Hey there you guys… :S Wow okay so before you all throw rocks at me and set me alight, hear me out! I'm just starting college so my exams are crucial at this moment in time so please give me a break 'cause the real world has been getting in the way a lot lately! :(
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Now on with the story!

Chapter 5

Walking into the dimly lit grill Caroline stretched her arms up, loosening the muscles in her shoulders and back from sitting down in the SUV. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Klaus' face as he walked slightly behind her, the corners of his mouth pulled up into a tiny smile at her human mannerisms. She smiled gently to herself and brought her arms back down, turning to grin openly at him.

"Where would you like to be seated sweetheart?" He asked courteously, bowing his head slightly as he motioned to the establishment around them. It was practically empty except for the staff cleaning tables and a few older citizens scattered in the corners. Caroline looked around and spotted, what she considered to be, one of her favourite seats of the house. Smiling meticulously, she grabbed his hand and pulled him over to it in way of answer. Klaus nodded approvingly at her choice and lifted her hand gracefully, helping her slide into the booth and climbing in shortly afterwards. Caroline found herself day dreaming back to other times she had been seated here. She, Elena and Bonnie sitting here laughing after a particularly gruelling cheer practice; She and Matt curled up on a cold day talking about nothing and everything; Toasting girls nights and result successes with her friends. She could go on for hours, but Klaus' voice pulled her out of her revelry.

"I assume you have a fondness for this particular seat then sweetheart?" Her eyes snapped to his seemingly amused face and blushed lightly.

"You assume correctly then, I have a lot of fond memories here. Most of which were whilst I was still human but they're good memories all the same." His eyes dimmed slightly when she mentioned being human but soon lit up again as a carefree smile graced her face.

"So," Caroline turned to him determinedly. "What is your favourite colour?" Klaus looked taken aback at the sudden surprising change in conversation, but responded all the same.

"That would be blue and how about yours sweetheart?"

"Yellow," She said simply, his face gave a look of surprise that made her inquisitive.

"What?"

"Nothing," He said smiling simply. "I just thought it might be something a bit more girly, pink for example." Caroline laughed loudly and Klaus raised his eyebrows.

"It's funny how everyone always says that to me. People immediately see me and think pink and roses and cuddly kittens. But my favourite flowers are daffodils, I don't really like roses. Daffodils, they mean unrequited love, but that's sort of the reason I love yellow. It's so bright and it means joy and light. It also means madness so I can sort of relate my personality with it. But I do like kittens." All through Caroline's heart felt speech Klaus could feel his heart clench, he just couldn't get enough of how beautiful his angel is, inside and out.

"So how about you then?" Caroline prodded gently, her words startling him out of his glaze of admiration.

"What about me love?"

"Why is blue your favourite colour?" His head dropped slightly, eyes growing cloudy. Caroline worried she had overstepped some mark. She opened her mouth to speak but before she could he had answered.

"My little brother Henrik, his eyes…"

"Please Niklaus, would you hurry! I don't want to miss the sun down." Henrik raced ahead of him, his small legs carrying him faster and faster as Nik followed behind him. The two of them reached the top of the cliff face and sat themselves down feet stretched out in front of them. His little brother looked up at him and grinned cheekily, bright blue eyes sparkling up at him as Nik ruffled his hair.

"Look, look Nik! It's starting, OH it's so beautiful! Isn't it Nik?" They both gazed in front of them at the beautiful red and gold sunset unfurling before them. Nik looped his arm around Henrik's head and rubbed his knuckles on his scalp jovially. Henrik's shook him off and they both laughed loudly at each other turning to watch the sunset once more.

Klaus blinked away the tears in his eyes and turned to look back at Caroline who's mirrored his. He almost smiled at the genuine pain he could see in her eyes, pain for his suffering. She truly cared. They didn't need words when they could just look at one another and know.

"Care?"

Turning towards the direction of the voice, they both looked up startled at the sight of Matt standing there. An incredulous expression on his face he almost dropped the pen and pad of paper in his tensed hands.

"Matty," Caroline cried loudly, smiling at her friend. "How are you this morning?" Klaus, who had seemingly frozen as Matt approached there table, then mirrored her friend's shocked expression as she casually greeted him. He had honestly expected her to reject his presence in front of her friends and inside his heart was jumping around like bouncy ball in a washing machine.

"I'm good Care," Matt replied, casting a nervous look Klaus' way. "What are you doing here? So early and with erm…" He coughed nervously looking at her shoes.

"With me mate?" Klaus asked loudly, sending the jumpy human a grin to keep stirring the 'metaphorical pot'. Matt coughed as an answer.

"Yes Matt, Klaus and I are here together to get coffee before school. To which I don't wanna be late so I'll have a caramel latte with extra crème and Klaus?" Caroline looked over at her partner sunnily.

"I'll have a coffee as black as my soul," He joked to Caroline, then flicking his head to Matt, continued. "With two sugars thanks." Matt just shook his head and wrote down the order. As he walked away he pulled out his phone and began to text. A few moments later Caroline's phone dinged quietly in her bag, picking up the sound with her supernatural hearing she took it out and opened up the message.

Hey Care I noe Ty hrt u an all but isnt it a lil 2 soon + weird 2 b datin K? :L – M

Caroline looked at the text thoroughly puzzled.

