Description: Oh guys get ready for some excitement. I honestly feel this will be your favorite chapter yet. Caroline and the Mikaelson kids go to the lake to cool off on a hot day, but trouble, excitement, and maybe even a little romance finds its way in the outing.

Caroline's eyes lightly fluttered open at the sound of something clinking. She brushed the thick layer of sweat that had built upon her brow while she slept. Once her eyes finally registered to the light, she was greeted by the sight of a small loaf of bread and meat on a plate. She quickly sat up to see if she could catch sight of who left it.

His back was to her and he was headed out of the room, but she still couldn't tell who he was. "Thank you," she muttered. He turned around revealing himself to be Klaus.

Caroline thought how different he looked with his shoulder length blonde locks of hair. In some ways it made her acting a bit easier, but in others it made it harder. She could pull off the lost girl with amnesia just fine being surround by such unknown surroundings, but by everything being so different it made the idea of killing Klaus, let alone hurting anyone, near impossible.

Caroline shook her head trying to shake away these thoughts. She couldn't believe she had only been there for a week and already felt slightly deterred from her mission. "I'm sorry, what did you say?" she questioned.

"I asked if I had woken you, sweetheart?" Klaus repeated with a bit of worry in his eyes.

"Oh yeah, I'm fine. Still a bit tired is all. Who knew learning how to sew was so tiring?"

Klaus chuckled, then shuffled his feet a little in the ground.

Caroline couldn't believe her eyes. She watched as he stood there torn between the desire to sit and stay with her, and the need to leave so she can have her privacy. It was kind of sweet.

"You can sit and talk with me while I eat if you like," she finally announced to him.

Klaus grinned when she finally made the decision for him to stay. He sat down on Rebakah's bed, which sat right next to the one they made up for Caroline. "Did you sleep well, Caroline?"

Caroline reached over for the plate quickly tearing a piece of bread and placing it in her mouth before answering, "Yeah." She paused and a small silence fell over the room. "Where'd Rebekah run off to?" Caroline wasn't really sure why she was asking, but she felt weird. Though human Klaus was different in a lot of ways from the Klaus she knew, both had the uncanny ability to stare at her with great intent.

"She's with my brothers at the lake. Mother said we could spend the day cooling off since its so hot. I believe she figured we would hardly get anything done today with the weather be such."

Caroline kept nodding and chewing on her food allowing for the idea to set in. "Wait, so why aren't you with them?"

"Waiting for you, love," Klaus replied in such a matter of fact tone that Caroline stopped her gnawing and darting her eyes in his direction. Klaus quickly looked away from Caroline seeming to hide the smile on his face. "I'll let you finish and get dressed. Then we can walk over to the lake as well," he informed her as he briskly made his way out of the room.

Caroline looked down at herself realizing her night gown had slipped off one of her shoulders revealing her breast. She felt the blood rush to her cheeks as she suddenly rushed to clothe herself.

Klaus and Caroline walked in silence. Both thinking of the same event, but neither willing to speak about it. However, it was Klaus this time to break the long awaited silence.

"I apologize."

"What?"

"I apologize. It was never my intent to see your, your... well you know. That's why I excused myself as-"

"Stop," Caroline demanded feeling her cheeks flush again. "Oh God Nik, just stop. I know you didn't mean to. Please don't remind me of what a dolt I am."

Klaus stopped walking causing Caroline to stop as well.

"I didn't mean literally stop-"

"You called me Nik? I mean you said my name."

Caroline hadn't even realized she let the word slip her mouth. "No I didn't I called you Niklaus. And what's that suppose to mean? You act as if I have never said your name before."

"No Caroline, you definitely called me Nik. And you have never said my name. You've said Henrik's, Finn's, Elijah's, even Rebekah's name, but you have not once said mine. I would know seeing how I've been waiting for the sound of it to cross your lips."

Caroline burn with a color that could only be crimson at Klaus's miniature confession on her slip of the tongue. While Klaus's eyes widen with a sudden realization that sent him bolting in the direction of the lake. The two felt themselves dabbling in uncharted waters.

Klaus laid himself down next to Kol under the shade a tree provided.

Caroline went and plopped herself down next to Rebekah, who had found an area that remained shaded, but still allowed her to place her feet in the water.

Kol who had been taking a cat nap looked up at who had just joined him then around for where Caroline must have been. When he caught sight of her siting next to Rebekah, he exchanged knowing glances with his sister.

"Trouble in paradise?" he muttered to Klaus.

"Shut up, Kol," Klaus's voice was muffled by his pushing his head into his arms and the grass, but he knew his brother still heard him.

