AUTHOR'S NOTE: Hello lovelies! Thank you all for leaving reviews, favoriting and following this story, it means a lot to me. This might come as a surprise to most of you but this story is more of what I've written in the past so it's been fun to write what I know.
Originally I had Caroline snapping Hayley's neck in self defense but decided to do the heart thing instead, it just seemed to fit better and I think most Klaroliners are a little blood thirsty when it comes to Hayley ;) Plus I like the shock effect it has on Caroline afterwards. I mean, I love a strong fighting Caroline but I also like her human reaction to somethings.
As I said previously, this story isn't going to be super long, just a few parts total. Kind of like an 'episode' in TVD universe but with more Klaroline.
This part is kind of a fill in the blanks part told via Caroline's hallucinations. And I apologize now, this might sting a little.
PS. Thank you so much to klarolineepiclove for her help and my tumblr wifey idiot-wind89 for being a phenomenal beta.
Part 2
"I must say love, I'm surprised that you agreed to have dinner with me." Klaus stated. "I thought you would have preferred to spend the evening with your friends."
"I thought that's what I was doing. We are friends aren't we?" Caroline asked, giving him a sideways glance as they walked up the sidewalk to her front door. After they had left the school for a safer location, he had asked if she would be willing to join him for dinner. She could tell by the look on his face when she accepted that she had surprised him but he hadn't commented on it until now.
"That we are." He replied with a smile. "However, I meant your other friends. After all, I recall you saying before how important experiencing all of high school events with your friends was to you."
"And I was with them earlier when we all graduated, but Elena left to go check on Damon, Bonnie disappeared somewhere, and I'm sure Stefan is spending the little bit of time Lexi has left on this side with her. My mom told me to go out and enjoy my night so I am." She explained. "Why? Do you have some place you'd rather be?"
"Any place that you're with me would be my favorite." Klaus replied.
She couldn't help but smile a little at what he said. "You know, you have a thing for mentioning your favorite places are with me, like in that voicemail you left. I think you need some new material."
"So you did get my message." He confirmed his eyebrow rose as he looked at her.
"Yeah, I got it." Caroline replied casually, trying not to show her true thoughts on the message. She had listened to it more than a few times and saved it so that she couldn't accidentally delete it. When she had first heard the message, she couldn't believe how brazen it was of him, but it also didn't surprise her a bit. It was just so him.
"I have to say, I was surprised when I heard it, I didn't know you had left town. Stefan was the one to tell me that you went to New Orleans."
"Upset that I didn't say goodbye?" Klaus asked.
Klaus' question made her thoughts flashback to that day in the woods with him, well not him but Silas wearing his face. She couldn't keep her own face from showing the fear and anxiety from that day. She could tell he noticed immediately by the frown that marred his mouth and the concern in his eyes. "Caroline? What's wrong?"
"It's..." Caroline started to say it was nothing but then decided against it. After his admission of his hopes earlier, not to mention how he had saved her and later Damon, he deserved to know what she had realized that day in the wood, but not out here on her front porch. "Do you want to come inside? Maybe have a drink?"
Now Klaus' expression was a combination of worry and surprise but he nodded. "I would like that very much, sweetheart."
Caroline let them into her house, turning on lights as they went until they reached the living room. "Have a seat, I'll be right back."
She hurried into the kitchen to the cabinet where they kept the alcohol, grabbed two glasses and the bottle of scotch before returning to where she had left him. He was standing at her mantel, appearing to enjoy himself as he looked through the variety of photos there. Caroline couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed as his eyes landed on the picture of her with her hopscotch ribbon.
He turned when she set down the glasses and poured them each a drink. Once she was done, she handed one to him. "Um, this is all we have, I hope its okay."
"I'm sure it will be just fine." He replied. "Though I must say I'm surprised you have it, I didn't think you were fond Scotch."
"I'm not. It's Stefan's." She answered, when he quirked his eyebrow at her in question, she explained. "He was coming over a lot because of all of the stuff with Elena so I got a bottle to keep around for when he needed it."
"Very considerate of you."
"Thanks." Caroline replied. She took a large sip of the alcohol, letting it burn its way down her throat as she tried to work up the courage to say what she knew she needed to say. "Would you like to sit?"
