AN: I don't own this, please don't sue me :)

I loved the scene in 3x20. It conveyed Klaus is age, he is one of the oldest beings on earth. If he wants something he will wait for it. He has all the time in the world.

This story takes place after the decade dance. Disregard everything after that. I love feed back so please review.

I can not fully describe what I felt in that moment. wasn't a teenager anymore. Klaus was a constant tie to Mystic Falls. I don't know why I associated the town with him instead of Stefan or Elena, hell even Damon. If I really think about it, he was such a big part of my last two years in my home town. Hell, I wouldn't even be a vampire if Katherine hadn't run from him 400 years ago. I guess life is funny that way. It didn't help that he practically stocked me for a couple of decades. Thus making it impossible to fully escape the memory of Mystic Falls.

I felt rejected and hurt. I couldn't help but think that all this time, all the gifts and notes, had been some sort of sick twisted game. The anger and betrayal made the air thick and hard to breathe. Shame seeped its way into the pit of my stomach. I fell for it. I wasn't a teenager anymore. I had a lifetime of experiences behind me. However, In that one moment it was as if I everything I had been through disappeared and I was that vapid insecure girl again.

To top it off, without Klaus, there was nothing to distract me from the reality of my mothers death. I

I could barely breath. The tidal wave of grief was going to consume me. So I did what I had to in order to survive. I got really really angry. I used my anger to push away the hurt and shame.

To say that I reacted badly would be a bit of an understatement. In hind sight I am not proud of what I did but I don't really regret it.

I calmly took a shower and then borrowed some of Rebecca's clothes. The devil himself couldn't get me to put mine back on. I laughed to myself. It was ironic seeing as it was the devil that got me out of them in the first place. While I was packing, I made a phone call to the only person I knew would understand.

"Hello?"

"Katharine it is Caroline"

"This is certainly unexpected." Katherine replied "I would ask how you are but I will save you the trouble of lying. I was just going to meet El..."

"If you had to hide from someone how would you do it?" I asked

There was a long pause at the end of the line "What did he do?"

I closed my eyes. "Nothing"

"Right, like I believe that." She chided me over the phone.

"I am not going into this with you. Or anyone for that matter. Either answer the question or I am hanging up."

Maybe it was the way I was talking or the tone in my voice but Katherine lost her usual snarky edge "Your serious aren't you? Listen you can't play this type of game with him. He has had it mastered centuries before you or I were even born."

"I am not playing games" I said closing my bag and walking down the stairs.

"Caroline whatever happened, it doesn't matter. Why don't you come and meet me? I was thinking about heading to France. French men can be delicious this time of year"

"I didn't call you for travel advice" I said as I headed toward the kitchen.

"Klaus isn't just someone you can run away from Caroline.

"You did" I shot back at her as I broke the gas lines to the stove filling the kitchen with gas.

" He only wanted to kill me. With you..." Katherine sighed. " If you run, he will chase you until the end of the world to get what he wants"

"He already got what he wanted." I spat angrily.

Silence.

Katherine took a deep breathe. " Only travel to places you never been before and never stay in the same place twice. You have to keep moving. I wouldn't stay any where more than six months at a time, eight at the most."

I nodded "Anything else?"

"You have to cut off everything and everyone you ever known. If you run into a vampire you turn the other direction. There are a lot of vampires that owe Klaus favors and even more that just want to get on an Orginals good side. If he wants to find you than you can better believe those vampires will know what you look like. And travel alone. Don't team up with anyone, it will just make you easier to find."

"Thanks" I hung up the phone.

It only took a couple of minutes to doused the library and the art studio with some of Klaus's insanely expensive liquor. I had some sick sense of satisfaction to destroy a something I know he cared about. A house he had hoped he could reunite his family in.

I heard the explosion just as I passed the "you are now leaving Mystic Falls" sign. I could still see the smoke even half way to Leesburg.

I was in line at a bus depot when I saw a battered old environmental advertisement that a couple of street kids had spray painted over. Without even thinking about I pulled out the American Express Black card. One 20 minute phone conversation later; Klaus became one of the organizations most valued donors. Fifty million dollars to save the polar bears. Oh, yes, he would love that.

By the time I made it to Nevada I had taken different three busses and compelled two airlines to put Caroline Forbes on their international manifests. I figured the best thing to do was to create a couple of false trails in order to buy myself some more time.

I didn't stay in a place longer then two weeks for over a year. But then I got lazy. There was never any indication that someone was following me so I convinced myself that it would be ok to stay put a little while longer. I couldn't help bit wonder why was I running anyway? I mean the guy had already gotten what he wanted and I hadn't heard from him since. Maybe he wasn't even looking for me.

I had been waitressing in some back forrest town in Alberta Canada for two months when something started to feel off. I couldn't nail it down at first. When nothing happened for a couple of weeks I thought my paranoia was finally getting the best of me. Then one night I was walking home when caught a stale scent in the park near my apartment. A hybrid.

I knew immediately it wasn't Klaus. There was the underlying earthy scent that I associated with all hybrids, but it didn't have his unique blend. There was no doubt that I was being followed and there was no way that this guy was here by accident.

I felt so angry with Klaus then. How dare he interfere in my life like this! He had no right to do that. I wasn't going to stand for this.

I flipped the game on the hybrid. I became the hunter instead of the hunted. I started talking different route home and sneaking out of my house trying to get a look of my stalker. It took about a month until I could finally conner the guy in an alley behind my work.

"Ahhh" The guy screamed. I guess he didn't like the mixture of vervain and wolfsbane I had threwn in his face.

"Oh I am sorry. Did that hurt?"

"You fucking bitch!" The guy spat still obviously disoriented.

"Your right. I am not sorry." I walked up to him and turned him to face me. " You have me at disadvantage. You obviously know who I am and I have no idea who you are. Does that seem fair?"

I cut him with my vervain soaked switch blade that I always keep on me. A girl can never be too careful.

"Angelo. My name is Angelo"

"Hi Angelo, I am Caroline. See now that we have met and become friends I feel like I can tell you that I don't like being followed." I twisted the knife in his side to drive the point home. "Who sent you?"

"You know who" Angelo gasped squinting his eyes in my direction.

I threw some more vervain in his face. I wasn't stupid. This guys was a hybrid and by definition stronger than me. The only way I come out on top of this situation is by playing dirty.

"Well do me a favor and then and tell you know who to go fuck himself."

With that, I snapped his neck and got the hell out of town.

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