Thanks for bearing with me guys. Sorry for the late but I am a bit lazy so it took time to upload a new chapter. But they say "Better late than never" right? So here it is. I appreciate your review so much. Please criticize my writing. I appreciate it more than anything else ever (Except shirtless Mr. Josex Morgan :P).

I'm a bit sad though that none really reviewed about Klaus-Davina conversation in the last chapter. That was actually my favorite part. Anyways, I know you only care about Caroline. So this chapter is only about them. :D

One question! I am writing these chapters all from Klaus' point of view. Do you want me to be it like that or should I write from others point of view as well? Writing from Klaus' aspect will give you only what he thinks and sees, you'll never know what others were actually thinking while conversing with him. So you decide what you prefer. And let me know. :)

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Enjoy the chapter and pardon my mistakes please! I'm just an ameature who is so in love with Klaus, Joseph and Klaroline.

How To Save A Life

He saw something flickered in her eyes. What was that? Klaus couldn't be sure. He felt like he's in trance. What did he just say to her?

He took a deep breath, slowly exhaling the anger out of his system. Though it was quite a chore for him; but he somehow managed to be calmer. He always calms down when she's around.

"Caroline…" he began slowly, moving towards her again.

"Hayley and you? Klaus, what is wrong with you? Are you out of your goddamn mind?" Each of her words was filled with sheer disgust and frustration.

Klaus searched in her face and in his mind to decipher the point of her interrogation. Why would she be so upset about him and that werewolf hooking up? This doesn't make sense. She didn't care about him.

Maybe she cares! She cares about you. That's why she is freaking out about your moving on. She feels something for you, too. That's why she is worried about that girl?

Klaus pushed his non-existed luck to try that theory out.

"Actually I wasn't referring to me hooking up with that little wolf when I said that, but clearly it struck a chord with you." Pointing his index finger in air, he danced his eyes around her, back to his amused persona.

"Because she is a disgusting and utterly filthy bitch. She is not your type." She said those in a way that it was an obvious fact.

"From that, love, I must assume that you have a fair idea about who is my type?"

Caroline stiffed as he moved closer to her. His eyes were burning on hers. Klaus felt her pulse racing. She was nervous by his proximity. Her heartbeat faltered a few times, and then started at double.

"… I didn't mean it that way…" her murmur trailed away.

"… and you were meaning…" This time he was nose-touching close to her. He was breathing at her. Inhaling her sweet scent.

"I… I meant… that… Klaus…" Suddenly she came around, maybe remembering that she wasn't supposed to feel that way. She jerked back a few steps and shook her head, shoving away all that was present a few moments ago.

"I don't care with whom you're hanging out, but Hayley is not an ideal for that, I must say. Just remember that. She backstabbed you once, she could hurt you again!" she shouted out.

The moment had gone in a jiffy. All the potentials had gone with it. Klaus became so furious at himself, he flipped out.

"Why would it matter to you if I get hurt? I know what I am doing! You don't have to tell me what I should or shouldn't do. I will not have my hands forced by you or anyone else!" he screamed back at the end, emphasizing on the last.

"What is wrong with you? I'm reaching out to you despite everything that you've done, and you still can't get out of your own way. Do whatever you want, God! I feel sorry for you!" she fought him back and then, without giving him anymore time to say anything to her, she sped out of the place.

Klaus stood there, looking at the empty place where she was moments ago. Something she said that rang a bell in his mind. She was reaching out for him? Did she really mean that? Did she really mean what he was thinking she meant? He is going cray cray over this complexity between him and her. Once she said she acknowledges his feelings. She even mouthed those words which he himself never dared to admit by himself.

"I know that you're in love with me. And anybody capable of love is capable of being saved," she said a few days ago.

"I'm reaching out to you despite everything that you've done…" she said a few moments ago.

He thought she was hallucinating when she said that she wished to forget all the horrible things that he'd done. But what about what she said now? She wasn't in any life and death problem now. So did that mean she actually was forgiving him? Can she forget about him killing Jenna Sommers? Carol Lockwood? Can she get past all those things?

Klaus searched the guilt inside him about the murder of people close to her he committed. There wasn't so much of it. He had no choice. Jenna was just a collateral damage. He never wanted to kill her in the first place, and thanks God or whoever it is up there that it was Jenna. Otherwise it would've been Caroline. He would've sacrificed her to become the hybrid without knowing about her. No, he wasn't sorry for killing Jenna. He wanted to thank Damon for saving her that night. Though he shouldn't have saved Tyler, nor he should've got the werewolf bite on that process which made him unuseful for the sacrifice. Thus, Jenna had to die. No, no regret for that act.

