HELLO LOVELY PEOPLE!
So I know this took ages and I am extremely sorry, not gonna bore you with the details I've just been extremely busy, so chapter 9 is here and it is a good one! Lots of getting to know about Enzo's past and the two of them really growing as a couple, and we get to see a little bit more of Damon and Enzo's friendship which I love. Please review and tell me what you think, good or bad, I love reading them, feel free to tell me what you want to see more of or if there's any more characters you want to include in upcoming chapters. I really enjoyed getting back into this story its been a while.
The screams that Caroline heard echoing from the guest room made every hair on her body stand on end, all the air left her lungs and her heard pounded as she was running back to the bedroom.
Caroline pulled to a halt in the bedroom door panic painted all over her face to catch a glimpse of what was going on. His screams were clearer now, he was screaming in pain and for it to stop, his voice sounded like he may have been crying… oh my god, a nightmare. Then he said her name. It sent a shiver down her spine and she leaped forward and ran towards the bed and sat next to Enzo full of panic. Caroline put her hands on his bare chest and tried to calm him and wake him.
'Enzo!? Enzo!?... Wake up I'm here..." she started to cry at his pain.
She shook him to rescue him from his pain and eventually his eyes snapped open. He looked so confused and didn't seem to know what was going on, his face wore a pained expression and was wet from tears and his body drenched in sweat, his breathing hectic as he looked around the room before his eyes landed on Caroline.
"You left…" he said with panic between breaths. "You must have left…"
"I got up to get a drink, I'm here… I'm not going anywhere." Caroline said rubbing her hand on his face.
He breathed a sigh of relief and his body visually relaxed.
"You're here." He said confirming it to himself.
He then sat up and wrapped his arms around her resting his head on her chest and squeezing tightly, Caroline reciprocated and wrapped her arms round him placing her hand on the back of his head and resting her chin on top of his head. She rubbed his head with her hand and tried to sooth him, he was soaked in sweat but she didn't care. His breathing was still all over the place but he seemed to be coming back to reality and she could feel his speeding heart rate slow down.
"I was so scared." He whispered into her body, so quiet she almost didn't hear him.
"It's okay, I'm here." She soothed him.
He pulled his head back and looked at Caroline, in that moment he was so thankful for her, she was slowly saving him from his torturous past, I mean the mere fact that she left the bed caused him to have a night terror. He was totally bewitched by her and was amazed by how she could calm him down so quickly.
Caroline looked down at him and in that moment realised how much she cared for him, his pain had created such pain for her and she didn't even know the reason behind it, she just knew that she didn't want him to be in any sort of pain, she wanted to take care of him. She brushed his face with her thumb wiping away a tear away, she pressed her lips to his and kissed him softly. Enzo grasped her even more tightly when he felt her lips press against his, she was perfect and she was his, he was never letting go of her.
As Enzo calmed the two lay back down on the bed, Enzo on his back and Caroline snuggled in under his arm with her head on his chest, she lightly grazed the skin on his chest back and forth and it had a totally relaxing effect on him, he reciprocated by rubbing his thumb up and down her arm, and the two just lay there in the aftermath of what had just happened, happy to be with each other.
"Are you feeling better?" Caroline whispered.
"I've never felt more relaxed, sweetheart." He said in that low husky way.
The two were quiet but Enzo knew they would have to talk about what just happened and Caroline didn't want to push him, he knew that was why she hadn't said anything yet and he liked the fact that she wasn't pushy. He was terrified though, he had never told anyone about his years at Augustine, the daily mutilation and torture were something he was having a hard time forgetting about, as evident by his recurring vivid nightmares of being butchered by every mean imaginable.
In a moment of courage Enzo spoke up, she hadn't asked but he wanted to share his life with her and so if they had a chance at a future together he had to be honest with her.
"It wasn't the same nightmare as it usually is…" Enzo whispered.
Caroline's eyes shot open, he was opening up to her. She had to be careful not to say the wrong thing, but her mind was running overtime with unspoken questions. She moved her head so she could look up at him, he wasn't looking down at her, his eyes were pointed straight up at the ceiling, this was obviously a hard topic for him.
Enzo's heart was pounding, but he continued.
"Well it sort of was, but you were there…"
Caroline listened intently not wanting to push information out of him, she continued to rub her hand on his chest.
