Alright is this a combination of two requests: Klaus forces Caroline to confront her feelings...with a Pride and Prejudice twist.

The rain poured down in steady unrelenting sheets, graduation had been a total and complete disaster. Caroline was running as fast as she possibly could in broad daylight but it didn't matter. By the time she reached the front porch of her home she was complete soaked. She groaned as she took a minute to observe herself. Everything was clinging to her and sticky from the hot summer rain.

No one believed her that it was going to rain. She kept trying to tell the principal as they gathered outside on the football field that rain was coming. Caroline scoffed as she pulled the graduation gown off her dripping body sending rivulets of water everywhere-that's what happened when she had a superior sense of smell.

All the other supernaturals in the crowd were just as uneasy as she had been, Stefan and Elena both looking to the sky until the fat wet drops began falling on the unsuspecting crowd below. In the midst of the chaos of people began scrambling to find shelter as the Virginian skies opened upon them and that's when Caroline saw him.

Klaus was leaning casually on the trees in the distance. The blood in her body boiled instantly as a dizzying sensation spread across her entirely. The dizziness gave way to heat that left her hot to the touch against the falling water. She didn't know why but she couldn't decide if she was relieved or upset to see him. It was at that moment that some idiot ran into her as she stood gaping at the hybrid and she fell straight into a newly created mud puddle.

Her perfect gown was ruined; the mud splattered all over her front was the last straw. Caroline fled home not able to handle it all, her inner control freak part in overdrive because her world came crashing down.

Caroline was busy trying to flick spots of mud off the front of her dress, and then moved to wipe off the dirt from her face when a voice called her out of her furious scrubbing.

"Caroline."

She stiffened at the sound of the voice and turned to see Klaus standing not more than two feet away, equally drenched and covered in mud. Caroline eyed him once over trying to squash the already stifling heat of her body. The way his dark clothes clung to him outlined every perfection she knew he had. The memory of touching his skin as she pulled the imaginary stake from his back flashed in her mind. There was no denying Klaus was the most wonderful thing to look at, she wasn't stupid. She did feel stupid though for being able to control her body, a flush of pink spreading across her face. But she was spared from talking, Klaus launching into a rushed sentence.

"I've waited long enough and in fact I don't know why I've waited at all. These past months have been a torment. I came back for Rebekah's graduation for the single purpose of seeing you."

Caroline raised a brow at him, a nervous tangle of nerves mixing in her stomach. Of all the things he could say, that was the last thing she expected to hear out of his mouth. But Klaus wasn't finished, the mask of the hybrid melting away to the man underneath that she sometimes got a glimpse of. The flutter of nerves rose from her stomach to her chest. She hadn't seen the man behind the mask for awhile now-that couldn't be good. At the same time she couldn't deny that she missed that part of him.

Klaus kept going, "I've fought with myself for long enough, against everything I believe, put aside the issue of you assisting your friends in plots against me-

"What are you talking about?" Caroline was confused.

Klaus stared at her for a heartbeat. Before three words came tumbling out of his mouth that she didn't expect. "I love you-in best way I know love."

Both eyebrows shot into her hairline. She had known for awhile that Klaus held some emotion for her and she thought it was love, that's why she had told him back in January when she was suffering from the bite he gave her. But to actually hear him say it to her-it created a whole flurry of emotions and rocked her to the spot she stood in. A flurry of emotions she didn't know how to identify. Her eyes hazed over in shock and realized Klaus was speaking still.

"Come with me," he asked her. Caroline stared at him still a bit confused, "Come with me to New Orleans shake off this wretched excuse of a town."

It was as if a bucket of ice dropped on her already soaked shoulders, her mind instantly snapping out of its trance. Everything that Klaus had done flooded back to her in a single furious wave.

"Are you kidding me? Wow. Who do you think you are right now?" Caroline snidely snipped taking two steps back from him to breathe air that wasn't clouded with his scent.

