Okay guys, first of all, I am SO sorry for not updating! I wanted to update everything at one. To make my long absence tolerable, I have decided to write recaps to all the chapters!
Thank you to all the reviewers - gallowayl062, Guest, helimoen, Guest, HotHybridSex, justine and limavaa
RECAP: The Mystic Falls gang along with Elijah comes home to witness a very messy food fight between Klaus, Rebekah and Caroline. Klaus reads Caroline's diary which she had maintained especially for her feelings for him. Then, a fight occurs between Caroline and Tyler when Klaus persuades her to tell them the truth...
Around one month ago just before Caroline met Elijah...
To say that Caroline was pissed off was the understatement of the year. She had had a very bad day. She had woken up to Fiona, a girl in her cheer-leading squad calling her about some problem about some fire in the gym and all their cheering banners being burnt. And so, she being the captain of the squad had to go buy fabric for the banners. And right there went her 'relaxing day' down the drain.
And so, she had spent the rest of the day scouring all the stores in Mystic Falls and at the end of her shopping spree, she was left wondering why there was not a single maroon fabric that matched the squad's cheer-leading outfit's colour. She sighed as she went down and plopped herself in front of one of the tables in front of The Grill and threw her head in her hands in exasperation. She was exhausted. She had spent the whole day looking for the fabric. What a way to spend a day. She had decided to give up and head for the Grill just an hour or so before sunset.
Matt came upto her, "Hey Caroline," he said. "What's up? You look pissed." Caroline took her head out of her hands to look at Matt and frowned at him. "That is the understatement of the century!" she exclaimed. "I thought that one day; just one day, I would have a day for myself without any supernatural drama and guess what? I got my wish! There has not even been a peek of supernatural drama throughout the day, but I had my whole day ruined and wasted because of some stupid person who was stupid enough to start a fire in the cheer-leading changing lockers. I mean, who would go in there? And because of that, all the banners were burnt and I have to find fabric that matches the colour of our outfits and guess what? There is not a single piece of fabric –hell; there is not even a single thread of fabric in this bloody damn godforsaken town that matches with the colour of our outfits."
"Ooh..." he grinned. "Godforsaken? That's a bit harsh, don't you think?" He slid into the chair opposite to her. "No. Not at all." she mumbled. "God has obviously forsaken this town if Klaus is still here."
Matt grimaced. "Gotta agree to with you on that." His face suddenly turned serious as his eye caught something behind Caroline. "What?" she asked and twisted in her seat to look at what had Matt so wound up. She groaned and threw her head back in her hands as a familiar voice came floating down to them. "Well love, did I hear my name mentioned by you?"
"Speak of the devil..." she mumbled into her hands before calling out more loudly. "Go away."
"Now why would I do that when I would rather spend time with you." he grinned and slid into the seat next to her. Caroline groaned. She ignored him and just turned to Matt and asked, "Matt, when does your shift get over?" Matt squirmed in his seat, uncomfortable of the hybrid sitting across him. He answered, "Actually, Caroline. It's almost over. I just have to clean up and then I'll just be heading off."
Caroline grinned, completely ignoring the hybrid who was getting very annoyed; and said, "Perfect. I need to get out of town to shop. You can come with me." Matt grimaced, "Sorry Care, I have go over to the Lockwoods. Mrs. Lockwood wants me to run some errands for her. "
Caroline's face fell. "Oh! Okay. That's fine."
Klaus grinned. It was perfect. He turned to Matt with a cold look on his face and said, "Now, mate, don't you have to get back to your work? Don't want to lose our job due to tardiness now, do we?"
Caroline just smiled and said, "It's okay Matt. I can always compel your boss." Before Matt could respond, Klaus just gave back a snarky reply of his own. "But I'm sure that Matt here will want go and run those adorable little errands for Carol. Don't you Matt? Now run along."
Matt nodded with a cold look of his own and got up to go into the Grill. Caroline shot him a glare. "Why do you always have to poke your nose in business that is not yours? And who the hell are you to stop Matt from speaking to me?" Klaus held up his hands in front of him in submission. "Sorry, love. I was just reminding him of the little duties he has to run."
Caroline just huffed and got up and walked away from the annoying hybrid. As always, he annoyingly followed her and caught her arm. She turned to face him, an annoyed expression on her face, "Seriously? Take a hint."
He smirked. "Atleast hear me out love." Caroline just glared back and then stuck her chin up. "Okay, but you've got only thirty seconds before I flee from here." Klaus grinned, "Okay love. So here is the thing – I heard that you wanted to get out of town and to be honest, so do I. This awful small town life is boring me. And since you want fabrics, I was wondering if a particular store named 'G-Street Fabrics' could tempt you into sharing a car drive with me."
