Forbidden Desires

Chapter One – Klaus Bad Morning

Klaus Mikaelson

The sound of the house doorbell woke me up from a peaceful sleep, my eyes began to flicker open slowly but surely as the sunlight coming from my bedroom window touched against them. It was warm and sunny outside but it wasn't a good day for me, the weather couldn't cheer me up from the mood I would myself waking up with. The mood that felt it could last for eternity if it wanted too. The same mood I had gone to bed with last night after having the Salvatore boys try to kill me for the thousandth time since my arrival in Mystic Falls.

I grabbed a handful of the Egyptian cotton sheets that hugged around my waist and threw them to the other side of my bed with the greatest of ease before getting up to my feet. I walked from my bedroom wearing nothing but a pair of black Calvin Klein boxers and a grey ACDC t-shirt that I could not remembering buying.

I walked down the stairs and across the hallway to unlock the front door, I pulled the door open fully and found Kol standing at the other side of the door. He was wearing a pair of dark blue demine jeans with a blue checked short sleeved shirt unbuttoned with a white cotton vest underneath. At his feet were his bag I had saw him pack up last night and behind him in the driveway was his motorcycle.

"If you're thinking about asking to come back I should warn you that our sister has already moved into your bedroom" I warned him.

"Come now brother, we had yet another little spat between us" Kol shrugged lazily "At least this one didn't end with you sticking a dagger in my heart" he pointed out.

"I'm too tired to argue with you" I groaned as I turned on my heels and walked away from him leaving him outside and the door open.

"Come now Nik, you could at least welcome me home" Kol called.

"That would involve me having to smile and that I will not be doing today, tomorrow or even the next day" I said as I entered the kitchen.

I wondered inside and found Elijah sitting across the room at the table sipping what smelt like strong coffee and my goal to sounding less like a robot. I made my way over to him and Elijah looked up from the newspaper he had in his hand folded in half. I took a quick glance at the newspaper myself before pouring myself a cup of coffee from the tea set sitting at the centre of the table.

"Devotion" I said to Elijah after taking my first sip of the coffee I had just poured.

Elijah looked up at me confused and I rolled my eyes ignoring my brothers stupidly. I pointed to the newspaper he had now placed on the table.

"Your crossword. Eight words down, eternal love"

"Devotion. How did you figure that out so quickly Niklaus? An annoyed Elijah asked as he added the word into the crossword.

"I'm surprised a man of your character hadn't already my brother" I told him before leaving his side and leaving the kitchen too.

I enjoyed having my family all under the same roof again. I had wanted this to happen for more than a thousand years. But this morning all I wanted to do was be alone and so far I wasn't off to the best start. Hopefully no one had stolen my bedroom in my absences, maybe a lock on my bedroom door would keep my younger siblings away for an hour at least.

I climbed the stairs again taking little sips of coffee as I did. I entered my bedroom and immediately shut and locked the door behind me as I could hear Rebekah's tantrum about Kol's sudden return starting from down the hall. They could deal with their own troubles because for the next hour I was going to deal with mine.

Caroline Forbes

The one girl in this little town would actually remotely interested me and she had lied straight to my face last night. I had saw her last night walking towards me and I could think of nothing else but how stunning she looked. So stunning that I let slip to Kol what I thought about her.

She had played me and I had followed her from the grill just like she had hoped I would. So the second she had me out of the way, her little gang of vampire slayers could stab my brother and end us once and for all.

I walked over to my nightstand and replaced the cup in my hand for my sketch pad I had left there the previous night. I walked over to my balcony doors and unlocked them and stepped outside and closed them behind me. I took a seat on one of the sun chairs and got myself comfortable before opening up the pad in my hands.

I scratched my forehead and brought the pencil in my hand down to the page and began sketching. I didn't know or understood why I drew her so much, but her beauty seemed to be reason enough. I understood why this girl was crowded Miss Mystic Falls. I decided to draw from memory as always and drew her a picture in my head of her from when she sat down on the bench with me last night after agreeing to 'get to know me' last night.

Even though there were other more pressing issues that I had to think about, Caroline's betrayal seemed to rank number one of things to deal with by the end of the day. She had gone behind my back and to make matters worse I had actually trusted her. I liked this girl, I had liked her from the first time I had saw her. Her strength both inside and out captured me and her beauty was something I just couldn't bring myself to resist. I had spent hours drawing picture after picture of her just so I would have something to look at when she wasn't around. I actually found myself regretting burning the drawings I had of her, but there was nothing I could do about those now.

