Chapter 10

They lay content for hours Klaus with his arms wrapped around her, Caroline gently stroking her fingertips up and down his arms sending shivers through his body. She turned around brushing her skin against his, he sighed. She turned to face him again. She wanted to look in his eyes again. He raised his hand and touched her face. She smiled sweetly. It looked like Klaus wanted to say something. He looked at her, opened his mouth to speak then smiled. Almost as if she knew Caroline moved closer to Klaus and lay her head close to his chest. She reached out for him and held on to him. Then she fell asleep.

Klaus watched Caroline for a while then drifted off to sleep himself. He had not slept so well in years. She made everything easy. Everything about her was easy. She made it easy to like her, easy to want to take care of her, easy to want to give her everything she ever wanted. She made it easy to give her all of him. He slept and he dreamt of her.

Her smell, her blonde hair, her velvety skin, her cool mouth, her lips that he loved kissing, her blue eyes that looked at him like a man not a monster.

And then there was the pain again. Worse then before. It woke him out of his blissful dream of Caroline. Klaus bolted up straight in bed, sweating. He grabbed at his throat, he could not breath. He body was shaking and his muscles were burning. He was changing into a werewolf again uncontrollably. He climbed off of the bed and fell to the floor. Klaus writhed in pain on the floor. The wolf inside was fighting him. He let out a long agonizing scream. Caroline flew out of bed and to his side.

"Klaus." she spoke to him frantically. "Baby. Whats the matter?"

Klaus gripped her forearms and tried to push her away from him. Caroline did not notice. She held his face in her hands and tried to steady him.

"Baby." she whispered.

Above the pain he felt in his body he felt fear. Fear that he would hurt Caroline. Fear that he would kill her. Fear that he would lose her forever. He loved Caroline. He knew that now.

"Stay with me Klaus. Stay with me." she sobbed. She was in tears. He growled and pushed her away. Caroline went flying across the room and hit into the wall. She came back to him quickly. She would not let this happen again.

Again she took his head in her hands, steading the violent tremors and looked into his eyes. For a fleeting second she saw the eyes she loved for the last time before they started to change. Then he took her head in his heads. He looked into her eyes.

"Caroline." he chocked out her name. "Go away." he compelled her. "Run from here. Get away from me. As far as you can." he said before the searing pain came back.

"No." she cried as she felt his compulsion hit her. Tears streamed down her face. She stood up as his words taking more of a hold on her. She put on some clothes quickly and left the house. She ran from the house even though she did not want to. She had no choice. She heard a heartbreaking howl from behind her. She stopped and turned and looked at the house far in the distance. She felt a hole in her chest and it was growing. The further she was from him the more it hurt. She was standing in the gloaming just after sunset her heart ripped from her body. The wolf inside him would not let them be together. The wolf would not let them be happy.

She needed help. She needed a friend. She needed Bonnie.