"…Maybe you should go. I'm not exactly in a social kind of mood."

Caroline could see the walls going back up and she didn't like it. But still, she didn't really seem to be helping at all… And why would he want to talk to her of all people about it?

"If that's what you want," She told him.

"It is," He told her. He wasn't up to being around anyone at that point and honestly, he didn't like her seeing him like that.

Caroline hesitated halfway to the door before she turned around to face him.

"Alright, I'll go in a second if you still want me to," She said. "But first I want to ask you something."

Klaus had a bad feeling about that, he was fairly sure that he was not going to like whatever question she might have… He was sure that it would be something that he wouldn't want to answer or even think about.

Caroline took it as an okay when he neither said that it was alright nor tried to stop her.

"…What was he like?" She asked.

Caroline knew that Klaus was spending the day only remembering the bad and she wondered if it might help for him to think about some of the good stuff with Henrik too.

Klaus was a little taken aback by the question. Never had he expected that to be the question that she wanted to ask him.

"He was energetic… All the time," Klaus told her as he looked down at his hands. "And he was happy about ninety-eight percent of the time. And the other two percent he could get whatever he wanted… Or actually he could all of the time."

He smiled a little to himself which brought a matching smile to her lips.

"I don't think that he actually ever successfully got into trouble once," Klaus continued. "And he used that to his advantage… He used to cover for all of us too and said that he was the one who did pretty much everything bad."

Caroline sat back down next to Klaus on the bed.

"He knew how to use the cuteness factor to his advantage and he abused that more than a little," He told her. "And he used to be the only one that could cheer Rebekah up when she was crying, which happened a lot because Kol used to drive her insane teasing her."

Somehow that last part didn't overly surprise Caroline even with how little she knew about Kol.

"He used to have a lot of nightmares and then he'd wake up afraid of the dark and come and sneak into my room in the middle of the night," Klaus told her. "He claimed that it was because he knew that he'd be safe with me-"

He smiled weakly at the irony of that as he felt tears threatening to fall from his eyes.

"I'm pretty sure that actually he just didn't want Kol making fun of him and he knew that Rebekah would tell people," Klaus said with a weak laugh. "And he was too afraid to go to Elijah or Finn or my step-dad."

"That still means that he trusted you the most with it," Caroline pointed out quietly.

"Yeah, I know that he trusted me," Klaus said, thinking that it only made what happened so much worse.

He felt a tear run down his cheek and quickly turned to look away from her as he wiped at it with his sleeve.

"It's okay to cry you know," Caroline told him gently.

She could feel the sting of tears at the back of her own eyes from his words and the pain that she could tell that he was feeling.

"I don't want to cry in front of you," He replied.

"Why not?" Caroline asked him.

"Do you usually enjoy having an audience while you're crying?" Klaus challenged.

He had a point; she also didn't like having people around her when she was crying.

"I guess not…" She replied quietly.

A/N: Please read and review! I know that I haven't updated in more than a week and that this is a kind of awkward spot to end the chapter, but I feel like this was the only way that I was ever going to get a chapter up... I've had this written for a week and not been able to finish the chapter, so hopefully I'll be able to write the next one easier... I'll try to have the next chapter up soon...

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