"It's always the same memory… this one particular day the doctor was in an especially foul mood and as always they would take it out on us. Have you ever heard of the Augustine's?"
Caroline's eyes fluttered as she tried to think, but it didn't ring any bells.
"No, I haven't" she said softly.
He took a deep breath and continued.
"They're this society of doctors that know about vampires, they use us to experiment on for research, they are mainly interested in our healing abilities, and that's where I was."
"You mean you were locked up and tortured!?" Caroline blurted out with pain in her voice before she could stop herself.
"For many years." Enzo said quietly.
"Anyway… in the nightmare he was cutting me open and having his fun testing how far he could push me before I would die and come back, it's just the pain I remember. He would cut out parts of me like my eyes or…" Enzo's voice caught in his throat and he was obviously in pain recalling the memory.
"Stop, Enzo… you don't have to go on, this is obviously horrible for you, I hate seeing you in pain…" Caroline's eyes were filling with tears from his torture, she didn't want him to recall it if it meant him hurting.
"But I do…" Enzo said intently, sitting up manoeuvring his body and Caroline's so they were sitting on the bed facing each other, he had to let her in, and she had to know how much she had changed his life.
His face was wet with tears again and Caroline wasn't far behind him, it was totally and completely apparent how much each cared for the other in this moment. Enzo sat legs crossed and Caroline kneeled before him, she held his hands in hers and he went on with his story.
"So like I said… this time it wasn't the same… you were there…"
"It hurt so much, day after day... I could hardly bare it, but I looked up and you were standing in the room with me."
"I screamed for you to help me, but you couldn't… then you turned and walked away."
Caroline squeezed his hands tighter and moved closer to him tears now on her face.
"…and you have to understand this… the pain of you walking away from me was worse than the torture, a million times worse. I would do it all again if I thought it would lead me to now. Here. With you." Enzo said in his upset state, grasping Caroline's hands to his chest and looking deep into her eyes.
The pull in Caroline's chest was totally heart-breaking, the thought of him in so much pain.
"I would never have left you Enzo, I'm not going anywhere." Caroline looked into his eyes and whispered to him with so much love in her voice as she moved even closer to him if it was even possible.
"I've never told anyone about that time Caroline, but you need to know how much you've changed my life. I look happy to an onlooker but before I met you I was in a dark place, like I had been since the 1950's…
"You're so full of light and I don't have nightmares when you're by my side. You're like an angel, the purest heart amidst the darkness."
Her heart was bursting and she felt like she had known the man before her for a million years, he had gotten under her skin and into her heart in the short time they'd known one another. Since she was already crying and they were already down the rabbit hole, she thought he needed to know how much he had changed her life too.
"Are you kidding me… when I met you I had just been chased away from home, was on the run, newly turned vampire with so many heightened emotions and feelings I had no idea how I was even going to begin to build a life. I was in so much pain before you barged into my room. You've changed my life in a million ways too, you're the light to my darkness."
Enzo looked at her in awe, how could she possibly be so perfect.
"And also… I think im in love with you." Caroline whispered with a small giggle.
Enzo's eyes shot open. Holy shit. Did she just say that? Enzo's heart was beating hard in his chest.
"Caroline Forbes, I've been in love with you from the day I burst into your bedroom and you scolded me." Enzo's childlike grin was totally infectious, Caroline breathed a sigh of relief and threw her arms around him, the two could not have been holding on to each other any tighter.
They both breathed deeply, and were in a state of total ecstasy. Who would have thought a mere five minutes before they were both blubbering like idiots. It was like a huge weight had been lifted, like the dark bubble they were in in the middle of the night with no one else around made it easier to say what they were both feeling.
Caroline leaned back and rested her forehead against his. Her leaping onto him in an embrace had left her astride him while he sat still with his legs crossed on the bed.
"What now?" Caroline whispered with a giggle.
Enzo looked up at her, the woman he loved, all messy hair and puffy eyes… she was truly the cutest thing on the planet, and couldn't think of a better way to remember this moment. He tightened his arms around her and smiled his boyish most genuine smile as he clasped the back of her head and brought her lips to his.
Caroline happily reciprocated his kiss wrapping her arms round his neck and playfully pulling him back with the weight of her body so she landed with a poof on the bed, and he landed on top of her.
