"Not a fairytale but a tragedy"

Yet another morning Caroline had woken up in someone's arms. The only difference was this time she was, oh yes, naked. Her head hurt, she always could hold her liquor, but this time it wasn't just the drinks that made her head throb. It was the serious lack of sleep. She couldn't believe she slept with Klaus, like 5 or 6 times last night. Seriously, she wasn't bragging, she just wasn't capable of counting after the first 4 or 5 times. They weren't normal, but last night, it did seem normal. They were behaving like tomorrow would never come and they had only a few hours to live. They behaved selfishly, like they were the only two people in the world and what they wanted, and they wanted each other, was the only thing that mattered and would ever matter … But that was last night, last night with a lot of alcohol in their blood, last night in the pouring rain, last night in that magnificent 20is club, everything went … This morning … This morning reality hits … And the harsh reality was she had fallen for the enemy, slept with him, drank his blood and let him drink hers, which she has never, and I mean NEVER done before, after Damon and that horrible episode of her life, that is. She did the thing she never wanted to do – she lost control of herself. She let the dark in. And she didn't know if there was a way back, a part of her didn't know if she wanted to go back.

She tried to move but he grabbed her and pushed her back into his arms.

"Klaus …" she whispered not knowing what else to say.

"I'm a thousand years old Caroline, you forget I barely need sleep. I know you're awake for minutes now, probably torturing that witty brain of yours with what happened last night."

"Oh shut up, it's not like you can read minds." she pushed him and wrapped the sheet around her body. It was so silly, it's not like he hadn't seen and tasted every part of her body last night, over and over again. But like she said, that was last night … This was this morning …

"Hiding something under there? Some tail I hadn't seen last night perhaps?"

"Everything is one big joke to you isn't it?" she was angry at him and she didn't even know why, I guess because it was easier to be angry at him than to face her true feelings. Since she had no freaking idea what they were in the first place.

"Caroline …" he sat next to her and looked her in the eyes.

"Caroline please look at me. None of this is a joke to me, it never was. But I don't think I could stand …" he suddenly stopped talking.

"You know what, never mind. We're not going to do this anymore; I've expressed my feelings towards you so many times. It's your turn love."

Caroline looked at him in surprise, she couldn't believe he had actually said that and couldn't believe he was actually asking this from her. It just wasn't fair, and you know what? She just didn't have to go along with it, and she wouldn't.

"It's ten o'clock. It will be noon in two hours. Your psycho brother has the person I love the most in this whole world and I have no idea what he's capable of. I really don't think it's time to contemplate about my feelings." Caroline said trying to sound angry, and not scared. Not scared that she would actually feel something for him … But Klaus called her bluff, called it as he saw it. And it didn't surprise her, because for a man mad about games and manipulations he was really playing on the honesty card now.

"Ha, I never thought of you as a chicken …"

"Please Klaus, we're not twelve. I'm not falling for that."

He grabbed her, but slightly, he wasn't planning to hurt her. She wasn't afraid, for some reason she felt safe with him. But she didn't feel safe with herself anymore.

"You're not falling for that? The same way you're not falling for me, I presume?"

"I, I'm not." she said and tried to make it convincing.

She pushed herself to the wall, trying to make a distance between them; this closeness was just too intense. She closed her eyes and tried to think. This was so not the conversation they were supposed to be having right now, there were more important issues to be dealt with. But she had to say something to get him of her back, this time only figuratively speaking. So she decided to go with the truth or at least the "truth" she kept telling herself.

"I am not going to lie and say last night wasn't … amazing, like nothing I experienced before, hands down best sex in my life. We really click on that level, ok, I admit it. It was an insane night but it was just sex."

He looked at her like she stabbed a dagger through his hard but just for a glimpse of a second. Than his face when relentlessly dark and she saw he shut his emotions off. Wow, she wished she could do the same as easily. She actually had no idea that it didn't come easy to him either. Not for a while now, not after he met her.