Instead of replying, he simply nodded before he followed her lead to the couch. Their knees were only an inch or so from touching but Caroline tried to focus away from that and instead on what she wanted to say.
"Caroline, I can tell you are trying to work up the courage to tell me something. It must be something rather significant given that you have had no issues in the past telling me whatever is on your mind."
"Sorry, I guess I'm not doing a good job with this." Caroline stated. Normally she didn't have too much of a problem speaking what was on her mind, but at this moment, she was having difficulty finding the right words. She guessed the best thing was to just get it out there.
"A few days after you left, I was leaving the Boarding House when I heard a strange noise. I turned around there you were...or who I thought was you." She clarified, knowing that he would get the meaning behind her words.
"Silas." Klaus practically growled.
She nodded.
"Did he hurt you?" He asked.
"Yes, he hurt me or at least he made me think he did. What was worse was that he went after my mother," Caroline stated and when she saw his eyes flash yellow, she hurried up in her explanation. "But that's not why I'm telling you this."
"When Silas appears to someone he takes the form of a person that person wants to see." She explained. She looked up into his eyes then and saw that her words had stunned him.
"As we walked, you, well Silas you, told me that he never meant to leave without saying goodbye. It's what I had been thinking. I felt hurt when I found out you were gone and you hadn't come to see me or call but I acted like I didn't care and told you to move on. You said you never intended to move on, asked me to go with you to New Orleans with you, and then asked me what I was afraid of." Caroline took a deep breath before she went on, "And I admitted that it was you, I was afraid of you, of what I was feeling for you."
She paused then, waiting for her words to sink in as she watched his reaction. He simply studied her for a minute, as if he was waiting for her to retract her words or scoff at him. When she didn't, he spoke. "Caroline, what are you telling me?"
"I'm telling you that...that I care about you as more than a friend. Despite what my head has told me, I do." She admitted. "And that if you had offered me that first class ticket earlier, I might have accepted it."
Klaus' eyes widened in surprise at what she said. "What about Tyler? You have been petitioning for some time for me to pardon him so that he could return to you and now he can."
"I know and I am grateful for the gift. I know that it's not the first time that you have put aside your need for revenge against him for me. I heard the two of you at prom; I know you let him go so that I could have my perfect night." Caroline stated. "I had planned to come over after the party but you left town before I could say anything to you."
Prom had been such an important night for her but not in the way that she had always thought it would be. She had always dreamt of becoming prom queen and having the best night with her friends and her boyfriend but the more she had tried to force that to happen, the more she had found the whole night disappointing. That was when she had come to terms with several things that had been weighing on her mind and heart.
"That night I realized that things between Tyler and I are not the same as they were. In the short time he's been gone, I feel like we've grown apart, just as first loves often do. If I want to be entirely truthful with myself, we've been growing apart for a while."
Caroline looked away for a minute to gather her thoughts before turning back to him and continuing. "When you told me tonight that Tyler could return to Mystic Falls, I know you saw the tears in my eyes. They were of joy and relief because even if we aren't supposed to be together, I want him to be safe and live his life, just like I want to live mine. High school is over now and I want to see what is out in the world. That is if your offer still stands?"
Klaus' reaction was not exactly what Caroline had anticipated. She had pictured him giving her one of those big full dimpled smiles that she had seen on rare occasions, before launching forth into some long speech about where they would go and what they would see.
However as her words sunk in, his reaction was quite different. A look of pure delight did cross his face before quickly disappearing into one she rarely if ever saw on his face, hesitation. When he didn't say anything, she began to second-guess herself. Why was he not saying anything? "Klaus?"
The sound of his name seemed to snap him back to reality and he focused back on her. "Caroline, I cannot say how truly happy what you just said makes me, and I wish that I could fulfill the offer I made to you right this moment..."
"But?" Caroline asked confused.
"There is something I haven't told you." Klaus stated.
"Okay." She replied, drawing out the word. "I'm pretty sure that there are loads of things you haven't told me. I don't doubt that it would take years to hear all of the stories that you could tell me."
"This is different." He declared. "A few weeks ago, I made a mistake."
