Only yours
They both just stared at each other for a moment, but for Caroline it felt like an eternity. God, being so close to him after almost a month was making her head spin. And she just wished he would put his shirt on, I mean it's not like she wasn't admiring the view, but it was just so damn distracting and she really, really needed to concentrate. Sooner or later one of them would need to start talking, one of them would have to say something, anything … This staring contest wasn't healthy. She knew she had to be the one, since she was the one who barged in here, and she was the one that told him she didn't want to have anything to do with him, and last but not least of this fun little list, she was the one getting married tomorrow. She shivered just by thinking about it.
"You should probably change clothes." he was the one that finally broke the silence.
" What?" she said not quite understanding what he was saying, it was like her brain completely freezed when around him. And she knew. This is exactly how love feels like, how it should feel like.
"You're soaking wet. You should probably change so you don't catch a cold, or worse." he repeated as if talking to a small child and this made her a bit angry because he thought he was about to send her packing.
" Well, that's too bad, I'm here to talk to you and I'm not going until I do so … Catch my death or not …" she said in a determined voice wondering where the hell was this sudden surge of courage coming from, but she was grateful for it.
" Fine." he said but in an irritated voice, "I'll give you something of mine to wear until your dress dries off. And then you can leave." his voice was cold as ice, but she knew she had it coming. And for once she was grateful for the stupid rain she hated so much her whole life, it gave her an excuse to stay here with him and try to talk.
He handed her his t-shirt and a track suit and pointed her to the bathroom.
She started to remove the dress that was soaking wet as she looked herself in the mirror. My God she was a mess, the hair, make-up, everything ruined. Her heart? Almost there … What was she thinking, why did she come here again? Oh yes, to fight for Nik, to fight for her happiness. But how to hell is she going to do that? The only way would be to tell him everything, but if she does that then there's really a chance she could lose him forever. He could kill him, she thought, and it would be my fault, a part of her was saying as she was trying to brush her hair at least a bit and remove the smudged make up. But the other part was saying – do what you should have done from the start, trust him. If you don't risk it … This is your last chance Caroline … Yeah, she was clueless what she was going to do but she knew one thing. She couldn't stay in this bathroom forever, that's not why she came here. She didn't come all this way to be a coward. One life to live, fight for it.
She stepped into the room and saw him sitting on his bed. He was looking somewhere in the distance. He looked so young and so vulnerable. He flinched when he heard her approach him. And there it was, the hurt on his face … I did this to him, she thought, and her heart began to ache. She knew she had to tell him the truth.
" I …" She approached him a bit more but deliberately didn't sit next to him on the bed. She didn't think her heart could take having him so close and not being able to touch him.
So she stood in front of him, in his t-shirt and track-suit with ruined hair and make-up and she never felt so small or vulnerable. But she took a deep breath and started talking.
"I know you're probably wondering what I'm doing here Nik."
He looked her in the eyes but she could still see there was nothing but hurt and coldness there, a horrible, horrible sense of dark: "Well, I can't say I'm not a little curious why little Miss Forbes tomorrow Lockwood came to see someone insignificant as me. Party already over love? Too boring for you? Came to have one last stroll in the hay with the peasant before you marry the gentleman of your taste?"
Caroline was struck with his words, like someone pushed a dagger through her heart. But she soon remembered how she pushed one through his only a month ago. She deserved that, but it still hurt. She never wanted him to think that way about her.
"On Nik, please don't say that. It sounds so horrible."
" Oh, I'm sorry, I'm a little plain so it takes me time to figure things out. So were're what? Role playing now? You're playing the role of the little innocent princess that wants to be corrupted by the bad boy from the wrong side of track? That it?"
" No Nik … Please listen to me …"
" I'm done listening to you princess. If you came here for a shag I'd give you one." And before she could realize what was going on he grabbed her and threw her on his bed. He started kissing her neck but no, this is not how this was supposed to go. He wasn't really kissing her; he was just unleashing his rage on her. She tried to push him off but he really had her pinned to that bed. She thought he could never hurt her, but she had never seen this side of him, and she knew she was the one that provoked this; she just hoped she hadn't ruined him forever. That the man she was desperately in love with wasn't gone forever.
