He had told her to wait inside his room, she was surprised that he was up so early, when she commented on the fact he just said. "I like to run in the mornings", and motioned her inside, telling her that he'd be back after a shower. She leaned sat straight up on the bed, inexplicably nervous about Tyler's entry into the room.

Tyler opened the door, he had changed into on black jeans and a full sleeve black t-shirt, which hugged every inch of his daily bulking body. He walked up until he was right in front of her, without a sound. He looked down toward her then slowly, hesitantly, grazed his hand against her chin, pulling her face up toward his. She forced her eyes up towards his, slowly, aware of the hesitancy in her eyes. He stared down at her, his eyes pouring into hers, unflinching and unmoving. He doesn't know what to say. Then she voiced, "You don't know what to say", he looked startled, and then stepped back, looking hazed. "Are you still mad at me?" she continued tentatively. Tyler shook his head no and Caroline breathed out a breath she didn't even know she was holding, stood up and continued. "Because I really am sorry, I know it was really bad to lie to you, but there were so many things and Elena and Mason and Vicki and Damon, I mean he's for sure going to kill me and-"

"Its fine" interrupted Tyler, "Don't-"

'Because a werewolf bite can kill a vampire and he doesn't want you to kill him be-"

"Caroline"

"Cause he killed Vicki and he knows that you-

"CAROLINE!" he moved forward and covered her mouth, and said softly, "Its fine."

He had closed in the distance between them; he was close to her again, too close. She could feel the heat from his body; it radiated out of him, and warmed her right to the core. His breathe was even, steady, albeit a little fast. His eyes never left hers, and this time it made her feel funny, the blood started throbbing through her views and her chest started constricting, and all the while he didn't move. She had a suspicion that he knew what he did to her, and that perhaps his body was doing the same thing.

Tyler had to shut her up, she had been talking way too fast and it was kind of annoying. But he had stepped to close, and obviously once she'd shut up he would have moved back, but he couldn't. He felt her tense up, he felt her anxiety, her confusion, and he realized that he was the one affecting her. But he realized this because he could feel her emotions; every one of them was inside of him, a separate entity from his own emotions (which were starting to confuse him too) but inside of him. A part of him. Not normal he deduced Not. At. All.

She broke it. Well he did. Caroline heard a car pulling up the driveway. Tyler's Mom. She panicked, but before she could pull away he did. He looked a little puzzled but didn't mention it. He blinked and looked around a bit before he motioned toward the back door in explanation, "My mom". Caroline nodded. How the hell does he know? Do werewolves have super hearing too? She'd have to remember to ask him later, she needed to move away from this bedroom. It made her feel weird, the scent overwhelmed her, it made her feel comfortable; safe, and Tyler's presence, his heat; made her feel at home. She didn't know how to deal with it, and she couldn't face it. Time to leave Caroline….

"Going to school?" she asked.

"Yeah", and added after a pause, "How did you get here?"

"Oh, um I walked"

"You walked all the way from your house to here? 10 miles?" he said incredulously.

"Well…" she began "I vamp sped some of the way and… I needed the break. Mind cleansing time or whatever".

"Ahh" a look of amusement crept up on his face.

"What!"

"Mind cleansing?" he said through his grin.

Caroline laughed. "Shut up" he hit him lightly on the shoulder. "Let's go".

He grabbed his bag from the floor and followed her out with a grin plastered on his face.

Tyler pulled into a parking spot and Caroline picked up her bag, put her hand on the door before she realized that Tyler wasn't moving.

"Tyler?" she whispered

He turned his head to her, he eyes wide, and afraid, "Ten days."

Caroline felt a pain in her heart, her throat constricted and she closed her eyes. He was going to hell and back and she couldn't stop it. A feeling of pure anger rushed through her; she should be able to help him. She needed to help him, his pain was- it was- it was causing her pain, it was her pain. As if she was going through it herself. Caroline opened her eyes slowly. She looked toward Tyler who had turned his head forward again, and she took in his profile. He was strongly cut, masculine, he held his head high, and he was intimidating. Strong. And all of this was true, even now, but Caroline saw a little crease developing on the side of his eye, and a slight darkening beneath it. He was worried, he wasn't sleeping, and he was hurting. She reached her hand out and smoothed over the crease, leaning forward until her nose was just barely touching the skin of his cheek. His breath hitched, barely, but she could hear it. Her own breathing deepened, his skin, his closeness it had a calming effect on her. She closed her eyes, just for a second, and with his own eyes closed he started "Caroline-"

"Shhh", She covered his mouth, and turned his face toward her own. They're faces weren't touching even now, but he was exploding through her, not his scent, not his warmth. Just him. All of Tyler was flowing through her, he encompassed her skin, he flowed through her veins, he was in her eyes, and his heart was engulfed within hers, his eyes, molten brown, searched through hers, she told him, just through her own eyes, I'll be there. She said nothing, but he knew.

"Caroline!" She heard a shout behind her. Matt. Oh no. She stiffened but took a courageous breath and turned.

"Hey Matt!" she said in a slightly false voice.

"Hey." His voice was soft, and he moved to touch her arm, but she leaned away and he pulled back. He quickly hid the look of hurt that flashed across his face and said. "What's up?"

"Oh…nothing…just the usual" she said faintly.

"I saw that Tyler gave you a ride, is your car fine?" Ah the reason. She didn't bite.

"Yeah, its fine, thanks for asking", she said in a clipped voice.

A voice emerged from behind her. "Hey, did you know that Mr. Williams is giving us the next two blocks off? Thank god, I can't stand-"abruptly it stopped, Tyler, who clearly hadn't seen Matt in front of Caroline, halted. "Oh" he said. "Sorry, I didn't realize…" he looked completely neutral but Caroline spotted a vein throbbing in his neck, "I'll just go" he said firmly, and passed them. Caroline looked past Matt as she saw his figure mix into the throng of students. Barely ten seconds later she followed him, not realizing, or caring, that she left behind a rather bewildered Matt.

"Tyler?" she caught up to him, "You're planning on leaving without me?"

"No. I was going to wait for you by the car" he explained quickly "…I figured I was interrupting. Sorry" he said, not looking at her.

"No." she said bluntly. He looked at her, eyebrow raised, she stared back at him. "You were not interrupting. "

"Oh." He said looking rather relieved. "Imma give you a ride home cause now we have last two blocks free" after a pause he added, "Or actually wherever you want to go"

They had reached his car, and he grabbed her bag from her to put it in the back, "Where are you going" she asked curiously.

"Maine" he said matter-of-factly.

"Really wh- I'm sorry what!" she stopped right outside the car door.

"Yup" And he ducked into his car. Caroline stood dumbfounded Maine? What? She quickly followed him into the car. "Maine?"

oh hello there. i'm sure you had forgotten all about this story. i know that i had (NO LIES) I promise I didn't. I have this whole damn thing written up on my computer and I just decided that I had to travel the world and work and all of these THINGS..I'm sorry. So if you'll forgive me, please read this chapter (and y'know the three previous ones in case you've forgotten what happened), and leave me a review! You'll also have to forgive me, I have no beta, so even though I read this through 3 times I'm sure there are mistakes. Which you can feel free to point out. :)

Feel free to yell at me for disappearing in those reviews! ;)

Jaan