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As Caroline and Enzo stood, still hand in hand for a moment, Caroline quickly collected herself. This charming, witty and all be it slightly over confident stranger had barged into her room and made a remark about her indecency being a bonus to his forced entry. In that moment Caroline snapped her hand back from his and her gaze was met with a sarcastic shocked look and overly dramatic show of hurt feelings as Enzo placed his hand on his chest. Caroline pretended to ignore his display and twirled round to retrieve her coat and swept it over her shoulders as she turned back to meet his chestnut brown eyes.

"Well, as nice as this was.. Enzo is it? I gotta go, things to do. So if you don't mind." Caroline muttered with a snide tone and forced smile as she raised her hand gesturing towards the door he had left open.

Enzo gave a cheeky smile in return, seeing right through her attempt at non chalice, "Ah and here I thought we were just getting to know each other sweetheart, is my company really so awful that you have to run off into the town with your cute little coat draped over your shoulders?" His eyes never left Caroline as he took one step closer testing the effect he had on her, and wondering if it was even close to the effect she was having on him. Damn it what was it about her. For a fleeting moment he thought he saw her eyes flicker in a moment of interest but she quickly resumed her no nonsense demeanour and returned his comment with a scoff and roll of her eyes,

"Please." She muttered sarcastically and began to stride towards him, getting intoxicatingly close before steering left past his right shoulder, brushing it as she went walking purposefully toward the door.

Their brief proximity had been enough to leave a lingering smell of Caroline in the air, she smelled of peaches and vanilla, a heady combination that Enzo believed was enough to bring any man to his knees. She smelled like his greatest dreams realised in one solitary moment and Enzo knew he would not be able to shake her so easily, he needed to know her. She had gotten under his skin in that short time, and it was not often women had this effect on him. He tried to avoid it after being hurt before and he also found himself to be very picky, Enzo wasn't interested in stupidity or neediness, he rarely found a woman that sparked his interest. The already strong hold Caroline had over him filled him with annoyance and excitement all at once, why was he so drawn to her.

Enzo quickly turned on his heel following her out the door, he did enjoy a challenge, oh Caroline you're simply making this more fun. He called after her as she strode down the hall with purpose,

"You know if you're in need of a tour of the city don't hesitate to ask, I'd be more than happy to oblige sweetheart." He smirked rather pleased with himself, if she was playing hard to get he was hooked, he stood in her doorway with a mischievous grin gazing at her from behind and she continually walked away without looking back.

"That won't be necessary." She called without turning round. And then she was out of sight as she turned to the stairwell and disappeared.

Enzo stood in her doorway for a beat with an amused look on his face, his eyes still fixed on where Caroline had disappeared from his gaze.

"Well.. That's that then." He muttered to himself with amusement as he started to close her door behind him, he paused for a beat wondering if he should go back in and look around to find anything that would tell him more about her, but the thought immediately filled him with dread, like he didn't want to invade her personal space. Enzo was nothing short of a scoundrel and wouldn't normally have any problems rooting around where he shouldn't, but he felt it best to steer clear of getting on her bad side if he'd have any chance of getting to know the mystery woman, he also smirked at the thought that her bad side wasn't somewhere you'd want to be, she was just so full of fire. With that thought he closed the door and wandered back to his room, with that smile she created still plastered across his face.

Enzo closed the door to his room, looking around he smirked at how messy it was compared to the beautifully neat bedroom he had stepped out of no more than a few minutes ago. He then thought of cleaning it, incase the beauty he had acquired a taste for was to ever come a knocking, not that she let herself show any interest.

Enzo's train of thought continued to drift back to her, of her perfect skin and perfectly wavy blonde locks, no man could deny her beauty, shit he didn't even know if she was single, he made a mental note to clear that up when they spoke next, although she would probably roll her eyes at him and pretend to be offended, like she had earlier when he made a remark about seeing her in her in an indecent state.