Caroline bit her lip. G-Street Fabrics? She was seriously tempted. That shop practically had fabrics in all the colours possible. Bonnie had gone there a few years back before all this supernatural drama had started and had returned with armfuls of fabrics in all the possible colours. Caroline was sure she would get her colour fabric there. But was it worth tolerating a car drive with Klaus? A definite yes. She could go, but then she shouldn't go. He was Klaus – a hybrid who caused massacres and destroyed her friends' life. He was many things, but definitely not a shopping partner. "No thank you. I can drive by myself." But she did not mention that she had walked her way through the town looking for fabric and that she actually didn't have her car with her.
Klaus smirked. "Sure love. But I'm afraid I can't allow you to do that. You see, I care for the environment. I am heading that way and if you also are going that way, then why drive two cars? Waste of fuel, I say."
Caroline glared at him, "Yeah, like you care about 'saving the environment'. Stop following me. I have shopping to do. And I am not doing it with you and there is no way in hell that I'll get into your car."
Klaus smirked, "Of course, love. But I'm sure you won't mind if I get into your car." Caroline just stared at him, her eye wide, incredulous. She shook her head to clear her thoughts. "Okay fine." she snapped. "Whatever. But we'll have to go in your car because unfortunately, I haven't brought mine."
Klaus smiled, "Of course love." They walked upto his car and he opened the door to the passenger seat for her. She rolled her eyes and slid inside, allowing him to close her door and get into the driver's seat next to her.
As they drove away, Caroline's gaze fell on the speedometer. She shot up in her seat."Holy Shit!" she cried out. "Slow down! Slow DOWN!"
Klaus looked at her, "What's wrong, love?" Caroline looked at him as if he was mad. "What is wrong? WHAT IS WRONG?" she screeched. "You are going above 200 miles per hour you IDIOT! That's whats wrong! "
"Relax Caroline." he grinned. "This car was built for this. Do you recognize this logo, love?" Caroline nodded. "An Aston Martin." she whispered.
He grinned, "This is of the model One-77. So don't worry. This beauty here won't give out or anything. This is a perfectly reliable car."
She just nodded wordlessly and just sat back, her heart still thundering. Klaus smiled hearing it. "You need to enjoy this feeling love. You are a vampire. Learn to appreciate powerful things. And as for this car, you should see the ones I've got back at England. This is nothing compared to those."
"Yeah, right. You obviously have the best. No need to brag." she said, sarcasm dripping from her voice. He raised an eyebrow, " I'm not bragging, love. I wouldn't brag to you. And as for what you said, you are right Caroline. I only have the best. I only want the best."
Caroline cleared her throat and looked away. She so did not want to have this talk with him. "How much longer?" she asked him, determined to change the topic. "Just a couple minutes more." he answered.
Caroline raised an eyebrow, "At the maniacal speed of yours, I'm surprised it has taken this long." He smiled, just like he had the other day at the ball when he had offered her to show the world. They drove in silence for the rest of the journey.
They both came out of the shop, their arms full of bags filled with fabrics. Caroline giggled as she dumped the bags in the back seat. "What is it, love?" Klaus asked.
Caroline just giggled and pointed towards a fat policeman standing in front of his bike outside a coffee shop across the road. "Look, there's a policeman!" Klaus smirked, "Yes, so? I thought that after having a Sheriff for a mother, you would be quite over your fascination for policemen."
Caroline skipped over to his side of the car, giggling and whispered into his ear from behind him, "I've always wanted to steal a policeman's baton."
"What?" he turned back to look at her. "Are you serious?" Caroline nodded, giggling. Klaus shook his head. She looked like a kid who was about to take a VIP trip in Disneyland. "No, love. You are a vampire. Behave like one."
Caroline pouted, "But you were the one who told me that you would tell me all about being the bad guy. At the Mystic Falls pageant. Remember?"
"Now you can teach me how to be the bad guy." she said, her expression getting excited. "How? By stealing a policeman's baton?" he asked, incredulous. "That's not bad Caroline."
"It isn't?" she asked him, confused. Klaus shook his head. "No. That's not bad, that's childish. You want to be bad? You have to be bad by killing people or manipulating them. There is a rush of adrenaline in that. It's exciting."
"But this is exciting too." she argued. "Very exciting. Especially when I'm not going to use my vampire powers." Without waiting for an answer, she skipped across the road, tip-toeing from behind the policeman.
"Wait, what?" Klaus asked, not sure if he heard her properly. She was not going to use her vampire speed? Then how the hell was she going to get away from that man? He was not going to invite her to steal his baton!
He ran behind her. "Caroline!" he hissed. "What are you doing? You'll get caught!" She turned back to smirk at him. "Finally caught on, have you?" she smirked. "It took you long enough. That's what I meant by exciting. Now, how fast can you run?"
He raised an eyebrow at this question. Caroline stamped her foot, frustrated. "Not using your supernatural powers!" she exclaimed impatiently. "Like run as Niklaus. Not as Klaus. No wait; you are Niklaus and Klaus... Urghh! What am I saying?" Klaus just stood there, stunned at the way his name rolled off her tongue as she continued rambling. This was the first time she had called him by his full name; Niklaus.