"A mistake?" She repeated confused. What mistake had he made that could stop him from showing her all of the art and culture he had spoken of before? Perhaps he meant he had made some kind of mistake that would make her not want to go with him? She didn't know what it could be short of killing one of her friends and they were all alive, even Tyler.
"With Hayley." He added.
Caroline breathed a sigh of relief at his answer. As if she really cared what kind of punishment he might have dealt out to the she wolf traitor. Normally she wouldn't wish harm or death on anyone but Hayley was possibly an exception.
"What did you do? Torture her? Kill her?"
"No." He said firmly. "I slept with her."
"You...you what?" She asked, not believing what he was saying. She couldn't have heard him right could she? "You slept with her?"
"It meant nothing; it was a drunken one night stand." Klaus stated.
As soon as she saw Klaus reaching towards her, she shrunk a way from his touch, glaring at him. "With Hayley?! I don't understand. She is the one who came up with the idea of freeing your hybrids, who started the whole thing! You chased Tyler out of town for his part in it but Hayley gets a free pass so you can get a romp in the sack?!"
Caroline stood up then and moved to the other side of the room, anything to put some distance between them. "Oh God, please tell me that you haven't had her hidden away at your house since Christmas?"
"No." He answered, standing to move towards her. "She disappeared that night after telling me what my hybrids were up to. I didn't speak to her again until she contacted me claiming to have information on Katerina's whereabouts and the cure. I brought her to my house to get information from her."
"That's not all you got from her it sounds like." Caroline snapped at him.
"If I recall sweetheart, at that point in time you still claimed to hate me for my retaliation against Tyler so don't act as if you are the slighted lover in this tale ." Klaus declared. "She was a convenient diversion, nothing more."
While she hated to admit it, he was right. Even if she had come to realize that she had been falling for him for a while, she had no claim over him. Of course that didn't mean that it didn't hurt some knowing that he had slept with Hayley at the same time he had been claiming to care for her. "Then why are you telling me this? I mean, I agree to leave town with you to travel but instead of whisking me away, you say that you can't and then tell me that you slept with Hayley. Was it all a lie? Have you just been pretending to care about me as some kind of sick amusement?"
"No, no." Klaus replied, his voice firm. "Caroline, everything that I have confessed to you in regards to my affections for you have been completely honest."
"Then why are telling me this?" Caroline asked.
"Because that one night had an unforeseen consequence," He acknowledged.
"Consequence?" She asked. "Oh this just gets better and better."
"Hayley is pregnant, and it's mine."
Caroline felt as if whatever little breath she still had in her body had been sucked out of her at his words. She couldn't have heard him right. Her mouth opened and closed a couple of times before she regained the ability to speak. "But that's…that's impossible."
"Apparently it's the spirits' sick way of balancing nature; my werewolf genes allow me to breed despite my being a vampire."
"It makes no sense, you might be part werewolf but I'm fairly certain that all of you is dead." Caroline argued.
"Not according to one very meddlesome witch." Klaus responded.
She stood there for a minute, trying to absorb what he was telling her. He was going to be a father; he was going to have a child, a child by Hayley. Her chest began to ache at the thought. The anger she had just been feeling at him practically vanished, only to be replaced with sorrow. She brought her arms up to wrap around her middle, trying to bring some kind of comfort to herself. She saw Klaus watching her for a moment before moving forward, placing his hands on her upper arms. She wanted to recoil but couldn't bring herself to do it.
"Caroline, this changes nothing in regard to how I feel about you. I still want you by my side, come with me to New Orleans."
"And what?" Caroline asked skeptically. "Be your mistress in the shadows while you make a happy family with Hayley in the light of day?"
"It wouldn't be like that. I would never relegate you to live as some shameful secret." Klaus assured her.
"Why New Orleans?" Caroline asked suddenly. She knew next to nothing about why Klaus had left so abruptly for the Deep South.
"I went down there initially because I had been told that there was a plot against me. It was a ruse by the witches to get me down there. They want me to take out a former protégé of mine and thought that threatening Hayley and her pregnancy would motivate me. Of course they didn't anticipate me having my own plans once I returned to the city."
"Plans?"
