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Caroline had a tight grip around him and held him close to her now warm body.
Last night she had quickly drifted off to sleep and Klaus had been very relieved about it. It gave him time to ponder in silence. For hours he had stared at her face and occasionally stroked a strand of hair behind her ear. Her beautiful face was peaceful and her body relaxed against his. It was like butter melting against a hard surface. He even thought he'd seen the ghost of a smile linger on her soft red lips, but he didn't dare to believe his eyes. It would have been too much to hope for and probably even too much to bear.
Never the less, Klaus still couldn't really grasp what had happened…
How had they gotten here?
The young baby vampire had stood up to him, the original hybrid, again!
She had challenged him with her merciless honesty, even though she had been scared that he'd punish her for it. No one other than Elijah had ever dared to do as much and he had gotten his neck snapped for it more than just one time. As for Caroline…she was alive, lying in his arms right now! Klaus almost laughed at the irony of it!
She was lying peacefully in his arms and if he allowed himself one piece of honesty tonight then he had to admit that it felt incredibly good. It was the way that Caroline curled herself deeper into his side that made him think that she would want to hide herself behind him. A strong feeling of protectiveness settled down in his stomach. Klaus swallowed the lump that rose in his throat. How far would he go to keep her safe?
In that moment Caroline hitched her leg up that came to rest over his loins and the sudden tingling in his guts made him almost lose his mind. It settled deep down in his stomach and he gulped as her leg slowly slid over his anyway sensitive cock. Oh yes, this definitely felt too good to bear!
He closed his eyes and groaned fighting down the arousal inside his stomach to maintain control.
Klaus struggled to concentrate on anything other than Caroline's body next to him. Her breasts heaved with every breath she took and he was very aware of that. His member stirred when Caroline sighed in her sleep. In shock he realised that he wouldn't be able to control himself. She was driving him mad without even consciously doing anything, just by sleeping soundly next to him. He had to get a grip and figure out which way to go from here.
Somehow he wondered what Elijah would tell him…
Oh god, how did he get here? Wondering what Elijah would advise him? When had he ever listened to one of his brothers?
There was a tear in his chest. It felt as if it was about to burst, because he couldn't decide on his feelings. They had been suppressed by him for thousands of years, however they were about to break free now and he was not used to it, nor did he know how to even name them. He felt torn and it tore him apart not to know what he was capable of giving to Caroline.
Give instead of take.
He could already see the mock in Elijah's eyes.
It was the first time in decades that Klaus didn't know what to do and what there was to come or even to expect.
He had always relied on Caroline to turn him down and now that she was about to giver herself to him freely it confused him more than ever. But then again maybe it was just a side effect of the whole turning her humanity off and on again thing. If she had been here with anybody else then the same would have happened, wouldn't it?
He tore his eyes away from her lovely face because suddenly it became too much to bear. The thought of her with another man was repellent to him and he wanted to lash out, to raid and to destroy, but he couldn't move, because she held him in place. He knew he should better run.
Klaus felt petrified with this war inside of his chest while the reason for his desire lay peacefully in his arms.
Please let this night end! I have to get away!
Maybe this was the due he had to pay for luring her into his darkness.
There was still a way out! He could still erase her from his mind!
Caroline stirred, slowly opening her eyes, and to his surprise she smiled blinking at him for a moment until her eyes focused. Before she could say anything she noticed his dark serious face and jerked her head up.
"Klaus? What's the matter?"
Damn! He hadn't meant for her to see his tension. He quickly shook his head and tried to wipe the hard expression from his face. He smiled a fake smile:
"It's nothing, love. Good morning."
Caroline frowned never the less and cupped his cheek wanting to look into his eyes, but Klaus turned his head away. She would see through his ruse immediately and ask more questions that he had no answer to.
"Klaus, I can see that something is off…"
Please Caroline, keep quiet!
"…so would you please tell me what is going on?" Her musical voice rang in his ears and something snapped. When he looked into her eyes they captured him and held him prisoner. There was a strong pull that drew him closer and closer.
