Two Chapters! Happy Belated Christmas!


If every morning for the rest of forever start this way, with a cloud of blonde hair fanned across his chest and warm, sighing breaths tickled his skin, Klaus thought he would never want anything more.

What did power or control matter when Caroline Forbes loved him?

She'd always looked like an angel to him, but the image was complete as the morning light casted a golden glow across her pale skin.

They were both damaged by the betrayal of people who were supposed to love them. They both suffered at the hands of their fathers. They understood each other in a way that no one else could or ever would. Maybe they were both broken, maybe irreparably, but they had all the time in the world to try to mend the pieces.

"Mmmm…" Caroline stirred.

"Good morning, love," Klaus said. The word warmed his chest. It was no longer a taunting pet name, but a title given and accepted. She was his love.

Her blue eyes batted open, a momentary flicker of confusions crossed her face before she remembered where she was, and that exactly where she belonged.

"Morning," she said, smiling before pressing a light kiss is to his bare chest.

Klaus caught her chin and pulled her up to steal a kiss from her lips.

"I adore you," he murmured into her untamed curls.

"Are you sure you can put up with me forever?"

"I wouldn't be satisfied with anything less," Klaus said.


Caroline wasn't surprise to find that Klaus was far more possessive than any of her previous boyfriends, but she was surprised to find that it ignited something within her. She liked being wanted so desperately and it made her want him with desperation to match his own.

She found that everything Klaus did, he did with intensity. When he made love to her it was as though he wanted to devour her. His eyes turned gold and his fangs descended, but he didn't hurt her. No matter how desperate of wild he was he was always gentle with her.

"Are you sure that you're ready?" He asked, his words brushing over the bare skin of her shoulders. It was late in the morning but they hadn't left the bed in days, except to get the food Caroline's annoying human body demanded.

"What is there to wait for?" She asked, "I want you forever. Deal of no deal."

Klaus smirked and bit into his wrist. Her stomach turned at the idea of drinking blood now that the hunger for it was gone, but it was a means to an end.

She took his wrist and licked off the trail of blood. It tasted the same, salty and metallic, but now she could barely force herself to swallow it down.

The reaction was instantaneous. She lunged away from Klaus and her stomach cramped and bile rose in her throat. She wretched the blood on the floor.

"Caroline?" He rushed to her aid, brushing her hair away from her face.

She wretched a few more times, tears stinging in her eyes. When the attack finally subsided, she felt clammy and weak.

Klaus held her and stroked her hair.

"What was that?" She whispered, too exhausted to feel embarrassed she threw up in front of Klaus.

"The cure," Klaus said, a flicker of fear darkening his eyes, "There's such a potent dose in you, I don't think you can change back."

"You mean I'm stuck human?" The information hit Caroline like a train. She didn't even stop to think before taking the cure, it was necessary to save the people she cared about, but she never thought that she'd be human permanently. She had never wanted the cure for herself. The only reason she even went after it was for the sake of her friends. Now, not only was she cured, but she couldn't be uncured.

"So it would seem," Klaus said.

"What do we do?" Caroline asked.

"What do you mean we?" Klaus replied darkly. "You're human now."

He withdrew his arms from her and rose to his feet. Caroline looked up at him. His expression was cruel and she felt her heart ripping apart.

"What are you saying?" Caroline asked, scrambling to her feet.

"I'm saying I don't want you anymore." Klaus said.

Caroline would have thought he was joking, but it was too cruel of a joke, even for him.

"You don't mean that," She whispered, reaching for him, but he stepped out

"You were amusing," he said, "but now you're a broken toy."

Caroline drew a sharp breath. He threw her own words back at her, the ones he knew would hurt her most and the knowledge that he was turning the things she'd shared with him in confidence against her hurt worst of all.

"I love you," She said.

"Ah, yes, but I don't love you." He turned and walked to the door. "I never did. You were a challenge. Now you're nothing."

"What about our deal?"

"Our deal was that you couldn't leave me." He said, "I never agreed that I wouldn't leave you."

"Klaus." Caroline whispered, feeling as though he'd thrust his hand into her chest and ripped her heart out. She was about to grovel, to beg him to stay, but she stopped herself. Begging wouldn't make Klaus change his mind. She didn't know why he was doing this, but she did know that he loved her. She's seen it and just because he denied it now didn't mean it was true. She loved him, but she would not beg him to stay. She was not special, but she deserved better than this.

"Fine, leave." She said. "If all we have means nothing to you, if I meant nothing to you, then go."

Klaus opened the door.

"But if you go, Klaus," Caroline said, fighting to keep her pain in check, "don't you dare come back."

He walked out the door and he didn't even look back.

Caroline waited a few minutes before letting out a gasping sob, and then she crawled back into the bed. She hugged one of the pillows and breathed deep his musky scent. That morning she'd had the promise of forever, she'd had Klaus, and now she had nothing. She only had one lifetime and she found the few brief decades more terrifying than all of the unknowns of forever.

What was she supposed to do? Go back and finish high school? Go to college and start a career? Meet some guy, get married and buy a house? All those things which her human self looked forward to with excitement now filled her with dread in the wake of the brief bright light of her life as a vampire. How could she go back to a black and white life after seeing all the colors the world had to offer?


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