"Maybe I want to be the hero"

They always say you remember the moment you die, don't know, maybe it is true, but it wasn't the truth in Caroline's case. She didn't remember the last drain of blood that Damon drained from her body or how Joseph fed her blood. She didn't go through a tunnel and she saw no white light ahead. But she remembered waking up in some strange bedroom a man sitting next to her.

"Don't be afraid Caroline, my name is Joseph Salvatore. You're in my home." and strangely enough she wasn't afraid, his voice soothed her.

"What, what happened to me?" she whispered lightly.

"My son decided to kill you but I fed you my blood just before you died."

She looked at him in amazement. "Am I a vampire now?" she was confused, but she knew a while now what Damon really was, she was just so destructive she didn't care.

"Sort of, but you still have to feed on blood to complete the transition. It's your decision."

Caroline couldn't believe what she was hearing: blood, transition, life, death, everything was so confusing.

"So, you're giving me a choice?"

"Of course dear Caroline, I would never force you to become this against your will. That is not why I saved you."

"But, but why did you safe me?"

"Because I believe you deserve a chance, you deserve to live, a chance to become something great."

She turned her back on him and stared at the wall. "I think you've made a mistake than. I am not great; on the contrary, I'm pathetic. I should just die and be done with it."

" If that is your wish … But Caroline, there's a whole world out there waiting for you, great cities and music and art. Genuine beauty. And you could have all of it, and you could be a part of it; you could change the world if you really wanted to. You have so much to give, I see it in you, and it would be a pleasure to get to know you."

She turned to face him and said: "I don't think anyone had really seen that in me before. My dad … Well, he just left and …" Caroline started crying …

" It's hard for me to see anything when I feel so alone all the time." she knew she sounded so pathetic at the moment, spilling her deepest and darkest emotions to a complete stranger but why would it matter, she would be dead soon, she thought.

But than suddenly he took her hand and squeezed it lightly.

"You don't have to be alone anymore Caroline. I could give you a family. And promise you, you'll never be alone again."

Now, eight years after that night when she died and was reborn, he broke his promise. He was leaving her alone and she couldn't take it. She didn't understand what was going on, she didn't even have the strength to blame anyone for it, although she knew who she should blame, and that made her bleed even more. She just looked into his eyes, trying not to look at the blood and his face turning white. She just focused on the eyes; he had the gentlest eyes she had ever seen, especially in a vampire. And she wasn't ready to let them go …

"There has to be something we can do." she said and looked straight at Klaus. She had no clue what she was saying but whatever it was, he was her best shot.

"Caroline …" Elijah said gently.

"I'm so sorry for your loss; I never wanted something like this to happen. But I don't know what we can do, I … I think he's gone …"

"Nooo!" Caroline screamed and looked at Klaus one more time.

"We're supernatural beings, there is always something we can do …I'm not letting him go, not without a fight." they all thought she would start crying again but she was as strong as a rock, or at least fighting to be.

"But he's dead." Kol was being an asshole and stating the obvious.

"How did this even happen? I, I don't understand …" Rebekah was puzzled.

"One moment he was fine … And than I stabbed Finn and … he also started bleeding …"

Klaus finally spoke: "Finn tied them together with some kind of a spell that must be it. That is what he meant when he said I wouldn't be able to break the curse … If he died, they both die. That must be it." Klaus looked at Caroline hoping that through all her anger and pain she would see he would never hurt her father on purpose. And the funny thing was she actually did see it. She was supposed to hate him, she knew that, now more than ever, but she had no strength to do that, not when he was looking at her with those lost eyes. They were as lost as hers, they truly were a pair. A match made in hell.

"Maybe we can do something; maybe it's not too late yet. We could try reversing the spell …" Klaus was holding on to a threat, but he would give anything to have the light back in Caroline's eyes, the only eyes he cared about, the eyes he loved more than his own life.

"Klaus, please don't give Caroline hope. I'm sorry, but I really don't think that's possible." Elijah was trying to be the voice of reason, he wasn't cruel, on the contrary, he was trying to save Caroline from even more suffering.

"But, but, if there is a chance… We have to try … We have to try anything …" Caroline was also holding on to practically nothing but in moments like these, she wasn't rational and keeping it together Caroline, she was just a Caroline who would do anything to save the person that was everything to her, her family.

"There is no time to lose; I'll call Bonnie right away to ask for her help. Elijah, Kol put Joseph in my car, we have to go at once."

Caroline was once again sitting in the care next to Klaus, and she was desperately trying not to think about the fact that the lifeless body of her father was in the back seat. They didn't speak. I guess they had nothing to say to each other, or had too much to say but didn't know where to start.

"I …" she finally started, because she had to say something just not to think about her father, lying there, dead …

"I keep thinking I should call Damon and Stefan, I should … But I just can't force myself to do that. Not while there is still hope, I keep telling myself there is …" she was rambling like a crazy person but this is exactly how she was feeling. And going through this emotional breakdown with Klaus at her side was making in even harder.

"Do you hate me?" he looked at her and asked her bluntly.

She looked at him the same way and said: "I don't know."

"I don't think I actually feel anything right now, I'm too numb to feel. If I started feeling I think I would die … It's easier this way."

"I understand that." he replied

"Do you? Well, why are you doing this than? Helping be, giving me hope? You said you didn't care anymore."

He looked straight ahead and not at her when he simply whispered: "I lied."