"I can run really fast, love." he smirked at her, quickly recovering from his shock.
Caroline grinned. "We'll see. And remember, no using your supernatural powers." she warned him. Klaus just grinned confidently. "Just wait and watch. You go distract the policeman while I ease out the baton out of his pouch." She frowned and shook her head stubbornly. "No. I'm sick of being the distraction. You go talk to him while I steal the baton."
Saying so, she walked upto the policeman casually and as soon as he turned his back on her to talk to Klaus, who seemed to be asking him some address, she crouched behind him and slowly pulled the baton out of its pouch.
It nearly worked. Just as Caroline eased it out of the pouch, the policeman reached for his baton, probably out of habit and as his hand groped at empty air he whirled around to find Caroline with his baton in her hand.
Caroline took off, giggling and squealing with delight as the policeman called after her, "Hey! Miss! Hey! You there, give me my baton back!" he shouted at the running Caroline. She suddenly stopped in her tracks and looked back, her hand stretched out behind her. Klaus grinned and took off, running past the surprised policeman who was shouting, "Stop in the name of Law!"
Klaus flashed a grin at the stunned policeman as he ran past him. He took Caroline's outstretched hand and they both ran, laughing at the policeman who was running behind them. Caroline held the baton in one hand and clutched Klaus's hand in another.
Their eyes widened as the policeman blew his whistle, calling for back-up and two not-so-fat policemen started chasing them.
As Klaus and Caroline rounded a corner, Klaus quickly pulled Caroline into a narrow side-alley. She leaned against his chest and hid her face in his shoulder as the two young policemen ran past them shouting "Stop in the name of Law."
At this, both Klaus and Caroline burst out laughing. Who were they chasing? Who was running in the first place? They both had already stopped. Though not in the name of Law! They both held onto each other, laughing hard.
They both were laughing as Caroline, with tears of laughter in her eyes asked, "Now, wasn't that exciting?"
"Yes. It was." Klaus replied in a husky voice, all signs of laughter disappearing from his voice. Caroline was suddenly super aware of her body pushed against his, of her free hand that was against his firm chest and her other hand had gone under Klaus's arm and was holding onto his shoulder from behind, bringing them close. His hands that were circled around her waist, was also pinning them together.
Caroline's grin disappeared. They both gazed into each other eyes until Klaus broke the silence. "Caroline..." he whispered, and she went weak in the knees as her name rolled off his tongue. God! Why did her name have to sound so arousing from his tongue? Her breath quickened and came out in gasps as he slowly lowered his lips to hers.
She closed her eyes, waiting for him to close the gap. God! She knew this was wrong, but why did it have to feel so right? She had been fighting herself for so long when it came to him. Today, finally, she threw caution to the wind and decided to 'let the chips fall where they may' as Damon put it.
A shiver ran down spine as she felt his lips touch hers lightly. She was about to press her lips to his and seal the kiss, when a loud voice drifted to them, making them jump apart.
"Stop in the name of Law!" the fat policeman rasped and paused to catch his breath. "Give me my baton back." With that, he stumbled forward, trying to catch up with the two policemen.
Caroline tip-toed to the end of the alley and peeped around the corner and sighed in relief to find the policeman gone, but her heart was still racing due to her actions just a few seconds ago. "They're gone." she whispered. "Come on."
Without turning back to look at him, she started walking towards his car. She was too muddled to face him now. Even a little scared, actually. Klaus wordlessly followed her. He had a sudden urge to rip that policeman's heart out of his chest after compelling him to stab himself with a knife continuously. Caroline was getting into the car when suddenly, much to Klaus's surprise, she went towards the policeman's bike that was parked across the street from their car.
She put the baton inside a bag which was hung on the bike and pulled out a bill of 100 dollars from her purse and put it next to the baton. She then wordlessly walked upto Klaus's car and got into the shotgun seat, rolled down the window and gazed outside it. Klaus looked at her, a small smile dancing on his lips. This vampire certainly never ceased to surprise him. He got into the car himself and started the ignition, making the car purr back to life.
She smiled as Klaus drove off, after dropping her to her house after their shopping trip. Surprisingly, it had been a pleasant trip. Klaus had helped her find and pay for the fabrics. And after the 'incident', Caroline had stuck her head out of the window during the ride back home, enjoying the cool breeze and giggling as the wind tickled her, very successfully avoiding conversation about the nearly-kiss. What she didn't know about was the secret satisfied smiles that Klaus was giving her when she was giggling at the ticklish wind.
She decided to drop the bags off to Fiona's house as she was planning not to go to school tomorrow. This whole day had gone down the drain and she was determined to dedicate a day to spend it on herself.
She went to Fiona's house to find that Fiona was out with her friends. Fiona's mother answered the door and took the bags containing the fabrics and promised to give it to Fiona as soon as she got back.
Caroline smiled to herself as she walked away. She wished her mom was home like that sometimes. But Sheriff Forbes was hardly home, which gave her daughter no opportunity to spend time with her. Caroline's phone buzzed. She saw that it was a message from Tyler.
