"It's not the pale moon that excites me -That thrills and delights me, oh no -It's just the nearness of you," she sighed as she avoided his stare.
"It isn't your sweet conversation -That brings this sensation, oh no," she shook her head as she sang sadly her hands trembling as she held the microphone delicately.
"It's just the nearness of you," Caroline's raspy voice sang into the microphone of the dimly lit bar as she slowly looked up from her shoes.
Her eyes met his for the first time that evening, actually that week as she sang, "When you're in my arms and I feel you so close to me."
She chocked down a sob as she sang, "All my wildest dreams came true," Klaus' mouth parted and she didn't fail to see the look of awe in his eyes.
She swayed with the tempo their gazes still locked as the next verse started, "I need no soft lights to enchant me -If you'll only grant me the right."
He felt his heart jump to his throat as she sang happy memories rushing over him, sad memories too, as he heard her voice once more, "To hold you ever so tight."
It was the only way he could see her now and he with a sullen heart would take what he could get even if it hurt more than it helped.
He sipped his drink as he allowed himself to wallow further her eyes drifting from his as she sang the last bit of the song.
"And to feel in the night the nearness of you," Caroline disappeared from the stage before the final chords of the piano died.
Klaus turned to the bar to clear his tab for the night when he felt a hand on his arm stopping him, he sighed mentally preparing himself for another fight.
Gathering his courage he turned to look at her, "Could we talk," she asked he nodded at a loss as he sat back down gesturing for her to join him.
She sat down fixing her dress as she went, "You can't keep coming here," she whispered shutting her eyes as she looked back at him.
"Very well," he rasped as he tucked his hand into his jacket and pulled out a bill then set his hand back down on the bar as he got up to go.
"You didn't let me finish," she said reaching for him but missing just out of grasp she followed him outside ignoring the busy town around them.
"I already know what you'll say and if you'll allow me I'll just go," Klaus said as he continued walking as much as he wanted to crawl back after her.
As much as he wanted to plead for her to accept him he wasn't right for her, Caroline was a light that deserved more.
She didn't need his darkness to diminish what she offered to the world, "Stay," she called after him cutting through his contemplations.
He paused hearing her clicking heels as she caught up with him, "I don't just mean right now," she said as she came around him.
"Stay with me," she murmured as her hands cupped his face her heels the reason she could look him eye to eye without standing on the tips of her toes.
"I know it's hard and it might always be that way but stay," she asked him wanting to shake him, make him understand, "Because you love me and I won't stop loving you."
"We'll figure it out," she murmured against his lips as she kissed him softly as he stood stock still letting her do with him as she wished.
"You love me," he asked his hands shaking as he placed them on her shoulders she smiled shaking her head at him unclear as to how he hadn't figured it out yet.