"Klaus, are you alright?" Her hair, newly cropped to chin length, blew out behind her in the wind. The sight of her, usually such a comfort to him, did little on this day. On this day he would always mourn, what he would never say, but she knew.

"Klaus, you need to come with me, you need to live." This was the same line she said every year, and each year she uttered it with the same amount of love that brought him to tears. But this year he couldn't be carried away by her loveliness, there were things he needed to discuss with her.

"We need to move, love." The instinct to run, ingrained in him by his father, was strong and his instincts beat at him, especially now that the danger was closer. Caroline wanted to settle down for a lifetime, retain some semblance of normality but she understood his needs and accepted that for now they would live like gypsies. In their perfectly maintained mansions, she knew to never grow attached to her beautiful homes or the beautiful people they met on their journey.

"Why this time?" There was always an excuse, but she never thought any less of him for it.

"I think it's in town." Pause. "Again, all the signs are there, I even had Clarisse do a sweep and it doesn't look good."

"And so, we must run again?"

"Well, I can't very well kill it now can I?" A bargain had been made to ensure that "It" would remain under control and as far away from Klaus and Caroline as possible, evidently that had fallen through.

"Thank you, I mean it, thank you. Thank you for not destroying her, it means a lot to me."

"Remember dear, I promised not kill IT, no more. If it comes near you I will have it locked away so deep that not even Silas could hear its screaming." The sincerity being his eyes scared her and she felt bad for her old friend. For one fleeting moment she wished she hadn't made him make that promise, death would be more of a gift than what he had in mind.

He didn't need to know that she kept in regular contact with Damon for updates, she already knew what her beloved had just told her, knew more than he did probably. He didn't seem to know that Damon had caused this problem, probably wouldn't care.

Though she pitied her one time friend, the life she wanted with this man outweighed anything she felt for IT, so if she had to assist in exterminating IT to have her fairy-tale ending, over and over again, then so be it