"Fine Caroline, you keep telling yourself that. Just sex … Nothing else. No emotions, no messes … Fine …" he kept repeating that horrible fine and it made her heart ache. It's not like she thought the big bad wolf would throw himself at her feet and ask for her love. This wasn't the fucking Cinderella or whatever fairytale. It just wasn't a fairytale. And nothing has changed; he was still a Mikaelson and she a Salvatore. They were still supposed to hate each others guts. This was not supposed to be a faire tale, but a tragedy.

He went into the shower and she went into her room to change. No funny remarks on his side about her joining him, no bitter remarks from her that she would rather lick the toilette seat or something. No nothing … Just the ice cold silence between them that made her want to cry. She was so silly; I mean she was the one that practically told him last night meant nothing. So why did that NOTHING hurt so much? Her mobile phone started ringing as she was getting dressed.

"Elena? What's wrong?" she answered in a panic when she saw Elena was calling her.

"No, nothing Caroline, I just wanted to hear your voice. I miss you so much Care. I couldn't sleep one bit last night, ever since Stefan told me you called him yesterday and what's going to happen today …"

Caroline heard Elena was crying, and knowing how sweet and sensitive Elena really was, she was probably crying all night. While I was having the time of my life with the enemy, she thought and once more felt guilty and like she betrayed her family. Why did it always had to be this way with him? Why does it always have to be one or the other in her life? Whyyy?

"Sweetie, don't worry, you know I'd never let anything happen to Joseph, I would give my life to keep him safe and alive."

Elena started crying after hearing this. "I know Caroline, that's why I'm so worried. Oh God, I told Stefan I wasn't going to cry anymore, but just the thought of something happening to you. You're like a sister to me … I just love you so much." and then of course she started crying again.

"Oh Elena, I love you too. So stop crying. I'll be fine, nothing, listen to me, nothing is going to happen to me. I'll be back home before you know it. With Joseph, and we'll keep on being this crazy, dysfunctional but loving vampire family. The Addams Family only with claws … Nothing is going to separate us, I promise you this Lena. Nothing."

She looked herself in the mirror after the conversation she had with Elena, looked deep down and knew what she had to do. She had to keep her family together and nothing and none would stop her from doing this.

She went downstairs to find Klaus doing something. Drawing something in his sketchbook? Probably some master plan of attack or something like that… Evil master plans of the murderous hybrid volume one, she thought to herself.

"Klaus, I'm going with you."

"What the bloody hell are you talking about love?" but the love wasn't sweet as usual it was filled with annoyance; he finally had had enough of her, she thought, but wasn't backing down. She was defending her own … All is fair … in love and war …

"I'm going with you at noon. I know Finn said come alone but I don't think he'll be threatened by me, I mean he is one of the Originals, I can't hurt him."

"So why do you want to go? Put yourself into danger?"

"He has my father Klaus." she said calmly.

"Oh, I see. And you don't trust me to take care of it without shedding the blood of the innocent, right sweetheart?" again with the nicknames that were pronounced to vindictively right now they were burning a whole through her dead heart. But she couldn't stop, even if she was hurting both of them. She had her loved once to take care of.

"After the ruling is past to you, you don't need him alive anymore." she knew she would regret saying that the moment she said it, she practically called him a cold-blooded monster. I mean he was that, right? So why did she feel so bad? Like she broke her very own heart by saying this. He just stared at her with his evil glare. Was it evil or was it just sad? She couldn't tell anymore, she was way too confused.

"Fine love, come along for the ride." he finally spoke.

"But don't expect me to come to your rescue if something happens. As you pointed out so many times, I don't care. So I simply won't care if you live or die. You're on your own. As we all."

He left the room without even looking at her. She was right – this was no fairytale, it was a tragedy. The only thing she feared was … if the worst was yet to come …

I hope you guys aren't mad this is just from Caroline's POV, the infamous morning after feelings ... I know I've spoiled :p you with longer chapters and both POV's but this just looked like a nicely rounded up chapter, so I decided to publish it. Don't worry, Klaus will get his POV, as the big battle is next, and it's a brother thing so that will definately be his chapter, Caroline at his side of course... As a friend or an enemy? Wait and see ;)

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