An elated smile crept along Kol's lips. He got up and went and sat on the other side of Caroline, who was hiding her face as well.

"What's wrong, Caroline? My brother fail to sweep you off your feet?"

"Shut up, Kol," Caroline barked.

This sent Kol into a bursting roar of laughter. Kol's laughter only infuriated Caroline. Without another thought she pounced on him. Kol, not expecting her to attack him, tried to get out of the way, but ended up getting the both of them to fall in the water instead.

Rebekah and Elijah began to cachinnate without reservation. Even Finn and Sage tried to hold in their snickers taking notice to Caroline and Kol.

Caroline came up out of the water fuming. When Kol came out spitting a huge load of date out of his mouth, Caroline dunked him back in. She was wet, embarrassed, confused, and taking it all out on Kol.

Finn finally got up and walked over to the two trying to break them up. "Caroline. Caroline don't drown him."

"Listen to Finn woman," Kol coughed, "I was only playing with you."

"Kol, shut up. You deserved that for all the grief you give," Finn proclaimed.

Elijah finally straightened up handing Caroline a towel to dry off with. Caroline took it. Acknowledging another thing she could't believe, how much human Elijah laughed.

Rebekah got up and started helping Caroline. She spoke trying to hold back her giggles, "Okay Caroline you officially have my seal of approval. Here let me help you get dry. There's a bushed area over there where we can wring out your dress." The two girls walked off together.

"Anyone going to help me?" Kol inquired.

Elijah started to laugh again, asking his head as he walked over to where Klaus was still lying.

"No," Finn stated bluntly. Then walked back over to Sage.

"Good for nothing brothers you are," Kol spat before walking over to the sunnier side of the lake, where Henrik had been attempting to create a mud castle, and laying out.

Elijah kicked at Klaus's foot.

"What?"

"Just checking to see if you were still alive under all that gloom."

Klaus sat up on his elbows looking Elijah dead in the eye.

Elijah nodded knowing what his brother was thinking, "You like her, don't you Niklaus?"

"She's just a girl," enunciated in a failed attempt to deny his brother's accusation.

"A girl who has captured your fancy."

Klaus slumped back over. He felt so betrayed by his emotions and his inability to hide them.

"It's not a bad thing to like her, brother."

"It is when I love Tatia. It is when I promised Tatia I would wait for her return. It is when she feels nothing for me."

Elijah smirked. He knew how infatuated Klaus was with Tatia, and her being away hardly seemed to quench his thirst for her affections. He also knew that no matter how much his brother longed for Tatia another man would come along with far better means, and Tatia would choose the suitor instead. He also knew how wrong his brother really was about Caroline's feelings. Caroline was just as much of an open book to Elijah as Klaus was.

"And what makes you think she feels nothing for you?"

"She never once says my name. She refuses to look at me. She flinches at my touch. She seems all too comfortable with all of you and only seems to fear me. I might as well be the bloody plague."

Elijah couldn't help, but laugh at his brother's exasperation. "Have you ever took a moment to consider that perhaps the reason she avoids you is she fancies you, but feels you don't return her feelings?"

Klaus stared at his brother in suspicion.

"What? Do you believe me to be lying?"

Klaus stood abruptly and shouted, "Rebekah! Rebekah!"

"What?" Rebekah came walking out from the bushes with a mask of annoyance.

Klaus walked over towards his sister. "Is she decent?"

Rebekah quirked an eyebrow.

"Caroline. Is she decent? I would like to speak to her if she will allow me."

Rebekah smirked with satisfaction. Without a word she began to walk in Elijah's direction slightly pushing Klaus in Caroline's direction as she passed.

Klaus walked through the bushed area and found Caroline sitting on a tree branch that hung low over the water. He watched as she let her feet dance along the surface of the water. She was a sight for sore eyes.

Caroline glanced over her shoulder. "Go away, Niklaus. Not now."

Instead of doing as he was told Klaus rushed over with a bit more urgency to the sound of her saying his name. "Don't do that, Caroline."

"Do what?" she scoffed.

"That! Don't shut me out. Come on Caroline, give me a chance."

The last four words rang with a sense of familiarity in her head. She finally gave him her attention.

Klaus grinned before saying, "Caroline I... I believe... Caroline, I fancy you."

Caroline was so thrown off by how history seemed to be repeating itself or creating itself or whatever you wanted to call it she almost fell off the tree and into the water again. However, Klaus was there to catch her.

He made sure she was securely back on the branch next to him. "I shouldn't have said that," Klaus remarked looking down at the shallow pool of water beneath his feet.

