Post 4x10 Caroline confesses to Klaus

Klaus stood in the bar with all his newly turned vampires. A beeping on his phone broke him from his focus. An unknown number beeped at him, indicating a text message. Intrigued as to who was contacting him, he tapped on the message. His eyes widened a fraction at the sender.

This Caroline, can we please talk?

Klaus wanted nothing to do with her since the night of the murder of the mayor. Caroline was playing the part of the dutiful girlfriend, doing her best to support her grieving boyfriend giving all of her love and devotion to Tyler. Love and devotion Klaus wanted to be directed towards him, but she had only ever been a distraction.

He growled at the idea of her acting like nothing happened and shoved the phone back into his pocket. The carnage of Jeremy ferociously attacking the vampires soothed his emotions and the smell of warm blood and death numbed his mind. He returned to the bar, and resumed his drink, mindlessly sipping the scotch as Jeremy ran outside with Damon and Matt hot on his heels.

The phone was burning a hole in his pocket though. Unable to push the blonde from his mind he gulped the rest of his drink down and threw the cup across the room, littering the floor in tiny shards. Picking up his phone he dialed Damon.

"What?" Damon crossly huffed into the phone.

Klaus made an effort to not be annoyed by Damon's tone. "It would appear I have to some business that requires my attention back in Mystic Falls. I shan't be gone long, so do your best to not get my hunter killed."

He snapped the phone off before Damon could retort. Grabbing a bottle of scotch from behind the counter, Klaus walked out of the bar. He was in no rush to get to Caroline's but couldn't stop himself from going either. The lights in the Forbes' home were all out except for Caroline's bedside lamp when he arrived, his bottle almost completely empty and in a lot safer mood to handle her.

Smirking, he let himself into the house grateful the Sheriff had not taken back her invitation. However he was stopped by a firm hand on his chest, Caroline standing before him with a finger over her mouth. Klaus heard the steady rise and fall of her mother's chest from the back bedroom. Caroline walked past Klaus into the cool night, casting her head over her shoulder waiting for him to follow.

Klaus wordlessly went back outside, joining Caroline on the front step. Klaus watched from the side of his eye Caroline tuck her legs up into her chest and lay her head on her knees. It was clear even in the faint moonlight she had been crying for quite some time. A small part of him halted at the sight; melting the iciness he had tried so very hard to guard him.

"What do you need Caroline?" he said harshly.

Caroline wiped an errant tear from her face. "I hate you," she blurted out.

Klaus immediately frowned; he did not come all this way to be told off. The alcohol in his system was dulling his senses but her words still stung deeply. He gathered all his control to not retaliate letting a blank mask of control slip into place. The things he did for her.

"Rebekah is awake and trapped us all at the school tonight." she started out in a small voice. It sound forced and practiced, apparently Caroline had spent some time preparing what she wanted to say to him. Klaus knew that he wasn't going to get away until she had said her piece.

He nodded his head at her words, "Kol already informed me of my sister's waking state."

Caroline nodded in response and fell silent. After a minute she continued her speech. "She forced Tyler to turn and run after us. We had all been compelled so we couldn't leave the school."

Klaus stiffened but relaxed, she wasn't hurt so at least the mongrel hadn't bitten her. Cocking his head at her raised a brow. "Us?"

"Elena and Stefan" she said dismissively rolling her eyes.

Tears began to swell up in her eyes, threatening to run over. "After Tyler switched back he finally started to talk to me about his mom."

The silent understanding that Klaus had killed Carol went unspoken but that didn't stop him from stiffening. If she kept talking about Tyler he would leave. Caroline noticed the change is his body and turned her head away from him.

"He told me he was not going to be around vampires any longer, that all they did was bring misery. So he packed up his bags and left to go be with the pack he made friends with last time." Caroline choked out, the tears brimming over onto her cheeks.

Klaus was conflicted. He was upset that Tyler was gone. It meant he couldn't exact revenge on him. But at the same time he was grateful that once again there was no boy to distract Caroline and he had her all to himself. Tyler never treated Caroline the way she should and this was just further proof that she didn't belong with him.