Hey Babe. What's up? Haven't seen you from morning. Just checking to see if you were okay. I love you.
Caroline smiled. She wandered into the alley where the Grill's back-door was. She smiled as she typed her reply.
Sorry. I have been shopping. Don't worry, I'm fine. I love you too.
She hit send and jumped as a low voice whispered behind her, "You should be careful, love. Anyone can sneak up behind you." She turned around to find Klaus standing behind her. She frowned.
"No one feels the need to sneak up behind me except you." she hissed. "So I don't think I need any warning thank you very much." Klaus smirked. "But I've come to warn you Caroline."
Caroline raised an eyebrow. "Warn me against what? You? Well then, don't bother. I warned myself against you a really long time back." She frowned. Klaus still had that idiotic smirk on his face.
"Tonight is a full moon, love." he replied. "Just came to warn you of some animals that might be wandering around. Oh, like wolves for example."
Now she was seriously pissed. What did he think of himself? She so did not need his sarcasm. "Oh yeah?" she sneered. "Don't bother. There are no wolves left in this town thanks to you!" she hissed, referring to the part he had played in Tyler's transformation into a hybrid.
Klaus mockingly pretended to think. "You know love." he said, turning to look at her. "I don't hear anyone else complaining about his transformation. Not even Tyler himself. Then why are you so worried about the fact that he is not just a werewolf. Anyway, I have warned you and that's what I came here to do, not to talk about your boyfriend."
Caroline rolled her eyes, "Yeah, well, consider me warned. What? Have you smuggled a pack of werewolves into town that we are not aware of or something? If not, then you and Tyler are the only wolves in town and you both are hybrids. So you don't have to shift unless you want to and none of you want to..." A dark smile appeared on Klaus's face.
"Wait. Do you want to?" she asked, a puzzled look on her face. Klaus just turned and walked away, the smile still on his face.
"Klaus? Hey! You haven't answered me! Hey!" Caroline yelled after him. She sighed to herself as he disappeared from view. Guess she had to go and 'secure' herself in her house. She didn't know whether Klaus was bluffing about a 'werewolf spree' at night.
At night...
Caroline huffed. It was nearly midnight and there was no sign of any sort of animal. There was not even a sniff of a wolf. Klaus must have played her. Surely he wouldn't want to transform and break every bone in his body!
She had spent the whole night inside the house, while she could have been enjoying a drink at the Grill. Suddenly, she heard a something moving outside moving outside her window. She went to it and peeped through her curtains, squinting and trying to see what it was. Klaus's warning made her more jumpy.
She saw a pair of bats flying around and let out a sigh of relief. Suddenly, a large golden thing jumped at the window from god knows where and slammed itself against the window, making Caroline let out a scream and scramble away from the window, only to find herself fall to the floor hardly. She rubbed her sore head and scrambled away from the window.
Seconds passed and everything was quiet. She slowly moved towards the window when that thing again slammed against the windows and made it rattle.
Caroline jumped. What was it? Her bedroom was not in the ground floor; it was in the first storey of her house and so, it couldn't be any animal! Immediately, Klaus's warning about the werewolves came to her mind. Could it be a werewolf? No, Caroline decided. As far as she knew, even werewolves couldn't jump against a building and reach a first floor window!
She slowly crept upto the window and looked out of it. There, just beneath her window stood a large golden wolf. Caroline inhaled sharply. She had always thought that wolves were dogs with skinny legs which were placed in an awkward position. They always looked like the legs of a leper – twisted or something like that. She had even seen Tyler transform and personally – she didn't find him much fascinating either. She felt he was just another normal wolf with disgusting legs.
But this wolf – this wolf was nothing like the skinny creatures on Animal Planet. It was beautiful. It fur seemed to glow with power and beauty. And coming to its legs, firstly, Caroline was not disgusted and secondly, it was nothing like a leper's legs. The wolf was just beautiful. Perfect.
She remembered telling the same thing to Klaus in the pageant – 'You're perfect.' Was this wolf him? She slowly opened her window. "Klaus?" she asked the wolf tentatively. The wolf barked once.
"Is that you?" she asked. The wolf barked again. "O-kay. This is creepy. If it is a yes, you bark once. If it is a no, you bark twice. Okay?" The wolf barked once. What was she doing? She was talking to a wolf – a werewolf who could kill her easily for God's sake! She really must be going mad!
"Um...okay. What are you doing here?" The wolf tilted his head.
"Oh sorry. That wasn't a yes or no question." But the wolf had already jumped. It jumped and its front paws hung onto her window ledge. A second later, it let go and fell back to the ground, perfectly landing on its paws.
Caroline gasped. Only when the wolf was hanging onto her window ledge did she really comprehend the wolf's size. She had under-estimated the wolf's size. It was not like any other werewolf she had seen. When Tyler had transformed, he was the size of a large dog; but this, this wolf was nearly the size of a horse!
