So the torture part of the fic is over, so you can relax and continue reading the aftermath.

Chapter 4

"Okay, then," Aurora said as she took the white oak stake, put in the air in an angle that suited best for stabbing Klaus with it. And she lunged for his heart when suddenly Caroline grabbed the stake, pulled it from Aurora's hand and used both her hands to snap her neck.

Klaus' POV:

There was a deafening silence for a minute during which Caroline just stood there looking anywhere but at him. He was so stunned, he didn't know what was happening. Did Caroline save him to torture him some more? Or was she done with it? He kept staring at Caroline who avoided looking him straight in the eye.

"Caroline?" Klaus called out for her.

Caroline then snapped out of her thoughts and took a key from Aurora's pocket to take the shackles and chains off of him, all the while avoiding his gaze. Then she proceeded to take a little snowball item from one of the shelves in the room and smashed it on the floor, breaking it into thousands of little pieces. When she was done, Klaus was already standing up and wanted to reach out for her but didn't dare as he didn't know how she would take it. So Caroline just stormed past him and went for the door without looking at him. When she opened the door, she suddenly screamed in pain as an arrow was piercing through her chest, not in her heart though.

"Caroline!" Klaus yelled and then the whole cavalry, Elijah, Hayley, Freya and Marcel poured in to the apartment.

"Don't worry, she's fine," Hayley said as she checked on Caroline, who was still alive, just unconscious for the time being.

"What are you doing here?" Klaus asked incredulous

"Came to save you of course, dear brother, but it looks like you don't need it." Elijah said smiling. "What's going on here?"

"Long story, I'll take Caroline, somebody take Aurora and Camille needs help too."

Everybody turned to look at Camille who was still sitting on the couch and hadn't said a word for a long time.

"They turned her into a vampire." Klaus said regretfully.

"Okay, I'll deal with Camille, you can go home with Aurora and Caroline." Marcel said as he decided to take care of Camille.

On the way back Elijah tried to pry what happened in there, but Klaus brushed him off, saying, "Long story, don't want to go into it now."

At home Caroline was put in to a guest bed room that Freya just in case spelled so that everyone could go in and out of the room, besides Caroline herself.

Aurora was shackled and chained in the basement and put under a sleeping spell. Klaus didn't know whether to kill her or not.

After that Klaus just sat with Caroline on the bed. Suddenly she started shiver and to mumble "No" and "Stop it" and after a while she woke up. At first she was disoriented and didn't understand where she was. But when she saw Klaus sitting beside her, she quickly flashed for the door, only to be stopped by the invisible wall surrounding the room.

"What is this? LET ME GO, KLAUS?"

"I'll let you go and then what? You'll find the first stake to stake yourself with. Because the guilt is unbearable, right."

"I want to go, I want to be alone, Klaus," Caroline said as her back was turned towards Klaus.

"And I'll let you have so much alone time as you want but first let's talk about what happened."

"What's there to talk about, I teamed up with our enemy and we did some pretty awful things together. There's no going back from it."

"No, there isn't, you are going have to live with the guilt forever."

Caroline got visibly upset as he was saying that and started to bang at the invisible wall, " Let me out of here. Freya!"

Klaus went closer to her, and as her back was turned towards him, he hugged her from behind, wrapping arms around her and whispering in her ear, "I forgive you. Okay, I forgive you"

"Why? I'm not worth it. I was so awful to you. I violated your body and mind and I just don't understand why would you forgive me."

"Because I love you! And because I know, it wasn't you who did those things."

"But it was me. There's always going to be that part inside of me that longs for doing awful things."

"Yes, there will be, you are a vampire and that kind of darkness is part of you, but I'm not worried. You are stronger than her."

"Am I, am I really? Because I didn't feel so strong when I kept drowning and could not hold on to my humanity even for a few weeks, I mean Stefan handled it all summer."

"The younger you are, the harder it is to hold on to your humanity under those circumstances."

"Don't lecture me okay. There's no excuse for what I did-"

"Okay one more thing, what triggered it? The need to torture me of all people? Something must have set it off."

Caroline turned to face him now, "It wasn't that you didn't come soon enough to help me. It was that you were so ignorant that you didn't see that I had turned it off. All you wanted was to sleep with me and you ignored all the signs telling you that something was wrong with me."

