The Remnants
Description: Klaus finally rescued his little Barbie doll and now he has to deal with the aftermath. Will he tell her he was 'Tyler'? Will Caroline care if he does?
Warning: Sorry if Caroline seems a bit OOC. First fanfic ever, so I'm still working on keeping them themselves :P
She notices the five stakes on the floor and grips the back of his shirt again. She continues staring at them as he carries her out of the room. When they finally make it out, she snuggles her face into his neck and whispers "Thank you, Klaus."
He tightens his grip around her as he brings her to his bedroom. (After all they were still in his house.) He places her on his soft lush bed and blurs out of the room. He comes back with clothing from Rebekah's room, "Here, I'm not sure if these will fit, but we need to get you out of those vervain soaked clothes." He drops clean lingerie in front of her and walks into his side room. Caroline quickly changes into them and then lets out an "ouch" to get Klaus's attention. Klaus rushes back into the room with a blood packet in his hand, and then just stares at Caroline's beautiful body. It completely healed already due to his blood. He knows that she's still weak, which is why he got her the scrumptious blood bag.
Caroline climbs into his bed without asking and makes herself comfortable under the sheets. Klaus dangles a blood packet in front of her for he knows she needs and wants it. She sits up to drink it and Klaus goes over to his drawers to pull out a t-shirt. Seeing Caroline just in her bra and underwear is just as painful as seeing her hurt. By the time he turns around she already finished the blood packet. Her dark eyes were becoming bright again and creeping veins turned back into her perfect light skin. Klaus hands her the t-shirt and turns away. Caroline blushes and puts his shirt over her.
"Thank you." She says in a shy low voice. "Also … I'm sorry." She starts to cry again, but this time it's because she is sad, not because she's in pain. He turns around quickly caresses her face with his hands. He is now sitting on the bed with her and staring straight at her. Her bright blue eyes were glistening behind her tears. When she looks at him she began to cry even more.
"Caroline, you're strong and have a beautiful future ahead of you." Klaus says to her in his lovable British accent. She immediately recognizes the phrase, for it was when she was saying goodbye to Tyler. She figures that it was him and not Tyler at all! She doesn't know if she should be furious or happy, for these last couple days have been the best 'Tyler' days she's ever had and it was only because it wasn't him.
Klaus lifts the covers up and wraps his arms around Caroline. He lets her rest her head on his chest as he rubs her arm and cheek. He moves her curly blonde hair out of the way for it keeps getting stuck in her tears. She can feel his heartbeat go into sync with hers and that made her just curl up more into him.
"It was you." She manages to ask. She doesn't move though for she feels completely safe being wrapped around by his arms. She knows it is wrong, but she knows he'd do almost anything for her after today. (She doesn't know why she even asked, because regardless of the answer she wasn't going to leave. She guesses that she did it so that he knows that she knows, and that she doesn't care.)
"I'm sorry sweetheart." He says in that loveable tone that he only uses with her. Caroline looks up at him; she stops crying now. His fear is that she would leave right then and there regardless of the moments they just shared. Instead she gathers her strength and meets her lips with his. At first he is shocked, but feeling her soft lips against his feels like magic (it was nothing compared to the ones they shared while he was trapped in Tyler's body.) He accepts her kiss and passionately returns her gesture. He carefully places one hand on her neck and the other around her waist. Neither of them deepens the kiss, but each enjoy every second of their romance.
Caroline is the first to stop and looks down immediately, blushing so hard that it made Klaus grin. (Klaus tilts his head for he knew it probably is too good to be true.) He continues to caress her cheek with his thumb and opens his mouth as if he is about to say something, but then doesn't. Caroline doesn't say a word either; instead she just goes back to cuddling in his arms. He looks down at her and she looks up at him. She batters her soft eyelashes and blushes again. Caroline then cutely nuzzles her face into his chest while gripping onto his shirt.
He knows what that means. He finally has her. He still doesn't understand why he feels this way about Caroline. He lived for over a thousand years and never felt this way about anyone, especially not for a new little vampire. Caroline was special though, to him she is strong, beautiful and full of light.
He pushes back a blonde strand of hair and whispers to her "I love you." She can feel the tears swell up in her eyes, but she couldn't help but return those three true words. She looks up and manages a smile and tells him, "I love you, too."
He presses his forehead against hers and they both close their eyes. She leans back into him and he lies back staring at the ceiling. Caroline can feel her heart racing in perfect sync with his. She still is trying to understand how this happened, but she caves in and just adores the moment. It is a bond she never shared with Tyler and even though she techniclly is still his 'girlfriend', she knows that it doesn't matter. After being with Klaus, she knows where and whom she wants to be with. She thought it would be difficult to choose, but it isn't. She didn't want to string along two men like how Elena did. The second Klaus opened up, she knew. She knows she wants to be with him. Klaus.