Klaus didn't move from his spot, the softness of his face losing itself in the mask of anger he so often sought refuge behind. Caroline felt a twinge of guilt at the back of her mind but quickly focused on all the bad Klaus had done to stifle that emotion. She tensely watched Klaus lean towards the banister of the porch and punishingly grip the wood, the faint cracks of it splintering wood echoing over the rain. Caroline only felt the blood rushing in her veins, compelling her forward to hide the effect of his offer.

He growled lowly, "I'll take it as a no then."

Caroline just scoffed with raised eyebrows, no trusting her voice to speak the words for her. Klaus gazed out to the street, silence growing between them. Caroline wanted him to leave the tension building a steaming bubble around them. She couldn't just open the door to the house because knowing Klaus he would follow in if he wanted. But he wouldn't leave either and it was causing her body to build boil, he just wouldn't leave her alone.

Klaus spun around suddenly in her face, his eyes blazing. "Then explain to me then why continually flirt and come to me?"

Caroline fisted her hands to her side, this was not going the way she wanted it too. She did not want them to dive deeper into her. She pulled instantly at Tyler's name, using him as a shield. She still had not forgiven Klaus for his treatment of Tyler.

"Someone had to be bait," she spat out.

The rage on Klaus' face fueled her, seeing him put in his place gave her a power rush. But Klaus' fury was equally fuelled; he stepped closer to her. He could count the faint freckles on Caroline's face if he wanted, their eyes attempting to melt the other by will alone.

Klaus' exhaled, his breath warming the wet skin of Caroline's face. She felt her hands twitch at the warmth, almost letting herself lean in. Klaus glowered at her, "You weren't always bait, love. We both know in those moments when no one else was looking, when no one was there to chaperone you it was real."

Caroline refused to react to his words. The only indication of her knowing the truth was the faint blush creeping across her cheeks, the heat of the blood racing to the skin caught by Klaus. A soft snort escaped his lips, compelling Caroline to fight back.

"Yeah well, I should ask why you even bother with me when you said yourself, I've tried to kill you! Oh and not to mention liking me goes against everything you believe." she snarked back pulling at the words he first said to her.

"Caroline," he growled in warning.

Caroline rolled her eyes, "Klaus."

He did not appreciate her mimicking him, accent and all. Caroline scoffed, "Seriously, you know why I won't come with you."

Klaus raised an expectant brow, his hands clasped behind his back waiting for her to elaborate. Caroline didn't keep him waiting.

"Do you think that anything you say might tempt me to accept your offer from the very man who drove out the boy I love? That by doing so you've ruined every chance I have at being happy?"

The switch in his eyes was instantaneous, the mark of cold hatred. "I didn't come here to talk about Tyler. We've already been over this."

Now Caroline was genuinely angry. Earlier is had just been to deflect but now she was out for blood. All of her emotions had been stewing since they lasted yelled at each other, Tyler had left her after prom without so much as reason why and she knew it was to do with Klaus. She just knew it and she was going to call him out on it. It didn't matter that when Tyler left she felt relieved, it didn't matter that she felt like a chapter closed and it was time to move on. She wanted to yell at someone about it and it was going to be Klaus.

She crossed her arms across her chest. "Too bad because apparently you haven't gotten it through your thick head. Sure you let him live and he came back from prom but he isn't ever allowed to step foot in Mystic Falls again-he isn't allowed to be with me. Didn't you tell him that?"

Okay, so she was pulling at straws with that because Tyler hadn't said anything about it but she knew Klaus. Klaus shrugged, "Perhaps I did."

Caroline was fighting every instinct to slap him. She could not believe after everything, he could not get out of his way of thinking. A tiny voice popped in telling that wasn't entirely true; Klaus was making small adjustments just not on the level she wanted.

"Why?"

"Because he doesn't love you they you should be loved." Klaus said without missing a beat.

The plain honesty of his tone mixed with the utter shock of those words passing his lips, Caroline gaped for a second. She recovered before Klaus had a chance to say another word, "This coming from the man who hasn't fallen in love in over a thousand years? Not exactly the poster child for successful relationships."

