"No more-!"

"Oh come on, you love it!"

"Nik-! God!"

"Oh you love it when I make you scream."

"Hush-!"

"Oh Carebear-"

"Oh god. Next door probably thinks were at it… again."

Caroline kicked Klaus in the ankle now as he tickled her sides, in a rather playful mood for once. But he hissed and stopped dead as he felt the pain in his ankle, pouting. "I thought you weren't inclined for a morning romp?"

She rolled her eyes at that, heaving herself up with a groan, straddling his hips and leaning down, letting him brush the hair from her eyes, Klaus meeting her halfway as he pressed a soft kiss to her lips, muttering. "I love you."

His other hand went to her bare back, tracing patterns upon her skin. Caroline kissed him back with a giggle playing about her lips, trailing her hands down onto his chest, moaning lightly against them.

"You little tease…" Klaus groaned as she grinded against his hips, nipping at him bottom lip. He raised his hand and wound it into her hair, grinding back against her own hips, refusing to have a repeat of the previous day before.

Caroline jolted now as she heard Elena and Bonnie get up, talking about going to the beach… and waking up her.

"I gotta go. Now." Caroline muttered hastily, pressing a kiss to her hybrids lips before he could say a single word, snagging her clothes and dressing gown, yanking it on and was out the door.

Klaus just blinked and pulled the covers back over himself, turning over and going back to sleep-

He'd see her later, he wasn't worried.

But now he rolled onto his back and pouted to the ceiling-

One thing first.

-Marked-

Caroline sneaked back into her room, tossing her clothes aside and jumping into bed before her friends could realize where she had spent the morning.

And who with.

Caroline rubbed her neck now, remembering the previous night… when her hybrid lover had bitten her so much.

But god what a night.

It made shivers go through her.

There was a knock on the door now, making her jump. She breathed a sigh, getting to her feet and walking over to the door, wrapping her dressing gown around her more.

Caroline yanked it open, blinking as she heard-

"I never got to give you one back."

She blinked as a hard and passionate kiss was pressed to her lips for a second, and when she blinked, the hybrid was gone.

A moment later, there were voices, and she heard. "Caroline!"

She looked around, smiling at Elena as she walked over, fully dressed with Bonnie who went. "Oh god, you're not dressed!"

"Oh-" Caroline muttered, too taken aback by Klaus' kiss, but now she chuckled and nodded. "I had a lie in. Come in."

Bonnie and Elena walked in, taking a seat on her unmade bed, and Caroline stared at the bed, the image of herself and Klaus upon it in her mind.

Oh god not now.

It was moments like these she was glad she wasn't a man. Images like this wouldn't be good.

"Caroline?"

She snapped to her senses, laughing out. "Yes?"

Elena ignored the silence by snorting. "Me and Bonnie were just laughing about last night."

"Oh god. Were you having a pillow fight?"

"Oh no, a few doors from us were… at it."

Caroline froze at that, internally cursing herself-

Shit.

She laughed, shaking her head, swiftly lying. "I heard nothing. Slept through the night."

Bonnie snorted, going. "He must have been very good, or very bad. We were guessing good from the verbal evidence."

"So you both spent the whole night… perving?"

Elena and Bonnie looked at each other, bursting out into giggles, Elena covering her mouth as she nodded. "Shush, we were drunk."

Inside, Caroline was dying of embarrassment and laughter-

If only her friends knew just who the pair they'd been listening to were.

"Are we going to the beach today?" Caroline suddenly said, cutting the, in her mind, porn talk short as Elena nodded, laughing. "Brush your hair and we can go for a swim! Just stick on your bikini and wear your shorts and vest over them."

"Aye aye ma'am!" Caroline joked, grabbing them and nipping into the bathroom, pulling on her bikini, followed by vest and shorts, dragging a brush through her hair until it was knot free. The morning after spending the night with Klaus usually left her with so many she lost count.

She took a deep breath, shoved her lustful thoughts that had been getting so bad lately to the back of her mind, cursing Klaus-

Damn him for turning her into this mess.

She stepped back outside, grinning at her friends. "Ready!" Caroline nabbed her sunglasses and slipped into her flip flops, following her friends out the door, glancing down the corridor at a certain closed door.

Until later she supposed.

-Marked-

For once, Klaus wasn't on Carolines mind as she chased after Elena at a human speed down to the beach, giggling like mad as she caught her, grabbing her friends hand, along with Bonnies, pulling them over to a nice spot, sitting down and laying her towel down, yanking off her shorts and vest, lying down before Bonnie and Elena were even set up, the witch laughing out. "Someone's hyper!"