Enzo ran his long fingers through his messy chocolate brown hair while he headed to the fridge to fix a snack, his earlier encounter had made him quite Hungry. As he looked at the near empty shelves he sighed and took mental note that he would have to restock the fridge soon. He grabbed a glass and one of the few remaining blood bags and poured himself some lunch.

After sipping on the blood Enzo felt immediately more relaxed, and as he stared down at the glass stained half way up the inside with the runny red liquid, he idly wondered what Caroline's blood would taste like. He was surprised by his inability to smile at the idea, instead his thoughts were met with an expression of confusion and anger, for some reason the idea of drinking from her filled him with an unfamiliar feeling of guilt and he realised he didn't want to hurt her, he couldn't use her as a walking talking blood bag like he had with others before.

Enzo rolled his eyes in frustration at himself and the endless thoughts whirling around his mind, he sat on the edge of his bed, finished his lunch, and collapsed backwards with a poof on the sheets. Enzo stared blankly at the ceiling and thought about how to pursue his beauty, he didn't know what it was or what to do, he only knew he had to see her again.

Caroline wasn't lying when she said she had things to do, although even if she didn't she would have thought of something to get away from that guy, geez what was his problem. As she stepped outside into the busy streets she took a deep cleansing breath and felt herself calm and the adrenaline from a few minutes ago leave her system, boys like that are no good, she needed security and a new start, getting involved with a charming, overly confident bad boy wasn't what she needed..although he did look good in that black leather jacket with his messy brown hair hanging over his forehead just slightly..

"Stop it" she grilled herself under her breath, no good would come of thinking about what just happened, he was just being overly forward like he probably was with countless other poor women who chose to stay in this boarding house. Caroline decided to sum the experience up as a little bit weird and put it behind her, banish him from her thoughts and move on with her plans, jeez she hadn't even looked at the time, she was going to be late.

Caroline marched down the street, she had a small idea of where she was going from the vague directions she had been given, she was on her way to meet a girl she had met on the plane, they got to talking and ended up chatting away the entire flight and weren't staying too far away from each other in the big city of London. They decided that since they were both traveling to a new town and wouldn't know anyone that they should keep in contact and decided to meet each other later that night for a drink to celebrate new beginnings. Asking for directions a few times along the way, Caroline eventually found her way and the bar they had agreed to meet was in sight. Grabbing her phone from her jacket pocket, Caroline wrote a quick text to her new contact "almost there." Which was met with a swift reply a few moments later.. "I'm inside sitting at the bar, see you soon!".

Caroline smiled at her phone and out it back in her pocket, Elena was so carefree and seemed really happy, Caroline didn't know much about why she was headed to England but had no doubt that it was her choice and she was probably just traveling the world like young adults should be doing. Caroline hadn't told Elena about why she had left her home town, but didn't want to or know how to tell someone you've just met that you'd been chased out of the country by a gang of angry vampire hating councillors who were scared you were a monster who would rip out their jugular. Caroline was approaching the bar and stopped for a beat to get herself together, this whole vampire thing was still pretty new and her emotions ran pretty high, and whenever those thoughts of home crept in she tended to be a whirlwind of emotions from absolute rage to absolute heartbreak. She shook her head as she went back to happy thoughts and stepped inside the bar.

It didn't take long for Caroline to find elena, the bar wasn't that busy and elena was sitting on a barstool waving her arms at Caroline and smiling. Caroline headed over and gave elena a small hug and sat herself down on the barstool next to her.

"So what do you say we drink until we can't stand anymore, because I for one am loving it here and think we need to celebrate. Oh and how are you liking your new place? Did you get settled in okay?" Elena beamed at Caroline, half kidding half serious about the drinking thing, but completely genuine about hoping she's settled in.

"Yeah I think I'm gonna like it here, shopping, sightseeing and British men, what's not to love?!" Caroline put on a convincing excited face, but wasn't as excited as the girl sitting across from her.

