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2012 to be Exact

She stretched her arms, jawed and felt tired. Her eyes felt swollen, like she had been crying, she rubbed them and then crawled up in a sitting position. Tyler laid a bit away from her and Klaus were no where to be seen. The last thing he had said to her on the date were like a never ending song in her head. Stuck and on repeat over and over again. She wouldn't forget it, though he reminded her yesterday. It was so convincing and true. He could offer so much more, but would he offer something better than Tyler? Quality before quantity was what stopped her from truly believing it as the better choice.

Klaus had lead them to some kind of other village. It was empty. It had been empty when they came too. He had surely left her and Tyler when they fell asleep in this cottage, because she did it at once. Even though the long hours of sleep, she was exhausted. The thoughts of everything and everyone were literally taking over her otherwise happy mood.

"Finally awake?" , she heard Klaus' voice say from the doorway.

"I'm not talking to you" , she said staring at the sealing.

"What have I done?" , he tried with a surprised voice.

She didn't answer. Not at all in the mood of more troubling thoughts of Klaus, though she still wanted to know for sure. Did she have feeling for him?

She was so tired and wanted to sleep more, so she laid down again, making it comfortable.

It didn't take long before she was asleep.

"Please, talk to me" , Klaus said while raising his eyebrows and revealing that wonderful smirk of his.

"Why? You never tell me anything anyways. Just stop wasting your time on me so that I can skip the hours of being angry because of being left lied to."

"Okay, yes I happen to be a bit guarded. But I have my reasons, like you have yours."

He took a step towards her, then let his hand run through her hair. It felt so good. He was so gentle. She let her eyes close and gave out a sigh. It was so hard not to give in on him when he acted like that.

"I'll stop being mad."

"Let me kiss you" , she heard him say before feeling his breath on her lips. She didn't stop him, she just opened her eyes and met his gaze before he pressed his soft lips against hers.

In a split of second she woke up breathing unstably. It was just a dream. But the dream had been so realistic, even though she couldn't feel the kiss. In the corner of the room she heard a low chuckle. Klaus.

"You controlled it!" , she shouted as she sat up.

He started laughing. "Maybe I did, maybe I didn't" , he said and shrugged his shoulders. "Was it any good?"

She scoffed and went for her dress that laid beside her. As she got dressed under the piece of fabric she used as a blanket, Klaus didn't stop smiling at her.

"I can't seem to forget how you took my arm before we came here. You know, mine instead of Tyler's. It doesn't stop surprising me."

Oh no, he just had to bring it up. "Well, you happened to be closer than him" , she said even though she knew she was kind of lying. Again.

"Really? I don't think it would take that long taking one more step to reach his arm instead of mine" , Klaus continued while nodding like a little boy.

Could he stop doing that? "I would never choose you over Tyler."

"But you did."

It was true. She had chosen him over Tyler. Why? She wasn't sure. It all happened so fast. From the other side of the room Tyler woke up and looked curiously at hem.

"Morning, sunshine" , Klaus sarcastic said because of the wrinkle on Tyler's forehead. Then he walked out, leaving them alone for some chit-chat Caroline wasn't to happy about having. Tyler went up and got dressed. Meanwhile, he started the conversation.

"About Hayley, you know it's just a plan" , he began.

"And so was the date. Remember?"

"Yeah, well, he has this thing for you. It bothers me. I mean his all over my girlfriend, of course I get angry." He said it like it was all her fault. She didn't like that at all.

"Don't bother going there, Tyler. Hayley is exactly the same."

They exchanged angry glances with each other, they were both hurt by the other one.

"We're just friends, Caroline" , he said.

"Maybe that's what I and Klaus also am? Never thought of that, did you? He is actually nice to me." It was going over hand. She never thought she would have this conversation with Tyler - about Klaus and Hayley. It was unreal, actually. Maybe their time was over? "Let's just focus on how we'll get back home, to the future" , she said before going out to meet the sunshine and the scent of fire-smoke. This needed to stop. The fight between them two, and not to mention Klaus. Why were they even doing this to her? Did she really deserve it?

"We need to find a witch" , Klaus spoke, leaning into a tree. They all still wore the same clothes. Not to forget was that she also wore heels. Which would be really weird for the people who lived there to see. Like he had read her mind he said: "And get some new clothes, this won't fit."

They agreed and followed Klaus. It happened to be a long way to that witch. They walked the whole day and when the sunset glowed red and violet over them, they were there. It was almost like a shed, all alone with nothing near for miles.

"I never got to meet this witch, but I've heard some rumors of her being an excellent one. Let's just hope she have what it takes to help us" , he said before opening the door and walking in with the fierce-Klaus look.

Caroline and Tyler stood behind him in silence. It was better to let Klaus take care of the talk.

"Come out, little witch" , he roared and a small, old woman with black hair came into the room.

"What do you want?" , she asked and raised her hand in an offensive way, preparing for a spell.

"That won't hurt me" , he said with a grin, stepping forward so that he stood right opposite the lady. "You see, we need some help with a problem and I've heard well of your abilities. Care to show us if they're as good as I've heard?"

"Werewolf's" , she said and looked at all of them.

Klaus let out a chuckle and then gripped his hand round her neck. "Hybrids. Some vampire, some werewolf … We're both."

"Vampire? There's no such thing" , she managed to say through his hard grip.

Caroline went up to them, concerned about how he treated her. They wanted help, not the possible helper to die. "You don't have to hurt her" , she said to Klaus.

The woman's scared eyes turned to face Caroline's. Klaus was deadly serious. He showed her his fangs and his eyes turned golden, the vampire and werewolf was clearly showing. She shrank back when she saw it. "Don't kill me" , she whispered.

"Not quite yet" , he said and lost the grip, became normal and let his hand fall down to his side. "We want help. So you better help us."

"Who are you? You are something I've never seen before" , she said while taking a few steps back.

"That's the problem, love."

"We're not from this time" , Caroline said to make it easy for the woman.

"2012 to be exact" , Klaus filled in.

"Wh-what? From the future? No, I don't have time for this. Don't joke with me, hybrids, that's impossible."

"Why would we lie?" , Caroline said with a gentle voice. "We need your help, okay? Is there something you can do? Please."

"No" , the lady said determined.

"You're lying!" , Klaus yelled while showing his fangs again.

The lady got nervous and started trembling on the words. "I … I have heard of a myth. I have heard of people traveling back in time."

"Like us, yes. But, we want to travel forward in time. Back to 2012."

Suddenly her face lightened up a bit, like she had an idea. "There might be a way" , she said. "I'm not sure, but it's all I've got. If the myth is true, it could work."

Klaus slowly nodded. "Just to be clear, if you succeed, I'll make an exception killing you."