wrist that was pressed against her mouth and latched on with her fangs. As she drank long, deep swallows, she started to become aware of a few things. One, she was leaning against someone's warm, firm chest, and second, that person was Alex.
She pulled away from his wrist and moved away and leaned against the headboard instead of him. Neither spoke and Caroline took that opportunity to examine her cloths. She was wearing a wet bra and underwear covered in a long t-shirt. Alex must have sensed her curiosity because he finally said something.
"You were covered in blood and I didn't think you would mind," He said.
"It's fine, not like I was completely naked," Caroline shrugged.
They fell into another silence and Caroline lifted her shirt up to examine the spot where her liver once was. All healed of course, but she could feel It rebuilding itself.
So what did you do?" Alex asked.
"A couple werewolves are dead, I was drunk, he didn't like it," She said.
"So Mikael being Mikael?" Alex asked.
"Yeah, I guess so," Caroline smiled.
He nodded and got up off the bed. "Glad you're feeling better," He said, heading towards the door.
"Alex wait!" Caroline said, flashing out of bed. "Look, I'm sorry okay?"
"For what?" Alex asked, turning around to face her.
Caroline saw the look in his eyes and knew he was mad, and Caroline would rather have him be mad then ice cold with no feelings. "What exactly are you sorry for Caroline? For being dangerous and reckless? For keeping secrets from me? For going against everything you know is wrong and doing it anyways?" Caroline let him rant, and even when he was done talking she didn't say anything. He was suddenly in her personal space and grabbed her arms and shook her roughly. "What are you sorry for?" He shouted.
"Everything!" Caroline yelled, shoving him away. "I'm sorry for everything Alex! I'm sorry for putting myself in dangerous situations and being reckless without even thinking about you. I'm sorry for every lie I've ever told you and every secret I won't tell you. I'm sorry that I even let those words past my lips and I'm sorry for going after you like that. Most of all, I'm sorry for doing everything I know I shouldn't do Alex," Caroline said, her eyes shining with tears she was struggling to hide. "I am so sorry that I go against every instinct in my body and do what I know will end badly, because maybe, just maybe if I had followed my instincts you wouldn't be sucked in all of this. Maybe if I had just let you die when you were human you wouldn't have had to go through all of the pain you have. You wouldn't have had to get tortured by the Augustine vampires, you wouldn't of had to deal with all of Mikael's crazy schemes and you wouldn't of had to deal with me."
At this point Caroline had tears streaming down her face, a sign of weakness, but at this point she was weak. Not just weak from Mikael's beating, but from living for as long as she had, and Alex saw that. He saw that what he said right now could make or break her, and he had no desire to break her.
"Stop Caroline, just stop," he said, going to her and pulling her into his embrace. She collapsed against his chest and curled her hands around his shirt. I'm sorry Caroline. I'm not sorry that you saved me that night and turned me. Yeah, I've suffered and had to deal with Mikael's schemes, and I've had to deal with your craziness, but it's all been worth it," He whispered against her hair. "I've seen so many things, been to so many places, I've experienced so many things. If you hadn't saved me that night Caroline, I probably would've died in less than a week, and can I tell you something?" Alex cupped her jaw and forced her to look up at him. "Through all of my suffering, and through all of my pain, there has always been one thing I've always looked forward too. A crazy, reckless, dangerous blonde who happened to be my friend, my sire, and my sister."
Caroline swallowed back the rest of her tears and wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him against her in another hug. Alex smiled and held her close to him. While Caroline acted brave and fearless, he knew she was far from it, that even a vampire who had been around 9 centuries had weak moments and moments of doubt, but Alex also knew every time she had those moments he would be the one to pull her back and give her the reassurance she needed.
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