Caroline Forbes had put herself into quite the situation. After she heard Klaus's soft snores, she quickly slipped out of the bed and retrieved her clothing, tip toeing back to her room and locking the door immediately. I'm such a idiot! She thought wildly to herself, how could she allow herself to lose control so easily?

She had a tight leash on her hormones 24/7, but they just burst out and exploded when she was with Klaus. Klaus didn't allow her to think straight, hell, he barely gave her any reaction time.

So, maybe sleeping with Klaus was a bad idea. She could basically see her grave stone.

She felt doomed.

Apparently she had fallen asleep but she heard a soft knock at her door, and she sat up in her bed, quiet.

"Caroline? Love?" Klaus called through the door, "I expect that you need some blood now, so I'd like it if you opened up."

Caroline's chest tightened, how would it feel seeing his face after sleeping with him?

She opened the door and he was there. Just, there. He was standing in front of her, unkempt and a amused and satisfied glint in his eye that she couldn't stand.

"Thank you." She coldly said, taking the blood bag from him and ready to slam the door in his face, but his foot prevented escape from the awkwardness. She glared at his foot, daring it to move, but it remained in place.

She gave up on her attempt to keep him out and instead flounced over to her makeup table, seating herself on the chair, "What do you want?" She asked, avoiding his eyes as he walked into the room.

Klaus cocked his head to the side, "Someone's snappy today." He took a seat on the edge of her bed, folding his hands together in his lap.

Caroline drank out of her blood bag, looking at him out of the corner of her eye.

"Last night.." Caroline began, flushing a bright red.

"A mistake, I assume." Klaus's eyes met hers, with a fierce intensity passing between the two, and Caroline quickly darted her eyes from his, her face flashing a even brighter red.

"Of course." Caroline muttered under her breath, "A mistake." She spoke.

Then suddenly, he was there, standing in front of her, his hand on the side of her face, willing her to stand up.

"What are you doing?" Caroline asked, surprised, she sees his eyes beginning to glow, "You're going to compel me? -" She begins, but his hands grip her face.

Klaus's eyes began to glow with compulsion, "Calm down love." he says so softly, it feels like a whisper against her skin.

Caroline isn't scared anymore, freely allowing herself to gaze into his eyes, "I- can't.." She whispers back to him, but her eyes won't move from his.

"I know." He soothes, "It'll be all right Caroline. You'll be all right."

She breathes slowly.

"You will forget about last night, and this morning. As far as you are concerned, nothing happened between us, and you still hate me." Klaus spoke the words barely above a whisper as Caroline became lost in his eyes.

She staggered back, the memories quickly flooding from her.

As far as Caroline Forbes was concerned, yesterday had been a blur to her, she must have slept through a portion of the day or something along those lines. She just knew that it was her weekend to finally go home, but Klaus of course, would be tagging along.

"Ready yet?" Klaus called through the door.

Caroline scowled at the door, "When I come out, then I'll be ready." She answered snappily.

Klaus's lips curled into a furious growl.

She zipped up her suitcase and began rolling it to the door, opening it to see a rather impatient Hybrid on her doorstep, "Careful, immortality is forever, so is wrinkles." She noted to his frown lines.

Klaus just rolled his eyes at her perfectly feminine comment about looks.

"Is that all that matters to you, love? Looks?" Klaus questions her, his eyes sliding past her eyes when they met.

"Well, it doesn't hurt." Caroline tosses a smile over to Klaus.

Klaus opens the car door for Caroline and she quickly steps in, her eyes dragging themselves to the ignition. She's sourly disappointed when she sees that the keys aren't in the ignition. So far, Caroline didn't have a game plan for how she'd get out of Klaus's sight.

"Where would I rank on your little list of looks?" Klaus playfully teases her.

She's never seen Klaus like this, so joyful and upbeat. When just a few weeks earlier he had been about two steps away from ripping her heart out.

"You would want to know wouldn't you?" Caroline counters his question with another question, "Where would I rank on your list?"

Klaus dryly laughs, "You first."

A light blush touches her cheeks and she laughs a bit, "Not so sure yet."

"You have to think about it?"

"Don't go and think all mighty about yourself, Mr. Hybrid Master."

Klaus grins to himself, "I think I'd list you as number one."

Caroline's chest tightens, "That's a bit high, don't you think? You've been around a million years, you're bound to have seen someone much more pretty then me."

"Immortality isn't as long as you think." Klaus keeps his eyes on the road.

"Is that so?" Caroline smiles to herself, turning her head to gaze out the window.

"You never answered my question." He notes.

"Give me a million years or so, then I'll rank you."

So, plans of escape was racing through Caroline's mind as she watched longingly outside of the window, watching the world fly past her.

She almost wanted to open the door and jump out.

Almost.

"You've been silent a awful long time." Klaus finally says, breaking the silence.

"I don't know. I just, feel weird." Caroline finally notes the big blank in her memory, turning to Klaus, "You compelled me, didn't you?"

Klaus looks startled by the question, but Caroline catches the flash of guilt across his face before he can hide it.

"You did!" Caroline snaps, sitting up in her car seat, a pointed glare at him, "What don't you want me to remember so bad?"

His eyes remain on the road, "It's best for you if you didn't know."

