This is definitely what you were call a 'filler' chapter. It also leads up to the NEXT chapter…which will begin my ULTIMATE plot. (: I'm excited to start writing it! So Tell me what you think of this episode and maybe give me theories of what you think my plot is! (:

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Caroline awoke. She still felt extremely tired. She couldn't remember exactly what had happened last night. Then, however, she reached to rub her eye and felt that her make-up was streaming down her face. That was when she remembered everything that had happened last night. She remembered the brokenness that she felt. She remembered feeling lonely. Oh, so alone.

But then she remembered the strong arms that had made her feel secure. She remembered being placed in bed and crying until her eyes were dry.

That was also when she realized she wasn't alone. Niklaus Mikaelson had his arms wrapped around her body, and was currently asleep next to her.

Yet again Klaus had been her savior. This only made Caroline feel broken, once again, but she wouldn't cry. Her brokenness turned to anger, and her anger turned to rage. Not rage towards Klaus but to Elena and Damon. Stefan and Bonnie. Alaric. All of these people's lives revolved around Elena. Elena this; Elena that. In the midst of only caring for Elena's safety they had allowed so many things to slip through their fingers. Jenna, Jeremy, Matt and Tyler (both of which were almost completely forgotten by them), and now herself as well. The only thing that matter to them was Elena. And she was done. Done with it all. She realized that her friends were no longer her friends. They were acquaintances, if that, that she was around because of force, and not choice. She me to the conclusion that the only people in the midst of her change and in the midst of all the town's change Matt and Klaus (and her mother of course) were the only people who hadn't abandoned her.

She wouldn't be a part of Elena's scheming anymore.

She laid her head on Klaus' chest searching for a comfort that she no longer knew where to find.

She searched back through the times of her life. When she was a little girl, she'd gone to her mother. As a teenager, she'd gone to Elena. As a girlfriend, she'd gone to Matt or Tyler. Where could she go now? Her father was dead, and her mother was busy keeping a town safe (a town that desperately needed to be protected).

Caroline felt a gentle hand grace her face. She looked up to see Klaus had awakened. She smiled lightly.

"How are you?" Klaus whispered. She felt his warm breath envelop her.

"I'm doing great." She said with the most believable smile she could muster up.

"You can always tell when I girl isn't happy by her smile." Caroline's smile dropped. "Caroline, I realize that we are by no means 'close' in your terms, but I do wish to get to know you. I would hope that you could at least trust me with telling me how you feel. You did, you know, invade my house, fall to the floor in tears, and sleep in my bed. I think I deserve to know how you feel." All the while Klaus' voice was gentle and his hand was oh-so-soft.

"What do you want to hear?" Caroline asked, "My life is falling apart…is that what you want to hear?"

Caroline shook Klaus' hand from her cheek. Klaus sighed, "I just want to hear the truth. Who knows maybe I can help. I am a lot older than you, you know." Klaus smiled lightly.

Caroline sighed. What did she have to lose by telling Klaus how she was feeling? Nothing. So she told him. Every last bit. Everything about her friends. All of her feelings towards Elena. She told him everything. And by the time she was done she was crying again.

"Great." Caroline scoffed. She reached to wipe her tears, but more just kept falling. She finally opted to stuff her face in a pillow instead. Surely that would keep her face dry. She felt Klaus' hand slowly rubbing circles on her back.

"How could this be happening to me?" Caroline muttered. "How?"

"That's something I don't know, but I do know one thing, Love." Klaus paused making sure she was listening.

"What's that?" Caroline asked weakly.

Klaus bent next to her and whispered in her ear, "I will always be here next to you."

"Can you believe her, Stefan?" Elena had been ranting to Stefan (because he really cared, right?) about Caroline and Klaus for about an hour now. Stefan hadn't gotten a single word in, and he was laughing hysterically at Elena inside his mind. The truth was, Stefan could believe the way Caroline was feeling about Klaus. He knew things like this were possible, he'd seen them before.

"You might be overreacting." Stefan said quietly to her.

"Overreacting! You think I'm overreacting?" Elena yelled at him.

Stefan laughed, he couldn't help it anymore. "Yes! You are overreacting on a whole new level of overreacting."

Elena glared at Stefan. "Stefan this is my best friend we're talking about here. I think I'm allowed to overreact a little."

Stefan laughed once again at the words 'a little.' "You know what Elena? Since you care so much why you don't go talk to Damon about it. He cares about your feelings a lot more than I do right now."

Elena sighed. She and Damon hadn't really been on speaking terms since his little performance with Rebekah. "Can you at least tell me why you seem to understand Caroline's obsession with Klaus?" Elena asked.

"Let me shed some light on you," Stefan said gesturing his hands out towards her. "As a person who has barely spent any time with Klaus, that being you," he pointed at her.

