A/N: I am quite literally shocked with the reviews I'm getting, never before have I received such positive feedback on a story or drabble…guess that's because this is the first time I've put my Klaroline ideas down in words! Here's another stab at another chapter! Enjoy!...well I hope u enjoy it ;) ….seriously?! Jomo has me putting winks after everything now…smh

Dead.

Klaus looked to Stefan once again horrified. She had just come upstairs, made herself a bath and drowned herself in it?

"Get me a towel mate," he said to Stefan, nodding his head towards the rack that held piles of clean towels.

He kept his eyes averted as he lifted her limp body from the bathtub and Stefan helped him wrap her in a towel. When she did turn her humanity back on he was sure he was going to get an earful about him pulling her out of the tub naked. He wanted to be able to fully appreciate the first time he saw her naked, in a setting where she wanted him to make love to her. Not in this fucked up situation of her drowning herself. He lifted her now covered body into his arms and walked into Stefan's room.

Stefan walked over to his dresser and started rummaging in his drawers for some clothes. He pulled out a t-shirt and some shorts and then walked over to where Klaus was gently laying Caroline down. Stefan watched quietly as Klaus sat down beside her and tenderly tucked some of her wet curls behind her ears.

"What have I done?" he asked himself quietly. Had he really been the one that gave her the final push over the edge? He would never forgive himself if he couldn't get her to turn it back on. He turned to Stefan, who was watching him silently, and quickly masked his emotions.

"Why would she turn it off?" he asked his old friend. There was once a time he thought of Stefan as a brother, but Stefan seemed to be determined to never forgive him for taking away his memory and for going through with Elena's sacrifice.

Stefan let out a long sigh and set the clothes down on the foot of the bed. He looked at Caroline wrapped in a towel and dead on his bed.

"She's been through a lot," Stefan said "now that I think about it, I'm surprised she didn't flip the switch sooner." Stefan looked at Klaus, really looked at him. He was masking the pain this was causing him, Stefan could tell. Everyone thought of Klaus as the heartless monster, but he knew there was more to the story. Klaus was just as damaged as the rest of them. Rejected by his parents, and chased down by his father for his mother's infidelity. And it seemed that Klaus had finally found a girl that he hoped to be with, and that girl was Caroline. Who had just turned off her humanity.

"It's really not my place to tell you about the things she's been through, and honestly I don't even know the half of it," Stefan said staring at his hands ashamed that he hadn't been a better friend to the broken girl lying dead on his bed.

"Well give me something to go off of mate," Klaus muttered frustrated. "I know that her father died, that she was bitten by Tyler and that she was tortured by the history teacher," he stated "but that, coupled with me sleeping with Hayley shouldn't have caused her to turn her humanity off." Klaus was honestly confused, he thought he knew everything about Caroline. He knew she was Miss Mystic Falls, captain of the cheerleading team, president of various school organizations. He knew that she dated that football player that her sister had recently been hung up on. What had he missed?

"Caroline was different as a human," Stefan started, walking around the bed and sitting down on the opposite side. "She was insecure, and she craved attention." Stefan paused contemplating if he should continue. Caroline would be furious that he told Klaus anything about her past, private or public knowledge. He glanced at Klaus who now held one of Caroline's hands gently between his own, and continued. "When I came to town she tried to catch my eye, but I had eyes for Elena, who looked identical to Katherine." Stefan looked at Klaus who was looking at him with genuine interest. "Damon, at that time was hell-bent on making my life miserable. And when he couldn't have Elena, he took her best friend and used her," Stefan said looking at Caroline with a sad look.

"What?" Klaus snarled under his breath, glancing at the blonde angel lying beside him.

"He used her as a blood-bag" Stefan interrupted quickly seeing where Klaus's thoughts were going. "I was able to stop him before he killed her, by slipping vervain into her drink."

Stefan stood and walked over to his bedroom liquor stash. He filled two tumblers and walked back over to the bed. He handed a glass to Klaus who for once, actually looked like he needed a hard drink. Klaus accepted the glass with a nod.

"We were able to detain Damon after he drank his fill of vervain out of Caroline, and when he got out again he left Caroline be, for the most part"

It was silent for a moment.

"I am going to snap his neck when he gets back from New York" Klaus stated suddenly, not taking his eyes off of Caroline's face

"What?" Stefan asked, "Klaus, this was a long time ago." Stefan loved Caroline as a friend, but he loved his brother as well and didn't want either of them to suffer Klaus's wrath.

"Yeah someone should have confronted him about what he did to her, but giving Elena another reason to try and kill Caroline wouldn't be the best idea right now," Stefan stated.

"He tried to tell me that Caroline would never accept me if I wasn't 'bad with a purpose,'" Klaus snarled. "He dared to try and give me advice on how to treat Caroline after how he treated her?" he nearly shouted at Stefan. Stefan looked confused.

Damon giving Klaus advice - on Caroline? Who would've thought? Well pigs must be flying somewhere Stefan thought and smirked slightly at the thought. A frown quickly replaced it though as he saw the deadly glare he was getting from Klaus. Stefan cleared his throat as Klaus turned his gaze back to Caroline. He watched as Klaus once again tenderly stroked Caroline's cheek, tucking another curl behind her ear. He had never seen Klaus be so gentle with another person. Not even Rebekah was on the receiving end of this gentleness, and she was his favorite sister.

Klaus couldn't possibly understand why Caroline would stay here if all this town brought her was pain. But she was fiercely loyal, and that was one of the things he admired most about her. Her loyalty. He still couldn't wrap his mind around the fact that this bright angel had turned off her humanity. He had to make her turn it back on. She was one of the main reasons he had decided to stay in mystic falls for a little longer. He had desired to leave the wretched town behind, but with all that was going on with Silas, the hunters and Tyler he stayed. At least that's why he appeared to stay, to her friends. In reality she played a bigger part in why he hung back.

He just couldn't get his fill of her. Even with her continued rejection, he couldn't shake her from his thoughts. His thoughts were consumed by her and he tried to rid himself of the obsession by allowing her to die of his fatal hybrid bite. But he couldn't do it. She had said that she knew he was in love with her, and she wanted to save him. And that was all the hope he needed. Thoughts of never having to be alone again swirled through his mind. Of showing Caroline the world and watching her face fill with joy at the wonders of the world, the art and the culture. Of her one day, possibly returning his love.

Love? Was that actually how he felt about her? He didn't know. He had never really known love, his father had hated him and his siblings despised at times him as well. He had spent centuries upon centuries trying to break the curse his mother had put on him. He hadn't had the time for love. Seduction and bloodlust, yes. But love? Never.

They both turned to the sound of coughing. Caroline was coughing water out of her mouth as she sat up holding the towel to her chest. She wiped the water from her mouth on her arm.

"Well drowning is certainly an unpleasant way to die," she said simply, looking between Klaus and Stefan with a smirk on her face.

A/N: Clearly Stefan doesn't know what Damon really did to Caroline, besides feeding on her and compelling her to forget…and sorry about the cliffhangers but I do that to myself so that I feel obligated to write another chapter…it's a little extra push of motivation besides your awesome reviews! As always suggestions are welcome…they could help me with where to go for the next chapter!

I love me some Klefan bonding …even if it is over Caroline's body…yikes