Caroline was hand in hand with Klaus as they glided across the dance floor. They were moving so softly and almost seemed to be drifting into the music that was playing, but Caroline's mind was racing with the idea of Kol. Was he just using Bonnie to get on her nerves? If so, he succeeded.

But he underestimated Bonnie sorely - she was quite the spitfire in her own respect, being a witch gave her advantages above everyone else. Topping the list would be being able to kill vampire's just by thinking about it.

Startling, but a nice advantage.

Klaus could see that she was worried about Kol, but he chose not to acknowledge it.

His hand was on her hip and she was blushing.

"You're rather light on your feet." Klaus says in her ear, Caroline finally noting the close proximity of the two.

Caroline nods, "You are also." She says, but she doesn't meet his eyes, that seem to be desperately seeking hers.

"You do need to stop fretting about Kol, he's just rather frisky." Klaus says reassuring her, "Your friend is in no immediate danger."

Caroline rolls her eyes, "Coming from his brother, why should I trust you?"

"Have I ever gave you a reason not to trust me?"

She ignores this and continues, "Just because Mommy says 'no' doesn't mean that Kol is going to back off."

"He's merely amused by her, nothing more." Klaus states, "He does have his way with women."

"This is Bonnie we're talking about." Caroline says dryly, "He doesn't know who he's messing with."

Klaus tilts her chin up to look at him, "Don't fret, darling."

Caroline blushes at this intimate gesture, "I can't help it." She protests.

"Very brave, you are. Standing up for your friend." Klaus admires, his eyes searching hers for something more.

She can feel herself becoming redder, "Maybe your brother should cut his losses and scram then."

"Once he wants something, he gets it." Klaus's finger disappears from her chin and they continue their swaying.

"And?" Caroline prompts, and she can already feel her vision swimming.

"He wants Bonnie."

Caroline groans in spite of herself, stopping their swaying, "Well, where are they?"

They find Bonnie and Kol on the balcony, and Bonnie is looking more on edge then usual, and Kol is too close to her. Bonnie seems to have been putting up a verbal fight with him, because she was still shouting at him when they finally came out.

"Brother, Miss. Forbes. Sorry to disturb your evening." Kol apologizes, but he shrugs and turns back to Bonnie.

"Why don't you just leave me alone?" Bonnie tries to push past him but he grabs her wrist.

"You fascinate me darling, you pull me in like a vacuum cleaner. I want to get to know you." Kol says, and for a second, he almost looks genuine, but you can't except something like that out of a Original.

Bonnie's eyes light up with the promise of magic, and her promise is fulfilled when Kol rips his hand from her, howling in pain.

"Ow!" Kol shouts, hissing he begins shaking his hand.

Caroline chuckles under her breath.

"Damn it. Damn witches." Kol is cursing under his breath, then he grabs Bonnie by the neck, hanging her over the balcony. If Bonnie attempted to burn him, he'd drop her quickly, same with a headache, this was the brink of death for Bonnie Bennett.

"No!" Caroline shouts, running over to Kol and yanking at his arms, "Please! Please!" She cries, shaking him.

"Why shouldn't I kill her?" Kol hisses, and his eyes are becoming a dark red, "She burned me."

Caroline growls under her breath, "That isn't a good reason to kill her! She did it because you were being too pushy."

Kol glares at Caroline, "You, Miss. Forbes. Are not helping in the debate of saving Bonnie Bennett's life."

Caroline's eyes are now big and pleading, "Please let her go, I'll do anything."

Kol smirks to himself, "I'll take you up on your offer, Miss. Forbes. But I think I'll cash in later." Kol pulls Bonnie back in, holding him against her for a moment too long with a conspiracy wink at Caroline.

Bonnie is holding her small fingers to her neck, forcing air back into her throat, she collapses onto the ground.

"Bonnie!" Caroline squeals, kneeling down in her long blue dress that is now draped around her like a oval, she coaxes Bonnie into drinking some champagne, she rubs Bonnie's back, whispering to her, "You're okay."

Bonnie has eyes for Kol, glaring at him openly.

"Don't mess with me, witch." Kol says, "You may have a pretty face, but you are quite the difficulty."

Bonnie's chest tightens, "Says the vampire." She says, her tongue sharp.

Kol winks at Bonnie now, and then he disappears.

"Deepest apologies." Klaus sits down beside Bonnie, "I have yet to get a leash on Kol."

Bonnie's eyes touch Klaus's, and for the moment, she looks like a lost child.

