A/N: Finally you will get at least some anwers. And some more Caroline/ Klaus time

At first she was surprised by the touch of his astonishingly soft lips against her own. She had not expected this. Then she realized what was happening and started kicking her legs and trying to get him off her. To her surprise he raised his head so their lips weren't touching anymore. Yet still he kept their faces close together as if he was still considering continuing where he had stopped.

"Maybe this was a bad moment. But I remember that fleeing had a stimulating effect on you." He looked down at her with his trademark grin. She could not believe he had the nerves to bring that up.

"Well, that had nothing to do with you. I was just happy to see Tyler alive. You on the other hand I am not so sure."

"Now love, let's not be rude. I told you I was just coming to rescue you."

"And you haven't told me anything else. Or answered any of my questions why I was here in the first place. It is not like I stayed in a five star resort in the past hours."

"I am glad to hear you have not lost your humor together with your memories. If I let go of your arms will you please not try to tackle me again. I would hate having to hurt you."

"Trying to tackle you? I made you fall down!" She exclaimed but when he looked down at her frowning and did not let go of her hands she added: "As long as you don't try to kiss me again I can try to behave as well."

Again he grinned: "Well, although maybe that would be worth the anger I am just going to wait till you come to me." With that he got up and held her his hand to help get up. She ignored his help and got up on her own rather not so elegantly. She tried to rub the dirt of her dress but did not succeed very well. Only now she noticed that he was still wearing the same clothes as yesterday. Maybe he had really spent the night looking for her.

He looked around: "We should probably get going. The werewolves might have noticed your disappearance by now."

She nodded. "I really hope you know where we are and have a car nearby. I am really not in the mood to walk."

He mustered her. "You are right, you look awful, love. I luckily happen to know where we are. Come on, love, I'll find us a car."

He started walking and she slowly followed him. Only now she realized how tired and exhausted she was. She hoped that they would find a car soon and leave this terrible place.

They had walked roughly ten minutes when they arrive at a parking space. There were few cars parked and even fewer people visible. Klaus picked the one closest to them.

"Excuse me, Sir." He called out to the man. The man turned and Klaus rushed to be in front of him. His pupils got smaller when he used his compulsion: "Which one is your car?" The man pointed to a small blue Volkswagen a few meters away. Klaus rolled his eyes. He had hoped for something better but one look at the exhausted Caroline told him that he could not be picky.

"You are going to give me the car keys and let me drive away with the car. You are not going to scream. You will not follow us or give a description to the police. Do you understand?"

"Yes, I understand." The man said. Klaus contemplate about taking him with them as a snack but one look at Caroline told him he should not push her any farther than she had been pushed today. He nodded to the car the man had pointed at and took the car keys. They walked to the car in silence and entered it. Caroline let her head fall against the window.

"Try to get some sleep in the car, love. It is quite a journey. I will make sure that nothing happens to you. " She wasn't sure if he wasn't the one thing she was afraid of in this car but before she could finish this thought or before he had even pulled out of the parking lot she had fallen asleep.

She only woke up when the car had stopped and he shook her shoulder lightly. "We are at you house. I want you to go in, pack some essentials and then you are coming with me."

It took her a while to wake up and understand what he had just said but the she shook her head. "I will go in there but not come out again. I am not going with you. Why would I do that?"

He was only slightly since he had been expecting her answer to be like this. He scolded her: "I am just trying to keep you safe, Caroline! They will discover very soon where you live and I don't think you want to be here when they come. As much as these werewolves are not very difficult enemies they tend to travel in packs. And although I trust you to be a fighter I am reminding you that one werewolf bite can end your cute little life very fast. And maybe I am not going to be around when that happens. I have plans to travel."

She gave him an angry glare. There was no need in reminding her of the disaster of Tyler's bite. He himself had saved her but she didn't need to be reminded of the pain and her fear of dying so young and undeserved. Without another word she got out of the car and slammed the car door behind her. She heard Klaus opening his door and following her. Opening her front door quickly, she slipped through it and shot it in front of Klaus face. From outside she could hear him shout her name. She knew that the door could not keep him out very long but the action itself gave her a certain satisfaction. She rode the elevator until the eighth floor and opened her door. When she entered the living room a pissed looking Klaus was already standing on her balcony. He knocked against the window and motioned her to let himself in. She made a show of thinking about it until she was sure he was going to batter her window. Finally she opened the door and let him in.

"That was absolutely unnecessary and childish, Caroline!" He said annoyed.

"After all I am still a baby vampire compared to your ten thousand years." He shook his head but Caroline could see a small smile forming around his mouth.

"Go pack your stuff, baby vamp. We don't have forever."

"You would think that being immortal made you rush less and not more." Caroline said but started getting her traveling bag.

"If you prefer that I pack your bag you just have to say a word. I would not mind choosing some of you things for you." He grinned at her which made her work faster. In no world would she let Klaus pack her stuff. In few minutes she was ready to go. She had only packed the most important things just like Klaus had told her.

"And why again are we safer in your building than in mine?" She asked him when they were seated back in the car.

"It is werewolf repellent. Just like vervain hurts vampires, wolvesbane hurts wolves. The guards at my building are compelled to shoot anybody trying to force his way into the building with silver bullets and wolvesbane. Therefore we are much safer in my penthouse than in your small apartment."

She rolled her eyes at the mentioning of his penthouse. Of course he had one. The man had lived in a mansion in a small city like Mystic Falls. Of course he would have a penthouse here. They drove down the hill away from the big avenue into the best district of the town. The gardens as the number of districts were called were a district where solemnly the richest of the richest had their apartments. They probably had another mansion somewhere else but during the week the neighborhood was the best place to live and be relatively close to the office buildings of the major companies.