"This past year spent in this little town, dealing with the schemes of your friends has damaged my families' status in the supernatural world. I am planning to take back New Orleans, to show the world that I am still the one of the most powerful creatures on this planet and I should be feared so that there are no more threats against what is mine."
"Between that and your new family, it sounds like I would just be in the way." She claimed.
"Never, Hayley is just a means to an end, once my heir is born..."
"Your heir?" Caroline interrupted; she couldn't believe what he had just said. "Seriously? You're immortal, why would you need an heir?"
"I want you with me through everything, to be my queen." He declared. "Let me show you a life outside of this town."
Caroline wanted so badly to give in, to just lean forward, let him wrap his arms around her, and loose herself. She wanted to go with him, but she couldn't be selfish with him, he had other priorities, bigger priorities that didn't include her . "No."
"No?"
"No." She repeated dejectedly.
"What makes you think that now that you are giving me a chance, I'm going to let you go?"
"You have to. You have so much going on in your life. You're going to be a father Klaus, and that child needs to be your focus, not me." Caroline explained. "Earlier tonight you said you would wait for me for as long as it takes. Now is your chance to prove that to me. Because one day…"
"You'll show up at my door." Klaus finished.
Caroline nodded solemnly. She brought her hand up to cup the side of his face before leaning forward and brushing her lips against his. The kiss was fleeting and she pulled back before he could attempt to deepen it. She looked into his eyes, and saw them filled with so many emotions, before whispering. "Goodbye Klaus."
She stepped away then, backing up slowly before turning and rushing to her bedroom. She waited until she heard him leave a few minutes later, slamming the door, before the tears started to fall.
Caroline felt the haze from the memory inspired hallucination leave her and she became aware of the real world again. Her face was wet from tears, her throat was burning from thirst and the wound throbbed with pain that radiated through her sweat-covered body. She reached around her bed frantically, looking for her phone before her hand finally closed around it. She focused on the screen and saw that more than an hour had passed and she had no returned calls. She wasn't sure if he had gotten her message, maybe he hadn't, which meant he probably wasn't going to make it in time to save her.
Her finger hovered over his number for a second before pressing it. Again, the voicemail picked up right away. When she heard the beep, she started. "It's me again. I…I don't know if you got my other message or not. Maybe you didn't. I can feel myself weakening more and more, so if you haven't gotten it, I don't know if you'll be here in time. So that means this might be the last time that I can talk to you."
"I never thanked you for opening my eyes to what the world had to offer. Even after I became a vampire, I always thought my life was in Mystic Falls, that there was nothing for me outside of it. Then, you came into my life and started talking about all of the things I could do, places I could explore, and I believed you. I was so mad then, mad at you for what you made me feel, confusing me. I wanted you to just go away and leave me and my friends alone instead of facing things. But you didn't go away. You hung around and I got even more confused because I started to care about you so much so that I fell for you despite what my instincts told me."
"Just remember Klaus that you are worthy of someone loving you and that I will be watching you from the other side. I'll never be far from you."
After she ended the call, Caroline looked away from the phone and around her apartment. She should get up and get a blood bag or two; it might buy her some more time. She started to crawl across the bed when her weakened body gave out on her and she collapsed in a heap, falling to the floor.
He had showed nothing but indifference to the pain he had inflicted on her, so Caroline was surprised when Klaus lifted her up from her spot on the floor and moved her to the couch. For the few short moments that he held her in his arms, she fought the desire she had to curl into the comfort of his warm firm chest. He was the one who had bitten her; after all, she should be furious with him not snuggling up to him. Granted she should have known better than to antagonize him, her father had taught her that a caged animal was known to strike back violently but that didn't stop her from being angry at him.
The softness of the couch felt wonderful compared to the hardness of the floor and Caroline sighed a bit in pleasure as he set her down. The moment she was settled, he released her and walked to the other side of the room, as far away from her as he could get. She didn't know how long they stayed in that position. Hours at least had to have past if the fading sunlight outside of the windows was any indication not to mention the way her body grew weaker and weaker.
As she watched him, she noticed that Klaus did everything he could to not look at her. That surprised her; she never thought that Klaus wouldn't want to watch one of his victims succumb to death especially considering he had attacked her out of revenge against Tyler. Was he feeling guilty for what he had done? Did that mean that he might reconsider healing her? She had to try. "If you don't feed me your blood, I'll die."