I made the final finishes to the drawing and then gazed upon my latest creation. A picture of the baby vampire Caroline Forbes, the girl who brought light to my shadow.

"Niklaus?" called Elijah from outside my bedroom door.

I rolled my eyes in frustration not even had twenty minutes of peace before the family needed or wanted something from me. I left my sketch pad on the sun seat I had come up from and made my way over to the door. I un snipped the lock on my door and pulled open the door to my brother.

"By the sounds of it this disagreement about the bedroom situation could go on for a while. Why don't you and I go into town?" Elijah suggested.

Poor Elijah he always meant well, but I really didn't feel like having company right now.

Even if it was of the only brother I could stand to be around.

I looked over his shoulder and saw Kol carrying a cardboard box full of pink clothes across the hallway and I then I returned to Elijah.

"Even though its a nice offer brother I think I'll keep to my chambers for a while" I told him "I have a feeling I'll rip a part a few town folk if I were to go in right now" I confessed

"Come now Niklaus, if we are to show the Salvatore brothers that we are alive and well then they shall know that not even the all powerful original witch is a match for us"

"Speaking of Esther, why did the spell not work out?" I asked.

"Well because the link was broken by Damon Salvatore"

"Damon?" I repeated.

"Damon killed Bonnie Bennett's mother who happened to be linked to Esther so she could be fuelled with enough power to finally destroy us"

"Bonnie's mother, I didn't even that she had any powers"

"Well she won't anymore, Damon fed her his blood so that she couldn't be a witch anymore. So even if Esther tried to kill us again she won't have the power she needed" Elijah informed me.

"Has she turned?" I asked leading against the door frame.

"Not to my knowledge, I was hoping to discuss it with Elena when I got into town"

"I'll join you" I said leading from the frame.

"I thought you weren't up for company Niklaus" Elijah called from behind me as I made my way towards my walk in wardrobe.

"I changed my mind" I said as I began fishing through the shirts in front of me "I'll drive" I called as I grabbed a ivory coloured shirt from its hanger.

I grabbed a pair of black jeans next followed with some casual black boots and my necklace before grabbing the keys to my Audi from inside my coat pocket as I put it on after everything else.

Elijah was waiting for me outside leading against the passenger door to my car.

"Why must you always wear a suit brother?" I asked as I disabled the alarm to my car.

"At least I take more than ten seconds to care about what I put on my back"

We climbed into the car and I started up the engine with one thought in my mind. Caroline Forbes.

If I understood humans at all then Caroline would be with her little witchy friend Bonnie at a time like this and what would be a better time to tell the little witch about Caroline wearing the dress I bought for her or me telling her how Caroline had known about my feelings for her for almost a week now. Caroline would hate me for it and the revenge of that would be so much better than killing her for betraying me.

That was one thing that Elena's and her little gang of supernatural's had been warned about me. I would always get my vengeance no matter who I had to hurt to get it. Caroline could walk around thinking she knew me just because I had been a gentlemen for a few moments with her, but now she was a baby vampire with a contract on her head as far as I was concerned.

"May I enquire to why you are in such a foil mood this morning?" Elijah asked as I drove.

"No particular reason Elijah, it's not the first time Esther has tried to kill me and I am sure it won't be the last either"

"But it is the first time she's tried to kill all of us" Elijah added.

I didn't have it in me to tell Elijah about Rebekah and I's latest discovery about the new white oak tree. Elijah was clearly still in shock from Esther betrayal. I would be more angry about it myself but like I said Esther had tried to kill me in the past so I was use to it. The white oak tree would be dealt with soon enough. But first I wanted to deal with Caroline.

I found a parking space outside of the grill and I activated my convertible top to open up so my leather seats wouldn't heat up while the car sat in the sun. As I pulled off my seat belt and

Elijah got out of the car I began scanning the area around me. I looked over at the town square and found Damon Salvatore talking to Sheriff Forbes.

"Are you coming?" Elijah asked as he closed his door.

"No I'll stay here" I told him.

I focused all my attention on Damon's and Sheriff Forbes conversation until I could actually hear it in my head.

