Anonymous said: Dark Klaroline: Klaus is tired of waiting compulsion or torture.
Caroline woke up in a familiar looking room. She was strapped down to a chair and, looking down at her hand, she noticed that her daylight ring was gone. She heard footsteps coming up behind her and half expected to see her father, even if he was dead and gone. This was after all, the very same room where he had tried to torture the vampire out of her.
However, it was Klaus who walked into her line of sight. Crouching down in front of her, he smiled and reached up to slide a strand of her hair between his fingers.
"So glad you're awake, Caroline. Now we can get started."
She saw him look somewhere behind her and give a nod and she heard the sound of metal shutters clanging open. Suddenly she could feel the intense pain of her back being exposed to the harsh sunlight. She didn't try to stop the scream that ripped from her throat. She was too lost in the pain to hear the shutters close again and was only aware that they had because of the lessening of her pain.
"There, love, you did wonderfully. I knew you would. Now, if you're a good girl and learn your lesson quickly, this won't have to last long."
Though she was afraid of the answer, she couldn't help but ask, "Why are you doing this? What lesson?"
Klaus looked at her with a cruel smile and fisted her hair, tilting her head back as he rose up to loom over her, pressing his forehead to hers.
"You need to learn that your place is with me, not playing coed with the humans."
There was a sharp pain in Caroline's chest, followed by a squeezing sensation. An almost euphoric expression overtook Klaus' features before he pressed a rough kiss to her lips.
"And now I have your heart, just as you have mine."
A sudden calm conviction filled Caroline. Once upon a time, this might have been something that Klaus would have done to her. Not anymore, though.
"You're not Klaus. I'm pretty sure that you're not Silas, either. So, who are you and why are you doing this?"
Between one strained breath and the next, Caroline found she was no longer strapped to a chair, but was now lying in her dorm-room bed. However, there was a stranger standing at the foot of it. In a second, she was standing between the intruder and the still sleeping Katherine.
"As long as you insist on staying here, your nightmares will continue until I get bored and slaughter you and your human. So, I would suggest you vacate my territory as soon as possible."
Without giving Caroline a chance to respond, the vampire was gone, leaving Caroline very pissed off and very determined to find the asshole and tear his heart out. There was no way she was going to let some cheap parlor tricks scare her off.