"I know, talking of British men I think I'm in love with the bartender" she joked as she tipped her head in his direction while smiling at Caroline. Caroline was never the queen of subtlety, made evident by her peeking to check him out and being caught red handed as he walked cooly down the bar towards them. Elena shot Caroline a look of pure joy and raised her eyebrows, obviously showing no embarrassment as her crush sauntered over. Elena was fun, and a good person, that's what Caroline needed right now, and trying to forget about all her troubles, Caroline decided to agree to Elena's earlier idea about getting extremely drunk.

As the bartender arrived in front of them, Elena swooning at his proximity, Caroline decided to just go with it and turned to Elena breaking her gaze from the bartender, and with a mischievous smile on her face said "so how about that drink then?"

Elena beamed back giving the same look of excitement and mischief, she turned to the uncomfortably good looking barman and said.. "Four shots of tequila please."

The bartender obliged, then again and again, Caroline was surprised he kept serving them. A quick drink turned into a full blown drinking session and hours passed by as the girls sat side by side, talking and laughing, at one point Elena even fell of her chair from laughing so hard. They were getting along so well it was like they had known each other for years and Caroline knew they'd be good friends after this, and that filled her with happiness knowing shed at least have one person in in a town where she thought she would feel all alone. Caroline laughed and laughed, forgetting about her circumstances for the night and just having fun like she should be doing.

The girls talked about their hopes and dreams and plans for the future, Caroline had to twist the truth a little being that her future was eternity and she was hardly thinking about going to college and having a career, but all the same she still did have hopes and dreams, and it felt good talking about them. Elena was so easy going and had plans to travel the world and also to find love, Caroline enjoyed having a good conversation with someone her own age about stuff she cared about, it had felt like weeks since she had had a conversation with anyone and she had missed it, the two talked for hours to come and it was starting to get pretty late, Caroline had been drinking with Elena since the later afternoon and didn't know how Elena was still standing, Caroline's vampire state raised her alcohol tolerance levels but Elena must have just been good at handling her tequila.

"So what's happening with you on the guy front, seen any guys you like yet?" Elena asked digging for dirt and looking at Caroline expectantly with a grin on her face.

Caroline was feeling a little drunk and actually decided to tell Elena about her flirtation earlier on in the day.. "Not really, I met the weirdest guy in the house I'm staying at today, just barged in my room to introduce himself and was all sexy and flirty, kinda creepy, aren't British guys supposed to have manners? I mean seriously."

Elena laughed and looked at Caroline with a cheeky smile.. "Caroline Forbes has a thing for a bad boy British guy and we've only been here a day, gotta say I didn't see that coming." Elena teased.

"Shut up!" Caroline snapped back laughing, although she wouldn't like to admit it Elena might be right, she had spent an awful lot of the night finding herself thinking about him and scanning the bar to see if he was there.

In that moment, Caroline felt that feeling that was becoming more and more familiar to her, she felt the blood rush to her cheeks and the veins under her eyes start to tremble, oh no, she was hungry. She looked at the clock and it was after 10 o'clock and she realised she hadn't had any blood since that afternoon, shit. Thankfully Elena was deep in conversation with the bartender, what was his name Steven, Stefan? Caroline jumped off her stool and made her way to the bathroom.

She headed straight for the mirror to look at herself, thankfully the bathroom was empty and she was alone. As she stared at her reflection leaning on the counter in front of her, she took a deep calming breath and her face went back to normal. Caroline put her head in her hands and thought to herself how much she longed to have another vampire to help her through this, or even just someone who knew about it and wouldn't freak out, she just wanted someone to talk to about it, of course she could compel someone not to be afraid of her but then it wouldn't be real.

Heading back out to meet Elena at the bar, Caroline had decided it was time for her to go before she ripped into someone's neck.

"Hey, there you are!" Elena beamed, " I was just about to get another round."