Killing Carol Lockwood was a little misjudgment, though. He murdered her for the revenge on Tyler. He could've avoided that. Caroline was more pissed because of this. She was revolted to him after that deed. He could've spared Carol.

There should be a way to fix this. There must be a way to fix this. He had to find it. He needed to know if Caroline really can get over with his image.

-K-E-E-P-C-A-L-M-A-N-D-L-O-V-E-K-L-A-R-O-L-I-N-E-

Klaus sneaked into Caroline's room by the window. It was empty. Where was she?

He walked through the room and sat on the edge of her bed. He was being nostalgic. This was the very room where he gave his black heart to this golden girl. This was the very room where he sneaked in couple of times before to put the gifts and sketches for her. Now he came to her room again for a gift to her. A new type of a gift. But was it worth?

When Caroline came out of her washroom, she saw him sitting on her bed, relaxing. She started at the view, like she couldn't believe her eyes. Klaus gave a wicked smile at her.

"Gee, lurker! Isn't there anything called privacy in this town? People should really stop sneaking in my bedroom, you know. Decent people call it creepy." She rolled her eyes.

"Who else sneaks here beside me?" Alpha male tone rang in his voice.

"You don't have to be so defensive about it because by 'people' I meant only one. You!" she raised her brow.

"You can't even be a little welcoming to me. Here I thought we were becoming friends!" he tilted his head a little and accused her in a mocking way.

"Well, you thought wrong," she said ironically. Then she walked in the opposite direction of her bed, towards the door.

Klaus caught her before she could exit. He grabbed her arm and stopped her from going out. She was shocked at his act. But thankfully, she didn't jerk away from his touch.

"Hey! Don't turn your back on me," he whispered.

"I hate myself for not doing it. Because I should have turned my back on you ages ago," she blurted at him.

It was like a stoic bliss. She still has hope for him. He was right about his decision. This new gift really will be the right step towards her.

"You didn't ask me why I came here," he said, still a hand on her arm. It was as if he released her, she might run away.

"Because you never really had any concrete or even valid reason for doing anything that you do."

"I came here to offer you a peace making, a gift, more appropriately." He smiled, his dimples deepening.

"I told you before that I really don't need any of your drawings and dresses and diamonds, Klaus." Her eyes were wary. She looked around her room and his other hand to find any clue of what this new gift could be.

"It's nothing tangible, you know," he said from her searching look. "And I think you'll appreciate it more than any of the previous ones I gave you." His eyes danced at her.

"Why would that be?" she questioned. Curiosity burned in her eyes.

"It's because I am ready to let Tyler come back to the town," he declared. He left her hand and stepped back. He bumped into her dressing table and leaned there.

Caroline froze where she stood.

"You're forgiving Tyler?" she couldn't believe her ears.

"Not forgiving, no. But I think he had enough punishment that would make him to not cross my path anymore," he cleared the confusion.

"You're really meaning it?" Still disbelieving.

"You can call him and tell him to come back. Only that way you can see if I really mean it or not. On that matter, I don't really have any point to lie to you actually." He shrugged and waved his hand to prove his words.

Klaus couldn't be sure what happened next. Was he hallucinating? He didn't drink for the last 16 hours and he wasn't in bad health even. Why would he be imagining this then?

He felt Caroline all over his front. She held him against her and rested her head on his shoulder. Her hands were locked behind his back as she embraced herself to him.

He was at awe with this reaction. He expected something from her, but not this. Not remotely this. Not in his best dream did he imagine this.

"Thank you, thank you so much for this. I can't even tell you how happy I am at this news." She cooed on his shoulder.

Irresistible. He couldn't not response to her hug. So he hugged her back, closing his arms around her, dipping his head on her side. He closed his eyes. What couldn't he do to get this!

At his touch, she realized then what she did. She released him, took a few step back, looking awkward. Her hands were still half way in the air as she looked at him, embarrassed.

"That was unexpected, of course. But it's a quite natural gesture between friends, isn't it?" Klaus freed her from this awkwardness.

She didn't say anything.

"Well then, my work here is done. So I take your leave now." He walked to the window and rode on it, ready to jump.

Caroline was totally ready to run away from her room as she headed towards the door.

"Hey!" Klaus called back from the window.

She turned and looked at him.

"Friends, then?" he wanted a reconfirmation. An innocent grin shining on his lip line.

Caroline didn't answer again. She eyed him, smiled like an angel and vanished out of the door.

Friendship? Huh, like that ever worked on the star-crossed lovers. Was Klaus right to spare Tyler? Will it win Caroline for him? Or it was a grave mistake for him as he brought Tyler back to the life of the girl he loves?

This chapter is a tribute to episode 4x18 from me as it positioned top as my most favorite episode. The second is 4x07.

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