For Hybridlicious

She fought the feeling all day by flipping through the pages of her text books to keep from doing what she really wanted to do. Bake.

Now at three in the morning with no one around to stop her she set the oven at 350 and set to work on the blue velvet cupcakes she'd been thinking about all day.

She moved quietly around the community kitchen of her dorm building careful to not drop the metal cupcake pan as she set it on the counter.

Inserting the cupcake papers before she grabbed for the bowl filled with the blue batter that had her stomach grumbling.

She placed the pan in the oven setting a timer on her phone as she got to work on washing the whisk, measuring cups and bowls she had used setting them to dry.

Caroline reached for her lab notes flipping the first three pages over to get to the highlighted part she couldn't seem to master.

"The last three days you've been down here baking after hours," she froze hearing her dorm leader coming closer, what was worse it was Klaus.

She looked up her eyes meeting his as she set her notes aside and crossed her arms preparing for a confrontation though she had never actually talked to him before.

From what she gathered from other people living here however met that she should not be fooled by the smile that emphasized his dimples as he moved closer.

"Yeah well," she said her chin coming up, "I stress bake," she said sounding casual he surprised her when he laughed thinking she had never heard of him in a happy mood.

"It smells amazing," he complimented as her timer went off she quickly reached for her phone shutting off the alert sound as he reached for the oven mitts.

"Do you mind," Caroline said unable to keep from smiling at the gull of him taking out her cupcakes and placing them on the stove to cool.

"Actually I don't," he returned, "Caroline, right," he asked as he reached for the lid of the unopened frosting can.

"Are you trying to eat my cupcakes," she asked as she took the can from him before he could unseal the frosting she would not miss that moment.

"Actually I'm trying to figure you out," he said as he set himself next to her leaning casually against the counter sticking his finger in the can taking some frosting.

"You'd think you'd figure out that you shouldn't eat other peoples frosting," she said dipping her finger in too, "Why did you leave your cave of darkness?"

Klaus laughed at the running joke among the dorm that he was a vampire only coming out at night and only when strictly necessary in the day.

"I left because there's a girl," he said his eyes lingering over her making her look away, "I think about her often but I've never actually spoken to her."

He turned taking a spoon from the drawer behind him before he grabbed two cupcakes and moved closer to her, "She's always got her nose in a book."

Caroline gaped at him as he worked besides her setting the baked goods down before he stuck the spoon into the frosting, "Except for when she's down here."

She listened to him as she watched him work frosting the cupcakes she smiled as she heard his stomach grumble like hers, "You should hurry up with those before she never talks to you again."

"Bossy too," he remarked playfully handing her one before he turned, "I'm liking you more and more," he said taking a bite out of the dessert she had made.

"It's fantastic," she said laughing at his face he opened his eyes and she caught the euphoria there, "I know," she said as she ate hers.

"Technically it's against the rules if I ask you out," he said as he ate another bite she nodded throwing him a grin he licked his lips locking his eyes with hers.

"But if I take you out and show you how to absolutely destroy Professor Nettles economy test," he said gesturing to her notes, "Would you say yes," he asked.

"I'd say yes," she told him as he took the rest of her cupcake and ate it, "But if you touch my cupcake again you won't get that date when Christmas break comes."

They spent the rest of the night talking as quietly as they could eventually taking the food and her notes back to his dorm in order to keep from being disrupted from the early morning stragglers.