The two laughed playfully before their lips met again, this time it was different, not so playful this time, it was deeper, more serious.
His hands wandered down her body, pulling up the hem of his t-shirt she wore, he quickly pulled it over her head leaving her in her underwear. He then let his mouth wonder down to her breasts where he expertly reached underneath her and unhooked it, pulling the straps over her arms and freeing her breasts. He sat back on his heels for a moment admiring her before he got back down onto her so they were eye to eye.
They had had sex before, but now it was different, the first few times had been all about speed and lust, ripping each other's clothes off "I have to have you right now" kinda sex. This was romantic and passionate, slow, taking the time to appreciate each other kinda sex, that they had never had before.
Caroline trailed her hands all over his chest and through his hair, dipping her head back into the bed appreciating the slow torture he was giving her. He gently explored all over her body, down past her sternum across her stomach, down her thighs and back again, she couldn't take the heat.
Enzo dipped his fingers into the sides of her panties and slid them down her thighs at a frustratingly slow pace, Caroline looked down at him and had got too caught up in his teasing exploration that she hadn't even realised his boxers were off.
Enzo made his way back up her body at the same rate he had the first time until they were nose to nose, he got hold of her hands and pinned them to the bed above her, manoeuvring so he could hold them with one hand he used the other to get into position between her legs.
Caroline's heart was pounding, Enzo's heart was pounding, they were nose to nose, looking into each other's eyes with anticipation, but there was no hurry, neither of them were going anywhere.
Slowly, but ever so satisfyingly, he pushed himself inside her and let out a low growl in his throat, he was using both hands now to restrain Caroline to the bed, she was pinned there, helpless, totally at his mercy, but she trusted him entirely.
She groaned as he picked up the pace, he let go of her hands and she wrapped them around his neck.
"Hold on, sweetheart." He growled.
He then grabbed her behind her back and lifted her up so that he was kneeling on the bed and she was astride him.
She had never done it this way before, but oh my god it felt good. She was totally enveloped by him and had forgotten that they were not in their own house or alone for that matter, Caroline let go and started to move on top of him, he matched her rhythm perfectly and they were getting close.
Caroline started to moan more loudly, she may in fact have been about to wake up the whole house, but she didn't care.
Enzo growled between his teeth at her reaction but put his hand over her mouth to stifle the moans as to not wake anyone up and ruin their middle of the night sex bubble.
"Come on, darling." He said as he thrust into her even harder.
Him doing this only turned Caroline on more, what is it about sex when there's a slight chance of getting caught, a rush of adrenalin maybe that makes it so much hotter. Caroline could feel herself building and Enzo was getting close too, she had seen it many times now. She too put her hand over Enzo's mouth to stifle his moans, the two of them were at the brink, Caroline couldn't hold back anymore and let herself come, this was by far the most intense one so far, it rippled through her body over and over and she clung onto Enzo with shaky legs and harsh breathing while he dug his hands into her and groaned loudly into her hand.
The two collapsed onto the bed and lay on their backs breathing loudly and deeply.
"Oh my god…" whispered breathlessly with the biggest grin on her face.
"I know…
Bloody hell, the suns coming up." Enzo said looking towards the beam of light getting in through a crack in the blackout curtains.
"What now?" Caroline giggled.
"Breakfast?" Enzo turned to her and smiled still out of breath.
Caroline whipped her head round to look at him.
"Oh yeah!" She laughed and rolled over towards him and their lips met once more.
"I'm so happy I met you." Caroline whispered against his lips.
He smiled. "You have no idea miss Forbes." He said holding her head between his hands.
"Now come on… lets go get breakfast." She beamed before hopping out of bed.
Enzo watched her walk across the room naked and smiled with his hands behind his head.
"Come on!" Caroline giggled excitedly, as she slipped her dress on from the night before.
"Coming, my love." He whispered to himself as he made to follow his blonde beauty to the kitchen.
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Caroline sat next to her man in his car as the two drove down the beautiful country road back from Damon's house. She smiled to herself as she thought about their morning together.
"I'm really happy that you two are in the honeymoon phase and all… but next time remember you're in a house full of vampires with supersonic hearing, so you might wanna keep the noise down." Damon said with a mischievous grin at the breakfast table.
"Oh my god, Damon!" Caroline squealed, and threw a muffin at him which hit him on the shoulder.