Why do you think it's a date? We could just be two friends who are getting coffee. :) – C

As soon as she had sent her text she received a reply.

I dnno I guess u cud b but do frnds rlly hold eachothrs hands under the tble? :S – M

Caroline, puzzled by what he meant, looked down at the space in the booth between where she and Klaus were seated. The space that was currently occupied by their hands and more to the point fingers curled around each other comfortably, her cheeks flamed bright pink and her eyes widened slightly as she snuck a look over to Klaus who, had apparently not noticed either, looked back curiously.

"Is everything alright sweetheart?" He chuckled nervously and, as a reflex; she clenched her hands, one of which was unfortunately tangled in Klaus' who looked down noticing the pressure change. His cheeks turning slightly pink too, he slowly extracted his palm, which was steadily growing sweatier, from her perfect one and looked apologetically at her.

"I apologise Caroline I had not even noticed—"

"No, no. It's alright," Caroline breathed with a smile cutting him off mid-apology. "I hadn't noticed either; I guess my hand was just comfortable there." Klaus smirked cheekily at her and gently pulled her hand back in his.

"Well if that's the case sweetheart, who am I to deny the desires of such a beautiful lady's hand." Rolling her eyes and laughing Caroline pulled her hand out of his and poked him blithely causing him to join in her laughter and reaching out to tickle her sides. After a while of them both laughing Klaus sat and watched Caroline ride out the last giggles. Leaning back with a large grin on his face, he watched as the florescent lights above sparkled in her cerulean eyes and her cheeks glowed with a pinkish hue. Caroline caught him staring and began to titter again nervously.

"Klaus, are you alright?" She asked gently. He seemed to shake himself mentally as she spoke but the grin and adoring gleam in his eyes still remained.

"Sorry Caroline, I was just having a moment to myself. It's not every day I get the pleasure of your company willingly so I was rather caught up in the moment. I can't say it's something I don't enjoy though love." He winked gently and was about to continue when a leggy brunette waitress stopped in front of their table. The name tag pinned to her uniform revealed her name was "Muffy" and Caroline growled internally as she saw the slut-named girl's eyes darken in response to Klaus.

"One large caramel Latte and one large black coffee." Muffy said – her squeaky voice trying to come out as husky but it just sounded wrong – as she stared at Klaus with lust filled eyes and practically lay across their table, cleavage pressed together and pushed up almost to her chin, as she slid Klaus' drink towards him, leaving Caroline to reach across to the middle of the table and retrieve her own.

"Will there be anything else you'll be needing sweetcakes?" Muffy's high pitched voice was starting to grate on Caroline's nerves.

"Well love there is something you could do for me." Klaus' voice came out supposedly upbeat and cheerfully but having studied him previously Caroline could hear the slight edge to his voice as he beckoned the ditzy girl over and whispered in her ear, although with Caroline's vampire hearing he may as well have been shouting it across the room.

"Now love I want you to look at this beautiful lady next to me, then look over there in the mirror at yourself," The girl followed his instructions to a T. Obviously not to bright. Caroline thought as Klaus continued.

"Now I would like you to think very carefully about what I'm going to say next, because I think you might need to hear it. This little game you are trying on me, the lowering of your voice, the close bodily contact, the 'seductive' smile. All of these things may work for you Muffy. They may be able to make men take you home and buy you meaningless things that you think will improve your shitty life but I'll tell you one thing for sure, they do not work on me. That is why while this beautiful lady and I are off living our lives; you will still be just a desperate girl, working to score cheap points with men old enough to be your father, trying to find some sort of connection. So why don't you take yourself back to your day job, then later on go home and figure out how many lifetimes it'll take you to get some class. Thanks for the coffee." And with that he leant back, gave Caroline (who was practically shaking with supressed laughter) a wide smile and sipped his coffee gently. Muffy took one look at the pair of them, glared at Caroline and snatched the tray off the table and stomped away furiously.

Caroline took one look at Klaus and burst out laughing. She had honestly never laughed so much in her life and with that she applauded Klaus loudly, who played along bowing and saying thank you thank you 'humbly'.

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Later on, once they had finished their coffee (Klaus insisted on paying of course), the two of them had headed back to the car and Klaus had stopped in front of the school, they smiled at one another as they stood outside the vehicle.

"Well," Caroline started.

"This has been fun." Klaus finished for her and she smiled back.

"Yeah it has." An awkward silence lay between them.

"Well I better head on in, thank you for the lift and the coffee." Caroline smiled as she stepped up to Klaus kissing him gently on the cheek. She lingered slightly and as she began to pull back he grabbed her gently by the elbow and pulled her forward kissing her on the lips. The both stayed very still, the feeling of their lips pressed together like exploding stars, both burning with heat and sparking with flame. As Klaus pulled back Caroline swore she could still see those stars in front of her eyes as grinned cheekily at her.

"'Til I see you again, Caroline." He whispered gently.

"Klaus." She whispered back and then he was gone, already driving away. Caroline's head swam as she walked into school, if she had been paying attention, maybe she'd have noticed a fuming Tyler Lockwood standing just across the parking lot.

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So guys again sorry for taking so damned long, I hope the little scene at the end sated your appetite a little bit though and a flashback. Not exactly what I had intended for this chapter, still not so sure I'm happy about it but I guess it's about what you guys think right? So please leave a review to tell me what you thought and hopefully see you next time!