Protecting You

Request: May I pretty please request a drabble, where Klaus finds out about the hard day Caroline had and feels guilty for not being there to protect her?

*****I'm tweaking this a little and adding smut, hope you don't mind!

Co written with tattooed-she-wolf. Dedicated especially to tattooed-she-wolf, melanoradrood, drabblesinklaroline, and parthenonqueen who I think I killed a little bit with that last one, and also to anyone else that was saddened by Say the Words.

"Leave her alone Klaus, she's had a hard couple of days. Her boyfriend left and her best friend tried to kill her last night."

Her best friend tried to kill her last night. Stefan's words played on a loop in his head, over and over, and he couldn't sleep, the image of her cold, dead body clear in his head, no longer the light that drew him in, but the darkness of death over her. What if she had died? What if he had lost her forever because the doppelganger somehow beat her? It wasn't an acceptable thought, and he would rectify the situation.

"I'm going to train you." The words were firmly said to her when he entered her bedroom to her shocked gasp, leaving no room for argument, though he expected her to fight him anyway. When she nodded, he was surprised and yet relieved beyond words. It might not save her in the end, but it would help. All he knew was that he would do anything to ensure her continued survival.

What he hadn't anticipated was the way his body would react. Training Caroline was very different from his siblings though. He would press her into the ground after flipping her, and he would harden almost instantly. She would jump on his back, placing her fangs at his throat and he had to fight back a moan. Days, weeks passed, like that, always the same, him fighting back his desire to take her right there on the forest floor.

Then, his hand snagged into her shirt as she ran from him, trying to evade capture, and it ripped clear off into his hand. They both stared at the material in shock, and then Klaus found himself pressed into a tree. He expected her to yell at him, slap him like she had that day in these very woods from what felt like a lifetime ago, but she did neither. Instead, she pulled his head down to hers forcefully, locking their lips together. To say he was shocked would be an understatement. He had never expected her to ever kiss him, let alone be the one to initiate it. And yet, it was clearly happening.

His brain finally commanded his arms to wrap around her, holding her tight for as long as this glimpse of heaven would last. She pulled away, gasping for breath to murmur, "I've wanted to do that for the past two weeks." He was saved having to respond by her lips colliding with his again. They fought for control of the kiss, their tongues dueling even as their hands tore at each other's clothing.

She pushed his body to the ground, and they rolled each other, ignoring the sticks and rocks in the ground around them, too concerned with fighting each other for dominance. Caroline eventually ended up above him again, and she nipped at his neck playfully, and he let her remain on top this time. Klaus admired the sight of her above him, her breasts heaving, begging for him to touch and taste them, and he did, relishing in the moan that came from her lips when his teeth pulled at one hardened nipple while his fingers tweaked the other. She lowered her body down onto him, and he hissed against her skin at the feeling of being inside of her.

He let her have control for several minutes, enjoying the feeling of her hips rising and slamming back down onto him, before he moved to sit up, grasping her hair so that he could taste her sweet lips once more. Their hands grasping, clenching, lips moving in tandem, their bodies moving together like they had been doing this for centuries, and if he had his way, they would be. He would never be able to let her go after this.

Her walls clenching around him as she gasped into his mouth was enough to send him over the edge. He panted heavily, trying to still his heartbeat and his breath. She pushed off of him, tugging his arm so they were both standing. Without warning, he swept her legs out from under her, lifting her into his arms, speeding them to his house. He laid her on his bed before joining her, thrusting into her warm sheath once more. Klaus had enjoyed her show of dominance, but he did not like to give up control for long, not even for Caroline. He pumped in and out of her, adjusting his angle, the depth of his thrusts, learning what made her scream his name out in pleasure.

He had her falling again in short order, her nails raking his back, and he let himself go at that point. Klaus collapsed onto her, and they clutched each other. He rolled off of her, tugging her to his side, a secret smirk at how she still panted from his attentions. "Did you enjoy yourself, my love?"

Caroline growled playfully, swinging her legs over him so she straddled him once more. He wasn't hard yet, not even his hybrid abilities were that fast, but he would be soon if she continued moving her core over his length as she was. "You think?"

They fought each other for dominance, it was their way after all. She was on top, and then him. She slammed him into the wall, knocking several of his paintings and framed letters down, and he took her against the shower wall.

He knew then that he had found his true mate, his alpha female, because he would have let no other take control from him as she did, fleeting as it was. But for the rest of their eternal lives, spending the majority of it together, it was always that way with them. A constant battle for control. A battle neither of them really wanted to win.