The voice of in the back of her mind warned her she was pushing Klaus too far but she didn't care. She was determined to give him a piece of her mind. Klaus for his part was smashing the banister to sawdust instead of lashing out at Caroline.

"You haven't seen him when he isn't around you. Your attachment was greater than his." Klaus bitterly told her.

Caroline rolled her eyes, "That's because he's a teenage boy whose family is gone and all of his friends are dead. Partly thanks to you! Of course he has trouble expressing himself."

Klaus grit his teeth together as if he were recalling a most distasteful memory, "Yes and I presume him flirting with Hayley anytime you weren't around is a sign of deep attachment."

Caroline took a step back from him, suddenly realizing their proximity. She put her hands to her temples trying to calm herself. That had been months ago, but it didn't stop the sliver of fear that sliced at her carefully built defenses. Hayley was always going to be a sore subject for her.

"They were trying to fool you!" she cried in exasperation.

Klaus rolled his eyes, something Caroline rarely saw him do outside of taunting Elena. "They didn't know I was there. I was standing half a mile away."

The sliver of fear suddenly wrenched into a gaping hole in her iron wall. It was enough to for Caroline to stumble backwards straight into a growing puddle on the stoop where the water was collecting. She winched as the cold water splashed on the backside of her bare calves, the hem of her dress wet again. They glared at each other in silence, both panting from their efforts at yelling. Caroline was scrambling inside her mind to recover.

She blurted the first thing at came to mind. "We've all plotted against you. Like I said we already talked about this, weeks ago."

It was weak and she knew it. By the look on Klaus' face, he knew it as well. The anger dropped and melted into a sly grin. Caroline felt her stomach drop.

Klaus stepped towards her again and Caroline stepped back, bumping into the side of the house. She had nowhere else to run. Her heart sped up a beat, praying Klaus didn't hear it. He leaned towards her, all his infuriating ignorance and presence surrounding her. "Yes and you're the one who can't let it go despite the fact that you-"

"I what?" she cut him instantly.

A measure of pain passed cross his eyes before the mirth reappeared. Caroline gulped.

"You scorn and hold over nose up at me yet you have killed or had hand in killing more people than I ever have."

Caroline immediately scoffed, " Yeah right. What are you talking about?"

Klaus' eyes flared once more darkening. "By killing my family and everything I have done!"

Klaus slammed his fist into the wall beside her. "All my work has been for the protection of family. Yet you and your little band of friends have killed not one but two of my brothers. Did you even think to realize how many vampires died after Kol's death or how many Sage had turned over the years? Hundreds upon thousands of vampires died in two fell swoops yet you blindly defend your friends as if nothing is wrong! Not to mention you singled handedly made it possible for Silas to bring every dead supernatural creature back to the world of the living and you call me a terrible person!"

Caroline was seething. Klaus had managed to pull her biggest insecurity out and smash it back into her face. She clawed the wall she was backed against, doing the same thing he was-using the wall to anchor herself. The voice in the back of her mind kept screaming at her telling her how similar they really were but Caroline refused to listen. She wanted to be angry at him.

"And what about Elena?" she breathed out very carefully.

Klaus tilted his head in annoyance. His body leaned closer into hers, the other hand pressing into the wall on the other side of her head, effectively trapping Caroline.

"Ah yes, the precious doppelganger that everyone seems to go bend over backwards to protect-the very same one who almost killed you and almost ruined prom for you just because she could."

His face was completely void of expression, but she could feel the heat radiating off his body. He had to bring up prom; she knew she was going to regret having him help her. She wanted one more jab at him before her defenses failed. One more thing and everything that she ever wanted to yell at him for would be out in the open. Maybe then he would finally leave and she could think straight.

Caroline pushed herself off the wall, forcing herself to either collide with him or he would have to take a step back. Klaus refused to budge, only letting her stand up straight.

"How could you just come into town and want to take her out without any regard for her life. You killed her aunt and then continually went after her blood. Wasn't it enough that you broke your curse, why couldn't you just leave us alone after that?"

