What Scares You Most
Request: I want a one shot where Caroline doesn't leave Klaus in the woods and Silas attacks/hurts Caroline to get to Klaus,instead of staking him with the white oak.
"Sorry, am I interrupting something?" Klaus and Caroline looked toward the voice, and he turned, pushing her further behind his body, his earlier anger turning to protectiveness.
"Silas, I presume." Caroline noted that his walls were up again; even when he was angry with her, his voice was different. He spoke to her differently than almost everyone else. She gripped onto his upper arms; this man, they didn't know what he was capable of, and she was afraid, but Klaus' unwavering strength gave her the courage to not back down, to not let her fear show, to not run and draw attention to herself.
"Thank you. Of all the massacres this was the one I was dreading the most."
"What do you want mate?"
"The cure."
Klaus made a show of patting himself down, and she rolled her eyes at his antics. "Sorry, don't have it."
"But you know who does. And the last thing you want is for that cure to be used on you. So you bring it to me and it won't be. You get to live."
Klaus laughed lightly when Silas finished, and she looked up at him in mild shock. "Yeah, with all of my dead supernatural enemies from the other side."
Oh he wanted to live, he didn't want the cure used against him, but he did not want to have to fight off all the people he had killed, people killed in his name to protect him. It was an impossible choice; get the cure and give it to Silas and have those enemies angry, waiting to attack, get the cure and destroy it, thus facing Silas' wrath, or do nothing and have the cure used against him.
Silas made a noise of displeasure, but Klaus continued on. "You know, you don't scare me Silas, or Shane, or whoever you are."
"Oh but I know what does." She would never know how it he did it, but one minute she was pressed up against Klaus' back, and the next Silas had a firm hold on her throat as she stood now facing Klaus, who took a step toward her with a low growl, anger, true anger, not what he had directed at her before, in his eyes, only stopping when Silas pressed a stake against her chest, directly to the side of her heart, while his other hand dropped down to her lower back. "I think you're pretty scared of losing this one girl."
"Now where did you get an idea like that?" She would have been hurt, fearful, if she hadn't recognized the move for what it was. He was downplaying his emotions for her in the hopes that Silas would let her go.
"Let's just say that, although your mind is hard to read, it's not impossible. Consider my offer?" She expected the pressure that he added to the stake, but what she hadn't expected was the stinging pain in her lower back. "Werewolf venom mixed with vervain, makes the healing that her body will try to do to save her void, which means she'll die quicker, unless you save her. Just a little something to remember me by."
Klaus made a move as though he was going to follow Silas when he let go of her body and she felt herself start to fall, unable to hold herself up with the venom coursing through her bloodstream, bracing herself for when she would inevitably hit the ground, but strong arms grabbed hold of her, lifting her up and speeding away.
He set her down on a leather couch sitting beside her, pulling her into his lap, and she heard the bite of skin, smelt the blood in the air, before his wrist was pressed up against her mouth and his blood hit her tongue. She was greedier than she had been the other two times, not inhibited by a fear of him or that she was on death's door. She took long gulps of his blood until she felt her strength return, and only then did she pull her fangs out of his wrist, unsure if she had overstepped her bounds as she remembered how angry he had been at her before. "Did you get enough love?"
"Yes. I thought- I thought you were upset with me."
She heard him sigh behind her, realizing that she had made no move to leave his lap, finding that she didn't want to. "I was. But I can't stay mad at you long, and I'm more worried than anything now."
Caroline moved so she was facing him, and pressed a hand against his face. "I'm fine Klaus."
"He could have killed you. And I wouldn't have been able to do anything to stop it."
"Hey, hey, he didn't, that's all that matters right now." She laid her head on his shoulder, felt his arms encircle her tentatively. "Thank you for saving me again."
"Of course." He would always save her, she knew that now. And with a startling realization, she came to the conclusion that she would do the same for him.