"You want to knock the house down?" she whispered. The wolf made a guttural sound and shook its head. It barked twice. Caroline smiled. So it did understand what she said. "You want to come inside?" she asked. The wolf barked once.
Caroline grinned. "Okay. Wait until I open the windows." She knew this was a very bad and a very mad idea, but hey! She couldn't just leave the wolf out there in the forest! She herself didn't understand why she was doing this. She just was. She opened the windows as far as they could go and stepped back to let the wolf in.
The wolf jumped and came in perfectly through her window. About half-way through, suddenly, it got... stuck. The wolf growled and wriggled trying to get itself free. Caroline burst out laughing. This situation was so funny – for her atleast. The wolf narrowed its eyes at her and growled, accusing.
"What?" she exclaimed. "It's not like everyone has a mansion with large windows." The wolf growled and snapped its teeth. "Sorry." she said, and tried to maintain her straight face. The wolf wriggled a little and fell limp for a second, giving up. Then suddenly, it started thrashing around, growling and barking.
Caroline burst out laughing, unable to contain her laughter. At this, the wolf started thrashing around even more. "Wait." she shouted over the din it was creating with all its barking and thrashing. It stopped and turned to look at her with its yellow eyes. "Stop." she giggled. "Please stop before you break my window and the wall surrounding it."
She slowly approached the wolf slowly, her hands held up on front of her, trying to reassure it that she meant no harm. "Now look, I am just going to help you. Don't bite me." The wolf barked once. She put her hands on either side of the wolf's head, just behind its ears and pulled it. She tugged at the wolf, but to no avail.
"You really are stuck, aren't you?" she panted. The wolf gave her a look that could only mean – 'You think?' She giggled at that cute look and pulled hard one last time and finally the wolf came free and they both flew across the room and slammed into the floor hardly. The wolf was on top of Caroline. She tried to push it off her. "Get off!" she struggled, swatting its head. "You are heavy." The wolf slowly got to its feet and stepped away, accusation full in its eyes. "What?" she exclaimed. "I just had to tug you so hard. I couldn't have my mom coming home to find a huge overgrown wolf stuck in my window! It wasn't my fault! You fell on top of me and do you have any idea how heavy you are? I had to hit you to get you off me."
The wolf growled, narrowing its eyes. She let out a sigh. "Ok fine. Sorry. I'm sorry for hitting you. So why are you here?" The wolf lifted its shoulders and let them drop. A shrug. "You don't know? How can you not know?" It shrugged again.
"Fine." Caroline huffed. "What do you want to do now, Klaus? I can call you Klaus, right?" He barked once. He went and lay down next to her bed, his head between his paws. She went and sat down next to him, leaning against the foot of her bed. A few minutes passed. Klaus sighed contentedly. Now atleast he could spend some time in her company without her taunting him and giving him some snarky reply to his every advance.
"You know," Caroline said. "I've always wanted a dog." Without thinking, she reached out and ran her hand through his fur on his head. He yelped and started, surprised at her touch and looked at her, his eyes wide. "What?" she asked him, not realizing what she had just done. He just shook his head and relaxed next to her. She again ran her fingers through his fur and he hummed contentedly, enjoying her touch.
Caroline tilted her head confused at the sound emanating from him and smiled when she realized that he was humming. "You know, your fur is quite long. Is it because of the length of your hair?"she asked. She frowned. "I didn't notice that your hair was so long." Klaus made a sound that could only be a laugh. He shook his head. "No?" she asked. "Okay."
"As I was saying," she continued. "I've always wanted a dog. A golden retriever to be exact. I've always wanted to play with a dog as a young girl." She put an arm around him and kissed his forehead. She couldn't help it. He was just so cute and his puppy eyes were just irresistible. Suddenly, she sat up straight. "You know what? Since you are staying in my room tonight, I think you can be of some entertainment to me." She got up and walked upto her spare closet and started searching for something.
Klaus's eyes followed her warily, not sure of what she would do next. She came up flourishing a big beach ball. He tilted his head at her, not sure what she meant to do with it. She giggled. "Care to play ball with me?" Klaus's eyes widened. What?
She threw the ball and it bounced off his nose. He gave her a look which clearly meant 'Seriously? Are you kidding me?' She just picked the ball back up and threw it at him again. This time, it bounced off his head. She giggled. "Come on." she complained. "Don't be such a party pooper." Klaus shook his head firmly.
She threw the ball at him again. This time, it came near his eyes and instinctively, he butted his nose forward and the ball bounced back to Caroline. "See." she said. "It's not so bad." He shook his head again. "Are you afraid you won't be able to win?" Caroline asked coyly. Klaus glared at her.
Caroline laughed. "You don't scare me." The wolf's muzzle fell open, pulling back over his teeth. It would have been a frightening expression, except that his tongue lolled out the side in a wolfy grin. She threw the ball again and he bounced it back with his nose. They kept on playing; Klaus getting excited with each throw. They played until suddenly; Klaus got too excited and tried to catch the ball in his mouth, forgetting about his too-sharp teeth and the ball burst.