"So Abby's not going to turn into a vampire, she's decided that it's best to just pass on"

"There really was no choice Liz, last night if we didn't do what we did then Elena would be dead"

"I know Damon but it's just so hard to watch Bonnie go through this, I mean I was there the night she gave her statement about her Grams. And now she's losing her mother"

"What about Caroline and you? I'm sorry for your loss"

"Well I'm doing alright but Caroline, well you could just imagine what she's going through right now. She just lost her father and now her best friend is losing her mother the same way. Caroline's in pieces and I don't know what to say or do to make it better"

I tuned out of the conversation and huffed in frustration. I had spent all night and morning thinking of nothing else but how I was going to get revenge on Caroline. That I never actually paused and asked myself why she did what she did the first place. Listening to her mother's conversation with Damon it became clear to me that Caroline was still grieving from the loss of her father. I had never loved my father Michael and so when he died I hadn't grieved for him.

I rubbed my eyes and Caroline's words of both wisdom and insult came to me.

"You don't connect with people because you don't even try to understand them"

The girl's word had stopped me once again. I didn't understand how it was possible for me to hate her for betraying and at the same time feel sorry for her.

I began drumming my fingers against the steering wheel as I waited impatiently for Elijah's return.

She had told me that I had to stop trying to buy her off, she didn't enjoy my gifts and so I couldn't do what I normally did. Not this time.

I reached into my coat pocket and pulled off my cell phone and began typing in a message to Elijah.

Something came up, I'll see you back at the house – Klaus

I pushed the phone back into my pocket and started up the engine. I knew gifts weren't the answer to this problem and so I had to think of something better.

Caroline Forbes

I came out of my mum's bedroom carrying the old bed sheets that I had just taken off and replaced with new ones. Bonnie and Abby were sleeping on the couches in our sitting room and so I decided to make myself useful. Abby had decided to make the same choice as my dad and let herself die. So I had prepared my mum's bedroom so she and Bonnie could have some privacy when that time came. I had put up some new bed sheets and filled up the tissue boxes and added a few vanilla candles on the nightstand. I knew no matter what I did would bring them any real comfort but I had to try.

I went into the kitchen and put the bed sheets into the washer. I would have to go into town and buy some food for dinner tonight. I rolled up my sleeve and looked at my watch. Maybe it would be better if I went shopping right now while they were both asleep. I left the kitchen and went down the hall into my bedroom.

I gasped standing in the doorway of my bedroom looking over to the window to find Klaus standing there looking out it. He turned around to face me and I stepped inside the room and closed the door behind me.

"Look please just listen to me for a second" I pleaded.

Klaus titled his side to a side slightly.

"Last night what I did to you, I know it was unforgivable and you'll want your vengeance but please don't do this right now" I begged.

I took two steps forward "Bonnie's in the next room and her mum is dying and if you kill me right now then she will be destroyed. And I know that probably sounds like fun to you but" I stopped and took another step forward.

"If you ever had even the slightest bit of humanity left inside of you then you would take your vengeance out on me later, not here. Not right now"

Klaus looked down slightly and my breath hitched thinking I was about to be killed.

"Please" I begged.

Klaus met my eyes "You told me that I didn't understand people" he said.

Klaus took a step forward closing the gap between us.

"You also said that my father never loved me which was very true" I looked up at him meeting his eyes "But your father he died and he did love you" he said.

I breathed hitched again when Klaus arms began to raise next to me. I closed my eyes tightly and waited for my death.

I opened them up again when I felt Klaus arms coming around me bringing me closer to him.

Klaus right arm went around my lower back and his left arm tucked under my arm his hand came around my back and into my hair.

He was hugging me? Klaus the hybrid was hugging me? But it got even stranger, I wasn't pulling away and neither was he.

Tears formed in my eyes slowly and dripped down onto my cheeks. I couldn't let myself to be comforted by him. I couldn't let my grief happen right now, this was the worst timing in history.

I sobbed slightly my forehead against his shoulder and my face hidden from his view. Klaus hand on my lower back brought me even closer to him then and I let my arms come up and rest against the back of his shoulders.

I couldn't believe this was happening right now, Klaus was the last person I would have money on to help me grief for the loss of my father. Yet here I was standing in my bedroom with the door closed, alone with him while I cried in his arms. He wasn't trying to kiss me or hold me in a way that would tell me he had any intension too. He was just holding me while I cried.

I didn't understand why he had decided to this instead of killing me. I had betrayed him last night and that would have been fine with me a few weeks ago but now everything was different. Klaus had shown me that inside he was still a human being. He liked art and music and he drew so beautifully. He had taken the time and picked out beautiful things for me to wear. Why he saw something in me that I didn't I couldn't understand.

