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Disclamer: I wish!

You fall through the trees
And you pray with your knees on the ground
For the things that you need
With your lust and your greed weighing down
And you weaken your love
And you hold it above your head
Success is a song of the heart, not a song of your bed

Willow Tree March-By The Paper knits

Caroline slowly made her way over to the cake, taking a deep breath, "Klaus."

"Forget about it Caroline." he ordered as he turned around to pull out plates, trying to end the conversation.

Caroline bit her lip in annoyance, shaking her head. "No, you don't get to run from this," she said, scolding.

"Really? You want to do this now?" He replied, scrunching his eyebrows at her, as he placed the plates in front of them. "In my sister's kitchen, with my parents in the other room?"

"Well it seems like no better time than now," She shot back, looking up at him, not backing down from this.

"You always seem to be able to talk to everyone but me. To reporters, to Stefan and to your sister, but not to me, the one person who wants to know the truth more than anything " Caroline's face flushed red with anger.

"What do you want to know?" He demanded angrily

"Are you really asking me this?" Her hand shooting out towards him, "All I want to know is why. Why you broke up with me that night in San Francisco. Why you just sent me home to pack my belongings. Don't I deserve to know that?" Caroline's voice broke. There was no way she was going to show him her tears. She had cried over him for too long and all she wanted from him was one simple thing and that was to know why.

Klaus looked down, not sure what to say to her. "I wish I could blame it all on Mikael or even Stefan but I can't. The reason I left you was because of my own greed." Stepping closer to her, so there was no space between them he gripped her arms so she could look him the eye and understand what he was about to tell her, "My greed for power and my need to show that man back there that I could become someone is what caused me to lose you. The one thing that I know now truly matters. The one person who saw no fault or cracks in me," He confessed to her as he pulled his arms back from her. "So forgive me Caroline, if I could never truly admit that to you or myself before. I truly am a monster, like Mikael." Letting out a breath, he turned away.

"I forgive you" she simply said, "but that doesn't mean I can forget Klaus." She stepped back, putting distance between them.

"I don't need your forgiveness," he growled out, hurt at her comment.

"No you don't, but you want it "She informed him as she went back to start cutting the cake into slice. "Can you get the plates?" was all she said as he watched her walk away. A sight he never truly liked to see, but was getting used to.

Caroline had slipped off her shoes as she picked up her notebook, she knew what she needed to do. She just needed to write it all out so she could finally put get some closure on that part of her life. Even though there was a part of her who that would always have feelings for Klaus, he was her first true love, she was done crying over him or any other man.

"You understand Care. Elena needs a date plus I haven't actually asked you yet," Matt told her on the porch, as the party was in full swing at the Gilbert house behind her.

Caroline could not believe the nerves of her boyfriend Matt right now. "No I don't understand,but I know you Matt it won't matter to you," Crossing her arms, as she stood up.

"Care don't be that way, its just one dance," A dance I've been working on for weeks Caroline thought.

"Our last homecoming," Caroline Informed him just in case he had forgotten. This was all happening because Damon could not make it down to the dance from Whitmore, Elena thought it was a good idea to go and beg her boyfriend.

Isn't this against girl code ?

"Why don't you take Kevin? I'm pretty sure he's free" Matt Asked suggested, trying to find a solution to their problems.

Is he serious right now?

"Seriously, Matt?" Throwing her drink on him. "We're done," she said walking away from him and the party, which was still going on behind her.

Caroline was lived livid, her own best friend had ended up with her boyfriend, as her date to their last homecoming.

Only Elena could do that!

Caroline felt a hand on her shoulder, turning around by Matt, she was ready to yell at Matt some more, but instead she came face to face with Klaus Mikaelson.

Seriously?

"Are you crying?" He asked her.

"What are you doing here?" Elena in no way like the Mikaelsons, she would have never have invited Rebekah (who showed up anyway). So there was no way she would have invited his her older brother.

"I wanted to be," Klaus smirked somewhat crookedly as he stepped closer to her.

"Now, how about you answer my question sweetheart," he said pulling out a cigarette and lighting it, "even though I can tell from your face that you have been."

Caroline walked farther away from him, "what do you even care?"

She knew he was still following her as she made her way further from the party.

Caroline's nose scrunched, she hated the smell of smoke, "Don't you have something else to do, other than follow me around? Why don't you go be a big brother and watch over Rebekah?"

Klaus let out a chuckle as he tossed the cigarette onto the ground. He could tell Caroline was not fond of his habit. "What and end the fun we're having here?" he reached out for her arm. When she turned to face him he could see the hurt behind her eyes, she was keeping it all in just to not seem weak. He could see that she was in pain and all because her stupid boyfriend did not know what he had in front of him.

Using his finger he tilted her chin up, forcing her to look at him. "Caroline Forbes you're better than that, than him," he simply told her. Caroline already knew what he was saying was true but it hurt to once again remember she was always the second option when it came to Elena Gilbert. "You should never cry over a man," he said, smiling down at her, "especially one stupid enough to choose someone else over you."

"Well it seems someone's hard at work." Damon leaned on the door frame, breaking Caroline from her memory.

"Something like that," Caroline said, not looking up from her notebook.

"Anytime you want to book space in the studio let me know," he informed her.

Caroline looked up to him with a raised eyebrow, "what's going on Damon?" she asked, closing her book.

She knew whenever he showed up to at her room, without a demand or a glass of Scotch, he was here to drop a bomb on her.

"Nothing is up", he said walking over to pick up a frame from her desk letting out a small grin.

"Do you remember how wasted you guys got that day?" Looking at her old high school graduation picture. She had totally forgotten about the image of her high school friends placed on her desk.

"Do you remember that you supplied the alcohol?" She said laughing.

"Hey my baby brother only graduated once, plus Alaric pitched in too," he returned with a smile.

"Anyway….Rose told me you guys are going to start promoting the show. So you and Tatia have a couple of interviews you need to do together." Dropping the true reason he was here.

"Why did I get stuck with Taita?" Caroline whined.

"It was either her or Klaus,"

"How about Marcel or Davina? I would even do it with Tyler." She considered begging Damon to do something. Caroline wasn't dumb, Damon knew about this before anyone and at the middle of the night was because he had probably spent most of the day with Rose. As of late he mentioned her a lot or showed up on set with some small business for her.

"You know why," he said with a small smirk, as he walked towards the door.

"Oh, before I forget, Enzo called last night. It seems he's back in town," Damon said with a smirk on his face.

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