"Then you'll die, and Tyler will have learned his lesson the hard way." Klaus responded, still not looking at her.
"How could you do this to him? To his mom? To me?" Caroline asked.
"I'm a thousand years old. Call it boredom." He replied.
She studied him for a minute, he might be good at hiding his thoughts but there were times that she felt she could read him easily. "I don't believe you."
"Fine, then maybe it's because I'm pure evil, and I can't help myself."
"It's because you were hurt, which means that there is a part of you that is human." Caroline replied. She watched his head snap in her direction, staring at her with disbelief. She didn't know if it was because he thought it was the most ridiculous thing he had ever heard someone utter about him or because he could hear the truth behind her words. Whichever it was, it intrigued him enough to leave his spot and move towards her. He continued to stare at her as he sat on the table next to her.
"How could you possibly think that?"
"Because I've seen it…" She answered, memories of their one date coming to mind. He had been so different that day, so flirty and sweet. She hadn't enjoyed herself so much in a long time, so much so that she had felt incredibly guilty for days after. For the reason that it had made her realize that the pull she had felt towards him might be more than attraction and she didn't want it. She was in love with Tyler. She shouldn't have feelings for another man, especially one that was supposed to be their enemy. "Because…I've caught myself wishing that I could forget all the horrible things that you've done."
"But you can't, can you?" He said, crossly.
Again, she could see his feelings very plainly on his face. He was trying to use what he assumed was her rejection as a way to push away what he felt for her, to protect himself. However, if these were indeed the last moments of her life, she wasn't going to let him push away that part of himself nor think so low of her. "I know that you're in love with me. And anybody capable of love is capable of being saved."
"You're hallucinating." He scoffed, blinking away tears in his eyes.
"I'll guess I'll never know." She responded breathlessly, thinking that she would be dead before she could find out how being in love with someone could change him.
She thought over his response to her words and wasn't surprised that he would rather think that she was confused due to the venom in her system than believe that someone could think something like that of him. Her last bit of strength seemed to leave her body then and she couldn't keep her eyes from closing.
"Caroline?"
As breathing became too hard, she heard Klaus calling her name in the distance. She wanted to respond but couldn't as she slipped into the welcoming darkness. She vaguely thought she felt her body being lifted up and something warm and firm holding her up from behind but she couldn't be sure what was real.
A moment later the overpowering scent of blood hit her and she felt a few drops on her tongue, bringing her out of death's grip. The more that dripped down her throat the stronger she felt until she was again aware of what was going on around her and realized that it was Klaus. He was holding her and giving her his blood to heal her. Her eyes flew open at the same time she brought her hands up to his arm, gripping as hard as she could, scared he would snatch it away at any moment. When her fingers touched his, she wrapped them around his, trying to convey her gratitude in the gesture. He seemed to understand, bringing up his other hand to her hair and stroking it, as if to soothe her while she fed.
The memory of the taste of his blood was so vibrant that Caroline could swear she was actually feeding from him again. She knew that if someone was looking at her, they would see her in her full vampire face; eyes red, fangs extended. The hallucination was so vivid; if she opened her eyes, would she see Klaus next to her? Holding her like he did the nights that he had healed her? Would he feel as real as the coppery liquid she could feel flowing over her tongue and down her throat. She could actually feel it spreading through her body and healing the damage that the venom had done to her. When she realized that her strength was actually returning to her body, she knew it wasn't her mind playing tricks on her.
It was then that she became aware of him; his scent, the heat of his body against her, his arm cradling her tenderly. She opened her eyes, they locked on his face, he was here. She felt like crying, and would have if her mouth hadn't been latched onto his wrist. He was watching her as she fed; his eyes unreadable. The fact that she couldn't interpret what he was thinking unnerved her.
They stared at each other for a few more minutes before she withdrew her fangs from his arm. However, before she could talk to him, exhaustion overtook her and she fell unconscious in his arms.
Well what did you guys think? Did you like my interpretation of what happened after the two walked off the football field? Or the missing scene from 4x13? I've been told that Caroline's voice in this is the voice of the fandom.
Next part, Klaus' POV and the two talk for the first time face to face.