Suddenly his lips were on hers, silencing her and keeping her from more questions that he didn't want to think about.
A jolt went through his body and it totally overwhelmed him. His mind went totally blank and there was just the feeling of her smooth body pressing against his. Her tongue moved with his immediately and she quietly moaned into his mouth which made his gut clench even more.
Caroline's body became hot and it centred between her legs. She stretched herself covering his body with hers while her hands moved down his sides.
In a flash he was on top of her pressing her body into the couch. Klaus looked down at her with a deep frown on his forehead. Caroline reached out to smooth the line with the tip of her finger that she let slide down the side of his cheek before she cupped it.
"What?" She mouthed.
He closed his eyes and shook his head. His core was pulsing heavily. "I don't know if we should…"
Caroline smiled slightly and the irresistible light flared inside of her eyes: "You are fascinating…now kiss me!" She whispered and it was all it took to make Klaus give in. His lips seized hers and scorched her like there was a blazing fire between them. He groaned and deepened the kiss pressing his body to hers.
His cock twitched as he noticed that Caroline widened her legs to press her own pulsing core against it. She became even wetter and fastened her legs behind his back which drew another groan from Klaus whose reasonable thoughts had left his mind. All doubts had vanished and all that was left was pure desire, a need to have her close and cover her under his body, pressing her into the soft couch, filling her and giving her the most pleasurable sex she had ever had.
There was deep lust inside of Caroline and in one swift movement she had lifted his shirt over his head. Her hands grazed his soft skin and covered his chest, stroking over his abs.
He gathered her up inside his arms and swiftly pulled her shirt over her head. He devoured her neck first, penetrating her skin with sweet kisses. And Caroline felt dizzy as he continued to kiss and lick a wet path down towards her breasts. His hands stroked her back and she hadn't even noticed that her bra was gone until she felt his tongue on her hardened nipple. Caroline sucked in a deep breath which made Klaus smile. She felt the corners of his mouth rise on her skin while one of his hands wandered slowly into her pants.
He lay her back down and his tongue wandered further down over her stomach. Caroline felt the cool air on her stomach and it chased trembles and shivers down her spine. She closed her eyes and enjoyed the way Klaus made her feel. Her back arched reflexively.
Klaus tried to breathe at a normal pace and failed miserably. Her scent was so excruciatingly sweet that it clouded his mind. He couldn't get enough of her and wanted to swallow her whole. He wanted to bite her and revel in her sweet blood, the red liquid that permitted them a life beyond death. His fangs wanted to push through and perforate her skin…wait what?
Klaus stilled for a second of panic. Caroline opened her eyes to look what was wrong, but Klaus got a grip before she could see his face. He rid her of her pants and widened her legs to kiss her on her centre.
Caroline sighed and more goose bumps raced down her spine. "Klaus…" She moaned and it made his stomach clenched with desire. Oh yes, he wanted her to moan and scream his name.
He started to work his tongue on her clit and Caroline's breathing hitched. A tingling seized his whole body and he had to get out of the confines of his pants! Now! Quickly!
Because with every passing second, with every sound he drew from her lips he felt like they grew tighter and tighter. He was back between her legs in no time at all. Licking a wet path and Caroline whimpered bucking her hips which made Klaus smile. He gently held her in place.
"Easy there sweetheart."
"Klaus, please…"
His lips met hers in a burning kiss the next second and Caroline angled her legs. She needed him inside her. She wanted to feel him now or she would explode. She couldn't wait any longer and Klaus felt her need evaporating from her kiss. The feeling of her writhing body beneath him made him realize that he couldn't hold it any longer himself. He had wanted this for far too long now.
He kissed her passionately and felt her breasts move against his chest. The tension between them was taut. Caroline kissed his neck and Klaus felt his veins pulse under his eyes. He moaned and quickly covered her mouth again to escape the impulse of biting her.
She bucked her hips again and his hand was on her sex before he slowly entered her. Caroline cried out as he did so and filled her whole. He panted into her mouth and Caroline bore her nails into his back. An unknown thrill drove through his veins and he wasn't himself anymore. Klaus drew back and pushed back in again.