But Klaus, the all bad and evil Klaus. He saw right into my soul every time he looked into my eyes. I didn't know if it was because he was a hybrid or because he had lived for so many years but there was something inside of him. He could make me feel warm like he was doing right now when he was holding me. Then there were times were he could just take my breath away or make me smile so wide I feel like I was going to pull something.

I slowly let my hands slip down from his shoulders and I pulled myself away from him to look up and meet his eyes. Klaus hand that had been in my hair dropped down and joined his other hand on my lower back.

The tear socked part of his coat caught my attention and I reached my hand up and dried it slightly.

"I'm sorry I got your coat all messy"

"Don't worry about it" Klaus said lowering my hand away from it.

"For what it's worth, I am sorry about what happened last night" I said as his hands left me.

Klaus smirked "I know you are" he told me.

I took a step back then.

"You said I should try and understand people. Last night you were trying to keep a hold of Elena because you've just lost your father and the thought of losing someone else you loved. Drove you to do something courageous"

"You're not angry with me?" I asked stunned.

"Well there was a moment this morning when I was thinking about what I would do to you for betraying me" he added then smirked again and caused me to smile.

"And a hug was all you could think of?"

Klaus shrugged.

"Thank you" I said.

"Well a thousand years of practising these hug things I could pretty good at it I suppose" Klaus joked.

I smiled "I meant for taking the time to understand" I said.

"Well your welcome, Miss Mystic Falls"

My smile widen and I looked away embarrassed.

"There has to be some way that I can repay you, for not killing me" I said and met his eyes.

Klaus shrugged.

"Well I cant exactly take you to Rome or Paris but, there's a fireworks display tomorrow night to celebrate ten years of the grill restaurant being opened" I told him.

Klaus took a step towards me his eyes fixed on me as he smirked.

"And I'll even buy you a hot dog" I said.

Klaus laughed.

I bit my lip slightly "I dare you" I told him.

Klaus eyes widen "Well look at you stealing my lines" he said.

I laughed.

"Tell you what" Klaus said and reached up to tuck away a strait of hair that fell in front of my eye then "I'll go to the fireworks display with you on one condition" he said as he dropped his hand back down.

"Uh oh"

Klaus smiled.

"You tell me one of your dreams by the end of the night"

I smiled "Fine" I agreed.

"Good" Klaus said then looked behind him at the window "Now I am going to be like one those idiot jocks in the teen movies and leave via the window" he said.

"Aww your just a little human in there aren't you" I teased him as I followed him over to the window.

"Don't push your luck or I'll send you my dry cleaning bill for the coat" Klaus said as he pulled my window open.

Klaus climbed out of my window and I pulled it down shut behind him. Klaus waved before turning into a blur and vanishing out of sight.

I brought my hands up to my face and covered them as I screamed into my hands in shock. I had practically asked Klaus on a date! What was I thinking? I wasn't thinking that's the problem, I was all swept up in the moment of the hug and his ridiculously comfortable coat and gorgeous smelling colon.

I walked over to the side of my bed and sat down in hopes of calming myself. I felt like my heart was beating hard against my chest, which was insane because I didn't even have a heart beat anymore.

"Ok relax Caroline, you can be a responsible person and act your age" I told myself.

I laughed and brought my hands up to my face again.

"Oh my god, I have a date with Klaus" I whispered against my palms.

I screamed against my palms once again.

Klaus Mikaelson

I pulled up in front of the house and cut the engine to my audi. When the engine died down I could hear my younger siblings still shouting at each other inside the house. I grabbed my keys and got out of my car and headed inside the house. I closed the door behind me and looked up at the top of the stairs where both Kol and Rebekah's clothes hung over the stair case railing.

"Stop moving my things you little bitch" Rebekah screeched from somewhere upstairs

I laughed and headed down the hallway towards my drawing room. Elijah stepped out of the library carrying a book in his hand and I saluted him. Elijah smiled taking note of my mood changed and watched me as I passed by him.

"What's got you smiling?" Elijah called behind me.

"Just enjoying the sunshine brother" I called.

"Oh I got a ride back to the house no problems. Just in case you were wondering"

"That's wonderful" I said and entered my drawing room closing the door shut behind me.

I ran across the room and jumped over the back of the couch and landed on the cushions on the other side. I pulled my arm behind my head and under the pillow behind me and pulled out my sketch pad I always kept behind here.

"Caroline" I whispered smiling as I began to sketch.

"I'll see you soon" I said as I began to draw her face.