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Caroline could remember Klaus holding her in his arms while she tried her best to stay conscious. She had tried to comfort him, but the fear in his eyes wouldn't dissipate. It was that fear, that expression plastered on his face that made her remember… and when she fell unconscious, it was that memory which came to her in her sleep.
"Nik?" Caroline laughed, searching the mansion for Klaus.
She had been looking for him ever since he had invited her over. He must have been playing some silly game.
"Nik?! Where are you?" Caroline cried in happiness, searching in different rooms and running down hallways. "Fine! I see how it is. You think because you're some big bad original, you can hide from me!"
Caroline turned on herself and sped down the hallway, and skipping up the grand hall stairs. She turned and started to sneak down a hallway, barely making a sound.
"Caroline." Came a grave, dark, voice from behind her.
Suddenly her whole body shivered as a hand touched her arm and she turned to look at Klaus, a smirk hinting on her lips. But… something was wrong. His eyes were full of fear, almost agony and his jaw was clenched.
"Nik, what's wrong? Are you hurt? What's happened?" Caroline asked. At that, she noticed he was crying, silent tears dragging down his cheeks. Her hands instantly went to wipe them away and he closed his eyes as she did.
"I'm so sorry Caroline. I'm so sorry." Klaus grasped her hands in his own and took them away from her face.
"Nik, you're scaring me, please, what's going on?" She cried.
"Caroline" Klaus calmly said – and suddenly Caroline's mind was no longer hers. She tried to fight against the compulsion, but she couldn't.
"You will forget all the love you feel for me and all the moments we shared together in love. From this point on you will look at me with the same feelings as you had when we first knew each other. You will look at me as the man that killed Jenna and destroyed Elena's life. You will no longer care about me, and you will no longer love me."
Caroline awoke with a start and Klaus was instantly at her bed, running from the other side of the room from where he had been sitting – waiting for her to wake up. Caroline quickly pulled herself up and sat against the header of the bed.
"Caroline, are you alright?" Klaus asked, trying to take her hands in his own, his eyes had lit up a wave of relief washed over his face.
But Caroline took her hands away from his and she shifted away from him and Klaus tilted his head to the side.
"Caroline?" He asked. He could see on her face a bewildered look of shock.
"Tell me what you did." Caroline whispered.
"What?" Klaus shook his head, trying once again to get close to her.
Caroline was then at the other side of the room, holding herself against the wall as Klaus still sat at the bed.
"Tell me what you did!" Caroline now screamed at him. Her voice filled with panic and anger.
Klaus slowly stood up, trying to be as still as possible. He put his hands out in front of him.
"What are you talking about?" Klaus said, trying to approach Caroline – but she only ran to the other side of the room.
"Don't touch me." Caroline spat at him.
"Caroline I don't know what you're talking about." Klaus said quietly, now backing away from her.
"Just stop!" Caroline screamed at him. "Stop lying to me!" She then ran to him and pushed him back with all her force.
Klaus stumbled back, unprepared at her sudden burst of rage.
"You know exactly what I'm talking about." Caroline lowered her voice to a threatening murmur. "I remember what you did to me. I dreamt about it."
Klaus caught his breath and he lowered his eyes.
"Look at me and say it!" Caroline raised her voice again.
Klaus didn't answer.
"Say it!" Caroline screamed.
"I compelled you!" Klaus now yelled at her, shooting his head up to stare at her.
Caroline didn't answer.
"I compelled you." He repeated, quietly.
"To do what?" Caroline murmured.
"You already know." He replied.
"Say it." Caroline ordered.
The room went silent again, as Klaus clenched his jaw and breathed heavily. Caroline did know at that moment. She knew what he had done, she only needed
Klaus to admit it.
"I compelled you to forget about the love we once shared for each other." Klaus whispered, his voice catching.
"Why?" she asked.
"It was to keep you safe." Klaus replied.
Caroline dropped herself to the floor and put her head in her hands.
Klaus tried to reach out to her but she pushed him away.
"That wasn't your decision to make." Caroline cried.
"I'm no good for you Caroline. You've been here with me for only a few days and you've nearly been killed twice. Do you see why I had to do it? I'm a monster." Klaus walked backwards and slid down the wall he leaned against, so he too was on the floor. "My past - what I've done – it will never leave me alone. I can't be saved from this web of my own personal destruction. Nobody, especially you, Caroline, deserves that kind of darkness."
"You loved me." Caroline whispered.
"I still do." Klaus intervened.
"Anybody who is capable of love… is capable of being saved." Caroline said to him.
Klaus breathed in, his breath shook and his eyes began to water.
Caroline shifted over to Klaus and wiped away his tears.
"Caroline, I shouldn't." Klaus whispered.
Caroline dropped her hands to the floor and turned to move away, but Klaus caught her hand in his own and pulled her back.
"I shouldn't… But I need to." Klaus whispered.
Klaus put his arms around Caroline's waist and pulled her close to him, while Caroline put her arms around his neck - and they pulled each other into a tight
hug.
It felt as if they had stayed there for hours, but neither of them wanted to let go. Caroline had nuzzled her head into Klaus's shoulder and Klaus's hand was softly running up and down her back.
Eventually Caroline pulled back and rested her forehead against Klaus's.