Caroline moaned and met his thrusts with her own. She wriggled her hips and Klaus closed his eyes at the exquisite feeling. They quickly fell into a joint rhythm.
His thrusts became faster and faster as he felt her inner walls clench around him and taking him in as deeply as possible. Her sounds were heavenly and so were his deep guttural groans that brought them ever so much closer to the edge.
His fangs pushed against his gums again with so much force that Klaus struggled to keep them hidden, but he found his defense weakened, however he was taken up in his climax too much anyway to worry about that right now.
He wanted to bite and to ravish her. He wanted to bury his fangs inside her.
Caroline saw the black veins under his eyes and it made her move faster. Somehow it aroused her beyond words and she felt her own fangs push as well.
Her eyes changed. Their rhythm became wilder and more demanding.
"Oh…yes…"
Both of them were so close now.
Klaus felt her flesh contract around him while he felt himself release inside of her. Caroline followed him over the edge and everything inside her came undone when she exploded. The original panted and collapsed on top of her. Their bodies trembled while they revelled in the aftermath of the orgasm.
Caroline exposed her neck unconsciously and it suddenly took every ounce of his strength not to give in to his instinct and bite her. He drew out of her and Caroline almost winced at the loss of contact.
But Klaus gathered her in his arms and held her still trembling body.
His chin rested on the top of her head so he wouldn't have to look into her face. In order to gain control again over his vampire senses he closed his eyes and tried to regulate his breathing.
Caroline wrapped her arms around him and her breasts pressed against his naked chest. The feeling was excruciatingly smooth; her flat stomach against his and her legs wrapping around his made him want to have her all over again. Klaus struggled to stay calm while her sweet breathing caressed his naked chest.
Caroline bathed in his warmth and for now she just forgot who they were and enjoyed the satisfied feeling inside of her. She would hold on to him as long as she could.
After what had felt like mere minutes and surely not nearly enough time Klaus stirred under Caroline.
"Love, we should probably get ready." He whispered, but Caroline shook her head and at the feeling of her soft curls brushing his chest he felt goose bumps all over his body.
"I don't want to leave!" Her simple words touched something deep down inside of him.
"I know, but we have to."
Only very reluctantly Caroline got up.
The water of the shower soothed his agitated nerves. He stood there very still and just let the flow of the water keep him hidden. Caroline was everywhere on his mind and he tried frantically to shove her out of his thoughts. That had been the initial plan anyway. He had wanted to get her out of his system!
Hell! What was she still doing in his thoughts!?
He had wanted to bite her and share his blood with her, but he could never bind himself to someone in that way. He would never allow it!
Not Caroline, nor anyone else, maybe especially not Caroline. The risk was too great for him as for anyone else and he wasn't willing to take on that kind of responsibility.
He turned the water colder until it scorched his skin.
Caroline looked at herself in the mirror and couldn't take her eyes of her reflection.
Her cheeks were reddened and her hair shone in a sweet golden glow. But the most hypnotizing thing were her eyes that were full of light. It was practically radiating from every pore of her body and made her shine.
There was a bright smile on her face and she felt like dancing.
She wanted to turn and giggle like a little girl. Throw her arms into the air and let the wind blow through her hair. Was this happiness?
She bit her lip to suppress the huge grin when she thought about the fact that she had just had the best sex of her life. It hadn't been any spectacular position, but the feelings inside her had almost killed her. The feelings he had stirred inside of her had made her want to melt into him. She had felt the sudden urge to be one with him and although reason told her that she should be very careful about what was about to happen and that she should maybe feel ashamed of what she had just done, but she didn't let those feelings in. After weeks she felt like herself again and Klaus had brought her here. No regrets!
But she did wonder where this was going because suddenly Klaus was all she could think about. No one could ever fall for Klaus the hybrid, she was aware of that but a voice inside her wondered if maybe one could fall for Niklaus the man who had just turned her light back on.