Caroline frowned. "You burst my ball." A very excited Klaus git up and started chasing his tail. Caroline burst out laughing at the sight. Klaus flopped down on the floor, exhausted. Caroline giggled, "You are so cute." Klaus grinned. She realized what she had just told and stuttered, "I mean, not like cute, but cute as a wolf and not as you...I mean, I just wish I had a dog as cute as you."
Klaus rolled his eyes and got to his feet. He went to the side of her bed and jumped onto it. He turned around in the same place a few times and lay down with his head on her pillow. Caroline came upto him. "What are you doing?" she asked him. He just looked at her.
"What are you doing in my bed?" she repeated the question. He rolled his eye and turned away from the edge – away from her. "Hey!" she walked around her bed to the other side. He just sighed with his eyes closed. She got onto the bed and tried to push him off. "God you are heavy." she panted as she unsuccessfully struggled to push him off her bed. "What do you eat?"
She finally gave up and flopped onto the bed beside him. "Are you seriously going to sleep in my bed?" she asked him. He pointedly eyed her duvet. "Oh!" she said, finally understanding what he meant. "Okay." When he transformed back into a man, he obviously wouldn't have his clothes on.
She pulled her duvet and covered him with it, his head and forearms sticking out. "Does that mean you want to stay the night?" she asked him nervously. He rolled his eyes and jutted his head towards her window. Oh. If he couldn't get through her wide window properly, there were absolutely no chances of him making it through her doorway without rearranging its shape. Anyway, who knows how many people he would kill if he was let out. It was best if he stayed in her house.
Caroline's eyes widened as she looked at him. "Klaus." she whispered. "Your eyes." He put up a paw and tried to touch his eyes. He looked at her as if to say 'What's wrong?' But she was too surprised. "Your eyes. They aren't yellow anymore. They're your eyes. They are blue." His eyes widened. What? That was not possible!
She got her hand mirror an held it in front of his face so that he could see his eyes. "Satisfied?" she asked him. He just sighed and his head back on her pillow. She put the hand-mirror away and slowly lay down on the other sde of the bad on top of the duvet.
"Do you mind?" she asked him. "Wait. This is my bed. Why am I asking you? Agh! Forget it!" Klaus just rolled his eyes and settled in for the night, satisfied at the way his night had gone by. Caroline smiled and settled in bed herself. She switched off the bed-side lamp. "Good night Klaus." A low hum resonated through him. She smiled as that was the last thing she heard before she drifted asleep.
The next morning...
Caroline woke up to an unfamiliar yet homely and comfortable smell. She just sighed contentedly with her eyes still closed, not wanting to get up. She felt something heavy draped across her waist. She opened her eyes to look into a sea of gold and brown. She looked around, horrified, and saw that Klaus was sleeping right next to her. Klaus was lying on his front with his head on her shoulder and thus, Caroline's face had been buried in his hair. He had an arm draped across her waist and Caroline was gripping that arm. In her sleep, she had put her other arm across his back. The duvet had risen until his knees and his bare legs were inter-twined with hers.
Slowly, she pulled off her arm from his back and looked at him to see if he had awoken. He was still asleep. She smiled. His face was so innocent when he was sleeping. His face was relaxed and lips slightly parted as he slept. His tousled hair fell across his forehead. His wall behind which he hid his happiness, his feelings, his fear, all his emotions and even his love was down. He had hidden himself behind that wall and used it as a shield to protect himself from people who could make him feel.
She pulled her head off the pillow and shifted slightly and slowly cradled his head and slowly laid it on the pillow where her head had been seconds ago. Good. Now she could almost sit up. She gripped his arm which was around her waist and gently put it next to his face on the pillow and sat up straight. She then slowly untangled her legs from his and got off the bed. I quickly tucked him up properly in the duvet and went to take a shower. He still hadn't awoken. Well, he had broken every bone in his body. He deserved rest.
Suddenly, she had an idea. She picked up my phone and clicked several pictures of him sleeping. She clicked a photo from every angle and distance. She giggled as she put the phone away and went into the shower.
By the time she had showered, he was awake. She came out in her bathrobe on and with her hair wet. He smiled at her. She grinned. "Good morning." she said brightly.
"Good morning." he replied, a smile on his lips. "How are you today?" she asked him and went to sit in front of the mirror. She started brushing her wet hair. "I am fine thanks to you Caroline."
"So are you going to tell me why you came to my house or not?" she asked him. "I told you yesterday only love. I meant what I said. I don't know why. I just did." he replied. Caroline rolled her eyes. "Fine. Whatever. Now get dressed quickly. There is a Mystic Falls Court meeting today. I have to go and organize everything."
"Sorry love. But as you see, I am lacking in the clothes department right now." Caroline put down the brush and got out the hair dryer, fixed its plug in the socket and started drying her hair. "I know." she said. "I've got some clothes. You can wear them."