Caroline was stunned and just stared at him. Her body was ringing with emotions and she couldn't handle it. Without another word she pulled the skirt of her dress up, hopped off the branch and ran.

"What do you mean she ran off, Niklaus? You know tonight's the full moon!" Finn hollered at Klaus. "Henrik, Rebekah, go check to see if she made it back to the house. You and Elijah will check the woods. Kol and I will check the area surrounding the lake. At sun down you get cover and stay there no matter what" Finn ordered.

Everyone knew it wasn't really Klaus's fault, but they didn't have time to worry about that. They had to find Caroline before sun down and the wolves were roaming about.

Klaus felt himself getting sick with the idea of her being eaten by the wolves. He started to beat himself up over talking to her.

"Niklaus, this isn't your fault. We will find her," Elijah attempted to reassure him.

Anger in sued and Klaus pushed Elijah up against a near by tree. "How do you know Elijah? How do you bloody fucking know? Seems to me if you hadn't "known" she felt something for me we wouldn't be in this mess. We'd still be avoiding each other by the lake right now. So how do you bloody damn well know Elijah?"

Elijah calmly pried his brothers hands off of him before disclosing, "I don't know Niklaus, but I know you. And I know you won't let that happen to her."

Klaus looked in his brother's eyes trying to take in the confidence Elijah was placing in him. "I know where she is," he suddenly announced before taking off faster than Elijah could follow.

Caroline stopped running when she was certain Klaus wasn't following her. She needed a moment alone. She needed time away from him, away from them, away from everything. This trip was proving to be far more difficult than she thought. In a matter of one day she went from slightly conflicted to completely at odds. What was with these damned Mikaelsons and their ability to get under her skin? She wished she had never agreed to do this.

Caroline stopped walking all together finally taking in her surroundings. "Shit," she uttered under her breathe. In her attempt to get away she wander off into a part of the woods she didn't know. And to make matters worse the sun was beginning its decent.

She tried to take several calming breathes and remember which direction the village was or at the very least where the lake was, but she couldn't. She felt herself start to panic. Caroline tripped over a branch falling to the ground.

When she attempted to get up a sharp pain came from her ankle. She screamed out in frustration and agony.

That's when she heard the subtle shift of the leaves from behind her. She turned to look, but saw nothing.

"Hello," she called out. Berating herself after she did so thinking, 'Great Caroline, of course you should call out to the psychopathic killer hiding in the bushes.'

Then another shift in the bushes.

"If that's you Kol, it isn't funny?" she called out again, but no one answered

"Rebekah, I thought we were on good terms."

Still nothing.

"Nik?" she whispered now filled with terror.

A few more moments of silence passed. The sun was now barely illuminating where she stood with all the trees that surrounded her.

"Caroline!"

'Great Caroline, now you are hearing voices', she thought to herself.

"Caroline! You here?"

It then registered that the voice calling her was Klaus's. "Niklaus!"

Klaus heard her and darted straight for her finding her crouched up against a tree.

"How'd you find me?" she stuttered.

Klaus smiled wiping the tear tracks and hair away from her face. "This is where I found you the day we met. Figured you would go some place you knew."

Klaus motioned to started helping her up, but she stopped him. "Nik I can't," she declared, "I hurt my ankle."

Klaus looked down at Caroline's now slightly swollen ankle. She watched as the gears in his brain quickly churned for a solution. "I need you to try and climb on my back. We have to find some place to cover."

Caroline gave Klaus a quizzical look, "What do yo mean? Why can't we just go back to your house?"

"I can't explain now, Caroline. We need to get you to safety, love."

"Klaus what is it? What's wrong?" Caroline demanded he tell her.

"Tonight is the full moon, Caroline. There are a pack of wolves that torment our village on the night of the full moon," Klaus tried to quickly explain to her without alarming her of what was really happening. Not knowing Caroline knew all too well about the werewolves.

Klaus watched as panic plagued Caroline's face. She pulled Klaus to her with the sudden realization that in this world his blood wasn't the cure. And who knows if she could be healed from the outside back home.

Caroline got onto his back and the two searched for the highest place that Caroline and Klaus could hide without hurting her ankle even more.

They spotted a cave about five feet up from the ground. Klaus urged Caroline to climb in and though it hurt like hell she managed. Klaus then pulled himself in as well.

The cave was small, but big enough for them to fit comfortably and unseen. Klaus made Caroline sit on the inside of the cave in case they were spotted by the wolves he would get attacked and not her.

In that moment Caroline's heart broke and as the sun was finally setting. "Nik, I have to tell you something," Caroline turned to face Klaus, "I haven't been entirely honest with you."