"Okay, stop talking to me like I'm retarded. Get to the point Stefan."

"You haven't spent much time with him. The only part you know of him is his killing side."

"Isn't that the most important side?" Elena questioned, "He's a killer; case and point."

"No, not case and point. I spent a whole summer with him, I got to know him. He's not a bad guy. Yes, he kills people. For goodness sake I watched him kill multiple people relentlessly, but behind his ripper side he is actually a good guy."

"I can't believe you're siding with him." Elena said.

"He has feelings. It's hard to believe when you don't know him, but it's true. Elena, you wouldn't know this, but the only reason that he made me come along with him was because he was lonely. We were friends back in the twenties."

"Yeah, I know. Damon enlightened me."

"Well…when he lifted the compulsion off of me; I saw what a good friend he had been to me, and the only reason he left me was because he was scared. He just wanted me to be his friend again." Stefan shrugged. "So, yes. I can see why he would have real feelings for Caroline, and he's a very gentlemanly person. You know that's the kind of guy that Caroline wants and deserves. I don't blame her. I don't think she's a bad person for being with him. She's just doing the same thing he was doing. She's trying to find a friend."

"She has friends." Elena said indicating to herself

Stefan stared into her eyes, deep. He lifted his glass to his mouth and took a drink of his alcohol. He shrugged his shoulders, "Maybe they're not supporting her like they should be." He raised his eyebrow toward her and walked off, leaving Elena standing in his presence.

Caroline finally decided it was time to go home. She left Klaus' house, reluctantly, and made her way home. She walked along the road slowly, not really wanting to go home. She'd had a wonderful day with Klaus. Even though Caroline didn't know exactly what they were, she and Klaus had fun. They'd spent part of the day opening up to each other (Caroline speaking of her relationship with Elena and Klaus speaking of his relationship with his family). Caroline still didn't know exactly what their relationship entitled but she liked getting to know Klaus. He was true, and he understood. She loved that about him.

Caroline finally walked through the door of her house. She took a deep breath and leaned against the wall for support.

"Where have you been?" Caroline's mother asked her with a stern voice as she entered the foyer, "The school called and told me you hadn't arrived at school."

Caroline searched her mind for an answer other than, 'oh I was hanging with Klaus' but couldn't really think of one. "I wasn't feeling well." She said lamely.

"Oh, really, well then why weren't you at home?" Sheriff Forbes asked.

Caroline mentally slapped herself in the face, "Fine, I was with Elena, she's having some girl issues."

Caroline's mother walked closer to her, "Stop lying to me, young lady. I called Stefan at the boarding house and he informed that Elena had been at school all day."

Caroline glared at her mother, "You were checking up on me?"

"Of course I was! With all the danger in this town, I have no idea what could have happened to you! I was worried sick, Caroline."

Caroline sighed. Of course her mother was just worried, how could she be so stupid? "I was with Klaus all day." Caroline confessed.

Caroline's mother looked at her, shocked, "You were where?"

Caroline covered her eyes with her hands, "I was with Klaus, talking."

"Caroline, I do not want you associating with that man; he is a horrible person."

Caroline's glare hardened on her mother, "You don't decide who I do and don't hang out with." Caroline snapped, "And he is not a bad guy. He just keeps his guard up."

"I don't care what you think about him; I don't want you seeing him again."

Caroline fake saluted to her mother, "Yes sir." She rolled her eyes as she headed towards the stares.

"I mean it! Caroline, I'm worried about you. Please, listen to me."

"You worry about me?" Caroline said stunned as she stopped in her place. "You worry about me," She scoffed this time, "If you worry about me maybe next time you'll have the decency to ask why I'm speaking to Klaus. I don't usually speak with my enemies just for the fun of it. You're worried about me? How about you ask how I'm doing? How about you ask me how my relationship with Tyler, Bonnie, Matt, and Elena are going? You worry about? How about you actually get to know me next time you tell me you worry for me. I worry, I worry for you. You are my weak human mother. I am a vampire with powers. I'm worried about you. You have no reason to be worried about me when you don't even have a clue how my life is going right now. Did you ever think, Mom, that all of this craziness has taken a toll on all of us, and no just you. Do you think that Elena, Bonnie, and I are the same now that we've found out we are all supernatural? We aren't. We are so different, and you haven't even bothered to get to know your daughter again. In fact, at one point in time you shunned me. You didn't even want to look at me. You couldn't even call me your daughter. I didn't choose this life mother; it chose me. I'd give it back for anything in the world. I'd give to anything to be a human with such miniscule worries again. I'd give anything to go back to my life where all that matter was cheerleading and my high school quarterback boyfriend. I'd give anything."