"Ouch." He said sarcastically.
Elena and bonnie were still asleep, obviously their human tolerance didn't make it so easy to wake up from a drunken comatose state, which was pretty good for the rest of them because they could speak freely about the vampire thing, this was actually the first time all the vampires had been together without any human ears, Enzo sat next to Caroline and Stefan sat across from them with Damon, they all had a good laugh about the night before and of course Damon was scolded for playing the "never have I ever bit someone" question during their drinking game.
As the pair set to head home, Caroline headed out the door while Enzo said goodbye to Damon. Caroline turned to look at them and pulled her hair behind her ear and listened in to what they were saying, she only did it to see if everything was alright, Damon had his serious look.
"I heard you screaming last night… don't tell me it's still happening?" Damon said worriedly.
Then Enzo turned to look at Caroline lovingly.
"Not anymore." He responded with a grin.
Damon knew exactly what he meant, it was a girl who had pulled him from his dark period a while ago, in the end it didn't work out, but their relationship was enough to distract him from his pain.
Damon then pulled Enzo into a hug and looked genuinely pleased for his friend.
"Im so happy for you man." He said warmly.
They pulled out of their embrace and Enzo smiled at his friend before slapping him on his arm as he walked towards his girl waiting in the doorway.
Caroline was totally content as she watched her man approach her, he kissed her on the cheek when he reached her.
"Let's go, sweetheart." He grinned, and they did.
As the two approached the hostel together they walked hand in hand like two regular people in love, Caroline had never been so content in her life, for once everything was going perfectly and nothing was going to spoil it. Enzo walked Caroline to her door and opened it for her.
"Home sweet home" he grinned down at her and kissed her sweetly.
"Such a gentleman. Are you sure you don't want to come in?" She beamed, happiness was oozing out of her, she couldn't keep it in, she was genuinely and truly happy.
"If I take you in there you'll never get out to meet Elena for lunch." He grinned mischievously. "I'll see you tonight." He whispered, and pulled her hand up to his mouth for a kiss.
"I guess you're right, what are we doing tonight?" she giggled.
"It's a surprise." He said with the expression of an excited five year old.
"Okay mystery man, see you later." She said sweetly before he gave her one last kiss and walked off towards his room.
She stood there and watched his door close behind him and she sighed a huge sigh before twirling on her heel and going inside her room. Looking around she realised how much had changed since she was last in here, the beach, the drinking, the nightmare… she shivered at the thought, but then there was the declaration of love, and the sex that followed… wow… she still hadn't come down from that cloud yet.
As she wandered into her room she distracted herself from her whirlwind life by deciding to choose an outfit for lunch with Elena. As she rummaged through her suitcase trying to choose something she made a mental note to properly unpack soon, she was still living out of this god damn suitcase, but then she thought that unpacking was so permanent and that would mean she wasn't going home… she hadn't thought about home in a while and it made her sad.
She was distracted by a piece of paper that had fallen out of her suitcase during her careless rummaging. Caroline was kneeling on the floor now and when she picked it up she realised what it was. Oh my god. She hadn't looked at it in a while but it still made all the hair on her body stand on end.
The piece of paper had on it a drawing of her next to a horse, with a message at the bottom…
"THANK-YOU FOR YOUR HONESTY, KLAUS"
It was the one shred of evidence that contained his name, Caroline held on to it in the hopes of one day finding this Klaus and asking him why he abandoned her, the picture brought such confusing and cloudy thoughts to her head like she could almost remember where it came from, but this was probably the millionth time shed looked at it and she was yet to remember a thing. She stared down at the picture and realised she hadn't thought about her mysterious sire since meeting Enzo, which was good, she didn't need the hassle, her life was finally going amazingly and she didn't want it to end.
Caroline was startled by a deep voice coming from behind her.
"I see you kept my drawing." A man said in a low husky voice, similar to Enzo's but somehow totally different, his voice was filled with so much promise.
She froze.
What?
She whipped her head round to see a handsome rugged fair haired, stranger standing in her doorway with a sweet smile on his face but a sparkle of danger in his big blue eyes.
She was stunned to silence with a million things filling her mind as she looked up at the man before her, she stood to her feet and turned to face him, looking down at the drawing and then to him.
"Klaus…" it was barely a whisper.
"Hello Caroline."