"What are we going to do?" Caroline whispered.
"I don't know." Klaus replied.
Klaus then pushed once again against her back and Caroline moved her hands to either of his shoulders. They moved so slowly and so carefully to one another, it was barely visible.
"Are you sure about this?" Klaus asked, his strong arms holding Caroline to him.
"No." Caroline answered. At that, she tilted her head to the side and moved her own lips closer to Klaus's. They both stopped once they nearly touched, unsure about what the ramifications of this kiss would bring, but they couldn't deny what they wanted.
At last, their lips came together and an explosion of joy came rushing through them both. Caroline was sitting on Klaus's lap and he was hugging her whole body to him as they finally could kiss each other, something that was so familiar to them, it must have been unforgettable.
A sharp knock on the door interrupted them and they both sprang up, trying to pat down their now ruffled hair and smiling at each other.
Klaus walked over to the door and answered it, which Rebekah and Kol came bursting through.
"Honestly, Klaus, do you realize how difficult it is to find you?! Where have you been and what have you been doing?" Rebekah scolded her shocked brother.
"More like who have you been doing?" Kol snickered as he spotted Caroline standing - stunned in the corner.
Rebekah turned to also see Caroline. "What the bloody hell happened to you?!" Rebekah remarked once she saw Caroline covered in blood.
"Kinky." Kol smirked, turning to Klaus.
"Actually, Kol, Caroline saved me from being stabbed in the heart with a white oak stake." Klaus answered.
"I'll go clean myself up." Caroline announced awkwardly, running to the bathroom, saving herself from the three pairs of original eyes that were on her.
"They have a white oak stake?!" Rebekah said.
"Yes, and if it wasn't for Caroline I'd be dead because of it." Klaus answered.
"This is a much bigger war we're fighting in now. We've got to get Elijah." Kol said, turning to his phone and walking out the front door.
Rebekah turned to Klaus and lifted her eyebrows at him.
"Well, well, well, that didn't last long." Rebekah smirked at Klaus.
"Shut up, Rebekah." Klaus pushed her out the front door to join Kol, and once she was gone, a slight smile came across his lips.
Elijah awoke with Katherine's body pulled up against him under his arm. He could only hope that what they had done previously hadn't been a mistake. Elijah took his hand and gently caressed Katherine's hair, savoring in the moment of this beautiful woman tucked underneath his arm.
His phone ringing from outside the door in the lounge area interrupted his moment of trance.
Great. Elijah sighed and slowly maneuvered out from the bed without awakening Katherine. He pulled on a blue robe and stepped out into the lounge room, which was becoming bathed in the warm, yellow sunlight.
"Hello?" Elijah answered the phone.
"We've got a problem." Kol's voice came from the other end of the line.
"Yes?"
"It seems that the werewolves have a white oak stake."
"I thought they were all gone."
"We all did, until Klaus was nearly killed by one. You need to come help us fight them, we can't do it without you – there's hundreds."
"I can't leave at the moment." Elijah said.
"What could you be doing that possibly more important than this?" Kol remarked.
Family above all else.
"Nothing. Nothing." Elijah said, sighing.
"Well then we'll see you soon." Kol replied.
"Yes, of course." Elijah said, glancing back at the door.
Elijah hung up the phone and walked back into his room to get his suitcase.
He silently wrote a note in the kitchen and left it on the bench which read:
Thank you for last night.
I apologize, but I have to go to New Orleans – emergency.
Elijah x
And at that, he was gone.
Katherine eventually awoke alone in the bed in an empty room. She instantly felt that something was wrong.
She walked out of the room and searched the rest of the apartment, not being able to find him.
"Elijah?" Katherine said, wondering where he was.
As she waited in the apartment throughout the day her worry and agitation grew. It wasn't until much later in the day that she found the note and immediately left Panama City.
She wasn't going to let him leave her; she had already lived a life without him before and it wasn't something she ever wanted to do again. She had to show him that he could trust her with anything and that he could share anything with her.
Upon her arrival at New Orleans, she immediately got a room in one of the hundreds of hotels in the French Quarter. She then only wandered the streets, hoping that maybe by come force of the universe she would bump into Elijah – but it never happened. Instead she resided into a bar and tried to drink her anxiety away. It was still the mid afternoon and the bar was practically empty, but a woman who sat across the bar kept staring at Katherine, although she had never seen her before. Eventually the woman approached Katherine.
"Is it you, Katerina Petrova?" The woman asked quietly, smiling kindly.
"I don't go by that name anymore, but sure." Katherine answered, confused as to who the woman was.
Suddenly the woman slapped Katherine hard against the face and being unprepared it threw Katherine to the side.
She turned back with her eyes fully black and the veins under her eyes pulsating out.
"My son is dead because of you!" She spat at Katherine.
"You're Georgina." Katherine suddenly remembered. She had heard about her, she was Luke's mother.
"I hope you realize what you've done." Georgina threatened and then walked out of the bar.
So Luke was dead because of what I did. Because of what Elijah made me do.
Suddenly Katherine was filled with anger, she knew Luke was going to be punished for telling her the secrets of the pack, but she hadn't grasped that Luke was killed because of it.
Now Katherine wanted to find Elijah, but no longer to be with him… but to kill him.