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Chapter 6:

Caroline stole another glance at him. They were back in the van while the coffin was secured in the trunk, safe and sound.

Klaus was gripping the steering wheel with the angriest look on his face. His grip was so tight that Caroline could see Tyler's nails tear through the material. She was sitting in the passenger seat by him. Her body was unintentionally glued to the door. She didn't even realize she was cowering away from him. She couldn't help it! Angry vibes radiated from Klaus. She thought that if she dared to come any closer he might explode like a grenade, tearing her to pieces.

She wasn't afraid, she was just careful. She didn't want to trigger his reaction to what they had encountered just yet. It's best that he calms down before talking about it.

She stole another glance at him, this time he looked back. Caroline should have grimaced at the expression on his face. She should have felt scared for her life. She should have felt worried, wondering when he was finally going to let it out his anger on her, at finding out his doppelganger had just turned into a vampire, deeming her worthless to him. Yet, she looked at him in awe. Klaus was puzzled; he never knew what to expect from her. Why wasn't she scared?

She looked him in the eye, holding on to one of those gazes, but this time she was the one who initiated the intensity. She opened her mouth to speak, "You know you really don't need any more Hybrids."
Klaus got irritated at that causing him to look back at the road, tightening his grip even more.
Caroline paused before continuing, "You could always just be content with the ones you have now."
Klaus felt his anger bubble up to higher levels…
"Less is sometimes more, you know?"
Almost reaching the brink…
"That way you can make your bonds with them stronger."
He could feel it reach the edge…
"You could also just let Tyler go, since he's not sired to you anymore."

That was the last strike. With great swiftness Klaus made a sharp turn to the right. Caroline gasped and grabbed the sides of her seat. He went off the road speeding a little. The ride was so bumpy Caroline thought she might go straight through the ceiling of the vehicle. He continued to drive, hiding them between a few trees far off from the actual road, far from civilization itself. He stopped so abruptly Caroline laid a hand on the front window, balancing herself. She looked at Klaus as if he were crazy.
"What the HELL is wrong with you?!" she shrieked.
Klaus was breathing heavily. He barely spared her a look before he opened the door and left her in the van. He paced into the woods. Caroline watched him disappear, her eyes wide with shock.

Klaus continued to walk away from her, away from his coffin. He wished he could just keep walking, not caring if he reached the end of the world. He just wanted to walk away from everything. All his life, his entire existence was about creating more Hybrids, creating a family. Now that that's impossible, what's he to make of his life? What is he going to do once he gets back to his body? His original plan was to just take the doppelganger and leave town, create more Hybrids, travel with them, finally free from running. Now that that's gone and he has no idea where the rest of his already existing hybrids are, what the hell was he supposed to do? He only ever had one purpose to live for. Now he has none. Klaus stopped at that thought. For the second time in his life, the first when he was with Stefan in the woods watching his first batch of hybrids fail and die, he felt lost. Frustrated, alone and absolutely lost. But this time he was sure there's nothing he could do.

Caroline was still in the van, she was trying to steady her breathing and heartbeat. He gave her such a scare! He really needs anger management, she thought with distaste. She turned to where she last saw him disappear in the woods. Maybe she should go and see what he's up to. God knows, maybe he's planning to commit suicide. With a roll of her eye and a shake of her head, she couldn't believe she was going to go and console an angry murderous Hybrid.

Klaus heard her come from behind him. He didn't care if he gave her his back. He sat on a trunk of a tree contemplating his future. Nothing came to mind. He could feel her presence; she was standing from afar watching him. Waiting for the storm to finally hit. Klaus started to feel his anger rise once more. She was probably feeling pity. Klaus hated pity.

He stood up trying to use the energy anger created. He felt so restless, so furious, and so helpless. He started to pace. Caroline still watched. Not saying a word. He finally gave her a glance. She had no pity in her expression, instead she looked patient, waiting for him to calm down. She even looked around at the woods, watching a couple of squirrels climb up a tree. Klaus felt his anger reside.

As if sensing he had calmed down a bit, Caroline met his eyes.
"I don't understand why you're making a big deal out of this." She said with a small voice.
Klaus laughed, the sound was humorless, making Caroline tense.
"I have lost everything."

"No you didn't! You just lost a bunch of strangers who should mean nothing to you!"
He ignored her and continued, "I could have had company for all eternity. I would never be alone. Ever." He spat out the last word. He paced faster.
"Klaus, you could always go back to your family, make amends and-"

"THEY DESPISE MY VERY EXISTANCE!"
Caroline jumped. He fully turned to her, pointing at her accusingly.
"They only followed me for years to ensure their safety, to make sure they didn't get to see my bad side aimed at them. They didn't love me. They feared me! "
And with that Klaus punched one of the pine tree trunks that stood tall, he made it stagger for a bit and bend, falling apart from its roots yet still hanging, kind of like him, Caroline thought. She noticed his fists were blooded, but healing quickly.

