Hi everyone! So sorry its been so long i've just been super busy and haven't had the chance to get back into this, have had lots of uni stuff to do now and am working all the time too :( but here it is! chapter 10, this is a biggy, i know some of you are wanting klaus back and some are wanting caroline and enzo to stay together for longer, i'm in between at the moment myself and can't decide which couple i love more! So if you want klaroline comment ant tell me, and if you want Carenzo tell me! maybe i'll have to go with a majority vote here :) anyway let me know what you think of this one i hope you all enjoy it and you can always private message me if you have any questions or anything you want to say but don't want to leave in the comments section.

"Don't be scared sweetheart." he said sweetly, registering the fear on Caroline's face, which was completely normal considering he had compelled almost every memory of him away a few months ago.

She may not have been excited to see him, she didn't even know who he was, but klaus's heart was pounding. He hadn't seen her in what felt like an eternity and his world had been dull unworthy of living since he left her that day. The memory of their last goodbye was freshly engrained in his memory, her begging him not to leave and to take her with him, it had been stuck in his head from the moment he had to tare himself away from her, but all that stood between the love of his life coming back to him was for him to look into her eyes and bring it all back.

Klaus stepped one step further into the room towards her.

"Stop." She said holding her hand up cautiously.

Caroline was terrified, if this the man who made her like this? The man who left her alone. Her head was fuzzy and she didn't know why she was having an overwhelming rush of feelings taking over her body, but that didn't make them any less real. Who is this man and how did he find her. Caroline was frozen in shock and confusion, she didn't know anything other than the fact that she was frightened, and didn't want this stranger coming any closer.

Klaus stopped in his tracks and his face changed from one of amusement to one of hurt, he hadn't been entirely sure how she'd react to seeing him again, but the fact that she was so afraid of him felt like a blow to the chest, "oh caroline if you'd only let me come closer i can take it all away" he thought. If only he could just compel back the memories this reunion would be magical, if caroline knew for a second the amnesty of her feelings towards the man standing infant of her then she would leap into his arms in a second, but thats the thing, she had no idea of who he was never mind how much she was in love with him not so long ago.

Caroline and klaus were absolutely infatuated with each other not so long ago and unbeknownst to her the only reason she was the way she was, was because she had decided that she wanted to spend the rest of eternity with him and her lifetime wouldn't be long enough, but here she was standing in front of him without even a fraction of the love she deep down felt for him, she had no idea how if she would just stop being afraid the man she begged not to leave her would come back to her in a millisecond.

And so there they stood with the immensity of their love pilled solely on Klaus's shoulders.

Caroline plucked up the courage to speak to him, she wanted answers. That is after all what she had wanted to do whenever she found this man.

"You're Klaus?" she said shakily.

"The one and only sweetheart." he smiled mischievously.

"How did you find me?" Caroline whispered.

"You're not as hard to find as you think, love. You always said you wanted to come here to London" he trailed off as he walked towards her window and looked outside "…so when your mom said you ran away where you'd never be found, i knew you'd have come here for a fresh start… and I learned what happened with your parents, I am so sorry Caroline." He said genuinely.

Caroline was suddenly filled with anger.

"Don't say things like that… you don't know me!" she said loudly and forcefully.

"It may seem strange to hear but I know you extremely well, you once told me I knew more about you than you'd ever told anyone before." he said quietly turning his attention to her, she was still scared and her voice was shaky.

"What're you talking about? I've never seen you before in my life." she said confused, still angry and a whole bunch of other emotions overcoming her, her eyes started to fill with tears, from what she didn't know.

"Yes you have, Caroline." he whispered.

"You made me like this…" Her eyes were full of tears and they begun to fall onto her cheeks.

"…and you left me…why would you abandon me without any answers, why would you turn me into this?" Caroline choked back tears, seeking the answers she needed from this man.

Klaus's heart broke at her confusion, he had to leave her he had no other choice, it was for her own safety, he took a few steps closer so he was standing in front of her now, not caring for her fear, he needed to be near her and she needed to remember him. He reached out and grabbed her hands, she resisted slightly but she was so upset and he had to hold her.

"Caroline… i never wanted to leave you alone, it wasn't by choice sweetheart…" he said putting his hand on her face and wiping away a tear while she looked at him.

"…I had no other choice than to make you forget about me, it was for your own safety." he pleaded with her.

"You made me forget? you compelled me?" she looked up at him confused.

"Yes Caroline, I compelled away all the memories of me, thats why you're so confused about seeing me here, but i promised i'd come back for you when it was safe for you, and i have. And I made you like this for love Caroline, so we could spend eternity together, I know it does't make any sense right now but it will if you just let me give you the memories back, sweetheart." Klaus was now holding her head in his hands and looking down at her wanting nothing more than to kiss her but she was so confused and he didn't want to overstep.

"So we were in love?" she asked quietly still confused about the whole thing.

"We are in love." He corrected her.

"But I'm not in love with you…"

Klaus felt the world fall away from his feet at that moment and it was like someone had ripped the heart from his chest, he knew she didn't mean it because he had made it this way, but just hearing the words from her mouth made his whole world fall apart in a second.

"…I'm in love with Enzo."

There it was.

That was the fatal blow to the chest that was his undoing, she was in love with someone else. He immediately felt anger for whoever this man was and wanted to kill him… but how could he? This wasn't caroline's fault, she's the most beautiful, amazing woman on the planet, how could she not meet someone. In that moment he now knew what it meant to be heartbroken, pain literally shot through his chest when he realised what his life would be like if he were to lose her, but what was he supposed to do, bring back her memories? she would still be in love with someone else. He felt like collapsing to the floor at her feet and begging her to stop loving him.

"I'm afraid of you."