"Actually I think I'm gonna head home, getting a bit tired you know, it's been a long day" Caroline said with a tired smile. "Anyway you can stay, I'll just jump outside and get a cab."

"Are you sure, I'm more than happy to walk with you?" Elena exclaimed

"No no stay, I'll be fine." Caroline insisted, Elena smiled and hugged Caroline as she made to leave, Elena seemed far to wrapped up in the bartender anyway and to be perfectly honest Caroline was worried that any longer and she would be feeding on her new friend. As Caroline got outside and was hit by fresh air, she realised just how drunk she was, a little more than she was proud of, but hey, she had been drinking tequila for over 6 hours. The great thing about such a busy town like London is that there is never a shortage of cabs, Caroline jumped in the first one she saw and before she knew it she was on her way home, or to her new home anyway, if only the taxi could whisk her away to music falls.

Caroline pulled up outside the boarding house and was relieved, knowing that in a few minutes she would be upstairs drinking one of the blood bags she had put in her fridge earlier. Caroline stepped out of the cab and stumbled, bumping into someone, she instantly knew who from the smell.

"Hello gorgeous" Enzo said looking down at her with a burning gaze, and a very smug look on his face.

Caroline was in no mood, but she was also a little drunk. In her drunken state she wasn't sure how to respond to him this time, her responses were coming at her a little slower than usual, Caroline still retained her no nonsense attitude towards his pet names and met his hello with a scoff and said "hello yourself." She then strode past him to go inside and couldn't get up to her room quick enough, but she was having a bit of trouble finding her keys in her bag, and her tipsy state was evident by her failing attempts to find them.

"You're drunk" Enzo chuckled, looking totally bewildered by the beautiful creature in front of him being extremely cute in her intoxicated state.

"Yeah well.. You're everywhere, what are you stalking me or something?" Caroline asked, not her finest moment she thought to herself, but a legitimate question, he was everywhere she looked, or maybe it just stemmed that way because he had been popping into her thoughts all night.

"Alright let's get you upstairs goldilocks" Enzo said with a smile.

Caroline wanted to shoo him off but quite frankly she could use the help, she wasn't the most coordinated person sober. Enzo opened the door and they walked together along the hallway to the stairway where they would walk up one flight of stairs to the first floor.

"Good night?" Enzo asked smirking, not looking at Caroline he continued to look forward, Caroline felt the smirk in his voice without even looking back up at him.

"Until now." She replied, secretly pleased with herself for thinking of a decent come back while mildly intoxicated. He wasn't phased though, he just laughed loudly. That was probably one of the reasons Caroline was so drawn to him she thought, he was so easily able to laugh at himself and didn't take her seriously despite her best attempt.

When they arrived at her door, Caroline had her shoes in her had and had padded along the corridor bare foot, she thought the stairs would be a bit risky in her heels so she took them off to avoid any further embarrassment. She looked round at him..

"Okay, home safe and sound, you can leave now." She snapped.

Enzo looked down at her, he had never wanted to compel her, it wasn't in his plans, but he could see she was a bit drunk and just wanted her to go home and have a good night sleep, and the thought of him worrying about her all night didn't sit well with him, he just wanted her to feel better. Enzo looked straight into Caroline's eyes, concentrating hard,

"You only had a few drinks tonight and came home Caroline, you feel good, you're tired, and you're going to go inside and have a good nights sleep, and.." Enzo was cut short but Caroline's outburst.

"Wait! Are you trying to compel me?!" Caroline screamed.

"Wait.. How did you.." Enzo stood back, his eyes burning into Caroline's with confusion.

"Are you a vampire?" Caroline practically whispered, she looked up at Enzo with a hopeful yet scared look on her face, she didn't know what to think, she was scared of him a little bit, but if he was then she wasn't alone.

"Are you?" Enzo replied, his voice equally hushed and his look equally hopeful.

They stared at each other for a moment, eyes burning brown into green and she whispered..

"Oh my god.."