He couldn't help but admire her bravery. She wasn't afraid around him she even took a step towards him when he let out his wrath on nature. He looked at the broken tree and scoffed, not caring.
"They were only on my side for safety." Klaus said, almost to himself, "They only stayed because they were afraid of Mikael more than me. They knew that if they stayed by his side he would sooner or later kill them. Mikael was only using them to get to me. Once he did he would set out to kill the rest of my siblings. It was his promise to my mother all along. He was to ensure we only had our fill of two or three lifetimes. Once we exceeded that, he would kill us." He laughed again. "As you can see, he failed miserably with that plan."
Caroline watched, she was starting to realize how broken Klaus was. He really had terrible things happen to him. Even though he was a thousand years old he never truly lived. None of his family did. They were too busy thinking about their safety that they didn't try for a second to enjoy it.

Caroline looked at the sky. All she wanted was to get back to Bonnie, have a cup of hot chocolate and just forget herself. And to have Tyler back… of course.
She looked back at Klaus, the anger was gone, all was left was the hurt. He sat back down on the fallen trunk. Walking slowly, she sat next to him.

"I'm pretty sure that's not the case, Klaus." She whispered. They were both looking before them, not meeting each other's gazes. Things started to fall quiet, almost peaceful again. Caroline took in a deep breath enjoying the crisp fresh air. Klaus seemed to do the same.

"No family is perfect. When you think some are more flawed than others, that is never true. Each family has issues, you can't deny it."
Klaus hung his head, looking down at the soil. His family was much more complex than any other. He was sure of it.
"I mean take it from me." Caroline said with a laugh, "I'm not close with my mom and we've had our differences. At some point she tried to disown me when she found out I was a vampire."
Klaus looked at her then, his head still hung low.
"My dad left me when I was a kid, he never called, and just recently did he torture me out of my brains."
Klaus smiled at the humor in her voice.
"Did I mention he was gay?" she looked at him sideways with a mischievous smile, "Not that I have a problem with that or anything, but I mean seriously couldn't he have figured that out before marrying my mom and bringing me to this crappy world?"

Klaus gave a chuckle despite himself. Caroline smiled, feeling smug for making him loosen up. She always felt accomplished when she made someone feel better. They both sobered up, making her continue, "What keeps a family whole is communication and understanding. I mean, Klaus, why don't you look at it from scary Mikael's view. You are his wife's love child, you killed her then blamed it on him, and you then turned his entire family against him with your charismatic leadership abilities." Caroline added the last part with sarcasm. "Your siblings feel intimidated and insecure because of you charismatic leadership abilities and they are scared as hell from getting killed. I have a feeling they feel as cheated as you do."
Klaus thought about it. He never really looked at the whole thing in Mikael's emotional perspective. He only looked at things in his supposed father's plotting perspective. He always followed the mantra: in order to beat the enemy you must think like the enemy. But he never thought about it that way.

Klaus was impressed with Caroline.

"And btw," she added oblivious to his admiring smile, "My family isn't the only proof; look at everyone else's in Mystic Falls. Although you have to admit some of their problems are because of you."
Klaus smirked.

"My family issues still seem much more complicated than the rest's." said Klaus.
"That's what you think." She poked him in the chest, "To me they sound like it could have been all resolved with a simple chat."

Klaus was suddenly aware of her finger at his chest. It was such a small delicate poke he barely felt it, but because it was Caroline, he could feel her every move. Her eyes flickered to where they touched and she blushed, snatching her finger back onto her lap.

An awkward silence hung.

Caroline abruptly got up, making a move to get back to the car.
"We better get going," she laughed nervously. She put a fist in the air, "we've got some magic to do."
Klaus smiled as he followed her to the van. She truly was full of light.

Before returning to the motel Klaus made a stop at Bonnie's house as Caroline asked. She remembered she left most of her belongings there when they were planning their trip. Since that got cancelled Caroline decided to take one of her packed bags (Klaus raised an eyebrow at the number of pink bags. He refused to carry them all in the already full van so Caroline had to choose one and sacrifice the rest.) She also took one of Bonnie's. She was sure some of their clothes would fit her mom and Carol. They all needed a change.