"Do you mind if I shower?" he asked her. She shrugged. "Okay." she said. "The spare towels are in my closet. I'll close my eyes until you get them." She out the hair dryer down switched it off and brushed through her now perfectly dry hair. She then closed her eyes and covered it with her fingers for good measure until a voice came to her, "You can open your eyes now. I'm decent."
She turned around to find Klaus standing in front of her open closet with a towel wrapped around his waist. He sharply turned away from him. "You call that decent?" she hissed. She suddenly froze as a voice floated up to them, "Caroline? Are you awake, honey?" Shit. It was her mom. She was back from her night shift!
"Hide!" she hissed to Klaus. "Where?" he asked, looking around her tiny room. She flashed to switch off the lights before jumping into her bed and started ruffling her hair, "Anywhere!" she hissed.
"Why are you ruffling your hair up?" he asked her. "My mom thinks I'm asleep. I am never awake at this time. I have to get back to bed." she replied, still messing her hair. "Here." he said. "Let me help." He walked over to her and skilfully ran his long fingers through her hair.
"There." he said, pulling back. "You look like you have just gotten up. But won't she get suspicious if you are wearing your bathrobe?" Caroline shook her head. "She'll just switch on the light and check up on me. That's all. Now go and hide. I can't introduce you to my mom now!"
"Why not?" he asked her, frowning. "Because you're you and I just can't tell my mom that I spent the whole night in my room with a creature that could have killed me as easily as I could have killed a radish." He smirked, "Point made love. But where shall I hide?" Caroline's panic grew as she heard her mom's footsteps on the stairs.
"Go into my closet!" she suddenly said.
"What?" he asked her, stunned that she had even thought of asking him such a thing.
"Just do it!" she hissed. "There's nothing frightening in there other than my 12-inch high heels." Saying that, she quickly fell back onto her bed and pulled the duvet upto her neck and curled into a tight ball as she usually did. Klaus sighed and went into her closet and just as the closet door closed, the room door opened and Liz Forbes came into her daughter's room and switched on the lights.
Caroline breathed heavily just for the extra effect. Her mom came upto her stroked her head and softly kissed it. She headed to the door and switched off the lights before going out, closing the door behind her.
Caroline shot up in her bed as soon as her mom closed the door. "Klaus?" she whispered into the darkness. A sudden dip next to her in her bed made her scream. A hand immediately closed over her mouth, stopping the sound. The bedside lamp was switched on and Caroline saw Klaus silting next to her on the bed, a hand clamped over her mouth.
"You are not such a good actress Caroline." he grinned. "I don't understand how your mother believed your act." She frowned and pulled at this hand. He pulled back his hand gently, allowing her to speak, which he regretted immediately.
"Seriously?" she hissed. "Stop sneaking on me like that. God! You are such a git. First of all, my acting skills are none of your concern and secondly, are you questioning my mother's abilities as a Sheriff? And how dare you piss me off when I'm already super pissed off because I had to mess my hair after beautifully doing it. And then you are sitting here, in my bed, practically naked and you dare try to stop me from screaming in my house which, by the way I was screaming because you scared me by sneaking up on me..." Caroline was again restrained by Klaus's hand on her mouth.
"Stop shouting love." he whispered silkily into her ear. "Your mother may come up to check on you. If my hearing is reliable, she has just got into bed. You wouldn't want to wake her up, now, would you?" Caroline glared at him. "Now I am going to take my hand off your mouth. Don't . Scream." Caroline glared at him, but nodded. He slowly removed his hand from of her mouth. She let out a breath.
"You are so lucky I did not bite you." she whispered, glaring at him. He just grinned and stood up. He grabbed another towel from her closet and went into her bathroom. Just before he closed the door, he peeped from the crack and called out. "I don't think you could have bitten me love." With that, he closed the door, leaving a very annoyed Caroline in the room.
When Klaus came out of the shower, a towel firmly wrapped around his waist, fresh clothes were laid out for him on the bed and Caroline, now dressed in a red sundress was still trying to fix her hair in front of the mirror. "Thank you for the clothes love." he smiled at her.
"Yeah, yeah. Whatever." she said, he voice irate, trying to tame her messy hair. He pulled on the fresh pair of jeans and the white half-sleeved T-shirt and the black leather jacket with it. "Why the foul mood love?"
"My hair." she groaned in response and banged her head against her dresser mirror. He smiled as he came up to her and straightened her head. "Keep still love." he said. Caroline was confused. "What are you doing?" she asked. He smiled as he picked up a brush and slowly pulled it through her hair.
"Klaus stop." she said, frowning. "You'll just probably make my hair shittier than it already is and believe me, it is already unbearable." "What? You would do Rebekah's hair or something?" she giggled.