Klaus stared at her for a moment; Caroline could hear the crunch of the siding of the house crumble in his hands.

"So this is what you really think about me? Thank you for explaining it so fully. You are just as deceiving and conniving as the rest of them. Perhaps if you just for once got off your moral high horse and realized we are in fact the same; you'd stop blindly defending your friends and use that brain of yours that I know you have. "

It was as good as a slap in the face. Caroline finally snapped, all her controlled snippets of anger finally crashing at his words. She could take no more of his bitterly accurate words because she didn't want to face it. She wasn't blindly defending her friends. The voice in the back of her head told her otherwise.

Caroline shoved against his chest with everything she had, the shock of the action causing Klaus to step back more than the actual force of it. Caroline flung her hands out to her sides, defensive and rage rolling of her.

"And this is coming from the person who said he'd never hurt me again. Yet here you are flinging words about like a little two year old that didn't get his way."

Klaus snarled, stepping towards her again. Caroline ignored him, still on a rampage.

"From the moment I learned who you were and you tried have me killed without even knowing who I was I realized that I was always going to hate you. You are such a jerk! You act only thinking about yourself, you are still stuck in your own way and refuse to understand my feelings. How do you really think I would just pack my bags follow you to New Orleans? Okay maybe there were some real moments there when I really felt something about you but you drove out Tyler. You have messed so many things up!"

Caroline stopped everything finally out in the air. All at once she felt lighter than she had in ages, the tension coiled within her out and revealed. She locked eyes with Klaus, his face broken. Caroline felt a sharp pang in her heart that she wasn't expecting. Unconsciously she pushed forward, the nearness of him relieving the bite inside her. She watched Klaus flick his eyes to her lips and she made the mistake of glancing at his. The sudden urge to press up against him and taste him was the only thing she wanted to do now that she had unburdened herself.

It seemed Klaus had the same inclination, his body leaning towards hers as well, and his breath ghosting over her face sending a rush of anticipation across Caroline's skin. Just as she thought Klaus was about to kiss her he spoke.

"So be it, I won't ever ask you again. Just realize that your continual blind faith in your friends and Tyler will kill you. Don't say I didn't warn you."

With a sudden rush of air, Caroline snapped her head to the wet scene in front of her. Klaus had left. Gasping suddenly she stumbled back against the wall of her home, realizing that she had almost kissed him right after yelling at him and he at her. The point of his last words stung deeply and instead of feeling victorious that Klaus had finally taken the hint and got out her life her heart crumbled.

As her heart crumbled so did she. Caroline found she no longer had the strength to stand and slid down the wall. She fell straight into the puddle of muddy water further ruining her already stained dress. For once in her life her inner neurotic self didn't care. She was blinded by shock weighing the words that had been spoken to her. Caroline must of have been there hours, mulling over what happened because suddenly she looked up and it was dark-the rain long gone and Klaus once more before her.

Caroline didn't know what to say. Klaus wordlessly placed a letter on the window sill, glanced at her with a pained expression before his mask slipped back into the place. Before Caroline could call out his name in explanation he was gone again. She eyed the letter resting on the mantle of the window. She saw the neat scroll of her name printed across the envelope. Caroline scrambled up and grabbed the letter without a second thought.

Rushing inside, she flew to her bedroom and locked herself in. Taking a deep breath to qualm the trembling of her hands, Caroline began to read the words. Words that as she read broke the rest of walled emotions she had tried desperately to keep Klaus from.

Caroline rested the letter in her lap, unable to continue. The tiny voice popped back in her mind telling her that she had made a huge mistake in refusing Klaus.

She sighed heavily and picked the letter back up. Glancing over what she had read so far the trembling of her heart matched the voice in her head.

She had made a mistake-a huge one. One she didn't know if she could fix.

So did you get the P&P flavor to it? I tried to morph P&P to Klaroline but it is much harder than it looks. Tell me what you think!