Caroline beamed, setting her sunglasses down before her eyes and brushing her hair back, groaning lightly as the sun hit her skin-

So perfect.

She nodded off, waking up thirty minuets later to find Elena and Bonnie frolicking in the azure colored ocean, attention completely on that.

Caroline giggled, but next to gasped as hands caught her from behind, spinning around with wide eyes to face the smirking form of her hybrid.

"Klaus-!" She hissed, pulling back as he lent forwards to kiss her, chuckling out. "What love?"

"We're in public!"

"So?"

"On a beach!"

"Kinky."

"Elena and Bonnie are over there!"

Klaus rolled his eyes and grabbed her hand, yanking her over behind the ice cream shop, letting her push him against the wall, hissing. "Have you lost your mind?"

At that, Klaus smirked, going. "I wasn't going to have at you on the beach love. I just missed you."

"Missed me-?"

"Shocking isn't it (?)"

Caroline sighed, placing a hand on his bare chest, glancing down at him in just black knee length swimming shorts, looking back up, moving her hand from his chest to face, pushing the dark sunglasses from his eyes to atop his head, staring into the eyes that matched the shades of blue behind them.

All she could do was to sigh heavily, placing her forehead against his rather sun heated chest, muttering. "I worry Klaus."

He frowned, wrapping his arms around her waist, pressing a soft kiss to her cheek, sighing out. "You shouldn't worry so much about me, about all this, my love."

"Am I supposed to not care at all then-?"

Klaus chuckled, hugging her tighter to him, kissing the spot under her ear and whispering as he closed his eyes. "I don't want you worrying anymore love. Promise me."

Caroline said nothing.

"Caroline."

"I'm not promising to never worry again. Because I do." Caroline muttered, moving her hands and taking his face into them, frowning as she asked. "How did we get in this so deep-?"

Klaus said nothing for a moment, just leaning forwards and pressing a soft kiss to her lips, whispering against them. "Because I guess love can soften even the hardest of hearts."

Caroline was silent too, but then asked quietly. "Do you love me… truly?"

Once more, there was no answer for a start, just a passionate kiss in which he pulled her closer, finally telling her, meeting her eyes. "I love you. I'm not ashamed to add, 'with all my heart.' Do you love me?"

"Of cour-!"

"Caroline. Think about it. Don't just jump in."

Caroline fell silent, thinking like he asked-

He was a monster. She was still shocked at herself, loving the man that had, essentially, wanted to use her as his sacrifice to break his curse. Before they knew each other.

God she really was crazy to love him. She would lose next to everything if people found out about them.

It was all or nothing.

But she loved him. She really did. And that was no lie.

Caroline traced her thumb over his cheek now, muttering. "You've done bad things to everyone, to me in the past. You can never, ever change or erase that. Or expect to be forgiven…"

Klaus just looked down at that, face falling the slightest as he heard her words, but Caroline made him look back into her eyes once more as she forced his head back up, adding, voice stronger. "There are things you've done that I will never forgive you for. Know that. I'm not a total fool-"

"I don't expect your forg-"

"Hush. I'm talking. As I was saying, I will never completely forgive you… but I love you. That is the truth, Niklaus; I'm hopelessly in love with you. And despite your flaws, I can't imagine a life where I don't love you."

The hybrid was utterly silent at that, taken aback, hardly able to believe his ears.

Caroline guessed he was shocked, not knowing what to believe. Then again… they had just opened up their hearts to each other. She leaned forwards and captured his lips once more, closing her eyes as a different kind of passion sprung up between them, so different to the other times they had kissed-

Maybe it was because it wasn't tinged with lust, or anything of their encounters, but rather with something more purer.

Klaus finally got what love was.

And just thought-

"How the fuck could she love a monster like me-?"

The pair didn't grope each other as they usually would, but Caroline let her hands fall from his face to his hands, twining them together as she kissed him harder, muttering against his lips. "I love you."

"Caroline?"

Caroline groaned against his lips, muttering hurriedly. "I gotta go." But as she turned, Klaus caught her hand, pulling her close to say into her ear quietly. "Meet me. Sunset at the Ferris Wheel."

And with that, he was gone.

God did Caroline hate the sneaking around.

They both did.