Caroline is looking intensely at Klaus, he looks remotely human and open, something she hasn't seen for the longest time.

"Feeling better?" Caroline asks Bonnie, and she remotely nods, Caroline helps Bonnie to her feet.

Klaus and Caroline are at the bottom of the staircase when Klaus downs his drink, Elena obviously has stress written all over her face while talking to Elijah.

Caroline later finds out why.

Klaus is going to die, and there is absolutely nothing Caroline can do about it.

She hopes to find him in her room that night, so then she can tease him and mess with him some more before he passes. But really, she's ultimately freaking out, she won't be able to lie to his face with the champagne still in his veins. Her wishes come true when she sees him sprawled across her bed.

She paints a teasing smile on her face, "So, is this going to be a everyday thing?" Caroline asks as she strolls into her room, setting her bag on the table and taking off her black blazer.

"If you want it to be, love." Klaus has a taunting smile on his face, and Caroline remembers kissing those lips. Now she's going to have to watch him slowly wither away until the Full Moon. The day he is doomed to die.

Caroline holds up a finger as if to wait a minute, she gathers up her sleeping garments and goes into her bathroom, quickly changing.

When she walks out, Klaus is standing and looking at posters on her wall.

"Elton John?" He questions, thumbing one of her posters.

Caroline shrugs, folding her arms across her chest, "He's not a bad artist."

"No Elvis?" Klaus turns to throw a smirk over his shoulder.

"Not all of us can be best friends with Elvis." Caroline teases right back, and she has to admit, she'll miss this the most. The bittersweet moments that will carry between the two, but she knows if she told him, that would be a declaration of war on her friends, and she could never do that.

Even if it is for him.

"I wouldn't say we were best friends, more like brothers." Klaus teases, his eyes still trailing her room.

She can't stand this, the perfect silence between the two with his death drawing near in just a few days.

There are so many things that will be left unsaid.

"Klaus." Caroline's voice cracks, something that usually happens when she's nervous.

Klaus turns to face her, noting the change in her tone, "Yes, love?"

Oh god, he called her love. Her heart just seemed to go into shreds, how could she tell him that he was going to die.

"There's something I need to tell you." Caroline takes his hand and intertwines it with hers, sitting in the middle of her bed and he does the same.

If Caroline had a heart, it would be beating so uncontrollably fast, she would have had a heart attack.

She has the sudden urge to begin bawling, but she doesn't.

She won't.

Caroline has absolutely no plausible reason for why she should tell Klaus he has days left to live. But she feels as if she owes it to him, he did save her life on a repeated basis.

"Your Mother, she." Caroline swallows hard and explains everything with a hard face, trying to paint a gentle expression on her face, she adds the last part with a shaky tone, "You'll be dead on the full moon."

Klaus's mouth is genuinely open and his eyes are locked in surprise, how could this happen to him? Sure, he may have deserved it, but he was the almighty powerful Hybrid, he should die - but he didn't want to drag his siblings down too in the effort. He owed them too much for that kind of end.

"I'm so sorry." Caroline is shaking so hard by then that she is afraid she'll break out in tears.

Klaus seems to still be processing this, "Why are you telling me this?"

"You deserve it." Caroline looks down at her hands, fiddling with them in her lap, "You've saved my life on a daily basis, I owed you."

Klaus nods sadly, "Caroline Forbes, thank you." He pulls her to him, and they're hugging, his arms wrapped around her waist. His body shakes with sobs, and she puts her head into the crook of his neck, rubbing his back while he sobs.

He's so genuinely scared, it scares her.

When he pulls away from her, his eyes are closed before they flash open.

Hard and expressionless, but when he sees her face, his barriers disappear and it's just him, just Klaus.

"I don't want to die knowing I haven't done this." Klaus then puts his hand on the back of her neck and pulls her to him, his lips softly colliding with hers.

Sure, he's kissed her loads of times.

But to have it so emotionally heated was a brand new concept to Caroline. They fall back onto her bed, their lips not leaving each other as Klaus pulls the covers over them.

He's kissing her so softly, he has nothing else in mind except for her. His hands stroking her face while hers as locked around his neck in a passionate embrace.

When he pulls away, his eyes are searching hers for something, anything. From the way his face lit up, he obviously found what he was looking for.

"Genuine beauty." He whispers against her skin, pulling her tighter against him, "Go to sleep now, Caroline Forbes. You've done enough for one day." His hands are stroking gently through her hair.

She falls asleep with tears in her eyes, and Klaus gently kissing her lips one last time.

