Gloria's spell told him where she was and the distance that would have taken hours to cross took only minutes at vampire speed. Had he been anyone but the original hybrid he would have been exhausted. He made no attempt at stealth, he flashed down the metal stairs of the wearhouse where he'd been told she was and took a bullet to the head.

His neck snapped back at the force and his eyes went dark with rage and he snapped the mans neck before he had to stop and will the bullet from his skull. It dropped to the ground after considerable pain and he looked around for Caroline.

He felt bile raise in his throat at the sight before him, Caroline was desiccated cut on, with stakes in her limbs and a bullet in her head. He flashed to her side pulling out the stakes, her eyes were closed and he had no idea if she were even alive.

He could feel panic reaching up from his heart to consume him and he had to swallow it before he was no good to her. He looked around until he found something to dig the bullet out with, he felt sick as he dropped the hunk of wood on the floor.

He went over to the dead guy and drained him dry so he could feed Caroline, if she'd been conscious he would have let her feed directly. He pulled her from the chair onto the floor where he held her in his lap. He bit his wrist tilting back and covering her mouth with the open wound.

His chest grew heavy with panic when she didn't move to drink at first, but after a moment she gasped nearly choking on his blood before gulping it down ravenously. She wrapped herself around him as her wounds healed, she had always loved the way he tasted, like spiced hot chocolate almost.

"You saved me, again." She whispered, he was nearly in tears with the joy of having her alive and in his arms. He pulled her into his chest clinging to her for a moment before pulling her back and kissing her breathless.

She had forgotten how soft his lips were in contrast to the rough stubble on his chin, and how perfect they felt against hers. She reached up ignoring the pain as she tangled her fingers in the soft curls of his hair deepening the kiss.

He had never tasted her before and even after such an ordeal she was sweet, like strawberries and the honeyed brandy she'd been drinking before she'd been taken. He let his eyes drift closed so he could enjoy her without distraction.

She moaned opening her mouth to him her velvet tongue darting out to tangle with his in a struggle of desperation to assure the other that they were still alive. They didn't break apart for a long time neither strictly needing to breath, and when they did Caroline Smiled wickedly.

"If I'd known all it would take to get you to admit that you wanted me was my near death I'd have done it centuries ago, oh wait..." She started but was cut off as he kissed her again, this time with less desperation and more passion, it sent a flush through her body.

"Shut up love." He whispered, she laughed grabbing his collar and kissing him, he scooped her up getting to his feet.

"Lets get you home." He told her flashing out of the building and back towards there apartment holding her close. He took her to his bed not hers and set her down on the soft bedding gently.

"Rest now love." He told her soothing her hair back gently, she took his hand pulling him into the bed so she could lay on his shoulder while he held her.

"Why were you so against this?" She whispered letting his touch sooth away the pain of the slowly healing wounds. He kissed the top of her head still frightened by the idea of having such an obvious weakness for her.

"My whole life I have never trusted anyone the way I trust you, you could destroy me in an instant if you so choose, and that is hard for me to handle love." He told her quietly, she nodded slightly, she had suspected as much, but it was nice to hear him admit it.

"You know that means I won right, I seduced you the big bad Niklaus fell for little ol' me?" She told him with a giggle, he rolled his eyes kicking off his boots.

"For the first time in my life I'm happy to lose, in fact feel free to stake claim to your victory any time you want love." He told her pulling off his shirt, she blushed toeing out of her own shoes and curling up against him to sleep until her wounds were healed.

They were both startled into consciousness by Rebekah bursting through the door to Klaus' room. She was in quite the huff too, Klaus sat up giving her a look of board irritation.

"Did you chase down Stefan's brother last... Oh dear lord did you two finally sleep together!?" Rebekah asked seeing the state the two of them were in, Caroline blushed hiding her face in the pillow.

"Yes to the first, not in the way you're implying to the second, someone tried to kill our dear Caroline last night, I intervened." He explained his fingers still entwined with hers, it was nice finally being with him she finally understood what he had said to her at the dance. Funny that it had been a twenties era dance when he'd said it, "some day."

It hadn't made sense when he said it how could he be willing to wait for potentially centuries just for her. There was nothing special about her, not really, that's why everyone had always loved Elena first, even Tyler. Now though she got it, it wasn't about how special she was in her own mind, or how special he was in his. It was about how they effected each other, how special he was to her and how he made her feel, and that was more then worth waiting for.

They took everything delightfully slow, they danced and they held hands and they courted each other every night. It was perfect, it was five years after that night they were in Rome, Rebekah had left with Stefan, when they finally ended a night in bed.

He'd taken her to the theater, she'd learned to really love the theater, and they'd had dinner on a cliff side, he'd compelled these waiters to serve them this ridiculous romantic meal with music and flowers. They walked for hours under the moonlight and when the sun kissed the horizon he'd been talking about how she'd changed him, and he'd finally admitted he loved her.

She'd kissed him and there in Rome on a Sunday morning with the pale light of dawn on there backs she'd finally gotten to have him. It was perfection if ever she'd felt it, they ended up in there hotel room at some point some lost clothes and stumbled steps, but he wanted it to be in there bed.

Ten years later Rebekah and Stefan came back with Damon to witness there wedding, where she was treated like a queen in her priceless dress, and the perfect groom. Later Damon had saved Elena when she fell off that bridge, and they fell in love. Elijah came to Mystic falls with Kathrine to help deal with Ester they even woke up Kol for it.

The curse had been lifted without a single permanent death, and once Ester was gone they woke up Fin and introduced him to Caroline Mikaelson. Damon fell had for Elena and she for him, she didn't even meet Stefan until four years after she found out Damon was a vampire, and they had no feelings for each other.

On Elena's twenty fourth birthday Caroline turned her as per her request and decades later there they all still were, Klaus Finally had everything he ever dreamed of. He had loyal friends, family, and a wife. A wife he could trust with his life without a second thought, all in all things turned out perfectly, it didn't mater what came there way, together they could handle anything, even Silas.

-The End-