The day was finally over. Caroline was getting ready to go to bed. Unfortunately, she hadn't gotten to visit Klaus due to everyone's constant nagging of her. She had also acquired quite a bit of homework. Why does she even have to do homework! She'll be in high school for the rest of her life! Great just one more thing to look forward to in life.

As she was reaching into her drawer for her pajama bottoms, She heard a knock on the door. She had no intention of answering it, but she still listened to see who it was.

Sherriff Forbes opened the door to reveal an unpleasant guest.

"Hello, Sherriff Forbes," Klaus' accent rang through Caroline's ears.

"Hello, Klaus. What can I do for you?" She asked stiffly.

"I'd like to speak to Caroline." He stated politely. Caroline felt a smile rise to her lips.

The Sherriff looked at him oddly. "What for?"

"Oh, just vamp business," He looked at her with a joking face.

"Just because you saved my daughter, Klaus, and you have my support in this town, doesn't mean you are welcome in this house."

"Oh, well you see," Klaus said getting slightly angrier. "I was being polite asking for your permission, but if you've already forgotten, I can come in whenever I like." He took his foot forward and stepped through the threshold with dramatic emphasis. "Now, I'd like to speak to Caroline."

The Sherriff sighed, "She's in her room," She spoke slowly. "If you hurt her, Klaus, there will be consequences."

Klaus nodded seriously while laughing on the inside. He loved when people threatened him. They really just didn't understand the term un-invincible. He flew up the steps and bounded into Caroline's room without knocking. He immediately smiled as he saw her leaning over her draw looking for shorts.

"Oh, I didn't realize I was being intrusive." Klaus laughed lightly, "Nice panties."

Caroline's head flew up. She walked towards him and smacked him lightly on the arm but smiled nonetheless. "So what do I owe this great pleasure of seeing you again?" She asked in her best 'Klaus accent' as she and Elena liked to call it.

She reached into her draw and found the shorts she was looking for. She went to go slip them on as Klaus said teasingly, "Oh, do you have to? I like your panties."

She rolled her eyes and continued her motion.

Once she was dressed she closed her drawer and stepped closer to Klaus. Her brain fought over what to do. The sensible part of her told her to stand where she was and demand what he was here for. The fun and flirty part of her wanted to hug him and be happy he was here. She couldn't decide so she stood still, silently.

"You young vampires are so easy to read," Klaus smiled slightly.

This made Caroline frown. Was she really that easy to read? Surely not!

"Come." He said as he held out her hand for her to grab.

"Why?" She asked suspiciously.

"What? You don't trust me, Love?"

"I don't know what I think about you." She said honestly.

"Ah, Love, just come with me." She looked at him uncertainty. His eyes looked towards her. He took her hand and pulled her closer to him so their bodies were almost touching. "Please?" He asked as he looked into her eyes.

"My-my mother…"Caroline scrambled for an excuse, "Would never…a-allow me to go somewhere…with you?" She formed it as a question.

"Ah, Darling your mother has no power over me." He laughed almost evilly at the silly notion.

She sighed deeply, "You won't hurt me?" Caroline asked nervously.

"If I were going to hurt you I would have done it already." She looked up at him not fully believing him. "Ah, how easy," He remembered, "It would have been to watch you die in agony after your horrible friend," he used this word deliberately and with disgust, "bit you. It would have been simple, really love, but instead I gave you a reason to live. Isn't that reason to trust me enough? I didn't let you die. I saved you."

It was true. He did save her and other than the bite Klaus never really had tried to bring harm to her. She was not part of this little war that Stefan and Klaus had going on. That was Elena's problem, not hers. She realized that she really didn't have any reason not to trust Klaus, as odd as it sounded to her ears.

"Fine, I need to change though, I can't go anywhere looking like this." She gestured towards her pale pink tank top and her baby blue polka dotted shorts.

Klaus shrugged it off, "We aren't going anywhere important, Love. Just a special place I'd like to show you."

"Fine. Will this take long? I have school you know."

"It will take however long we want it to take."

They'd been in Klaus' car for about twenty minutes now. She had no idea where they were going, but I guess that was part of the whole trusting thing, right? She had to admit, however, that she was having fun. It was odd, but she was having fun just sitting in Klaus' presence. Klaus reached towards his radio and slid a CD into the compartment.

"What are you going to play?" Caroline asked.