" No, Nik … Nik, please stop."
"Too rough for you princess? Well that's what you get when you meddle with a bad boy. Maybe you should run off to your little Tyler, I'm sure he'll be much gentler with you doll."
And by saying that he released her and jumped off the bed.
He turned around and said only one word: "Leave."
" Nik, I love you." she whispered gently but that made him even more angry.
He approached the bed and she was sure he was going to grab her again but he just stared at her with darkness in his eyes.
"What is wrong with you? What kind of a sick game are you playing?"
"I love you." she repeated it one more time. She never said it out loud before, and it sounded good, she enjoyed saying that. She enjoyed saying that to this man, and nobody else, even if he didn't believe her, yet …
" I think I'd loved you from the very first moment I saw you, if that's possible. I really don't know because I've never felt like this before. You're the first thing I think about in the morning when I wake up, you haunt my thoughts all day long, even when I'm doing something else, even when I'm thinking about something else actually you're still somewhere in the corner of my mind, and my heart of course. When I go to sleep at night I still didn't have enough of you and I close my eyes and pray to God to have dreams that consist of you, that is how much I love you." she said in one breath while he was still staring at her, but she thought she saw a glimpse of something else in his eyes now. Hope maybe?
" Do you really expect me to believe in that? You forget I know how good of a liar you are Miss Forbes."
"You are dead wrong Mr. Mikaelson. I'm a horrible liar. That day in your office … I still don't know how I managed to pull it off. The only explanation I give myself for lying that good to you that day, and I was laying, every word I said, was because I was trying so hard to protect you."
"Protect me? Have you been drinking Miss Forbes? Celebrating your last night of freedom a bit too hard?"
"Shut up!" Caroline screamed and completely surprised not only Nik but herself as well.
"Just please shut up for a second and listen to me. Could you do that? I know you technically don't owe me anything but let's pretend you do and give me a minute to tell you something without interrupting me with your sarcastic comments. "
He sat in a chair and looked at her with a looked that was saying: come on then, give it your best shot, I dare you.
And so she did. I mean she just told him the truth. Everything that had happened since the moment he left her that night and she entered her house and found her father waiting for her. She told him about the death threat and about her and Katherine's plan to make him believe she wanted to marry Tyler and that he was just a game to her. She literally spilled her heart to him and once she was done he just sat there. The little bastard just sat there and didn't say a word, not a peep.
"And you expect me to believe you?" was the first thing he said and her heart sank. He really had trust issues, big ones.
"And why would I lie to you about something like that Nik?" she said in a gentle voice.
"I truly don't know, but then again ... It seems I usually don't know anything about you high class girls and your wicked ways of fun."
Caroline was just about to tell him plain and simple he was being a, forgive a girl's French, dick, but than she remembered something from earlier that evening. His conversation with that awful Tatia. Maybe … Maybe he had reasons not to trust her. Maybe she would just have to make him trust her. Make him see her love for him has been genuine.
She started walking towards him, he didn't move a muscle. She leaned herself closer. They were again eye to eye, although ironically enough they weren't seeing eye to eye just yet. And then she did it, one life to live, went for it all. She kissed him. She just touched his lips only lightly but it all came back to her. The night beneath the stars when he kissed her like there was no tomorrow, like they where the only two people in the world. Luckily it obviously came back to him too because before she knew it he opened her mouth and started kissing her back. She sat in his lap and they were kissing in a frenzy. His hand wrapped in her wet hair, her hand on his bare chest. Their tongues where colliding, fighting a battle of their own. She positioned herself in his lap and she could feel his excitement. He moaned her name when she started nibbling his ear. After a moment they finally looked at each other and her heart started dancing a happy dance when she saw in his eyes he did trust her. But she was afraid to ask anything, afraid to ruin this magical moment between them. In the end, words weren't necessary here anymore. Their bodies, their souls, and their hearts pretty much said it all. He removed a wet lock of hair from her face and started playing with it.
" I missed you so much." he said in a husky voice.
" I was always yours. I'll always be yours. Only yours." she whispered into his ear.