It was already dark, so when Klaus and Caroline had to carry a pink bag, a brown bag and a coffin into their motel room, no one was there to raise suspicion. Carol was the one to greet them. She had a wide hospitable smile when she saw Caroline that immediately disappeared when she found her possessed son. Her smile turned into a grimace as she moved aside to let them in.

Caroline looked into the living room to find a shocked bonnie and a worried mom.
"Hey guys, we found the body." Caroline announced.
Bonnie stood up and strode over to Caroline. She punched her friend in the shoulder.
"Ow! Bonnie what the hell was that for?!" Caroline cried out, amazed at her friend's human strength.
Bonnie winced, shaking her hand.

Everyone else just watched with amusement.

"You were gone the entire day. You were supposed to be here about five hours ago! What the hell, Caroline?!" Bonnie yelled.
"Sorry we got into a rough situation. Damon tried to stop us. Elena and Stefan were there and this guy" she raised a hand towards Klaus, who had his eyebrows as high as ever, "Had a major meltdown!"

Bonnie froze. "Elena? You saw her?"
"Yeah, but you're missing the big picture, here! This guy" she points at Klaus again, this time he was smirking, "found out Elena is no longer a human. He could have killed us all!"
Bonnie shrugged, "he was bound to find out sooner or later."

Klaus intervened, "Yes I was. Now, sweethearts, how about we stop bickering and get to the final step? I'm sure we will all have the chance to chit chat once I'm in my own body and Tyler is finally amongst us."
Klaus was back to his usual self, Caroline noted. She rolled her eyes and walked over to the coffin. Without a single thought as to what she was going to see, she opens the coffin to reveal Klaus's body. She gasps and hears Carol Lockwood shriek.

He looked desiccated and gross, but what freaked her out the most was the gigantic silver coated stake that went through his chest. She glanced at his face, eyes closed with a worried expression. She suddenly felt sad and angry. Like she had caught some of Klaus's earlier moods. She felt angry and sad for Klaus. She couldn't even begin to imagine how he felt. It wasn't everyday you get to see yourself dead from someone else's perspective or have your family thinking you're gone and no friends to help you out.
She felt a hand on her shoulder, she looked to her side to find Tyler, who was possessed by the very man she was thinking of. He tried to smile but it came off as a thin line. He saw the brief anger on her face. Maybe she finally realized that she was helping the murderous Hybrid in the coffin and not Tyler who she was directly interacting with the past few days. Klaus bowed his head thinking to himself.

"Alright then." Bonnie cleared her throat.
Everyone looked to her. She was placing emergency candles on the carpet floor. They were positioned to form a circle. She closed her eyes and within a minute the candles all flickered to life. Caroline watched with amazement. She still couldn't get over the fact that her friend was magical.
Bonnie left the candles behind and walked towards the coffin. She looked into it, hatred on her face. Klaus couldn't care less.

She looked to Caroline, "Remember what we said?"
Caroline nodded. She needed to give Klaus her blood. Vampire blood. Caroline placed both hands on the stake and pulled. It felt cold to the touch. Once it was out she quickly thrust it aside, wanting to get away from it.
Bonnie, then, brought a knife to Caroline's forearm and cut into it quickly, forming a thin red line. Caroline only winced a bit. Not giving her wound the chance to heal, she brought her arm to Klaus's chest. A few drops fell onto the wound. She knew that to speed up the process she must actually touch his chest. Blushing she lowered her arm, making it rest on the wound. From the corner Klaus watched. He suddenly wished at the specific moment he was in his own body, feeling Caroline's touch.

He heard a gasp. Looking at his form in the coffin, he found his wound healing up quickly, the dark blue veins disappearing, his skin gaining color again. He turned to watch Caroline; she was looking at his form with wonder. If only she would just admit she had something for him.

Bonnie nodded in approval, like a scientist preparing an experiment. She then turned to Klaus. He walked over to her, knowing the next step. He had done this dozens of times before. After all, it was one of his favorite tricks. He stepped into the circle of candles. Caroline pushed the coffin to his side. They shared a brief eye contact before she turned to walk out the circle.

Bonnie started to speak in an unknown language. Everyone watched as Klaus closed his eyes and looked down, completely relaxing his body. He started to feel detached. He opened his eyes once more to look at the witch. She looked like she wouldn't mind stabbing him in the eye, slowly. The hatred she had for him amused him. He couldn't remember anyone who hated him more than she did. Oh wait… there was always Mikael. However, he started to sense something different about her. For a moment he thought she might actually try to pull of some other witchy business. He narrowed his eyes giving her a warning. She caught it. With a sigh she closed her eyes and begun her work. After a few more minutes of absolutely nothing, Caroline started to feel impatient. She crossed her arms and started to tap her foot. Bonnie gave her an annoyed look. The blonde raised her arms apologetically and sat down on a nearby couch.

