Caroline causes an accident and Klaus give her another reason to like him.
"Klaus, stop following me. I want nothing to do with you." Caroline walked further along the road desperate to get away from him. She knew he could easily catch up to her but for some reason who knew why, probably just to check out her backside, he was content with just lagging behind her.
"Come on love, your mother did give an invitation into your home." The cockiness was just rolling off him and making Caroline want to puke.
Not able to stand it any further she abruptly halted, twirling around to give him a piece of her mind. The heat radiated of her heating the space between them. Caroline inched until she was in his face, determined to only look into his eyes. When she tried to look at all of him, her brain went fuzzy and she couldn't think straight.
"It does not mean you have permission to come into my room and go through my stuff!" she hissed.
She had caught the hybrid lying out on her bed reading her journal when she came home from school. To make matters worse he was reading the part where she outlined in painstaking detail everything about him. She didn't know what mortified her more the prospect of him knowing exactly how she thought about him or the fact she had feelings for him at all.
"Caroline love, you need to move." Klaus suddenly demanded. He reached out to grab her but Caroline wrenched herself from his reach.
"No, you don't get to tell me what to do. So back the hell away." She snarled furiously and so incensed she didn't hear the sound of the approaching car.
Klaus stepped forward and Caroline backed away again. "Piss off and go find some other vampire to call love."
"Stop being so stubborn and just listen to me, you need to move!" Klaus ordered more frantically this time. Panic caused Caroline's heart to drop when she heard the squeal of tires behind her. She closed her eyes as she waited for the spilt second of impact but it never came. The loud sound of a crash thudded in Caroline's ears to the left, ringing creating a disorientating sensation.
Opening her eyes she realized Klaus had thrown her and himself off the ground into the bush. Caroline had been so petrified by the anticipation of impact that the feel of being launched through the air and shielded by his body never dawned on her. He was too close, his mouth just hovering above hers and the lightheaded feeling returned. His body was tightly pushed on top of hers, feeling everything about him. It made her woozy and unconsciously she found herself leaning up into him, lips just centimeters away.
A piercing scream shattered the moment and Klaus instantly flashed up baring his fangs in the direction of the scream. Caroline was right beside him, clutching his arm in fear. When she realized what she had done, she dropped her hand as if burned by his touch. Caroline came back to her senses and realized the scream was coming from the car that nearly hit her.
The alluring scent of blood filled her nostrils and Caroline flashed over to the car without even thinking. The sudden waved of bloodlust seemed insatiable and all she wanted to do was satisfy that urge. However the urge dropped and her face paled as she saw the driver of the car bleeding and crying. It was a pregnant woman with the sweet sticky blood covering her abdomen.
Guilt smacked Caroline in the face; she had caused this accident because she couldn't be bothered to listen to Klaus. Caroline frantically opened the door and listened for the heartbeat of the baby inside the woman. Crying out a loud when she could hear the tiny little beat pattering away she hurriedly tried to help the injured woman. The lady was stopped screaming, the eyes rolling back in her head. There was a drop in the heartbeat and Caroline freaked.
"Klaus! Help me!" Caroline screamed. She could not let this woman and her baby die.
Ripping the car door off, Caroline flung it back narrowly missing Klaus' head. Klaus thankfully didn't react, his face calm and indifferent. He just leaned against the frame of the damaged car not moving to help her. Caroline growled at him, why did he have act all big bad hybrid now? The baby's heartbeat was much too high and if Caroline didn't act soon it was going to die.
Klaus put a hand on her shoulder and she smacked it away. "Caroline they'll never make it," he said lifelessly boring into her eyes.
"I refuse to accept that! I caused this, I have to fix it. You are fast enough; you can get her to the hospital." Caroline was trying to yank on the seatbelt but the trembling of her hands prohibited her. After struggling again and failing she instead pushed back the steering wheel shoving into the engine to make more room. Klaus instantly grabbed Caroline and roughly pulled her away from the wreckage. Caroline moved her arm to punch him from stopping her but he just glowered at her and turned to the unconscious woman. With a swift pull at the base of the seat he yanked the woman, chair and all, in an impressive display of strength.
Growling at Caroline he turned back towards Mystic Falls, "Stay here."
In a blur he was gone. Caroline took a deep breath, tears still rolling down her face. Raising her hand to push back the curls that fell down around her, she noticed the blood that stained her hands. Caroline stared down at the red liquid, the guilt of the accident consuming her and in a feverish display of grief, madly began to wipe away the color on her pants, the ground, anything to get it off her hands.
"Love, stop." Two hands captured her frenzied movements but Caroline paid him no attention. She tried to wiggle with all her might to free her hands, blood still showing. Klaus wouldn't let her, his grasp was much too strong and determination even more so. Caroline thrashed on until she had no more strength, her body spent from fighting the original hybrid. Klaus just stood there patiently never uttering a word.
When she finally calmed, Klaus released her hands. Caroline stopped her crying, trying to regain what little composure she had left. "Why did you help? You cared nothing for that woman's life."
She was curious, she couldn't help it. Klaus never did anything it seemed like without having a benefit for him. His face was full of a look Caroline didn't understand but finally he shrugged settling for an indifferent look Caroline did now. "You're correct; their lives meant nothing to me. However you do, and saving them was important to you."
Caroline nodded after a minute, accepting it as truth. He made no suggestion that there was a secret agenda for his actions and she was grateful for that. Too tired from her guilty emotions and in desperate need of comfort, she stumbled forward resting herself against his chest. She could felt his body stiffen but relax after a moment then slowly arms wrapped around her.
"Thank you," she mumbled into his chest. She would have to add another reason to her journal of why she was falling for Klaus, hopefully this time he wouldn't find it.