"You forget I too hair long hair once love." he smiled. "Long hair was in fashion for men until the mid sixteenth century until the English Civil Wars in England. So you see love. I wore my hair long for approximately six and a half centuries. So you would think I know a thing or two about long hair. And about Rebekah, if memory serves me, she had sworn that she would rather stay daggered for a whole century than let any of us do her hair. You see, she had hair till her knees in the fourteenth century. Kol did her hair and knotted it so badly that it had to be cut off upto her waist. She was quite mad."
"I bet she was very mad." Caroline giggled. "One of rules of us women you guys must know is to never mess with a girl's hair or nails or dress." Klaus just smiled as he ran the brush softly through her hair, sorting out all the knots.
He put the bush down and nimbly started moving his fingers in her hair. "What are you doing?" she asked him. He smiled at her in her mirror. "I just thought I could repay a little for yesterday. Of course, nothing would make upto the favour you did me. It is a kind of hair style which was quite popular back in my days."
After a few minutes, he was finished and Caroline gasped as she looked at her reflection. Her hair was beautiful. Her hair had been braided at the side of her hair lines and had been brought to her side and her gold curls were left loose across her right shoulder. She looked like she had come straight out of an English classic novel. She threw herself at him. "Thank you, Thank you so much." she squealed. "It is absolutely beautiful."
He smiled, "My pleasure love. I enjoyed myself and I think you have done so yourself too. I think you enjoy my company as a wolf better than me as a human." Caroline rolled her eyes. "Oh please." she said, disbelievingly. "Don't go all 'Jacob Black' on me. It won't work."
"Who?" Klaus asked, now utterly confused.
Before he could ask anything further, she ran across her room and picked up her bag. "Hurry!" she called out to him. "I can't be late." He smiled and followed her out of the room.
Caroline quickly hurried away from the house and from the person walking down the porch. "Caroline." he called out. "What?" she asked, not turning back and continuing walking. "Let me walk you to school love." he caught up with her. "It's the least I can do after last night."
"Look." she sighed, not annoyed. "Forget about last night. I am going to. And don't breathe a word about it to anyone. I am not going to tell anyone or anything about it."
"But why won't you let me walk with you?" he probed her. "Because you are unreliable." she snapped at him. "I won't bite." he smirked, tilting his head at her.
She rolled her eyes. "If you did, your poison would ruin my whole day. I have enough of 'visions' as it is. Don't need your help with it. Not to mention the fact that I'll probably be dead as fast as I would die of cobra venom."
"Oh no love." he countered. "I have been bitten by a snake many a time, but here I am, walking with you. You see, snake poison, or any kind of human poison can affect vampires. If it did, I wouldn't be here walking with you due to all the times I have been bitten while killing some snakes."
Caroline frowned in disgust. "What haven't you killed? I guess you have a trophy room like those hunters in which you have stored all the skins of all the fearsome animals you have killed." He smiled at her, "Unfortunately love, I don't have such a room. You see, none of the beasts I killed were as fearsome as me. I have never come across such a creature that is as fearsome as myself."
Caroline rolled her eyes, "Oh great then, why don't you go, find and hunt some fearsome snake and wear its skin around your neck?" She pulled out a blood bag and started sipping from it. He raised an eyebrow at the blood bag and replied, "I shall keep that in mind next I go snake-hunting."
She caught his pointed look and his raised eyebrow and shrugged, "What? I eat when I'm upset okay?" Klaus smiled, and shoved his hands into his pockets. Looking at the ground, he smiled and asked, "Now what would be upsetting you so much as to drink from a blood bag in broad daylight?"
"If you didn't notice, its seven in the morning and there is no one about. So keep your opinions to yourself." she snapped. "I'm upset at the fact that I have to endure another hour at the meeting. Don't get me wrong, I'm still interested in Mystic Falls Court, but since Carol Lockwood has started putting up this rule that we should choose official assistants to help us, I'm getting bored interviewing people to be my assistant. I like to work alone. I just can't trust anyone else to do what I have to do. I guess this is the neurotic, insecure control-freak Caroline speaking, but I just can't trust my job with anyone else. I'm Miss Mystic Bloody Falls and I am perfectly capable of doing my work and don't need any assistant." She spat out the word like a disease.
Klaus smiled, "It looks like we have something in common. I cannot trust others too." Caroline snorted, "Please. We are nothing alike. Anyway, school is here. Bye."
"Goodbye Caroline." He smiled after her as she made her way into the building.
Just as she is entering the school building, Caroline notices that her heeled boots are getting worn out. 'It's time to buy a new pair.' she thought. 'I need more options. Looks like I need to go out-of-town-shopping.' She remembered her last geography lesson. 'North Caroline sounds interesting'. She smirked.
Hey guys! Hope you enjoyed the chapter! That comment at he starting of the third chapter-
"So," she said, looking at Klaus."You still think my acting skills are that weak?" Everyone was looking at her with a dumbfounded expression. Klaus also was grinning back at her.
This was referred to that comment Klaus made when Liz came to check on Caroline? This is what it means. And Caroline buying that snakeskin band for Klaus was also because of their snakey conversation!
I know! I love this chapter too! The whole thing just screams Klaroline!