Stop, stop, right there! It was just sex, you can't fall for him! He had wanted to sleep with you ever since and you just gave in, nothing else! No strings, no future, no nothing!
Caroline scolded herself but her light burned inside of her like a flame and it whispered one tiny word to her.
Hope!
After the shower she dried her hair that fell in lovely curls down her shoulders. She chose a summer dress, despite the cold weather outside, with colourful flowers on it and twirled around in front of the mirror.
Klaus was already in the kitchen, busy with preparing himself a glass of blood that almost slipped his grip as Caroline entered the room.
It was as if the sun had risen. The room suddenly seemed a tad brighter than it had been before. She looked ravishing. The long lost light radiating from inside of her and making him catch his breath.
His heart suddenly yearned to be close to her and he had to hold on to the kitchen island in front of him to steady himself.
She smiled at him and playfully snatched the glass from his hands.
A moaning sound escaped her throat as the blood trickled down it and smoothed the burning.
Klaus eyes clouded over with lust and he just wanted to take her over and over again against the kitchen counter. The images in his head showed him how he just grabbed her face and kissed her roughly. He tore her clothes apart and set her naked body on top of the counter where he ravished it with his hands and his tongue. Arousing her to the point of madness, before he would satisfy her. He grew hard instantly.
"You okay?" Her voice pulled him out of his naughty daydream.
"Of course." He shook his head slightly before he looked at her with a satisfied smile. "Welcome back, love." She flashed another radiating smile at him and all he wanted to do was kiss her till she didn't know her name anymore. "I reckon you feel better?"
"I have never felt better in my whole life. It's like I am running high on something. It feels amazing, I feel ready to take on anything. There is so much strength inside of me. I know it sounds stupid, but I want to run with the wind." She laughed and twirled around. "I want to dance! I want to embrace the whole world and I…I want to do this!" She flashed in front of him and pressed a sweet kiss onto his lips.
Reflexively Klaus kissed her back and his nerves tingled. The arousal rose inside of him again, but it strangely soothed him at the same time. There was a serenity that he had never felt before!
But as he cherished the kiss he felt Caroline's hands under his shirt on his naked back. He wanted to gather her close to his body while his wet tongue traced her lips. However, suddenly a feeling of panic replaced the lust.
He had taken it too far! She had had expectations and he would never be able to live up to them. Caroline deserved something that he couldn't give her. He couldn't deserve her!
Klaus abruptly ended the kiss before he would simply tear her clothes apart: "I am very happy to hear it, sweetheart, but we really should get going."
Caroline stared after him as he left the room, but she felt too happy to think anything more of it than that it was probably just too quickly for him. He had just opened up to her and this was probably just too much at once. Klaus wasn't one to show his emotions but they were there, she had seen it and she hoped that she would see them more often from now on.
Careful Caroline! Her conscience sang to her, but Caroline ignored it. She would figure everything out later and if this feeling lasted than she would persuade him to stay at her side. He deserved a bit of happiness himself and she had never seen him as happy and relaxed as he had been this weekend.
In the car Caroline couldn't stop talking, but Klaus strangely didn't mind at all. He felt like he would want to listen to her ranting until the end of time.
"It was so weird, I felt like I was in a cage and there was so much hopelessness as if I would never be happy again and then the voices! All these voices in my head, it felt so horrible and you were right by the way, they wanted me to starve. I didn't recognize it then, but now I do. They wanted me to suffer in return for my raging and if it hadn't been for you I think they really would have gotten to me. I was ready to do everything they told me, but every time I was with you they were quiet. No, really, don't look at me so surprised, when we were together I could blend them out and when you made me drink that blood they became more subdued as well. And then this morning they were gone. Just like that and I just feel so alive again."
She laughed and Klaus wanted to drown in the sound of it.
He smiled even though he felt like tearing up and laughing along with her all at the same time. His own emotions were about to suffocate him.
"You are awfully quiet today."
He just shrugged and suddenly a thought of train crossed her mind. Her voice became quieter and more serious. "I…Did I do something wrong?"