"You ask so many questions, Love." He paused as he pushed a couple of buttons to get to a certain song. "I promised you music. I promised you genuine beauty. Here it is." He glanced at her and smiled.

The attraction towards Caroline Forbs was the oddest of things. Even he himself had no idea how it had occurred. It'd been centuries sense he'd had a 'love interest' of any kind. And beyond that many of his "girlfriends," as they called it in the twenty-first century, had been fake – used simply for his own enjoyment or his own selfish purposes. This…thing with Caroline was different somehow. He genuinely liked this girl, and he wanted to show her things that she hadn't seen before.

His glance sent shivers down Caroline's back and she didn't know why. She watched Klaus as he drove well above the speed limit. Klaus took one of his hands off the steering wheel and grabbed one of Caroline's. It surprised her. She tensed very quickly, but his hand did not relent. His thumb made small strokes on her hand that felt perfect. Being with Klaus somehow just felt right. Her body relaxed as she slowly admitted to herself that she liked it.

That maybe she liked Klaus.

Her face turned to Klaus and she smiled.

He reassured her with a smile and then returned to the road. Caroline watched Klaus while he drove. It was the first time, she thought, that she'd ever seen him looking almost at peace. He wasn't fighting anything or anyone. He was not be rude or destructive. He wasn't busy ruining people's lives by turning them into hybrids. He was not taking anyone's free will or sucking anyone's blood. No, Klaus looked peaceful and happy.

"Klaus?" Caroline asked softly.

"Yes, Love?" He swiftly looked towards her but then turned back to the road.

"Are you happy?" She asked him. She hoped he was because if he was, wouldn't that mean that she was the reason he was happy?

He looked back at her. What an odd question for her to ask him. He considered it for a moment before deciding to be honest with her. "Yes, I am. You are happy as well, right?" He asked her in the same tone.

"Klaus, I have no idea where you are taking me or what we're doing, but somehow I'm still happy. It doesn't make sense to me at all. It doesn't make sense to me that we are supposed to be enemies, but yet everything feels so right when I am with you."

Klaus nodded understanding what she was saying. He didn't understand it either, and he was a thousand year old vampire who seemed to know everything. He lifted her hand in his and lightly kissed it. "It doesn't make sense to me either, love."

She brightened at the kiss. She still couldn't believe that Klaus had this side to him: nice, handsome, loving, kind, and gentle – all within the beast that he could be. It seemed so impossible to what she'd seen before, but yet she didn't question it much. She guessed that she realized that most people do have more than one side, and once a vampire it's magnified even more. She surely had begum more clingy when she became a vampire and definitely more emotional as well. She loved that Klaus was showing her this side of him though. She wondered how many people got to see it. She guessed very few: his family and maybe a couple of other friends. She felt grateful that she didn't have to fear Klaus like all her other friends seemed too. She liked Klaus and she wanted to keep it that way.

"So are you ever going to tell me where you're taking me?" She asked cheerfully.

"Almost there, Love." He replied coolly.

As they were driving Caroline felt Klaus slow his driving considerably. She looked at him oddly wondering why he was slowing down.

"City limits, just being cautious," He said.

"Who knew that Klaus feared the speed limit."

Klaus smiled, "I don't fear anything, Love, I however don't want to waste my time with being pulled over. I'd just have to stop and compel the cop and blah blah blah, it's so dry."

She laughed at him. She never thought she'd hear the words "blah blah blah" come out of Klaus' mouth…pretty much ever.

Soon Klaus began to slow even more. Just when she was about to stop and ask him what was going on she saw the most beautiful sight unfold before her. The moon at a waning Gibbous rising high above the most beautiful forest she'd seen in her life. The trees swayed quietly in the wind and it made her want to fall asleep to the sound.

"What is this place?" She asked quietly, almost afraid to interrupt the beauty, even while they were still in the car.

Klaus smiled at her. He squeezed her hand reassuringly and replied, "Genuine Beauty."

OKAY? SO HOW DID YOU LIKE IT? Tell me in a review!

So I watched the tvd episode tonight and I obviously have no idea whats going to happen next. So I decided I would just continue along my path of my story and not really involve the tv show exactly how its going. However, if there are more adorable Klaus and Caroline scenes I will surely include those! (:

PS. A couple of you guys said I should include Caroline's thousandth birthday. That's a great idea. It won't be here anytime soon…considering she's nowhere near a thousand, but fear not! I will be including it. I have the perfect place for it. It will be lovely don't doubt me! (:

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