I Run to You
Request: I'd love to see a situation where Caroline is upset/hurt or whatever and in need of comfort, she has plenty of people there Stefan, Elena, Bonnie, Tyler etc but she only wants Klaus either he's there and she bi passes all of them to run to him or he's not and she just keeps asking for him and won't let anyone else touch her.
Caroline had been kidnapped again, this time by a much more sinister force. Everyone blamed Klaus; Elena, Stefan, Damon, Bonnie, Matt, Tyler, who Klaus had allowed to return to help in the fight against her kidnapper, Silas, they all blamed the hybrid. But she couldn't, wouldn't, blame Klaus. It wasn't his fault.
Silas would have done what he did vervain laced ropes, wooden bullets, chains, sunlight, stakes ripping through her skin regardless of Klaus' feelings for her; he was evil, and he had wanted to get back at all of them. Not just Klaus. Oh, but they blamed him as they pulled her away from the cave, away from him, away from the only arms that she wanted.
They took her to her house, telling her to shower, to eat, to drink, to sit, to relax, and did she want to talk about what had happened?, did she need them to get anything for her?, was she comfortable? It was when Stefan moved to hug her that she finally snapped from it all. "Stop! Just stop." She buried her face in her hands. "Klaus, I want Klaus. Get me Klaus!"
"Caroline, you don't really want him-"
She moved away from the hand reaching out for her, not wanting any hands but Klaus' to comfort her in that moment. "Don't tell me what I want Tyler! He was there for me, and we're together whether you like it or not, and I want him. I need him to be here, and he needs to know that I don't blame him!"
"Sweetheart." She gasped at the quiet voice, turning to find him in the doorway. She ignored everyone else in the room, running to him, launching herself into his waiting arms, finally, finally, feeling better. She felt safe again, and it was because of the arms pressing her body against his, hands running down her body, not sensuously, but checking for injuries.
"You came."
"Of course I did Caroline. No one could have kept me away."
It was only then that she remembered the presence of everyone else in the room, looking on at them in shock. Klaus continued to ignore them when she pulled away, searching her body, making sure she had properly healed from her ordeal. "I'm fine Klaus."
"Don't give me that love. I know you're not alright."
"If she said she's alright, she's alright."
"Really, Elena?" He rounded on the girl, finally recognizing the rest of the people's presence. "And if you were brutally tortured for two weeks, would you be alright? He hurt Caroline, and how many times has she been tortured now because of you lot? You think that didn't bring back terrible memories for her?"
She gaped at him in shock, but then again, he had always been so adept at knowing how she really felt. He was breathing heavily, fists clenching, and she stepped forward, grabbing one of his hands in hers. "I'm better now, Nik."
He was right, he always was. She wasn't all right. She woke up in a cold sweat for months afterwards, not for fear of herself, or pain again, but because the part she had told no one, not even Klaus, was that the worst part of Silas' torture had been showing her vision after vision of Klaus dying. And she had to wake up, feel his arms around her, see the rise and fall of his chest, to know that he was still alive and with her.