"I know, forgive me please, I was a dumbass."…

"I do forgive you. But I don't know how to make it right. You were so hurt when I came out of the bedroom."

Klaus winced at the thought of it all. "I was, hearing you moan in pleasure cause of somebody else-"

"Shh, let me make it up to you," Caroline said, as she started kissing his face, going further down to kiss his neck, "I'm yours, I'll always be yours. Do what you want with me as I'm yours. Always and forever."

"What do you mean by that, Caroline?"

"I mean that I'm yours, I won't leave you again. A man that forgives me for something like that and then still wants me, is a man I want to keep, as long as possible."

Klaus grabbed her face to make her look him in the eye, "You mean…?"

"Yes." She smiled at him which he returned with a huge grin.

He wrapped his arms around her waist and lifted her up and threw her gently on the bed.

He quickly got rid of his clothes and then started undressing her all the while laying little kisses on her body.

"Say it again." Klaus ordered her

"I'm yours." She kept repeating while he undressed her and kissed her naked body.

"Now, who is better in bed, me or that Derek?"

Caroline rolled her eyes, "You are, you're better than anyone I have ever slept with."

"Really?" that meant not just better then that Derek guy, but better than Matt, Tyler and whoever she had ever slet with. A mischievous grin formed on his face when hearing her say that.

He didn't waste time, he wanted to hear her moan because of him, so he spread her legs and glimbed on top of her as he entered her. He started slow, hearing her moan, he picked up the pace until he moaned louder and called out his name. Then he suddenly stopped and took himself out ouf her.

"Klaus, don't stop," she raised her head to see that he had stopped and was staring down at her.

"I want you to beg and tell me I am the only man you want."

"Klaus, please continue. I beg you. And you are the only one I want and need as you are the best guy I have ever had in my bed. I'm yours."

"And don't you ever forget it," he said as he entered her and picked up the pace so her moans filled the room and were probably heard by his family too. He wanted the whole world to hear that he was the one to make her moan like. He needed to feel like the king he was in New Orleans and in the supernatural world. And she was now his queen.

After the fact he fell a sleep for a while and when he woke up, she was again gone from the bed. He was starting to panic when he heard her voice on the courtyard. She and Marcel were talking about something. It was about Camille and the dead tourists. He picked up that it wasn't like 3 bodies and more like around 20 of them, including some locals.

Marcel was blaming her for everything. Klaus quickly found his clothes and as he went to the balcony, Marcel said, "You are bringing war back to New Orleans, human faction will want blood and will come after us. I'm sorry Caroline, but I have no other choice than to banish you from New Orleans.

"Marcel! You will do no such thing. I will talk to the leaders of the human faction myself and it will blow over soon."

"She and Aurora killed over 20 people, including many locals, Klaus. They don't understand humanity switches and all that crap."

"I'll talk to them, until then, please go."

Marcel just scoffed and turned to leave and Klaus flashed downstairs to Caroline to see that her face was contorted with anguish and guilt.

"Hey, hey, Caroline, are you with me?" Klaus looked at her, but she wouldn't return his gaze.

The he just held her close as she stared into nothing.

"I have to go back to Mystic Falls," she suddenly said.

"What?"

"Not permanently, just till things blow over and I'll get to think and rest for a while. I just need to be alone right now. But I'll be back, because after the kindness and forgiveness you have showed me, I can't think of any reason why I wouldn't return."

She gave him a quick kiss and went to pack her things.

"So her demons are catching up to her."

It was Elijah, who was standing on the balcony.

"Yeah, and I don't know how to help her."

"Just let her be. We have more urgent things to discuss. The Serratura, if it indeed is in the hands of that Lucien bastard-"

"I have it."

"What?"

"I have the Serratura. Camille gave the most dangerous things for me to guard awhile ago. Lucien was just bluffing."

"And you didn't think to mention it before." Elijah raised his voice, "Rebekah was almost killed on Christmas Eve when the strix searched her for it."

"I know, I am sorry, I have had a lot on my mind."

"There is one more thing about Rebekah"

"What?"

"She was hexed as you remember by Aya and Freya's cure didn't help so I daggered her."

"You what?" Klaus asked his brother stunned and confused.

"We saw no other choice at the time. I hid her body In the bayou, I need to show you where, in case something happens to me."

Klaus sighed, "Let's go then."

"You don't want to say goodbye?"

"No."