Caroline fully expects to wake up alone the next morning, but when she wakes up, she feels Klaus's body still pressing against hers in a familiar heat. But she's facing the door, and she can barely see over Klaus's muscular shoulder, she sees her Mom in the doorway with a sign.

Protection?

Is what the sign says.

Caroline's eyes widen and mouthed to her, "Mother! No!" For a second, her Mother looks scared, "We didn't!" Caroline mouthed, but she can feel Klaus shifting under her, her Mother takes this as the cue to leave.

To see this beautiful man still wrapped around her, Caroline is almost pleased with herself.

If he was going to die, at least allow him to die happy. He at least deserved that.

Caroline closes her eyes against and snuggles in closer to him.

She can feel his body responding to hers as his arms just draw closer to her, squeezing her tighter, she can feel his tears on her face. When she opens her eyes, her eyelashes brush his cheek, they're so close.

"Sorry for waking you love." Klaus sniffles, "Just.."

"You don't need to explain." Caroline feels she should have pressed, like she usually does, but she allows him silence.

Klaus kisses her again, but this kiss is hot and steamy. His body is now hovering over hers, and out of Caroline's eye, she notes a small golden little pocket that her Mother left her.

It was creepy that her mother was promoting her sex life.

Caroline openly kisses him back, he tastes like mint and expensive cologne, she couldn't mind it any less. His hand hovers above her thigh and before Caroline can blink, her nightgown is off and she's in her bra and underwear. It's the pink set, the set that Klaus likes.

So, she may have purposely put it on.

But she didn't have sex in her mind's eye.

Klaus grunts in appreciation at her underwear as his shirt becomes discarded same with his pants. Now it's skin on skin, his bare chest digging into her abdomen as she can feel his muscles against her stomach. They feel hard and steely, just the way she likes it.

Caroline always liked Klaus's body. Though she would have never admitted it to herself, but so far, all bets were off.

His lips move to her neck and she arches her body in pleasure, letting out soft moans of pleasure.

"Caroline." His voice is husky against her skin, "I'm so scared." He admits sheepishly.

He seems so out of character, Caroline isn't sure to believe him.

She grips her face between his hands, she can feel his stubble digging into her palm, "Don't be. I'm right here." She reassures, bringing his lips back down on hers.

First it's surprise when she hears a knock on her door.

Klaus tells her not to answer it, "Just some bloody human, why don't they go chase the cheerleaders?"

Caroline puts her hand on his face, "I'll send them away quickly." She reassures.

Klaus groans in protest, "I could just keep you here."

"I wouldn't stop you."

Klaus smirks, "I figured you wouldn't." His lips are hard against hers again, teeth against teeth, hot and sexy as they move into each other.

But then the doorbell is ringing crazily.

"I could get rid of them." Klaus mutters between hungry kisses.

"I don't need a corpse on my doorstep today." Caroline smiles and pushes him off of her,climbing out of her bed and pulling on her bath robe, shooting Klaus a warning look, "I'll be right back."

"I'll be waiting." Klaus groans and sets his head against the pillows, closing his eyes.

Then it's dread when she pulls on a robe to see Tyler Lockwood standing on her doorstep.

How was she supposed to explain why she had a near-naked Hybrid in her bed?

"Tyler." Caroline's voice is unnaturally high.

"Caroline - I needed to talk to you-!"

"Tyler, I'm kind of busy right now." She almost shoots a guilty look up to her bedroom, but she keeps her composure.

"I love you, Caroline!" Tyler blurts.

Caroline's eyes almost fall out of her sockets, "Woah.. Tyler.."

His hands are on her face, unfriendly, unfamiliar, not Klaus's, and he tries to kiss her. Caroline shoves him off.

"Stop!" Caroline insists, shoving him as far from her as her strength can muster, "I'm really sorry Tyler.. but.."

"What Caroline? What! Is there someone else?" Tyler's face looks like he just found out his puppy died.

Caroline looks away from him for a moment, "You know what? Yes, there is Tyler."

"Who?" Tyler grabs her by the shoulders, "Damn it Caroline! Who!"

Caroline shakes him off, "That's none of your business!"

Tyler looks hurt by this, "It must be someone I hate - I'll rip his heart out!"

"No, you won't. You'll turn around and leave, and you'll never see me again." Caroline says, "Don't bother, Tyler."

Tyler looks like he's going to cry, "I love you."

"Sometimes, that's not enough." Caroline slams the door in his face.

She doesn't feel bad.