They stopped in front of a huge building with black iron gates. Klaus spoke his name into the speaker and the gate opened for them. Behind the gate there were people waiting to take the car into the parking garage. Nobody asked why Klaus had gotten a new car. They knew when not to ask questions. Caroline got out of the car and looked at the building. From closer it looked like a hotel. There was even a reception desk. Klaus asked the man for his key and said: "Do you remember Caroline?"

The receptionist looked at her and shook his head: "I am very sorry Mr. Klaus, but I don't recall meeting her." Klaus cursed slightly and said: "She will be living with me, so when she needs the key to the apartment give it to her."

In the elevator Caroline said mockingly: "No rules for him to stop me leave the building? I am amazed."

"Honestly Caroline, if you are so stupid to leave this apartment without my protection you are not worth my protection. I assume you are smarter than that."

She decided to add nothing to the conversation but stare at the metallic door. He did not try to make conversation with her either. She was still tired and had forgotten to take some of the blood bags from her home. She hoped he would have some at home but did not think so.

The elevator finally stopped at the top floor and they got out. Klaus opened the only existing door in the small corridor and let her in. She stepped into a hallway that was as big as her living room. There was a huge mirror on the other side of the room and a big closet. There were two glass doors that seemed to lead into the other parts of the apartment. She heard him enter the room behind her and close the door. He passed her and went through the right door. She slowly followed him. She entered a living room that looked surprisingly modern but still comfortable. There were two wide dark blue sofas, one armchair in the same color and a small glass table in the middle of the room. On the other side of the room there was a huge complicated looking stereo and a big TV screen. She walked a few steps into the room and turned to the wall with the door. A painting hung on the wall. She did not recognize it but figured that it was one of his. The painting touched her although she could not tell why.

He watched her starring at the painting. "You asked me to hang it there." He said quiet. She turned around and saw herself standing face to face with him. "We need to talk." She said in a calm voice and he nodded. He motioned to the sofa and she sat down while he seated himself in the armchair on her right side.

"Tell me, what is going on and why I have to run from a really big pack of werewolves. What do you know about my memory loss?"

"So you finally believe me, that you lost your memory of us as a couple?" He asked her and raised his left eyebrow questioningly.

"I believe that there are a lot if things other people seemed to remember that I have no memory of. That does not mean I believe we are the couple of the millennium or that I have ever dated you. I simply cannot accept that unless I am starting to remember it myself. Now, tell me what has happened?"

"I met you in Rio shortly after you arrived. You hated the city and were disappointed of this country that you had always dreamed of. So I decided to show you this city to make you reconsider your opinion. And just like you reconsidered your opinion about this place you started reconsidering your opinion about me. In very few weeks we became closer than even I would have ever expected." "Yes, I get that point." She interrupted him. "But I need to know what happened with my memory. Was it one of your siblings who compelled me?" "Patience love, I was just getting to that. Please don't interrupt me again or I might stop talking at all. So, we were happily in love when I got news from my small still existing hybrid network that there were massacres among the werewolves. Although I am currently not able to make more hybrids I prefer to keep the raw material in tact so I was definitely alarmed. I decided to look into it and return to the United States. You did not want to accompany me because you did not feel like facing your friends whom you have never told about us by the way. Very hurtful!" He pretended to be pouting but Caroline simply glared at him so he would continue the story. "Well anyway, I went back to check on the issue. From what I heard there were werewolf packs attacking each other with a number of casualties. Sometimes ten, sometimes less or more but they never reached over eleven victims. And the killing kept going on. There was never a real reason for the attacks just small quarrelings that turned into full blown wars. I was concerned. So I consulted with one of my witches. She told that she had no explanation but after a long talk, she told me that it seemed like somebody was trying to make them into a sacrifice for a ritual." Caroline gasped. She had not expected the involvement of rituals and witches in this. Her experience of nearly being a sacrifice for Klaus was enough for her. He continued: "As you may remember a few months ago there was this tragic death of the Mystic Falls council members, as well as my misfortune with my hybrids. Only then I realized that both had been twelve. With a deeper investigation of her mind the witch told me of a different kind of magic than the one your friend Bonny has helped me so often with. A more dangerous but also much more powerful magic. Someone is trying to perform a ritual that needs the blood sacrifice of more than one species. Because the target is of more than one species." He made a pause. Caroline stared at him and was eager to learn more: "You are talking about yourself? You are the target. But what is the connection between you and my memory loss?" He looked at her somehow looking more vulnerable than usually. "This is how it starts Caroline. Whoever is targeting me is trying to…" He was interrupted by the sound of an alarm from outside. He jumped out of his chair and ran to the window. The gate was open and he could still see people entering the grounds. He had hoped they would attack later to give him more time with Caroline but his hope had been in vain.

"We have to leave, now!" He said in a stern voice to her. She was still trying to figure out what he had wanted to say before he was interrupted. He grabbed her hand and took her along with him through the next door. They passed through a kitchen and went outside. He pointed at a staircase leading up to the roof. On the roof waited a helicopter and a pilot. He said a few words to the pilot and then opened the helicopter door for Caroline. She simply followed his motions being slightly afraid because he seemed to be uneasy and that was not a normal emotion for the hybrid. He climbed into the helicopter after her and as soon as he closed the door they started and left the building.

"Where are we going?" Caroline asked.

"To the airport. We have to leave the country. They are too well connected her. We would have to fight the wolves in every city. Damn pack!"

"And where do we go from there?"

"We are following the trail that Shane has left. And from here on it leads us towards Europe."