Suddenly Klaus gasped, looking up at everyone with wide eyes. Caroline stood up quickly to go to him when bonnie stopped her. She looked at her friend who didn't meet her eyes. She studied Klaus. What was wrong with him?

"Care?" he said before he dropped to the floor. Caroline instantly understood. It wasn't Klaus it was Tyler. With a sigh of relief she bent over Tyler carrying him with one arm around her shoulders to the couch. She laid him there, caressing his cheeks. She gave a giggle. "Your back." She whispered.

Bonnie smiled at the pair, before turning to look at the coffin. She was despising herself at that very moment. She really, really didn't want to help Klaus. But she had to. Her mom and the Salvatores, even Elena, who she was avoiding, would be dead if she didn't. Walking over to the coffin, slowly as if cherishing the moments before the peace went away, she glanced at Klaus. With a few more words he abruptly opened his eyes staring at the witch. The blonde stared from afar.

Caroline felt uneasy; was she doing the right thing? Helping him get to his own body? Maybe she should have thought of a way to preserve Tyler yet trap Klaus. But it was too late now. Klaus was awake. She went over to stand by Bonnie's side. His gaze went to her, following her as she moved. Caroline felt her breath hitch in her throat, stuck there. Holy crap, his intense gazes were even more intense when he looked at her with his own eyes. Caroline looked away, feeling color go up to her cheeks, as her heart beat went faster.

Klaus felt so stiff. He tried moving around a bit. After getting used to his body. He grabbed the chains that hung to him and tore them apart. He was still looking at Caroline, holding on to her. Now that she has Tyler once more Klaus was to go back to waiting for her. He will wait for her to finally realize she can't stay in this small town forever, with a small town boy. She deserved so much more. Now that Tyler's back he knew she wasn't going to figure it out anytime soon. He sighed, turning to the witch.

"Pleasure collaborating with you." He said as he straightened out, getting out the coffin with grace.
"Not so fast." Bonnie said, holding a hand to his chest. He raised his eyebrows at her.
"You have to promise to never hurt anyone ever again."
Klaus laughed. Caroline shivered. He sobered up, getting serious.
"Not going to happen sweetheart." He aimed to move away but her hand was still at his chest.
"Never hurt anyone in Mystic Falls. Anywhere else, go ahead. But not here. Never." She said with venom in her voice.

Klaus thought for a bit, "Fine." He declared.

"Caroline?" a small voice came from the couch.

Everyone looked at Tyler, he was finally conscious with a hand at his head. He must be feeling out of place, Caroline thought. She ran to him holding him in her arms.
"Your safe, Tyler." She said with a relaxed laugh.

Klaus watched with envy for a while before he turned to leave. He had no place, here anymore. He will leave them to their own devices while he sets out to do… whatever he's going to do. He looked down at his shirt. He should probably get new clothes. With an annoyed roll of his eye he left the motel.

Caroline stopped attending to Tyler long enough to catch Klaus walking out the motel apartment. She suddenly felt guilty, why? She didn't know. She felt like she should say something to him before he left. On impulse she stood up and let Carol, her mom and Bonnie sit by Tyler instead. She followed Klaus out. She needed to stay goodbye. Meanwhile Tyler watched her leave not missing the look on his girlfriend's face as she chased the man he despised.

"Klaus!"
Klaus turned to find Caroline. He was in the parking lot looking for another car to steal. He was surprised to see the object of his affections stand there, looking at him with concern. Caroline felt like she wasn't controlling herself. Her body was doing things her brain didn't approve of. For one thing she shouldn't be out here comforting the villain while her boyfriend sits inside, in the aftermath of death. For another she shouldn't be feeling this great urge to help the lonely man she was staring at. She felt like she was obliged to. After all the horrible things he told her about his life, she felt like someone should help him out. She wanted to be that someone.

"Klaus I can help you."
He stared at her, another one of his intense looks.
"I can help you get your family back." She took a step closer to him, "Rebekah is here."
Klaus felt anger seep through him at the mention of his sister.
"I know you're angry at her, but try and let it go." She said with a sigh, "Seriously things would seem so much easier if you just let things… go." She was starting to feel nervous under the power of his gaze.

Klaus didn't know what to say. He just couldn't believe she wanted to help him. No one ever did. He let a smile soften his features. Maybe she was going to come to him sooner than he had thought.

There you go! I hope you enjoyed!

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