Caroline dashed around now, poking Bonnie and Elenas back as they called her, making them jump.

"Where did you vanish to?" Elena frowned and Caroline grinned. "I went to the toilet."

Bonnie snorted and shook her wet head, nodding to the ocean, laughing. "Coming in?"

At that, Caroline wrinkled her nose, groaning. "Do I have to?"

"Yes!"

-Marked-

The whole day the girls spent on the beach, messing around and frolicking.

Caroline couldn't help herself as she glanced around, looking for her hybrid-

But he wasn't there.

Sunset rapidly approached, and before she knew it, Caroline was making some excuse that she was nipping back to the café they had stopped at to get her jacket.

One super shitty excuse, but it worked.

So she walked, back in her jean shorts and vest, hair still damp, to the sparkling Ferris Wheel, hardly able to stop a smile as she saw Klaus in shorts and a t-shirt, lounging on the railings, staring out over the ocean. Caroline walked over, creeping her hands around him from behind and pressing a kiss to his cheek, muttering. "Good evening."

"Good evening my love."

He turned around in her arms now, pressing a kiss to the tip of her nose. "You got away?"

"Don't I always?"

Klaus said nothing, cocking his head and pressing a kiss to her lips, muttering against them at last. "Come on."

"Where are we going-?"

"Hold on-"

"Wh-? Argh-!"

Klaus smirked broadly as he placed Caroline on the seat next to him, setting the bar down with a laugh, locking it in an instant. Caroline rolled her eyes, looking down from the tip top of the Ferris Wheel, heart racing from where Klaus had grabbed her and jumped.

He could have-

Oh wait. He did warn her.

She ignored all that and snuggled into his arms, staring at the sunset, feeling utterly cheesy in a good way.

They sat in silence for a moment before Caroline broke it by asking quietly. "Why me?"

"Hmm?"

"Why me… you could have any girl in the world, literally… and you chose a fucked up blondie."

Klaus cocked a brow and rolled his eyes, taking Carolines face into his hands. "Well, 'fucked up blondie,' you're special. And mine. That's all that matters. I love you, my kinky little thing."

Caroline scoffed and shook her head, closing her eyes as he pressed another kiss to her lips, muttering against his own. "Kinky huh?"

"Yes, my kinky Care. Well, you can be sometimes. You're lacking lately."

She smirked against his lips and creeped her hand down, scoffing lightly. "Sometimes huh?" She tutted now and sneaked her hand into the front of his shorts, popping open his top button, yanking the zipper down with a smirk, making him laugh, looking to her. "Come on Care. We're in public. You would never."

"Oh what's life without a little risk?" Caroline smirked, guessing he was thinking that she wouldn't do it. He was going to be shocked. She didn't go inside his boxers, content to tease him as she traced a finger over the front of them inside his shorts, Klaus closing his eyes and shaking his head. "Care… I'm not walking around with a-"

"Shush." She told him, teasingly rubbing her hand against him, eliciting a groan from him, muttering. "Ok Care. I believe you. Not now."

Caroline smirked and pulled her hand out, doing up his zip and button, smiling sweetly up at him as she patted the front of his shorts that had now grown a little in size, spying his narrowed eyes. "Thanks (!)"

She actually giggled, leaning forwards and placing a kiss to his cheek. "I love you too."

Klaus rolled his eyes and kissed her back, muttering against her lips. "Don't have your bag with you again do you (?)"

"N'awww, did Klausy get a boner?"

"Shut up."

Caroline smirked again and kissed him harder, groaning against his lips. "We could always make use of it back at the hotel."

A silence.

"I love how you think sometimes."

Klaus smirked and called down to the compelled owner. "Alright. Bring us down."

As soon as they were down, they both dragged each other to the hotel, Caroline giggling as he pushed her into her own room, shutting the door behind him, picking her up over his shoulder, making her laugh and pound his back, next to yelling. "Nik-!"

He laughed and dumped her onto the bed, straddling her in an instant, letting her pull his t-shirt off over his head, leaning down and capturing her lips hungrily with a groan. "God I love you Caroline."

She kissed him back passionately, wrapping her legs around the back of his own as his hands went to his shorts.

"Caroline-? We hear-"

Caroline broke the kiss in an instant, spluttering as the bedroom door was pushed open, Elena and Bonnie stopping dead, falling silent in utter shock at the pair on the bed.

Elena muttered out.

"Caroline-"

And Bonnie narrowed her eyes-

"Klaus..."

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