He looked at her briefly and squeezed her hand but withdrew his again as quickly as he had reached out for her. "No, Caroline, no you haven't done anything wrong. I like to listen to you love, that's all."
Had he just said that?
She smirked. "Oh I am too smart to be seduced by you." She repeated her once said words and Klaus chuckled. "That's what I like about you. Not just a pretty face."
She laughed as well and leaned back into her seat enjoying the ride home while she stretched her hand out of the window. However, she didn't notice how agitated Klaus was.
After two hours they reached the boundaries of Mystic Falls.
Klaus stopped in front of Caroline's house and Liz came out of it immediately as if she had waited all the time behind a window.
"Mum!" Caroline jumped into her mother's arms.
Klaus grabbed her bag while the two women greeted each other heartily.
"Are you okay? I am so happy that you are okay!" Liz said and scrutinized her daughter from head to toe before she looked at Klaus with gratitude in her eyes: "Thank you." She said and Caroline beamed.
Klaus nodded.
Caroline jumped into his arms in the next second and whispered: "Thanks for bringing me back! I'll see you tomorrow, okay?" She looked into his face.
Klaus bit his lip and nodded, but he didn't smile. He swallowed the lump in his throat.
Caroline's smile faded the tiniest bit, but before she could ask he turned around and left.
Her mum put her arm around her shoulder. "Everything all right, honey?"
She nodded bravely while she watched his car disappear around the corner.
"Caroline!" A voice screamed behind her and a second later Elena threw her arms around her neck. "Oh my god, I have missed you so much! How do you feel? Are you okay?"
"Elena, give her some room to breathe!" Stefan approached them as well and Caroline beamed at her friends. "I feel like I could fly!" She giggled and hugged Stefan as well who said: "It's good to have you back!"
"And in one piece…"
"Elena!"
"What? She was with Klaus! Klaus! Super bad hybrid? Ring some bells?"
Caroline rolled her eyes and Liz interrupted Elena's bickering. "Why don't we all go inside and let Caroline tell us what exactly happened?"
Caroline told them almost everything. About the house, the voices in her head and the struggle that came with it, about the lake Klaus had showed her and the campers, but as she mentioned that Klaus wasn't as bad as they all thought everyone just raised their eyebrows in disbelief, everyone but Stefan who flashed a glance at Caroline who avoided his eyes. Never the less it made Caroline shut up about the private side Klaus had allowed her to see.
Later the three friends retired to Caroline's room.
Elena closed the door behind her and sat down next to Caroline onto the bed. "So and now please the parent free version!"
"Uhm, what do you mean?"
"Care…All the parts you left out! And now don't deny it!"
Caroline licked her lips and looked at her hands. "Well, you know I was pretty down and I have learnt quite a bit about Klaus and…I really think he is not as bad as it seems." Caroline was looking at her hands but she glanced at Stefan who leaned against the wall with his arms crossed over his chest. There was a pensive expression on his face.
"What!? Caroline, you can't be serious!"
"Elena, I know it's hard to believe, but he is a brilliant artist and a very good cook and…"
"He cooked?" Elena's mouth dropped open.
"He had a troubled past." She looked helplessly at Stefan.
"And now you suddenly discovered that you feel sorry for him? Have you forgotten what he has done!?"
"No, Elena I haven't forgotten, but I can just understand it a bit better!"
"And now suddenly everything is justified? Then do tell what the hell justifies such horrible actions?"
Caroline bit her lip and pulled a face: "I can't tell you Elena."
"Excuse me?" Elena raised her eyebrows in disbelief.
"Please understand, it is not for me to tell."
"You don't expect me to just forgive him, do you?"
"No, I don't I…" Caroline shook her head.
Elena scrutinized her friend and then she asked incredulous. "Do you like him?"
Caroline's eyes widened. "Well…" She recalled his face. His smiling face with the dimples in his cheeks. His blue eyes that wandered smoothly over his paintings, taking in every inch of the canvas, and how his eyes had looked at her this morning…a chill went through her.
