Chapter Four - Vampires
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Well done to those that guessed he was being healed. Not ready for him to be turned yet, if ever...
Sorry this update took longer than planned. Close friends of ours were in a reality TV show to build and win a brand new house and this week was the grand finale so it was a super busy last couple of weeks. Oh, and they won, waahoooo!
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And then it came to her, there was an answer and she wasted no time in acting on it. "There is one solution" she replied. Taking her wrist, she bit into it and quickly pressed the bleeding wound to his lips.
Klaus was shocked and bewildered, pulling away and using his hand to wipe the blood away from his lips but some had already made it into his mouth and was working it's way through his body.
"What the hell?" he exploded, staring at her with huge eyes. "What did you just do and why the bloody hell is your face doing that?"
Caroline reached up to where the veins were sinking back under her skin and her teeth were beginning to retract. Her fingertips brushed against her cheek bones, willing all the telltale vampire signs to dissapear as quickly as they came on. The horror and shock reflected in his eyes and the way he had backed away from her made her feel sick. It reminded her of the first few weeks after she became a vampire, the times when the blood lust fought against her humanity. How, when she looked in the mirror, she still sometimes saw a blonde demon staring back at her. She looked down at the ground, waiting for the taste of his blood to vanish.
Klaus meanwhile was trying to compute what he had witnessed only moments earlier. He had seen how the angelic woman he had kissed, (and he had really, fully and completely enjoyed kissing Caroline) had licked his blood from her elongated teeth while her veins spread across her exquisite features like a web.
Caroline lifted her down turned eyes and looked up to where Klaus had backed into a corner. He was running his fingers through his hair and they were trembling slightly.
"I did it for you" she finally said tentatively.
"You bit yourself for me? What kind of crazy talk is that? The blood I can taste was for me? And your face? Was that some kind of voodoo for me too?" he asked furiously.
She took a deep breath, the harshness of his words like a slap across her cheek.
"How does your neck feel?" she answered quietly.
"How does my neck feel?" he repeated, his voice raising with each syllable. "What does that have to do with it? My neck? It feels just like it did when I..." and then he stopped suddenly. He put his hand up to his neck, leaning it to the side, stretching left and right and rolling it in a circle, a puzzled look creasing his forehead. Then he reached down to the base of his spine and pressed there too, consternation plain on his features.
Meeting Caroline's now calm eyes, she could see his confusion written across them. "Ok, why the hell does everything feel fine? You did do some magic or voodoo on me."
"You won't believe me if I tell you the truth so just imagine what you will" she replied with a sigh, flopping down into her chair.
"My imagination is working overdrive right now and nothing I am thinking could be real. What just happened isn't real. Is it?" he asked, taking a step forward and then changing his mind and leaning back against the wall.
"I healed you. I did that for you." She locked eyes with his before continuing. "And selfishly I did it for us."
"I'm sorry Caroline but you're going to have to give me more than that. You healed me? Since when have you been granted supernatural powers?"
She waited a moment, crossing her legs and uncrossing them again. "Since quite a number of years now actually" she finally said.
Klaus barked out a laugh without any trace of mirth. "Yes, I can see from looking at your flawless skin and youthful good looks that you are so very very old."
"I'm 17" she replied, storing the flawless, youthful, good looks phrases away in her brain to process later.
"17? The youngest qualified chiropractor on the planet then love?" His tone was now sarcastic and harsh. All traces of the look in his eyes when he had kissed her were well and truly gone.
"Just forget it" she responded, turning her back on him.
"Don't turn away from me" he said angrily, striding across the room and grabbing her arm to spin her back to face him. Instead he landed on his back on the floor, an equally angry Caroline towering above him, her foot resting on the centre of his chest. He had quite the view of her legs and he followed them up with his eyes, taking in their slender shape before shaking his head at the absurdity of what had just happened. He was so stunned again that he cracked up laughing and couldn't stop.
"Klaus! What are you laughing at?!"
"You love. One minute you're an angel, the next a monster. I'm just waiting for your head to spin 360 degrees and we can chalk one up to poltergeist too." This set him off again and Caroline was unnerved. Had she driven him mad? Was this all too much for him? At least the laughing meant he wasn't looking at her out of frightened eyes. He looked like he was almost back to the arrogant man who first walked into her office. Almost.
"Right you, up. We need to talk" she said, breaking through his chuckles and taking charge of the situation. She wasn't the flirty pushover from high school who the boys walked all over. She was a much stronger Caroline since she became a vampire and she had decided enough was enough. "Sit there" she pointed at the table and surprisingly, he did what he was told.
But once he was sitting, she didn't know where to begin. "Do I go back to the start and tell him how I turned? Do I just erase his memory now and he'll never remember this happened? Could he even handle what I'm about to tell him?"
Klaus helped her make the decision. "Righto sweetheart, spill. What the bloody hell is going on?"
She sighed and sat down to face him, looking at her watch as she did. Next client was due in 15 minutes, better go for the shortened version. "Ok, you asked for it" she began. Looking him dead in the eyes, she calmly stated "I'm a vampire."
He blinked a number of times, took a deep breath and replied "Carry on."
She was surprised that he didn't bolt for the door but he had always seemed very confident, maybe this would be a breeze after all. Or not.
"About 7 years ago, a vampire came to town and killed me. That part is complicated so we'll just state for the record that she was a bitch and I was just part of her game. Cue my entrance into the world of the supernatural. I was 17 when I turned and I'll always look like this, I won't age. So even though 7 years has passed and I should be 24, I tell most people I'm 22. I don't kill people, at least not if I can help it. I do drink blood though, from blood bags mostly, I won't hurt you" she added hastily as alarm flitted across Klaus' face. "We are very strong though. And what I did is heal you with my blood. Now you won't need to come see me anymore, the vampire blood has healed your body. And mine." She held out her wrist, wiping off the drying blood to show the skin, knitting itself back together.
She watched as his eyes focused on her mending wrist then back to her face again, disbelief in his eyes. "It's all true Klaus. I am a vampire." Then she softly added. "As well as that, I'm no longer your chiropractor and you're no longer my client."
There was silence as expected at the end of her short explanation. The things she left out could be answered in questions, if he stuck around long enough to ask them. But it was all up to him now and she could feel tension in the air as the seconds ticked by.
He was sitting watching her, processing her words with his head tilted to the side. His boyish looks were worn away by her revelations, the creases above his eyebrows aging him by ten years. Then he stood up abruptly and walked to the door. "I'd best be going then" he said, hand poised to turn the knob and she was next to him in an instance. If he was going to run, she would have to take his memory.
As she prepared herself to compel him to forget he spoke again. "So, since you're not my chiropractor now, shall I pick you up here at 6pm for dinner?" And not waiting for an answer, he opened the door leaving a flabbergasted Caroline behind him, watching as he strode away.
Surprised? Not really, totally predictable? What do you think Klaus thinks about the whole thing? KPOV at the start of the next chapter so stay tuned.