No. No Caroline don't be afraid. She had said that to him once before and it hurt as much now if not more, the memories came rushing back through his panicked mind.

Klaus had just returned from New Orleans, his happy place, where he would go when his life wasn't going anywhere and it always managed to make him happy and relaxed. Somehow on this trip he wasn't feeling any better and it was because of her, he couldn't get her out of his head and he knew now that he'd met her he would never be able to forget her, and his trips to New Orleans or anywhere else for that matter would never be as satisfying without her by his side.

"Everybody thought you were gone for good." Caroline made polite chit chat at the sight of him again.

"Its true… but i never meant to leave without saying goodbye." Klaus looked round to her as the two walked side by side through the woods.

"You don't owe me an explanation." Caroline stopped walking making him turn to face her. "You're moving on, by all means just…go." she said.

"But thats just it, isn't it? See i never had any intention of moving on." he looked up at her. "The truth is i've tried to stop thinking about you… and i can't." he said honestly.

Caroline exhaled and walked past him brushing his right shoulder.

"Come to New Orleans…" He pleaded. "What're you afraid of?" he called after her.

Turning on her heel Caroline whipped her hair behind her and tuned to face Klaus.

"You!… I'm Afraid of you." She confessed.

Tears started to make their way to Klaus's eyes, this was all too real, as soon as he brought her memories back she would remember their love and this wouldn't hurt anymore, this was all just a too real reminder what his life would be like had they not fallen in love.

If only she was aware of how much she terrified him too, he was totally terrified, of what she could do to him, of the power she had over his world and how little control he had over his own happiness, it was totally dependent on her, and that scared the shit out of klaus. He felt like he was losing her.

"You terrify me Caroline Forbes, but i can't live without you now." he pleaded quietly.

In that moment Caroline pulled his hands off her face and stepped away from him.

No. Caroline you don't know what you're doing.

Klaus was panicking, she was in love with another man he had no idea how this would effect things when he brought their love to light, what would she say… who would she choose? he didn't know what to do, bring her memories back or leave, he could always make her forget again and leave her to be happy. No. Klaus was a selfish bastard and he needed her. Everyone always says she must be a special girl to make Klaus's cold heart beat, his heart does not beat for her… it pounds. And that it was, banging against his chest like it was trying to get out.

Caroline was so confused, she couldn't look at him because she felt like if she kept looking at him she might just succumb to his words and fall in love with him, she could feel that there was something there, but she just couldn't remember him at all, perhaps taking away the memories doesn't take away the feelings, did she love him? She loved Enzo, she didn't know the man standing in her room, but he compelled away the memories, maybe if he made her remember everything would be clearer, but did she want to remember? her life was going so well right now remembering a past life she knew nothing about might make everything turn to shit. What was she supposed to do, the apparent love of her life was here who she doesn't know and the man she confessed her love to less than 12 hours ago is 2 doors away.

"I'm so confused." she said quietly to klaus.

"I'd be surprised if you weren't." Klaus said in attempt to lighten the mood.

"I don't know if i love you, but I do know that my life is just picking up right now. I'm a new vampire and I'm learning and I'm scared and I'm finding myself. Will you bringing back my memories get in the way of that?" Caroline asked.

"I don't know." He said honestly.

He thought to himself for a minute, her feelings would be there forever laying under the surface of her emotions, now wasn't the right time to bring himself back to her, caroline had never been on her own without friends or parents telling her what to do, she had just got a taste of freedom and she needed to go out and do whatever it is she wanted with it.

"Caroline i do know that without a shadow of a doubt that you are in love with me. And I you. Before i met you i spent a thousand years thinking about nothing but myself, and then without wanting to or meaning to, I found you.

"All of a sudden i wanted so much more with you than i had ever wanted for myself. I never wanted love, but with you i craved it. If i brought back your memories you would without a doubt leap into my arms and welcome the love of your life back into yours, we are eternity caroline, we are the end game.

"I can tell your not ready to have me back right now, and thats okay, because i'll wait, go out and enjoy yourself, discover who you are without me and i'll be here when you have.

"Go and be whoever you want to be, and when you've decided, I'll take you. Wether you're still the light to every dark or if you've succumbed to the allure of it, if you want me i'll take you. I'm going to leave for now, but i'll be back for you when you're ready, after all…" he smiled, "We only have forever".

Caroline looked up at him as he walked towards her, she felt more calm now and relieved that she had met the man who turned her and although she still didn't remember it happening or have any memories of him, she had his account of why it happened and she knew he wasn't an evil creature who abandoned her with nothing, he loved her. Little did caroline know that her feeling of relief was short lived and she wouldn't remember this either.

Klaus reached caroline and leaned down towards her face, his eyes were full of tears when he reached her and was struggling to compel himself out of her mind for the second time when all he wanted to to was tell her to remember everything so he could kiss her again. He had been waiting to kiss her for a long time, but he would just have to wait a bit longer.

Caroline knew what he was about to do.

"Do you really have to make it go away again?" Caroline's eyes were tearful and although she barely knew him, she didn't want all she'd learned today to be gone again, and she didn't want his face to be gone from her memory either.

As he focused his eyes on hers, the temptation to bring it back was there, and he lingered for a second before deciding he was doing the right thing.

"Caroline.. I want you to forget that I was ever here today, you came home and fell asleep, when you wake up you're going to go about your day as planned, I was never here… and i always want you to feel safe, because you don't know it, but i'll always be looking over you, and when you're ready i'll be back, and i'll remind you of how great love can be. Goodbye, sweetheart." Klaus planted a small soft kiss on Caroline's lips, and like that he was gone, and caroline was sleepy.

Caroline lay down on her bed for a nap, and drifted off to sleep, and it was like nothing had ever happened.

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