A/N:Soooo sorry I haven't updated in so long! Goodnessgraciousness, I seem to be writing this at the top of all my new chapters :\ Please forgive me?

Chapter Five

Caroline was lying on the bed, and partially Klaus, pretending to be asleep,she didn't want to deal with klaus right now. So she laid there quietly and hoped he would notice.

Of course he did notice, but he also figured she probably needed it. so he let it go, and stuck with just being content staring at her as he caressed her randomly depending on what he part of her he was finding incredible at this exact point in time. Right now it was her golden locks. Finally he places a light kiss on the top of her head. This situation was making him furious.

He was supposed to be happy and relieved to have her back, but instead he was too busy worrying about her supposedly impending death. When he finally found her he was supposed to have her for eternity. Instead he would be lucky to have her for another week. Not that he was going to just accept it lying down. He was going to do everything in hid power to keep her with him.

"I'm sorry I left." she said suddenly.

Klaus just looked at her with a baffled, and slightly hopeful, expression, but it was only a moment before it was covered with a mask of anger. "So am I." He snarled quietly, facing away from her.

She didn't reply, and when he looked down she seemed distant. He watched her carefully as she stared at the ceiling. Grace mentioned that Caroline might have some hallucinations. She didn't deserve this, Caroline always did the right thing. The only thing she did wrong was love him.

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Caroline blinked, she wasn't in her room with Klaus anymore. Where was she? It was familiar she knew that much. "Caroline!" She heard Grace's voice shout from what seemed a distant place, but when she turned around Grace was right in next her, tugging on her arm. "Come on!" She shouted, looking around somewhat nervously. "He'll be here any second, we have to get out of here."

Caroline shook her head. "W-what if this is a mistake?" She asked Grace, her voice sounded like it was being mixed with a sob.

"It's not a mistake, Caroline. He's a monster, and if you go back to him now he will lock you up so you can never escape again. He doesn't care about you..." Grace had trouble lying to Caroline. Yes Klaus was monster, yes he would probably lock her up if she went back, but anyone who looked at Klaus with Caroline could tell without a doubt that he loved her more than anyone else ever could, or would. Grace couldn't let Caroline know that though. Caroline didn't belong with someone like him, she was good and kind, and would never hurt a fly, well Klaus was dark and evil and could, and did, take lives with a flick of his wrist. "We need to leave...now."

Caroline nodded, taking one last look back towards the home they had shared together for so long. She didn't want to leave, she wanted to stay with him forever, like she had promised all those years ago, but she had to. She had to leave. So she left and never turned back.

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It was a while she stayed that way, staring into the distance, eventually she returned to reality, she began to cough again, lurching forward as she wrapped her arms around herself for comfort. Though the real comfort she found was when his arms wrapped around hers. She leaned into his back as held her in a sitting position handing her a glass of water. "Shh, love. It's alright, you'll be okay." He whispered soothingly, wishing with all his heart for his words to be true, for Caroline to be okay.

She nodded, though she knew it was a lie, taking the water and sipping at it as he moved her hair from her where it stuck to her sweat drenched face.

"Why are you doing this?" She asked, in a hoarse voice.

"Because I take care of what's mine." He told her softly, in a way that made a shiver run up her spine. She almost laughed when she realized Klaus had noticed as he reached for the blankets to wrap them tightly around her.

"I'm not yours." Despite her words she snuggled futher into his chest as the blankets pulled her against him.

He almost corrected her, but he saw no point in it. She was his, no matter what she said, and there was nothing she could do to change that.

There was a loud 'ehem' coming from the doorway. Klaus turned to see Grace glaring at him. "I need to speak to, Caroline." She said flatly, realizing he wasn't getting the point as he continued to stay where he was. "Alone." She added firmly.

Begrudgingly, he stood from where he was, gently setting Caroline back down on a stack of pillows. The minute Klaus was out of the room, Grace began the privacy spell. Caroline just watched on in confusion. What did Grace have to say that he couldn't hear. After a long moment she turned to Caroline with a guilty expression.

"I'm sorry, Caroline. I promised to keep him away from you...I failed you." She said softly with slumped shoulders, it was her fault Caroline was now damned to spend the rest of her life, which may or may not be so long, in the inescapable grasp of that monster. She should have been there to save her. For a while Grace had been afraid that she wouldn't be able to find Caroline, but eventually she was able to use her location spell, correctly. Sheepishly her eyes raised to meet Carolines, but she found a look of slight amusement on her face. It wasn't as bright as it normally would be as she looked sickly at the same time.

"Grace, you may not want to hear this...but if I chose one person to spend my last moments with...I'd want it to be nik." Sighing and looking at her hands Caroline shrugged as she thought over her own words. It was the truth, despite the fact she would never admit it to Klaus, there was no one she would rather be with. Tears began clouding her vision as she shook her head. "I love him, and I could have been with him all this time, but now all I have is a life of running and regret. I could have seen the world with him, but instead I saw glimpses of the world as I flew threw city after city paying no attention to anything but avoiding his grasp." She looked away from her friend, feeling ashamed for the words that left her mouth, and the judgement she was sure to see on her friends face.

Grace stared at Caroline with a look of pity, was it pity? That's what it seemed like. If there was one thing Caroline did not want, it was pity.

"Don't look at me like that." Caroline hissed, crossing her arms in front of her chest defensively.

"Sorry." Grace said finally, not knowing how else to reply. "Does that mean you are not interested in my plan to escape him?" She asked after a long moment. "After we get you cured of course, you can think about it if you like, Caroline. I think it would be for the best."

Caroline frowned, maybe it would be for the best...but for who?Not for Klaus, and certainly not for her. She had been so lonely the past five hundred years, and she was sure Klaus had been too. Why would she leave again?

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Klaus paced nervously outside the bedroom door, he did not like leaving Caroline in there with Grace. Grace always seemed to turn Caroline against him. Telling her she would be better off without him, and maybe it was true. Maybe Caroline was better off without him, but Klaus was a very selfish man, and he would not let Grace do this again.

After leaving them alone for a long while, he threw the door open. Getting both of their eyes to shoot up and meet his s unexpected arrival. "Could have knocked." Scolded Grace with a glare.

"Oh, well look at that I guess I could have." He sneered, not sparing the witch another glance, making his way to where Caroline was, and you could here the tone in his voice soften as he approached her. "How are you doing sweetheart?" He whispered, kneeling down beside her, pressing his hand to her forehead to see if her fever had subsided, it hadn't.

"Like I'm dying." She said teasingly, reaching her hand up to lightly touch the hand on her forehead.

He nodded, tears forming in his eyes, but he attempted to keep them away, not wanting to frighten Caroline with them. "Well, you look beautiful." He told her in a soft voice, cupping her cheek in his hand.

Caroline couldn't help but find it odd that Klaus' fury had disappeared so quickly the second he found something wrong with her. He wasn't a forgiving man, but then again he had never been able to stay mad at her.

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Soooooo that's the end of the 5th chapter, not super eventful, next one should be more so. :) Thank's for reading! Please review!