Sorry I haven't updated this - or anything else for that matter - in like forever! I have been super busy with school and such :( I will try and update more often I promis (is it just me or am I apologizing in these here every time I update haha, I'll try not to next time.

Chapter Eight

Klaus paced around the room well Caroline sat on the bed fidgeting nervously. He was angry, she could tell he was very angry. Leaving was such a stupid idea, why did she think that would work? She should have known he would only find her and now...what if he hurt her.

She whimpered, wrapping her arms around her knees and pulling them to her chest, catching his attention in the process. His eyes darted to her suddenly, and she could swear he was literally shaking with rage. Leaving the spot where he had been wearing a whole in the floor with his pacing, he threateningly walked across the soft carpet of his bed room to where she sat on the bed, pushing herself further away from the edge so her back was pressed against the large headboard.

He stared down at her completely silent, thinking. Thinking of ways to punish her? How to kill her? What torture would be best? She didn't know but she could guess it wasn't a good thing, the way he was looking at her. Suddenly he leaned down so that he was at eye length with her.

"Now Caroline," He began in a low threatening voice, as she hugged her knees tighter to her chest. "I believe you knew it was wrong to leave didn't you?"

Hiding her face in her knees she avoided the question, hoping for him to just leave. She wanted to get away from him, and to think less than a month ago she had been fighting just to force herself to leave his bed. Willingly. What happened to her free will again? Oh yeah, Klaus took it. She thought with a grimace that he could not see.

Caroline could swear she could hear his anger at her refusal to answer his question. "Caroline." He warned again, getting her to swallow her fear and look up at him finally.

"Y-you killed me."

"I believe we decided not to discuss that now di-" He began, frustratedly, but she cut him off, continuing as tears filled her eyes.

"I trusted you, and you killed me..." She spoke the words like she didn't believe them, like it was some foreign concept, like she was just now realizing what he had done.

Klaus' end of course was mostly the same, hearing her say those words outloud were painful. It stung his heart. What was it about this girl that made him feel guilty. He never felt guilty for anything. Somehow though she made him feel guilty. He couldn't let her know that, she was one of his hybrids now, and he knew he could keep her from bringing it up again with a simple firm command.

At the same time though he knew that wouldn only make the guilt worse. "You were making me weak." He spoke without thinking, and frowned as her eyes filled with more tears, he didn't want to see her cry, more than anything he didn't want to see her cry. He got his wish when her tears suddenly stopped falling and her hand raised up to smack him across the face, an action he definitely had not anticipated.

"Car-"

"I made you weak? How exactly did I do that Klaus?" It was strange to him, she seemed to swap between the obedient hybrid and the strong willed angry girl he knew as Caroline. One second she was whimpering and crying, the next yelling and throwing punches, it didn't make sense.

"I lo- needed you too much." He inwardly sighed in relief when she didn't notice his little slip up. He almost said the word love. That he loved her too much, which in all honesty might have been true, but even if it was he couldn't let her know it.

"You obviously didn't because you were okay with putting a stake through me heart!" She cried out furiously.

Then it hit her, the haze, it was back...what was she doing? Screaming at her sire? She should be grateful for what he's done for her. Wait, should she? She blinked looking at him with a confused expression, what the hell had he done to her with this sire bond? Her head began to pound painfully.

"Klaus?" She asked her voice softer now as her head gripped her hair trying to make the pain go away. "What's...happening to me?"

He looked at her, wanting to know, wanting to be able to give her the answers she was searching for, but his eyes only held more questions.

Her vision blurred as she began fell to her knees, Klaus was there in a heartbeat, holding her up. Why did he care? She wondered as her vision went black along with her thoughts.

"Caroline?" Klaus asked his voice hoarse and desperate. "Caroline, wake up." He shook the limp body of the blond in his arms trying to wake her, because she could not be...could she. No, no, no. She was alive, she had to be alive. "Caroline?" He whispered again. "Please, love, wake up." His eyes filled with tears, she made him so weak, but at this moment he didn't care. She couldn't die, if she had died when he had killed her it might have taken him a week but he would realize the mistake. He was sure of that. She was...light, his light. His only light.

He couldn't let her go, not now, not ever. She couldn't die.

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Klaus had thought seriously about calling someone to help, but he couldn't think of anyone he could trust. His own brother had attempted to hide her. He had laid her back down on the bed, watching intently to see if she woke, or made any sign she was alive. In the last hour his mind had gone through anything and everything he could possibly do to help her, yet his mind still came up blank.

He felt so helpless just waiting, he never just waited for anything. "I'm so sorry, love." He whispered as his hand brushed through her hair.

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I'M SORRY! It wasn't as long as I wanted it to be, but in my defense I have the attention of a gold fish lol anywho thanks for reading! I hope you like it! If you did (or even if you didn't) leave me a review! Tell me what you thought! :)