Caroline pauses for a moment, "Pull over." She says quietly, he pretends not to hear her, so she repeats herself, much louder, "Pull over!" She snaps at him.

He jerks the car to the right, getting a few honks from the drivers behind him as they try not to swerve.

Caroline opens her car door, stepping out and slamming the car door behind her.

Klaus does the same, "If you're trying to run love, you won't get any where." He says, walking after her into the forest.

"Then you're going to be chasing me for a long time." Caroline snaps back, walking quicker, "You lied to me!"

"I didn't lie to you." Klaus quickly states, "I just kept the truth from you, I was trying to protect you."

"What do you need to protect me from? What is so bad that I can't know? Who or what is it that you're trying to keep from me?" Caroline turns around suddenly, her blonde hair curling around to one side.

Klaus watches her, amused, "I'm keeping you from me." He states, "Would you really like to know what happened last night, Caroline Forbes?"

Suddenly, she's unsure, "Keeping me from you? What? I hate you, in case you forgot, you tend to slaughter most of my friends and you on the other hand, have tried to kill me in the duration of three days!" She pauses for a moment, not sure if she even wants to know anymore. "Are you compelling me again!-" Caroline begins to hiss.

"That's all you, love." Klaus says, "Maybe you don't actually want to know. In fact, I agree with your conscious, it's best that it stays locked up."

"Or maybe, you don't want me to know." Caroline shoots back, hoping to catch him at a dead end, "You don't want me to know what happened."

"I wouldn't care if you knew."

"Then why'd you compel me? Why did it matter so much that you needed to make sure I couldn't remember it?" Caroline begins to ask, "Well answer me!"

"Because you wouldn't look at me the same anymore."

"I'll look at you the way I always do."

"In the beginning of this or the ending?" Klaus asks.

"The ending?" Caroline asks, unsure if he is about to say something important.

"I meant now." Klaus quickly corrects himself, "Answer the question, Caroline."

"I don't know. I've always looked at you the same." Caroline shifts on her feet, suddenly uncomfortable.

"That's the problem." Klaus hisses.

"Can I have a hint so then I can decide if I should know or not?" Caroline asks.

"This isn't wheel of fortune, Caroline." Klaus impatiently says.

Caroline rakes her hand through her hair, "If it was, this would be so much easier." She sits down, putting her face in her hands, if her heart was alive, it would be beating so quickly like a hummingbird.

Klaus stares at her, unsure as he takes steps towards her, "Do you want your memories back or not?" Klaus asks, giving her the option either to live in blissful ignorance or blunt awkwardness.

She looks up from her hands, "Yes." She chokes out.

He's sitting in front of her on his knees, his hands gentle on her face, almost stroking them as his eyes begin to glow with compulsion.

His eyes glow with compulsion, "You will remember everything, Caroline Forbes." He speaks very softly.

Caroline passes out as the memories come back. They flood back so quickly, the last thing she feels is Klaus's electric arm around her waist as he grabs her before she can fall.

Caroline woke up with a throbbing headache. She felt as if someone was pressing a nail through her skull, when she woke up, she noted that she was in her room. The one that wasn't painted a bright pink, and she made the startlingly discovery that she was alone through out the house.

Maybe Klaus went out to kill some humans and just dropped her off here.

Klaus.

The name struck lightning through her, just the mention of him reminded her of their 'time' together. Specifically the last night they had spent together.

Strip poker gone rogue, that's what she liked to call it. Her feet pounded against the staircase as she raced back up it after looking through the kitchen, finding ultimately nothing.

When she returned upstairs, she saw a note laying on her bed, she opened it.

Welcome home, Caroline.

That was all the letter said, and when she opened the package that had lain beneath the note, she found her toothbrush and other belongings she had left behind at Klaus's house.

Nestled deep inside, she found another letter.

Goodbye.

She put aside the letter and glanced around her room, then she took a leap of faith by stepping outside. The moon didn't kill her or bite at her skin like it should have, her sun ring was still on her finger.

Caroline went back inside, "Klaus?" She shouted throughout the house, he was supposed to be watching her like a hawk.

"Klaus?" Caroline called a bit more frantically.

His name on her lips made her remember more sharply what had occurred between the two of them, but right now, she didn't care. She couldn't care because she couldn't find him.

"First I want you to stay the hell away from me and when I finally want answers you up and disappear." Caroline mutters under her breath, stalking the house.

"Caroline?"

Caroline turns around, yet she's disappointed with what she sees, just the tiniest bit.

"Mom!" Caroline cries out, racing to meet her Mom in a hug, her Mom hugs her back tightly, her perfectly human tears falling onto Caroline's coat.

"Sweetie." Her Mom strokes her hair, "Where have you been?"

"It's a long story." Caroline hiccups.

Her Mom pulls away from her, her hands on her cheeks, "I don't even care. I'm just so glad you're home Caroline."

They hug again, and Caroline fails to see the Original she was hunting for just minutes before walking away from the house.

Finally after a long tearful hour Caroline retreats to her room, seeing another note, she becomes dimly annoyed that she can't feel him moving around her own house.

You'll never see me again.

That's all the note says, Caroline isn't sure whether to be pleased or heartbroken about this.

She just knows she's going to drink herself into oblivion tomorrow just to get through the night.