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Lessons of Love, Chapter 15: Klaus to Caroline, Part 7
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." Ingrid Bergman
"Oh, come on, Blondie. Those 'Morning After' regrets aren't supposed to last this damn long. Don't worry if you aren't good in bed…I mean, you're good, but he's an elitist. I wouldn't let it bother me if I were you."
"What's wrong, Care? You know you can talk to me."
"It's okay, Caroline. We can't help whom we fall in love with."
"Good thing I'm not in love, Stefan."
"I'm not your babe anymore, Tyler."
"Then who's are you? Things were getting pretty cozy between you and Klaus last I heard,"
She wouldn't listen to her friends. What did they know? Since when did they care what was wrong with her?
She wasn't in love. They knew nothing, so she didn't bother with them. She pushed them away, determined to show them the same amount of hurt that she felt but would never admit to.
"Alright, I've had it, Caroline. I'm done!" Liz says forcefully one day, throwing a dishrag into the sink and turning to watch as Caroline sat at the kitchen table in silence, deliberately not responding to anything her mother said as she played with her fingers.
Liz walked over and sat across from her daughter and reached out for her hands. Caroline jerked away at the touch.
"I don't know what happened to you, honey, but you're not my Caroline right now and I miss her. I miss my sweet, beautiful daughter."
Caroline rolls her eyes.
"Have you turned it off?" Liz asks in a hushed whisper, suddenly concerned, but all of her anxieties are gone when Caroline turns her face away and Liz sees the tale-tell sign of unshed tears in her daughter's eyes. "Oh, honey," she whispers.
"I'm an awful person!" Caroline bursts out, her voice a mixture of anger and sadness.
"No, no you're not. You're beautiful and strong. You are nowhere close to being an awful person, sweetie."
Caroline listens until she hears 'beautiful and strong' and she's whisked back to the chilly November night where she stood outside, admiring the large Draft horse in a beautiful blue gown with a wrap secured pointlessly around her shoulders.
She hears a scuff of a shoe on the ground. She sees the smile play on his face, lighting up his dimples, as he talks about the magnificent animals. She sees the light dance in his eyes as he tells her "I fancy you," and that she is "Beautiful. Strong. Full of light."
She remembers wanting to believe him, but unable to because of everything that had happened.
Liz watches her daughter's eyes ghost over as she remembered something and then Liz realized it.
"Honey, just admit it. It's okay."
"No, its not! He's an ass and evil and…and…and I hurt him! It's all my fault, mom. I'm the evil one, all he was trying to do was…I don't know what he was trying to do but I…oh, God," she said, putting her head in her hands.
"You're going to be alive forever, Caroline. You don't have to do everything so fast. Slow down, take a deep breath, and start over."
Deserted was the only word to describe the Mikaelson mansion on her arrival.
The driveway was empty of its flashy, expensive cars. No one was in the mansion; it was filled with an eerie silence that she didn't like and it filled her with dread. She ran out back to the vast backyard, tears threatening to spill until she spotted a figure standing two hundred yards away. She felt her breathing come back and she started to approach him.
He was standing with his back to her, absorbed in observing the summer scenery in his backyard. She must have snuck up on him, he acted as if she wasn't there.
"Hey," was all she said.
He froze at the sound of her nervous voice, his eyes growing wider and darker before they narrowed in frustration, but he didn't turn around.
"So, I guess this is going to be a monologue," she was exasperated and he could just imagine the look on her face, the fire in her bright eyes.
"If you think you're going to get an apology, then too bad. You said things that hurt me too and I think we're past apologies because, well, the truth hurts. I'm not sorry for what I said and I won't be. That's the way I see everything…I just wish you could respect that. If it makes any difference, its not that I am upset about living forever and I think deep down you know that. I also think that you understand how I feel and you're just afraid to admit it and that's okay.
"Otherwise, why would you go to all this trouble? Why would you sit with me when I study or watch crappy movies and eat junk food or…or Prom? Why would you even bother with that, you had been so willing to laugh at it but when I told you Tyler was coming to take me you looked so dejected. Oh, yeah, I saw it. Do you think I'm stupid?" she asked when his shoulders jerked, begging his body to turn around to fix her accusations.
"You're still human, deep down there, despite your attempts to hide it. I can see right through your acts, I've been able to since that stupid Ball last year," she paused, hoping that she would've gotten a rise out of him for that but he stayed as still as a statue.
"But I'm not here to criticize you for that. I'm here to thank you. If you hadn't of done that stuff for me, despite whatever excuse you're more than likely going to give me, then I don't know where we'd be and I don't like the thought of not knowing you like this. I just wish you would have listened to yourself when you told me its okay to do human things every once and a while.
"It's okay because deep down, we're all still human. We just have to drink blood to survive and we live forever and have all these sp-"
Caroline was suddenly cut off as Klaus' large hands were placed on both cheeks and for a milisecond she thought he was going to snap her neck.
But then his lips were on hers.
At first she was surprised as his warm lips gently moved against hers. But the surprise vanished as quickly as it had come when she realized that this was what she wanted, what she had been denying herself. She started to kiss him back, winding her arms around his neck and lacing her fingers through his dirty blonde curls.
They broke off, much too soon for Caroline's liking, and Klaus rested his forehead against hers, his hands still resting on her cheeks, covering up the slight flush that stained them.
"Now, you were saying?" Klaus asked, dropping his British accented voice to a tone a tad bit huskier than usual as his breath tickled her skin. Caroline glanced up into his smiling eyes. She felt a slight smile growing on her features as he chuckled.
She shyly stood on her tiptoes and placed a gentle kiss on his lips as his arms dropped and curled around her waist, willing to hold her close for what she hoped to would be forever.
A/N: This is sort of a slow chapter, but I hope it was worth reading ;) yay Klaroline!...if only we could have something like this in the show! There is a serious lack of, not only Klaroline, but KLAUS in my life...anyone else agree? On that note, who's seen tonight's episode? My heart was bursting with happiness at one point but, man, are things heating up even more in Mystic Falls! I do think that 3x20 may give 3x14 a run for its money as my favorite episode this season...I'm a sucker for all things 1920's (yes, 3x03 is up there on my list, no worries!) ;)
Oh, about the very beginning...if it seems confusing, I'm sorry. That's supposed to be Caroline's friends goading (cough, cough Damon), giving advice, or whatever to her. I couldn't exactly get it the way I wanted it and that was the closest I could get. Sorry for the confusion!
Anyways, about this story... I've been in a very musical mood lately. Even though I normally write while listening to music, these last two chapters were heavily influenced by what I was listening to. I wrote chapter 14 listening to 'Hallelujah' by Leonard Cohen and this one listening to 'Breathe Again' by Sara Bareilles (which is why these two chapters are named and the others aren't). I'm pretty pleased with how they turned out so I might have to find a song for every future chapter from now on. I have one more chapter written but I am not ready for this story to end, I don't think there is enough resolution between them so I plan to work that out. Buutttt, this story is, regrettably getting harder to write as I run out of ideas about where to take these two lovely Vamps, and it doesn't help that I'm about to start exams...so, seriously, if you have any suggestions (quotes, songs, plot ideas) don't hesitate to PM me! I hope to keep updating regularly, but I can't make any promises since its crunch time at school for me so I will do what I can!
Okay, I'll stop bombarding you all with my babbling. Thank you so much for reading and if you have a minute, leave a review and tell me what you think! Thanks again:)