"Promise?" he whispered while applying kisses to her neck.
"Yes. Oh God, yes." she moaned as he lifted her shirt, I mean his shirt, a little, and found a delicate spot on her back.
"Mmmake me yours Nik." she trembled by saying this but she knew she meant it. She knew she wanted it. She wanted him. Only him.
"Are you sure love?" he asked her gently and now she finally saw the reflection of the man she fall in love with in his beautiful eyes. And yes, she was sure.
"Only yours." she whispered once more as he picked her up and placed her gently on the bed.
He removed her t-shirt to discover she had nothing underneath. Since her bra was also drying in the bathroom. She felt a bit self-conscious and her first reaction was to cover herself up but then she saw the way he was gazing at her.
"You are so beautiful sweetheart. Like an angel."
He laid her down and started kissing her breasts. It felt like heaven. She soon stopped feeling shame and just went with it. She felt like she was on fire as she was sliding her hands through his silky hair. His tongue was torturing her. And then it went lower. He was licking her stomach and she started giggling because he was tickling her. But she suddenly stopped giggling when he started removing her track-suit.
"Wait …" she screamed.
" What's wrong sweetheart?" he asked in a worried voice.
" Well … I … I think I have to be honest with you. I, I haven't actually done this before. Ever." she was waiting for his reaction impatiently feeling ashamed.
" Sweetheart, it's alright. We don't have to do this if you don't want to. If you're not ready …"
" No, Nik … I want to … I want you to make love to me. I'm just a bit scared."
He kissed her gently on the lips and looked into her eyes: " Do you trust me?"
She smiled and said yes.
" Then let me take you to the stars once more. I promise I'll be gentle."
" I trust you." she whispered and she heard him remove her pants.
" So, so beautiful. And mine. Just mine." he was tickling her with words but in a good way, a veeery good way.
She stretched her hand to touch him but he moved it away.
"This night is about you Caroline. Don't worry well have plenty time for everything else later. I promise."
Before she could say a word he slid of her panties and there she was. Naked. In front of a man. But not just any man, her man, a man she loved. And it was right, she knew it was.
And then all the thinking on her behalf just stopped. He was doing something to her. Something with his tongue, something wrong and forbidden and something oh so good.
"Nik" she screamed out not being able to contain herself any longer.
"You say may name so wonderfully." he was teasing her, the dirty dog.
Please Nik, stop torturing me."
" You want me to stop?"
" Yes … No, no … Don't stop."
She didn't have a clue what was going on with her body but she could feel every muscle clench as she closed her eyes and held on to dear life.
And then she felt something entering her and a stench of pain rushed through her.
" It's ok. It's ok love. Just relax. It will be fine soon."
She wanted to scream to leave her alone but then he started to move inside of her and she didn't feel any pain anymore. She just felt pleasure, fire and ice, shivers going up and down her spine. He started moving faster and faster kissing her ferociously.
"Oh Nik … Don't stop!"
She started scratching his back, digging her fingernails into the flesh as he trusted into her.
"Sweet Caroline." he whispered and she finally lost it. She exploded like one of those stars he wanted to show her. Now she finally reached them, joined them in a happy dance of pleasure she had never experienced before.
He came soon after and joined her in this oblivious bliss.
She closed her eyes and a smile spread across her face
"Only yours." she thought to herself.
"Only yours, always and forever."
Although in a world like this always and forever could last only a short moment …
Here you go my lovely sweethearts ... A full on Klaroline chapter ... My God I really, really hope you like it since I've been writing it for hours and it's been emotinally draining ... But I think it ended up pretty well. Finally, our lovers together. But ... The wedding is still on, her father is still a threat ... There is lots to come their way and if they really love each other and want to stay together they'll have to fight for it. So you have more to hopefully look forward to if you like this story. PLEASE,PLEASE REVIEW AND TELL ME WHAT YOU THOUGHT OF THIS CHAPTER ... I always feel like I really suck in writing love scenes so your honest opinion and a REVIEW would mean the world to me ... THAAANK YOU SWEET KLAROLINE FANS, LOVE YOU ALL :))) ... I'm just all love after this chapter ;)