The minute he thought that his bitterness stomped down the feeling. Letting out a small snarl he turned his face to Caroline's for the first time. "So you thought you'd come running to me and it would be alright?"

He was hurt by the pettiness of her actions but would never admit that to her. Whatever he thought was irrelevant because Caroline shot her back up, snarling at him.

"No! Ugh, you seriously ruined everything."

Caroline's eyes burned in the night, face hard and angry. Klaus seared a look right back, refusing to let someone talk to him like that.

"Go on sweetheart, tell me how you really feel," he goaded her. With every word she said, Caroline was making it easier for him to hate her. By the time they were through with the conversation she would be like any other woman in his life; disposable.

The statement was the breaking point; standing up Caroline threw her fists to her sides her fury boiling over.

"You had to make Tyler your hybrid; you had to make him bite me to satisfy your need to control. Then you had to ruin everyone's lives to break your stupid curse and I hate you for killing and hurting my friends."

Caroline started to pace back and forth, Klaus standing up watching her with a trained eye.

"Then you had to worm your way into my life with all your gifts and try to seduce me but I saw through all of that. You wouldn't take no for answer and just kept trying to get me to like you."

She fell silent for a moment and Klaus thought she was done but she suddenly picked up again with a furious pace. "I hate that you told me about yourself, the romantic gifts, you made me feel like the only girl in the world and made me feel guilty for trying to hurt you. You seriously messed with my brain because all I can think about is you and I hate it because you're supposed to be the bad guy."

Klaus paused for a moment at the statement. She thought about him? His eyes flickered with hope before dying again. He was supposed to hate her, so he could rid himself of her. Caroline's pacing stopped and she fell silent.

"You went and killed the mom of the guy I'm supposed to love, a sweet innocent woman who never hurt anyone," she spat out in the harshest voice he had ever heard her use.

Klaus instantly growled back, he was not going to take this any longer from her. "Caroline," he warned drawing out her name to emphasize his seriousness.

Caroline simply shook her head and held a finger up to his lips. "The messed part is I hate myself more than I hate you."

Both of his eyebrows shot into his hairline; the statement caught him completely off guard.

Caroline's face lost its anger and dulled into extreme guilt and sadness. "I hate myself because I get it. I understand why you act the way you do, I always have. I hate that you kill people because it's wrong but I can't deny that underneath I want to as well. Today I willingly without a second thought decided to kill Rebekah. Not thinking about all the other deaths I would be causing. It's sickening what this town is doing to me and I hate it. Tyler was smart and decided to leave."

Klaus had enough. He didn't want to hear anymore of her words, he got it she loathed him. He sped away, leaving her standing in front of her house, going straight to his. Opening the door and slamming it shut he strode straight to the bar determined to drown out the night in more alcohol. The slap of bare feet followed him and he could smell Caroline's intoxicating scent behind him.

"Go away Caroline before I kill you," he snarled at her.

"I'm not finished!" she yelled back.

Klaus whipped around to grab her but she blocked his hand. The defiance of the action and the stubbornness on her face reminded Klaus of the very reason he enjoyed her so. He paused and Caroline smiled sweetly.

The fury melted away from her face and she nervously cleared her throat. "The thing is I don't really hate you. I want to but I can't. I try to remind myself of all the horrible things you've done and it still doesn't work. Now I don't know what that means for me but you make me feel alive and I'm not willing to give that up."

For the second time within the span of an hour Caroline shocked Klaus into silence. His plan to completely be through with her was thrown out the window. After those words, Klaus doubted if he ever could be through with her. They stood there two bruised and battered souls too confused by their own emotions but couldn't deny that despite everything something existed between them.

It wasn't a declaration of love or a willingness to jump into bed with each other despite Klaus wanting to ravish her completely. It was Caroline finally admitting she was willing to take a chance on him. Something Klaus wouldn't pass up.