She was trying not to look at him but it was stronger than her. She looked at him and saw a vulnerable face. A face of a man that has lost so much in his life, a monster that has taken even more, but somehow she knew she lied too, she could never truly hate him. Hating him would be like hating herself. So she took one of her hands and placed it on top of his, without saying a word. He didn't spoke either. The time and the place for words were long gone. But the feelings would never be, they both knew that … And drove on holding each others hand …

He took Joseph into his arms and they ran into Bonnie's house. She was already waiting for them. Candles burning everywhere … It looked like a shrine of some kind, a shrine for a dead man, Caroline thought to herself and shivered.

Bonnie walked to the place where Klaus had put her father, not his body, but her father. He was still her father to her, and would be till absolutely all hope was gone. Which could be very soon, she thought and shivered once more. This place was giving her the creeps.

"I don't know what I can do." Bonnie was being honest.

"But you will try?" Klaus asked her.

"Please try." Caroline was begging her. A person she treated with so much despise just a day and a half ago. It seemed like a different life. So much has happened since … And it all came back to her once more – the rain, the kiss, the passion, the cold shoulder the morning after, and this … It all led to this … A horrible thought came to her head but she couldn't shake it … Was this her punishment? Was she paying the price for betraying her family by falling for the enemy? Maybe all wasn't fair in love and war after all. Oh God, was that it? Was this her fault?

"God or any supernatural thingies listening, please save him, I promise I will make everything right. I'll give up, him …" She thought of Klaus and his smile and her body clenched in pain but she still made a promise …

"Please and try to save him Bonnie. I know I'm, we're, nothing to you but he's my father, I love him more than words could say and I don't think I could live without him. He's not my blood but he has given me my life, the greatest thing in the world …" she was begging and she didn't care, she was even willing to go down on her knees, she was willing to do anything to save her family.

"I'll try Caroline, I promise I'll try but … It's not up to me really. I don't know if the spirits of nature want him alive or if it's his time to go. This is a really strong and dangerous spell though. I'll need some of your blood."

"Ok …" Caroline was giving her hand but Klaus pushed her out of the way.

"Take mine Bonnie, I'm an Original, mine is the strongest blood there is, not that I'm bragging..."

Caroline couldn't believe that Klaus had offered his blood to save her father, it was the ultimate gesture and it made her heart ache to know … One way or the other, tonight she would be losing one of them, maybe even both …

"This could be dangerous for you too Klaus." Bonnie warned him.

"I've never done anything like this before; I don't know in how many ways it can backfire."

"I'm a big boy Bonnie; you know that, I'll be fine."

"You, you don't have to do this …" Caroline whispered.

He approached her and kissed her in the forehead. Their bodies were melting together. She wanted him to hold her and never let her go. But he did, he looked into her eyes and said: "It's ok love, maybe I want to be a hero for a change."

Bonnie took out the knife and cut into Klaus's hand. His blood dripping all over her father as Bonnie started doing her witchy spell. Suddenly the room started shaking and all the candles were burning bright as the Sun itself. Caroline couldn't see anything; she had no idea if this was a good sign or a bad one. She had no idea if her little prayer would be answered. The ground was starting to shake even harder as Bonnie raised her voice, she was talking to someone on the other side. Than something knocked Caroline on the ground and she couldn't get up. And than it all stopped as abruptly as it started. She got up and looked at them standing around her father.

"Did it work?" she asked petrified to hear the answer.

"I, I don't know ..." Bonnie said and almost fainted but Klaus caught her in time and laid her on the couch.

She instantly went to her father, he was still covered in blood and still not breathing. So this was it, the final goodbye. No more hope …No more heroes and heroisms … No more nothing … An ending … She caressed his cheek one last time when suddenly someone grabbed her hand. "Daddy" she screamed as Joseph opened his eyes. He was still out of it but he was alive. ALIVE!

Klaus came to her side and she instinctively hugged him and squeezed him tightly.

"Thank you" she whispered into his ear.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you."

She remembered what he said a few minutes ago: "… maybe I want to be a hero for a change." There was so much more to this man than just a monster, just a hybrid and just the big bad wolf how she called him more than once. There was so much more, and she loved him, every little part of him, the good and the bad. She loved him like she never thought was even possible to love someone. Like she almost didn't want to love, because it was so deep and strong that it scared her.

But than she also remembered her promise, the promise she gave to herself and anyone out there listening. If Joseph survived she would let him go. She would make things right.

She looked him in the eyes and he could read from them she was in a way saying goodbye when she said … "no matter what, you'll always be me hero."

So see? No worries, and sorry if I made you sad, he's ALIVE ... Of course I would never kill Joseph, he's such a cool father figure ... And yeey, Caroline finally realizes she loves Klaus and NOOO she made that stupid promise and now what? Is this really the end of them or is there more to come? Of course there is more to come, at least a few more chapters ...

I have to admit, I wasn't planning on making this so long in the beginning but the story just talk it's toll and I like writing this ... And I love you guys for reading this and leaving me lovely reviews, I appreciate very one of them ... PLEASE KEEP ON REVIEWING AND INSPIRING ME :))) ...

P.S. To me last night's episode was just borning, I have to be honest ... The writers/producers should really see why they SHOULDN'T kill Klaus ... Without Klaus there is no show anymore ... And without Klaroline ... my heart will just break :((