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Chapter 4

Caroline climbed out of the shower and – taking full advantage of her vampire powers – grabbed a towel and dried herself in record time. She wiped her hand across the dripping condensation on her bathroom mirror and sighed at her reflection. She couldn't help but wonder what Klaus was doing now, was he stressing over what outfit to wear; like she inevitably would be? Had he showered and scrubbed himself frantically; weighing up the pros and cons of their 2nd real date? But mostly she wondered at what they would talk about. Klaus always inspired such spirit in her. He made her feel like her points were valid and important, instead of putting her down and judging her a bimbo like so many others had done. The conversation flowed between them; the easy banter they had was comfortable as well as interesting and a little flirty. If she was quite honest with herself that was the bit she loved most about their moments together, apart from the deep meaningful looks they sometime shared, occasionally she just couldn't help but get lost in his cerulean eyes.

Shaking her head, the water dripping from her hair brought her back to herself. Caroline walked from her bathroom into her bedroom and opened up her wardrobe. Pausing to consider the choices, she zoomed across the room opening a draw and pulling out some black lace lingerie she slipped it on, letting her towel drop to the floor. She had just decided on an outfit when she heard raised voices coming from downstairs, sliding her jeans up her legs she listened carefully as she heard Stefan yelling.

"– She has the right to make her own choices—"

"– not up to you–"

"– sn't even concern you–"

Caroline did up the button on her jeans hurriedly, after picking up snippets of the heated conversation, most of it being blocked out by her still wet hair dripping in her ears and on her face, she began to panic – thinking it might be Tyler, come back to finish what he'd started last night. Without thinking properly she zoomed downstairs into the lounge and saw Stefan standing sideways staring at someone across the room.

"Stefan is everything okay?"

She trailed of lightly as Stefan turned to look at her, his eyes widening in shock. She was puzzled by his reaction to her but as she turned to look at the other figure in the room it was her turn to be surprised.

"Klaus"

"Hello love." He smiled back at her earnestly.

"You're early?" She was rewarded by one of his infuriatingly gorgeous smirks.

"Well we did have a date to keep. I can see you're almost there, but you've forgotten one thing." Automatically Caroline's hands went to her hair but he shook his head gently and gestured to her with his hand.

"What?" She asked again, even more puzzled than before.

"No shirt."

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Klaus was surprised to see Caroline come zooming into the room, hair dripping wet and a worried frown across her forehead. But what mostly surprised him was her lack of shirt. As soon as this elephant was well and truly out of the room he almost regretted telling her. Her face went from almost pleased to see him to ultimately humiliated and wanted to sink into the floor. Although he was internally happy dancing at the fact he could read her facial expressions and eyes so well, he had not wished to cause her embarrassment or discomfort. If anything he liked the fact she was becoming more comfortable around him, this incident could ruin the closeness that had slowly been building between them. Whilst all these thought were bumping around in his head Caroline finally reacted.

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Caroline looked down at herself and immediately turned bright red. In her haste to come downstairs and help Stefan face whatever he was fighting with she'd forgotten to put of a shirt, and so consequently was walking around in her tight jeans and lacy bra. She was utterly mortified and would've been as scarlet as the Pimpernel, had it not been for the fact she was a vampire and couldn't. Looking slowly up at Stefan she grinned sheepishly.

"Sorry Stefan, I heard you arguing with someone and thought it might be—well anyway you were yelling so I wasn't thinking, hence the dripping hair…" She babbled nervously and Stefan just shook his head resignedly.

"It's okay Care, just go upstairs and chuck a shirt on please before Mr Hybrid here comes out of his stupor and jumps your bones right in front of me."

Klaus began to grin slyly to himself as he saw Caroline glare at Stefan, in her shut up right now face. He made a mental note to bring this up again later with her, while the Ripper wasn't around. She zoomed back upstairs and he was left with Stefan, who was now glowering at him.

"Not one word Klaus, I've already got the mental imagery, I don't want your commentary up here too."

For someone reason, Stefan's comment about having her image in his head gave Klaus a jolt. His eyes narrowed, eyebrows furrowing at the thought of Stefan, of anyone come to that, picturing his Caroline naked. Seeing Klaus' suddenly angry demeanour, Stefan sighed and made his way into the kitchen thinking this would be a good time to use the expression 'fuck that noise'.

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Once Caroline had come back downstairs, fully clothed and ready to go this time Klaus was so deep in thought she almost left without him. Snapping his thought back to the present beauty in front of him he smiled gently, opening the passenger door for her to climb into his car and sped to the other side to do the same. Caroline smiled brightly as he turned on the engine.

"So, time for coffee?" She asked, turning to pull her seatbelt across her lap. He smirked a little at her quirk and did the same.

"Yes sweetheart, I think it's safe to say we're both in need of one."

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Alright I'm sorry I know it's not as long as you'd like but I've been having severe trouble writing it so here's a tid bit to tide you all over till next time. :) Thanks for reading and please keep reviewing! x