Elena snapped her fingers: "Hey! Care!" Her friends stared at her, one of them aghast and the other one curious and maybe even amused. "What the hell happened? Did he compel you?" Elena threw her hands into the air.
Caroline looked at her. "What? No! No, he didn't. He wouldn't!"
"He wouldn't? Do you trust him now?" Elena's mouth dropped.
"I…think…I do." Caroline admitted.
"You have gone nuts! Stefan! Say something!"
Stefan cleared his throat. "Elena, Klaus is a thousand years old and…"
"Are you going to defend him?"
"He fancies Caroline, I don't think he would compel her and he hasn't snapped her neck so far."
"What does that mean?"
"I just think that there is more t…" Elena stood up and raised her hands: "Woah woah woah! It's Klaus! What is wrong with you two? He is the bad guy!" She looked from Stefan to Caroline. Then she raised a finger at Caroline. "You should have never left with him!"
Suddenly there was a knock at the door and they were interrupted by Damon who stuck his head into the room.
"Oh, right on time I guess. So, what's the matter?" He stepped into the room cocking his eyebrows at Elena. "Blondie! You are back to your old emotional self I understand?" He turned around to look at Caroline who pulled a face at him, but paused when Damon frowned at her. "Wha…" He threw a glance at Stefan who returned it knowingly, but ever so lightly shook his head. Elena however didn't miss it. "What?"
"Nah, nothing." Damon put it off and dropped himself onto Caroline's bed. He leaned back against the headboard with his hands behind his head.
Caroline frowned as well, but didn't say anything.
"Damon?" Elena asked.
"Just wanted to make sure Blondie here is no public threat anymore. You are practically glowing, you know that right?" He wrinkled his nose.
Caroline just shrugged. "Uhm, thanks?"
Damon sniggered and seemed to enjoy some inside joke. Stefan grabbed his shoulder: "I think we leave the girls to themselves, don't you think?"
"Whatever you are saying, brother. See you later, girls!"
Outside and out of hearing range of Caroline and Elena Damon turned to Stefan: "You sensed that right?"
Stefan sighed deeply and nodded very slowly looking back at the house. "Yep, I did."
"Is that a good or a bad thing?"
Stefan shook his head and shrugged: "I honestly have no idea Damon, but we could have expected it."
"Well, yeah, something, but not this kind of seriousness!"
"It's good to have you ba…" Elijah didn't finish the sentence as he saw that Klaus was packing instead of unpacking. "Are you leaving?"
Elijah stood behind Klaus in the doorframe with his arms crossed over his chest. His dark blue suit fitted him as perfectly as always.
Klaus didn't turn around instead he kept packing his bag. He was in no mood for a talk at all.
"Niklaus, what happened?" Elijah asked seriously.
Klaus closed his eyes and snarled: "Nothing of importance."
"She came pretty close to you, didn't she?" The older original guessed.
Klaus grumbled almost too low to hear. He zipped his bag and was about to walk past Elijah who stepped in his way watching his younger brother carefully.
"You are running away." He stated quietly.
"What is it to you?" Klaus snarled.
"I can sense it, Niklaus." Elijah said seriously as his vampire senses recognized the feeling emanating from his brother's aura.
Klaus eyes threw daggers at him. He shoved past Elijah who grabbed his arm.
"What about Caroline?"
Klaus raised his eyebrows pursing his lips. "What about her, brother? She is back to normal and I am leaving town and since the two of you have formed quite an attachment I wish you all the luck in the world." His voice was bitter sweet.
Elijah let go of his arm and looked at him amused. "My attachment to Miss Forbes is of platonic nature, but Niklaus, I beg you not to make her miserable."
"Brother." Klaus smiled. "I was the one who just brought her back and I am the one she couldn't care less about and vice versa, so if you would let me take my leave now, I have business to attend to."
Elijah sighed gravely as he watched him leave.
"I wish you would reconsider!" He whispered while he felt for his younger brother who gave in to his fear that made him run away.
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